A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Cash Advance...

This saying certainly rings true - i mean i am living in deficit and i am certainly not sure how i am going to finance this trip (if it does materialise, that is!) - Gosh! my parents often nag that i am worst than a certain group of people - i.e. earn 10 dollars spend 20 , and are they right! Ha! I have gone on and on about going on a journey but i haven't even mentioned where i am going - hmmm... a group of us - 8 including my darling sister are planning on taking the trans mongolian railway from Beijing right up to Moscow. It's going to be a great experience - that is if we dont' kill each other during the journey, - but it does come at a great cost! Reckon it's going to set me back about 15K and to think that i don't even have 1k to my name as at to date! Sigh Sigh... what a life!

Guess when i get back from this trip (if we do go that is), i am going to live the life of a pauper... it's no joke. We haven't even made any bookings and guess what, i have already spent NZ$ 400 on backpacks and some other stuff - from the Wellington Kathmandu store - thanks to my kiwi pals who have kindly purchased those stuff on my behalf.

You might like to check out this website http://monkeyshrine.com - i printed out some stuff but i haven't even read it. A rather updated website - and was told that one can get whatever information one needs from this website. One of these days i am going to get a copy of the Lonely Planet - :) i reckon this is going to be fun.

I have spoken to both my considerate, supportive bosses about the trip - and more importantly i have pointed out to them that i need about two weeks off and they have kindly agreed :) though i was rather vague - when i said two weeks i meant about 14 WORKING DAYS OFF and that comes up to about 21 days of holi-holiday:).

Alrighty i am going to try to upload this image .. see if it works.. it does :)

If only life was simpler...

The oval shapped head of mine feels like bursting - too many ideas, thoughts and emotions to hold that i reckon if it has seams around it, the seams will be bursting by now. I have a lot on my mind lately - be it from social and/or work aspect. Cause me to remember this saying - "Do not take life too seriously, no one gets out of it alive" - very true indeed. Anyway dont think i want to spill my thoughts all here - the minute minute details are only for the ears of my darling Ben a.k.a. my diary :)

Right, now let me see... today has been a tiring but productive day - attended auction at an unearthly hour of 10am - i mean it's Saturday afterall :) :), went into office and actually managed to do some work (bizzare huh?) and stuff and even attended a book launch - by Robert ...argghhh! i am hopeless.. can't recall his name. Anyway his book sounds interesting.. short stories about the locals here. Attended it together with my lady boss.

As i am typing this entry my thoughts cant help but turn to my dillemma of whether to go or not to go to the capital city - KUALA LUMPUR! Maybe i should draw up the lists of reasons - i.e. the to go and the not to go list.

Reasons To Go:

- Shopping? Bonding with frens? A breakaway i.e. a change? Hit Ikea n M&S?

Reasons Not to Go:

- Broke? Wedding reception to attend? Tiring? Work? May not be that enjoyable? and Try Broke again?

Gosh...looks like the "reasons-not-to-go" list is longer.

Ok, gotta hit the sack now - drifting to La La Land... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.................

A Boring Late Night ...

Sitting here cross legged on my bed with two notebooks staring right up at me- one obviously on the 'blogger.com' webpage and the other one working hard doing the illegal stuff i.e. disc copying. Not a very interesting evening I would say. No use having a Vaio - the silly comp can't even multi tasks - hangs each time I open up another new program. Sigh! Hence using my good old Acer to do the backup jobs - keeps me sane while Vaio is doing the disc burning.

Rather annoyed with the whole process of burning copies of CD. It's ok if everything goes smoothly but it really gets on my nerves when i have to repeat the same process over and over until i get it right. Hate it even more when they pop up with the commands such as "Disc Error" or "Burning process failed!" Believe it or not burning or rather just copying TWO cds have taken up 1 hour of my life - and not only that... 3 of my precious blank CD-Rs have been sacrificed - I still have another 2 discs to go and i honestly do not know how many brand new empty CD-Rs have to be sacrificed. Fingers crossed. Oh SHUCKS!!!! another one gone! The same command of "Burn process failed at 24x" appears. I sure do hope the shop which sold me these CD -Rs are willing to take back these 'spoilt/used' CDs. They are a dollar each, mind ya! By the looks of it I reckon i will be up and on here all night! Actually making extra copies for a friend - I have mine already. The CDs contain...let's just say, information that would enrich my knowledge.

Ok enough of crap. I was going to snap a shot of my 'dead' CD-Rs - last count there were four (4), but too lazy to take 6 steps out of the bedroom to get my digicam. Wanted to have a snapshot and upload it onto the website. Oh yes.. i managed to upload a silly pic of me. That pic is really silly cause i couldnt really see where my cam was pointing and i just took it nonetheless, those packs are actually to reduce puffiness of my already 'panda-looking-eyes'.

Finally I am free to sleep - TWO hours just to burn 2 CDS!! Gosh! I thought technology is to make our lives easier - looks like i have to put on my 'strawberry' ice pack. Actually i think i am falling asleep sitting up so I shall sign off here. See ya!!

First Ever Official Blog....

Attention Attention! This is Blogger Haldawinge taking full control of this page. This is her first ever blog - heard and read so much about bloggings and stuff but never actually thought she'll create one of her own :)

Having nothing to do - i flipped through the technology section of one of the dailies - and stumbled upon this article entitled "create own website FREE with no hassle". I read through the article and was directed to this website (actually knew all about this website even before this evening). I thought heck, why don't I just do some surfing and see what is in store since the night is still young. The reason i am 'blogging' right now is because i wanna create a sort of impressive webpage err... not really cause i have not done anything... rather i thought i'll have some writings on it (at least some substantial paragraphs) to make it look impressive so forgive me if my sentences are not coherent and i am not making sense. because my main concern right now is to have enough words. I am NOT a writer and don't really know how to express myself but who cares... I am here to have some fun!

Actually i am a bit apprehensive about how long i will continue with this bloggings and more importantly how often i will update my blogs. Thinking of uploading some photos onto this page, but not sure how to go about it. Going to end on this note right now so ciao!