I was just curious in the beginning about why this whole Twilight series was a bestselling book series.  All the cheesiness is definitely a major turn-off. But having listened (yes, listened and not read) Twilight and New Moon, I think I've become a convert. I'm still convinced the plot has got more holes than Swiss cheese (ironic, considering all the cheese dripping all over the storyline).  But oh, the feelings.  I swear, I feel like I was back in my uni days and contemplating on boys, butterflies and broken hearts.  I'm a bit annoyed that Bella likes Edward better than Jacob, though.  Not because of the beefy scenes by Taylor Lautner in the movie, mind. The parts of the story when they were together was so light, casual and tender.  He's just the kind of boy I wanted for myself, really.  I could never relate to the Edward ones that were so cool, too handsome and rich.  I never get comfortable with those types of guys.  Besides, Bella and Edward are so corny that it makes me sick. I guess I have always had a soft spot for characters with unrequited love interests.

I had been cruising through the last ten years, thinking that a career was the best thing I could give myself.  After all, I was brought up to think like that.  I'm a good kid, because I listen to my parents.  When I returned from the UK four years ago, I thought this job I'm holding right now will be the last one.  I planned to retire with this company.  However, in the last several months, things have suddenly gone pear-shaped (and that's not just my figure). Surprisingly, it was at the lowest point in my career that I realise what it was that I really wanted to do... and it didn't involved being continually employed like a horse. It's time to get focused.

It's official -- Google's Page Ranking is a load of bull crap.

I hadn't done much in this blog for months. I hardly ever visit it at all, let alone post. I had really gone of posting because of what previously happened to my PR ranking a few months ago.

So imagine my surprise today when I scrolled down my page, practically ad-less, and saw that what used to be a PR ? (yes, a PR "question mark) is now a PR 3!

WTF???

I suppose I should be happy. Unfortunately, it just confirmed my suspicion that it didn't really mean anything in the first place.

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I went to a lovely wedding last Saturday.  The girl was my best friend from high school, but we hardly ever see each other since we started our own separate careers.  She became pregnant early and had to marry her then boyfriend. Yes, she got married again -- but to the same guy, okay?  The first one was just a civil wedding, the church wedding last Saturday was held around 9 years later. Although it was lovely, there wasn't that tingly, giddy feeling I usually get when I go to weddings.  It may just be me, but the whole affair last Saturday just seemed like a formality, as they had been together for a long time anyway.  That nothing has changed for them really.  It's still sweet, but it feels different.  I used to think that having a civil wedding then having the church wedding maybe a couple of years after would be a good idea, when I'm desperate to get married.  But the whole Saturday thing may have just changed my mind.  Maybe I would rather wait. Because it seems like doing that will take all the fun out of the celebrations. I wonder....

It's the first day of December, which means I'll be turning 31 in exactly 15 days.  I know I promised myself that I'd keep tabs on being 30, but life happened, y'know.  I knew I'd be too busy at some point, that's why I named this blog "30 and then some" -- so i'll have 9 more years to keep tabs on my thirty-ish-ness. hahaha! Being 30 is not much different from being 29.  I don't want to consider myself too old for anything YET.  Maybe when my crow's feet are much more visible, I just might stop wearing shorts or mini-skirts. For now, I'm going to continue acting like I'm 25.

I had been adamant that I didn't want anything to do with the new Twilight movie, New Moon.  I refuse to watch it. I have never read the Stephanie Meyer books and even after year, I still think she sucks.  I only watched Twilight because I felt a little bit left out when my friends talk about it, so I said might as well.  I couldn't take the cheesiness of the whole thing -- I had to stop watching mid-movie and continued the next day.  I was shouting "what the heck?!?" the whole time I was watching it (I was all alone, mind you). Though I refuse to watch New Moon at the cinema, I didn't say I will never watch it.  I would rather wait for the DVD.  I didn't want other people to hear me groan so loudly at the cheesy bits. My friends were insistent that the books, specifically the first one, were better.  So I resigned myself to finding out.  But I downloaded the audio book instead, as I didn't want to ruin my already severely damaged eyes by reading those books that could rival the yellow pages. So listen to the audio book, I did.  And now, I had been on a daze all weekend from daydreaming all the time.  Oops.

I thought stuff like this only happened in movies.  I was trawling the mall with my bf and our friends last Sunday, when some guy called out my name loudly. It was my ex from university, and he's heading right for us!  We hadn't seen each other in years and my bf has no idea who he is. I was in a panic! How was I going to introduce him to the bf?  Will the bf overreact?  What was I going to do??? I introduced my ex as an old schoolmate, that's what I did.  Why?  Because saying "Hey bf, this is ____, my ex-boyfriend" just didn't sound right to me. *sigh* What would you have done?

This blog is getting old fast and I hadn't been updating as often as I should have.  One reason is that I had been awfully busy and another is that I didn't want the office IT getting wind of this blog. So I'm testing Blogger's email posting service, to find out if that will do the trick. After hitting Send on this email, I'll be crossing my fingers (and maybe even my toes) for good luck.

Whoa, it has been a whole month???

I would like to thank everyone who kept on "dropping by," even if I didn't have anything new in here for a while. I had been very busy with work and writing stuff for somebody else, that I didn't have enough energy to put my own thoughts into words.

I actually kind of miss blogging and maybe I will have the time in the near future to keep updating as much as possible.

Thanks again, everyone!

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