Journey on

... to our little terrapin. He died.. I'm not sure what happened to him, but I suspect he was not well.

I brought him in the car with us on our trip up north, and hubs commented that I'm bringing him for a holiday. Upon arrival, I realize that he's stiff as. A twinge of sadness, I felt.

Let's try again.

We often judge others for who they are, or not are. Somehow, our judgments are found to be baseless upon finding the truth. More commonly, we never choose to seek the truth for the comfort of believing our preconceived ideas and judgments.

We all make judgments and conclusions about things, situations, and people. I've been found guilty of this as well. I've been made to be aware of my judgments and assumptions of people and situations, through my practicums' supervision when I was a finishing my Masters. How often I was found to be making assumptions and jumping to conclusions, and worse still, verbalizing them without a thought. How often, I was also shown to be wrong. I still am shown to be wrong, countless times.

I try as best as I can to give people the benefit of the doubt. I try to listen and to put myself in the other person's shoes. I believe everyone has a story that led to their behaviour; whether conscious or unconscious is a very different issue altogether. I sometimes fail. But I try. And try. And try.

Shall we try all together?

So we've moved house, and the little terror terrapin also managed to catch us in time before we left him for good. He lost himself again in our new home. I looked at his tank yesterday and realized he was missing, again!

Guess where I found him? (I found out it's a 'him' already; my friend taught me how to identify the gender, teeheehee; thanks woman!)

He was found behind the TV, again! He truly loves making dramas, man. Drama mama. I mean, drama papa.

Jaeson's uncle gave us a little terrapin, and this little terror [pun intended], got lost in our, in his, own home; not once, but twice. The first time he was missing, I found him behind our TV console. Tsk tsk. I don't know what he was trying to do. Making a movie by himself, for us to view later? This time, he was lost for such a looooonnnggg time, we thought he was gone forever. We had moved to our new home for two weeks already, and popped by our old place to clean up and get more stuff, and suddenly the little fela appears on the lower level of our old living room, sitting among the boxes! Ready for us to pick him up? Beats me maannnnn.

I don't know its gender, but I don't know why I called it a him automatically. Heh heh.

The month has been eventful!

First off, I convocated!!! Woohoooooo. It was a long, long, emotionally fulfilling, but also draining. Roller coaster of some sort. Though an academic exercise of gaining my masters, but it was more an emotional thing than a mental thing for me. It was easier listening and learning. But it was downright tough being faced with my weaknesses and my "hang-ups" when my programme confronted me with them. But God's grace has been with me. Thank the Lord for all support from family and friends.

Secondly, moving house! We are now officially neighbours with Unc Ven and Aunty Sze, very good friends of ours. Quite crazy that we have tonnes of stuff. Sis-in-law came to visit us a few days ago and she was quite surprised at the amount of stuff we've got. We've got lots and lots of books. Hubs was telling me that we're pretty nerdy people. I can see my sisters nodding in agreement. Hauhauhauha. The house is still a mess with most of our boxes in the study. We've still got things to move from our old place, but we've pretty much moved most of our stuff already. Our new place is more spacious, with more open area. One downside of our place is that our neighbour somehow, looovvesss pouring urine every single night, I think on his plants (I'm not sure though). We are not sure which neighbour in particular.. Sigh. If you do come visiting at night, you'll smell urea. If you don't, it's your lucky day!

Thirdly, it's been a sick month for me with going to the doctor's 3 times this month with different ailments. How sick is that! I'm now typing this with an upset tummy; feeling nausea and some churning in the tummy. No, I'm not preggers. More yoghurt and apple cider for both of us. Hubs is also down with the flu, jangkit from me la..

Running off now!

So hubs and I were in JB last night for his granny's birthday dinner, and right after we went out with sister-in-law and her fiancee and mum-in-law for some drinks. We parked our car outside the cafe and were on the way crossing the street when a man and a lady, together with a boy approached us.

The conversation we were engaged in last night:

Man: (In Mandarin) Errr, excuse me, this place here, must put parking coupon or not?
Hubs: (In Mandarin) I'm not too sure, maybe not, coz it's after the cut-off time already. I think it should be okay not to put the coupons.
Hub's phone rings, he picks the call and I'm left with the man, and another lady and young man.
Man: (Looks around)
Me: (In English) I think you don't have to, because the timing for parking charges is from morning till 6pm. Now is already 10.30pm, so shouldn't be a problem. It's quite different across different towns in Malaysia, but I suppose that's the way it is in JB. Don't worry, you can park your car for free. You're not local? From.......?
Lady: .....Singapore (smiles)
Man: WAH!!!! EH! You can speak English ah!!!! Wow, so fluent ah! You surely must also be from Singapore, right!
Me: No la! I'm Malaysian, I'm local. Heeeyyyyyy, Malaysians also can speak English fluently you know!
Man: Ya I know, but your's ah, very very fluent la!! This young man here, cannot speak so well, he's from ___ (another Malaysian town).
Me: It depends la...

We always are stereotyped to not know how to spiak Engreesh.

Excuse me sir, Malaysia Boleh!!!