Thursday, September 11, 2008

all in a day's work

Had a pretty good week thus far! saturday especially was a blast. passed my final theory test on my first attempt which started off my day well (: but the earliest practical test i could book for now is 05/01/09, which isn't actually too bad considering that the earliest date available for private learners is supposedly 30/12/08. hopefully i'd have enough practice by then to pass it asap! [edit: managed to push my testdate fwd to 09/12/08! WOOOOTS :D]

Then there was maeshaan (tim's church teacher) and kenneth's wedding later in the evening. beautiful couple, professional lawyers with no airs, devout people who apparently walk the walk and not simply talk the talk. really really happy for them (: the only drawback was the presence of a wine-bashing, gift-bashing, school-bashing individual at our table. honestly, we could all do with a little less shitass attitude from a spoilt brat who didn't care two hoots about what others' dining preferences are, about how undiginified it was to criticise the school that 2 other guests are currently attending as well.

Was reading the papers a while ago and something caught my attention. a reporter who took part in a stint to be a foodcourt/cinema hall/ toilet cleaner wrote: 'Imagine if children grew up in households with no conception of keep the house tidy or cleaning up after themselves because "the maid is there"...' It reminded of my tuition kid. My friends would have heard a zillion stories of that little terror, but what most people don't know is that i'm very very jaded by the job not only because he's lazy, rude, unappreciative, unmotivated and all, but also partly because i cannot stand the way he treats people around him, his maid in particular. He would throw sweet wrappers out of the window into the front yard and nonchalently declare that "siti (the maid) would clean it up anyway", order her to halt all her chores just to open the gate, spill mugs after mugs of water just for fun and make her refill them. and that's just the tip of the iceberg. shrug. i know it's supposedly 'none of the my business' but i do see find such attitude worrisome in the long run. I do make the effort to take thankyou and goodbye to her and the way she beams at me everytime tells me that expressions of gratitude for her hard work are a rarity in the household, which is a real pity.

Anyway, just realised that half the sem is gona be over soon. Unbelievable.

by exalted! at 9:43 am |