fuchsia fragments

/ sarcasm

Although to be fair, it has been a very very long week! I have (for once), started work BEFORE 9 everyday this week and have been in the office since before 8 today!! Reminds me of those recruiting days...

The reason for being so early is that we have colleagues from Singapore over for training and analysis. pretty full on days but glad my involvement was minimal and mainly restricted to the first two!

So last night, the team were taken out to dinner by global (this is a very rare occasion so we took the chance while we could). We went to this local teppanyaki place. It was actually quite fun even though it was a massive rip off. Masuya was 100 times better and costed less per person!

And now in the office before 8 cause the guys have to complete this survey thing that i dont as a C-user. But i got invited for breakfast so why not??? LOL.

Not sure if its worth it though! Could have slept in another hour... humm....

and i WON!

what a bizarre but fulfilling day it was.

i had breakfast with someone i hadn't talked to in 3 years at a new local cafe that was pretty good. pretty yummy smoked salmon, mushroom and ricotta omelette. coffee was so-so but at least it was hot enough! talked about a lot of old times and all the things in between.

then, i decided to go via westfield to pick a fight. turns out i was too eager, so i went home to do it over the phone.

and after a 40 minute wait - didn't really mind being on hold for so long - but it just fuelled my enthusiasm to get what i wanted, i was put through to someone who could help me.

*brings in my negotiation skills*

so was talking to the lady about upgrading my handset... and i went from staying on my old cap with a $20 per month handset payment (this is apparently the only thing they can offer for current customers in forms of a loyalty discount - i.e., can only upgrade you with a discount on your current cap) to:
~ no cancellation fee
~ $50 bonus credit (up from $25) on your next bill
~ upgrade to the new $49 cap for the iphone 4
~ delivery fee for the new phone waived.
~ phone to be deilvered within 3 weeks

quite satisfied with that! and wasn't too hard to negotiate.

and this arvo, spent outdoors with my dogs and our lawn. oh who knew you could fee so content cutting grass.

happy anniversary too. :)