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Singing out the caramel ribbons with a smile
11:59 PM
Singing out the caramel ribbons with a smile

Went out to buy Baskin Robbins after picking my dad up from golf cause I anticipated that there would be a shorter queue at 10.30pm. Oh boy, was I so wrong!!! There was a queue snaking out of the premises and my number was 210 and the current number was 154. WTH! And most of the people there were people in their late 30s and 40s who had kids and were buying it for the family. 10.30pm also got so many ppl wan ah?! And my mum refuses to be a crazy person to queue for an hour so she makes my dad and I do it. =.=

My dad suggested that we go grab a drink at the pub until we got there and discovered that they were playing those super loud booming disco-ish music which he can't tahan so we ended up going to The Ship cuz I was just mentioning earlier that I kinda missed their garlic bread and escargots. See, thats my daddy who sayangs me and will take me to anywhere I wanna eat. =)

Yah, anyways, The Ship had this huge sign in the alleyway saying 'The Ship Entrance' and we basically picked our way through concrete rubble in the back alley which was pretty dark and thankfully it was a real short distance. Practically went thru their kitchen (I don't like walking in from kitchens cuz you get to see how unhygenic their kitchen is and it kinda puts you off) and into the restaurant with me in my home t-shirt and shorts and we were about the last customers. Was a bit disappointed cuz their garlic bread not only naik harga but also jatuh standard a bit. Sigh. My favouritest garlic bread in the whole wide world. =(

To get back on track, I went back 45 mins later to find there was still a queue and the 2 flavours I wanted tak ada already. My choc cookie crackle was still available actually, but it got "stolen" by another server before my server could pack it up for me. Grrr!!! I managed to get out of there before 11.45, but I do wonder what happen to customers who don't make it to the cashier before 12. Do they get their 31% discount or are they charged full price...

Came home and didn't eat any of that BR cuz I have self-control and its not good to eat ice-cream so late at night. I shall attack them tomorrow instead. =D My tummy kinda hurts, I think its the supper that killed it. Or, it could be thinking of the ice-cream in the freezer and wishing that its in the tummy instead.

Written on Thursday, July 31, 2008; 11:59 PM
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White fluffy towels are what I need
11:15 PM
White fluffy towels are what I need

I actually had a lot of things to blog about but I as usual, didn't have time to do so properly with pictures and details cause I've been working, which unsurprisingly takes a lot out of me. Some days I just wanna shower and hit the bed once I get back but I miraculously manage to be out almost every other night doing something. With half my day gone at work, I had major hair-pulling trouble in squeezing in as much outings as I could before my friends went back to Aussie and S'pore as I knew I wouldn't be seeing them for another year. Sigh.

The little organiser I bought in UK comes in handy nowadays for writing down b'day events, girly movies, outstation trips, appointments and endless memos of things-to-do. I've been working for exactly 2 weeks but it sure feels like aeons more than that.

A condensed version of my after working hours:

Andrew's b'day dinner at Bubba Gump's, a college girly road trip back to Malacca during the weekend, Amery's farewell dinner at Sakae Sushi, Karl Son's b'day BBQ at his house, a farewell yumcha session at Williams, a day of being a chauffuer (again!), watching The Dark Knight with Robyn on Sunday...

I will do a proper post with pictures okay! So please give me a little nudge along the way by sending me those outing pictures, thank you. =)

Can't wait to stop work so I can take time off to unwind because I feel like I'm perpetually on the go. I've been back for a month and its been packed with holidays, outings, work and things to do that I feel like I need a holiday from my holiday. You know, the kind where there's perfect weather and you're surrounded by so much beauty and tranquility that you can forget about everything and just lie back and breathe. No temptations like internet or shopping, and not even a glance that might allow the brain to make anymore connections because its already on bloody overload. Just me and a light book to fill in the time between gentle massages, afternoon teas and warm bubble baths.

I just thought of the perfect place. I wanna go back to Pangkor Laut Resort, and this time I'm old enough to do the spas! =) Now if only I could just drop everything and be whisked away to that island of beauty and serenity..

I'd better stop here because its past midnight and tomorrow is another long, working day. Too tired to even figure out why it has rough edges, whatmore correcting grammatical errors. Sigh.

Written on Monday, July 28, 2008; 11:15 PM
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Where it wasn't quite a Starbucks
11:26 PM
Where it wasn't quite a Starbucks

It started in the place of prevalent red taxis where it seems to rain forever in that gracefully sweeping, sideway motions which I will never forget or be bored of. The smell of it wraps me comfortingly as I feel it float hazily around me before it touches my skin and I taste it, its sound is bliss to my ears. I know I will never be able to block my senses from it even if I wanted to try.

And the best part is, I don't even want to because I revel in it.

Written on Tuesday, July 15, 2008; 11:26 PM
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Take a bow
11:52 PM
Take a bow

Had a farewell dinner at Paris for Brian on Thursday cause he was leaving the next day for Australia, but he wasn't at the dinner. The irony of it. =P Went over to his place after dinner and sat around chatting and went to the mamak later. Don't think anyone brought a camera on that day except his mum very nicely snapped candid pictures.

Went to 1U on Friday to meet up with the college girls for the whole day. Clareen, Amery, Sarah, Hsiao Vern, Wai Ee and I sat at Sushi Groove from 2.30pm till 6pm eating and chatting till we were the last customers and they were hinting for us to leave by not refilling our ocha anymore. Hehe. Managed to catch Hancock at night with Cla and Amery where every other person in the cinema was eating something, which is why we ended up at McD's for supper.

The first thing Cla says to see me is, "Why your hair so ____ (enter some Hokkien word that I don't know) wan?" Such a Clareen thing wei. =P Its okay girl, I know you missed me and I also missed you. No die-hard kaki shopping in UK with me lah. When are we gonna hit the Bangsar shops and eat McD's in Telawi Street?

Tried on some dresses and tops but it was so frustrating because they don't have my size. And even size S is just too big. How can I put on weight and still not fit into those?! Stupid. Bumped into quite a few people in 1U as usual. PJ is such a small world. I wonder what would Malaysians do in their leisure time if all shopping malls had to be shut down completely...

I just realised that I'm waiting for 3 loads of pictures. 1 from Clareen and Amery who took all the pictures at 1U yesterday. Another one from Langkawi where I so cleverly left the CD of pictures after a picture-viewing session in Beng's house and one more from Crystal who took a majority of the Scotland trip pictures. Inilah akibat mempunyai sebuah kamera yang rosak. =.=

I've been back for 2 weeks plus and its all so surreally different that I have to slap my forehead to remind myself that yeah it really wasn't like this previously. I knew before I came back home that my pre-UK life didn't deep-freeze itself waiting for me to come back and slip it on again like the way you'd put on a favourite shirt but I didn't quite expect it to be like this you know. Its kinda like when you have an image about something and you keep it fixed in your mind but when you see the actual thing its just different and kinda flat but also good in a way cause its new but still old. I think its 1 and a half out of 4, or rather 2. And its a bit disappointing and scary cause if its like this after a year, what will it be like the next time? Part of me wants to say how can you do this to me, how can you after all this when I was counting on you. But a more sensible part of me also knows that they could say it back to me as well because there is neither demands or conditions imposed and there would be no really satisfying answer because the right answer is one that we all know but cannot accept because it is too common to be powerful enough to explain this. The mind unconsciously notes the half-whispers, gestures and undercurrents that would reasonably lead to the picture but we still refuse to accept it before we see it with our eyes because we are humans like that. We know it and we still defy it out of some impulse that is rooted in irrationality that leads us to think that we can beat the unbeatable. The notion that it is unbeatable simply because there is nothing to be beaten is like a camouflaged block right in front of our eyes that we can't see. Its silly to be gagged by misapprehension and assumption. Submerging is much easier to be done than baring when you have a split second. And once that second flashes by, its sealed.

Ten to one says that they'll get it all wrong. Classic is no longer classic in this case but its called overdone. Transcripts are due anytime soon. Work starts sooner than I'd like. And summer will go past faster than I want it to despite the surreality of it all.

Written on Saturday, July 12, 2008; 11:52 PM
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Wherever it goes I always know
11:01 PM
Wherever it goes I always know

Just got back from Langkawi with the high school gang. Had loads of sun, sea, girly talks and fun.

Will do a proper post when I get the pics from Kinz.

Slept like a log till lunch today and went for mass in the newly air-conditioned church. Wanted to eat Japanese so we headed to One Bangsar. I made my dad drive through Jalan Telawi so I could see if there were new shops and he very cleverly turned in at Telawi 3, my old tuition place. Hehe. I think I will be doing some Bangsar shopping with mummy when she is free. =)

Ended up at The Ming Room which was yummy. The Peking duck was delicious though I would prefer if their pancake skins were pure flour instead of egg. No pictures cause I was too busy eating everything in sight before I remembered about my phone camera. >.<

What, I haven't had really good Chinese food for about 6 months okay!

I can feel the days slipping through my fingers like grains of sand and there seems to be so many decisions to make. To job or to attach, to four-poster bed or to function, to lose both or to lose one and possibly more. I just don't know what to do.

I think I need another holiday from this holiday.

Written on Saturday, July 05, 2008; 11:01 PM
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