Bits and pieces

Tiring week for me so far.....

First of all....had to do the super long and tiring door to door survey for my market research module on Tuesday......25 door to door surveys to complete,plus another 5 e-mail surveys.....Went to clementi to do my survey and spent a mindnumbing 7 hrs doing the bloody thing....that's 7 hrs of my life I'm never getting back....

I went door to door, walked every single level for 7 freaking blks........just to complete 25 survey forms.....never smiled and talked so politely for such a long period of time before.....Haiz....lots of unhelpful people in Clementi......ain't nobody wanna do no stinking 3 page survey on tupperware....I probably heard the word "No" maybe ....hmmm....675 times for the duration of the 7 hrs spent on the survey!!!

Here's my favorite excuse for not doing the survey that I heard.....I approached this indian guy and asked him if he wanted to do a short survey on tupperware.......guess wat that bangla said??.......he looked at me blankly and said in perfect English:" I'm Sorry....I don't understand English.".........hmmmmm......you don't understand English huh....I see....so what the hell did you just speak to me in??......tamil?!?!......Punjabi?!!......Some bloody hip hop bangla styled slang??!........Kiss my kundi you unhelpful kunji munji!!!!!

After doing the survey.....I reached home at 7pm....took a shower and went straight to work...at 7.25....going through all the forms and typing all the data in the survey template on an excel worksheet and was getting all my friends and even my primary 4 cousin to do my e-mail surveys to meet my deadline on wednesday.....finished every damn thing at 2 am and collapsed straight onto my bed.......yes...collapsed straight on my bed....like Tony Leung in Wu Jian Dao after he got shot through his head....

Another significant thing that happened during the week was My GrandFather getting a fever...... an old person having fever is quite serious compared to a younger person getting a fever......now If I got sick?I would just rest at home and sleep through the fever....no need to even visit the doctor....but because older people have weak heart rates..diabetes and basically weaker organs and immune system,etc... having a fever means a mandatory 3-4 day stay at least at a hospital for sure....poor thing....

So I went with my parents to visit my Grand father on wednesday.........had to wear stupid face masks before entering the room because the nurses were afraid that we would pass harmful germs to my grandfather..........My Grandfather seemed pretty okay...maybe just a little blur blur...but he seemed to be quite comfortable in his room......cos he was staying at the top floor of Tan Tock Seng Hospital where all the first class,deluxe rooms were located.....so he had a fully air-conditioned room,two televisions and his own private nurse at his beck and call.........I stayed there for just 5 mins and I did'nt want to leave liao.......it was better than my room man... Its was like the Shang gri la of hospital wards......

The head Nurse came into My grandfather's room a short while after we arrived......and she was complaining to my Grand father...she said that My Grandf ather wasn't making use of his personal nurse at all for the entire day.......and that he should call for the nurse for the smallest things like getting a drink or for stuff like bathing him.....when My Grand father heard that....his eyes widened and he kep shaking his head....hahha......he did'nt want no nurse bathing him cos very pai seh.......he told us that the last time he was warded....he saw some really old cheeky guys letting the nurse bathe them.....He said in hokkien"So old liao...one leg in coffin...still dunno how to behave......still wanna be so cheeky!!"....hahhaha....everyone in the room was laughing at him.....

My Grand father is a real cute character.......he's someone who will never turn down any offer of food.....plus he's very very nice and sweet-tempered....heck...I dun think he even have any temper at all.....my Grand mother on the other hand is the no-nonsense type, quite fierce and has been scolding and nagging at him for decades....but I never seen him get angry before........plus he helps out my Granny with the house work,cooking and does all the marketing for her..hahah...what a great spouse.....

I remembered once while My father's car was turning into my Grandparent's house in Bishan.... we saw my Grand father sitting at the door steps of the Salavation Army located in front of his house......quietly sipping a packet of Coke. So we stopped the car and asked My Grand pa why in the world was he drinking outside the house when the house was like a few steps away.........he said that he hasn't drank Coke for a long time liao cos My Grand Mother will nag and scold if he takes sweet or cold drinks...so he bought himself a packet of Coke on his way back from the market....he was finishing it up before he went home....and he told us dun breathe a word to my Grand mother cos she's gonna nag him to death...hahahaha...so cute..

Hope My Grand Father gets well soon........everytime he gets a fever....he will be a little blur for a while and it take him a few weeks to get back to his usual self.........haiz..

3 days of the week left.......gotta spend my time preparing my E-marketing tutorial and my IBS second call........Marketing course is damn sian...maybe I would have been better off drawing still objects and nude models in Laselle.......to think I gave up drawing nude models to study under such "babes" like Koh Poh Tee,Wong Yoke Kuan and Florence Chia......darn it!!