fuchsia fragments

sister is trying to borrow my belongings yet AGAIN. so after some continued arguing, i said she could if it was put back on my dresser... TONIGHT. so i can use it tomorrow morning.

mum intervenes:

M: "why don't you get your own?"
W: "why buy another one when there is already one in the house?"
M: "well, why did i bother having a second daughter when i already have one?"

SNAP!!!

BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA my mum is so awesome.

she just fully pwned my sister!!!!

tedious, but at least getting the hang of it. and let me tell you now . . . when i'm fully settled into this role - the consultants will need to watch out. because there is no way i'm going to let them claim expenses a gazillion at a time with their receipts not in order and paperwork half filled out. I am not their PA!!!

Bob:

"Questions questions - greg - best if you reply - i would tell the truth !!!"

bob's sick. its so funny. i get to pay him out even more... although still as witty as ever. he just sounds terrible over the phone.

at 4:55 today and yesterday

me to him: "i don't like you any more!!!"

him to me: "do you like me any less?"

me: "stop playing with my brain!!!"

theyre flat chat chit chat. i've got everyone on my back ... leave me alone for 5 minutes and I'LL DO IT ALREADY. so many incompetent ppl around... its getting very frustrating cause the pressure's on.

had lunch with kaz today at the MoS cafe. niceeee place not too far away from da office. too bad the weather was muggy - humid, hot and sticky. yuck. but steak was great!

going to build a fire tomorrow. for MY KICKASS FIREPLACE i designed and built for our xmas decorations competition. go the A-team!

hahaha donna called this morning (laughing the whole time) just to tell me that bob is the troublemaker. it was hilarious cause he was yelling in the background.

and we all traded greg doll pictures.

greg's going on holidays for 5 weeks from tomorrow =( =( =(

lots of problems with service today. tsk tsk.

started off the day pretty slow... felt a bit down. and i think a couple of ppl picked up on that on the phone.

but bob, he's so lovely. even got his boss to speak to me =D and he usually growls. but heheh said some really nice things which made me smile =) and then he told bob to stop sending me so much to do. HAHAHAHA!!!

then it got better. good ol' SV tried to get me in trouble... for something i didnt do!!! YAY!!! back in ur face!

wYn - 5
SV - 0

hahahahahahhaa. had a good lil chat. i thought his new girl was starting today. a no show O_O

then spoke extensively some more with a couple of clients. its so nice to not talk about work sometimes. felt pretty good by the end of the day... despite all of our dramas!

had the most fulfilling weekend in a long long long time.

thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. didn't even blow a big budget which was even better!!! just walked around, stopped when we felt like it, shopped when we felt like it, trammed it when we felt like it.

both my planes were late. both of jan's we early / on time. so she waited at both airports. (and i was on both flights the first to get off... still waited at least 20 mins at both terminals. QF fliers are suckers. ill passenger with checked in baggage my ass).

friday we got there. saw our awesome room. then went back out looking for drinks, coffee and a good time. found a lovely cafe in melb central. sat there until midnightish. :-)

saturday we went to QVM. then brunswick. bourke st mall. myer. bought two beautiful pairs of shoes and a couple of random items.

them we went to the river precinct for dinner and a walk. steak = protein. and guinness pie for janny. yummo. then more shopping. =D

and then it was time for MARY POPPINS.

janice the smartass was like.. dont worry, we won't need ur google maps/gps.

AND SHE TOOK US TO THE WRONG THEATRE
AND SHE TOOK US TO THE WRONG THEATRE
AND SHE TOOK US TO THE WRONG THEATRE
AND SHE TOOK US TO THE WRONG THEATRE
AND SHE TOOK US TO THE WRONG THEATRE

and i TOLD her, its a 20 minute walk... no way we could have gotten there in 10!!!

lucky for us, my trusty gps phone took us to the right place just in the knick of time.

and what a performance it was. we got FANTASTIC SEATS for last minute purchases.

LOVED IT
LOVED IT
LOVED IT
LOVED IT

jan liked it so much she bought $90 in souvenirs... no news that i thought it was a complete waste of money.

we crashed after that. full on day. walked heaps.. my feet had blisters from all the walking. (since she was so smart she was like.. we'll hop off after we'd barely gotten on and walked the rest of the way to brunswick...)

sunday. i had to entertain myself when janny went to her expo. =( so i went to dfo spencer st. didn't spend a cent. so i went back to bourke st and melb central. got a dress. :-)

met jan at the exhibition centre and time to go home...

just as the storm was setting in (fantastic timing!)

my plane was an hour late. shocking. disgusted and disappointed. not to mention the lack of service.

went to work today so tired. i even bought a large coffee thinking it'll wake me up. got to the office and felt like pouring the whole thing down the drain. slowly sipped it through the morning but it was a sloooooooow morning. and i had a farkload to do for some reason. i had cleaned my inbox out end of last week too dammit!!! hahaha

but it was mostly good. like clients were surprisingly understanding. there was this one incident where i was dreading - like DREADING - and didn't want to call my client. was like shitting myself cause service were like yeah its really bad. but had to do it.

... he sounded pretty upset on the phone. but his email response was surprisingly nice. *phew* dodged a bullet even though i was only the messenger!!!

then i was talking to one of the guys in VIC disposals. let it slip that i was in melb on the weekend.... and THEN i was in trouble... hahahaha. got crap for it all friggin day. lol. he even called me in the arvo to tell me off. couldn't stop laughing. =D =D =D =D =D

got home just as it started to waterfall again.

poor nessie and scout just ran inside tonight. didn't have the heart to tell them to go back outside. the whole balcony and their kennels were completely flooded. poor babies.

night out in the cross!! GIRLS ONLY.

met up with colleagues at her house in croydon pk. awesome little apartment. and we got to watch her wedding video which was soo sweet and cute. loved the dresses and the cars.

then we all cabbed it to the cross. nothing exciting here. except we started drinking in the cab. LOL. and bitched about a lot of things related to work.

we got to the cross surprisingly earlier than expected and we went to Goldfish. Almost immediately, we were hit on by some Scottish guy. like whoa... too early and way too soon.

got chatting... tried to hit on my married colleague... funniest thing ever. then he tried to hit on me... and offered to buy me a drink and tried to kiss me... things started getting out of hand... (and this is like EARLY on in the night)

and he took off his pants?!?! and all of the girls were just like.. OMG WANT TO PUKE... NOW. like really???????????? way tooo full on. ur ruining our night... so we all huddled and formed this exclusive circle and ignored all other guys for the rest of the night.

but have to say. 2 drinks = sober for the rest of the night.

that means:
~ get tired easily
~ time goes by slow
~ you get bored
~ you start to watch people in skanky dresses walk by through the one-way window
~ you wonder when you get to go home

and this is the first time that i've left the cross so sober, so early and so disturbed!

thinking of which, there was a very very heavy police prescence but not a massively packed crowd.

and in the cab back to my colleague's place, had window down as you do...

and there's this guy whos seemingly naked in the car next to us with nothing but a dog collar and a pair of wings on.

and my colleague's like flirting:

"so, what r u wearing?"

*light turns green*

guy:

"nothing. yeeeeeha!!!"

*drives off in a hurry*

hahahaha needless to say, we had the giggles for a long time after that!

got back to croydon park and stood outside trying to figure out the best way to get to ryde from there. hehehe

think we were all okay to drive. no mishaps on the way home anyway.

come home to see my sister at my computer. my CPA study guide covered in nail polish. charming.

just what i needed.

im beginning to hate weekends. they go by too quickly.

friday night. GE@ strike bowling! drinks, cocktails, bowling, fun fun fun. got a strike and a spare. can't complain. lots of wine and laughs and getting to know ppl. somehow.. we stayed until almost midnight.. lonnnnnnng after the game was over. and we were walking up and down king street wharf yelling

"shausage schnizzle!!!"

"i wanna shausnizzle"

hehehehehe. i *think* the boys ended up going somewhere and we went to 7/11 and got meat pies. then we each cabbied it home and texted each other in the middle of the night.

i was spewing in my sleeeeeep... (nah, i didnt. some other ppl did tho)

saturday. not so hungover. just couldn't bear the sunlight.

yum cha with my buddies on voting day. and we ordered SO many mango pancakes. like WOW. i will learn how to make these because they r so rubbery textured at the restaurant.

went to vote.

snobby chu to lady handing out ALP flyers

"no thanks. liberal only here."

i am sooo glad my vote counted against the swing and my seat is now marginal. hooraY!

and hung parliament. whodathunkit?

i was supposed to study today. then i remembered starcraft. and i got into a whole world of trouble. i mean, Trouble.

but wowsers. cinematics and graphic kick SC1 and WoW. Blizzard have outdone themselves yet again.

gearing up for 2 gym sessions tomorrow.

and so intrigued to find out the aftermath of friday nite.

so im on the train, pretty zoned out, playing with my itouch and for once in my life, was not aware of my surroundings.

all i knew was that i had decided to get off at martin place today and walk.

so in the back of my mind, i thought it was very very bizarre (yet i did nothing about it) when, after 85% of the people in my carriage had gotten off and hence, most of the seats were empty, this old looking, pretty built guy walks up the stairs and sits directly in front of me (i was in the 6 seater.. by myself). so i subconsciously move further into the corner. and the guy moves closer to me.

and his face is in my face. and im like.. ew freak. get away from me. and during all this time (what seemed like eons), i still had my headphones on. and the lady sitting a couple of seats back is watching in minute fascination.

so i finally glace up to see who this stranger was.

and im like

'oh shit!'

and he's like laughing his head off.

thanks gools.

last person i expected to see this morning. pretty funny stuff. and woke me up some.

friday. who doesnt love friday.

walking through the met centre in the morning and i don't know what ticked me off but i decided to go under the pass rather than up the escalators. GOOD GOINGG!. bumped into my TL and a couple of colleagues who were buying eggs benedict ( i have been told they are the BEST eggs benedict around) and coffee. and when i walked up to them, they all pointed outside. and i was like O_O its raining shitbuckets. and i had no umbrella. so it was the wisest move to walk underneath cause they had umbrellas. wYnner!!! epicly awesome when we all had shit to carry - coffee, breakfast, umbrella, bag, etc.. and trying to get as not wet as possible.

anyway, so much stuff to catch up and do cause we were having an early day for our "save the date" event.

the amazing race: the christmas edition

in the rain although the weather held up for the most part. good stuff. couldn't agree about the teams (they were pre-picked) but let's just say. i had the state manager on my team O_O there were both its advantages and disadvantages. and we had to wear santa hats for the duration of the race. embarassing.

anyway, so my team, cause we were *SO* enthusiastic, got to the first pit stop about 15 minutes AFTER the second last team. so we were like. oh shit, we're screwed. so we just did the race laissez-faire. cause like, there were 2 other teams that we REALLY into it. and full sprinting and taking it seriously (the prize was a half day off work).

anyway, so we get to each of the other check points in due time, managing to make up some time on the way. and LOLOL, we get to the last checkpoint and we were like, ok just tell us, we're last right? and the pit-stop-erer was like..

no actually, you guys are second.

COMEBACK OF THE RACE!!! so we full got into in then and got all fired up and we sprinted from the argyle stairs all the way back to out building courtyard.

we ended up coming second!!! wYwYnwYn!!!

epic awesome.

the highlights at the "awards ceremony"
~ the most enthusiastic teams ended up last collectively
~ we came in second after being the underdogs the whole race
~ the team who came first almost beat the pitstoppers to their designated locations cause they were so pumped
~ one team were so temperate not to come last, they caught a cab and paid the driver $10 to go down the road (approx 500m). LOLOLOL!!! HILARIOUS.
~ we had to sing jinglebells as an incentive for the managers to double the bar tab.

ended up across the road @ the est. for drinks. we were there for 5 hours + our $500 tab ended up being around $900. LOL. there were only like.. 12 of us. and it was $5 drinks. so that was a looooooooooooooooooot of drinks.

i can't remember how many i had after about 7.. but maccas was so bloody good inbetween. we need more of these events to build team morale.

today was supposed to be another epic day. grandmas birthday. planned this pretty big event at restaurant. relos from hong kong came.

and around 5, we get dreaded phone call. they had to call an ambulance cause she has a fever and she's feeling really cold and shaking.

=( =( =( =( =(

they're still in emergency. but they say she'll be ok.

so yes, so quickly things can change. just waiting for news...

wynwyn says:
o fun. how unjealous i am of you
Donna says:
i will do a hv COVER ART
LOL
wynwyn says:
why whos going to see it?
u r like
the biggest procrastinator i know
Donna says:
you don't know that many procrastinators
wynwyn says:
we-lllll
theres you the DNA. and the fruit who likes to sleep at custom house. and val who stalks facebook more than i do..
Donna says:
at least i'm not playing bejewelled
wynwyn says:
WHOWHO
Donna says:
janice and cherry are both battling it out for high scores
those no lives

.. but i so deserved (some) of it.

the weather didn't hold out. it was a gloomy and cold day all around. but that didn't deter us!

funniest and easy-going day.

team leader wasn't in the office till 11. so i did a wholllllllllllllllllllle lot of work. ;)

and then it was hurricanes.

and our RM to the other RMs

"i have a lunch meeting now with hurricanes"

another RM

"hurricanes? they are a client of ours? isn't that a restaurant in DH?"

hahaha.

and in the car, our RMs like telling us a story of how his 7 year old had show and tell and it was about where do your parents work. and his son said (because this is what daddy always told him)

"daddy works in the city because all the girls are pretty"

LOL!

hurricanes. yummy yummy hurricanes.

half rack of lamb. finished.. most of it. with two bottles of beautiful white wine. plus garlic prawns for starters and garlic bread. oh and THEN we fit in dessert =D =D =D

didn't know they did beef ribs. have to go back and try it one day.

anyhow, so the waitress is like. would any of you like the dessert menu?

and before this my team leader is like

"hm.. hey RM, go check how much we have on the bill so far"

and we had like 40 bucks left. (thanks to the very expensive wine we got)

and shes like.. hmm...

can u call chris and see wat he can do about it?

and so our RM calls chris and he's like

"hey mate. we're at about $460 at the moment.. is it ok to put dessert on the corporate card too?"

LOL!!! what a CLEVER tactic! we were impressed.

and our senior managers like

"were you counting all the dishes and making sure you guys don't go over ur limit?"

HAHAHAHA. so we had dessert. stick date pudding!! YUM YUM YUM!

anyway, got back to the office. and we all have like voicemails (as expected).

and we were all like.. urgh, so full. *but everyone continues to steal lollies out of the lolly jar*

and then cause we're going to parra tomorrow, TL's like, wynnie we're going to need to get you a booster seat!

cause my colleague does like everything for me..
1. cause im the youngest
2. apparently i act like a princess *halo*
3. when we leave at 5, my colleague always opens the door and presses the lift
4. i get everything i want
5. i get babied
etc etc etc

=D =D =D =D

so yeah, it was fun.

oh and i full like almost broke my colelagues umbrella. LOL!!! it was soooo funny we were cracking up all the way back.

good times.

dinner tonight @ canterbury!

freezing~

owes tarjay one for jigging stocktake.