The engineer's pond

About two months ago, I made my lazy self useful and 'helped' a soon to be civil engineer who used to flick every available poster in SS15 build this:

I shoveled a grand total of five spadefuls of dirt before hightailing back to Adelaide.

And here, the engineer scratched all his kuli's names into the cement, marks to remind him of our hard labour for all eternity.

Then because I had more than four hours of free Vodaphone to Vodaphone talk time, I had a conversation with the enigineer.

Me: Eh, how's the pond?
P: Never see the pictures I sent you meh?
Me: Got la, but they were so grainy. You're a lousy photographer.
P: Aiya, I send you some more later lor (which by the way, has not arrived). Saw your name or not?
Me: Yeap.
P: But I think they're going to be washed away soon.
Me: Har? how can? You etched it on cement right?
P: Yes......
Me: Then how can la?
P: Because the pond was leaking.
Me: hahahhahahahahha. I'm sorry, you're graduating with a degree in what again at the end of this year?
P: Civil engineers don't build things la. We design.
Me: I thought that was what architects were for.
P: Right. Next time I build your house for you ok?
Me: Erm.... Pond also cannot build properly summore wanna build my house? Hahaha... My house runtuh la.
P: Can la... I'm building my own house also.
Me: And if it falls down?
P: Um, then your house will fall down as well. And we can die together in our fallen houses.

I know who's not going to build or for that matter, design my house next time... :p

Malaysia Negaraku

Seeing that Merdeka (National Day in Malaysia) 2006 is approaching in a couple of days, I decided to demonstrate my patriotism by taking a 'How un-Malaysian Are You?' quiz. Here's what I got.

Congratulations Mindy, you are 60% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...

Guy Sebastian !

How Un-Malaysian Are You?

What the heck? I also don't have afro hair!

Stalker

I have an inkling I gave my new neighbours a little scare yesterday. See, being carless in Adelaide, my only means of transportation is the public bus, unless friends of mine who have cars catch the hints that I ever so often cleverly drop into the conversations we have. However, the reason I had to risk my hand being severed by a moving vehicle to hail the bus 24 hours ago is still a little bit unclear. It may have been that I wasn't very clever yesterday (which in my opinion, is quite unlikely) or that i have stupid thick headed friends who do not have the mental capacity to catch my clever hints (Ahh... more likely). Bottom line was, I had to take the bus. And already it was getting dark....

Upon reaching busstop number seventeen, i reached out for the button that tells mr. bus driver to stop the bus. To my surprise, the little bell which goes off whenever someone presses the beautiful red button tinkled when my finger was still an inch away from it.

"Wah! I got magic finger. Got super powers. Bell can ring before I push button. Psychic powers wei", I thought to myself.

But since I'm a person of very high intelligence, I was able to deduce a little later that someone else on the bus might have pressed the button before me.

"Darn! Cannot join X-Men anymore"

So, the bus stopped and the person in front of me got down. And then I got down. He looked at me. So I smiled. It must have been a very weird smile because he gave me a weird look. But then maybe it was because his girlfriend was wating for him to feet away and she was soon going to walk him back home.

"So sweet. Only crazy people like you will wait at the busstop when it's 13 degrees"

The couple stands on the kerb wating to cross the road. I stand beside them. Of course it wasn't directly beside them. I was approximately one and a half meters away from them. They look lef and right. I look at them, because I'm too lazy to look out for the cars and since I was pretty certain that they didn't have death wish, I was sure I wouldn't get run over if I followed after them. Then they cross. So I cross. They reach the other side. I reach the other side. They get huggy and stary holding hands.

"Hmmm... I bet she doesnt have icy cold hands like me. Hey! can join X-Men after all. I'm the ice queen. I got super cold fingers. Can even work with Iceman!"

They walk. I walk behind them. They turn left. I turn left. They walk pass the house with the orange tree. Occasionally, I try to coerce my dear housemate into stealing oranges for me from this tree but he's a little to short so he can't reach the ornages. They look back. I stare back with a glazed expression. They quicken their pace. I matched theirs.

"Haha... stalker"

They turn left into the driveway. Right behind them I turn left as well (because we share the same driveway). They walk up to their house. I walk behind them. They reach their door step.

"Wonder what will happen if I stop here a while"

I stop for awhile. They look at me, hurry inside the house, shut the grill and glanced at me.

"Haha.. bodoh. Liddat also scared"

I smiled at them. Hey, we're neighbours after all, must be friendly la. I mean, who else am I supposed to go to if I run out of sugar? They slammed shut the wodden door and pulled down the blinds.

"hehehe...."

Answered

God listened. And answered. It isn't that I didn't expect Him to. On the contrary, I had knew that He would. It was just that I was getting very impatient. For those of you people out there who don't know it, I very much like things done my way. Yes, I like to be the boss. Ms. Boss. Mindy the Boss. Mindy Boss. But not Bossy Min. There's also another thing that you should know. I can be the most laid back person and worry about nothing. Dwelling over what would be is foriegn to me. Heck, last semester I didn't open any of my text books till the week before the exam. Ssshhhh...don't tell my mummy and daddy, I don't wanna die yet. But I have been worrying over what I would be going to do next year, since the three long years of mugging and slogging for a degree is finally! coming to an end.

But this week, through not one, but two people who were absolutely clueless about my thoughts reminded me that God has plans. And He would reveal them in His time. All I have to do is stop agonising over what to do next year, submit, continue praying and have faith - heartfelt trust that no matter what happens, with God, victory is already mine. So though I'm still not sure about next year, I know that whatever happens, it will be inline to what He wants for me. And I'm excited.

I wanted God to answer me in black and white.

He didn't.

He answered me in every conceivable color.

Teddy Bear

Darn it, I should have hopped into his car.

But my mummy said never never follow strangers into their car, even if they've introduced themselves as 'teddy bear'.

Heh. If my mummy and daddy had thier way, I would still be a virgin when I'm six feet under.

I should have hopped into his car, taken the car keys and driven it my way. Darn.

Down Down Down Under

Been back for two weeks, haven't been blogging for a while, don't feel like blogging either. Haven't been doing anything much, don't feel like doing anything either. Bleh.

So.... here's what's happened since I blogged weeks ago.

1. Stupid MAS airlines overbooked the flight i was supposed to take by 30 people. Bodoh. And wanted to kick me off the flight. Bodoh. Kick me off to Sydney and then ask me to fly from Sydney to Adelaide. Bodoh. Two hours transit and extra two hours of being in airplanes. Bodoh. And when I told them I didnt want to, they said they would upgrade me to business class if one of their passengers cancelled. Who cancels two hours before their flight la?? Bodoh. and when I got on the flight, there were like 10 Malaysians, or rather, 10 Asians on my flight. The rest were non Asians, who spoke with the very nice Aussie accent. So the airhostess (who was less pretty than I am) lansi and was oh so very rude. Bodoh. No wonder MAS airlines losing money like crazy, discriminating against passengers from their own country. Bodoh betul.

2. When I signed up for Biology and Learning Psychology, little did I know that I would be spending one of my practicals in the zoo observing the American Bison. If I had known, I would have asked for an exemption from this subject. After all, I already live in a zoo.

3. I baked cookies. Freddy said they looked like the poop his dogs produce. Jason said they were not very cooked. Aaron said they tasted horrible. But he ate up everything, including the cookies crumbs.

4. I've finished watching the whole first season of Desperate Housewives and One Tree Hill. That means 45 mins x 22 episodes x 2 seasons of staring at the computer screen.

5. I finally changed my quilt cover and pillow case. However, my quilt cover is now incredibally pink, with purple and blue coloured butterflies everywhere. It's what you'll get if you shop at the kids section because you don't want to cough up an extra 10 dollars for mature adult bed linen.

6. Bananas here are so expensive that I've seen people buying one banana. According to Jason it's because the hurricane ate up all the bananas.

7. My room has been cleaned at least four times in two weeks. And still there is a bathrobe, soccer socks, purple coloured bed socks, yellow socks, two bags and racquets on the floor. I don't even want to mention the stuff on the bed and on the table.

8. I met this guy last Saturday when I went to 'play' soccer. After arranging myslef in strategic locations on the pitch for two hours, he intoduced himslef as teddy bear and offered me a ride home. I'll be playing a lot more soccer from here on.

9. I joined the gym. And you can stop laughing.