Where’s My Diary or Calendar?

I was jolted up from slumber at 6.16a.m. this morning. Was wondering once again why the alarm clock did not make noise. This time round I did not even switch it on. Duh

I am definitely not having a great start to the first week of a new decade and new year. I must have been too tired last night to remember to do it.

For this first week of the new year, I have been going to sleep early, getting at least 7 hours of sleep and spending less time on the internet. Hopefully I can keep this up for the rest of the year. I am still aiming for 8 hours of sleep per night though.

As I still have not received any diary or calendar from two of my insurance agents, today I enquired whether they intend to give me one. Nowadays in order to save cost, they would try their best to pretend that their clients do not need one unless clients like me who wants to demand their rights. Actually what is the diary or calendar compared to the amount of business I give them? Peanuts really.

This evening before I left work, I called Cathay Cineplexes to enquire whether they show the movie ‘Avatar’ in 3D. Unfortunately they do not. Hmmm I really wish I can watch it in 3D.

First Day

Woke up at 6.05a.m. Was wondering why the alarm clock on the mobile phone did not make noise. On closer check, I put 8.00a.m., not 6.00a.m. Duh

Today is the first day of work or school for most people. There are more cars on the road.

Upon arriving at work, I switched on the pc. I got the first shock of my life when a message came out saying that my profile cannot be accessed or something to that effect.

The thought that ran through my mind at that moment was, ‘Oh no, I do not want to lose my work again. Pls pc, pls do not crash on me’. I did not backup my work for the whole of last week. I was thinking it could not be so much of a coincidence.

Next I wanted to launch the IE Browser and then I got the second shock when another message came out saying the pc does not have any internet connection. Argh! Oh no, not on a Monday morning on a fresh new year.

I was praying hard and asking God to do something. I wanted everything back to normal.

I restarted the pc and everything was back to normal. Phew! Thank God.

I quickly took out the pendrive to back-up all my work.

Gee that was a close call. It certainly woke up me right up.

Had to be careful and alert when writing cheques today since it is no longer DD/MM/09. Any mistakes would render the cheque void. But so far so good. :)

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.

Absentmindedness

This morning before Sophia dropped by my office, she sms to inform me she’s coming.

So out came the packet of ‘Mi Goreng’ and I placed it on top of my mobile desktop.

I was busy preparing some documents to be submitted to some officers who would be arriving from KPM at midday. Coincidentally Sophia’s courier was to the same department in Putrajaya.

When Sophia arrived, I did not have time to chat with her.

And lo and behold I forgot to pass her the thing and only remembered after she left! :(

Sorry friend.

Duh!

Absentmindedness continues …

Two nights ago when I came home after work, mum told me I forgot to bring down my hand washing for her to hang on the clothes line to dry. She found the bucket with the washed clothes in them when she came into my room to sweep the floor.

Yesterday I forgot to wear earrings to work again. (Thank God this is not a life and death situation)

This morning I was running slightly late for Canaanland Celebration. Normally I am too lazy to park the car properly as long as the car is within the yellow box. But today I made extra effort and made sure the car was parked straight. While I was doing this, I realised Monica Leong and Lilian Tan were doing the same thing. I found it to be quite amusing. There 3 ladies making sure their car was parked straight at the same time. In the midst of the ‘amusement’, I did not take the car keys out from the car ignition! I only realised when I was inside Kyrugma House when I wanted to put the keys inside a small bag I have reserved for all my keys. I had to request my sis-in-law to pass the spare car keys to me and my brother came to the rescue three hours later.

The theory of my absentmindedness is somehow linked to my insufficient sleep was totally incorrect because I had 8.5 hours of sleep last night.

I just have to be more careful and alert.

Absentmindedness

Two days ago I forgot to bring the eight slices of bread to work for morning tea/afternoon tea.

Yesterday I forgot to bring the mobile phone to work.

Today I forgot to wear earrings to work.

Absentmindedness cannot go on.

I think I do need more than the 6.5 hours of sleep per night. I will try to get my usual 8 hours again.

Absentmindedness

1. Besides yesterday‘s date of 20082008 came only once in a lifetime, I knew I forgot something else, until today. Yesterday was also the birthday of my male cousin in UK. I have to admit I am getting old. My brain cannot store as much information as before. Plus I have been too lazy to store people’s birthdays in my mobile phone calendar like what I did with my previous mobile phones.

But at least I had the chance to wish him a belated happy birthday in MSN before knocking off from work today. My cousin is exactly four months younger than me.

2. Today after noontime I ordered my lunch from the nearby coffee shop as the office boy is on leave these two days.

It was only after my lunch had been delivered by the worker of the coffee shop that I remembered I had brought my lunch of fried noodles from home. *DUH!*

Absentmindedness

This morning I was running late for Canaanland Celebration. When I arrived in Kyrugma House slightly before 10a.m., all of my ushering team members had already arrived and were waiting for me as I was the only one who had the keys to open the cupboard.

(The reason I was running late was because my table clock did not show the correct time. I usually put it in the bathroom when I go to bed so that the ticking sound does not affect me from dozing off. When I was about to have shower, I put the clock back on my study table. In between the shifting, the battery must have become loosed and therefore slowdown the ticking process.)

The worst thing was I discovered I did not bring along the most important thing I needed to bring along with me for Ivy Voon. Ivy’s company and my company, I mean the company we are working for respectively are consultants for one of the upcoming projects in Lahad Datu and I had promised the boss that I would pass the drawings to Ivy in church today.

I explained to Monica Leong my predicament and told her to help me out in ushering.

My absentmindedness caused me to make a trip back home just to get the drawings. I left Kyrugma House at 10.04a.m. to come home and arrived back there at 10.25a.m. I was driving like a mad person. Thank God for protecting me.