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there’s something new in the sidebar.
i have a new photoblog, where i should be putting up all the individual photos i have. photos that come from my camera and that remain safe from my destructive collaging instincts.
i supposed that’s easier than sending pictures to some very demanding people who requested for non-collaged pictures (they sure hate my collages).
now we shall see how often that would be updated. hurhurhur.
when i heard of the very unusual name of “the v tea room” my reaction was “huh?” “hah?” and “what?” even after tracy’s multiple repetitions of the name.
i’m glad i wasn’t only one who did the huh-hah-what thing.
but gosh, the v tea room at esplanade is a very sweet and dainty cafe, selling cakes and cookies to die for. there were those ornamental venetian masks against the red-and-gold wallpapers with lots of fine tea sets displayed in the shop. the place was so dainty and euro-ish i felt out of place in my disney polo tee and jeans (i refused to wear decent clothes cos the weather was simply too hot).
the melty chocolate cake and the baileys cake we had were not too sweet and had the full flavours of what they were named after. the kind which doesn’t make you feel sick of cake and all things rich and heavy after eating them.
fortunately their “boys were smelly” cookies didn’t have the full smelly-boys taste.
the cookies were OOOOOH. totally different from what i get outside. the flavours were original and exquisite, the baking freshly done in the shop itself. the prices are kind of steep at $28 (i think) a tin, but it will brighten up any afternoon, seriously.
which is why i think i’m getting them for the ex-colleagues who are forever asking me out for dinners and yet whacking me when i try to pay them. they deserve happier afternoons in the office when they have to battle with evil women.
yes, the next time we all feel rich, let’s visit the v tea room!
things we don’t bond over
this vacation, i’ve found a lot of friends.
long-lost friends, friends i seldom see, friends whom i am appreciating more than ever.
friends like tracy, domina and rebecca, who i see once in dinosaur years and yet, ridiculously easy to catch up with. being with them made me feel that i can be a lousy friend, cos i appear once in a thousand years and put in too little effort in keeping it going. i certainly would have procrastinated meeting up with them all if tracy had not done the amazingly efficient organizing.
friends like my ex-colleagues who are always very, very concerned about me and take really good care of me when we are out. we all discover sooner or later that it’s easier to make an enemy than a friend in the office. that’s why i appreciate this bunch of friends i made in the office, cos i know they’re hard to come by, the handful of people who don’t grumble about doing work they’re getting paid for and people who do not participate in the evil and scheming game of office politics.
while catching up with other school friends this week, we talked about whether or not friends can be made in the office. my belief is that we can, cos i have done so. but it takes a lot of trial and error, observation and common sense. it takes a really long while to see who are the evil backstabbers and the disloyal before we find the worthy friends in the office.
i must be getting old or something, it makes my day to meet up with people i haven’t seen for ages and after every of these meet-ups i swear to get off my lazy posterior to meet them more often.
hello, world. it’s me, i’m trying to find all my friends again.
and hello friends, i apologise for being such a lousy friend. i’ll try to be a better friend now!
or at least, for the time being lah. see how it goes for the next few weeks (months). friendster is a really good way to satisfy the voyeurist instincts in me but i’m kind of bored with it already, sheesh.
looking at the friendster profiles of some long-lost friends, i kinda miss them a lot. a lot.
but i’m the kind of person who feels paiseh about contacting people again after a long period of time. what if they don’t reply my messages? what if we meet up and we have nothing to say to each other? what if we’ve changed so much we can’t get along anymore?
too many what-ifs in life.
just last night, the first message that came in after midnight was from a long-lost friend, who was last seen at my birthday two years ago. she was so “lost” that i didn’t tell her i was leaving for aust because of all those what-ifs i had asked myself. but it’s good that we’ve set a dinner date already cos i really wanna find out how she has been doing these days.
another friend found, yay!
the first night i returned, i had no bed to sleep in. because my room was being used as a temporary storeroom for my brothers’ belongings and junk. there was only one path left in the room, which led to the bathroom.
the second day involved lots of my dad’s workers going in and out of the house doing some painting jobs so we had to keep our valuables locked just in case. and having no room to unpack or to lock my things in, i had to leave the carry-on bag (still unpacked then) i had from the previous day in my parents’ room. it was pathetic.
and for the next two days i had to continue living out from the suitcase as if i was living in a hotel.
when i finally regained access to my room, my digestive system screwed up and there was this day i ate only two slices of plain bread for the entire day. and the next day, i mumbled my order for a salad during dinner while my ex-colleagues stared at me in total disbelief. the male ex-colleague was eating his food with a painful expression until my admin head asked him if his food was really that unpalatable. he replied no, it’s just that he thought my dinner was totally unappealing and unfilling, how can it possible be dinner?
now, my mum has ordered me to mop the floor.
i wanna go back to the kampung of australia.
for the past week i’ve been back on the island but more or less hiding, cos i intended to surprise people.
alas, it was not to be and out of the many surprises i planned, only one was successful. too many disruptions in the other cases.
and what better way to celebrate my own return than with a shutdown of the digestive system. so bad that i had two slices of plain bread on one day and a plate of salad for dinner the next day.
i’m still warming up for long dinner and shopping sessions, gimme more time, folks.
the plants-munching-and-unmotivated-shopper-yanyan you’ve been meeting in the past week wasn’t the real her. she’ll be back soon.
last paper was completed yesterday, at 3.30pm singapore time!
and it was a hilarious paper cos 70% of the questions came from the mock exam paper the lecturer gave us, and him being such a sincere lecturer since day 1, explicitly reminded us again and again the mock paper was an erm, mock paper and it was in no way representative of the final paper. and i naively believed him till i saw the final paper. i almost wanted to chuckle aloud.
but it was an paper i almost enjoyed doing!
now, gimme some time to pack and fly.
look out, i’m turning up soon!! wheeeeeeeeeeee!
i am still home-broadbandless.
i think it might be because the housemate had cancelled her phone line, which is required for an asdl broadband connection.
and i can’t tap on the house owner’s connection. anyone techy person can tell me if a wireless broadband subscription plan is required to use a broadband connection wirelessly, or if all broadband plans work wirelessly, as long as i have a wireless modem router plugged in?
the internet is down, down, down. the house owner is also making some changes to the broadband arrangements, so everything’s kind of messy right now. no internet connection for me, unless i’m in school. so i’ve more or less vanished from the virtual world.
maybe i’ll just tag along the owner’s daughter when she studies in school. she does so everyday and she drives her mom’s car for the time being, so i get free rides.
the wisdom teeth are growing! so my jaws and gums are a little swollen and tender every now and then. it’s so cute they’re growing together, at the exact same pace. i just hope they don’t mess up my teeth alignment or cause a hell lot of pain. especially when i go back to singapore! i need to chomp on all those food!
on a separate note, i dreamt of a tooth falling out. it’s widely believed that dreaming of a tooth falling out hints at death of someone you know. if it’s bloody, it’s someone close to you. thank god it wasn’t bloody. but anyway, i hope this is just a superstition.
since last night, the internet connection at home has been down. again.
and i was really hoping it’ll be up and running again by today. cos i have an online submission and another hardcopy-assignment submission today. to ensure that i wouldn’t have to come to school today, i took the extra effort of submitting the hardcopy assignment yesterday.
fate had it that i come to school today. not once, but twice.
because when i reached school and logged into my email account, i realised my groupmate was asking for a document, which was happily within ally, who was happily at home.
so i went home, keeping my fingers twisted that the internet connection would be up again.
alas, it wasn’t meant to be. i restarted the router, did everything i could and even called up the technical support. those technical support people must be very busy, i waited for 20 minutes and no one answered the phone.
therefore i lugged ally to school and fortunately, i did. because the stupid system at school just wouldn’t log me in!
today is a really bad day, i tell you.
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