Yes, indeed I am still having a fiery temperature, thanks to a few incidents recently. To make things ten times worse, my neighbour’s kids (I think they are all under 10 years old) accidentally threw a blardee GULI (errr…is it called ‘marble ball’ in English???) that went through our blinds and it SPLITS into HALF!! My boy thought it was food or something and he took it in his mouth!

Thank the Lord Almighty that I was there at that time! I moved in lightning speed and managed to open his mouth and took out the halved guli before he swallows it! I almost cried!! As I struggled to control the burning anger in me, I forced a fake smile and told the kids that it was wrong for them to throw things over a neighbour’s house or at a dog.

<* Perrinator’s imagination turned wild, where her fake smile turns into a huge mouth with really sharp teeth and spits fire towards the little devils’ head, burning them bald! *>

Well, they did apologize, but kids are always kids, coz’ they’ll probably forget about it and do it again the next time. I was so stressed and worried coz’ I wouldn’t know what else they will throw or feed him without our knowledge!!! Anyway, this happened like last month. But yesterday…yesterday…blimey yesterday…the kids POURED A GLASS OF FARTING ORANGE JUICE through our blinds and it was all over my boy’s head!!!

Again, thanks to the Big Guy up there, I was at home when it happened. I thought my boy was puking or something, so I quickly went out and checked. I was fuming mad when I discovered that they poured liquid (I didn’t know it was orange juice that time) and asked which one of the three devils did this, but they only replied with giggles!! Fart!!!

<* Perrinator’s imagination turned even wilder, where she… Okay, it was too violent to describe further *>

I controlled my boiling anger with all my excess fat and energy and stamina and whatever that’s left inside me, and told them with a stern look not to do that again. When I saw their father, I told him what happened and asked him to tell his kids not to do that again, to which he did but like I said earlier, kids are kids. They’ll forget about it the next day. I tapped my finger on the unknown liquid, sniff it and only then I knew it was orange juice! I quickly wipe my boy clean and dry, and ushered him to the other side of the porch, away from those little devils.

Sigh…enough of these miserable devilish incidents! Gotta cool down my temperature with more movies and…this really cute picture of him!

I think most of our parents taught us that blood relation (i.e. relatives or your siblings) is more important than your friendship. Well, in this era, how true is that ‘teaching’? Let’s see…A good friend of mine is recently being weighed down by a lot pressure, sadness, frustration and heartache due to her mother’s unfortunate fall and thanks to her black-hearted relatives, she has no one to turn to except her army of best and good friends.

Despite her misfortunes, she is indeed lucky to have such good friends ready to help her at anytime. Even her boss treats her well too! I just don’t understand, why can’t her relatives help her out? They know her current situation, they know that she’s the only child and they know that her mother would take months to recover from a broken leg. But still, these selfish people chose to ignore her. Nevertheless, she is tough (perhaps she has 10% of titanum fluid running in her blood stream and 10% of steel blood cells) and never seems to give up at all.

She is one of the few friends that I admire most and these are her top five admirable qualities:

1. She is one of the most courageous friends I ever have.
2. She has a very strong will and determination to weather through all kinds of storms.
3. She is so tough, she never seems to fall (even if she did, she gets up in lightning speed).
4. She is always optimistic almost about everything, even in turbulent times.
5. She is wise beyond her age.

 
I’m pretty sure some of you out there do encounter similar scenarios where your own blood-related people refuse to help you in dire times. Heck, I even experience it in my own ‘family’ tree. If you have kids or plan to have kids, never teach them that friendship is not important. I think both friendship and ‘family-ship’ are equally important. When my godchildren are old enough to learn a thing or two about life, I will most definitely tell them that it is important to keep their best friends, good friends and family members close.

Perhaps I should twist this well-known statement a little:

“Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer”

Into this statement:

“Keep your friends close, but keep your relatives closer”

Sure, the kids will grow up and ask questions like “What if my best friend got married and have his / her own family?” or “What if my best friend moved away to a farther place?”

Well then, friendship, like any other relationship, is a two-way thing and if my godkid is the only one keeping the efforts to stay in touch with his/her best friend but his/her best friend seem to float away, then it is pointless to keep such a friend who seems to have forgotten their friendship in the first place. But if both parties keep the effort to remain good or best friends, then I guess that’s what we call a true friendship (and yes till death do your friendship apart).

Hmm…I think my godkids are gonna ‘inherit’ part of my good characteristics – being an extremely good friend

This is one of my favourite friendship quotes:

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out”

I am supposed to post this one somewhere in June…so sorry Yuen Ling, I posted our birthdays this late! That’s right, we celebrated our birthdays together (we were just two days apart) in a nice Spanish-Italian restaurant (I forgot the name!) at Sri Hartamas. We didn’t exactly plan which restaurant we’d go to, so I just parked my car somewhere within the Sri Hartamas vicinity and we went food-shopping. LOL!

Pui Sime and I were actually sick that time. But the world ain’t fair at all coz’ she was way much worse than me and still she looked good and I looked like a zombie, and there’s no special make-up effects to make me look like one! Humph!!

We took a look at the menu and the prices were…phew…well, thanks to the increase in the fuel prices! Nonetheless, the four of us marched into the dimly lit restaurant decorated with interesting mural paintings, where we were served with what look like my ‘kind’ – a friendly Eurasian hostess! Yay! Now I’ve found a food place where lots of Eurasians gather! Most of the customers look like Malay or Indian, thanks to their dark skin tone. I bet they were all Eurasians!

Though I can’t recall what we’ve ordered, but we thoroughly enjoyed it because the food was really nice! Perfecto! Oh, did I mention, that there was a live band playing?? Fantástico! We suddenly felt old when the singer belted out some good old ballads of yesteryears.

<* Scores of fiery Spanish spices are thrown towards Perrinator, followed by shouts of “WE’RE NOT OLD!” *>

Okay! Okay!! I’m the only one who felt old! Man, this dude can sing pretty well!

Yuen Ling and I both received Bodyshop gifts, and if you haven’t notice, this year’s birthday present theme for the five of us (Lay Yan couldn’t join us) are Bodyshop gifts. And all of our birthdays were celebrated in Western restaurants!

Ladies, don’t you think we should start thinking of next year’s birthday theme? LOL!