Dance like no one's watching

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A good friend of mine & i talked about the issue of inbreeding before. We were referring to the syndrome of church people dating one another, breaking up, and getting attached to another…

We didn’t mean it in any cynical sense… just that if u mix around with the same group of people a lot, given a no. of years of socializing, that is almost bound to happen. It happened in her church… and it happened in mine… er, i mean, to me.

And when “old acquaintances” are brought up unknowningly, i do feel al ittle strange… esp. in situations like… i’m having lunch with my ex, and his ex… or so & so are getting married… and i’ll be thinking… yeah, she was the 3rd party. Do i congratulate her, and what do i congratulate her for? Her wedding or her successful deceit? (Disclaimer: Miss 3rd Party wasn’t originally from my church. She joined when she was after my ex-bf… and by the grace of God, she became a believer – i think.) Till this day, Miss 3rd Party doesn’t dare look me in the eye… and once, when i was standing just across her on the MRT (we flanked the entrance of the train), she pretended she didn’t know me at all even though i was staring at her.

Anyhow, inbreeding is not good!! But well, that’s just my gripe.

Ah… the very first English song on my blog! This is a now not so new song by Daniel Bedingfield (i’m not sure if he ever released another album after his 1st) but i like the tune a lot. Heh. Enjoy…

The title is If You’re Not the One.

Oh wait… i just googled… he’s still in the market… www.danielbedingfield.com (what a name!)

Anyway, it’s been an exciting day today… (or rather yesterday)… we closed a penthouse, i served a 93.3 DJ (and he was really really funny & friendly! I hope he buys the unit! 😛 I’m a new fan!), and i can expect a law suit coming up? Sigh…

There’s been this furore in Hongkong recently, sparked off by a video clip taken using a hp on a public bus. Apparently, this middle-aged man was talking very loudly on his hp while on the bus. A young man seated behind the middle-aged man then pat his shoulder and asked him to lower his voice. This pissed the middle-aged man off and he then scolded the young man for a good 6 minutes…

After the clip got circulated on the Internet, some remixes of the clip, with hip songs and all started getting passed round like crazy. Heh. The videos are pretty vulgar (‘cos the middle-aged man kept swearing)… but funny too.

I thought the young man was a little cowardly. If someone kept swearing that he was going to f*ck my mother, i would’ve either scolded him till he shut his trap up, or i would’ve just called the police and make a report that the guy was threatening me. (The middle-aged man was really aggressive. I’m surprised the bus driver didn’t intervene.) I mean, i would never pick on something and not follow through with it!!

U can go to http://blinkymummy.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-post_29.html to see the videos.

A tenant threatened legal action against me today. What happened was this. His lease ended on 7 May 2006 and when the developer took over the apartment, they found that there was standing lamp missing as per the inventory list signed last year. The tenant, Puerile Downs then said that there never was a standing lamp in the apartment and that i, as the developer’s agent had said that i would change the inventory list for him.

So the developer rang me to ask me about this. I told them that i handed over the apartment to Puerile Downs a year ago and after having closed nearly 30 rentals and doing the handover for all of them, i really cannot remember what transpired that day. However, usually when i find something wrong in the inventory list provided by the developer, i would amend the mistake & have both the tenant and myself countersign the amendments. Moreover, if i really said that i was going to have a new inventory list done up for him, why didn’t he chase me for it in the last 12 months?!?

After hearing my side of the story, i believe the developer told him that they were going to deduct the cost of the standing lamp from his security deposit with them and so Puerile Downs called me today. I repeated what i said to the developer to him and he got very mad. I told him that i’m not saying that he stole the lamp, but it is a fact that i cannot remember what happened 1 year ago!! His tone started to get more aggressive and i got a little fed up so i asked him – if i said i was going to give him an inventory list, why didn’t he ask me for it since it’s been 12 months since we handed the unit to him??? He claimed that he called me before to remind me but i have totally no recollection of that. I told him that i looked through all the correspondence i saved and nothing inside mentioned about changing of an inventory list.

Puerile Downs got really mad and so he threatened legal action against me. I told him to go ahead. Duh! I’ve seen him a couple of times around Triumphant and i’ve even spoken to him a few times over late payment of rental, and not ONCE did he mention about this changing of inventory list. In fact, the developer and him communicated several times because of his late rental payment, as well as the replacement of a defective window pane in his apartment… and even with all this happening, he didn’t mention about this inventory list?!? U gotta be kidding me right?

Anyway, before i could get more details from Puerile Downs, he hung up the phone. So i thought, fine – if u want to be rude, go ahead. I can’t be bothered. Hey… we sold the penthouse today and i’m mighty pleased with this milestone!

5 minutes later, Puerile Downs called me again. This time, he let loose a tirade of insults. He said that he was “disgusted” with the “whole lot of you”, that he’s “lost all respect”, that we’re a bunch of “good for nothings”, and that he’s “paid money for nothing because no work was done”. This time, i got cheesed off so i said, “Fine, if that’s what you think. Thanks for your call, bye!” and i hung up the phone.

Eh hello, Mr. I-am-so-upper-crust angmoh, i didn’t earn a cent from you ok? If your agent was lousy, which i know she was since she dumped you the minute the deal was closed, that’s none of my problem. Besides, even if it was really MY fault, and i SOMEHOW forgot to give u a new inventory list, and u didn’t complain about it in the past 12 months u were shaking your ass in the apartment, then who’s the idiot here? As far as i are concerned, my ass is covered because it’s down in black & white that you signed for a standing lamp lor!! I can only say one thing…

Stupid No Cure.

A few people have actually asked me what’s the moral of the story and i told them that they were supposed to come to that conclusion themselves.

But, since more than 1 person asked, i shall post my answers here:

1) Our parents will always want the best for us, though they may not necessarily know what we want.
2) Humans are very 范贱. They’re always suckers for what’s not good for them.
3) From a sales point of view – this shows that people buy things base on emotions, not facts.
4) I’m just plain stubborn… hahaha.

Last nite, my parents & i were ordering dessert during dinner when i said i wanted cold cheng teng. My dad said that cold cheng teng not worth it, because it’s more ice than the dessert itself. He said it was better to order the hot one, and let it cool down over dinner. But i insisted that i wanted cold cheng teng ‘cos i don’t like hot cheng teng!

So what’s the moral of the story here?

海的思念绵延不绝
终于和天在地平线交会
爱如果走得够远
应该也会跟幸福相见

承诺常常很像蝴蝶
美丽的飞盘旋然后不见
但我相信你给我的誓言
就像一定会来的春天

我始终带着你爱的微笑
一路上寻找我遗失的美好
不小心当泪滑过嘴角
就用你握过的手抹掉

再多的风景也从不停靠
只一心寻找我遗失的美好
有的人说不清哪里好
但就是谁都替代不了

在最开始的那一秒有些事早已经注定要到老
虽然命运爱开玩笑真心会和真心遇到

Really like the lyrics of this song. Couldn’t quite decide whose version to put on my blog – Kelly Poon’s, or Zhang Shao Han. In the end, i decided to go with the former… smaller file size… haha.

I just made a majorly stupid mistake. I forgot to pay my credit card bills. And got charged $75. It would have been only $25… but ‘cos i thought i paid my bills, when i didn’t.. so all 3 cards got levied a $25 late charge, adding up to $75.

Which is DAMN FREAKING STUPID of me. I should’ve just kept to using 1 card… but i had to go use all 3. Idiotic right? Itchy backside lah!

I use the UOB Mini card for all my petrol bills. This is for easy tracking of my petrol expenses. I use the UOB Ladies card for all my other purchases… no particular reason… i just thought the card looked nice. And the last card, the UOB MTV card, my starhub hp line is charged it to… this is an arrangement from almost 2 years back, when i was still using the card for other stuff as well.

Anyway, see how stupid i was? If i wasn’t lazy… and just put everything on 1 card, then i would’ve just been penalized $25 for forgetting to pay the bill!! After all, it’s not as though i get a higher credit limit with 3 cards from the same bank! In fact, the only reason why i signed up for the different cards is ‘cos of the different promotions at the point of signing up.

Grr… i’m quite annoyed now. Going to change my starhub billing to my Ladies card & terminate the MTV card. Will have to keep an extra card just in case 1 konks out… just like my DBS ATM card now. I’m perpetually transferring money from my DBS a/c, to my UOB a/c, just so that i can use my UOB ATM card to draw money…. till i have the time to go to the bank to get a new DBS ATM card.

ARGH!!!!

out·li·er
n.

1. One whose domicile lies at an appreciable distance from his or her place of business.
2. A value far from most others in a set of data: “Outliers make statistical analyses difficult” (Harvey Motulsky).
3. Geology. A portion of stratified rock separated from a main formation by erosion.

Growing up, i’ve often suspected that i’m an outlier, as per definition no. 2. Why?

1. I started talking at 10 months, but didn’t really attempt to walk much till i was almost 2-years old. (Why walk when u can get someone to carry u right? And of ‘cos, in order to get someone to carry u where u want to go, it’s important that you open your mouth to direct them!)
2. In nursery/kindergarten, all my classmates (at least all those i remember) always wanted a younger sibling for company. But i told my mom that i didn’t want any. Didn’t see the point in it.
3. A typical 4-year old would probably hate going for extra non-academic classes… but i used to bug my parents every week till they let me take up ballet, piano, art, and taekwando lessons!
4. I’m one of the rare Singaporeans who doesn’t understand Hokkien.
5. On that same note, my standard of English probably ranks within the top 5% of all Singaporeans, and given that i spoke English almost exclusively while growing up, it’s kind of weird but i listen solely to Chinese pop. In fact, i don’t even know who are the members of the Backstreet Boys, U2, etc…
6. And today, the outlier syndrome struck once again… i went to highlight my hair and i chose Magenta Red as it was the darkest red on the colour chart. My hairdresser also said that all her clients who wanted a visible red had to add Copper Red to Magenta Red, in order for the red to be visible. But for me? This is what i got…

(My hair is really super red… if it’s not obvious in the photo, that’s ‘cos it was taken in a rather dim carkpark.)There u have it! My bright red hair!

It was raining heavily this evening so my dad locked Pinky & Horlicks in the same cage to stop them from playing in the rain. When my dad went to feed them dinner at about 9:30pm, my dad saw Pinky mounting Horlicks. Sigh. The time has come. Pinky has to go for his snip snip once he recovers from his cold. I don’t think we could cope with a 6th rabbit! Hope the op doesn’t come too late and that Horlicks isn’t pregnant already!! 🙁