Gifts

Went out with Nurul yesterday coz she need to look for birthday gifts for her cousin's sweet sixteen. We stopped over first to meet up with Imah at her work place before the three of us set off for a late lunch. The stuffz that Imah's selling is ridiculously pricey mannn, and they are all bloody plastics. Bought a flexi red hairband though, the cheapest among the lot of accessories at A-MAN-DAHHH. And the cashier has this supremely annoying look on her face, typical hardcore crabby nyonya. Selamat arhh kau Imah. Lol! Lunched at Banquet and there's this apek who sniggered at Imah as he was passing our table. And that girl arhhh, bley senyum balik seyyy. Super siaos. Whahahaha!

After the fulfilling meal, me and Nurul headed for Girls at Raffles City. There are like tons of girly stuffz there, and most of them are super cheap. I'd get my girly little cousins some of those for their birthday if I'd start earning money for myself. Haaa. And then we are off to search for my tennis racket grips. Unable to locate Royal Sporting House at Raffles City, we headed over to the outlet at Marina Square. Bought a three-piece pack comprising of brightly coloured grips. And it's Babolat. When my two rackets are Wilson and Prince. Sucha motely crew don't you think? Heh.

Then we went in and out of shops browsing for handbags and shoes. There aren't that many great bargains out there. After which I told nurul that I wanna head over to Carrefour only to change my mind when we were almost there. So we walked the whole way for nothing ayyyy. Me and my fickle-mindedness. Haha! Ooohh, I don't know what's wrong with Nurul but it's like the whole way we were walking, she kept bumping against me. And the highlight of the day has gotta be a certain something she told me. She said that she had chanced upon so many malay guys with chinese girlfriends. And the next thing she said was we should "carik boyfriend LELAKI." When it was supposed to be boyfriend cina. Whahahaha! Like who in the right mind would wanna look for a BOYfriend perempuan kannnnn. Kekekeke.

Anyhow, despite having gotten my tennis rackets prepared with thenew grips, it was just so UNFORTUNATE that I couldn't get us the court at our preferred timeslots. So tennis was cancelled and it did made me feel frustrated. Damn. I was THAT close to hitting some balls at KTC this morning. And I miss tennis sooo much. Bleah.

So I woke up early today to go for a morning jog at the stadium instead. Could it really be just me or is it much more easier to run ealry in the morning? I could literally breeze through the first three rounds without dragging my feet much. And the morning crowd at the stadium comprises of a lot of old people. I got easily amused looking at them doing their aerobic thingy workout to some dangdut-infused tune at the background. The morning air is somewhat more motivating as compared to late evenings. I'm probably gonna keep going for my jogging sessions on early mornings instead.

On a HAPPY HAPPY note, I FINALLY MADE IT TO ROCK NUMBER ONE! Though I was practically dragging myself all the way there coz I was pretty spooked when I had to go through the underpass at Bayshore and then as I was going down the stairs towards the first carpark, there were small, tiny black thingy jumping around on the pavement. Either those are tadpoles or baby frogs, I don't know. YUCKS. And then I must have not fully recovered from the jog I had the evening before, could actually feel the strain in my thighs and knees that I could only afford to jog up till Marine Cove, before walking the rest of the distance to rock number one. When I finally reached that rock, I kinda held back. Whirling flashbacks. Instead of sitting on it like I used to, I sat on one of the benches nearby instead. Dunno ayy, maybe the next trip there, I'll be able to make myself get on the rock like those good ol' days.

Fun Fitness

Had my supposed morning coffee at about twelve in the afternoon coz I woke up super late. The thing is , I did wake up very early at about six in the morning for prayers and to get ready for my trip to east coast park. UNFORTUNATELY, it just have to drizzle early in the morning today. Why oh why that on the two days I decided to set out for ecp, it just has to start pouring. Coz last thursday as I'd walked all the way to the bustop near TJC, the sky turned dark and I thought that it would past in just a matter of minutes, but it didn't and so I have to make a u-turn back home. Dratz. Hopefully tomorrow would be a bright and sunny morning coz I am really missing my rock number one and the tranquility of the park on early mornings.

Anyhow, I have finally been able to jog smoothly. As in I can now cover the usual distance without much of a hindrance. Well, smooth does not necessarily mean that it does not cause me much pain trying to cover the entire stretch. And I do think my knees are gonna go bust soon. So I should probably take up swimming already before the knees totally give up on me and subsequently disallow me to jog for the rest of my life. I can't imagine my life without being able to go for enough jogging sessions. Yet I am not motivated enough to start swimming. I am so used to jogging as a form of exercise. It's my comfort zone. Taking on another form of activity as a form of exercise does not blend well with me for now. So how?

Will be going for a tennis session at Kallang after so bloody long, this coming thursday. Hopefully it will happen. Hopefully it will not rain.

Terminal 3

The pictures above pretty much sums up my trip to Terminal 3 with my cousin. The place is rather empty still but the wide range of shops available will sure attract a lot of people. Our main intention heading there is to stake out Candy Empire albeit not having enough money to drown ourselves in a major sugary excess. Hah. After which we stuffed ourselves with fried chicken and coleslaw and mashed potatoes from Popeyes, as our late lunch. I was kinda disappointed coz the coleslaw is not as yummy as it's supposed to be, it was wayyy too dry. Blahh. So with the new terminal, it only means GREATER MUGGING-AREA CAPACITY for the sg students. Typical yeah. Haha!

Adventure

Anddddd helloooooo WORLD! Haha!

I am now so addicted to Elvis Presley's Burning Love after watching The Game Plan countless times. Admittedly, I can't seems to get enough of The Rock (hehe...) and super cute Peyton. There's one thing I noticed about The Rock...that whenever he widens his eyes, the eyeballs threatens to jump out of its sockets, like it's partially popped out so much so you can see the round-ness of the eyeballs. Eh no, it doesn't look disgusting at all. Very cartoon-ish is more like it. Coz the whole eye-popping effect reminds me so much of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story and the 'dad' from American Dad. Lol!

Woke up pretty early today to head over for yet another job interview with Imah. Seriously, we should have kept track of all our interviews in a notebook or something. Been going for so many of them, and it's a miracle (cue for sarcasm) that we barely land ourselves with any proper job. Tsk tsk tsk.

Anyhow, we headed for the place that was supposedly near the Singapore River without even realising that we are headed for the stretch of road which actually leads up to Chinatown, and which is fairly near to those rows of shophouses where we did our (horrible) telemarketing stint. Yikes. Thankfully the 'other side' of Chinatown seems more bearable as compared to the 'dark side' which did nothing but suffocate the air out of us with its very "foreign dimension". Bleah.

Ok, so the directions given to Imah on how to head over to the venue for our latest interview seems rather simplistic. I guess being the most "suaku" people there, we did eventually got lost in the heart of Cross Street, South Bridge Road and whatever road that totally left us clueless as to where our actual interview venue is.

So we got lost for nearly an hour. Weaving through the row of shophouses, trying to figure out where the heck is number 54 when we are wayy off at two-hundred-something as well as trying to find the damn river. And for the first time ever I made my entry into China Square, if that's what the place is called. It's pretty quiet while we are out and about at that place as it was still early in the morning. I gotta say that the place is more mainstream and they do have some mainstream business outlets over the area which includes Planet Fitness.

Even then we couldn't find the place we're looking for not until about an hour later. Turns out that the bus stop is only two shophouses away from 54, and the best thing is, the shophouse number we're supposed to be looking out for is 57. So we got it all mixed up. Wokay, so that was quite a journey.

Shall not get into details about the interview coz it's really the most boring part of our adventure for today. Ha ha ha.

Our next part of adventure comprises of us making a pitstop for some picturesque moment with the camm at the Singapore River. Yes, the damn river was very near the interview venue. And then it was out and about toward Raffles Place. That awe-inspiring-business-suits-clad-people environment.

AND WE GOT LOST AGAIN.

We had wanted to walk from the Singapore River to City Hall, thinking that we can cut through Raffles Place. Turns out the river is somewhat a middle man and that City Hall and Raffles Place are actually on either side of the river. We actually went towards Raffles Place and walked along the sidewalk only to realize that we've made one big round only to end up at the exact same point we're at initially. Whahahaha!

Oh, before we supposedly made our way to City Hall from Raffles Place, Imah posed for a picture near ABN AMRO. Ahhh, those times. LOL! To Hidayah, I so did not spot any PDV-ians there lah. Kau sorang je berani PDV kat Raffles Place ye. Kekeke.

After being lost for a while we made it through to the other side of the river by navigating our way using the signboards at the the MRT station. We had to walk a lot hokay. And Imah was begging to find a place to sit coz she was wearing heels and it was tiring. Like obviously uh. I was wearing those slippers and I could feel the strain on my legs, what more if you are wearing heels kan.

And now I realize that I'm doing a bloody story-telling. What the hell laarr. I might as well stop here before my entry becomes super long. Not like I'm not used to making essays over here but enough is enough eh. Haha.

To sign off, I'd like everyone to get your ears stuck to Burning Love by Elvis Presley. It's a fun, upbeat and superbly brilliant tune.

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OMG, I can't really sign off...I've yet to talk about my first trip to Terminal 3 with my cousin after the whole adventure with Imah. Yes all that in ONE DAY. God knows how my legs are aching now. Aargh! Ok ok, I'll post pictures for the Terminal 3 visit.

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Oh wait! Just one name... HARRY CONNICK.

Interview

I can now heave a big sigh of relief. Thanks arhhh ye. Melayu haprak benar. Well, at least we manage to get Trolleyz a teeny-weeny bit of publicity thanks to Nurul's sister who's working with RSI. The interview was superbly nerve-wrecking.

And me and Imah were supposed to speak in proper malay which should not have been a problem, BUT, we fumbled anyway. A LOT. And put in a whole bunch of English words. Like what's the malay term for 'layout', 'indication', etc, etc??? Stumped man! And not prepared at all. Hancur!

Anyhow we're told that it will be up on air through the RSI website, Warna 94.2 at 7:53am and 9:40 pm, Ria 89.7 at 2:30pm, today. So do catch us make a fool out of ourselves yeahhh.

Oh, and I have to say, I am very very impressed with how Nurul's sister did the whole thingy. First she speaks in bahasa baku and next, she sounded superbly confident. I'd take forever to get up to that level man, but I'm impressed nevertheless.

(Edit 9:53pm)

For what may have been a misunderstanding, the interview does not go on air today. So it'll most likely be tomorrow. Oh and the write-up is already on the RSI website. Heh.

Fun Day

Okay, so I've not been updating much coz I really have nothing to say. Apart from the fact that I'm jobless and have accumulated token points for having watched so many movies at one go. Haha. So anyways, me Imah and Nurul went on the north-east line (NEL) to head over for Chinatown and VEEVOH. The former being the dreaded place for me, thanks to the uninspiring work environment I had for collectively two days. Hah.

Headed for VEEVOH after that to catch the sunset. I guess there's nothing much for us to do over at VEEVOH except to ogle at pretty stuffz while lamenting over the lack of shopping funds on us. Bleah. So it was plain window shopping and the one and only highlight for the day is of taking a whole bunch of mindless photos, thanks to the two camms we have with us. Who says you need money to enjoy much ayyy. Just those camms will suffice, I gotta admit. Heh. So feast your eyes on some of the pics that are not uploaded on my friendster.

Typical mirror shots though we were actually at the diaper changing room which has some cute kiddy decoration plastered on the walls.

Self-timer shots while sitting on the wooden plank ground.

Another self timer shot at this artsy-fartsy japanese designed seats. Yeah, there's a plaque stating that the design of the seat was by some jap artist or something.

The sunset which wasn't as pretty as the one me and Imah caught the week before. Coincidentally, we were there on a Thursday too. The clouds kinda hid the sun and gave that sorta zigzag effect. And this time it was hanging pretty close to the cruise ship, so the view ain't all that splendid. Nevertheless we had quite a bid of fun albeit being ripped off any form of excessive retail indulgence. So there.

Annndddd, I saw someone with a jobscope that is way off the routine timing. And I had to do a little interview (like how much?). Pole dancing in the middle of the day? You gotta be kidding lah. Lol =P

The Charmed One

Wow, I'd finally succeeded in finding the most appropriate gift (pictured above) for my bestfriend in celebrating our friendship. I gotta admit, I was pretty stumped trying to figure out the most suitable gift for her. I had brainstormed for quite a bit, even got opinions from my couz, but apparently none of them were to my liking. And I do think that I was dragging time a little too much. Too free I guess. Hah.

Anyhow, I got lucky today. I was going from one shop to another to find the gift, it was futile initially. But when I was about to head for home, I saw a sales display which I had bypassed earlier on and hadn't bothered to check out what they had to offer. To my delight, they were selling a whole array of charms. I swear the whole collection had me turned bonkers coz there were so many colours, shapes and designs to choose from. They had caps, t-shirts, guitars, watches, the eiffel tower, animals, keys, alphabets, shoes etc. And all of them came in multi colours. I had a tough time choosing, really. And I was pressed for time too coz my couz, who was with me, had to get back home on time. So I settled for the ones pictured below.

WHITE BOOT CHARM. I must have gotten influenced by Imah's latest rage in the "footwear department". She's been browsing for boots for quite a bit now. Haha. But that's not the only reason why I decided to settle for this particular charm. In my opinion, the boots have some sorta feministic element to it. Haa. For one, it sure seem superficial in a way, for it's supposed to complement one's attire for the day. In other words, it makes you look prettier, and mostly, in tune with the current fashion scene. Typical for a female ayy.

On the other hand, while the boots may merely pose as a pair of footwear to further enhance the way you look, it actually possess a strength in its own. In this instance, as compared to all the other ladies footwear, the boots are seemingly more sturdy and provide a kind of added security. Like from getting your legs wet for instance? Ha ha ha. So to put it feministically (if there's such a word), a woman who wears boots are probaby the ones in control, and would like to have a stable life and ensures that she's not vulnerable to any kind of negative influences. Lol. I can't believe I came up with that, but it does make sense doesn't it? Hehe.

ALPHAPET CHARMS. It spells out my bestfriend's name. Or rather, the name I'd usually call her by. As you can see, the alphabets have different colours for its crystal studs. I was supposed to decide on just one as there were three of them, either blue, pink or the multi-coloured ones. But I couldn't make up my mind, so I settled for all three instead. Lol.

KEY CHARM. This was quite a no-brainer. And being my personal favourite, it was the first charm that I settled down with, whilst the other four took me quite awhile to decide. Coz this year my bestfriend will be celebarting her 21st (me too actually. hah). So it will be a super advance freedom key ayy. But I like how this charm complements the rest of the bracelet. It stood out somehow. And I chose the one with the silver crystal studs as it would be easier to match with the other charms.

Ok, so I had initailly wanted to get all the charms with a silver base colour, but I thought that silver tend to get a bit too over rated. So I settled with bronze base colour for the charms. Unfortunately, putting the bronze based charms on a bronze bracelet, made the whole thing look too rustic. So I had them contrasted with the silver bracelet instead.

Ok so there you have it, a simple yet meaningful (I hope) charm bracelet for my bestfriend. The best part being, the bracelet cost a little under thirty bucks. Original selling price would have cost so much more. Worse thing being, the offer ends this weekend. Damn would I wanna make more of such charm bracelets. It would really make a cool gift for my soon-to-be 21 years old friends. Alas, I don't have much money to be spent on such presents immediately. Hopefully they'll have another round of sale.