Worst Day Ever (topped this if you can)

Am I driving an invisible car? I sometimes wonder about that. And am I psychic?

I was having a really crappy day at the office last Saturday 24^th March 2012. First, my boss bailed on me after having promised me that he will go my Shah Alam site. Then my fan guy bailed on me after also having promised me that he will check on the belt pulley of one fan. Then my sub-con couldn’t get the material ready for my Nilai site. I ended up having to call my main-con to apologize and postponed the installation work for the 3^rd time after having promised him it would be done that day.

I have been waiting/ fidgeting in the office for half the day waiting on my boss. I was thinking that he might be waiting for my other sub-con to come and arrange the rectification work on our office. But when it’s already 12noon and I got another call from my sub-con at Shah Alam who’s doing some work there, asking how and what to proceed next. I really snapped and packed up my things roughly commanding all the attention in my office and left. I didn’t bother to take CK with me because it was already 12pm and only 30minutes left till we go back. So let me just handle it and he can go back to his wife or whatever it is he had planned that day.

I didn’t even take leave from my colleagues like I normally would and just stormed out. I was already wiping my tears away while walking to the car. I really can’t handle it. See I’m not so tough after all. I put my phone on silent mode because I know that people will start calling and I am not in a state where I can talk sanely with others. CK did call I think after boss tell him to (and I was right).

I pumped my car with fuel and paid with credit card to avoid eyes looking at me. I reached the guard house and took quite an effort to talk to the security guard there. My sub-con called me up that morning to tell me that they can’t get into the building. I tried to call, text, email all the people/ phone numbers that I know but to no avail. So I was already on edge that morning. I told my sub-con to ask the guard for the keys. He said that they don’t have it. So I was pissed to find out that the guard could just ‘walkie-talkied’ a guy with the key to open the door. I swear I should put a swear word somewhere in this sentence. So I drove to the building and the door is already opened.

Another shitty thing happened after that. One of the fans tripped and I am really at a lost when it comes to electrical work. But I always saw my electrical sub-con pushed on the small red trip button right next to the main switch. So that’s what I did and it freaked me out because I can’t turn the switch back up again. So I called my electrical guy for help, after one didn’t pick up. I called another and followed a step by step guide. Settled!!

I pulled myself together just so that I could show them what is there to do next and went to my car to reply some of the text from my colleagues. I didn’t want them to worry. When I was having a moment alone with my feelings in the car my sub-con came over and gestured that he wanted to talk to me. Asking if I’m sick and if I want to go for lunch? I said “with this face? I don’t think so” (pointing to my crying face). Then he ask me to go back and he can settle everything there. And so I went to USJ to take lunch at SUMO Japanese Restaurant near the place where I booked my acoustic guitar Seven Tone. Ate, took my guitar without the promised complimentary guitar pick and left. Bought an instrument tuner as well, need it for a new guitar string. Nifty little thing. 

I was already thinking that the day could only get worst if I got into an accident. So I was already really careful while driving. But what happened afterwards?

Some guy bang my car from behind!! Can you believe it?! It’s like straight out of a “Worst Day Ever” movie if there is one.

“You have got to be kidding me?!”

I was at a lost for words when I went out and inspect the damage. 

“You didn’t see me is it?”- I asked in a small voice that almost cracked. I already stopped for a good minute at the traffic light. And I was lucky that I stepped on the brake hard and didn’t hit the other car in front. The guy kept asking me what I want to do. I said I don’t know. And then I said go to a workshop and fix it now. Um..  I cried again..! Really can’t help it. Those two guys looks like the type who would hit and run. They kept asking me to calm down. This is not a big deal and that they are reasonable guys. I’m suspicious though. They asked me not to cry ‘coz they are scared seeing me cry like that.

Ah Yun (the driver) offered to drive my car to the workshop and I let him afraid that he will run away. He told me to calm down again and I told him it wasn’t about the accident, it’s because I had a really rough day and him banging my car just made it so much worst. Long story short as if it’s not long already, we dropped off my car at the workshop near my house and he drove me home. Una was saying that it would take her 1hr30min to come get me. I think so that she can time it perfectly for our 5pm mani-pedi. It was only 2.30 or 3pm when I called her. I don’t get it, because if it were her and I was at home, I would drop everything and fetch her back first. To think that before the accident, I already told her that I will be going back to fetch her for the mani-pedi. I didn’t pay anything on the car.

To summarize:-

• Car is fixed, as in bumper is pulled out and reverse sensor replaced (although one is black the other silver), I had no paintwork done because I need my car for the next day.
• Car still looks ugly.
• Got an orange colour classic manicure, toe nail art with black background.
• Ate pizza with Una (her treat).
• Was in an almost collision twice, one with a parked car and one with a pole.
• Washed my delicates and didn’t machine wash my clothes till Sunday (the next day).
• Had major headache and went to bed at 10.30pm.

My First Toe Art

DARK AND MOODY ME

I still remember while I was in high school and in a very dark place; I was imagining that I am wielding a machine gun and get around shooting everyone. But then, I can’t stand to live without my family. So, that’s where it stopped.

I love it that Meredith & Yang (Grey’s Anatomy) portrays it perfectly while saying that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being myself. 

Sometimes, I just want peace and quiet.

I wrote a mystery short story once (incomplete).

About a girl and her cousins that went into a haunted house. No idea where it ends though.

Genting

A week after CNY, the older Dragon brother came to visit. Called SY up at 5pm to get the direction to Lil’ Bro’s office, instead I ended up inviting her along for the trip. Well, she kind of hinted that she hasn’t been up for quite some time. She made up her mind at that one phone call then went home to pack up her things.

SY thought that Lil’ Bro’ was a girl seeing him walking over to us from his office building. He stinks of smoke when he’s in the car. We all kept mum about it. Pretended that the smell isn’t making us sick.

I missed a turn getting to Genting with the sign (Genting, Institut Aminuddin Baki) on the left and (Genting Highlands) on the right/ straight. I took the straight road, but all the same, it takes us to the same road up to Genting after having to do a U-turn and pass through McDonalds.

It was pretty intimidating driving up with 4 person in my compact car. But with shouts of instruction to change to low/2L gears from them brothers, we managed to reach Genting First World parking in one piece. The brothers were making fun of my driving skills and I yelled ‘Turuuuuun…!!’ Then everyone was like “Aaargh…. Haha... ”. We were all joking and kidding around which SY found endearing. It had gotten very foggy when we reached the top around 11.30pm. It forced everyone to drive slowly, because it was very difficult to read the signboard pointing the way to the carpark.Luckily, there was plenty of empty parking spaces on that Friday night. The KIOSK Check-In Machine can’t process us, since we have already exceeded the Check-In time. And luckily for us as well, it only took us 15minutes to complete our counter check-in.

SY was sporting enough to join us since all of us will be sleeping in the same room. She tried to converse in Mandarin with the elder bro,but he seems to always be ignoring her or pretended not to be listening. His spoken English is of an English educated person with the ‘right..’ at the back of his sentences. A proper one. I had goosebumps just listening to him speak with the hotel’s receptionist on the phone. While my English is of Chinese Malaysian style complete with the ‘mah’, ‘meh’ and ‘lah’ in my sentences.

He was out till early morning between 5am- 6am. I was getting worried and had to text him and ask him to come back. The little one just sit at Starbuck till 3am-4am wearing my cardigan and making it smell of smoke. Euwe~!! I had half a mind to let him freeze himself.

I also managed to lose RM20 gambling, take Lil’ Bro back to his house, take Elder Bro to airport (with plenty of time to spare) and take SY back home safely. Yay me! I wasn’t too worried driving up because I have my boys with me.

Will there be another trip up with me driving?

Yes... With the right group of people.:).

CNY 2012 Recap

I have been wanting to write about my Chinese New Year holiday for quite some time now, but I didn’t get around to do it. Until now.

Remember the promise I made last year ‘”To attend the big Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner 団圆饭 at my cousin’s place”? Well I skipped it. Again.

I even skipped on the annual get-together with my friends and my brothers’ friends. I always had a lot of fun going to that particular gathering. But since my mom was asking me to stick around to be one of their ‘kaki’ to gamble, I had no choice but to obey the woman who gave birth to me.

I do see myself as an anti-social person. I fell quiet when there were more talkative people in the group. I mean I preferred it because I don’t have to do all the talking in an awkward situation.

I remembered one time, that G had to drag me across the floor by my feet to go ‘Yum Cha’. I don’t feel comfortable going to a place where I had to ride pillion on a bike. Not because it was with Beachboy. It doesn’t help to know that there was a high death statistic of College students around the area. There was big ass construction Lorries all around us!!

Anyway, I did manage to get together with my childhood friends. Linah & Cheryl. Chal was also at the same place and at the same time. I got to spend some personal time with Cousin Induk & Isut as well over a short drink.

The main thing that I wanted to tell you are that, it rained the whole week I was there (Ranau). It actually felt like I was living in Fork,Washington. And the Cullens’ house is just around the corner. It literally rained the whole day from 3am till 7pm. Stopped for a while and rained again till the next day!

But I…. loved it. I love the rainy weather. I loved how it made me lethargic and want to do nothing other than sleep or hibernate the whole day. Yeah, that’s how lazy I am.All this while I thought that I was of a water Dog sign. This explains why I love the rain. But then it turns out that I am of a Strong Fire Dog Sign (From an astrology website that my boss found). Which probably explains why I can’t swim and I’m terrified of drowning. I slept with the fan on (I have to have some breeze on my face, else I feel like I can’t breathe), 2 layers of blankets and also wearing a sweater. I can’t remember where my socks are. Mom had rearranged my whole wardrobe. So my feet were freezing.

I spent time with my brothers, mom and dad, with the nanny,with the baby, with the lady of the house- Shenaiah and with the in-laws. I loved watching how Shenaiah controlled all of us. How we would all give her anything that she wanted. Well almost all. With Khiong in particular. For those who don’t know this 2^nd elder brother of mine, let me tell you something. He is the most introvert person I know. Growing up, he keeps to himself. Really hot tempered and doesn’t like anybody messing with any of his stuff. He had a very short fuse. So I was really surprised that he can take all of the Shenaiah. She would grab the iPad from him while he’s playing Armies of Darkness. He would just muttered ‘You don’t know how to play this’. And she would say ‘I know... I know…’. The sweetest thing I saw was, he was lying on the sofa with his head propped against a big fluffy pillow while playing with the iPad and Shenaiah was leaning her head on the side of his head to look in on the action. Aw moment here. Other aw moment was when the boys (my cousin Kelek & lil’ bro’ Aping) gave Grandma Umpil a hug.

The other thing that I admired about my niece is that, she would speak Mandarin with my Dad. Y also noticed this and recalled back when we were little, no matter how often my Dad spoke to us in Mandarin, we would always replied in Malay. One time she even said, ‘Bye bye Kung Kung’.. to myDad when she was leaving the room. Dad had quite a hearing problem. So, she repeated it several times until my Dad actually acknowledged her. Erm, and I think I have inherited the hearing problem.

When 3^rd elder brother’s wife family came tovisit, I kind of hid in the bedroom or take over gambling from the tired ‘kaki’. Actually I did the comical version of back-against-the-wall act. :D. Luckily I have the most extrovert (this is a compliment) Eldest brother & wifey, who did all the socializing for us. Heh :). Y was not even around at that time! He was at the annual gathering at a friend’s house. The very one that I missed out on.

An Oversea Weekend

Went to Singapore for the weekend last week with Boss, Ms Yeap & Ms Ho.
I wasn't really sure why i was invited along for the trip. But i am happy that i was. We drove over. And after two traffic summonses. We reach Singapore in 3Hrs!!

Stayed in M Hotel near Anson Road. Had a fabulously cool and huge room on the M Club floor. Took pictures while we're there.

Boss did treated us all the way. My colleagues didn't even have any Singapore currencies. I still had mine from my last visit and i topped it up with another $50. I did bought me a new Guess money purse. Since the one Gale gave me during my birthdays are all peeled off. It was on sale. So i bought it at $62.00.

Really felt like we were living the successful business woman life. Boss also treated us on the Singapore River Boat Cruise. I think the ticket is $7 per person.

We had a drink at the hotel's J Club. I ordered the Singapore Sling for Ms Ho. She said it was like drinking medicine. And i also ordered the Long Island Iced Tea for Ms Yeap. She couldn't stomach it because they made it too strong. I had my favorite Bailey's Irish Cream on the rocks. Boss just had beer.


Our breakfast was at Katong. Had the Laksa Katong. Loved it!! It was located at Ceylon Road.

The main reason for our trip is to study the outdoor a/c design there to be implemented here.
The thing that bothers me most is that my phone didn't have any signal. 'No service'...Wonder why?

Backtrack on Blood Test

12/1/12 (Thursday)- I finally take the test. I was anticipating the worst, and in a way it kind of helped me get through the process. 

 I went in, fill in my particulars, pee in a cup and gave some blood. When the young lady told me to grip my fingers, i felt the pinch, i didn't even realize that i was all done. That was the first time that i saw my blood in a vial. Never knew i had so much blood! I did look the other way and i can feel my arm involuntarily pulling away from the needle point. And i even made a weird nervous sound. I couldn't even repeat the sound if i want to. 

It felt like.. an ant bite. It really does. It also helped the pain that i was told to grip my fingers hard before/when the needle was about to go in. It is totally different from taking shots where you can feel your arm getting numb. The whole peeing thing.. I almost peed before i get to the lab. And i didn't even know if i should fill the cup to the brim or not. Is it weird that i am disgusted with my own pee? The smell, color and the warmness. Euwwe..~~


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One Bottle of 'O' Positive

So, got my blood test result back. I have high blood pressure. Mine is 5.7 which exceed the 5.2 healthy range.

Was told not to eat too much fried food and eat more food with Omega 3.



Well i guess it wasn't as bad as i thought..:)

Oh, and after so long, i finally know what is my blood type. 'O'
Positive yo! I always thought that i am type 'O', based on my biology research that i did way back in secondary school. I just didn't know if i'm a positive or a negative.

P/S: TrueBlood vamps love 'O' Negative.

P/S: I love my fried food!


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