From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,

Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely,
Jane Gilles

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From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards,
David.

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From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.07am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,

Thank you for contacting us. Unfortunately we are unable to accept drawings as payment and your account remains in arrears of $233.95. Please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely,
Jane Gilles

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From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 10.32am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

Can I have my drawing of a spider back then please.

Regards,
David.

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From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.42am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear David,

You emailed the drawing to me. Do you want me to email it back to you?

Yours sincerely,
Jane Gilles

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From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 11.56am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,

Yes please.

Regards,
David.

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From: Jane Gilles
Date: Thursday 9 Oct 2008 12.14pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Overdue account

Attached [spider.gif]

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From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 09.22am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Whose spider is that?

Dear Jane,

Are you sure this drawing of a spider is the one I sent you? This spider only has seven legs and I do not feel I would have made such an elementary mistake when I drew it.

Regards,
David.

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From: Jane Gilles
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.03am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David,

Yes it is the same drawing. I copied and pasted it from the email you sent me on the 8th. David your account is still overdue by the amount of $233.95.
Please make this payment as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely,
Jane Gilles

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From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.05am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Automated Out of Office Response

Thank you for contacting me.
I am currently away on leave, traveling through time and will be returning last week.

Regards,
David.

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From: David Thorne
Date: Friday 10 Oct 2008 11.08am
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Hello, I am back and have read through your emails and accept that despite missing a leg, that drawing of a spider may indeed be the one I sent you. I realize with hindsight that it is possible you rejected the drawing of a spider due to this obvious limb omission but did not point it out in an effort to avoid hurting my feelings. As such, I am sending you a revised drawing with the correct number of legs as full payment for any amount outstanding. I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion.

Regards,
David.

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From: Jane Gilles
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 2.51pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Dear David,

As I have stated, we do not accept drawings in lei of money for accounts outstanding. We accept cheque, bank cheque, money order or cash. Please make a payment this week to avoid incurring any additional fees.

Yours sincerely,
Jane Gilles

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From: David Thorne
Date: Monday 13 Oct 2008 3.17pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

I understand and will definitely make a payment this week if I remember. As you have not accepted my second drawing as payment, please return the drawing to me as soon as possible. It was silly of me to assume I could provide you with something of completely no value whatsoever, waste your time and then attach such a large amount to it.

Regards,
David.

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From: Jane Gilles
Date: Tuesday 14 Oct 2008 11.18am
To: David Thorne
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose spider is that?

Attached [spider2.gif]

Hot, sunny afternoon. I feel like baking a rainbow cake, or at least try a new recipe: cheesecake maybe. But the only thing I have in the kitchen that could bake a cake (or make a cake) is the oven. The one oven that used to sit in my mom’s kitchen doing nothing but bake cakes once a year – during Christmas, that is. Now it sits in MY kitchen, doing nothing. That poor oven. I’m gonna need more than an oven to bake a cake. I need ingredients. A cake mixer. Yes, I really need a cake mixer. Can someone send me one, if you’re not using it anymore? Ha ha!

Anyway, my sister suggested to me that we should sign up for the Mount Kinabalu climbing expedition come February. “There’s a promo going on!”, she said. Uhm.. first of all, I’m not THAT fit. Yet. Second of all, I do not have all the equipments or clothes for that. Not even a cortech sport tail bag. Most importantly.. I do not have that enthusiast, yet. Maybe when I’m done with my 30 Days Shred, I will consider it.

Anyway.. whoa..it’s so hot today. Anyone for ice-cream? Let’s head to the beach!

This would be my first headache since the coming of the year 2012. Gah, how I hate this! I HAVE to blame it on the hot weather of the city. And no, putting on a ray ban or Gucci shades wouldn’t help either. OH well, I guess the grass is greener on this side but the weather is not too friendly. At least to me. Particularly my head.

Anyway. I was called by this huge, international makeup company for an interview today. The interview went ok. The salary offer was great. They even offered a meal allowance, makeup allowance, overtime allowance, sales commission.. and I heard that there’s also shoes allowance! Ha ha.. mana mau cari tuh? BUT the only con is: the working hours! Gahhhh.. why must there be a con. Can’t they just give me pros without the cons? :-( AND.. I will have to work on weekends. So sad. Anyway, I’m gonna give it a thought before deciding anything.

On the other hand, I’ve been actively brushing up my designing skills once again. I managed to design a new logo for a client before Christmas and this was what I did:

Just a simple black & white logo as per requested by the client. And we have another happy client! :-D

Our boxes of stuff from KL arrived on the day we’re supposed to start our journey drive back home – and 13 big boxes of them! What a blessing! Well, sort of. Blessing coz I get to use all the new IKEA stuff I packed in one of them boxes. Not really a blessing because we left a huge mess in our apartment before leaving for my parents’ home: we had to open up a few boxes with a box cutter to find some stuff coz we couldn’t remember which box stores what. LOL

But to sum it up, I’m really glad our things finally arrived safely. No box went missing and no items were stolen too, as far as I can tell.

Merry Christmas, everyone. :-)