What can happened during moving? Moving is an adventure of life, whatever can WILL happen. For the first time in many years, I have finally flare up in front of someone, just to get what I wanted. Amazing America...
1. Morning, mover calls to say shift to afternoon - Okay, since I booked for the whole day.
2. Noon time, doing final checking and stock take.
3. Starts to pack stuff from the fridge and bring it to the new home. Found that the fridge is not cold, then realised that there is no electricity at all! Shocked.
4. Tried calling PSEG customer service since 1pm. Put on hold for 20 minutes more than 3 times, finally managed to talk to someone who says she cannot find my new address. Her background was too noisy, then after trying to explain to her is supposed to be activiated today, she gave up and says will transfer me to billing department.
5. Put on hold again for another 10 minutes. Hanged up.
6. Called mover checking why are they still not here, already coming to 3 p.m.. Mover said they were delayed on first job, will arrive at 3.15 p.m..
7. 3.50 p.m., mover called to say they have arrived.
8. Mover called again at 3.55 p.m., say they were told by security guard at condo that they cannot moved.
9. Talked to sup., says that after 4 p.m. no moving allowed. Tried to reason that mover were late, says that rule is rule. Says moving strictly from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
10. I shouted over the phone and hanged up to go down and talk to him directly
11. Goes to the office, quarrelled with the sup. Told him that I did specifically asked if there is anything I should take note of 3 days ago while writting check to the secretary (who was present and pretended all this incident does not involved her at all).
12. Not able to move out the next day because someone from the same building already reserved the elevator for tomorrow.
13. After 15 minutes of argument, finally he says okay, but will charge overtime of 75 dollars per hour starting from 4 p.m.. Do not understand what is needed to be prepared by the building to demand such an obscene amount of overtime (they are not doing anything except putting up the cushions for the lift that takes less than 10 minutes).
14. Finally says okay, because have to get things moving soon.
15. 4.10 p.m. mover finally let into the condo and moving starts.
16. While mover is moving, tries to call PSEG again, never got through.
17. When walking towards the balcony, the house key flew out of my hand, skipped over the balcony and went right down to 1st floor, from 7th. Reminded myself to be extremely careful because balcony is not concreate wall. Spent next 20 minutes looking for the key at 1st floor.
18. Mover finally finished moving at 5.45 p.m and I found my key. Paid them and tipped 40 bucks.
19. Tried calling PSEG, put on hold again.
20. Called landlord, told him that the door at the living room is having some problem, will need to have it fixed. He says he will come in half hour's time.
21. Aunt's friend called, saying that she is arriving new york soon. Suddenly remembered that she will be coming over to stay for the next 3 days. Explained to her the new house does not have electricity and I am trying to call in.
22. At 6.30 p.m. after countless attempt, finally PSEG picked up my call. Checked and confirmed they are supposed to start service today but made a mistake because the landlord stopped service on 28th and they did not start the service on 29th. Mentioned that they will get the guy to come over, although, she emphasized twice, that they usually do not do that. I mean, is it not their mistake?
23. Was put on hold for the next 15 minutes while she make arrangements. Finally came back and say the guy will come between now (6.45 p.m.) till 11.30 p.m. And that I have to wait at the door as the guy will not wait.
24. Landlord arrived around 7.00 p.m.. Fixed the door and went back. Kindly reminded me to check next month's bill to make sure that PSEG do not charge 100 bucks to get the guy and switch on the service since it was their mistake.
25. 7.30 p.m. Have to go back to old apartment to put the fridge food back.
26. Friend called asking how's the move. Too tired to response and still waiting for the call from PSEG. Told her will get back to her later.
27. Boss called, asking about the work, told him he will have to check for response in the 8.00p.m. meeting with Singapore.
28. Called aunt's friend and told her to take the bus from New York instead but drop at Edgewater. Gave her instructions and told her to call me when she reached and if any problem to call as well.
29. Next half hour, waiting in the apartment lobby and greeting people who came back from work, and a bunch of guys discussing about the sofa in the lounge and cleaning services for the building etc.. At the same time, worrying if while driving over to fetch aunt's friend while the PSEG guy called.
30. Finally PSEG guy called at 8.30 p.m. Let him into the building. He asked if I knew where the meter is. I told him I don't know since I just moved in today. Said I should called the sup.
31. I don't have the number, so I have to go up and get the number which landlord kindly left it on the table (I really really love the landlord). Both emergency number and office number did not get through.
32. Aunt's friend called, hanged up the call.
33. Asked few people waiting for the elevator and nobody has any idea.
34. Saw the big bunch of people and asked them about the location of the damned meter.
35. One of the guy is the management of the building, says that room is locked and I cannot do it now. He will need the PSEG guy. I pointed to him sitting comfortably on the sofa.
36. Management guy went to open the door for him and let him push the switch.
37. 5 minutes, went up to check and confirmed lights working in my department.
38. Thanked him and he left, confirming that I should not be any extra charges.
39. Tried calling aunt's friend, but cellphone says that I do not have enough value left to call.
40. Drove my car directly to Edgewater to pick her up.
41. Went for dinner at John Shanghai's.
42. Went to Boulevard East for sightseeing.
43. Reached home, got all her stuff ready.
44. Typing this in blog, interrupted because she needs to know where to go tomorrow.
45. Spent next 1 hour trying to help her find directions etc.
46. 1.48 a.m. Finishing up this blog. End of today. Tomorrow will start at 7.00 a.m.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Wah Man!! 是美的咯~~
The Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder...
http://www.spykercars.nl/?pag=1
Come people, let's look at these photos and drool... =D~~~
Price? US$???,???...
Spyker is a Dutch car company that merged with an aircraft company in 1914. They even provide webcam for buyers to see their own car been assembled. How cool can that get.
http://www.spykercars.nl/?pag=1
Come people, let's look at these photos and drool... =D~~~
Price? US$???,???...
Spyker is a Dutch car company that merged with an aircraft company in 1914. They even provide webcam for buyers to see their own car been assembled. How cool can that get.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Afraid to Open Up the Inbox
I am afraid to open my mailbox now. Seriously.
After putting up my request for quote via 123mover.com for a full service moving company, my phone started ringing non-stop for the rest of the Friday afternoon. It finally ended when my phone ran completely out of battery. For the next 1 day, I did not manage to charge my phone and then today, the voicemail is jammed with messages from the moving companies.
Then now, when I opened my email inbox, it is filled with quotations from various moving companies, all of which I refuse to look at it. Too many to compare and I have not set my mind to start deciding on one and also not sure of what my criteria are. Still too lazy and not in the mood of 'moving house', which is really a big big hassle with all my things all over the place... These quotations and phone calls just keep on nagging on the fact that I have to start planning and moving out of the apartment in like 2 weeks' time, and I have not even started out with the boxes!!
Man, I just really need to get my ass moving and stop lazing around and imagining that I have already packed. At this time, I think really hard and hope the boxes and stuff will miraculously start packing themselves like what you see in those Disney's fairytales movies... hehehehehe..... Me and my laziness and ultimate imaginations.
After putting up my request for quote via 123mover.com for a full service moving company, my phone started ringing non-stop for the rest of the Friday afternoon. It finally ended when my phone ran completely out of battery. For the next 1 day, I did not manage to charge my phone and then today, the voicemail is jammed with messages from the moving companies.
Then now, when I opened my email inbox, it is filled with quotations from various moving companies, all of which I refuse to look at it. Too many to compare and I have not set my mind to start deciding on one and also not sure of what my criteria are. Still too lazy and not in the mood of 'moving house', which is really a big big hassle with all my things all over the place... These quotations and phone calls just keep on nagging on the fact that I have to start planning and moving out of the apartment in like 2 weeks' time, and I have not even started out with the boxes!!
Man, I just really need to get my ass moving and stop lazing around and imagining that I have already packed. At this time, I think really hard and hope the boxes and stuff will miraculously start packing themselves like what you see in those Disney's fairytales movies... hehehehehe..... Me and my laziness and ultimate imaginations.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
To Qix...
maybe this will make you feel better?..
about MY job - no $$$ prospect, thinking of moving on to god-knows-where, BUT still kenna stuck! Glam on the outside, rotten at the inside.
about ME getting apartment - waaay out of the consideration, maybe can use the savings to buy the toilet bowl and slowly start building up from there?...
however, investment to SG properties is always good, it will get to heavenly price the way it goes now... (like make people go heaven just by looking at the price..)
about diving - just spend the money until one day u damn sianz about it. rather than regret one day that you never done it!
about family - shows u r concern if you are really thinking about it. Basically i don't even attempt to even think about changing anything at all.
about life - ditto to that. but don't know how to change it to make it happier, just have to make sure that it doesn't get to the point where I have to pop pills to stop myself from jumping off the flat... lol..
Finally: sometimes life just lacks a purpose to get busy and be happy about, but u will still want to wake up to the sunshine every morning and feel good to simply breath the air, listen to sounds around you and move your body to feel all limbs intact and in order. : )
about MY job - no $$$ prospect, thinking of moving on to god-knows-where, BUT still kenna stuck! Glam on the outside, rotten at the inside.
about ME getting apartment - waaay out of the consideration, maybe can use the savings to buy the toilet bowl and slowly start building up from there?...
however, investment to SG properties is always good, it will get to heavenly price the way it goes now... (like make people go heaven just by looking at the price..)
about diving - just spend the money until one day u damn sianz about it. rather than regret one day that you never done it!
about family - shows u r concern if you are really thinking about it. Basically i don't even attempt to even think about changing anything at all.
about life - ditto to that. but don't know how to change it to make it happier, just have to make sure that it doesn't get to the point where I have to pop pills to stop myself from jumping off the flat... lol..
Finally: sometimes life just lacks a purpose to get busy and be happy about, but u will still want to wake up to the sunshine every morning and feel good to simply breath the air, listen to sounds around you and move your body to feel all limbs intact and in order. : )
Random...
A: What are you looking for?
B: I'm looking for... an answer.
A: To what question, may I ask?
B: Yes, that's what I am questioning... The answer to a question that I don't know. In life, there might be an answer to every question asked, but there will not always be questions to ask.
A: ... why would that always not be questions?
B: I guess is because human knows, but doesn't understand. For example, they probably know death, but they do not understand it, so they question. To that, there should probably be an answer, eventually. If, death is never known, there wouldn't be any question to even wonder, thus answer never realised.
A: Stranger, you are very unique in this thought. I never think about it this way.
B: It's random to me as well. I was probably like you, but then I've come to think, and to think, starts from something that I know, which gives the question to ask, and the answer left to be found. Probably.
But what is it that strucks me I never get to know, so never will there be a question where the answer fits in. It's paradoxical isn't.
A: Why does human being think? To know and then to ponder, the question arises with the curiousity and knowledge, is it not? Then the unknown that will be the answer. With knowing the answer, probably comes more questions ahead...
B: Yes yes, you are probably right about it... I never thought about this cycle.. by understanding to question and find the answer, and from the answer to understand more to question... Isn't how funny that we are thinking, reasoning and to even ponder more.. just right at this moment of wondering about knowing something to question more and to find the answer that fits?... Yes, it's paradoxical!
B: I'm looking for... an answer.
A: To what question, may I ask?
B: Yes, that's what I am questioning... The answer to a question that I don't know. In life, there might be an answer to every question asked, but there will not always be questions to ask.
A: ... why would that always not be questions?
B: I guess is because human knows, but doesn't understand. For example, they probably know death, but they do not understand it, so they question. To that, there should probably be an answer, eventually. If, death is never known, there wouldn't be any question to even wonder, thus answer never realised.
A: Stranger, you are very unique in this thought. I never think about it this way.
B: It's random to me as well. I was probably like you, but then I've come to think, and to think, starts from something that I know, which gives the question to ask, and the answer left to be found. Probably.
But what is it that strucks me I never get to know, so never will there be a question where the answer fits in. It's paradoxical isn't.
A: Why does human being think? To know and then to ponder, the question arises with the curiousity and knowledge, is it not? Then the unknown that will be the answer. With knowing the answer, probably comes more questions ahead...
B: Yes yes, you are probably right about it... I never thought about this cycle.. by understanding to question and find the answer, and from the answer to understand more to question... Isn't how funny that we are thinking, reasoning and to even ponder more.. just right at this moment of wondering about knowing something to question more and to find the answer that fits?... Yes, it's paradoxical!
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Between Taking Photos and Experiencing the Surrounding
I am constantly in conflict with myself whenever going for a tour in a place. The problem is that when you know the high chance that you will never be here again, you will try taking as many photos as you possibly can, an attempt to capture all scenery that the eyes saw. Then again, you know that since photos can never quite reflect the what you see, the colors and lighting at the point in time, the temperature and humidity that your skin felt, the air that you smell and the sounds that you've heard. This combination is a unique experience for the body and you want to concentrate on this as much as possible so that the brains can remember this.
Thus, I am in a constant fix. At one point, I just want to not move and experience everything around me, yet at another point, I cannot help but think that I should take photos for fear that one day the memories shall fail and fogged of what I remembered during the trip. So what I am here at this point in time? If I would not be able to remember, the coolness of the air, the sounds of the water, the smell of the air, what is it that I have from this trip? What is it that made up that I've been here, done that, if I should not be able to remember all of it that happened?
Thus, photo-taking seems quite unavoidable at certain point of time. Then I would spend time fumbling over the bulky camera, constantly finding good spots for photo-taking, waiting for the right time to click that shutter etc. In the process that so much so, I would forgot to relax and enjoy what is surrounding me, which is really the essential part of going for a tour and 'being here'.
So what happens if I don't take photos and devote myself to see, hear and feel the place? After going back, I know that memories will not be as vivid as time passes. Fog will slowly accumulate and fade off the colors of my memories as time slowly passes by. Then when I want to remember the events that happened, I have nothing to recollect, nothing to even prove as evidence that I've been there (suddenly I realized what those crappy souvenirs are for), no photos to remind myself of the experience there. I will then regret that I should have taken the photos then, but will probably never have the chance to do that again.
Contradicting moi.
Thus, I am in a constant fix. At one point, I just want to not move and experience everything around me, yet at another point, I cannot help but think that I should take photos for fear that one day the memories shall fail and fogged of what I remembered during the trip. So what I am here at this point in time? If I would not be able to remember, the coolness of the air, the sounds of the water, the smell of the air, what is it that I have from this trip? What is it that made up that I've been here, done that, if I should not be able to remember all of it that happened?
Thus, photo-taking seems quite unavoidable at certain point of time. Then I would spend time fumbling over the bulky camera, constantly finding good spots for photo-taking, waiting for the right time to click that shutter etc. In the process that so much so, I would forgot to relax and enjoy what is surrounding me, which is really the essential part of going for a tour and 'being here'.
So what happens if I don't take photos and devote myself to see, hear and feel the place? After going back, I know that memories will not be as vivid as time passes. Fog will slowly accumulate and fade off the colors of my memories as time slowly passes by. Then when I want to remember the events that happened, I have nothing to recollect, nothing to even prove as evidence that I've been there (suddenly I realized what those crappy souvenirs are for), no photos to remind myself of the experience there. I will then regret that I should have taken the photos then, but will probably never have the chance to do that again.
Contradicting moi.
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