one year later… October 27, 2008
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wow.
after a night of revelry at gid’s place, I realised that I got wasted last night, almost exactly a year from the last time i, well, got wasted. you can’t plan this kinda coincidence, man. but well.
last night was really fun, despite no non-meat food. (boo for ikea meatballs and pizza~!) haha. in any case, it’s now Day 15 of the GVO, and I’ve passed into the madly-craving-normal-food stage. I’m now totally craving dim sum, Ikea meatballs, peperoni pizza, fried chicken!!, bak chor mee, SUSHI and SASHIMI~! ohh boy.
If anything, this little experiment has put to rest any sort of guilt-related vegetarian inclinations. Not that there were many to begin with. I am now, more than ever a determined and hedonistic meat lover. rar! hahaha.
Anyways.
Apricot nectar+ABSOLUT Vanilia rocks.
Bailey’s+ABSOLUT Vanilia doesn’t rock so much.
Chivas+Green tea really isn’t that bad, even if the overly flowery taste of green tea is kind of a turnoff.
And as it turns out, I’m not that bad at Winning 11, especially for a first time player. haha.
I do love hanging out with the guys.
inarticulate mumbly-bumbling October 16, 2008
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So. The dreaded Thursday has rolled around yet again, and it’s once again time to hammer out a redonkulous ‘essay’ for Film and HY. Plus, the Romanticism essay is due in Week 12, and I’ve decided to play it safe and write up an essay outline and consult with drang about it. Which was all good and fine until late last night, when my ideas suddenly got all confused and convoluted and tangled. RAR.
So I now have two things due by toonight, and I’m been struck totally incoherent and senseless—literally sense-less. Making no sense. Having no point. Being redonk.
RAR.
well at least I’m not a plagariser.
bloody fucking morons.
Incidentally, it’s now Day 4 of the GVO, with nothing much noteworthy happening, apart from the fact that M has decided to throw in the towel.
I, however, am determined to stay the course. Hopefully, I do.
Day 2 October 14, 2008
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So today’s Day 2 of the Great Veggie Odyssey (GVO), and it was quite a sucky day, all in all.
Let’s see.
Decided to go to school to meet M for lunch after all, so after a quick pop-by to Vivo, headed off to the ol’ Deck. Once again, there was a dearth of attractive food, so once again I was mentally kicking myself for not preparing something. Swung by the Chinese food stall to see if I could eat that again, but they had the exact same dishes that they had yesterday, and no way was I eating the exact same crap two days in a row.
Headed for Olio, and ended up getting the rather icky muesli and yoghurt cup, and a chocolate danish. As implied, the yoghurt was, well, icky, and the danish was..okay. The chocolate part more so than the danish part, but well.
Lit tut was not as good as it usually is, cos today for some reason I was just not hitting the right note (this may or may not have something to do with the fact that I haven’t finished the text, since that’s not really the variable factor here).
By the time the American Comedy break rolled around, I was hungry already, so I decided to buy fries from the Western stall, which were pretty good, in an oily, salty way.
On the way home, M suggested pedicures at Compasspoint, and boy what a disaster that was~! Before we went for the pedicure, though, we went to buy food (since they didn’t have a slot for another half an hour), and, well, even when I have no dietary restrictions, it’s hard enough finding food in Compasspoint. Ended up getting a butterfly bun and a spring roll from Banquet—yes, even though the food court is open. There’s NOTHING veggie in the “Kopitiam Spectrum” except the oil-drenched Vegetarian stall.
So it’s day two and it’s really looking like there’s nothing healthy about a veggie diet if I eat ‘outside food’.
But well. I’ve realised that I can just bring my own yoghurt and muesli in my cool bento set, so, that’s one good thing about today. The badder thing is that I bought vegetables for a salad but forgot to get dressing. And I’m out of, well, honey, and I think lemons. So I can’t think of a dressing I can make..Which means I have no idea what lunch tomorrow is going to be. NOOOOOO~!
ok, enough about food.
THE PEDICURE.
or I should say, THE WORST PEDICURE EXPERIENCE EVER.
seriously.
because they didn’t have a slot when we went, we ‘booked’ one for the next available slot, 30mins later. When we got there, we sat in the (rather uncomfortable) chairs, and were told curtly to “feet put on the towuh”. okaay..
Then, the ‘manageress’ asked if we wanted to add ’spa’ to our pedicure. At which point we told her that we were actually there for the express pedicure ($17), not the ‘normal’ pedicure ($30). To which her response was to scowl and say that we were written down in the ‘appointment book’ as two pedicures. So I said, well, sorry for the confusion, then. (And I didn’t say this snarkily or bitchily.) So then she chucked a book of nail colours at me and told me to choose a colour, and then my ‘nail technician’ came and started filing my nails! without soaking them first! or even so much as washing them!
can i say, grosss!
So after a few minutes, M’s ‘technician’, the ‘manageress’, asks if I’m done choosing. I tell her yes, and she goes back to M’s toes. Then, suddenly, like, after 6 minutes, she’s done with M. And it’s only then that I realise there’s only one book of colours in the whole shop. So I pass the book to M. M gets her nails painted. M goes to sit on rickety stool to wait for her nails to dry. The same is happening to me, just a few minutes slower than M. AND THAT WAS THE END OF THE PEDICURE.
wtf!
So seriously, DON’T go to the nail place at Compasspoint. The one on the second floor next to Metro. Seriously. Maybe we were deluded as to what an ‘express pedicure’ meant, but this was NOT what we got in KL. For roughly the same price. But even if we were deluded, it doesn’t discount the rude ’service’ and bad ambience and total horrid experience.
Seriously. People go for manicures cos they want their nails to be pretty. People go for pedicures cos they want their feet to be all clean and pretty. CLEAN and pretty. CLEAN.
Sheesh.
The first thing I did when I got home (after feeding MJ) was to freaking WASH my feet.
gah.
So don’t give me that ‘oh, she’s just too elitist to be open minded about Sengkang’ cyber-look when I tell you that Sengkang people suck.
rar!
I know I have work to do, I’m just too tired to really know what it is, or to do it. I’ve been sleeping 4hour nights since Sunday.
Need.
Sleep.
Day 1 October 13, 2008
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So today’s Day 1 of the Great Veggie Odyssey! (that’s not the official name but that’s what I’m calling it here, cos “Maryam and Yu Ying go Vegetarian for One Month” just doesn’t have that nice a ring to it..)
and yeah.
Actually I kinda forgot all about it, cos it was a busy weekend and everything, and I was out yesterday evening/night, so I forgot to prepare lunch for today. So I ended up eating Deck food for the first time in ages, and it was seriously damn tough trying to find food to eat. (It’s usually tough as it is, but going veggie meant that I couldn’t revert to my usual fall-back stalls—Yong Tau Foo, Jap food and Burger King)
Ended up eating at the pretty much only other stall I eat at, the Chinese Food stall, and there were just barely three dishes that looked appetising: Soya Sauce Tau Pok, Cabbage and some vermicelli dish. For some reason, the rice and vermicelli really sucked, so lunch was basically a piece of tau pok and about a tablespoon worth of cabbage. I really dunno why the food stalls are so stingy with the veggies.
But well. Late classes tomorrow, which means I’ll eat lunch at home. Dinner’s another problem though.
Had no idea what to eat for dinner, but after Film I was starving. Ended up buying a rather pathetic dinner from Compasspoint: corn soup from Mos Burger, and fries and coleslaw from KFC. heh. Vegetarian, yes, but healthy? Not so much…
Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
junkie October 13, 2008
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woohoo! bpal stuff finally came, and amazing/amusingly enough, it’s the one that I didn’t buy, the one that I got free, that I totally love. But now I can’t wait for the next spree! I’m a bpal buying addict. haha.
Sigh.
I want to buy stuff! I want to actually be able to buy stuff. I see stuff I like, I look at the price tag, I bemoan the price, I decide to buy it, I change my mind, I decide, ok DEFINITELY buying it, I go back, I look at it again, and something just seems—off. It’s suddenly not as perfect as I remember. I put it back. I come home and blog about my inability to shop.
RAR.
ok, ok, the one thing I really DO want to buy is BOOKS. plenty plenty books. I’ve finally finished that L.J. Smith book, (or rather, those three, since it’s 3-in-1), and now I’m re-addicted to L.J. Smith. I want to go back and buy the rest of the Night World books, I want to get the Secret Circle books too, and the Forbidden Game books. I even want the Vampire Diaries series, even though that one’s my least favourite series. And I also want to go to Amazon and buy ALL the individual ones, the old versions. oh god.
If this weird mood I’ve been in recently doesn’t pass soon, I’m going to end up blowing all my gahmen money and then some doing exactly that.
bugger. October 8, 2008
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I’m supposed to be studying for that blasted Medications test tomorrow, but at this point, I’m feeling a certain sense of futility. It’s been ages since I’ve memorised for an exam—I do believe the last time was at the O Levels..not that this stuff isn’t interesting, but, it’s just kinda taking forever to go in.
And all I really want is to laze about and read my new books, and sleep. The former is, of course, a longer-term ‘want’ than the latter.
And I want a desktop. An iMac, to be exact. And I want a real ‘desk’. I mean, my table right now is cool cos it closes up and everything, but it’s so darned small. It only has space for my papers, or my laptop. And sometimes I really do need both. So I want a new table, and a new desktop.
And bookshelves to put my books. It’s so sad to see them all sitting sadly and lonely-ly in the front room.
All I need is like..$4000. To get everything.
What really pisses me off is that I actually have like..double that amount. But it’s all been borrowed by various people. Some more so than others, of course.
And what really really pisses me off is those “some” people can borrow all my money, and then come and look for me to make it all right. Seriously. Unforgivable mistake 1 is making someone who should be dependent on you have to be responsible for your mistakes or bad decisions. Really Unforgivable mistake 2 is then coming to that person for sweet words. You borrow money from me. Then you come and sms me and ask how my day was—but that’s only an opener, because after I reply that I am fine, how are you?, you message me back and say that you are very fucking sad because you went to update my passbook and discovered that I have very little money left and you feel very useless. Go-and-fuck-yourself mistake 3 is asking me when the GIRO deduction for school fees is, and telling me you will deposit the money THAT DAY, and not doing it. AND THEN the day before the deduction, I remind you, and you tell me you have not done it and are not going to.
Seriously. In Chinese there’s a phrase 凤凉话, which means irresponsible or flippant or useless words, (depending on the situation), and honestly, I just want to tell her to stop with her 凤凉话. What is the use of telling your daughter that you feel like a lousy mother? Obviously, your purpose is for me to say, no, no, you’re not a lousy mother, you’re a great mother. But you’re not. And it’s bad enough BEING a lousy mother, but to go to the daughter to whom you’ve been negligent and uncaring of for more than ten years and search for redemption when you’ve done absolutely NOTHING to be redeemed for is just pathetic and lousier than I have words for.
seriously. In what kind of screwed up world does the daughter give her mother ALL her money? what kind of logic does that make? If I wanted to have someone financially dependent on me, I’d fucking go and fucking get fucking pregnant myself. no pun intended.
Is it not simple? Mother: supports daughter financially.
Daughter: is filial and obedient. gets married, becomes mother, AT WHICH POINT, REFER TO ABOVE.
ugh.
fuck this. I’m going to sleep. Sometimes I really wish she would just drop dead, because I just do not have the time or the patience or, to be quite honest, the inclination to baby her.Most of the time when she calls or messages me, it’s all about her. The only time she calls me is to bitch about her mother, her sister, her landlady, her foreign students: do you see a pattern here? a commonality? yes, it’s all about HER. what the fuck la. It would be easier to be an orphan—at least I’d have one LESS burden.
the most fun is in the after-party October 5, 2008
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So we went for Maryam’s way-belated birthday-surprise high-tea yesterday at Carousel (Care-roo-sel, not Ker-roo-zel!). And while that was great fun, and great eating (and some way odd conversation topics…), it was the ‘after party’ that made me v.v. happy. Because, having nothing to do, we decided to go to Kino in Taka! I have to say, Kino is one of my favouritest places to go to in this country. I mean, in any country in particular, but in Singapore, where there’s often no where to go and nothing to do, I can happily spend three hours just browsing about, stocking up books in my imaginary library—the ‘if I had oodles of money to spend like water, I’d buy…” library.
But, as fate would have it, we discovered that Jasper has a Kino card! So of course for me that was the deciding factor in the ’should I buy books today despite my less-than-robust bank account balance?’ question. And the answer, of course, was a loud, cheerful YES. Make that a loud, cheerful YES!!
haha.
AND THEN! while I was in the kid’s section searching for the paperback version of Ink Exchange and Un Lun Dun, I found, to my intense and extreme delight, copies of LJ Smith books! and not just the Vampire Diaries, which are not really my favourites, but the Nightworld books!!! (yes, I know nobody else here really knows, or cares, what I’m talking about, but I’m just so happy!!) And they’ve been republished, so they’re all new and spiffy! Although I do feel a pang of regret that the old covers are no more (at least no more in bookstores, I think they’re still on Amazon), and that the books aren’t sold individually (they’re now in 3-in-1 s), I’m just really happy to have my hands on Nightworld books! muahahahaha. PLUS, it’s only $14.52 for three books!
Yes indeed. I am very happy with this. Happier yet because now I know where I can find my LJ Smith books. So really, if anyone is getting me Christmas presents, Kino vouchers are the way to go! Book vouchers always make very happy, cos then I don’t have to feel guilty about spending money on books. Am now waiting for the next Kino 20% sale, at which time I will drag Jasper (or, as he pointed out, his card) down to Kino and go nuts. TEEHEEHEE!
Oh yes. After reading pretty positive reviews of Un Lun Dun by my favourite LJ Smith fanfic writers, I also decided to get that. Although this was a little bit more expensive, $19.80, but I guess that’s what happens when the whole world starts giving the books rave reviews. Which is another reason I like kid’s fiction—no one really reads them ’seriously’, so books like Tamora Pierce and etc are always affordable. Not like the 27 over bucks ‘Classics’ or the 20plus bucks popular writers command.
So now all I have to do is brave the crowds of insane Sengkangians at Compasspoint and go to Popular and get a tube of plastic book-wrap. Or I could get it in school tomorrow…
:))
