Shxx happens...

When shit happens at work (a.k.a "being backstabbed"), I'd like to think "how nice it'd be to just quit my job n be a SAHM?".

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But then, after 2secs (yep, tt's all it takes!), i'd tell myself again "yeah, sure... u'd go crazy in a week. max 2 weeks!"

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And so here I m, blogging abt it on a Friday afternoon, at 4pm...
I'm still thinking abt whether to rehash the whole episodes (yep, more than 1 in this week alone)... but nah... u never know who reads wat in cyberspace...

Bout time to knock off. Kekeke...

TGIF!!!!

Driving

It brings out the worst in me. Ordinarily, i m a polite n well-behaved person. But when i m behind the wheels, the "devi"l in me surfaces n i spew out expletives so often that if i start putting a dollar coin in the piggy bank for every expletive i said, i'd hv filled many many piggy banks in the last couple of years. Ok, tt being said, i still want to qualify that I still hv enough moral decency left :-P to not use those "most vulgar" of expletives.


And what do i do when Ashley repeated my words ( beat beat mummy for lacking the self-discipline to control my vocab when the little one is around )? I start using acronyms lor. Ingenious? Or Devious?

HAH!

Brat!

During playtime in class yesterday, Ashley was hvg fun playing on 1 of the mini slides. Then, one kid suddenly shot his hand out and grabbed a fistful of Ashley's hair n PULLED. I m not toking abt slight tugging here, but serious PULLING! Of cos, i immediately grabbed his hand n held it tightly to prevent him from pulling further. Shit! If not for his mommi who was carrying him n his daddi standing next to the mommi, goodness knows wat i wld hv done, maybe hit his hand hard or bite his hand liao! Hummpfff!!!

What a brat! And the stupid daddi just murmured a perfunctory "sorry" to me, while the mommi just carried her son away n lectured him for less than 10sec.. WTH!

Later, i asked the Ashley whether got pain-pain, n the poor little gal murmured to me yes... Awww... my poor darling!

SIM card lost!!!

I m super duper pissed off! Found out my SIM card had been lost n apparently, a dishonest idiot had picked it up n used it! I didn't know when i lost it. It must hv been sometime between the last billing date n yesterday bcos my last bill still shows the correct bill amt.

And i m DxMN angry at the stupid words tt the svc provider's customer svc officer told me. She told me termination takes 3 days. HELLO??? I oredi agreed to pay up wat the idiot has chalked up so far, u still want me to pay watever charges he incurred for the next 3 days??? Anyway, i m still super boiled up to tell the unpleasant story... suffice to say, the line will not be usable wif immediate effect, so no more charges from now onwards!

Hmmmpfff!!! wat a lousy start to a blue (or shd i say black?) monday!!!

Stupid driver!

Met a stupid driver this morning! It was a bi-directional road, wif 2-lanes for each direction. There's no central divider (probably bcos there are usually big trucks driving in these industrial estates). I was driving on the right lane and as i was cruising along a rather sharp bend, there was this stupid driver, driving wif 1/4 of the car body on the other side of the traffic. In front of her was a big container truck n i guess she was driving out as her line of vision ahead was blocked by the truck.

But that is a STUPID thing to do, because she is then driving on the other side of the traffic whereby oncoming cars (like mine!) could be driving past anytime. And with the big truck obstructing views, it is vv easy to collide into each other! Furthermore, it is a central double white-line, which means you are NOT ALLOWED to drive over the marking at all!

The worst thing is this stupid driver is seemingly oblivious to the danger she created. Luckily there was no car on my left, bcos i had to swerve to my left in order not to hit her!

I wish there is a way to screen out all these idiot drivers out there n bar them from driving!

Pissed off - big time!!!

Nevermind tt it's Monday blues, nevermind tt i was already feeling down in the pits over the weekend...

What caps it all off is the email i saw this monday for a STUPID person!

Sequence of events:
I read a blog written by a local mommi who has had much experience with maids, so i posed 2 questions to her on Nov 12, 2007:

i buy kao biore facial wash for my maid bcos she has slight acne problem and i wan her to keep her face clean bcos she helps me to take care of my 1yo daughter. but i've realised she used it up quite fast, like within 3 weeks finish 1 tube. how to control her? if i leave her the choice to buy, she may not buy using her own money. then, i will always worry when she handle my daughter.

2. she's a village girl in indo n is quite rough when handling my appliances. she has spoilt quite a number of my things since she came, e.g. vacuum cleaner, choked the sink, damaged my clothes while handwashing, ironing board, laminate flooring... she onli knows how to keep saying sorry. how to make known to her that there's a limit to what i can accept, n if she still keeps doing tt, i cannot keep her? my frens ever warn me not to threaten them about sending them back because they may then do funny things while still in the household.


The mommi replied on Feb 28, 2008:

aclx, Your friend is right that you should never threaten to send the maid back. If you want to send her back, just send, don't need to tell her in advance.You can give her 6 months to 1 year to see if she improve. If she still does not improve, then you should send her back. As for the facial wash, you can keep the tube, then issue her the right amount every day. I know it is tedious, but when the maid is like that, you really got no choice.


Then, on Aug 31, 2008, a stupid person by the name of Jim wrote:

jim said...
i really cant believe some of the comments here! please remember a maid is not a slave. yes we make them work long hours for low pay, but they're still entitled to personal rights.

to lyn: if you maid chooses to have a HP thats HER right, its not for you to decide or control.

to aclx: acne is not leprosy! its not contagious. whether her face is clear or not doesn't affect your families health in any way.


On Sep 30, 2008, the mommi (blog owner) replied:

The employer has a right to tell the maid that she is not allowed to use handphone when she is working. Many workers in large companies are not allowed to use handphones when they work.

There are maids who become addicted to handphones and talk all day. They will not be able to concentrate on their work. It is best to be strict and disallow handphones. A good maid will know that they are here to work, not to socialize, so she should not mind not having handphones.

I think aclx is concerned that her baby girl will touch the maid's face. Babies love to put their hands in their mouth. What if the maid's face is oily and the pimples have pus ? It will be very gross if the baby gets it in her mouth and swallows it. I even disallow my maids to put moisturizer or talcum powder on their face when they are taking care of my babies. I don't think that this is not respecting the maid's human rights. It is the job requirement.

I used to work in a high tech clean room environment. Female operators are not allowed to put on any makeup. It is their job requirement. If they don't like it, they should not apply for the job.

I got all riled up by the stupid person's comments, so couldn't resist replying:

to jim: What's it got to do with leprosy? Did i send her back to agency when i saw she had acne on her face? Read properly and think before u comment - i bought her the facial wash to keep her face clean. As Tamarind (blog owner) correctly put it, i am only worried that my baby touch her face and then, put her hand inside her mouth.