out of Sg in 4 hours.

Hello my lovely readers, im making a quick exit out of Sg for a while.

A while meaning 7 days. Seeking nirvana. Won’t go as far as labeling it as a deserved break but hey, beggars can’t be choosers.

SK, VT and I drank to our sanity last nights.

i cannot feel my legs and my eyes are oh so heavy.

 

OK, catch you lovely people next week.

 

Be safe and don’t do anything stupid.

 

love,

L

Week long of good food.

Jones

I’m still not used to the taste of organic eggs but the pancakes were super awesome. My banana milkshake wasn’t as fantastic as the last time.

I wanna try the scones next cause that was what our neighbour was having and it looked gooooooddddd.

Fish&Co

No pics cause i was too busy chomping down food. But the spicy crawfish pasta was amazingly good.

and sharkie freeze. yum yum.

Bollywood!

I’ve always liked bollywood food. I feel good after eating there.

We had the banana cake with ice cream. super god awesome. I wanna learn how to make banana cake that nice.

 

We toured all the farms again. how i miss the open space. and you can no longer feed the goats at the goat farm. how terribly sad.

 

DIY

Cooked one of the nights. how i miss cooking.

I made grilled chicken with the usual spices and i threw in a bit of apple cider (Lenda recommended). yum yum.

had it with mushrooms and olives stuffed with garlic.the olives rock socks.

ive been popping one (even two at times!) into my mouth everytime i open up the fridge door.

orgasmic stuff i tell you. i can eat this every night.

French place off Siglap. (forgot the name)

Met Mio and had dinner one of the nights last week. Awesome food.

The fresh cheese with tomatoes is to die for. serious. no joke.

the cheese is BEYOND fresh!

we shared seafood risotto (LOVELY) and crabmeat pasta with pink sauce (OMG).

It’s super nice. and they served warm bread with olives still with the seeds! amazing stuff.

i wanna go back there and eat the cheese and crabmeat pasta!

dragged connie out of bed and we opened a bottle at mio’s.

Stayed there till midnight before i was gone and hopped into a cab back home.

loved listening to all their stories.

akin to machine gun.

bang.

Shin Tokyo

Had dinner with fam last night. the only ones worth mentioning, Tofu and god awesome warm brownies with ice cream.

Break those little cubes of goodness and have the hot choc oozing out.

waaaahhh…

i like.

and finally. a picture that is out of the blog post. just like the chair in the picture.

out of place.

im sure we all had our moments.

xxx

2 hungry souls on a wet Friday night.

sms convo:

“Im beyond hungry”

“Get a zinger meal! It’s good and i miss kfc”

“KFC is damn dirty. I hate KFC. Ill tell you horror stories abt kfc when we meet next!”

“Oh i saw the video. But the zinger meal is a burger mah? No chicken keena tortured. ” (no link btw)

“eh no lah, not the torture part! The singapore kitchen damn super dirty lah! do you even know what the mashed potato is made off???? When they fry or bake the chicken, whichever you choose to believe, the leftover oil bits with the batter, they scoop the whole entire shit and mix it with the sauce to make it nicer. oh my god. what nonsense it that!”

“Burger King  then?”

“Burger king is fine. Macs is fine. Stay CLEAR of KFC. Speaking of which, mcspicy would be damn good right now.”

“Double McSpicy? With Curly Fries? And an Ice Lemon Tea? And curry sauce and chilli sauce and mayo.”

“No Sauces. I don’t like all those nonsense. Mayo is fine though. Curly Fries Rock. They should bring it back! Grr…”

“Those rat bastards know we’re addicted to them so they only sell em during CNY. How can you not have the sauces? HOW???”

“Im gonna have to blog this down.”

“Can i have the moniker Dances with Rodents?”

what la.

Mel’s the bomb.

That’s my gf and I love her.

x

Mama Canada’s Pussy Cats.

 

i LOVE it when mama sends me pics of her cats via email or when she uploads it on Facebook. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

makes my day. They are too cute. I think by default, cats in cold countries are fatter cause their bodies are programmed to create more blubber.

Update on our baby: We brought her home on Saturday but the 4 hourly injections and force feeding proved to be tedious especially with both mummy and daddy working. :/

So S sent her back to her little hospital place. Now we pay those nurses 15 bucks for every injection administered till she gets better in addition to the cost to put her up at the hospital.

Honestly, i think it’s better also, on Sat, this free-spirited cat was jumping and running around with the catheter bandaged around her foot. Then S spotted blood the next day.

So it’s good she’s being contained until her pancreatic infection subsides.

Which then leaves us with her Leukemia. Which is not curable. Which is sad.

But life is such eh? :/

Her bills are so expensive, can buy one LV bag.

omg.

been a long time since.

<3<3<3

these are people whom i’ve known since i was 7!

In fact, i’ve known Isa since i was 4!

it’s crazy how you only meet these people once, at the most twice in a year but still have so much to talk about.

i should make an attempt to go for more gatherings with them.

makes my heart all warm knowing how we still try to keep up with one another after all these years.

x

:(

:(

Before i blog a sad little story on my poor baby Shelly…

Met with JLF, Saff and Lyd at Jones @ Dempsey. i loooovvveee the place!

they have a cheese room and a whole range of oliveessss…….

im defo going back there again. Twas such a good friday morning.

Salmon, poached eggs, sourdough, banana milkshake for breakie…. oh and Lyd’s vanilla ice cream. yuummmm.

and tons of laughter. me likey.

of course i was drowned with work after. soobbsss..

guess who’s going back to work tomorrow because she spent her friday morning stuffing her face with good food?

on to sad news.

Shelly has pancreatic infection and Leukemia.

actually. i dont even want to talk about it. :/

she’s on drip at the hospital. will only be able to bring her back tomorrow.

so, S and i will know more then.

x

got see my name onot?

Click Click! : http://www.media.asia/The-Workarticle/2009_09/adidas–Every-Team-Needs-The-12th-Man–Southeast-Asia/37225

got see or not?

Things like this make my Monday. dum di dum di dum di dum.

i’ve been blessed with a promotion along with a swanky title and i am very happy.

finnnnaaaaaalllllyyyyyyy……………………

the weekend was spent stuffing my face with food. ive never eaten so much before. insane.

mangoes, grapes, chicken, red bean milk ice, coffee, nasi lemak, toast with nutella and butter, spicy chips, butter drops, more butter drops……..

))))))

high on Criminal Minds. mum and i spent our sunday watching episodes after episodes.

Sat was done shopping with dad. Guess who got new heels?

sigh, ok. im going to close my email and head home so i can play with pussy cat.

Hope your monday’s going a- awesome!

x

eh?

L: Once we close this deal, I’ll buy you drinks ok.

R: SET. Eh, you want to go [insert party of your choice]? I got free tickets.

L: don’t want lah. so crowded. Every year also I don’t go. Tickets expensive like siao.

R: But got Pitbull leh!

L: Who?

R: oh my god, PITBULL!

L: ………..

R: I’m not allowing someone who doesn’t know Pitbull to buy me drinks!

You know pitbull? :/

i added a new table at my work space! so guess who has more surface area for nonsense?  spent the time on Monday to shift stuff and wipe down the table with wet wipes. i used up 2 packs! the amount of dust and dirt is insane. i also cleaned my magazine rack. dumped all those unwanted/unread magazines into the store. so my rack now looks so much neater.

oh oh, see those files? i spent my Wednesday filing at home. the joy of filing. i LOVE filing! i remembered in secondary school when the time came for teachers to check our files to ensure every single sheet of paper is inside, i would readily  volunteer to do Charlene’s whilst she practiced her pirouettes in her room. ha ha ha. complete with the punched hole protector! and that takes up alot of time those little sticky circles i tell ya.

i am happy.

Mediacorp Festival event last Thurday at Ritz Carlton.

Awesome food i tell you. i was busy covering ever inch of the buffet table.

I dont follow Singapore Idol no thanks to my punishing schedule but i saw them that day and there’s one pretty Malay boy. He obviously looks young enough to be my brother but that sure didnt stop me from staring. ha ha ha ha.

so i begged Cheri to park ourselves near him but the paparazzi got the better of me and i decided food was more worthwhile than that.

i like how the stars attempted to mingle with the stars. unlike some of the other media events i’ve been to ( not many cause really i get too lazy sometimes which is not good for networking. hmmmm….).

Zoe Tay looks so good in real life. i dont think she goes through the ageing process if you ask me.

The Polo Boys were there. One of them’s oh so cute but i dont know his name. and my mouth’s too full with food for me to ask for a picture taken.

Kumar was also there although i missed his act.

Heard Michelle Chong was imitating Boomz girl. heh. obviously i missed that too.

at 5pm one of the mediacorp guy texted me:

“eh, sis, which row are you at?”

“what row ah? office row lor. the first table. can see? the one with the computer.”

“HAH!?!?@?! still at work!?!?!?! COME! you’re putting your invite to waste!”

“BO PIAN. simi. give me 15 mins. i cab down”

ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Nizar’s leaving us. Nizar is my IT hero. and the only other coloured person in the office. pfffttt.. now noone else is left for me to use my melayu koyak anymore. meh.

looking at this pic, im so happy i listened to mum and got the three tiered Bvlgari ring. I was contemplating on getting the 4-tiered one but that cost a cool SGD 1,950 and im like woah, i can get myself to freaking Maldives with that money. 3-tiered one cost SGD 1,530. so for an additional tier, you pay like 320 bucks more? where’s the sense in that?

but in any case, the 3-tier one looks just nice on my finger actually. not too vulgar. me likey.

speaking of which, mum was parading in the house with her new yellow rock dad bought for her for their anniversary. hah. complete with a bouquet of roses. i envy their marriage sometimes.

Impossible is nothing.

did you feel the tremors the other day? It was super scary. we’re on the 36th floor so it was quite apparent. chairs were rolling around and my cat painting on the wall was swaying.

the secretary was trying to get everyone to leave the building but i had to reply emails so i didnt quite move.

which wasn’t very smart cause my head was spinning after and i had to leave work early to go and sleep.

Met with Dee after at One Rochester.

Funny incident:

“Did you feel the tremors earlier?”

“*excitedly* yeah!!! i thought it was my phone!(in my head i was thinking, phone vibrations? cant be what. the tremors were so hard! but i let it slide.) so i didnt say anything! i thought it was just me!”

“yah!!!! i thought it was just me too initially! i thought it was from staring at the computer screen too long!”

“huh? what? when? at work? i thought you mean just now at one rochester!”

“ohkaaaaaayyyyy. i think that one just you.”

“hahahahah, and no!! i didnt feel anything at work earlier!!”

classic.

Sandy’s boss took this cow off one of the grass patch, took it to their office and i got quite amused by the story.

He proceeded to email the picture along with a superimposed chains around the cow’s legs to Moove’s boss and told him we’ve clamped the cow for illegal parking.

it was all too cute.

im more tickled by the fact he carried this colourful cow from the grass all the way to the building and into the lift! all in full view of the crowd.

if he’s local i guess he can blend in smartly into the crowd. but he’s this big white guy! wished i was there to snap!

guess who had too much a drop?

Met with the boys at Clarke Quay after. If you have not tried. Indochine’s vegetarian spring rolls are to die for.

i love it.

Marc looks so happy these days. then again, i would think anyone who just got back from an 8 days trip to South France with their gf would be too.

Supposed to leave at midnight but bumped into a client who dragged me to Dempsey and had to be entertained till 3 in the morning.

So no surprises for guessing who had the mother of all migraines this morning.

Had a frantic call from my client at 9 in the morning.

“Lydia!!!! my ad is not in Straits Times!! Did you book it in!?!?!?!!?”

“*groggy**head pain**her voice was tearing my poor head apart* ugghghdsfiugdsfoidfgh *incoherent mumbling*”

“was that english?”

“hey Judy (fictitious name), let me give you a call back in half ok.”

i had to drag my poor soul out of bed to browse through the papers. i have to admit, i was slightly panicky because i remembered the ad was to appear today. but with the super migraine i was having, i couldn’t think straight.

anyways, i found the ad. it was all good.

Dropped her a text and she went, “Sorry for disturbing your sat morning! thanks! have a great weekend!”

ahhh, but that was enough to make me smile.

watched abit of criminal minds. contemplated on going to work. figured ill stay in and drown myself with criminal minds and go to work tomorrow instead.

but the deadlines were tugging at my conscience. so i dutifully trudged myself to the office to get some work done.

dont feel too accomplished really. My Monday is super screwed.

I can picture my client’s to do list every other day:

1) Chase Lydia

Action Points:

a) Send Lydia email-chaser

b) Send Lydia sms-chaser

c) Call Lydia’s DID (if no one picks up, it will be directed to her mobile)

d) Call Lydia Mobile (in addition to c)

e) email her personal mail (in sync with her BB)

f) once connection’s established, ask her to swing by the office immediately to discuss pending projects.

and i kid you not. it’s quite comical having all my modes of communication conquered by my clients.

i had one calling me at midnight yesterday!

i love each and every one of them. they make me laugh.

although im sure some of them want to kill me pretty badly for dragging deadlines.

klah, it’s already 520am, gonna crash and wake up early to explore the new park behind our apartments.

hope your Saturday was more eventful than mine!

x