Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Out of the bad comes something good..

So, I thought yesterday was really an unlucky day for me. Well, I don't read into horoscopes or star signs or anything, but I do believe in fate and in luck. Still, although I believe that some 'suey' things are bound to happen to everyone in one way or another, sometimes maybe all it takes is to give it a laugh or take a step back from it, look at it from another perspective and everything becomes so much easier to handle.

By the way I think the results of the birthday readings above is soooo wrong, but with only a bit of right in it larr. Firstly, I think patience is not my weakness but more of strength! Haha. *blushes* And humor and sex appeal are never my best strengths, much less describe my humor style as raunchy. I mean, HELLO, shuang shuang with raunchy humor??? Arghh. But well, I agree with bold and unpredictable. And I also agree on being self-driven. Ambitious wise, I'm not that sure. Sometimes I feel I am, sometimes I think I'm not. Well. Haha. And what, successful career in FASHION? of all things. Haha. Maybe I dreamt before I would be a fashion designer because I linked it to art. But well, it has never been my aspiration to venture into the fashion arena.

Back to the story, well, I've been having bad nights for the past weeks. Can't zzz at nights, sometimes till it's like 7am in the morning but I still can't get to sleep. I can toss and turn for hours and hours, count sheep of all kinds of shapes and sizes, rattle numbers in all kinds of languages, attempt every sleeping position I can, but it ain't of help. Looking at jw sleeping like a log beside me doesn't help too. So I get tired in the afternoons easily.

On Monday, I had a mail from UPS saying they tried to deliver a parcel to my house but couldn't because of the gate code. So I needed to wait for their arrival yesterday, and who knew what time they would come. So I slept from 7-10am, and at 10am, I would bounce up at every little noise and see if it's them at the door. (well, our door bell is like a mouse squeaking, so you don't usually hear it unless you are near to the front door).

So even when taking a hot shower at 10plus to wake myself up, I had to keep alert of the door. The thing is, if I missed this delivery, I might have to travel like 2.5hours to some other place to collect it. The man finally came at 12pm or so. A blur-looking, young Swedish guy. The first thing he told me was I need to pay him 164kr. What?? I already paid for the charges via credit card when I ordered the textbook. Sob. What to do. I dug out 200bucks from my purse and gave it to him. And he told me he had no change. *faintz*. Collect odd sums of money from people without bringing any change. Why??? Well, nothing else I could do but to dig high and low in the house before I found the exact change. So well. Gave it to him and got the book. That's not so bad, right?

Straight after, I went to my 'classroom' and opened the cupboard. Alas, the cupboard door gave up on me and dropped off, hanging loose on a metal piece by the side. Whatt.... All the screws came loose and fell to the ground. Haha. Good timing. I was about to go cook porridge for lunch. I tried fixing the darn thing for 15mins but I couldn't so I gave up and went back to my bedroom.

Next, I opened my wardrobe, and you know those horizontal poles for you to hang your clothes and stuff? Well. Somehow, when I was putting back my money in a drawer below, the whole pole fell on me. =( And well, tried as I might, I couldn't put it back without removing every single thing in the wardrobe. Every jeans, long johns, jackets, towels blah blah (I'm not going to describe how full the wardrobe is, but well, you know. Haha). So I spent another half an hour fixing everything and putting them back where they belonged. Before I knew it, it was 2pm and I had no lunch and nothing. Boo. Jw was not coming back to eat too. Always, suey things happen when he's not here. The other time when he was out of town, the whole ceiling light fell down. =(

Oh, and then I received feedback from my teacher that I needed to correct my I&F (investment and finance) assignment because it wasn't up to standard. I had to define market models and I have no idea what in the world it refers to in finance terms. Sob.

Well, I can write some other nitty gritty details to illustrate the frustration that built up in me when these things happened one by one. But well, zuo ren yao kan kai yi dian. Meaning, sometimes, it's not so bad after all. Wahaha. =)

So some happy things happened after all. =) Dear came back in the evening and we had a simple and nice dinner at Peking. We went grocery shopping at ICA and I had so much fun just recycling the cans one by one (like 100 of them!) and getting back 13kr. We screwed back the cupboard door together when we got home. =) And I watched a Liverpool vs Everton game with jw for the whole 93 mins. Wow. =) Somehow, I felt happy once again. Keke. And I printed out a nice red and gold 'fu' word, (ie fortune and happiness in chinese) and pasted it upside down in the house. =) I used the kawaii ang pows that jiu mu gave us to decorate the house because they are so pretty! So well, all these little things added up and made me a happy girl at the end of the day.

CNY is coming after all. Everybody should be happy!! RIGHT??? Woohoo!!~ I love love love love love CNY!!! Gong Xi Fa Cai everybody!!! Heard before Andy Lau singing CNY song? Hee. I didn't. But I love listening to this song! =p Keke.