Me: I have to talk to Sean about the car
Ma: Well, how much...aaaaay! What is this movie! Why is Michael Jackson turning into a werewolf!
Me: Mom! That's Thriller! How can you not know Thriller?!?
Ma: Well, I don't know. I haven't seen this before. He was in a movie theatre, and there was a girl now the girl is running and running.

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Ma: What is that sound
Me: what sound? That's me typing cos I'm chatting while talking to you. (via Skype)
Ma: It sounds like popcorn. You're popping popcorn.
Me: Of course not! I'm just chatting!
Ma: There it is again! Who are you chatting with?!?
Me: Kat! One of my friends. Helloooo ma

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Ma: you sent me this thing for facebook. i don't know how to use this thing
Me: Of course not! I wouldn't send you an invite for facebook
Ma: It says its from you!
Me: Well, i guess it must have sent all my contacts automatically (wtf?)
Ma: Well I don't know. So I ignored it.
Me: Good!

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Kenny (the Kenyan): Michael Jackson is not dead! 
Kim: Of course not. I saw him at the disco last week. He was there. He was dancing. There was blood on the dance floor.
Kenny: No, I refuse to believe that he's dead. I'm sure he's just somewhere! Ask Victor
Victor (with a thick african accent): Yes! Like Tupac Shakur! Tupac Shakur is just somewhere out there
Kenny: With Michael Jackson.
Victor: With Michael Jackson!

Sacha, one of my closest friends here is moving to Juelich in Germany where she got a research job for her post doctorate. Her farewell party was German themed: Come as something German.

I decided to come as the song 99 Luftballoons (which you may or may not remember from the 80s) sang by Nena.
I had a shirt that said 99 but it kind of was tiny. And these are my balloons and I borrowed a blonde wig.

Here I am with Sacha, as the star of the party she came in a traditional German costume:



Not a lot of people dressed up - there was a girl in a red sweatshirt with a balloon that looked like me but I think i was better cos I had a blonde wig - but those of us that did, went all out.



Anne Frank (born in Germany) and Marlene Dietrich



with Heidi Klum, another German beer girl (costume modifications to outfit handmade!) and two tourists

Had a great time with everyone but will miss Sacha dearly. It won't be the same with out her!

I keep thinking that I've posted but when really I've just tweeted. Haven't had much to talk about these past few weeks. Life is going slowly but steadily, I'm learning to be more patient and am figuring more about my life and what I want to do slowly.

I've realised that I really need a vacation. If I don't go run away for a while and recharge and travel I get really cranky. I should have really gone to Byron Bay but that was not possible at the time. I'm going to have to figure out something soon - before September, by then I might have morphed into cranky uber bitch.

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coolbananas and I are meant to start a food blog.

Strangely enough, three years later my Vox account still exists! OMG. I am going to change the password and turn it over to Miel to figure out during boring office time, hahaha. We now need a better camera, tho Pia has volunteered to take pics.

Not that we cook anymore. We're perfectly capable of cooking, we just would rather eat out hahahaa.

Check out the food blog here will post more details when we get them.

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“Every tennis lover would like, someday, to play like Federer,” Philippe Bouin told me. “But every man wants to be Rafael Nadal. Which is different.”

Read a great article on Rafa, over here

sushi_star needs to see this site where they have pictures of his arms which will lead to more of our discussions on him.

Wimbeldon is coming soon!

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I miss reading about the football but the transfer rumors are driving me nuts.

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I have new music:

Paolo Nutini, Tori Amos, Dave Matthews, Mandy Moore, Alejandro Sanz, Alex Cuba (late, I know that one)

The Mandy Moore one sounds very adult contemporary, but I like it, its calm and relaxing. Alex Cuba is comforting as always. Tori is a bit less angsty then I remember. Dave sounds the same, again as always. Alejandro Sanz, I got his entire discography but have not listened to the whole thing yet. Paolo Nutini's is the only one I don't like in its entirety. I like a few songs, less than a handful even, the rest sounds very much like he's trying to go a bit jazzy big band. It works but its not what I was expecting. Ironically this is one of the albums (aside fr Alex Cuba, that you can't really download, its too hard to find) I actually paid for! Everything else was a download. I thought I'd be supportive of Paolo. Sigh, oh well.

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Off to bed to relax now, I think :)

Good night.

Everytime I'm stuck at work for a long time I always feel that I should be out there living my life instead. I need to have a plan to work for. I always feel lost without a goal.

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500 days of summer - which I kept referring to as 500 dates - was a fantastic movie. I could relate so much to her.

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There are two things in this world that I am afraid of: Love and Cockroaches.
Don't anybody use that line. I'm going to write a book with that in it someday.

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I am listening to Dave Matthews sing "I did it" on the ipod. I remember when this album came out we all felt that Dave had sold out and become pop-ish and masa. I don't even remember the title of this album.

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Kenny from my office told me to write a list of ten things I wanted in a man and he would find this man for me because he is good at matchmaking. Ken is very nice, and helpful but I am not sure about his matchmaking skills. I did say that I had a friend that should go first. (i.e. sushi_star ) and he said let's not complicate things. Just give me your list! I have not made one :P

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I love my new Diego icon, thanks to angelthorn

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Am reading Gomorrah now. Its really much better than the movie.

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I need to work out my budget. Work out my trip to New York. Clean my clutter. Put away my clothes. Go back to the gym.

Somehow I don't feel like doing anything but lying in bed for a week and not getting up. Just because I need some sleep.

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Back to monitoring ATMs now

Went to see "Breathless" at the Sydney Film Fest last Thursday. It was very violent but also bloody and funny at the same time. It was a Korean movie about a small time gangster with anger issues and the relationships he has in his life. I thought it was good, but could have ended earlier. The boys fell in love with the movie (except Jason, who agrees with me) and were repeating Korean curse words - the movie was full of them - the whole way home.

Jason took me home in his dad's two seater car. His dad is on holiday for a few months so Jason is minding the car. Its a 2 seater, convertible, 1978, i forgot the model and the make, white car that makes more noises than Pia's car, hahaha. I wanted to put the top down but it was cold and it was such a pain in the ass apparently to do that because its manually done with clips and everything. It was such a small car tho I do not know how he fit Bec and her two 23 kilo suitcases in when he picked her up in the airport the next day.

It was soooo foggy on the way home. I don't think I've ever seen it that foggy for that long. We kept going wow this feels like Europe. I liked the fog.

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Yesterday I had dinner with Rose at the Spanish tapas restaurant in Glebe. The head waiter type dude, who seats people, was this old Spanish guy. Rose was late, so he seated me first and when she came in, he almost wouldn't seat her. Then he said, "Oh you're with the chinese girl that's waiting by herself" with matching gestures to the eyes with his hands. Rose was completely abashed, "Excuse Me?" she said. And he apologized and showed her to our table which was in the back. She promptly told me and I was like, "Excuse me does he want me to tell him I'm not chinese in spanish, fucker?" and this other random waiter heard and got scared I think cos he was so nice to us the whole evening.

I get that for some Euros there is no difference, everyone from Asia is Chinese - this is normal especially for really old Europeans (like my friend's french grandma in law who still thinks she's chinese four years later) - but honestly, you live in Australia and have probably done so for a number of years. Your restaurant is next to a vietnamese one and a thai one. Must you generalise?

I'm not offended that you think I'm chinese. Technically I'm sure there's chinese in there somewhere. I was kind of pissed off last night that you generalised, in a country like this. If we were in Spain or some random non-multicultural country, but here? Seriously. Not all Asians are chinese! I don't expect you to know I'm filo, but really man. No wonder these Spanish people keep getting into trouble for racist remarks at sporting events. Better info, please.

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Today I'm off to see this Kazakhstani movie with Zuelen. But before that I have lunch with the ARRC and a naturopath appointment. Am a bit sad I didn't get to go to Byron with everyone, but at least I am working on Monday and will get time and a half plus plus. (YAY)

I feel tired like I didn't sleep well, tho I'm fairly sure I got at least 8 hours. I dreamt I had a cute white puppy named Christina and when I woke up the puppy was gone :( Sad.

Otherwise I'm listening to the new Dave Matthews album. I should really get that hard drive so I can finally reload my ipod. I also bought the new Nutini album cos I couldn't find a place to download it (clearly he's popular, but not THAT popular...)

Off I go now.

PS: Everyone watch GLEE! I love GLEE! Download GLEE!!!!

Hi, my name is Diego Luna. I am a hottie. I was in this movie in the Spanish film fest whose english title was "Just Walking"


( Solo Quiero Caminar )

I will post a review of my spanish viewing experience on book thingo. For now, this bit of gushing on diego luna will have to do...

I want a diego icon!!! (or ten)

Diego, please come here :)

I've been rather slack in posting this week. Largely because 7am starts don't make for much brain power at the end of the day. I have to get up around 5:20 and make my way to the bus stop for the 5:48am bus on weekdays. Next week I start at the slightly later time of 730am. So while y'all are still sleeping or getting up or jogging remember that I am on my way to work.

And that tomorrow I might have to take the bloody night bus to get to work on time. (WTF)

Other than that things have been fine. Work is ok.

I've been really trying to sleep early but lately that's been one epic fail. The earliest I've made it so far is between ten and ten thirty. This morning while walking to the Marion/Norton corner stop (better lighting at 530 am than the elswick st stop) I realised that first of all there are no joggers at 530 on Saturday and second, it might be time to get a car. I work Sunday mornings too, the earliest bus is at 5:58am, I think (I'm not taking the one at 5:04) so I could be late for work. Also its hard to get up and make it on Saturdays.

Continued from Saturday

So we lost 3-0 to Valencia. I'm not sure I want to watch the game, hahaah. Iker will probably be "emotionally distressed" again, as Kickette refers to it. Poor bb. So Barcelona wins the liga this year, as expected. Seriously, I'm a madridista, but I am realistic and you kind of could tell from the way it was doing earlier in the year how it was going to go. I had hoped they would do better in the second el clasico, but as a lot of the RM fans said, it wasn't that we lost, its more that we performed embarrassingly. For the record, Barca has done really well this season and I think they truly deserve to win the title. And yes, I am supporting them in the champions league even if it is weird bec I effing dislike Man U (I'm sorry Man U friends, i do) and I think for once it should be a non-english team!

Thanks to my office mate, I got a ride to work today and got to wake up at 540 instead of being on the bus by then (YAY). I have decided that I should really get a car, because it takes 15 minutes to drive to North Sydney on a weekend and we get free parking and seriously this 5am shit is difficult. So if anyone knows anyone who is selling a cheap second hand still good car, lemme know.

Rudo y Cursi

Last night we saw Rudo y Cursi at the Spanish film fest. This movie has Gael Garcia Bernal & Diego Luna as two brothers who are total hicks that are kindov stupid and really funny. They are discovered playing football and are taken to the big city to make a name for themselves. The ending is bittersweet but the whole thing is utterly hilarious. Gael also thinks he could be a singer, and OMG he makes a video that is so cheesy, and so bad its crazy funny. Would highly recommend it to everyone.

Sue Ellen and I are now super excited to see other Spanish Films at the filmfest. Miel & I are watching "just walking" on Saturday evening (Trish do you want to come). It also looks like I might do a double movie and see Chef's special with Len right after that (eeeee! exciting!).

I am going back to work now

sigh.

Computator!

Last Sunday I gave up & bought my Mac. I still love my PC and will keep dear old Damian till he decides to full on die and never turn on again, but he's got a few quirks like a wireless that will not turn on, some sound issues, and he hangs a lot. Also I think he's getting a bit tired. So I got him a younger sibling. And yes, I named my Mac "iker". I was kind of worried that I would open the box and get a girl computer - I know this is weird but I have had several computers over the years and it has not gone well for me when they are girls and yes my computers have genders - and I had no girl names. I was like, what will I name you? Fortunately, its a boy!

And yes, I am a geek & my computers are my babies.

I ended up paying half up front (thanks mum!) and putting the other half on my credit card. I was going to get financing but it was 24% interest (wtf!) so I just stuck it on the card as the interest was lower. My mum was very excited bec we will finally get to just use Skype, as the mic and camera are working but we are throttled, hahaha, so I said, uhm sorry mum we'll have to wait till Monday Apr 27, tho its looking a bit faster today.

I am still learning to use my MAC and would like to thank Sue Ellen & Gutsy for their extreme patience while I say things like, "But where'd it go?" "Haaaaaaa?". I promise to read MAC 101 soon, Len.


Work & Stolen ATMs

I started the week on a 7am shift. It was a bit strange getting on the bus at 540am each day. I missed it twice, and learnt that even if you get on the 6:07 bus you still make it to work. Its just that I don't get the extra time to walk leisurely and buy stuff. I also decided that I should buy fruit on the way to work everyday, instead of buying in advance so that I get fresh fruit and don't have all this random stuff sitting in my fridge kind of dying. I would also like to thank my team mate Kim, who got me coffee every morning because I got to work too early for coffee everyday. I do not know what is going to happen when we both do 7am at the end of May.

(PS: Ala, I get weekdays off from next week onwards, so if you're at uni & want to meet for coffee at some point on one of my days off, would love to catch up in Newtown, let me know!)

On Thursday, as I was walking to work a whole portion of the street got cordoned off and was full of police cars. A lady that was walking with me, stopped a cop and said, "Excuse me, that's my building. How do I get in? Should I just go home?" And the cop couldn't tell us what was going on. Later on we learnt that some guys had blown up one of the facade of the building - on the mezzanine level - where there were two ATMs, and somehow physically taken both ATMs out, and gone off with them.

The windows of the building up to 8 floors up got cracked or blown up. Dick Smith, the store underneath the ATMs had to close too, and I guess everyone else had to go do their business continuity plans and work elsewhere.

There have been a lot of attempts at random ATMs across NSW and beyond. Most of these attempts are not successful, but it creates a lot of hassle cos people blow up ATMs thinking/Ram into store fronts with cars, etc. thinking they'll get into safes but most of the time they just create a lot of damage and don't end up with any money.

Also, there have been quite a few skimming devices put on machines lately, so everyone please be careful, cover your hand when you put in your pin and check the place where you stick your card in to see if anything is suspicious. (Usually they put another card reader on top of the existing one and it juts out)

Surprises

On Tuesday I got my Kevin money! Thank you government stimulus. It promptly went to pay my credit card because of course I already spent it.

Wednesday Miel & I went to eat at Bills with Jason. We had a great dinner, I had a wagyu burger and she had pork belly. Jason had vego risotto, and we really enjoyed these risotto balls that were quite filling. They also had surprisingly good chorizo, better than half the Spanish restaurants I've been in, seeing as they tend to think grilled chorizo = burnt chorizo.

When I got home, I got a letter from the tax office saying, Kevin has paid you. (Yes, I know, thanks) And another letter that said, "We are delighted to inform you that we have accepted your application for citizenship!" YAAAAY Go Me!

I am finally, finally (almost) Aussie!

Now all I have to do is wait for the ceremony, which could take up to 6 months, and then I will be a citizen and can get my blue passport. I hope it doesn't take too long.

I also have to go to centrelink and advise them, so we can get our assurance of support back.

Then on Thursday, Jason called me to say, "My application has question marks next to the matches I have chosen. And my credit card has been charged"

So I went to FIFA saw my question mark, checked my card and even if I haven't received my confirmation email (Jason has!) I know thanks to the entry that says FIFA Johannesburg, I got my World Cup tickets .

SOUTH AFRICA HERE WE COME!

I am off to africa with Pia, Jao, Jason, Bec, Jojo, Rihan & possibly Madeline (who I don't understand how she could be Swedish and have to ask Jojo "What sport is this world cup for?" Look I know there are other sports that have world cups, but seriously?)

I got the news at work but I could not freak out because I was working. I told one team mate and I was going, there's a question mark do you know what this means? And despite being a massive football fan he'd never bought tickets so he couldn't explain it either. Fortunately my credit card has answered my question.

Jason is going to five games in CapeTown and I am going to do Follow Your Team/4 Games with Team Espana!!!
YAAAAAY!

So far we have absolutely no freaking clue where we are going to end up because its follow your team and we could go anywhere, plus they don't have a group yet, so we have no dates. I am presuming that because Spain won the Euros they automatically qualify (not that they haven't yet anyway) so there is no danger of ending up watching another team bec they don't qualify. [Does anyone have any idea when the groups are going to be released? crazy_girl_86? gaeuko_izar? promakos?]

I am planning to get a round the world ticket and taking my full five weeks (hell, six if my boss lets me) spending three ish weeks in Africa then heading over to Spain and some part of Europe. Jao & I plan to go to San Sebastian, and before that I will meet Sacha somewhere, because she is moving back to Europe this July.

And then somehow I'll go back to work! bwahahaha.

And that's all the exciting news for this week. Back to our regularly scheduled program :)

My proudest moment today:

Nirav (Arsenal) & Ryo (Liverpool) talking about the match at work

Ryo: something something Yossi
Me: Are you a scouser?
Ryo: Scouser? (laughs) Yeah, I am. Are you a football fan
Me: Yes!

Ryo: So what's her team?
Nirav: Madrid
Ryo: Really? She likes football?
Nirav: Yeah, she's pretty good actually.

I'm sooooo proud :) I am not just football frufru anymore hahaha

Usually, seriously I have patience with customer service. Having worked in CS for a bazillion years, really i try to be nice. But today, OMG I went to mc donald's to get brekkie, and they were so slow. This maccas is never usually slow (well at least in feb, the last time i got brekkie, it wasn't). And they kept a whole heap of us waiting before even getting our orders. Then, to top it off, I asked for a sausage & egg mc muffin, and when i got to work (having not opened the bag) i found out it was a bacon & egg muffin! That's not what i wanted, mate. I wanted the sausage. Sausage. This is my favorite thing in maccas ever. At least they got my Fruit Bag right.

I am now at work, on hold waiting for the people in the technician's call centre in India to get back to me with an updated ETA for a part we are waiting on in Kalgoorlie, WA. Never mind that everyone in WA hasn't woken up yet because we're 2 hours ahead and they have the same time as Pilipinas.

Last night I could not sleep I was coughing so bad I had to drink Benadryl. I felt so dry, I kept getting up to pee as well. I have since learnt that doing an extra hour at work (to make up for coming in late at having to go to the doctor's) plus going out with friends even if I barely spoke is not a good combination.

So no more late nights, not that I was late I was just super tired and tireder if that's even possible. Have also coughed at technician! Hahaha.

Next week my shift is at 730am. The whole month of May I have weird offs and after next weekend, I don't have a weekend off - at least a full one - for three weeks. Most of my offs are during the week,I think I get a Sunday off in the middle of May. (Gosh, when will I go to church if my shift ends at 730? I suppose I could get up and go to the 8am? Hmmm must check shifts)

Have also noticed that it must be difficult to get here for everyone on weekends. Usually we are all at least 10-20 min early, but every one that's come in after me, came in 2-5 min before, max and I made it just on the dot (am usually 15-20 min early to load system)

I'm so sleepy. I'm going to get back to dealing with technicians now.

My twitter status:

ha comprado "earworms" de espanol pero cuando lo abro, discubrio que ya supo todas las palabras en el cd y no lo puede cambiar putaconoleche.

earworms es un cd con palabras esenciales de una lengua y repiten con musica, para recordar. discubre el cd en Amazon, y busque en todos librerias del cuidad, por tres dias. El cd dice que "volume 2 will have you talking about yourself, past, present and future, chatting and even flirting". Piense que tendria verbos en tensos diferentes y otras palabras pero no!

por ejemplo:

de donde eres?
voy al hotel
saliste?
he reservado una habitacion

se que mi grammatica/conjugacion no es perfecta, y no tengo un vocabulario grande, pero las palabras en esto cd son muy basicos para mi.

cuando hable con un chico de libreria, me dijo que no lo puedo cambiar/volver porque he abrido el cd. solamente puedo cambiar si no abriria el plastic cover. pakdatsheet.

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okay, someone teach me how to do the accents over letters cos i've forgotten how to do them again. muchas gracias

Blame it on boredom, or being in quarantine for a week but finally getting to the city this Sunday resulted in some random picture taking in the photo booths at Capitol Square. The amusing, chinese photo booths with backgrounds.




This is the cover of our Korean telenovela DVD entitled Wish: My Sassy Gutsy Shining Star.
I get to play Gutsy's loyal BFF.




The reason for the shining star can be seen in this photo. Note the kumikinang sparkling teeth (I swear, we did not plan this, the picture just came out with a sparkle)

We have more pictures, but these are the most amusing. Apologies for the poor quality but we do not have a scanner at hand so I had to take pictures of the pictures and do a bit of contrast with GIMP. The pictures look crap when enlarged but they do all right in small version.

Had a fun day today. I had a cafe mocha at lindt (and some ice cream but i only ate half because it was too sweet - this has never happened before) and then we walked around, found all the bookstores were closed, bought $15 shoes, hit the IGA in chinatown to get datu puti & hello panda and headed home. The pictures were the best part of the afternoon.

Happy Easter, everyone!

Me: Hugh Jackman has his own twitter! We should follow him
Gutsy: Tell me na lang if he tweets a lot.
Me: He's having lunch across the opera house, right now!
Gutsy: OMG we have to follow him! We might actually see him! There's a chance!
Me: I knoooow!

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Me: Zachary Quinto (aka Sylar fr Heroes) & Chris Pine are jogging in Sydney Park!
Gutsy: What? They're here already!
Me: Yes, the premiere of Star Trek is tonight! At the Opera House! You should go!
Gutsy: WHAAAAT! But I can't go by myself! You can't go with me! Damn that whooping cough! (pause) You come na lang, just wear a mask!
Me: Haaaaaa?

My beloved baby is dying so I think I might need to get a new computer.
Question is, should I get a mac or a pc?

Let's go with the pros & cons:

Mac
- it doesn't break down as much
- you can do a lot of graphics shit with it
- its pretty
- i don't know how to fix it if it breaks
- difficult to upgrade?

PC
- windows is buggier and i hate windows vista with a passion
- i can fix it if it fucks up, and i can get tech support if i want it
- i am more comfortable with pcs
- its cheaper (bec i'd only get a mini, while in theory saving up for a mac tho the price diff is like, 400 bucks)

someone explain to me what i should get if i do get a mac(sue ellen? ala?). all i do is surf the internet, and download music and watch video. im not complicated. i don't understand it at all.

i still feel like crap.

i thought i was well enough to go to work today, i was perfectly fine and had a voice yesterday, despite the green goo that was coming out of my throat.

then i was awake from something like 10pm to about 230 am just coughing and peeing and trying to drink more codeine and it wasn't working

so when i woke up, before my alarm, mind you, at six, i gave up, called in sick and went downstairs to make my lemon ginger drink - i finally found the ginger.

must go back to doctor today.

i feel really, really bad and really, really worried because this is my second time to be sick and i've only been at work three months and i'm not even regular and i worry that i might not be regularized cos i've been sick twice already. i'm scared about my job in this crisis. (back up plan notwithstanding)

also it sucks that i don't get paid when i don't go to work cos i don't have enough sick leave yet.

on the bright side, at least i didn't have to go out in the wet, with my battered busted umbrella.

Today, Miel & I went to the Star Wars exhibit at the Powerhouse museum.

It was as expected, for fans & kids. I thought the stuff was cool but ended up being anticlimactic in the end because...I didn't get my promised light sabre!

The first 50 people that did the booking are supposed to get a free light sabre. When we got there they only had one left! I had to leave my number as otherwise they were going to offer me this crap tiny lego key chain. I also emailed the marketing person that told me that I had won. I hope I can get my light sabre soon, cos I was promised a light sabre!!!

Anyway, it was a fun exhibit, we saw lots of things and even if it was full of kids I enjoyed it :)



Me & the wookie



Dandandandandanandandanan


Me & R2D2!


There's a jedi in our kitchen :)

The Office, as in My Office

It is official, I hate dealing with merchants. I finally started doing 2nd level calls last Friday, so today marks a week of doing them. I like them so much better than dealing with merchants, because for one thing, you get less calls (usually I'm here about 30 minutes before one pops in) and since technicians kind of work for us, you can sort of fight back and they can't do anything :P So far I have learnt that techs don't do what they are supposed to maybe 60% of the time. Which is why we have to send them out back again.

My office is participating in the Sydney Corporate Games and last week they asked me to play soccer with them. I was actually game to go despite having no eye and foot coordination, experience, or shin pads, plus being the only girl, but suddenly it rained and I was like, uhhhh not doing that on wet grass.

I am glad that I didn't join because apparently they are meant to compete against something like 80 teams, and they have three games this weekend. No one is really taking it seriously except for the swedish guy, and our team is called FD (company name) Socceroos. Which sucks cos it a)doesn't sound nice and b) the socceroos are sucking now. Also we are playing for a first game, Zurich FC. That actually sounds like a real team, and they don't have a cheesy name like ours! hahaha

The guys in the team were talking about it next to me, and one of them goes, "Did you give him Fabregas' number?" and the other one goes, "Yeah, he got 4" and I was all, nooo that's a defender number and then I remembered that oh yeah they are talking about Arsenal and not Spain NT where 4 is Puyol, iirc. Was a tiny bit embarrassed, tho in fairness we were both correct.

One of my friends at work deliberately went and got Roberto Carlos' number at Real Madrid, which I don't remember but he says is 23. Wasn't 23 someone else? Someone refresh me.

Viggo
I went to my spanish conversational exchange last wednesday. Its on every two weeks and its hit or miss for me, sometimes there's enough people to talk to, sometimes people don't let you join in, sometimes the spanish speakers only want to speak with each other, like its some sort of reunion between latin americans. In the end if you stick around long enough you can get a good enough conversation going though.

Everytime I have a conversation tho, I am forever explaining
a)I am from las filipinas
b)No we don't speak spanish (sometimes i have to explain why, which includes explaining how the spanish didn't have enough people to teach the language and how it was considered the language of the elites)
c)Yes I speak good english cos we were an american colony
Sometimes I get a little tired of that but I understand that these are not facts that the average person would know. On average people do know that we were a spanish colony tho.

Anyway, last wednesday there was this dude that looked like the blondie aussie version of Viggo Mortenson. As in with the semi floppy a bit shorter aragorn haircut. I thought he was Argentinian, but he was not, he'd only lived in Argentina & Chile for two years teaching english.

He had a pretty good discussion with a Chilean dude named Waldo, who is here till June learning spanish, and works in agri-economics - he has worked in vineyards there as well - and I was pretty proud I was able to get their conversation!

Viggo (I have completely forgotten his name it was actually russian or german sounding) and I had a conversation about Argentina, and he was telling me about how he was able to see a Concaf match between argentina and brazil. And that he'd seen Boca Juniors, and everyone was so excited the whole stadium, even if it was made of concrete reverberated and shook with everyone cheering. I am so proud of myself for freaking understanding this in spanish. jajaja

Today
Today we had a birthday lunch for my boss at the Union Hotel. I really wanted a burger but its Friday and lent so fish and chips was the way to go. I didn't know you could get grilled fish or i would have had that instead. The fish was very fried and I wasn't too keen on it but the chips were great. I didn't finish my food and had to give it away bec they didn't do takeaway or keep takeaway containers. The only thing I wasn't too keen on was that it was $16.50. That and now my tummy kindov hurts.

I am looking forward to going home, lying in bed, reading a book and eating soup.

Last night I got a receipt from immigration stating that they had now charged my credit card for my citizenship application. Which is great. I hope it comes thru soon, my friend Claudia's only took two months except she's still waiting for her ceremony.

I must get back to fixing ATMs now

Proof that SueEllen does not have to be here to be a part of the comedy:

i sent kat a pic of a half naked (at the beach) hot football player

Kat: OMG how many hours do you spend looking at semi-naked sportsmen?
Me: a lot, hahahahaha
Kat: Sue Ellen is a bad influence!