yippee! i won a badmarsh & shri signs cd from the british council contest at womad!! and during class today, i suddenly found that i have a $70 Visa receipt from buying 2 cds from hmv the other day so i can swap it for a free hawaiian pizza from pizza hut tomorrow and eat it for lunch! (ya, don't miss Visa's latest promotion!! :) fantastic!)

i love freebies.. more so now that i just suffered a sudden paycut, and had two unexpectedly huge expenses this month (hospital bill for my bad backsprain and dead car battery.. :( ).... have (both consciously and subconsciously) started on this personal expense-cutting campaign... (ok ok... ignoring the fact about the $70 for two cds thing i just mentioned.. :p)... found that i can actually live even more frugally than i am already doing (in my opinion, that is..).. for example, i even tried to stop using Shell VPower for my car for a while (which didn't really last 'cos i could really feel the difference in the acceleration and power, and i found that i actually really hate lagging behind everyone on the road. awful feeling... the laggard feeling.. love driving so must make driving enjoyable, if not don't drive at all.. so.. back to VPower.. :)). then i cut back my lunch budget from $4.00 - 6.00 to $1.50 - 2.20 - which, believe me, is a real challenge since i am working in town.. but not too bad, it just means i stop eating burger king and macs value meals, and start eating beehoon and egg from Cuppage Plaza, or rice, one meat, one veg (+ drink ice mountain bottled water in office).. then there is less driving to town so i save on ERP and parking, walking instead of taking feeder buses from mrt station to home, eating cheaper dinners out (i.e. famous hawker food rather than Swensen's, for example), cheaper forms of exercise (run run run.. it's FREE!!!), watching less movies, buying less books... oh well, something like that....

oh ya, and am trying to earn extra bucks from doing freelance artwork mass production.... i.e. if you need someone to paint glasses or tiles or something like that for corporate gifts or something, call me.. i'm available for hire.. what to do.. times are hard.. :)