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About the GrumpyQueen

A.K.A Gatekeeper

I love food, don't deprive me of it.

I'm not Princess, I'm Queen

I can be quite grumpy and when I am, I hide here, my dungeon for reflections, ramblings and ranting.

Whatever I write are opinions, and may not be the whole truth. Do not read it like the Gospel.

I hate as vehemently as I love
I already know I'm crazy, be my friend, it's safer

Different is not bad, just not the same as the rest

If you don't like me, it's probably mutual
But I'm nice, really :p

Blog started 21st June 2007, shifted from www.thegatekeeperstory.blogspot.com

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I will learn how to park properly and not jam the whole bloody carpark up. I don't get it. If we're gonna park without poles in the first place, why the hell do they teach us to park with poles?

If you wanna teach parking with poles, make sure every single damn carpark in singapore has poles.

I'm very depressed now, I feel like I've gone back to my L plate days.

There's so much more to life then spending your days making sure your car is in the center of the lot. I just wanna get the stupid car in, get the hell out of the carpark and live a life. Not spend something like 20 mins driving to where I wanna go, another 15 mins parking and making a fool of myself.

But I will not give up. You never fail until you stop trying.

26.1.09 12:28 AM

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I choose beggers to donate to!

Coming from a nurse, this is a very uncompassionate thing to say.

Some people shouldn't be helped at all!

I was on my way back from work today so obviously I was still in uniform. Suddenly there was this guy at the opposite side of the road smiling at me. I thought:

1) He was one of my patient or patient's relative
2) He was smiling at someone behind me.

As he got closer, I realised I don't know him at all so it must be the second option. So just ignore him and walk lor. But then it became apparent that he WAS smiling at me cos he got closer and closer and was REALLY smiling at me!!!

Then he asked me to help him, he got no money to take bus home, he never eat for 2 days and so on...

The moment he spoke, his breath smelt of alcohol.

And you tell me, someone who has no money to eat or take bus home will be so clean meh? Still got alcohol breath some more!

But he kept on pestering me like a sickening housefly and I kept telling him "I don't have, I don't have..."

He was like "Huh?" As if I look friggin rich to him.

Then I just told him "I don't have change."

"Ok, give me your coins then, do you have coins?"

Wah! Machiam robbery ah!

I just took out 70 cents to get rid of him.

And you know what the bugger asked?

"That's all? You got anymore change?"

Please la! It's because of my uniform that you're getting this 70cents and you got the good cheek to ask for more? Stupid dickhead.

If I weren't in uniform, he prob won't even get 5cents! I don't want people to snap pictures of me refusing to help a begger and post it on stomp. Though, I doubt it's gonna do any harm.

Nurses are just salaried workers, it's not like we're nuns or something. People expect nurses to be kind and gentle angels but I guess that doesn't really happen.

It's like we expect a construction worker to be rough and boorish but whoever said they can't be an accomplished musician and a construction worker?

Look, I'm not gonna pretend to be kind and all. I choose people to give to. Go ahead, cast stones at me and curse me. What? We're supposed to feed people's addiction to drugs, alcohol, gambling and what-not? We're supposed to 'donate' to the 'poor' to buy drugs and alcohol?

Look at those people selling charity tickets, the charity shows. You think all these people work for free? The printing guy, the advertisers, the organisers? All these all no need to eat ah?

These people make a living from charity. I'm not saying they take all the donations but let's say one pays $5 for a charity ticket, maybe half goes to these people?

And no, it's not wrong to make money from selling charity tickets. After all, I make money from the misfortunes of others. If people don't get sick, there will be no jobs for us right?

LOL. But don't make it seem as if you're doing this for free. It's not wrong to make money from charity shows or selling charity tickets. But please do not exploit the compassion of the donors by claiming to be 'volunteers' selling tickets. Please be honest by saying that you're working for the organisation. Same goes for those monkeys doing stunts on charity shows. I don't believe they'd do it for free.

How would you like if you walked in to a hospital and the nurses and doctors gave you the impression that they were doing this for free, out of their own kind heart and not for a salary?

No, I'm not saying doctors and nurses are so money faced all the time. There are those who volunteer themselves, go for mission trips and what not, but they don't do that 365 days a year, without a dime right? If anything, they need to eat, no matter how kind they may be. Same goes for these 'volunteers' who sell charity tickets.

Which is why I don't believe in buying charity tickets. And you won't catch me buying unless I'm forced to. Neither do I donate to people with limbs working perfectly, smelling of alcohol and begging for money to go home. If I could, I would have given him a kick and shamed him.

That 70cents was not donated, I was forced to give. I certainly hope I won't be his nurse one day, my guts would turn inside out. He is, in my opinion a waste of taxpayers money and menace to society. I'd have little or no sympathy for him if he should drop dead one day. Good riddance to him if that day comes, you reap what you sow, asshole.

21.1.09 9:43 PM

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X mas 2008

New year was so-so. I was supposed to be on night shift over the new year. I was already preparing a foam party with the fire extinguisher when my boss told me that there was an error and someone else was supposed to do the night instead. So someone else did the night and I did afternoon instead.

Still not as perfect as a day off but better than what I expected.

X mas was fun. I managed to get a few day offs. Anyway, these are some pics of my X mas.

Me. Deluded as ever. Ever ready to pose for a pic, showing off my X mas outfit and boots.

Me with the goddaughter. I think I look so 'mummified' here.

The missy cousins.

This year there will be no resolutions because I don't keep them anyway. I think the only one I kept was to wear more pink.

But last year was all in all a very eventful year.

1. I graduated.
2. Started working and earning a salary.
3. Turned 20.
4. Failed my driving
5. Then passed it. =)
6. Made new friends.
7. Kept in touch with the old
8. Decided not to keep in touch with some.
9. Friendships were tested, survived.
10. Looked at someone in another light. =)

I stubbornly refused to see the faults of some, the goodness of others and refused to see others from another angle. 2008 taught me to do just that. And when I did, I made some of the best decisions and I'm very happy now. Happier than ever.

Anyway, I secretly hate odd years. I hope I don't screw up 2009.

6.1.09 11:05 PM

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