Tuesday, October 27

The Brothers Gibb

I didn't know what Beegees mean until we have visited Thee Beegees Way at Redcliffe, the hometown of the band.  Mcj told me that it is short for The Brothers Gibbs, as Aussies are known for shortening or giving things nickname.  But really, it was not an Aussie who gave Beegees their name....

Saturday, October 24

Things I am Thankful

Mcj's birthday.  Busy at work.  Working at home now on a Saturday night.  Leaving a bit late to go to work.Time to make breakfast on weekdays.Time to do yoga on a weekday morning.Abundance of Filipino Christmas Songs in youtube.  I'm listening now and it just makes me sad and happy at the same time.Time to read lots of books, aga...

Half Packed

It's not long now.  Mcj is doing a countdown every Monday, it seems.  Four weeks to go.  I can't say that I am ready.  I have packed one full suitcase and stuff for the two other suitecases are lying about.  I still have many things to attend to, some last minute shopping for presents, hotels to book, extra domestic airline baggage - they only have 15 kilos free baggage.I...

Sunday, October 11

Updates, updates, updates

We've been working in our garden, mostly on ornamental plants though.  We don't have a full-blown garden yet, still in the works but maybe we'll get it built or made when we come back from our coming trip.  We have repotted some plants and fertilise them.I did some packing for our upcoming trip.  It's been going on for quite a while now but today, was quite serious.  The stuff...

Tuesday, October 6

Working from home

Most of last week and today, I have been working from home.  it's not an ideal scenario when there are customer items to address or when i have to connect to shared databases or files.  but over all, it has been okay.  connection is good albeit slow at times.  so what happened?  well, due to the hail storm last weekend, our 2nd floor office got flooded.  we can blame...

I won

yeah! we're talking of monetary value here.  I'm not a gambler but for fun I joined our footy tipping competition at work.  You know, the one where you pick the team that will win every week.  hopefully before the game for the week starts. It has been a tight competition for all of us.  there have been different leaders at some stage.  different winner for the half-way...