i'm back! oh yes. and so is my cough. with a vengeance i must say. whoooo....got a bit of blood in my sputum now. nothing to be worried about i hope. just some lining epithelium in my throat getting hocked out. hehehe...

so......been MIA for a bit. since i've been stressing out over my thesis. i think i'm half a head balder now. from all the late nights and not washing hair for 3 days.

so since i've been doing my thesis thing nothing much has been happening. the usual lar. go uni, do thesis, come back, do thesis.

of course there were the little things in the middle like grandpa's 87th birthday, cousin coming home after quitting his job, friends getting hooked up but without me knowing since i'm MIA and blur (not a very good mix), daddy's birthday falls somewhere in there too i think. got him a nice rugby style renoma shirt. with a BIG R on the front. ahahaha...loves it. since R is for Robert.

nothing much lar.....

people are back, planning holiday trips, might be going to china and india. mmm....nice....hehehe.

cooked dinner yesterday. after a looooooooooong time. and it was GOOOOD! oh yes, it was. made lamb with asparagus and bacon and mash potato on the side. even made my own mint sauce. whoooo...can open restaurant already. for sure. i think i'll call it. food:glorious food! i know it's not very original but i like that song. i do. i sing it whenever i have food. heeeeyyyyyyyy, maybe i should make it so that my customers order food in song! eh...that's quite an idea.

waiterrrrrrr, i have my ordeerrrrrr
yes sirrrrr, what will you haveeee??
i'll haaaaaave the chicken and pea salaaaaad please
good sirrrrr, that's a very nice choiiiiiiice....
lalalala...

and they run off into the sunset together holding hands and going tralalalala...

mmm...nice picture.

i made a smart and wise decision of sleeping downstairs in the guest room last night. since it's the furthest room away from the stupid construction noise behind my house, i thought i'd be able to get a nice lie in this morning since i'm still a bit sick.

wrong.

instead of being rudely woken up by the drilling and knocking noise, i was woken up by my mum. at 8.32am. and you wanna know what for?

mum: der wen.....
me: *grunt*
mum: you not going to lab today?
me: going. but later. wanna sleep a bit more today.
mum: ok, that's good. but you see this? *flaps a flyer in front of my face* cold storage opening in subang parade today and all these items are going for 10 cents each!
me: really? ok, go lar.
mum: i cannot. i'm going to muar. so you and aunty go can ah? just get a few things then come home. 10 cents only. go lar.
me: maaaaaa....
mum: go laaaaaaaar....
me: haiya...ok lar ok lar.

so, i went at 9.30, thinking there wouldn't be anyone there yet. go early, come back early. but to my surprise, there was already a line into the parking lot and a small crowd of people waiting for the doors of the shopping complex to open. so, aunty went down first and i stayed in the car waiting for my turn to go in.

10 o'clock came. and i managed to get a really nice parking lot, right outside the doors. good sign right....aunty had already gone in and i went looking for her. while heading into the supermarket, to my horror, i saw throngs and throngs of people just grabbing at everything they could! oh my gosh. you'd think there was gonna be a war and people were stocking up on everything they could.

oh....some of the stuff that was going for 10 cents were like, apples, papayas, small bottles of sunsilk shampoo, mineral water, pepsi, coke, toothpaste, tomato sauce, biscuits, ice cream, and a few more not really essential items.

so, back to the story.

people were just grabbing everything in sight. armloads of stuff and then booms over the PA system.

'ladies and gentlemen, each customer is limited to only ONE item of each 10-cent-promotion item.'

jolly good. so, i thought i could at least get some stuff too. but nobody listened to him! they just continued grabbing as many things as they could. it got so bad, that bottles of shampoo got spilt all over the floor, bottles of tomato sauce were broken and glass and ketchup was all over the place and people were tugging and pulling against each other to get what they wanted.

it was mayhem.

and in all that melee of activity, i was just standing there, waiting for my aunty to grab the stuff since she said wasn't fast or agressive enough. and i overheard this conversation between two women:

lady with brown hair: excuse me! you're only allowed ONE item per product!
lady with small mouth and nose: *carrying about 8 packets of ladies' menstruation pads* no no no no....*vehemently shaking her head*
lady with brown hair: REALLY! you cannot take more than one! *starts tugging at the pads in the other lady's arms*
lady with small mouth and nose: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! stop it! don't take my stuff!
lady with brown hair: but you're only allowed one!! give me ONE! GIVE ME! GIVE ME!

it continued until they were pulling at each other's hair and slapping one another. and tumbled very messily onto the floor. somehow, someone spilled a bottle of shampoo over them and they were all gooey and shampooey.

really.

needless to say, i left empty handed. since all the 10 cent items were gone within 10 minutes of the supermarket opening. and there were only 1000 items per product. so...go do the math.