it’s not all a bed of roses…

actually, i typed out a long post yesterday, but somehow didn’t remember to save it and everything was lost! argh!!! so frustrated… but i’ll try to remember what i wrote and retype it.

ok now, the previous post was for the benefit of my parents. in this post, i’m gonna paint the real picture… I HATE MY APARTMENT!

first of all, i discovered that quite a few things are faulty and not in working order. ok, the few burnt light bulbs are still within the vicinity of acceptable. but i found that the balcony door’s doorknob has broken off. which means i can’t even close the door! the building supervisor said he’s already asked the building maintenance guy to fix it, but as it was a friday, the hardware shop was closed, bla bla bla… so i thought, ok, i’ll just lock my bedroom door when i sleep at night, and it’s gonna be one night anyway. that was when i found out that my bedroom door can’t be locked! heck, it can’t even close properly! letting my imagination run wild, i can just see someone climbing up onto my balcony (on only the 2nd floor) and coming into my room… argh!!! so you all know just how “well” i slept that night, huh?

next, i discovered the shower head is cracked. which means water will be squirting all over the place when i take my bath. and it being my first day there, i hadn’t had time to get a shower curtain yet. so when i took my bath, my whole bathroom got wet again, right after i’ve painstakingly wiped and mopped everything dry! and i do hate a wet bathroom!!

and that’s not all… when i finally worked up the mood to start cleaning my kitchen, the dirtiest part of the apartment, i discovered that the kitchen sink is blocked and water is seeping out from behind the cabinets onto the floor. called the accommodation supervisor, and he sent the maintenance guy again. ok, fine. but when i wanted to continue my cleaning, again i found water on the floor! so again, i called the supervisor to tell him that the drainage is blocked and my kitchen is flooding. and again, he sent the maintenance guy, who came with the black pump thingy. after he left, again, i tried to continue my cleaning, only to discover AGAIN, that there are water on my kitchen floor! argh!!! that’s when i decided to give up, as it was so late already and i really can’t take it anymore.

the next day, saturday, after i got back from ikea, i called the supervisor to tell him that water is still seeping out from behind my cabinets. after complaining about the previous tenant for not reporting all these to him before i move in, he promised to ask the maintenance guy to come again. but he didn’t come, so i called the supervisor again on sunday morning to remind him. the last i checked, the supervisor said that it’s quite a major repair and the maintenance guy will need to schedule a time to take care of it. but he promised me that he’ll do it, as well as replacing some rotten wood at the base of my cabinets. as of today, monday night, it’s still not fixed! haiz…

and i don’t know why, but everything feels so sticky here! even though i’ve wiped and mopped, but still they feel so sticky, especially the floor! maybe it’s because the air-cond is on all the time, so the tiles are always cold, allowing moisture and dampness to collect on them, hence the stickiness? i dunno, but I HATE IT!!!

but wait, there’s more! the worse thing of all is, i discovered cockroaches in my kitchen!!! a lot A LOT A LOT of them! it’s like the headquarters of cockroaches here! disgusting!!! on saturday, i bought a can of insect spray and i think i used up the whole can of it. i had wanted to take a picture of the dead cockroaches that i swept up to show everyone here, but thought the better of it. don’t wanna disgust you guys! but it was really disgusting! i even had a nightmare about cockroaches that night! and it seems that it’s a problem here at the accommodation, coz on sunday, they had a quarterly pest control exercise. but my colleagues said it’s useless, coz the roaches always come back. and so very true! when i came home from work on sunday evening, i saw some dead bodies on the floor, but also, one or two live ones still walking about my kitchen as if they own the place! argh, disgusting!!!

last saturday night, after seeing all the water on my kitchen floor and the yucky cockroaches, i suddenly felt so defeated. everything was so overwhelming, that i cried for the first time since coming here. i hate it that my apartment is so empty, that everything is broken and my kitchen is infested by cockroaches. i hate not having an internet line and having to go down to the common room to connect to the wi-fi, with their couch that reeks of indian hair oil. i hate having to ride in the company bus to and from work like a factory worker, and if i miss it, i’ll need to take a cab to work, which is freaking expensive. i hate it that my shipment has not arrived and i can’t even cook water in my apartment, but have to go downstairs to fill my water bottle. i kept asking why did i put myself through all these?? i was doing ok in kl… why did i want to come here and face all these things?? i miss home, my family and my friends. i miss the apartment i had in kl. i miss driving. everything! heck, i even miss my old job! it was the worse case of homesickness ever! i wanna go home!!! :(

well, that overwhelmed feeling has passed now, but i still hate living here. wrote an e-mail to the accommodation supervisor today, with a copy to the hr director, about all the pending jobs to be done as well as the roaches. so hopefully all these headaches will go away soon!