I've Finally Stopped Bumming Around!!!

And I totally hate it. Started work today. Oh. My. God. My brain has completed stopped functioning. Seriously. The lack of mental activity this summer has rendered incapable. I'm temping at Credit Bureau, doing accounts for the first time. And I suck. Never mind that I took Managerial Accounting, Financial Accounting and Finance in school. And scored As and Bs. I have officially given back everything to the school. Assets? Liabilities? Equity? *Snort* I totally blanked out at certain times when the previous temp girl was explaining the work ernestly. Sigh.

How depressing. I totally miss my idyllic life. I would watch the World Cup with Fadz till 5am, wake up at 1pm, paddle around the house, get ready to go out, hang out. I have time to read, sew, go online and go to the gym. Now I'm stuck behind a desk. Aarrggghhh....

And I keep dreaming about traveling. Having come back from a fantastic backpacking trip in Vietnam, I keep dreaming of the fun times I'd have come July when Pei Wen and I jet off to Taiwan for a shopping trip to end all shopping trips. We're gonna be complete plebians. No culture please. We spend all our tim searching for notable shopping centres and districts to visit. Even the Nike factory outlet has been marked out. But Chang Kei Shek Musuem? Nah. Temples and Pagodas? Enough of that.

I should never have accepted the job. I've just wrecked a fantastic summer holiday. How can one go from this:

and this...

to being stuck in an air-conditioned room for 9 hours? *sobs*

You Are 54% Evil

You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side.Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination.

How Evil Are You?

Ok lah, not that evil.. but it's a scary picture. :P

Twiddling my thumbs...

Yup, I'm slacking the entire summer holidays away. I give up. I honestly tried to look for a job but after 2 weeks of sending out resumes, I give up. No one seems to want to employ me because I can only work till the end of July... and of course, I've been slightly picky. Too little pay? Don't want. No OT pay? Don't want. Too far away? Go and die. So you see, I'm not the easiest person to employ. Oh well, I was made to be a tai tai, darlings. Don't worry, Fadz has been informed of my future ambitions (i.e. slacker) and although he pretended to have a heart attack when I reminded him that I've been shopping nonstop recently and in future all moolah is coming from him, I'm sure he'd come around.

Besides, I've almost successfully convinced him that he would be a good President of Singapore. Hello, like, it would be a sure thing can. Malay President with Chinese First Lady? Talk about promoting racial harmony and integration. And, our kids are bound to be adorable because they are mixed blood. Yup, I'm gonna be First Lady, one way or another. I kinda like the idea of my face being plastered in every school hall in Singapore. Hiak hiak hiak. And I promise not to go overboard like Imelda Marcos did with the shoe thing. I'm a bag person. :P

So anyway, I'm damn free now so if anyone needs a shopping buddy/tea ka kia or whatever, call me.

Oh yeah, and I think my maternal instincts are forming. Went to Fadz cousin's 1st birthday celebration and I nearly hyperventilated from being near so many cute babies. Of course, these babies don't share my enthusiasm for motherhood or trust me because almost everyone of them started crying when I held them. Oh well. Should have spanked their smelly bottoms.

The birthday boy, Andrian! Isn't he like the cutest thing alive? Look at his dumb expression! He did try to eat my face when I held him though, stupid idiot.

And this little fatty here is Aisha, damn cute too, right? Drooly little thing.. she made a grab for my boobs when I held her, which led to Fadz commenting that she was hungry. What does she take me to be, a bloody cow?

The birthday boy and his mum. I'm terrified of her. She doesn't speak English, rarely smiles and has fierce eye brows. *shudder*

Yes, that's my one and only.... *deep sigh*

Smile!

More cute cousins. Seriously, what's up with this family's genes, anyway? She reminds me of a cartoon character with her chubby cheeks and too big eyes...

Ok, this blog entry entertained my for a while. Now what do I do???

My Week of Birthday Celebrations

Sorry for the lack of updates, or continuation from Hanoi... but I've been busy celebrating my birthday! Yup, amidst the debauchery of too much food (especially too much food), too much bling and too many well-wishes, I turned a year older. Sigh, I've waited for this day like... forever. Finally, I told myself, finally am I able to vote and watch R21 movies and get married without parental consent. Unfortunately, (a) the elections were over by the time I was 21, (b) there are no good R21 movies showing now, and (c) I'm not about to get married any time soon yeah. So.. erm, why does 21 feel so much like 20????

By the way, you people can officially stop asking me about my age from now on. I'm into full denial mode. I'm truly going to be... forever 21. Yes sir, next year this time, I'd be celebrating my 21st birthday again, and the year after that, and years after that. Time stops now. I'd stay young and beautiful forever!!! Muahaha... and for those who have children next time, remember to teach them to call me jie jie, and not auntie. If not, you might be short one child. Just saying. I do have a history of violent tendencies. Hehehe...

Anyway, back to my celebrations. The week kicked off with the KB gang, celebrating my birthday early, on the 20th May...

Breaking tradition (i.e. celebrating every birthday at freaking Sakae Sushi), I dragged the girls down to Fish and Co. Glasshouse for some good old fish food...

Yes, we are not camera shy

Super big ice coolers!

The 4 san bas (one MIA in America! Oy, come back lah, Mok!)

Say Cheese!

On Sunday, I was whisked off to Shangri-La's The Line Restaurant for dinner. Overpriced? Hell, yes. It was $68+++/pax can! Overrated? Totally. Was the food fantastic? No. Was the quality of food unbelievable? No, below standard actually. Ok, so the spread was impressive, and there were lobsters (which were overcooked, btw), but frankly... really not worth all that money.

Must eat more lobsters, yeah

Yup, my baby wore a shirt for the occasion. Doesn't he look like a teacher??

Family photo shot

My birthday eve, my mum decided to bring me out for a smaller dinner.. hey, you're only 21 once! Haha, in the end still ended up at Sakae Sushi... sigh... But I got a cake! See!

So what did I do on my birthday? Had to figure out my direction in life...

I want to be a rock chick! Nah.. just cam whoring as usual.

So anyway, I spent my birthday with Fadz. What did we do? Eat, drink and make merry of course. Ever since coming back from Vietnam where ice cream was truly cheap, I just can't stop eating the damn thing. I substitute entire meals with ice cream to feel less guilty about consuming those calories death traps.


Here we are at Azubo something at Marina Square eating their famous Japanese Ice Cream. Yum yum! I heart Japanest dumplings with vanilla ice cream. We caught X-Men 3, which btw, I enjoyed, but not as much as X-Men 2. The characters were way cooler (remember Night Crawler?) and had more screen time to develop their personalities. This installment was just one explosion after another. Oh well.

And this is where we had dinner....

The very, very nice Wasabi Bistro at Oriental Hotel (Looks gloomy in this shot, but it's actually very romantic). I was so terribly pleased. Fadz only agrees to eat Japanese when it's my birthday as he absolutely HATES raw food. I'm still trying to convince him that Japanese is not just about sashimi. Anyway... the food was great, the ambience was great, service was fantastic! 10 thumbs up! If you ever have money to blow, this would be the place.


Their famous rainbow platter


My foie gras with chicken meets his unagi


Happy Happy!

And to top it off, we discovered this heavenly place at Esplanade to have tea like some fancy English aristocracy.


Introducing.... the V Tea Room (next to Max Brenner)


Wicked deco... a bit pricey for normal tea though.


Smile!

By this time, my stomach had expanded by a gazillion inches but it was for a good cause... 2 more birthday dinners to go!

I meet Syl and Kris at One Fullerton's BakerzInn. Like their food, and the river view is always good to have.


My first bouquet of flowers! Sniff sniff, so sweet


Me and Ah Huang

Me and Kris


Yes, they really do like their desserts

We retired to Harry's Bar after dinner because what's a girls' night out without drinks, right?


I love Cosmos!


Me and the girls

So my final celebration came in the form of the very noisy volleyball girls. It's always funny going out with them. There's just something about sports people: we're naturally damn noisy and not afraid to show it. Dinner was at Thai Express (ho hum) but the company, as always, unforgettable.


Me and my setter, Tan Li Qin!


The other birthday girl (her birthday is also on the 24th!), my vball senior Wanni


My very nice present!


They told me to act shock, what


And dessert at Coffee Club.

Is it any wonder that I'm trying to exercise like mad now? Sigh... I feel like a cow....

Happy 21st to me and thank you to everyone who made it special! *muacks*