Another blog. I'm the inconsistent blogger, from diary-x, to the dabbling at geocities, then blogger...started and stopped. But it's fun to to look back and read your old posts. And see what you feel four years ago, and relive the times as if you can turn back time. So that's why there's another blog now, I feel like writing, and i think I want to have the chance to recall a few years later. I am most afraid of losing memories. photos, letters help in the recalling, blogs too.
But I never thought my first post will be about this, a complaint about the govt. You see there is this lift-upgrading scheme. I don't want it, it'll be noisy, dusty, when they are knocking a hole out of the wall where we can now call it semi-private (shared with my 1 neighbour). You need to pay for it. Their argument to get people to vote for it kind of sucks, at least for me. "You see, if all the other blocks are agreeable to it and get the upgrade, which is heavily subsidised, then your unit's market valuation won't be as good as theirs." Heck, if they want the lift then go to the right floors, and choose the right blocks. My unit might be valued more than the other blocks with the extra privacy. I find it absurd that they will be building a lift shaft for the corner unit. For that ONE unit for goodness sake. Their unit's value will increase for sure, a private lift at the door.
So, I tell my mum, vote against the upgrade. AND.....yeah, the govt ppl manning the voting booth managed to persuade her to turn the vote around. Boy was I pissed. And lost my temper. I felt bad after that, for losing it at my mum, cos it was not her fault, but whoever the man/woman who obviously does not know what voting should be like. EXtra pissed because just the night before they came up to talk to us (I was the one who entertained them, my sisters were watching tv), and sold all the benefits of the lift upgrade. It felt like hard selling. I hate hard selling, I cannot stand it when people try to tell me what to do when they don't have the right, authority or my respect to do that.
Now it's too late. Sometime later I might be posting about how irritated by the upgrades.
Oh ya, before i forget, my blog url, "anergac", was the generated image when I set up the blog, sounded like word but isn't. But I used it anyway, saved me some cells to think about what nick/url/title to put. I hope I blog more often. Ciao.