It’s another deardear’s day out

This time the excuse to spend a bomb on dinner was that the dinner was meant as a very belated birthday celebration for me. We went to Dan Ryan last night coz he felt like eating the oyster shooters.

A series of unfortunate-looking photos ensue….

All smiles…


Then I told kh not to smile with teeth as I love his cheeky no teeth smile.

He ended up looking like that…


“Can you please smile???” I pleaded.

He remembered that he should not show his teeth when he smile so he did this…


I give up! And all along I was smiling the same idiotic smile in all 3 photos without much change in expression.

My mum walked in and saw the photos. I explained to her that I was teaching kh how to look good in photos, resulting in these unfortunate-looking shots. She begged me not to make him “gek4 sai4” and let him go au natural.

Ok…. Food time! These photos don’t do justice to the yummy food! The place was quite dark and so the food shots look really horrendous with flash.

Appetizer: Clam chowder in bread bowl


Appetizer: Oyster shooters


Main course: Deardear’s yummylicious steak… it was sooooo juicy!


Main course: My ribs… Not mine… the cow’s.


Dessert: Sinful chocolate cake


Deardear called it the cake of lust.

Peek a…


No BOO!

We ate till our tummies were so bloated. Usually by suppertime, I would get all hungry again but last night, the food took the whole night and morning to digest.

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Books Books Books

I need to buy books again coz I’ve finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and for the past few days, I had nothing to read on the mrt. I tried very hard not to buy 8 Days coz that’s like $2.00 x 4 = $8.00 every month. Huge investment.

20% off for Kinokuniya privilege card members is ending on 24th June. For the rest of the week, I’ll be working till night. Hence, I had to squeeze some time from my off day to drop by for a visit.

As the age-old adage goes: Never judge a book by its cover.

That is like so untrue! I totally throw that saying out of the window.

Without any recommendations or reviews, book covers are what attract me to buy a book.

At the fiction shelves, an array of beautifully illustrated book covers greeted me, those kinds of illustrations that I like. Simple illustration, cute illustration, quirky illustration, bold colours, sweet water colours, butterflies and flowers.

I was like a little girl in a candy shop.

Heck, even their penguin classics are no longer the kind we have for Literature. They have pulled out those black-spine-portrait-painting versions. Damn! I wanted all my books to look the same.

Jane Austen novels have revolutionized from classic to pop culture and so have their covers.


They resemble those How to Kill your Husband books.


I hope I’ll never have to read that.

A cover splashed with bold colours and dotted with butterflies.


And finally the book that I bought… Just a Little Disco on an Open-Top bus.


Don’t ask me what this book is about. I was attracted to the bold colours and quirky undies illustration. It belongs to the range of humour-fiction and I think I need a good laugh after being disappointed with Dorian Gray (the character, not the book) for the past weeks. I feel like doing a review on the book (Dorian Gray, not Just a Little Disco). Will do so when I’ve got the time.

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Mum bought a humongous mango the size of a Hawaiian papaya.


When she related to us the size of a mango which she ate at a friend’s house few days ago, nobody believed her. Now that she has bought those mangoes, we must admit that seeing is believing. The 8 Days shows the mango’s size in relativity. And damn, I bought 8 Days yesterday, as I didn’t have a book to read on the mrt.

Simba is such a brat at times. She cat-walked stealthily into my 2nd sis’s room and did this while she was reading the newspaper. How rude!

Deadear's day out

I love it when my off days and kh's off days coincide. It is great that both of us have weird working days and hours at times and an offday out isn’t a crowded Sunday.

We went to IKEA on Wednesday. Haven’t been there for 3 years. It was CROWDED. The only thing I bought were some heart shaped ice cube trays.

Haven’t eaten these swedish meatballs for 3 years too.


After that we went to watch Cars. Do remember to stay on till the end credits. It was funny but not as great as Toy Story, Monster Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles... ...

End of the day kh looks like he was either tired or trying to look idiotic.


World cup season... ... 4 years ago I was betting together with my OCBC Ah Lian colleague and asking my friend to help me bet from other sources too. In the end after the whole season ended and after all the debit and credit calculations, I only won like a few dollars? I even got chided by a friend for spoiling the beauty of the game by betting and watching for the sake of seeing where my money went. This year, no itchy fingers. Even kh has given up on mj for awhile. No gambling this time.

Busy days ahead

Dear good people,

I have started working and my hours are very odd. I work from afternoon till night and for the month of June, I try to give tuition in the morning since the kids are having holidays. Therefore, my days are quite busy. My confirmed off day is Wednesday and 1 weekend. The only time I can meet up with frenz would be those unearthly hours and what else are opened at that time, but pubs and clubs and supper joints.

I have also no time to use the internet during the weekdays so I won't be blogging as much as now.

And for those of you who ask, I'm still in the education line. Alot of multi tasking but my main job scope is planning curriculum for primary English gifted program and teaching.

Love,
me

Wednesday Night = SUBA night

On Wednesday night, we gathered at Suba for a second time. This time some st nicks classmates were there too. I haven’t seen most of them for at least 2 years.




All looked really cosmopolitan except me. Hehe.. I was decked in t-shirt and shorts as it was my off day.

A conversation that went on between me and 1 of my st nicks fren:

SN fren: Hey I heard that you are teaching… some special teaching.

Me: Yeah what you heard was old news. But I’m still in the education line.

Sn fren: Oh really? [Eyeing my golden hair and nodding uncertainly] Are you an English teacher?

Me: Sort of… hey… how do you know??!

SN fren: Because you corrected my English just now. You told me it was wasabi peas and not nuts.

[Both laugh hysterically]

Me: How about you?

SN fren: Oh I catch criminals [puffing heavily on a cigarette with a glass of beer and 3 cigarette boxes in front of her]

Irony…

We saw Tiff with her colleagues there too. What a coincidence. She was really eager to join the Bimbo club. She thought the ring-watch was like the coolest thing on the planet. The status of her membership is still pending as she has to buy the ring. In the meantime, she had ditched her colleagues for us as she said she wanna hang out with the cool group. Bimbo = Cool?

She is really worthy to be in the club. We were trying out the Jappy-Taiwanese cutesy gals number pose when she demonstrated the whole thing to us in the most bimbotic manner.

And so we had fun doing those numbers...

1, 2, 3, 4, 5


5, 4, 3, 2, 1


Most of the st nicks people had left by that time, leaving only pinky and her colleague who sportingly joined in the bimbo shots to increase the number.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7


Vincent stood in front of us and enquired if he should get the whole pub to join us so we can make up till a hundred. We asked him to join in the shot. But he protested, “Don’t want. I don’t like to act cute like you all.”

He had to eat his words!


Jeremy, the bartender, wanted to join in with a manly pose. So, we gave him MAN. We gave him James Bond 007.


Geral was so high on wasabi. She was laughing like a hyena even before she started drinking a lot.


I forgot what drinks these are.


Blurred but pretty shot of 2 gals who were each other's 1st friend in primary 1.


After brightening this image, it is my new favourite shot of us. And that's geral's finger.


Very tall shot glasses


We were supposed to stick out our tongues but zanne spoilt it.


Get us away from the freak at the back!


Trigger happy…

Sticking out our tongues…

Acting pathetic…


Never knew that geral and my arms are long enough to fit 5 of us in the frame.

“Own pose. Own pose.” Geral and me got mo qi and acted sweet, while tiff, xtina and zanne went for the dao look.


Jeremy joined in for the Hip hop pose.


Vincent: You all not hop enough.
Me: But we are hip enough.

Jeremy folded roses for us coz we teased him last week when he only folded for zanne.

xtina hua chi


geral hua chi


jo hua chi


tiff is the most hua chi


drink drank drunk


Ok give her credit. She is not that drunk la. Drunk enough to keep reiterating the fact that she has a conference call from New York at 7am that morning.

5 human flowers


Special bouquet for zanne.


Read more of the night's happenings in geral's voice.

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On Saturday night, I attended my cousin’s wedding.


My cousin is the groom.

Best cosin, Lydia, the sis of the groom.


Together with another of their brother, we used to hang out alot when we were kids. I loved staying over at their place. Their house is like a haven for kids as they owned all the latest toys. (Although they had all the latest toys, they weren't spoilt brats. They were fortunate to have uncles and aunts from the other side who doted on them.) I've never had a Barbie doll and my 1st and only barbie was given to me by Lydia. The boys used to be very notti little kids. We had so much fun fighting with the bullies at the playground. Sand throwing, paper bullets with rubber band... When we got home, the boys were caned by their dad for setting a bad example while the gals got away scot-free.

Those memories...

Grandma and the couple


I taught Grandma how to do the cutesy number pose and she did #5. Too bad that photo isn’t in my camera.

To take off the ribbon décor, we had to go round the table like 10 times. All my little cousins were laughing at us while da jie snapped a shot as she thought we looked very cute going round and round…





And I repeat, soooo many weddings and birthdays in June.

24 facts about this blogger

I’ve been busy spending time with kh the past few days. Went shopping with him on Friday. So taken aback when he suggested going shopping. Haha… ended up not buying anything but stationeries. Attended a church wedding and 2 babies’ birthdays yesterday. 3 June 2006 is indeed a popular day for birthdays and to get married. And it’s really really a trend to marry young and have kids manz. In both babies parties I saw so many young couples with kids. Saw a lot of cute babies too.

This baby has got very cute puppy dog eyes. Even the guys were so enthralled by his eyes.


At St Andrew's Cathedral


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I was tagged by Joel a few weeks back to write 24 facts/ things/ habits about myself. I have tried to avoid tormenting my brain cells by conveniently pretending not to have read his entry but I figured since I would have a lot lesser time to blog from now on, I’d take the opportunity to blog more now.

Here goes:

1. The Gemini trait that describes me best would be my dual personality. I can be adaptable yet resistant to change, intelligent yet stupid, capable yet incompetent, eloquent yet tongue tight, full of life yet boring, talkative yet quiet, friendly yet hostile, neat yet untidy, decisive yet fickle, having teacher-like qualities yet ah-lian-like characteristics… … The list is inexhaustive.

2. I don’t have any talent to boast about except for being able to brush my teeth without the toothpaste dripping for a very long time. I can brush my teeth while walking around, reading the newspapers and even lying down.

3. I get into states of nausea as frequently as I get headaches.

4. My tear ducts are abominable little pricks. I never tear but cry. Tears flow relentlessly like streams whenever I yawn, feel tired or am sick. Tears could flow on any occasion and at anytime even though I’m not feeling sad. Thus, tears are bad indications of my emotions. I really hate my overactive tear ducts. They often get me into unwanted attention and misperception.

5. I don’t have any best friends coz I don’t believe in having just one best friend.

6. I am very afraid of killing Simba by stepping on her. I always have this little paranoia that one day my family members or I would trample Simba to death.

7. I’m bad at recognizing people and am quite blind. I don’t really look at people in the face when I walk so I get a lot of “Why you never say hi to me”, “Why you so dao”, “I saw you but you didn’t see me” etc. Hmm… Why didn’t they say hi to me?

8. I eat almost everything except crabstick, mushroom swiss from Burger King, smelly vegetables like celery, Chinese parsley, pang1 cai3 etc. The reason why I don’t touch the first two now was coz I used to like them a lot, ate too much of them and vomited endlessly.

9. All my clothes have to be folded in the same way and facing the right direction.

10. I love doing housework whenever I feel like doing it and I hate doing it whenever somebody like dad or mum ask me to do it.

11. I hate, abhor, loathe, scorn, detest people who with condescending eyes, say I’m skinny and enquire if I do eat. I absolutely feel like slapping them when they exclaim “Sure or not?” after informing them that I eat like a pig. What audacity to question me if I’m sure about things related to myself!

12. I am a classic example of xiao3 shi2 liao3 liao3, da4 wei4 bi4 jia1. (Loosely translated into: You may be clever when young but it is not always the case as you grow older) My class position in lower primary is 1st and 2nd all the way until I converted to a mediocre student and subsequently degenerated into a lousy weenie who ranked 30+ 40+ position in a class of 45. My L1R5 was 20+ and 30+ points in secondary school. Even the polytechnic wouldn’t accept such grades.

13. I used to think of myself as a good for nothing until I got into NYJC and subsequently RJC.

14. I scored grades like DOFF, EOFF, COF in my 2 years there.

15. I love to marry young, have kids young and be a young mummy. But when the time comes, I don’t really want it and don’t know what is wrong with me.

16. I don’t really like eating in the movies. I can’t care for any popcorn.

17. I love the smell of rain and sun-dried linens.

18. I’m a well-known pig to many. Da jie calls me “Piggy” while er jie calls me “pig”. Come to think of that, I haven’t heard them calling my name for years. Even my name is saved as “Piggy” in my da jie’s handphone address book. Kh calls me “pigpig” while my good friends simply think of me as a pig.

19. I cannot use the chopsticks well and am embarrassed but as long as I can pick my food with it, who cares?

20. I stumble and roll over my tongue when I speak Mandarin. The only thing Chinese about me are my black roots.

21. I would love to have a driving license but sheer laziness has stopped me from getting one. When I was 18, I took basic theory for fun, passed and went on to take advance theory and passed again. I had no money for practical after that. After I had saved enough money I did not have the time to learn. When I had the time, I did not have the money. When I had the time and money, I was simply too lazy. Just shoot me.

22. I am a subconscious workaholic. Even though my days are jammed packed with activities like tuition and fun, I suffered from SEVERE lack of appetite and insomnia the past few weeks due to not getting out to work.

23. I could never deviate much from the education line.

24. I just signed the letter of appointment today and am wondering if I’ve made the right choice.

And the rule for this game would be to tag 6 more after you complete your list. Rules are meant to be broken so I shan't tag any but leave it to those who want to do it to do it. Do remember to inform me when you are done. =) Have fun!