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Friday, June 26, 2009

Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters, off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end,
waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

What a song to set the mood for the weekend. This is one of those songs that never fail to touch me in a certain way, but I’m not sure if it’s in a good or bad way. It either makes me especially reminiscent of happier times, or it gives me a feeling of melancholy.

There are so many covers of this song, but I can’t decide which version I like best between Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra and Jerry Butler. I really wonder when is the next time there will be someone who is able to express such sentimentalism in their singing. Even Buble doesn’t quite give the same kick.

But I guess it’s only right to put up the video of Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She was the original and the song was written just for her and you simply can‘t deny what a looker she was eh.

Enjoy!

Asphyxiated at at 5:17 AM

Thursday, June 25, 2009

I’m getting tired of misconceptions about me. And the worst part is when nobody says anything to me. Directly. I don’t need to hear it from someone else, and I don’t need to guess. This is not caused by any particular incident, but over time I’ve heard enough to get sufficiently cheesed off. But because I haven’t been in the best of moods recently, therefore this is coming up at this choice moment. Here’s some 101 on me. I know I’m omost impossible to comprehend because I am naturally a private person and I dare say not a single person knows me inside out. Maybe if all my close friends from different groups throughout my life gathered together and tried to decipher me, there may be some impressive results but that’s about it. So I hope the following would be of some help. Let’s start.

Let me just remind everyone out there that everything I do, I have my reasons. If you don’t know what my reasons are, don’t assume, don’t jump to conclusions, and don’t talk behind my back. Because one way or the other, it somehow manages to come back to me and it ain’t gonna be pretty after that. If there’s something people wanna say, no matter how big or small, just say it to me. Simple.

I understand that some people go through their share of stress and unhappiness, may it be from work, family or anything else. Please remember that just because my lifestyle isn’t exactly the same as someone else‘s, it doesn’t mean I don’t have my share of stresses and problems. These people just make themselves look like they are unable to handle their own set of problems and have the need to say something about another person to make themselves seem more ‘poor thing’. Don’t be pathetic. And do not take personal anger/ frustrations out on me. Handle it yourself. Don’t implicate me.

Some things can be easily classified under ‘miscommunication’. But miscommunication is a very vague word. I would love to pass everything off with, but sometimes certain instances cross the line too much. When a wrong choice of words is used over MSN/ SMS, it’s normal for the receiver for interpreting it as it is. Don’t insist after it has oready been sent that ‘I didn’t mean it that way’ or ‘my English not so good can or not’. I don’t fault people for having a bad command of English, therefore don’t shrug off the blame and make me look anal. Just speak to me face to face or over the fone. At least I wouldn’t get the tone wrong. That’s the least you could do for yourself.

Other things are beyond miscommunication. Like when people say they did something but in actual fact they didn’t. I can be patient of people who truly forget things they have said/ done. But my patience for such things is pretty limited cos there’s only so much I will make another person’s problem my problem. Go think about things nice and clear first before shooting your mouth off. If unsure, ask me. If it’s only after that when it’s realised it was something that was completely overlooked and not told to me at all, not only do such people look dumb, I will see them as exactly that as well.

Another thing is even though I’m not working now, it doesn’t mean I do not have my own money. I do not take a single cent from anybody, not tubs, not my parents, zip, zero, nada, zilch. And they don’t buy me anything expensive at all, other than maybe on special occasions. Even then it’s a big maybe. I would feel very insulted if any of my friends can even think otherwise. Different people have different spending habits and just because others don’t manage to save, doesn’t mean I’m the same. I may splurge on shopping, but I may not splurge on other things others do. Through experience, I have realized that no matter how I try not to spend too much on certain things, my money still somehow disappears. No matter whether I’m having a stable monthly salary, or zero salary, I still somehow live the same. No money, little money, a lot of money, the money just goes somehow. It’s something I haven’t quite bothered to figure out what exactly it’s being spent on, but it just goes. It’s like when people ask me if I regret picking up smoking. It’s a straight ‘No’. People tend to count how much they could have saved if they didn’t spend on ciggies. But for me, unless I put that money aside, it would just go one way or another, and it would be spent on things I wouldn’t even have taken notice of. So instead of being a sore, maybe people could do some self reflection. Go to your cupboard, dig out $2000 worth of clothes/ shoes/ bags/ accessories that were cheap or you don’t like, or don’t fit you, or something very similar to another piece of clothing you oready have etc. Just look at that stack and decide if you’d rather have that huge budget pile or just one expensive item. I don’t think either choice is wrong. It’s up to the individual. But don’t look at someone else and doubt that person or be jealous. Because you obviously have a big money management problem and is seriously in self-denial mode.

Ok that’s about it. I’ve complained enough for now oready. I think one of the most ironic things that could happen is when people start asking each other if they know who I’m talking about, or start talking about this. Why? Because they‘ll just end up sounding like one/ all of the above mentioned, and by talking, it all the more validates what they are. So people, if I’m a friend, talk to me. Ask me. I don’t bite. And I don’t lie simply because I am able to accept myself for who I am and I am responsible for my own actions.

Anyway, some photos are up at previous relevant posts in case anyone is interested. And I did end up going to town to grab a birthday gift for the father on Tuesday. Got him a Ted Baker shirt and in the end, there was no celebration nor cake cos according to the mother, he was in a foul mood and didn‘t wanna go out to celebrate. Haha. Sometimes he’s really like a child. But then again, the mother is oso really brilliant. She didn’t even get him a cake lor. *applauds*

I’m having a mad craving for some really good dessert now. It’s omost killing me!

Asphyxiated at at 6:34 AM

Monday, June 22, 2009

Just when I feel like I can finally sleep cos miracles of miracles, I’m actually feeling quite tired, I couldn’t, simply cos I had to go get ready and pick Grandma and Elaine up and head over to Shangri-La for Grandma’s birthday lunch earlier today! Mum’s idea of course cos of the ‘flash your age’ promotion. Grandma turns 74 today so we got 74% off our total bill. Haha. Good that it’s such a big discount cos my craving for buffet at The Line hasn’t been anywhere near strong for quite awhile. Anyway because there were 6 of us going, we ended up driving 2 cars down, with the mother fetching Grandpa and the asshole. I’m glad I wasn’t in the same car as the asshole, but driving my aunty’s car was quite a terrible experience as well. It feels like it’s gonna fall apart anytime soon and it’s weird to floor the accelerator and not have the car respond accordingly. It’s like a toy car. A very slow toy car, which is why I decided to head over a little earlier cos Shangri-La is not very flexible about waiting time grace period. It was scary to see how Gandma stuffed herself with all that food, cos she doesn’t like to waste food. And how I usually eat at buffets is a pick a bit of everything. But she just had to clear her plate so in the end I had to offer to share with her or pass her plate to mum before she can finish everything. *haix* The amount of cakes she had was terrible. Cos the slices came in standard sizes, she ended up a plate full of cake which she tried finishing even though she’s not big on cakes. And after I managed to take the plate from her, the waiter brought her another cake - her complimentary birthday cake. Gosh. Haha. But she looked like she was really enjoyed this mini celebration and all that’s important is that she’s happy.

I love you popo! And even though I don’t see you as often as I would like to, I know very well that you are the one who ‘brought me up’ during my younger years and I’ll never forget what a wonderful Grandma you are, cooking me my favourite food, looking after me, cleaning up after me and doing everything for my benefit. As naggy as she may have been/ be, I know it’s nothing but genuine care and concern and I think she’s nothing but wonderful.

Anyway, to recap my weekend, I have to say I didn’t enjoy my weekend. And I didn’t even mind for it to quickly come to an end. Or it was more like I wished it would quickly come to an end.

To say my weekend started on a Friday would be wrong. It started past midnite, which makes it Saturday. But even being Saturday, it wasn’t how my idea of a weekend should be. But that I could understand. What I couldn’t understand was how some people can over promise and under deliver. Maybe not so much under deliver literally, but it was as good as that to me. It’s what people call ‘talk big’. But that was that, and I just took it all in my stride cos I don’t expect people to do things the way I do. Anyway, after we were finally done with some stuff, we went to JB just for petrol and ciggies. And at the petrol kiosk, there was a Singaporean guy who I couldn’t stand. He was pumping petrol for his own car while tubs was trying to park the car properly at a pump and the stupid guy had such a smug look on his face and kept trying to direct tubs on how to park, even though tubs wasn’t even having any problem parking. We didn’t bother much about him but the next time I turned to look at him, his petrol was overflowing from his tank and I have no idea how come he didn’t see it at all. It was just flowing and flowing out of the tank, steaming down the side of his car, and onto the floor. I couldn’t comprehend at all why he didn’t notice. And he was looking right at it somemore. WTH.

Saturday. I don’t even know where to begin about Saturday. Usually the day I love the most out of all seven days of the week. But this particular Saturday was as bad as it could get. And it started first thing early in the morning, right until the sun had set and it was practically night time. I’m not going into details here, close friends would probably hear it from me, but other than describing the whole day as ‘bad’, would somehow be an understatement. It was much worse than bad, and I’ve got the battle scars to prove.

Sunday was a whole lot better. And anyway Saturday was simply too tough to beat. First thing in the morning, tubs and I went to Kranji War Memorial. It was like primary school excursion for me once again. Only difference was I am not as tolerant of the sun anymore, and suddenly the place wasn’t how I quite remembered it. I somehow remembered it as a huge hill made up of a sprawling manicured lawn, with so many tombs that it was impossible to count. Tubs said it’s because I grew up, therefore everything seems smaller now. Haha. Probably I guess. We walked around abit, took some photos before we really needed to head back to the car for air con.

After that, we drove to Changi Village area, in our follow up to visit and look at places part of Singapore’s World War 2 history. Everyone knows Changi is hot spot when it comes to WW2. We’ve been to Changi a million times but we’ve never took notice of what certain old buildings used to be. So this time that was the plan. And let’s just say we ended up very disappointed. For an area that was so rich with WW2 history, we decided to narrow all the options down to just a few buildings with a more interesting history. And the buildings were either turned into a modern building, or one even became a nursing home. WTF. And it was not easy finding these buildings cos it’s damn hard to figure out which number they are as some don’t have anything to identify themselves by at all. The ones we managed to find seemed pretty strict on trespassing etc. So why the government is encouraging people to visit these places, I have no idea but I really think they should update their online brochure or something.

But the thing is, visiting these buildings were not the intent at first. The main thing was to go take a look at the Changi Point Coastal Walk. The whole stretch is made up of 6 different segments but I was more or less only interested to see what the Kelong Walk was like. And so we tried finding somewhere to park the car nearby and walk there. And we realized there was nowhere to park at all. In fact,the nearest possible place to park was at Changi Village market area. Which was like the ending part of the walk, while the Kelong Walk was towards the beginning. The weather was mad and we weren’t willing to walk 2km in the sun just to see how it’s like. So we decided maybe we’ll try again another day when it’s nearing evening time so that we can see the sunset as well.

By then, all we needed was a nice cold shower so back to my place we went, shower, rested for awhile, then we headed to Courts at Tampines for the Mega Warehouse Clear-Out sale and tubs bought a laptop for his mum and I bought myself some speakers for my laptop. Now I’ve got shiok music to listen to. Later that night, we went to Kovan for Punggol Nasi Lemak. Yums. I’ve been craving for some good Nasi Lemak for quite awhile oready and I finally got that craving satisfied.

Well, that’s about all for my weekend I guess. I didn’t celebrate Father’s Day with my dad cos there was no special celebration planned and it was just the usual Sunday dinner. I wanted to go to Granny’s for dinner but tub’s parents had planned to go for a Father’s Day dinner with us oready but it was cancelled last minute so I do feel quite bad about not going to Granny’s but I guess what’s done can’t be undone. I guess all I can do is to buy something for him tomorrow cos it’s his birthday. I hope I can squeeze in the time to drop by town or something tomorrow afternoon to grab him a present though. I’m too tired to go town today, especially when I just came from there.

Asphyxiated at at 11:36 PM

Thursday, June 18, 2009

This is a grossly overdue post that is from last week to this week. All because I didn’t realise I saved it as draft instead of posting it. So here goes.

TUESDAY
The boy has finally entered NS. Tuesday morning to be exact and I have a feeling he’s gonna have it easy cos most of the people there are… well.. relaxed. Haha. I shall elaborate no more because it’ll just sound very offensive to certain groups of people. Enlist on Tuesday, Friday can come out oready. It’s like going for a chalet man.

Anyway, dropped by parkway on Tuesday afternoon for a short while to get some stuff, came home, rested for awhile, and then it was time to get ready to meet Rach at Bugis. Yup, steamboat time again. I barely ate cos not only was I not in the mood for steamboat, I really don’t fancy Tian Tian. We sat outside cos they had the table BBQ as well and midway during dinner, a couple sitting 2 tables away from us somehow manage to catch theirs on fire and the smoke was so much we went to stand by the road while waiting for it to clear. Because of one table, the entire street was filled with black smoke. So clever. Anyway after the very waste-money steamboat, we went to the next street for Tong Shui’s dessert. At least that was satisfying for me. It’s been ages since I last went to Tong Shui man.

WEDNESDAY
On Wednesday, met up with Jane in the afternoon and we went to town. We took a bus to town. And a stupid Indian lady stood so close to where we were sitting that her armpits were as good as in our faces. I can’t understand how some people can be so disgusting. It didn’t help that the bus driver was quite terrible and Jane and I nearly passed out on the bus. But we finally reached our destination and we’ve never been happier. I tried going around looking for a turkey baster and nobody at all knew what it was. I know we don’t cook turkey on a regular basis but to not have heard it ever was quite shocking. Some thought it was a joke, some didn’t have any idea even after me describing it. And I purposely went to places like Paragon’s Market Place etc. But I resigned to fate that nobody was gonna undetsand me at all and so the shopping began. And everywhere was having SALE. It’s a good word. But it’s also a word many other people like. And one word I don’t like is CROWD. And Jane nearly bought a Gucci bag which was on sale. To me paying more than 1k less than the original price is quite a substantial amount oready but thank goodness I didn’t see anything that I fancied. Haha. As we moved on, I saw a bag at Miu Miu. It’s a very simple and casual looking bag, but I like. I went to enquire how much it costs, and I was given a price which was pretty tempting to me. But we decided to sit on it first cos we would really hate to blow such money on an impulse buy. But I have a strong feeling I‘ll get mine anytime oready. Haha. Irresistible. even though it wasn’t a sale item, but I still thought the price was pretty ok. It wasn’t a good idea to have spotted the bags first thing into going shopping. Cos for the rest of the day, we couldn’t think about anything else but the bags. But I still managed to buy a jacket and shoes. I like what I bought but still no satisfaction. *sigh*

Chix met us after we were done shopping and off to Bugis it was for supper at XDL. Thank god I didn’t eat the entire day and I barely ate Tian Tian the day before therefore I could still eat normally at XDL. If not I would have puked into the pot. Tubs came to join us after awhile and after we had our fill, I went to collect something on the way before we went for Macs drive thru for some ice cream cone, thinking it’ll make us feel better but I guess we were wrong. Tubs was the only one that finished his ice cream lah. Anyway, I got home and found that mummy shrimp has given birth and that other than the shrimps, I have many other gross stuff living in my tank. Urgh.

One of the teeny weeny babies close up shot

THURSDAY
Somehow, I have no recollection of Thursday at all. Totally. It’s like I skipped one day of the week. Die lah. This is not good. Haha.

FRIDAY
Met Rach in the day and we went to Parkway for lunch and to walk around. It’s so shiok just to take your time strolling around on a weekday afternoon lah. Went with her to check out some baby stuff and everything was really expensive man. Giving birth is really quite heavy on the pocket. I’ll rather keep a dog. Haha. We slacked at Macs while waiting for Jes to come down to join us after she was done with work and I decided to give Miu Miu a call cos I still wanted the bag real bad. A nice lady answered the fone, and she quoted me a price which was even higher than the one I got the other day. I was pretty shocked at the price increase but because I was so set on getting it oready, I just got her to reserve it for me first so I could go down and get it another day. After Jes reached, we went to Roxy for dinner and I couldn’t bring myself to eat anything cos what I usually eat there is as good as steamboat, and the girls ordered steamboat. Omg. Everyone goes Roxy for their steamboat and I don’t quite understand why. I don’t think it’s good and it’s damn expensive. I’ll stick to my ban mian over there. And during dinner, I got a very unexpected call from someone I haven’t seen or spoke to in a long time. Haha. Unfortunately, my Friday night was planned oready so I guess I’ll have to catch up with this friend another time then.

After that, tubs came to join us for dinner and then we went off to The Cathay for our movie that he had booked for in the day. And when we reached there, we were told the movie was at Cineleisure and not at The Cathay. And at that time, the movie had just started so even if we had rushed down, we were bound to miss part of the show. So we went down to Cine and changed the timing for the show. Haha. Lucky we could change the time if not I would have been really pissed cos I hate cock ups.

Anyway, we watched Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and the both of us really enjoyed the show. I was quite surprised he actually liked the show so much, and I was surprised that I liked the show as much as I did. Haha. Such shows are very predictable but it was still enjoyable throughout and the last part was really touching.

SATURDAY
Broke my thumb nail in the car on the way to town and it was so damn painful I nearly fainted and even tubs got a shock when he saw that all the blood had drained from my face. The pain was so bad I that I went cold all over and I lost all strength in my hand and I could feel the my thumb throbbing. And I had to force myself to push it down so it’ll be steady and we walked to Paragon to buy plaster with my nail bleeding the entire time. It looked like some freak accident man. That’s what happens when I skip my manicure sessions one too many times.

Went to Paragon cos I just had to get my bag.

Jane and Dennis were there too and when I met up with Jane, she told me she had helped me ask about my bag and they told her a completely different price from what I was told the first 2 times. WTF. It doesn’t make sense that 3 enquires over a span of afew days, the price keeps going up right. I was so pissed that I went in and found someone who looks like a manager and asked him for the price. And he quoted me the price which Jane had just told me. So I told him about my first 2 phone calls and I think I looked significantly pissed enough, therefore he went to ‘double check’ and it was the price I got when I called to reserve it. I think this is absolute bullshit. Quoting me so many different prices like they run a Pasar Malam or something. Is it so hard to REALLY go check the damn price instead of just throwing me a figure and acting so sure about it? I bloody regret not getting the bag on Wednesday cos when I do go make payment, I’m gonna make sure I pay what I was quoted. If there wasn’t just one Miu Miu here, I would have gone to another one without a shout of a doubt. To think people who work for such boutiques would deliver a better service. Ha. I really wonder what goes through their mind while at work. Do they try to imagine that they own the brand, therefore they have to be hoity toity? My gawd. If you are the damn salesperson, then act like one. Come back down to earth and serve the customers like you should, dammit. But I had nothing but great service from the rest of the shops which made me feel like not all the sales people are like that. Every shop greeted tubs and I, and the lady at Jimmy Choo was extra accommodating. And then when we went into Gucci, I kinda realized why oready. They look at the paper bag which you are carrying. And mine happened to be a very huge Miu Miu paper bag. And I only realized this when a very non discreet staff at Gucci asked his female colleague what brand was my paper bag and then attitude changed right that instant. Which was one of the reasons why tubs had a field day trying on the belts and the shoes there and with someone always nearby to serve him.

Anyway, it sickened me so much that I didn’t even wanna think about it anymore. Which wasn’t hard cos my finger was still in such great pain and also there was a party to attend! Bryan celebrated his birthday at Ascott Raffles and the place was really nice lah. The only thing was that by the time we reached, it was oready pretty crowded so I decided not to explore the entire suite but all I know was that the bed was uber comfy and the toilet was so shiok that I could have stayed there the entire night. Hope Bryan had fun and it’s great that he loves the present we got him. I think it’s damn nice too lah. Haha. He got high pretty early so photos of him all made him look like a baked lobster. Hur hur. But it was a great party and Yuan, I want the recipe for the pasta/ fondue sauce please! Yums~

Here's presenting the birthday boy!

The Suite

De Lovelies

Machiam..

With the birthday lobster showing off his pincers

The much anticipated stripping of Yuan did not take place cos

1. there were too many people around that we didn't know

2. we didn't want any innocent bystanders to get hurt

3. in the end, we still love yuan and wouldn't want to be responsible for anything that may happen to him after we had left the party

So I guess the only replacement I can find to compensate for the absence of the supposed 'stripping video' are the following pictures taken over that weekend. Featuring Yuan in his most natural state ever caught on film.

Auntie! Your O-leng fresh or not?!

Wii!!

Exclusive preview of Free Willy
The tank

Willy doing warm up exercise

Willy posing for photo

Posing for photo while attempting a stunt PartI

Posing for photo while attempting a stunt PartII

Posing for photo while attempting to impersonate Madonna in Vogue MV

After we all left the party, we decided to head over to JB for some kway chup so we went home to change into more casual clothes and to grab our passports before meeting up with Mandy and James again. The weather was so cold but I like. Haha. It beats hot and humid weather anytime man. After we were done eating, the guys decided to go for a car wash and James polished his car as well. We were told it would take an hour but I think it took around 3 hours or something cos by the time we left, it was 6am. Haha.

SUNDAY
Woke up early just to go Toa Payoh for beef noodles. Yum yum! The queue was so long but this is something really worth waiting for. And I think we were very lucky because not long after we got our food, they had oready ran out of food to sell and had to close for the day. Went back after lunch cos the weather was so horrible, slacked in the comfort of an aircon room and at 6pm when it wasn’t so hot anymore, we went to Pierce Reservoir and see if we can catch anything. Hahaha. The place is so packed with kids and their parents trying to catch fish. Tubs and I found a spot, and started on our mission. And all we had among the both of us was a small net and a small Tupperware. Haha. And at the shallow side near the rocks, we just took turns to try our luck at catching some small prawns. We didn’t stay too long though cos it was getting dark very quickly but we had around 6 prawns which we brought back and put into his tank with the puffers. The puffers could be bothered at first and then the fun began. It was damn entertaining to watch the prawn and the fish attack each other and before you know it, the prawn has been bitten into half but the pincers are still pinching the puffer. Very violent, but very shiok to watch. Hur hur.

Met up with Jes later at night for a very late dinner and to propose some ideas to her for the upcoming weekend. I shall not disclose anything. It’s her surprise. Before we knew it, it was pretty late oready so back home we went and tubs KOed immediately and even though I felt tired, I decided I better not sleep yet and wait until it was time for me to wake him up for work cos it wouldn’t be good if we woke up and realized it was afternoon oready. Imagine the shit he’ll get from office. Haha.

MONDAY
It is the start of brand new week and it also happens to be the ex’s birthday. How time flies. Give him another 2 years and bam! he’s 30 oready. Haha. I guess it’s time once again to plan a day to meet with him for a post-birthday meal.

When I finally got to sleep, it was such a nice long slumber that when I woke up, the skies were dark and I realized it was 9+pm oready. Omg. Had supper with tubs at a Malay coffeeshop nearby which we’ve never been to before and the mee goreng rocks! I think this can be a future supper place should the mood comes.

TUESDAY
Met up with Jane and Chixy for dinner at Parkway and then walked around abit and bought things at Sasa cos they had mad closing down sale. I think they’re not sustaining well at Parkway but I’ll miss it because Parkway really needs more decent shops. All the rubbish shops are still there year after year but shops like Cotton On are downsizing. WTH. Anyway, we went to Watsons and saw something very disgusting. And I was looking high and low for the staff in charge of the make up counters but there was nobody… At the make up section, we saw 2 prostitutes applying their make up from scratch there - free from the testers provided. I guess that saves them a lot of money, coming to Parkway everyday before ‘work’ to slather on a whole load of make up before crossing the road to their work place. I am so sure they are the Roxy/ Paramount girls because the girls there are usually Filipino, have very bad dress sense, and are usually both fat and down right ugly. And a word of caution, next time you visit Parkway, do not try their make up testers. God knows what kinda diseases you’re gonna catch just by doing that. Normal people try testers by putting abit on their hands or something. These girls are a walking advertisement for Revlon, Maybelline and what not lor. Imagine the lipstick you test on your hand has actually been on numerous prostitutes’ lips. And what numerous old men body parts these lips have been to, I do not wanna know. So if one day your hand drops off or develops an itch or grows some cauliflower, you know why right. Gross.

Anyway, after Parkway closed, we went down to the coffeeshop outside Kel’s house for a drink before splitting for the night and for me, it was off to tub’s place.

WEDNESDAY
Met Jes for dinner at Mas Ayu and then to Ikea to get some stuff and she suggested sharing chicken wings and meatballs. I was so full I wanted to kill her. But before that, I was late in picking her up thanks to the mother. The mother who oways leaves the car with no more petrol, and oso the mother who never gets back on time for me to use the car. She was supposed to drop Aunty Soo Fen at the airport and head back. She came back more than an hour later. WTF. Considering the airport is near my place + she’s only dropping off, there’s no way someone can take that long to return. Sometimes she really amazes me.

That’s all for now. Gonna try and get some shut eye now. Will put in photos another time.

Asphyxiated at at 6:57 AM

Monday, June 08, 2009

The weekend is over once again. What’s new eh.

Anyway here are some pictures of the beautiful skies these past couple of days.

Wednesday
As much as I would love to have gone to Zouk, I didn’t and instead went with Rach for dinner and chit chat session at Punggol Park. I really can’t wait for her to pop a god-daughter out for me to spoil rotten. Haha. But seeing how fast time is passing, November would be here soon enough. I only told her - better not be on the same birthday as me cos I don’t like sharing birthdays. Hahaha.

Thursday
Met Janey for dinner at Xin Wang/ Thai Express at Siglap. And it was dunno how long after eating finish and paid up and the shop had closed that I realized I got ‘cheated’. Haha. I had asked the waiter what was the difference in ingredients between the Tom Yam Steamboat and the Tom Yam Seafood. I was told the steamboat had the same ingredients plus an addition of tang hoon and chicken meat. so I ordered the steamboat even though I’m not a big fan of tang hoon cos I felt like having both seafood and chicken. But it was only hours later that I realized I didn’t even get a morsel of chicken for my steamboat at all. WTF. I didn’t pay more than double of what the Tom Yam Seafood costs, just for some tang hoon lor. KNN.

Friday
Went to the airport in the evening to send tub’s sister and his parents off. His sis is going to Australia to study and the parents are going over to help her settle everything first before coming back. Shiok. I oso wanna go. But Australia’s H1N1 situation is pretty rampant so I hope they’ll all be fine. All of us had dinner at Dian Xiao Er before heading to the departure area to wait for time to pass and to let the girl say her goodbyes to her friends that came to see her off. I hate such situations man. I think I can never go overseas to study on my own lah. I’ll be so damn sad and homesick even though there will be friends to be made overseas but it’s just very different.

Met up with Alex at night to slack and talk cock at the block downstairs and we all shared a box of chicken munchees from Macs. I used to love it but now it seems kinda boring oready. Should have tried their Chick n Cheese or the Beef n Salsa burger instead.

Saturday
Woke up and we went all the way to Toa Payoh for our fave beef noodles but it was closed. Boo Hoo. Ended up eating whatever else was at the coffeeshop and I had wanton mee which I thought was good. At least it was good or else it would have been a damn wasted trip, especially when we woke up early just to go there and eat because once the beef noodles sells finish, they will close shop which is usually around early to mid afternoon.

Went to Seletar in the evening cos I wanted to buy new plants for my tank cos the shrimps like to sleep there. Haha. The plants in the tank look like Christmas tree. All the shrimps hanging on to the plant when they sleep. So I bought a plant and a moss ball which they love. And then we spotted other shrimps. They were selling it cheaper than other places and I could mix them. There were Crystal Red Shrimps and there were Crystal Black Shrimps, selling at a fixed rate per 20 shrimps. So I mixed 10 red ones with 10 black ones. Yay! At least there’s a color break if not there are way too many red shrimps around oready. I swear I really didn’t have the intention to buy more shrimps but I just couldn’t resist it. Haha.

At night, we met up with 2 of tub’s army friends and we slacked at the Malay coffeeshop at Kembangan. I used to go there so often when I was still staying at my previous place and even though I didn’t move that far away, I just haven’t been there in a long time. By the time we left, it was 3+am oready.

Sunday
Didn’t sleep the entire night, got showered, changed and ready before waking tubs up. Went to Liang Court for lunch and I love Meidi-Ya. Actually I basically love walking in supermarkets. But I especially love walking in Japanese supermarkets. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I wasn’t able to scour for nice things to buy so I only ended up with Dunhill Senses(Frost), Kirin bottled tea, and 2 mini cans of beer. But not before we watched an entire big-ass live Alaska crab get dismembered. Alaska crabs are quite scary to watch. They are so big and it’s all down to skill to not get pinched as you cut it bit by bit. Yup. They don’t even tie the pincers shut. It’s just a huge struggling mess there and I wonder at which point does the crab actually die cos you can see it moving at almost every point of the process until the guy ripped the entire shell off. But by then, you wouldn’t even know for sure cos as much as it may still be alive, there’s no way for it to move anymore since the legs, followed by the pincers are one of the first things to get chopped off. Anyway, I didn’t buy my green tea ice cream and I’m very angry about it!

We went to Sim Lim after that so I could buy a hard disk. The prices are all the same at almost every shop now. Not that I even tried bargaining lah. Haha. I can’t be bothered to. The place is mad enough. It makes me feel like I’m in JB or something. Can’t stand the crazy crowd but because prices are pretty much standard now, you don’t get Ah Bengs niaming non stop and harassing you to go into their shops. Just went to a more empty shop, got my stuff, and we left.

Went back to tub’s place and while waiting for time to pass until it was time to go Granny’s place for dinner, I told him I’ll nap and to wake me up at a specific time. I even checked with him if he wanted to nap and he insisted he didn’t want to. I also told him to get all his stuff ready first so once it was time to leave, everything would have oready been packed and ready. But not only did he not listen to me, the next time he woke me up was close to 7.30pm oready. WTF man. Dinner is at 7pm lor. I gave up Meidi-Ya cos I know if we end up for dinner late, he’ll blame it on me. So ended up we had free time but he was still able to cock it up. Really powerful. And because he didn’t listen to me about getting his stuff ready, we ended up back at his place once again after dinner at Granny’s. What do I do with someone who is so bad with time management, and so difficult to trust? The only way I know is to plan the time myself but like I said before, it’s damn tiring to always be the only one planning everything.

Slacked with Mel for abit near her house. We haven’t done this is a damn long time man. I miss talking to her and I really miss our lunches. I used to complain about the world to her during lunch man. Anyway, her whole family is going to Australia this week lah. Damn shiok!! *sigh* I need a satisfying holiday. I wouldn’t mind Australia man. All the times I’ve been there, which ever part, I always enjoyed myself. And now it’s really cold there so all the more it’s shiok!

Went back to tub’s and one of his 2 remaining puffers decided to jump out of the tank and landed on the table. So clever. So as it started expanding on the table, tubs quickly scooped him up and dumped it back into the tank. How dumb.

When we finally came back to my place, there were at least 2 fatalities. It still feels sian when you see dead shrimps (cos you paid for them. haha) but I’ve become more or less used to it and can’t be bothered anymore. My tank, even though not huge, is still definitely not over populated with shrimps so each of them has somewhere to hide/ rest at but my shrimps are special. I think I got the worst shrimps ever. They fight every single day. Over what I have no idea. I feed them more than enough but they like to snatch food from others. Those that have eaten their fill but see remaining food, will just rest on the food pellet and not anyone else eat it. There are 4 different types of plants for them to choose as their sleeping area and yet they fight and kill each other everyday. WTF lor.

Anyway, all of them look slightly different in one way or another, even from within their own breed, here’s a rough idea of how they look like and shots of them doing funny things.

Tilting their butts in the air-

Bending to touch their tails-

Chasing each other on a ball of moss-

Some just like to stack ontop of each other (no, they are not mating. If they do mate, they face each other bottom length to bottom length)-

The wiped out population:
Malaya Shrimp which got killed by the rest-

Ghost Shrimp which was killing everyone so I fed it to tub’s puffers. This is what I call when the hunter gets hunted-

Here's the mummy Cherry/Sakura that got killed and she was so close to giving birth already. You can even see the eyes on each baby (the black spots) *sigh*