swaying...

the phone is there... thrown back there...
the messages r in there....

N i dun wanna read them.
Not now..
Maybe later...

You know how u'll always get this funny feeling...
bout whether it's right or not right...
Is it true that if it's right, nothing's supposed to go wrong?
That u won't feel shitty this way?


Later, later then i will deal with it......

Only when i got to 27 i realised i've made myself an emotional drawer...
where i can keep my feelings in for a while longer before i lose control.

Say I Love You everyday...

My family got back today from their holiday to Hainan Island...
Whole truckload of them, aunties n uncles n cousins all including my parents n sistas...

I jus got back from a jakarta nitestop n was kinda miffed when i had to trek all over the airport after walking back from jkt to join them at the staff canteen in T2 for a late lunch session...

In the car later updating my news-craved daddy on the recent happenings in bkk airport, the mumbai bombings n how the girl who was killed was actually from MGS as well n only 1 year my senior n all that...
I never knew her personally but am sure i've seen her playing in those netball matches before....

I felt guilty for briefly showing my temper earlier cos i was hot n bothered.
I suddenly felt relief that my family were all back by my side.

Even though i will never have the house to myself over the weekend for a long time, i wish they dun go away all together at once without me for a long time again.

I remembered that i had forgotten to tell them all i love them when they left for their holiday last week.

When I watched the Mumbai shootings unfold on CNN while in Shanghai last week, only 10 ppl were reported dead....
When i checked out the next morning, only 15 reported dead.
But when i got home... n only got access to newspapers 36 hours later... the whole 188 ppl dead n 1 of them a Singaporean n how the entire event was India's 911 was kinda overwhelming.

If i'm not wrong... the company used to put us up at the Taj in Mumbai for a really short period of time...

I'm going to Delhi next week...

N for those who's been to India... u will know tt the security there is like atrocious one lor...
The fucking metal detector machine tt they make ppl walk thru is like useless one... cos you go 'beep' n they still go 'Okay' . -___-"
The entrances to the airport r crowded like f n aiyah watever security measures they put up jus look like nonsense lar.

I read all these newspaper reports on the poor girl n though they starting to repeat telecast the same things in each n every article...
i can't help but imagine how it will feel if suddenly my dearly beloveds r taken away from me.
How will i react?
How will it feel??

It's all starting to hit really close to home n u wonder when one really feels safe anymore.

I sat in my room in Jakarta the nite before watching more updates on BBC on the Mumbai bombings n imagined wat should i do if the hotel i stayed in got raided...

- Wat the hell can i use as a weapon to protect myself? Shoe horn??? Iron??? knn~
- Errr.... should i change outta my PJs if got time??
- Nabei, if they start raiding rooms, wat furniture should i pile against my door first??? I stared at the fuckin big wooden desk n tv stand n wonder if i've enough strength to singlehandedly move them across the room...
- Handphone better keep fully charged from now on lor, (after hearing account from some spiritual group leader on BBC) then i faster go charge my phone at tt moment even though it's only 1 bar down...

Crazy thoughts running thru my mind.....
Clearly I'm over imaginative n over thinking once again...
But i can't help it! ;D

But one thing's for sure..........
I wanna tell my parents/sisters n boyfriend that i love them every time b4 i leave home base....
N that i love them all the time.
No arguments n cold wars before my flights....
Give my mom n dad a peck on the cheek as i used to do all the time even until uni days, whenever i get outta the car...
N remember to tell my close friends they make me laugh n i need them around to stay happy...

Life's too unpredictable to take things/ppl round u for granted...
We all know this but we r all still guilty of it.
So wat r u waiting for?!?!

Start saying "I love you" everyday.
:)

The ultimate Get-together @ Cicada n Doggie Mud Spa

It's all in my head...
weddings weddings n weddings...

such a pretty n cute wedding cake!!!

Me n Von were poking n prodding n wow-ing at the play-doh quality of it...
Not realising tt it's real....
Until the end of the night when they freakin' cut the cake n gave it out n we were like
"Woah it's real one lei!!!"

I mean the truth is.. how many plastic fake cakes have we all seen at weddings huh???
huh huh huh?!?!?
n how many times do we actually get to see the top 2 tiers being taken out n the bottom getting cut!

we were like "oops!! dun eat the icing pple!! we poked it!!" ;p

Ahhhh... so good to see some whom we haven't seen for eons...

The original old Domies...
Look we can run an entire Saturday madcap dinner service liao
Supervisors n chefs n solid cashiers n baristas n food, drink n station runners.
The memories of all my Christmases n Valentine's days spent at werk.

The commis cooks have since moved on to being sous chefs, chef de parties, executive chefs...
The supers have moved on to be managers...
The rest of us have just... moved on......
to full time jobs, full time things, marriage... etc...

No more standing next to sandwich/main course counters haggling with the chefs on how each customers want their special orders... *giggle*
No more bugging the harrassed cashiers on long waiting bills
No more cowering behind the bar counter asking for new ice creams when the old ones have melted..
No more slinking behind kitchens stealing just-washed water glasses...
No more sneaking just sliced roasted beef n freshly peeled king prawns or forzen tiramisus...
No more writing "Special pizza, special, pie, special pasta, Soup of the Day, Special dessert, Brew of the Day" on the specials board n having to memorise them n having Adi traumatise u during briefing. hee hee

Life has become a big usual Blah since school days ended n real working-for-money-life had began...

But it's still a big 'wheee!"

The happy days will still be happy days as long as we have each other. :)

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Met up with G n her sister brigade on Friday nite for some wedding planning...
March in music, sabo games planning, itinierary for the day, traditional customs, colour of dresses....

Personally, i'm super excited...

Pictures of J n WW's wedding which i failed to attend cos of many circumstances already in FB...
N it's all white n pretty n I'm actually jealous! ;D

Sigh.. i wanna pinch myself to remind myself of reality. ;p

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Sometime last week...
Doggie mud spa!!

"Woah! wats tt bubbling up against my balls!??!?"
"grrr woof"

"hmmmmm i'm really starting to like this........
Wait.. i move abit aside so the bubbles dun go straight up my arse..."

"ooooooSaaahhhh"

Coating him with dead sea mud thingy


"wooof.. so much attention... so many hands on me... massaging massaging...."

i swear his fur got smoother after washing off the mud...
We put some on our hands too n it felt soooo smooth after ....
N smells good too!!

Wat recession??
These loving owners sent both their big doggies for spa treatment tt day...
Per dog SGD 80 only lor!!
Wat u waiting for ?!?! Animal Resort! ;D

End of Strike n Amanda's 'Dua Seh' 24th

Sorry bout that people...

Left u without a Part 2 n any explanation...
But i'm back.. with a slew of events to report on...

First up...
Amanda's dua seh 25th bday at Dragonfly tonight..

Dodo endured a crazy full load Shitney flight back to Sg n then rush down to DF with full make up n sticky hair for the silly girl...

who ended up drunk n ... inevitably... crying since she jus suffered a recent break up.
We flygirls jus have such tragic love lives..

Men think that flygirls R

1) good to cheat on cos we're always not in town

2) good to cheat cos we have fat bank accounts..... when in fact we r glorified 3-in-1 toilet cleaners, concierge services, n manservants........

Next time when u fucking think of cheating on a flygirl, think of cheating on individual toilet cleaners, concierge personnels n manservants n in the same way yr bad karma will be triple fold!!! che$#^BWy83E*

Check out the present tt me n Sponge got her...

An all exclusive Ann Summers Rampant Rabbit Heart Throb!!!
Cos she doesn't have a man now...

We were even kind enough to throw in batteries so she can test drive immediately..
;D

So camera shy at first....

Then she started prancing around n dancing with her fat dildo in DF.
Oh gosh!!!!

The Girls...

"Keep that gigantic schlong away from meeeeee!!!!!"
I'd prefer a real man anytime..
In the mean time...
it's my Ah Beng... *winkZ* ;p

On her 3rd Lambo..
Wah.... admire...
If me sure die by BEFORE midnight...
tt's if i dun suffocate myself by cake or die by vodka.... ;D

She did whole lot of silly things before she goner ...
like............

Snatching the mop away from the DF cleaner n proceeding to dutifully mop the wet spots around our table...

- Shouting 'Helloooo!! I'm seXxxY!!!" * ;D * to everyone in the smoking area (which i super tried to take video of but she stopped once i point the cam at her... damn)

- Slipping n falling down twice on the dancefloor in front of everyone... in a short dress no less..

- Stumble-dancing...

And when she confirm gone...

...Started crying.......

n made out with some cheap friend-of-friend who took advantage of situation....

What made things worse was...

Stupid Sponge got drunk also.. KNN..

Two fellow chubby girlfriends getting drunk on 1 night... n 1 chubby non-drunk friend is not strong enough to hold both them down lor!! -___-

Sponge even pushed this skinny friend-of-friend once n the poor girl flew into the sofa into me n almost broke her ankle.

Not to mention i was forced to be in the same cubicle as someone who took a dump in front of me. (Guess who... who's the more unglam of the two.. -___-)

So hazardous r chubby people like us.... ;p

So while they were drunk n drunk dancing n i was waiting for her boyfriend to come pick both them up.... i sat n watched them do silly things..

Drunk ppl drunk dancing
Not very attractive...
i vow never to be drunk n attempt to dance..

A girl in a no strings attached r-ship n a married man/ teacher on his wild night out..
Oh sheeeshhhhh~

An all cried out birthday girl with great expectations n tragic love life with stupid tofu-eating opportunity seeking, advantage taking dude...

Reminds me of meself when younger...
All idealistic about Love n expecting fairy tales to happen...
sighhhh..

Drunk ppl sandwich dancing..

Pls note though.. my girlfriends r intoxicated.... n not thinking logically... but they do know tt the men involved r TRYING big time...

So wat can i say.......
esp bout the married teacher man....

FUCKING MEN!

Lessons i learnt tonight...

1) There will always be men out there preying on drunk girls... remotely attractive or not.
n it took me 27 years to really see the ugly truth..

Pls note that these men look extremely decent... could be married...otherwise morally upright or watever shit... but men R men n when alcohol takes over their other head, they r all FULL of SHIT.
only a small minority r probably otherwise... but do not take for granted tt yr man might be part of the minority.

2) U r nobody when u have no girlfriends who pull u back when u run around drunk, hold yr hair back when u puke, let u burn accidentally n drunkenly in the skirt n thigh with yr stupid cigarette, let u nag incessantly bout some stupid SMS yr ex sent u... hug u when u cry.... all when they r either fucking shag from work... or getting drunk themselves...

3) Always know where yr girlfriends stay, like can recite their addresses instead of just knowing how to drive them back... in case of such drunken emergencies n u r stuck waiting for some unreliable fuck buddy of theirs to come pick them up... grrrr..

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Okie im developing a monster sore throat n i've got a big night morrow for one my Dome Darling associate's wedding dinner at Cicada morrow evening...

OPEN BAR honey!!! whoop!

more photos on Facebook n also on morrow night.

Walls come down...

You know those moments when your defences crumble??
When u have tt sudden realisation tt "wow the other person really loves me?"
When your heart melts n u go 'OMG!!! awwwwwww"
N u jus wanna run to your other half n kiss him/her like you've never kissed anyone else before??

N u let down all yr emotional defences
U let go of all the previous monsters in yr subconsciousness
All yr doubts u harbour....
the reservations u ever have...
N u decide tt..... maybe just this once...
U kissed the right frog...

I tot said feeling would never come back again...
Esp after a year of hard break ups with ass holes n jerks n hard incidents of finding Hotel 81 receipts in the person's names n having big white lies told to me face to face n stupid men denying everything even though u both know tt he's lying...

Well..
tonight i felt it again.... the walls came falling down..
Totally unexpected..
N it hit me somewhere deep inside..
Somewhere i have hidden away in this deep dark abyss of my heart tt i never expect to see/feel/ come close to again...

It hit me when i got back from my outing with the crew to Dubai's Chi Bar at The Lodge..

I got back to my room n saw this...

My baby sleeping!

It started cos i was joking tt he won't be sleeping alone tt night...
N he said tt he would keep the web cam on to show me tt he sleeping alone lor.
I tot it was a joke!!!!
I tot our internet connection would drop..

But he did it still anyways!! Silly as it may be!
It's the smallest things that make me happy............
The unexpected stuff....;p


N i smiled.... :)

N i realised tt i'm happy.

N I realised tt i no longer complain bout something missing like i did for the first half of 2008.
The Zsa Zsa Zsu feeling is definitely present...

I need to clarify though tt i NEver had Trust issues with my Ah Beng. ;p

He might have deadly toothpick skills... ;D

But he has never let me down so far...
Never let me have tt 'hollow feeling in the stomach' kinda empty feeling...
Never left me alone for too long..
N has never disappeared from my radar.

He makes flying seem bearable...

Makes me laugh even when we r separated by continents... *giggles*

I'm actually starting to feel my faith in men building up again...
N i'm grateful. ;D

I think i've found tt someone who's BIGger than me in more ways than 1,
(After so long!)
Someone who complements me..
Actually loves me for me. (er.... except when Dodo does Drunk~)
Possibly able to take my nonsense for extended period of time...
N i'm optimistic bout Love again!

So tell me......
When/ What was it tt he/she did for u/ How or have u ever felt yr emotional walls all come down???
hmmmm...
Or ... u can just think bout it! ^__^

night night!
Pics from my night out at Chi wil be out tomorrow since internet at the Angsana suites is free.
Oh gorgeous room with kitchenette n washing machine n everything.
Tell u more morrow!

U know u wanna be one...

A RocknRolla.. that is..

"There's no school like the ole skool."

Nuff said.
I love this sexy movie by Guy Ritchie.
Sex, Thugs, Rock n Roll...

N Gerard Butler is....... yum yum yum.
Official webbie : http://rocknrolla.warnerbros.com/
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Tonight i experienced first hand the consequences of big mouth-ism.
it's the "errrrrr...." moment that u think back on n one might just laugh...
But at that very moment when the empty vessel sounded...
its makes one so wanna go "Abandon SHip!!" ala Gerard Butler as One Two... *wince*

N when Dodo is pissed off....
It's kinda uncontrollable... though i manage to keep it beneath the surface for everyone's sake sometimes.
That is.. if they can "hold their breath for as long as it takes my kettle to boil..."

:D

Love the movie!! Must watch people!!
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Flygirl shares some good stuff!

I have added some new links for u...
My cool talented friends have done some stuff good n i really vouch for them...

On the side bar under the list of friends who keep a blog too!
Have fun! ;)

Love is in the air~

I jus realised tt pretty much everyone i know has been coupling up lately...

Lonely Dinosaur in Syd has a muse...
Edd snagged himself a big fish...
Gfs left n right throwing engagement parties, eyeing Cartier/Bvlgari wedding bands, seeking advice on march in music... bleah bleah bleah...

sigh............

I wonder why people trade completely peaceful nites with a good chicklit book n Gabriel n Dresden in the background n have relationships instead??
N having to think for the other person, worry bout the other person, worry bout wat the other person thinks if u do something yada yada yada...

I can't believe i'm actually saying this out loud..
Me... one who has nonsense thoughts on my The One n not settling for less.

Of cos... i think i would derive more satisfation if i receive a nice gift like something from T&C or Cartier from a special someone than if i buy it for myself.
Sure got others who think vice versa one of cos!

Of cos... there will be those cool rainy misty nites which smell of rain n u yearn to cuddle up to someone warm n who smells nice..... n tt someone holds u back tight...
There will be those days u feel like curling up to tt someone n talking bout everything n nothing

Of cos... maybe life is not as complex as i make it out to be.

But I'm starting to understand y some pple crave singlehood over coupledom...
Becos even a person who loves pain will get enough of it someday.

Yet there r still others who jump from the edge of the cliff over n over again, not knowing each time when they will hit rock bottom, n not bothering to question either...

I can't decide who i m anymore...

Difference between men n women...

Oh someone told this to me just the other day...

"Women will not leave men if the sex is good"

But then, i also learnt today...

That men will leave women if they r not hot enough....
N in man friend's words... "who cares bout whether the sex is good? it's still sex!"

Er....
Is it just my friends who r abnormal?? or is this how it works.. really???

N apparently hor...
the average looking pple always r more sexed up than they seem...
N they put in more effort in bed??

I disagree to a certain extent on the effort part though..
hmmmm

What do u guys think??

The Golden Age.....

1 thing a girl should never say to a guy during courtship/f*ckbuddy-ship watever...
: "When r u gonna ask me to be yr girlfriend??"

1 line a guy should never let his f*ck buddy hear when she might be in love with him...
: "Oh no.. she's just a NORMAL friend..."

1 thing boyfriend should never tell girlfriend.. ever...
: " Your (insert body part) look like put on weight.."

Anyhoo...
I was driving home after dinner with my funny man friend..
N i thought about all the funny n succinct details my friends n I have been sharing n bitching about with each other...
N i kept chuckling to myself..

I realised that being in the late 20s is actually quite fun...

I remember myself being the 21-23 yr old girl, naive n raw, doing such predictable shit tests to men....
N now i hear bout my friends going thru stuff like dat n we all laugh at the predictability of things.

I hear funny stories bout things tt go 'thumpa-thump-thump' in the bedroom n i giggle at the memory of my own cluelessness..

I think age makes most people a better person...
Experiences that we... well.. experience.... do alter the way our mind processes things.

Whether it could be increased amount of self-confidence, improved ability to "ahem", getting better at masking yr true emotions, getting the game right n being The Game, tougher when heartbroken, stronger when shit hits the fans, every time we pass a birthday while continuing to lead rara lives.... we kind of level up.

So dear close friends of mine...
do keep your saucy racy stories coming....
see no names mentioned!! ;D

Going to Milan again tomorrow night.
M officially $ broke so no buying for me!
Thank god my khakis r either coming into mxp one day before or one day after me. Phew~

random...

Random thoughts...
Could jus be in running order at this moment...

- Class 95 DO play perfect make out music late into the nights....
I'm a convert

- This rooibus w honey teabag thingy i'm drinking tastes weird...
Leaves an alcoholicky after taste...

- When u think bout the other person, do they really sneeze twice??

- I hate my job today... will tomorrow be better?
the only consolation is that i do not have to face the same assholes every day...

- Can u really be waiting your whole life for that something...
And then when it hits u, u realise tt you do not really want/need it anymore??

- Why would one not want life to be perfect? Define perfect.
Cos from what i've seen, everything in life will always seem less than perfect.

- If one does not feel guilty after committing a deadly sin/crime...
What kinda person is he/she???

- K i dun listen to oldies, so i'm switching back to Power 98Fm. hee hee

- If an asshole guy is called a prick, can i call an asshole female a prickette?
Well i kinda like the word...
Bloody prickette~ wahahahha!

- If one is not ambitious, will he/she ever become rich??

- Is my blain worth dissecting?? ;D
Has anyone ever died of over thinking rubbish before?

- I think i should spend my time more constructively than coming up with all these nonsense.

Good night! :)

Things that make me happy....

fuck...
I spend $$ again!!
n not intentionally!!

One of the new boys wanted to go to the Onitsuka Tiger boutique in XiMenDing n I jus happened to tag along for makan....

I was so determined not to spend money tt i only changed SGD$50 for a Taipei nghtstop lei...

but then i saw this...

My fave!!!

Toki Doki!!!!
Remember my Milan trip?!?!?

*Squeals excitedly!!*
How cute!!

*Love* !!!!!$^%&^*&*$ ^__^

*Double Love*
I got 2 different designs on my soles..
how more cool...
***Quadruple Love Love***

I know they've got it in Sg...
But wat i didn't see won't hurt me so i never went looking for it....
I even stopped going to the Tokidoki blog to look at the shoe designs...
But i can't stop love at first sight....so i succumbed in Taipei... to NT4300 (approx 210SGD) of cartoon sweetness....
After all.. they say there's only 100 pairs in Taipei... or Taiwan???
I dunno bout Sg...
Like i said.. wat i dunno won't hurt me..

Oh my cute little shoes....

Finally went to Zouk after 4 weeks or so of cold turkey.
Stupid roster got no weekends off for eons!!
N my ah beng is sweet.... :)

Girlfriend therapy

Like i always said.. my life is an open book.

Whether is it getting x-rated tips from my Indon masseuse, lao sai inducing mala hotpot food for 4 hours, sex toy shopping in Geylang til 11pm, or MSN-ing with my fave gf....
Girlfriend therapy is the best therapy.

We toss the problem knot around n try to work thru the kinks together...
Bitch bout things extensively n laugh at each others' encounters n expense...
N then things dun feel so strange anymore.

Sometimes we just need not to be judged...

hmmm... i kinda wish tat i can do wat i did again... all over...
how more badass can i get ;D

In love with self torture n mental knots...

Sometimes a knot forms in my head.
N the answer i do know yet i play around with the kinks..
Twirling n fiddling and playing with the problem
Until a bigger n more complicated knot forms into a deadlock...

Sometimes the knot forms n i think that it will go away on its own cos it ain't seem so serious then..
But then another kink comes along unexpectedly n i'm caught off guard...
N these r the serious ones cos i did not expect a problem in the first place

Wat happens when the problem comes back to haunt u...
In yr dreams n yr sleep...
In that half slumber state when u suddenly wake in the middle of the night.
In yr head the first thing when u wake.

Wat happens when yr mouth can't stop talking bout it...
Yet talking bout it never answers the question...
Never gets the answer tt reaffirms the one you already know.
Even when the reaffirmation comes up... u refuse to accept it.

How how how!??!
The answer i already know is this.... n i've got no choice but to accept it.
I know that it will fade away with time. Cos tt's just the way things like these work.
It will be like... when i wake up one day n i can't remember the vivid details no more.
Not think of the vivid details fondly....
N it will jus be a part of a forgotten adventure....

Well i hope i'm right.
N another knot will not unexpectedly pop up again. Else i will sure b at a loss.
i'm gonna take a bold first step to eradicate this first knot. N by eradicating... i literally mean deleting.
I'm such a wuss when it comes to stuff like these.
I can't stand how my mind processes things. N tt's leaving my heart outta it still.
ARGgggggGghhhHHhhhhh~

Shitney Day 5 & 6: Quick update

Heya.. sorry i haven't updated hor.
Anyway my cam ran outta batt when uploading halfway n Dc sleeping in the dark bedroom n i dun wanna go disturb him by rummaging for the cam batt charger now...

Anyway Day 5 i was supposed to go to the weekend market at Paddington but i was too lazy.
So i spent the day in reading Harry Potter n watching Dc play some ps3 game called Vegas or dunno wat.
I think tt the character got very sexy voice... when he telling his men "Open n Clear" b4 they charge into the room with their guns n grenades.
wahahhaha~ ;D
yes i m so cuckoo someitmes.

Nite was spent having dinner with some of his frenz at some really fantastic Nasi Goreng place.
The chilli was soooooooooo fantabulous i think i overdosed n came home n immediately 'ahem'.

Day 6.. (sunday)
We went to the Blue Mountains region n took in some pretty awesome sights.
Photos will be up soon.

Day 6 also marks the completion of my quest to annoy DC.
keke ;p
my seemingly neverending lethargy in the day might have started to get onto Dc's nerves...
i also having Pms i think...
We snapped at each other unexpectedly throughout the day but i usually have veli high tolerance for good friends one lar. (Dc so gonna disagree to this.)
N i still dun hate him yet.. so i hope the same goes for him. ;*
hehe~

Morrow is Day 7 n i'm finally getting outta Dc's hair...

in these 7 days....
I still havent learnt how to operate the washing machine. ;D
I forever not enough sleep
I used the 'it's too cold' excuse all the time to eat more than i should
Still haven't gone thru my 380 a/c notes which i actually brought along. dang~
I still haven't used up all that 400mins on my $10 calling card bought here. COOL!~
i understand Dc so much more. He really is quite a dinosaur * rolls eyes * ;p
I used ear plugs every nite i sleep cos................
n finally... watched more Olympics than i usually would liao.... ;D

okie... i'm done in Syd.
Only thing i wish i can do is tt i'm a witch n can with a wand conjure up Dc's dreamgirl so he won't be a lonely dinosaur anymore.
hee hee heeeeee~

catch u when back in Sg
Tata!

Shitney Day 2: Bad Hair Days n Ridiculously expensive parking~

I've been having bad hair days since arriving in Syd...
Reason: NO hairdryer.
My hair can be its voluminous/happy self in Sg, but in overseas climates... it jus... flattens after a wash...n explodes uncontrollably after getting outta bed...

D1: How come yr house no hairdryer one??
D2: I dun use one, n got 2 guys living in this house, why need hairdryer??
D1: Yar.. so yr housemate's gf suffer bad hair days all day everyday?? ;(

This morning....
D1: (walking outta bedroom with ridiculously explosive hair; whining) You seeee...... ;( how to go out like dat........ *grouch*
D2: Dun look at me like dat lar... told u to buy one at the store downstairs le....
D1: zzzzzzzz~

So... yes... I've decided that image is more important..
Later gonna succumb n buy tt AUD18.95 hairdryer from that store.
Bad hair days r depressing!!
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I hopped outta the house anyway lar...
DC had school so i was left to roam town on my own...
which was pretty much the purpose of this trip anyway.... :)

First stop: Sydney Opera House..
Realise tt I have been to Syd umpteenth times but i have never taen a pic with the SOH
Well, once... when i first started flying a couple o months...
But it was in someone's camera n i never received it in the email as promised...

Wasn't very impressed with the SOH at first though...
Not too much of a architectural whore...
That was until i attended the AUD 29 Essential Tour...

The SOH is one of the busiest performing arts centre in the world, with an estimated 7.something million visitors a year. That's almost twice the 4.something million population of Syd itself.

Some interesting facts...

1)It was originally estimated to be completed in 3 yrs n cost bout AUD7mil some 35 yrs back... but the actual time taken to complete it was 16 freakin' long years n amounted to a cost of 102mil (which in today's value is an estimated 1.2bil)

Therefore the SOH is also built amidst lotsa controversy especially politically, since so much of the taxpayers' $$ were being channelled into something the city thought they won't be using much of. (the arts scene back then were obviously not as vibrant as it later became)

One of the reasons it took so long was cos of the architectural challenge the design posed to the engineers.
They took 4 years to figure out how to translate the design of the sails/shells into a reality.

In the words of the Danish architect himself.....

The solution seemed to be using some spherical concept...

The insides....
Imagine a fan-like thingy...
the core being the rib-like supports much like a radius of a circle?

Also... underneath all tt concrete... the SOH contains more steel than it took to build the Syd Harbour Bridge...

So who would know??
But they say tt the SOH was actually over engineered....
But tt it had to be cos the design was way too advanced for the level of technology then...
But once the solution came through.. the shells of the SOH were completed in 16 months...
hmmmmm...

2) The largest mechanical organ resides inside the SOH. (couldn't take pictures cos rehearsals were going on! But it was truly huge n covered the entire front wall of the concert hall.

10,000 over pipes 3 storeys high tt extend well into the back of the building... took 8 years to build n 2 years to tune.

I wonder if anyone knows/or have played it though...

3) Architect Utzon really put lots of love into every detail of the design lor.....

Apparently the under of the shells r supposed to be like the haul of a ship, overturned...
The whole concept is to get pple to feel close to the water surrounding the SOH.
The windows, the glass panes, the reflection of the surroundings of the water on the walls...
everything plays a part la..

There r many many other interesting things lar...
N its amazing when i'm travelling alone i can actually absorb so much of wat the guide said (no suubtitles needed! ;p)
The facts n numbers r regurgitated as much as memory serves me right... so...dun berate me if i get it wrong lar!

K hope i din bore u!

But i fell in love with the building cos of the story behind it.......... ;)

(seeee.... bad messy flat hair... ;( )

I also dropped into the Museum of Syd(MOS) after grabbing some lousy chow mein n coffee

That's also the thing i wanna holler bout..
I hate the food here!!!!
So boring lar!! Fish n chips, Chicken schnitzel n chips... caesar salad... etc etc... ;p
bleahg~
Think i will die of obesity or fade into an underfed shadow of myself if i ever have to live here..

For the Starbucks lover in u n me.. ;)
wow Baristas r cute here huh?
i dun understand why baristas in sg r not given the due respect of a professional coffee maker lor...
probably explains the difference in the quality of the coffees served, it's all in how the milk is skillfully steamed to perfection lei! ;p

Dun wanna bore u with more details so i'm jus gonna put this here..
Weights n Measures used long long ago(din check the year lar! but i think was when the British landed in Australia n turned it into a colony tt time!)

On the Syd Harbour Bridge when DC came to fetch me back from town n we missed a turn due to traffic congestion...
"WAh liao! make a U-turn after the bridge need to pay $3 toll lei!!!"
ARGH!!!
Stupid road designs!!!! >;(


We watched this Alfred Hitchcock classic... 39 Steps..
Comedy!
There r at least a 100 characters in the show but get this.... there r only 4 actors...

Cost: $79.90 per ticket. Student concession tix $74.90
N it's really worth it not just cos we were watching it in the SOH playhouse...But cos it's really interesting n FunnY, how with a change of a hat or coat... the actors could play 2 characters simultaneously.

But.......... the downside was....

Fuckanadoos~!@!$!$~!#$%
PArking fee was horrendously exhorbitant @ $32 for a period of 3h 18min!

WTF!!< >;O

Half the price of ticket lei!!

But bo bian cos we searched the surrounding areas for open parking n all were taken or only open for 1 hr slots.
I swear tt the number of 2-4hr parking slots were less than 10.
N the parking condition at the ever congested Boat Quay area suddenly seems not too bad at all.

n $32 is the flat per entry fee from 5pm-1am ONLY
so KNN one

N from time period of 7am to 5pm in the days... they allow Quick Park ONLY. which is like a MAXImum of 3 hr parking
Which farkin doesn't make sense cos if u wanna eat lunch n watch a matinee sure got not enough time or just have enough time.
Damn damn STUPID can!?!?!?

DC: "That's why they call this Shit-knee.. cos the shit is knee deep"
N we bitched all the way to The Rocks just across n took pictures.....

I still wish i had good hair.
Bad hair bad photos!!! ptui*

I vow never to complain bout the luxuries back home ever again...

Wat's a $20 bucks cab ride from Zouk to home after midnight when u can get home safe compared to having to pay the equivalent of SGD$30 here for a short dist of say Bishan to Jln Kayu?

Wat's a $9 parking fee at Le Durian n a $17 one for parking at the airport the entire day compared to the stupid airport here which does NOT even allow pick ups but a AUD$3-4 once u enter the airport parking compound??

I guess if i thought tt the increasing number of ERP gantries doesn't make sense in Sg, the everything other here pisses me off more.

This might come as belated patriotism post National Day....but the truth is, flygirl's been to so many cities n still thinks tt there is no better place than home....

i miss my Sg!!

Falling for the Ultimate Ah Beng..

I'm a woman with a thousand n one questions of 'why' n 'what ifs'... n completely unpredictable moodswings.

However... if a guy can answer my queries with maturity n still take into account my sensitivity n vulnerability.....i'm completely bowled over....

I know I'm smitten when...

1) He cusses incessantly with an intermittent injection of a sophisticated combi of hokkien vulgarities; all with a toothpick hanging lazily outta his mouth...... n i cup my face in my hand n watch him do it n think tt it's freakin' adorable.

2) He's extremely shy yet devastatingly honest at the same time. Esp when he confesses tt he can't pronounce 'parfait' n ask me how to say the brand 'L'occitane'

3) He wipes dry my wet hands with a tissue n his jeans cos i've got a stubborn refusal of using the hand dryers in toilets.... 

the act of whipping out a packet of tissue from the back pocket as n when is unexpected already... but cleaning my hands on his jeans even when i've come to learn tt he's such a super anal clean freak??  

4) He tells me what i shouldn't do n displays adequate possessiveness yet doesn't come across as overbearing n controlling... (yet!!!). I LIKE! ;D

After chilling with Spongy earlier at Dragonfly (the den of the ultimate bengs n lians), we concluded tt we have a shared secret weakness for the ultimate Ah Bengs... the ones who speak Hokkien with abandon when agitated or with their band of brothers..... yet coo sweet nothings in our ears in fluent English, never mixing up the shes n hes, or cocking up the grammar.

Conclusion: Ultimate sexiness...~

Joy. 

LOVE! 

;D

Shokudo... Shiok!!~ ;D

Oh my gosh.. this is sorta turning into a foodie blog!

Monday nite i met up with a really old fren...
Someone i knew since 14 as well... n the last time we met was > 1 year ago...
N that was when i had intro-ed the ex bf to him as well..
Time flies...
Now we r both single! ;p

He suggested

"It's like the Japanese version of Marche!" so he tells me...

And it was!!! ;D
I shrieked with excitement once inside cos it was too good to be true...
whoop!

you see....!

Donburi!!

Yakitori!

Teppanyaki!!

Tempura!!

NABE!
erm... excuse me.. i mean, Japanese Hotpot lar! ;p

How come i dunno bout such a place before one!?!?!?

We had...

Clockwise from left: Garlic fried rice, assorted mushrooms teppanyaki-ed, grilled mackerel n shitake mushroom stick
The mackerel's superb!!!!! *wave pom poms*

Again clockwise from left: some hokkaido pumpkin soup thing with crabmeat... chicken chop with omu rice, japanese curry with deepfried salmon...

yes we got bit carried away...
N we over ordered...

Everything's good!!! *rant n rave*

*droolz*
Tomato fried rice.. sweet, tasty.. ohhhhhh so shiok!
N how much more shinier can the egg cover thingy get?!?!?
I had to prod the super glossy omelette w my finger jus cos i was damn curious..

Can i go back there again???
It's at basement of Raffles City!
Hmmm...
Then again... I might just be the last person to know of this fabulous place n u guys r probably going..." aiyoh.. dodo u suaku "! ;D

M back from Shanghai just...
Edd's gonna cook lamb morrow n im his guinea pig.
Also... I get to watch Dark Knight tomorrow cos DC's bringing me with his free tickets!
Though i'm his back-up company after his original date cancelled on him.. but its okie! i dun give a shit! hah! ;p
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I had a sleepless nite in Shanghai cos I suddenly saw the dark silhouette of my Mr Right in my mind's eye...
Unfortunately.. he had neither a face nor a name..
N it's frustrating cos all i wanted to do was to run into his strong comforting arms cos i wanted so bad to feel better...kinda have someone to confide in intimately.
Someone who will make every wrong right.
Someone with whom i feel completely right with; who can feel me n understand me without me having to explain explicitly.... just.... feel.
Someone Bigger than me in every sense.
And it got depressing... cos ......after trying to remember the feelings i got all those other times i fell into relationships...
I realised i had always gotten it wrong. So i asked myself why i got myself in all those times even when it din feel right?
It's also depressing becos...
I might never meet that special person. N how am i supposed to identify him from the rest when i'm so guarded n jaded now!!?
SIghhh... eeeeyyuuuurrrr... i dun wanna think so much!! >;p