Monday, June 09, 2008

Further proof of one fact in the world - when it rains, it pours.

Both metaphorically and literally.

Today's the 9 of June 2008, my dad's 56 birthday. and instead of having dinner with my family, what am i doing? slogging it out at work on a monday night in office. actually, ordinarily i would've just grumbled a little n then take it with a pinch of salt, then blow it off as just another busy working day.

but not today.

Its like, how come good things never happen for very long, but bad things seem to continue n build up and every good thing you just experienced went down the drain?

First of all, for those who don't know, after my first day of work on june 3, everything seemed fine and perfect, my boss threw a lunch party for me, i got my practicing cert, i was looking forward to horse riding for the weekend, etc.

then i was down with high fever. not just normal fever, but the really shivery kind. when the slightest wind send your whole body into a shivering spasm, even though i was underneath the blankets. so naturally i went to see a doctor, who, given my state of sleeplessness and fever, wanted to give me 2 days MC, but i said no need, only 1 day is enough, n I probably would go back to work the next day. i knew i had work to do, come on.

but i had fever the whole day from 37.5 up until 38.9 degrees. so naturally i couoldn't go to work in that kind of a condition right?

oh yeah, and i lost my handphone in a cab while taking it to see the doctor. damn thieves, switched off the phone and probably took it to sell. nevermind, at least theives will go to hell. we'll see who has the last laugh.

so thursday morning when i went to see the doctor again for the fever, i also pointed out to her that my right calf was swollen. in fact it was swollen n red n hard, ballooned up to almost the size of well, a balloon. ok, well i exaggerate, but it was pretty bad. you can ask the two doctors who examined me and gave me MC until 11 june, which is this thursday. because i was supposed to stay home n rest my leg n not move around too much.

but the worst isn't even being sick with fever and infection on my right calf. missing the horse riding was almost inconsequential to me, but the malaysia trip totally made me pissed off. the lunch at the so-called country club resort was horrible, the food sucked, oh and it took more than 1 hour for a steak to come, the place was filled with houseflies buzzing around, and the waitress would forget what you ordered about 3 minutes later.

then the gruelling 2 hour drive to the resort, which i must admit, looked rather beautiful in the sunset, cos it was near a very large lake which probably led to the sea further up or something, there were yatches and boats and it was very nice. after a dinner (with NO SEAFOOD FOR ME because i was still down with the inflammed leg and they had crab and prawns and giant lobsters in front of me!) we went to see some fireflies. yawn.

but when we reached the chalet unit we were totally shocked. i don't have the pictures to disgust you, but imagine seeing about 30+ large winged insects outside your house door. quite gross right?

now imagine about 100 large winged insects in the living room. crawling and flying on the sofa, the table, the floor, the ceiling, the walls, everywhere. also in the rooms, on the beds, on the curtains. like straight out of a horror movie. i was like, shit, what the hell is this. apparently we weren't the only family to have such a nightmare of a room too, others got bees and roaches and other flying bugs. malaysia resorts are BANNED from holiday spots forever.

we called the management to come down to the unit to settle it, they said it was a common thing, h they'd clear it up within half an hour so we went to the bar to listen to the live band or music or whatever that could calm us down.

what we got? a trio of jumping overgrown screaming chimpanzees with one blind n deaf baboon. oh, i'm not describing the zoo creatures or the circus. the band there was that bad. really really bad. so bad it almost made me want to return to the horror house of flying bugs. talk about hobson's choice.

the singing, if you can call that singing, was horrible, the music was terrible, the musician there was always playing the wrong notes, i don't know how on earth could they let such crap play at the lounge there.

we decided we had enough and went back to the unit. had a restless sleep, feeling even more tired the next day.

oh well at least the archery and canoeing was quite fun. the only thing enjoyable on the trip. then after lunch it was back to singapore again, jam at the causeway for over TWO whole hours, why? becos they didn't want to take the second link thats why. i practically wasted my afternoon away at the back of the car, trying not to throw up.

and this morning, what is the first thing that the office pple say to me? that stupid old admin woman came to give me a lecture on how irresponsible i was to leave my work unfinished and take MC, and i'm like, what the hell, as if i chose to be sick? she went on and on about how i'm not even worked for more than a day before i take MC, blah blah blah, i almost wanted to shout at her to F#$^ off and let me do my work. she made comments like "no wonder david say better don't approve leave for the staff, if not they sure fall sick when they come back from overseas, all also like that.. " blah blah blah.. n complain n nag at me for 15 minutes. what the hell, she's just some small clerk who work for umpteen years in the same place with no family, probably no friends and no future except for the deathbed. i mean which loser stays in office until; 8 pm and eat subway when there's NO more work to do? losers like her who need to boss pple around to feel appreciated. i give her face becos she's so much older than me, and i need her to help me with my admin stuff for the firm.. for now i put up with her. cross me again outside of work and when i QUIT this job, i'm going to smack her face into a lamp post.

and i'm still waiting for the client to call for the overseas teleconference. damn it.

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