Work sucks, I know

Working life seriously sucks. Work will never end, and the workload will never stop coming either. Sometimes I wonder, what is the point in living life? How I wish that 3-day weekends come more often so I can travel around. I need to take a long vacation!!

This couple of weeks I seriously lost the mood to work. Every morning feels slow, tired, and I even feel sleepy while driving, something which actually seldom happen to me! It all started when I fell sick 3 weeks ago. Sorethroat, flu, fever, coughing, phlegm - the whole package, you name it.

To add to the bad week, I fell sick again. The exact same package except with a very bad fever. I wonder why do I fall sick too often?

My car recently had to go through numerous troublesome procedures to get it changed from the old number to the new one. My big brother bought a new Fiesta, and since its a new car he wants his plate to be on his car (makes much sense since its his name anyway). And thanks to that, my car had to go through several Puspakom inspections and insurance transfer.

 

Final day having the AR15 plate on my ride. Red berry, meet your new brother!

Puspakom is a capital 'B'. They tore my tints in order for my car to pass the inspection because it was 'too dark'. But actually, I don't know its Puspakom's fault or the tinting company's fault. Does Puspakom even have a reliable machine to test the tints? When I installed the tint back in 2010, they promised that it'll be JPJ and Puspakom compliant. I've contacted a branch manager of the tint company, and he said that the company will replace the tint for me, provided there is proof. Yes, I have the original receipts, documents and the failed Puspakom certificate. Hopefully, they'll re-install the tints. Or else, Consumer Tribunal awaits them.. :)

Talking bout my car, last weekend I paid a visit to sh@rty 5's shop in Meru, Klang to add some little mods to my red berry. I added DRLs to my car, together with a module that will turn the lights off when my main headlights turn on (ala continental cars). It was reasonably priced, and Kelvin's workmanship is very clean and neat. Will definitely return again for other mods. I wanted to change my number plates next, or maybe upgrade ICE? :)

 

 

 Hello DRLs! It looks soo illegal here! haha

The Call

Last Monday while at work, I received a call from my mum. She told me that she received a text from my cousin saying that my grandma (on my dad's side) is very ill. My mum was very concerned about it and we decided that we have to drop by Ipoh this weekend to visit her.

Even though my dad lives in Ipoh, I seldom go there and I am very much a stranger to the town. I had to use the GPS (thanks to that) to get to places around there and we spent the night at Impiana hotel which was previously known as Casuarina hotel when I was little. Ipoh is a nice and calm town. The food was great, and we even found the famous char kuay teow on Leech Street (now known as Jalan Bandar Timah, if i'm not mistaken). The kuay teow was not as good as last time, according to my mum, but still I had 2 plates of it. :D Places like these made me remember my childhood times, when my family was still a whole and we had trips during raya down to Ipoh.

I must admit that I have not been very close to my grandma on my dad's side as opposed grandma on my mum's side. Its sad and I wish I had known her better. I blame my dad for this. In fact during my visit there, my dad wasn't even in Ipoh. He would rather go to KL for some Bar Council annual dinner rather than visiting his own mother. Sometimes, I question his logic sense.

It had been easily a number of years since I last saw my grandma and now, she looks very old and frail. She does not look like what I remembered how she looked like before. I felt her hand and all I feel are her bones. I felt sad. She had not been awake for a week and had not been eating. I felt helpless, and what I could do is to pray for miracles to happen and hope for the best for her.

Whenever I pray, I pray for good things to happen to the people I care. Hopefully. Amin.