And spent the rest of the day working on my e-learning for a course sometime next week.

Econs is this coming Sat! And Law is sometime after next.
I realllly hope it doesn't kill me.
God, pls help me...

Yup, and D&D is this coming Fri.
(which automatically means I gotta skip Econs again)

I'm hoping it's fun, with all the VVIP and to check out what everyone's idea of glam.
The theme for this year's D&D is the Integrated Resorts coming up on our shores.

Not that difficult to dress up, if you've caught Ocean's Eleven, or Twelve or Thirteen.
Thing is, I still haven't decided what to wear.
Heard the table cloth's gonna be black, so arriving in black will just camoflague you among the sheets.
White isn't an alternative either, cos I'll end up looking like a bridesmaid.

Haha. I'll think about it on the car to work tomorrow.

Coming Sunday is also my favourite boy's birthday.
Whole lot of fun stuff lined up.
Heck. I wish the test weren't this weekend so I could at least enjoy first.

Anyway, throughout we ate sausages, satays, sang the birthday song and ate the blackforest from Emicake.
Left around 9.30pm, Boyfriend came to pick me up for a midnight flick at The Cathay.

We caught Rendition!
Whoever that said it sucks, must be watching a different movie, cos I thought it's really not bad.

And in the car, he passed me this bag and asked me if it's okay.

Okay? What's okay?

When I peered inside the bag, I caught a glimpse of the Nalgene I wanted to get since eons ago.
I kept procrastinating, cos I thought it's pretty extravagant. Haha, and he went to get it for me!

I'm suddenly receiving so many treats, it's almost like my birthday instead. Hahaha

And let's not forget my uncle popped by in the afternoon, cos my cousin Jasmine holiday-ed in Japan and got me a souvenir and some great chocolates.

Thanks Jas!

Also, if you would have realised by now, I changed my blogskin. Just felt bored (after studying econs the whole morning), so wanted to have a little face lift! (In line with Picanto's face lift model)

Hahaha, anyway, here it is.
It is the tab layout so you can't see everything (tagboard, links etc) in one page.
You gotta click to navigate.
Click on 'here', and not the words like 'entries' or 'friends' cos they will shutter.

If you don't get what I mean, visit me more often and you'll get used to it.
Also, also! Tag so I know you're here.
Randoms, meaningless, simple. Anything!
I just wanna hear from you!

And yes Jane, I miss ya too! Counting down to your return! We'll catch up then!

Great, it's now 3.37am and I'm still online.

Happy 21st Kev!

Nights all!

5 hours journey shouldn't be that difficult with these entertainment. Plus, I brought along my book! (I finished it fyi, will discuss it another entry)

My only grouse was that there was no in-cabin toilet and my bladder didn't exactly win me any prizes for being strong. (This will bring me to my horrible and nasty toilet experience later)

Thankfully, there were toilet breaks along the way.

I think I just woke up. Or emptied my bladder.
Either one.

First stop was Singapore Immigration at Tuas. This came quite quickly, I was still getting comfortable in my seat.

Next stop is at - scary background music- Yong Peng!

OH MY GOD.

The loo at Yong Peng is the most DISGUSTING I've ever been to. Like some toilet in my nightmare.
We stopped by Yong Peng at around 9am for a short breakfast and toilet break. So I thought might as well go to the toilet since it's gonna be a long way till KL.

1. I could smell the toilet from farfaraway. (I nearly threw my noodles out)


2. The first cubicle that greeted us, kept everyone away. (I heard a lot of 'eeeeeee', but I didn't have enough courage to look)
   
3. There is no queue inside. Like a mad house.


4. A stupid china women flung her wet hands and the water kena my legs. (I don't wanna know what water was that)
   
5. There were houseflies e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.


6. They are still using squat pans! (I don't use squat pans!)


7. Yong Peng toilet is just disgusting. PERIOD.

This is the legendary Yong Peng, near the supermarket area. I was too grossed out to even snap the toilet sign, PLEASE.

Moving on, the next stop was at M'sia checkpoints and that wasn't till another 2 hours later. By the time we got there, I had finished my book and was already snoozing. Boyfriend had to wake me up.

Along the way in our coach after another toilet break.

We reached KL around 1.30pm, checked into the hotel, dropped our stuff and hit the malls before you can count to 3.

It was good, not expensive at all. About RM 73 for 2 people, which sets you back around S$31.
You can hardly get Kenny Rogers for 2 people with that price here.

I'll say it's quite a steal.

Since I'm not privy to spicy food, McDonalds settled another meal (it's really cheap there), and the occasional Baskin Robbins for ice cream!
Sinful, but who cares. Really.

Starbucks is EVERYWHERE in KL. I don't know why.
So much so, that we thought we went 1 big round to arrive at the same location, when we were in fact already somewhere else.

Just that all the malls happen to have Starbucks at the entrance. Why ah?

Perhaps the 85th Starbucks we came across in 1 day.

At the cross junction at the streets, which reminded me of the time when we were at Bangkok a year ago.

Some DON'Ts at the KL Monorail station

Every monorail station is sponsored by a company. This company gets to plaster the whole station in its advertorial posters etc.

Like this station - Imbi, is sponsored by Hotlink (some Telco).
So when they announce the station, they go: "Imbi Station, Hotlink."
Haha, I actually thought Hotlink was part of the station's name.

Below the monorail station. More Hotlink.

LV Boutique!

Our 1st stop: Berjaya Times Square

At Berjaya Times Square, we took neoprints!
Funny right, to travel all the way to KL for photo stickers. Haha.
Anyway, their neoprint stands there are rather primitive in the way it operates.

Don't get me wrong. It looks like any of our 'Pretty in Tokyo' here.
All pink and colourful with neon lamps, but the way they do it, is just quite different.

In Singapore, we change the money into $1 coins and proceed to the selected booth to choose your own frame, take the pictures, design ourselves and VOILA!

Hahah. So now when you go KL, don't act swa ku like us k? :)

A random picture of 7-11 while waiting for our coach back to Sg!

View from the 33th!

Our room was on the 33th storey. Gives me an instant rush and claustrophobia looking down like that. And let's not forget the risk of dropping my phone and killing someone.

The room was so huge, and nice and comes with a balcony overseeing the skyline of Singapore, including the Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Suntec City, Marina and the coastal waters.

It does help that Swissotel the Stamford is right smack in Cityhall, with Suntec a stone's throw away and Raffles City literally just below our feet.

I think I can see my cabin on the Sg Flyer from here!

We checked in at 2pm, trotted over to Suntec to catch Jodie Foster in The Brave One at 4 pm. Nice movie, good ending, go catch it.

Returned with dinner and loadsa junk to last us through till this morning. Watched somemore tv when we returned and nua-ed until we fell asleep.
Sigh, such bliss. This is my exact definition of Eat, Sleep and be Merry.

Hahaha

The view at night is exceptionally beautiful.

$375 will get you a night this close to Esplanade. Right in the heart of the island.

Back to work tomorrow and it's the weekend already. Nonetheless I'm so happy I spent the last 4 days the way I did.

And it wouldn't had been the same without your company!

Love ya!

Here we go!

Sunday, October 21 11:29 PM

The crowd was slightly slower today (being Sunday) and normal beings have to work tomorrow, unless you're travelling and on leave for the next 4 days!

Hahaha

And so, yes. Slower crowd which definitely ease my job a little. Not the standing part though, you still need to stand and hover around with or without the stream of people.

Anyway, somehow after yesterday, today seems like 2nd nature to us, although foot still hurts BECAUSE feet will always hurt when you stand for 9 straight hours.

Over lunch at BK, Analyn and I were laughing over every little thing and funny/weird people we met at the fair. I'm so glad I'm doing this with her, cos we get so silly together it's fun.
I am just so glad and relieved it's over.

And Harsha came visiting too! All casual in shorts cos she got dead drunk last night. I shan't go into details, but that's Harsha for you. hahah
Oh yea, she turned a grand old age of 23 on Wed.
Happy Birthday Hershey!!

Alright, it's now 11.37pm and I've to wake up at 4am later.

Not funny at all.

I got to go. Catch up when I return.

Ciao!

Sleep Deprivation

Saturday, October 20 10:03 PM

My god, my god.

I've never ever ever felt so tired and weak in the knees (literally) before.

And as tired as I am, the next thing I'll do after updating is to plop on my mattress and snooze till tomorrow, when I have to get up at like, 6.30am AGAIN.

Friday
8.45am Reached Office
9am Meeting and Milo breakfast concurrent
10am Packed laptop and checked stuff
10.15am Hopped on a cab; flew down to Suntec
11am Made sure everything at Hall 404 is in place
11.30am Chatted up by a Nigerian lawyer. Tall.
12noon Lunch at Kenny Rogers with Analyn
2pm Working, sweating, toiling
6pm Left Suntec for class at Bugis
6.15pm Bumped into Sharon;walked to class together
6.35pm reached class (almost died from the long journey on high wedges and laptop in hand)
7pm Class begun
8.15pm Left class at half-time. Hope Morgan didn't notice.
9pm Reached Tampines Mall, stood whole train ride. Knees weak.
9.15pm Collect tickets for Super Bad. 19 bucks.
9.30pm Hopped onto Sylphy; went to Jacob's for dinner. (Finally unloaded of laptop, but still on high wedge)
11.15pm Returned to Century; played arcade. Won at Daytona. Happy.
11.45pm Movie started. Funny.
1.50pm Movie ended, drove home.
2.30pm Bathe and ready to sleep
2.31pm Sets alarm "6.30am"
2.32pm Know in my heart, that's 4 freaking hours.

Today
6.30am Woke up
8.05am March came;drove to Suntec. Heavy rain.
8.45am Work, work, work
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Work, work, work
6.30pm Left Convention Hall
6.31pm Phone rings, Boyfriend IS in convention Hall. Turns back, finds him and Theodore.
7.30pm Reaches home
7.35pm Opens letterbox. YAY! Finds new Citibank credit card! Swipe, swipe!
10.15pm Blogging and typing this exact sentence
10.20pm Sets alarm "6.30am" (christ, again!)
10.25pm Silently prays that crowd tomorrow will be smaller

Monday
6.30am Must reach 30 mins before check-in
7am Check-in

To be continued...................

Now you know why I'm so beat. 1 whole week of waking up at 6.30am is seriously NO joke at all.

I look like a pandaaa, who has a new credit card.

yay......zzzzzzzz

Over a bowl of Udon

Thursday, October 18 10:50 PM

Met Clara for lunch today. She trotted down from school and I too dragged my ass down to Capitol.

Met for Uma Uma Men, since I know Clara is practically a Japanese gourmet incarnate. She craves anything raw and jap-py.

But just as well, since it's been a while I had Uma since the one at CS closed down. (After giving us a 15%-discount-on-your-next-visit-coupon"

Crap.

Anyway, she has some Unagi Toji and I had udon. I don't know what it's cooked in, but it's nice. Like Ee-Mee.

Sorry ah, I'm still pretty much a chinese cuisine girl. Haha

Been ages since I met her, and thankfully she still looks the same! It's really fun and nice when you can not meet someone for so long, yet click exactly from where we left off since we last met.

Sigh, this kind of people. You only meet about a handful in your life.
I've met my handful. :)

After lunch (for once today, it truly felt like an hour), Clara offered to walk me back to office since she needed to go "ABC Shop".

When I heard, I was like: "WHAT shop???"

"ABC."

Hahaha, I stifle a giggle. I worked so long here, and I didn't know bout this shop.

(And then I realised it's a sundry shop, selling everything. Like A-Z) haha!

On the way, we passed by Bata. (I know the Buy And Throw Away joke, so don't even start)

I saw this amazingggggggggggg looking pair of wedge which I absolutely had to get. Went in, tried it. Went to the mirror for reassurance and: "Hello, new piece. Size 6 pls".

Clara's shopping hormones started to rage too, trying on pieces of footwear.
And one of the pairs she tried, I was like: "Hmmm, you look like you have one of this design already."

Then she roared in laughter:"Look at the other leg, goon!"

Ooops. :/

Anyway, she couldn't resist the array of temptation too, and got 1 pair. (Which I like too!)

I might return for the pink one, she bought the yellow.

Anyway, it's true I've been feeling kinda low for the past couple of days. It was really building up from so many many ways. School, work, people.

But no worries yea! Everything's good now.

And I can't be happier having all the people around me! It's very reassuring each time such shit happens. :)

Oh yah! Clara! The entry on 16 Oct when I said : "Thursday's lunch is gonna be fine, Gina. Trust me.". That wasn't referring to you yea?
We only made plans yesterday! So don't get me wrong.

And him! I love him loads. He sent me to work and gave me a breakfast goody bag.

In it, I found a baby-sized packet Milo and crackers with La Vache Qui Rit cheese spread.
All nicely wrapped. Hahaha. He very cute la.

Monday come quick! I wanna be in your company..

LIFE

9:57 PM

Al's hamster gave birth (don't ask me if that's Ham or Cheese), I have absolutely no clue.

There are 6 freaking small pink things underneath the Queen Bee now, each (I quote Jack - with sockets for eyes since it hasn't been opened)

Eeeeew.

Jack was the only one home then, and trust me. She called my mobile and I thought something at home caught fire.

She said (and many say) the dads are pervs, cos he eats his babies. So when I got home, I only saw 1 critter.

Apparently, Al's girlfriend took the Dad back to prevent a tragedy.

CAN YOU IMAGINE!! Hahaha, if she took the Mum back??! Oh my god, I would so laugh in her face.
Hahaha!

Anyway, below is a video, with compliments from Jack and her (lousy) VGA camera and live commentary.

Yes, It's blur but the thought of it being crystal clear just makes my hair stand. (not much hair in the 1st place. Haha)

Enjoy the works of Mother Nature the way it brings new life through this thing called the birthing process, salute to all NEW mummies!

Ham! Cheese! Whoever!

P/s I still hate these rodents.

All 6 feeding on the Mum.

Still feeding on the Mum. Ouch, must be sore.

Ham-lets?

or Cheese-lets??

Not funny, cos neither Al nor Mum woke me.

Wasn't too late at least, all I did was just to forsake my TV time.

The next couple of hours were work,work,work. It's like a mad rush having to clear stuff for my long leave next week.

Somehow people never seem to be around whenI need to clear with them. Haha

Anyway, fun only begins after office hours, cos I've made plans to head down to TM and do some long overdue shopping.

You'll never believe it. Okay, I think knowing me, you will.

I blew $200 in say, 2 hours?

Since the beginning of this semester, Fridays never was a 'Late-night-shopping' night for me anymore, just ask Clara when I last saw her on Friday for a good ol' session at FEP.

Fridays have become to me, 'Human-Resource-Economics-night' instead.

I've been relegated to shop on a Monday night now. Quite sickening.

Anyways, here's the damage.

Pencil Skirt $49.90
Pants $55.90
Flare Skirt $49.90
Top $29.90
Camisole $19.00

Plus I received my new online purchase in the mail! :)

Yay, lotsa new stuff to wear.

6 more days!

Gold is nice. especially when it looks nothing like a watch, more like a bangle of sorts.

Baby G? Nope, but since I've been wanting to replace my Baby -G!

This can come in handy.

(Although we all know I'm no longer baby)

I like the last one! For obvious reasons!

So colourful! I'll buy one for every day if I'm rich enough!

Like Mood Watches.

The rhinestones, sooooo pretty and pink!

And last, we have the dress watch.

Good for formal wear and meeting days!

There are at least 300 more watches in there that I WANT!

I'm finally DONE with my assignment. God, I can't wait to hand it up tomorrow.

It has cost me nights of sleep (or the lack of it!)

I want to sleep well this weekend.

Au Revoire Motivation!

=10 more days=

TGIF!

Pink M&Ms!

I Miss Bangkok.

12 more days.