2 More Days To My Wedding

I got a prank call on Tuesday night. A Chinese man spoke to me in mandarin, claiming to be a staff. He said he wanted my opinion as a nurse on a problem he has. Anyway, the questions started out normal enough. But became increasingly annoying & uncomfortable. He gave me a few scenarios & wanted to know what I would do if I were with him in the scenarios. He refused to hang up despite me telling him several times that I had a student to attend to. I hung up on him in mid-sentence. He called back several times after that but I refused to answer the phone. My clinic has Caller ID but he was calling from a payphone. I was quite shakened. Then my SRN colleague advised me to call the Director of Boarding who is my supervisor's supervisor & 'boss' of the clinic to inform him of the incident. Anyway, he was asleep & I left a message with his wife.

It was a crazy day yesterday. The Director of Boarding came to speak to me regarding the prank calls. My SRN colleague who had arrived for her shift took the chance to hand in her resignation letter. I told him everything I knew of the prankster & also took the chance to hand in my letter. He offered pay raise & wanted to know my reasons for quitting. Well, what's the point? Probation period is for both the employer & employee to see how well they take to each other & to the job. Isn't it obvious that if in the 10 months that I'm working here & I've not been confirmed, that something is terribly wrong when the probation period is only 3 months?

After I got off from my night shift at 7.30 am, Jeff & I headed down to the ROM office. We were early & the office wasn't yet open. But there were a few couples there already. Our queue number was 007. We had to produce our IC, photocopies of our witnesses' IC & solemnizer consent form. Then we had to take a vow with our right hand raised that all given information are accurate. We were then issued our marriage cert (which we get to keep), a copy of the marriage cert (which the solemnizer has to mail back to ROM) & another form with our particulars & signature (the signature must be the same as the 1 on the marriage cert copy).

We then drove back to the school & I handed in copies of my letter to HR & Director of Admin. We made a trip back to my house, cooked for Ton Ton & fed him (he finished his HCF the day before), planned our routes again & headed out for lunch with my parents at Science Centre. (Oh, don't ask me what's there to eat at Science Centre. Just know that it's not good for people who want to diet. :P) Then we went to my 4th uncle's TMC clinic in Jurong East so that I could thank my uncle & aunt personally for the diamond necklace they bought me as a wedding gift & also to discuss the final arrangement for the wedding. (My gosh, it was terribly generous of them & I felt bad they had to fork out so much money.)

Next, we went to Yishun to order 'Xi Bing' (Chinese Wedding Cake/Biscuits) which we will collect on Friday night, that's tomorrow, while I go for gown fitting at my bridal studio in the neighboring block. Then we headed to North Point to see if we can get anything for my mom to wear on my wedding day. No luck.

We went back home coz it was 3+ pm, coming to 4 pm & I wanted to shower before going for my facial at 7 pm. We reached Lot 1, CCK, at about 4.45 pm. My parents & Jeff headed straight to Seiyu to see if they could find anything while I headed upstairs to make a manicure appointment for the next day, Thursday (today) at 8.30 pm coz I knock off at 7.30 pm. I joined them in Seiyu & found out that Jeff had chosen a nice long sleeved shirt for my dad. Still no luck for my mom.

It was 6.30 pm when we made our way to Bukit Panjang Plaza. We reached there at 6.45 pm & I went for my facial. It was almost 9 pm when I came out. I actually dozed off during the facial, after the squeezing of my blackheads & pimples of course (super OUCH!). They found something for my mom (YEAH!). Jeff wanted to eat dumpling spinach noodles & he joined me at the Kopithiam to buy it. Finally, it was time to go home.

Ton Ton didn't pee nor shit the entire time we were out. He finally did his biz after I fed him his dinner at 9.30 pm. I found that I couldn't sleep & the last time I looked at the time was 1.30 am.

Jeff sent me to work today. I finally managed to give the letter to my supervisor, having heard from her supervisor (Director of Boarding). I don't know if it was true or not. But she told me that her supervisor said that it was totally un-necessary for me to call him about the prank call. So I just told her that when he met up with me yesterday morning, he was very nice about it & even told me what to do in the event it happens again.

My supervisor asked me if I am going back to the agency & whether she can call me to come in as an agency nurse if she needs staff. Hmm... I'll think about it. Haha. The rate's at $200 per day for weekday morning, $10 more for night & $220 on weekday morning, $10 more for night. Anyway, I'm seriously thinking about joining the agency as I don't have a job yet & more importantly, we're thinking of getting a 3 rm flat. The combined salary ceiling for 3 rm flats cannot be more than 3k. Jeff alone earns almost 2k (with night shifts). So either I work part time in a GP office so we don't hit the 3k or I do agency nursing where they can't track how much I earn.

It's almost time for me to go off. Gotta rush coz my manicure appointment is at 8.30 pm. Just found out that a colleague from another department has already went on leave to prepare for her wedding which is on the 9th as well. :( So why am I not granted leave???