Weekend's calling...

Woke up @ 6am, left home @ 7am to head to Clementi MRT for the CARE (Caring Action in Response to Emergency) Awareness seminar @ NP (me entering Poly @ age 30...but I sure blended well wif the kids! Hehehe).  But my gawd, NP was such a maze...so huge we had trouble even finding toilets!!!!  Oh well, my colleagues & I cabut 1/2hr earlier (supposed to end @ 1pm) coz it was getting draggy I almost fell asleep!!  See, that's me pretending 2b awake but actually sleeping wif eyes open...while listening to my mp3...instead of listening 2d speaker (but if u see behind, I can spot so many people ACTUALLY sleeping!!)!  Boring & sleepy aside, actually the next & last speaker, Cpt Earnest Ong from SCDF, is someone I've attended his presentation during my last course, so chances are he's gonna repeat his video/presentation abt his experience with the Tsunami!!  We decided to cabut & my colleauge Leana brought me to Canteen 1 for lunch.  I had a nice Lemon Chicken Rice (Cavana Chicken) & a gd chat on our personal lives...afterwhich we parted & I went on to Harbourfront, Mustaffa & Millennia to do my survey work.  I finished almost 6pm...

Oh yeah...Dad got me a new MISTRAL multi-oscillating fan ($90) from Ubi.  The same fan that's $128 @ Best & Courts...I think.  Dad is loaded (just got his pay+bonus...Alhamdulillah), so Mom is on a MISSION:KETUK on Dad...hehehe...Rileks la Pa...banyak2 sedekah, Allah murahkan rezeki tau...see how your rezeki has been enriched since u stopped being a miser to Ma & I!!?? That's coz everytime u give us $$, we pray for 10x the amt 2b returned to u!!  Dad gave me $200 (1/2 share of road tax)...choooo chweeeeet...Such a waste though, I was late by 5mins, I didnt know they went fan-hunting yesterday while I was at survey...so when I saw a MORRIES multi-oscillating fan for $69, I sms-ed Mom for them to consider...but apparently, Dad just made payment for the fan @ Ubi just 5 mins b4 I sms-ed.  But at least, looking on a brighter side, $90 from $128 is a more huge saving ($38) compared to $69 from $90 ($21)!! 

This morning, I was awakened by Sis' call (had to pick up coz it kept ringing, which means Mom's out 2d market).  She left a message for Mom that BIL will be coming to pick up lunch later.  So I figured Mom told her it's Briyani Dam day.  So, guess what?!  I decided not to do the cooking...so I off all my alarms & didnt wake up early.  I'm learning to cook Briyani Dam for my betterment...I'm not some blardy maid, making lunch for lazy people!!  By all means, Mom can cook it herself if she enjoys being the maid & encourage her lazy married daughter 2b lazier by not cooking ever!!  Already since she got married 5 yrs ago & shifted to their own home 4 yrs ago, they still come over for lunch & tapao dinner from Mon-Fri, with the excuse Sis is teaching, so no time (funny thing is she finishes school by 1pm...if office-hrs workers can cook after work, ie. 7pm, what's 1pm?!?!)...wkends & when she's not teaching (eg. holidays) she supposedly "cooks" own meal, but that's hardly the case ever (I stressed the length of marriage & living on her own to emphasize on the fact that she doesnt CHANGE for the better at all after marriage!!)!  Selfish, yeah, I'm like this coz I simply cant stand laziness in people, worst still, married & still lazy to do own housework/cooking!!  Soooo, I refuse to do something for HER benefit.  No, it's not that I don't ever wanna share my cooking wif Sis...perhaps, if she change 4d btr, I may soften...but I'm generally like that by nature...dont take me for granted.  When I wake up 1 day & feel like cooking for all to enjoy, then I will, but until then, dont assume I'm alright wif such things.  Mom cooks for the remaining ones @ home, esp Dad & Bro...so if I take over cooking chores, it's for them too (that's y I only cook over the wkends)...not for the one who's married & shld be doing her own cooking!!  Soooo...I shall make Briyani Dam when I feel like it...but 1 thing for sure, it shall be a last minute decision, not a pre-planned decision.  Hmmppphhh!  Sorry Dad...no Briyani Dam by me today (he's been looking 4ward to it...maybe to tekan me!!)!