Posted by Anonymous on 2014/05/11 under Uncategorized Today is not too bad, just need to vent off three things: (1) Grandchildren of neighbour are really noisy in the garden. Just as I sit down to write something complicated and boring. Put ear plugs on and closed the window. Though I do need ventilation from time to time. (2) Colleagues at work keep expecting me to do more work. They always have the misconception that I am free / not busy. While in actual fact, I’ve been working till late every night, with very little sleep and becoming unhealthy. I’m sick and tired of having to say to them my workload is too heavy. Because everyone says they are busy, no one would believe how genuinely busy I am. And it is not in my nature to say to everyone how busy I am – it’s simply not appropriate to go around showing off how busy one is. I don’t have the time for that. The annoyance comes from people’s assumption. How could they assume you to be not busy? How could they expect you to have the obligations to say yes to whatever they ask you to do? And why is it always me that has to explain again and again how busy I am? I don’t want to keep on explaining just because of people’s misconception. (3) My annoying mum keeps hassling me because she wants me to buy a house. While I don’t feel I am ready to. Firstly, I don’t have enough funds. Secondly, my job is not stable. Thirdly, things are more complicated for a foreigner to buy a house here and I don’t bloody have time to check all those up or deal with all the complicated legal stuff. But she keeps calling, keeps hassling. Over many years of my life, she’s been giving me difficult goals to achieve. I managed to get decent grades at school because I was a good child. My mother has a really bad nature. She keeps reminding people things that need to be done, keeps chasing people up, keeps forcing her will on others. She has to have her way. All my life I’ve been so desperate to escape from my family because they are a bunch of emotionally immature people who create unnecessary drama all the time. When life is so difficult, you don’t want to come home and deal with more silly arguments and coercion and stuff like that. Now that I managed to escape overseas, I don’t want to take on another tall order from this annoying unreasonable mum. She is retired, she can have all the time on the planet to come up with all sorts of silly plans but please don’t drag me into them. Please stop telling me what to do. I have enough trouble at work. No one here to support me or even to talk to. Please don’t add to my burden. 🙁