party @ haven @ arif

back at work after a loooooooooong day of entertaining. had relatives (mine and hub's) over for lunch yesterday and another dinner function for our friends.

remind me NEVER to EVER host 2 functions on the same day. it's back-breaking work even though we catered food that set me back by 1k. come to think of it, i didn't even have the chance to eat dinner since most of the guests in the evening were my pals and spent most of my time as a tour guide, showing them around my new home.

our last guests left at around midnight. xian, was on a sugar high after consuming all the new year goodies and the two girls were still up at 1am. they were just about to snuggle in when the power on the first floor tripped. blackout. hub suspected that our old refrigerator had short circuited. he waited for about 10 minutes before switching the power back on.

but the damage was done as the kids were suddenly wide awake and didn't knock off to bed till about 2am. and just as the hub and i were about to turn in, the home security siren went off.

it was W-A-I-L-I-N-G and S-C-R-E-E-C-H-I-N-G and the blue light was flashing. this time we shut the power down for a longer time. the hub thought maybe it was the outdoor lights that were problematic and switched those off. we got some eye-shut...till about 5 am when the cisco alarm sounded again.

^#&#*(@

WTF!!!!!!!

hub called up cisco to ask for assistance. this time we suspected the alarm itself was short-circuiting the ground floor. the cisco guys told us we had to disarm the alarm by removing the battery. so i held up the torch light while my poor groggy hub had to unscrew the metal box to figure out which was the battery. this is only a temporary measure to drown the sound. the cisco folks told us a technician would drop by to inspect the system for us later on in the day.

what a way to end our day. or start, whichever way you look at it.

this morning i woke with a jump at 7.05am and tried but couldn't get xian up. hub mumbled that he would "settle her" and i went off to work. (last i checked, xian was an hour late for school). as you can very well imagine, my head's spinning from the lack of sleep...and YES, i'm back at the office trying to finish my assignment. not very successful because i'm still zonked out, which is why i've taken to blogging about this while waiting for my brain to kick-start...

think i should pop in 2 panadols and get on with the essay.