Ears Popping

My day at work was pretty... different.



Half-way through the day, I was asked if I could draw. Draw a cat, at first. I was like... yeah sorta. Then she asked if I could draw a pumpkin. I was also like... yeah sure, sorta. Then I was told: OK meet me at the office then.



And so, my different (half-)day begins.



I end up drawing on balloons for a little Halloween decoration! Everything was all fun and games until one pops. Then another, right in my hands. Then one more, a minute after, once again in my hands. Okay, everyone started to get really uneasy with the balloons. But no matter how hard we tried to avoid popping them, they would suicide. So we end up being unable to write HAPPY onto 5 separate balloons and a lot of others suicide along the way. By the end of the day, I experienced 6 big balloon pops in close-range. Our nice balloon banner almost made it alive to the display until the O of Halloween self-destructs. Now we're at HAPPY HALL WEEN. :] And no, we didn't have any spare balloons.. why is that? I have absolutely no idea. Not within budget perhaps?



I also recommend buying Coffee Jelly at Daiso. Very good stuff.



Anyways, on the side note, boycott PerformancePC Magazine plzkthx.

Fun Stuff~

Days going by at different speeds.... relatively slow today.



Saturday: Pictionary high @ Amy's place. It has become our new favourite game woot! Had good take out and really really REALLY salty salty fish rice. We almost didn't know how to stop playing!



Sunday: Went to buy Chains of Promathia for PC with(/for) my bro. It was sold out at Oakridge so we called the other EB's and found that Brentwood Mall had it so we drove all the way there to get it. Afterwards, we got some Tim Hortons donuts fer my dad and Ice Capp for ourselves.



Today: Work was slow. Nothing special, 'cept the fact that I was on the sales floor for the majority of the day trying to find stuff to do. The rest of the team and people were in the warehouse, getting ready for stock taking later this week. Apparently we got more new employees yesterday and a few showed up today. Gee, I'm beginning to feel like an oldbie, er, senior-ish. At least I was mildly entertained by a poor cashier who kept being sent to our team as temp. stockperson because they didn't need that many cashiers at the time.



My bro almost convinced me to buy an ipod mini. The gigs are attractive but.. n-noooo~

Buying expensive things are annoying... :[

*sigh*

An update on the status of my future mp3 player:

Apparently, it will be available on October 5th for ORDERING. I have to speciality order it with the guy at the store using a credit card fer deposit and THEN wait for it to come. Oy... that might take days... or weeks... even months?! And as if the 5th isn't already far enough already! 1.5 LONG WEEKS!



Anyhow, time to sleep... long day tomorrow.

The Ups and Downs

So a few things today... First I got my pay slip. Then I got a parking ticket. Then I got home to find that I got bitten a few dozen times at work. Then I found out my iRiver isn't available until October 5th. Then I noticed that they raised the price by a few bucks. Then I burnt my tongue from drinking soup.



Now I'd like to sleep.

Finally A.Y.C.E!

The (relatively) last-minute planned night outing was SUCCESSFUL!



But before I get to that... ABERDEEN FLOODED! When I got to work, the first floor sales floor was drenched. As we made our way into the back room/staff room, the water was even deeper! Deep enough to reach and soak up my pants! We had to move all our boxes and merchandise to higher grounds. The water in the warehouse was the most damaging. We had to close off the first floor for the morning. Other first-floor stores that had their stores located on the outer side (w/ windows) were the most prone to the flooding. Heehee, only a year old and Aberdeen can't withstand a simple thunderstorm. Imagine earthquakes.



I got off work, went to the bank to get some $$$, dropped off Jo's stuff at Jo's place and went straight home to shower. After showering, the crew already arrive at my doorstep before I start rummaging around for an umbrella for the gloomy, grey weather making them wait some more in the car. We meet up with more people at the casino. Almost everyone goes in, 'cept me and Jo. Instead we took the car and drove off to the night market, which was pretty deserted for a Saturday night. The place was covered in giant puddles and rain came off and on... luckily me and Jo both had our own umbrellas. We window shopped and were drawn to the delicious aroma of the food stands but we refrained from buying anything. We also got to listen to the William Hung CD when we were there... he doesn't sing as bad as we thought.



We met up with the gamblers afterwards and made our way to Aji Taro for our reserved table for LATE NIGHT ALL YOU CAN EAT! We got there a little early so we were told to wait a bit. Then that 'little bit' became 20+ mins. The meal was pretty satisfying 'cept there were a few disappointing dishes. Either my jaws hurt because of the sour soup in the sunomono or from laughing too much. XD



After the FOOD, we went to play billards at Cue. On our way there, we witnessed a post-car accident which was kinda whoa. We played for (surprisingly) 2 hours before we decided to call it quits. Um, me and Simon won one by default because the opposing team scratched with the 8-ball. Fun. :D And yeah, we only won one game. lol~ All the games were sooo close though... We'd always be fighting over the 8-ball at the end.



We considered a few things to do afterwards but we realized that not many things were open after 2am so we all headed home. We *did* consider playing a batsu game with really shitty beer and big-2, but nah.



On another note, my next paycheque'll be all gone by the time I get it. Korean BBQ tonight for my bro's b-day. I think I'm going to get him Chains of Promathia for his present after all. It's unfortunate I will never reach that expansion pack myself. That reminds me, I need to get around to restarting Wild Arms 3 sometime soon.