Does the day seem noisy to you?
On the way home from my grandmother’s house today, my mom and I were stuck in a taxi with Mr Cheerful, who was none other than the taxi driver. He just couldn’t keep silent for the whole ride and kept on rattling on about how inexperienced he is about road directions and how he turned into the wrong lane somewhere. My mother, being the usual friendly person she was, responded patiently to all his yakking, but the continuous chatting was truly driving me insane. After a tiring day at my grandmother’s house, what I really wanted most was a peaceful and quiet ride home in a taxi, and that taxi driver had to go and ruin it all. I tried drowning him out by stuffing my earphones into my ears and blasting some music, but that driver’s voice was just too loud. Sheesh…
All day long, I was stuck in the same room as my cousin David who had his eyes glued to his Game Boy for the entire day. You just cannot pry him away even with a crowbar. Seeing that I had no one to talk to, I sat in a corner and continued reading an uncompleted novel. After reading for 15 minutes, however, I heard David get up and the pitter patter of his footsteps was audible as he dashed from the room to the living room. Thinking that I had even more peace and soliloquy in the room, I snuggled into my grandmother’s bed and continued reading. The next thing I knew, the following words were blasted right into my ear…
“MUMMEEE said that I can PLAAAAAYYYY with my PLAAAYYSTTTAAATIOONN (hear the thrilling of his words). YAAAY! Forever…. and ever…. and ever…. and forever…..”
Yes… That loud and shrill voice belonged to none other than my cousin David. At that moment, I was worried about going deaf thanks to his loud yelling. After he blasted the above words into my ears, he started to skip around the room and singing “Forever… and ever… and forever…” for the next 3 minutes. One minute I am hopelessly engrossed in the fascinating storyline of my book, and the next minute I am jolted awake by my cousin’s screaming.
Uncle Johnny booked 2 huge chalets at Orchid Country Club for the whole family next weekend from Friday to Sunday. Each chalet has 4 bedrooms each and we would be holding a barbeque on the second day. I still unsure whether I’d want to stay overnight at the resort, because I would definitely miss the comfort of my own bedroom. However, Uncle Johnny would be really disappointed if any of the rooms went to waste because he had booked the chalet especially for us. Jeremiah, Matthias, David and I are planning to bring loads of items there to keep us occupied. For example, a whole stack of board games, David’s playstation, Sparklers (those which are often played with during Chinese New Year) and a few good books to share with each other.
The upcoming weekend and the following week is going to be fantastic, but busy as well. There is the Family Chalet to look forward to from 28th-30th November, David’s birthday on 02th Dec and the trip to Genting Highlands and Port Dickson from 03-07th December. This is going to be one stretch of holiday which I am going to live up to the fullest…
Went for a shopping spree at the Nike Boutique at Tampines with Uncle Ah Tee, Aunty Nelly, Jean, Max and my mother this afternoon. Jean, being a National Netball Player sponsered by Nike, she would have a permanent 50% discount on all items related to that brand. She was nice enough to share her discounts with us, so all of us managed to buy anything at Nike with half the price.
Naturally, Aunty Nelly, my mom and I went bersek and started buying out the whole store (not literally, of course). Managed to get a new pair of sneakers, a pair of blue slippers, 4 pairs of socks and a new top for a grand total of $105.00 (Usual Price $210.00). Max and my mother also managed to get new sports shoes and some tops from the whole shopping spree as well. However, there is one extremely hilarious issue which I have to mention, and yes, this took place at the Nike Boutique this afternoon.
This has to do with Uncle Ah Tee. Anyone who was at Nike (Tampines Branch) would have spotted a strange man dressed in white jogging continuously all around the store in brand new Nike Sports Shoes. That strange man, is none other than my infamous Uncle Ah Tee, or Uncle Tee for short. While the rest of us happily browsed through one rack after another, Uncle Ah Tee remained by the Sports Shoes Section and started to try on one pair after another. He not only tried them on, but also persisted to jog one round around the store for every pair of sports shoes that he tried on just to test out how effective they were.
My mother and I were getting increasingly frustrated with every round he jogged because he was making us extremely giddy. Many people in the store were staring at him as well, but he seemed undaunted by all the extra attention he was receiving. After Uncle Ah Tee tried on (and ran around in) almost 8 pair of shoes, he finally narrowed down to his two favourite pairs. One costed $88 and the other, $113. The more expensive one was much more comfortable, according to him. However, being the usual thrifty person he was, he was unsure about purchasing it. All of us picked out the more expensive shoe for him as the ideal choice but Uncle Ah Tee was still undecided. Therefore, he decided to try them out even more by jogging five rounds inside the store for each pair to see how lasting they were. Max, Jean and I were cowering around and pretending that we didn’t know him, because he looked utterly ridiculous.
He was still undecided even after jogging those 5 rounds. So he decided to jog another two more in each of those shoes just to be sure. But Aunty Nelly and my mother grabbed him and set him down on the bench before he could embarass himself further. After much nagging from the rest of us, he finally decided on the more expensive pair of shoes. After all as the famous Chinese saying goes “Gei yi fen qian, you yi fen huo“.
However, I cannot stop giggling whenever I recall that incident. Imagine how many rounds my poor uncle had jogged just by doing a simple task as trying out new shoes… He might as well spend his time running a marathon.
I thought my webhost had already disabled my primary email account, but apparently that account had made a mysterious comeback and now it is clogged up with spam, again. No wonder my disk space usage had suddenly shot up from 75+MB to 115+MB within the past 1 week. Initially, I thought that the disk space meter was inaccurate and started to bombard my webhost with many complaint emails regarding the problem, and they managed to track the excessive disk usage to my root email account which was holding 40+MB of spam email! So I deleted every single mail in the inbox without looking at it. Less than two hours later, it was filled with spam again.
Val is also having the same problem as me, but apparently, the problem of spam is a complicated issue which cannot be solved easily. However, I am completely sick and tired of having to do a silly chore like emptying the inbox of an email account which I do not even use, all thanks to those stupid advertising companies. Seriously, I wish that one day all spamming advertisers would just be struck with a deadly disease and vanish completely from this world. Because of all these horrible email issues which I have to deal with, the word “spam” has now been added to my increasingly long list of pet peeves.
Today has been pretty much ordinary. Getting up at midday has already been been an extremely normal routine for me during the holidays, and heading for my desk immediately to faithfully complete part of my holiday assignments. After hard work comes lunch, and finally, leisure time! Meeting my mother at Orchard MRT later on for some shopping in the evening and I am in dire need of a new pair of sandals. You should really see the state of my current pair. People can say that the sandals are “talking” because the front soles of the sandals have completely come apart, forming the shape of an open crocodile mouth. Sadly, those are the current pair I have and I have to bear the embarassment of wearing such a disaster on my feet wherever I go.
I really ought to pry myself away from the addictive habit of going online. Just in a single day (yesterday), I was surfing the net for a marathon length of 6 hours. Now, I really worry for my eyesight which might worsen if I do nothing about this habit. After all, there are much more useful activities to engage in other than simply stoning in front of the computer. For example, bowling. As mentioned before, I have neglected my bowling practices very badly and now I am totally out of practice. :(