Places: Darkness & Light / El Cielo / Patt's Place / What I shoudn't have / Where Am I? / '04 entries: Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec / '05 entries: Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov + / ChatBox / Dec 26th '04 (05:54a.m. - Pacific) : Christmas '04 over It's official, it's over! Christmas 2004 ended on a high note I think, everyone was happy. Except our family friend who just immigrated here last summer with her two daughters (the other daughter and son will come next summer, while the husband remains in HK to work) Having had an argument with her distant husband prior to the Christmas party, which was actually held on the 24th this year because my eldest brother Michael had to leave on the 25th back to HK, and combining with the festive blues of not being with her closest family, she basically cried throughout the entire night. Subtly of course, she didn't make a scene out of it; everybody knew though, but what can you do? I suppose next year will be better when her youngest son is here too. Otherwise, this Christmas was most excellent, good food and great gifts as always. I thought I sent out e-cards to everyone but maybe I didn't; if not, meh, belated Merry Christmas! Boxing Day sale was awesome too, got more clothes and various other items. And I still haven't told my parents about my part-time job yet; still waiting for the right moment to tell them. Thing is, they'd probably stop giving me allowance, which of course, is bad! As work is not really stable and sometimes I don't get called in for work, because there is no work! Another thing, I feel obligated to treat my family + my aunt's family + various other people to a dinner because it's sort of a tradition in my house. My brothers did it, so I don't see how I'll be able to get around that. In the end, I just don't feel like spending $200 on a dinner, but instead on something for myself, like Nintendo DS! Or maybe a GameCube! Or maybe I just won't tell them, that's a good idea eh? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dec 20th '04 (12:20a.m. - Pacific) : Home free It's always nice to be home, great food and all, but mostly just the good feeling of not having to worry about anything - let's leave that for later. Today I got most of the Christmas shopping done, and somehow, most of the gifts under the tree right now is from GAP; originality is zero. GAP has pretty much become the one place to shop for everyone; I even bumped into my cousin-in-law today while she was doing some of her last minute shopping. Conclusion? Clothes work for everyone in my family. What else is there to buy anyway? I guess I can go the other route and not buy anything, but where else am I going to spend my money? Let's see, I have a T.V., I have a PS2.. more games perhaps? Oh the DDR pads, maybe I will get my brothers to get those for me, that'd be nice, save me some $100 later! Anyway, ideas would be welcome for next Christmas, it's getting boring to get the same sort of things for two years in a row. :P - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dec 15th '04 (10:02a.m.) : If only everything is as simple as pressing the delete button It has been a while since I last updated. I'm just getting lazy, plus the increasing amount of work - school work and actual work - that I have these days. And since I finally told my brothers a few days back about the part time job I have had since the end of september, I guess it's okay for me to mention about work here. Why didn't I tell them earlier? I don't really know, just so the news won't get to my parents? Why didn't I want my parents to know? Eh, not that it matters now, I will tell them when I get home in two days. I'm just glad I will have two weeks break from work; it's getting to the point where I want to quit, but, I want money too dam'it! If you remember, my last extry was a rant on how much religion annoys me, but I didn't exactly finish off everything I wanted to say. Well, I've decided to just let it go, cuz really, in the end, it doesn't really accomplish anything. If you believe it, then you do, period. My friends and I happened to come across the late night prayer line on T.V. the other night, and they were arguing how the Theory of Evolution is non-sense and we must interpret the bible literally and so on. Ha, ha, ha. We just laughed it off and didn't really give much thought about it; but like my friends said, "if there really is a God, and this is the way how thing truly is (something along the lines as we have no free will and we are just supposed to follow everything that was written in a book by man) I would rather go to hell!" Anyway, that's all for Christianity. Now I must go back to studying for my Mythology exam for tonight; or sleep for a while. Oh, and I don't know what happened to the ChatBox, maybe my account got deleted or something. I will put one up back later, when I feel like it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - December's featured artists: Morning Musume's Rika, Miki & Ai. Site updated and maintained by Me.