Gigi Lives Alone

It's certainly sad to say Goodbye.

Thank you for the wonderful memories.

www.missy-gi.blogspot.com

I'll see you guys there!

Why does one pretend all the time?

If you were insensitive and not understanding about a person's predicament or a person's frustration in the beginning and got irritated with it till you later find out that you have thought wrongly, WHY WON'T YOU JUST APOLOGISE FOR BEING INSENSITIVE?

Why don't people put in effort to say sorry as opposed to spending even more effort vehemently denying that they acted in an insensitive / uncaring manner to start with?

Is admitting one's oversight so difficult to do?

I hardly can stand for people who change their tune after finding out that they have been wrong and not even bothering to admit it, instead acting like I am crazy for pointing out that their behaviour was not consistent as before.

Be real with me.

Or you will stand nowhere in my heart.

On a separate note, I just finished this TVB drama titled The Brink Of Law.
I was super addicted to it for a couple of days, although I have watched it on tv back in Singapore before.
Now, I am feeling rather lost without it.

I wonder if I will feel this way about HCMC when I go back to Singapore next Monday.
I am sure I will, in some strange sense.
However, I have not figured out what I will miss the most.
Some people have asked me that but I find difficulty in answering that because honestly, although I have learnt to embrace my life here, I still love my life back in Singapore the most.

Many say that they will miss the independence of living alone.
However, I never really liked living alone. I love living with my family!
I remember how lonely I felt when my entire family was out and I was home alone.
When my parents called home, I asked longingly when they will be back.
Yes I was already a working adult when that happened.

Many also think I will miss Robert.
Haha.

Some think they will miss the convenience of living in the heart of town.
I am not sure.
I have always lamented about living in the heart of town. Sure it's convenient but it also takes away the novelty of visiting town.
I love dressing up an driving to town like it's some excursion!

I guess I will miss some friends.
I honestly have not met kinder people than some of those I have met here.
Maybe it's less competitive here and some people are more real that back in Singapore.
(Of course I am not saying my friends back home are not real but these are people I meet at work, you know what I mean)
You know, I am all about being real :)

Will I miss the cheap taxis?
Hmmmmm I don't know, I never like taking taxis, not even in Singapore.
Somehow......

Will I miss the cheap tailor?
Nah, I am not really into tailoring stuff.

Maybe right now, I have too many things on my mind.

Maybe I will miss the chaotic pace of life here.
I might miss the lack of orderliness.
I might miss this special vibrancy.
I might miss the experience I once had.

An experience is an experience, it connotes the past, not the present, nor the future.
At least in my opinion.

Now that this experience is over, it's time for me to move onto another experience.
Now whoever said I was not adventurous?

Heh.

I don't have resolutions for 2009 but I do have some hopes, especially that the new year coincides with me moving home.
I am looking forward to building a life again in Singapore with all you friends around me.
I hope I can meet new people. Loads of them!
I hope my life will be fulfilling and happy.
I hope that I will be able to rise up to future challenges, especially with what I have experienced here.
I also hope to finally own that Gucci tote. Heh.

I am really moody today.
I will be moody for the next few days till things take a turn for the better.

No, I am not having my period!

Nothing interesting has happened so far.

It's only been 5 days. I do not think my life is that dramatic and eventful.

However, the sad realisation that I will be turning 26 in exactly 6 months is making me feel kind of sad. I am truly on the wrong side of 25.

It's my last week at work and in HCMC and I will be moving back for good next Monday.

My new boss was even kind enough to arrange for a car to pick me up to send me to the airport. This is why I am impressed by him - not because he arranged for transport for me. It's because he cares about the little things regarding everyone.

It's very easy to say you want to do that, but it's really difficult to put it to practice in real life.

I bought flowers last week. Nice! I love flowers.

I am very puzzled. How is it that my colleague could spell "Yazhuang" in my name correctly but did not get "Gigi" right?

She copied it straight out of my proper records.

Because only my official documents spell my name as Su Yazhuang, Gigi

She even bothered to add in the comma.

But she didn't bother to see that Gigi is not Gi Gi.

This, together with the fact that people think I am a local with foreign men, really gets me riled up.

Regardless where I go (Crystal Jade at a 5 star restuarant or a super local place) or what I wear (Office wear or casual clothes), the service staff will come up to me first and speak to me in Vietnamese.

And that is after they witness my colleagues / friends /Gabby and I speaking in English.

KNS!

I used to tell them I don't understand or sometimes I will acknowledge because I do understand. But these days, I get so fed up of being mistaken for a money grubbing, foreigner loving local that I will completely ignore them or stare at them and say "I am sorry? What are you talking about?"

Some will get red faced.

Some will tell me the very classic line....................

I am sorry. Bekors I thought you are Vietnameeeee

Not all Asian looking people are Vietnamese.

Just like not all Asians are poor.

And not all Asians suck at English. (I really do not want to entertain another "So what do you speak in Singapore" question just like how I do not wish to explain how Singapore is a country that has no National Lanugage like the Vietnamese do. Actually we do. It's Malay. But I will further confuse people.)

I am so hungry.

Happy New Year!
I bet it would be 2009 by the time all of you read this.

I would be on the wrong side of 25 and thinking very seriously on how to reverse this stupid aging process.

I told my boss "I hope to stay young and not age at all in 2009."

He laughed.

I told him it's just a hope!

I do not believe in making new year resolutions but if I could, I would blast some people off this face of the earth, for reasonable reasons or not.
That, in fact, is just a dream, not a resolution.

I made a huge mistake and bought train tickets back from Nha Trang on the wrong day.
Now Robert has to go get a refund (80% only but better than nothing) and I wouldn't have a chance to sit on a train.

My parents said I sat in one when I was very young but since I cannot remember, this would have been my first time.

I really don't know what's happening to me these days, I keep getting dates all mixed up!

Zhao says my new year resoluton would be to read the calender properly.

Somehow, I find it increasingly hard to disagree.

I hope that I will be younger, thinner, and chio-er in 2009!!!
And Robert will finally buy that Gucci bag I have been eyeing on for ages!
Heh.

I hope I will not be having any bad luck in 2009! Although I think it might be rather impossible since I am really rather jinxed.
Did I mention I stepped on a tennis ball and twisted my ankle (again) on Sunday.

Sigh.... all these for Robert.
He should really buy me a few of those bags I have been eyeing on.

Some of you might already have found out that my dad has a Facebook account and it's all because of me!

If he is stalking you online, it's my fault!

He seems to be very intrigued by this whole social networking site and has took time off to even put in his fvourite quotations and interests!
Good gosh!

It's really rather amusing especially when he was so happy that he is "connected and relevant to the world."

He added all my cousins, Robert, my brother's gf....... Everyone he knows on my list lah...... Except my ex-bfs, which would be weird.

My friends are really rather amused and asked me to ask him to add them.
Ask yourself!

I had a hectic day and now I am super stressed about something :S

Sigh!

Things could not get any worse.
Or you have seen it all......

Life always has funny ways to shock you.

Including our building manager who told us we would be sharing an apartment with some stranger (her brother's friend).

Robert and I have been sleeping in an empty apartment for the past few nights due to the lack of extra beds that could be placed in our living room (because his parents were visiting).

Everything went ok except for last night when the building manager whom I am sure happened to see us downstairs, casually mentioned that a man would be sleeping outside in the living room.

She even very coolly told us that there is nothing to worry. We will be in the room and he would be in the living room and we can lock the room door and they will be keeping the keys to the room.

I go toilet how? The toilet is common in the living area lor.

That's besides the point.
I had thought it was extremely rude and disrespectful.
In fact when she told us, she had already let the guy into the apartment.

And we had the keys to the apartment too, ready to pop in there to sleep any moment.

To cut the long story short, of course I had to be the bad person and told her
"Of course not. Would YOU sleep with a stranger in your living room?"

Of course she tried to explain how come he was there.... the other room was not vacated as expected therefore she put him in the apartment given to us. She meant to tell us (but it was 9.30pm and she was walking out of the apartment with her bag and keys when she saw us. Hmmmmmmmm........).... all kinds of excuses lah.

Robert asked her "why don't you ask him to sleep in the living room of unit 2A then?" (the apartment that was supposed to be vacated for him but was not.)
To which she had no reply.

In the end she asked him to leave.
I was really pissed....... Even though Robert was quite right that they do not owe us an extra bed but I felt that it was rude to just let someone into an apartment you gave to us to sleep in and expect us to be ok with it. At least we should have been informed earlier and something could be worked out nicely.
Is this a difference in culture?
Or just plain disrespect and lack of courtesy?
I don't know....

In fact, they didn't even inform us about the extra bed situation till the night before when we could not do anything.

I asked curtly if the guy slept on the bed and she said no.
It would be rather yuck if he slept there and the sheets and pillow cases were not changed.
But even then, I slept there last night and I really wouldn't know.

Oh. And her apology, was not even apologetic!

I am still shocked thinking about it!
I kept wondering..... What if she didn't happen to see us outside the building and didn't inform us.
What are we going to do when we go into the apartment to find a total stranger there?
Can I kick him out?
What if he refuses to leave?
Although it didn't happen but it really could have.

Amazing things do happen!