another story... part 1

she talks about shipping things back home sometime soon. and he asks if she wants a box, to which she positively responds. he suggests on carrying the box back to her house later... after going for a movie. she questions the logic of it as it means carrying a huge empty box all the way to town and into the cinema. and he says to drop the box off at aunties' place while they watch the movie and then after that collect it. she remembers that aunties are working at night and won't be home... he calls them anyways and arranges the whole thing.

they rush out of the house. movie starts in 20minutes and they are late. they walk extremely fast while he tells her to go on to co-op to get the popcorn and water and to meet him at the cinema while he goes to drop off the box. she says alrights and they go on their separate ways.

he calls. tells her to buy the movie ticket first becos he's on his way to the cinema but the movie was about to start in 5 minutes' time. she buys the tickets and he arrives. they enter the cinema for green street.

the movie ends and he calls aunty e to collect the box as they were heading back to her home. aunty e was at home and so they walked over. she rings aunty e's intercom and aunty e opens the downstairs door for them. they take the lift up to aunty e's flat and knocks on the door. aunty e takes quite some time to open the door and when she did, the flat was in darkness and aunty e says that she has just returned from a neighbour's place.

they enter the flat and removes their shoes. aunty e mentions that the box is in the living room and she asks to turn on the lights. she turns around to flip the light switch and then enters the living room...

"happy birthday to you..."



ThAnKs SOOoOOoOo muchy aunty ele, aunty ren, azzy, jen & dearest jian!!!




fenwick cheesecake decorated by aunty ren herself who ordered the cake... THANK YOU!!! *huggs*


darling jian who plotted up the whole thing... grr...

her : but it isn't my birthday yet!!!
him : TECHNICALLY it is in msian time...

*kisses* and *huggs*


the aunties... aunty ren, who said that she has night shift, & aunty ele, who said that she was going to pick aunty ren up from work. TIPU!!! but all the same...THANK YOU!!! *huggs*


jen & azzy... who also tricked me!!! konon wanna go out... grrr.... BUT THANK YOU!!! *huggs*

---to be continued---

-a simple shoutout-

firstly to...

my sweet sweet bbsitters... aunty ele and aunty ren

THANK YOU...
...for bbsitting me when papa-ong goes to work.
...for putting up with papa-ong's incessant phone calls and demands.
...for ordering and collecting the cheesecake.
...for the surprise at ur place.
...for the 'u-guys-know-what'. *grins*
...for making my weekend the best ever.

lurve u loads aunty ele and aunty ren!!! *hugs*


secondly to...

my almost 'housemates'... azzy and jen

TERIMA KASIH...
...for letting me rot in ur place most of the times.
...for the surprise.
...for rides in the m3.
...for letting me do the steamboat at ur place.
...for the pressie.
...for this wonderfully memorable weekend.


3rdly to...

those who sms-ed me... summer, summer, spring, platx and eme

XIE XIE...
...especially to summer for sms-ing me TWICE.
...spring for waking me up with her sms.
...platx and eme for remember-ing.


4thly to...

those who msg-ed me... krisho, wuikeong, dinghy, neth, boonz, yeeching, meena, deeda, qwee, nana and esther

ARIGATO...
...just for remember-ing.

5thly to...

shin & von

MERCI...
...for the roast chicken. *lol*


and last but never the least ... most importantly ...

jian dearest...

GRACIAS...
...for helping me carry all my steamboat supplies.
...for carrying that huge cardboard box.
...for Green Street.
...for arranging everything.
...for the surprise.
...for tipu-ing me.
...for el torero, paella, sangria, calamares, sausagethingy.
...for tgif, diet pepsi, tropical sundae.
...for toby.
...for n-u parker17.
...for helping with the steamboat.
...basically for everything. the list will just go on and on and on...
...simply for u.

i havn't grown sick of hearing myself say thank u yet. thanks sooo much for making this weekend the most memorable ever. u made me feel like the luckiest, the happiest and the most contented person alive. *huggs* and *kisses* till we both run outta breath.

psst... happy mooncake festival everyone!

true story

boy walks up to salesgirl.

"excuse me, i saw something that i like. can i have it please?"
"yea, sure... what is it?"
"i would like to have these...."

boy walks over towards the earrings.

"...red earrings. they're only £5 right?"
"yeaps."

girl removes earrings from stand & places into bag.

"that would be £5 please."

boy opens wallet and digs out a £5 note and hands it to girl.
girl gives him the earrings.

"thank you."

boy walks around stall towards his mum who was looking at some jewelry.

"mum, close your eyes. i've got something for you."
"what?"
"close your eyes mum. and put out your hand"

mum closes eyes and puts out a hand.
boy places earrings into her hand.

"okay. open your eyes."
"gasps!"
"i saw them and i think they would look lovely on you mum."
"aww...thank you!"

mum hugs and kisses son.

girl witnessed all this happening from the side.

awwww... touches the heart don't you think? and the son was a kid of about 12 years old!

feelings : missing mum.
hopes : my kids would be just like that lil' boy.


"...there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. but the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore."

- from Message in a Bottle.

summer = beach

summer's been hanging around a bitt longer than she should... poor autumn can't seem to defeat her...

..and not that i'm complaining... i LOVE summer! *grins*
and with summer... a day at the BEACH!!!

tynemouth beach...

ahh... the feel of sand between the toes... the loving touch of the mighty wind... though biting cold at times but combined with the warm hugs of gorgeous sun... purrfect~!!!

though clouds kept threatening to rain on my day at the beach... the mighty wind managed to blow blow blow them awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~!!!


papa and baby... black and white... *grins*


rest and relaxation... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... zzz...

and yet another great day out with u! *grins* actually, every day is another great day when i'm with u... *hugs*

***

logged into my friendster today and noticed that i had some friends' submitted photos... clicked on the link and i saw...

...from spring...

T H I S...

my YUMMYLICIOUS dj nasi lemak and sangat kurang milo ais!!!

eh, spring / summer... why one glass is half full edi? who was soooo thirsty!?!

and then to add more salt...

...they add MORE PICS OF THEM EATING!!!

man.. u gurls are pure evil!!!

***

on another note... did u know...?

... that coughing can lead to fractured ribs or a heart attack?!

my goodness... suffering from a bad cough right now... *sigh*

signing off right now... to administer medication to myself...

xxx

tag?

Dinghy tagged me some time ago but i was just too lazy to bother... tonight however, being completely bored... i think i just might...

10 things that irritated me lately

no. 10
long legged mosquitos in my room! they enjoy entering thru the windows and flying about not leaving at all... even when i catch them by the wings and while screaming throws them outta the window... they fly right back in again!

no. 9
how rude some people can be sometimes... and especially once they see that u are not a local...

"hello! are u alright?" (smiling sweetly)
(looks at greeter and noticing that it's a chinese girl...)
"..."

"hello! can i help u?" (smiling sweetly)
(looks up & walks away) OR (looks up & ignores)

for goodness sake! all i did was greet u asking if u're alright! the least u could do would be to give a reply like "hello" or "i'm alright thanks"! how rude can u be?! don't u hav any manners at all!?!?

no. 8
idiot landlord opened my room door for workmen while i was not in WITHOUT INFORMING ME IN ADVANCE! even worse, they cut a hole in the wall and left my room all messy and dusty! called the idiot when i came home and his idiotic explanation was that it was an emergency cos the ceiling downstairs was leaking badly so he didn't need to inform me in advance and that the workmen would be returning tomoro to fix the hole in the wall and he will then clean my room up. when i told him that i would not be free tomoro, he said to leave my damn door OPEN!!!

had jian come over to watch my room while i work and surprise surprise! NOBODY CAME TO FIX THE STOOPID HOLE!

thanks dear... and i'm still sorry for being mendoksey. if i didn't ask u to stay, ur hse wldn't be broken into... xxx.

note : i still see the hole in the wall as i type this... GRR!!!

no. 7
idiot landlord had the cheek to call me to ask for me when i want to pay him my rent for next month when he STILL CLEARLY HASN'T FIXED THE HOLE IN THE WALL! and immediately came over ON TIME to collect the money. kept eye-ing the money (i pay by cash) when i decided NOT TO PAY HIM YET and ask him WHEN HE WILL FIX THE DARN WALL!

"tomoro i'll call the repairmen and ask them when they will be coming" (still eye-ing the wad of cash in my hands)
"and then will u CALL ME and LET ME KNOW IN ADVANCE WHEN?"
"i'll call u when they need to enter ur room to fix the wall" (STILL LOOKING AT CASH)
"NOT WHEN THEY NEED TO ENTER... call me ONCE YOU KNOW WHEN!"
"alrights alrights...."
"ONCE YOU KNOW WHEN THEY WILL COME!"
"ok"
"fine... (hands cash over and wait for receipt) ... REMEMBER, ONCE YOU KNOW WHEN"
"yes" (smiling happily at wad of cash in hands)

ARRRGH!!!

no. 6
stoopid boss reduced basic pay from £30 to a bloody £18, YES! EIGHTEEN POUNDS!!! but raised commission from 7% to 10% AND FORGOT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT MAKING ME WORK A MONTH FOR LESS THAN WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS EARNING!

note : cannot complain to any enforcement agency cos this job don't have to pay up taxes...

no. 5
idiot landlord (hmm, he seems to be irritating me a lot this month) has rented out 2 rooms to TWO CHINESE GUYS!

ok... the guy upstairs is really nice and all... he pass the housemate test a bit...

BUT the guy I HAVE TO SHARE THE SAME FLOOR AND THE TOILET WITH.... AAAARRGGHH!!!

he has a gf who stays here ILLEGALLY... THEY DIRTY THE TOILET EVERYTIME I CLEAN & BLEACH IT... THEY HOG QUITE A LOT OF SPACE IN THE KITCHEN... the gf leaves her hair stuck in the bath tub... they put their shoe rack just outside their room... HELLO! THIS IS THE FIRST FLOOR!!! WHO PUTS SHOES ON THE FIRST FLOOR!!?? now i have to smell their shoes everytime i want to return to my room... HE SMOKES IN HIS ROOM!!! and the smoke floats and finds it way into my room... he is ONE WEIRDO... i'm rather afraid that he's a closet pervert... they open all windows in the house and then goes out leaving the windows open... are they not afraid of a break-in?!

note : and that is why i don't want to leave my room door open the whole day...

no. 4
being 'attacked' all at once suddenly one night when i went down to the kitchen to cook my dinner by the chinese people. weird housemate having steamboat party and had a bunch of frens over and decided to be bold and start asking what things in the kitchen are mine and what can be thrown and why there's not enuff space in the kitchen.

ok, doesn't sound very over when i typed it out but try imagine tt u're A GIRL in the kitchen FULL OF CHINESE PEOPLE stuck right in the middle of them all and they keep asking u questions and oh, did i mention that u're STARVING cos they were hogging the kitchen for the past 3 hours already? and it's already 10pm and u just want to have ur dinner?

no. 3
phone operators.

there's the operator in mas manchester office. she put me on hold for a good half hour before i realised that it's 5.30pm and she must have just tell me to hold while she packed up and left for home. GRR...

and o2... left me on hold for ages just to ask her manager on something really simple... MY FREE MINUTES FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!! GRR!!!

no. 2
received a letter from a debt collection company lately on behalf of o2 for a sum of £498.01. YES! FOUR FREAKING HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT POUNDS AND A PENNY!!! and for what? for a line i opened up in my name on @!# behalf way back in march (i think) which i never used. and guess what? @!# went back to msia lately but failed to pay the bills...

for june : £166.55
for july : £192.10
disconnection fee : £139.36

omg. and i hav only 7 days to contact the damn company to pay up or face court action...

actions taken : call @!#. call debt collector for extension to investigate the matter... got a further 7 days. call debt collector to extend further pending transfer of money from msia. had to pay £10 as goodwill. got a further 5 days. finally paid up everything.

no. 1
calling @!#.

once i got that letter... had to look almost everywhere for @!#'s contact number in msia. took almost 3 days before finding the right number... called and called and called... no answer... then FINALLY @!# answers!!! was frenly... until heard about the debt... claimed to have PAID THE MONEY before leaving uk but CANNOT REMEMBER THE EXACT AMOUNT OR WHAT BANK! claims to cannot find the receipt but will look for it and then call me back next day.

no call back next day... or the next. in fact, DOES NOT EVEN ANSWER ANY OF MY CALLS... as the 7th day looms closer, began calling @!# 3 times every half hour until phone runs out of battery while at work. but before that.... there was this one time... MIRACLE! FINALLY SOMEONE ANSWERS THE PHONE... says "hello?" hears my voice, and BLOODY HANGS UP! calls back thinking mebbe phone outta batt or outta coverage............ phone rings until it disconnects!

did my research discovers @!#'s mum's phone number and dials that number midnight uk time, 7am msian time. dad answers and passes the phone to @!#... asks dad who it is... reply... PHONE HANGS UP! calls back can't get thru... calls @!#'s number and @!# FINALLY ANSWERS... sounding all sick and tired. excuse given for not answering phone calls for past few days... "was in singapore". BULL.....

"cannot find receipt larr... how?"

thank god for jian who finally talks to @!# cos he cannot stand the way i'm handling it... and @!# "dad going overseas today"... "aunty gone on holiday". gee, how convenient.
finally agrees to pay...

calls back next day... "hello?"
in background... dad's voice "who is it?"

wow... dad gone overseas but can still hear his voice. amazing.

finally remits £458.00. dammit... i STILL HAVE TO PAY £40!
question : if u hav paid, why would u do a double payment?! u would be more worried as to why o2 claims u havn't paid!!!

until now still havn't forwarded a copy of the tt receipt...
STILL DOES NOT ANSWER CALLS... i want to claim my £40 and more for having to terminate the contract. hmm, i think i should claim for the amount of money i spent calling @!# and o2 and the dect collector too!

ANSWER THE DAMN PHONE!

will be calling @!# mum soon...

psst : u guys in msia... i might need to recruit some debt collectors to do the debt collecting for me. dinghy... amazing how what we were talking about some time ago actually came true.

note : i've thought about it over & over and the more i think about it the madder i am. some people would think that as @!#'s fren, we should not be talking bad about @!# behind @!#'s back BUT consider this... did @!# ever considered US as FRIENDS in the first place and not put us into all this trouble. even NOW, contacting @!# is almost impossible. protecting @!# who didn't even think about US at all is useless now. in fact, protecting OTHERS from @!# would be a more sensible thing to do. so this is it. the story as it is. feel free to disagree and disapprove BUT things have gone this far and my patience and kindness has been stretched wayyy beyond my limit.

lobak gou... thanks so much for being angry for me. thanks for helping out. thanks for supporting me. xxx, pau.

and there u hav it, the top 10 things that have been irritating me lately...