Saturday, my long awaited break. I can at least wake up a little later. Then was breakfast and took a lift from dad back to office. It was about 11am. It was work, work, work till 3pm. I felt the hunger. So I make sure I have my access card with me before I leave my office else no one else can open the door for me!! There left only one or two stalls opened in the canteen. The chinese food stall has only leftover dishes. Some little meat balls, one chicken nugget, one chicken wrap in seaweed. I "sup" all the left overs and packed back to eat. Back in the office, slogged another few more hours till 7pm. I left for home. I dozed off on the sofa. 8pm. Setting off for some drinks and singing and pool games. Then was back home again.
Sunday. Waking up at 11am. Too late to go office so, forget about it. It's time to tidy up the room a little. The pile of letters were cleared from the dressing table. Ironed some clothes.
Then we set off to Lim Chu Kang to pay respect to my great grandma and great grandpa. The two of leaders in the front seats became like ganchiong spiders. "Here? Here is it?" "No no. Turn right? Turn left? Behind got car." "Where where? Here? There?" "Block 14F? C? E? Where?"
Anyway, after some fumbling and disorientation and search, we manage to find THE ONE - great grandma's tomb. The fumbling and searching is an every year's practice for us no matter how carefully we have written the direction and address on the notebook. We always have a hard time finding the location.
Then came the funny part. Cos great grandpa's tomb was shift to some other crematorium. And we never get to know the full exact address where exactly has it been shifted. So! the five of us....went to three different nearby crematoriums.
The first one was a crematorium. Right. But then we saw statues of angels. So we have drove in to a christianity one! So, wrong.
The second one was a buddhism one. Right. But after a few search for the urn, we decided to ask the person in charge for some directions. Then realised, we are searching in the wrong crematorium. So! Wrong again.
Then was finally found the right crematorium. We were told the urn is located at level 3. So we walked up to level 3. But the whole storey belongs to???? The christ. Wrong again. Walked down the stairs to the next building. This time, we got it right. As the only info given to us was, "it is put at level 3", so we searched all the possible urn for my great grandpa. Looking at the photos, young and old, fat and thin, couples, every one. Some with colored photos, some with black and white photos, some with colored photos. I dun know how many pictures I have seen. But, we still cannot find my great grandpa. Finally it was retreat for us. We gave up searching and went back home. Well, at least we tried searching. Zor Gong will not blame us right?
After a nice bath, I took out my boards to have them varnished. Then was reading The Little Prince (TLP) and munching on the crispy chicken, I have finished reading TLP.
There are many worth to mention about this book but I'll just highlight a few here:
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"
"You became responsible, forever, for what you have tamed"
"It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important"
"You run the risk of a few tears when you allow yourself to be tamed"
"All men have the stars but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You-- you alone-- will have the stars as no one else has them"
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