Heidi's Charmed Life
Friday, November 28, 2008
The Office




So here I am baptizing the iMacs at work with my face. This came about purely by accident of course (as you can see from the 1st pic). Okay fine, I'm mildly vain, I admit. If anything, this activity has proven to me that my right eye is bigger than my left. How annoying is that!
 
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Monday, November 17, 2008
Liar Liar Pants On Fire
I despise liars with a passion.

What's the point of it really?

Ommitted, edited, tweaked, left out, lowballed, played up.. whatever it is, it's still lying.

Such cowardice.

The truth has this uncanny way of ALWAYS getting to me.
 
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
SHOES!!!



My mom had decided earlier, that the state of my shoe closet was getting just a tad bit ridiculous and unacceptable because you couldn't walk in it anymore so she had all my shoes brought out into the terrace so I could pick out the ones that I didn't need anymore. This is an exercise that she makes me do almost every year, but for some unknown reason, they all just keep on going back into my closet, with maybe just 1 or 2 pairs max weeded out every year. I tried my hardest to part with the ones that I didn't "need", and from this mess.. I ended up removing 4 pairs.

Hey, it's a start.

I've now realized that I am indeed a shoe person. I'm a bit embarrassed by this actually. I only really use about 3-4 pairs max in a month, so looking at this mess this morning really shocked me.
 
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Sense and Insensitivity
There are very few things on this earth that will really set me off and annoy the hell out of me. Cultural indifference would be one of the biggest ones, as well as sheer insensitivity to what other people are going through. I don't understand why there are people who are just totally incapable of picking up when, or why another person is incensed about something. It reeks of indifference, apathy and total selfishness. Granted of course that people obviously react differently to given situations, you'd think it to be wise (or smart really) to just be sensitive enough to the situation and to the person.

This topic of indifference and insensitivity has obviously incensed me enough for it to earn a spot on this space, and I'm honestly cringing as I write this. Ugh, there are far more better things to do than feel bad about the idiocy of it all.

I'm just really annoyed with myself at this point because I feel like THE biggest idiot on the planet.  Reality bites, and it bites hard.
 
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Monday, November 10, 2008
2008

I don't know if now would be the best time to write about this entire year collectively, I usually reserve that post to the first week of the new year, just like I have the past 2 years in a row. I however, am anticipating a lot of activity related to travel and work within the next few weeks that will probably spill over into the new year. I will no doubt be running around like a headless chicken again so I think that now would be as good a time to write as any. Besides, I woke up, looked out the window, realized it was dusk already, and for some strange reason felt the sudden urge to write.

2008 has (is) been one of the most challenging years of my life, if not THE MOST ever to date. This year I was tried and tested, hanged and crucified, and pushed nearly to the very edge. Sigh, I've had better years, and I can't wait for this one to end so the new one can begin. Although there are a LOT of things, events, and people that I am greatly thankful for this year, I still consider 2008 to be one of the worst years of my life. It still is actually..

Don't get me wrong, I love my life and everything that encompasses it, I just hate what happened to it this year. Looking at things in perspective though, this will all pass too, whether it does sooner or later will all depend though.

Again, there's so much to be thankful for still, and it's more than a consolation to know that I still am blessed and luckier than most.

So, that's that.
 
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
And so it begins..
"Obama's victory has sparked a lot of hope with talks of change, not only in the US, but around the globe as well." - That as I've seen, is the major headline on every single channel that I've visited today since I've gotten up. The world has no doubt been watching, and from the looks of it, the world (maybe except China apparently because according to CNN, they clearly don't see the point of why they should care about the US elections) is now hopeful.

It has certainly given that to global investors because the asian markets have now moved! Now that political uncertainty to a degree has ended in the US, investors are a little more confident. That much I can say is true for the Asian markets, although I can't say the same for Europe.

And so it begins.. and thus we all watch, and wait to see..
 
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Unbelievable
This year, has unbelievably, been THE banner year for me in terms of things that can go absolutely wrong. At this point, I'm extremely derailed and exasperated. But, it is what it is. And I will leave it at that, because this is again what it is.
 
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Saturday, November 01, 2008
Thankful
There are some days when we forget to look at what's around us. There are days when we just don't see the beauty and the life that's right there under our noses. Sometimes we get so caught up inside ourselves, and we end up taking when we should be giving instead. Somehow we always fail to look beyond ourselves, and we will only remember sometimes..

Even with our all our differences - race, nationality, color, religion, and gender - there's still that common ground where we're all connected.

I don't understand why there are people who feel that they have the monopoly of pain. And I pity them. We're luckier than most out there, and yet we're never completely satisfied and happy with what we have.

There's just so much to be thankful for.
 
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