Too. Nauseous. From. The. Stupid. Cab. Ride. To. Blog. Properly.
You. Suck. Stupid. Cab. Driver.
Why. Must. You. Keep. Jerking?!?!?!?!
I want Pantone chairs
So today, after wanton noodles at Mak Noodles on Wellington Street in Central, I dragged Sue and our busting stomachs to this chocolate dessert place I found called ‘Sift’. They only served chocolate desserts and wine/champagne! We thought that was pretty ambitious but after having a molten chocolate cake between us, they might just be able to make it for the quality. But damn, at HK$85 (about S$16), that’s expensive for that tiny piece!
That's my I-wanna-eat-but-you-wanna-take-pics?! look
We came back to three episodes of Family Guy Season 7 and I’m chilling to Angus & Julia Stone now on my iTunes. Mmmm…
Meanwhile, I’m lusting after these Pantone chairs! I’ve totally seen the Pantone mugs everywhere but these! I really want. But it’s not fun to just get one colour. You gotta get at least three to make the concept more ‘intentional’ but ah well, have you seen the size of my Hong Kong flat???
On a mushy note, this weather makes me miss the boy so much. Ugh. Three and half more weeks?!! Sucks sucks sucks.
Molely eats a lot in Hong Kong
I’m proud to announce there’s another condensed milk toast convert in town!!! Sue absolutely loves my (unpaid) endorsement of Tsui Wah’s condensed milk toast and has been lusting after it every other hour since she had it on Saturday afternoon.
All the shopping aside, we ate our way through whatever places I think she ought to try. That’s the thing about having friends in HK with me. I end up eating as much as they do and that also means spending more than my usual food budget and spending less on shopping (sob). Speaking of spending, Molely made a big purchase just now! Tsk tsk tsk. Bad girl.
It says "Y for Yi Lian!" Yah, it's her surprise Xmas gift for me. Really.
Anyway, I brought the girl to my usual brunch haunt – The Brunch Club on Peel Street where I had to resist from flipping through all the shelves of the newest magazines and focus on being a good pal by keeping up with chit chats.
Then she also had my favourite smoothie of all times – School Bus from Cafe O. But she had it without banana. I know, how could she right?
On Saturday, we went to this place called Tai Tam Tuk Village near Shek O Beach (I think?) for a Hong Kong-style BBQ. HK style meaning you sit there with your skewers of food and wait till your food gets cooked, unlike how we do it in Singapore – simply leave the food on the mesh and have only one or two designated cooks! Well, I guess they wanna recreate the whole campfire camaraderie so you get to chat over the burning charcoal. But the spoilt group of us was just like, “my face is burning!”, “my pores are growing!”. Hehe.
Anyhow, Alvin, Ray, Sue and I grew bored and went to explore the area a little. It was actually quite beautiful and scenic! It was peaceful and the reservoir that surrounds the area is, according to Alvin, quite a spot for some pensive reflection.
But Ray and I spoilt the peace by playing pretend that I was Little Red Riding Hood and since he was wearing brown, he gotta play the Big Bad Wolf. And we were in the ‘woods’ after all. How appropriate!
And see how tranquil the place is:
Will be cooler if it's high tide, I reckon.
After the barbie, we headed to KTV in Causeway Bay! We had our personal toilet in our huge room and FOUR wireless microphones! We could sing Spice Girls without having to pass the mics around. Cool! And the price was equivalent to what we would spend in Singapore for a place of a lower standard so Sue and I were really stoked.
Then last night, Sue bought me dinner at Jaspas in Soho. Just a 3-min walk away from my flat for lobster nachos! Tenderloin! Grilled king prawns! And Molely was ecstatic at the S$8 Heineken beer bottle.
Bad lighting aside, it was really yums!
Not very glam, I know...
I feel so guilty that I don’t have as many shots of Sue cos you know, she’s the tourist who’s trigger happy and I really should be more enthusiastic about taking pics for her so she can have more proof that she was indeed in HK. I suck. I shall resolve to be a better friend in the next few days she’s here!
Then tonight, we went to House of Jasmine for dinner with Ray and Karlye. The food was disappointedly so-so. I should have been more patient and held out for our original 8:30pm reservation at Peking House instead. 
I was actually trying to take a shot of the pretty cutlery...
But we finished off at Hui Lau Shan for some HK desserts. Mmmm… That said, I want my Singaporean food badly!!!
People I love
So the weekend I was back in Singapore, Matt and I managed to surprise Sue successfully at her wedding in St. Andrews Cathedral. It was really nice to be able to see Lena and Jon again and say haiii to my ‘daddy’ Noel (I was his ’son’ back in poly days when I looked absolutely like a boy).
Before the wedding, I caught up with my dear pal Karen, who spat her food onto my pretty perfect-for-church-wedding dress when we had lunch (kway chup, wanton noodles, dumplings soup and iced homemade barley drinks for S$13. Mmmm…) together. Well, I was then forced (I swear I was!) to buy a not-so-perfect-for-church-wedding-but-perfect-for-everyday dress from Black Market at Jalan Pisang when she was there for a short meeting with the owners. Then, to spruce up the not-so-church-wedding dress, I had to buy a rather neat Vice & Vanity necklace. I mean, I had to!
Then off to the wedding I went and it was good being able to catch up with Lena during the waiting time. It was way cool to see Sue’s expression when she saw Matt and me while she walked down the aisle. Whee! Successful surprise!
She later told me the first thing she told Renyi (the groom) when she reached him at the end of the aisle was: “Did you see Matt and Yi Lian?!” Wah! Super honoured yet embarrassed cos that shouldn’t be the first thing you say to your husband just before you exchange your vows, no?
And speaking of Sues, my molely is coming tomorrow to HK to bring me some sunshine! Literally. The past week in HK has been unusually cold (10 to 15 degree Celsius) for this time of the year and when I told her about it, she kept whinging about how terrified she is of the cold, yaddah yaddah yaddah. But is she lucky or what! From tomorrow onwards, it’ll be all sun till the weekend at an average of 15 to 18 degree Celsius and next week, albeit the cloudy sky, will be 20 to 23 degree Celsius. How odd is the weather!
Meanwhile, Matt and I have finally decided and booked our ticket for our Christmas holiday! 7 nights in Bali! Butttt, haven’t booked accommodation yet. How last minute are we!
And don’t you mention about the Bali curse! I don’t wanna hear about it!!! Matt had to comfort me when I became all paranoid about it after my (stupid) dear Ray reminded me of the curse ! But anyhow! Yayy, one more month to Singapore and then Bali a couple days after!
And just cos I was on the topic of the people I love…
Joel and me when he was in HK last month. (Do ignore the pile of mags...)
And my cutesy little ones. 
And oh, guess what? I got into a shouting match with a stupid ang moh at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station last night. He called me a “stupid bitch” and I yelled “bald asshole” back. Yes, how civilised. O_o
Self-censorship
Sorry for the lack of access the past week. I was in a dilemma of what to do with this site.
So, the thing is… This is my blog and naturally, I write about myself and the people in my life.
But I hate the invasion of privacy I created for these loved ones (actually just one person who shall be known as A) when an almost stranger talked to A like she knew A’s life inside out, making A felt really uncomfortable, especially when A barely knew her and to me, she’s a complete stranger who happened to read this site regularly – which is fine cos I expected that, given I didn’t lock it up.
But as guilty as I feel towards A, I wish that certain stranger could just be a quiet voyeur without exhibiting her knowledge. I read blogs of strangers who intrigue me on all the time but I don’t go to his/her friends who I’m acquaintances with and tell them how much I know about them!
Ah well, I have no one to blame but myself and I guess it’s only natural that this happens when I don’t lock up my blog.
So I was in a dilemma cos this is my way of connecting with friends and family back home without the constant emails and I don’t expect everyone to go through the hassle of signing up for a wordpress account if I decide to lock my blog permanently.
But after a week of thinking, I’m wondering if I should:
1. start on some sorta self-filtering and stick to trivial stuff and if it involves grievances, I’ll just skim the surface and give no details!
or
2. lock up my blog which, of cos, will have a lot more details than ever since I know for sure who’s reading.
What you reckon pals? Something’s gotta give.
Jimmy Choo for H&M
So the collaboration launches this weekend. But I’m rather unexcited by it. Guess I’m just not a Jimmy Choo girl. But since I’m here in HK, let me share some of the hype! If I have to pick the pieces I wouldn’t mind, I guess these will be the ones:
They’re pretty stuff but doesn’t Jimmy Choo just feel a little too overtly sexy to you? But ah well, to each her own! Let’s see how are the crowds this Saturday eh?
On the same note, H&M, can you bring in more directional designers’ collaborations please? Maybe Ann Demeulemeester or Rick Owens or maybe, just maybe Martin Margiela?? Hear me please!
Seth the copycat and Kirsten the drama queen
Know how I always insist Seth is quite the (cute) loser by following his sister everywhere and doing and saying everything that she does? And also how Kiks is the drama mama? This video proves my point:
(Sorry for the rubbish quality. I accidentally arranged the video setting to ‘compact’. Sucks.)
But Seth, if you do read this when you’re all grown up, please know that I love you in your own way, loser or not. <3
Back and fro again
Wheee, I’m back in Hong Kong again from Singapore. Spent a short weekend back home cos tix to HK from SG was way too ex ($560 on Cathay!) so Matt paid for my quick weekend back. As thrilled as I was to see him again, I really dreaded the flights. I’m REALLY not a fan of flying. Why can’t I just spend the 3 hrs 40 mins on my couch, not being to move (to compensate for the lack of space in planes) and get to SG? And I promise to just make one toilet trip from my couch during that 3 hrs 40 mins. Why is that not good enough?!?!
I counted that I’d flown 44 times during the past year. That equates to one plane ride every 8.3 days. And I wonder how many hours was spent in air. Actually, the hours spent in air are fine. At least you’re getting to somewhere. It’s the getting to the airport two hours before that I hate hate hate. Such a waste of time!!
Ok, I shall quit whinging and settle our Xmas holiday instead so I can look forward to something new! Not sure if I’m gonna see the boy in Nov… If I don’t, it’ll be another 6 weeks till I see him. Did I mention LDRs suck?
But that said, it does really make the times spent with Matt much sweeter. And his bad habits don’t get to me as much. Seat up or down, dirty linen on the floor or laundry basket… I guess I don’t get those problems as much yet. Of course I’m happy to put up with such bad habits if that means getting to live with him but I’m just trying to look on the bright side here! We’ve been together 19 months now and 15 months are spent apart. I find it amazing sometimes how we do it…
The past weekend took off on a bad start but I’m so glad it got better halfway. We had a small squabble and honestly, it was his fault. It was! Hahahaha, I admit most of the time, I’m the one who stirred shit up but this time round, it was really his fault! So anyhow, I gave him the cold shoulder for a while. But he apologised after. Like, REALLY apologised. Which was really sweet cos most men I know try to go about in other ways to make their apology known but never a straight-forward “sorry”. But Matt did and he said it several times and he hugged me tight and told me he understood why I was upset.
Aw, this is probably one of those situations where you do get closer after an argument.
Ok, back to a hectic work week(s) and my first wisdom tooth extraction this weekend! I’m very, very scared.
Polyvore fun
So I was just messing around Polyvore and couldn’t help but created a look I’ll be happy to spot this fall (wheee, I can finally say that without sounding pretentious cos there is fall here in Hong Kong, unlike Singapore!)
Top from Dries van Noten
Cardi from Undercover
Pants from Alexander Wang
Flats from Chloe
Belt from Ann Demeulemeester
and bag from Burberry?
Not quite possible this fall! Have to grow some funds first!! Well even when I do have the funds, I’m actually more keen on the armchair and gorgeous vintage-looking stove. So prettyyy! But well, if it’s for the house Matt and I hope to build in future, not quite possible as the boy definitely wants those state-of-the-art kitchen fittings and snobbish stuff like that. Damn.
Maybe I can have a little girly corner in the kitchen then. Mmmm…
