Thank God It's Friday

I hate cliches but TGIF is exactly what I feel right now. I've had a loooonnnggg week and it's nice to be snuggly in bed at this moment.

Work's still the same beast but I feel less frustrated. Only because I've decided to be more proactive with my career and have taken some steps to make sure that the company hears what I have to say. I feel quite proud of myself in that respect.


Last Friday (feels like ages ago), D and I went to see the new Harry Potter movie at the IMAX. Now, I've never watched anything in IMAX before and I didn't have any expectations. It was great! The screen was HUGE.

I don't know exactly what D and I were expecting but we kept waiting for the 3D to come on. Mid-way through the movie, we were looking at each other and wondering whether the 3D parts were ever going to come on. It finally did, once, at the end of the movie. It ran for 15 minutes and that was it. Now, don't get me wrong. It was great effects and it's definitely the way to see this particular movie but we both thought that there would be more 3D happening. Silly us.

The glasses are still dorky by the way.

The Great Wall in Melbourne

Last weekend, D and I went to see the Great Wall of China exhibit in the Melbourne Museum. We were supposed to go with Rob and Tuan but they were almost 2 hours late so we went ahead to explore the exhibit. (Why they were late depends on who's telling the story. Rob blames Tuan and Tuan blames Rob. You know the drill. I think it's because they're both sh*t with directions.)

It was very interesting but a bit limited. The space was small and there weren't enough artifacts. They had lots of videos though but I wouldn't have paid $16 for it willingly. And good thing we didn't.

Because, while D and I were wondering around the museum, we came upon this poster offering Museum Membership. We paid $60 for a year's membership for the 2 of us which allowed us to enter the Great Wall exhibit for just $5 each (instead of the overpriced $16).

It also gives us unlimited free entry to the Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, Immigration Museum and tours of the Royal Exhibition Building. It also allows us one visit per year to the Planetarium and the Lightning Room at Scienceworks. And we get discounted IMAX tickets! Plus discounts on exhibits.

Another bonus is that we haven't been to any of those places other than the Melbourne Museum. It's amazing!

This gives us motivation to go out on weekends and check those places out.

I like it.

This is me and D with the life-size statues:

I bought this little guy from the souvenir shop:

Yes I know it's touristy but I couldn't help myself. He even comes with his own faux silk box!

Manggang Hilaw at Bagoong

Yes, D and I managed to get our hands on green mangoes and Barrio Fiesta's Shrimp Paste here down under. Unbelievable but true.

The mangoes were not the same as the ones from back home but they were close enough. The bagoong in can (brought by my parents when they visited) tasted better than the bagoong in the bottle (from our Asian grocer).

Our tummies did get a wee bit upset from eating too much but it was well worth it.

Very yum. A good cure for homesickness.

I Feel Accomplished

The state of my clean laundry pile was atrocious. Today, I decided enough was enough and I was going to have to knuckle down and fold my clothes.

I really really hate folding my clothes. Now, I don't mind doing the laundry. In fact, I kinda like it. I will happily sort out the clothes (lights vs. darks), put them in the washing machine and hang them (or put them in the dryer) out to dry. But that's the limit of my laundry liking. I absolutely detest sorting my clothes, folding them or placing them on hangers. Don't ask me why. I just don't like it.

Well, 2 weeks of laundry and no folding had resulted to this mess:





















Yes, it was quite gross.

But I'm happy to report that after 20 minutes of hard labour, this corner of our room is now quite clean.






















I feel very proud of myself.

Transformers and Burger King

This is funny.

I want to watch Transformers!! We're going to do it tomorrow.

Corporate Espionage

Yesterday, the deal I've been working on, which has been very hush hush until then (as most M&A* deals should be), was on the front page of the Australian Financial Review. Months of secrecy down the drain with a single newspaper article.

Lots of people scrambling around (in 3 different countries) produced an official party line by 10 o'clock AEST in the morning. Very good scrambling around, if I might say.

We still don't know where the leak came from or what their intention was. I doubt we'll ever know for sure.

I barely talk about my work in this blog (other than a few breakdown updates) but this is very big news. At least for a day anyway. There's over 20 news articles about this the last time I searched Google news. For more info, here's one of them.

It really doesn't change what I'm doing or will be doing in the next few weeks. It could hurry along the process though. Which is a very good thing.

On a more personal note, I'm taking a mental health day today. I needed the rest. I've been rundown lately.

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*M&A - Mergers and Acquisitions

On Hold

Blogging will be on hold probably until the weekend.

I'm really super very busy at work. Tomorrow, we're (fingers crossed) going to finish a major component of the project I've been working on for months and months. I hope everything goes well.

Wish me luck!