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And I want to shop and shop and shop too! I often have this insane yearning to be overseas. Even a step out onto Malaysia would be greatly welcomed. I once went on a one-day shopping trip to Johor Bahru (in Malaysia, just right across from Singapore) with some friends. Once I got past the customs, I felt as though a tremendous load has been lifted off my shoulders.

Maybe I am exaggerating, but I do really feel this way being confined to our sunny little island.

Initially, my girlfriend/colleague and I are planning for a shopping trip to Bangkok. In the end, she voiced out her thoughts about us having only shoes and bags as our major hauls during a past trip. And that the expenses for shopping in Bangkok and shopping in Singapore would eventually be the same after we included our expenses for the airfare and hotel accommodations. This is very true. However, a part of me still wants to have a short holiday at the same time. I cannot experience such a feeling while in Singapore. Most importantly, when I am in Singapore, my passion for shopping is relatively harder to trigger as compared to overseas – where I know that if I don’t buy something I like, I may never get to see it after I returned home.

I echo what many of my friends have said, “Singapore has nowhere interesting to experience!” Well, this same logic applies to the local residents of any country. And I am one such resident!

When there is an urge, there is always a catalyst. And we always have that annoying itch in our lives – work. Ever since I joined another department, work is never ending. I don’t seem to click all that well with one of my colleagues either. I hate it when she slaps me on my shoulder. It feels like a karate chop to my blade. And the two of them are going to Bangkok for a 3 day 2 night shopping trip!

Ahem. Sorry for digressing. So, now I am waiting till about mid-December before my girlfriend gives me a confirmation on whether she is still keen to go on our shopping trip. You see, our company only gives out our bonuses a couple of weeks before the Lunar New Year as the bosses have this practice since goodness-knows-when. While the majority of our friends can go all fanatic about shopping in December (which is also the Christmas month – Christmas shopping!), we have got to wait till mid Jan (Lunar New Year is on the 7^th and 8^th of February next year!) before we can do any drastic deduction to our savings. And talking about shopping, there aren’t much ongoing online sprees for me to browse through! Those sprees that are being held, I didn’t take any liking to any items too!

I am starting to feel depressed. Half an hour before it is officially Monday. I hate Mondays. I wish every week could start on a Wednesday. Now that would be ideal, don’t you think so?

Haha!

As we are using a generic banner that came with WordPress theme that we are using, I have decided that we need a new header banner through a contest on DigitalPoint. The contest has been ongoing for four days and things are looking great at the moment with many promising designs. Cyrene and I will most probably be choosing the winner tonight.

This is not my first time doing a contest to get a design. I did it a couple of months again for a search engine script that I was trying out. The main good point is that contests are good for people who are operating on a shoestring budget to those with a stash of cash for a design. Another major draw is that you get a variety of choices and you can feedback to the designer on changes that you like to see for the designer to submit a revised version of the design. A contest for web designs is possible too, however, I noticed that there are less contestants going for web design as they take up more time.

My ‘boss’ has spoken. How could I not follow up with a brief introduction about myself?

I am a 23-year old woman lady who is working as a merchandiser. What is my job scope? Anything that the other two ladies in my department don’t want to do. We get the same scenario everywhere, don’t we?

The start of this site is probably going to provide me with lots of positive things like keeping me focused and forcing my feet to be planted firmly on the ground. Too much politics at work makes me so exasperated till I have kind of lost myself in the mayhem.

I first wrote my thoughts online in 2004, and am currently at my third blog now (this site not included). Some people probably have a blog to last them for all their life. But I am the kind of person to create another blog based on the stages of my life. I am the kind who also believe the importance of a name, so I always spend more time thinking of a suitable name than anything else.

Anyway, this entry is a short one. The next step I will be doing is to find a way to make Francis believe the beauty about blogging in one-liners.

This may be my first post on Orinity.com but certainly not the first post for Orinity. Orinity originally hosted on Blogger as Orinity.blogspot.com. I thought it is finally time to go ahead and move to this domain after some inspiration from John Chow‘s free eBook. I have been following his blog for several months now. His blog is known for posts on how to ‘Make Money Online’.

Anyway, my name is Francis Sim, 22 years old and currently pursuing my Bachelor Of Business(Marketing) with RMIT University. I have been making money online and blogging since 2004 and 2003 respectively. Blogging with me on Orinity.com will be Cyrene, my cousin, who will pretty much be blogging on less tech-savvy materials. See you may have noticed already, the blog design is incomplete as I intend to give the WordPress theme a bit of tweaking to something that suit our styles. This is not much for a first post but at least it is something to begin with.