Perth Day

I was glad that Jelte and I talked last night.

I was pooped out but I somehow found the strength to do so and I'm glad on my part, I made the effort. It was afterall about something important. Family is important. I don't show it often but that doesn't mean I don't care.

(Just for the record, my foodcourt broke our sales record last night. Woo!)

After work, I had planned to pull Jelte aside but he beat me to it, just like he beat Liana to it the night before. He is the reigning Olympic champion in starting conversations.

Liana was knackered so she went straight to bed.

Our conversation had a bumpy start. I was actually trembling and had to breath deeply to control myself - from what I don't know, but I cooled down after 15 minutes and the whole thing ended well after an hour or so.

We covered a whole range of topics. Jelte and I do actually have a lot more in common than I thought.

About the spate of events that occured in the past week, Jelte and I have more or less come to a compromise. Some of the things are hard to swallow for both of us but that's the key - compromise.

I managed to read Liana's latest post. I think she has done well if she's trying to control her emotions and I applaud her for that.

It's funny how we both have to find out about each other's feelings from the Internet when we both are living under the same roof. The Internet can either be a boon or a bane in this case.

Of course we're both gonna talk... when she wakes up that is.

I'm off today.

I'm gonna scrub the toilet right after this. Man, it's like stepping on scum in there. Yucks!

Then, I'm gonna go lunch at McDonald's and read the papers. I hope the kids there don't create a ruckus or I'm gonna smack them with the papers.

I have this weird policy which I shared with Liana last week. On my offdays, I always pretend that I'm in Perth. I'm not supposed to be stressed out, I won't answer phone calls from work, I'll take cabs to avoid the madding crowds at the subway, blah blah blah.

Then I'll spend my day doing simple things, just like how I imagine my life in Perth is gonna be. Call it pre-training if you must. Heh.

Then I'll visit my stepbrother Rudi at his barber shop in Yishun to talk about business. Yup, Gung Ho Ventures will partner Ilford Services in tendering for the cleaning contract at 399 next week.

It's a B2B (Business to Business, not Brother to Brother. LOL!) thing. The plan is for Ilford to exclusively partner Gung Ho in cleaning operations of food establishments islandwide and I've even drafted out a contract which dictates what we can and cannot do, must and must not do as well as what we should or shouldn't do. I'm not sparing any chance.

Besides, there are other things I wanna talk about, all related to business.

Then I plan to visit my mom and Sis Leita, and stay over too.

Last weekend, Liana and I were talking about mom and uh, I realized I have been neglecting her so I called her the next day. It was a weird conversation *rolleyes*

Her place is boring. I don't know what to do when I'm there besides watching TV, old movies and sleep.

On second thought, that sounds good. Doing nothing on my day off is good!

From now onwards, I shall declare days that I'm not at work as Perth Days.