Counting my blessings
01/07/2004
I know I haven’t been blogging
I’ve been shopping! The snazzy paper stores down at Citilink Mall – Bookbinders (opposite the Hello Store) and Print (opposite another favourite L’Occitane) went on sale, so today I finally bought the photo albums that I wanted. They’re the scrapbook kind, so you need to stick the photos on right. $20 a book, second one at 30% off, so I thought I’d get it now, since they make good gifts.
While I was at it I bought a bunch of cards, I like the skinny ones
I can’t go for that
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Today we went to Suntec City for dinner, after that while browsing at Tower Records I saw this – The Ultimate Daryl Hall and John Oates. Being the Greatest Hits Compilation sucker I am, I had to give it a listen and it was downhill all the way from there. I think I got the entire CD because I didn’t have You Make My Dreams. Lame reason, yes. But it’s Hall and Oates!
I got as far as Citilink Mall before I broke and got the album at HMV.
I still can’t figure out where or when I acquired the taste for Hall and Oates. Most of the stuff I like now is a result of my dad and his weekend blasts (which explains the appearance of musicals, The Beatles, Chopin, Waltzes, Billy Joel, Nat Cole among other things in my collection). Like most men at that age, Dad used to be so into audio equipment and stuff we had speakers everywhere. I had a great time fiddling with all the knobs, switches and dials on the various amplifiers, tuners, cassette and CD players.
There were a few instances where the fuses on his speakers blew out mysteriously. Dad claimed it was caused by someone turning the volume knob on the amplifier all the way up. I think it’s simply because he didn’t check when he turned the equipment on. I didn’t see why he was complaining anyway, he wasn’t the one who got woken up to the sound of something close to a sonic boom.
More than once. But never in the same month. 
