Siannnn. Why is the weekend so short. Have to go back to work tmr, n then break, then work again for half a day. So anti climax. Having the tempting contemplation to skip work altgr, but trying to motivate myself by repeatedly telling myself that im poor n that i actually enjoy myself at work. Im obviously lying abt the 2nd part, since how interesting can admin work be. And yes, i think ive repeated that sentence the umpteen time liao.

Been having a bit of alone time at home the past 2 days. Ok, i wasnt exactly home at all today, with church n meeting frens n all. Well, my parents are both overseas, so im left here tgr wif my bro to take care of ourselves until Monday. Well being almost 21 i guess i have to get used to being independent n sensible. Which means trying to be less financially dependent on my parents, doing some of my chores, n learning to settle matters myself instead of relying on their help all the time. Well i hope i dun screw myself up by not being able to wake up tmr.

Watched 200 pounds beauty today. And i officially erase ALL bias i had abt tt show in the past, saying how lame it is. Its one helluva show man. Its funny, sad, touching, deep and full of meaning all at the same time. I really recommend watching it, my friend alrdy watched it twice n doesnt mind watching it again. Just dun forget the tissues. Even the guys, the sensitive new age ones. Heh.

I dun seem to have enuf time to myself. Havent done alot of things i wanna do. Like catch up with sleep, watch the anime i've downloaded, play my ps2 rpg, work out, n try my hand at cooking new stuff. I nid a break from everything soon.

And shall post smth to do with Ugly Betty & 200 pounds beauty soon. Yea the topic's superficiality n outer beauty. Coming soon, stay tuned.

Ooooh HK in less than a week. Cun help feeling unprepared, yet theres always the thrill in spontaneity. Not that we're gonna go there without a plan, eventually. So, ill be leaving behind 4 days of workload, which might totally kill me when i return to work. Gotta remember to get souvenirs for my colleagues tho, since they're gonna cover some of the work for me. Worries abt my uni application also set aside. The replies, hopefully, should come by the time i get back, n im praying for gd news.

Oh i just went for a haircut, n i think it looks gd. No more color, n back to the old school spiky look hah. Ok himbo nonsense. Next mth's coming! Great Singapore Sale. Shopping madness. Wooo, considering how long i haven't shopped. Or had gd food. And i've always wondered why some of my younger colleagues dun keep in contact with their ex classmates or old time friends. Its simply cos ppl are being tied down by work with only sat n sun, theres just not enuf time for urself, family, and all of ur frens.

Ok wow i can link this to wad i wanted to touch on last time: priorities in life. Different people have different priorities in life. Some may put family first, some put their career as top priority. And thats totally up to personal choice, and i guess we gotta respect each other's wishes, no matter how u disagree on their decisions. So, an open question to fellow readers out there: what is most important in ur life right now?

Tickets check. Hotel check.
Itinerary undone. Money changing undone. Luggage undone.
Woohoo we're leaving on a jet plane....
In abt 100 hrs.

Woah freaking bloated. All thanks to the cheap but good peranakan food at Ivin's, bukit timah area. Ordered a hell lot of dishes, all thanks to me. Overall everything was nice, tho some a bit too salty. A pic speaks a thousand words, so here's 2 thousand words down below:

From left, clockwise: Babi Pongteh, Ayam Buah Keluak, Stuff Chilly Selar, Beef Rendang, Sotong Assam Puteh, Nonya Chap Chye, Bakwan Kepeting.

Chendol, Pulut Hitam n Gula Melaka Sago x3. Triple kill.

Going to HK in less than 2 wks! Strangely dun feel hyped up abt it, probably still early, n cos we havent planned the itinery. Thats y we're meeting tmr to discuss stuff. Guys busy working, while the girls busy studying for exams, therefore being able to meet up is alrdy a v achievable thing.

Randomness. Been really busy at work the past week, working till really late. Everyone at work is falling sick too, probably me passing the germs. Blame it on poor ventilation i tell ya. My boss thus bought an air freshener n the room now smells of lavender. Gd thing its the more expensive ones, so it doesnt smell like the ones used in toilets.

Hmm wad else did i do this wk. Went to a colleague's daughter's bbq; went over to my other company's plant at chai chee; went vivo to look look see see at wad stuff i wanna get during gss. Nth too interesting.

Friday the 13th. Its true i tell ya, how everything can go wrong n unlucky stuff happens. The one time when i had to forget my working pass cos i left it in my other bag, security suddenly tightened, when normally the guards dun even bother whether you show your pass to them or not. Plus ive nvr forgotten my pass ever, cept today. Wad are the chances man.

Fell sick yest, with a bad stomach. Didnt really noe wads wrong wif me either, but rite now im having a sore throat n bad cough. The heatiness kind. Dun ask me how a stomachache can turn into a cough, im equally confused. At one point i even thought i was turning anorexic haha. Good thing i took a day off to rest n recover, smth i havent been getting enuf of ever since i started work. Being in the poorly ventilated freezing office, working long hours and sleeping late has taken a toll on me. Plus the battering weather these days, its no wonder people fall sick like flies.
So those wif exams coming up, take care. And good luck, tho it isnt a factor you should be banking on.

Ok i have many entries i wanna write that are way past their due date. Simply can't find the time to. And even if i did, i would be prioritising my blog over activities that can be categorised under a few of the 7 deadly sins:

Lust -
Not porn you filthy readers. I've been listening to a fair share of scandals happening to ppl arnd me, as well as sharing, willing or unwillingly, to ppl abt a few of mine. NOT tt my life is that scandalous to start wif, so there really isnt much to tell.

Gluttony -
Oh yea i went to Batam during Gd Friday last wk, for 2 days 1 night. And no there was no sex activities engaged. Oh dear am i making my readers all sound like sick perverts? Seriously, Batam is not just a place for sex. Leave the thought of sex to the old uncles who visit that place alone. I went wif my family, minus my bro. You can spend thousands (of rupiah) there, feel like a king, and still come back to Singapore not much poorer. Anw, gorged on REALLY cheap and good food, making me feel damn depressingly fat now. The unhealthy list consists of indo bbq chicken, seafood, bak kut mee sua, mutton satay n a hotel bfast buffet. Ew the horror.

Greed -
Been surfing alot of fashion sites, getting indulged in materialistic wants. Tempted to get a few of the items online, since they're cheaper even when shipping is included. And looking forward to the Great Singapore Sale, where i can spend a part of my pay on updating my wardrobe just b4 uni starts. Gosh i sound damn himbotic here. Ahem.

Sloth -
The biggest sin of all. For me at least. Tho pride follows closely behind, and they say pride is the most deadly sin, and is the cause of all the other sins. But i digress. Laziness is the main reason for me not doin alot of things in life. And detest it i do, as much as i try to overcome it. But you dun got a sin deadly for nth. And its stuck to me like a bug, invisible at first glance but subtlely present if you stare long enuf. Late for appointments, slacking away my sch life in the past, refusing to wake up in the mornings, not goin to church. You name it, he's in it.

OK, random pics from my trip.

My hotel rm. At a price of 45SGD, theres nth much to complain abt. Not a fan of green tho. Oh no green power ranger lovers dun sue me.

Their supposedly v nice local tea. Guess its like their Yeo's. N common sense tells me the name translates to bottled tea.

Hmm my entries of late only seems to retard a person's intelligence. Too tired at this hour to produce snything more than trashy. Originally wanted to write abt my philosophy abt "priorities in life" but look where i ended up. Oh wells.

And so yest marks zw's n hs's combine bdae celebration at THE cafe del mar at sentosa. Happening. I spent a big hoo haa trying to dress to the occasion, spending abt 1.5 hrs. And then the rain had to pour so freaking heavily that even wif an umbrella, my waist down was drenched, plus my shoulders. Worse, after i reached the bus stop, the thunderstorm cooled off to a slight drizzle. Just great. I was probably the only one in the bus looking like a soaked idiot hu just plunged into a pool or smth. And cos i had to bring an umbrella out i had to bring a bag. Damn sian diao.

Ok, en route to cafe del mar. Took 963 there, which took damn long to wait for and to reach harbourfront. Then had to take the sentosa bus in. I tot i was the only one not there yet, until i met becky at the sentosa bus queue. Oh then we got off the bus at beach station. Now here comes the stupid part. The bus driver then told us to take the blue line shuttle service in order to reach siloso beach, which was where cafe del mar was located. That was where we met jiayan. Then we alighted at imbiah lookout after taking the shuttle, only to realise we're at the wrong place and we had to walk a distance to the sky tram which we took and it brought us back to BEACH STATION. So in conclusion, the stooopid bus driver told us the wrong info and make us go all over place only to end up back at where we started again. Urgh.

Ok, so the 3 of us were the latest to arrive. But we were only later then the previous grp by 5-10 mins haha. Ok nvm still latest. Everyone was so good-looking in their nice outfits n dresses haha. The ambience was good, tho it was kinda hard to talk to the peeps on the other side of the long table. Food was below average, desserts were their saving grace.


This was wad zw n xw had, pan fried sea bass with piperade vegetables, new potatoes and simple jus. Wadeva that means. The name was taken directly from the menu, cool description huh. Didn't express such coolness in the taste dept tho. The sea bass had a fishy taste, n i personally din like it.


This was much much better: seared salmon with scallops, truffle leek, mousseline potatoes and sheelfish emulsion. Another chim name o_O. The salmon was a lil overcooked tho, but overall quite a nice feeling.


This came from the rice n pasta section of the menu, which i had. Called marisco, its paella wif prawn, scallops, squid n lobster. The rice was sticky n hard, like whole grain. With the lemon i squeezed the whole thing was sour n herby. Not v nice, but forced myself to finish it cos it was ex heh. But the seafood was good, fresh and chewy.

Yay, gd thing desserts can seldom go wrong. The best dessert was the white chocolate truffle, as shown. Nice creamy texture, fluffy n milky. Eating the whole thing by urself can be too much to handle tho, as said by one of the waiters. The other 2, lemon mousse and warm chocolate pudding, shown below, were just average imo. The lemon mousse tasted just like cheesecake wif lemon sauce, packed in a wineglass. The warm chocolate pudding wasn't really a pudding, more like a sponge cake, with a slightly crisp outer layer.

Overall, the price the bdae peeps paid for was more worth it for the ambience rather than the food. And some of the portions can be quite small. So only come here for special occasions period.

The restriction abt dinners is that the whole affair is such a short one, and even when you wanna do smth after that, its alrdy v late n everyone has to catch the last bus/train home, thus ending the nite just like tt. Was quite sian diao after everyone decided to go home acty. Haiz cun do anything anw, only can sulk and whine on my blog. Oh wells looking forward to the HK trip just like everyone else, and wad jh n jaime has in store for us for their bdae party. Heh.

Finally, a clique pic of that nite! Everyone's present, a very rare sight indeed. And looking good too! Not that we havent been all these while heh.