Its been ages since I've even felt the urge to write. So many things have happened since the last entry that I look back in amazement. Will try to remember them all for posterity sake...
1)1-day Batam trip with Liyi, Dot n Yun.
It was a real successful trip, unplanned but well timed. A BIG thanks goes out to Liyi's mom who invited us along for this trip and paid for our hotel room and breakfast!!!!!! For those not in the know, Liyi has one of the coolest mom.
Anyway, Yun made a friend(Chinchin) on her last trip to Batam and she brought us around for a good seafood lunch and an all-body massage at the low price of S$10. Had loads of fun thanks to her!!!! Chinchin and her boyfriend were a really really nice, gracious and accommodating hosts... so much so I felt like they were doing so much for us, showing us whatever we wanted, insisting on treating us to lunch, while we did nothing in return. SO we decided to treat them to DINNER! Had to tell them our intentions as they were the ones driving... and so they drove to a hawker centre... Food was good but it was so DIFFICULT trying to pay for everything there coz they knew the money much better than we did. I mean, what's with those bloody big nos when you can say 'one dollar' 'stead of '5000 rupiahs' ok they didn't say that coz they all spoke indonesian, which brings us to another difficulty we faced while trying to pay. WHICH NOTE DOES ONE ATTEMPT TO TAKE OUT if one does not know how much the food cost???
Liyi(who had the $$) ended up simply shoving notes without looking, to the people who brought the food.Tiring if you ask me. Went back to the hotel loaded with tidbits to last us till the Euro cup finals ended. Chinchin then asked us what time we would wake up the next day as she wanted to meet us in the morning which made me feel horrid coz i felt we were taking up a lot of her precious time (she works).
Made our way to the JACKPOT room after some time and played... and played... and played. In total, the four of us won abt s$100 that night. Felt GOOD!!!!!!
Watched Message in the Bottle which is a really lousy show that is anti climatic. Think it was made worst by a rather cynical joint commentation on cliches by Yun and me. WE should be scriptwriters, judging by corniness and cliche predictions we made at the beginning of the show that were correct or feasible.
Did not manage to watch the whole match later as I was simply too bored and tired. Liyi and Dot did, while I sprung upright to watch whenever they started exclaiming.
Bottomline, trip to batam was enjoyable though tiring as everyone of us slept on the ferry back to S'pore.
2)DOT IS GOING TO THAILAND WITH US!!!!
Isn't this fantastic??? heehee was rather worried after she msg me about Bird flu that her mom would not let her go at the last min but SHE IS GOING!!!! Her enthusiasm for shopping and buying accessories are extremely contagious (for me) that coupled with Liting's are going to make me buy much MORE than I usually do... heehee I can't wait!! Qiuyi's also very happy that Dot is going she likens it to a "mini tour"
THink this is like the closest we can get to getting everyone to go on a holiday together though we are thinking of going to Taiwan for our next hols!!!!! SO EVERYONE WHO READS THIS ...
START SAVING NOW.
3)Alice is 20!!!!!!!
ALice is officially in limbo now!!! haha join the club gal!!! Britney's cliche song 'not a gal/not yet a woman' comes to mind *pushes that thought away!!!!* Unfortnuately, I could not make it to celebrate her birthday yesterday as it clashed with my sister's graduation=(( Hope you guys had a fantastic time!!!!!!
4)Sis has graduated
Am really happy for her!!!! haha and have concluded that there is no such thing as a handsome doctor... these two words are definitely NOT compatible.
5)Managed to use my beautiful 'SATC' bag for the VERY FIRST TIME
Its basically a small rectangular leather bag which has a picture imprinted on the leather. You know those bags with Audrey Hupburn on it??? Something like that cept MUCH MUCH nicer and in colour. The image is that of Timesquare with its yellow taxis and huge billboards. It's the SATC bag to me coz the billboard naturally has Jessica Sarah Parker on it!!!
6)I am one lousy driver