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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Tuesday:
I decided not to go for my Aikido class after all. There goes my resolution. But this time, I had a good reason for it ok? :) I wanted to be home to spend the day with my mum, 'be there' for her. I had just read in the papers on Sunday about this Norwegian (or was it Swedish?) woman who voluntarily chose Euthanasia on herself because she was in the last stage of cancer. And in her last few moments, her son recalls that she spent the day obsessively cleaning around the house, yelling at her sons to pick up their dirty socks and at her husband for scrubbing out the toilet properly. Life is much more than that. So on tuesday, what do you know, my dad takes his day off too, and got her this cute bouquet of flowers with a mega huge sunflower in the middle. and my bro came home early too.
I got her a bunch of hot pink flowers, and a couple of hairclips. We had pizza and at night, when we cut the cake at around 11something, my bro and father thought they were movie directors, competing to take the best shots/angles and taking like, a hundred pictures of my mother posing with the cake and flowers. I rolled my eyes and just sat in a corner. I wasn't lifting my finger much to help in taking pictures because both my mum and dad had already yelled at me for not being helpful in putting the batteries and memory card into the camera, blahblahblah. Long story short, they made some more idiotic comments, my dad-saying i would never be a journalist, my mum-saying i always ruined everyone's birthday. And i didn't want to taste the cake after that.
I just slammed the two cards I made for my parents on the table and walked away after all the photo-taking and cake-cutting. Oh, i did pose for two picture but both times, i was glaring at my mother.
Wednesday:
My dad's birthday. And yes, my parents' birthdays are one day apart. No one got him anything except my mum, who panicked and bought him bags of nuts (yes, ask away. he just loves them) and a card (which she consulted two english/korean dictionaries but eventually wrote such a short message inside -_-).
Honestly, I didn't know what to get my dad. His interests are eating bananas, work, playing the piano, reading the Chinese newspaper, watching the news (ENGLISH and CHINESE) and giving his snarky commentaries, and occasionally, cooking pre-canned or frozen food on Sundays and public holidays for the family.
Honestly, what does one get him?
I bought a soya bean drink for him (and yes, he loooves those. if he could, he would drink them the whole day), but his stomach wasn't feeling too good that day so he passed on it.
I was hoping my brother would get him something thoughtful, but my brother turned out to be too broke to get my parents any presents at all this year.
Thursday:
Had my practical driving lesson. This time, I had a different instructor. No more Mr Tan that day. For this instructor, he didn't tell me to start the car. Instead, he drove me out the circuit, and we switched seats somewhere by the side of the road outside. Which was a really weird spot to change seats but all the other school cars were doing it. When he was driving me to that spot, I was so awed so see my instructor changing gears so swiftly and the car was moving oh so smoothly. Dang, I wish I could drive like that one day!
1)I can't change up my gears so smoothly. 2)I have trouble changing down my gears. BUT, I did manage to change down my gears from 4th to 3rd to 2nd ONCE with no problems that day. 3) I finally noticed what speed I was going at when I was cruising along this particularly long stretch of road, 70km/h! Which was close to the speed limit on an expressway. And, take note, learner drivers aren't allowed on highways, so I was pretty proud of myself that I didn't lose control of the car or something at that 'high' speed.
Friday
FINALLY attended Aikido class after missing 2 sessions. I sweated in just a few minutes, after doing a few forward and backward rolls. Oh, and I SO forgot how to do a backward roll. There's a technique to it ok? It's so not easy for a beginner. So i pretended to do some kind of weird contortion on the floor, and acted like i know what i was doing. LOL! I nearly smashed my glasses for that.
And then at some point in class, when we were doing some self-defence moves with our partners, the Instructor demanded to know why I was acting like such a newbie and he pointed at me and made the accusation that I had joined the class since the beginning of this year, so i should KNOW the moves. I kept insisting no. Like, wth. I forgave him for that accusation because he is a 70 year old guy. And you know how it goes with guys like that.
Miss two classes and this is the treatment you get. bleh :P
12:46 PM