a happening weekend... (part one)

it was a wild weekend...
while i've always thought that i've mellowed with age..
a gathering of close frens will never fail to bring out the party animal in me..
ok.. alcohol helps... a whole lot...
its true what they say in the biology textbooks... it just takes away your inhibition...

haha.. that prob explained all the smooching that went on that nite..

but the nite to celebrate terence's bday had its fair share of hiccups...

we couldn't decide on a place for dinner...
but we knew (or at least pam says that she wants a place with good ambience..) so we headed down to club street..
which is pretty different from the usual orchard rd crowd...
actually i was quite surprised to find that club street was kinda quite on a saturday nite..
but of course not being too familar with the fare over there... we had to walk to look at menus and decide on a place that was nice and affordable...

my shing shing pink tee (pink tee with shing shing stuff on it..) was not made for walking...
not like some boots... i was pespiring... and just short of breaking out in rashes...
i needed air conditioning quick....
ok.. i was gonna pay any price to just cool off... but pam and terence were less agreeable...
so we trotted on... till we came to this place called JERRY'S GRILL....
being a little brain fried from the heat.. we found ourselves seated in some faux american setting (ie excessive use of the red white and blue..) staring at a menu that really seemd like overpriced BILLY BOMBERS....

so while waiting for the rest of the party to arrive (mei and tommy to join us)...
i said: if we are gonna walk out of here.. let me go first...
pam: heh? (for those who've heard pam... this is supposed to be funny.. think nasal.. and whiney..)

(mei and tommy arrives.. and we've been cooling off with the air con for about 10mins now.. waiter staring at us..)

mei: SO ARE WE LEAVING? (yes, the caps indicate that she had no intention of not letting the wait staff overhear us...)
mei: SO WE WANNA GO SOMEWHERE ELSE?

yup, i'm sure the waiter heard us... in fact we were surprised that he didn't serve us a round of ice water to make us feel bad about thinking of walking out like that...
seeing that we might just be trapped rite there...
pam stood up.. (she really didn't wanna pay that much for the poor ambience..)

pam: SOOOOREEEEEEE..... (yes, whiney and saccharine sweet...) we've decided to go somewhere else instead...

that was the cue... we all followed pam.. down the stairs.. and out of JERRY's GRILL...
so if anyone intends to dine there anytime soon.. please tell them that we're terribly sorry...

so after looking ard for about 15mins more.. we ended up at sPIZZA... which was the one place that i've dined at club street... sheesh...

*end of part one*

a happening weekend... (part deux)

yes.. after a lovely dinner at sPizza... we love the TIANA... (you love it to don't you ming?.. all the cream and salmon..)
ooh.. in fact the raw slamon appetizer was not bad too... altho the serving is kinda small...
oh yes.. not to mention our own version of EXTREME MAKEOVER...
(haha... there was no way that we would go clubbing with terence in that ATHENS 2004 tee shirt... for GAWD's sake.. its already 2005!!! MADRID 2012 is the IN olympic thing to be spotted with now... rite mei??)
thank goodness we actually got him a decent shirt on top of the nice wallet for his bday...
dinner ended well with rockmellon ice-cream... and a 15% discount with STANDARD CHARTED cards... courtesy of tommy lee...
(no no... no porn here altho we have a tommy lee and a busty pamela at the dinner table... )

after dinner drinks was where the action began... and where things became a bit of a blur...
like most ignorant drinkers.. they (pam and terence...) ordered the most fancy sounding cocktails...
(don't they know that they always end up tasting bad???)
malibu sunrise... (which smells and tasted like my banana boat suntanning oil...)
boston beach party... (bad long island tea...)
the morning after... (err... tastes like fruit punch?..)

i brilliantly stuck with beer from the tap... which pam has concluded that it tastes second best... first being iced water..
but i think i also drank half of everything else... haha.. money's worth... after all round one was on me...

round two!
we did tequila pop, apple (whiskey?) shots... and tequila shots....

and to end off the nite...
a flaming lambourghini!!
haha.. only for the bday boy of course...
and i guess that sorta did it...

by 2am.. he was outside puking... and by 3am.. he was already home...
of course i continued dancing.. and got to ride a beemer... but that's a whole different story...

HAPPY B"DAY TERENCE.... who says we've gotta mellow with age?

the weather still got the better of my day...

most of you would know by now how when i say 'i'm heading down to the pool...'
grey skys would appear out of nowhere...
sorta like a great conspiracy...
the clouds would wait till i'm all ready to get out of the house and then surprise me (in the most unpleasant way)...

but today... one of those rare days where i thought i got the better of the weather
*muahahaha*
i actually managed to head down to the pool (with an honourary resident of NORTHOAKS..*snigger*).. catch some sun... only to have some intermittent cloudiness...

but the victory was shortlived...
i got home.. did my laundry...
and just as i was ready to head out...
it rains...

and if you thought that was all...
as i reconsidered my entire schedule..
the rain stopped...

yippeee?? you say...??
no... as i started preparing myself to leave...
it rained again!!!!

and here i am... waiting for the weather to give way....
fine fine....
you win!! the clouds rule!!!

*sighs*

'twas a painful experience...

mei says that i'm terribly brave to be terence's guinea pig...
his first wisdom tooth patient...
but i was thinking 'how bad can it be?'
i've known a couple of people who've survived wisdom-teeth extractions...

boy was i in for a surprise...

i had thought that the jab would be the most painful part of the entire process...
and i should hv figured that something was wrong when the injection did not hurt the least bit
then the horrors began...

wrapped up and disinfected...
i was awake, numb.. but i couldn't see....
the oh something was happening... i just din noe what it was...
until the sawing began... eeeepss...
and it almost felt like they were trying to remove the tooth by sheer brute force...
i was sweating buckets... cold sweat...
what was i thinking??? its bad enough extracting a tooth that is loose... but a perfectly fine tooth??
kill me now...
but they really couldn't tell from my expression since i was hidden under all the cloth...
so i just kept on sweating...

ok... after about an hour (it's prob faster with an experienced professional.. but oh well.. all in the name of education..)
the ordeal was over...
i bit the gauze, downed the painkilers and went shopping....
haha.. retail therapy has a new meaning...
wait till you see the bag i got! whoppee!!

anyway.. i'm healing fine... in fact eating well... no swelling and no more pain..
and at least i got a bag out of this experience..

a strangely productive day...

work done = time x distance from orchard road

ok spent half the day at the library mulling over virginia woolf and the hours...
kinda interesting really...
altho i'm not sure of its relevance to my dissertation...
but to have an excuse to watch dvds and call it work done...
why not??
picked up a few more books to add on to my growing reading list...
where should i even start??

here's a little bitchy tidbit for the blogees...

what's the use of headphones if you are gonna share every comment and reaction with everyone else in that little viewing room??? no thanks to the three ppl who were watching some japanese anime... some idiot going "eeee... ooo... hahhahaha..." every few minutes...
i'd like to say something: SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
uuurgh....
and the bigger idiots who opted to share their audio with everyone else...
i say: the headphones are for you to keep the sound in your ears and not for me to block out yours!!!!

**exhale**

anyway... yes... what's important is that i'm getting into the groove of work...
and seems like heading to the library wld be a wise move...
apparently that's a good place to do work... heh... pardon my ignorance...
but fellow coursemates will agree that we've not had to do so much readings for the longest time...

ok back to the prose of michael cunningham...

constipation...

the blog! what were you thinking? i don't share such details on the blog...
its been a long time since i last blog... and i guess lotsa things hv happened..
the dog's gone back home...
carrie underwood is the new american idol...
ming has went on her trip to see the angkor wat.... (what a price to pay... hope you are enjoying urself!)

been spending time catching up with old frens...
a little trip down to ikea with mei in the blue tommisan.. haha... its fun when ur 'fiance's' away...
ice cold beer (and a vodka tonic and two lychee martinis) and the (in)famous chicken wings... with mei and pam...
and this thursday it will be in the OT to let terry extract my wisdom tooth...

congrats mei!! school's permanently out for you eh... finally...
start measuring urself for the cap and gown...
hope you enjoyed ur lemon and rUspberry ice cream... *sourpuss face*

ok time to get on with some actual work...
i feel a headache coming on... maybe i should go lie down...

idol fever...

will it be vonzell, bo or carrie...??

hmm.. i hvnt done my bit to update my loyal blogees as to the status of the competition..

well.. can't blame me.. it got a bit boring when Scotty the Fattie refused to budge out of the competition...
gosh.. apparently there was this website some nincompoot set up to rally votes to see the psycho thru each week...
some americans really have nothing better to do...
yar.. and with scotty the fatty.. and anthony the lesser version of clay still in the competition... there was no doubting that the final 3 would be vonzell, carrie and bo... ok... not that i was rooting for constantine the 'butt crack face".. maybe just nadia..

hmm.. so who am i rooting for to reach the finals??
i must admit... i'm a sucker for the big ballads... and really was expecting bo to be kinda non-chalant bout the competition.. and hence throwing the competition... sometimes the audience really votes for the contestant who wants it bad enough... case in point.. scotty the fatty...

but anyway... after watching the commercial free telecast of idols... bo is the sure shot.. if he doesn't get thru... at least he'll still be guranteed a record deal...

vonzell suffered from some nerves with the big ballad.. thats second week in a row... cos she knows that she's the underdog going into the final three... with carrie never in the btm 3... and bo fast gaining popularity
and it looks like she might just break down at the finals if she gets there.. case in point.. diana degarmo's bung note when she performed Don't Cry Out Loud at the finals..not as if she would hv beaten fantasia... hmm... vonzell is a bit like fantasia huh.. without the big lips and ass... ok so maybe america doesn't need another fantasia... heh... at least she wasn't another jasmine trias... who's more like a shapelier version of scotty the fattie..

carrie... hmm... those who like her will say that she's really likeable... but those who don't will prob find her boring... i actually think that she's likeable when she's done with the song.. and a tad mechanical when singing... perhaps she's too focussed in trying to hit those high notes... but yar... i think she could do with a little more emotions...
but what's not to like?? she looks like alicia silverstone... she's an all american country girl....

let's just wait and see if there'll be any surprises...

just for ming...

doggy2
Originally uploaded by lepetitmac.

look how happy he is..
and how cute.. haha..
u can't see the overbite and bulging eyes in this photo...

ok.. this should brighten up ur day a little.. =)

i'm tired of writing...

bleahhh....
in the words of ming.... SHOW ME DA MONEY....
ok.. it was fun... initially... kinda fancy to begin with...
but there's always such as thing as OVERKILL...

i've written about 8 write ups...
and since they are mostly paid editorials (ie advertisements disguising as articles...)
you can only imagine the amount of mediocre stuff waiting to be embellished...
bleaah.....

only one week into the job.. and i've enough stories to tell for a long long time...

take this for example..
interior designers dont speak english... ok not well.. ok maybe only some of them speak badly...
i had to call DESTON.. just so that he could refer me to PAUL... who took a good 10mins to refer me to ELLIE.... and then directed my inquiries to DESTON.... what the.....????????!!!!!!!!

*faint*

i am having phobia of calling them up...

this other firm paid for an ADVERTORIAL... but i still had to churn out 1500 words... and the best thing is... i have to put in the name of the suppliers and waht nots along the way...
so as he was taking me on a walk thru over the phone..

guy01:.. ah yar.. and the parquet floor... you must say the supplier name.... chip and booty

me: huh? chips and vouz de?? (thinking that its some fancy name....

guy01: yar yar.... ah... then the sliding door.. is special one.....

me: eeeerrr.... wait.. can u spell cheeefs and beau des please...

guy01: oh.... CHEAP... as in not expensive one... and BEAUTY.... like beautiful.......

me: oh... CHEAP & BEAUTY!

yes.. so tehre.. what a job... never thought i'd coin the three words CHEAP AND BEAUTY in one sentence....
i am thinking of a psuedonym....

bleahha....

**WOOF**

doggy
Originally uploaded by lepetitmac.

my current houseguest...
my home is now the new spca for ming-discards.. heh... can't wait for when she dumps nellie here... then she can help me with the cleaning....

ok.. back to my houseguest...
who does nothing but eats and sleeps... and poops... can't blame him... nothing interesting in admiralty... and the rain just means that the garden is too wet for him to walk ard...

but i think he doesn't really mind... he seems contented to sleep... and change to a differnt spot to sleep every now and then... and follow anyone who's moving ard the house

oh yes.. he stares out of the window too!.. enjoying the view? prob not.. this doggy is scared of heights and can't jump... prob waiting for the woman who dumped him here.... tsk tsk

it happend so suddenly... a trip to town.. and the next thing he knew.. he was at the doorstep of the infamous blk688D... *whimper woof woof whimper*

it pours...

my dossier is filling up with many more tasks and errands this hols...
it will soon overflow...

more articles!!
yay yay....
the verdict is in... the editor loves my work... and i will survive to contribute to more issues....
get your copy at the nearest newstands!! haah...
i can hear the money rolling in... whooopeeee!!!

ray ray: the circulation of ur mag will increase by at least three... yup THREE ppl offered to go pick up a copy that my BY-LINE (not BI-LINE.... ) appears in!! heee.... the power of pseudo-celebrity writers...

doggysitting....
i WONDER HOW i got this job...
tsk tsk... the poor doggy with a gross overbite gets abandoned by litte-miss-i-throw-everything-away-after-one-week...
(case in point... the tiffany stuff that got 'lost'... damaged phone... and now a little living thing... at least she din dump u in the trash and claim that she din know where IT ended up...)
you may just out-marry ms elizabeth taylor before u even hit the big 5-0

heh... but in all honesty.. walking the dog isn't that different from going to the gym with ming ming... heeee...
(ok she is SO gonna kill me.... but... but... i cleaned up my room so that the dog can move ard without tripping on his stumpy legs...!! brownie points?)

and of course... last but not least...
dissertation stuff...
readings... more readings... those endless readings...

*lemme go get another cup of coffee.....

bye bye boh....

its now a little past nine... i'm guessing boh boh has met sy in kl after a gruelling 6hr train ride....
they are now on their way to hatyai...
met boh in the morning to give her a 'big' send-off... errr... more like accompany that poor gal to the train station lah...
and have her last fancy meal... ie: sandwhiches at starbucks with organic vanilla soy latte...

you guys should hv seen her... without her agnes b. tees... camper shoes...
haha...
lugging her big yellow backpack.. trudging ard jb in her flip flops...
but like i tell her... its only the beginning of her trip... it all goes downhill from here.... haha.. imagine 4sets of clothing rotated over three mths...

anyway... they're off on their trip.. *wave*
send me postcards!!!! =)

i LOVE my job

=)
i am now officially (all my other odd jobs)/ freelance writer!
heee...
i'm thrilled...
writing and being paid for doing it!!!
wooo hooo....
sure beats my own little 'publication' here...
but then again... all writers start somewhere...

(no... do not associate me with that xiaxue person... oh pls...)

imagine it now...
first an interior design mag... next lifestyle/food...
and then... FASHION!!
oooh.. fashion...

*camera flashes away....sauntering down the red carpet*

ok ok... i'm getting a little carried away...
but we must aim high rite??

*grin*

lobster red...

wendy has long warned me of the ill effects of exposure to the sun...
i had to learn it the hard way...
and just so that none of u guys have to learn it for urself...

SUNSCREEN... yes.. even if you are tanning... especially on the face...
any form of SPF...
*bawl*
i should't have been to enthusiastic about the last set of laps just before going to shower..
damn!
and i shouldn't have dozed off while lying there on the tanning chair...
*wail*

apparently the 11am to 1pm sun gives the legs a nice hue... but totally burns ur face and neck...
the 2pm to 4pm sun does the opposite...
its a catch 22 if u ask me...

and ms lee... the eye mask din work... somehow it converted the fine lines into ONE not-so-fine line.....
and my pores are showing.. and the sebacuous glands are in overdrive....
*eeks*
i need botox... and i din see it coming at the age of 25!

next change

THE STYLIST TO THE NON-STARS

ps: anyone who should see mr lim before i do... take a photo of the hairdo and send to me via mms so i can blog about it...
=)

pam+me

pam+me
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just some of the things that i did this weekend...
catching up with frens over lunch at kbox (again...) photos courtesy of nokia6170

terry+pam+me

terry+pam+me
Originally uploaded by lepetitmac.

ok.. terence aka my dentist was there too..
and no.. i wasn't supermposed into the pic... i tend to stick to a formula when it comes to posing for photos..

the rest of the week...

consisted of a lot of coffee with boh boh...
the interpreter (a thriller starring nicole kidman+sean penn...) comes highly recommended with four thumbs up... (mine+boh's)
we finally get to meet 'section'... dun ask me.. i din give her the nick..

samaritan girl (part of the film fest) put morbid thoughts in my head.... haha... there was a point when i wondered if the father would run his daughter over while she was removing a rock from under the wheel... *eeps*

ice cold beer... otherwise known as THE WEST chicken WING... "please field any qsns that you have for ms lee to her publicist... and we'll get back to you..."
ps: mr low... wipe that amusement off ur face!!

and coffee club after 1am... otherwise known as the attempt to make boh's trip down to town more worth it... =) thanks for the milkshake... really took away the wooziness of the beer...

and whatever i said... i was under the influence of alcohol... heh...

the week after...

its monday... exactly one week after the submission...
i'm still wearing the eyebags from the entire mth's worth of sleep depravation...
and trying to make up for all the mcdonald's eaten in the past two weeks...

one more assignment to go... i better get started on that soon...
haha.... been out so often that it feels like it's the holidays already..
but i should know better...

the irony of being a procrastinator... and one who doesn't work well under last minute pressure....
eeps...

ok... but first things first.. a HAIRCUT...
heh... supercuts wisma has finally relocated to cineleisure... and what a way to start the holidays... (ok ok.. the holidays don't really start till i submit my theory assignment and proposal for dissertation....) i can look fwd to the hols can't i??

oops... a little recap of the past week's events...

gym with elf-turned-mistress aka bohboh...
running errands with elf-turned-mistress aka sugama....
kbox lunch with lala, yue and yuan... a day of cheena songs from a long time ago ( and no... i don't sound like jacky chan!!!)
lunch at ember courtesy of elf-turned-mistress aka sugama
mahjong at the sugama palace aka 4 r**** r*** (now what's the postal code again?? *snigger*)

and that should bring us up to date....

dobbies at work...

one bright and cheery 'tie-dye' looking shirt (from A/X sale bin nonetheless... which season issit from ah? )
april's issue of harpers' bazaar
lotsa chocolates.. (no they are not godiva.. i'm really low maintainence...)
one bottled soya bean milk...
and an assortment of polar pastries and puffs... (which raja and matthew are pretty thankful for...)

high quality rochor tauhuey.. (they hv to be high quality if it comes in such quantities.. rite boh?)

my stream of welfare during the midst of preparing for the submission...
my glam elves are the best!!!
don't worry... you'll get ur socks soon.. then you won't need to be elves no more...
=P

ok tired... can't come up with a hualala blog to go with the occassion... but yar lah.. thanks guys... food's always appreciated ;)