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Oh, as of this past Wednesday I am officially a home owner  The settlement took place at 13:40hours however I unfortunately couldn't be present coz I was stuck at work.
The real estate sent me flowers to congratulate me. That was a little nice guesture.
So to 'celebrate' the moment we went paint shopping.
The current condition of the place isn't bad. But it's all white, as most old units are. The bathroom is a little outdated and the walls and the doors need a bit of repainting. So we decided why not add a little colour?
I've been really wanting all these really cool colours on our walls, each wall a different colour, sort of like this 'retro' atmosphere - but Will, the ever so sensible one, knows that after a week or two living in that sort of colour we'll probably get sick of it, so we decided to go with this 'feature' wall idea. Like having most of our walls still in a pale cream colour, but have ONE wall of each room in a brighter colour like blue, green and purple.
So we went to Bunnings and had a lot of fun playing jjgsaw puzzle with those colour cardboard thingys!
So. We've decided the lounge area is going to be an Olive green room, because it's a comfortable colour to look at overall. The study is going to have a deep blue feature colour because it'll represent the 'sea' as I am going to put up one of those really large world maps as wall paper (yes, the ones you see in Flight Centre stores!) and our bedroom is going to be this colour called 'hibiscus' it's sort of in between red/pink/purple ish colour.
We bought the paints, now we just have to wait for the tenants to move out so we can go in and repaint it all!!
Now I am getting excited hehe.
I've had my share of crappy hotels and dodgy beds. From a room located in the basement with only dusty beds with no mattresses and we had to ask for it, and when it came, had broken springs. Not to mention the 36 bed dorm in Prague where the snorer's symphony played all night.
I'm sure you also have a story right?
Here is one that might get you going 
What to do about a horror hotel
Thankfully my hotel room in Bali was nice and comfortable
As you do, when there is nothing much to do, and not much is on tv to keep us entertained, you start chatting about odd and useless things here and there. Since we are still waiting for the unit to settle, waiting for the prices to become available for our wedding next year, and having nothing further to do about any of these things, we started talking about how people meet.
We were saying how Will wasn't actually planning to go to Peru (where we met) and was going to go to Kenya instead in 2006. I had already booked and paid for the trip to Peru out of rash decisions as I got a bit fed up with normality at the time. We were never going to cross paths, until Will's program to Kenya got cancelled in the last minute and he was placed on the Peru program instead, the program I was going on. So we met.
And then you hear other people's stories, sometimes not about relationships, but other things like a long lost high school friend whom you happen to come across in a foreign city on the other side of the world, and you find out you actually work for the same global company just in a different office, and you end up being best friends forever, etc.
And then I don't remember which novel it was, but it pretty much went about a story how a guy tried to avoid death, and was given many a chance to re-live his experiences only to die from a different cause because as his time was up, it was up, no matter how he dies.
It's all part of fate isn't it? Part of how each of our lives are written? Funnily enough reminds me of the other movie I saw about this guy who's live is controlled by this author writing a book at the same time about the life of a guy, and she changed the ending in the last minute when she found out that her writing was actually coming to life controlling a real human being... sometimes it does make you wonder if there is something writing all our stories, knowing exactly who we are going to meet what we are going to do and when we are going to pass away?
If any of you remember the title of the book and the movie please tell me....
Sorry, feeling very philosophical today.. only because I saw this news report:
Woman who missed the doomed Air France plane dies in car crash
Any theories?
The Skytrax World Airport Awards has just been announced and they have awarded Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore Changi as the top 3 best airports of the world.
We all have our personal favourites, and I must say I personally love the Kuala Lumpur International (listed as number 7 in the list) because it's friendly, easy to get around the terminals and there are good light-filled areas to sleep at for the 8 transit hours frequenty travellers often have
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So. I've printed the invitation right? No getting out of it now.
Next up is the guest list - which is pretty much just our families and a couple of close friends. Ideally we really only wanted our parents to be there, but then you know how siblings are. They start arguing with you and stuff and then your parents also wants to invite a couple of the family friends along etc
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I haven't been putting it off, but as our wedding is like... more than 12 months away, I simply cannot plan anything or even book anything.
I really just want to get it over and done with
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I only came across this today, the competition is to start on the 1 June and if you didn't get through the rounds of our Queensland's Best Job in the World contest, maybe you can give this one a go!
You might remember (if you have been reading this blog from the beginning) that I wrote about my trip to Taiwan last December. If not, they can be accessed here
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We have been briefed about this only earlier this week, working in a travel agency and all, that airlines now have to include all their pricing, including 'taxes and surcharges' in their advertising to protect consumers' mis-understandings.
This, in a way, is a relief for travel agents - no more, will people come in here insisting that they were going to get $1 flights from Tiger Airways, unsuspectingly believe the total cost really is... $1. (And abuse us for it too!) A lot of people often forget that travel agents are 'agents' of airlines, who do not actually work, or own the airlines
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I love food, all kinds of food. Everytime I go somewhere besides sightseeing and learning the cultures I would try as much of the local cuisine as possible.
And when I was in Bali earlier this year I thought to myself - when it comes to cuisine experiences, what could be better than actually learning how to cook the local dishes
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