Sunday, July 31, 2005
Oitez, Jija... kita dah blog nieee... heh heh... sorilah, ngah bz lah... engkau tahu lah... adik aku nak kahwin bulan depan... abih tu, si Kris asyik betulkan ini-itu pat rumah!! Aku nak buat knitting aku pon terbantot!!! Oh well...Yeah, as I was saying... (read as: meant to blog)
Been pretty bz at work... They've upgraded my job to allow me to answer more types of calls... Just came out of a shortened-to-2-day-instead-of-5-days course & have been trying to read up on the notes while at home, on the tube to & from work, as well as in-between calls!! Yeah, and reading in-between calls can be a huge task on its own as 3 staff had been on a full 5-day course to handle billing & payment calls... which I think I'll have to learn in less than a mth's time!! ~arggghhh~ I really hate that bit of the job as people actually curse & swear at you, even though it's their own fault they are not able to make payments!! ~sigh~ Oh well, it's part & parcel of my life now... having to talk to people who are of all walks of life... most days are good, especially with the old folks who are more patient to listen to what you have to say & understand that we're really helping them out.
Anyways, if you are wondering why I've not been emailing or blogging, that's the answer to your queries, peoplez...
Don't think for a moment I'm able to get a teeny bit of rest at home... While having to cook for a fiancee who can't even cook rice nor fry an egg, I also have to do the dishes & laundry, and the dusting & vacuuming... Why? Well, if I tell u that Kris had just made the 2 gates & side-fences to the house as well as weeding & fully gravelling the gardens, and fixing the side-steps for our Land Rover Discovery (cos I can't get into the 4wd with skirts on - so now, I'm only wearing pants to work), yada yada yada yada yada..... would you have understood how bz he had been to make our house look like a home & can be exempted to helping me with any of my chores? hmmmm... at least I don't have to be outdoors...
Well, I was in the garden helping him with the weeding, but there were too many beez... he was sympathetic with me jumping up & back from the darn things... and prolly glad to see me back indoors with a couple of hours of knitting for Tasha's birthday gift... and I'm still halfway...
And Kris is trying to finish his side-steps first before he jumps head-first into the task of weeding, bricking & paving the backyard into the designs I've given him... but once that is done, the house is rather complete... The backyard will have a bbq area with wooden seats on the raised part of our backyard (cos it's sloping) & a wooden table & other single seats/benches on the lower part of it... at one end of it, nearer the shed, we'll have steps so that people don't have to jump down to the lower bit... it's as high as jumping from a chair, that's how high the raised bit is.
In the meantime, we're looking for a good deal on a good front-loader washing machine. And with that, Kris would be completing our laundry area in putting the benchtop over the base cabinet which had been fitted in abt 3-4mths ago, and the machine... and finally, he'll get the walls water-proofed & tiled... And only, will our house be quite complete... I mean, if we've got the time & money, we'll rip out the current kitchen & do it up with proper pantry & larger benchtop space as well....
Anyhoos... more abt work... The company has allowed me to do 8am-2pm shifts instead of 11am-5pm... meaning that Kris can drive me to the train station in the morning, instead of me rushing 30mins from home & sweating by the time I reached the darn station everyday... and to think that when summer comes, I'll be a wet-slob when I walk thru the office doors!! YUCKZZZ!!! And becos I've started early, my team leader had asked me to do 8am-4pm... and I don't mind... it gave me a whole hour of shopping in the city before I take the train & have Kris waiting to take me home (instead of walking home) hehe... Then, recently, with the 3 staff on training, 14 people sick (the flu bug is strong!!), 11 on leave - and all these from just within the call-ctr part of the company!!! - they had asked me to stay up till 5pm, which I had accepted with open arms... I mean, I can only go shopping so much before I get bored shuffling from one shop to the next & seeing my flailing dollars float out of my wallet & hearing the tinkling of the coins onto the cash counter!! Plus, I can do with the extra $$$... I know Kris will be paying for the flytix home in Sep, but I shld pay for my share too... especially since he'll be paying for all the wedding & engagement bands too!!! Luckily we've got free lodging!!!
Soooo, that's it for the time being... I'm unsure as to when I can blog again... hopefully this has updated u a bit more of my hectic life... but it's all good & I'm loving it!!
And now, I've gotta get lunch organised... Kris is outside cutting the top of the trees in the gardens & around the house... so that it'll allow some sunlight into the house... and after that, we're going to do some driving... we owe it to ourselves to have some relaxation time... and waffles....
So, till the next update, tooodleeezzzz..... my prreeeettiiieeeezzzz....
