and this song is just like....wow...
*aHEM* *sniffs* *rubs palms together* *does trademark nose-rubbing*
Dear Crush, I went to watch a movie last night with my sister and her girlfriend, after ladies nite at Zen. It was extremely stupid of me, but i'd hoped to see you around somewhere. so i was in the elevator going up and idly wondering if you'd step in when the doors opened at the 9th floor and who do i see but your friend. sigh. obviously never meant to happen. goodnight.
i think sometimes Chipmunk doesn't see the beauty of living here. i love the red lanterns strung across the streets, the feel of old family-owned businesses and new modern shops going along side by side.
we were going past the courthouse and it looked so beautiful at night, i was suddenly 'inspired' to take a walk around. he parked near C-11, i got a bottle of water and off we went. he was already wiping his brow when we crossed the street LOL. obviously in dire need of some exercise! ok fine, i do too. the photo is all green cause for some reason they put green lights up. is it more energy-efficient?
walking through the courthouse gives you a sense of..oh man i don't know how to say it. i was just walking and telling Genius about it and sniffing the air like some sort of mad dog :D i guess that probably explains the daemon? it just feels so..clean...and orderly, like how a courthouse should feel i guess.
this is the real reason i came down for a walk, we drove past and it just suddenly loomed out of nowhere. i don't know how scary it looks in the day but at night it was like Armaggedon!
was saying to Genius how you could go up to Bako for the races and then come down and buy your mother some vegetables or fish for the next day :D i wonder why they sell all the fruits and veg in the middle of the night? is it because it's cooler and the food won't rot as fast? or maybe cause it's dark and the customers won't notice the little 'details' ;D anyway it was a good night. i like doing random things :)
what a fantastic trailer!! going to find the dvd!! and it's by a lady director tooooo :D
my usual rojak salad, which is anything you can find in the fridge that you think will go together. Australian green coral lettuce, sliced cucmber, broken-up feta and dried dates, and the sliced steak.
yeah i know, dried dates sound funny but they gave the salad a nice slightly sweet twist :) and OMGGG the feta. words cannot describe how much i love this cheese. tomatoes, cucumber, feta, a drizzle of olive oil, some lemon juice and a sprinkle of coarse black pepper = hallelujah in your mouth.
even though it was a great meal and i had a great view, was still casually wondering in the back of my mind what he was having for lunch :)
your only clue ;)
so this was purchased purely for aesthetic reasons (and also cause it was damn cheappp! like RM9.20, according to Genius).
Genius and I arrived at a foodcourt in MJC and found two boxes already bought on the table. the menthol edition has the text in green and the lights edition (which i got) is in blue. when we found out how much it cost, we rushed to the counter and i quickly told the guy "semua!". i swear he gave me a strange look ;)
bought another 2 for Tassie and Amoi Tinggi. they were so happy the next morning, well that's one xmas present done ;D
have apparently been acting slightly strangely for the past few days. damn hormones. quit my job too :D got a whole heap of pressies and am very very touched. sometimes you think you're a crappy person then things happen to make you realise that maybe you're not so bad after all :)
pretty :)
went to isabella's later that night with Tassie and her friends. was pondering on a lot of stuff, mainly the fact that i seem to have been living my life by other people's demands for the last decade or so. maybe it's time to start thinking for myself.
so we got there and he stopped and i gleefully got out of the car and ran eagerly to the driver's seat. evryything went well....exCEPT for the whole damn business of actually getting the car to start moving. it didn't help that his damn shift was some crap short shift and was HELL to change.
i don't know why my parrotfish drop like flies..can't be cause of the water cause we change it regularly. we're thinking of getting rid of the whole thing, tank and all. any takers?
finally got Genius his long-deserved Starbucks drink, he had a Mocha Praline something-or-other (left) with chocolate chips added and i had a small green tea frappe. the whole outlet is pretty cool, had a small display at the end counter where you get your drinks, on how the coffee bean is processed, and had the real beans in a trough-like thing.
Second Place is starting to sound a bit stupid, will call it BM from now on. they were already tucking into the above when we arrived, was surprised to see just the two of them, the lion and Chipmunk. i didn't try this cos of the whole weight gain thing :P Genius said it was "ok lah" (again!), apparently not much of the butter taste in it.
this one was an absolute beaut of a dish though, the white stuff is eggwhite, which is steamed along with the prawns. there was quite a bit of cooking wine in this, most probably cause the lion ordered it and the guy who makes it knows his taste *ahem* unfortunately the taste didn't really get thru the shells, but it was still good, was munching away on the ginger and the eggwhite. tried one of the coriander leaves, which i usually love, but this one tasted wayy too chemical-y, i'm still trying not to think about it :S
was in the supermarket for quite a few days and had been staring longingly at it before i finally gave in to temptation. at least it wasn't as bad as when i bought the bag of Kettle chips for RM10.90!!! this was only RM2.50 and i thought it was quite japanese-y :D
didn't think i would go but ended up at the Second Place again tonight. the lion made endless insinuating jokes, i think cause i was the only girl there, if JF had been there, the attention would have been on her instead :D i like her a lot, she is pretty and nice as well, that's kind of hard to find, but i'm not exactly sure if she really likes me or is just being polite. yeah yeah, low self-esteem showing up again, so? :P
a surprise dish came out again, the only unsurprising thing about it was that it was DAMN bloody spicy. i didn't have any, only the eyes which i couldn't resist ;) as i'd had a huge dinner (yes, of which i forgot to take photos :P) before that which had also consisted of a dish of fish head curry. both are equally good, 'ge you ge de te dian' ROFL can't type chinese cos using office laptop.
so had a few good laughs, came home and hung out with Tassie and Co. (with whom i'm going to Ten Ichi tomorrow, and may possibly get to see the lion dressed up ;)) and had more laughs.
but then. i went up to my room at the end of the night and saw a purple envelope on my laptop next to my bed. definitely a good sign that i didn't recognise it, or the handwriting in front either. when i opened it and saw the black and white photo of the yowling kitten in front of the card, i just went back to feeling resigned again.
it was a christmas card, from the first christmas together apart. i shouldn't have, but i read the contents again and felt the familiar twinge of heartache from the past half year. but it wasn't too bad this time.
i think i'm getting better :) almost there now.
the colour i got is black and the packaging proclaims it to be an 'ultra-lasting, precision tip liner'. the end is tapered for better hold, i guess? i'd tested it on the back of my hand in the store and it seemed to be pretty steady, but when i got home and tried it on my eye, it smudged all over the place :~ guess i was pretty kanchiong about going to church as well so i didn't do it as slowly as i should have.
and it came out not-badly! the thick, somewhat stiff tip (like a felt pen) helps you to control your movement quite well. i first dragged the tip on the edge of the container so as not to have too much product on the tip and started lining about one-third of the way after the inner eye.
flicked the tip upwards to create the winged effect and voila! not-too-shabby liquid lined eyes! yayyy i'm so happy~ now i have wait for an occasion to try this out :) the 'wings' aren't as well defined or as winged as i would like, but still, it's a start :) worth 2 years and RM37.30?
so we were on our way back to my office and i was halfheartedly trying to take some cloud photos. didn't turn out that great but i thought i'd post this one cause there is the top of a wicked-looking new(?) Honda coupe at the bottom of the photo. didn't catch the licence plate number or model either. i didn't bother to edit the photo as you can't even tell if the person inside is old or young, male or female. lazy to google it, so all you car fanatics out there, tell me what it is!
kind of reminded me of sleepy mornings in beijing where we'd get a small can of Nescafe for our morning 'fix' :D to get us thru 4 hours of mandarin class. was waiting for the 'sensasi dingin' and it...well, not so much hit as gently pushed me after about 15 seconds after my first gulp (yes, gulp, i'm not a self-confessed 'cho-lo' for nothing!). it feels like how your mouth gets after you've finished a mint, like Eclipse :)) i should do a review on that soon.
Genius came to get me for lunch today, but I completely forgot to take photos, was too busy complaining about the absence of SCS :D
In the morning some guy from China was asking me something and i completely panicked and ran for R to answer him, the pretty organics girl was there too, the 3 of us were trying our hardest to figure out what he was after and when he finally said '厕所' (toilet), we all went 'ohhhhh' :DDDD
had this really great noodle dish at Grandma Bak Kut Teh, but didn't take a photo (oops). it was handmade noodles in a claypot served with shredded cucumber, carrot and minced chicken, plus an optional fried egg on top. pretty korean-looking to me, will definitely go back for more.
i like this one! got Genius to get me home from work as well and we hadn't left the office for very long when he asked if i'd like to go to The Place as F was going as well. hemmed and hawed for a while before finally giving in ;D
was greeted with what seemed like surprise, and i was amused to see a shiny green biscuit wrapper on the floor ;) the whole Place, and maybe him as well, seems to calm me down, i am less of my usual excited self there for some weird reason.
ever since Tassie came back, the Old Man has been treating me more and more like a kid again, it's like the arrival of Tassie has reinforced the 'youngest'-ness of me lol my ear has been twisted, my cheek pinched, my mistakes pointed out more forcefully than usual! e.g:
me (eating peanut soup and wearing a white shirt with brown buttons on it): this soup is really good!
Old Man: see, eat till got peanut on your shirt (points to button)
me: it's a button!
muahhaha! ching! one for mee~~ :D :D :D
ok ok, so not that funny written down, guess you had to be there :P
saw a fantassstic pair of wedges at Hush Puppies but it costs RM225~!!!! am trying to find a photo online but to no avail. (speaking of which, i saw a beauty spa shop that is named Avail, i wonder why they named it that?)
so....was wondering whether to go to the Second Place tonight, and decided, what the hell, i should just do what i want, evryone else does :P and i was rewarded with a taste of a bowl of the MOSTT spiciest and sourest tom yum soup i've ever had. apparently girls should eat spicy food. i'm not exactly sure what was meant by that ;)
and no, i didn't take a photo.
dammit.
goodnight~
oh, and i found out the reason behind the shared fear of earthworms, apparently had to do with some communist Malay movie (the movie was Malay, not the communists, i'm not sure what they were :D) well not as interesting as my reason!
the good thing is she now drives me home so i can take photos without nearly killing myself ;) Ms. Law Student a.k.a Tassie would probably call this 'reckless endangerment' :P 
haven't really been inspired to take good cloud photos lately cause of the lousy weather which makes the sky look all gauzy. it's beautiful to the eye, but not thru a 3.2 MP cameraphone lens :S
it was a SUPER (:D) hot today. some guy who'd rocked up the week before with a whole head of poofy hair arrived with his newly-shaven pate glistening with sweat in the afternoon heat. but even though he was heavy, he looked damn cool anyway. some guys, even if they are heavy, carry themselves in a certain way which sorta makes the heaviness essential to the cool factor ;D
was SOO damn glad i'd forgotten my bottle at the office and just grabbed the huge jug of cold water from the fridge.
found out an interesting fact that someone fears earthworms, possibly as much as i do. wonder what's his story?
on the way back i decided to take a detour to enjoy my 五月天 live concert cd as long as possible. lucky i did, the view from the back roads was simply amazing..
photos aren't that great, granted, you really had to be there. it was one of those moments that, to sound damn clichéd, took my breath away. 
one photo taken from The Place, just for memories' sake :)
had to have my plate of 'mani chai' (spinach) beehoon today, as Tassie was only arriving at 8+p.m. and i'd have to starve till then. it was absolutely delicious, possibly made even more so by the large possibility that it would be my last for the year.
leaving the Second Place.
yes yes, it's askew. don't ask so much ;)
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