What a weekend! :)

Friday was full of mixed events. I went for an appointment on Friday morning only to find that the person I was supposed to meet had already gone out for a meeting. Argh! It was a beautiful wet morning that would have been lovely to sleep in for a while! Instead I was forced to drive all the way to Bangsar and search for parking space AND pay for it. And have my brakes nearly fail me which almost gave me a heart attack.

I was appraching the traffic lights near the Bangsar Shopping Complex heading home when they turned yellow, so I slammed on the brakes. Under normal circumstances, they'd usually stop just in time but instead, what I got was a loud screeching noise and my car slid smack in the middle of the yellow box. How embarrassing! I quietly went into reverse and placed my car back behind the white stop line, and until the next light change, I seemed to find my fingernails quite interesting. I think the road was extra slippery there, because later when I tried the brakes again, they were working as usual.

I met up with Majidah for lunch which was really nice because I hadn't seen her for AGES. She's got this great job that she really likes and I'm really glad for her because in the last one she was not appreciated at all. Of course KL traffic is a bane to her but isn't it for all of us? ;)

Friday ended with a surprise dinner for my coach, Bronya whose birthday is on Monday and she was actually quite annoyed because she was having a dance party on Sunday (today) and she had a number of things to do that night, and now was delayed by our dinner party. Initially we had planned to get her to Modesto's in Hartamas where the entire team would be waiting, so Helen had told Bronya that she was arranging a dinner just between herself, Bronya, and me after our belly dancing class so it would come off as a real surprise for Bronya when she arrived at the restaurant. Instead Bronya had said she has only time for a quick dinner before she rushed off to do her chores so we got the team to meet us at the usual mamak place where we always had our dinner after class. In spite of her annoyance I think she was quite pleased, when the team brought out the cake and some of us gave her presents. Anyway after a while she had to run off to her studio to prepare the items for Sunday's party, and she refused any of our help. I planned to go there anyway to help her, and 2 other girls agreed to as well, but in the end I had to back out because I was really not feeling well and Bronya wouldn't hear of my staying up to help her. Anyway the other 2 girls did go so they managed to finish up by 3.30am instead of her initial projected 6am.

Saturday I felt better so I went to help Bronya shop for some more items for the party and ended with a late dinner. Also, for the first time in my life, I actually gargled with salt water. Ugh! What a horrible aftertaste! But it really does help relieve the sore throat. That's what I'm going to do from now on. And I was also forced to drink some herbal tea (which was actually quite nice), from a shop which had bowls ready for you to drink from, and Yvonne (a team member) gave me a packet of Ho Yan Hor tea as well. And I also drank one box of Marigold Vitamin-C enriched white grape juice by myself. I went to the washroom countless times that day.

Sunday was dance party day! It's actually a graduation party. Bronya choreographs all her dances and groups them into CD1, CD2, and CD3 and anyone who's completed learning all the dances in a particular CD will graduate into the next level. Personally, I think it's a great motivating factor especially for those who aren't very good dancers but they try so hard to master the dances. I'm not a regular class member, but I do attend some of her classes which are held just before our practices. It turned out I knew all the CD1 songs and on Saturday I had jokingly asked to graduate, and Bronya really printed a cert for me and actually handed it to me during the graduation ceremony which was really sweet of her. And each graduant gets a small gift too (which was what I was helping to shop for, and wrap later), which made it all the more generous. Well, of course, I did pay for the ticket to the party but it was my choice to do so in the first place, and I had paid for that ages ago. I was the one who took the longest time choosing the wrapped gift to take... because I knew what some of the items were! And what I wanted was not there!!!! :'( But what I got was quite nice too.

I also performed at the party, which admittedly was not quite up to mark as we didn't really have much time to practise beforehand. All in all it was quite enjoyable for me, mainly because most of the time I was on the floor dancing.

Great weekend! Spent on personal time, I mean. I was supposed to learn up on some of my work software.... and I hadn't! Now I have to chase time tomorrow!

And I'm recovering really fast, too. I don't remember ever getting over a severe sore throat this quickly, i.e. within 3 days. I've been pumping my body with Vitamin C every day. I think that's what I'll do from now on whenever I get sick. And saltwater for the inflamed throat!