Eventful August Days

It's August and that means school is approaching soon (nuooo~)... The week itself has been eventful and busy and it wasn't until today I finally get to just bum around and just savor being one.

Work has all of a sudden become rather busy - my new supervisor put in an ad into the Chinese newspaper to find more permanent warehouse workers to replace the ones the previous psychotic supervisor hired who were mostly summer only workers. Everyday we'd get about 20 or so calls from all sorts of people for the job and only on Friday did we start bringing them in for brief interviews to screen them. I think the weirdest candidates I saw right before I left Friday were these two old couples (almost old enough to be my grandparents) who brought their grandkid with them. And no, it wasn't the grandchild who was applying, it was the COUPLE.

On top of all the insane number of calls, some of the customers who still use a portion of our warehouse to store things also decided to move their stuff out as well. I, who suddenly became in charge of that, had to fumble around to do counting, invoicing and arrangements... it didn't help that I had never done it before either.

Friday night was also, hrm, in a sense, interesting as well. My brother told us that he might introduce his girlfriend to us "casually" that evening. Casually which was not dining out I suppose. We gave him a call to see if they were coming by and he said no. Later in the late evening, past dinner, and we figured that she wouldn't be showing up that night at all. Considering the time of night, I went to shower and get into more comfortable clothing. After I was done, I heard noise outside my door and I figured it was my dad and brother talking as usual. I quickly wrapped a turban towel over my wet hair and half put on my top (half being not completely on) and swung open the door to find his girlfriend from across the my brother's room smiling at me.

Being dumbfounded at first and just staring back, my brother walks by and asks me what I was wearing and I followed to answer that it was obviously my PJs. Awkwardly, I kinda waved to her, said hi, then said I think I'll go back into my room now... and so I did. It will be dangerous around the house from now on. Since she's already seen me in my PJs, which I'd think is safe to say that it's one of the most casual way of meeting a person for the first time, I greeted her again in my PJs today as I bummed at home. She greeted me back and laughed, so I think we're cool.

Continuing the ever so eventful weekend theme... Saturday morning, Moni, Braman and myself headed down to Chinatown for some Chinatown festival. We found parking and then had dim sum at Floata where we got tricked into eating a $16 coldplate! I didn't know that Floata still had the old school pushcarts so we waited around impatiently for food (since they didn't do special orders either!). After the decent lunch, we headed to the actual festival which was basically the MORNING nightmarket as there were all the same stands. There was this one Korean table that gave out free mini pottery pots and all you had to do was lineup for one (and so we did). While we waited, there was this European (?!) lady who sang country songs on the stage for her awesome audience made up of old Chinatown grandparents. After we got our pots, we went to my friend's bun stand (http://www.bonchaz.com) where we helped buy and eat some expensive buns. $2 a bun is pricy. At least it's good.

After the festival, I went home to drop off my pot and headed out to Matt's annual BBQ party at his place. When I got there, the guys were trying to put up a tarp over his porch in fear of rain. After watching the futile attempt, they gave up and forgot about it. They started cooking late but people came in late too expecting the food to be ready by the time they arrived which is smart thinking. The mandarin speaking group their own thing and played some board game in their corner while another group played rockband with only two instruments. Other groups were scattered everywhere, chatting and getting drunk. The types of people that were there were so varied, I wasn't actually sure where to be. I tried to keep myself busy eating but I could only eat so much. When most of the people had gone, the insane drunkards began going head to head on SF Puzzle Fighter. It was hilarious (and painful) watching drunk people play a game that was supposedly fastpaced.

Someone tried to get me drunk. NOPE wasn't going to happen.