砂漠のJeffire

Jeffirean Stories

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

I suppose some of you guys had suffered my "eruption" before, like you know, you made me super agitated and I exploded on you. Sometimes I realised that my family makes me explode more often than any other people because they are just so insensitive.

On Sunday after work, I went home to have a short break, reading newspapers while waiting for dinner to be prepared. My mother asked me to switch on the lights for her by addressing me as "wei". I was slightly peeved but nevertheless, it was just on the way. When I sat down to read the newspapers, she suddenly mentioned that I shouldn't drag on my duty of processing the payments for the subcontractors. The key point is "DRAG". I wished I could drag and drag then my father's business would have a beautiful cashflow system but no, I never because I set myself deadlines and systems. Till now, the system I had devised puts the deadline on the 15th, where monies will be credited and payments of last month's jobs settled. Obviously my mother doesn't follow systems, and she uses a haphazard way of working with others. Her past bad experiences had made her distrustful of many people, so she only wants her way of doing things, which unfortunately, creates alot of additional trouble for me. Obviously I blasted her on the spot saying that I had just come back from work, I needed a break and she shouldn't bug me for something that is not due yet. Then she says I always delay and etc. Well, if you know, she bugs me for every little or big thing that happens, hence her $91 phone bill for last month. Every morning I needn't any alarm clock, she will call and say this say that, which could be better accomplished if she could help make the paperwork easier by putting them into the correct files, and summarising the situation everyday rather than call me every hour or so and give me bits of instructions. Her phone bill is always over $50 lor. Dotz.

Anyway I wrote the above 2 days ago. Been very busy all this while actually.

This morning I had a strange dream. I dreamt of the guy whom I had a crush on during secondary school mate, the guy who sat beside me during secondary 1. He was getting married and invited me to his wedding, which was to be held in Spain! Then I was pondering if the airfare would be sponsored as well when his father and brother challenged me to a race. (He doesn't have a brother anyway) and I lost to his father in jumping stones on a pond. Lol. The final memory of the dream I have is he giving me a smile, as if we could still stay as friends. (I have no idea where he is now.)

Ha ha. Maybe he is really getting married soon.

After that my morning began with 2 pieces of good news. My appeal for the deafmute employee was successful and strangely the S Pass application for the Indonesian chap was successful as well. Heh. That adds some good manpower to the business so it is indeed good news after the departure of several men.

But it was followed by an accident at home. I decided to have stir-fried onion fishballs with bread. As I took out the olive oil, the soy sauce was blocking the way and falling off the shelve. In a bid save the soy sauce, I used one hand to push the soy sauce but my other hand wasn't big nor strong enough to grip the slippery olive oil bottle and it fell. The neck of the bottle broke and probably 60% of the oil were leaked. I had a hard time cleaning the glass and the oil, then I used 2 small bottles to store the remaining oil. My stir-fried onion with fishballs was pretty tasty with bread but lacked a zing to it. Haha. So much trouble for such a small meal.

Other than these, my life has been pretty normal. Have been reading finance stuff and getting inspiration for business ideas. Hopefully there would be an opportunity to start something interesting soon...

The song I put up is quite an old song... but I would be happy to sing it once again.

In the mood for singing
Jeffire

Acknowledged my existence at
3:19 AM