Is it any of my business?

My dad shouted for me in the kitchen just half an hour ago, so I went, thinking he was going to lecture me about the water I was boiling. Instead, he whispered (yes, whispered. I don't know why) to me that they would be in Taiwan for a couple of days in mid December, so he asked if I go re-schedule my classes so that I could arrange to go to Mum's office to help out for another 2 days. Ok, actually he didn't ask. He told me to either re-schedule my classes or cancel some of the classes and do make up lessons on other days.

My initial reaction was a bit of outrage actually. I told him frankly that I couldn't change my classes. My upcoming Lasik appointment on Boxing Day will deprive me of my year end Term Holidays, and next year March's wedding shoot means I would need to do make up lessons for next year already! I honestly didn't have any free time left.

And guess what. Dad got pissed. The reaction: "Then how? Urban won't have anybody there for so many days!"

In return, I seriously got pissed. First and foremost, Urban is not a family business. My mother just happens to be a super loyal employee there for the past decade. Secondly, I have my own job that is taking a hell lot of my time. My whole family knows I am working every single day of the week. I had just explained to him that I can't change my classes because my schedule is too packed.

I am not a robot.

I need my rest time too.

Ever since I started teaching, I have diminished my working hours at Urban from 5 working days to simply 1 day now. I squeeze in my class to Sunday so that I can keep Friday available to continue going to Urban even just for that 1 day.

But what I don't understand, why do my mother, even my father now, think that it is my responsibility to go there? Frankly, if given a choice, I would rather rest at home on Fridays. The only reason I go there, is to help Mum out.

I want to get out from this crap.

Recently, I helped type a few letters to URA appealing against the 3 fines that the Boss has racked up in 2 weeks. Letters like that, sometimes are effective and the URA replies compassionately and "kindly waived off the fine". I have conjured up all sorts of reasons these few years and the success rate is around 70%.

This time however, the two appeal letters for these 3 fines fell through. According to Mum, it fell through because I failed to notice that there were 3 fines and I appealed for 2 fines only, causing a broken link in the "story". She called me during my class to confront me about it and remained annoyed about it for the next two days.

All these feels like a shit hole.

Luck.. is probably not with us.

YZ recently got me an Asus Laptop and I've been using it with much glee.
This also means I probably would start coming online more and do more blogs, since the internet is readily available for me now! Thanks to dear hubby. =D

YZ has been getting even busier, staying late nights in office these few days to get his work done. I am fine with it, but of course in the midst of getting busy, one also tends to focus so much on getting his work done, that he may neglect his health. My only concern at the moment is that he may end up getting too exhausted.

Speaking of bad health, I was down last tuesday till thursday, with fever hitting 38.7 degrees. All thanks to the savouring of a very delectable curry puff that just came out from the Oven on a lazy Monday afternoon. According to my Mother, we should not eat stuff that just came out freshly from the oven as they are very 'heaty'. So there. Point proven. I was promptly ill the next day!

As I was saying, luck is indeed not with me and YZ. The recent results of the Balance flats was out, and as usual, we received another 4D number from HDB board for the queue number. The number of flats available ? A mere 170.

Of course then, me & YZ hurried to the nearest lottery shop and bought our latest 4D number bestowed upon us by our HDB. ok. I was just crapping. I already forgot the number. Like we have a chance..

So now, given such circumstances, we have applied (yet again) for the latest Punggol project.
May the Luck be with us! But then, if we are successful, this will be another 4 years wait. Wow.
Wish us best of luck!