Just plain rude!

I am a bit numb now. It’s childish I know but what happened a minute ago, brought me back to my teenage years when my dad asked my brothers to tear up all my posters in my room including posters of Perry King( I know..i’m different), David Copperfield(another one..i know) and NKOTB (ahh…I’m normal!) and many more. I was devastated because it was difficult to collect all the posters then. I was heartbroken and hurt that I cried all night. One of my brothers who participated in the ‘tearing’ frenzy, saw how distraught I was, came up to me and said that he saved one poster for me and it was of David Copperfield and I still have that poster with me till now, 15 years later. Dad has his reasons, it may not be the best reason but at that time I didn’t do well in my exams and that was my punishment.
And 15 years later, I was dragged back in time when I saw my posters torn in the dustbin. I am not crying (like hello…)but a bit disturb by the idea of some stranger who were assigned to put up blinds on my door to cover the transparent glass, had the audacity to tear my posters away without getting my consent! I had those posters on the glass to shield myself from the piercing eyes of strangers and also to maintain my privacy which was required when you have to deal with 300 plus students. Today, the company decided that all rooms occupied by the management staff need to be decorated by the hideous blue boring blinds, to signify ….unity of some sort and also to hammer down all the ‘different’, glaring personalities(to them) that have stood out from the rest since the very beginning. If they think they can convert me into them by making me accept that hideous blue blinds, they are wrong and hallucinating! It’s just plain rude to not treat other people belongings with care. That’s just plain basic common sense. You don’t simply come in to someone’s room and tear their posters away because you just feel like it. I know..I’m over reacting but I am an adult and those are things that I like and that makes me, me! My hobbies of some sort. H got me three different sets and that poster was my favorite! Ok…it was a harry Potter’s poster and it was a two sided poster. According to one of my students who collects posters, those were rare ones.*Sigh* Anyway, no use trying to cry over spilled milk. But I will make some noise tomorrow because it’s just plain rude!*snort*!

On call

I got called again last night. It’s a weird feeling being on-call like this..i just can’t describe itJ I should do this part time and seriously considering of talking to Adrian about my computer service job- specialization: Computer software, broadband and Skype.Ok… I thought that I’d dropped by at Aunty’s house and in 10 minutes I should be done because they know which button to press now and all I need to teach them is to on the video so that they can see Chris. They can hear him but they can’t seem to be able to see him yet. I was there are 8pm. An hour and forty minutes later, I was at a coffee shop with them drinking coffee while talking and seeing Chris. Ok…I’ll tell you what happen. The broadband connection around the house area is very weak, so Chris’s voice was breaking throughout the 1 minute trial-out session. So he suggested that I take his parents to the coffee shop. So I did. They drove their car and followed mine, within seconds I lost them and I was driving like 40km/h and I stopped at the side of the road to wait for them. I panicked because they are new and I can’t have two elderly folks lost in Shah Alam can i? Not last night though. So I reached the coffee shop and called them. They picked up! YippY! They were somewhere at the square where the coffee shop is located. I could hear the commotion on how Aunty was driving and Uncle was talking to me and giving direction. It was chaos! I finally saw them and I asked them to stop at the side and I could see Aunty braking and stopping in the middle of the road and there were a few cars behind her and they stopped too ..waiting for her next move and nobody dared to overtake. I on the other hand was like a mad stockbroker with hand phone in hand and walking mindlessly in the dark towards the erratic car. Ok…after all that commotion, we managed to get a table in a jam packed coffee tiam. I got them started on skype and they finally get to see their son! It was a joyous occasion indeed! Then Aunty asked me the same question she asked the minute I stepped foot in their house an hour before “Do you want to drink something?”. I turned her down because I needed to pick up Hannah and I repeated the same answer I gave her before at the house and still I had to drink the cold orange drink she served me. At the coffee shop, i don’t know what happen, after my explanation, I saw hot milo being served in front of me. I prayed to GOD to give me patience and a peace of mind when my parents get to their age and wanted me to teach them how to play PS4 or something. Please please give me the patience and the creativity to explain and make them see what needs to be done. Anyway, They ordered dinner and I drank my hot milo while they talked to Chris. There were a lot of my students there. They must be puzzled seeing me with these two elderly Chinese couple in shorts. Anyway, life is filled with many surprises, mine especially. After everybody was happily chatting and drinking and eating and being merry, I thought that it’ll be easy for me to make my get away. It took me three attempts and two goodbyes to Chris then only I succeeded. I almost ran to the car, no…not because of them but because it was already 9.45pm and I haven’t pick up Hannah yet and she’ll be furious I thought. I reached the daycare center at 10pm and I was apologizing profusely to her and she smiled and said” you are just like a tortoise mummyJ” . Great! She was in a good mood. We laughed all the way to the car(I wish it was to the bank but the car is as good as the bank when it’s with my baby) and I had my chat with her about her day and when we reached home, it was time to sleep. A long hard but interesting day. Something I thought I’d share with you *yawn* this morning. Have a great Wednesday everyone.