The Wisdom Behind A Silver Plate

This is another interesting and funny story to be shared, emailed by my friend:

 

Mom comes to visit her son Kumar for dinner... who lives with a girl room mate Sunita. During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Kumar's room mate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious.

 

Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Kumar and his room mate than met the eye.

 

Reading his mom's thoughts, Kumar volunteered, "I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Sunita and I are just room mates."

 

About a week later, Sunita came to Kumar saying, "Ever since your mother came for dinner, I've been unable to find the silver plate. You don't suppose she took it, do you?"

 

Kumar said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll email her, just to be sure." So he sat down and wrote:

 

Dear Mother:

I'm not saying that you 'did' take the silver plate from my house, I'm not saying that you 'did not' take the silver plate. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.

Love,
Kumar

Several days later, Kumar received an email from his Mother which read:

Dear Son:
I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Sunita, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with Sunita. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now under the pillow...

Love,
Mom

Oppsss... such was the wisdom of a mom, bravo auntie!

Anagrams

Anagrams: You can transpose or re-arrange the letters in a word or phrase to become another word or phrase. Always interesting to see what might turn out from a word or a phrase. So here it goes...

Presbyterian

- Best in prayer

Astronomer

- Moon starer (I believe it should be spelled with two 'r' though)

Desperation

- A rope ends it

The eyes

- They see

George Bush

- He bugs Gore

The Morse Code

- Here come dots

Dormitory

- Dirty room

Slot machines

 - Cash lost in me

Animosity

- Is no amity (amity = friendship)

Election results

- Lie, let's recount

Snooze alarms

- Alas! No more Z's

A decimal point

- I'm a dot in place

The earthquakes

- That queer shake

Eleven plus two

- Twelve plus one

Mother-in-law

- Woman Hitler

Second Review of 2013 Wish List

5 more months to end 2013 and I have yet to complete even half of my wish list for 2013 (click here for the list):

1. Reduce weight (max 57kg)

Done. Maintaining it at 57kg but I developed my first gastric just last month and stomach gets windy very easily nowadays.

2. Exercise regime (3 times a week)

Stopped exercising for a month, totally. Need to restart my badminton, yoga and hiking regime. Jogging... need to find time, perhaps can alternate with hiking. Swimming... still got 5 more months to learn.

3. Wake up earlier (7am)

7I am doing that for my new job. Let's hope I can maintain it throughout the year.

4. Learn to cook

I almost give up on this. Told JS that I will handle housekeeping while he handles the kitchen. So far he agreed though I know he wished that I can cook.
 

5. Cut short hair

Done. And I had actually bought a Groupon voucher to have rebonding so that I can keep my hair long. Though I am now regretting it. Thinking of trying more short haircut. But since no one wants the voucher, I might as well continue with my initial intention to keep my hair long.

6. Save money

I did manage to control my vacation trips but I suck in other expenses. So far I am forcing myself to save though it seemed as though some unexpected expenses will always crop up no matter what.

7. Commit to partnership

Done. Getting better but we really don't have much to talk about at times. And there doesn't seem to be much activities apart from dinner and movie. Lately we have massage and om healing sessions. Need to have more coming up. I have settled my insecurities part, the rest depends on him already.

8. Work hard and focus on personal development

Totally sucks in this part. I must utilize this new environment to give me motivation to start anew. I must remind myself regularly.

9. More reading

Gosh, this is my most shameful confession. I had hardly touched a fiction at all, since last year. And I have piles of new fictions, untouched. Dare not step into bookstore anymore. I am not doing justice to the books.

10. More time with family

Did that. Been spending more with the kids, babysitting them for almost every weekend now. But I am still slacking with household chores. But when I did, I know I did a good job. Just need to do it more consistently.

So pathetic isn't it? Only achieved 3 of 10 from the wish list. 5 more months to go. I still have time to readjust. Go for it, KP!

New environment

How did my farewell turned out? Pretty good despite me working till the very last working day. I wrote a personal note to all my staffs, and some close colleagues. Needless to say, I also receive farewell gifts from several colleagues and staffs.

 

Makes me feel appreciated as I don't really expect that. And again I got flower bouquet, I really thanked him a lot. So far I have only received flowers for two occasions, twice from him due to me leaving and twice for convo purpose, but sadly none from JS yet.

 

And a colleague who were no longer close to me due to certain conflict actually gave me an angpow to start new job and told me that I must invite her for my wedding. I was surprised and happy at the same time because I did ponder if she wants to attend my wedding dinner when the time comes. And surprisingly I actually bumped into her during Sat lunch with friends, after I finish work on Sat (new company). Talk about fate huh?

 

Come to new company, I do feel that the management really takes good care of me, by planning training plan and ensure that I get my petrol chit, and laptop on day one. And constant apology for not having proper office due to renovation work in progress. I even have a car park ready. Still waiting for my Blackberry.

 

Totally new experience for me here. The way things are handled here are so different. And I learn to use new laptop since it is using Windows 8. Later will need to explore Blackberry too. And the food safety system here is different from my previous one. I am trying to learn to relearn and to be humble but I find that the people here are sometimes not so friendly or fear me.

 

Maybe I didn't smile enough or am not friendly enough? What makes me feel at home is my Production colleague who was actually my ex-colleague. And it makes me feel warm when my close friends do care about me being in the new environment. Either sms, call or using whatsapp or wechat, they asked if I am doing fine, etc.

 

I know I am not working hard enough yet for this new job. But then it also brought me to realise that I had been abandoning my hiking, badminton and yoga routine, not to mention reading. Terrible. I must do something especially on reading. But I did catch up on spending time with my nieces. Not spending enough time with nephew though.

 

And JS is off to US for two weeks. Will be missing him very much. Perhaps not too much since I will start to pick up a busy routine soon enough. Good also, can distract me a little while longer. Missing someone is not a good feeling you know.

And oh, since my GM is also known as Ms Tan, I asked to called as KP instead. There you go. Now I can be known as Tan, Ms Tan, Ah Pheo, Pheo, Jiong Ping and lastly KP. Steady leh... Thought of having an English name but decided against it as I haven't found a favorite one yet.