Purples' Monday Blues

Mondays. For me, Mondays in the past year always start with a 3 hour (at least) long meeting. Terrible way to start off the working week, ain't it?

Today was no different.

Meeting.
Take phone call.
Clear emails.
Lunch.
Paper work.
Send email.
Internal firefight.
Return missed call that came in during internal firefight.
Become fishmonger for a while.
Paper work.
Reply more emails.
Entertain more phone calls.
Wait for knock-off time so that I can go play Bingo.

Finally, home.

The trip home was horrendously arduous. I left the office and headed to catch the train to Paya Lebar as I had to pick up a pair of glasses (2 pairs actually) I had made. Only I didn't realise that the optician's was in between stations. Had I realised that earlier, I wouldn't have tried walking. I made it there anyhow before it shut its doors (officially at 6pm, so you can imagine how fast I walked since I left after work!).

When I was done, I realised I was like not here not there in terms of time and place, and a bit hungry from all the walking. So I decided that I should screw tonight's Bingo session (though the stakes are good!) and just go home. You see, I was hungry, wasn't sure what bus to take, was in the middle of 2 train stations, and with the fare hike in cab fares, it just wasn't worth taking cabs during peak hours. So, I headed towards home-direction and walked to Eunos station to buy some food back for Grandma, Yati and myself (no dinner cooked at home today). Then I took the bus back.

In the midst of it all, I message Mommy saying:"No car is very poor thing and troublesome you know. Kena take bus, wait so long for it, and the one that came no air con. Can die!" A very unsympathetic "Ya lor" was her reply. Whoa! How come like that????

I shall have an early night and prepare for tomorrow. It'll only be Tuesday...