As stated previously your resignation has regrettably been accepted. With no admission of liability to your claims, your monies owed totalling $1800.00 for your notice given and 32.15 hours @ $19.74 equalling $634.64 will be ready to pick up at H Pty Ltd at 11.30 am on Monday the 1/12/08. This will be paid by way of cheque to a totall of $2343.64. If this time is not suitable you must ring me to arrange a more suitable time.

although he’s miscalculated by $300, i guess i should give that a miss now eh. edit: my bad, I can’t count, i forgot he’s already paid me $400 for last week

i am totally bowled over and shocked that he’s given in so quick. perhaps it’s because no one wanted to read 6 pages long worth of wall of texts! or perhaps… hq stepped in. considering how he had to cc to hq, i had say that’s it.

wow. this has been a heart stopping yet heart warming ride. thanks everyone for your support, love, understanding and listening ears (and eyes!)

net’s being cranky, will fill in more asap.

Edit: http://www.ghostelf.com/Public Waambulance.doc —> the letter of lulz. linking it apparently breaks my codes.

when i was living “by myself”, it seemed awesome to whip up strange stuff. i think, it’s more that people found them strange than I actually did. it seemed second nature to chuck the “right” amount of this and that sauce in, and ingredients, and know that it would turn out good anyways.

When i moved in with Waife, i was always worried. Worried that he would laugh when i accidentally burn my food, or be utterly mortified at the way i cook or at my “recipes”. I started buying recipe book after recipe book – but failing even worse. some of them turn out to be the ugliest stuff that i have ever created, which makes them in a bigger FAIL category than burning stuff (and not to mention totally inedible).

The entire experience did teach me one thing though: vegan sausages WILL make me throw up, and throw up bad.

However, i bought the Silver Spoon, to learn Italian cooking. It did utterly overwhelmed me, i will tell you that much. and I have barely made past the pages based around risotto.

but what it did teach me was this: the most fundamental of cooking wasn’t learning “traditional” recipes or even getting through recipes. It was learning how flavours work with each other, build on each other and making a whole MEAL.

So, while i didn’t throw the book away, i just bought some chicken, broccoli, carrots and corn – and those were my bentos for last week.

they are not that great or inspired, but they are a good and slow start back into cooking for myself. i mean seriously? what the hell was i thinking. cooking.. for…myself. he doesn’t have to like it or be incredibly impressed.

Funnily, Waife was impressed with some of my efforts (some of those that didn’t join a bento box anyways), and even tried them. the great part of learning all these: he showed me how to do them correctly too. so it wasn’t entirely a waste ^_^

some random updates.

The fire next door was quelled, about 1.5 – 2 hours after it started. we didn’t nose around to ask what happened, but it’s not hard to guess considering the amount of damage done to parts of the house. the insurance guys came around, as well as, i guess, the landlord. as of this moment, they are all gated up now but no one seems to be harmed.

i think a large part of me almost feared for my life, but i didn’t know what to do. i wanted to save my cat and my bunny, and it was the only thing that ran through my head, because i assumed, from the one glance, that it was our house.

Brisingr came out a few weeks ago, and i bought it and bought the TY beanie commemorative of it. I know, and understand many people who think that christopher paolini has about as much talent and originality as a piece of rock – particularly since his essential storyline is pretty much the same as half of the fantasy books out there.

but i like fantasies, and i like a “different” feel of personalities and names. and so, i still enjoy it. sucks though that i have hardly the time to read it.

I did find the time for some easy indulgence though. a little chat with Paingasm Mike’s friend pointed me in the right direction with regards to food, exercising and me. In the last year and abit, since i moved in with waife, it was like my brain and body, who were slightly starved in the year prior to that, suddenly realised they could eat. as a whole, i didn’t “know” how long this would last, and also, “I” wanted to enjoy as much food as i can since i can now.

so i ate and i ate.

So, it’s back to bento-ing for me. it’s a little hard to crack bad eating habits, but i am on… day 4 right now, so slowly, i should be able to ease myself back in. obviously, i am just “starting” back, so nothing’s quite as varied as they were growing to be previously. not to mention, it seems i have lost some of my bento equipments T_T

that’s not to say that i didn’t indulge, on a smaller scale.

as for what i would do after graduation, frankly i am not sure. alot of the jobs i want to do and am eligible for are “citizens only”. I kind of want out from hospitality, at the same time, with such a visa standing, where i am not sure of whether i would be approved or not, it’s also hard to find a full time job that would accept me.

furthermore, there’s lots of gray areas about some things, it seems pretty complicated. perhaps i will just stay put until my visa’s granted. ^_^