The power of music.

Since no one was home this morning, i decided that it was the best opportunity for me to play the piano without having to disgrace myself in front of the entire clan. And whilst playing the very little songs i know, i found myself suddenly feeling much calmer and rational.

So, enough with all the grumbling, the unhappiness and the anger ( at least for now ), it's time to record what happened the past few days..

28th Aug 2009:

My last official day at Yellowstone.

I kinda behaved like a VERY irresponsible employee that day. Didn't do any dishes, kept running over to disturb anyone who was in the store and just pretended to be the cook by making spring rolls. But then again, Becky ( head chef and kitchen manager; very nice lady but always accidentally neglects the 'foreigners'. however, she always lends us her car so.. nobody's perfect. ) somewhat gave me the permission didn't she? " help me make the beef and brocolli today; go find the recipe to make spring rolls will you? ; alright, you'ld be helping me make the spring rolls today. " haha, i didn't even help Larry ( the grinch - a VERY irritating, always angry, always complaining and a very horny old man; used to think he was a cool, fatherly figure until i have no idea what changed him. ) much for breakfast. Didn't keep the clean dishes much. Perhaps the only thing i did was keep the butter, the other things that needed to be kept and sanitized the table.

After work, I loitered around the store for a while more before heading back to the room to attempt packing up. Apparantly, my efforts failed. Haha.. Firstly, i had other tasks that were more urgent and secondly, ratatouille (however it's spelt) was a HUGE distraction.

After dinner, we went to help Kelsey get her HUGE load of christmas presents before heading back to our individual rooms for some alone time. I tried packing again. But was only able to get as far as clearing about 5 strips of paper from the floor. Haha.. i know, i have a major procrastination problem.

I think the initial plan was to spend one last night at the pub. And we know at least Joe was way excited about it. But i think because of my v.e.r.y s.l.o.w packing, the girls decided to be nice and say that THEY didn't wanna go to the pub instead. Think Joe got pretty upset but the girls were kinda authoratative with him. and everyone knows the only reason was because i had been lazy and the room was a mess. Good friends, this bunch.

Also, it was Hermana Mayor's ( Mara ) last day as well. She invited Yumi, Sigrid and myself to the lower store to have a last dinner together. I didn't go though.. probably because i preferred the EDR food.

wahaha.. that's complete bullshit, btw. Actually, if my memory serves me right, it was a pretty good dinner that night - even though i can't remember what exactly we ate.

Anyway, Hermana Mayor came back after dinner for a visit. So the 3 girls, matej, joe and mara were all in the room and..woah it was a sight. Throughout the conversations, it was like.. happiness and sadness all jumbled together and i didn't really know which role to assume. But there were a couple of times..

It was really hard when hermana mayor left. At her car, we just.. i dono.. were lost for words? The fact that it's probably the last time we were going to see each other was just overpowering. I never expected us to be so close. Shes been around even before i came and she was like the only young girl around for at least 2 weeks before any other girls showed up and we never spoke. In fact, it was Kate ( Kelsey's not so erm, mature roomate. ) who introduced us and she was WAY into 'flirting' with Mark ( ex kitchen manager ) then so, you know, impression.. HALVED!

But miraculously, we clicked and well, i earned myself a big sister. :D

Went into the Taiwanese girl's room halfway through the night to pass them stuff, accidentally started giving some kinda speech ( IN CHINESE! can you imagine! ) and they took turns to say stuff back and evelyn started to take a step forward. omg.

And finally, the 3 girls were all motherly and started making my bed, said their goodnights and..

lets just say thank god celia was around then and she brought me to the other taiwanese girls and we went around. :)

ok, really long post about the 28th of august.

Very nice.