A crazy Saturday

I'd like to think of my days of being jam-packed with activities. After comparing my days with those of my friends whom I have had the privelege to read on their blogs, I realise, my days are relatively sedentary. Then again, wifey is not exactly a big fan of "joining the crowds", and she is not in any condition to do so anytime soon anyway.

We're less than 2 weeks away from Aidilfitri and wifey and me have yet to go to the Bazaar at Geylang to do any real shopping. We did stop by once to get the vadei from the Indian stall outside the Teh Tarik Eating House. I swear they must be selling the best vadei there. Not only are they delicious, they are practically fresh from the wok. However, a 10min stop to buy food does not count right? Talking about the vadei, I might just go there tonight for it.

OK, back to the issue of having jam-packed days. Last Saturday must have been my most hectic day to date. For one, we had our aircon installed - yes, finally we bought a System 2 unit. Unfortunately, a System 3 wouldn't work for my house since the other bedroom is acorss the kitchen - stupid HDB architects. So while the air-con guy installed it, I went out to Bukit Panjang Plaza (BPP). Needed the cash to settle the aircon and the one near my home was down.

While I was crossing the road, I heard a car honking furiously. As I turned my head to the right, it happened. The car - a taxi actually - screeched, thought not in time, and slammed into the side of a black MPV, I didn't quite make out the model. And I was barely 5 meters from the accident. The taxi was driving parallel to where I was heading, while the MPV had wanted to make a right turn into the road I was crossing. I noticed the lady driver of the MPV having the kind of blur look, as if she didn't know what she was doing, and the MPV was turning at a very slow speed. Even after the impact, she had the same look on her face and proceeded to drive the car to the side of the road and sat inside her car for a good 5 minutes before she got out and examined the damage. Beats me why she decided to turn when the taxi was approaching and doing so at such a slow speed. Well, in any case, I'm a witness to the accident though the taxi driver haven't called me up yet.

Besides the air-con installation, we had our car polished by a mobile car grooming pro - I'd like to think of him as a pro, anyway. Normally, I'd polish my car on my own, however, I decided to oursource the polishing this time round because the previous time I attempted to polish my car during Ramadhan, I hardly had any energy left to do anything else. After all that work was done, I was left with the arduous task of cleaning up the mess of the aircon installation. Halfway through it, my vacuum went bust. So I did what came naturally - sleep in my air-con bedroom. We did get the vacuum replaced later that night and continued with the cleaning.

Well, that was pretty packed. Eversince that Saturday, we've been sleeping with the aircon on everynight. Now, I'm just bracing myself for next month's utilities bill.