The past week has pretty much been a write-off. Last week work was really busy but as I had a weekend of shopping and therapeutic spring-cleaning planned I didn’t mind. There was of course the worry that with a visitor coming to stay on the weekend of August 27-28, me leaving for Auckland on August 31 and Martin leaving for Shanghai on September 1 ( Read more... )

Yesterday Singapore celebrated 40 years of nationhood with the annual National Day public holiday and parade. In honor of this momentous event I decided to compile a list of the 10 things I like most about Singapore (in no particular order ( Read more... )

I had a good day today mainly because I got to chat to Bex and Mum (in separate calls) for an excessive amount of time - bring on the phone bill! Apart from that it has been a pretty quiet weekend - Martin has barely moved off the couch and I have spent a lot of time doing housework or catching up on emails. This is not a bad way to spend a weekend ( Read more... )

Another week has passed which means I am another week closer to my trip home to Auckland. Work has been busy but I think that I have become a lot more relaxed about things as I firmly believe no job is worth the amount of stress I was initially having ( Read more... )

I went to all the trouble of writing a long update on Sunday about what we had been up to but my laptop decided to die and I consequently lost the whole entry. I was so annoyed that I decided not to go to the trouble of rewriting the entry on Sunday ( Read more... )

It has been a bit of a mixed week ( Read more... )

The sky has been rumbling constantly for the last two hours accompanied by multiple flashes of lightening and lots of rain. I actually quite like these tropical thunderstorms when I am inside with the air-conditioning on - it almost feels like winter! Of course the minute the air-conditioning is off and the temperature shoots up to 32 degrees with ( Read more... )

I am really going to have to work out how to manage my time better as I am having trouble finding time to update my livejournal in amongst everything else I am doing ( Read more... )

I am being very slack about updating at the moment - mainly because life has been a bit mundane. I have been going to work and that’s about it. I am curbing my shopping for the next 9 weeks so that I have plenty of spending money for my trip (of course there are still one or two things I need to buy before my trip!). This weekend Martin and I spent ( Read more... )

Martin is home and he came bearing gifts - including a bottle of coruba and a new PS2 game for me (Final Fantasy X-2). I was very pleased to see him especially as it had been a busy and stressful week at work (mind you when is it ever not stressful?). I haven't had a chance to play my new game though as we have been out and about over the weekend ( Read more... )