Christmas Is Coming
Random squawk: Pardon the elementary language, I haven't written for very long and it seems I have lost my touch. Imma try to write as much as possible to get that magic back.
So my staff went on a long leave (11 days, to be exact), and I am stuck with covering for her during the school holidays, on top of my own duties in the morning. Which means I am working from 7am to 7pm daily until she comes back.
I am so sleepy!
Planned all sorts of activities and stuff for the December school holidays. Wonder if it's all worth it. But then again, this month is the first month that JCC's turned a profit since it opened its doors in April this year. Got lots of new sign-ups this month, thanks to my tireless efforts in stalking parents outside the schools when they went for their P1 orientation.
Since JCC opened, I think I've changed very much as a person. Skiving is a thing of the past now. I am laden with so much responsibilities and an endless to-do list, I am permenantly wound up and hardly get any sleep. If you think you have it bad now, with a boss hanging over your head, try being a boss yourself. It's bad when your boss berates you, but it's much worse when you have to berate yourself.
But yeah, felt satisfied when I saw the numbers going up on the monthly report this month. Woohoo~!
So the boyfriend took me out to the beach yesterday, and we brought a red pail and a big net. I was expecting a couple of baby half beak fishes at the most, but what we got was a lot more.
We got a few different species of small crabs from the beach itself, a snail which I thought was a plastic trinket at first because of the bright colours, 3 gobys (one of which is a cannibal and I have to remember to remove it later when I get home), 2 hermit crabs (one of which was supposed to be an empty shell for the first hermit crab to change into, but ended up having another hermit crab inside), and a handful of tiny little scats, which in hokkien is called "kim kor".
The boyfriend picked up and showed me the sand dollar, which I've never noticed before. I didn't even knew they existed! He showed me how to find the sand dollars, and after I learned how to, I couldn't stop seeing them all over the beach. Those little bitches were everywhere!
I indulged in a little childish habit of mine, which was to pick up seashells. The boyfriend was cool enough to join in my silly antics and allowed me to bring the shells I picked home. I brought 2 home, both equally impressive. One was white, conical and enlongated with ridges lining the sides, and the other was smooth, round and sparkly clean. The boyfriend himself brought back a lower jawbone of a barracuda, and two rocks with seaweed growing out of them.
We put them all into a small marine tank and the end result was nicer than we originally thought it would be. We have a tiny ecosystem going on in there, inclusive of fish, crustaceans, a mollusc, sand, rocks and seaweed. It was so much nicer than if we went to a shop and bought the stuff. Granted, most of the animals in there are not sold in shops (because they're "not nice" enough to have people pay money for them), but what we have was something more special.
What we have is the reminder of a day out in the sun, at the beach, with a pail in one hand and a net in the other, acting like small kids and getting excited over tiny fish. Not to mention a little piece of the beach in my house.
It was a romantic day :)
