Tonight's lantern festival was fun. It was really crowded but was really fun. I enjoyed it alot along with the food. Definitely the foods were great. The children enjoyed themselves as well. We couldn't find K's friend SL. Oh well. The parents didn't come. Thought they were going to tag along, but no. So it was just the four of us there. Uncle K didn't come along as well. Tried to contact him on his cell, but he didn't answer it. It was a good night nonetheless. I am going to sleep now.
I will post pictures tomorrow.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Dude, Where Is My Car?
When we went outside ready to go to counselling, there was one particular large thing missing in the driveway. Yea, the car was gone. I thought K was playing a trick on me. IT turned out it wasn't the case. The car was really gone!
SO what happened to it? Well, apparently somebody took it to the shop in the wee hours in the morning. I didn't know why they did that, because within a few minutes, I saw the car with the o inside drive into the driveway. It became clear from that point that she took the car with her in the morning so that she could come back to rest for the whole day at home. So that is the new routine.
Without the car, it was impossible for me to go to counselling. I immediately called their main reception but there was only voice message, which I left saying I couldn't make for the time being because there had been an emergency. She hadn't called to ask where I was, so guess it went through.
On Monday, I will have to call her to reschedule for the missed session. I don't want to do that. Not sure yet when I want to roschedule the appointment to. It might be depending if she has an opening on the weekdays.
After seeing that the car was missing, K right away called my brother for him to come. Not because she was thinking about the car, she wanted to go to this car show. It was a selfish decision. My brother was coming as the o had already arrived. What was more stupid was she didn't inform him that she had come back with the car. My brother was already reaching the house when I told her to make the call. He didn't bother by it, so it didn't matter. But still, there could've been a problem if Ken didn't like the situation.
Ken and L came to the house and they were greeted by the o nicely. They talked and talked until the o was introduced to butchery that is on sale. They then agreed to see it together, with my brother leading the car infront.
After seeing the butchery, we all headed to the restaurant nearby. We ate for almost an hour. We departed at that point with the o taking her kids to Chinese school, and us going to the car auction show.
I was trying to be diplomatic when I informed her of the usual suspects that she might expect if she took the kids to school. I felt stupid and awkward for doing that. I don't know. I just felt that way.
We eventually made it to the car show. It was tiring to be honest. Toward the end, I just couldn't keep my eyes open. It was that boring and quite annoying. The auctioneer was merely doing his job but why do they have to be so loud and annoyingly quick?
When we left, there wasn't anything else we could do, so we eventually returned to the house. My brother and his wife are not coming, since they both have other things to do. He said he will go tomorrow night, and if we wanted to too, he could come to collect us. I don't know about that. I do want to have a night away from the kids. But we would already have been there, so there is not much point in going back to the same place we had already been to the night prior. We'll wait and see.
I slept a bit in the afternoon. Still exhausted from the day spent at listening to howling dogs howled, it was a good nap. Just asked the o about going to tonight's lantern festival, it because apparent that she didn't want to come along. So it would be me, k and the kids. I don't like the girl so if we went with her, I am not going to buy her anything. Only the boy, if he was good.
Oh, and SL and her sister's family are coming too. We are meeting them at the festival.
SO what happened to it? Well, apparently somebody took it to the shop in the wee hours in the morning. I didn't know why they did that, because within a few minutes, I saw the car with the o inside drive into the driveway. It became clear from that point that she took the car with her in the morning so that she could come back to rest for the whole day at home. So that is the new routine.
Without the car, it was impossible for me to go to counselling. I immediately called their main reception but there was only voice message, which I left saying I couldn't make for the time being because there had been an emergency. She hadn't called to ask where I was, so guess it went through.
On Monday, I will have to call her to reschedule for the missed session. I don't want to do that. Not sure yet when I want to roschedule the appointment to. It might be depending if she has an opening on the weekdays.
After seeing that the car was missing, K right away called my brother for him to come. Not because she was thinking about the car, she wanted to go to this car show. It was a selfish decision. My brother was coming as the o had already arrived. What was more stupid was she didn't inform him that she had come back with the car. My brother was already reaching the house when I told her to make the call. He didn't bother by it, so it didn't matter. But still, there could've been a problem if Ken didn't like the situation.
Ken and L came to the house and they were greeted by the o nicely. They talked and talked until the o was introduced to butchery that is on sale. They then agreed to see it together, with my brother leading the car infront.
After seeing the butchery, we all headed to the restaurant nearby. We ate for almost an hour. We departed at that point with the o taking her kids to Chinese school, and us going to the car auction show.
I was trying to be diplomatic when I informed her of the usual suspects that she might expect if she took the kids to school. I felt stupid and awkward for doing that. I don't know. I just felt that way.
We eventually made it to the car show. It was tiring to be honest. Toward the end, I just couldn't keep my eyes open. It was that boring and quite annoying. The auctioneer was merely doing his job but why do they have to be so loud and annoyingly quick?
When we left, there wasn't anything else we could do, so we eventually returned to the house. My brother and his wife are not coming, since they both have other things to do. He said he will go tomorrow night, and if we wanted to too, he could come to collect us. I don't know about that. I do want to have a night away from the kids. But we would already have been there, so there is not much point in going back to the same place we had already been to the night prior. We'll wait and see.
I slept a bit in the afternoon. Still exhausted from the day spent at listening to howling dogs howled, it was a good nap. Just asked the o about going to tonight's lantern festival, it because apparent that she didn't want to come along. So it would be me, k and the kids. I don't like the girl so if we went with her, I am not going to buy her anything. Only the boy, if he was good.
Oh, and SL and her sister's family are coming too. We are meeting them at the festival.
Going to See Bridge
I am about to go to see Bridge. She gave an assignment to do, which was to draw the imaginary hole. I hated doing this since I don't know what the hole looks like. So instead I drew a well, and the bottom couldn't be seen. I didn't want to make too much imagery of how I deep I feel at times, but drawing a bottomless well is on its way to represent my current state of mind. It's getting late for the appointment, so I better go.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Working for Uncle K
What a day. For this week, we were doing nothing as the norm has come back from holiday. You know the routine before the Christmas break. We took them to school, while doing nothing in the while they were at school, then time came to pick them up. Well this week is replete with this routine. So today, K and I did something out of the ordinary. We went to uncle K's shop and helped him out.
WE normally do travel beyond the parameter of the house location. This is due to the increased oil price. We rather traveled predominantly around the park and to the library. Today though, we learned that uncle K is without workers at the shop. He has been working sans workers for the duration because the baker had moved away. His shop is pretty tiny, so he and his wife work there not too big of a problem. Granted, no one wants to work this much, so we decided that we'd help out. We went there around 10.40 and arrived at approx. 11.15.
They seemed joyous to see, which was a good sign. I was afraid in the beginning that they would view this as something intrusive or something. Rather, we were greeted with smiles. They did say if we wanted to help further, come earlier as that would be busier hours when a lot of customers march in. I think we would do that, just so they could relax alittle.
With that done, we traveled for almost hour, albeit the traffic congestion, and when we arrived at school, we were late. The children were already left. K said they must have gone to the office, waiting for us there. I was not in the same boat. I was indeed at fault when we saw them there. The kids said the teacher told them to go there and wait as she was locking up the back gate.
Afterward, we headed to the Korean supermarket to get snacks. Uncle K earlier had asked us to go and pay for his Sky bills at their main office. We therefore were going there after getting the snacks.
There was a bad episode. It was called the girl who refused to wear clothes to go piano lesson. That's all I am going to touch on the subject because she was the demon.
Now, I just finished cleaning out the fridge. I saw the o was cleaning the garage and offered my help. The aid eventually turned to cleaning out the fridge for the kitchen shed. So now we go.two kitchens in the house. Don't ask why we have two. According to them, the second kitchen, which sits in the shed, is for daily cooking, whereas the main house kitchen becomes occasional kitchen. I guess they don't want to dirty their house, thus allocating the most dirty-0attracted place to the shed.
Am going to walk with my sister now.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Weekend In Review
I know yesterday's post was bizzare. I was dazed by the huge amount of shouting, yelling, scouting, scolding going on in the house. I had been walking for the last one hour and a half, which was tiring for my feet. Upon returning to the house, I heard the oral battle between K and the girl. I couldn't take it.
What were they shouting about? It was due to the girl's reluctance to do her homework. I don't understand the reason for my sis' to do what she did, because she would normally be cool about that sort of thing. Homework is more down my alley. I think she wanted to lessen my workload by asking the girl to complete it before I returned. It didn't work, did it?
Ok I will get away from depressing speech, and we'll look at last weekend's activities. The weekend had been my productive and most fun weekend I have had for quite sometime. On Saturday, K and I went out to see her friend T's last day in this country. We were planning on taking a ferry at 7.15 to go over to the Waihiki Island. We missed it, for there was a heavy traffic in the city. The whole night turned out to be good, despite missing the ferry.
On Sunday, it was my boyboy's bd. It looked like the day wasn't going to be his, apparently because the parents seemed cool about not making it special for the boyboy. Why do I say that? That's because they were doing the stuff at the shed instead of organising the boyboy's party, which it didn't look like it was happening. By around 7.30 though, uncle K and family came. It was then that we found out (me+k) there was a cake inside the freezer (who puts cakes in freezer?) I took it out, being told to do so by the o. We then sang the birthday song to the boyboy, in the while he couldn't contain his excitement. I knew what was on his head. All he wanted was to have the presents, don't really care for the cake and the party that much. He asked me about the presents as soon as he knew the day was his special one. We did give his gifts; K gave him a beyblade stadium, I the mighty beans pack and uncle K a truck that can be taken apart and together again. The boyboy was so happy. He loved all his gifts.
For the majority of the night, we had dinner as normal. The kids began playing with their new toys. We had dinner on the dining table, I felt that it didn't like a party. Some awkward moments did sneak its head in.
Oh, btw, the cake was homemade. Actually, it was bakerymade as the d made it in his shop.
What were they shouting about? It was due to the girl's reluctance to do her homework. I don't understand the reason for my sis' to do what she did, because she would normally be cool about that sort of thing. Homework is more down my alley. I think she wanted to lessen my workload by asking the girl to complete it before I returned. It didn't work, did it?
Ok I will get away from depressing speech, and we'll look at last weekend's activities. The weekend had been my productive and most fun weekend I have had for quite sometime. On Saturday, K and I went out to see her friend T's last day in this country. We were planning on taking a ferry at 7.15 to go over to the Waihiki Island. We missed it, for there was a heavy traffic in the city. The whole night turned out to be good, despite missing the ferry.
On Sunday, it was my boyboy's bd. It looked like the day wasn't going to be his, apparently because the parents seemed cool about not making it special for the boyboy. Why do I say that? That's because they were doing the stuff at the shed instead of organising the boyboy's party, which it didn't look like it was happening. By around 7.30 though, uncle K and family came. It was then that we found out (me+k) there was a cake inside the freezer (who puts cakes in freezer?) I took it out, being told to do so by the o. We then sang the birthday song to the boyboy, in the while he couldn't contain his excitement. I knew what was on his head. All he wanted was to have the presents, don't really care for the cake and the party that much. He asked me about the presents as soon as he knew the day was his special one. We did give his gifts; K gave him a beyblade stadium, I the mighty beans pack and uncle K a truck that can be taken apart and together again. The boyboy was so happy. He loved all his gifts.
For the majority of the night, we had dinner as normal. The kids began playing with their new toys. We had dinner on the dining table, I felt that it didn't like a party. Some awkward moments did sneak its head in.
Oh, btw, the cake was homemade. Actually, it was bakerymade as the d made it in his shop.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Birthday Celebration that Wasn't
Today is my little cousin Jord's birthday. He is happy about it but the excitement seems to be enjoyed by the very birthday boy himself. We did get him some presents, my uncle also made us buy the boy something. Other than those, the boy will only receive three gifts. The douche and the oppressed apparently don't care. He is doing his shed right now, and his wife is cooking dinner, where there was a spark of eruption earlier. She is mad at K and I, I believe, but her temper was heard toward her children, particular to her daughter. The only thing they do today that remotely resembles a birthday is the cake.
We took the children to the library. It is a new place since they moved a few days ago. We wanted to see the inside, which was quite big and quite cool. In the meantime, K did her research on philosophy, something she is into nowadays. The kids were at the kids' area where they looked at books. They eventually got one book each and when K had done with her researching, we headed to our next destination, which is the warehouse.
Once there, we looked around. I, the distracter. took the kids detouring around the place, whereas my sister was looking for presents. We swapped places and finally decided upon getting three presents for Jord (for uncle, he would give the boy a cup toy thing at $20, K the beyblade stadium and moi the silly beans), and one for the girl (a box set of toy grocery items) as we had missed her bday when she was on vacation. I think the total cost tallied at around $100. Not good news for our pockets.
When we got out of the place, we headed to the supermarket to get some lunches for them. Looking at the whole day spent, it is all about the kids today. We were there for some time and got home after that.
When the couple came back home, only a short while after we arrived, they immediately stormed to do their nonsense tasks in the shed. It is shit. I don't get it. They didn't get want to see their kids first. They just went to straight to fixing that damn thing, which is so stupid. Anyway, I don't know if we are having a birthday party for the boy. The girl just informed me that the douchey couple at least made a cake for him. I just don't know what to do.
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