amelia.

Reorganising my Life & Preparing for a new Project

I’m stuck at home with a terrible flu. In a way I’m glad cos’ I get the day off tomorrow from work. This way I can take a break and maybe, get some stuff done.

After my visit to the doc this morning, I popped by IKEA, got myself some boxes and 6 wine glasses. My room has been in a mess for quite some time now and I have been procrastinating about getting it reorganised. So I thought, oh what the heck, go down to IKEA and do something about it. So I bought some boxes and a couple of book stands.. and now my room looks much neater. Somehow, reorganising my room pretty much equals to reorganising my life. I feel emancipated. And although I know getting medical leave will somehow affect my records at work (yeah my job sucks, they actually track how many times you take medical leave…having absolute disregard for genuine cases like *ahem* mine); I just don’t care anymore. I’m getting so burnt out from work that I’ve fallen ill. Such a blessing in disguise if you ask me. I know, it’s kinda warped to be feeling happy about falling ill, but in my line of work, it can be such a blessing because you get to rest and have some alone time. So now that I have some time to myself, I might as well get something productive done.

I met one of my best girlfriends on Monday and I finally found a shop which develops 120 medium format film (the one that my lomo uses). Being such an amateur in photography, you can imagine my absolute delight in finding that shop. I took some pictures of us with my fisheye camera… and I finally get to see my results tonight, if not, tomorrow. So here I am starting on another project. I’m gonna get myself a pretty photo album, and keep a portfolio of the pictures I’ve taken (only the nice ones of course!). Then maybe, I’d return to this very cute and chic shop which sells notebooks in Cathay, and get myself a ticket stub holder notebook and a travel journal. Yeah I’d be wasting money again…But I think it’s worth it cos’ it’s time I make some keepsakes for myself. I feel that it’s due to such great advancements in technology, that we tend to forget the little pleasures we once had; like, developing photos from films, keeping photo albums and collecting ticket stubs from holidays overseas, etc. It’s time to return to these pleasures. I have made a promise to myself that I musn’t be too absorbed into this digital world and end up having all my little treasures stored in my laptop. In a way, let’s just say I’m not only creating a legacy for my own sake but for my children and children’s children.

Feeling ill but contented. Feeling happy. A break well deserved.

:)