Tulan about books
If I had blogged about this last night, this post would be full of foul cuss words and wife bashing again. Not that there aren’t any now, just perhaps without much tulan-ness as I felt last night.
I haven’t been feeling well. Perhaps pickup a viral infection from dotter when I took her to the doctors a few nights ago. Imagine she had to call me at 2am to tell me that she threw up. But forget about that. This post is about what happened last night.
I wasn’t feeling well. I had a slight fever. My head was hurting. The heat from the past few days wasn’t helping. Although yesterday was much better, it was cloudy and windy. I opened up my balcony to enjoy the breeze and wanted to go visit ‘Chou Kung’ oledi (Is this correct ah? Chou Kung? The kung you visit when you go to sleep. My Cantonese fail I know) :P
Around 11ish I get a call on my mobile. The mother of my children calling. We had a few phone calls between us the past week and a few issues as well which I should have blog about but again did not because that’s how I’m feeling about blogging on these personal stuff on this blog nowadays cause I’m just trying to appreciate the clouds and not judge anyone and dunno what anymore. :P
Those phones calls were just the normal stuff regarding the kids, regarding her parents and a loan. None of her famous hostility. So I picked up the call again last nite, totally not expecting what was going to happen.
From the get go, she asked me (in a tulan tone of voice and the speed of a freight train) why I bought so many books for the kids, especially dotter. She says she was going through dotter’s room and noticed that dotter had many books on her book shelf and the shelf on the wall. "Why you buy so many books ah!!!? Chee sin ah you!?"
WTF rite? So I like bookstores and I like to buy books. We used to go together and they would choose something for themselves whenever. Nowadays I pick up books for the kids and pass it to them whenever I see them. Not all the time.
So what’s wrong with having too many books I asked. Dotter likes to read anyway.
She says hor… the books I buy hor… very easy to read wor… not dotter’s standard wor… I’m not helping to develop dotter’s brain by buying all these books for small children wor…
WTF? She’s only going to be nine this year. I don’t buy books for someone in kindie you know. None of those A for Apple, B for Boy type of books. I buy books that my dotter normally reads, Enid Blyton, Hannah Montana series - which are her current favourites. Those type of books.
Recently dotter didn’t have any more reading material, she asked me if she could read my books that I had left behind. She’s currently reading Dave Pelzer’s A Child called It which she’s able to understand. Any words she doesn’t understand she’ll look up a dictionary. I DO NOT think the books I buy are that easy for an 8 year old. Not as easy as her mother says anyway.
So she rages on and on about the books. Bla, bla, bla. Fark, fark, fark, fark. The tone of her voice causes me to have a brain freeze. I’ve never heard anyone rage on for so long about books.
I was just feeling really fucking tired because I was unwell. I was sweating because my blood was already boiling. My separuh masak telurs where one level away from exploding! Ended up having a shouting match over the phone about books! Tiu niasing books you know! Got nothing better to fight about issit!? If it wasn’t because I like my phone so much I would have threw it against the wall. A cheap old mouse went in it’s place instead.
 Perhaps next time I should buy books like these. |
Books you know! ‘Sor’ meh? WTF!? Siao meh!? How lah! How!? Dunno lah! Very hot ah!
The Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics - This is first title my dotter learn to read when she was 5.
So what CAN you buy for A? Makeup? Sunnies hairband? Ipanema thongs??
Re the above, never went beyond the first page…
Reply : U feeling sampat today issit? :P
Comment by kat — 22 April 2009 @ 12:57 pm
Yo buddy, chill chill. I perfectly understand what you’re going through. For your errr… ex-wife to do that to you is just too much. I read books that are entertaining and stimulates my mind. I mean, so long as your dotter enjoys the books, it definitely will help in the growth of her mind, one way or another, just maybe not the way your ex-wife might thinks.
Just chill man, you know we have your back. Stay cool man, losing your cool, you would have lost half the battle. Shouting with her more will only encourage more fights in the future. Shun her aside each time she tries to pick a useless fight. A person can’t argue with a wall and she will get so fed up she won’t even bother starting a fight next time. Hahaha… Chill bro… chill… Cheers… :)
Reply : Ok, ok… chilling, chilling. :P
Comment by @lViN — 22 April 2009 @ 1:55 pm
u angry that time v farnie la..
Reply : We’re not living together u know.
Comment by a n g e l e s — 22 April 2009 @ 3:40 pm
She must miss not having you at home to fight with. =P
Reply : Should have asked her to call u instead.
Comment by justin — 22 April 2009 @ 4:49 pm
Niasing!!U actually dulan-ing or u joking?HAHAHA
U so sayang ur old phone ar??
MCH!!The mother of ur child abit sot sot dei mia..no one to fight d,gaduh with u!
Reply : Both I guess.
Still new wat.
Comment by Pookyma — 22 April 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Is not about the books. I think she must be in bad mood and want to take it out on you. What to do…you have to ‘yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan’
Reply : Yeah, I will yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaann. :P
Comment by Gertrude — 22 April 2009 @ 7:52 pm
I think she just want to find some topic to talk to you la … LOL … she too bored with the two kids jor …. need you to balance up her life ma …. :P
Reply : Too bored? Should invite her to join the FB cloud group. :P
Comment by Shannon — 22 April 2009 @ 9:49 pm
she is just using the books thingy as an excuse to ’scold’ you. she very unhappy with you mah.
Reply : Like dat cham lor.
Comment by mistipurple — 22 April 2009 @ 10:09 pm
have a feeling that ur wife hor… really “eat full nothing to do”… OR she just miss u.. but duno how to say it out.. haha ” i know its a bit lame– but, hey this i learned from tvb 1 hor ”
Reply : Yeah maybe she miss me. :P
Comment by amanda — 22 April 2009 @ 10:17 pm
Its not the best time to pick up a fight with u. But you will have to endure this, ‘yan yan yan yan’
Reply : Yeah, yan yan yan. I will.
Comment by leyaw — 22 April 2009 @ 10:18 pm
she’s still angry at u ler, so ma simply find a topic to tar sei lei lor. or perhaps ur dotter was spending too much time reading the books instead of doing her homeworks and studying for exams?
Reply : Huh! Talking abt exams. She called me just to tell me that dotter did the best that she’s ever done in her recent exams. She made a point that without me around dotter is excelling in her studies. As if I was the one who was affecting dotter’s studies when I was around.
Comment by jjmm — 23 April 2009 @ 12:13 am
Fighting because of book?!!! CHEE SIN ar you!!! LOL!!! :D
Reply : Yes I AM! :P
Comment by Clare — 24 April 2009 @ 8:13 am
Hmmmm Do u want my medical textbooks? Let dotter read. Si beh thick wan… u can be a doctor liao if u can finish reading the whole damn book. When u beh song liao, u can throw or drop the book on someone’s head, confirm kena liao sure concussion wan or at least coma?…. summore the books put in ur living room hor can eksyen eksyen sikit like what my parents did with my books bcos hor… 1 blardy textbook si beh expensive about rm300-500. If ex-wifey complain mah just drop the book on her and she pengsan and thus… silene and PEACE! =P
I vote for wolrd peace!
Reply : Then how do you carry ur books to class? I bet u have to drive a 4WD with all the books. :P
Comment by littlepolaris — 24 April 2009 @ 9:56 pm
ooops sorry too excited, world spell wrongly =P
Reply : Must be bcoz u read all those medical books until mata sepet oledi isist? :P
Comment by littlepolaris — 24 April 2009 @ 9:56 pm
On surface it seems that 2 person are arguing over small little thing but the fact is, underneath that small little thing lies one huge unsolved issue… and THAT is the actual cause of the argument!
Download and listen to this song – Mad by Neyo…
Reply : Yeah you are rite.
Comment by gnes — 27 April 2009 @ 12:37 pm
haha… nothing to fight de so books will do too. gawd, if my hubs buy books for my kids, i wud love it man. i love books! haha!
Reply : No wonder u so smart.
Comment by Irene — 7 May 2009 @ 10:20 pm