my life as a tenant

I've been renting since the day i left Kuching.... it's a life that most people cannot understand.. it looks kinda good that i'm living by myself as i have a lot of privacy and can do anything, anytime, anywhere i want at home... yes, this is not bad but life as a tenant can be very terrible too... let me bring you back to my renting life since the first day in HK, then to Shanghai then to Sg...

The hassle of renting is, you need to check out a lot of places with the agents to find the home that you like... some of the places are so terrible that i have no words to describe...some are quite nice but just out of budget... so, my first home in HK is about 8 - 10 mins walk from the MTR station.. everything went well but before i moved out, the landlord decided that the broken pipes were my fault and refused to return me my deposit... broken pipes are wear and tear and should be borne by landlords and what broken pipes anyway?! so we argued a bit and i threatened to sue them to small business tribunal and finally they returned me my deposit..not in full but i didnt bother to argue anymore for a few hundred HK dollars....

the rest of my renting life in HK seem ok after that... then after 5 years in HK, i moved to Shanghai...the first landlord was nice...he gave me dumplings one day that i felt so touched...and he charged me below market value...but he has a vicious wife who forced him to terminate my rent after we just signed the new lease contract... initially i didnt want to execute the penalty part whereby the landlord has to compensate me for a month's rent if he terminates the rental earlier...my agent kept telling me that i should... so i did... he and the wife must have thought that i was a vicious person since the husband charged me lower rent and now i bite them back with compensation... i was just executing the contract..they could have let me stayed till end of the lease... it was an ugly scene coz they didnt want to execute the contract... so i used a lot of ways to negotiate... Negotiate?! i had a contract and still need to negotiate... but i did... i told the landlord that the rent was paid by my company and the lawyers wanted to get compensation from them and i have no choice... and i asked my lawyer colleague to go with me to explain and in the end, the landlord said ok reluctantly but he said he will not pay for the tax portion of the rent...i said, i will bear that for u then (still wanting to show my appreciation for his help in the past)... the moment he said "yes", i took a piece of contract out for him to sign...i said this is our co procedure, please sign your consent to compensate & that we will terminate our contract on xxx.

then i moved to another place nearby where the house gave me miserable time...just after moving in not long later...i found the balcony roof leaking when it rained...so i called the agent to tell the landlord..the landlord said it cannot be fixed..so i asked the agent to tell her that i will have no responsibility for damages on the balcony then..coz she kept her washing machine and other stuff there... then the pipe leaking where i had to leave home for 1 week while workers came in to knock out the toilet floor and only to find out the leak came from the rotten pipe in the balcony... and then things started to go wrong... the paint in the toilet started to peel off, then the wall paper and the noisy neighbors upstairs... the worst is, my landlord wanted me to compensate for wear and tear when i terminated the lease.

because i learned my lesson the most in the last rent, i made sure when i rent a place in sg that i have to make sure there is no leakage problem in the house... how do i know? just by looking at the ceiling to see if there are any water stain...apparently, they told me the piping system in sg apartments are ok..so i felt more relieved... then guess what?! after 3 - 5 months, 3 of the AC at home didnt work...not knowing why and lazy to find out since nobody came to visit...i only have the inspection done after a year...guess what? the AC guy came two weeks ago to test, came back yday to check the result and concluded the AC pipes have holes...and i am now spending my weekend at home, waiting for the workers to open up the ceiling and walls, drill here and there to fix the pipes...it's dusty everywhere and a waste of my time :(

maybe i can just regard this as doing good deeds for the landlords then...baby sitting the house on behalf :( stuck at home and needed to cancel my appointment with my friends.

trouble maker

Recently, there is a trouble maker in our office...she appears like a hurricane and disappears like a hurricane, leaving sh*t to everyone... initially, i thought i'm the only one who had been sabotaged but today, i learned that i'm not the only one... everyone is complaining except for one person....who is, OUR BOSS! thus, the hurricane becomes more powerful and sh*ts even more on everyone...

i think there are many types of trouble maker...  let me summarize for all of you:

1. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people but easily detected by the victim and other people. Thus, the trouble is not successfully received. This is the weakest trouble maker of all!
2. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people but less visible to other people because the trouble is not complex or influential enough, thus, having less impact to other people. As such, it is received by other people. This type of trouble maker is well accepted by people.
3. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people but because the trouble maker is well liked by everyone, thus, people do not mind the trouble.
4. Trouble maker who knowingly/unknowingly creates trouble to other people takes all the credit for the trouble solved by other people and push all the fault to you when thing go wrong... Worst of all, the trouble maker will force you to go through all the trouble unwillingly by getting support from the boss and the boss helps happily because for some reasons, her trouble seems reasonable and the victim should be troubled. In addition, the boss himself may be the victim sometimes but he doesn't know or doesn't feel it or just loves it...whichever it is...

I can stand 1 - 3, but #4 pisses me... unfortunately, we have #4 in our office and adored by my boss...we, as normal people, do not understand the rationale behind...what can we say or do unless we want to lose our job? siiiiiigggghhhh

11.11

This year was really busy that i forgot to leave my footprint on our big day! crap..but it's ok... life goes on. this year, there was nothing big... just like every other day... every year at this time, i would start reminiscing about life...hhmm..let's see what i have in my mind this year...

*think*

*think twice*

*think harder*

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Well, this year, i did not particularly have any life sharing moments or thoughts...somehow, as you get "younger", you tend to just don't pay too much attention to it anymore...one thing for sure, we tend to forget the number.. this year, we celebrated with a group of friends and we had a small monthly celebration in office~

we were supposed to celebrate this in office with a group of november babies...somehow on that day, there were only two of us...ahhh... so pai say... haha...