nEbO

I am now a nEbO member, totals!!! You know what it means, mostly? $6 movie tickets on weekdays, $8 on weekends! Okay, so I already have $6 movie tickets on all weekdays, but whatever, I'll save $2.50 per ticket on weekends! Hebattt!

We caught Hellboy 2: The Golden Army the other day. Fantastico! I didn't watch the first one, actually. But whatever I caught that day was great! Ohyeah we also watched Hancock, which was alright ajer cos I don't like the ending. Haha. I think they should have ended up together. Plus, I don't get why she dresses so trampy-hot just to go meet Hancock. ???

I'm becoming a regular at Coffee Bean E!Hub! Haha. Thank God we don't get fired for disloyalty. Sorry, my employer company, but their cakes are waaaay better, at a lower price too! Today it was the warm chocolate cake which was all that and more. Yummmm. But my all-time favourite is still the Homestyle Carrot Cake. Khai doesn't like it though, he can taste the cinnamon in it. I *heart* cinnamon. Anyway we're gonna try out all the cakes and decide which tastes best. Haha! Aku giler, and I'm so gonna meletup of fatness from my new alliance with CBTL.

Ohyes today was Commencement but it didn't start out so great because I didn't have breakfast, and you know I can't live without breakfast. When I finally approached the buffet, I only had a piece of cake and two breaded prawns. :P Bings. But it was great catching up with the rest of the Chem peeps again. Yes, Nat and I are in the minority, the rest are all guys!

Anyways. Yea that's it. Aku lapar. Goodbye.

Life's like that

Hanom and I met up with Dodol today. He is STILL the same! We had dinner at ZamZam, where Dodol and I had to finish half of Hanom's yummy murtabak. Then chilled at SB-BG.

Going out with Dodol reminds me of simpler times, days when I had nothing better to do than to while away my hours at BC, watching Alfie work. Nights lepaking at Starbuckses and the bazaar at Geylang. Going out at the drop of a hat.

Well, it was fun. But life's not like that anymore. Not for me.

Today I parked at Kampong Glam Cafe as usual and, like before, the pakciks were making lots of unwelcome noise at me. I ignored them. I hate them. They should sadar diri a bit.

LC workshop

Yesterday's LC workshop started off disastrously but turned out to be great. Juju and I did a coffee tasting of French Roast with caramel creams! WTH. Thank God no one was mean enough to jump up and scream, "You frauds! WHO does coffee tasting with sweets?"

Anyway, the thing is, I bumped into Mai!!! You remember Mai. Short, big eyes, cartoon voice? I had no idea she was a partner, and she's 23 months to my 21 months! I was wondering whether or not to tegur her at first, cos she didn't tegur me, but after a while we ended up in the same group so I nudged her and said, "I didn't know you were a partner!" and she was like, "But I told you that time what.."

Okay, maybe she did tell me, that time she was at my store with her friends. But I don't remember or something. Entah. Anyway, she's exactly the same but tembamer and she got rid of the Ben Adams hairstyle, thankfully. Haha. And she had to craziest funniest comments throughout the session.

The other people were nice too. Yep that was fun.

Siva!

I'm soooooooooo tired. I sliced my thumb on the clingfilm cutter just now, it was a crazy crowd from 9-1030! Please kill me! Kill me! Even after I turned off the lights, people still attempted to order drinks from me!

Oh but guess what. Across the road, at International Building, TCC is opening, and it's 24 hours! So I'm sure the crowd will naturally filter there. Then again, that site has undergone quite a few tenancy changes in the past 1.5 years I've been working in the area. So maybe it won't last. Well. Time will tell.

The true reason I'm blogging is because I bumped into Siva at work! Haha. I was sooooo surprised. He was with this non-RJ Malay guy, sitting outside, NOT smoking, thank God. Way too many people smoke these days. Anyway it was cool. He very nicely dropped back inside to say bye too. I remember bumping into him when I was working at Swensen's last time. What are the odds. So. It was funnay.

Updates

The family chalet was nice.

I booked the most private room, with a queen-size bed and its own balcony, on the second floor. Not that anyone else really wanted an upstairs room.

On the second and third day I managed to drag Khai along, so we cycled tandem on the second day, and went swimming [I used a float], Jacuzzi-ing and cycling [non-tandem] on the third day. Dayah came by on the second night, picked up Rayyan, and refused to put him down. While Hanom and Yoyo came on the third night for lontong [yums!] and Connect Four in my room.

Yey!

I'm so tired. Work is so tiring. I've never ever ended a shift feeling energised. Is all work like this?

Oh Dodol called me last night. Haha. I miss him. We should totally go out some time.

Shoutout to Ahmad and Amy [who were both wearing pink] who dropped by store just now. Sorry couldn't spend quality time with korang. Haha.

More where they came from

Woohoo!

 

Photos courtesy of Riszuan. Dayah's interested in the dude next to her. Haha!

The last remaining KR girls

WOOO!

Today I had a photoshoot with a bunch of other Kawasaki bikes at Labrador. At the same time, my beloved Khai was also around, less than 100 m away, so it was cool.

Dayah and I were the smallest bikes there, and together we formed about 67% of the female riders there too. Sedih. Anyways, takper. It was cool. And fun. Like when the photographer said, "Can the girls stand closer? Without looking like lesbians.." which just made me crack up and lose all focus. Haha.

Riszuan got some nice shots, because mostly he didn't pose for photographs, but I'm still waiting for him to send them to me, so I just have a few right now.

Labrador is still gorgeous, by the way. I will never forget the night Sean took me there, on my birthday. And it's beautiful every time I go back. Day or night.

There was this adorable little boy on a pedal-less bicycle. To help him balance, said his father. SO CUTE. He doesn't talk a lot, but he's still cute. Such a looker. At 2.5 years old. When he kept hovering around us, I asked him, "You want to sit on the bike?" and he quietly put his bicycle down and went up to Dayah, who was sitting on her bike. So she gamely picked him up and sat him on the fuel tank. He was so fascinated. SO ADORABLE, I could have died that minute.

Omg the other day I went blading with Khai. It was my first time and I just kept falling all over the place! I wanted to die of frustration and pain. The last stretch, when we were going back to return the skates, I fell HARD on my butt twice! There's a gargantuan bruise there. Yowch.

Also, another photo of Rayyan.

Dil giler!

Dil organised a Chem outing, and Nat and I were both excited. We arrived at Arab Street at about the same time, expecting to see the usual suspects, Amy, Shah and Ahmad.

WE WERE WRONG.

It was the other Chem clan! Saad, Khairil, Azlan, and of course Alfian and Fizaa. Haha. So funny! Anyways we hung out at Amirah's Grill at the other end of Arab Street [that's what I call it, figure it out yourself] in one of the Cosy Corners or whatever it's called, and ate, KTVed without mikes and watched music videos, some of which were highly international.

Some of us sheesha-ed. And got high. Bahaha.

SO FUN! We gots to do it again!

Life after exams

I've been working for the past three days, it's like.. indescribable. No, I mean, before I get to work, I feel so reluctant to wake up, shower, and get my ass to work. But once I'm there, everything seems to fall into place, and it becomes quite fun in the end. Then I'm reluctant to go home after work. Vicious cycle, that one.

I've been having stupid dreams involving people and things I DON'T wish to be thinking about, let alone dreaming about. But I have no idea why they creep into my dreams anyway.

Yesterday I popped by the Lime Flea Market especially to look for AGL. I adore AGL. Loves their clothes. There were quite a few things I wanted to buy, but you know, tight budget, so I got a nice kimono top, and also a translucent top from another stall. Kesian guys at flea markets, there's not really ANYTHING for them to look at. Guys' things just don't appear at flea markets somehow.

Attachment at Wisma just now. Attachments get me nervous because I don't know most of the people there. I'm shy, remember? No one believes that, of course. But it was relatively okay. It wasn't crazy busy, but even though it's fully air-conditioned, I found myself sweating a fair few times. BODOH. But quite fun la, there are some nice people there and at least I had Zain as well.

Today I happily horned at some light gold Cefiro that cut into my lane. Wahhaaaa!

Feeling hothothot

It was another of those terik-ly hot days, so we impromptu-ly decided to go to Wild Wild Wet. I KNOW, right? I haven't been there in only two to three years.

But it was fun. We went on all the rides except the stupid bicycle thing, and I skipped the purple/yellow slides cos I hate falling ungraciously into the water and swallowing copious amounts of it in the process. But we went on everything else at least twice, it was really cool. Hot sun and cool water really are a good match.

Funfunfun! And I can't wait to play board games at nEBo soon!

Sayang MadMike!

Okay, Changi Exhibition Centre is like, the most gorgeous place in Singapore.

Riding there, I was stunned at the clear unobstructed view of the laut and Pulau Tekong; the straight road that stretched endlessly; the trees that lined both sides. I felt like I'd been transported out of Singapore back to Perth because the colours were just different. Well, except for the fact that I was sweating crazily, of course.

I was still sick from the Seram Sejuk Virus, so I didn't really have a good time of it. But it was so bloody cool, I have to say. The crowd [and my] favourite was MadMike, who was driving a really hot white RX-7. He's from New Zealand and when I watched the last few drifts I realised how he got his name.

He was, by far, the only driver who consistently tried to cut off the leading driver. And he must have succeeded some three out of five times? The last few times were crazily dangerous. He langgared the other car, causing it to damage its parts, and consequently forfeit the second run. So yes, he's Mad.

But he's also like bloody cool, and I don't care if he's mad, he should have won. Haha. He's also one of the cutest drivers on the track! All that blond hair! Adorable!

There's a nice one of his ride. Anyways I don't have any great drifting action captured, because I didn't bring any hebat camera other than my phone, so too bad!

Seram Sejuk Virus

In slightly more than 12 hours, I'll be parking my bike at Changi and parking my ass at the grandstand seats to watch Formula Drift! *excited giler babi*

Unfortch, here to rain on my parade is the Seram Sejuk Virus, which, as its name suggests, gives me chills and aches and stupid nightmares for e.g. someone breaking my lock down at True Yoga. Side effects include scarily painful jolts, when I stretch my neck to the left or accidentally knead the right side of my neck.

But NOTHING will keep me away from CEC! Just watch me.

I love The Sims

That's my new nephew, if you haven't already guessed. Maybe I'm not experienced with kids or whatever, but he doesn't seem to cry a lot. Or maybe I'm just deaf. Entah! Haha.

How's studying going? Mine's progressing very very slowly. I might be ready for exams in about a month. Unfortch, I don't have the luxury of a month, do I?

Today I wasted half the day watching TV, eating and playing The Sims 2 Pets on PSP. My very-cooperative boyfriend lent the PSP to me, because aku kemaruk Sims. I love them! I used to waste my life playing The Sims back when the PC was working, and I'd even tahan kencing so as to be able to continue playing without pausing the game. Hehe. It's so bloody addictive, I have no idea why.

Now I wish I was going public again, so I can spend more time playing on buses/trains.

I've been missing loads of Boxing, I sincerely believe I'm going to die when I finally drag my ass back there.

Saturday as usual

Reopening of the store today. It was busy, but that wasn't the problem. There were lots of jams around the bar/frap/handoff area. It really didn't matter if you were fat or thin, because you'd still get in each other's way. Aircon decided to break down around ten-ish, and the steam wand sensors both happily broke down too!

A couple of cakes were given to inconsiderate people. I will never be satisfied by such people's usage and abuse of other people's kindness.

Essential Dance was great! I wish she hadn't changed the song, though. I liked the J.Lo better, plus it was half a beat slower.

It's a boy!

I am officially an aunt now, thank you very much. His name is Md Ryan Ma(r)tin, however you spell it. White like a cheena! Haha. Very cute, like most babies are. Photos soon, but just a short update in case people e.g. Shafa think I'm dead.

Tomorrow never comes until it's too late.

Today I hung out with the Chem boys [Alfian, Azlan, Naufal] at the Milo truck after lecture and among other topics, we talked about tunang, marriage and the future. It was weird, but fun! Haha.

Oh I watched Step Up 2 The Streets the other night, did I mention? It's fantastico. And I can't wait till Cathay DE opens so I don't have to travel so far just to watch a movie. Well, technically I don't travel to watch the movie, I'm usually already there, but STILL. At least I won't have to travel home. Cos I'd be home! Practically. 

No more lab reports for the week so I'm FREE on Sunday! I think I'll book a class. Yey!

Oooh ooh. Okay I love love love the HK cafe at Simpang Bedok! It's hebat! I'm not generally a fan of HK food or anything, but really really the food and prices rock. The service is great, and they have two TVs, with TV3, no less! They play Warna or Ria, I can't remember, and they have a packet of tissues for your use, as well as free-flow chilli padi and chilli jeruk and whatever chilli you can think of. We started off with a bowl of noodles each and ended up ordering one side after another just because it was all so goooooooooood.

I can't wait to go back, I really can't.

You'll be at my graveside

We had another gamelan test today, and I happily finished first cos anyway Atikk's crush was sitting next to me, so distracting. I had to get out of there. After that I went to check out the KR thread after 83749824 years of signing up, haha! I was basically looking for more evidence, which I eventually found.

Anyways. After that I went to CDC for circuit revision. It was SO BAD because it just wouldn't stop raining! And omg Bahawdin loves to kacau me! When he came in [I'd seen him outside earlier with some road training people], he claimed that the way aku bawak motor is scary. He further accused me of blow-blowing, and making eyes at him! I DIED. Then he told Raime, and Raime was like, "Wah, really ah? Your KR what colour?" in front of SEMUA ORANG! Sungguh embarrassing. And this Bahawdin just wouldn't let it go, he continued to torment me until he finally had to take a lesson.

I felt like I was in primary school all over again.

PLUS, it rained like nobody's business! I have found out that my beloved Aeroblade [which all the instructors have, hehe!] is not infallible after all. Sedih. My matching red-and-white Vans were soaked to the core. They became 1.5 times as heavy by the time I got home. The E-brake area was a paddy field, and the first few times I just bypassed the bumpy course altogether. But Alhamdulillah, I did not fall. I came close though.

And BP asked me, "What bike you ride? Oh KR ah? Wah so fierce! Then ride KR how come scared to go bumpy course?" HAHA. He's so cute.

I SO wanted to go for a class today but the rain and all.. I mean, why risk my life to lose maybe 30 grams? Haha. So I stayed home and slept. Tomorrow I'll be going. Yey! I know this costs me a hundred and fifty buckeroos each month, but it's SO FUN! My body's already aching gloriously from yesterday's boxing. MORE PLEASE!

Until the break of dawn

Today it was raining like balls again. But I rushed to store anyway, cos I had this stupid theory that it might get heavier [it didn't]. I also thought I'd be relatively dry in full raingear. I was wrong. Along Commonwealth or thereabouts, I was in the second lane going pretty slowly behind a Z4. There was another car next to me in the first lane. SUDDENLY, I got splashed BIG-TIME by the car next to me!

I'm not talking the kiddy-splash around your legs there, this one splashed me right in my face [well, the visor anyway], and my whole entire body got drenched. I was blinded for a full second because I couldn't see through the water splashed on my visor. I am a slow-reacter, so when I could see again, I screamed. EEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Of course, no one could hear me. I prolly looked crazy, with my mouth wide open aje. The driver of the car macam, glanced at me worriedly, prolly thinking I was gonna blame him, but I understand that he didn't know about the enormity of that puddle. Anyways he wasn't even speeding, we were going at the same speed. So. It's okay, Uncle!

Also, really glad I wasn't following the Beemer too close, cos can you imagine if during that one second of blindness, I'd crashed into him? There'd be hell to pay. Literally.

 

Well. Enough of that. At store, I was doing some work before my class started. It started raining heavily again, so this little boy and his mother and younger brother shared the table with me. I didn't mind, cos the boy [he's six] was so cute, he was asking about my camera necklace [a real talking point, that one], and demonstrating the properties of the strong magnets he was playing with. SO ADORABLE. In between layaning him, I chatted to his mother about Singapore and how they're settling in here.

WHY does my best CDR have to happen when I'm NOT on shift?

 

I went for boxing with Hanom, our first time and OMG, it was murder, murder I tell you! I wanted to run out like halfway through the workout. I felt like I was doing hellish P.E. all over again. But afterwards I felt satisfyingly worn out. Yey! Kalau aku smangat maybe I'll try it again next week. I like May even though she's a sadist. Haha. She said, "Do come regularly so I can torture you again.."

I bought a Ferrari today!

Woohoo! I'm trying out the Windows Live Writer, it looks fun.

 

Anyways I was isi-ing minyak just now, it came up to more than twenty bucks balls! [That's cos I let it run to reserve and stuff, but STILL! I'm totally considering switching to 95 now.] Well there weren't too many people inside, so I took the opportunity to press the "Engine Sound" button on the Ferrari display. And the auntie smiled and said, "You want to buy?" so I said, "I where got pump so much fuel!"

She told me that the guy who went before me qualified for the offer, but dier tanak beli the car, so I could buy it as his privilege. Of course, I said yes! I got myself the 575 GTC for $5.95. So cute! Totally in a good mood, and I didn't have to waste fifty bucks after all!

At work on Friday, there was this man who ordered a brewed coffee from Diana. She was R1 and I was running R2. Aleh-aleh the man shouted, "Yah, I want milk and sugar! Put everything! Everything!" I was a bit spooked out, but I decided that he's just some excited new customer, first time try Starbucks [that's what he said].

Si Diana giler, malas nak layan, just added milk and instructed him, "You walk straight, turn to the right, the sugar is there. Brown sugar, white sugar, Sweet 'N Low, all have."

I wanted to laugh but I was still in shock from his loudhailer voice.

Fifteen minutes later, from a table where he was sitting alone, Loudhailer shouted a collection of prose filled with angry profanities, mostly directed at.. ENTAH? We all stared in shock. But I dunno, being Singaporeans, we ignored him.

Suddenly he shut up and calm prevailed.

But later he started up again! Something about "don't be racist, we all walk side-by-side, fuck you!" if I remember correctly. Zul called in Security while the American dude who was waiting for his coffee commented that he'd never seen such antics in Singapore before. I was like, "Yeah, it's my first time." He laughed and said, "It happens every day in New York!"

Well, I wouldn't survive in New York then. Excuse me for living but I like my peace and quiet.




Oh I was going home that night and I stopped at the traffic light in front of Lido. There was a small Pooh bear lying on the road. So I put the sidestand down, got off, picked it up, and stuffed it into the bubble. It's like having a riding companion. I'm just gonna leave it there. Wonder how long it'll be before it's gone.