wanted: holiday

as some of you might have heard from me personally, i'm in desperate need of a vacation...i just need a change of environment, pace of life, and basically a break from this monotony.

anyway, i was walking alone along orchard road one afternoon (about 2 weeks ago), when this sweet young thing stopped me and asked if i could do a survey from her. i'm pretty sure most of you who frequent orchard have experienced this kinda stuff before, but looking at her golden-retreiver-puppy-eyes made my heart weak, and so i gave in and completed the form for her. in return, she said that there was some lucky draw with a grand prize of 7 nights' accommodation in various countries...i'm sure most of you have also kena this kinda stuff before too...but anyway, i won the grand prize (as expected), and since i had a lot of free time to kill, i decided to go and listen to the time share talk, so that i could collect my grand prize (the aforementioned eyes did the convincing for me once again)...it was for this asian travel club or something like that...

so i listened for about 1 and a half hours to this indian lady telling me about all the perks lah, this and that lah, without actually telling me how much it costs to join the club...which she refused to tell me till the end. to make a long story short, it costs $15,000 for a normal person to sign up, but just for me and only if i signed up there and then, she'd give me the vip special rate of $12,000...after which, i'd still need to pay $500+ per year for subscription fees. wow...imagine how many holidays i could have gone for already just with the joining fee alone. the lady must have thought that i'm damn stupid or something. eventually, i told her that i wasn't interested and asked about my "grand prize"...so she passed me some brochure thingy with some "voucher number" on it and told me to read the instructions...after which, she stormed off (obviously pissed off cuz she just wasted 1.5 hours of MY time).

the brochure showed a lot of different country locations that i could go to for 7 nights of free accommodation...some were really exotic: canary islands, fiji, spain, portugal, bali, goa (india), australia, philippines, and thailand. however, they didn't list any resort names, or even the cities in those countries that was on showcase...then i glanced through the booking form which asked for my particulars...and my CREDIT CARD NUMBER for "verification"...after filling out of which, i'm supposed to send to chaeng wattana road in bangkok, thailand. they must really think i'm a fucking idiot.

but i really need a holiday leh...how? has anyone ever tried this before??? should i risk having my credit card number being spread to timbuktu for the chance of having free accommodation??? sigh, sadly i think i just answered my own question.

BUT I REALLY NEED A HOLIDAY!!! ARGH!!!