Trying To Stop My Foot From Tapping Itself Off....

Procrestination is probably my greatest enemy.....:P F once mentioned to me that I take a terribly LOOOOONNNNGGGG time just to get a few chores done. Well... I decided some time this year to really try and be more efficient... so I ended up completing my "chasing people down for money" in like the 1st week or so of the "official bumming period"....

I run a small business to help pay bills.... (actually I run many small "sidelines" to help pay bills.... hey .. even as a bum in this city.... one needs cash and really.... life can get pretty unpleasant in Singapore without ka-ching.... at this point, I'm reminded of a famous acquaintance who has hair that reaches his butt, an abnormally long fingernail on one of his pinkies.... and this thing about not bathing....:P It's a pretty scary sight)....... and late Aug - Sept is the time where I chase down all the folks who owe me cash. I mean, I guess I COULD be more consistant with the "chasing"... but I guess I'm just pretty lazy and I really don't want to hear too many people tell me how the products aren't moving... and "Singaporeans aren't attracted to them" or worse how desperately poor they are financially ... so they haven't got my cash......:P

Actually....my current stash of new age and occult books comes from a certain ex-retailer who wasn't able to pay me in cash and owed me a ton of moolah... So I took a giant bag ... or two... and raided the store...

I'm reminded at this point that a certain retailer whom I'm working with now owes me something.... Hmmmmmz I guess I'll have to take a sec and scribble it down 

*scribble scribble*

Anyways.... I'm not gonna talk about how it is that new age people always seem to have "NO MONEY"..... I'll probably talk about it after I visit that whole "Love and Light Festival" (what a corny name) in mid Sept.

Soooooo...... I got most of the administrative stuff done in the first week or so.... and I completed a painting comission as well.... and now I'm about to start on another painting job... but dammit.... I'm just not inspired to paint....

In the last week or so... I've started doing the whole "leg-shaking" thing again.... It started on Sunday when I was in church pretending to have a halo on my head..... the speaker was ... tedious.... and not very enlightening at all.... (and he wonders why the heck he doesn't have many people coming to the service... I could tell him... buuuuuuttttttt.... nah... it aren't my business)


Well, the whole leg-shaking, foot tapping thing got so bad that I finally decided to just take up the offer of a friend and start going for swims, gym and ... you get the idea... become fit.....:P

Part of the reason for this whole getting fitter thing is 'cos I have a costume to fit into and I am getting terribly vain....:( Of course, over the course of the week, I found myself looking into the mirror more and as a result, I ended up donating half my wardrobe to charity.... (my mother insists there is some poor teenager in a third world country who would love my clothes... but I dunno what they're is going to think when they look at the dumpy outfits)  and going to my hairdresser for a new look....

My hairdresser is STRONGLY enouraging me to go for a shaved, crew-cut look....:P

Well.... I don't think the whole crew-cut image he is proposing will sit well with certain conservative people I work with. So I ended up with something more in-between.

Im also hoping that by working out, I might just stop that tapping foot. I mean, when you get tired from working out, you go to sleep and sleep better too....etc....

Anyway.... my foot is still shaking furiously as I'm typing this... For some reason its pretty hot even in an air-conditioned room and I can't get to sleep. It's like my blood is rushing in my veins and I'm feeling terribly impatient because of all of this......:P


I'm kinda wonder what is happening.... well... I'll observe myself in the next few weeks... see what happens.....:P I hope my foot doesn't tap itself off before then.

Nitty Gritty Stuff ..... Grrrr

Today's briefing/meeting.... was ... tedious.... I like my occasional colleagues in general because they are nice, normal, well-meaning people, but boy... they sure can talk..... for 3 straight hours :(

I am a strong advocate of short meetings. I notice they never get anything done in the marathon sessions.

And well, when I got to Da Bear's later, I found out that they had taken out the entire ceiling! Da Bear's shop is located in a building that was built in the same year I was born. Now that's really really old in Singapore where they are always tearing down and building stuff before its even a decade old. Unfortunately, due to bad bad mismanagement, the building is dark, extrudes a very very funky smell.... (F wrinkled up her nose when she passed by)... and has a constant source of giant flies.... (they have never ever located the source of these flies. I have swatted a few myself... You need to hit them a few times before they stop moving :P)....

I have this theory that they probably walled up some corpse when the building was first constructed. I mean, it explains the smell and giant flies. .... Of course, the other explanation is that the building has poor ventilation and according to the reflexologist on the same floor, the sewege pipe burst and was badly repaired... more than once. And I thought that the smell came from the Chinese herbal people downstairs....:(

I really really wonder why they put up with the place. I suppose there is no where along Orchard Road that is so decrepit that rental is at minimum level.

The dust from workmen ripping out bits of the old aircon really irritated me. Seeing I could not get anything done painting wise I left..... Hopefully, they would have gotten the place cleaned up by tomorrow.

However, my most immediate irritation comes from dealing with..... vendors.....:(

As a semi-employed person of variable income.... I've had to resort to peddling all sorts of stuff over the years to pay the bills and make my life a little more comfortable. I work with a friend in the local crystal and stone business... to get the certain rare items from contacts overseas.

The big big problem with some of the contacts is that they are terrible when it comes to simple customer service... You'd think that a person running a business would at least establish certain protocol like a proper system of answering emails and invoicing.... or even a proper payment system......:P Dammit.... some people just don't have any of that.... I really really hate it when people give me incomplete or 1-word answers to questions I've spent time to properly phrase in the email. I mean..... I didn't even get an order number for tracking! So HOW do they know who I am or what I'm talking about!

Grrrrrrrrr......

I'm really feeling a lot like.... NOT getting this latest order filled....:( Thanks to Doreen Virtue and the current fascination with angels, I'm now on the hunt for some "angel stones".... :( The problem is that these specific stones are pretty rare... the people that have access to them..... I swear..... they must be country hicks or something 'cos they are NOT running a modern business!....:P

Well.... I guess I'm feeling awfully grouchy... usually I don't talk about my businesses.... but really...... It's kinda getting to me I guess... :(