what a piggish world it is//*

Sunday, May 29, 2005 * (36) grrrrrrrrrrrr...

Yesterday was the last day of Term 2 and it had to be the most hectic morning of the entire Term 2... and it all started with Jon!

Before we go off every morning, I would ask my kids if they had packed the stuff required for that day. As I knew Jon has PE and NCC Air training on Fridays, I asked if he had packed both his PE attire and NCC PT kit. He told me 'yes' but the minute I got home after dropping him off, my hp rang. It was Jon asking me to go back to SJI with his PE attire! Hello, it was 7.10am and I was supposed to leave the house at 7.15am to drop Ben at school, then Emily at XX Church for the IJTP Founder's Day mass. Ok... so this mother sent his stuff to him so as to 'save his face'! You see, Jon's a prefect...

Then I went home to pick up Ben and Emily and we did leave home as scheduled. I dropped Ben off and then set off to the Risen Christ Church in Toa Payoh! But just as we were nearing that church, Emily's fellow prefect called to say that it should be the Holy Spirit Church. That friend had got her churches mixed up! Ok... so this mother battled the heavy traffic near Toa Payoh bus interchange and Thomson Road so that Emily could report for duty by 7.30am. Though I sped to the correct church which was near Thomson Plaza, Emily was 10 min late. But never mind, some prefects also arrived at the same time as her! They must have gone to the wrong church too...

So it was back home for breakfast before going to market at 9am. But the minute I stepped into my house, my hp rang again. This time, it was No 1 fan! She did not have to go for the Founder's Day mass as she had to help out with robotics stuff in some primary school in Jurong. No 1 fan and her mum were lost somewhere in Jurong and her mum, my sis-in-law, could not get home on time to send No 1 fan's sister to Holy Spirit Church. Ok... so this aunty went to No 1 fan's house to pick her sister to send her to the church where she had dropped Emily just a few minutes ago! Of course I nagged all the way to the church...

When I got home from the church, I took my breakfast, checked my mail and went off to market. After the market, I took a shower (markets are very smelly you know) and went off for my monthly fix... not drugs but cut and colour at the hairdresser! The appointment was for 11am and I only finished at 1pm. Yah, it was always that long as I had to colour my entire head of white hair from the roots to the tips...

When I got home, it was to check/clear my mail again. Then I went to Bugis Village to buy some souvenirs for Emily's school trip as the IJTP girls had some exchange programme at a Yunnan school. By then it was 5pm, time to pick Jon from school before going off to pick Emily from the Yio Chu Kang MRT station. She had gone to Nanyang Poly for some robotics stuff and had to rush home cos she was having tuition last night.

But my 'work' didn't end after I picked Emily up at 6.15pm. After her tuition, I had to nag her into packing her luggage as I would be away before her departure date. Yah... IJTP Chinese Department changed their departure date so I end up flying off first. Why should Emily pack her bag now when her flight is at 2am of Tuesday morning? Well... Emily's a procrastinator and do you remember the shit-hole??

the pig oinked at 7:55 AM

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