warning: rant ahead

i'm so annoyed today. annoyed at the lack of organisation and management that my team of workmates have.

see, i was scheduled to only do swimming lessons today, so i wore my bikini under my uniform to work and didn't bring my bra and undies coz i thought i'll come home wrapped in a towel (with my bikini still on, of course!) once i'm done.

but nooo....

someone rang ANOTHER swim tutor in (or maybe she just turned up herself?) and i was told by my Senior that i wasn't teaching. and i was like O.o which means i have to do 5 hours of lifeguarding instead of swim teaching.

my other colleague must've seen how disappointed i was coz he came up to me and said "hey, i dont feel well. you can take my classes. ok?" and that got me a little happier. then later, the other swim tutor (we'll call her B) started bitching about EVERY SINGLE DAMNED THING!

"WHERE'RE MY STUDENTS?"
"LETS GET THE NEXT CLASS ROLLING! HURRY UP!"
"WHERE'S THE LESSON PLAN FOR THIS CLASS?"
"YOU GOT EVERYTHING MIXED UP!"

@(#*@()* FFS, just shut up and let E do his work at his own pace can or not?!

anyway, i got out after teaching for 2 hours, and though "oh shyte. i'm up the creek! i have no bra and undies!!"

and then while changing to get dry, i had the most brilliant idea. i have a spare set of bikini in my car. hehe :D so i was all sorted.

but more things happened after that but i cant be bothered listing them..to cut it all short, everyone involved in organizing the roster is really really bad >"<

i left an hour early coz i was pissed and annoyed at everything.

they can go dock my pay for an hour if they want - but i dont think they should coz they were the ones who screwed up!

photoblog: chester

i'm still in a rotten mood all thanks to inconsiderate ppl who demands things done THEIR way and not the BEST way. but you know, i'm not gonna let that spoil my mood to blog.

as promised i've got photos of chester uploaded so you can all see how cute my bundle of joy is and be jealous that i have a companion who listens to me rant when i'm upset and squeaks in return :P

hi. my name is Chester and i'm a Male Abyssinian guinea pig. I turned 2 months old yesterday and i have 3 very annoying and irritating owners who comes to steal my pigloo so that they can scratch my back and hear me purr. that's my very bootylicious butt ;)

this is me from the top view. i am a tri-colour guinea pig. from my very bootylicious photo above, you can tell that me rear end has 2 colours - brown and black. i'm gorgeous, am i not?? i have 2 very floppy ears which flaps around when i shake my whole body.

the purple thing is actually my litter pan, which means i'm meant to wee and poo in it. but of course, i never use it because i'm a dirty and smelly guinea pig. i wee and poo everywhere because i know my owners love me a lot so they'll change my bedding every other day (aren't i lucky!). i use the litter pan to play hide and seek with my owner..when my owner says "here boy! hereeee.." i'll run to the little pan and hide in it until she takes the litter pan off me. i can stay in it for ages!


here is me rubbing my bum against the wall of my cage. do i look fat in this position? i think i need to do some laps soon! i can see myself getting rounder by the day >"< fluff ball! weee!


see my yummy food? i get fresh fruits and veges everyday! my absolute favourite is purple grapes with no seeds. fruit seeds are toxic to me so my owners will remove them all before feeding them to me. i quite like tomatoes as well but they stain my pretty fur. carrots and apples are ok too :) cucumbers are yuck and i dont know why my owner still feeds them to me. spinach is yummmmmmmyyyy!

here's a video of my owner giving me a back scratch and you can hear me purring too:




now that you know lots about me, hurry up and tell my owner what you think of me!

hiya

just a quickie again before i shoot off to bed.

been a rather depressed soul for the last few days due to my results :( they are not good, so i'm gonna take a break from uni..or rather, i'm thinking of taking a break from uni and get a proper full time job for about 1 year then finish off.

dont ask me why i'm taking so long to get a stupid simple degree. i'm just another dumb asshole you see on the streets wasting their life away. but if you do see me, please dont ask me anything related to uni? if i feel like talking, i'll talk to you.

tonight was like digging my own grave deeper in. well, it felt like it. already i am wallowing in being so upset about my results (guess 10 hours of studying a day for a whole week just ain't enough...), i had to push myself to keep talking about it because EVERYONE..and i mean EVERYONE was talking about uni, exams, graduating and getting a job. almost every nook and corner and i went to hide, someone was bound to be talking about either one of those mentioned *sigh*

anyway, yes. my plan is to just take a break. i know for SURE that i will fall into depression if i dont take a break from uni and just relax for a while and go back again when i'm ready. i do not want to be a depressed person...already as it is, i have some very crazy thoughts going on in my head which aren't very healthy. thank God for some good friends who drag me out of the house for some relaxing moments rather than just letting me crawl into bed and think crazy things!

but anyway, i'm still ok so dont worry too much. i keep myself busy so i wont think too much about it. however, i still need to let my parents know. i've been putting this off for a few days so i'm thinking of telling them on tuesday evening coz that's when i have 3 days off work. i dont want to bring my home-emotions to work coz it really affects me.

i really hope that my parents will understand, though i know i am letting them down BIG TIME this time around. but what can i do? i still need to keep my sanity...

ps: i forgotten this was meant to be a "quickie".

quickies of the week:
- sleptover at christine's on sunday night
- went for a really good chicken wrap and soy hot choc with christine and 2 other friends on mon
- worked tuesday to saturday, with wednesday off
- wed was pretty much the only time i had to catch up with some sleep and do some essentials
- caught up with a few friends, mainly RB because 2 depressive souls get along very well
- caught up with some other friends tonight and had some good food, though my appetite (i usually eat a lot!!) wasn't really there
- and lastly, been spending lots of time with Chester who's getting even more fond of me and he keeps me sane :)

my baby boy!

hello people! i'm back after taking a short break so rejuvenate so that i'll look prettier..not!

actually, the last couple of days have basically been tidying up bits and pieces of my room, putting stuff back in order again like all the mess i've made in the whole house, going to work (i need money!!!) and catching up with some friends :) oh and of course, spending time with my baby boy, Chester!

so lemme introduce Chester to you. he's my darling boy who is an Abyssinian breed of guinea pig. he was born on 20/9/2007 so he's only about 7 weeks old but acting totally like a teenager! throwing tantrums here and there and getting all shy when us girls (me and my sis) pays him a visit! LOL

anyway, i think he's been settling down well. he's getting more and more vocal (chatty) by the day. he talks to my mum when she's doing the laundry going mweeepmweeepmweeeeeep or wheeekwheeekwheeeeek which seems to be a way of him asking for food. i read up heaps about guinea pig sounds and what they mean and even made myself familiarise with all their sounds.

he also knows when someone's in the garage with him, coz that's when he'll start talking again and he knows this is how he gets my attention. i dont think he knows how to get to his drink bottle yet, so we use another bottle to feed him a few times during the day. he drinks heaps! just tonight, i taught him a new trick ;) when i shake his drink bottle, he'll know how to find it and then start drinking from it. and sometimes when he's drinking from his bottle, he'll play tug-o-war with it! ehehheeh~

i dont think he's very friendly coz he doesnt seem to like being picked up. we tried to pick him up several times on saturday but he just kept running away and made a noise which indicated that he's scared/ annoyed/ stressed so we left him alone for the night. he's getting better now though coz he lets me scratch the back of his ear and at the bottom of his mouth. he seems to enjoy these a lot coz he'll make his face look all cute by closing his eyes a little and opening it and closing it again! so cute!

my sis' friend came over on monday to teach us how to pick him up. she cuddled him for a while then handled him over to me. it was my first time ever holding a little piggy so i wasn't sure how to hold him properly. he ended up biting me not once, but twice! mind you, it wasn't a tiny nibble either. it was a full on bite :( and it bled for ages...

got a bit scared of him, but hey i dont blame him for biting me. if i was his size and there was a monster beast holding me in a way that i feel unsafe, i would start biting and hacking away too! the wound's pretty small but i think it's quite deep. it seems to be hurting more today when i try to get some work done but oh well, it's only a bite and i'll survive ;)

anyway, i think i'll go get some fresh veges for him tmr while i'm out. thinking of doing some solitary shopping so might as well go get him some. he's been living on apples and carrots and grapes and tomatoes for the last 1 week. i know, it's not all that bad but he doesnt fancy carrots very much. he really likes grapes but i read online that piggies shouldn't be fed too much grapes and apples. plus, they need more vitamin c and apparently green bell pepper is really good as vitamin c source and they love it.

we'll see how it goes tmr.

that's it about my baby boy for now. will post some pics up soon - got them on camera but havent transferred them yet.

super FOUL mood! *edited*

i'm in a super foul mood today. i have no idea why, but i think it's the stress getting to me. funny how i didnt feel like that for my other 2 exams. i just felt like crying everytime i think i cant take it anymore.

but today..today is just different! i felt like i hadn't slept a wink, but i'm not tired. the phone kept ringing and ringing this morning and it was SO annoying especially when you're trying to make full use of your sleeping time. and the fact that my dad is always doing his work in the garage thus making him not able to answer the phone quickly really irks me too! there is a simple solution to that - we have a cordless phone, carry it with him!

my mum rang up and i had to answer it coz my dad was in the toilet. i sounded SO grumpy at that time and i know it, but i just couldn't help it. i do NOT like being woken up in a way where i have to jump out of bed quickly...as if there was an emergency or something.

but today is going to be a very long day. i'm trying to calm myself down by taking it easy first then only start studying, but it ain't working yo. i checked a few things online, and one of them was the trademe package which i sent out on monday and the person still hasn't received it. and the courier company is meant to get back to me.

why cant they be more efficient?! hello, it's been FOUR FUCKING days! courier is meant to be OVERNIGHT? and the client is only located in auckland CBD. ain't that far away from where i live! could've delivered it myself if i knew nz couriers were such imbeciles!

there, now you know how foul my mood is!

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i'm feeling much better now :) i think the whole foul mood thing was because i really wanted to sleep in more. but i forced myself to wake up anyway :(

after a big bowl of rice porridge with lots of soysauce and even MORE sesame oil, i started to calm down. did some air punches and air kicks to release a bit of stress and tension :P and it kinda worked. the joy of not having anyone home! haha

somtimes i wonder what will happen if i actually have a life size punching inflatable. you know one of those blow up things that comes to your height (well, my height anyway..) and the base is filled with sand to weight it down? and if you push it, it goes backward and comes right back at you after that?

i might end up destroying it :P we used to have one back in msia...wonder where it is now!

oh wells..time to start on another past exam paper or i'll run out of time. cant believe tmrw's my last paper and it'll be guinea pig hunting after that ;)

i've decided not to adopt from the refuge because the owner has simply too many requirements. like, the size of the cage, and that my WHOLE family needs to be involved in the adoption process. she said she wants to come around to our house to look at the cage we made, to talk to my parents and to check out our home -_- it's almost as if we're adopting a human baby.

and it's really troublesome. because, first of all, we made a cage that is 1 size smaller than what she recommended, but they are at least TWICE the size of a pet store cage. or about the size of my sister (height wise) and i think that is more than enough. secondly, my mum is not keen on us getting a pet. my dad on the other hand, has given us the green light to get 2 guinea pigs, but because he is highly allergic to dustmites, he ain't all that keen either. so it's really pointless to talk to them.

hence my decision to just get guinea pigs from elsewhere. found a few on trademe, but they're all of the long haired breed and those are high maintenance coz the fur needs to be trimmed quite often, and it's not like we have an edward-scissorhand sitting at home to do that! guess the short haired ones will be the best option.

first stop after exam tmrw....four seasons pet shop in glen innes ;)

yay!

an elder's wife at church passed away on monday night. i received an email informing us yesterday morning when i did my routine email check after waking up.

the thing is, on sunday morning, i saw the elder, but not his wife. they're ALWAYS together - i've never seen one and not the other, until that morning. few seconds later, my dad asked "eh, where's his wife?" and i said "not sure. maybe she's sick!" but right after saying that, i 'saw' an image of someone who had passed away and a very heavy feeling came over me...

i really dont know how to describe it, but it made me feel really upset..but i just brushed it off thinking my mind's playing tricks with me again. but when i received that email yesterday, it just felt weird.....

another incident was when i had a dream about someone being pregnant. the following day, we were told that that someone IS pregnant and i told my mum about my dream and she just went "REALLY?!".

hmmm......................

one of my saving's account went dwindling over the last month partly because:

• i have a trademe addiction when exams come around and i spend unnecessarily
• i've been buying useless & random things
• my mum owes me about $800 from accumulated expenses (i dunno how it got so high!!)
• i've been buying heaps of stuff for my sisters
• sis-kimbo owes me lots of moolah and i've lost count!

and because of the dwindling digits, i started doing trademe agian (out of desperation!). and it's very nice to see my account picking up more digits :D just today, i transferred over $200 into my "trademe" bank account.

NICE!

yay! lucy's back :D i am one very happy camper!

time flies, dunnit? just a little over 5 months ago, i remember dropping by lucy's hse straight after work in my yucky uniform t say goodbye :( and now lucylulu's back again :) we'll be the 'abandoned' ones this summer so lets make full use of it :D

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it's 1am and i'm meant to be in lala-land already according to my schedule...but i just dont feel like ending the day. i feel like doing more things!

i am physically tired and worn out after a long long day, but i just dont want to sleep just yet (and i'll wake up tmrw morning cursing at why i didnt sleep earlier! it happens EVERY single morning).

having mixed emotions - one moment i'm all stressed, another moment i have this 101% confidence which is ridiculous, then 3 seconds later i feel like i'm a failure, and an hour of emo-ing later i feel like i'm superwoman

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and i'm not even pms-ing coz aunt petunia left like, 10 days ago or something.

tell me what's going on! is it the caffeine-overload? is it all the studying? is it all the information on guinea pigs that i've been reading? is it me craving for LIFE???

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i had a very weird dream the other day. but it involved this hot guy...i dunno who -.-" but i know he was hot! and i woke up feeling very happy for 5 mins, then reality kicked in and i was my usual dumb self again :P

the dream started with me at a petshop over at the aqua section. my image of the aqua section basically involves lots and lots of aquarium with fishes, and a few large black oxygen tanks. well, i was looking at some fishes and was wandering around, and then i saw a TIGER! O.O i know! it was in a cage and ppl were all looking at it and i just stood from afar to watch..

then all of a sudden right, some men (i think it was 2 or 3 of them) appeared from the ground - they came through like those underground tunnels which led up to where i was. and they were poachers -___________- they wanted to kill the tiger for its skin.

anyway, everyone just ran away but because i'm a total slowpoke, i was a bit slow. they fired into air and part of the aqua section blew up. it blew up because somehow.........the oxygen tanks were some sort of gas which will blew up when the poacher fired. i didn't know where to run to and while i was panicking, some hot guy (wtf! hahahaha) came to my rescue and picked me up and put me over his shoulder and took me to a safe place (HHHAAHAHA!!!)

after making sure i was ok, he went back for the poachers to rescue the tiger and try to get the poachers. there was one part where he was hanging onto a rope and taking a full swing at the poachers.

and my alarm clock rang and i almost threw it out the window!

-.-"

silly dream aye? hahaha wonder what i saw/ did/ read on that day to make up such a concoction of dream :P

now go do something productive instead of reading about my silly dream and falling off the chair laughing! SHOO!

huzzah!

we've got a guinea pig cage all ready! i spend about an hour today making up the base and am quite happy with the results :)

managed to get corflute/ coroplast from payless plastic in the size i want, so huzzah again!

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a bit fluffed that the person at the guinea pigs' refuge ain't replying to my mails. kinda want to adopt 2 piggles ASAP but she's not being very...helpful. now we're (well, i am...) thinking of adopting from spca instead but the guinea pigs' refuge have cuter piggles!

not only that, she's pretty strict with who's adopting it and where the piggles are going and what size cages they're gonna be in and etc. i made our cage one size down coz i think a cage that is over 76 x 91 cm is more than enough got 2 piggles -___- even my sister can fit quite comfortably in it!

and she was saying that she wont allow ppl under 18 to adopt 'em piggles unless someone above 18 is the pets' main caregiver...well, i kinda understand that. you cant really point your finger at a wee kid and say "hey, that's your pig. go clean the cage" when the wee kid can barely look after his/herself right?

but i really am hoping she'll get back to me soon! i'm thinking of surprising my sisters with the guinea pigs on friday when they come home from sch - i know which ones they want so if all goes well, i mgiht drive to north shore after my exam on friday and pick the piggles up.

hmm....we'll see!

now it's time to get back to chemistry..while listening to pyro go POP POP POP in the air -.-" gosh i hate this time of the year!

does anyone know where to purchase CORFLUTE materials in nz?

you know those signs real estate agents use to show a house for sale? it's made of a plastic-ish material i think..

i need a really huge one. about 1830mm x 1220mm.

if you do, pls lemme know ASAP ok!

thx :)

we're on our way to obtaining a guinea pig..i mean, guinea pigs! we've been advised not to get one piggy, but to get 2 as they're very social creatures and will be very stressed if they cant interact with a creature of their kind...and that is very very sad!

anyway, spent half a day searching for "wire storage cubes". i dont know how to describe what they are, but it's basically flat wire racks and you join them with a connector to a shape/ size you want. we were told to go to the warehouse, k-mart and even briscoes. we searched high and low at all 3 places but ended up with nothing. then went to plastic box. they had a wire mesh one, but that would mean there's a possibility of the piggies' legs getting caught in them..finally found them at payless plastic and they were on sale too! blessing in disguise :P

what we need to get next is Corflute. they're those huge-as cardboard/ plastic things you use when you did your science fair thingy. but we need a bigger one than that coz that'll be the base of the piggies' cage. and the wire cubes will be the fencing around it.

...

so tired

-.-"

i really shd start studying..chemistry....arrghh!

ok this is a rubbish post. i'm gonna go shower and sort out all my notes.

bye!

quickies!

• overheard a young college girl saying this at Botany Librariy:
  "my dad has naked asian pictures! i saw them the other day! HAHAHAA"
  "oh my god! reallyyyyy? boys or girls?"
  "err...i dunno! girls i think?"
  and i just go..."wth" to myself!
• saw some hot foreigners coming out of an apartment along anzac ave this morning.
  fuyoooohhh! somemore dressed up so well! hehehe
• my fitness is very clearly deteriorating. i used to be able to walk up anzac ave (from my parking) to uni without breaking a sweat. this morning, i walked up halfway and i was sweating and puffing and my legs were aching.
  someone tell me when was the last time i was in the pool!!!!

ok back to studying now. toodles!