Kiwi Banana Downunder

We made our maiden trip to Canberra today and it sure is tiring driving 3hrs each way without stops. We left at 6am, reached the High Commission by 9am. We left Canberra at 1.30pm and made it back safely to Sydney at 4.30pm. I’m so tired. Good thing the drive was smooth all the way for us. We did see a badly damaged car that needed to be towed away. I sure hope the driver’s roadside assistance is paying for the tow.

At least now we can say we’ve been to Canberra. Didn’t get to do much there though. Would we be back again? I guess not, unless there is something important that we need to do like in today. Otherwise I’ll give it a miss.

We were racing against time last night to book tickets to Malaysia. AirAsia’s launch in Sydney took us by surprise. We didn’t expect it to launch in January, so we weren’t prepared to travel so soon. Good thing news travels fast. My wife got tipped off about the promo fares on the launch day and we managed to book tickets for all three of us to Malaysia in the middle of the year.

The price was quite unbelievable but typical of AirAsia’s launch fares. Truly everybody can now fly with AirAsia. It would be our first experience flying this airline and we have heard so much about its famous Pak Nasser’s nasi lemak. We’ll be the judge

Speaking of treasure hunt, I don’t recall ever being on a large scale one before. I would love to especially when my wife often raved about how incredibly fun it was when she participated in an interstate treasure hunt with approx 300 participants. The hunt and clues stretches from one state to the other, they had to drive all the way and everyone was put up in a hotel with dinner and all. Of course there was a cost to participate but it was all worth it. More than fun than anything else.

I wouldn’t mind participating in such a hunt but I think I would like a more adventurous one like being in the woods with participants using a Garmin chirp respectively which will make the hunt all the more interesting. Wow wouldn’t that be awesome! I do look forward to something like that and hopefully would be able to get the guys together to do it.

Another weekend, another kid’s birthday party to attend. Kids these days are truly blessed, with parties almost every year starting from infant even! Don’t all generations strive to give their kids a better life? So do we. We let our little girl attend every birthday party that she got invited to. She’s so seasoned to attending parties and that she enjoys each one with much enthusiasm as if it’s the first party ever. That’s good. She’s quite a social butterfly compared to her parents.

I wonder if there’ll be just as many birthday invites from school as last year which was like almost every month, doh! Hope not.

I wonder if there would be many people going for a career change now that a new year has begun. Time to put behind the boring jobs and hop onto greener or more exciting pastures. Would a career like Respiratory Therapy Technician Jobs be a challenge for you? It would certainly be for me except that I don’t think I’ll ever be up to it.

My goal in my own career this year would be to fully concentrate and excel in what I do. I enjoy my work very much and hope there will be opportunity to progress further. I guess we shall have to wait and see.

Happy New Year 2012! Hope you have got your new year resolution all drawn up and persevere to cross them all out by the end of the year. Me? Umm, I think I have never done a resolution list. Why? Because I didn’t think I’d be able to do any of it – lack of time, money, dedication, etc … a thousand excuses to avoid it.

Really, I’ve nothing special planned this year, just the norm ie hope to pay off the mortgage soonest possible – that is and will always be my main concern. Other than that, everything’s looking fine as it is at the moment, couldn’t ask for more. Hope this year will turn out even better than previous years for everyone! Cheers!