Even though I only live about 5 hours away and Singapore really isn't THAT much different from Malaysia, coming back always produces real shocks to my system and makes me go into auto-Rebexcca mode.
I always forget, for instance, that:
a. My house is extremely old and is falling apart and hence
b. Everything in this house is always falling/breaking apart
c. This is Malaysia so nothing works quite as it's supposed to anyway
So I came home today, EXHAUSTED, [and my mum's friends were in the house and they kinda think I'm a baby. One of them actually exclaimed, "YOUR DAUGHTER TOOK THE BUS BACK BY HERSELF?!"] and again tried to switch on the air con [it didn't work the last time and I told daddy and he turned it on for me but DID NOT TELL ME HOW TO TURN IT ON!] but IT JUST WOULD NOT OBEY. I was too tired to care so I just let myself crumble on the bed and slept through the sweltering heat until I felt like I was about to combust, at which point I went into ALL THE ROOMS to try to switch on the air cons [coz I was under the illusion that there was something wrong with my remote...and our air cons are at least 20 years old, so they don't come with detached remotes and are in fact, extremely un-detachable!] but NONE of them would work.
So I huffed my way downstairs where I saw mummy coming back from her walk asking me where daddy was [good question, I WANTED TO KNOW TOO SO I COULD FINALLY RESCUE MYSELF FROM THE HEAT!]. No one knew and I asked her how to switch on the air con and she told me, in her typical fashion, "Go and figure out which switch to turn on YOURSELF."
And as it always does in response to such helpful directions, my anti-establishment/anti-system heart suddenly remembered that because everything in this house is falling apart, nothing quite works on its own and therefore, I had to turn on one of 4 switches hidden in an obscure cupboard of my parents before I could actually turn the air con on. [And just HOW TYPICAL is it that the switch you're looking for always HAPPENS to be the one right at the back? Silly me kept going back and forth between trying the switches and checking if I could turn the air con on, then when it came to the last two, I gave up and just turned the both of them on.]
And so I happily thought my misery was over once I managed to figure out how to turn it on...but no, apparently I also forgot that for some reason my air con seems to think it is funny to turn itself off every 30 mins or so. GAH.
And then. This is the Rebexcca-est moment ever! I decided to take a shower and FORGOT that for whatever reason, the water supply in my bathroom gets cut off after midnight [told you this house is old and falling apart :S] and I have to go outside to turn on some other tap in order to get water into the tank or something like that.
But at the point of my realisation, I was....all ready to shower. And I don't know what possessed me [except perhaps the knowledge that no one else was in the house?] but I waded all the way downstairs reluctantly again, half-blind [I forgot to put my glasses on, so silly sometimes!] and not very decently dressed and proceeded to try to turn that kitchen tap that isn't QUITE IN the kitchen, on.
If you've been to my house before, you'll understand how complicated it is to get to the back of my house. So barefoot, half-blind and er, half-dressed, I climbed over the wall connecting our back yard to the tap [and FORGOT that I could've just gotten out THROUGH the sliding glass doors of the other room and saved myself all that ridiculously embarrassing monkey work], found myself face-to-face with the barbecue pit that my mum had made my dad erect - and which was about 5 centimeters apart from the rocky mini mountain at the back of our house - tried to squeeze myself between a pillar and the barbecue pit so that I wouldn't have to walk all the way round to the other side to get to the tap and accidentally injure myself walking on the rocks or something...only to find that there was no other way for me to get out so I had to climb ON the mountain in order to climb back OVER the wall to get back inside the house anyway.
And guess WHAT? After all that hard work and the physical risk that I put my body through just to ensure that I get enough water to take ONE SHOWER, IT STILL DIDN'T WORK!!!!
[Maybe the powers-that-be decided to cut off our water supply or something hahahaha since I DO live in an established opposition territory. :p But enough of the conspiracy theories haha.]
And so for the millionth time that day, I made my way to the bathroom downstairs, where we normally store some water in a huge jar and prayed hard that there would be enough water just so I could take ONE shower. And there was. But gosh, I have never gone through SO MUCH trouble just to get a shower! As I was walking down, everything kept slipping off my fingers, the cap of my conditioner kept falling off...and there wasn't any space to put everything on in the bathroom.
And apparently I still did not figure out that there was an easier way to get to the back of the house to turn off the kitchen tap and made myself go through the whole climbing routine again. I am just glad - and rather surprised - that I did not cut my foot on anything hahaha.
Oh well.
Welcome back to Malaysia, Rebexcca Lim.
I tell you ah... the first things my parents said to me when they saw me was, "WHY YOUR FACE SO MANY PIMPLES? WHY YOUR PIMPLES SO BIG?"
Apart from all that, it has been quite nice to be home. Daddy was there to pick me up at the station and to give me his daddy kiss and yummy food and we all had yummy dessert at SNOWFLAKES! And mummy held my arm and asked me WHY YOUR ARM SO SOFT, as if I had gone into slave labour in Singapore. And catcat is the sweetest cat ever! And there is a new, yellow puppy in the neighbourhood! I also met an extremely short Golden Retriever [Me: why this Golden Retriever so short? Daddy: It's an Asian Golden Retriever. Eat rice one.] named CAESAR [HOW EXCITING!]. And there are new books to be read and Narnia to dive into and Sabah to look forward to next week! :D
By the way, the wifi refuses to work on my phone AND our computer is malfunctioning [nobody bothered to tell me about this so I didn't bring my laptop back] so I guess that means I will be falling off the face of the earth in the next week.
I always forget, for instance, that:
a. My house is extremely old and is falling apart and hence
b. Everything in this house is always falling/breaking apart
c. This is Malaysia so nothing works quite as it's supposed to anyway
So I came home today, EXHAUSTED, [and my mum's friends were in the house and they kinda think I'm a baby. One of them actually exclaimed, "YOUR DAUGHTER TOOK THE BUS BACK BY HERSELF?!"] and again tried to switch on the air con [it didn't work the last time and I told daddy and he turned it on for me but DID NOT TELL ME HOW TO TURN IT ON!] but IT JUST WOULD NOT OBEY. I was too tired to care so I just let myself crumble on the bed and slept through the sweltering heat until I felt like I was about to combust, at which point I went into ALL THE ROOMS to try to switch on the air cons [coz I was under the illusion that there was something wrong with my remote...and our air cons are at least 20 years old, so they don't come with detached remotes and are in fact, extremely un-detachable!] but NONE of them would work.
So I huffed my way downstairs where I saw mummy coming back from her walk asking me where daddy was [good question, I WANTED TO KNOW TOO SO I COULD FINALLY RESCUE MYSELF FROM THE HEAT!]. No one knew and I asked her how to switch on the air con and she told me, in her typical fashion, "Go and figure out which switch to turn on YOURSELF."
And as it always does in response to such helpful directions, my anti-establishment/anti-system heart suddenly remembered that because everything in this house is falling apart, nothing quite works on its own and therefore, I had to turn on one of 4 switches hidden in an obscure cupboard of my parents before I could actually turn the air con on. [And just HOW TYPICAL is it that the switch you're looking for always HAPPENS to be the one right at the back? Silly me kept going back and forth between trying the switches and checking if I could turn the air con on, then when it came to the last two, I gave up and just turned the both of them on.]
And so I happily thought my misery was over once I managed to figure out how to turn it on...but no, apparently I also forgot that for some reason my air con seems to think it is funny to turn itself off every 30 mins or so. GAH.
And then. This is the Rebexcca-est moment ever! I decided to take a shower and FORGOT that for whatever reason, the water supply in my bathroom gets cut off after midnight [told you this house is old and falling apart :S] and I have to go outside to turn on some other tap in order to get water into the tank or something like that.
But at the point of my realisation, I was....all ready to shower. And I don't know what possessed me [except perhaps the knowledge that no one else was in the house?] but I waded all the way downstairs reluctantly again, half-blind [I forgot to put my glasses on, so silly sometimes!] and not very decently dressed and proceeded to try to turn that kitchen tap that isn't QUITE IN the kitchen, on.
If you've been to my house before, you'll understand how complicated it is to get to the back of my house. So barefoot, half-blind and er, half-dressed, I climbed over the wall connecting our back yard to the tap [and FORGOT that I could've just gotten out THROUGH the sliding glass doors of the other room and saved myself all that ridiculously embarrassing monkey work], found myself face-to-face with the barbecue pit that my mum had made my dad erect - and which was about 5 centimeters apart from the rocky mini mountain at the back of our house - tried to squeeze myself between a pillar and the barbecue pit so that I wouldn't have to walk all the way round to the other side to get to the tap and accidentally injure myself walking on the rocks or something...only to find that there was no other way for me to get out so I had to climb ON the mountain in order to climb back OVER the wall to get back inside the house anyway.
And guess WHAT? After all that hard work and the physical risk that I put my body through just to ensure that I get enough water to take ONE SHOWER, IT STILL DIDN'T WORK!!!!
[Maybe the powers-that-be decided to cut off our water supply or something hahahaha since I DO live in an established opposition territory. :p But enough of the conspiracy theories haha.]
And so for the millionth time that day, I made my way to the bathroom downstairs, where we normally store some water in a huge jar and prayed hard that there would be enough water just so I could take ONE shower. And there was. But gosh, I have never gone through SO MUCH trouble just to get a shower! As I was walking down, everything kept slipping off my fingers, the cap of my conditioner kept falling off...and there wasn't any space to put everything on in the bathroom.
And apparently I still did not figure out that there was an easier way to get to the back of the house to turn off the kitchen tap and made myself go through the whole climbing routine again. I am just glad - and rather surprised - that I did not cut my foot on anything hahaha.
Oh well.
Welcome back to Malaysia, Rebexcca Lim.
I tell you ah... the first things my parents said to me when they saw me was, "WHY YOUR FACE SO MANY PIMPLES? WHY YOUR PIMPLES SO BIG?"
Apart from all that, it has been quite nice to be home. Daddy was there to pick me up at the station and to give me his daddy kiss and yummy food and we all had yummy dessert at SNOWFLAKES! And mummy held my arm and asked me WHY YOUR ARM SO SOFT, as if I had gone into slave labour in Singapore. And catcat is the sweetest cat ever! And there is a new, yellow puppy in the neighbourhood! I also met an extremely short Golden Retriever [Me: why this Golden Retriever so short? Daddy: It's an Asian Golden Retriever. Eat rice one.] named CAESAR [HOW EXCITING!]. And there are new books to be read and Narnia to dive into and Sabah to look forward to next week! :D
By the way, the wifi refuses to work on my phone AND our computer is malfunctioning [nobody bothered to tell me about this so I didn't bring my laptop back] so I guess that means I will be falling off the face of the earth in the next week.
:> Welcome home, sweetie!
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