It's Pay Back Time

Went to bed at 8.30 pm, thinking that I'll be able to sleep till next morning. Hai... I woke up at 11.30 pm in the end & worse still, unable to go back to sleep. Sleeping gave me clarity of mind. Suddenly, everything my colleague told me sort of click into place. She told me that as women, we must take care of ourselves & make them afraid of losing us.

This is my interpretation of our situation. These stupid men are taking us for granted. Not thanking us enough for everything we're doing for them. What's worse is, they reap all the enjoyment while we do all the work. No, we're not going to nag or force them to help us out becoz that's what we've been doing & does it get us anywhere?

We're going to continue doing what we've always been doing. We go out & have a life of our own. We take care of ourselves by taking better care of our skin, our hair, our everything. We prove to them that we can live without them although we choose not to. (Even if that's not true, we have to act like it's true. :P) Then what? What comes after we act all independent?

We thank them for providing for us, even though we're equally capable of earning a living ourselves. We thank them for driving us to work, even though we can take public transport just fine. We thank them for ordering food for us, even though we can do it ourselves. We do what we want them to do. We be appreciative. This way, we maintain the upper hand.

To end off, I'm sharing the antics of the dogs. As usual, I put Puggy back into the service balcony when we got home from Enrica's place after the Christmas party. It was late, I was really tired. I had Ton Ton in bed with me. I laid down, almost drifting off to sleep... & Puggy started howling. I tried to ignore him but he howled for 45 mins straight. I was so worried that he'll disturb the neighbours. Even I couldn't sleep with that ruckus! So I brought him into the room to sleep with us. Ton Ton started growling & refused to let him up the bed (he does that all the time with Wang Wang). They finally settled down & I slept. In the morning, my mom told me that Puggy slept on top of the clothes I wore to the party. (I sleep with the door open when Jeff's not around.) Everyone finds Puggy's howling scary. But I think I must be crazy. I love the sound of it!

The other incident is with Ton Ton & it just happened. Sometimes Ton Ton scratches the door with his paws to get us to open it to let him in or out. So when Jeff got home just now, he put a newly bought black door stopper right at the back against the wall. He also put this door guard to keep the door slightly ajar. When Ton Ton push the door, it won't slam against the wall becoz of the door stopper. Shortly after, we heard what sounded like Ton Ton chewing on his nylabone which we threw away a long time ago coz it was broken. When we looked, Ton Ton had removed the door stopper from its original spot & was chewing on it! I feel like laughing & fainting at the same time. What a dumb dog!