fuchsia fragments

it doesn't feel anything like the year before...

i have been working my ass off these last few weeks and i am getting tired!!!

we had to postpone our compliance audit halfway through the actual audit because we (they) realised that a lot of things weren't up the scratch / completed / ready for audit. i am so unsurprised. i think they weren't either.

wednesday night, caught up with madison for a couple of drinks at harts. so happy that she's doing well. :)

thursday night was our client/ contractor party. and despite all negative instigations about it - boring, best behaviour, no excessive drinking, must mingle, etc - i thought it was a lot better than our christmas party. i had a great time!!! finally got to meet a lot of our clients and contractors.

towards the end of the night, met a couple of senior managers from CBA - they are so switched on, intelligent and just full of worldly experience. and they just said some things that helped me understand who i am and where i want to be. :) :) :) really really interesting to hear what they had to say about the CBA glitch on wednesday and what they had to do, the steps to implementation and the time it takes to fix issues like these whilst at the same time understand that there were a lot of angry customers who couldn't access their money!

and so, we talked for ages.. and haha it looked like we were going to party on at the ivy afterwards too. but we didn't - stole away - and it took AGES to find a bloody cab. was after midnight when i got home.

and i was neither hungover nor tired at work on friday!!! some of the others, not so lucky! lol.

friday was a rather bitter day for the ops team. so many unfair things coming to light but hey, let's not talk about that! it was h-i-l-a-r-i-o-u-s to talk about the night before though!!! hehehehe :)

it was also our ops team dinner. (yay...) ez and sare and i went for a drink at 5 on-the-dot. could not be in there a minute longer with the other two. and it was good went to the brooooooklyn and had a wine. then we went to the same old spice (can you tell i'm getting bored of the place).

another girl who use to work here, right when i started came too cause she's going to be temping for us in the near year for a couple of weeks. hm. yeah. more bitterness here but hey, not my decision or problem!

anyway, ez and sare and i as the only members of the ops team who actually went to the WHOLE contractor party and STAYED, were by this stage, quite buggered. anyway, we managed and it was good (as it could be) and thank goodness it ended early!!

NOT THAT I WAS ABOUT TO GO HOME AND CRASH...

no.. i went to cronulla to amanda's 21st cause i havent seen her in ages and ages and ages and jan said she was driving so i could get a lift home. woo!

it was so good to see her with her new bf (they look so happy together) and to see her doing well post-target (everyone does well post-target!!!) and just to catch up. it was even better than avril was there cause hadn't seen her in ages either! yay!

however, i never, never, never NEVER want to go to northies again. felt so out of place. it was pure low-IQ minded bogan zone. no thanks. and the floor was so sticky cause of all the spillages i thought my shoes were going to get stuck there! lol

finally came home and crashed around midnight.

went for an eye examination this morning... everything's still good. and i didn't have the heart to correct the optom when he suggested i sit closer to the front in lectures. :) :)

just wrapped all the girls' xmas pressies. woo!! and going to make gingerbread men and ladies tomorrow. if you would like some, you better shout out!

x

might as well end in fun before i crash. and lock myself up in attempts to study.

we celebrated elena's 21st today @ the bavarian bier cafe. where we all drank beer and ate schnitzels. hahaha. yummy.

and it was raining. and since there were 5 people and one umbrella. i used martins leather jacket (ROFLROFL) to cover my head. =D only for like 3 seconds cause it woulda gotten ruined. hahaha.

mango beer is yummy. so is passionfruit flavoured beer.

we seem to do german a lot for target events. hmmmm.

this arvo we got steph's pressie. dior lipgloss. there was a nice guess bracelet but that was like out of budget. attempted to shop for a jacket for elena. that didn't work out. and i bought a dressing gown (albeit 'mens'.. wateva, still nice and snuggly to me) for four whole dollars and change. BARGAIN!

the after was more exciting. haha monopoly world edition!!! i came 2nd. in a long game that made us stay up until 5 am. donna tried to bankrupt herself. it took about 3 hours. LOL. and cherry kept landing on the free parking and getting millions.

the party itself was low-key. not that many people as was expected. we sat in a corner on the other side of all the other people. lol and my target frends joined us. hahaha that was uh.. anti-social of us. but we didnt know any of the other people. jan came after as well. was really tired from work tat i think i looked drunk. but i wasn't.

and the tequila shot was s-h-i-a-t. it didn't even burn. didn't feel very alcoholic.

and cherry picking us up to go to my place was the closest we have ever come to a road trip. and since it was night and raining, it was more fun. and dangerous.

came home. and mum must've thought we were all smashed. cause donna was so high. and having problems eating. and we were all giggling like crazy.

and this morning, i got them all up at 9:30 and played mahjong. hahaha and we were all slow. and unresponsive. but i loved it. wish we could do this more often la.

took nessie to get her stiches out today as well. she was a bit scared but it was a 2 second job. so it was fine. =)

so nadias 21st invite is staring me in the face.. and i was looking at the address and how its in punchbowl and how the street rings a bell. so i decide to google it.
and

ROFL
ROFL
ROFL

im so funny. hahahaha a few streets away is this road called

Cullens Road

HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAA yes... absolutely hilarious. i make myself crack up.

-_-"

so friday night. and went to the cross for a 21st birthday party. susan's to be exact.
it sucked.
it sucked.

why you ask?
1. it was at Soho/YU. that in itself, shouldve been reason enough for me not to even think about going. sadly, the good feeling of having just gotten back home from my trip distorted my thinking. and i said i'd go with donna and mandy.
2. there was a target function on the same night. way better crowd, closer to home, wouldve had a better time.
3. i was being judged all night. YAY. the whole gang was there.. some of them sitting on the laps of uber-ugly short guys. HAHAHAHAHAHA please don't make me puke.

so clads found out i was in the cross when i told her i couldnt get to the intersection. and shes like

'ur at soho? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW'

and im like

'sadly, you are so right. why didn't i listen?'

because the last time we were there was also for a 21st and it was also at YU. and it was really crap. so we made this promise that we'd never go back there again for a birthday. and i broke it. but now im like:

'I've learnt my lesson!!!'

rofl.

so it turns out i not only made one bad choice, but two.
1. was going to susan's 21st.
2. was not going to the intersection for monica's farewell. =(

got a pair of brown boots. yay cheapness.
work was okay. it got me out of the house for a few hours and so i could get some fresh air. no big hassles
cept that i feel like a dog for not being able to attend two upcoming 21sts. and got paid out about it...