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We fired our intern last Friday. It was inevitable. We were tossing with the decision for the past 2 weeks, even at our annual potluck ALOFQ Xmas party. Talking about him always makes our blood boil but we thought hell, we could try to put up with him for 1 and half months more till end Jan'09. Anyway his lecturer's call was the last straw on the camel's back. He asked if all was ok, so we met him and found out that K has been complaining non-stop to him, the other lecturer and his friends about us. We could tell he was miserable but expected him to be more mature about it.

Even his lecturers said he has to learn to deal with the stress and empathise more with us than him. We decided with the lecturer's blessing that it was better for K to move on to another company where he might eventually like or not (and realise it's not us, but him). On Friday we broke the news to him and he seemed ok (maybe relieved?), just mummering 'Sorry I let you all down.' We said it's not personal but hope he'd see this as a positive lesson. Life moves on.

Xmas seems to be creeping up real fast - I've had my share of turkey, pork knuckle and the works at 2 Xmas parties already. And the real countdown started over the weekend to seeing L again on 20 Dicembre this sabato. Roma is flooding over from the torrents of rain and northern italia is buried under tons of snow. But we are looking forward to a wintry snug Natale and ushering the New Year with some prosecco and fireworks. Ironically, we are not sure how it'd unfold for us but we're clinging onto every hope that we could be together. C'e speranza.

I'm happy for V, who is getting hitcked to P from down under. Just today she was shrieking and I was doing the 'V-is-getting-married!-dance' in the office, as she clicked on the online ROM application and booked the date 16 March. That's the day they first met online and a year later, they are taking the vows. It's funny how things turned out. Marriage is scary but it is the logical decision once you've found that someone special to spend your life with; who's your soulmate and best friend, whom you want to travel the world, laugh and cry over everything and nothing.