just another day

The rain was pretty heavy in the late morning and it went on all the way 'til late afternoon, thus giving the perfect excuse to stay home and laze around unproductively. Of course, an "off" day is not really an "off" day unless one has slept in (i.e. wake up quite late) but fortunately, I managed to pull myself together and roll off my bed by approximately 10am. That's not too disgusting a time to wake up from sleep on an "off" day, right??

I brought my sulking eight-year old niece to the library after the rain had turned into a slight drizzle. By then, it was already 4pm. Was actually determined to avoid the peak hour crowd and traffic. Am trying very hard to instill a reading habit into my niece so that she will be able to improve her (English) language skills but I'm not sure of the type of books that a primary-two-going-to-primary-three kid should be reading. As it is, she is still going for books which have more illustrations than words. Heck, the books she picked out probably had fewer than fifty words on each page. Is that normal for an eight-year old?? Have resolved to try reading to/with her at least twice/thrice a week.

Apart from that charitable library visit, I guess, the day hadn't been truly productive/constructive for me. However, I DID discover two new things today:
1) The National Library Board have increased the book lending quota to twice (or is it more than that?) the usual amount. For a limited time period of course.
2) The driver of the cab I was on, informed me that the first McDonald's ever to open in Singapore was the Lido branch.

Sometimes, conversations with cab drivers can be very interesting and enlightening -- Seriously, everytime I board a cab now, I expect cab drivers to make some kind of conversation with me and when they don't, I'd feel a tad disappointed. However, there have been a few cab drivers who just crap around too much and you feel like telling them to just shut up. But of course, these kind will never actually shut up until the moment you've paid your fare and stepped out of their cabs.

Anyway, it's back to the office tomorrow (or later actually) and the day after for some workshops/seminars and hopefully, the next couple of days won't be as dreadful as I think they'll be.