Absentmindness

I did not know that there would be lunch fellowship after Canaanland Celebration today. I was glad I had just enough money to pay the caterer.

Tonight I wanted to open the locked drawer in my room to check how much $ left in the Canaanland account but the key was missing from where I usually hide it. I panicked and turned some of the things upside down but still could not find it. I prayed and I still could not find it.

I had an idea and used the key of another drawer to try to open it. It worked after I forcefully opened it. Kinda scary come to think of it because that means anyone can just open it.

I shifted the things in the locked drawer to the one with the key and vice-versa.

As I was about to finish shifting suddenly I saw the missing key on top of my bed. That means the key had been there for one whole week. I opened the drawer to get out my driver’s licence on my return from KL a week ago. Thank God the maid did not see the key and therefore nothing is missing from the drawer.

Talking about the maid, she went out for her day off yesterday. I saw her walking out to the bus stop on my way home from work around 5.15p.m. When she saw either me or the car, she felt like ducking. I smelled something fishy.

Anyway tonight when she did not come out for dinner, I asked mum and Aunty Alice what had happened. They said she was only coming back tomorrow morning at 10a.m. Her grandmother or grandfather passed away and these Timorese are having a gathering.

Ok I do not mean to be disrespectful of the deceased. For goodness sake, the deceased is not even in this country for crying out loud and these people are gathering for like 40 hours. I wonder if this is really in their culture. It is like they are doing this every few months ie. someone close to them is bound to die every few months and they would have a gathering.