My employer occupies 2 adjacent buildings. I am on the “other” building, which is to say I am not in the principal one. We have to move between these 2 buildings frequently, for meetings and other contact requirements. My department is moving into the principal building – this was supposed to be on Tuesday but has now been re-scheduled for the next day.
AK, the super-lawyer and the undoubted star of my department, is going up to Sydney again tomorrow, for the resumption of a trial which has become a farce. She’d be away for about 10 days, which means it would be a bit of a nightmare for the department. When a legal department of 3 lawyers is temporarily reduced to 2 lawyers, it is a reduction in capacity of 33%!
The last time AK was in Sydney for this trial, yours truly had to shoulder quite a bit of added work, including feeding information as the trial progressed. It would possibly be like this again after she leaves this afternoon. I guess it is not a good week to have all these extra activities.
Tomorrow, kiddo would spend the day in her new school. Mac.Rob is holding an orientation for the new students. So for the first time, we’d all make our way (Theresa, kiddo and I) into the city together for school and work reasons. Later in the evening, we’d be having dinner with TT Quah and his wife Maudrene. They’ve been wanting to catch up and funnily enough, this week seems to work for them.
This Saturday, our church is having a Christmas dinner from 6-10. TT Quah would be speaking, and there would be the usual carols and play. A little sad but true – many of us are pre-occupied more with the dinner than with what happened after dinner, ie the play, carols and message.
The dinner would be prepared entirely by us, members of the church. A committee has been planning for it for weeks. On our part, Theresa and I have to cook a large pot of coconut rice, and boil over 100 eggs, both as parts of a nasi lemak dish. For this to happen we need to pick up some coconut milk, some pandan leaves and of course, lots eggs.
We’d have to shop, probably on Thursday night. That leaves only Wed night and Fri night free for this week. If the move to the next building were to happen on Wed night instead of during the day, that leaves only Fri night free. At the meeting last Sunday to plan for the Sat event, someone mentioned going in on Fri night to clean the kitchen. I don’t know if we can do that. I don’t know that is even necessary, actually. The kitchen looks okay to me.
So it promises to be a hectic week. A heavy work load and a stiff back wont help.
Also not helpful is a bit of a chaotic afternoon for kiddo. At around 3.30pm, Theresa called to say kiddo had taken a wrong bus, it was raining heavily, and she had gotten off the bus without knowing where she was.
I called kiddo and after a while she said she was on Highbury Road near the junction of Stephenson’s Road. This isn’t entirely alien territory so I wasn’t too concerned. After a few phone calls she was back on track. Her piano teacher ended up picking her from a bus stop as it was almost time for her piano lesson.
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