Saturday, September 05, 2009
boring highlights of a boring week
Incident #1: auntie I am not your daughter-in-law
Was talking to my friend on the phone and it came to my knowledge that his mum and aunt argued and so the mum was feeling moody. I casually and jokingly said "ok ask your mum come talk to me" but the dumb friend took it for real and shouted into the receiver "hey mum jessie wants to talk to you". I've never spoken at great lengths to the mum and I wasn't intending to but it was too late. So I had thought through in my head to say something like "hi auntie I heard you were not feeling too good, just wanted to check if you're doing fine". When the mum picked up the phone at the other end of the line she said "hi jessie". Totally not expecting such a greeting I blurted "hi mum". 3 milliseconds later it followed with "oh sorry mum I called you mum". The mum immediately threw the phone back to her son and said "your friend called me mum". Both mum and son went into laughing fits and the mum harrassed the son to answer if both of us were dating and why I would call her mum for no reason other than the fact that I was to become her daughter-in-law.
Incident #2: I had no plans of spoiling your birthday celebration
Wore a dress from Cotton On to school on thurs. The traffic on PIE was relatively good that day and I reached super early like 8.15am. The moment I opened the seminar room door, I saw a reflection of myself. Another girl in class was wearing the exact same dress and exact colour inner tube. First thing that came out of my mouth was "oh my gosh", first thing I heard from the mirror image was "OH MY GOSH". 5 others who had arrived early for class threw us the amused look. The seminar room had 10 hexagonal tables, it didn't help that she was sitting directly behind mine. And she was seated at the exact angle as I would sit facing the whiteboard. The sad thing was her boyfriend was in the same class so she naturally walked over to his table and told him the greatest joke of the day, then I caught her boyfriend staring at me and giggling to her. Moments later a gang of her friends showed up at her table, showering her with presents and wishing her happy birthday. First thought that ran through my head "oh my gosh did I just give a girl a terrible birthday". Like which girl would want to have someone else wearing the exact same thing on her special day? Of all days, I just had to intelligently choose a date nearing her birthday.
Incident #3: mummy I don't need ants to give me protein
I asked my mum to have my maid cook a bowl of instant noodles before I left for school on friday. I was upstairs changing and packing my bag, by the time I came down the bowl was wrapped up with transparent cling wrap. As time was running out, I wolfed down the bowl of noodles though noticing that the pepper bits seemed a little larger than usual. Moments later I felt that something was grinding against my teeth. When I was 3/4 done to finishing my meal, I dreamily bent down to inspect the bowl, only to find one tiny dead ant in my soup, then two, then three, then four, then a total of 10 over ants, drowned in the sea of noodles. Overcome by shock, I didn't bother to scream nor drink some water to soothe my taste buds. I walked calmly to the kitchen with the bowl in my hand. Turning to my mum I said "mama,wo dao di zuo cuo le shen me, ni yao wei wo chi ma yi" (translate: mummy, what exactly have I done wrong that you have to feed me with ants). The unfeeling mother didn't even comfort me, she replied "go show your maid. Don't understand how she can cook noodle cook until all the ants run in......." (nagging continues). I think I swallowed almost 20 ants that afternoon. Utterly disgusting. And I psychologically felt that my stomach was churning violently after that.
Alright, I hope I don't get anymore crazy incidents. 3 assignments and 1 presentation awaiting me. Coco Before Chanel is not bad! :)
i left my footprints (:
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