Disturbing News

 The Jeju Plane Crash in 29 Dec 2024

 

Such a scene only norm in action movies and dystopian world games that suddenly captured in real life and happened more often in a year, especially the whole incident captured before everyone still alive braces an inescapable situation, can really messes the heads of many regular air travelers, action movie-goers and also to gamers.

 

I just started the Phantom Liberty Expansion and recently play through the main quest with such similarities, now feeling quite disturbing (mixed feelings of alter world fusing with reality world), wished that they never happen.. wished that all landed safe.. 

Holiday is approaching, everyone in the world is reuniting with families and friends, and mom will be flying at the end of Jan 2025 for CNY family trip, has become a worry for both side and worsen mom's mentality more.

Mom always planned some PRE-preparation before leaving the house for trips. Even troubling me and brother twice in 2 weeks on some will letter to be signed. Because the lawyer from East made several proofread mistakes in the letters and miscommunication of meeting lawyer on our side, we siblings had to spare our time and leave to visit High Court on workday just to get lawyer appointment to sign and post-mail back to East.

It's been two months since I had phone call with mom. We used to had regular week calls. It was always the mother with favour that ended up with conversation dispute, mostly for topics of 

 

"Next year's economy is going to be WORSE !"

"War is happening, xxx people died, no home to return and go hungry."

"Many car accident, don't ride friends' car, if you want to spot how your friend's personality, watch how they drive, they will show their true colours!"

"Typhoon rummage xx country, many house destroyed. Landslide somewhere, xxx people died, many missing, whole village gone."

"Have you watch this xx drama ? Many of your colleagues and friends must have watched. You should watch. Don't ignore."

"Don't eat out. Go homecooking. You can get fresh chicken from supermarket, so nearby and convenient. (Comes with an A to Z cooking instruction that ends ... don't know how long she explain)

"Don't come home for CNY"

"When you plan to come home? I can make plans for you to visit the dentist. Stay little longer, come back on weekdays, easier to reserve for dental appointment. Have you dental floss? Must dental floss, leftovers are always stuck between teeth"

"When you stay longer, I begin to miss you"

"How often do you come visit home, just let those electronics be. I'm used to its poor functionality, it will be fine, I will get uncle xx to fix it" 

"How often you come home, just bear with it, you will be back is x days, no problem for me"

"Just in case you can't remember because you don't often come home, I will explain how to ON/OFF the water pipe, I can know the sound of the water tank filled"

"You have changed, not the child I known (negativity), "

"I'm your mother"

"you being single will never understand mom's unconditional love and why mother nag. Try yourself be a mother and see"

"DON"T compare my toleration to yours! I'm 30 years old ginger!" 

"Don't eat carbonara outside, you don't know what cheap cheese outside put in the dish, probably the cheapest butter and cheese on shelf, because business have limit budget"

"Don't eat too much lady's finger outside, it's not good for body"

"Eat some lady's finger from time to time, it's nutritious and help this and that"

"I will finally be in peace after you find a soulmate"

"Don't befriend anyone who smoke and drink, especially gambling. These people will never have extra pocket in account"

"All men are evil"

"Be honesty with me, and tell me about myself"

"I hate liars"

"Just in case one day you children don't want me anymore"

 

IT IS EXTREME ONE-SIDED CONVERSATION, that is, listening for 30 years, and mom can hate me over a little conversation dispute just because I didn't think her reason being reasonable in one of the topics that are out of our control system. Imagining if I went amok killing people, will she hate me million times over that ?

I once did a homemade Mac N Cheese to surprise mom, but.. what came out of her mouth was an extreme let down experience that I never want to have again.

Me being honesty with her always landed in hot boiling pot. Me keeping silent, gets double the consequences. Me agreeing or not, still have to listen what she has to finish to say.

Me being a good listener, give support no matter what, think rational, and begin as positive can be table turned after a phone call.

Many things she hid before us children knowing, such as minor eye operation. She only revealed after she had done it. What else are we children gonna say ? There's no point in us to say we worry, because she never give the chance.

And the recent of will letter, she never tell us anything reason she's rushing us to get the letters done. None of us truly know what she's thinking. Part of me, knowing her for so long, 

1st - I believe that she did it for CNY trip, just in case of her safety

2nd - the feeling of knowing her past orphan background and frequent moving, and the house property is everything she got.

3rd - the house will be for our future inheritance, a freedom home.

That she kept as trump card and never share, and always uses it in her conversation in power against us children. That's why brother and mom never click. In the end, we children carries the love and hate version of mom. We still do our best to love the hate version of mom.

 

I wonder how mom sees me. WHy I have to suffer, because I'm the devil's child? I'm the reflection of the devil ? Seeing me as seeing him?

A Unit Full of Guys

There were females tenants in the past but moved out. The condition in the unit were full of junks, even a wooden bathtub in the living room when I first moved in, the whole living room's light ceilings weren't usable.

 

After a guy from Room 3 brought a cage with two sugar gliders. The Room 1 tenants moved out after a year. Guy 3 always stored most of his clothes outside an unoccupied paper cupboard, and stored pet food in the upper section fridge occupying ice cube trays, and dirtied part of the inside. When comes house cleaning, Toilet bowl and floor are always smelly with yellowish stained after he used, he never claimed most clothes were his and luck always on his side as unit owner always picked a time only I was at room, left me and unit owner to clean up his stuff more than twice, with my time.

Room 1 had been unoccupied through out pandemic after the last tenant couple moved out (I and them had sharing dispute over place to hang cloth, dirtied and occupied my induction cooker). Then Guy 3 brought a rabbit several months later after he no longer own sugar gliders. 2 cages were abandoned at the living room. The upper fridge still left with his sugar glider pet food. My slipper was bitten to unwearable, the rabbit often spooked me as it's a silent-walker. I was so bad mood and stressed that I looked up to nearby hotels and view open rooms, thinking of moving out so many times back then.

Room 4 was finally constructed, the first tenant was a young lady of unknown age who's claimed the guy came with her was abusive and stalked her. During her short months stay, our shared toilet window was covered with black paper. The guy even passed security and waiting outside unit. She later moved out again.

And the most recent, the unit owner rented out to two guys who were scheduled to move in the first month of December, troubled me 2 times in a week on my work days. blah blah blah, finally they move in. They are such party animals and game geeks that they invite up to 4 friends to come to play. Even at midnight time, their friends came to hangover and  play loud bass music day and night and stomped in game winning joy at 3am.

Me, a tom, over seeing guys' normal lifestyle living in city, they often appear bare chest in boxer with a boner or with only towel covered bottom when opening their door and brushing teeth at the kitchen sink. 

 

Within a month, a sink is left with fast-splash running water, heater not off, a toilet door closed with the light still on (like pulling prank). Slippers are disorganized, floormat out of place. Open-close door with inconsiderate is just so untolerating and irritating to ears, especially at night time. Their bass music is reduced to very low amplitude thanks to old condo structure. Nowadays, new condo have thinner walls to save material cost, meaning you can hear neighbours watching loud TV and even sex in bed, with little privacy. Imagining you move in to a unit filled with many partition rooms with thin walls modified by money-profit owners. Noise can be greatly unbearable. I once viewed a unit under the same condo, unbelieving to see there's 6 partition rooms with 1 shared toilet.

 

Somehow I wonder how they see me. They probably have "xx should move out already and have a new guy take the room," in mind, well.. probably ?  Because they can walk out the room naked, show off manly rod, and cum as much as they can in the shower floor, with no hesitation. These new tenants are the luckiest to live here, they can be who they are, while I still fighting for inner peace and quiet living from time to time.

Makes me wonder, how an all female unit living condition is like ? I do have experienced living with a female opposite room, it was a pretty bad experience, with her claimed in full control of the unit.

 

At one time she placed a room to rent on my room without telling me until a viewer showed up. She forcefully evicted me in short notice, I was glad that I already found my current room, took me 24th and 25th  (Eve and Christmas) time moving out. When I met back the lady who was the previous tenant, shared the same experience of that loud banging door bitch deemed untolerable. Some 1-2 years later, I found out the unit was vacant. That bitch still owed me RM300 room deposit.

7-9 December 2024, Solo Marathon Trip

 

 

The ever first marathon I participated requires me to get a hotel room reservation.

 

I always consider the venue that takes place as regular marathon always flags off as early as 7am depends on the running category. Not just the fee,  I must make sure I can reach before time.

 

Back at the end of September, I got to know from a buddy who die hard of Garfield, also one of my childhood comic character, wanted the marathon T-shirt.

 

Since Garfield Marathon will be held in December, which is plenty time ahead. Thus, I did a

1. Find the most suitable route to venue and kit collection [green]

2. Research on the nearest, affordable price hotel at specific location making sure there's room available, [green], hotspot dine and recreation activities [optional] then 

3. Proceed to book a room and sign up.

4. Find and discover any travel kit tool.

5. Prepare List to Pack

[ The Challenge ]

The only tiny problem is that I need to mentally prepared to walk approximately 1 hour 15 minutes distance (9-11minutes by car) to the event before sunrise and walk back again with an unknown forecast to complete the whole [ ADVENTURE ].

The actual day.

7 December 2024, Saturday

I struggled with unfinished work. Yet, I must prepare to depart at 12.54pm

I arrived at LRT station. I was hit by period by accident, after all i checked my last month which supposed to be around 11th or 12th, but it came much earlier than expected. I had no pads, and underwear front soaked with fresh blood. Luckily I still have toilet paper prepared enough for the whole trip.

Decathlon, Puchong is a small mall with big Lotus supermarket and a few franchised restaurant and local stores. It was still early to depart, so I went a little shopping to prepare food and drinks for breakfast. Then carefully pick healthy food day before the run.

4.15pm _ 5.15pm

The LRT ride continued until Putra Heights where I took a 9 minutes Grab to IGo Hotel. 

 

It was a jackpot that I book early. The hotel is fully occupied. There, I key in ID scan and phone number at a kiosk machine with a RM50 deposit and collect my room card a d receipt.

 Lobby

The Check-In Kiosk Machine 

 The stairs. It's a 2-storey hotel. My room is on the 2nd floor. No lift. The room is spacious, but windowless. 

With King-Size bed, 2 bath towels, cloth hanger, aircon, a small table and chair, a wall TV, a sunset picture frame and 3 suits plug with one no power.

 

Flask, TV remote and two sets of tea cup. The rest are my food supplies.

 

 

 The shower room with soap, toothbrush, and toilet paper amenities,

Things I'm glad that I brought along is

1. Extension cord (the room's light are quite dim on the socket side.)

2. Soap (there's hair in a brand new soap)

3. Tea packets x2 (hotel no provide, but provide hot and cold water dispenser at corridor)

4. Toilet paper (hotel no resupply, very little left)

Trying out the disposable pillowcase. It fits on normal pillow. Any size thicker than this will not fit.

I went for a stroll around the area, I found many eateries and mini marts just walks away.

The delayed work... I had guilt.. I didn't sleep well, because of the stress and temperature I guess. Gladly I bought water 💧 to stay hydrated.

[ 8th December 2024, Sunday - The Garfield Marathon ]

4.30am, I ate the bun and multigrain soy packet drink for breakfast. Dress up and depart at 5.34am.

The Mosque before sunrise.

The Mosque at daylight

 

 Just a random photo along the way

 

Estimate arrival time be 6.48am.

As I walk, I can smell burned rubber as I walk, I guess that comes from aeroplanes. I could see planes not far distance, and the stars in the Night sky are much visible here. The street lights guided me, anywhere no touch by light were pitch black.

The Starbucks before sunrise and daylight

 

 

 The Tik Tak Toe

 

The sticker I got from playing mini board games before flag off.

One of the few Group Photo area.

 

6.40am, earlier than expected. There's still plenty time for me to enjoy some little board games the event organizers provided, tik tae toe, puzzle, and find match games. Then some photo taking.

7.15am -4KM flag off.

7.56am my finish time.

 

I chunk down bun and water and I departed back while others still running. Well, sorry. It's gonna take me longer time to walk back hotel.

 

 

9.18am I'm back to the mini town.

Slept after shower and laundry. Woke up 12.54pm, trying to concentrate my work but couldn't. So I went for lunch, picked the corner restaurant for its nasi lemak mutton and chilling teh tarik. I did some sketch, Returned hotel 3.39pm. Fierce storm came soon after.\

 

[ 9th December 2024, Monday ]

 

7.30am. Wake up

8.30am-10.48am working.

11.15am check out. It was shower 🌧 outside.

30 minutes (SS15)

12.15pm, since it gonna be raining, I may as well stop by KLCC to done with my lunch before I drag my luggage back in the rain.

I thought of working at Starbucks, but.. the table just isn't fit enough for my workstations. So I decided to continue my work when I return. LRT SR... I received boss message again about my progress... I really hoping he didn't call me, it would be hard to explain I in train..

I quickly set my electronics and down to serious serious mode work. Yet it only took my 3 hour time to complete a work that delayed 3 weeks.. I sent my design visual at 4.58pm.