Busy day

hello my dear, how was your Saturday? miss you.

I had a very very busy / mental draining day today. My therapist friend was very nice to suggest visiting my parents while they are still in HK. It’s because we were secondary schoolmate, my parents knew her since we were young and they were sad that they couldn’t attend her wedding last December.

So she came to my home today afternoon with another friend, the girl who used to sing a lot with me. It happened to be her birthday last week too and I remember she said before that she wants to taste food that I cook. So I cooked a lunch for 6 people (my family of 4 + my 2 friends) with 5 dishes! I made:

• seared asparagus

• garlic pan fried prawns

• aglio olio with chili and parma ham

• aglio oilio without chili, and

• seared chicken thigh with creamy mushroom sauce!

I did 80% of the cooking with very little help from my brother and mom. I didn’t take any photos of the food because I was already exhausted after all the cooking. I am just glad that the food turned out not too bad and everyone seemed satisfied.

Here are the three of us: on the left is the friend who used to sing with me, in the middle is my therapist friend, and on the right is the girl who love you and misses you a lot (haha).

They stayed till late afternoon, and then I spend a few hours painting the number painting of our family portrait. I am 90% close to finishing it, and i want to get it done before our Japan trip next week, so I have been rushing. But because of that, my neck and back is super stiff.

Then I went out to a dinner gathering with my old church friend circle. It’s actually initiated by the wife of the friend who passed away few months ago. I think because of that, almost everyone attended and there were 13 of us.

It actually felt quite overwhelming for me because I was already quite tired after the gathering and all the cooking at my home earlier, and it’s been so long since I last met these people except at the funeral. Among the 13 people, I actually only kept in contact with Vienna, so this really was an uncomfortable social experience for me and it really drained my last bit of energy.

I am not sure if you understand the feeling, but it’s like you are so mentally exhausted to a point that you feel numb or disconnected with your emotional side. I feel this is accumulated because I have also been busy attending to different things in the past week.

But at least I know that I tried my best to fulfill both events today. So I hope that I will gradually feel more in touch with my feelings and recover my energy.

Miss you and love you.