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This pic is super cute and hilarious! Stupid Ed says it looks like me but I reckon it’s just the dark circles.
Archive for August, 2008
About the other half
I haven’t done a meme on this blog before so instead of being completely narcissistic, I shall attempt one on Matt. Not sure if it’s all correct – cut me some slack, we’ve only been together for five months!
1. He’s sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?
A rugby match or anything with a fighting scene. It doesn’t matter what show or storyline it is, as long there’re two blokes fighting, he’s watching it. (Update: The Simpsons and Futurama too.)
2. You’re out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on his salad?
Wah, don’t know man. But since he’s such a health nut, prob a dressing that’s olive oil-based and not cream based. Balsamic vinegar? French? Italian? (Update: It is balsamic vinegar. yayy)
3. What’s one food he doesn’t like?
Durians. Hahahaahhaaha and ikan bilis. And Malay food, he finds them too unhealthy but I love all of the above!
4. You go out to the bar. What does he order?
Beer lah, what else. He likes his Aussie beer.
5. Where did he go to high school?
Fern something. Dunno lah, somewhere in Brisbane.
6. What size shoe does he wear?
8 or 8.5? He has small feet, hehe, hope he doesn’t kill me for saying that.
7. If he was to collect anything, what would it be?
Toy guns or maybe real guns, if he can.
8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
Cold cut trio from Subway? He loves his Subway.
9. What would this person eat every day if he could?
Subway lor. Very exciting right.
10. What is his favourite cereal?
Hmmm, he eats a few. He likes his Weet Bit, Special K and this other one that he eats which I don’t remember the name but will know when I see the box. (Update: Nutri-Grain! And no, he doesn’t like Special K. Hmph.)
11. What would he never wear?
Winter scarves and a lot of other things. That boy’s dressing is too typical. Other than his work attire, he’s in singlets/T-shirts and boardies. Jeans, sometimes, if I’m lucky.
12. What is his favourite sports team?
I’m not sure, the Australian rugby team? (Update: Yep it is! The Wallabies.)
13. Who will he vote for?
The ‘Wear Singlets and Boardies to Work Everyday” association.
14. Who is his best friend?
Me? I hope? hahahaahha (Update: Yayy, it’s me!)
15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn’t do?
Staying up late, eating unhealthily, not exercising, shopping so much. There’re a lot of things he wishes I wouldn’t do. (Update: He said being as such is me and he loves me for me so woot! That means, I can continue to stay up late and bother his sleep, be a slob and eat unhealthy food and not work out and most importantly, continue to shop, shop, shop! Woot!)
16. How many cities/countries has he lived in?
Brisbane and Singapore. Hopefully Hong Kong real soon.
17. What is his heritage?
Erm, Caucasian? Ok ok, I know he has Italian, Scottish, English and Irish blood in him. Greek too, I think…
18. You bake him a cake for his birthday; what kind of cake?
I haven’t baked him a cake before but I love baking so I would be happy to try to bake him his fave Oreo Cheesecake.
19. Did he play sports in high school?
Erm, like A LOT? He used to surf, play golf, run long distance, rugby and yes, all these while in high school. (Update: he just told me he played tennis, cricket, baseball, swam as well. Siao one, that guy.)
20. What could he spend hours doing?
Sleep, visit every beach in the world, go to the gym, play with his toy helicopter and Kirsten.
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So, the partying didn’t happen with BB, due to circumstances. :(
And I’ve been feeling weird since Thursday… Probably a mix of loneliness and stress but the result is just this weird sense of emptiness. But it’s only been three days so hopefully the feeling will go away. I’m increasingly missing my friends, Kirsten, Seth, Mum and Matt and even reading about Kiks’ bullying her baby brother made me miss them both so much. I can imagine Kiks and her signature whining and bossiness while poor little Clueless Seth just allowed himself be bullied by his big sis.
Yesterday, I had this persistent unhappiness I couldn’t shake. I lost my child-like excitement about discovering new places even though I was going around the city for my job yesterday. Knowing myself, I know that enthusiasm would return but I’m not sure when. Maybe it’s just the knowledge Friday and the weekend is here again.
Who isn’t a big fan of Fridays and weekends but being quite alone in HK, it’s not the same anymore. I got home and made dinner and sat down at the comp by 9.30pm, the time Matt said he would be home. I waited for 20 minutes and he called to say he was going for a quick beer. I was disappointed but know I shouldn’t deprive him of his time with his friends so I told him to have fun and he said he would have a quick 30-minute beer and then head home but 11.30pm rolled around and I was tired of waiting so I texted him to say I was gonna snooze.
I fell asleep by midnight and the problem about falling asleep when I’m unhappy is nightmares. I woke up with a jolt at 2.30am and reached for my mobile to see a text from Matt. Emo-me sent him a long reply and returned to slumber. When I got up today at 8.30am, I was much better emotionally and called him at work. I’m no longer upset. :) but as I was telling Karen on MSN, there’s just this emptiness that still couldn’t be shaken.
On a brighter note, I received (one of) the sweetest gifts from my pals! They customised me a calendar from Sept 08 to Aug 09 with ‘special’ dates they created themselves like “Adopt a Squarrel Day” and “Say ‘whatevs’ to people who piss you off this week” and they actually managed to get my family’s birthdays and anniversaries as well! I found out Molely actually asked Sis on Facebook for dates. Thanks Sis! Feeling the love. Muacks. There was also a month filled with pics of Kiks and Seth and I couldn’t stop grinning to myself as I went through it in the office, after returning from a tiring afternoon out.
There were just some dates with comments that left me laughing out loud. Like Seth’s birthday, it says, “It’s Seth’s birthday! Send a gift and big bite from HK!” and Matt’s is “It’s Matt’s birthday! Send him a nekkid picture of yourself!” hahhaahahahahahahahaha. My spastic friends. And yes, my birthday says, “It’s Sue’s birthday. Send her a big pressie from HK! And oh, it’s your birthday too.” -_-
Pimply Clueless Seth
Sorry I hadn’t snap pics. Next week, I promise! I packed the calendar into my box of belongings for the movers to move to the new office next week. It’s totally funny and I’m seriously feeling the love.
I also received good news from a good friend and her engagement. Totally sweet proposal and damn nice ring! Big and well-cut. I like the four prongs instead of the typical six too. Congrats G!!!
Speaking of engagements, this must be the month of engagements! I’ve came upon so many other engagements on Facebook and Angel also mentioned two of her good friends just got engaged. And I also found out the ex proposed to the girl he cheated with. I think they’re best staying with each other so I’m happy for him! For some reason, I just find it completely funny.
Yayy, everyone’s getting married! Happy, happy.
Mum was telling me about the happenings when Matt’s parents were staying with them. She was telling me on Skype while I was laughing away. She told me how she brought Matt’s mum to the wet market with her and the auntie at one of the stalls was telling my mum, “hey, that ang moh lady keep staring as us” and my mum was like “she’s my friend ok!” hahahahaahahahahaahaha
And when Matt’s mum asked where she could get a trim, my mum brought her to her usual salon. And all this while, my mum could barely speak English while Matt’s mum doesn’t know a word of Mandarin! It’s super hilarious.
On the day of their departure, my folks sent them off at the airport and not before my dad played tour guide and brought them to all three airport terminals and bought them a Japanese teppanyaki dinner. I imagined my folks and Matt’s, four oldies, having dinner together and somehow, I couldn’t stop laughing from the imagination.
Hmmm, the power of positive thinking. Writing about all these funny stuff has lifted my mood. :)
Now, to look forward to Monday’s paintball session with the colleagues (yes, the movers move office for us while we have a yum cha lunch and play paintball on company’s account. how great is that!) and Karen coming next weekend!
Love, love. XOXO
Gifts for my parents
When I return in time for Mid-Autumn Festival on 11 Sept (two more weeks! woot!), I’m gonna gift my parents with this:
Aug 15 in Mandarin also means backside! Not exactly. Just a term the Chinese grow up with.
Hahaha, trust G.O.D. to come up with such a clever idea. Heard about these mooncakes from Angel’s SG friend, Ming but didn’t know exactly how the mooncakes look like until Molely forwarded me an email with the above attachment. Not cheap though, at HK$55 (S$11)! But funny lah, must get.
Anyway, Ray (my new SG pal in HK, thanks to Debs G’s introduction!) and I went for our first fashion show at the Mastercard Hong Kong Luxury Week. It was Diane von Furstenberg tonight and I’m normally not such a huge fan of her creations for F/W ’08 is fabo!!!
Loves, LOVES the flapper dresses and the gorgeous cheongsam-inspired B/W dress. Don’t dig her new collection of footwear though. Givenchy still rocks heels. Gosh, her flapper dresses are sooo beautiful, I told Ray I wanna buy one just for my wedding dinner. Erm no, I’m not getting married yet but I reckon I would in future and my skeletal body pretty much stays the same since I was 13 so it’s safe for me to buy clothes for safekeeping.
Thank God Ray went with me, Murphy came to visit when I was about to interview the managing director of IMG. I wrote my questions nicely in my notebook earlier in the office before I left but was rummaging through my humungous bag but couldn’t find! Ray was just like, “calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down”. Then when I wanted to take just ONE snapshot of the crowd and catwalk, my lovely Ixus 860IS says “Change battery pack”. Wah lau!
Angel just came back from her Bali trip and happened to meet Bryan Boy‘s best friend who’s a milliner and she told Angel we would all go partying with Bryan Boy tomorrow night after the Marc Jacobs show! WOOT!!! BB! Be my BFF!!!! Dear ixus better act up tomorrow! No fooling around when I want my pics with my BB!
Sale again!
Pedder Group in HK is having a warehouse sale starting from tomorrow, with up to 80% off!
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
I’m going tomorrow lunchtime and then grab lunch at my fave sushi place next to Times Square! Woot!
Time for bed
But just a little update. I’m almost desperate for a little update cos bcos of my flu and the fact that I’m in HK, I felt so detached from the world, it’s almost too weird.
I was happy to see Chiang and Yvonne for a little over an hour just now for their late dinner though. I wasn’t 100% well yet but I was just desperate for some human contact, especially my friends from SG!
I went to the hospital again this afternoon to get sick leave for today cos the doc only covered me for yesterday. St Paul’s Hospital was, gratefully, just a 5-min walk away but my enthusiasm for the afternoon (just to hospital and supermarket) was short-lived after I reached there. My doc wasn’t there till night shift so nurse asked me to come back later at night. Damnit.
So I walked another 15 minutes (10 minutes if you’re fast but I almost already died) to International supermarket at Tin Hau. By then, I was really ready to bail and just take a cab home but I was determined to “eat healthy” (as Matt kept nagging me to) so I put on my jumper and took a trolley. It’s a nice supermarket, unlike Welcome, with ambient music and few people so I quickly settled down and felt better.
After 30 minutes and S$140 later, I left the supermarket with WAY. TOO. MANY. PURCHASES. I hailed a cab right outside the supermarket and even the cabbie remarked after helping me, “You buy too much for a skinny girl!” Damn the pack of rice and US Vogue! I also bought two copies of tabloids, which I was so gleeful for. The last time I bought an issue of tabloid was… years ago?
I was so happy to read about Britney’s new body and Katie’s unhappiness with her in-laws that I actually couldn’t put it down even when I was on Skype with Matt afterwards.
On the cab ride back, I thought about the climb up the 6-floor walk-up and grimaced. I spent a total of 15 minutes in that staircase, huffing and puffing. It was torturous but thinking back, it’s quite funny. Hahahah, serve me right.
I made mushroom pasta afterwards for Larry and myself (Angel’s in Bali for work) and felt a embarrassed that it tasted only so-so after having the both of them cooked pretty sumptuous meals for me. :( I really have to brush up on my cooking. But nevertheless, I felt a teeny proud of myself of my first home-cooked meal.
The beauty of recovering from an illness is that you suddenly have an enthusiasm for everything (though I’d rather not fall ill again). I suddenly wanna cook everything, eat healthily, start exercising and not wanna stop talking. Since there’s no one I can really talk to now, I shall blog instead. From no word from me for three days, I really wanna blabber now.
My poor skin, along with my health, suffered these past four days. For FOUR days straight, I didn’t moisturise my skin AT. ALL. If you know me well enough, you’ll realise how ill I have to be in order to do that to my poor skin. I’m compensating with a face mask now but seriously, the people at SK-II really ought to make their facial sheet masks with bigger eye and mouth holes! Not everyone has pretty slitty eyes and dainty, pouty lips like the Japanese… Wonder how Cate Blanchett (SK-II’s American ambassador) fits her face in…
Ok Yi Lian, shuddup now and go to bed for work tomorrow! Can’t believe how excited I am to go to work again. Woot!
Down and out
Sorry for no update… Has been down with flu since Saturday and fever only started to subside this morning. Was determined to go to work. So got up in the late morning, took a shower and then realised the effort depleted all my strength. Am much better now, much thanks to Angel’s and Larry’s care. Would be utterly miserable if I’m really all alone.
Hope to have an update tonight…
On a Typhoon 9 night…
A Typhoon 9 was hoisted so I stayed in for the entire day today and it’s a Friday night. The hard thing about being in a country where all your friends and family aren’t are Friday nights and weekends…
It hasn’t gotten to a point where the loneliness is overbearing. Well, it hardly does for me. I’ve always been quite content being on my own but I’m really missing my pals, family and Matt right now. :(
I miss you. :(
No work today!
Well, not really. Working on my MacBook from home today but still, it’s nice to have John Mayer playing while I’m working. And having the bed next to me is definitely a big draw. HEE.
Oh, the reason why is that a Typhoon 8 has been hoisted again. The typhoon today is definitely stronger than my first experience that hindered my first day of work. I could hear the winds howling this morning, the doors in the house slightly shaking and the zinc roof outside my window seems to be threatening to fly off. Scarrryyy
And according to Angel, it’s predicted to have black thunderstorm tomorrow. That means, the rain will be so heavy that you can’t see past it. So much for the junk that we’re supposed to go on tomorrow. :( To think we had such beautiful weather for the past two weeks. Never mind, next Saturday or something then!
Poor Libby’s bf was supposed to arrive now in HK but due to the bad weather, he hasn’t even boarded the very-delayed flight in London and the airport staff couldn’t even give him an estimated time of departure. Poor Libs.
That's Libby and she was very intrigued when the cleaners were doing the windows of the office building.
We’re moving next week to the building next door and we’ll be on the 32nd level, compared to the current 8th floor. However, I won’t be getting my window view anymore, which is honestly, the only thing I want for my new desk. :( But well, the view will be a table away so better than nothing I guess…
I was roaming Tsim Sha Tsui area a little this week…
Sue, this is for you!
Damn shadow! If not, the pic will be a really nice one. The building is called Chungking House. Reminds me of "Chungking Express".
It’s gonna be a long weekend since I probably won’t be able to get out today and tomorrow. Even if I do, most shops won’t be open. Borrrinnggg… :(
Will catch on my reading then. Anyhow, my pink egg-shaped table has arrived! It’s nice to be able to stop working on my comp on my bed. I’ve got a matching seat cushion but haven’t got the yellow chair I want yet. Weather clears up soon so I can go out and playyy…
Matt’s parents arrived last night in Singapore from Brisbane and are staying at my place for the next three nights and I ‘met’ them through Skype. Sometimes, I find my relationship and living arrangements with Matt so hilarious. So, my family would meet Matt’s parents… before I got to meet them. And I’ll probably only get to meet them face-to-face next September.
How amusing is my life, really. I’ve left for HK but my bf’s still staying with my family and now this. hahahahaaha, so funny.
Yayy pals yayy!
I’m a happy bunny cos many friends are already heading to HK!!! Not for me lah. All cos of work trips but good enough for me! Fancy hotel sleepovers and free yummy all-you-can-eat breakies, here I come self-invited!
And I’ve them all marked down in my diary:
August 24 to 27 – Chiang and Yvonne!
Sept 6 to 9 – Karen!
Sept 21 to 24 – Pamela!
Oct 14 to TBC – Daphne!
Happppiiieeeeeeeeeeeeee
And all the dates don’t clash with my trip back to SG in mid-Sept! Though I will definitely be travelling during the mid-Oct period. So probably could only see Daph for a night. :(
And Charmaine and Cheun are actually heading HK from Guam during mid-Sept and I’m gonna miss them too. Sucks. I haven’t seen Char for two years already!! Always missed catching her whenever she was in SG and now HK. Damnit.
Here’s a spastic pic of my pals during Pom’s 26th birthday, which I wasn’t around for. :(
Missing you pals!
XOXO
