I know I know, I hardly ever update my blog...but I have really been swamped with work. Everytime I access the website, someone comes along with some work for me. I only have time today cos everyone in the department is at some meeting which they have once or twice a month. Hmm...Alex is back. I wonder if that means that the meeting is over, or that he is so bored that he needs a break. Okay. He left again, which means it was probably a toilet break.

Ruth is gone! *sob* *sob* What am I gonna do without her?? She always rescues me when we get into a rut! Anyway, there's gonna be some long lonely days ahead, considering most of the time I have left here is actually a lot of public holidays and you know, when there are public hols here, EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING is closed! I cannot go shopping or whatever. Public hols here are meant to be spent with family and friends... only I have neither here! How??

Anyway, Alex convinced me to call home yesterday, cos he couldn't believe I haven't called home in the 2 1/2 months that I have been here. He told Ruth he thought it was weird that I hate using the phone, since most women absolutely love talking over the phone. Hmm...never mind. Alex has weird ideas. When he treated me to a drink yesterday, he told me that it was only for women cos there are only pix of women on the bottle. I was convinced of the opposite...that they put women on the bottle so that men will buy it, i.e. Beer ads on tv usually have gorgeous babes in swimsuits or whatever. Sex sells, esp for beer and such things, but hmm, I think alcohol has a negative effect on you know what, since it is a depressant. I read some where about how the alcohol gives you the courage to make the first move, but if you drink too much, it all goes downhill from there on end. (excuse the innuendo, please...I didn't mean it THAT way)