Mike's 'teens' Christmas party

Yesterday I thought would be a nice peaceful, slow day in the office. I wasn't in Court, so I figured I'd use it to catch up on small things and finally start on a large brief.

I somehow got talking to Nunjo in her room, cause I wanted to suss out whether she'd like a present of her name consisting of big letters (she said she doesn't have any personal belongings because she's changed offices too many times). She seemed to open up to me a lot more than usual, telling me about Christina's illness and how she was hospitalised a few years ago, and also how some lady stole some money from Christina's purse when they went to the movies on Tuesday night to watch Twilight. Apparently Nunjo confronted the lady and got the money back. She also told me about how when the removalists were slow to get her stuff down from Darwin, she told them to "fuck off" or "go fuck yourself". Wow, that I could never imagine.

I guess whether she was interested in me enough was answered by what happened next. LC was walking in with Clare to Clare's room and Nunjo quickly said "Hi Lincoln!", almost sounding desperate for his attention. Hmmm.

Anyway, DS came into the room asking to see me, so we went into my room. He gave me a matter that had just been faxed to us, asking me to make sure the PP would mention it for us. So that was panick number one, since I had to do it before the PP went to court. I got that done by a stroke of luck as the PP had walked back into his office when I called.

I went to tell DS everything was ok then he asked me to do another thing for him. Melissa's matter was in court at 2pm but defence wanted to do it now, so he wanted me to go over. It was a simple thing by consent, but the fact that I was rushed into a matter without knowing anything about it put some pressure on me.

Of course, I said yes. However, I do wonder if he asked me to do those things because I was trustworthy, or if he thought I had nothing else to do since I was talking to Nunjo.

As I walked out of my room to court, I saw Nunjo and gave her an eyebrow flash. I went to court and did the mention, which was relatively easy, then went back to the office. I think this is the second time ever Nunjo has come to my room (the first was when she came in with Clare to ask a question) and she didn't even really step inside. She asked me where I rushed off to and I told her about Melissa's matter and that was it.

In the afternoon I went out with Genie to get a drink from Macca's, and unfortunately walked in right at the moment that DS was walking by. Damn. Then at 4:20pm, I ended up in a group conversation with Moira, Clare and Ogre in the corridor. DS half jokingly said it was a stop work meeting. I couldn't tell if he was really joking, or if it was a hint for us to get back to work. But he went home five minutes later and I figured it would've been pretty poor form of him to tell us to get back to work when he leaves early.

I left work at about 5:30pm and went to the gym. I did my usual stuff, and then went home.

Today, I met up with Malay, Thai and G for exercises at the park. We did abs exercises mainly. Maybe it's because I've been doing some in the gym, but this time it didn't hurt as much. Malay said he'd find a sport I wasn't good at, which I suppose was a compliment.

Afterwards we went to the Wick for breakfast at Subway, checked out EB Games and then went home. Malay and I checked out Auto One but they wouldn't fit his windscreen wipers for him so we left.

I was pretty tired and kinda wanted to sleep, but instead played a game of NBA Live. I don't know why, but afterwards I was flipping through the stats and saw a photo of Kobe Bryant, and that motivated me to get my ass out to the courts despite wanting to sleep.

So I went to the courts with the intention of shooting around and working on my shot. I decided to just do set shots, and made 55 from the left side of the court. I have a nice set shot, but too bad I don't use it in games.

I went home, had a shower and then got ready to meet with Mike and Jim for the christmas party. My bus for some reason took the wrong turn in the city, which delayed me a bit, but ended up meeting them with no other problems.

We met at my office because apparently that was where the party was. Mike was with a girl, who he introduced as Lin. Jim looked like he didn't know what to do. Mike said they were headed to Central to pick up another girl, and said we could either go with him or stay and wait. I decided to go, and Jim seemed surprised, complaining about the long walk to Central.

I talked to Jim at first as we walked, then Mike joined in. Finally, at the lights, I spoke to Lin, just asking her how she knew Mike (through church) and how long she'd known him (a year and a half). Then as we made our way through hobo park, I noticed she had trailed behind while the three of us talked. I wonder why.

We picked up the other girl from Central called Maika, then headed back to my office. We went into the conference room on the ground level, then further into a hall which I'd never been to. Mike the idiot didn't tell us it was a formal event, so Jim and I looked casual while most at least had a shirt with a collar, fark.

We sat down and I sat between Jim and Lin. At first I just spoke to Jim, but then started talking to Lin as well. She said she was studying business and working part time as a waitress. I kept trying to think of things to talk about, but it was hard given 1) my lack of imagination 2) her bad English and 3) the loud music playing. I got my ticket out and asked which of the educational institutions listed were hers, and she pointed Macquarie out to me, touching my hand. I said "oh ok" and then proceeded to put the ticket away, then she asked for it back and I nearly dropped it, and our hands touched again.

We'd talk occasionally on and off, she would ask me what I was studying, I said I worked, and she asked what and I said lawyer in the building. She asked if it was hard and I said a bit.

We watched some dancing and some speeches, before we all went out to eat. Lin had said she plays badminton, and I quickly thought about organising something with Jim since he plays on Wednesday nights. I thought too much, and then realised the moment had gone. It was awkward to bring it back up now. I should've jumped on the opportunity when she said it. Fark.

Anyway, I wanted to get my food really quick so I could talk to her, but lost her in the crowd. Jim joined me in the queue as we got our food. We walked around eating it. I was searching for Lin under the pretense of looking for more food. I eventually found the group lining up, and Lin gave me a surprised look as she saw I already had the food.

So Jim and I waited for them to get their food and then lost them for a bit before finding the two guys Jet and someone else. They were really friendly, especially Jet, who kept making some stupid jokes. I thought he was funny, but then realised he must've been young. Lin was standing away a bit, sometimes talking to Mike and another guy, and sometimes by herself. I wanted to make a move over, but Jet wouldn't shut up, lol.

Finally I went over and asked her if she was full so we talked a bit there before the group moved over and had a group discussion. We then all went back in, couldn't find enough seats so decided to go upstairs. It was good cause we got a much better view. The entertainment was better too, cause there were break dancing performances, which was really cool.

I saw Lin recording them on her phone, and I later regreteed not doing the same as one of them was really cool. One song they played was that Korean song "nobody nobody but you" which made me think about all the times I had with Naby...

I swear Jet just wouldn't shut up. He was sitting to my right and kept tapping my arm to make jokes, sometimes inappropriate jokes. Lin was sitting in front of us and I wondered if she understood. Jet reminded me of William, which annoyed me, but I told myself they were two different people.

Finally after the performances were over, Jet left me and I went to sit slightly behind Lin to her right, asking her if she recorded the second performance because I liked it, and asking if she could upload it onto fb is she had it and asking if I could add her. She said yes, but seemed a bit perplexed. Hmmm. Later on she just handed me her mask.

When we went downstairs I asked her if she wanted it and she said no, so I left it on a table. Mike went into the dance area, and I went in too, but hid away within the darkness so he couldn't find me to pull me onto the dance floor.

They were planning karaoke afterwards and I knew I wasn't up for it, especially since I had already established some 'post contact' with Lin. I went out to the lobby and saw Lin and Jet, and Jet started talking to me about karaoke. I swear that guy is a funny cunt.

Mike came out and tried to get us to dance, but I said I was going, and then he and jet started trying to convince me to dance and/or go to karaoke, yet Jet himself wouldn't dance, saying his pants were too tight lol.

Finally managed to be persistent and said goodbyes. When I said goodbye to Lin, she was like "are you going? I want to go too"

I waved goodbye and then left. I knew I shouldn't have, but I withdrew $800 and went to the casino, first telling myself that winning $100 was good enough, and then later telling myself I'd aim for $200.

I walked to the casino and found it alive and kicking since it was a Saturday night. I exchanged my cash for $100 chips, then went to another table to bet $100 on the third dozen and $100 on 1-18. It landed in the third dozen and so I won $100.

I went to another table and bet $100 on black and $100 on third column and it landed on 33. Great, total profit $400. That was enough for me. 33 is next to 1 by the way, so I was THIS close to losing. I told myself that as I walked to the cashier.

I then hung around and watched a bit, looking for tables with big players. Finally I found a guy on a $10 table betting huge stacks of chips. In addition to his stacks, he also had a couple of $1,000 chips. I watched as he lost it all. He was down like $2800 and then bought $1400 more chips. I thought, how the hell are you going to use $1400 to win back $2800? Sure enough, he ended up losing it all and walked away. Fark.

I then left the casino and Jim called, to see if I was stiff with them as he wanted to come back. I said I wasn't, and we left it at that.

So, Lin eh?