Here We Go Again ...

*sniff, sniff, cough, cough*

Yes, I'm down with the dreaded flu and cough. It's in the early stages so it's not that bad yet but bad enough to make me feel weak all over and extremely moody. I was alright until I woke up this morning with the sniffles and an extremely dry and sore throat, which are normally the first signs I'm going to fall sick. I probably got this from my younger boy who was himself having the sniffles and cough since Thursday.

I hate falling sick (who does anyway, right?) cos when I fall sick it's normally very extreme. I can't do anything much except lay in bed all day. Anyway, I do feel a little better now that I've popped a few pills. Was a little feverish earlier and hopefully it'll be enough to keep the fever in check until I go to the doctors tomorrow and get some much stronger medicine. Would love to go today but for some strange reason my company's panel doctor happens to be closed on Sundays. I guess we're not allowed to fall sick on the weekends ... LOL!

Nothing really interesting happened this weekend except on Saturday. I know I said I didn't want to bitch about anything or anyone this weekend but I just can't help it. I just think there is this conspiracy that is going on to test my patience ... hehehe ... I'm convince that people are secretly looking out for me and when they see me they go:

'Look, there's that old grouch, lets see how we can piss him off today!'

What happened was, I took the family out for lunch at our favourite all you can eat joint at the nearby mall. I just happen to love this place cos I think it's extremely good value for money and I'm a regular at this place almost every weekend since the place opened. Normally, when we go, we would be given the special promotion rate where we pay for 2 adults (wifey and me) and my elder boy would get the student rate and the younger fellow will eat for free.

Ok, like I said, we're regulars and the cashiers know us, and normally would know how to bill us (we have to pay first before eating) but this Saturday, there was this new cashier on duty. So, I asked her politely if the promotion that we usually enjoy was still on (I know it was, but I asked anyway, you just can't assume anything, right?) and she said yes, but then she asked to see my elder boy's student card.

'Huh? Student card? what the heck is that?' I thought.

So, I asked her what student card are you referring to? Cos for the life of me I didn't know the students here carried any such cards and I told her so. She kept on rudely insisting that she needs to see the student card and that normally they would have and she needed to confirm that he really is a student and all that crap. And the tone of voice and look that she gave us made it seem like we were trying to bluff our way in. Wifey was already on the verge of losing her temper and so was I.

First of all, just by looking at my elder boy, though he is a little on the big side, you could clearly see he was still a child. And secondly the very fact that she was extremely rude and made it seem like we were cheapskates trying to fleece her by paying less was what really irked me. It was not about the money at all. If she had told me politely that I had to prove my elder boy was a school going child or I couldn't get the student rate, then I wouldn't have minded. After all the student rate was only a few ringgit less, so no big deal. But the tone of her voice and the insistence that I had to show some kind of student card made my blood boil.

Now, maybe it was her lucky day or something cos just as I was about to give her my famous grouch routine and chew her head off, she relented and punched in our bill. Darn, I was so looking forward to giving her the 'Phillips Special' ... LOL! I just couldn't see why she had to be so rude about the whole thing. I mean, if she had told me politely that if we didn't have a student card, we couldn't get the student rate, I'd have no issues with that. But the rudeness was what I didn't like. Anyway, that aside, the lunch was fine from that point on. The boys as usual had a blast eating all their favourite stuff and all the ice cream they could muster.

Like I said earlier, there really must be some kind of organization called the G.R.O.U.C.H. (Get Rid Of Ugly & Cranky Humans!) or something that secretly plots against me to see who can succeed in making me blow my top whenever I go out. It's either that or I'm just naturally a plain old grouch. What do you think? Come on, tell me already. I promise I won't chew your heads off ... LOL!

Sunday was pretty routine. Took the kids for their usual Sunday school classes. They had this election talk organized while waiting for the kids to finish, which I didn't feel like attending. The general elections are going on over here and today was the nomination day for all the candidates and stuff like that. My buddy Seansy asked if I was interested in helping a candidate out for nomination morning and I would have loved to help but the kids had Sunday school so I told him I could help him out a little later if he needed anything. He said maybe I could join him with the putting up of posters and such later at night, but he hasn't called so I presume he doesn't need help or it's not on.

I'm not really into politics all that much but in the previous elections I've done my duty to vote for who I thought was worthy to run this country and the constituency that I live in. But of late, I cannot help but take note of the fact that I may have made a disastrous mistake in voting for the current government. I'm not going to bash anyone here on my blog but lets say that when 8th of March comes, which is voting day, my vote is going to the opposition! It may not count for much, but I sincerely hope my little vote would help in any way possible to give us Malaysians a fresher outlook in life. It's time we weren't treated like kids anymore.

With that said and done, I think I'm going to call it a night cos I feel a little woozy already. The pills I took earlier must be wearing off. I don't even think I'm up to working on this term insurance asignment I have. First thing I'm going to do tomorrow is head to the clinic. Catch you guys later.