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Dancing in Singapore - 20 - 22April 2007

2007-04-16T16:00:00.000+08:00

After what seems like eternity - the long wait to watch Phantom in Singapore ( Diana booked the tickets in Jan ), finally i'm heading down south this Friday, 20th April 2007.

The last time i stepped into the Republic was last year. A trip down Singapore is always for me to run-away, when there's a crisis. Then it was my 27th birthday. hah! This year,surprisingly,there's nothing to run-away from.

The group heading down this time : Evie, Terny, Jessey, Jo, Alvin and Hui Tsin.
I'll be taking a day off on Friday, and heading down with Evie & Terny in the morning. Whilst the rest will try. ( they said they will ) to knock off from work at 6pm.

I'm trying to sort some personal stuff out in the afternoon. Try to meet up with Aunty Yvonne, to finalise some communication materials for her company and try to meet up with some headhunters.

Slow & easy Friday
9-ish : Timber ( Life band - i been hearing they play excellent Bon Jovi cover! so i must pop in) Option after Timber : MOS (studio 54) or Velvet.
This depends on car 2. If the rest are too tired, we might not club.

Music packed Saturday
2pm : Phantom ( YEAY!)
6pm : Cafe Del Mar ( i heard that sunset's the best time to be there ). After that it'll be St James Power station at night.

German beer and sausages galore Sunday
Brunch at a German place. I think it's a Pauliner place. It's sausages galore and Pauliners before we head home. YUMMY!!

I can't wait to catch up with the Diana, Karen & Adrian C ( Terny's bitchy twin! ) and Erika.
I'm a little ambitious, as i'm also planning to meet up with Pei Fern & TJ, Bee, Jen & baby Ethan.

3 days (technically 2 days minus the travelling ) and 2 hard night of partying.. and the possibility of Hotel 81turning up to be a sleazy hotel (that means hearing "ooh-aaah - ta li yi tien" in the middle of the night!).

Most important agenda of my week, is to recover from this wretched cough, sore - husky-scratchy throat and runny nose!

It feels like it's going to be a good trip away. Oh dear, April's an overdosed of partying!
I'm not complaining.

Syabas Jabatan MYKAD & JPJ!

2007-04-14T12:21:00.000+08:00

And i really mean it.

1 hour for application for a lost MYKAD
(And a very nice photo makcik who complimented that i look better now compared to my old MYKAD photo! haha)

10 minutes for a new driving license.
(you have to go through this flirty counter pak cik, who questions you on why you lost your license, how you lost it and the mandatory questions of "gambar ada? MYKAD temporary ada?")

I had braced myself for long queues, hot stuffy departments and getting angry because everything's so slow. But what a pleasant experience i had. WOW! I am impressed.

Come to think about it... My HSBC credit card is not even here yet! It's the first card that i called to cancel, and it's been a week now.

Week of Fun and newfound Friendship

2007-04-11T08:56:00.000+08:00

Last week was really an overdose of partying. The last time i partied this hard was September last year.

I must finally admit, being 28, age is REALLY catching up! Nevertheless, all for the cause of good fun and meeting good friends, "die-die" also must play "kow-kow".

MAMBO NITES
I had 2 doses of Mambo nights! Wed & Saturday.
Always my favourite night out. This craze started started in Melbourne, and I never got rid of it. I've always suspected that perhaps i'm born in the wrong era, perferring retro music to that of the current POP where everything sounds pretty much the same. Plus, recently I met Adrian L who is equally as crazy about MAMBO-ing!

Unfortunately, I never learn, that MAMBO's on Wednesdays will definitely make you a zombie at work the next day. A long night out of dancing, jugs of long-islands, a run-in with the cops and a new friend who's accessory for the ride home is the puke bag = walking around in a daze + quesy stomach +staring at clients blankly while you try to make out what they are mouthing. But it was definitely and eventful night out!

2nd MAMBO night was on Saturday. A little special do in Zouks for the F1 which unfortunately stopped playing Retro at about 12-ish. How sad!
The aunty-ness sunk in, as i surveyed Zouks with my bunch of friends and realised that
i. We ain't recognising the music here...
ii. These kids looked like they just snuck out from their houses to party
iii. When we walked into Velvet, we suddenly felt at home...There were more oldies like us around.. haha! I feel right at home. Wow, i must say, there were tons of "eye candies" in Velvet that night.

NEW & OLD FRIENDS
My definition of a good time is meeting, catching up or getting to know someone better ( yes, even without alcohol). Better still, if we're out there dancing the night away.

Meeting...
I finally met Karen & Adrian. The Singaporean group which Leanne & Diana hangs out with. Their names popped up frequently in our conversations but I've never really gotten to meet them until now! We were so comfortable hanging out, it was as if I've known them for years. So birds of the same feathers do flock together!

Another PISCES! Karen's also a Pisces. So that makes, 3 PISCES in the group - Karen, Diana & me. YAY! I'm excited ( not sure if she is) because that means there's another dreamy, loony like me out there. Tho she appears more matter of fact than I am. Definitely very girl power! And I had to embaress myself at the first "hullo". Me, head filled with jugs of beer, eyes irritated from the smoke decides to put on my glasses.
Me trying to poke my eyes out whilst removing my lenses and then panic strikes. "Shit. Where's it?", a frantic search for a missing lens cover, when Karen pointed out - "it's on your lap dear..". Aiyoh, quite the malus.

I'm truly amazed that there is another "BITCH" so same-same as Terny! It's great! Adrian Chan is the Singapore version of mah BITCH cum Bridesmaid, Terny. Right up to the shaka shaka bum bum dancing. Their mannerism and how they're so "chi mui" with us, is amazingly clone like. I can't wait to get them drunk on our next partying trip down Singapore ( which is about 9 days from now.. YIPPEE!).

Catching up...
Another group which I managed to catch up with was Russ & Chris. The beer guzzling boys from the states, night out kaki in KL 2years ago, Bangkok last year and back again to KL this year. One night out with them in Rum Jungle on Friday.. I'm filled up for at least with half a year's worth of beer. BURP! ( I salute you Erika for the marathon race with them.. really, i can see you're also committed to your cause! )

Dawn & Nige. It's a been a long while since I partied with Dawn. Our busy schedules and new found friends kept us busy. So it was nice, just chilling out with her that night, feasting our eyes on eye-candies.

And very excited for Max, as he begins his packing up and planning for his new job in Sydney! What a piece of good news for him. Especially after the bad luck that he had with EY London. They had rescinded his contract, 3 days before the movers came to pick up his stuff for relocation. And they are only compensating him for 2 weeks! I can't imagine if he had sold off his car, house etc., for this relocation only to be told this piece of bad news. However, it's bad enough as he's quit his job here, bypassing his promotion due. All in all I think it is mighty unfair ! It feels as if it is a bad case of bullying. We will be behind you on your cause vs EY London!

KV & wifey Penny. Never had a chance to talk to Penny before. Last Sunday, was the first time that we caught up. I found another F1 fan. And she recognises drivers by their helmets! Wow!

Getting to know better...
My mambo kaki. Ok, I promise no more long islands...for now.

28 and Illegal
Hungry stomachs led us from Zouk to Aivan's "it's just at the corner" mamak which turns out to be a painful-high- heels 20 minutes walk to the mamak in front of Thai club. And everything was close! I had to beg the nice mamak aunty to use up her remaining maggi mee and what ever that is left for 8 plates of maggi soup and goreng.

Then this is where it happened. I dropped my card-holder-cum-wallet for the night. In it, my MYKAD, driving license and my credit card. By the time i realised that I've lost my "Identity cards", we were already in Shane's car half way home.

Well, if you know me well enough, it's amazing that i've only lost my MYKAD and driving license at this age. The only cheering me up thought that i could think of is, hey, I'll have a good picture of me, in my new driving license!
In one week, i had 2 run-in with the cops. Both after MAMBO nights. I had to make a police report for my loss. Mr cop looked at my report and asked - "pukul 4 pagi? you buat apa?". I don't think he bought into the idea of me studying since the card was lost infront of Thai club!

(I have so far managed to do my MYKAD, which is surprisingly fast! 1 hour for the process. 1 hour of me getting lost in Kota Damansara!)

PRICE but PRICELESS
I'm sounding like an "akua" now. Thanks to the sore throat that's developing and the screwed up sleep time that i have. 3 - 6ams have been my going to bed time. I'm also suspecting that my imsonia for the last couple of nights are withdrawal symptoms coupled with too much coffee.

But i must say, it's worth it. Though i'm paying for now.At 4.30am in the morning, i'm awake, blogging, because sleep just won't come.

EXCITED & RECHARGING FOR NEXT
So this week i've really caught up on what i've not done for the past 6 months.

From Mambo on Wed night, Fri at Rum Jungle,Atrium and yummy Teo Chew Porridge,
to more food fest on Sat at Tmn Tun Lou Shi Fun , Chinese Rice Wine Chicken, Yong tau foo then coffee in 1U and partying in Zouk/ Velvet,
Did my best to crawl out of bed for Easter Service, a mad dash to BKT in Ah Sang, F1 in Chillis BSC and then ending it sky high in Sky Bar.

I can't wait to repeat this feat in my Singapore trip, 20 - 22nd April.
(Though the day after i return to a 24 hour TVC shoot!)

The Amazing Race Asia II deadline extended

2007-03-30T19:34:00.000+08:00

Aiyah! Should have found out about this earlier!
Then i could have more wine at Vintry. Grrrrrrr....
Luckily we didn't pay for the super super fast DHL service .
That'll cost us another bottle of wine!

The Amazing Race Asia II deadline's been extended to April 13th 2007. sigh

Run Jess Run!

2007-03-30T18:34:00.000+08:00

The submission made it in time!
Friday, 3pm. Big PHEW! Jess & Jeff's Amazing Race Asia submission reached AXN in time.
It was a big risk yesterday that we had to take yesterday, whether or not to use DHL's normal service or overnight (100% guaranteed) service to Singapore. Seeing that the difference was RM120, and that we were broke, we decided on the normal service.

We finished our video on Wednesday night. Yea, cutting it a little too close weren't we? And we had to finish the last bits of the video after 1 beer and quarter of vine each, since we were celebrating Jeff's belated 28th Birthday at Vintry.

Calamities which we faced :
- The last bits of the video with me inside had me with only one side of the contacts, because my left eye was bloodshot ( not from the wine ) and it was hurting.
- Our final video was close to 5 minutes long, so one eye jess here and jeff had to be brutal in cutting down the time. Oh while we are at it, we kidnapped Jo from her bed at close to midnight to get her to hold the video camera for us
- I didn't have a recent passport picture ( and i was too busy running around during work to do it ). Thanks to technology and the changgihness of digital cameras, I managed to capture a "passport" picture of myself, half high from the alcohol, one eye blind, stinky 3 day old t-shirt that says "I'm incredible" and a pasty oily face.
- Tada, after everything was done, forms filled up, photos taken... we couldn't play our video on a DVD player. The time, 3am. ARGH! That means, that leaves us Thursday morning to convert the video into a VCD / DVD format!!
- Frantic calls and sms-es were made whilst i was driving my self to work, to check on how we could get the video into a DVD format. And both Jeff and i had 11am meetings.
- After half a day of frantic calls, getting Julie ( thanks babe!), Chu ( our IT guy at work ) and Arleen to help convert our video, we had to rush ourselves to DHL. Problem is, we both have 3pm - 5pm meetings, which means might miss the courier deadline.
- Much excuses made to wiggle ourselves out of the office, me passing the VCD to Jeff at his BAT office, and then off to DHL.
Before the Amazing Race Asia has even started I am already feeling tired!

Work is on again!
It didn't help that finally God heard my prayer of "Give me some work before i go nuts". Right when there's a personal project that is rushed, work begins to pile itself.
- The approval for 3 TVCs came in. Which means going on shoots, and this being overnight shoot. Another zombifying day.
- One other client kept rejecting our creatives. Finally after a long uphill task, they've approved the press ad. Another rush, we have already exceeded our deadline for the other POSMs.
- The adrenaline rush that i experienced this week is really amazing. I could literally feel my creative juices oozing out. During trainings, brainstorm, discussions & personal projects, the ideas came really easily.

This week flew past really quickly. Too many waking up at 6ams and sleeping at 3am, makes me delirious in the head and a liver that quivers ( i didn't have enough of vine at Vintry!)

Fun Bits
- Vintry : Small little reunion with Chris, Jeff, Kelvin & Jean. Good food, good vine ( just not enough) and good company! Though Jeff was the birthday boy, Kelvin took most of the bantering as we spilled his "ex-es" story to Jean! Sigh, nothing too scandalous, though lots of colourful characters that he dated.

- The Traveller : Spinning a story for The Traveller. They recently won Tatler's 2007 Best Travel Agency in Singapore ( Yay Aunty Yvonne!). Best bits about writting the story is to imagine that i know Singapore really well, and romantising it for a traveller.

- Babysitting Bessy : Today's the first day Bessy came to stay with us for the weekend, as Yuez & Nut climb KK.
Now i truly understand how tiring it can be for Yuez, as her little girl is really really really hyper. 6am wake up call for me, to feed her and a 2 hour wait for her to poo poo, because she's gets so excited and just want to Play. Even Winston's energy level couldn't match hers. And it's really funny to see how Uncle Winston gets all grouchy because of Bessy's over-enthusiatic love for him. Jumping on him, smelling his "ku ku", licking him, prancing around in front of him taunting him when he's at his Lazy Dog pose saying "come get me, come get me"

Unwinding for the evening
It's Friday evening, I'm sitting in my room in the office, chilling whilst waiting for the rest to finish off what they have so that we all can go for... BEER & DINNER, yummy yummy chicken wings, kam heong la la at Jalan Alor, and then heading off to Atrium at 10pm for Little one's birthday do. Hic! What bliss!

The race towards Amazing Race Asia II

2007-03-27T12:14:00.000+08:00

What a whirlwind weekend and week it has been... And it's only Tuesday.

We have approximately 48 hours to complete and send in the Amazing Race Asia II ( TARA II) video & applications off to Singapore. Okay, we - as in Han San ( ahem - Jeff as he is known to others ) and me.

And we are already, so tired from the planning, running around and filming for a 3 minute video. It is harder when the both of us are working and we have to accomodate our camera man's ( kudos to Matt ) time, whilst trying hard to catch whatever daylight that we have. And the headaches of changing scripts because of impromtu learnings about each other and nuggets of ideas that popped up along the way .

Why so last minute - wan?!
Well, last Thursday, during our daily MSN chat, Yuez told me that the entry for Amazing Race Asia II closes on the 30th March 2007. She's joining TARA II with Nut, and so why donch I try too? ( She is also instigating me to climb Mt KK next year ).

It might be a spur of a moment thing, but the very situation i'm in right now, I need to feel alive again.

Opportunity comes to those who seeks it.
I met up with HS that Thursday night, his treat for my 28th birthday ( a week late, cos Mr. Superacheiver here was climbing KK the week before ).

During dinner he was rattling off his holiday plans, whilst i was comparing notes with him on where we could co-incide countries. It's really ironic, that our travel plans never co-incide. We were always at the similar places / countries but different months. Top of the list complains.. we are always broke. At the end of all the travelling - say good bye to branded bags, shoes, hi-tech gadgets, not to mention the home - pack-lunches-to-work to save money.

Half way through our yummy iron pot rice ( you gotta try it at Sugimotos! ), i asked :
"Eh.. let's do Amazing Race Asia lah! Win already, can travel FREE mah.."

So that's when the mad rush begin.
Calling Chris after dinner, bugging her about ideas on the video that we have to do, calling Shane to speak to Andre to ask "from a directors POV...", texting Long to pick his brains on what would excite the audience.

All that phone call.. All that chatting.. When the idea for the video has always been something that is obvious to both of us.

The idea was conceived after 4 glasses of wine at work and a night out at Somo. HS hijacked the video camera and kidnapped his friend Matt as videographer ( poor Matt, being bitten by mossies and enduring our bickering ). Bad planning ( my bad.. after all the years of sitting through Pre Production Meetings, i didn't plan this "shoot" efficiently ), HS was late and frantic search for location left us high and dry. Me and my impatience showing as we try to catch the remaining bits of daylight. Sigh of relief after i checked with Yuez & Nut's team that they too haven't quite finish their video.

oh, HS celebrates his 28 today.
He sure has a great birthday - spending the night editting the first part of the video.
Up at 6am, we were ambitious to finish our video. Did i say ambitious? That was it, because we only managed 75% of it. 25% more to go, 48 hours deadline. WOOOOHOOOO... i love it. Adrenalines rushing. Tension mounting.

HS told me today : "I had forgotten, but now I remember, how impatient you are". I realised that through this Video, it is a good test to see if you and your partner can heck each other's idiosyncrasies.

Even if we don't make it through to the auditions, we both have a substantial amount of self discovery and learning, priceless as this was like a shortcut to learning about one's strengths & weaknesses.

Ironic as it may seem, me the dreamy, emotional girl, laid back & often cruising through life, when push comes to shove for work or a project, i turn impatient, kan cheong & timeline obsessed person.
While he, super achiever, go getter and always on the move, when push comes to shove, approaches things calmly, a little laid back so he can think things through and very patient indeed with my antics.
What an oxymoron.

A little teaser...

Tell you guys more when we next meet! Good news to share i hope.
Very very excited about the video.

By the way.. Chris is in the BLOG HOUSE too.

The other side

2007-03-27T11:25:00.000+08:00

Being in the Ad industry for the last 6 years, I've always been on the Account Management / Client side of things.

Last weekend's activities allowed me a glimpse ( a glimpse because I was just scratching the tip of the iceberg ) of the other side - the print & TV production.

Part of my "Investing in myself" resolution this year, I decided that everything NEW that comes my way, I should try it, for the experience of enriching my life.

Now i know how difficult it is being a Print talent
Lawrence & Jac ( owners of Beauty Gallerie ), my yumseng party kaki, invited me for a FREE makeover - photo shoot at their salon on Sunday. Since, I've always been the one sourcing through talent cards, commenting on the talent's make-up or with the creative team dictating the tone of the makeup, watching from the sidelines and sometimes shaking my head if the talents are too "kaku" during photo shoots, I decided to put myself on the other side, just to experience what it felt like.

So off i trod to Lawrence & Jac's place for my 2pm appointment. To be made up and to do the photo shoot. If you've watched the Dove commercial ( about real beauty ), i felt like the talent Inspired by the ad. I asked for - higher nose, double eyelids (hah!) and i was even offered, longer eye lashes, which i politely declined.

Before the photo shoot started, i told the photographer.. "Er, don't make me look FAT!" .

like that ok-ah?

Standing in front of the camera, was a challenge. You have to somehow imagine that there is a cable pulling your head up and you are gritting the iron bar of the trapeze with your mouth while smiling, so that you get a good posture.

that's the only time you don't catch me slouching

After a while, I figured that the photographer seems to have a formula in getting the angles he wanted. It starts with " arch your back, sway your hips to the side (right-left- back- front ), tilt your head ( right - left- back-front ), eyes looking at his finger.. and SMILE.. SMILE.. SMILE!"

my trademark lansi CB face when i don't smile

Steph & Willy-boy were my fans. The above pictures were taken by Steph whilst the real action was going on.
I'm waiting for my touched up pictures to come... There'll be 1 in this dress, 1 in a cowboy hat ( i love love love that shot ) and 1 more in a leather jacket - wriau!

Now that I'm on the other side - where the camera , make up and glamour is, I realised SMILING and POSING is really hard!

Thanks Lawrence & Jac for this FUN FUN FUN experience.
(For those who's interested, Beauty Gallerie is located in SS4 next to the famous chicken rice stall opposite the Catholic church. So pop in to pamper yourself silly for facials & beauty treatment)

Oh, how can i leave without my parting trademark JESSHYBABY shot..

Wrisu ...

Me Doggie.. Woof!

2007-03-14T11:59:00.000+08:00

Winston got tagged by Bessy..
Though he only smelled her presence on me He's already hiau hiau for her!
(can't wait for Bessy to come stay for the long weekend when aunty yue li's away!)
Don't get him wrong, he's not a pedophile, just a very nice older-dog!

WINSTON
but now after being Ah-Bengnised... @ Kau Kau@FATTY BOY

Date of Birth:
15 March 2003 ( I'm a PISCES doggie )

Breed:
Golden Beige Labrador

Favourite food:
FOOD...Drool...
FOOD...Drool...
FOOD...Drool...

Favourite Activity :
Play?.. Play,Play,Play,Play!
Walk walk
Play, Play, Play, Play!

Favourite Toys:

i wuv mah balls...all size and colours!

Favourite annoying yet cute habit:

Woof..

Sleeps by:
the front door, unnerneath the car

Barks at:
Dirty looking stwangers,
CATS!!!! KILL EM!! KILL KILL KILL!
Other Doggies... woof!

Likes being :
Hug real tight,
Tickled on his tummy,
Scratch behind his ears,
& Likes to play Nose Nose...

When meeting people, likes to:
WOOF.. (how do you do..)
WOOF.. ( play?)
Sniff Sniff...(hm... i like you ..)
Roll over.. (scratch me... puhlease..)

Often seen:

in the mode of orgasm-ing

Knows how to:
Sit, Hand Hand, Fetch, Jump, Heel

take ang-pow

Fancies having as a girlfriend:
Sunshine... ( Winston's got the HOTS for Sunshine.. woof woof )

sun-shine...wooohooo... come back sweetie!

Bessy...( when she grows up.. feewit!)
Mandy...(one day.. i'll go up to Ipoh to meet her)
Crystal...(going to meet her this weekend!)

Has travelled to:
Sri Hartamas ( my old home)
The Vet in Damansara Heights
Ben-Ben's house in Sri Hartamas
Uncle Boon's place in Mt Kiara
Aunty Yue Li's House to be babysat
Around Subang Jaya & USJ

Scared of:
Being abandon & left home alone.. :(
No more food in this world!

And now, Winston would like to tag:
1. Hugo ( a-go-go)

2.Shakespeare (tho he's in Texas with Aunty Diane )
3.Ben-Ben

My Turn to ...Meme! Me!Me!

2007-03-09T18:54:00.000+08:00

So i got TAGGED by Yuez.
(I had to sheepishly ask her what this Me!Me! Tag-ging business is all about)

Anyway, this is my 3rd attempt to post this, because the last 2 post just KABOOSH into thin air.
If this doesn't get on the post, that's it, i'm not doing it again.

Anyway, to be a good sport ( and to appear busy at work ), here goes :

Three things that scare me:
1.Losing my loved ones
2.Anything dead
3.Icky animals - CATS! LIZARDS! RATS!!!!

Three people who make me laugh:
I'm easily amused. It doesn't take much to make me laugh, so...
1. Me ( i do shit loads of stupid things.. first i look back and feel damn embaress about it, i blush a little, regret a little then cover it up by laughing )
2. Anyone silly
3. AnyDogs ( they are more people then some people out there)

Three things I love:
1. Food Food Food
2. Fun Fun Fun
3. Love itself

Three things I hate:
1. Cheaters!
2. Disasters ( big or small, anything bad happening to people i know and LIKE...)
3. Fear ( I hate being afraid )

Three things I don't understand:
1. Why do GOOD people have BAD endings?
2. How is it that HORRIBLE people, seem to have a BETTER life?
3. How can some BASTARDS, ABANDON their PARENTS to live a lonely life?

Three things on my desk:
3 Things?! I can't even find my desk!
1. My computer
2. Half drunk cup of DDBI Ah Soh Best Kopi Pak
3. My first birthday pressie for 2007 ( Vodka Shots Chocolate from JULIE!!!)

Three things I'm doing right now:
1. Pretending to be real busy at work
2. Sitting cross legged on my chair
3. Thinking about Aunty Nat's Nasi Goreng Petai Sambal which i'm going to order for dinner!

Three things I want to do before I die:
1. Get married & breed ( though i have frens who told me "why bring innocent kids to a disastrous world")
2. Own my own business ( at least i get the dough doing something i like, when i like )
3. Make peace with God.. ( i do want to go to heaven )

Three things I can do:
1. I've got a really long tongue ( you wanna see? )
2. Natural klutz & calamity Jess ( don jearous okay.. it's an inborn talent)
3. Natural ability to have free-flow of tears watching & heart warming scenes in movies or when someone pissed me off badly

Three things you should listen to:
1. Moms ( i hate to admit this, but sometimes they can be darn right! damn!)
2. Positive people
3. Your heart ( it'll land you in trouble.. and for people like me, DEEP SHIT or EMBARESSMENT , but who cares?)

Three things you should never listen to:
1. Bullshit
2. Negative - woe me people!
3. Fortune tellers

Three things I'd like to learn:
1. To always be happy
2. To dissapear from the face of this earth when i want to
3. Accept the things that i cannot change

Three favorite foods:
1. Anything that's totally artery clogging
2. Everything spicy & sour
3. True blue Malaysian foodie

Three beverages I drink regularly:
1. Water
2. Coffee ( Muar -poh 434 & DDBI Ah Soh's Kopi Pak is ze best )
3. Coke Light

Three TV shows/Books I watched/read as a kid:
1. Thunder, thunder, thundercast HOOOOOOOO!!!! , Jem ( yes i love em JEM too ), Smurfs
2. Enid Blyton, Hans Anderson Fairy Tales, Sweet Valley High ( heeeee....)

Now that i've successfully wasted some time, it's time to get other people to waste their time doing this too..
At the wave of my magic fingers, I hereby tag..
1. Butterfly
2. Gin
3. Audrey
4. Max
( i know i know it's more than 3..but for all the missed blogs that i did, i should be entitled to tag as many people as possible )

2007-02-07T18:12:00.000+08:00

Leanney's found her wings

It's been 2 weeks since Leanne spread her wings to NY.

I must say, she is the bravest amongst the 7 of us.

Our long girly chats of finding our world, finally one of us, decided to take a stab at the world.

We're missing the spunky spiffy Leanne Chin Su Yin.

However, she's promised us to :

- Export quality men of any nationalities back to Malaysia ( with me as the QC!)

- Be our "shopper" when we find something we like in the States ( yahoo.. me endless supplies of victoria secrets body splash)

- "You go girl" news from the other side of the world

We are 7,

now 6... but the journeys of our lives continue..

(Miss Chin, we'll be rooting for you... here's a toast to your ahem export business!)

2006-10-27T18:29:00.000+08:00

Mission#4:Night of Miscommunications

24th Oct,: Tuesday night out with HanS, ChrisC, KShian, Nish,Poh & John @ Wong Poh ( finally ) then drinks at Summer Villa with KelL & Jean joining us.

Never was there so many micommunications in a night's outing.
1. HanS thought I was driving, because ChrisC sms's said I would meet at his house. Usually when we do go out, HanS will drive. So, he got a little excited thinking that for once he will be driven.
2. I thought Chris was to meet at HanS house too. So when Nish called and asked for the house number, I told her I would buzz HanS for it. Nish said it was OK, she would call ChrisC. So I left it at that. So poor Nish had to wait in the car for half and hour.. because I was late. I had to turn around to get the bottle of wine.
3. Apparently ChrisC was to meet us at the dinner place - Pantai Seafood. The time she got there, the restaurant was filled, and the line was till Timbaktu. So quick change of plans, we moved to Wong Poh.. Well ChrisC mentioned Wong Poh.
4. So there we were (HanS & I) finally in Wong Poh, soaking from the rain, ordering our food, when i called Nish ( who was tailing HanS & I ) to check on her whereabouts. "We are in Starlight. ChrisC is here. We've got a table and we've ordered tea". huh?
5. Finally we were all in Wong Poh except for KShian who we were frantically searching for because of the change of place. After a few missed calls & SMS, finally KShian called. He left his phone at home and he was waiting for half and hour at Pantai Seafood... ooooopsssssss.

The food broke the jinx. Everything went on well after.

Menu of the night :
Cheese crabs, ham tan crabs, kung poh lai liu ha, 1 soup with gazillion balls, kai lan garlic, deep fried otak, spring onion ginger brands chicken essence frogs legs, yim kuk kai & mantau buns.. burp!

Next stop. Wine at ChrisC's home.
John brought the evillest drink - Bali Tuak. 40% alcohol. erm, i didn't quite enjoy the taste on it's own. I thought i was drinking "toner". But, a shot of that into Sunkist Orange Juice...plus after half a bottle of wine, everything is A OK!

We stayed till 2.30am, just reminiscing about old times - which was only 10 years ago( i sound like an old lady !). The days of school, the days of college, then touching a little on venus & mars stuff and after a whole load of drinks debating marketing cases ( that was the wine talking!)

At 3am, I had to text TY to ffk them for the morning hike at Gasing..again.

2006-10-26T00:31:00.000+08:00

Mission #3 : A girl always has to get a life of her own... regardless

23 Oct : Monday Night out, dinner & drinks : DawnL & MichelleY @ Socials, Bangsar
I kinda missed DawnL. My work drinking buddy turn close girl friend. It’s been a while since we last caught up. Again, it's the.. where do we begin? It's been such a long time. Perhaps the latest piece of news would be good.

DawnL is one of my sanity check points.
We share a similar doses of girly emotional up and downs. And so we remind ourselves that in order not to be too hung up over girly – men issues, a girl just need to get a life of her own. Regardless, we will just have to get out there, and do the things that we want to do. Catching up with MichelleY and her dose of street wiseness, just re-affirms this thought.

DawnL & MitchelleY had to go to K's open house. The night continued on with HT, Jessey, Al,Aivan ,Terny & KayB popping by. 2 bottles of wine ( between HT & myself), 1 tom yum soup at 12am, half a maggi goreng (shared with Al at 1.30am ) later, I was ready to crawl home.

2006-10-26T00:24:00.000+08:00

Mission #2 : Fatt Fa Teen

Saturday, 22 Oct : Lawrence & Jacq @ Bar B201
Tonight must be my lucky night. Instead of paying for tuition fees for a 101 on Sam Ka (3 leg) Mah Jong, I finished with a handsome RM1.60. JacQ attributes it to me “fatt fa teen”.

Don’t ask me what the game is all about, because I still can’t grasps the game. I just can't.

I don’t know :
1.Where do we start? Clockwise or anti- clockwise?
2.How do you count the tiles? & where from? Clockwise or anticlockwise?
3.How do you calculate the points? I am still confused over the “Wus” and when can you or can’t you “game”? gh.

I know :
1. Arrange the tiles – same pattern, running numbers
2. to be safe, always throw away the tile that everyone else is throwing
3. to call for the cards ( to make 3 ), it’s “Pong”
4. to grab a card to make 4 tiles ( as a flower, if I’m not mistaken.. ) call “Kong”
5. don’t simply grab the tiles from any end of the queue. Ask if you don’t know where to grab, and most importantly don’t daydream. You will be penalised badly – pay for the winner and the runner up if I am so lucky as to throw the tile to help them “game”.

New list of words I’ve learnt :
“Kam Kam Wu” – Something to do with gaming with your own “moh”
“Tai Seong Koong” – Too many cards can’t game
“Siew Seong Koong” – Too little cards can’t game

It's funny how i don't even know the game, but i know that it is pretty addictive.
Sigh.
When do we play again?

2006-10-25T23:46:00.000+08:00

Mission : Tracking down the MIAs

I realised that work has taken up so much of my time, I’ve lost track of most of my friends. I missed spending time with them. I missed my child-teen hood. Meeting up with them, meant that I could relive my past and be in denial that I am now a grown up. Well at least for a while.

The long DeepaRaya holidays promised a good break. But with too much time idle, I tend to go through some time of holiday blues. Since BB is back home in Ipoh for the holidays I decided that I should scroll through my phone book and organise little get togethers.

Mission #1 – Saturday, 21 Oct : Kshian & HanS @ SS2 Tai Chow & KTZ
I’ve not seen Kshian since Amy’s wedding and HanS since ChrisC’s last home coming from Penang.

Har Ko Nai Yau Har (Salted Egg Mantis Prawn ) & Curry Tau Hu . Absolutely yummy. Pork Knuckles for the boys. All that is missing is ze beer. But after a Chivas filled week in D’Haven, I resorted to only non-alcoholic drink for the night.

I was mighty excited at the sight of Kshian’s Frontier ( which I stupidly thought it was a Hi-Lux). Being the sua - ku that I am, I chose to travel in this monster of a car to KTZ.

I thought that it was funny that when you hang around a group of friends often, you tend to bump into them, even though you are out with another bunch of friends. So there they were, KayB, Terny, Aivan, Jessey, Willy & Steph. We took over their seats, as they were making their way to a movie.

For dessert I had Mango Lo Lo ( bliss!).
It brings back good memories, my Mango Lo Lo - SMSJ times, at Sunway Pyramid overlooking the skating ring with Amy, Murphy, Audrey, Kelvin & HanS
- First time getting our driving licence, at Jalan Alor, after a joy ride from SJ ( either HanS or Wilfred or Kelvin drove) – SAM Taylor College days, at somewhere Kepong following the slip road from Segambut Dalam.
That night, we sat from 10pm – 1.30am. Such great fun exchanging views & stories about Venus & Mars.