Timeless Elegance: June 2006

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Bo Liao

I want to go stay at hotels!!!!

To be more specific...I want to stay at the Ritz Carlton!!!

So nice and romantic okie!!

And it costs a bomb!! S$298 without taxes.

Which comes up to almost S$350 after taxes.

I wish I am rich. Haha.

Envy envy...all those people who got married there...they get to stay at the suite for free!! LoL~~~

OOOh~

These days I feel like I'm getting mad. I'm asking people to go get married.

I want to attend weddings!!! Hahaha.

Like I have no idea why also....

Maybe because can makan, dress-up, see pretty brides??

Heehee.

The first friend I have who's most likely to get married will be......someone who won't be married in Singapore.

You know who you are. *winks*

And after that everyone says that I'm going to get married.

Like I can?!?!?!?!

"You and your bf so long already, can get married soon liao ma"
But hor long doesn't = marriage ma!!!

"He already working liao ma, so you both can settle down already"
But hor, doesn't mean that between us we both got enough $$ to settle down. lol.

"He loves kids!! Good ma...shows that he can be a good father in the future"
But hor, doesn't mean he is a family man lor. So what if he loves kids. LoL~ Everyone can love other people's kids..babies are always very cute and chubby and nice to play with (provided they don't cry) when you don't take care of them.

Oooh~!
For a while i was dying to get married. hahahaha. Just suddenly pop into my head one day...if someone proposes to me I will say yes!! Hahaha. Dunno why. Maybe because that day was surfing too much wedding stuffs.

Wah kaos. I think I am too free. Haha. Officially slacked for 1 and half weeks only. Pls forgive me. My life has been crazy for the last whole year. LoL~~~

Anyway my friend exclaimed, "YOU ARE ONLY @#!!!"

And i thought, ya lor. Siao ah want to get married so early dunno for what. Why I so keen to tie myself down I also dunno.

And then I rem a bro who once told me to play the field and forget about getting attached.

But hor, due to my numerous experiences back in my younger (and wild? Maybe.) days, I thought I know what I am looking for...cannot be bothered to play any field. Haha.

Come to think of it the array of people I met were like, So amazing. hahaha. but ok lar i leave it to some other day to talk about it.

And so I got myself attached. And after that it's that whole lot of insecurities and the whatever shit that came with it. -_-!!!

Because I insecure lor!!!

And I always think that nobody wants me...lol.

Okie. That's a wrong thinking. If you think like that THEN really nobody wants you lar....

Oh well but i didnt know it. All I knew was that I want to hold on to whatever I have (ie. clement) tight and not let go....

And so I made myself unhappy in the midst. Like duh~!
But of course there were both happy and unhappy moments lar...happy moments > unhappy moments. haha.

So dumb right. But so funny now come to think of it. And clement must have got the same idea, if not we won't be where we are now.

Alright lar. Anyway, now the mood to get married is gone liao. Hahaha. Thanks to the awakening convo I had with the bestie. Haha. She's quite practical sometimes. But most of the times I am the practical one. Hahaha.

Oh ya she says I'm always too practical, too sensible, to the point of fault.
And she says that she's always too impractical and fantasize too much. LoL~~!

So she needs a practical guy to match with her.
But she thinks clement is impractical enough for me. LoL~!

Oh wellllll. It's quite trying to get an impractical person to see a practical person's side.
But impractical people are more creative I feel. Hahaha.

Just like the bestie. Heh.

How? I can't be less practical. And because I am practical there are so many issues I have with regards to my life. My life is too impractical in my opinion. And I can't seem to make it more practical because I have too many blocking factors.

My life is practically too impractical for my practically practical attitude. Pun, if any, intended.

Marriage, or the lack of, woes aside, some interesting things have been occuring.

Was sorting out through my pile of clothes. Started to sift out all the clothes i dun wanna wear, cannot wear, and can't fit. heh.

And I came across a few tops that were too big for me. So i gave it to my sis. And it fits her perfectly. And it's the umpteenth time this has happened.

And my sis so asked me, "Why you always buy such big clothes one?"

And me, "Because I always think that I am very fat."

And sis, "Wah, I always think I very thin leh."

LoL~ And so I always wear the clothes that SHE BUYS and she wears the clothes that I BUY.

Oh man. I am dressing like a 17 year old. And she's dressing like a 23 yr old.

Wahaha. How ironical. But it's ok. I'm young in the mind, body and soul still. Haha. And also, in the clothes. teehee~!

My sis isn't exactly that big anyway. And I always like to buy bigger sizes because they will hang on me and make me look thin.

I realised that going a size up than the usual will make me look thin. Dunno when I came up with that theory, but I always do that. Because if I take my size, the top looks tight. When I take a size up, it looks looser. And looks nicer. And I look thinner.

But on occassions which I can't try, I will overestimate the size and the cuttings. So my sis comes in handy. hehe.

Okie. i think I have ranted on long enough. Haha. Oh!! My friend says that I look like I've slimmed. Yayy.

The last she saw me was more than 6 months ago ma. Accurate I guess.

And I told her it's because I never stay hall, cannot snack as and when I like!

Yup, eating after 9 at home is considered a boo-boo and whoever does that will kena suan until the cows come home.

And hor, thanks to my father who hates storing food, my house always got nothing to eat leh.

And I am too lazy to go downstairs and buy (all the tee-ko!!).

So I am thinner thanks to all these cutting down in food intake.

Which means I have been eating too much lar...

Was gaining weight steadily at 1kg/year.

And after I start staying at home the weight loss has been rapid. Haha.

Dropped about 4 kgs from last year till now.

Not much, but it all adds up lor. And considering the fact that my exercise regime is inconsistent to the point of non-existent. Haha.

I must be thankful. LoL~!

But the world cup matches are not doing me any good!! Been going to the HK cafe near my house to makan and watch world cup.

Jeez~!
Late night snacking!! Horrible deshou!

But the food isn't that good. Only dim sum is nice. The main course? Ah, forget it lor....

Oh well~!

I will be missing tonight's match, Spain vs France.

I am rooting for Spain lar!!!

France, frankly, doesn't deserve to win, at the way they were playing. draw two matches and finally managed to win their last one. Jeez!!! I would rather South Korea have won instead. Haha.

Spain shall win!! the score will be 3-1!!! I am betting 5 bucks on it. Ho ho.

Cannot imagine. When I land, I will know whether I won the bet or not. So exciting!!!!!

Me is going to land of kimchi tonight! Teehee~!

Stunningly Gorgeous Y 2:52 PM

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Another ONE!!!

Yayyy..

Spain won AGAIN!!!

3-1!!!!

Now into the 2nd round le!

Inching closer to the final 4!!!!

Woohoo~~!!

Stunningly Gorgeous Y 4:07 PM

Sunday, June 18, 2006

KTV + Movie @ JB

I like KTV at JB because 1. It's cheap! and 2. It's updated!

And what do I mean by cheap? Cheap = food + drink + sing = S$6/person. Really.

Comes with free salad bar which has fruits/desserts/soups.

Same as K-Box, it's from 11am to around 2pm.

Photos~~!!

Our table of food!! Two set meals for us, which consisted of Gyoza Rice (which I had! Very nice deshou...) and Clement had some black pepper chicken I think. Then we went to the salad bar to get salad, coleslaw, some funny looking ham...and also two bowls of soup. There's both the ang-moh (think creamy) soup and the chinese (think clear) soup. Both were very very nice!!!

Room was relatively big, so it was a luxury!! And air-condition can be controlled by us. So if it gets cold, just turn up the temperature!! Nice touch...because most KTV rooms have fixed air-con which is often freezing.

Wall motifs. And there's actually a switch to turn on the UV lights that surrounds the entire room. Like so cool. Didn't switch it on because I prefer normal lights better. Haha.

The whole KTV system and the interesting-looking controls for the sound. Usually it's the black knob on the system, but this is like an extension from it. So everything is digitized. Cool!!

3 Mics for the two of us. I already said the room was big ma. :) And I took a pic of the menu too!! At first it was in the traditional chinese, made it so difficult for the chinese-deficient me to read. Managed to changed it into English mode and everything became easier!! Thought the menu was nice witht he pic of mic in the middle. Heh.

And after our KTV session ended, it was...

K-box doesn't have this, Party World's was just a blank screen...and this one is a nice touch. :)

The service at this KTV place is very good too! And toilets were extremely clean. I am very impressed. And clement could find all his fave ulu songs... -_-!!

Going to visit it again soon...coming Wed perhaps. Heh. :)

After that we went for movie!!!

Watched The Hedge. RM10 for 1 tix!! And we paid extra RM1 for a couple seat. Clement with the long legs needs this most because couple seats get more leg room. Heh. But still worthwhile. The last time I paid for any tix in denominations of 10 was 10 pounds. That was like, the most exorbitant movie of my life!

Oh and we bought their meal combo...just wanted to munch on something though we watch movie soon after our KTV makan session. The nuggets are so kawaii deshou!! Comes in different shape and sizes...heart shape included.

Gonna end this post with a delightful pic of my monkees!! Haha. Sophia and David says hi!!

Stunningly Gorgeous Y 9:30 PM

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Wootz~!

4-0!!!

SPAIN WON!!!

OMG OMG.

My Casillas didn't have to do much work today!! Haha.

They are the team to watch this time. Final 4? Maybeeeeee.......

Although I'm rooting for Brazil still. Heh.

Stunningly Gorgeous Y 1:04 AM

Sunday, June 11, 2006

Many Things

The past week was probably one of the toughest I had ever been through...

But! I got through it. :)

I met some awe-inspring people.

I finally sort out my thoughts.

I am starting to look at things in a different perspective.

And I'm finally out of that shell.

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So what's been going on this past week???

I did something I never thought I will do...I went for a BW. Wahaha.
o4o62006 ok.

I will never forget this date.

It was very funny, because I decided on a spur of moment I will do it. Called clement and told him I wanted to do it...he said ok go ahead. So I made an appointment for the same day...and then it was a day of trepidation and excitement.

I think it's really a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The girl told me to come back...I think I will think 1000x before I do. But it was, indeed, amazing after the whole thing was over.

Because I got through it!! Heh.

Next.

Got my results. Puke puke puke.

Then it was a frenzy....a mess...whatever shit. I literally felt like I was wading in shit.

Didn't help that clement wasn't around...in fact no one was around...my parents went on their cruise, my sis went chalet...I was all all alone...

Helpless and madness...that's all I could think of.

But of course when you are at the bottom of that pit, things have to look up right?

And so I did...I began to look up...and suddenly the helplessness is no longer there.

And I didn't feel so ridiculously mad after all.

Spoke to a few people...they put things into perspective.

And I realise that sometimes in life, things just do not go the way you want it to.

And I realise that sometimes in life, you need to just bite hard and then keep going.

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Surprisingly I still had the courage and the mood to go for interview ok.....

And surprisingly the interview was not so much an interview, it was a series of interactive activities.

And it was really fun~!

I liked the fact that my team worked well together.

Wootz~!

After this there will be other rounds of interviews.

It wasn't so much the interview...at the end the appraiser shared some really inspiring stuff.

And that hit the nail in the head with regards to what I want to do with my situation.

I am really glad I did go for that at the end. (Not to mention that morning was raining super heavily that morning and both clement and I just wanted to sleep the whole day away. Wahaha.)

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I just feel bad for disappointing my parents...relatives....

They have been really nice about it...not mentioning anything to me.

I am grateful. :)

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Been eating good food~! Haha. Clement stayed over...and we took my daddy's car to drive around SG...on the pretext of warming up the car. Ho ho ho.

Oh! Clement drove me to interview that morning too. And stayed on to wait till I'm done. So we ended up at Crawford Lane to eat the yummy Bak Chor Mee.

Well, it was featured on TV before...makan places lost and found....any food that gets featured on TV shouldn't be too bad right? So we went to try it lor~!

The queue was long long long (or you might want nong nong nong... :p)...clement queued for 30 minutes before we finally got our noodles. 1 carpark coupon gone!!!

Wah liew. Haha. Here's a pic of that marvellicious Bak Chor Mee...

It looks like any normal bak chor mee right? But the difference is in the taste!!
Although I am usually quite chin chye with my food (ie. I will eat as long as it tastes ok), but this one is really...wahhh.
The noodles cooked just nice, the pig's liver(I usually hate that!) was soft and nice to eat. Usually the bak chor mee I will just throw out the liver because it's either too hard, too disgusting...whatever...but this one is just nice. Lol~

And the stock (whatever you call...soup base?) tastes really good...the soup is the evidence. Of course, like the chef says...their recipe is secret. You eat can already, don't ask so much ok.

Hahaha.

Clement, the picky eater...and the fanatic bak chor mee eater, also thinks very highly of this bak chor mee.

So must be darn good for him to praise lor!!! Ho ho.... :) And it ain't cheap...S$4 okie!!!

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Actually the night before clement and I also went chinatown food street (something akin to the one at the Esplanade)...I had my first taste of Kolo Mee.

Very very nice deshou! The noodles is like instant noodles...very curvy one...but it's not instant noodles lor...

And the ingredients...
1. A LOT of Bak Chor (salty salty one...but very nice!)
2. A LOT of Veggies
3. A LOT of char siew
4. 3 Big prawns
5. 3 dumplings

A lot of ingredients for a bowl of noodles, I must say. And it costs a whopping S$5.90!!!

I can't believe clement actually didn't mind paying for that. I was expecting something along the lines of $3.50? or $4.00? And never almost 6 bucks. Haha.

After I finished this and found out the price...I was totally in shocked. Hahaha. 6 bucks for hawker food! And I finished it all lor!!!

But then it's really very very nice!! Craving for it as I'm blogging now. Ho ho. Wah. But this kind of food really eat once in a while. :)

I had peanut glutinous balls (Ah-Ball-Ling) as dessert later on. Haha. Happy happy. :)

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Clement brought me to the airport later in the night too. We wanted to eat Rex's Satay (another of those featured on TV)...but then! No Satay to eat because all sold out.

So in the end I settled for gado-gado.

I never knew what was that until clement bought it on the pretext of sharing it.

But alas. I had no other food because all the things I want to eat are either not available, or else sold out. -_-!!

So I tasted that...and then proceeded to finish it up leaving clement very little chance to coup from me. Haha.

No photos...because Jesslyn was super hungry and ravenous already. Where got time to take out camera!!! Hahaha.

We went for kopi at Starbucks later on. And we saw Starbucks potato chips!! Haha. Clement the potato chip lover of course cannot forgo it. It costs a whopping $2.50...for a regular-sized packet.

Nevertheless, I took this photo of the airport!! It's been renovated and it looks different now...

Looks quite artistic hor?? Click on it for a larger view. :)

We also bought the makan places book to keep track of all the good food around Singapore...we intend to try to go and eat them all!!! Heh~!

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Oh! And I made clement iron my clothes...wahahaha. Darn funny. Because I was too tired and feeling horrid and thinking that I had no clothes to wear for interview...sian sian sian....So in the end clement volunteered...and apart from my interview clothes, I made him iron my pile of need-to-iron clothes too. Hohoho.

But at the same time I couldn't stand the way he was ironing so I kept butting in. Haha.

Dunno which is worse. :)

He also helped me change bedsheets!! Heehee.

I am domesticating him sia. lol~!

Luckily he never complain.

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Sometimes I wonder how he can tahan me, when I know I can't tahan myself.

I like to rule him...make him do whatever I want him to.

And I like to complain to him that he never do things that other girls' bfs do for them.

And then I like to tickle him whenever I feel like it, and prevent him from stopping me, just so that I can torture him with my tickles. Heh heh.

And when he drives I like to make a lot of noise...I'm like the worse passenger a person can have...because I will make 10000 comments. hahaha.

I will complain he drive too fast, drive too slow, drive too dangerously, curse too much, never signal, his temper so bad, why he never horn people (who almost caused danger to us)...the list goes on. Haha.

Most of the time he just go orrrrh.....but he will try to do whatever I complain about, except for the cursing part...wah I can never understand why must so hot tempered leh.

I think that's why they say you never learn to curse until you start driving. Haha.

But actually most of the time I am complaining about other kuku drivers on the road also...or people...haha. We almost banged down someone because he just started to cross without looking and we were like, inches away from the guy. -_-!!

Somehow, clement has managed to tahan all my nonsense lor. And nowadays, we seldom quarrel liao...I think it has been months since we last had a really bad disagreement. He gives in to me more these days...I am sensing his behavourial change and I'm quite glad about it. :)

But of course I should try to be a better person...I must not take him for granted now...if not everything will be lost.

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I think I ought to take up driving, revive my auctions, and learn to analyze all that stocks and shares thingies.

Haha. I shall invest clement's money!!!! Wahahaha~!

And then concentrate on what I really want to do...and what's my selling point.

And read up. Lots of it. On amazing people.

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Clement bought this for me after I started breaking out real badly. This is supposed to help calm the skin, and reduce the acne? I dunno leh. But seems like the forums have some pretty good reviews. Haven't gotten down to using it yet. But soon I will!!!

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Oh! I met my IA supervisor...at the most unlikely place....in a Temple. Haha.
Shared some gossips of my IA work place before I left.

Told him a bit of my situation. He told me I'm still young.

But how unexpected to see him again.

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I still have a zillion photos to upload. Hahaha. :) Of the chalet, the 2nd Settler's Session...and erm...M'sia KTV!!! I actually uploaded it but I'm lazy to type a photoblog about it. Haha.

Laters. I need to clear up all the clutter on my table and my life before I can get down to other things.

GE exams on thursday!!!

Stunningly Gorgeous Y 10:27 PM | (0)