Another Year

... goes by

(Happy birthday to my dear Luis 表哥 too... wherever you are, I hope you're happy)

聼話啦 PLEASE!!

媽媽們，我好累啦。 妳哋可唔可以聼話啲，等做子女嘅可以擔心少樣嘢呢？

做女嘅處處都為您着想，以您生活安息作大前題，但偏偏俾您看為針對丶阻礙。 當媳婦嘅三更半夜陪您入院坐到天光，您竟然怕麻煩同醫生隱瞞事實，令我同您個仔都好擔心丶失望。 做孫女嘅好心叫您運動多啲，飲多啲水。 您話冇精神，費事去廁所。 點知您轉個頭唔舒服，嘔都唔去睇醫生。 成日就EE鵝鵝話人睇都唔睇下您，電話都冇個。

妳哋明唔明如果妳哋乖啲啲，我哋可以擔心少啲啲，就可以徙多啲精神去啲有需要嘅地方。例如0係公司打仗或者簡單啲 - 搬屋呢？ 避到埋身啦!!!

I'm so sick and tired of all this BS.  媽媽們, 聼話啦, 好嗎?!?

唱出心聲

Yup, that pretty much sums it up... 要反省下...

Recent Accomplishment

I can proudly say that I have marked another accomplishment (albeit mini, but accomplishment nonetheless) off the 小芬's "handyman-ess" list (if you can even classify that as a word) aka "邊個話要靠男人" list.   I have successfully changed the brake lights on my buggy!  Okay, fine, retarded as it sounds and yes, it was extremely easy, but I did pay $12-15 to my mechanic each time I needed it changed for the last xx years, so for five bucks and ten minutes of my time, I saved $25 (bulbs come in two's).

For the record, this cost me $4.97 at Walmart

Hey, what can I say?  Between finding a place to temporarily stay for the next half year to fussing with the finishes for the townhome to dealing with idiotic morons at work, my life's been crazy to say the least.  So a 10-minute achievement was enough to set a smile on my face and make my evening.

I'm not really looking forward to moving since I'm really missing my condo already but I know the two weeks will just fly right by.  Sigh...  Time to pack soon, but for now I really should sleep, haha.

Homeless

Looking back at a post from January 2010, I can't help but chuckle a bit.  Can't believe four years have past and I'm moving again.  This time:

1 full week of cleaning and preparation
2 days on the market
3 offers to purchase

4 showings (only)

SOLD! for full asking price (THANKS AGAIN KAREN!!!)

However, I can't help but feel a little bittersweet.  I thought I would miss Northtown a lot but I only miss it a little, that being my first ever condo.  But here, I poured over blueprints, plans, did all the pricing and marketing, sales opening, office closing, assigned all the parking/lockers, chose all the finishes, watch the building get built, fussed over the problems, deficiencies and finally settled into the home I "put together" from start to finish.  I love everything about this condo: view, size, bathrooms, ALL my finishes (my backsplash!!), appliances... but in another month, I'm going to leave this baby of mine.  :'(

What I DON'T particularly like about this place is everything that happens outside of my four walls - how the building is run and basically, the people living here.  

I know I must move on and constantly tell myself I can't stay here any longer.  From an investment point of view it's leave now or leave never.  Too many developments are under construction in this corridor and all the new stuff will make this building look like it was built in the 90's.  Time to leave 小芬, time to leave...

Come July 7th, I will officially be homeless until the new TH is done.  I thought I would luck out and rent the boss's son's unit short term but that's a no go.  Now I have to quickly find a place (stress), finalize my damn colour chart for the TH (freaking stress ^ 27635162 as it already took 2 months and it's still not done), move twice (stress x2), then settle in finally and then go through the entire process again in a year (stress ^27635162 x2).  WTH did I get myself into??

Dammit, I'm going to miss this place ...