Things happen in your life. Small things that give spikes on your Life-o-meter. Today I got lots of them.
First, while waiting for the bus this morning, I saw 2 big yellow buses coming, followed by a funeral car. It’s sides are made of glass so I could see coffin, flowers, photo, and all that jazz clearly. It’s a bit creepy if you ask me to see things like that. A few minutes later, *another* similar funeral car passed by, this time with lots of tiny golden statues around the coffin. What are the chances that you meet 2 transparent, funeral cars within few minutes from each other?
Then my bus came. Few seconds after I sat inside, there’s a bridal car coming out of a car park. Well, well, 1 wedding and 2 funerals!
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My flight leaves tonight at midnight. As I dragged my trolley out to get a cab, I saw an old man fell on the other side of the road. What else could I do except to rush and make sure he’s ok. But he didn’t seem to hear me and a car was turning to the street and came facing him! Only when I told him that there’s a car coming did he realise I was there. I wasn’t sure if he’s drunk but he did look a bit weird.
Then there was this woman standing behind me in the check-in queue who stood so near that her bag poked my butt each time she moved, and she just had to put her trolley half an inch from mine. What is wrong with you??? Don’t you ever hear of personal space??
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know…?
Do you get
What you’re hoping for
When you look behind you
There’s no open door
What are you hoping for?
Do you know…?
That pretty much sums up my feeling now. Knowing that I need to find a job soon but reluctant to start, and yet those that I applied with high hope never gave any answers. I really wonder where all this will bring me …
That’s right. Today is our 2nd marriage anniversary and it feels even more lonely without A. I guess being used to see him almost everyday for the past 10 years makes it rather hard at times like this. Hats off to all couples in long distance relationships.
The anniversary gift turned out to be hidden behind piles of clothes in the guestroom wardrobe. How on earth could I find it without any clues??? Anyway, it’s a cute little white elephant plush toy that we’d been eyeing in a gift shop some weeks ago.
Since I’m all alone today, my nice brother-in-law invited me for a dinner. So we had mexican food and went for dessert afterwards. Thank’s bro!
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My driving went from bad to worse today. It all started very well but then it rained heavily when we hit the road. Everything went downhill from there: almost hit pedestrians, stalled the engine at a bend, free-wheeling on a slope. If it was the test day, I’d have failed within 5 minutes on the road. I’m considering cancelling my lesson tomorrow. Feel dead tired now.
Today is our 10th dating anniversary. Ten years!!! I’m so used to having him around I can’t imagine how I survived before. Last night he called and said there’s a hidden anniversary gift for me in the house! But that tricky panda refused to give me any clue until tomorrow. Ransacked the whole house but still couldn’t find it *argh*.
This morning A left for London. This is not the first time he goes on business trip but nonetheless the house feels so empty. At these times, I usually do my best to avoid any horror movies/books/tv ads or else I’d be sleeping with all the lights on.
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Driving lesson was a nightmare today. Since I was supposed to learn speed control, we went through gear 1 to 4 on a longer route. Once I almost hit a taxi, once stalled the engine, once tried to restart the already-running engine since I thought it was stalled (we were using one of the new cars which are very quiet), once overshot the stop line, once accidentally went to gear 1 instead of gear 3 while running on 40km/h, and many times turned too late/too early at junctions. Pray I’ll do better tomorrow.
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Although nothing is confirmed yet, part of me feels that we are going to move to Brussels. Perhaps it’s just an excuse for not doing anything useful or looking for a job. My friend was right when he said I shouldn’t have been idle for too long because it’d be hard to pick up again. But these past few months have been the best time in my life and I don’t regret it a bit. I just need to look out of the living room window on sunny/rainy/any days and count my blessings for not being in a cubicle. Indeed life has been good to me.
Submitted my visa application yesterday, paid $84, and they still have the guts to tell me that they might have to send my papers to Belgium for approval. Do I look like a criminal or something? I’m guessing one of the reason was my employment, or rather, unemployment status. So hubby had to fill in sponsorship form, ask his HR to make a letter, yada yada yada, but in the end I can collect my passport on Wednesday. So it seems that I’m going to Brussels after all.
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Bad news: Failed my driving theory trial test
Good news: Hit the road for the first time!
Boy, it feels good to be able to drive. Wonder why didn’t I do it much earlier? Oh, right, traffic is a killer back home.
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Nothing much today except for running errands the whole day which left me drop dead tired now.
The dreaded phone call arrived this morning. I didn’t get the job.
In any other situation, this would’ve been bad news. But not this time. In fact I’d been hoping not to get this job because it’s not something I want to do right now and it will prevent me from joining my dearie on his business trip. So it’s a huge relieve for me.
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As of today, my priorities are:
- Apply visa for the trip
- Get a driving license (should’ve been done eons ago)
- Sit for IELTS (for PR application, *if* I pass the skill assessment)
- Sit for GMAT (in case I need to apply for MBA)
- Learn design patterns (can’t call myself a programmer without knowing this)
- Find a job 