I was home in Ipoh for a week. This week, opened my eyes and probably changed my mind about a lot of things in life that I used to view differently and justify myself for. The week at home was rather, unusual – having the usual drama circling me wherever I go.
1. Renovation that turned into a waterfall flood.
Having lived in the same house for the past 21 years, instead of buying a new gated community and a hiked price, my parents decided to invest some of the money in a condo for me in KL and the remaining to our current home. A call for a huge, huge major renovation for 76, Ipoh Garden East – reroofing, repainting, retiling, extension and anything you can think of. Renovating in the midst of monsoon is definitely not wise. Not only do the contractors have so little sunshine hours to do stuffs, when it pours, the roof leaks, your house gets flooded. True story. So i spent 4 hours one thunder-stormy-rainy evening scooping water our of my balcony adjacent to my room because the hole to the drain was clogged up with a pile of sand or cement (so my mother and I were both bathing in a rain shower literally). 45 minutes into religiously scooping water out of the balcony – I ran downstairs to turn off to gas only to find that the entire house has turned into a waterfall. Water was leaking from somewhere upstairs, creating a waterfall effect right down the stairs like a stream flooding the second hall by perhaps an inch. That’s when the actual action begins. The drama could be easily laughed off but because my bad-tempered dad had to scold and yell at everything and everybody, it caused tension in the house.
Lessons learnt:
a. Never renovate your house when people are living inside.
b. My parents are getting older by the day. And going home was indeed a good decision.
c. No point yelling over something that has happened that is nobody’s fault
d. Blessing in disguise that we found this out in the midst of the renovation and not after because rectification during is much easier than rectification after.
2. My cousin
It was pregnancy out of wedlock, mingled with the fact that it was an affair. The man is married, perhaps with children and disappeared from her life. Never visited, never cared. My soon-to-be-borned nephew will be fatherless.
Lessons learnt
a. Don’t jump into a relationship that quick and have well-protected sex.
b. As much as i want to get married and have a boyfriend, it all seemed too overwhelming knowing that fate will land us if the wrong choices were to be made.
3. Friendships
I used to be the kind of girl who would I say, collect friends. Have about 300000 friends and spend all my hours meeting them up and “catching” up. And then, blame it on myself or them when one or the other does not keep in touch.
Recently, my views changed. People move on with their lives. They grow up, they grow apart. Facebook and twitters are just ways others can stalk your life. Know about the happenings and on goings without the need to really ask you what is going on. Then, the talk continues. But how many of those talkabouts are real? Some friends are to keep, and those are the ones that will return your phone calls and reply your texts and asks you out for meals to catch up. And regardless how late it is, will speed to your house just to see you.
Lessons learnt:
a. Since the incident, I think I know the real definition of true friends and keep the rest at bay.
b. BFFs take time to emergency breaks in front of your house just to say hello, and wait for you to finish with your busy schedules and reply your texts regardless how busy they can be
I have been very very blessed to date. And I am counting on it. Life is a ball, it goes round and round, sometimes it rolls to a different corner, and a change happen but eventually it will continue rolling and that’s why we call it life.
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