I Drive Well, Ok? Must Try Sugarcane + Lime Juice.

mood: wide awake two hours past midnight
music: quizzical - juliet de orange ("i'm so useless in the kitchen")

footnote to self: no green tea five hours before bedtime!

started out the day with a big yawn and practically jumped out of bed and saw that it was nearly ten! *groan*...saturday can sleep in wat...yeah right!

so i started cleaning and putting things back where they belong. was pleasantly suprised to discover that i actually have floor in my room and underneath the pile of tudungs, bandanas and scarves was my other slipper. the dust that i eventually sucked up woulda made a pretty good pillow.(note to lee: could really use that vacuum/mop machine for this year's bday!) and...at any one point in time, i can only carry seven bags on my body, but i own like 49!

but i did get it done. i did! well...half done, i guess. will pick it up another day. how many times must i tell you that i am sooooo not a cleaning person? cook, yes! bake, steam, broil, grill...lock me up in a kitchen, i'm a happy girl...but clean? c'mon...get real!

well, while cleaning, some time around noon, awak called and asked me to "get ready. we're going for lunch." so we went. beach road. and trashed things out. i told him very honestly "awak, we both get enuff pressure from home and work. we don't need to take/give this crap from/to each other." talked it out and managed to meet each other halfway. then we walked around arab street looking for a nice gift for QueenEW. will and almo, it's absolutely gorgeous and she will love it! see you guys for the Original L&T Kingdom dinner on mon! can't wait!

was already planning to meet nyah and the rest for the BBQ@mendaki. then i got a call. basically the message was "come home, pronto".

and you know what i ended up doing? got the car, faced mother and brother, met gramps/gramms at tekka mall, shopped, sent gramps/gramms to maklang's place, sent mamat's pillow to sister's place and then to home.

OK LISTEN UP PEOPLE!

"humans are not telephatic. (at least, this human isn't). if you don't say it, i won't know it. if you drop hints about it, be sure that your hints are clear and that we're on the same channel. messages are not communicated if they are not transmitted."

geddit? simple right? *sigh*....

oh...the farniest thing happened in sheng siong earlier. was at the checkout counter. the cash lady (indian) and the packing lady (chinese) and me. in my mind i was thinking, "huh, should whip out my olympus and shoot this scene. racial harmony 101."

packing lady: are you sure this can fit?
cash lady: yes just tie with an extra plastic
packing lady: you sure it won't tear?
cash lady: you don't believe you try lah

packing lady turns to me and my trolley.

packing lady: nah
me: just place it here. thanks.

nothing bizarreo about the script right? yup...nothing at all...only the fact that the entire thing was conducted in mandarin! reminded me of the time i was in paris and i got by more in mandarin than i did in french...

what ever happened to malay being the national language of singapore?