anyway now that Mr Unrequited II has left, i think i can start 2009 Manisha Style. lets see. i can start by making crappy resolutions!

1. buy cheese more often. actually i made the same res back in july ( http://walkingcontradiction.blog.com/3398267/ )and never kept to it, settling to eat at other peoples houses. but was at lucys and had some amazing smelly stilton and i nearly wet myself (that was maybe because i actually did have to pee but i was too busy eating cheese to care.) i love it that my parents were poor and worked their butts off to make the wealth which i can enjoy. see! now im cultured! i can drink wine and put on some bach and eat cheese and speak of my travels in europe. what nonsense. i drink cheap wine, might as well as drink vinegar, steal cheese from lucys house and every conversation about europe starts with ” i was drunk in Vienna and in my stupid blue tent….”. i do listen to bach though so theres class for you! im scum.

2. become a mysterious recluse. i tire of people looking to me for wisdom and joy and humour. the pressure is too immense! now im going to be the mysterious shadow who lurks in the background silently playing the puppet master to the people around me. i think, and many would agree, i TALK TOOO FUCKING MUCH. im only quiet when im tired and even then im having conversations with the voices in my head…anyway maybe i should tone it down a little in case people manipulate the information i divulge to the them to DESTROY ME. (this realisation dawned on me this evening when i introduced myelf to Lucys friend Elliot - whom i have NEVER met - as The Great Destroyer. he stared at me mildly amused and mostly confused and said “lucy never said that.”)

3. Go To England: mainly go back to Nottingham and just relive one day from my past again. also im desperate to see chris whom ive not seen for 6 months now…which is thoroughly depressing because i motherfreaking hate my friends here, they know it, i know it, chris knows it. sigh. i just miss having platonic male companionship. i have no interest in seeing the Inheritance Threat when im there, whose presence and absence is of no consequence to me. she and her rotten medical degree and her rotten Brown Boy and her face…also i really want to buy the heck out of Duchy Original biscuits! which are immensely more expensive in Singapore then England. i strangely miss the cold. i still have my pretty little black pea coat hanging in my closet and even though a button is missing i still look mighty fly in it…

4. sort out my issues: about my future, law, men, relationships, friends, permanence and the ambiguous concepts of love and freedom.

5, get married: no. i was kidding. i have even more firmly decided not to get married. dont spew the usual nonsense about meeting The One and “oh people who say that will always be the first to get married”. no. marriage is a big no. i dont want it and i will consider it a human failure if i ever get married. i really DO want to have a spawn though. already decided. it shall be a child. a girl child. her name will be Tara. i like that name. i dont care that my stupid sister said its a porn star name…if my child chooses to walk down that path then it will be an apt name. i dont think its a porn stars name i think it is a gorgeous name. Tara Rai.

anyway. last day of long weekend tomorrow. its all good. i love being in the house by myself. parent get back tomorrow. and i swear if the Wench bought me a present i am going to make her suposit it.

yes so im back. from outer space.

Im sure many of you are aware by now, i have been involved with a new man and since he left yesterday for another continent it is only apt i speak of him, possibly run him down to the ground, then make you all giggle with my wild ways. unfortunately eloquence has failed me and i cannot bitch about this one, who is surely the new, certain Mr Unrequited. ahhhh life is truly and surely a bitch. nevertheless, he contributed to a terrific start to 2009. so thats January settled. I cant think anything exciting can happen in the next few months as i intend to wholeheartedly drown myself into work, going to the gym, perfecting the routine i crave and go slightly mental when i break it.

I have this feeling i wont be updating this blog very often from now on because i cant type at work and when i get home i have to rush through the gym and abusing The Wench. so im thinking a bit of a hiatus is due and one day when im feeling normal (or possibly made redundant because i wear flip flops to work, or because i may crucify that partner who GETS TO ME - he is the New Satan by the way)

its very cloudy, windy and drizzly now and im also feeling midly sick since i ran on a empty stomach this morning. no hookers were bugging me there, hence no mysterious deaths were reported in the newspapers.

I have had an epiphany and that is i am a closet hermit.