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This fortnight’s question at Twenty Something Bloggers:
If you won the lottery, would you keep it a secret?
First of all, this is going to be hypothetical if I won the lottery right at this moment in my life. I would definitely tell my parents and sister, and probably my maternal grandma. This is so I can buy them things – specifically, I’d buy my parents a house/apartment and pay for renovations if they find a place they like other than our current apartment, so that they don’t have to pay for mortgage anymore. I’d also buy my grandma her house in California so that she doesn’t have to worry about that either. Then I’d take my mom and sister and grandma shopping (jewellery first, then bags, shoes, and clothes).
After that, I would fly first class to move to New York and buy an amazing apartment there overlooking Central Park, so I can continue being a poor writer but not worry about rent. With the rest of the money, I would buy my boyfriend Colin the new Macbook Air and the iMac (his desktop is literally in pieces on his bedroom floor, and his G4 is really…old. haha).
After I’ve done that, I’d probably just put the rest of away in savings to pay for utilities, plane tickets to visit family, and travelling. And I’d be happy.
That’s all! 
What would you do if you won the lottery?
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Ana@eclectic closet
Donna@A Glass Full of W(h)ine
Rachel-Catherine
James@The Ink
(2nd round of questions on Twenty Something Bloggers‘ fortnightly debate.)
It’s time for new years resolutions. What is one thing about yourself that you are definitely NOT changing?
I’ve had some hard times last year, in relation to family, my career (& finances), my friends, and my love life – basically all aspects of my life! (Again, quarterlife crisis, anyone??) I think the one thing about myself that I am keeping is my optimism.
I’ve always been quite an optimistic, happy person, and yeah ok, I wasn’t so optimistic during the last quarter of the year, but seeing how everything’s turned around so quickly has really brought it back to stay! Being jobless for so long, then suddenly being offered a job and then getting another interview (still haven’t heard back yet, btw); being single for a year and a half, and then towards then end when I was realizing that although for the most part I didn’t mind it, I was ready for a relationship again, Colin came into my life and turned it upside down and brought it right back up again, higher than I was before; even finding out who my real friends are – I have to say, everything really is ok in the end, even though this is really more the end of a beginning.
This year, I refuse to get suckered down into another “my life sucks, I’m so depressed” mode, because, as I said above, everything really does turn out fine, if not better.
If anything, I have to be an optimist now that I’m in a long distance relationship. It’s going to be tough, and being depressed about it will only make it tougher. So, dear God, I will cling on to my optimism as hard as I can, because He only knows I’ll really need it this year, if only to keep my relationship alive.
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This is the first of a fortnightly debate on Twenty Something Bloggers that I’ll be participating in. If you want to be linked at the bottom, leave a comment here or click on the question to be taken to the discussion page.
Would you tell your friend if you didn’t like his/her partner?
Actually, at the moment I don’t like the boyfriend that my best friend Leah’s boyfriend…at all. The thing about Leah is that this is her first ’serious’ relationship (out of two), and the first one where she knew she wanted to be with him to begin with. During our uni days she was the wild one, always going out and meeting new boys and having several one night stands that didn’t mean anything, and she didn’t care about it. It wasn’t a lack of self-esteem thing, it was more of a “I can do it, so why not?” attitude.
So the fact that she really likes this guy and claims to be in love and that it’s been more than 3 months, are all reason as to why I really want to like this guy. Too bad he’s kind of an asshole.
The first time I met him he barely even said hi before he got up and went somewhere else; the second time he didn’t really say much but was ok, bought myself and another girl friend a drink and I chatted to him for maybe 3 minutes before him and Leah left to another club; and the third time was at a friend’s birthday dinner. I was outside having a cigarette with one of my friends and he came out and since I knew he smoked, asked if he wanted one, but he just kinda glanced at me and was like “I don’t smoke that shit anymore” and walked back into the restaurant. WTF? A simple “No, thanks” would have sufficed, especially since I was clearly “smoking that shit”.
Plus, I know he’s a major pothead and it’s not like pot is that much better for your throat/lungs. So whatever.
For the most part I just try to ignore that he’s Leah’s boyfriend, and don’t really say anything when she brings him up. I still love her to bits but since he moved to HK we don’t really see each other that often, mostly because every time I ask her to do something she wants to check with him and see what he’s doing first. Which is kind of annoying, but he is pretty much her first love so I understand why she’s like that.
Ugh.
The reason I choose not to say anything is because before all this happened, my other friend started dating a guy I don’t really like, and she knew that I didn’t like him. I think she felt bad for liking him when a ton of her friends don’t, and I don’t want to make a friend feel that uncomfortable again. So since then I’ve shut up and just kept it to myself. After all, she’s the one dating him, not me. (Thank God.)
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