Down on luck!

I seem to be in a spate of bad luck! Things' been happening to me the past few weeks. First it was the washing machine, then the car accident, the unknown internet disconnection, just to name a few. The latest is I just lost my parking permit and one for my courtesy car. I'd been placing the paper and my own car permit (quickly ran downstairs)

I haven't even finished writing this post and yet another unfortunate thing happened. I'd forgotten I was reheating my Bubor Pulut Hitam and the pot of gooey black rice was blubbling away and had overflowed onto the stove. Luckily it wasn't on high heat. Sadly, I'd just cleaned the stove before going out earlier. My dessert wasn't burnt, there was just the mess to clean up. Argh! Oh and not forgetting I was (again!) reheating some braised ribs in a pot for A this evening and had conveniently forgotten about it and went out until I was on my way home and I rang back to ask if he had turned off the stove. He did, after he'd finished his dinner which meant he didn't know about the ribs and so didn't eat them.

To continue with what I'd originally set out to write, the piece of paper and car permit had been placed on the dashboard for the past week with no incident whatsoever. The last time I saw them was when I came home after picking Louisa from school. Earlier, I had loaded my father-in-law's luggage into the boot and A came home, I went into the house to take a few pictures, thinking it'll be very fast, father-in-law closed the door to prevent the draft from coming in. We happily took pictures and then I got out again and realised, much to my horror, I'd left the boot wide open. Thankfully, the luggage is still there. I then drove my father-in-law to the airport.

As I was about to reach home, I suddenly remembered I had to renew my courtesy car parking permit tomorrow. Before I got out of the car, I reached out to the side compartment for the permits when I realised they weren't there. I started to panic. I searched the whole car umpteen times, searched the roadside, the house, EVERYWHERE! But they just couldn't be found. I gave up searching outside as it was raining. Had they flown out when I was at the airport? Did someone nick it while we were taking pictures in the house? This is the first time I didn't appreciate the central lock. Otherwise, only the boot will be unlocked and not the whole car.

I just wished I will not be penalised for replacing my parking permit. When one's down on luck, everything seems to go wrong. I hope it will turnaround soon, like RIGHT NOW!