in the short one week that my sister was back in singapore, she managed to add a pair of addidas sunglass and an iPod to the sum total of her material possessions. So yah, she deserves respect. wriggling so much out of my parents is not really easy normally. but when you are the first kid in the family to study abroad, i guess it makes you extra special. I can't believe my little sister beat me to it.

anyway, i was very relieved that steven decided to pay for her iPod. I had initially promised to buy it for adela (story of blackmail omitted) luckily, steven agreed to pay for it. my eccentric sister named the iPod Oracle, as in THE Oracle from the Matrix that tells Neo exactly what he needs to hear. when we got home from the store, she introduced Oracle to Marvin (her laptop) and then told Marvin not to be jealous.

during her short stay, adela also spent a lot of time with her rabbits. she also put a small teddy bear in the rabbit cage (I don't know why. before the rabbits were sterilised, she put a furry cloth in and the male rabbit started shagging it. I really don't know what the furry bear is for this time. don't ask, don't ask)

Adela flew back to aussieland on a valuair flight. did you know that if you want inflight entertainment on valuair, you have to pay 10 bucks for this laptop-like machine called a personal entertainment appliance? it is a lot thicker than a laptop and looked really heavy in the picture. Adela brought Marvin and Oracle. more than enough entertainment considering the fact that she had saved 6 movies in Oracle. the iPod functions as an external hard disk as well as a music player. adela whined me into helping her save The Incredibles, The Exocist, Goodbye Lenin!, Hitler - The Rise of Evil, Open Water and Schindler's List into her Oracle. in the music department, she also whined my into loading my whole music collection into Oracle. Her policy on audio-visual entertainmemt is: jie jie pay, i enjoy for free. But i made her say, "thank you Lao Da" after that. felt good.

just before adela had to get her butt through security and onto the plane, we ran around the airport looking for a chocolate shop. we found one and i bought her a GIGANTIC block of chocolate to keep her company on the flight. It was my way of saying thanks because she paid for my haircut that morning. Fair's fair.