On Holiday...

So this week I pretty much hung out and studied. The first two days I managed to read chapters 1 & 2 plus the preface for required reading for uni. On Wednesday I met up with jimmyswift, aka andrew, a friend who i have been chatting with since April but have never met. He turned out to be a pretty decent guy, and neither of us were looking for anything romantic - common point of conversation was that it was hard to find friends at this age - it turned out just fine. On the same day I saw Narnia (excellent movie!) with Kat & Rob and had dinner with relatives, or rather family friends who are related (Rizal side) to - talk about small worlds in Manila colliding in Sydney. We exchanged family goss and talked about how well Alphonse, who went to uni for a year with all of us was doing in Italy doing his masters in theology.

On Thursday I went ice skating with Sacha, Rose and her friend Carla. After about ten minutes we got pretty bored and decided to go shopping. The summer sales are on. I got myself an electric fan (yaaay!) and a pair of shoes for 50 bucks. I thought that was a good thing since I haven't gotten any since my winter boots. Must make list of things that I need to buy (like a pair of flats, blush, mom's makeup, new moisturizer with SPF, a haircut...) and do it now that things are actually affordable!

Funny moment. Carla saw two cute little blonde boys at the ice skating rink and she turned to Rose and said, “Look you’ll have kids like that someday!”

Rose: I don’t think so! (Rose has a thing for Africans and thus will most likely marry one)
Carla turns to Sacha, “Maybe you will!”
Sacha: I don’t think so! (Sacha has a thing for Indian men…)
Finally she turns to me
Me: Sorry, I ain’t white!

Disclaimer: I know that there is a possibility there will someday be a white man in my life but for the purposes of your own skin color then there you go.

Yesterday Rose and I went to Manly because she needed a swimsuit. Rose is dating this nice South African guy named Simpuwe and they were going away for New Year’s. We decided to meet in Strathfield and drive over there. Now to get there you either have to go through the city and cross the spit bridge or you can go the long way. Which is what we ended up doing because Rose drove the wrong way for a bit and got us up north to Chatswood. So we ended up crossing through 2 national parks, the entire north shore and the north beaches.(I love Narrabeen. I must be rich enough to live there someday.)

We ran through Manly in 2 hours and I ended up with a new bikini and 2 board shorts. Everything was on sale except for my 2^nd pair of long boardies, which cost as much as the bikini. In fairness I didn’t buy anything I didn’t need – my boobs are bigger (hahahah) thus the justification for the new suit and I really don’t own boardies – but damn those board shorts were so expensive. I should have charged them so that I could just pay them next pay day but I guess cash is okay.

That night I met up with my Uncle who is visiting for the holidays from Manila and his family, who live in Dee Why. They got a hotel room at the Marriott to watch the fireworks for New Year. I wore my nice new heels and ended up walking from Myer near town hall to Circular Quay. Thanks a lot! Mum sent stuff including a dust pan with a proper handle (YAY!). I went home to pick up stuff to sleepover. Andrew (cousin) came so he got to see my house. We got back, had a huuuuge dinner at the pancake place and took a walk around circular quay. The city was dead except for the Opera Bar which was so packed. The Opera House is really nice and relaxing at night.

I had a hard time sleeping that night with 3 different snorers with different rhythms (Hello, Maui are you there?) keeping me awake. I managed to sleep when they stopped at 240 am. At 4 they started up again so I got up, got dressed, got in a cab and went home!

Tonight we are off for our New Year’s celebration… but first. Its time to go to work!