4BIA

Khai and I watched 4BIA yesterday with my two free GV tickets. Hehe. It's fucking scary, is what it is. The first story consists of one word of spoken dialogue, and it will make you never want to respond to unknown numbers messaging you, "Hi boleh berkenalan?" again. The second one was just plain gory. The third one is hilarious. Like, really funny jokes and stuff. Consists of four cute Thai guys. But in the midst of the hilarity, it's super scary.

By the third one, I was closing my eyes except for daytime scenes, or to read the subtitles.

Also, I finally found Victoria Jomo and I got an adorable necklace featuring a guy riding a bike with a sidecar. Too cute! I wanted to get the lunchbox but I couldn't afford it, sedih.

I'm a bitch

Today was my second and final visit to CBTL for at least a month, since Ramadhan is fast approaching. I had a Banana Chocolate Ice Blended this time, but I prefer Malibu Dream any day. It was an even more gorgeous day than the last one, and I finished my book all too soon. I lingered for a while, starting the book from the top, but then this matrip-minahrep couple came along, sat at the other end, and started smoking. I turned to glare at them and the minah glared right back at me. So I got annoyed [and infinitesimally afraid], packed up, and left, but not without informing the barista that "there's a couple outside smoking".

Obviously, having been in the same position before, I know that whatever I said might not have had any effect at all. But it's nice to know I tried.

I told Dayah this little anecdote when I met her later, and she exclaimed without preamble, "You're a bitch!"

Haha. And proud of it, babe.

Fuel prices drop!

I'm so happy, 98 is back to less than two bucks a litre! I've giddily skipped back to 98, and to celebrate, I bought one of those adorable Coca-Cola miniature collectibles. Hehe! It's too cute! I had to get it.

I am, by the way, exhausted beyond belief. It was a slow day at work, but I guess the pressure of being there to guide all the attachment partners got to me. I kinda scampered around doing everything, afraid to tell them what to do, and afraid they'd do it wrong. And maybe the all-day-rain made my tulang reput or something.

YZ gave me short shifts for the rest of the week. There's no way I'll be able to match last month's pay now. =(

Remember Me?

I finally got a chance to pop over to CBTL-DTE for some luxurious reading time. I bought Remember Me? the other day and I haven't allowed myself to read it since, cos I was saving it for CBTL. Lame, I know, but it's a different experience reading it under the sun with a Malibu Dream next to you, as opposed to on your messy bed in your cramped room.

Well, it was my first time, and let me tell you, it was great. It's a nice view, plus it was a beautiful day, so I just sat in a corner and got lost in Lexi Smart's life. Reading: the original hobby.

I haven't finished the book yet, because Khai showed up, but it's cool, I'll save it for my next session. Yey!

Baju Raya!!!

Khai and I went to Geylang today. To hunt a baju raya for me. My mom told me to get a ready-made, but no First Lady for me, thanks. I didn't even step into that overhyped place. [I did love First Lady once. But it's become too common, I guess.] We went to the second floor and walked around.

There was this late-twenties mat who was with his family at one of the shops and he just kept staring at Khai and I as we walked past. Khai was all ready to beat him up. BOYS.

Anyways.

I actually made my rounds twice. Tried on this lace-kimono-cut thing which cost $200 and made me look fatter than I really am. SAD. So I went back to Yasmin and got myself fitted for a baju kurung for one dollar less. Hehe. That's actually $49 more than the amount my mom allocated to me. PLUS, it's not ready-made, haha. But it's exciting, it's modest, and I hope it turns out great.

The lady asked me if I was making the baju alone, i.e. wasn't Khai getting one too? But Khai will be spending most of Syawal in Australia, AGAIN. So we won't get to spend Raya together, AGAIN. So, no point getting matching outfits.

However, we do have outfits that happen to match, so I'm trying to convince him to go out with me for a couple of hours, pretend we're going jalan raya, but actually not. Haha. Yes aku giler I know.

We had lunch at Delifrance BV, because we just HAD to get out of the infested place that was Geylang Serai, and then dessert at Ice Cream Chefs, finally! It's such a nice, cosy place. Loves it! We are so going back, espesh since we now know they have free private parking.

And I just got back from Shafa's place, MAN is it far away or what? But it was a nice looooooooooong ride back la. I just forgot how far away that part of Singapore is. My right foot almost got semut-semut due to lack of movement for so long. Clear roads all the way back home. Gorgeous.

DblO

Yesterday I borrowed the car again and we hit DblO. Haha. It was my third consecutive week, how embarrassing, I hope the bouncers don't remember me or anything like that.

We = Khai, Shafa, Fir, An, Gegerl, Arep, and two of An's friends from CD or whatever.

Yes I still don't know his girlfriend's name.

Bumped into Zeek outside. Hehe. Apparently he told Shafa he prefers to be called "Zali". Well, remind me to ask Nat his real name.

It was fun, but some of us were tired, and somehow, last night was more crowded than usual. And the guys outnumbered the girls by so many! Incredible.

We were gonna go for supper, but no one was hungry cos we'd drunk so many Big Gulps. So we sent Shafa and Fir home.

Loves having the car, but it's so leceh parking and stuff.

Updates!

It's been a great weekend cos my pay was more than expected. Insya-Allah I'll be able to pay off next year's insurance, inspection and road tax comfortably.

In the meantime, I got Sophie Kinsella's latest, plus a new pair of jellies from River Island, plus four new Topshop undies yey!

We've been eating lots, too. Delifrance at Bugis Village is a really nice place.

I was looking for Peepshow at HMV but I didn't find it. Well, maybe it'll be at the Heeren one. Next month.

Matrip.

94275064.

Busy busy busy bee.

I've been working almost every day except weekends, and it's been fun.

Chevrons

Camaraderie: friendship and thrust within people. - from a real-life comprehension exercise

Wrong in so many ways.

Anyway I had my chalet for the past 60 hours. It was great! Thanks for coming, the invited!

Thanks to Dan for doing most of the BBQing.
Thanks to Hanom and Yoyo [a.k.a. JoJo] for buying snacks no one ate. Haha.
Thanks to A'an and guest for bringing cards.
Thanks to Baba for updating me on informasi terkini, and Hirman for coming along.
Thanks to Atikk for the Bau-Eh song in fifteen different genres.
And thanks to Dayah for the marshmallows.

Thanks to my beloved for ikuting my every perintah while I basically sat around like a princess.

Hope you all had as much fun as I did! It was fantastico! [A far cry from my two previous chalets.] We have to do it again next year, insya-Allah.

The Chevrons is a great place to have a nice, private chalet. The only problem is the non-view. But everything else is perfect. Free aircon, free phone calls, free parking, free mosquito coils! Gorgeous pool, sheltered pit! Too bad there was a Chinese wedding reception next door, which meant Ah-Lians squealing outside and drinking.

Okay, I'm off! We extended the car rental another day. Hehe! But now we have nowhere to go.

"The night is darkest just before the dawn"

Yesterday I was one of the first few people in Pasir Ris to legally watch The Dark Knight. It was great! Intense and dark and painful, etc. The scars on Joker's face are eeewww. And he never told the real story behind the scars. Just many different versions. Oh, it's a really long movie, by the way. At least two hours long. So be prepared.

We tried the fare at the cafe and it's not bad. They're generous with the amount of cheese given, and the cheese is yummy too!

Plus I learnt that XL is not my popcorn size.

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!