kablag!

today is one of the most tiring of the month. 

early this morning i woke up to the sound of my hubby’s scream.  lurched out of the bed to find out what the commotion was about.  it turned out that we had missed an appointment in the immigration’s office. though we already have work permits and visas, thai laws require us to appear in their immig office every 90 days.  we were supposed to have been there last feb 18.  gawd, that’s more than a month ago.  what made the whole thing really scary was the fact that this is the third time that we’d forgotten about it.  the first two times we got off the hook quite easily and we missed only by a day or two.  this time it’s more than a month from the actual date.  and it is also in the laws that should any person miss an appointment, then he or she would have to pay 5,000 baht. arghhhh.  so that’s 10 grand for hubby and me!!! 

right after our first class, we rushed to their office and put on our most ‘kawawa’ looks and begged them to give us one more chance.  good thing the woman, who we always see shouting her head off, was in a nice mood.  she was like: "okay no problem dont worry……no need to pay…"

whew….

still need to sort the whole thing out as there were things that i didnt really grasp [only because each time hubby and i asked a question, she'd flare up].  the boss says that there isnt anything to worry about but ive this gut feeling that this isnt the end of all these…at least not yet.

we may have to leave the country only to re-enter.  that’s no biggie.  if we need to then we’ll head to KL to visit my big bro.

sigh.  just recalling what happened today exhausts me.

’nuff said

Sige na tawa na….alam mo namang hindi ako makatagal nang hindi ka nakikitang tumatawa eh.

Panay ang kulit mo sa akin kanina. Baket nga ba ako nagalit? Ah, tama. Naiinis nga pala ako sa’yo kase may pinapakuha ako sa’yo sa salad bar pero ayaw mong tumayo at sinabihan mo pa akong ako na lang ang kumuha dahil kaya ko naman. Hindi na ako umimik noon, at hindi na din ako tumingin sa’yo. Gusto ko na ngang lumipat ng ibang table sa sobrang inis eh.

Eh ano naman kung kaya kong kumuha ng kropek sa salad bar ng mag-isa? Eh ano naman kung ako ang mas malapit sa salad bar? Eh naglalambing lang naman ako eh at saka sus ko naman dapat naman magpaka-gentle man naman sya. Nakakainis naman talaga.

Siguro mga twenty minutes na hindi pa din ako umiimik. Napansin ko kalahati lang ng teriyaki beef nya ang kinain nya. Tumayo sya, sabay punta sa salad bar. Hmmm, ikukuha kaya nya ako ng kropek? Hindi… kumuha pala sya ng dessert. Dessert nya lang yun ha. Naku nakaka inis talaga.

“Gusto mo?” tanong nya sa akin.
Hindi pa din ako umuiimik.
“Ano bang kinakagalit mo? Yung kropek? Kumuha ka na kase. Ang lapit lapit ayaw mong tumayo dyan.” medyo painis nyang sabi.
Silence.

Mga five minutes pa ulit ng katahimikan, siguro hindi na nya kinaya.
“Ano bang gusto mo? Yung kropek? Sige kukuha na ako”
“Hindi na wag na, busog na ako.” walang ka feelings feelings kong sinabi.
“Sige na kukuhanan na kita.”
“Ayoko na nga eh busog na nga ako. Kung kukuha ka ikaw na lang ang kumain.”
Buntong Hininga.
“Baket ba palagi ka na lang nagpapa suyo? Nakakapagod na ‘tong palaging ganito ah.” wala namang galit sa boses nya , frustration meron.
“Hindi naman ako nagpapasuyo sayo ah, hindi na nga lang ako nagsasalita eh.” sabay irap ng mga mata.
“O sya sige na, anong gusto? Kropek? O kukuha na.”
“Sinabi nang ayoko eh, ang kulit.”

“Ano ka ba naman Kate? Hanggang ngayon ganyan ka pa din? Hindi na tyo mga bata. Hindi ka na dapat palaging nagpapasuyo at palaging nagtatampo. Sampung taon na tyo ganyan ka pa din.”

Alam kong tama sya pero hindi pa din ako nagsasalita. Kakainis talaga pag tama sya. Hay.

Pinabalot na nya ang mga natira naming pagkain. Kinuha nya ang bill, at sabay kaming tumayo para magbayad sa counter.

“Tawa na. Alam mo tinira ko talaga yung teriyaki beef para sayo, alam ko naman gusto mo yun eh.”
Deadma pa din.

“Sige na tawa na….alam mo namang hindi ako makatagal nang hindi ka nakikitang tumatawa eh.”

Hindi ko na napigilang mapangiti.

“O ayan, peace na tayo ha. Nabusog ka ba?” sabi nya habang aktong inaakbayan nya ako.
“Oo.”

i need to wear my glasses again. argghhh. bummer.

it’s so hot and humid these past couple of days.   then there was a heavy downpour early this evening.  i suspect a lot of people calling in sick tomorrow.

anyways, we bought the laptop this afternoon.  i was so sick and tired of the old pc cause it was giving me such a hard time.  so now that ive this byutifoooool bebeh, hubby will be using the old one for playing games.

another earthquake hit indonesia and it was felt in thailand too.  it brought tsunami alerts to japan, malaysia, even australia.  didnt feel nothing, though.  i heard from the news that it wasnt as bad as the december 2 earthquake but some people died too.

you should see us now.  hubby and i sitting next to each other.  me, busy blogging and him, busy playing.  this is fun.

the big thing is finally here. my laptop, hooorraahhh!

it’s confirmed. we’re off to bangkok on the 2nd of april.  we’ll be driving.  boss and hubby will take turns at the wheel.  i’ve nothing to do but sleep and enjoy the ride.  who said life’s fair? hehe

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i am a pajama-writer, so what?! as long as i find it fun, okay lang yun.

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tomorrow is monday.  the big day* is almost here.

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hubby’s aunt will be here soon.  hopefully we get her a good job

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love is giving the most of what you have

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* secret [wink wink]

it’s surprisingly cold today.  not complaining here. just that this made getting up much much much more difficult.

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april is less than a week away.  do i love april? hmmm, yeah i guess so.  cause there are so many things to look forward to…

=songkran [ 3 days of blissful rest]
=Mum’s birthday  [certified YAH- young at heart]
=dad in law’s birthday
=overtime pay woohoo [that 40 hours paid OT harhar]
=the BIG DAY that brings the BIG THING is coming too
=end of summer classes
=a cousing will be visiting soon
= the cousinn visiting’ll gibe me a bottle of perfume [my fave one too]
=i’ll be seeing my nece and nephew again! yipeee
=and i am sure that there are more that i am forgetting

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my hubby…..is the sweetest man on earth and he spoils me rotten. 
luv you dee.

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outback jack chose natalee. hooraaaah!!!!!

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guess we will be spending a few days at the beach cause hubby misses going there too. 

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simpsons is on now so ive to stop

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okay, still lots of commercials so i’ve a few minutes to spare

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but there isn’t anything else to say, so off i go!

hay. desperate for a ciggie.

been ciggie free for two weeks now.  actually, i already stopped the habbit last year, around june.  but when the in-laws came for a visit i was kinda back on track.  after that it was a smoke again-not again kind of thing.  but two weeks ago, hubby put his foot down and said gbye to ciggies, both for him and for me.

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first course of summer class ends today.  that only means tons of report to do and finish.  tomorrow starts the second course. 

gosh, i need a break.

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hubby and i just went to BKK three weeks ago.  seems like we have to go back in two-three week’s time.  there’s an upcoming bookfair that my boss wants me to go to.  hay. canhardly wait.

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a three day holiday is nearing [songkran].  i think hubby and i will head to the beach.  havent been in one since the Maldives gig. 

Just hope our lazy asses won’t keep us from going.

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just finished a meeting with the boss. hay. tomorrow 2 appointments in the afternoon.  so much for my afternoon nap.

the boss is going on vacation next month! to trang! i’m dying of envy. haha.

deadlines are so palpable.

naku speak of the devil andito na sa tabi ko si bossing nagungulit na.

hay ang gulo nitong katabi ko.

later na lang ulit

this day is so blah. as in.

ive so many things to do. so little time.  and this blog pa.  okay so this one first. blogging the blahness of things.

ive so many people to interview.  2 canadians, 2 flips, a brit,  one american, dami dami nila.  sino kaya ang lucky one to get the position? who shall i shoes? este choose pala. bahala na nga.

got to talk to toni last night kaso lang nagloko na naman ang pc namin.  so na dc na din ako kaya putol.  toni if you read my blog..sowee talaga ha.  allan says hi balbon!

kme ni hubby.  what have we been up to lately?  hmm, facials, foot spa, shopping.  funny nga kase now, he knows na the things that are nice for our house.

dami talagang work. di ako makapag concentrate sa aking blogging.

later then.

whoa! ang tagal ko na palang di nakakapag blog. hmm, isa lang ang dapat sisihin dyan eh, si D, yung british guy na hinire ko na bagong teacher namin.  as in ginulo nya ang buhay naming walang ka gulo gulo, harhar.

updates muna:

i’d like everybody to know na masaya ako kase Nikko is back! yey nasa american idol na ulit sya! nag quit na si Mario.  it’s kinda sad kse gusto ko din si mario, but not as much as i like Nikko.

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so much for that.  about the house that we were supposed to check out last saturday, hay naku, kakainis. stir naman yung manang.  she said na she doesnt want the house rented, for sale lang daw talaga.  she didn’t even show up and she didn’t even call. pasalamat sya di nya binigay sa akin ang name ng anak nya kung hindi, ahahaha joks lang ha!

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i still have a cold pero it’s not as bad as it was last week.  medyo kainis lang kse wala na akong excuse para makaiwas sa housechores. hehe.

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hubby and i were busy re-decorating the living room.  very hands-on ang aking asawa sa mga anik-anik na nilalagay namin doon.  very supportive din.  i think i’ve influenced him na talaga, like when we go to the malls, he’d see something and say, :"that’d look great in our den." or something like that.

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foot spa. hay sarap.  thanks hubby!

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hay daming bills to pay.

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okay about the teacher i first talked about, ito na ang kwento.

this guy had been observing classes because we had to send him to another province for summer camp.  since no one would be there with him the whole month, we thought it better to train him first.  i was in charge of that. hay naku, to say that looks can be deceiving is just haaay naku.  basta.

to continue, okay naman sya.  he showed up sa school on time.  he wears decent clothes and he even struck us as the conservative type.  came thursday, i told him that he needed to do some teaching while i observed.  friday, he didnt show up.  saturday, he was nowhere to be found.  i kept calling him. but my calls were always being dropped.

saturday evening, his thai gf called me, looking for D!  i was like: hello? ok ka lang, malay ko kung nasan ang bf mo, eh ikaw ngang gf hindi mo kaya alam.

worried ang lola mo ha.  anyways, he found D in a pub.  half his face scratched and bruised, and a tooth chipped. 

anong nangyari:

he was soooo drunk and got involved in an accident.  ang siste pa pala. friday morning pa lang nasa pub na sya, pissed and all. friday night, the accident happened.  he went to the hospital.  saturday morning [5am] he went back to his apartment.  afternoon, he was gone again, back to the pub again, drinking his ass off.  hala ang tindi ano! and he still wanted the job ha! eh sorry na lang kse ayaw na namin sa kanya kaya. and not once did he think of calling us nung MIA sya.  sus ko nga naman.

hay naku makapaglasing na nga din muna.

hubby and i are meeting with a homeowner who wants to sell her one extra house. but we aren’t actually buying the house [kahit na malaking FOR SALE ang nasa karatula sa labas], we just want to rent it.

i called her yesterday and she wasn’t so keen about it at first. but given my charm and my persuading powers [buwahahahaha ah ah ah aray], i managed to set up a meeting with her tomorrow evening. yey.

well actually, hehe, it turns out that her only daughter studies in the school that hubby and i teach in. and to make things better, her daughter will be in my class in the next school year. so when we both learned about that. not only did she agree to consider to have us rent the place, she is also giving us a discount! hoorah! wow i so love that word…discount!!! D I S C O U N T !!! music to my ears.

hay. if things go well, this will be the 13th time that we’ve moved. i dont have anything against the house we are renting right now. but i feel that it’s too big. i want something smalled, cozier.

can’t wait to see the house tomorrow.

i’ll keep you posted whether you like it or not. hehe