Chocolates N Cheese

WOW. I’m gonna be 26 this year! What a way to start the new year- I’m sick at home with flu, cough and fever. URGH!!! Wanted to go back to JB but mom says i should rest… Oh well… maybe it’s a good way to start coz it means i’m probably gonna bum round the house a lot today by myself.

Let’s start with my Xmas dinner at St Pierre. Have been very excited about it. The Friday (23rd) ended pretty quickly coz when my bosses came back, we gave them their pressie, and they gave us ours and by the time we knew it, we had no more mood to work! My bosses are SOOOO sweet! I’ve been holding back on buying new make up coz of the lack of cash, and Remus (my art director who does all my make up and hair for my events) had been complaining about my day makeup being too light for the night. So they went and bought me a set of Estee Lauder makeup! My god! They’re so sweet man!!! The evening started as though we were going to prom or something. Everyone was busy preparing to go to St Pierre. Finally, we squeezed into Remus’ car and was on our way. The restaurant was quite “shi-shi” and cosy, but i felt a lil scared of doing something wrong coz the ppl there were all like so high class. hahaha… we had this 10 mini course thingy where all the portions was sized only slightly larger than a 50 cents coin! but it was very feeling and by the time i got to the 10th dish (dessert no. 2), i couldn’t swallow another bite! So anyway, that night, I was pretty adventurous. Tried Foei Gras (yucks) and Raw Salmon (YUCKIER!). Dunno how ppl eat these stuff. urgh. only for the rich, i guess!!!

So. Hmmm.. Had a LOVELY xmas day with my family and Ron. pretty quiet one, stayed at home to chill and laugh at my lil cousins’ antics. Opened loads of prezzies, as usual. Love this atmosphere. Look forward to xmas family gathering and CNY every year!

went back to work on Tues (everyone was too stoned to work…) coz we had to settle the script for Starhub. I have probably the WORST scriptwriter working for us! No creativity at all, and he made ALL kinds of excuses for not meeting the deadline. To think his blog website is highly famed for all kinds of stuff. YUCK. Buay Hiao Bai! So anyway, he came up with this stupid script that didn’t make sense and Stan (my director) and I was rolling our eyes ALL THE WAY!!! Stan was very close to firing the guy, but we had no choice as it was too late for anything and the workshop with the casts was on Thurs. Can u imagine, this guy, when we gave him a comment for the script, he would comment “Yeah, i thought of that too”. Well, if you have thought about that, shdn’t it have been in the script? Wat an idiot! So after he said that so many times, Stan decided to use it against him. Stan asked him “Ok, with the idea that you thought of (which was our idea anyway), what next?” and he just kept quiet since he didn’t know wat’s next! IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT. The WORST thing was that, not only he couldn’t deliver, he kept blaming it on his ‘writing partner’ Mr Brown, which up til now, we’ve not met! This guy quite schizophrenic i must say!

Friday was really really fun! We decorated the whole office for the office party yesterday. Our lighting vendor (for our events) sponsored us lights and smoke machines, while our Tentage Vendor supplied the tables. We bought LOADS of liquor for the party and everything looked SO nice! Then, I got ready and met Audrey and Joanne for a night out at the O-Bar, which was of coz crowded with ppl lah. But had quite a lot of fun, as always!!!

yesterday- Eve of the New Year, was spent quietly at home mainly, watching tv and just chilling out. Damn nice. Also mainly I was already on the verge of becoming sick and was already feverish… but the night turned out really nicely. We arrived at the office party around 11.45, just in time for the champagne and count down. after that, it was everyone getting drunk (except me- sick mah, cannot drink!) it was quite hilarious! There was this group of idiots tho! They went around the office, opening drawers and picking up our documents and stuff. They even scribbled on the board where i put our events on! URGH. Where did these idiots come from!?! They have no courtesy at all!!!!!! URGH. I’m glad they’re NOT my friends.

Ok ok… this is super long. And i need to sleep again. Very lethargic and tired, thanks to the inability to sleep well coz my nose is blocked.

Will write again soon, i guess…

Stealing some time off work. It’s the Eve of Christmas Eve (in the words of Jamie- who’s crashing in at my place and finishing up ALL my nutella in the fridge!) Looking forward to the end of the day, which means the start of the evening. My bosses are taking us to this posh posh French restaurant called St Pierre (dunno how posh lah, but prices seem posh). We’re gonna eat this course called the degustation (sounds more like disgustation) where we will be taken through a course of about 10 dishes in small portions. I had a peek at the website for this disgustation thingy and the first 3 totally made my head spin! It was some salmon thingy (i dun eat slmon), some swordfish or king fish thingy with some sweetish sauce or something (sounds like warped sweet sour pork) and the third dish is the foie gras. Foie gras’ supposed to be good right? I dunno. Wait til i taset it tonite. Not fond of liver but since it’s expensive liver, will give it a shot. The dinner would set the company back at $150 per pax (my colleague told me). Wah… scary man… imagine how much stuff i can get for 150 man!!!! Will tell you the outcome of the disgustation tonite. At least they will have wine to go with it, so just eat and swallow loh.

I’m SO tired today. Lethargic more like it. Must be all the xmas shopping frenzy. Also, spent the later part of last night trying to figure out WAT to wear to the French restaurant. Giving me a headache. In the end, i decided to wear my christmas top (some brownish gold thingy) that i was keeping for the actual xmas day. heh. i know, it’s usually chinese new year that u wear new clothes. Well, i thought that a new tradition was in place. Dunno fi it’s new tho, but it’s new to me.

So… hmm… Jamie Jamie… Jamie called me on Tuesday, i think. Wanted to come stay over coz she’s working somewhere in Kallang these two weeks (dunno can reveal or not, but worst come to worst buy her loads of nutella to make up for it). It’s like those older days where we used to stay together. Kinda fun. hehehe.. but she talks and laughs really loudly! hahaha.. in a good way, it livens up the house. But not when u’re trying to sleep (oops, jamie- no offense lah.. just pulling some stunts at your expense). I’m really looking forward to her shiftin over to the east. At least got one more person to hang out with, and one more person that i can always talk to. As always, a pleasure! (does this make up for making fun of you, jamie?!)

supposed to be working now actually. But eating snake. Aiyah, it’s xmas mood liao. end of the year mood. can’t seemto concentrate on anything else!!!!! Oh well, i think i better go do some boring paperwork and admin stuff to try and clear the clutter that has been around eversince i joined the company.

Should i not write by Xmas (which i reckon i may not, with all the good food going on- the only destination would be bed!), MERRY CHRISTMAS to those reading this. I know Yee Cheng read this (Merry Christmas, gal! can’t get over the fact that you were so quick in pulling your pranks on Joanne with me! hehehe.. You’re not THAT blur after all). I know Lyentte read this (Merry Christmas gal! Gonna miss you on the 30th when you’re in Melbourne, but ENJOY yourself and we’ll meet up when u get back!). I know Jessie read this (Bonjour! Merry Christmas! Sorry we won’t be meeting before you go back to France. sigh sigh sigh… How can you go back ON Christmas day itself!!!!!! Anyway, i’m looking forward to meeting you again. Will send you the club pics soon, i hope!). I know Jamie will read this (Hey gal! It’s been fun staying with you for these few days, eventho u seem to be raiding ALL my stuff rather than your usual fridge space only- but Merry Christmas. Will see you on Christmas Day itself right? You’ll still be there, parasiting at my place right? hehehe)

And to all the rest, MERRY CHRISTMAS again. I can’t help it lah. Christmas always feels sooo special to me.

Have Fun and Take Care!

Just had a pretty cool weekend. Didn’t get enough sleep but that wasn’t really a factor lah.

Started out on a Thursday. Had this event at the BEAUTIFUL Chicago Business School grounds. It was the Film Awards evening for Nokia & Discovery. There was free flow of Moet and my bosses and I started on them even before the guests arrived! hahahaha… It was pretty funny coz we were supposed to be working for that evening. Anyway, luckily the show went out fabulously. Nadya Hutagalung (Our emcee) was SO funny and laid back! Really like her. Had loads of fun chatting with her and Wendy (her manager). Anyway, as soon as the show ended, that was when the real champagne flowed! I reckon in that evening, I had about half to three quarters of champagne before I decided my tummy has had too much bubbles in it. Had to keep some for my after-work plans that evening (gal’s night out). I think my bosses dranks at least 1-2 bottles of Moet each! OMG. Everyone was just laughing away (even my clients- they’re so cool!)

So anyway, around 11+, it was time for plan 2 and i went off (a lil tipsy) to meet my friends. Jessie was back in town from France and so we HAD to go out for this gals’ night out. Went to Double-O. I used to hate that place. Dunno how come nowadays each time there’s some sorta gals’ night out, we go there. So anyway, it was also a funny night. i was too full to drink, so i let my wallet rest for the night and didn’t spend a dime on drinks. We hit the dance floor as soon as we reached. It was one of those nights where we just had the energy to dance and dance and dance. It was even funnier when Lynette’s Boyfren (kar Leong) got ‘picked up’ by a she-male. hahaha.. She joined in our lil circle and said hi to him. hahahaha.. i can imagine the goosebumps on his back man! hahaha.. tat was funny. he’s a pretty nice guy (i can just see his head swell now)- protecting (or trying to rather) us gals from the guys around. hehehe… and also being able to take bullshit from me. Now, that’s wat i call a REAL gentlemen.

So anyway, finished around 3am. Tipsy, tired and drained of energy. Got in to work on Friday. My two bosses and I had some kinda hangover. Mine’s the minimum since i drank much less in comparison to them, but i was feeling sooo lethargic and couldn’t concentrate. Couldn’t wait for the day to be over. My two bosses were soooo stoned that one of them had to take half the day off coz he couldn’t stand his hangover. hahahaha…!

Saturday was pretty cool too! Went into JB for a while, met up with Jonathan, talked a lot. It’s been such a LONG time since we chatted and I’m glad we finally got the chance to talk, which to his explanation is being able to have the skill to pretend to hear wat i’m saying. hehee… anyway, when i got back, met up with Joanne and Yee Cheng. They were in town for the nutcracker ballet. Did midnight shopping at Suntec and then ended it up with supper at my place. Then that’s when the funny part came. We took so much pics. Joanne and Yee Cheng were (i guess) intrigued by Ron’s turntables and stuff so they kep taking pics and posing. Then we decided to take group pics. hehehe… (will post them up soon)… the funniest part was that we ran out of ideas at the end about wat to take and Joanne suggested something like ballet. So i said, ok lift up your arms and yee cheng and i will cover our noses. Joanne didn’t pay attention so yee cheng and i decided not to tell her wat we were gonna do. When the camera went off, it was hilarious! I think joanne was furious! hahaha.. (btw, the pic is up on my friendster- joanne will kill me but i MUST post this up. Joanne, I’ll post Yee Cheng’s bra soon k!)

By the time the weekend was over, Sunday was just a rest day. no energy for anything other than fixing my new phone (yes, new phone but need to be fixed).

All in all, a pretty good weekend, doncha think?

Just got back from Chiang Mai on Tuesday. What a GREAT break I had during the weekend. No worries about work, only loads of R&R! Actually, more recreation (shopping mostly) than rest. hahaha…

Am SO Broke! Over the course of 2 1/2 days, i spent SGD$300++!!!! It’s been some time since I spent like that but I guess it was quite worth it. For that amount spent, I got 2 massages, loads of clothes, loads of snacks to bring home and managed to squeeze in the money for a few small gifts for loved ones and my colleagues!

The ppl in Chiang Mai are sooo friendly! it is less crowded there compared to Bangkok and less traffic. But the only set back? I didn’t get to eat ANY Tom Yum or Mango with sticky rice. I guess the Northern diet is influenced by China coz they seem to love their teochew porridge a lot (either that or I was at the wrong place at the wrong time).

Visited the Waroro Market about 4 times (so much so I knew how to walk from onoe place to another using small routes). it was REALLY interesting to see all the stuff on sale. It’s somewhat like our Pasar Malam, only larger and more interesting. Mom and I went crazy buying the dried longans and deep-fried pork skin (this is YUMMY with the baby green chilly paste) and everything there felt so cheap as compared to what was found in Singapore (and I found a lot of stuff found in expensive shops in Singapore- imagine my ecstacy of buying them cheaper!)

Visited the Hmong tribe and saw the ‘home-grown’ marijuana tree. They use this to create hemp and we were explained the process. it was so interesting to see how marijuana could be used other than smoking it. hehehee… wanted to get some cloth or something made with it but didn’t find anything suitable. Too bad i say…. But the village proved to helped in my retail therapy! Loads of stuff to get and ended up with a pretty nice chain for less than $4! They had roadside vendors selling food and drinks and i (the very courageous me!) bought a large hot dog thingy that was actually rice and pork. Quite yummy if u ask me! And the good news was, it didn’t come out immediately through the other end! This proves that actually the roadside vendors are not as dirty as we imagine them to be (if u picked the right one lah!)

All in all, this trip was wonderful. Good get-away after the really really busy period. All ready to go again with the rest of the stuff back in the office!