WTF!!??

Yea.... I get that all the time..... I got home from a really tiring work trip to KL. I was having stomach problems and my left foot had just suddenly decided to swell up and be painful... I knew that my energizer rabbit went to my home the day before and I entered with quite a lot of trepidation... Goodness knows what she did... and then I saw it..... "Dope"!!! not again... She had thrown almost 2litres of oil I had in my deep fryer..... I immediately called her up and asked her 2 questions.... 1) Why did she throw the oil away!!??? Which she said it looked dirty... uuuhhhh... the non stick fryer is black... how wud she know and the bloody oil was only used once!!!!! Aaarrrggghhhheeeeeeedddd!!! And then I knew I shouldn't have asked.. but I had to.... 2) How did she get rid of the oil??? Which she said she jus poured it into the sink!!!!! Holy mother of the sacred cow!!! If the sink got stuck, I wud not only have wasted money on the oil, but a plumber to come and clear the clog.... That is why, I am really appreciative of my energizer trying to help... But help she is not doing.

It was like the other day when she came and started to complain that the wicks I was using for my Buddha's lamp was old... I saw her trying to light the darn thing and then putting it into the wick holder... Of course it will not burn properly unless it were innundated by oil in the first place... So as you can see, she is not using her brains and yet still hopes that she is being of help. Let me be the first one to say this ok... If one day we find her at the bottom of my flat or someone else's please do not say that I have been mistreating her or someone else has ok? She is demented and is having Alzheimer's... Her brain is not functioning anymore. Imagine throwing away 2 litres of oil!! And jus down the sink... though she claims to have used hot water... it will not be effective if she is not careful.

So if she is at my place or some other high rise places and she decides to go downstairs... at the present moment she is still able to remember that she has to use the lift... but there will come a day when she will just jump down in order to go down... After all, her brain is not functioning any more.. And for those who wish to dispute this fact, let her live with you for a few days... and you will find out the extent of her "disability" It is easy to criticize... but hey... when you are living with someone who doesn't use her brains... it is worse than living with the reincarnated zombie of Ahmun Ra...

Free Food???

I have to step into the fray too as I feel that we have grown too spoilt for our own good. There was a recent article about a food blogger who demanded free food after enjoying a buffet for 4, inclusive of his 3 frens... Hey... who the hell are we? Are we so miserable that we have to ask for free food?

This is the amazing thing I feel I really cannot understand about my fellow countrymen. Why do we feel so great about ourselves when we are actually just a small speck in the great big ocean? Compared to a lot of other countries, we are actually very small. Not many of our local talents have become legends overseas and our brands are also pretty insignificant in the global setting. So who the hell are we??? I think that if the blogger was even employed by the Michellin group to give his views of food, he would demand free travel just to go to a restaurant!!!

And in the end, who is the ne laughing? Outside people looking in and saying what idiots we are... Small little fries or flies trying to be smart... But how many of us are actually smart and how many are actually socially smart? Look at it this way, we try to bully everyone else, but we are such chicked when the chips are down. We try to blast and blow, huff and puff but in the end, we get no where... So who the hell are we? I do not post this in a cynical way, it is just a ponderance of our insignificance and yet our yearn to be someone we just are not. For me, I would like to be Mr. Nobody and Mr. Nothing and not be in the limelight. For being in the limelight may not be such a great thing.

Here we go again...

You know something dear readers?? Its kinda strange that we have to have a gahmen campaign to do something... Remember in the old days???? Courtesy campaign... Road safety campaign and all the jazz... And what do we have in the end????

1) Courtesy campaign: Yea... since the 70's with the lion, how much more courteous are we? Oh yea... maybe the new citizens did not go through the campaign so we are almost as bad as where we started.

2) Road safety Campaign: Now I do not think we even have it... but hey who cares??? If one is killed, we will just jail the driver and import someone else... no los mah... and if the driver is influential or rich, he can drag the case for years and then get a soft slap on the wrist like several idiotic drivers who have caused other road user's lives...

3) Savings Campaign: Oh yea... don let me start on that man.. I still remember being forced to buy stamps and so on and open POSB accounts.... now... if u don have $500 minimum balance, u get charged till in the end, the account is closed... So much for saving hor... I don even have money to eat at the end of the month.... seriously....

4) Speak Mandarin campaign: Yea... now ask or speak to any kid who is 5 and above and he will not be able to speak his native dialect well... He will also not be very good in his second language but for some great fluke of nature, they will be able to speak like an American or some other ang moh... even though they have never lived abroad!!!!

So now there will be a new campaign... Get married campaign.... Yea right...... First of all... lets break down the cost.... those poor sods have to pay their study loans.... try to get a job (and with their unrealistic expectations, they are in for a sad surprise)... Then dating... have to pay for every damn thing.... go out to eat and so on... money grows on trees in Sillypore lah... The girls also have unrealistic expectations of god knows how many c's and the guys expect the girls to also have at least 1 c...a "C" cup... so the distractions carry one....

Then if they do decide to get married, they gotta have a wedding ceremony where all the relatives want to have their say on who comes and who does not come and what to eat and where to have it... It may even turn ugly sometimes... Then there is the payment... who the hell is gonna pay for 100 tables??? Sell your butt in Changi for the rest of your productive years also not enough to pay back... Every lim ah kau and tan ah ter will bring their goldfish, grandaunts and whoever the hell they think want to have a good meal and only give u $50!!!!

After marriage... now deeply in debt... both have to work like hell to make enough money to pay off the debts.... Husband comes home late... wife is too tired... So the break down of the family begins as the couple drifts apart... If they shot gun and have a kid... even worse things will happen.... Still in debt... now they have to sell all their furniture to pay a doctor to look after the pregnancy and deliver the kid..... Then after that, the clothes... diapers... milk... and all that shit.... (Oh yea... u may be asking.. where the hell are the parents??? Well to be frank... they have either run away or they have already been sent to old folks homes to prevent any further headaches to the selfish couple)...

So now the couple is even more deeply in debt and up shit creek without a paddle.... We have not gone into the toys, the schooling and so on hor... And guess what... All we get is a campaign hor... not money... not assistance nothing hor.... Haizzzz.... what a wierd place we live in... and like I said... here we go again.......

Tired like I don't know what..!!

My aircon has been on the fritz for the past 3 nights now and I have been slowly gettin back to my roots... Hey I was born of a normal family and there were a lot of luxuries that I did not enjoy till a much later date. I am of course not afraid to say it as there is no shame in saying such things. It is only because now Sg is such that people always want to look like they are better than others that saying things like we were normal people seems like a bad thing. Of course, there are some who will purposely say that they had a simple and probably normal upbringing to ensure that they hit a note with the "normal" people, but hey... please do not think we are all stupid.... I will not name names or point fingers lah... But it is true... with the new generation of young ones, I am sure that not many are able to withstand hardship. Though they may pretend to be able to do so and or they may say that they can, but hey... like I said.. me no stupid.

Well beack to my story, so I carted in all the fans I have in my place and made do with what I could... That is what a "normal" person would do mah.... right? And I am waiting for the repair guys to come and have a look and then see if they can fix it and how much it will cost. I will not ask them to make an emergency trip just to fix my aircon as that will incur extra cost.... and for what?? I will not melt and die.

But it is interesting to see how far we have come and how difficult it is to go back to where we came from. During my young days, we all shared a common TV... so daddy was the one who decided what we should watch and when we should watch. Nowadays, the young ones have their own tvs in their room!!!! And also their own air con and so on.... By all rights, most parents do not think about how by giving their children everything, they are actually setting their children for a fall... Imagine one who has never ever.... ever had to do anything hard.... How do you expect them to be able to survive? They were brought up to be the first and they are used to being the first...in the end.. if they are not? Like my fengshui master mentioned.... he knows of a client who was rich beyond imagination and he lost it all. His daughter went nuts when it happened because she was so used to all the comforts... So ladies and gentlemen... please do not mistake the real world for the reel world or some lala land make believe world. You gotta be able to survive when the chips are down and you are faced with a straight flush when you are holding on to a four card pair. It is when you are at your bottom that you can say that you are a survivor and not "in theory" I can survive....

Hmmmm why my luck so bad ah???

Maybe I used up all my luck for the conception and birth of my monster, but I have been really unlucky lately. It is not the type of ill fortune that will kill a person, but it is more the type of ill fortune where the sufferer will most likely wish he were dead...

Not a joke my good friends, let me tell you about the things that have been happening and you can make your own decision. Since the beginning of this year, my luck has been really bad and things have not gone smoothly. Some idiot loan sharks painted my doorway, but I was't the guy who borrowed the money. It was a few doors down, deeper into the corridor. I called the cops and they said they would send someone down, but did not do so. I had to go to the police post in order to lodge my police report. And to top it off, the cop who interviewed me said that it was most probably because I was living near the lift lobby and they needed to paint someone there so that anyone coming out of the lift will know that someone did not pay money.... Well my only gripe is that why the bloody flaming F can someone be so stupid? But then again, they are already stupid to borrow from a loan shark from the very beginning.

In the end, a few weeks ago, I bought industrial strength solvent to get rid of the splashes because I have already painted over the red areas... (not completely) and now just have some paint spots on the ground and a little more touch up to do. The industrial strength solvent is so strong that when it was placed on my plastic table top, the color on the table top started to run and the plastic warp.... And guess what??? When I opened the can and pried open the lid, there was a loud pop!! And the thing went into my eyes..... I ran straight for the kitchen tap... banging into the kitchen doorway and did a pinball.. banging here and there and then finally reached the tap..... It really hurt.

Then another few weeks ago, I found a nail in my tire... Luckily it was found in time and the patch was cheap... My tires cost 300plus each..... dang sports cars..... So I lucked out on that because I managed to get it patched cheaper.

Then again, I lost both my marriage band and my lucky ring... Not at the same time, but on different occasions.... I usually put then on when I leave and when I get back, I take them off and put them on the dresser.... So in theory, to lose them will be quite difficult....

Then 2 weeks ago.... while driving... I found my aircon in the car really hot and had to top up the gas... That is like the 4th time I topped up aircon gas in the 2yrs I had my car.... Somethng is definitely wrong!!!

And last night... both air cons in my home went haywire.... I am hoping that it is gas because if not, I will not be able to afford any new stuff... Why is it like that ah????

Its kinda funny

Our country is really damn funny. We need foreign talents however it is difficult to get in and also even if you do get in, you will find a lot of descrimination. Why?? Because my family's application has taken over 4 months and we are still waiting Do I have a problem with money?? Not really lei.... But never mind, all the other things aside, I was just thinking of a possible scenario....

As it has been splashed in the newspapers, we may go nuclear... Yea right... I just hope that the utility bills will go down. We are getting more self sufficient in water... because we are drinking shit water... and yet our water price is shit high.... then if we go nuclear, with such a small country, if there is any accident, we will all start to glow in the dark and not need any more lights..... hmmm maybe that is the idea from the start.

Hey... who will be manning the consoles? FT's who do not speak speak English.... Just like the bus drivers who can't even explain where their routes are... So the chance of an accident??? Pretty damn high... If there is an accident, we all just glow in the dark lor.... Haizzzzz....

You know... sometimes I just wonder... Why........