Friday, June 22, 2007 @10:41 PM
I've been a good samaritan!
Here goes, came home yesterday and got greeted by this huge package which was NOT addressed to anybody staying in this household because it had the WRONG address on it!
Infuriating fact #1: It was clearly wrong for them to dump a package when there's nobody at home to receive it and that leads to
Infuriating fact #2: They know damn well it's their bloody job to make sure the package gets sent to the right address which they didn't since they so darn couldn't be bothered. It was a totally different street for that matter, and the house number was 6-68 while ours is 6! I call that selective "looking" since he( I'm assuming it's a he since females don't usually get jobs like this) completely overlooked 68 at the back. Grrr.. if that's the case next time I become a postwoman I'll just dump the letters addressed to number 33 inside the mailbox of number 3 is it? Such atrocity!
Anyhow, was pretty pissed off and exasperated at the same time initially since the house address didn't even look familiar to me and I really didn't know what to do with the package. It would be totally fine if the house was somewhere along the same road but it wasn't. And mind you, as you can see the package isn't exactly
petite. It was actually some heavy duty boxes and there were a few of them. So the petty me decided to be a
diva and whitepaged the irresponsible company to call them up and give them a piece of my mind. Alas, those buggers didn't pick up the phone even though it was still office hours. So I just pulled it into the compound and decided to put the matter off.
Then this morning, woke up with much difficulty( hard to get motivated these days or is it just the weather?) saw the eye sore lying outside and decided to look up in the map, take a short walk, find the house and rightful owner then come back again, get the boxes and send it over. And that's exactly what I did. The house was about about 2 streets away but this same street runs through adjacently like this :

No prizes for guessing where I stay and where the other house is. Turns out, the owner is actually a fellow Malaysian going back for good hence the boxes. We chatted for a while and then I felt bad for not delivering straight away yesterday since she was expecting it and actually called up the stupid company called SevenSeas btw ( don't order your boxes from there if you need any, they'll send it over to my house again and expect me to do their dirty job ) and they gave her a whole load of crappy excuses on why they didn't send it to her house. Hmm.. now I wonder what was she going to do about it then. That aside, it may also be why they didn't pick up my call when I called yesterday. All in all, I'm glad I didn't put it off any longer and delay her packing further.
Disclaimer: Not trying to brag about how good I've been. Just thought it'll be nice to share should the same thing happen to you.
On another note, Jie's car got wrecked today while it was being parked at Frome Road outside the Women & Children's Hospital. It was sandwiched when a car rammed into the car parked behind hers and in turn shoved her car forward to hit the other one in front. That has gotta be the epitome of
SUEY+ MALANG+ YUN WONG man! Don't you think it's just so totally
random to have this car rammed into you car while it's being parked innocently at the side of the road??!! And she doesn't even work at that hospital, was just relieving someone else's duty. And and... it was a freaking
HIT AND RUN!!! Thank goodness there's insurance though. But they have to get to the culprit or she'll have to fork in a bit of money as well.
Bottomline is: get your car insured no matter how careful a driver you are since freak accidents like this are just so totally unpredictable and random again. She didn't seem too shaken when she got back. But I thought it'll be good to stay home tonight just in case she needed someone to ramble and rant at
and also scared that she'll scream her head off at me for going out when I have a paper on Monday
So a while ago, followed her down to the accident site cos the insurance company sent someone to tow the car away.
Picture ain't that clear since I took it with my lousy phone camera. But the damage is seriously no kidding. And it wasn't even directly in contact with the culprit's car. We were just speculating what kind of vehicle would it be to cause such extensive damange and still got away with it in broad daylight. Might have been a bus or some heavy duty vehicle. Whatever it is, really hope that they catch hold of that asshole soon.
Meanwhile, I've started packing! Yabadabadooooooooooo!!!!!
*jumping up and down in excitement*
Guess who decided to be my little helper?
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Yes yes ( hey you! stop rolling your eyes!) it's Mit Mit aka kaypoh cat again... I know la this blog has none but pictures of her. Sheesh, you got a problem with that?
Mittens looking forlornly into my suitcase prolly wishing she could join me. At least I know I'll be missed by someone or rather , something in Adelaide. She bit my hand twice today for no reason. And she still loves to sleep on my notes and books.
Oh well, you could at least bring me to uni or something can't you?
For the record, Mittens actually hates going for "gai gai"s but totally adores jumping into bags, plastic shopping ones especially.
Cheapo cat -_-'''