And another Merry Christmas
I never expected taking up two jobs in the Christmas period to be this tiring! I’ve been working eight days straight but I finally got a break on Christmas day! 
Because of that I had some trouble getting the Snark Secret Santa present done on time but I got it in yay.
Trip to Asia
Sorry for the immense lack of updates! Right after my last post I took a great 18-day trip to Taiwan and Japan for seeing friends and relatives and maple sight-seeing in Japan.
It was terribly tiring touring with a tour group in Japan (waking up at 6am and getting back to the hotel at 10pm), and I ate like a pig in Taiwan for the love of cheap and godly foods. It was also crazy how the Taiwanese Winter was hotter than our New Zealand Summer. I walked around with sleeveless clothing in Taiwan and people looked at me like I was mad. No, they were the mental ones wearing scarves and huge coats under such heat!
New MacBook
My lovely new baby. With the low New Zealand Dollar, New Zealand was probably the cheapest place in the world to get the new unibody MacBook. But I bought it in Taiwan during the Info Expo because they had slight discounts and some ‘deals’. I also spent a fortune to get it upgraded to 4GB RAM. However much I spent on it, I feel like every dollar was worth it; fast, pretty and awesome new trackpad ‘moves’. I don’t have a lot of Christmas presents (only two or so because most friends are overseas), but this is the best Christmas present I gave to myself.
Yes I now have my stubbornly PC-loving friends jealous. 
End of 2008
I’ve had a year of mad up’s and down’s, and I’m ready to take on a new year of challenge – I think. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. 
