A sort of fashion

E had a surprise for me that day. As I was getting out of the car, he suddenly said something like 'I have something for you', then passed me a paper bag and it contained this  -

 

 It's the re-ment version of a Chanel set! (Only they spelt it something else) I was oogling over it, but couldn't afford it (ok, not really but it's 20 bucks) 

I didn't know how to react.

So anyway! There is an LV set an an Hermes set too! (check out the ostrich birkin!)

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Fanny called me on Sunday, when I was in E's car, saying she saw Desm*nd at a jap restaurant at cine with some girl. And the lousy thing is I was heading there too. Okay, I already knew we had no chemistry after erm, what happened with us at Mos on Friday. It's like he passed the litmus test but barely only. Anyway, I don't know. I didn't wanna bump into him as it would be awkward, so I spent a lot of time on the lookout. Anyway, the point of me mentioning this is nothing – I just wanted to get it off my chest. 

On having children

I love children. I just never thought of myself as the motherly type with a whole brood of my own kids to take care of.

Lately, working at the centre really opened my eyes as to the sheer amount of work you have to put in if you have a kid. It sounds stupid, but I’m quite amazed at the kind of learning experience we had to go through as a kid to understand things we’ve in time come to know as ’simple’.

Something like this, for example. How many blocks are there in the figure above? 5, right? It’s so simple – and yet, when we were kids, we probably found it confusing. We probably think there are 4 blocks. Maybe some kids cannot comprehend the 3D aspect of the picture. Maybe they can, and they just don’t understand the blue block needs to be supported by one other block.

I’ve been around 2-3 year old kids and their parents a lot lately.

I’ve come to understand why people want to have kids. I think no one gives you the kind of love a child gives to their parents. It’s so pure and – I’m not sure if this word is appropriate, but it just popped – undiluted. It’s unreserved, and unabashed. So free.

I think that’s why parents also have so much love for their kids. There will definitely be people who think I’ve got it wrong – that it should be the other way around. But really, I think every baby comes out loving their parents. The same cannot be said of the other way round.

Having kids is hard work though. I see the amount of work each parent put into educating their child. ‘This is pink’, ‘This is red’, ‘2+2 is 4′, ‘Colour inside the lines’. It’s hard work, and it’s more draining than you think it is. That’s why if you really want to have kids, you need to really want to devote yourself to them.

There is this 3 year old kid at the centre whom I absolutely adore. I think he recognised me today although I only sat in on his class last week. He’s absolutely adorable! He has this solemn little kid face all the time, like he’s thinking all the time. Last week I was playing a game with his older sister and he came over to join us. When he is with his sister he becomes a little boy, and she turns from fiesty outspoken little girl to caring older sister. It is very heart warming to see her trying to rig the game so her younger brother can win the game. It’s really cute seeing them together.

Psycho

This will teach me a lesson not to be idiotic. This text message ‘conversation’ took place on Friday (I’m not sure if you can call it a conversation.)

Psycho – ‘Morning, so you worked till late yesterday? Your hp remembered to charge?’

(I didn’t reply)

Psycho – ‘Weekend is here, where will you be having fun with your friends tonight?’

(I didn’t reply)

Psycho – ‘Are you clubbing tonight?’

(I didn’t reply)

Later I met my bitchy best guy friend for EIC’s last performance at Wala Wala. He was like ‘Eh, just have fun with it la. Reply something snarky’. So we decided to play a prank of sorts. I didn’t want to be mean or anything so the following text message exchange was all written by M. NOT ME! I’m like a really nice girl.

M – ‘Yes I’m going out tonight. Will you be going out?’

Psycho – ‘Don’t know yet… where are you heading to? Maybe I go to places where you exist’ (WTF?!)

M – ‘Where will you go?’

Psycho – ‘Often places I went are Momo, MoS and Zouk, what about you?’

M – I can’t remember what he wrote but it’s along the lines of the same places and such.

Psycho – ‘Whom you going clubbing with?’

M – ‘A guy I’m dating’

Psycho – ‘Oh too bad for me then… no place to make a stand’ (Wtf again?!)

Psycho – ‘don’t know you so fast attached’

M – ‘You’re not very perceptive are you? Took you a while’

Psycho – ‘anyway doesn’t mean attached still can’t ask you not (sic) on a date right? so where you guys going?’ (The psycho-ness is astounding)

M – ‘I’ll get back to you. We are kind of busy now’

Psycho – ‘lol so bad of you… got ignored again… don’t kiss till your lips ache’

I didn’t reply, and after an hour of so (of EIC’s really good music!), psycho strikes again.

Psycho – ‘So where are you guys going?’

The absolute ridiculousness of this incident is astounding. I didn’t reply, so I assumed that he’d just you know… fade away.

Psycho – ‘Hm, yesterday you enjoy yourself? waited for you to tell me where you are going’

Help.

Everything is okay once again

Friday was a good day!

Oh I got a callback from t*wa on wednesday. (I think I owe E a treat for linking me up) and went for the interview on wednesday. It was… well let’s just say it was an interview I walked away thinking ‘Why did I sound like a total idiot?!!??!’ Feeling really sad, I called Sam out to eat with me, and Crystal Jade food makes people happy. Seriously.

Anyway, they called me on Friday. I’ll be interning there! Yay! So people who work near UR*A centre ask me out for lunch! I was looking for a new environment… and I guess I got it. =)

I was just looking up their client list on the website and it looks quite impressive.

Anyway, E also met me for lunch at Cedele at Wheelock. Huh! Don’t eat the Shan tofu salad! I just don’t think people should pay so much for fried tofu and coriander which you can get outside for like maybe 3 bucks. And after oogling at hching’s gorgeous re-ment for the longest time, I went and bought a box! I got this set…

I’ve since lost the brown thing the chopsticks are resting on =(

You know, I kept thinking it’s like a lucky draw thingy where you don’t know which set you’ll get. It wasn’t until I was pouring over it with Lynette and Selena that I realised they actually pasted a sticker to inform you which set it is.

You know what this means? There is no turning back. I’ve just been to their website www.re-ment.co.jp and omg omg omg omg omg omg. THERE IS NO TURNING BACK. I’ll have to continue buying it.I blame hching for it. Haha. I wanna get the desserts one. That’s so pretty. Or maybe the cosmetics. Or the doughnuts. I don’t know!!! *head explodes.

Work was good. I love hanging out with L and S…

Then went for fiction@love with Sam and Huiyi. On the way the bus uncle was really nice to me… cause I didn’t know where to stop… I took down the bus number to send a thank you email to him.

The exhibition was really nice… a bit sinister at times and I left the exhibition feeling sad. I don’t know why. Maybe it was the video we were watching – The seven lost loves of Frank.

(Got this photo from Sammm but wordpress not working again so I have to upload to flickr…)

After that met D at Raffles City… It was really fun hanging out with him. We had Haagen Dazs fondue and it was really yummy. It was so much better than other fondue I’ve eaten (It’s not like I’ve eaten a lot) and okay I just had a lot of fun. And I love his voice and his accent. I’ve always been a sucker for the accent.

Okay, it was a bit … when he asked if I wanted to go to his place. But anyway.

Things are good. =) Looking up. I hope tommorrow’s great too. So tired. Yike apparently has a private party at mos today but too tired to go. Also Daniel’s band is playing at some bar… I wanted to go support him, but I’m so tired…

Random

I’m a bit busy and not really in a chatty mood, but I want to write something down so here goes.

Maybe I should give him a try. See how right. Maybe meeting tomorrow. But dammit why does he always remind me of KN?

I realise sometimes girls can be very dense as well. I didn’t know. I still don’t. What do I do now.

My faith in Arsenal is once again, shot to pieces.

I wished I didn’t see it, but it’s okay. It’s my own fault.

No mood to reply to people’s smses, so maybe I’ll do it tomorrow.

Need a change of environment. I hope they call me. Please.

Sometimes I just want to work non stop till I forget the whole load of stuff. Sometimes I wish memories are like storage areas and when you overload it… oops the rest spills over, and gets run over by a fricking truck and someone sets it on fire and it disintegrates into 375 million pieces which will then spontaneously combast and is never to be remembered again.

*takes a deep breath

Anyway I am reading the blog of this guy I used to have a crush on (like maybe 3 years back?) and my friend now has a crush on. Very weird. Anyway, I think he’s gay.

My holiday plans are shelved for a bit until I get my act together. I haven’t been on a vacay for ages. It’s not fair.

My Best Friends Rock

To Sam, who brightened up my moody day (I forgot to drink coffee in the morning. It was only at 4pm then I realised why I was so tired and grumpy.) by SENDING ME 20 MUSIC FILES. Hahaha. It was a nice surprise to open up your email to see so much good music. Hehe. Thanks babe!

To Cheryl, who unknowingly uttered ‘You know… he looks like the type who’ll backstab you by… stabbing you… like… in the back‘ and made me laugh for about 5 minutes straight. It still cracks me up. Hahaha.

I’m in the midst of reading Metamorphosis and I am pleasantly surprised how engaging it is. Kafka’s style of writing seems so straightforward and to the point on the surface. It’s the aftertaste where you feel like something’s gotten into you but you don’t know when and how it happened.

Gregor Samsa (Sorry I kind of hotlinked this picture from the source. Will upload it on wordpress as soon as it stops having problems)

I don’t know how, but he does it. The straightforward style of writing but so much emotion in it.

I still love the way you feel

I love the Goo Goo Dolls especially Johnny Rzeznik. You HAVE to watch the video. At about 57 seconds to 1 min 2 seconds he has this grin which makes my inner fangirl go 'Awwwww… Omg he's so cute.' And he says 'My heart is reeling.' How appropriate. I wanna screen cap 59th second and set it as my wall paper.

Only Johnny Rzeznik, Alex Band from The Calling and Jason Wade from Lifehouse has this kind of effect on me. It seems I have something for guys with dirty blonde hair.

I bet you look good on the dance floor

Artic Monkeys are quite addictive. =)

I’ve heard that you look good on the dancefloor
I don’t know if your looking for romance or…
I don’t know what ya looking for
Well I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
From 1984!

Dinner with bv people at Marche and Pacific Coffee. So fun to catch up with them! And the upcoming cycling trip at Pulau Ubin (Why, I ask myself, did I think it was fun? Don’t I remember the last time I did that I had like 58357 mosquito bites?) How come guys know more gossip than girls? Haha. And I can’t pick vegetables well.

KM8 with the bff Sam a couple of days back. It was great. I wanted to go Tanjong Beach for the longest time but never got around to it. I like it better cause (1) More interesting than Palawan (2) Less crowded than Siloso. And also got better food and drinks at KM8, more expensive, but the pizza is so yummy!

And the view is interesting.

Hoho.

Didn’t get much of a tan. (Argh my complexion! Argh my hair!) And I refuse to put photos cause I think I look horrible in all of them. Especially the bad hair photo! Arghhh!!! =(

The basement level at City Hall is so nice now! They have quite a lot of interesting shops and little food places. And oh Sam got me a Jordi Labanda pen! Hehe. Thanks babe! It’s so pretty! I’m gonna carry it everywhere I go, together with my JL notebooks and be known as ‘the girl with the Jordi Labanda stationery’. Yay!

Zouk with the girls on Friday night – cause according to Hui, Andrew Chou (sp?) was playing in Zouk. At our blank looks, Hui exclaimed ‘Andrew! The guy who always plays in Phuture!’ Haha… I went to buy a top at Kai while waiting to meet Mel, and we hung out a bit while waiting for Hui. We kind of passed time by telling lame jokes and trying on the grossest sunglasses we could find at Tangs. Hahaha.

It was really fun, we tried not to drink too much like the week before. This time we carefully considered what to buy and the pros and cons of getting which drinks. HAHAHA. You should see the intense concentration we put into evaluating which drinks to get. Like it’s some exam question. Haha. Alright la, it was just to pass the time waiting for 1-for-1 to come. Oh ya, I forgot about the whole incident with the bouncer, which ended with me saying ‘Thanks for being an asshole’ to him.

Then met some guys when we are at Phuture, and some guy we nickname Baileys bought us a round of Cocksucking Cowboy, which incidentally was what I wanted to try at KM8 earlier. I think that was why we called him Baileys cause it’s Baileys + Butterscotch. Haha! I was great at cai quan that night.

Then went to Zouk. Erm it was quite fun. Some weird stuff happened like Somezoukguy who told me he saw me at Phuture and followed me here and was like ‘I saw you taking photo, you were standing in the middle’ blah blah blah. Wtf that’s so weird. And kept trying to hold my hand even when I was dancing with someone else. Wtf?

And anyway he said something that was really reminiscent of Crazychinablackguy with the whole ‘Please give me your number, I’ll remember it by heart to show sincerity’ spiel. And the whole ‘You’re from biz school right? Marketing major’ thingy. What?! I am inclined to think it’s Crazychinablackguy all over again.

Oh met some quite funny exchange students while Ericia and I were at Copthorne waiting for the mystery guy.

Anyhoo! Thanks Sam for the job thingy on Saturday. Last minute told me ‘Eh you need to be the videographer.’ Which led me to go ‘What?!’ cause to be perfectly honest, I’ve never really took a video before, and worse, I’ve never been near professional video equipment. But anyway, I hope it’s okay *pray* and that I didn’t bungle it up in nervousness cause I really don’t want to disappoint my friend.

It was fun blowing off D’s supper date ducking szg’s phonecalls to hang out with Sam at coffeebean! It’s so much more fun! And you can also talk to me babe, we take turns talking about ourselves =)

Can’t wait for the photos to come in! And Fiction@Love on Friday. It looks fun!

Aquamarine

Couple of days back I watched Aquamarine with the bff Sammmmmm. I actually didn't know about the movie until Sam told me about it, and it's actually not too bad. And hey, I'll always watch any movie you ask me to. Haha. Very enjoyable, in fact.  And also I liked the ending where it's a realistic but happy ending… albeit abrupt. I like the song they danced to – Island in the Sun, the Weezer cover. Very breezy, even the lyrics convey the 'lazy' kind of feeling. 

On an island in the sun
We'll be playing and having fun
And it makes me feel so fine
I can't control my brain

Anyway, ack looking for a part time job is hard… sigh last last semester was easy with all the internship. Please employ me, employers!

Yesterday went shopping for mother's day present. Got a photo album / stand thingy which I'm gonna fill with a pictorial story. Hope she likes it. And also got this voice print card thing that can record 6 seconds worth of erm, recording. It's quite cute except for the fact that ack do I really sound like that?!

On the way back E was telling me about how some people add 'spoilers' (this is probably a wrong spelling) to the back of the car to make it look nice. And I was like 'Yuck I think it's ugly.' 'Really? It's supposed to make the car look sporty' 'Don't know, don't like it.' -Silence- 'Okay, you don't like have one at the back right?' 'Oh I have one installed' I swivelled around to look and there it was. Huh. Foot in mouth.  

I so hate it when a guy asks you out like 'Oh are you free on XXX day, let's go for a drink' and when you say ya, I'm free, he asks you to call him to make plans. How can you just make it the girl's onus to call when you're the one who asked her? Like I'll really go do that. Annoying.
Oh something else. Was looking at my wordpress stats and I realised a lot of people reach my site when

(1) You trying to google the words to Daniel Powter's 'Bad Day'. You can easily find it in any of the lyrics site. I also have it here. 

(2) Also a lot of people who are googling 'Victoria's Secret Show' – I got most of my pictures from Gettyimages.com, the entire runway set is there. Also a couple searching for specific model names like Alessandra A., KK, Eugenia V… – If you go to style.com or supermodels.nl you can do a search for the models and shows you want. 

(3) Alice in wonderland editorial (good taste btw)- Go to style.com and click on the Vogue button. They have the whole list of past editorials there. Those are really small though, maybe bwgreyscale.com has better HQ ones.

“You must be a romantic”

Today I was at the underpass at Lido and I heard a street performer play 'A Time For Us' on his harmonica.

I walked over and put 2 dollars into the bag.

'Thank you'

'You're welcome. I loved this piece of music.'

'Ah, you must be a romantic then'