It’s the first day of the financial year – I’m not all that fussed to tell you the truth. I’m not even an accountant to be excited by the new financial year – it’s just a sense of a milestone passed, another step taken, another page open, you know the routine. 🙂 It’s a sunny cool day in Adelaide – it’s so nice to feel the sunlight through the blinds in my study … it’s not that cold either – apparently it’s about 15C-16C at the moment.
The weekend’s pretty relaxing so far – yesterday I had my prayer meeting in the morning at Pa’ Toming’s house along with the other workers from church. Afterwards, despite my plea that we should all go to Ikea for lunch (so I could check the items that are on sale … hehehe. 🙂 ), we ended up going to the Penang Hawkers Corner at Renaissance Arcade – my usual lunch spot, since it’s only a stone’s throw away from the office. After lunch, I had a walk around in Rundle Mall – I was very tempted to buy some DVDs or books because it seemed like everything was on sale. I did buy a book at the end, in Myer, a book by David Crystal called By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English. I have always been fascinated by accents and the origins of words, phrases and idioms. I couldn’t resist it so I bought the book – besides, it was 40% off. Hehe. 😛
I have finished the foreword and the first chapter so far – it is a very interesting read. He visited several villages and towns in Wales, England and Scotland to see the variation of accents and the origin of words and idioms. It’s really my kind of book! 🙂
Paul and Terry also came over later on yesterday, and asked me towards the end whether I wanted to have dinner with them but I wasn’t all that hungry and besides I was rather broke as well. Haha. So I declined and had some rows of the Whittakers chocolate that I bought on Friday evening. I have just finished the bar of chocolate just now, and boy, it is very yummy! I bought the 250g Hazelnut milk chocolate bar because I was attracted by the cover – it has a picture of a block of chocolate filled with chunks of hazelnuts. Don’t you hate it, when you bought something and at the end the content is actually quite different to what is portrayed on the packaging? Well, it’s not the case with Whittakers’ chocolate! The block is a bit ruggedly shaped because there are protruding hazelnut chunks everywhere. You can’t really break a row off the block cleanly because of the chunks. The chocolate is droolicious. I think I may just get it again the next time I shop, especially if it is on sale.
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