This is the house that Jack built............

After living alone this part week, I realised that I actually enjoy being by myself or rather, living away from my family. This new found freedom came with a whole lot of responsibilities though. It has also made me appreciate my mom a lot more. Usually she irons our clothes for us, the rest of the household chores is split between my brother and myself. Since the whole family works, its only fair that everyone pitches in with the housework cos you can't expect my mom to come back from work and clean up after us.

My boyfriend and I are thinking of buying our own place. It's something that we have talked about for a long time, only thing is we couldn't decide what sort of place we wanted. A private house is definately out of the question now. After staying in one for the past week, I've decided that I'm much more comfortable in an apartment. It's a lot easier to maintain and doesn't come with a lot of other residents ie: mosquitoes & rats.
This was what my dream house used to be:



But after careful consideration, this is what my dream house would be:



Its not grand but at least its a roof over our heads. :)

Lesson of the day: Wear Nice Panties whenever you go out

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As I was walking out of the MRT station this morning, I saw a girl lying on the floor. Judging from the colour of her face, she must have just fainted. Seeing this girl reminded me of a similar incident that happen to me a few months ago.

I was running a high fever that morning and decided to go to the doctor. My boyfriend offered to come over to take me to the doctor. Usually, he would fetch me there on his motorcycle. But that day was unusually hot so he decided that we should take the MRT instead. That turned out to be one of the smartest suggestions he ever made. While we were at the MRT station, I told him that I needed to go and withdraw some money. Since he needed to buy a train pass, we agreed to meet near the machines. At this point in time, I was starting to feel nauseous. Everything seemed to grow more distant. From experience, I knew that I was about to pass out so I quickly made my way over to my boyfriend and before I could tell him how I was feeling, I passed out. The last thing I remember seeing was a brick wall. The train station was still relatively crowded as it was morning rush hour. I honestly can't remember what happened after that except someone carried me onto a wheelchair. According to my boyfriend, a kind lady rubbed some medicated oil under my nose and the train staff came rushing out with the wheelchair. I regained consciousness a while later and my mind was alert enough to know that a huge crowd had gathered round. At this point in time I was so embarrassed for causing such a commotion that I just kept my eyes shut and pretended not to know what was going on.
There happened to be a clinic next to the train station which is where they CARRIED me to. Yes, CARRIED. They wouldn't let me walk there by myself and though I appreciated their concern, it was SO embarrassing.

Back to the girl at the train station this morning. When I passed out, I was fortunately, wearing shorts. This poor girl happened to be wearing a short skirt and when she fainted, well, lets just say lots of office-goers saw much more than they bargained for. Like my friend's grandmother always says " Always wear nice panties when you go out, you never know what might happen".

Ant Attack!

The cats and I are officially being attacked by ants. This morning I saw a trail of huge black ants in the living room. Following this trail, I soon came to their ant castle. Raffles the cat was busy trying to catch the ants crawling on the ground but he soon realised that though he might be bigger, there were A LOT more ants than cats. Being the loyal pet he is, he retreated under the safety of the table. Grabbing my insect repellent, I started spraying the entrance of their ant castle. Soon, hundreds and thousands of them started running out. It was fascinating yet at the same time really disgusting. Most of the ants ran out carrying their important possessions ( crumbs of food) only to die in the puddle of insect repellent at the entrance.
I may have killed the residents of the ant castle, but I suspect that their main army is still hiding somewhere in the garden. Tonight my mission is to free the cats and myself from these pests. Armed with my trusty insect repellent, the monster black ants won't stand a chance.

A great Weekend

Despite my stupid Friday, the rest of the weekend went really well. When I got in Saturday morning, the house was still standing, except the kitchen stunk of cat food and their litter box. As expected, they started complaining the minute I stepped in. My brother , his girlfriend and a colleague from work came over to spend the weekend. We had lots of fun swimming and basically just goofing around. It was nice to spend sometime with my family and friends, especially now when there is so much tragedy in the world, it really reminds us to treasure the people around us more.

I So Stupid

Despite my reservations about leaving the two cats alone for the night, I was soooo happy to be home. My dog welcomed me back so enthusiastically you would think I had gone for years ( don't you just love dogs?) Oh, before that, let me tell you what an idiot I was/ am?
Anyway, like I said, I was going home on Friday. Technically you need keys to enter the house, either that or someone should be at home to open the door for you. Guess what? I had neither keys nor was anyone home. SIGH. Being the idiot that I am, I had left the keys with the cats. ( Now, what the hell would the cats need my keys for?! My stupidity amazes me)

The nearest family member who had keys was my brother and he was all the way at the other side of TLOTW. I travelled all the way to the Turf Club, tired and irritated with myself. hoping to just get the keys and GO HOME. No luck, one of our horses just happened to win the race while I was there and hence, I had to go in and celebrate with the owners. What made everything worse was that they kept offering me champange. In order not to be rude, I had one glass, knowing I would regret it later.

True enough, ten minutes later I had the worst headache ever. I collected the keys, caught a cab and just went home to relax, NOT. My mini zoo at home needed and wanted my attention. Picture this, I'm feeding my hamsters and Zack the dog is resting his head on my lap, pawing my hand asking me to pat him. When I turned my attention to Zack, the two hamsters started chewing on their cages demanding that I take them out for a little run in their hamster ball.