It seems very much like my blog is crying out to me to post SOMETHING!!! The guilt is there...but laziness overrules. Besides, I hardly have anything in mind to talk about...at least nothing special enough. So today I bring you 'special news @ 11.50pm'. (At least that's what the monitor says the time is. Oo)
After a long while, I'm back at work. So for the first two days of the week...my job scope included 'kuli'. I had tonnes of exercise from shifting documents from one floor to another, to the car and arranging them at my boss's house. By the time I'm done, my brain is already threatening to shut down as if I'm running on emergency reserves. Unfortunately, I had something extra to attend to on both nights.
Last night was a Deepavali dinner. Nothing much. Mainly cookies, main course and television. In fact it was the same for the other Deepavali dinner I went for on Sunday. ^^'
Tonight was a little different. After work I had a so-called seminar to attend organised by ACCA. I took the monorail down and...I didn't really know my way (for once I was not really bothered about memorizing the map before hand). The monorail people didn't help much and their map just coincidentally did not label the building I wish to head to. So I decided to take a walk and ask for directions along the way. I arrived at my destination without much hassle.
I was early and a little worried about my stomach. Me being on a tight budget was being really stingy about spending at any of the nice restaurants within the building. Thank goodness there were refreshments (though lacks quality) and I couldn't care less about helping myself to the free servings, even if it meant exercising my soft skills with the registration lady and getting stares from the people outside.
The "crowd" slowly came and I decided to test my networking skills too. The mingle thing... It wasn't a total failure but neither did it go as well as I hoped it would. Next, seminar was suppose to end at 9.30 though registration lady did mention that it would most likely end earlier. Assumption: around 9pm. Just 30 minutes more, I can wait.
Oh yeah...my handphone battery died very much earlier. So here's the thrill. Seminar ended at 8pm. I wanted to contact my uncle to come get me so I don't have to wait so long. Go out to the counter, asked the guy if there was a public phone around. He says, "No. Go out." Now...it sounded like he was shooing me off. I thought of going back to borrow the registration lady's phone but she was busy.
Ok...since it's only 8pm, maybe I can take the train all the way back to PJ and call my uncle with a public phone when I find one along the way back. As I was walking towards the monorail station, no phones were in sight, the sky was dark and rumbling and I was...pretty much alone (due to my walking speed as well as off working hours). So I started feeling...paranoid. The phones at the station were useless too.
I went on the monorail and I passed Sg Wang...thinking, maybe I should go visit my friend. Maybe she can help. But I hesitated and missed the stop. My paranoia was getting worse. I mentally kicked myself and got off at Times Square. Tried the phones...no work and even ate up my coins!!! Grrrr!!!
Last resort...I went to DiGi and requested that they charge my phone for few minutes. Managed to get my uncle and I waited for his arrival. My phone battery decided to start dying again when he was about to reach. Now...I'm probably just glad to be home and trying to shrug off the remains of the horrid paranoia.
Lesson: Always bring along a charger just in case.
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