Category: Life

Attended a Punjabi wedding today. Dinner and dance. My first time attending one so it was an eye-opener and a pleasant experience. A lot of singing and dancing. Very pretty Punjabi ladies and very colourful Punjabi suits.

Came home and it was 11pm. The fixing of the water pipes was more dramatic than I expected. Holes were drilled through the dining area, bedroom, toilets so you could imagine the dust it has created. The whole house was like covered with dust. Everything that I touched was layered with dust. Yikes!

I couldn’t stand it so I vacuumed, mopped 2 rounds, did 2 rounds of laundry, folded a pile of clothes, and I feel so exhausted now. I only managed to finish everything close to 2am. I think I’m crazy. I don’t know where I found the zest to clean so late at night.

The good thing with the fix was water power is stronger. Much stronger compared to the years I’ve been staying here. That shows how things were wrong from the start.

The bad side is I’m duck-less. Ducky I presumed was covered with dust even though it wasn’t visible to the eyes because the book lying next to it was dusty!

Ducky is in a laundry shop for her dry cleaning. She hasn’t bathe for years. Haha. Hoping to get her back tomorrow so that she’ll wake up next to me every morning like she usually does.

The pipe burst and instead of my house getting flooded, my neighbour’s house was affected. This is due to the design of the pipe that is linked at the top floor so since I’m at the ground floor, I’m not affected even though the pipe that burst belongs to us.

The water supply to our house has been cut until the pipe is fixed. That would mean a day without water. After work and dinner, we came back, packed our stuff and went to the toilet near the swimming pool to have our bath. Thank God for this toilet!!! Brushed my teeth too before coming back. There is no water but the water wasn’t too cold. In fact, it was quite refreshing. So yea, my life has started to get a little bit more interesting.

Tomorrow we’ll be washing our face and brushing our teeth with the mineral water we got since I don’t  like the idea of wearing my pyjamas, getting to the pool toilet with bleary eyes, bad hair and a stinky mouth. 90 cents for a big bottle. I’ve never bought mineral water that cheap. Hopefully we’ll have the water supply back tomorrow.

Mummy was worried about having no water and she’s not here at the moment.

“Can or not oh?” She asked.

“Ma, we have survival skills, ok?”

(Read in reverse order)

I’m iPhone-less at the moment because I left it in the car and Iris has taken the car so I am missing my little baby.

I’ve been feeling rather bored for the last 2 weeks and feeling very low. I was so bored, I actually cleaned up the living room, folded a mountain full of clothesI need to get out of this mud and be chirpy again.

An ex-schoolmate just added me in Facebook and looking at her photos, I got to learn that she’s a mother now. Too many weddings, too many pregnancies, too many babies, that is happening so I can’t help but feel the pinch. Mum’s also asking again, if I’m out dating. Who am I going out with? I said a bunch of girls. She asked me why. Because I just don’t happen to have a bunch of guy friends. Because the people I have worked with are mostly girls….WHY AR?? The people I work with now are mostly girls too. There are guys but they are all taken.

But I love my girl friends…

But I also wished I had guy friends to hang out with. If you were to ask me when was the last time I actually hang out with a guy, I really don’t know lor….because it seems like I’ve not gone out with someone for a hundred years. And for the record, I have been single for 2 years, the longest in history. Not sure to say if I’m impressed with that. For as long as I have my braces on, that’s how long I’ve been single.

My ex left me because I had braces, I had a new job, I cut my hair short. Maybe it’s not because of that…but it happened when I did all those things…so allow me to just ramble.

…is inseparable.

It would be embarrassing for me to reveal that I’ve only gotten (well, learnt!) to sync my iPhone with iTunes to update the software, sync music, wallpapers and so on after 6 months owning one. And I just discovered I could charge the battery by just plugging in the USB cable to my notebook or desktop computer.

When in doubt, I fire up Safari and google away.

When lost, I Google Map my way.

When bored at work and trying to stay awake, I iPod my ears.

The one thing I love most is the boundless world of applications, anything you can think of. I can check on Twitter, I can blog with WordPress, I can even play the piano. It does really sound like a piano. On nights that I can’t fall asleep, I’ll play Do Re Mi. Not kidding.

This is where I like to go for some nice and creative iPhone wallpapers. Poolga.

I was leaving the restaurant after lunch and when I turned around, I saw someone I didn’t want to meet. I wasn’t expecting to see him. When I turned around,my eyes locked at the exact position of where he is and he was already looking at me when I saw him. I had this very blank and quite serious expression on my face even before seeing him. He forced a very formal smile. I returned a similar one.

Many thoughts and emotions filled the heart and mind at once because I was caught by surprise. He was with someone. A female species. I was with my colleagues.

The right and correct method to face the situation was to walk up to him, irregardless of anything but I just continued walking, still digesting who I just saw.

And then I realised, I don’t have the courage.

And now I feel crappy.

Being driver isn’t that bad as the traffic condition is quite smooth. Maybe it’s the off-peak hours. I leave house around 9am and I can get to Iris’s workplace in 15 minutes’ time and then from there, it’ll take me another 15-20 minutes to reach my workplace. It rained today so it took longer to pick her up as there were more cars on a wet day compared to a dry day but it was still alright.

The good thing about the location is that there are alternative ways to get in out of it so I’m not stuck with just one option. The only upset living thing would be my stomach as by the time I leave work to pick Iris, it’s already dinner time.

June is a challenging month for me, financial wise. With Mummy’s birthday, Father’s Day, car insurance renewal, road tax renewal, 3 weddings, that are coming one after another this month, I won’t be able to save much. And those are just among a few of the bigger items that is killing my purse. I will need to eat in more starting next week. Been worrying about this for days because I hate it when I get stuck in a situation like that but I know it cannot be helped. I should start saving and allocating money for next June, when everything repeats again, except maybe for the 3 weddings.

I’m also sinking into a trend where I’ve been sleeping late from the start of this week. When I come home later, I just feel the need to just space out for awhile and then I get into the “don’t-feel-like-sleeping” mode when in fact, I am a bit sleepy and tired. I’m just restless this week. 2 more days to the weekend. Can’t wait!

2 more weeks to pay day. Can’t wait but it doesn’t excite me that much because it will be like money coming in, flowing out right after that. *sob sob*

Oh well, hoping for a better month in July.

Good morning. It’s 1:25am. 10 June 2010.

I will need to leave the house earlier tomorrow onwards to send Iris to work and then pick her up once I’m done and she’s done. She will have a personal driver, which is me. I’m not sure how the traffic would be like but I hope it won’t be too bad.

It just somehow feels like a husband sending his wife to work.

My love for Korean dramas is unquestionable. I’ve completed watching the “Cinderella’s Stepsister” series today. Jumped like a monkey when I saw the last 2 episodes being added to the video streaming website this afternoon, after an agonising week’s wait. Love the OST. Love the cast. Some touching moments that made me cry and I feel so good after crying.

June is a wedding month. Just today, I saw 3 weddings as I was driving around the neighbourhood. I also received 3 wedding invitation this month and the first invitation was tonight,  a wedding dinner of my ex-college mate. I’ve not seen her since we left college and it has been about 8 years or so. I’m happy that I was invited to her wedding even though there wasn’t any familiar faces of our mutual friends in college. I had to bring Iris along so that I wasn’t sitting alone with a table of strangers.

The food at Overseas Restaurant, Hotel Armada was good and the night was very entertaining. I’m happy for her and we share the same surname now that she’s married. 🙂

Today is not exactly the best of days. It’s one of those that makes you feel blue with nothing really major, just little things here and there that bug you. I have analysed and studied my day and I know why I’m feeling a bit crappy today.

I’ve been pretty bored since last week and to make up the boredom during the day, I watch Korean series at night, which was quite educational in someway, taught me something about life.

Usually when I feel crappy and I have no one to eat with, I will eat junk. Today I made myself cook porridge. Carrot and dried scallop porridge. This is my second time cooking it and it’s so much better than the first time. First time was with too much water, too much rice for myself to finish (perfect for two), not enough dried scallops. This time around, maybe the carrots were more so it tasted sweeter, enough scallops to munch, just perfect for me! Add in a little bit of sesame oil and the aroma makes me feel so happy.

One cute thing that happened today…an ex-colleague texted me, telling me it’s her last day at work and she thought about those that has left, and especially me who used to sit beside her. She also told me she has passed on the notes I gave to her when I left to someone else who is still staying. I don’t have the slightest clue of what notes I gave her but I just felt nice that it’s helpful to someone and after more than 2 years I’ve left that place, she still remembers and is kind enough to send me an SMS out of the blue.

There would be times like now…when you help and guide someone and it benefits them, they are ahead of the race and you are still stuck at the same spot. You know you’re good and you’re capable, which is why you could help and guide others but life isn’t always fair and you know life is never fair. You wonder if it’s all worth it to help someone that far and you don’t get anything in the end. I’m feeling crappy because of this but I want to let this bad feeling go away. The SMS came as a heart warmer…so I want to close this chapter and continue doing my best in whatever I do.