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when mom is sleeping at my aunt's place and i am left freely, i decided to stay in instead of attending the friday gathering just to finish translating the materials for the next class. this makes me realise that i haven't had a quiet night with myself for quite some time. and that is when i decided to text a friend tomorrow telling her that i'll be skipping vb. i plan on doing what people normally do here - shopping! well it's christmas season and though i don't celebrate it somehow i still get presents. with christmas getting so commercialised nowadays, i hope those really celebrating it doesn't forget the main reason of the celebration though. as for me, i'll just join the fun of giving and receiving presents. thanks to what melv wrote on his blog i am no longer confuse on what to get one friend of mine.

hmm.. now that i think about it, it's been a while since i go on a shopping trip. most of the time i'd just do it during my lunch break - plan what to buy, go there, get it, pay, back to office. i remembered the last time i went to orchard, i was amazed seeing that they have removed those rolling ads along orchard underground - when did they remove it i wonder. since mom will be spending time with her sisters tomorrow i think i can roam freely for a couple of hours before heading home. this is funny! sounds weird but i feel like i'm doing something out of normality tomorrow when it's just s.h.o.p.p.i.n.g.

on a more serious note, during lunch mom and i talked about my auntie, my belated uncle's wife. the reason mom spends the night there today because we know how lonely she is with all her kids grown up and she spending the whole afternoon with the maid and grandchildren when they're back from school. mom said being old in indonesia is much much better than here, back home she can join those religious classes, moves from mosque to mosque and stuff. she then said that when she's old and can't go out a lot she wanted to be put at those old folks home so that she still have friends to mingle around with. bring her home during weekends or holidays. she'd rather be there stuck with strangers who'd be friends than being alone at home doing nothing. i kept quiet because all these while i kinda feel that kids who put their parents at those old folks home are irresponsible, ungrateful. well of course i'm not talking about those who leave their parents there for good - now that is totally out of the question. i always thought why can't they hire a maid to take care of their parents when they're out working. can't they give something back in return to what the parents did for them. but now if you think about it, those old folks might prefer that.

on another note, i can't wait for wednesday to come. well mom is going home on that day but this isn't what i am looking forward to. i'm looking forward to the possibility of mending something that is very very valuable ...

now i better get back to this translation...

oopss... just got a text and now i'm contemplating - should i do vb tomorrow?

- updated at 1.41 am

guess what? i ended up going out. so much so for my staying in, uh....