Life here

Yesterday we went to the video shop owned by Chinese to rent some DVD. In the end, we ended buying the DVDs as the rental is more expensive than buying their copied DVDs. I wondered if it is illegal to buy from her but that's what she has been doing. Rental is $3 per disk and buying is $5. The compounded DVDs disk 3 disks whereby original has 30 disks. Of course we only as compared to rented original of the cheaper version of buying. If owning the disks is illegal, we won't take it back to singapor lo. I am not so sure of things in Singapore but that's how it's working here in Sydney. The shop has a variety of shows from Hongkong, Taiwan, hollywood etc. Maybe she is not doing illegal stuff as the compounded DVDs look original and made in China. She could have imported the stuff from China whereby the cost is cheap there??

Yesterday I could not sleep so I did a bit of thinking. The fact that my house won;t be ready for us so we should not go back. I think about it and this time there will be a difference to last year. LAst year my mother in law was staying with us and if we go back now, she would stay in her Toa Payoh Flat as she had told us that she was not going to move back in with us when we are back. She likes her Toa Payoh's flat as she feels so comfortable there with friends and things that she is familiar with. I think everyone has the right to make the choice. Her choice is good for all of us as she is not happy staying with us when she thought we were treating the maid
better than we treated her. I changed 4 maids as she could not get along with them. This time I will not be working and with the maid I surely can handle the things at home. Can you imagine you are the head of the household and yet you have to listen to your elders even though sometimes you feel that if only the elders could be more tolerant and understanding. There is bound to be differences in people in terms of ways of doing things and communication. Joe said that if he does not stand me, what will happen. We should xiang1 yi1 wei2 ming4 here alone in foreign land. Well! True that he is the nice guy and I am the troublesome one. I thrive in finding solutions and trying out new things and he probably will like things as they are. Stable and not spontaneous. Give me crisis and I will handle them with different solutions. I will try out all options but Joe will think and think and think and then settled on the best solution. That's how he is more successful than me as I will always spill a few buckets of tears and fall down a few times to make it the same place as him. My life journey will be filed with tears, laughter and new experiences as that's what I am. His will be smooth sailing as he will always opt for the best option. He is stable as rock and i will be like the sand, floating here and there and not yet ready to settle for anything. The won't die attitude means I will keep on moving - sometimes even I also do not know myself why I can't do no thinking. Sometimes I am so happy and contented to be alive and just be myself and be there for my family. Yet I will have different thinking the next day.

Anyway life is not too bad here as weather not humid and no sweat. Children never bathe also no problem as no smelling. pace so slow that you can do things slowly without hurry. I will be where my family is so think it's here la.