silva rerum

In slip-​shod measure loosely prattling on

This blog­ging busi­ness has done won­ders for my memory…I’m being forced to remem­ber everything that occurred in the day. Hurrah! Maybe I’ll keep work­ing on this part of my brain (neural plas­ti­city and all that).

Woke up decently early today and had a quick brunch with my grandma. She’s not look­ing well at sorts today at all so I hope she feels bet­ter. I found out later today that she’s actu­ally feel­ing ill so I will be stay­ing home tomor­row to tend to her. I do wish she’d more will­ingly attend a doctor’s visit – it’s very import­ant! I don’t make it a habit to buy gro­cer­ies (I hate pick­ing gro­cer­ies because I invari­ably choose the worst fruits, veget­ables, etc.) but if she needs any­thing, I will duti­fully fetch them. I do hope she’ll be alright.

I spon­tan­eously decided to go to Richmond with P today to buy the tea set for my mum for Mother’s Day. It just so happened that plans with V didn’t work out so we headed off. At Aberdeen, we bumped into a whole bunch of people! V, T, M, T, A, S, J – they were all there! I said hello briefly and went on my way – I’m a tad awk­ward and I didn’t think it dec­or­ous to linger where I hadn’t been been invited. I won­der what they were up to – they were all eat­ing lunch, I sus­pect! P had her­self a matcha ice cream and I treated myself to some takoyaki.

I hope night mar­ket opens soon! I love snack­ing on typ­ical Asian fare (though it’s all assuredly unhealthy and high in cho­les­terol, starch and fat). J has a takoy­aki machine but I think oth­ers would make it much bet­ter than I could. I don’t sus­pect it’s very hard to make though. Takoyaki makes me think of Card Captor Sakura (I’ve just fin­ished down­load­ing all the epis­odes and the two movies!)

I ended up buy­ing a tea set for my mum so she can show it off to house­guests when they drop by. My dad will prob­ably be enlis­ted to make the tea anyway.

P insisted that I buy a cherry blos­som set instead but my mum’s aller­gic to cherry blos­soms and I didn’t like the cutesy look of pink any­way. I think under­stated eleg­ance (i.e. bor­ing) is always best!

For my grandma I’ll be buy­ing a Swarovski flower fig­ur­ine (she really like flowers) in the com­ing days. I think I like the rose that they have, but the tulip or the forget-​me-​nots (my favour­ite flower) are quite nice as well! I’ll see how I feel when I’m in the store. Evidently I’ll want to bring someone along for a second opinion.

I punched the base­ment stucco ceil­ing today in appar­ently neg­lect of the height (or lack thereof) of the ceil­ing. My hand is cur­rently blood­ied and messy. Pros? I look like I got into a bar­fight and won. Cons. My hand is cur­rently min­im­ally func­tional. Tricky. Very tricky.

I’ll be drop­ping by work in the next while to work on stuff that requires my attention.

1. Page of Swords
2. Ten of Cups
3. Queen of Wands
4. Six of Swords
5. The Moon
6. Eight of Cups
7. Strength
8. Ace of Wands
9. The Tower
10. Eight of Pentacles

I’m stand­ing on the cusp between one for­tu­nate time and another, sur­vey­ing my situ­ation. I’ve stepped away from a decep­tion but will be regret­ful about some­thing later on. There is a sense of loss, but that will quickly move past. I see myself as being in a good pos­i­tion and oth­ers see me as ambi­tious and ready to take on new tasks and respons­ib­il­it­ies. I should be pre­pared for a sud­den change. I can look for­ward to hard work and self-​improvement through school and work.

Pretty typ­ical, all in all.