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To Madinah inshallah. That's all for now :)

20 Random Facts

Mansur has tagged people in his reading list, so here goes :

1. I am a black coffee addict.
2. I am a reserved person.
3. I am half turkish.
4. I am painfully shy, moody and quiet.
5. I am an aunt since I was 15 years old.
6. I am amateur poetess, knitter.
7. I had braces as a teenager which put me in a bad mood for about three years.
8. I almost never chew gum.
9. I never keep long nails.
10. I lack self-confidence.
11. I always create lists: things to do, movies to watch, books to read, things to buy.
12. I usually read magazines backward.
13. I have a niece who looks exactly like me.
14. I have never had a face-to-face meeting with anyone I know from the internet.
15. I love books, rain and dark chocolate.
16. I eat ice cream with a fork instead of a spoon.
17. I like keeping old notebooks.
18. I seldom wear high heels.
19. I still watch cartoons and disney movies.
20. My biggest fear in the world is cockroaches.

Tag to anyone who reads this, thanks Mansur :)

Remedios The Beauty

I have been thinking of Remedios The Beauty, my favorite character from "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and the most beautiful woman in the world according to Garcia's book , one day, she shaved her head and floated to heaven, leaving her village and the novel abruptly.

So I found this interesting drawing while surfing yesterday. The words quoted directly from the book...and the image is showing Remedios when she ascended to heaven like an angle.

P.S. I'm sure Remedios is way more beautiful than the girl in the drawing :|

Not That Easy

When I first came to the place, I heard horror stories about what my boss was like. I was actually in her office when she lost her temper with an employee. If words had edges, the employee would have been standing in a pool of her own blood. I promised myself never to get on my boss's bad side. Nothing, not even the greatest frustration was worth running into her on a bad day. I kept that promise very well. I always speak nicely to her in the hallways. I have all my reports in on time to her seceretary. I make sure I am not one of the last people out of the office for breakfast so she wouldn't single me out.

Ashamed of myself, I started seeing myself in all my cowardly glory. I'm consumed with things on the job that I have no control over. I would spend precious creative energy finding solutions to problems that haven't happened yet!

Just wondering.. Is it impossible to create a sound relationship with such boss? we don't have to be best friends, but I think we have to interact like colleagues.