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The Chinese New Year is coming up and I am looking forward to a very long weekend ahead. I believe this holiday is a very important one is Singapore as I see a lot of hype going around in the malls and supermarkets. I think they'll even have dragon dances and fireworks too. The Chinese New Year in Manila for my family, only usually consists of going to my grandparents' house to have a little get together with the whole clan. It's kind of simple, really. Just dinner then we all hang out around the house after.


I wasn't able to go to the John Little Expo Sale anymore because I figured, I'd have to start saving for Camille's debut already. Cla and I had been thinking of making the theme, "Paris". I got even more and more excited as we already have a particular hotel in mind. We could serve French food, get Eiffel Tower souvenirs, order Parisian decors and so much more. Before, Cam wanted a party-ish debut, but I think she's rethinking it again. Actually, this discussion all started when Ayn showed me a debutante video on youtube.com by a production company in Iloilo. It was really nicely done and it made me reminisce about my own debut. I think it would be such a shame if Camille won't be able to experience going through all of those - being made up and feeling like a princess. I think she'll thank us for it in the future. :)

Anyway, back to money saving, I really have to stop spending so much. It's kind of sad to note that up until now, I still have no savings! Everything goes to paying my airline tickets and buying food. From February to August, I computed that I need to save at least S$600 per month to afford Cam's debut. Atsi and I want to pay for it as thanks to our parents and as a gift to our youngest sister. I just hope we can save enough for it. So this means goodbye to my Subway addiction and my movie nights with nachos and extra cheese! Haha.

It's back-to-work Monday. I must say, I really had a hard time waking up this morning. It's a good thing I decided to bathe last night before going to bed to give me more sleep time this AM. I kept hitting the snooze button! Haha. Well, at least I was able to catch the bus as soon as I arrived at the bus stop, which made me reach the office on time.

So it's closing time again on Friday for my second conference. Hope I'll be able to finish everything by then. Wish me luck!

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