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I had a day off!

My last vacation from work was on the 22nd of April. That was incidentally also the day I took a flight from Chennai, India to Vancouver. Well, its happened again. I took a day off work. And I had no choice. It was either take the day off or lose it. You see, we have a certain number of days off work and if we don't use all but 5 of them (which I am moving to next year), we lose them. So... I took Friday off. Made a long weekend of it. It was quite nice.

I accomplished a lot on my day off. I got a bunch of things that I haven't had time to do for ever done. I was on the phone for an hour for work. I went to work. Well, I took chocolates to my work place and to my former work-place. I got hugged by a bunch of people there... and so forth. Godiva seems to make people do that. I went to the gym, I even went bowling after that. I went to the newly renovated BC Liquor Store on 39th and Cambie (and may I say it was impressive), I even dared to go into the mall... Oakridge was too close to give it a miss. I am glad to say I got out of there and out of there quickly, alive and in one piece. They have the only Benetton store I have seen in North America. And it only seemed to have stuff for women. I remember the Benetton store in Chennai. They had stuff for men.

I take 2 more days off work this year. Christmas eve eve. And New Years eve eve. But I work on Christmas and Boxing Day. Fun times ahead.

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