think organiser!

do u see things by date?
do u always check some schedule before u agree to meet someone?
do u give ppl dates to choose from?
do u enjoy filling up every slot of your time?
do u like highlighting yr organisers until they're oh so colorful?

if u do? you're so like me!!! *sniggers* but that's not how i always was. i used to be very impromptu, and i didnt have to think twice when someone asked me out. Before long, my schedule gets dictated by a certain limited circle of friends, as all other friends decided its tough to ask me out and this "active" community of people jus keeps arranging for the next outting. i do not wish to comment if this is a good or bad thing, because it is terribly subjective. (and i've been both a culprit and a victim of this phenomena happening to everyone our age) Point here is simply : i was like that, now i'm not. period. ok subsequently i met this girl, who, for the love of the world, would not give up on any elements of her ludicriously HUGE social circle! so all day long, she lives by her organiser. i'm pretty confident she knows her exact schedule 2 months in advance of everything that is to come. but still, she refers and refers, like its the one thing that makes sure her life sticks by gravity and rules. her residual insecurities was totally amusing to me - at first.

after a few weeks though, i start to respect her command of her time. she never wastes a day of her life wondering what to do. even if it was jus plain "slacking at home", you can bet that she'd already scheduled for that period of rest at home, and probably doing something like cooking or watching VCD marathons - all planned! in a way, she wakes up each day KNOWING what's next and what's after "next". soon, i was getting influenced. Because we were planning for meeting-ups, she made me write out my "forecast" so that she can compare and fill me into those overlapping available slots. somehow she spoiled my way of life. and changed it. (not that i mind, though)

today, i hug on to my organisers. i have 3 of them. one purely for work purposes, and restricted to office hours: it basically reflects to me when i can leave early and thus schedule for odd-hours outtings. one of them is purely for after-office hours: its filled with all the better things in life. and none of the sat or sun is left empty. on some days there's "duty" and i know i cant plan something there. the 3rd is of cos my most trusted handphone. it includes every sh*t. i still have those kinda days when i wake up not knowing wat to do, because i'm not as good as the girl who has been doing this religiously for the past few years of her life! but? its much better now. most of the time i find myself DOING something. so next time when i try to ask anyone out and i tell u "ok lets meet 3 saturdays from now" please dun think that i'm putting u off so far ok? instead, try to think of it as me asking u out 3 weeks early!

by following closely to my organiser, i can try to plan for other friends to somehow have a "space" in my life! true, i still have some ppl that i jus keep on seeing week in week out. but they're the ones whom i can jus agree-but-yet-not-turn-up and they wun say i'm forsaking them or wat nonsense. (such nonsense makes me not want to agree to meet in the first place).

i think i'll make a good businessman. IF i do business in future. all thanks to this special lady friend of mine!