Mar
20
2009
Have fully jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. I’m only saying this 500+ updates later! Perhaps, as I was telling a fellow blogger, it’s a justified form of updating my oft-neglected blog, at least something new appears on the front page every now and again. Anyway - if you’re on, here’s a link to mine.
I haven’t been online much lately. I have finally caught up on my regular blog-read run after about a month (by opening all the links on my links page at once.. crash!) and when the occasional urge strikes, I find myself logging onto WoW only to use up a cooldown or two, to buy that damn Oracle Egg, or to de-stress killing furbolgs. I guess it’s safe to say I am bored with WoTLK content, and there is zero drive to finish the game. I wonder what 3.1 will bring..
Anyway. You guys haven’t been updating much either! Nice to see LL finally wrote something for our reading pleasure though.. am not sure how she finds the time since she has been travelling so much lately.
So what have I been up to?
Good question! Nothing overly blog-worthy, evidently. Except..
Oh yes, I went to the gym yesterday. Signed up, even. I have a bet, which I probably mentioned here before, to work my increasingly fat arse out. Ooh - the last time I called myself that was unfortunately within earshot of a pretty large woman, who gave me a very dirty look - and I wasn’t really even kidding about myself!
Didn’t do a lot last night, except a 30 minute crunch class which was actually pretty OK. I more than survived it! I guess all those lame jokes I make to make myself laugh has paid off somewhat.. what? Oh, nevermind. I should also mention I failed the fitness test on a treadmill last week..
Perhaps now is a good time to stop smoking, also.
Food for thought.
I am HUNGRY (it’s lunchtime!!)
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Jun
8
2008
So after a long and interesting journey from KL I am finally here. At my uncle’s place at Mt Gravatt now enjoying the cosy new house, fantastic “winter” weather and good company. Brunei was interesting to say the least. I spent most of my time at Coffee Bean until they shut, cutting me off from internet access. The remaining of my transit was like a stage for an airport horror story - it was empty. Except for an interesting heavily-tattooed female trucker I met who loved to talk. No guesses how I spent the rest of my time there. Decided not to go out of the airport as it was a huge hassle. Brunei can wait.
My flight to Brisbane had a total of 18 passengers. Which meant class A service and as many seats as I wanted for my own. I didn’t think it would be that empty, but apparently midnight flights usually are, perhaps also because Royal Brunei doesn’t serve alcohol. I got through customs pretty fast and spent the rest of the day in the city with the family and wishing I WAS on holiday because I everything at Aldo was half off. I didn’t bring my boots.
Met up with Roy and Phuong today after sleeping through till past noon. We went shopping down the coast. Or at least Phuong did :) Had dinner at a Malaysian restaurant much to Phuong’s chagrin - but as Roy says, it’s a Malaysian thing.
Am dead tired now, for some reason even though I am two hours ahead of home I seem to be quite sedated past 10pm here and am looking forward to tomorrow because apparently a) I came at the right time, it’s the Queen’s birthday tomorrow thus no one is working; b) The sales just started (but unfortunately I have to abstain.. boo hoo); and c) Family taking me to Harbourtown.. which is ironically.. an outlet shopping mall that just got extended. Sniff (ref: point b).
Weather has been awesome. Apparently I brought the sunshine with me from KL, past couple of weeks have been wet and gray.
Has been great to see the fam, especially my awesome cousins and Roy & Phuong who are practically also fam. I’m lucky to have familiar faces greeting me; perhaps that is why it hasn’t quite sunk in that I’ve finally done it, still feels like a holiday, even after the lovely customs officer who stamped my passport gave me a very sweet welcome and Roy telling the sales woman at Fendi that I now live here too. I wonder when it will really sink in.. as my cousin Faith points out, I’m now homeless and unemployed.. haha!
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