following the post below the previous one, i havent walked home once :P i've been catching the bus from victoria park market right up to the shell station by my place. what a bum i've been! at least i'm walking up and down 2 flights of stairs per day. and walking across victoria park to catch the buss :P i still think i'm getting more exercise done now, than when i was working on the shore.

lately i've been house hunting for a bit. found quite a few nice places within walking distance from my work place. there're a couple just across the road, and the area is just nice. it felt really cosy when we did a quick drive through there last night. the places looked pretty new as well, and the complex has the whole gym+lap pool+sauna as well! and one of the places we found allows pets, but the rent is like nzd395, which we both think is pretty steep for an unfurnished place..

apart from house hunting, i've been chihuahua hunting as well. trademe and t&e seems like the best places to look for pups. other classifieds have lots of pet scams going on where they say they'll ship the puppies to you, and all you need to do is pay the shipping fee and the puppy comes free. i read stories where after paying the shipping fee, the sellers will contact you and say that your puppy is stuck on a random island, and that's when they'll start demanding for more money from you and etc.

i got in touch with one of them pet scammers, and we went as far as organising shipping. i told them that i work in the airlines industry so i get special rates for cargo and that i'll arrange shipping myself. the response i got was a pretty -ve one, where they've pretty much lost interest in trying to 'scam' me coz obviously they would get nothing out of it..in the end, they just stopped replying my emails. lol

the ridiculous thing is, they 'give' you a free puppy. then they shipping fees are like, 10% of what you would actually pay. wow, these people sure are animal lovers ay...they're even willing to cover 90% of the shipping costs for you..

what bollocks! i'm smarter than that :P

anyway, the hunt for houses will keep going, and so will be chihuahua search :) if you know anyone who's selling a smooth coat/short haired chihuahua, please let me know!