i am a 20-ish working female, born in 1980s. i have lost count of how old i am (yeah), but i know i can drink alcohol in usa.
i am a civil engineer working in a mini company. basically providing clean drinking water is what we do, and honestly, i take this job seriously because i believe if i don't, lives will be taken due to overlook/carelessness of the design engineer. which unfortunately in reality, there are far too many cases to mention.
i can't live without coffee. i drink one cup of coffee everyday and the perfect concoction of making a cup of coffee is 2 teaspoons of instant coffee, 3 teaspoons of sugar and 1 teaspoons of creamer with 50ml of 90 degree celcius of water. a cup of coffee perks me up for the day, otherwise i will end up with a headache. at the moment, i am trying to quit coffee because it is not too good in fact.
i love alcohols too. i am not the best drinker around, and i turn as red as a ferrari when i drink half a glass of beer. but i love to drink, still, because it makes me really emotional and with friends, i become the merriest person around. alcohol can also summon my tears in split seconds on sad days.
i am a shopping-addict-in-the-making. i love to shop but i buy what are my needs and wants, but recently all my wants becomes my needs. good that i have a cute navy boy who gives me supplementary cards and so i don't have to spend my own money.
i am trying to lose weight right now. i have been skinny all my life until i started working, and made me gained 6kg in 4 months. now, i am trying real hard to lose 10kg, but i crave for chocolates all the time.
i love to sew. i have made plush toys, bags, purses and pillows. i even love to recycle old materials and made them into new things and that gives me a real satisfaction.
i also love to design my blogs. i had several old blogs and always do my own design. perhaps i should have studied design back in school, but i wasn't in an environment where people encourages me to do things that i like even it may be unrealistic.
"Suck it up" appears to be Han's favourite term to use nowadays. After disappearing for more than 48 hours, he appeared in front of me, actually it's me who appear in front of him in his humble flat, and it was all good to stop all my ramblings.
I haven't been so much of a complaint queen of late. I found someone who is the real whiny king (not Han!). I can understand when people love to complain when things go wrong and when they do have a basis for complains. But when people just complain when they have no right to do so, it gets VERY obnoxious.
Example 1:Complain king (CK):TMD. The bus never comes when I waited at the bus stop. I waited 20 minutes.
Me: So why don't you leave home earlier, just 10 minutes earlier and you can catch the bus.
CK: ???
Example 2:CK: Wah lao, the MRT is soooo far away from my home!
Me: Is that why you are always late?
CK: Yes! Because I live far away from the MRT station, because I need to walk 10 minutes to the station, because.....
Me: Me too what, I even have to cross the overhead bridge.
CK: But I live far away from town.
Me: TMD, I live further than you lo
CK: .... (Realised that I indeed live further away from town than he does)
Example 3:CK: Wah, weather is so hot!
Me:... (Realised CK is wearing long sleeves in a hot weather)
Example 4:CK: Wah, no money to spend again.
Me: How much do you earn a month?
Ck: Nah, that's not the point, I have to pay for rent and utility bills, which is around $600, phone bills around $50, I eat outside every weekday, transport...
Me: (made a quick calculation, 3 normal meals a day, approximate $12, means 22 days X $12, transport around $5 a day since he live not far from town, and I myself spend nearly $5 per day, so $5 X 22, so total up to $1050 a month. Plus he don't buy stuffs for himself like new clothes, new shoes etc, that amounts to $1200 at most.)
Me: Ok what, you spend quite little, since I think your pay after CPF should be around $2000...
CK: I save the rest ma!
Me:... ( "Save the rest" does not equate to "not enough to spend". Yes I am jealous that you are saving $800 a month, while I have to pay off my debts)
Can you see everything that he complained are 80% invalid?
Please "suck it up"! There are many people who are worst off than you are!
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