"them won big money in vegas an' took off, man!"

the funniest, shittiest thing happened today - my 2 supervisors, Dean and Jerry, bth 65 yr old mules, took off. like, *snap* dissapeared. appareantly they spent a day in the strip and won "as much as they would earn in a season", thats around 9k, and over the night they just packed their bags and took off, dissapeared. just, GONE, man. GONE. damn bastards had even promised us lunch "for a good job done" in housekeeping.

it was on our offday when it happened. we had just gone for a whole day doing shopping and spending HALF my paycheck (150BUCKS!!) on clothes and books. ooh WOOOTTT~!!!! the CK, GUESS, armani, billabong, roxy etc etc etc stuff here is SOOOO GODDDAMN CHEAP! the girls just spent like 4hrs buying tops and jeans at this factory outlet.. well i was there too and i wasnt complaining either. so many bags. gilr got herself a Guess bag that was soooo damn good, even by my standards. all at 14.00USD. i got me a pair of Guess jeans at 17USD. beat that.this is just the tip of the iceberg. Read and be envious, guys and gals!! someones gotta chain me to a car. anyway when we got back to the lodge it was 1230am (takes 3hrs from the lodge to the nearest town - st george), some homies hustled us in to their rooms and dished the:
Bad news- " Dean and Jerry took off"
Worse news - " no more free lunch-treat"
Worst news. "someone else is taking their place."
lets call him snake.

You see, snake's been doin "real well" in front of our superiors. Gettin his quota of rooms done ASAP, then rushing off to help with other rooms to earn extra creds. the thing is, when you help out with other rooms, you help em with the WHOLE room. You see, snake here just does the beds and says he's helped with a room. sweet. other people when they help with a room, they help with everything, from beds to toilet to floors. so with him pulling off such a fast one hes got $65.00 chocked up with doing extra rooms. The rest of us generally get like say 12 - 40 dollars. i got 16bucks myself and i worked my ass off. i know others who work their ass off too and get less than me. furthermore, he does a real quick and nasty job, often leaving the bed ends untucked or the alignment wrong. i myself got gigged by my now-gone supervisor for a lousily made bed. gracis to snake, of course. many are pissed with him. its a rather fubar sitaution for most of us. so ayway, all the higherups think hes a real good guy and promote him in this dire situation. None of us are happy with it. town meeting was called and we tried to reverse the higherup's decision, but no go, his hold on them is too great, and the situation prevails. good for him. lousy for us. some of us, we are joe's simmering rage. we dont talk to him during mealtimes now, he mostly eats alone. Sure is cold up there, i guess.
Jet, tuty, and the rest? you were right. "Watch out of him" you guys said. oh well. too late.
I travelled all the way from home to this beautiful place with this snake. those of you will know who snake is.

Anyway....

Out stargazing again. Im getting to be an expert at this. Scorpious, Virgo, Big n lil dipper, corona borealis and draco are the most visible ones here. Orion is unfortunately unavailable from this side of the hemisphere. But the sky is a splendour. you can even see star clusters and the milky way from here!! astounding. coupled with satellites zipping across the sky all the time and meteors comin on and off, it truly is a beautiful sight. makes you wanna sing. the only thing is, it is COLD AS SHIT up here at night. i wear polartec and goretex, along with ear-warmers and i still freeze. but its worth the sacrifice. too beautiful.

Id want to save another post entirely dedicated to shopping and stuff to buy, so wait out.

its final. gonna hike down to the south rim in a few weeks time. so far ive only gotten one team mate, amanda-hailing-from-conneticut (spelling?) to do this ardous hike. not that im complaining though. shes a demure hottie-with-beautiful-eyes. wide grins. but it IS going to be ardous. looking really forward to it.

just did some illegal rocking a few days ago./ twas while on a trail, we stopped for lunch, and i saw this rock just BEGGING to be climbed. so i rolled up me sleeves and i ROCKED. it was illegal, it was painful, but it felt SOOOO GOOOD. u see the rocks here are sandstone and shale, this rock happens to have so many nice jugs and outcrops it was such a PLEASURE to boulder. and it was festooned with fossils that id jam myself in a crack halfway around and admire it. it was SOOO good. five bloody and hurting fingers afterwards was just so worth it. Clar if you readin this - YA missin out on GOOD STUFF, PAL!!

crackers: huh? "remember you?" as in get you a starmap too or try to find the greater-nudibranch constellation? anyway its the northern hemisphere so i dont think the starmap i have will be working in singapore.

fiza: still no sign of inflatable huggable cave-dude. however, im gonna get you a yellow-submarine singlet. ya want?

felicia: i dont think ill ever get close nuff to any museum to get any nice bookmarks. i could do a flower-pressing and laminate it when i get back to make a nice bookmark - the flowers and leaves here are nice.

mei: if you read this - Yes, you are a spoilt brat. what size are your shoes. otherwise i cant get you good flipflops.

anyone: i think huiqi asked me to get her something.. though i cant remember what it was.. can someone help me ask? i cant seem to find her email anyway.

till then. this is YC signing off.