Fyuhh what a friday!!

I woke up this morning, very early in fact, after subuh and hubby left for work, i thought i would just laze around for a short while and arrange my time for the day properly.

It’s just me. i cannot go through the day without mentally arranging my tasks or even foreseeing and trying to expect the unexpected. like for work, i will imagine how it’s going to be like and what are the pending things that i wish to complete. even saturdays! oh that is even more worse. the images will come up the night before, and then i can sleep. haha. sometimes i feel like an obsessive perfectionist freak except im more tolerant to mistakes and remain calm….

ok anyway, after trying to arrange my day, an hour’s nap, woke up like a robot man. like straightaway to the kitchen and do laundry, swept and mopped, clear the stove of leftovers and the sickly cat Tiger had to literally give shit to me, ok, in front of me!! braved myself to clean it because i cannot stand it being in my way around the kitchen. eeeyyyyyeeeeewwww. i dont know, the cat is sick anyway. and it’s an animal, you cant get angry at it because it’s just a cat… i pity him actually, he used to be THE VOICE around the house, but i think he’s gotten something in his throat, he cant meow anymore. he tried but he knows he cant and i think he got the cat version of amnesia or something coz he forgot he had to shit at the litterbox and forgot he had eaten because he kept on ‘asking’ for food. enough about poor Tiger.

So the mishaps of the coins and the kains begin. I knew i had to do this two errands today, in fact the coins has been on my mind for the whole week!
The coins? it was me and mostly hubby’s savings of loose change we had for the past months. the blue teddy coinbank was full and it’s just time to put them in my acct. what i didnt expect was how heavy it was going to be!! i’m literally lugging the coins!
The kains? well i was to buy white and black cloth for a hajj supplementary lesson for this weekend’s teens classes. white for ihram and black for the kaabah. so in my mind, i dread i might have to go geylang to get the cloths.

so the mishaps began right when i stepped out.

i had pre-imagined myself using the coin deposit atm at kovan. because they had one at heartland mall and i thought ok there’s popular and another small bookstore where i could grab the Hunger games trilogy books, as recommended by my girlfriend Mary.

So my mind was reeling with trying to make a decision for the coins because of course, i could also go straight to the bank just across the neighbourhood. i am already lugging this bag of coins and my shoulder is already screaming aching because it’s so heavy! my body says no i cannot tahan taking the Nel to Kovan and having to deposit the coins at the machine, just walk down there right now go to the bank and be served by a smiling banker. BUT my brain was actually thinking, using the coin deposit would saved me half of the service charges! can you believe that?!! So ok, this time the brain got its way. i eventually decided to just go for it, go to Kovan and do the coin machine! imagine an old crumpled bowing lady walking carrying a big bag of rice, im like that..

ok now is a sidetrack but it had to happened. you know how the mrt has two exits at different ends of the station? and the exits are, of course far from one another. and usually the mrt staff stationed at the control station will be at just one end.? i hope you get what i mean coz i dont know how else to describe them. so i decided to go from the one at the interchange, which somehow this mind thinks it’s nearer than the normal exit i always choose, yea, because of the heavy bag remember? now this is not the exit with the control station. ok i tapped my ezlink card, and the screen turned red! saying it was mismatched or something. i tapped a few times and same red screen came up!! i cant go in!

my mind is screaming! because i will have to go to the control station right at the other end to get my card checked by the mrt staff!! with these coins! maintained, still not crying yet, just go la.

reached kovan, thankfully. and then it struck me, hey there’s a market at Kovan, my old neighbourhood and maybe there’s still a cloth shop!! i saw a ray of hope. because kovan market had gone through some changes and i didnt know whether the old shops are still there. went to the market and thank god there’s kain shop!! with the same familiar nyonya! (of course she didnt remember me) i was so happy i dont have to go Geylang after all! so still lugging the coins, i thought i would deposit my coins first and then buy the kain, but i need to check with the nyonya what time they close shop. so checked my watch, figured i have about 1 and a half hour or so to go do my coins and come back to the shop.

now im at the atm. it was a long queue. apparently everyone wants to bank in their coins. haha. but alas, i forgot that i’m supposed to activate my new atm card which came in the mail a week ago with the specific message that my current atm card will be automatically deactivated…on… today! so now i’m scrambling because my sister havent given me the pin number which posb supposed to send me. have a quick sms, she gave me a scare by saying there’s no letter received and then checked again and apparently it came with the mail and smsed me the number. that’s not even the best thing happened, because when i tried to activate it, i dont know why it kept on telling me activation was not approved!! and there’s already a queue behind me! last resort, checked me old atm and alhamdulillah still functioning. so having $50 at hand i dont worry much and thought it would be enough for the cloth.

back at the coins deposit. i keyed on everything, put in my first bag of 50cent coins. the frustrating part was, my coins kept on going to the reject slot!!you dont know how i just want to scream at the machine!!! and after everything that happened earlier!! so you know what, i gave up!! and the nyonya behind me already giving me the look. i wished i can tell her to piss off, dont give me that look. so whatever small number of 50cents in i just entered, confirmed, collected those in the reject slot, back in my bag and ended the transaction! my bag not even half less the weight!

LUGGGGGEDDDDD the bag again to the market. told nyonya what i wanted…waited for a while coz she had to cut up 22 pieces of 2.5 yard of cloths. while waiting, i asked nyonya how much its going to cost me? guess what??? it cost me a hefty sum of $150!! i was ultra shocked!! i asked her again, really ah auntie??!! you check again ah! but of course she’s correct kan!! i have only $50!! auntie you can take NETS? of course not lah kan, ni pasar…. stupid me had to go back to that atm, silently praying hard they havent deactivated my old atm otherwise i dont know how to pay her!! oh by the way, auntie going to close shop soon. lugged the bag again back to atm. and alas…..alhamdulillah, old atm still can use… i now i could leave the bag at auntie’s shop but i cant risk it.

so now, i also did not anticipate that the kains are going to be damn heavy also!! with two red bags and a heavy coins bag, off i go back to the NEL and back at hougang!!

back at old nice hougang central and served by luckily a gentle lady banker…my shoulder sighed with relief after the coins are deposited. my GOD!!! so i thought i would go ntuc buy some groceries, but with two heavy bags of cloth, mcm nak campak je!! so balik terus la ye! bye bye ntuc.

i literally campak the kains once i reached my home, room and just landed on my bed and just stayed like that for the next 15 mins.

what a day!! what a day.

my prior pre imagination doesnt work for me today. i dont know. it;s just one of those days. you planned, but it doesnt work the way you want it.

for coins and kains. i pray i dont have to face thhis situation again! and never going to use coin deposits and never underestimate kains!

good night!