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Investments!

Alright...I finally am able to update this almost not-so-up-to-date blog :) Unbelievably so, it is almost June. Half a year is done. It has been about 1 year since I officially graduated from NIE. Wow wow...

Anyway apart from the intense GE that kept me quite excited, I was also looking forward to putting together my new triathlon bike; 2-hand frame with brand new wheels and it is a bike that has great reviews. So says my friend who highly recommended it and eventually sold it to me. The bonus which I have been keeping till now has finally been used. Invested into my new bike, that will be tried and tested this Saturday during the Bintan Triathlon. Pictures of it when the wheels are fitted in. I can't wait although I have not been diligently training for it. Oh wellz...as usual.

Then another happening happening. I finally succumbed to getting an Iphone. WHY??? I know i know I've been proclaiming how I won't get one simply because everyone is having one but all of a sudden my Berry died. It was sickeningly sick and it left me with little choice. So after 13 months of owning a Berry, I went for the other fruit. On hindsight, I should not have been that biased towards Apple.

BUT BUT BUT....barely 3 days of owning the Apple, the speaker decided not to work! Beats me why such things would only happen to me but it did. The better news is this: the 16GB models have ran out of stock, apparently due to the high volume of casualties, and I have to wait 2 days later to get my new new phone. It is really a joke! Technology vs Humans : 0 - 100!

All in all...these have to be my biggest investments for this year, so far. I feel a little sad to have to part with that amount of money but I can only comfort myself by saying I have been rather thrifty! :)

Gracie's mini adventures all within a week! I am definitely not a boring gal! :)

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