Annoyed but maybe not so much....

The title reflects the fact that i just got irritated with my mom, who has to ask me if i want some medicine everytime i start coughing more than usual. Argh! I hate how she has to over-mother for every single thing. At the same time, i do enable her, since i ask her to help sometimes. Things will get easier when H gets here, because then at least she'll have two people to smother... :)

These two weeks have been kinda busy. Was in Taiwan for a company outing with a large group of colleagues. Travelled to some places for work, got VERY tipsy (lost count of the number of drinks), and got to explore Taipei for 2 days. The first impression i had when reaching Taipei was : "where's the skyline?" All the buildings are relatively old, and there are not many skyscrapers to speak of. Most of the shops are also streetfront shops, with very few malls to speak of. Lotsa traffic, with a whole bunch of scooters (and even a dedicated scooter line at lights). In short, quite different from Singapore (duh!).

That said, there were a lot of things that felt familiar as well. The food was a lot more palatable than the stuff we had in Beijing last year. except for one meal in Shilin Night Market, where we ordered meat balls (direct translation!) which turned out to be some weird melange of minced meat wrapped in a ball of gluten and drizzled over with some fluorescent orange sauce. Needless to say, i was the only one idiotic enough to take two bites of it....

I also found it easier to speak Mandarin in Taipei than Beijing. The mandarin was more conversational and less formal in nature, and there were far fewer references to Chinese history and culture. The only problem would be business Mandarin (what's the translation for capitalisation again?)

Back in Singapore, i had to host my 3 big bosses on a visit, so i spent a day frantically swotting up on facts (A level deja vu!). Thankfully, the preparation came in handy as i got bombarded with about a thousand and one questions during the travel. The travel went well, and it helped that we had great results to shout about.

On other non-work related fronts, i managed to run a 28km run 2 weeks ago on way too little food. Stumbled to a McDonald's after that for a Mega Mac, a Cornetto McFlurry (yum!) and a Himalayan Tea Latte. Felt a lot happier after that pit stop :)

Marathon in 3 more weeks. Here's to my 2nd marathon!

Ajantis is feeling less frussed up now....