Stalactite-stalagmite

This is my last week here before I go off for my long awaited holiday. I need the break. Last night, I cleaned up the whole old apartment, I mob the floor, cleaned the windowpane and doors, dusted the walls, cleaned up the kitchen and the finale…. cracking-down the stove (hope missus read this and says “..how sweet, my hubby is cleaning up the house…”).

The stove was filthy – never knew that cuz I've never really looked or had any good motive to look at the stove before this. I had to practically use all kind of detergent, anti-grease and what-not to get the old stove spotless. The panel was sticky as dodol, oily and blackened. Scrapping the stove took my entire energy. I just could not believe layers and layers of oil that formed a good 3” of coating on the panel surface and grill (ok, may be that’s a bit exaggerating…but it is thick…).

I had to use scrapper to peel off the layers. Can you imagine it all started with a daily spattered of cooking oil that deposited here and there over a period of time to form a good stalactite-stalagmite-like formation on the panel.

This made me ponder about our health – all the saturated fat that goes in our system through the food we take everyday and how it could ultimately form a lethal coating to our arteries wall over a period of time. Scary…

Helpline from hell

Missus and kids left a week ago, and life without them around sucks big time. I miss them the second they checked-in at the airport. We communicate everyday though and missus sends SMS every now and then. What drives me nuts is my GSM (hand phone) - all of a fuckin’ sudden, I cannot send or replying to SMS. This has never happened before - just when I need it most.

I called the Helpline like a hundred and fucketh times, nicely complaining about this trouble. At first, a lady nicely told me “..yes sir, we’ll fix the problem, and in 5 minutes, you’ll be able to send SMS..bla bla..”. Oh ok, I waited five minutes, but nothing fixed, problem still persist until now. I have been calling the Helpline since then, and they kept telling me that it was a technical issue, and the technical team was still fixing it…now is what, after 5 days, and they are still fixing it…I am getting tired, and what infuriate the hell outta me is the fact that they never bother to call to keep you posted - so I have to call them like, every day.

This morning, I was running out of patient. I called and I was not very well mannered this time, again they told me that it was a technical problem and the technical team was in charge to fix it…oh my God, did I hear that right…. I said fuck the terminology referred to the issue, I don’t fucking care how you term the problem, technical, commercial, procedural, legal or sexual - it is a problem to me, and I need it fixed right away coz I am paying for the service every second of my using your line.

As a customer, I am corresponding with you (so called Helpline) as a focal point, and please don’t tell me what department or subdivision within your organization was responsible to look into it. So, I asked who was this technical team, were they here or residing at some other far reaching planets and asked her to find out what were they doing with my complaint – for all you know, they could be sitting around picking each others nose rather than attending to my problem – I mean I am sure it is a small problem that can be fixed within a jiffy - it has been five nauseating days now.

I gave the lady my last word before I hung up, I want it fixed or have someone from one of your zillion subdivision within your company to call me to update OR I‘ll write a nasty letter to your management, terminate my line and subscribe to other competitor.

I have a feeling that they are not going to do shit about my complain.

Eat shit, choke and suffocate.........

I just could not take how the US and its chums (UN security and G8) are reacting to the Middle East crisis – they’re practically toying with time letting the casualty to go on… . Ironically, the US maintained that Israel has every right to defend its country…give me a break you satan!

You cowboy were so fast in retorting to Iran and North Korea, though on the same principle that these two sovereign countries have their right to pursue on anything that they judged beneficial for their country. I am so peeved by this injustice to write more, I wish great satan to eat shit, choke, suffocate, asphyxiate and die !

Moving day

Swear to God, I’ll never want to move again, not until I am parting the country for good or if there is a confirmed astronomic evidence telling me the building I am staying now is threatened by an incoming comet or some space debris. It was one helluva sweat-squeezing and strenuous chore, my weekend was fucked!

Luckily, bro called a day before we moved telling us that he had the labor ready to help out. I knew he would help…he…he ..my bloody cold silent treatment really worked then...yes!

I was stunned the other day when he told me he could not help…man…!! what was that! I was like, shit…!! I had been helping him with all sorta shits all the way back from our bujang-days, and he was slapping right on my face with a plain NO to my only request!

It was un-fucking-believable just how much stuff we had to pack and unpack. You’d never realized just how much shitload of stuff (or junk) you have accumulated until the time you had to pack and move. Missus learned a lesson though; so in the future, whenever you are in doubt as whether to keep or to throw something, just make up your mind and throw the damn thing because chances are …you will never use the damn thing or find anything useful about it!

Six labors worked their asses up till late afternoon, man… these bunch of dudes are god-made to do this kind of hard work. They were really kicking ass - with the sizzling-heat weather and moving mess, they worked non stop. I treated them with good breakfast and lunch and at day's end, paid them well (by the prevailing standard here).

Actually, my current lease will not expire until September, but we had to move now as missus and kids will be going off for a vacation next week (…I am gonna miss them..). Basically I am paying for 2 apartments until then.

...mudah lupa

Of late, news back home revolved around one butthead (that used to be a super ass kisser) being so rude to our old man. Not that I really fancy anyone here, but the least he could’ve done is to show some respect and listen, I mean… common you rotten ex-fuckhead-lawyer, that old man has done a lot for the country. My point is…take your old folks - you may not agree whole heartedly with them on all matters, but I am sure we would not bluntly blast them off just like that, knowing what our old folks have done and sacrificed raising shithead-devil like us. O well, life is sometime soo unjust…We had plan to move out .. just for heck of it. The apartment we are staying now is quite ok, but the longer we stay there, we notice the smaller the space is getting…may be the building is shrinking…. No, actually, we thought of moving into a bigger apartment… the kids need the extra space, our elder daughter will be enrolling high school next term, so a private room without free invasion by her younger sis and bro would be a special treat for her. We found the apartment, not far from where we stay now and signed the lease couple of days ago. We are shifting this weekend. Missus is busy packing stuff and I am busy thinking of ways to get help. My bro who had earlier agreed to arrange for labor is now refusing to do for un-fucking-knowm reason. O well…like I said, life could be sooo unfair.