In the past 4 days I've been running around, at first having some fun when Amar came down and the Linstead gang had a sort of a mini-reunion with those who're already here - Junsheng, Lu, Darren and Fong May. I've been witnessing the arrival of one-after-another of my friends... Lionel, Charl, and then just yesterday, Yishan and Marvin (who, with jetlag and all, has gone off to join Raymond and Co. in their Austria trip), and doing light shopping for my household - getting dustbins, mops, lamps, the likes. In between the daily doses of anime (Naruto, Samurai 7 and Gundam Seed) were minor activities like heading off to Kai's place to help (a tiny little) with moving her stuff, and 'kay poh kay poh a bit', or registering with the college for the new upcoming academic year, and today there was a little drama involving Charl's stolen laptop, and our property manager Antonio being all worked up and concerned about the security in the basement flat. There was a cool bit with the police investigation team coming and performing those crime scene tests that one'd see in CSI.
On a struggling front, I'm being such a hypocrite, and it's getting worse. That's what happens when once again I'm too soft on people and then the other side of me lets out tiny explosions in the form of, rather unfortunately, bitching. I'm feeling freaking utilised, exploited, and violated. Me and my household... my housemates and my flat. And the flat downstairs. It's as if 26 Emperor's Gate has some flashing neon sign hung outside saying, "Shelter for the Homeless" or "Refugees Welcome", and last night we were full house plus lots more than we could cater for. Imagine 7 people staying in a 4-person flat, and another 7 people staying in downstairs' 5-person flat. It's not that I'm unwilling to take people in, but sometimes, enough's enough. I didn't even consent to the majority of those cases. I wasn't told about them until they were already coming.
In the past 4 days we've had more than 20 people coming to our flat, in and out, for various purposes and staying for various periods of time; some overnighters. We've been eating out for both lunch and dinner every day... thank goodness not BK or KFC again. We've tried M'sian Hall food, Brunei Hall food, Italian, S'porean, simple sandwiches, college food, Japanese food, and finally tonight we had our first homecooked meal - fried rice, honey-glazed chicken and veggies... for 11 people. Now my kitchen has so many rice cookers and pans and cutlery and we haven't sorted out what belongs to whom.
Those who've been around will know that there're many more layers to this, and that this account is by no means just *one* account onto itself... things have been left unsaid and things have been allowed to intermingle with other facts.
I yearn for school to start... I wish for some form of routine and structure to my days. Some real rest would be nice, but I don't see that happening for a long while yet. The past few weeks has been hell.
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