The Reunion ended at 4am, and he has a 7am DFA appointment
the following day. So instead of going
back home to his place which is all the way to the South, I suggested that he
just spend the night in the nearby motel. He was hesitant at first; he doesn’t
want to stay in that place alone. Hmmm, I know what all you are thinking, but
no. I didn’t stay with him. I dropped him off to the motel and I drove home
which is just 20 meters away.
So I went
home and of course my mom was ready with all the nagging. So I just lay down
and keep quiet, tried to go to sleep while my mom continued to nag me as if I am
a 13 year old. I didn’t get to sleep at all, so at 5:30 am I stood up and took
a shower and left. I will go with him to DFA and also to meet up with my
friends from the previous job. Our meeting time is at 6 am. So I called his
phone to wake him up so he can prepare also. But! His phone is off!! So I had
to go to him and wake him up myself. Can you imagine, going to a motel asking
if there is a guy who checked in at 4am alone? It is so embarrassing!!! But I have to do it, if
not, he will miss his DFA appointment and all the plans about him going to Brunei with me
will be shattered. So I went there and ask the guard and the receptionist if there
was a guy who checked in at 4am, please call his room and wake him up.
Everybody was shocked; they said they cannot give me any info on who came in
and with whom. I sounded like a wife trying to find his philandering husband
haha. They said a lot of couples checked
in at that time, they cannot pin point which one is his room. I said, he is
alone, that will narrow down your choices. How many customers check in alone in
a motel, right? So I successfully convinced them that I just had to wake him
up, because we have to go to a very important appointment. After 15 to 20 minutes of humiliating argument the receptionist agreed to call the room which they think he is in. So we found him!!! They called his room and woke him up.
I was
scared that they will call the wrong room well, lucky he is the only one who
checked in alone, and we we’re able to trace the correct room. He answered and
in a few minutes he is down and we left.......... oopps it wasn’t that easy. He lost the
room number and after a few more minutes of looking and arguing with the staff
he eventually paid 300 for the lost room number. So we hurriedly left that
awful place, disgusted, humiliated, tired, me without any sleep, him without a bath. So you can just imagine how bad our day is going. Now that I am
thinking about it, I can already smile, but that was such a horrible
experience. To continue, we took a cab, already 45 minutes late on our
respective appointment. In the cab, I checked the documents he brought for
the dfa, he doesn’t have the most important of all the “appointment”. So, we
kind of argue about it. I am really losing my cool at this point, but I tried my
best to stay calm. We are already running late, and another unfortunate event happened. There is a fun
run in the area and the roads are closed, all the bad luck was thrown to us
that day. Since I had to meet up with my
friends, and they have been waiting for an hour already. I get off the taxi and
walked run going to the meeting place. I was walking faster than the
participants of the fun run. I met up
with them for a few minutes while he wait at McDonalds, as I try to talk to somebody
inside dfa to let him in, even without the appointment. Good thing, my friends agreed for all of us
to go to McDonalds instead while we try to mend the problem about the missing
doc. I left and run again towards McDonalds. So when I got there, he was
sitting so relaxed as if there is no problem and even asked if I have a pen.
Pissed off, I went to the store next to McDonalds and bought a pen, handed it
to him and rolled my eyes. So this is a nuclear bomb just about to explode any minute.
That’s the time my friends got there and I hurriedly bought them breakfast,
said a quick hi and told them I have to leave them again to accompany him at
dfa.
We got
there, I got in first, tried to talk to them that the webpage malfunctioned
that’s why we didn’t get to print the appointment, lame excuse right? So they checked their system and he really
didn’t have an appointment in their system. We are sure he has one, we received
the email. I was the one that set that appointment. So with all these trouble, we
went out dfa not getting what we went there for. To think I even flew in from Brunei just to make
sure he gets this one done.
You think
by this time the nuclear bomb that has been regaining strength every “malfunction”
that we encounter will blew off? No, not really. We are both calm and accepted that it wasn’t’
meant to be. So we walked back to McDonald’s, holding each others hands and had breakfast with my friends
and continued our day as if nothing bad happened. We are both smiling and he is
still very sweet to me, as if we did not argue at all. After breakfast, we said
goodbye to my friends and we took a cab going to the PTA meeting that is set
for that morning. So that was my morning, no sleep, a lot of arguments, a lot of
misfortunes, but we still manage to smile and hold each others hands and look
at each other the same magic in our eyes, the same as the night before.
He has to
go to work, and I have to go to the PTA meeting, and we are already at least an
hour late but we still cannot seem to let go. We passed by a convenience store and bought some drinks. We practically spent, 16hours together and we still cant seem to let each other go. I convinced him to go to work and he finally dropped me off the school, and didn’t leave my side unless I promised
to see him again later that night.
This is the original proposal for the Ferry Fort Terminal for Seria. The reception lobby will be the focal point. I want it to look inviting and refreshing, after all the main reason why your are doing a renovation is to make it improve it, right? If not, so why the heck you will go through all that trouble. I will understand if they will tell me that the reason why they didn't like the design because of budget constraints, but please don't tell me that you don't like the design because its "too beautiful?" As ironic as it seems, I have to change the design to make it not look beautiful. It is so unnatural for a designer to design something that is not beautiful. That is the first and foremost goal in creating any design. In any design, an architect or any designer for that matter considers a lot of things, and a very big part of the design is aesthetics. So imagine, how shocked I am to hear that they don't like the design because it is beautiful?
