First off, Happy New Year to you all Apologies for being missing in action for the longest time (don’t say I didn’t warn you, because I sure did) but I’ve been crazybusy again, and then just sank into a gloomy funk as the result of the boyfriend’s departure.

In all fairness, said gloomy funk lasted about 72 hours and is petering off as I start worrying about other things—like work.

Yep, I am a working woman again The current place of employment is AWAM (the All-Women’s Action Society in PJ)  and my role is to…er….be the office girl. Type, fax, make calls (good God, a whole LOT of calls *groan*) looking for sponsorship for AWAM’s Treasure Hunt to be held on March 9th at Berjaya Times Square in conjunction with their 20th anniversary and International Women’s Day.

And since I can, I might as well do a short pitch: would anyone be so kind as to contribute in some way to this Treasure Hunt? Cash or kind, corporate sponsorship, or alternatively, form a group of 2-6 people and join in the hunt! It’ll be great fun; there are cash prizes to be given away and it’s for an awesome cause. It’s RM40 per person and open to everyone, men, women and children!

AWAM operates on goodwill from volunteers and donors and has provided many many years of service to the women of Malaysia—legal advice and advocacy for reform, Telenita (counseling helpline), gender equality….wahey, if I weren’t a struggling quasi-student I’d give ‘em money. For more details, drop me a message! I’m really hoping to hear from people as it’d make my life a whole lot easier, heh.

But I suppose some of you are more interested in how the boyfriend’s trip went? Hmm…if you haven’t seen the pictures on Facebook, I’m sorry, I honestly can’t be arsed to post them here (too much hassle), so you’ll just have to settle for me telling you that it was AWESOME

It was honestly like we’d never been apart. 11 months of separation just seemed to melt away in the next 10 days that blurred by in a whirl of mall-ratting, shopping, eating and meeting people whose names I suspect he’s forgotten completely by now.

10 days of pure bliss. Of having a co-pilot who’d road-rage with me (to my delight!) and look out for cars and teach me how to parallel park (I can, but very badly and I take ages); who’d hold my hand and make sure I walk on the inside of paths “so if a car comes at us, I’d get hit first”; who’d make me laugh and layan my stupid requests like insisting we go for Starbucks so I can get stickers to redeem my organiser (I got it last night, woots!).

Ah, Boyfriend, I miss you so much it’s unbelievable

Anyhoo, I’m off now. Honours dissertation proposal calls for editing. Will post more when I’m less lethargic/grumpy. New year hugs to all!