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.........