27th August 2005 Saturday
Last minute outings... with who else, but the Longan Gang. : )

Woke up this morning feeling really wormy and had a stupid headache. Slept at 11.30pm and woke up at about 10am. Must be too much sleep... and hence the stupid headache. Got online and chatted with Miss What and Ah Zai on MSN, where we suddenly decided to go to Ah Zai's client's flat that he designed at AMK to have a look see! It was a really sudden decision to meet up at AMK at 1.30pm (it was 12.30pm when we were having the conversation) and i had to resort to showering and changing and chatting with them at the same time! Miss What wanted to go swimming later on at SP's building as well and although Ah Zai wanted to swim as well, he couldnt because he didnt have his trunks with him. As for me, i think i need to get a new swimming costume. Bunny! Let's go and get some together!

So we met up at AMK MRT station, where i still had a really bad headache and was feeling slightly depressed over nothing. Was so deep in thought that i nearly missed my stop and was kinda hungry too. When we met up, Ah Zai said that his client might be at the place and Miss What and I were a little apprehensive about going, but luckily, his client left before we got there. Heh.

The client's house was more or less, 75% completed?? The floor tiles were really expensive though, one 600x600mm tile for $24!! Woah! And it was just homogenous tiles and not marble... but the effect is there and the client paid for it. So, oh well. Ah Zai tried to bluff Miss What and I about the material of the sliding doors, saying that it was 40mm thk. solid MDF board lor!! Both of us were staring at him increduously and he burst out laughing when he saw our faces....

After AMK, we took a train down to Somerset, where Miss What wanted to use the SP's pool... so Ah Zai and i were left to entertain ourselves for the next half and hour so we walked around and admired the view from the..... 19th floor?? I cant remember also. Anyway, the scenery was nice and i was wondering how it would look like at night........ Would be really beautiful... Anyway, here is how town looks like from the 19th storey (i think!) of SP builing......

i think the archi design of SP building is quite nice actually. Just need to clean up the tiles and all... mosiac was everywhere!!! I like!!!!

That cloud in the sky like... very attention seeking lor! Hahahaa! Come to think of it, it looks like a whale....... Hmmmm.....

OMG!!! Where can u find such furniture??! Super retro lor!

After Miss What was done swimming up and down the pool, we had to wait for her downstairs while she showered and changed. The water from the water cooler tasted really bad, like some longkang water actually but i still filled up my water bottle with it. Was still having a bad headache despite swallowing some panadol in the morning. So i tried to drink more water........... even if it tastes like longkang water..........

Had a late lunch/tea at Killiney Kopitiam where i had my favourite drink and some kaya toast. We kept squabbling about who ate up their "quota" of bread already and who should take the last piece. Walked down to Kino at Taka after that and Ah Zai left to meet his best friend Matti at Plaza..... Miss What and I looked through some design books and showed each other whatever nice ideas or inspiration looking places there were. Was tempted to get a "Hip Hotel - Oriental" (I think! Gosh, my memory is so bad.) but didnt lar. Oh, Miss What was super amused by this book "Making out in Chinese" and she kept laughing and showing me "interesting" words to learn. I was super distracted because i was on the phone with Gaz and she still insisted on showing me some words despite me saying i was not interested because i could not concentrate on my phone call!

After standing around for half an hour, both of us felt very tired and our legs were going to break any moment, so we went down to Mos for a drink and Ah Tong called to say that he couldnt make it for their 7.30pm "March of the Penguins" movie! Told her to cancel the booking and to watch on a weekday with the rest of us (cheaper le) and luckily she managed to cancel it. I love Cineleisure! (minus the super terrible crowd)

Went down to Newton for dinner and initially, i didnt want to eat anything because i promised to eat with Gaz and Mr Sarcastic at Maxwell but i could not resist the temptation of BBQ Stingray!!!! Wahahahahaa.... Miss What had her carrot cake for dinner and i almost had the whole stingray to myself can. But it was so nice..... Wwwooo.... She decided to head down to Ah Tong's house after dinner while i waited at Newton MRT for the 2 to come down from their office.... So i started taking photos..........


Saw this cute shy cat!

Hee!

I got bored while waiting for Gaz and Mr Sarcastic to arrive in Bus 54, so i started taking photos of the scenery......

And the roads too.........

I dunno why the sky looks quite scary here!

Finally! In Bus 54 with the 2 of them....... they looked super stressed so i decided to take photos of them! Hee!

Gaz smiling happily for me!

Me looking like a hamster....... or chinchilla, whichever anyone wants to call me...

Looking chinchilla-ish...

Once again! Another backfire attempt to take a photo together!

Now, i just look territorial again by taking up so much space in the photo, while the other 2 at the back look so extra lor..... Hahahaa......

Mr Sarcastic looked really happy in the photos..... i think he was super stressed from work because he was very happily posing for the photos and he even wanted to take some more after i kept my camera! He said, "Har?? Why you stop taking? Quite fun le!"

So we tried another group shot....... Yes, the trip was quite long, hence the reason why we could take so many photos... Hahahaa........

Finally ended up at Maxwell market (again!) and Ah Zai appeared after taking almost an hour to get there from Orchard. We all thought he was trying to train up his stamina by walking there actually...

Dunno who took this Ah Long style photo of me.......

Trying to stylise it to make it look like some 1950s Ah Long pose.. then i realised that the white earphones were sooooo wrong. Where got iPod then?!

Stressed out Mr Sarcastic......

Once again, i dunno who took this photo of me, close up and all. Can see the ugly pimple like stuff on my forehead. dunno how to get rid of them le....... so irritating!

I didnt take this photo, n i guess that......... these are Ah Zai's hands??? I think so lar.

23rd August 2005 Tuesday
Dinner with Longan Gang

Met up with CMI and Ah Zai for dinner at Bugis, where CMI was busy looking for a shirt to wear for the event the next day. I really felt like watching a movie, but when we walked down to the box office, the movies looked really boring and i wanted to catch "March of the Penguins" but it was not out yet! So we headed for Chicken rice dinner opposite Bugis (the portion of the chicken meat was so little as compared to the mountain of rice) and decided to head down to City Hall's Menotti. I commented that the place looked nice and posh so we decided to check it out.

On the way to Menotti, I was telling CMI that i asked for a quotation from ModLiving the other day, and the salesperson gave me a shocking amount. He kept asking me which sofa or rather what did i ask to quote for and i kept telling him that i didnt know, probably called the Hopi Sofa or something like that. And he kept asking me was it by this so-and-so designer and once again i kept telling him that i didnt know. Ah Zai was keeping quiet all these while, and suddenly he turned back and screamed at CMI, "She already told you that she doesnt know who is the designer! You think everyone knows who are the designers........... like you?!!!"

Both CMI and I were shocked by the outburst, and CMI kept walking with a crooked neck (head tilted to one side) and dont ask me why he was walking like that. I think it was a result of "I kena bitcccchhheedddd".

Waited a while for Gaz and Mr Sarcastic to arrive and Mr Sarcastic kept wanting to leave because he was dead tired, but we managed to convince him to stay for a drink. The acoustics of the cafe was not very good because it was quite noisy and not as posh as i thought. Once again, we had to job hazard and comment about every thing from the ceiling to where the lights could be bought and to what material was everything made of. There, Ah Zai told us about this weird dream that he had the night before.

This was how the dream went :

Gaz, Ah Zai, Miss What and I were having some lunch/dinner or whatever somewhere, and we were chatting normally. (This was a silent dream and seen from a third party point of view, as in, he could see himself in the dream) And suddenly, both Ah Zai and I got into a really huge, and heated argument, like, those sort of full-blown arguments and not the usual silly bitchy squabbles that we get into everytime. As in, we were really shouting at each other and for some strange reason, we started hitting each other with some books on the table (how convenient that the books were there)!!! He commented that he really felt the pain from the book hitting ok! So serious case!!

In the midst of our quarrel and book hitting, Gaz and Miss What suddenly disappeared and I started to chase Ah Zai (apparently i was really angry but dunno over what!) and he had hide and take cover under some shelter because it started to rain!

Ok, this is the part of the dream where it starts to get a little scandalous but dun worry, i was not part of the scandal. Wahahaha!


25th August 2005 Thursday
Party under the stars and dinner with CMI

Was up till 3am the night before, trying to finish up my drawings, so i only managed to get 3 hours of sleep in the end. Surprisingly, i managed to keep awake for the whole day and only yawned a few times. Maybe i only need 3 hours of sleep instead of the usual 6 or 8 hours... Haha....

Lao Ban has sent an invitation to all of us in the office to go to the launch of the newly re-vamped Cubes Magazine, and i really was not keen to go because of my lack of sleep. All i could think of in the office was to go back to my bed. Poor Miss Hungry came back to work despite having a flu and her face was really pale!! She obviously didnt go for the party so it was just me, Lao Ban and Mr Easy. We left the office at 8pm (because Lao Ban was trying to type some appointment letter) and she kept complaining how hungry she was. I don't understand why these people can eat so much and still maintain their beautiful figure........... Anyway, with my CMI directions, i made her do a wrong turn and it resulted in us going one BIIGGGG round Fort Canning and her in nagging me about how hungry she was.

By the time we got to the carpark behind the old National Library, my Lao Ban kept insisting on walking the wrong way while i was trying to convince her to walk the other direction towards the Substation...... Mr Easy got to the Substation before us (on his bike!) and while Lao ban and i was on the correct path to the Substation, Mr Easy called me. And while this was happening, i saw this nicely dressed up ang moh guy walking from across the street towards my boss. AND..... some driver was blaring his horn at us. I was super blur at the whole scenario and it turned out that the nicely dressed ang moh was my lao ban's bf!

Once we got to the entrance of the party, my lao ban was greeted by soooo many people that she knew there... Mr Easy and I just stood there like some blur cows so i decided to call Mr Susie Hoe. He brilliantly walked past me after hanging up on the phone with me and after i managed to drag him into my group, he was trying to praise me in front of my lao ban. Which felt very weird actually. Haha....

Mr Easy and Susie got on pretty well, and it turns out that Mr Easy seems to know quite a lot of people in this industry! However, when i ask him how he knows them, there will always be a standard reply, "Welllll, it's a long story." To which, i will try not to peng san on the floor. I stole Susie's Orange Juice so it also resulted in him getting 2 new glasses for both me and Mr Easy. Somehow or other, i dunno what happened, but Susie spilled some of his orange juice onto my new blouse and pants! After he tried to give me some tissues to clean up the mess, he disappeared somewhere. So i wailed to Mr Easy, "Very good lor! Now i am covered in orange juice! So unglam!"

"Oh, no wonder you look so sweet!"

That comment was horrendously stupid and ridiculous, and under any normal circumstances, i would have scolded him in the office, but i thought it was so funny and dumb at the same time that i burst out laughing really loudly! When i told Susie, he said that his pick up line is so original.

Three of us went for dinner at Kopitiam nearby and there, Susie had to run off once again to help his ex-bosses clear up the place while Mr Easy and I went home. To ZZZZzzzzzzzzzZZZ......

Wooooohooo.....................

I am in a muuuccchh better mood now, as compared to yesterday, when i was feeling depressed suddenly from the time i woke up till the time i stayed out with the Longan Gang... It's weird how i fall into some depressive state for no rhyme or reason and get so deep into thoughts that i nearly missed my train station and felt sad when i am laughing with my friends at the Esplanade. I get into such mood swings like..... once every 6 months??

But now!! I feel so much better after convincing myself to go to Combat class today and i really punched and kicked so hard that i thought i was going to run out of breath halfway!! It helped that the instructor was really pushing everyone today as well.

After the class, i felt so exhausted but so much happier so i walked to the drinks station to get some 100 plus. The cleaning auntie there suddenly laughed at me when she saw me.

"Heeheehee.... So cute! Your face is so red, like an apple! Heeheeheee!"(gestures to some other person nearby) "You look at her.... so funny, so red like an apple!"

Thanks auntie. Just a cute comment like that made me feel happier too. : )

Now that i have felt happier from a silly depressive mood over nothing (or rather something that i dunno about) i am ready to continue my drawings for work and on to happier things! Like blogging about my week (which seems kinda overdue, considering that today is Sunday now)..... so off to happier things now! Wahahahaha!

Oh ya, i am really excited about this Lomo Competition too! So Amazing Race style! I like!! Thanks for the link Susie! And i take back the comment about losing faith in all sorts of competitions (i told that to the Longan Gang yesterday, heehee) because this seems to be the only competition that really excites me.... Wwooooo..........

Friday 19th August 2005
Late dinner with Mr Gorilla

Decided to go to the gym first before meeting Mr Gorilla for a late dinner. He had tuition (he is the tuition teacher, not the other way round ah) till 9.30pm at Boon Lay so i decided to kill time by heading down for the late combat class. Saw Mascara Woman there and was secretly happy for the coincidental company. The combat class by this irritating voice/accent instructor was super tiring for some reason, because the last class i went for, was really boring and i thought i was going to fall asleep during the warm up. But that day, it was really exhausting and i swear that i will go back for his classes next time.

Met Mr Gorilla at Lucky Plaza's Macs where we had our late dinner there, and he insisted on using his student discount from Macs for me. Apparently the set meal is only $4 (the usual price is $5.30) but the fries were small size, not the usual medium or whatever size it is supposed to be. The 6 pcs nuggets' box also seemed to have shrunk and when the boy placed his nuggets box on his tray, he said out loud, "Where's the rest of it man!"

So not used to going out with him after so long.

Anyway, after our slow and leisurely dinner, he updated me on the Ah Beng (Keith) and his rather handsome friend Vik was back in Singapore! But for some reason, i dun really remember how he looks like. i only remembered that he was quite good looking. Heh. Managed to persuade him to hang out at the Cineleisure's Preview Lounge (seems like that is my new hang out place) and we both ordered an Iced Mocha each. It tasted quite nice actually and i was rather happy with the environment and the not too expensive drink. Mr Gorilla wanted to traumatise me by asking me to talk to the Ba-poh waiter/waitress called Lizzy. But the waiter was really nice to us despite me staring at his rather well done make up on his face. His pony tail was nicely tied up too!

We yakked there for a pretty long time and left close to 1 or 2 am, i cant remember. He told me that he went for a Boyanese massage that his parents go for, that helps to remove the air from his body. or something like that lar. It costs a reasonable $50 an hour and the masseur told him that for a 24 year old, he had hell of a lot of air inside his body. Ya lar, he is a mass of hot gas mah.

Anyway, he is supposed to go back for the massage soon but he is procastinating (as usual) but i made him promise to bring me there one day! The last time i went for a massage (it was free from the gym membership) i fell asleep and i think i was snoring too. We talked about rather serious stuff as well, regarding relationships and he asked me if i met anyone new. I said that i have not and even if i have, i think i subconsciously push them away from me. Dunno why also. Yes, i admit that i do feel lonely sometimes, wishing that i have someone to cuddle and kiss, but i do enjoy my single life most of the time. And also, maybe i take so long to open up to someone and get to know someone. I cannot just go into a r/s with someone that i barely know right??? Ok, who am i convincing here. I dunno. Haha!

He on the other hand, have a rather stable relationship with his gf of almost a year and a half but it seems that he really might be going overseas for studies soon. I really hope that he does actually, for the benefit of both of us. After yakking for some time, i decided to take some photos with him, and he seemed impressed with my digi cam but i decided not to post those pics up because i do not want to deface my blog with his face. Haha!

After we left the preview lounge, he kept insisting on helping me carry my black see through plastic Mphosis bag! He said that it looked very heavy and already kept asking me to let him carry it from the time i met him at Macs! But i refused because i said it makes him look very gay. But after the lounge, i allowed him to carry it because he couldnt stop talking about it and i snapped a horrible unflattering picture of him carrying it like a sling bag! Hahahahaa! reminds me of the time Bunny made him carry her sling bag in Chomp Chomp market last time....... kekkekekeke.....


Saturday 20th August 2005
Chicken Rice and Tanjong Beach!

Messaged both Ah Zai and Gaz on Friday to ask if they were free to meet up on Sat but only Ah Zai replied saying something like why would he want to meet such an anti social creature like me. But we decided to meet anyway after i saw Miss What online in the morning and she said that she was free! So i decided to gym in the afternoon after worming in the morning and procastinating on which classes to go for. In the end, decided to get out of bed and head for the 2 plus class and again, i was pleasantly surprised to see Mascara Woman there again! Once again i have company! When i walked over to talk to her, i took one step backwards to the bench behind me, but i didnt see this bulky muscular man try to squueeeeeze himself between me and the bench so i stepped onto his foot! He looked really super pissed despite me apologising profusely. Still tiao me before he walked away. Wah lau, say sorry already mah.......

After the extreme cardio work out class, as i was about to head home, Miss What called me to say that she was in town so i quickly blow-dryed my hair in super speed and sped all the way down from Paragon to Killiney Kopitiam where she was waiting for me! Had my late lunch of 2 kaya toasts and a teh si and we chatted for a while and deciding where we should go during the night. She suggested Mount Faber and Marina South where we could just sit and talk, but after discussing it for some time, i decided to call Ah Zai to help in the decision making. He said to go to both places.

Since Miss What was driving, we decided that she will pick us at Bishan MRT and head for a cheap dinner then to Marina South, then to Mount Faber if it was not happening enough. Before Miss What reached my place after our coffee break, her friend from Aussie Land called her and i was helping her hold her phone to her ear until we reached my place and after i got off, her friend told her some life changing news which was that he admitted to being gay and (despite Miss What already suspecting it for some time now) she got out of her car in my visitor carpark and was hyperventilating from the shock! After talking on the phone for some time, she realised that she caused this massive jam at my visitor carpark! So my guard had to open the exit barrier to allow her to drive through....... So drama lor......

I, on the other hand, had plonked back to bed and decided to nap (it was already 6pm) and we were supposed to meet at Bishan at 745pm but when i woke up, it was already 715pm!!! I immediately jumped out of bed and got my mum to send me to Somerset to take the train down to Bishan. Needless to say, i was late lar.

After Miss What arrived at Bishan, she ordered me to sit in her car while she went to the washroom. Decided to bring them to eat the not bad chicken rice at Thomson Road where there is a rather poser pub/cafe at the corner shophouse. The lao ban of the chicken rice place came up to us after we sat down for barely 10 secs and told us that he only had the chicken breast meat left. But he was also doing some weird hand gestures around his chest area to prove his point! The 3 of us didnt get it until much later so Ah Zai just told him that we will have all breast meat. While i was busy ordering the rest of the food, Miss What told Ah Zai that he eats only Chicken Neh Neh or chicken boobs. Then dunno what happened, these 2 got into some Neh Neh quarrel and how each other was more disgusting to eat chicken boobs.


The other dish we had other than the chicken boobs that we ate......

The 2 of them who were quarelling about the chicken neh nehs..... That was a blouse that i got for Miss What from BKK! Yay! She was wearing it! Hehehhee.........

Unsuccessful photo 1. My face was cut off as usual. Im either cut off or i occupy 75% of the photo.....

Ok lar, at least can see my face....... Love the vintage looking Hong Kong design of this place! Especially the seating booths!

Here we are on our drive to Mount Faber. Yes, we decided on Mount Faber instead because it seemed more happening and we were really excited to take the cable car at night! But we were super disappointed when we found out that it was closed at 9pm. So boring..... I was really looking forward to it!

Angry looking Ah Zai in car....

Cool Miss What.......

Thickskinned me! Taking photo of myself...... i think i look like a chipmunk in this photo for some reason.....

The scary looking tower at Mount Faber........... Dunno what is it for though.....

First shot on MF, with camera on top of Miss What's car..

This is at a place called Altivo Bar or something like that on MF. The koi fish looked kinda well fed....... We wanted to hang out here, but we felt that the view wasnt that great, so we left.......

Spotted this sign on our way up to Altivo. What the hell?!! What money changer! We joked that it might be a new kind seamless roller shutters design. or maybe the wall can be pushed or opened someway!

Put my cammie on top of somebody's car to take this photo.. was scared that any of the pedestrains walking was the owner of the car lor......

View from MF!!

3 of us! Just realised that cannot see the view behind us! So dumb........

We got bored of MF after Altivo and we went to this other bar/cafe like place where we thought that the view would be better! But also super CMI and the drinks were horrendously expensive! $8 for a milkshake! So we left the place in our most posh manner without ordering........

Guess where we went after that???! SENTOSA!!! Hhahahahaa! The new Merlion looked really scary actually so i decided to get a shot of it. EEEeeee...........

What a dark picture. The only light source was from the light in the centre of the car.

On the way to the 7-11 in Sentosa, Gaz called Ah Zai and asked where we were. I told him that i was very angry that he didnt reply my sms and he only remembered to call me after he had finished his chicken century egg porriage with Don at Maxwell Market! Somehow or other, Ah Zai managed to convince them to come over by cab! And the most backfire part was that they reached Tanjong Beach earlier than us. And we were already in Sentosa when they called. Must be because we went back to 7-11 the 2nd time to get their drinks and more snacks. But i found it highly amusing that they reached there before us.

While Miss What was driving into the Tanjong Beach carpark and deciding where to park, Ah Zai suddenly said, "Just go ................deeper in!!"

There was a short silence in the car until both Miss What and I burst out laughing and Ah Zai realised his deadly mistake. I laughed till i was in between the back seat and the leg room. Miss What also could not not stop laughing and she could not vertical park properly and nearly hit the BMW beside us because she was laughing too much, so she decided to park nose in first into another lot.

After we got out of the car, Ah Zai passed me his phone and told me to call Don to ask their whereabouts. The 2 of them started talking about the deeper joke again and while i was behind them, i had to squat on the road because i was laughing too hard. And when i tried to get up, my leg got cramped up so i ended up lying on the road! The 2 of them only realised that i was lying horizontally on the road after they heard my laughing and they had to help me up off the road! And all these happening while i was trying to talk to Don! He sounded really amused over the phone though from all my laughing.

Once again, i tried to get them to take a nice photo and Ah Zai had to move! That monkey........

Yes! A nice group shot! We were sitting at this concrete looking gazebo (yes, again!) at Tanjong Beach because it was drizzling slightly. So we waited in here until it stopped raining.

Blurry photo 1.....

Blurry photo 2..... Dunno why these 2 were shaking their heads violently.....

Finally migrated out to the beach and i took this super dark photo of the pub nearby... called KM8 or something like that.......

A really cool picture of Gaz!!!! He was trying to search for Mariah Carey songs on Ah Zai's Powerbook....... That orange round thing behind him is some lifeguard float. Heh.

Another CMI and ugly shot of me and Ah Zai's shoulder.

Oooohhh.... the moon. Before or after this picture (i cant remember!) there looked like there was some rainbow halo around the moon. Quite pretty...

This time i tried to take a photo with Don! I think both of us look very weird in this photo......

By 1am, Miss What was feeling really tired and wanted to drive back to mainland. Although i really wanted to stay on the nice and cooling beach, i didnt know how to get back to mainland from where we were at that time of the morning, so we all followed her out on her car and she kindly dropped us off at Esplanade... We sat in the open for a while, until it started drizzling (again! I think the rain clouds follow us everywhere.) so we had to retreat to the amphi-theatre like place where there was shelter. While we were talking, this uncle decided to sleep very near us and he actually managed to snore a little even though we had sudden outbursts of laughter. But this irritating guy (I think he was drunk) came over to us and suddenly told us to keep our voices down (when we werent noisy at all because we were talking about some serious matters) but, when he went back to where he was initially, he was playing his radio and talking so loudly! Bloody irritating lor...........

Anyway, the 4 of us decided to talk about "interesting" topics like love and relationships and there was one part where Ah Zai was talking about teaching his friend in school how to rollerblade. He was telling the story where he was teaching her how to rollerblade up and down the school corridors and suddenly he cut the story short by saying that she just fell asleep with her blades still on! Don and i were really blurrrrr by that sudden "break" in the story and Don commented that it was so abrupt that the situation seemed like someone fell asleep halfway while having sex!

When it came to my turn, i told the wonderful story of me and Mr Gorilla because they didnt know about it (Ah Zai only knew a bit) and i thought i was going to tear! until it came to the parts where i got angry. Haha.... By the time we finished talking, we had to catch the last night bus home at 430am and after waiting for a while, i decided it was more worthwhile for me to take a cab instead of the night bus. good thing too, because my cab fare only came up to $5plus.......

I think i have been typing for the past 1 and half hour or so... So tired! Off to bed.................