Somewhere over the rainbow…

Beh Tahan…

My patience is badly tested these days. With the kids disturbing me at the office, it would be a miracle if I can sit on my table for more than 10 minutes straight. Let’s just say that I can’t seem to heat up my chair. They will be bugging for me, asking me to do something for them every now and then.

Unlike my niece, whom the office maid will follow her around whenever she’s at the office, I don’t have a helper. So, I’m always the nanny, the maid, the mother, the everything to the kids, and it’s way much harder when I need to work. Don’t ask me why I don’t have a helper. Please go ask my stubborn hubby who has always thought that his wife needs to be a superwoman. The only thing I can’t do as a superwoman is I can’t fly la…

I probably need a free life insurance quote soon. Not in fear about my safety with the red protesters and clashes here, but for being “kek sei” almost every hour of the day.

A Dent

There are a lot of cars at our office, and some times, it’s quite hard to park my car here unless I arrive early. With the kids tagging along lately, I will come in late so that I have more time to fix their lunch, and also reduce their time spent at the office. They get bored very fast, and once they are bored, they will be very playful and noisy!

A few days ago, I was so lucky to get a shady spot for my car. But maybe I parked too close to the entrance. I saw a dent in the side of the car, probably caused by workers moving loads. Frankly, I would love to send the car to Dallas auto repair, or the nearest Toyota repair shop, but with I can’t afford to “lose” the car for a few days. Hubby leaves work very early, and comes home rather late. So, for our convenience, we need 2 cars!

Besides that, it’s always hubby who sends the car for service or brake job since he can speak better Thai. My Thai is still pretty s*cks.

If we are richer, maybe we should get another car, and hire a driver. Ya, keep dreaming Amy! There won’t be a day when you will be chauffeured driven in a Chevrolet Silverado by a driver!!!

Oh boy, enough rant for today.

Stress out

As much as I want to be a good mother with a lot of patience, but some times, my kids can really draw me up the wall. I lost my cool yesterday because they refused to listen and keep misbehaving. Having them at the office can be very troublesome, but I have no choice. I seriously thought of hiring a nanny now.

I was so stressed yesterday, I can’t even remember what I did for my work. But I do remember that I checked out some online stores hoping to buy something just to release my stress! I was looking at bag, and comparing its price from different stores which offer the same bag. This can be done with Shopwiki, if you haven’t known about this unique shopping comparison engine, which has already expanded to a few countries such as France!

But then, I didn’t buy it. It’s from an oversea store, and the shipping is killing me. But whenever I am totally stressed out, I will love to check out what I can buy online. Mmm….checking out a shopping directory can be pretty fun. At least I don’t feel that frustrated and stressed after some virtual window shopping on designer handbags.

Working here…

I have so many things that I want to do, but I can’t seem to find time for all. Work wise, I’m getting the hang of it now, but too bad I still can’t have a WP for the time being. Working in Thailand is not so easy, especially if your company is small.

Maybe I can’t get enough money to buy gold coins this year, but at least business is growing better, despite the chaotic political situation here. Most of us are getting numb to the unstable politics here, but we still need to make a living! If not, no need to work ah?

If only my kids can get back to school sooner. They are really disturbing me at work…

An Open Mind

Before I moved to Bangkok, I can’t really accept the “third” kind, aka Ah Gua. You know? Those that have gone through gender transformation? I’m not bias, it’s just that I didn’t feel comfortable talking or seeing one. But then, my perception totally changed now. Thailand is more open as comparing to Malaysia. I’m not talking about the s*x industry or anything else, but the way how people see “things”. My neighbor has 3 sons and a daughter. His eldest dresses like a woman some times, but he’s still a “man” but he’s on pills. He’s quite fair and skinny, maybe you can ask him how to lose weight fast.

He’s still staying with his father, and the mother is probably staying with his sister, who has a baby. They still treat him like their child, regardless of him being a man or a woman. There are not a lot of parents whom I know, who can treat their children the same, if they find out that their kids are les, or g*y or ah gua. But in Thailand, they don’t really care much. Something about him is, he’s very good with babies. When his sister was in confinement at their place, he’s the one who took care of the newborn. I was soooo impressed!

Seriously, not a lot of “men” can do a good job during confinement, and he took care of his niece, washed the nappies, and basically took care of his sister too. I think he was not working at that time, and he used to work in a bank.

Over here, ah gua can just get any job like anyone, mostly. Some cosmetic counters like to hire ah gua as they are very pretty. I really mean it, they are PRETTY. The MAC counter where I got my makeup from has a tall and pretty ah gua working there. “She” is very good at makeup. As long as she doesn’t talk, you won’t be able to tell much.

But some ah gua went through the “voice box” surgery (don’t know what’s the right term)to change their voices, so they don’t sound like a man. Frankly, plastic surgery is widely available here. I’ve been to Yan Nee before, and oh boy, it’s an eye opening experience to see how much you can do to your body, if you can endure the pain and able to afford the cost. I was there with someone who did a nose job. Gee…if I can afford it, maybe I should go for plastic surgery too. LOL! But I kiasi la…

Rain

After so many months, it finally rained today. There was a series of thunder and lightning last night, and I woke up wondering if there was going to be a rain. Indeed, it rained at dawn and it didn’t stop until a few hours later.

It has been really hot lately, and we have to keep ourselves cool under air-conditioning. I think the electricity bill should be quite “stunning” for the past few months, and we might be spending gold coins for that cooling comfort.

Nonetheless, I’m not sure if the rain will continue to come. It’s not the rainy season yet.