Sick Of Your Berry Buzzin' All In My Face

I got a call from George Huang today. Asking me about research (barely getting started) and exams (bitched about how fucking C+rim basically pissed all over the rest of my pretty grades - I know I should not be complaining but fuck it really really annoys me). And then well, turns out that George Huang was... Jin. Either (1) he's really good at imitating George's... manner of speaking or (2) I'm damn stupid. We had a good laugh over it for like a couple of minutes.

Lazed around for the entire day, not exactly making the best use of my holidays am I?

There are so many things I have to do, but I'm too damn lazy to get started. Among them, get my driving license (which was a resolution for 2006 and 2007 btw), learn French (ditto), learn to cook/bake (ditto)... the list goes on.

Add to that the things I've already committed myself to doing - orientation, research, article writing etc. and one wonders how I can just sit around at home and do nothing the whole day.

But maybe this is what holidays should be like?

Speaking of holidays, my bank account is going to FLAIL soon. Have yet to book accommodation for HK and beach holiday, and now am already looking forward to the end of the year and getting tickets for New York.

My life should be blossoming now, I'm going to regret not making full use of my summer hols. Again.

Simon's SATC Obsession

Around our island.



And at the premiere at GV Vivo.

Someone call the pun doctor please

Damages

From dinner at Jumbo Seafood Dempsey with Mike, Alex and gang.

After 4 chili crabs, 35 man tongs, 2 steamed fishes, 3 plates of veggies, fried rice, mee goreng, fried scallop, and...TIGER BEER, and with 10% discount using Citibank card,

$57.

There goes my budget for the rest of the month. Had to dig into my brimming coin reserves. Poured out about a fifth and got $40 in coins. Not too shabby.

Haha.

This is damn funny.

-simon- says: (11:29:54 PM)
you know which friend
-simon- says: (11:29:55 PM)
that is
jin: looking for wakeboarding kakis says: (11:30:16 PM)
this one?
-simon- says: (11:30:23 PM)
huh
-simon- says: (11:30:36 PM)
since when do you epitomize single, fab, and up for endless sex
-simon- says: (11:30:48 PM)
you are more like, attached, drab and monogamous
-simon- says: (11:30:50 PM)
so boring

in: looking for wakeboarding kakis says: (11:44:48 PM)
man tongs!? haha
jin: looking for wakeboarding kakis says: (11:44:52 PM)
WHAT THE FUCK IS MAN TONGS
-simon- says: (11:44:59 PM)
you jnow u eat chili crab
-simon- says: (11:45:01 PM)
the hard bread
jin: looking for wakeboarding kakis says: (11:45:02 PM)
something BORAT WEARS?
-simon- says: (11:45:02 PM)
they give u
-simon- says: (11:45:05 PM)
the brown one
-simon- says: (11:45:06 PM)
haha
jin: looking for wakeboarding kakis says: (11:45:07 PM)
it's mantou la
-simon- says: (11:45:10 PM)
...
-simon- says: (11:45:10 PM)
oh
-simon- says: (11:45:12 PM)
shit

Quotes

Clubbing at St. James last night was, in all its crude vulgarity, FUCKING CROWDED! There must have been an explosion in the population of homos over the past few months - we could hardly stay in the same place, with streams and torrents of people constantly on the move, much less dance. And mind you, Powerhouse isn't some shit small club like the ones in Tanjong Pagar... I think it was even more crowded than an average Mambo at Zouk. I'm sure the fact that today is a public holiday somewhat explains it, but still, overly packed.

So Leonard, JS and I were on the second floor bar, trying to enjoy our drinks while constantly on red alert for fat, smelly people, and conversation went something like this.

Len: 'WHY do they let fat people in? They take up twice the space!'
Me: 'Ya they should charge them double.'
Len: [matter-of-factly] 'They should! ... ... [triumphantly] Ugly and fat people should be charged double'

Me: 'You can tell a fat person is coming from his smell' [which is so true btw]

Len: [from the second floor bar] 'Hey let's look at the rabble!'

Len: 'Shit I left my lip balm in the locker!'

The whole world and their mothers were there last night. Local "celebrities", undergrads, NS boys... Jin looks so much fresher with short hair. I tried to sneak a couple of pics of him but it was too dark.
Confetti and balloons. Why would you want to be anywhere else.

And for one thing, the music's up to date at least (bar the same ol' "classic" Do You Want To Dance). 4 Minutes, Touch My Body, Break The Ice, Piece of Me AND Gimme More (too bad it was too crowded to dance), Take A Bow, Bleeding Love, Don't Stop the Music, 'Give it 2 Me' - the new Madonna single I think... thank goodness tunes like Since U Been Gone etc. have been phased out, although I would have liked to hear Umbrella. OH AND BEST OF ALL NO SLUTINA FAGUILERA! Of course this was before I left early (at around 3).

I am going to take a break from clubbing tho', at least not until Meng comes back. And I CANNOT WAIT for Sex and the City to open! I will kill anyone who spoils it for me.

Wanderlust

I've been making a mental list of all the places I must, and have yet to, visit.

In no order of merit (because I want to go to ALL of them)
1. Alaska
2. Italy (especially Venice and Rome)
3. Paris
4. Croatia (the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Dubrovnik and the Plitvice Lakes)
5. Maldives/Mauritius/Seychelles
6. Russia (Moscow, St Petersburg - the Hermitage!)
7. Egypt
8. Turkey
9. South Africa
10. Cuba
11. North Korea
12. New Zealand

Which makes me question my choice of holiday destinations for the year. Damn you Uncle Sam.

I shall strive to hit most of these places by the time I hit 30. Which also means that I need to find me a job that pays a shitload of money, and yet affords me enough free time to actually travel. Which means that I am in the wrong profession. Crap.

The First Day

Waiting, yearning, hype, expectation. So how did I actually spend it? In a very mundane way, but I'm actually happy because I managed to get quite a number of things done (by my procrastinator standards).

1. Got cheap(er) HK tix for Meng and Christine
2. Went to school (not my fault) for FOCC meeting which lasted for 3 hours
3. Got my Paul Smith pants altered at Far East
4. Procured first book for the summer, Anna Karenina (Meng I finally used up your Borders voucher haha), which I am told is a heavy read. But when you've spent close to a year reading the self-important - and sometimes plain archaic - judgments of decrepit, verbose old men, anything is possible. I bumped into Rohai at Borders and he was telling me that Oprah has a fantastic study guide for AK (it was a summer selection for her book club some years ago) on her website. At least the bish is useful for something I guess
5. (Surprisingly) found screen protector at I-shop, I didn't think they'd have any i-phone related stuff, since, you know, we're not supposed to have it and all... Replaced defective one the moment I got home and my phone looks damn sexy and new all over again =)
6. Hit the gym for the first time in a fortnight. Painfully evident that I haven't been working out. I hate not going for a period because it shows in the weights and stamina... and every time I make some progress an extended absence means it all comes to naught... I haven't been stacking on weights for the longest time. But its a start. A re-introduction if you will, and I intend to gym very regularly this summer

And that's what I did. I'm not usually so productive. Almost didn't want to get pants done/purchase screen protector/go to gym at one point or another. But I did it ALL. Haha. I'm so proud of myself. Gimme a cookie will ya?

HOO HOO HOO

YAY! I am damn happy. Here's to a sizzlin' summer 08 =D

It's 3 AM

No, this isn't a recreation of the Clinton ads... it really is 3AM. And I have to ask myself the pertinent question: to sleep or not to sleep. I am presently leaning in favor of the former, although if I really wanted to go on I could la. But I don't have that fire in my belly.

Will be all over in a week, and maybe I'll get to updating this more often, reading, tanning, lazing around and doing nothing, and doing everything with friends. I can almost smell it. But the next 6 days are going to be H.E.L.L