Fainting goats!!!

So darn cute...... at the meantime, i have to go and faint now......... after only getting 4 hours of sleep the night before......

It is 2.19am in the morning now and i just cant get to sleep. It must be the super strong tea i had at the Hong Kong Cafe just now.......... Joined See Hum and Gaz for dinner at that cafe, which is situated at East Coast Road.... near this famous Prawn Mee store as well..... The good thing about this cafe is that they serve HK food (yum!) and my favourite mango pudding (the way i like it). However, their service was kinda slow and we had to keep reminding them of our orders...... I think the tea i drank is probably one of the strongest brew i have ever drunk. Hence the reason why i am still so wide awake at this unholy hour.

Anyway, came home by 10pm to make sure that i catch the Victoria Secrets Fashion Runway show..... I have to say that it was very wonderfully staged, with a cute theme to it and having different sets in the show. From having this sexy range and this set where the models came out with these drama mama wings...... I dunno how these models get their fab bodies (some of them are just too skinny), probably by not eating (Jiak Hong!!) and running on the treadmill for a few hours a day. (Lol!)

Had this rather interesting chat with See Hum this afternoon about the personality and characters of Saggitarians. Both of us being beautiful Saggis (kekekkekeke), we get along really well. In fact, I notice that i get along with Saggi people very easily and vice versa. He mentioned that Saggis are supposed to be very fickle in love and relationships and treasure their freedom too much and they play around with love. But so far, i do not think that is true for Saggis. (Or maybe this applies to the ones i know anyway) But yes, we really do treasure our freedom a lot. Tie us down like hens in a cage (i dont mean marriage!), and we will be very sad people..........

Got some wonderful news from our beloved Miss What that Ah Tong proposed to her on Christmas Eve! And they are planning their wedding to be around late April to early May........ Am really excited and happy for her....... She told me today that she wants me to be her bridesmaid (gasp!) and i told her that i think i will make a terrible one. Like, what if i step on her train or something??? Hahhahahaa...... So promptly after she informed me of that, she told me that on the 5th Feb, she wants to have a meeting with Gaz, Ah Zai, Susie, Don and me (all guys except me btw) to discuss the wedding. So i innocently asked her,

"What? Are they all going to be bridesmaids too??!"

"Hahahahaaa!! No lar! Anyway cannot have too many bridesmaids. Cause have to look for many male maids too!"

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Marriage is such a wonderful thing to happen. There are so many people on this earth, and yet why do we choose our partner among this huge sea of "potential partners"? I do believe that your other half is out there in this world, and it is up to you or your fate as to whether you can find him/her. Yes i know, mushy but true.

Whenever i find myself losing hope in the world of romance, there will always be something to lift my spirits up again. When i see a couple looking so blissfully in love with each other, you just know it because there is love in their eyes. (By this, i am not referring to those type where the guy's hands will be all over the girl's body or smooching each other like they are having a tongue wrestle) Anyway, i just feel comforted whenever i see a truly blissful couple. Love is such a simple thing. And yet, complicated at the same time. It can bring you the sweetest memories you can ever get, and yet, destroy you as well.

The other day, my guy friend was commenting to me that he has no time for his girlfriend and she is very ma-fan. (troublesome) So i retorted jokingly, "Aiyah, who ask you to get a girlfriend then??"

He answered that he didnt go looking for love. So i replied,

"Well, that's true. Love happens when you least expect it."

I realise that i always end up falling in love with people who i never ever expect myself to. My first love? Was someone who irritated me so much. Many many years ago on a Valentine's Day, by the dusty lockers in this particular JC, my first love (who was attached to someone else then) called me over to his locker.

"Here, a flower for you." and hands me a stalk of red rose.

I was so shocked and i didnt know if i should reach out to take the flower (because at that time i was thinking that he bought the rose for his gf, so cannot be for me what?!) and i just stared blankly at the flower until he started laughing out loud.

"HAhahahahahahha!!! Kidding!!!" He guffaws and clutches his stomach with his hands.

I was sooooooooo angry that i vaguely remember slamming my locker and storming off into the dark hallways (i dunno why my school had inadequete lighting back then though) and disappeared off into the horizon. Ok, i think i went to meet my friends or something later in town. I was so angry that i told myself never to speak to that irritant in my class ever again. But what happened after that incident, was that he called me on my house phone that night to apologise. He was the first guy to ever call my house. I had caller id then and my mum informed me that a guy had called for me and she didnt know who. So i checked the number and i instantly found it so familiar. So i checked my class list and i realised that it was that irritant.

The next day, i gave him my killer stare when i first saw him in the morning and he came up to me and apologised for his stupid action. That was when he told me that he had tried to call me the night before to apologise. So.......... this is someone who i never thought of being with, but we ended up staying up late chatting on the phone, exchanging letters (who handwrites letters to their partners now anyway??!) and going out on dates. In the end, i found myself, falling in love with this irritant.

Sigh, our first love is always so memorable, and that is so true. Why am i typing all these now? I have no idea. Must be the tea, makes you lovesick or something.... Haha!! But then again, i can always read this entry again and laugh at it.... : D At the meantime, i will try to sleep again..........

Today, Dead fish rolled his chair over to my table silently and whipped out this newspaper article.

"Spot something in this picture!!"

Do you see it?? HEeeheee............

18th Jan 2006 Wednesday
Feels like its back to school again.........

This is like my 3rd week at work and everything seems to be going fine so far. Moved office from the 11th to the 9th floor last Friday..... cause they wanna expand the archi team and take over our existing space. So we ended being "shoved" downstairs with the landscape people......... Our spanking new office is designed by our very own beloved CJ aka dead fish. My new seat is right next to the material library, which happens to be extremely messy at the moment because we just shoved all the materials from upstairs to downstairs. Mr Sarcastic (who i love to call, See Hum for some reason) and i were helping to pack and throw away some materials last week. Our method of packing and sorting the materials?

Just throw whatever we see into the bin.

Well, it turned out to be a rather effective method anyway because our material library downstairs was super filled to the max and there was absolutely no more space for unneccessary samples anyway, so we just threw majority of the stuff away.

The central air con on the 9th floor is in a crazy temperature of like, 20degrees or so from 9-6pm......... All of us are like penguins, pulling our jackets close to our bodies all the time and shivering. Well, i do that anyway. I dunno about the rest. I am actually contemplating bringing gloves down because my fingers are always frozen!

Anyway, today was another day where most of us stayed back late to finish up some work. The remaining troops who remained behind today are as follows: - Me, Gaz, See Hum, Dead Fish, Bao and another senior F who is a really sweet looking girl. It felt so much like how it was back at school rushing for some presentation the next day. We ordered Macs for our dinner and while munching into our chicken foldovers and burgers, Gaz was blasting his poddy at the other end of the office.

Then, this particular Malay song started playing and Gaz suddenly went in a deep tone, "Oh......! This is a malay song....... it is a very haunting song because it is about this girl who got killed when she was pregnant..... so she is asking the guy to return her what she had lost!"

So all 6 of us listened to the song very intently and F commented, "But how come got another guy singing also? And it sounds more romantic than scary le!"

So Gaz started explaining more about the song and dead fish suddenly looked at Bao who was slowly chewing her chicken foldover and he did this ridiculous Incredible Hulk impression and pretended to scare Bao with his hands over her head with a loud and sudden "RRrrrraaaaAAA!!"

Bao did a really funny scream and scared expression and her chicken nearly popped out of her foldover. Dead Fish seemed really proud of his scary incredible hulk impression and kept snickering and laughing out loud whenever he kept thinking of Bao's scared expression. See Hum then commented that Bao's Chicken Foldover nearly became a Chicken Flyover.

Anyway, i left a short while after my dinner to come home to catch America's Next Top Model. Wahahahaha........ Oh, and Lady called me today to tell me that a supplier wants to sue my ex boss for owing their company a HUGE sum of money! Retribution...........

There is another solution if you can't get an umbrella anywhere (they are like the best selling things now at the moment) or if you do not want to end up wearing an ugly see through poncho............

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S C O T C H G U A R D!!!

Repels rain and snow ok....................... Wahahhahaa........

It is always a bad idea to go to the gym when you are half sick.

When i got up at 12 noon yesterday, i decided to drag myself to the gym for combat class despite feeling a little weak. I thought it was just because i just recovered from my flu so it should be ok after my class..... I was so wrong.

I was super weak and i could hardly concentrate.... didnt manage to stay for the cool down because i thought i was going to throw up on the parquet floor any time. And it turned out that i was feeling worse than i intially felt in the morning... See lar, so gei kiang. My mum then told me that my dad told me not to exercise when im sick because it can cause a heart attack!! Wah...... so serious ah......

Anyway, think i will try to get an early night today..... since the weather is so good as well.... heh.

I think i have used up just about 3 tissue boxes, one whole packet of those packet tisses (those kind that old auntie and uncles sell at hawker centre) and one more at Ah Tong's house (when i went over for NY's eve) ever since i got my super bad cold. Maybe i should have used toilet roll instead.... to save the earth.

Anyway i have finally started work at where so many of my classmates are working!! There is a total of 9 designers in the company (including me) and almost half of them were from my class! There is Gaz, Bao, Mr Sarcastic and Dead Fish.... (who is only going to work till Feb because he is actually back on holiday) My first day was nothing much really, had a 9.30am meeting and i was later assigned to do some editing for some 3d perspectives using................ 3d studio max....... My Gosh. It has been almost a good 4 bloody years since i have touched that program and in school it was Version 3. Now it is something like Version 6 or 7.5!!

I was super stressed trying to recall everything i did back in school because those archives seem to be hiding somewhere in some dusty part of my brain. Time passes by really quickly when you are busy with work for some reason, and in my later half of the day, i think i only managed to draw something like 4 boxes.

Today was more productive, doing some crazy 3d extrusions in Autocad which made me nearly half blind and confused. All thanks to Mr Sarcastic's beautiful design. Haha....... Dead fish helped me quite a bit by helping me edit some vase and some pebbles which turned out really cute actually!

I have also been blowing my half stuck nose in the office, and i feel embarrased cause it can be quite quiet, and here i am, disrupting the peace in the office. So everytime i went to the toilet, i will try my best to relieve my blocked nose so that i will make minimal noise back in the office. Haha... and i dunno why everytime i join a company, they will be moving office?? I think we will be moving downstairs to the 9th floor sometime next week. I have moved office like..... twice last time.

Despite eating quite a lot of rubbish just now, i am feeling hungry now!!! Aaaahhh............ i think there is something wrong with me man.....

I am sooooooooooooooooo sick!!!! And this started from a silly dust/carpet allergy....... What a way to start year 2006!! HAhahahaa..... Have tissue paper permanently stuck in my nose so that i can breathe, or actually to stop myself from blowing my half blocked nose 24/7.

31st December 2005 Saturday
Birthday celebration and New year!!

Started the day by dragging my ass down to the gym for the 1.20pm Combat class, but i was late and by the time i changed to my gym clothes and ran to the classroom, they were already halfway through the warm up. Used some machines despite not really knowing how to use them and headed off to Wisma to change a new blouse that i bought. That stupid blouse was a brand new piece from the store and for some reason, i didnt check it properly and there was so much loose thread hanging out from the side!!! It was actually some excess threads but it looked really bad so i decided to go change a new one.

The 2 salesgirls at the shop weren't too friendly at first because i think they seemed frustrated that this 2 rich looking Indonesian tai tais were being extremely fussy with this particular blouse. The salesgirl started off in a rather rude tone and i got a little edgy because of that. She requested for my receipt and she didnt seem happy that i had bought the blouse from Bugis and i went to their Wisma outlet to change it. So after explaining to her that Bugis outlet had no more stock for that size and colour, she just nonchantly passed it to her supervisor. Who then asked me in a rather ah lian tone,

"These are just some loose threads......" then procceds to snip them off while i just stood there watching. "Why you never check your item before buying one??"

Wah......... dunno who is the customer lor. So rude.

"I checked but i somehow missed that part. Anyway, its brand new, i just bought it yesterday and the tags are still there! So what's the problem?!"

The salesgirl then reluctantly took out a new piece from their store, which turned out even worse!! The thread had come off at the top of the blouse!! I was flabbergastered and I then requested for another piece which was the display piece. That turned out the best so i insisted on that instead. I think the supervisor was still trying to get me to take back the original piece where she had snipped off most of the thread (but still can see le) and feeling a little pissed with the attitude, I commented,

"No! Im not taking back that piece! I will take this display one instead, its the best. Anyway, look at the quality of your clothes!! (points at the NEW piece) It's terrible!"

"Ya Ya ya.. i know..."

I think i can be a terrible and demanding customer if i want to. Just dont start off being rude to me ok. Otherwise i can be all sweet and nice. :D

Went home to rest a while before heading out to Tiong Bahru MRT to meet Ah Meow. Despite her telling me at 5pm (on MSN) that she was going off to get ready (we were meeting at 6.30pm), she was still about 10mins late! It turned out that she was changing dunno how many times because she could not get something to match her blouse! -__-

So we headed off to Admiralty MRT (a total of 16 stops from Tiong Bahru ok!) where we took a bus to Uncle A's house. It was his son's 5th Birthday party. The last time i went to a 5th Birthday party........ was my very own. Anyway, we met one of our ex collegues at the party, this sweet looking girl who was also our TP senior so we sat near the entrance most of the time chatting and eating. The birthday boy was decked out in full costume.... A king's costume with a red velvet cloak and sword. (plastic sword that kept coming out because he was very chor lor.) There was a huge Batman Birthday cake as well.... and it was a great party complete with good food, weird tasting and orange-d coloured Bandung drink (?!!), goody bags for kids and chocolates for adults. (which Ah Meow and i forgot to take btw)

The kids were playing "Pass the parcel" and "Simon says". My favourite game to watch was "Simon Says" because Ah Meow and i were super amused by how fast the kids dashed off to their parents to get the items, which included a men's belt (which came off some dad's pants and back to the host in a record time of 5 secs or less), 5 cents coin, brooch, socks and even the birthday boy's grandfather!! Ah Meow and i just sat at the corner laughing our heads off till it was time for us to leave at 9.30pm.

Met Ah Zai (who had just woken up) at Admiralty MRT to take the train down together to AMK to meet Miss What. After she picked us up, we headed straight to her bf's apartment in Siglap and hung out there, looking at her photos from her China trip, telling us how different parts of China can look so much like European countries. She looked like she really enjoyed her trip despite the -6 degrees temperature!! She also gave us souvenirs from China which was this really cute tiger toy and she bought me a hand made toy pony! Which is really well stitched and emboidered.

Started off Year 2006 by watching Before Sunrise (or is it Before Sunset??) and i got a dust allegry attack because i was lying down on the carpet for 80% of the time! It then became a full fledged cold and by the time i got home, i had a bad cold and sore throat. Dunno how come an allergy attack can evolve into a real flu. There was this hilarious line in the movie which went something like, "Dance/Shake (i cannot remember!) until your genitals drop off, and become an angel........." The 3 of us nearly died from laughter.

1st January 2006 Sunday
Sick sick sick!!!

Sent my brother to Suntec to buy his new school shoes and i could hardly breathe most of the time in the air conditioned place.... So i just sat on this bench gasping for air while he went in to the Adidas store. Bought dinner for my mum and him and went off to meet Mr Easy for dinner after sending my brother home. My cold became extremely terrible while driving and i had to either stick a tissue up my nose or hold a tissue to my nose while driving with the other hand all the way to Tampines. Picked him up there and headed to Changi Airport for Sakae Sushi dinner. I insisted on eating sushi because i knew that wasabi could have some possiblilty of curing my blocked nose. It helped for like....... 10mins?

Anyway, i think he has been like cooped up at home too much because he could not stop talking crap!! It started off when he asked me innocently,

"Do you still celebrate Christmas?"

"No......... I dont even celebrate Christmas...."

"Well that's funny, because i didnt know Roudolph was still in town!" (points at my sun-burnt looking nose and cheeks from blowing my nose for a few hours straight) and he starts chuckling to himself while i bashed my forehead into Sakae Sushi's glass panel.

I think if we don't squabble every time we meet, we can go and buy 4D already. During dinner, we squabbled on whether eel was a fish or not. And i wondered if a starfish........ is considered a fish. And later, i told him i want to ship him to the South Pole to stay with the penguins because he is too irritating. But he commented that he rather be with polar bears. After i came out from the toilet, he asked me in his most innocent voice again,

"What is the colour of the hair of a polar bear?"

"EEeerrr.... white?"

"No........ it is not! Guess!"

So after stating like every possible colour i know, he says that the hair of a polar bear is opaque. Or rather transparent. And it appears white only because of its huge size and the mass of it. He then proceeds on to ask another question,

"So what is the colour of the skin of a polar bear?"

"I dunno!! Black?!"

"Yes! You are right!"

Dunno why he want to start some discovery channel conversation with me also. But i nearly vommited blood during that conversation because of the way he asked those questions in such a bet-you-didnt-know-this air........ Speaking of air, he then made me sit outside in the unglam plastic chairs outside where we saw many SQ stewardesses and stewards waiting for cabs. I felt 10x better out in the fresh air so we people watched and thought about our next destination....... This chinese girl (who Mr Easy is convinced is a call girl) was crying in front of us and shortly afterwards, this Ang moh came out with his luggage and they were hugging and kissing for a really really long time in front of us!! Think the guy was just happy to "eat her tofu" only, because his hands were like....... all over her back.

Anyway, we decided to go to East Coast to hang out but we got lost in the T2 car park!!! Think i totally lost all sense of direction or any senses because of my stupid cold. Turned out that i parked my car at the other end of the airport. So clever.

We tried looking for a place to sit by the water, but the sand was wet and halfway through walking on the footpath, it started to rain!! So we headed for shelther at Coffee Bean and yakked there till about 1am when my mum called and asked me to go buy supper!! Dunno why my mum and brother hungry lor but anyway went to Simpang Bedok to get prata for them while Mr Easy was happily playing with my Patrick and Spongebob toys in the car.

I think i am high on Panadol cold medication because i feel half drowsy half high........ Now Susie is telling me to go boil Coke and put a little ginger in it to cure my cold. My gosh.... is that even........ drinkable?!!!! Will try it now while i go find out if a starfish is a fish.........