was running errands that day when i saw an ad that gave the website for the disabled:

theseabledpeople.org.sg

for a while there, i read it as:

the-sea-bled-people.org.sg

yes, i'm retarded... -_-

cab companies should all charge the same (LOW) fares...so that passengers (like me!) do not have to thinkthinkthink about the charges when we hail a cab!

i'm a comfort cabber...don't know why...but the blue comfort cabs just seem more...comfortable? and cheaper...(yes i know it may sound stupid, but it's just the same as me choosing to use nokia phones over motorolas, nikes over reeboks, crumplers over deuters...)

anyways...i got into a citycab today...at 11.38pm. i thought i was being clever - not that i had a choice since the cab was in the front of the queue and i didn't want to be a bitch and walk past it to get to the comfort cab - but yeah...i thought i was being clever, coz i remembered that citycabs charge only 30% more from midnight to 0030hrs...and i thought i'd be saving some money IF my cab ride lasted more than 22minutes.

nasty shock it was that i got, when the cab started and i saw A RED in the box where the extra charges normally appear.

horrors of horrors!!! i forgot that, while citycab only starts charging the full midnight charge from 0030hrs, they begin extra charges at 2330 hours!!! 10% more than the metered fare will be added to your final bill, if you take a citycab from between 2330hrs to midnight...

i was devastated (ok, not THAT drama mama..but i was thinking of all the sweets, and mcdonald's ice creams, and cheap ball-point pens, and surprise chocolates i could have bought with that 10% =/ )

i spent the entire cab ride staring in envy at comfort cabbers (and there were PLENTY of them around...zooming past me, MOCKING me!!!)

it was quite a pleasant ride though, and the cabbie drove pretty fast so i got home in no time (i.e. BEFORE midnight)...plus he's quite nice and took 10cents off my fare so that it'd be a nice round $9 (would have been $8 in a comfort *grumble mumble* )...haha

ah well..at least i had a nice cabbie who wished me "a good night ahead" =)

sometimes, as i lie here in the middle of the night, i wonder...if i'm even loved.

sometimes, i feel so alone, like nobody bothers, and the ones i love don't give a damn.

sometimes, everything seems so empty, so cold.

sometimes, i hate living.

sometimes, i hate loving.

i detest girls who act all uppity and who look down their noses at me like i'm the filthiest vermin on earth when i've done absolutely nothing to deserve it.

just coz you're richer than me doesn't give you the right to treat me like i'm invisible.

what's the point of having all that money if you don't even have basic manners?

i am healthy and chao-dah! coz i went SWIMMING today!!! wooohoooooo

in a desperate attempt to burn off our CNY fats, ah hock and i went for a swim & a tan at SICC...he TU-ed and was late (haha what's new) but a bus ride later, we were finally in thomson (and i finally learnt how to spell thomson...i always thought there was a "p" in it...as in thompson...or tompson....it just never looks right).......

today was super duper hot and i thought we were gonna get sunstroke mid-way through walking in to SICC...figure i burnt off 10 bah kwas and 20 love letters on that 2km walk in the sweltering heat...we took an extra long time as we were distracted by a family of curious monkeys prancing around the edge of the not-very-mighty jungle...being typical city-turtles on an excursion to the great outdoors, we did the tourist and took photos (look below if you've never seen a monkey)...


it was prata (yeah...i think we packed on more fats than we lost...) at the roti prata house after our swim...and it was SHIOK!!!!!! one of the best pratas i've ever had...my mushroom-egg prata was divine and so was hock's mutton murtabak...the plain prata was nice and crispy, the teh tarik was made to perfection and the chicken curry was mmmmmmmm *drooool* all thanks to ian who introduced the place to me =)

all tired now after that busy top-half of the day...shall spend the rest of today stoning in my room, out of the blazing sun...i salute the guy who invented the AC...don't know what life would be like without it.....

i smell dinner...mmmmmmm *drooool* haha man, i'm such a pig *oink*

the roti prata house...recommended by ME

thumbs up! a full ah hock is a happy ah hock

the pratas here get my stamp of approval!

one of the monkeys we met en route to SICC

i think i've watched the citigems ad a MILLION times these few days...especially yesterday when i was stuck on the bus...HIGHLY overplayed...like, once every THREE ads or something...

yes it's kinda sweet...a typical feel-good mini-story using the closeness of two (very rich) friends to showcase jewellery...but it's really a case of ad overdose...fiona xie's er..."acting" seemed to get worse the more times i hear that song herald the start of yet another repeat during my usual monday ass-aching ride on bus 66...

speaking of jewellery, just found out that my dear girl xiaoting is engaged!!!!!! (with a nicenice self-chosen rock on her finger) haha CONGRATS!!!!!!

i've been lazy *hangs head in shame* haha

been all caught up with bai nian-ing, having sumptious meals (and growing very fat), collecting meagre amounts of angpows, carrying mandarins around (very mah fan coz mandarins don't fit in my little bag), catching up with family and friends, getting very little sleep, playing stupid online games like insanaquarium and bookworm and racing frogs, etc etc etc...

i've been a very busy girl indeed

had a scrumptious seafood dinner last night at "no signboard" seafood restaurant in west coast (so bloody far)...22 of us...it was great...food wasn't exactly first class, but it was sufficient and i thought the crabs and prawns were quite finger-lickin' good! (wah but the "muntou" was pathetic..haha)

it has been a non-stop foodfest - steamboat reunion dinner (i drank WAY too much soup, ate way too much rice, and went for prata with xiang after that muahaha), huge lunches and dinners at my uncles' and aunts', last night's seafood dinner, too many suppers, and all-day goodie-munching...

i think i'm 5kg heavier...and chinese new year isn't even over yet......... =/


woke up at 6am today...been a long time since i wake to that part of the day (fall asleep at that time more often than not!)...my 4 hours of sleep caused me to nodnodnod on the mrt to bishan to meet xiang, on the mrt back home, on the bus to swim coaching, and on the bus back home...i think i spent about 5 and a half hours catnapping on public transport today...

what a valentine's day it has been haha

i don't really celebrate valentine's...but it annoys me to see how other girls get special treatment on this day while i don't...grrr i shall console myself by saying that i get special treatment every day OTHER than on valentine's...hrmph sour grapes haha

ah well..i guess i'm not the sorta girl who expects flowers and nicely-wrapped presents...though it would be nice to get some someday (but not on valentine's..coz they are all so ridiculously priced..xiao!)... and feel appreciated and loved...yeahyeah i know they are all material goods, but sometimes, it just seems more...THERE...no need to be expensive...but just something that means something...or just the basic action of treating me extra nice...and being sincere about it...

ahhh the little things that make me happy...

and no, i'm not complaining...coz i had a great day today...i'm glad i got to spend morning with xiang, lunch with my mum (though jack's place's steak sucks), afternoon with kentaro and the ah nehs on bus 66, evening with my family and phonecalls from friends, and night with my SK II mask (yes, finally got it!), handphone and my trusty laptop...

i should sleep soon...i am tired...

but there is a bloody mosquito in my room...and it's a vampire - it's been sucking blood from my NECK!!! RRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! i bet there are two of them and they are having a valentine's day outing and i am their appetizer (neck), main course (torso) and dessert (legs).

RAH!

happy valentine's day everyone! *muackz* =)

DONG DONG DONG QIANG! DONG DONG DONG QIANG!

*lights firecrackers*

i'm in a ching chong mood tonight...i'd be blogging in chinese if not for the fact that i don't have chinese software installed on my laptop!

it's the eve of chinese new year and i'm so looking forward to reunion dinner...mmm YUMMY!!! think i'm gonna have steamboat this year...*drool* can't wait......hope there'll be loads of mushroom and tung hoon and shabu shabu meat...

haven't got many new clothes this year (sighz...i wish i can go over to melbourne for a shopping spree!!!) i guess the importance of wearing new clothes every new year has diminished as i grow older...doesn't make a big difference to me...the babes were talking about getting red underwear for CNY, and i'd love to have red underwear..but can't be bothered to shop for them...wish bonds made red underwear......haha

just changed my bedsheets - for some strange reason, it put me in a very gongxigongxi mood...and i'm seriously craving for love letters...but i've already brushed my teeth....am trying..trying...trying very hard to resist temptation........*holds self back*

oh! and i got my first angpow for the year!!!!!! haha went coaching this afternoon and kentaro's mum told me to keep the change when she paid fees...she said in a very cute jappy way: "no need give back money...you keep...for angpow" haha it's nice to see foreigners embrace chinese culture... =)

to one and all, may the rooster bring you lotsa blessings for the new year...and may you all wake up at cock's crow from this day forth... haha goodluck on the angpow collection...remember must care and share (with me!)

xing nian kuai le!!!!!!

ever had one of those days when nothing you do seem to be right?

i was the perpetual "miss wrong" yesterday - wasn't thinking straight, my brain wasn't working much, and when it did work, it was a bloody slowcoach.

every decision i made was screwed up. and it was no use defending myself coz it just got me more upset and got him more irritated.

all i wanted was a nice, blissful day spent together. A R G H !!!

there are spies EVERYWHERE!!!

scuttling around in my laptop like a million pesky cockroaches...URGH!!!!!!

i'm probably damn slow or something, but umer just introduced me to mozilla firefox......i am eternally grateful.

i can finally check my hotmail and yahoo mail on my laptop again and i no longer have retarded popups screwing everything up.

internet explorer can just hang up it's boots and go home.

still need to reformat my lappie though.....sighz...doesn't seem like it was too long ago when i last reformatted it...grrr what a hassle!!!!

i hate bloody spywares and all those nonsenses!!! RAAAAAAH!!!!!!


* disclaimer: NO, i did not surf porn. muahaha

i wish stupid people with big mouths and no lives will shut up and quit making my friends sad

I like to think that I’ve grown
That gossips can’t touch me
And people can’t hurt me

I like to think that I am above
What other people say
And that I don’t give a damn

But the mouth is mightier than the sword
And the things they say
Do cut me deep

Retelling tales from ancient years
When I was less bright
And more bright-eyed

Skewed versions of stories past
How come I don’t remember them
The way you do?

Of things gone by
Of mistakes made
Why can’t people let them go?

I have grown
And put them all behind me
And at least I’ve learnt

Why do you still remain stuck in the rut
Ploughing on even after
The dust has settled.

everyone around me smokes...well, nearly everyone...

why? why? is it me?!?!!?!?!? do i terrorize you all so much that you have to turn to nicotine for comfort!?

NO LAMBIE!!! not you toooooo!!

minmin turned 23 on sunday...and we celebrated her birthday at marmalade pantry on saturday evening...


yummy food - mmm my shiok salmon, her shiok steak, the graces' shiok foie gras...

refused-to-come food - poor ah hock & ah huat's linguine was forever "on the way" and we had to cancel it in the end! but we got a discount coz of it...so all's good haha...

a rich chocolate cake...

a lambie handover...

we made xiaoqing very happy by squeezing all 6 of us girlies in - netty in front with wenwei... debra, the graces, feng and i in the back! (special mention to the car of very hilarious guys who were driving next to us for awhile, giving us looks of amazement, thumbs-up and sharing laughters aplenty)...

a wasted trip to breeze - coz they were by-reservations-only that night...

and chilling at indochine - before some of the babes headed to zouk, and colin & i went to ah hock's to stone...minmin, wenwei & grace chua stayed on with some friends...


photos galore...here's a glimpse...HAPPY BIRTHDAY MINMIN!!!!!!!!! *muackz*

happy birthday darling!!!!!!! =)

mmmm caaakkkkeeee.....

gracie officially hands lambie over to wenwei...for lambie's first overseas trip without mum...ahh KIDs do grow up quick...

my darling bdae babe looking so pretty

all 5 of us nice & cosy in xiaoqing's backseat...

my pimps & i @ indochine's forbidden city event...

crystal jade la mian xiao long bao's xiao long bao is so yummy i can't get enough of it.

and it's officially yummier than din tai fung's (that's why crystal jade puts it on it's signboard and din tai fung's not named din tai fung xiao long bao)

mmm the melt-in-your-mouth skin, the fragrant meat, the delicious soup that floods your mouth........ORGASMIC!!!!!!

glenn's quote of the day:

"once it goes dark, there is just no light"

going public today brought about many blog-worthy incidents:

1. i'd thought that non-aircon buses are a thing of the past..but i obviously thought wrong.

just as i needed a wintery bus, one of these ancient box-on-wheels came rumbling towards me in the sweltering heat, basking in the glorious sunshine, gleefully torturing it's occupants.

the sight of the bus alone was enough to induce buckets of perspiration.


2. switching to the mrt after that sweat-trickling-down-my-back, wind-mess-up-my-hair ride on the bus, it was only natural that i ran into inconsiderate singaporeans.

as if i wasn't annoyed enough.

i was carrying a huge bag (going swim coaching, needed to bring kickboard for this session) and decided that i should sit down so that i could hide the bag under the seat so it wouldn't get in other people's way...and also coz i's tired, of course...

there was only one seat left in my carriage - a teeny tiny one between a slim woman who somehow managed to take up quite some space, and a normal-sized guy in very blue jeans who looked like he's going through a mid-life crisis, and was sitting with his legs WIDE OPEN.

i stowed my bag away nicely, and tried to glamourously slide into the seat. not only did the man not move his bloody legs, he stared at me like i was disturbing his peaceful journey.

i settled in, with difficulty..edging towards the woman as three-quarters of the man's leg stayed in my territory. i was itching to slap it.

a few minutes later, he moved...but only to lean his body closer to me, and to open his legs even wider (what's up with that?!?!?! dick so big you can't sit with your legs closed?!)

a few stops later, i realized that he was in for the long haul, and my tutting and book-slamming wasn't going to get him to close his legs...so...

i took incriminating photos (look below)...then i said:

"excuse me, do you mind?"....... though not loudly enough to embarrass him (damn!)...


3. so, i finally got his leg away from mine...and i was sitting silently, minding my own business, reading my book...when an elbow comes flying in my face, stopping just millimetres away from my delicate cheekbone.

the lady sitting beside me took her time rummaging through her handbag, totally obliviously to the danger she was posing to my vulnerable face.

that elbow came close. really close. and i came close to swatting at it. hard.

bloody bugger......

he finally moves after my "excuse me, do you mind?!" grrrrrrrrrrrr