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Looking at H. in unison while he’s getting dinner for them.

Every few years, I get a client whom I want to trottle. This one insists on speaking to me every day (he gets his personal assistant to call me in the mornings between 8.45am and 9.15am to inform me that he wants to speak to me later in the day). I don’t usually get into the office until 9.30am.

I was hoping that since the man is on vacation (a European cruise, no less), I would be able to avoid speaking to him for 2 weeks.

Well, that didn’t pan out. Instead of talking to him every day, his PA now calls me every day for the most inane reasons. We are trying to arrange for interviews with certain people and she’s been tasked to arrange these. She tend reports her progress to me every day, regardless of whether there is any progress or not.

I have been on leave for 2 days. She has called me 6 times in 2 days. Each time, she “apologises” for calling, and then spends the next 15 minutes on the phone recounting her various attempts to arrange for interviews.

This evening’s conversation ended with her saying this: “Oh, you’re back in the office tomorrow right? Good, then I won’t feel so bad calling you.”

If you felt bad calling me in the first place, shouldn’t you just NOT CALL? That’s what the damned email is for.

H. had leave to clear before the end of June, and I wanted to take some time off before the mind-numbing hecticness starts again. So, both of us are off today and tomorrow (yay!)

We have a ton of errands to run though: H. is picking up the car from the waxing service, we’re going to buy more SubQ fluids for Moochie, and swing by this place in Jalan Besar to see if these new-style mosquito netting thingies can replace the anti-cat-jumping-mesh that we have on some of the windows. I also need to head to Mustafa to pick up a new court bag (also known as a pilot’s bag).

Yesterday, we visited Pepperyl, a seal-point ragdoll looking to be rehomed. Kitty is obviously the daughter’s pet and mother isn’t looking forward to looking after kitty on her own while her daughter starts university and moves to a hostel. Pepper is about a month younger than Valentin, but quite a bit smaller/lighter. He’s got the cutest white markings on his nose - it almost looks as though he’s had paint dripped on him!

Anyway, Pepper is coming over tomorrow evening for a visit. I’m not sure how Valentin and Moochie are going to take to another friend in the house, but we won’t know until Pepper comes by.

When we contacted one of the catteries in search of #3, the cattery owner told us that he knew of a sealpoint ragdoll looking to be rehomed. We’ve made an appointment with the owner and will be popping by to see the mao later today! He’s an absolute cutie, with a dark face and a little white splotch on the tip of his nose.

Moochie will likely deal with another friend fairly well, but we foresee behavioural issues from Valentin, the spoilt brat that he is.

I had to work most of the last weekend. By Sunday afternoon, I had decided that I’d had enough and wanted something pretty.

COUTURE Bouquet :: Labradorite, citrine, peridot and apatite with goldfilled wirework, chain and findings.

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Sorry for the recent radio silence and repetitive entries. Things have been fairly crazy work-wise, leaving little/no time for very much else. I feel like I am juggling a bunch of (rotten) eggs and one of them is going to go splat at some time or other. Thankfully, it looks like there will be a two-week breather after this Thursday. *fingers crossed*

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There has been good news though. Moochie went for his check-up yesterday and his creatinine levels have dropped from 2.6 to 1.7! While he’s now got to take antibiotics for a urinary tract infection which doesn’t look like it’s getting better, he’s down to 100ml of subQ fluids a day instead of 125ml. He’s also lost 100g in weight, but that may well be attributed to having his belly shaved for his ultrasound, and him becoming picky about his food. Bah.

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A couple of months back, I ordered a set of Moo cards and a Moo collage frame. It was meant to be a surprise for H. but for some bizarre reason, Moo (1) shipped the frame and the cards separately and (2) the cards got lost in the mail. It took a while to get the cards reprinted and for them to be delivered to the office. Through the entire wait, the frame was sitting in my office and become snowed under a pile of new files/papers.

Then last Thursday, the cards came! I happily put the frame and the cards together and this is the result:

Moo cards are about half (lengthwise) the size of regular name cards and come printed on thicker/better quality cardstock. I pulled photos of Valentin and Moochie from Flickr and got them printed out! It was a touch choice to pick only 20 pictures, particularly since Valentin DOES NOT photograph well. Hurrumph. But I’m pleased with the end result - click the picture for a closer view!

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My home laptop is on its last legs. In addition to frequent blue-screens-of-death, it takes donkey years just to start-up. Word processing is a slow going process, web surfing is frustrating, and let’s not even talk about photo editing. O_o Unfortunately, I can’t quite decide what to get: It has to be a laptop since the apartment isn’t set up with a study (or a table that can be used for putting a desktop), it must be powerful enough for extensive photo-editing work, a 15″ inch screen minimum and can be used as a work laptop. I’ve always had a bit of resistance to buying a Mac, but am leaning towards getting a 15″ inch MacBook Pro and a second(-hand) 10″ inch Thinkpad for work. I’ve had problems working overseas using documents that originate off a Mac hence prefer to have a PC for work purposes.

Decisions, decisions.

Anyway, will probably try to take a few days off next week to scout around for a new ‘puter. Hopefully the current one can hold out until then!

I decided that it’s high time to break the recent radio silence. Yes, I’m alive. Yes, I’m still going to blog. I’ve gotten slightly lazy about blogging due to the ease of twittering (I can even do it on my BB!) and if you’re one of those to have seen my recent FaceBook status updates before it’s buried underneath a ton of other updates, then you’d probably know that work ain’t at its best.

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COUTURE Lenæa :: Plump labradorite teardrops (matching shapes but with different banding patterns) are topped blue paraiba tourmaline rondelles. With vermeil nugget accents, goldfilled wirework and vermeil earposts. 2.4″ inches long.

I can’t decide whether to keep this for myself of not.

Oh great. Now that I have GoDaddy somehow working, I do a whois search on my original domain and it has now been renewed to 2010!?!? This is utterly RIDICULOUS.

Pending the issue with my original domain, I have purchased a .org domain to tide over this rather annoying time. The local company that registered my domain, BizwebAsia Pte Ltd, is impossible to contact. I tried a landline, mobile line, online forms (emergency and non-emergency) and NOTHING works. And because of the way domains work, I cannot get another registrar to register my domain until after the local company lets it go - which may be between 30 to 75 days!

I panicked and went to get a GoDaddy domain backordering account which I am now finding is IMPOSSIBLE to configure.

This is really not my day.

In the meantime, please redirect your links (this may be temporary, not sure whether I can get my original domain back) to this.