3 days and counting

by the way, the person i got for kris kringle LOVED the present i bought. christmas lunch was awesome. it's good to get away from the city and just take a lil bit of country side during weekdays. most of the time was spend taking pictures, texting supervisor who was on the far end of the table, looking at people's expression when they opened their christmas pressies and guessing who got who for kris kringle. then on the way home we texted the supervisor again and asked him when is the next party at his place? haha. too funny. it's becoming very common now...SELF INVITATION.

a fussy pot hunt for the prefect gift

it's hard being a fussy pot. i will not buy something for someone unless i really really like it myself. went looking for present to buy for my kris kringle for our lab christmas lunch with the bunch and ended up walking for 2 hours and no present at hand. helped the others pick out their gifts for their kris kringle like in the first 5 mins of entering the first shop. but no luck in my hands. it's particularly hard to shop for someone who you are not closely acquainted to. and the fact that it's meant to cost only AUD 20 makes it even harder to buy something meaningful. i don't want to be classified as the USUAL people who buys chocolates or hand cream or bath products. i want to buy something more personal or quirky, out of the norm.

off to go look again...hopefully the person appreciates my effort.

then have to go marketing for pot luck tonite. so sleepy...

if i was a tenant

what i meant was if i was a REAL tenant, life would not be as easy breasy. the bunch of us were discussing about how the average rental for an apartment have increased so much over just one year. how with the same price we used to be able to afford a much bigger place. one even mentioned that the rental rates are predicted to rise by at least 20% in year 2009. then i started to think to myself...if my rental was AUS 750 now, by year 2009 it would have been AUD 900! omg...seriously shocking! and i used to think increment of AUD 50-70 is totally ridiculous for a student and now it's in increments of AUD 100-150++. fortunately, my landlord is my hommie's relative and she said that she will not increase my rent over the period of my stay. hopefully she keeps to her words. it was all verbal, no black and white documentations whatsoever. you never know...money gets the better of someone. *fingers crossed

15 days and counting

I've set up a countdown to the day I'll finally be home in the comfort of my own home. For a month that is. When you think about it, one month is not that long after all. What can you do in a month? Apart from the whole week spend trying to inform people that I'm going to be back for a month, and another week spend waiting for people to call me out. All the supposedly super busy working friends, that's two weeks down the drain and the last week spend trying to inform people I'll be flying off, by then I'll probably be busy packing up and doing last minute stocking up. Then what about the weekends that I'll be away, one weekend in Johor, one weekend in Taiping, one weekend in Hong Kong and that actually only leaves me with only two more precious weekend.

So I guess I'm saying, if you think of me as a friend who is worth catching up with, please find time to do so and not say weekend after weekend to wait for weekends to meet up. Do you get what I'm trying to say? What about those friends who says, I don't have your number? I've never changed hp number ever since the first time I got my phone. You'll probably find my number in the mist of people whom I've not contacted in ages.

I'll be the one with flexible timing. I can just imagine those days where everyone is at work and I'll be super bored. And come night time would be when people with be more available. And it's also the time parents will be home and expecting me to spend time at home with them? But that is if only got people want to catch up with me then I'm sure we can work something out aye?

See you all soon!