last week was a bad streak for me and i got pple around me worried.

then i felt much better after a 2 day branch retreat at changi sports club, which surprisingly, was much more fun than expected as it was initially dreaded and cursed at. i learnt so much about myself and my colleagues, and learnt so much in general. it's amazing, this training company and its facilitators, who were really fun-loving n superb at what they do.

we all did a personality test, which i had already done at least 10 years ago and my profile is still the same. but i only fully tried to understand the results of my personality test now. it's amazing how it explains all my little quirks. i'm so high on the feeling-meter that i think my heart can explode anytime. which explains why i'm such a sensitive person, not just within myself but i'm also so sensitive to the feelings of everyone around me and in any situation. i also love to communicate about feelings and i prefer to talk things out to resolve issues about both my own and my closed ones' feelings.

anyway, this lil' activity has gotten me and my colleagues to label one another by our personality profiles, and we gossip about our bosses' profiles and how we'll never become bosses since our profiles are not similar. bosses usually are super high on thinking instead of feeling, which also explains how they can be so inhuman at times. urgh. and it's interesting how my 2 closest colleagues at work got the exact same profile as me. gosh! anyway, my biggest take-away from this is that all of us are different, so we should celebrate differences and embrace ways to overcome our differences =)

i realised i super love to play, no matter what it is. we spent the first day playing board games, which the facilitators tweaked to become a super exciting n competitive thingy, and i super love board games, and we spent the second day playing outdoorsy stuff, which i super love too! amazingly i really liked the second day doing all those kind of activities i think we all used to play at orientation or uni hall days. love working in a group to brainstorm solutions n play stupid things. we spent the afternoon building a water raft made of just barrels, pipes and ropes, and then we launched and sailed on our own rafts and went out to sea!! now that was super super fun and my only complaint was it was too short! i love the sea...

michelle is like going into labour anytime soon and i'm gonna miss her so much.... it's gonna be so different without her around. when she's back in april next yr, i'm not so sure i'll even be around anymore. at the same time i'm really happy for her and so excited to see the baby! the lil' one who has been kicking me whenever i touch the mummy's tummy. i'm around mich so much that i think the baby can recognise my voice too!

my cousin's preggy with twins. gosh i'm super excited too. new additions to the family and i already can't count how many nieces and nephews i have anymore... everyone around me's popping like crazy and i'm getting scared!!

i'm going to remove my peel-off mask now... my complexion is in such a bad shape right now it's frightful to look in the mirror. i was looking at my krabi pictures (which I'll be uploading soon, promise) yesterday and noticed that my complexion was so clear then. i wonder if it's because i was taking vitamin c tabs daily and drinking orange juice every meal when i was there! i'm so going on a vit c diet pretty soon to test it out...... wish me luck!

i pray my cough can finally, finally go away.

will things really change for the better? or will everything fall back into its comfort zone and issues fade into the background again?