Dear LJ
It has been 11 days since my last update.
I find it only fitting to use LJ to post song lyrics.
In this case, Wonderwall, by Oasis
Today was gonna be the day?
But they'll never throw it back to you
So funny story, we had plane tickets booked to go back to Singapore today as the return leg of our trip back here in Jan 2011. We haven't taken them. This means we are for most intents and purposes, now stuck in Canada. Our next planned trip to Australia will be Feb/Mar 2012, 8 months away, which is more than the 12 months we get on the return leg from our last trip to Aus.
We would have loved to have taken them, for many reasons, especially silverai's wedding, and seeing Perth peeps, and not "wasting" the $500 or so difference there was between a one-way from Perth and a return, but we would have needed to take leave without pay, and for both our jobs right now that isn't a good option, and there are costs (like, we'd need to get back from Perth to come back to work, we'd need accommodation in perth..) which meant that the $500 was the "cheap" option.
So here we stay for now, quasi-Canadians. The sort with less rights, and the same taxes.
.. but I still get whistful when I listen to Tim Minchin's "White Wine in the Sun" (also, we're going to see him in two weeks! yay!)
I find it only fitting to use LJ to post song lyrics.
In this case, Wonderwall, by Oasis
Today was gonna be the day?
But they'll never throw it back to you
So funny story, we had plane tickets booked to go back to Singapore today as the return leg of our trip back here in Jan 2011. We haven't taken them. This means we are for most intents and purposes, now stuck in Canada. Our next planned trip to Australia will be Feb/Mar 2012, 8 months away, which is more than the 12 months we get on the return leg from our last trip to Aus.
We would have loved to have taken them, for many reasons, especially silverai's wedding, and seeing Perth peeps, and not "wasting" the $500 or so difference there was between a one-way from Perth and a return, but we would have needed to take leave without pay, and for both our jobs right now that isn't a good option, and there are costs (like, we'd need to get back from Perth to come back to work, we'd need accommodation in perth..) which meant that the $500 was the "cheap" option.
So here we stay for now, quasi-Canadians. The sort with less rights, and the same taxes.
.. but I still get whistful when I listen to Tim Minchin's "White Wine in the Sun" (also, we're going to see him in two weeks! yay!)