How Not To Be Bored @ Meetings!

Let's admit, after the first 20 (max. 30) minutes at a meeting (whatever kind - except for maybe other kinds of meetings that involve certain kinds of furniture, like a bed and pillow), the dreadful B starts to set in! Right?

No, 'B' doesn't stand for 'brainwashing' (or can it?)... anyway, I was talking of the B for 'boredom'. I know I've been bored at meetings to the point of yawning openly!

So I decided to put together some things one can do to stay unbored at meetings:

• Bring your imaginary friend with you. One imaginary friend will do to avoid losing complete focus. Alternatively, you can bring you alter ego. I mean, even a grandfather like Charly Boy has an alter ego, so why can't you?! Although, bringing your alter ego would mean swapping personalities at intervals which could only add to the problem when people start to notice you! Well, good luck with that, I was just tryna help!

*** Barr. Jo, however, thinks having imaginary friends and alter egos points to "preliminary madness", but hey! show me someone who's totally, completely SANE in this part of the world.

• If you're restless like me, then it means you can multi-task. If you can multi-task, then that means you've got a busy brain too... so to avoid/combat boredom, multi-think!

MULTI-THINK (v.)
(mul.ti.think)
The practice or capability of handling more than one thought at the same time.

Hehe... So, you can mentally outline all the other things you want to do before the day is over (e.g. scream and breathe). Figure out what you want to wear tomorrow. Identify all the relatives you haven't holla'd at in forever, and make mental notes to holla soon (even tho the chances are you might not, at least not soon). Etc. Just let simple random thoughts run through your head.

• Bring your own candy (in case there'll be none in the candy dishes, or  some other candy-glutton beat you to gobbling 'em all up). I favour Vicks Lemon Plus and Butter Mint. What about you?

*** Never bring chewing gum; you don't want to be embarrassed, suspended or be labelled 'unprofessional', do ya?

• If there's a coffee-maker in your conference room, offer to be the... coffee maker! (Or tea maker, as the case demands). That way you'll be on your feet most of the time. Happily serve so not to be unhappily bored.

• You can also occasionally glance at the Exit when you're about to lose it! Let the door serve as your object of solace. Repeat these words to yourself... "Do not panic, my dear, it's almost over". Then exhale!

Voila, those are my two five cents. I'm going to bed!

All Things Creepy

Creepy comes in different shapes, sizes... and can I say, odour? Yeah, totally!

Ok, so you know when you get in a bus and it makes that noise like it's the fastest vehicle on the road at the moment, when indeed it's the slowest? Yeah, I was in that kinda situation this morning; every other thing moving on the road, including people, was zooming past us. I kept checking the screen of my phone, I was so darn late! How on earth could I have gotten on board the slowest Marwa in the park today of all days?!

Tapping my feet, chewing on my lower lip - not paying attention to the fact that I was gradually licking up the gloss and lipstick on my lower lip, meaning I'll end up with glossless, shineless lips before noon which I hate because I don't carry make-up in my bag, ever! My eyes somehow wander to the rearview mirror (ok, I lied - they didn't just wander, I always look in all the eye-reachable mirrors on a car just to make sure I hadn't grown something that wasn't previously there on my face between the time I left home and 'presently')... so my eyes wander and those eyes! Bulgy, rotating eyes! Something like this:

Wait, wait... no, they weren't my eyes staring back at me. They belonged to that dude sitting beside the driver! Turned out he'd been staring at me for a while, long and hard. Scary, cold stares... kind of like saying 'I know what you did last night' (and I did nada last night, so I have no idea why he was staring like that!). Till we got to our destination, dude's zeal to stare in the mirror at me never wavered and that was downright creepy!

N.B.: Guys, staring like that isn't exactly pleasant! I can imagine the message you're trying to pass to the girl, but trust me, it only makes her uncomfortable!

Then, I finally get there! 'There' being where I was rushing to so I could secure a comfortable seat in case it was gonna be a long day. This fair chick comes and sits beside me. In my mind, "mirror, mirror in my head, who's the fairest of us two?" I was comparing her hands with mine, trying to figure out who was fairer in complexion... THEN it happened! Lolita opens her mouth and I had to do a double back! Twice! What?! Do you blame me? I needed space! You see, when Lolita talked, she talked with all her body - girl, just had to gesticulate so it was hard figuring out the source of the errr... aroma, body or mouth?

N.B.: Boys and girls, please take care of your MOs and BOs. It's also as unpleasant as staring!

Finally, I had urgent business to attend to later in the day, business I had to get in the rain for! Like some 45 minutes later, I was drenched to my... my... everything! It was time to go home, so I got in a bus. I was lucky to get the beside-the-driver seat, I needed the privacy... if only I knew! My eyes were closed all thru the journey, a thousand things going on and on in my head... I didn't know I had eyes on me, AGAIN! When I was close to my stop, I opened my eyes, and I discovered when the driver's eyes weren't on the road, they were on me! As I was about to get off his bus, he said "e be like say that rain beat you well well, I see as you relax since"... I rolled my eyes, and opened the door. Good riddance!

N.B.: Boys, do not openly rudely stare at a girl whose clothes are wetly clinging to her body! It is not nice!!! And don't pass dumb remarks too at the end. It's infuriating!

Have a creepy-free evening!

1st of,

My first entry of the year… how’s 2013 been treating y’all so far?

Quick summary of my 2012:
- I was bored to desperation the first half of the year! I didn’t do anything silly tho… I got a job!
- Second half of the year, I got a job at an Audio/Film/TVCs Production Studio… and my time there was great. Recorded a Rock track, then a 7-minute gospel track, and I did a soundtrack for a short film produced/directed by my ex-boss.
- I watched a lot of Misfits, Revenge and Gossip Girl…
- I came up with my hottest guys of the year:

1.

The picture says it all, yeah? Dude is hot! In '3 Idiots' and especially in 'Ghajini', Aamir Khan takes my breath away!

2.

Who doesn't love 'em a cocky bastard once in a while! I know I do! I even named my phone after him. Ladies and gentlemen... Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass!

3.

I also love me geeks, especially the fashionable geeks! Geeky, witty, dresses to impress and the all-time party crasher... Nolan Ross from 'Revenge'!

4.

Let’s throw a lil douchebaggery into the equation! I can watch the first season of Misfits over and over again cos of Nathan! He’s hot in a vulgar way!

5.

And of course… this character. Most Naruto fans believe he’s gay tho. But gay or not, Sai deserves to be on my ‘hot list’!

And that’s it for my hottest guys in 2012…

- I made some cool new friends on Twitter; @toperants @shaiontheprowl @akohindey… all bloggers like myself!

- Christmas was a little boring; but Watchnight Service was great!

- Then… I quit my job! (Even though plenty do not approve of that move)

My 2013? Well, it’s moving smooth so far as I continue to apply the words of my Pastor… “be courageous and be strong!”

You’ll be hearing more from me! Till then… Namaste!