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just have a long tele-convo with sis in morning.gee it's 10am here so wht is she doin at 2am over there. things still look shaky with so many possible outcomes. let's recap
1) baby delivered 22/12. hopefully 6th aunt manages to fly from canberra to meet her 1 by 18/12. she can stay for 2 weeks till new year.
2) new yr,4th aunt need to come back from auckland, meet 5th aunt in singapore, then take over the baton from 6th aunt. they will then come back for cny
3) during cny, either father or young sis has to go. but young sis can only take 1 week leave. maybe i have to take over then.
4) so, there will be no plan 6 weeks after delivery. but sis says she should have recovered by that time. i am not convinced thou. maybe then gf has to go as last option.

oh gf juz came back from the stupid cruise. she went to phuket on this virgo thingie with her sis. they embarked in singapore enroute penang to phuket. i never like sea transportations, be it sampan,boat,or queen mary liner. a 2 hr boat ride is nough to make me puke til dehydrartion, let alone a 4 day trip staring at dizzy sea waves.

anyway, as expected, she complained the trip is boring , food onboard is so-so, only few outlets to shop ( who would think of shopping on a ship?), and most unbearably have to squeeze with rude china tourists be it during breakfast buffet, shopping queue,gala dinner, and of course the legendary 'flying sword',they hav this habit of spitting like every 5 minutes, why i dunno ..

haha so she ended up exercising 4 hrs in gym a day and patrolling the deck from one end to another like a safety guard. pity her.

but she told me so interesting facts based on her observation on ppl onboard.
1) china tourists - very noisy, very kan-cong, shop like headless chickens, unbelievably spending power, 1 couple bought rm2,000+ of souvenier key rings?!, 1 man bought 3 watches approx. rm70,000. they never sleep, gambling in casino at night and swiping credit cards daytime.

2) japanese tourists- they r hibernating. either reading books in cafeteria,sunbathing by the pool, sleeping on deck.

3) euporean tourists - forever sunbathing at the deck,by the pool, in their rooms, anywhere sunny

4) malaysian/songaporean tourists- complaining this is their first and definately the last trip for them.

haha.. i think lim kok thye made the wrong move to invest in this cruise thingie. but who can blame him right since anwar threatened to tarik balik genting gambling license in the early 90's. but it's such a pity to let this mobile casino degraded to its state today.