Such a boring day.
Awakened by the home phone ringing (agn!!!)...Gosh, whoever invented the telephone wif sounds!!! Why cldnt he invented it wif blinking lights instead?!!
Accident-prone day for me...knocked my left feet against the stepper-twister. It's not blocking my path, but I guess, it's misjudgement-of-distance due to my deteriorating astigmatism! My last 3 tiny toes (esp. the middle one) is hurting anyways. I hope it doesn't swell over the next few days like wat happened many yrs back when I accidentally knocked the sofa's leg. The 4th toe swelled & bruised only after a few days & I didnt even realise till I felt pain & looked down @ my toe! *sigh*
Dad changed hp for the umpteenth time this year! It's Sony-Ericsson k608i. I dunno y this model this time...but I bet his interest in it wont last byond 30 days juz like all the other things he's spent on all his life! Anyways, yeah, he asked me for help to transfer some mp3 on his new phone. After zuhur, did it for him...but somehow, only 1 song (out of the 5 I transfered) can be played on the media player, the rest cant, although the file's there in the phone!! Cant be bothered abt it anyways...let him go figure himself! The manual is in Bahasa Indonesia. Sorry, my malay not that fantastic, forget abt Bahasa Indonesia!
Got dressed, went out wif Mom to Afghanistan. Drove. Since it's PH & free parking...hehehe!! Showed her the stall which had "Sabsuka". (this new food I tried & liked). Then she wanted to eat "Kway Teow Goreng Kerang" at As-Salihin so I brought her there. She ordered "Mee Soto" (oh she's a Mee Soto freak, she'll try Mee Soto at every shop that sells!!) & the Kway Teow Goreng Kerang. She didnt like the Mee Soto, so I was tasked to finish it (I juz finished the noodle & chicken...majority was taugeh anyway)!
I shld've taken a pic of the Kway Teow...it was so unappetizing!! Black...the kway teow swimming in soy sauce...urrgghhh...my mom makes better Kway Teow Goreng Kerang! "Sudah la Ma, u fry your own, I sell for u, sure laku!! Ini yg Mama sebok nak try?? Dgr la lagi cakap org!!" She ah...kaypoh, like small kid...when ppl say "eh, this place the food very nice..." she straightaway wanna go...like there wont be a tomoro! Come to think of it, the 1st time she had Kway Teow Goreng Kerang was late 2001 @ East Coast...that one didnt look too bad. I'm shocked to see the one juz now (we cant stop laughing abt it till now!)!!
After that...we jalan2...cldnt find her grapefruit juice @ the supermarket there, so we went to Tampines Mall. Got it @ NTUC there & headed back home. I was too full I even gave my McDonald's Strawberry Milk Shake a miss!
Came home, did my Asar & then was at the PC transfering songs, d/loaded earlier, to my hp..when Mom keep screaming for me to watch the NDP...complaining that I'm not patriotic!! Yeah...I'm not...I celebrate 15th Aug (India's Independence Day)...hehehehe...I'm grateful to Allah that I'm born & situated in S'pore...how fortunate of me...but I'm not sure if there's anything worth for me to be proud of being S'porean?! Kiasu S'poreans...COE (which I believe doesnt exist elsewhere on the globe?)...Inconsiderate drivers...Buereaucracy...High cost of living...Ridiculous regulations & policies. [Proud & patriotic S'poreans need not comment coz this is my feelings, no one's stopping u from being patriotic]...I'm abt to send my grievance to the govt. on why workers are not given 1/2 day on the eve of ND. If it's celebration for the nation...if schools get 1/2 day on the eve, why not workers?!? No, I'm not an unhappy S'porean...I'm happy...juz dont expect me to waste my time watching NDP or wear red/white. The only thing I wldnt mind doing is wait & watch the fireworks from my balcony window!!! I love fireworks...not that I love NDP! Anyways, while waiting for the fireworks...juz after Maghrib, I fell in love all over agn...with this:
After snapping that I lied down in front of the TV watching (and laughing at) the NDP wif Mom waiting for the fireworks. Until the time she went "Nak sembahyang Maghrib la...", and I quickly got up & zapped to the toilet to take my wudu'!! Hahaha...oh, it's our game...Mom & I like to race to do our solat. Oh, no no, we dont rush thru' the prayer, we juz wanna be the 1st to pray...so that the one who's done can show-off & keep harping at the one who hasnt "Dah sembahyang blom...ish ish ish...tak baik lambat2 kan solat...tsk tsk tsk". Hehehe.
Poor Dad, he went to the shop @ City Plaza (Geylang area) to ask for English manual for his hp, but they didnt hav. Anyways, arnd 8pm, the fireworks started, I tried to video it, instead of snapping picture, coz still photo always appears like confetti, not like fireworks. It's quite far...but at least can see the twinkling of the fireworks to show that I dont really need to go to the stadium etc. NDP ends & my normal night starts agn...tomoro back to work!!
My boss will be seeing me to do my appraisal...shucks...the most dreaded time of the year - PERFORMANCE REVIEW! Not that there's anything bad that can happen (apart from her pointing out abt my ocassional latecomings!!)...but I guess at 30, I still get nervous over such things...like exam-jitters!
Going for my surveys tomoro & Fri...and yeah, catching Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna with Shazadi either Fri evening or Sun. Sat is payday, so it's "visit Granny" day. Going Geylang for lunch 1st then get something for Granny & then head to Bedok. This mth, Sis joining Mom & I coz her hubby not arnd, so she's itching to go out wif us. If her hubby arnd, she knows that I wont go wif them (wif him arnd)...cant stand the sight of him or tolerate his childish behaviour...come to think of it, neither can Mom! So yeah, I've no probs wif Sis joining us this Sat, as long as her hubby is not there! Think it's been mths also since Granny saw her (she's been giving Granny $$$ thru' us since her schedule doesnt permit thks to poor time-management by her hubby!). So Mom's been giving excuses like "she's bz" or "she's unwell"...but basically, I refuse to inconvenience myself to accomodate their timing, and Mom's on my side in this matter.
Did a gd deed for Dad. I found the English manual (on *.pdf) online!! Will print for him 1 of these days. Not now, coz there's like 90pgs!! Gonna find out from Sis, mayb this Sat when she's over here, how to do printing of few pgs in 1 pg. At least that will cheer Dad a bit. Mom's not happy wif him coz he bought this new hp (he keep wasting $$$ buying hp w/o consulting me & end up unhappy wif his purchase due to its user-unfriendliness & then few mths later, do it agn!) & so there's been some tension between them since the last couple of days. I'm trying to cool Mom down to not be petty...afterall it's his $$$ and he's nvr been stingy wif her...every Sun go jogging together, she'll get $50 from him for marketing expenses. Technically, $200 for her every mth, juz for jogging! Well, yeah, Dad nvr wanna buy gold jewellery for u...but still...it's his $$$ that he's wasting, let him la! So yeah, wif all these tension, at least finally having an English manual might cheer him up a bit. Still trying to figure out for him how to get all the songs transfered from PC to play. Only 1 can play. Next time then...for now...That's all folks...
[PS: The RED font on WHITE background is a work of art. Any similarity to the national flag is purely coincidental.]
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