Ice cream and me???

Was looking through my holiday pics and saw 2 very similar and funny pics!



At first glance, 2 conclusions can be drawn:

(1) we like ice cream and milkshakes very very much.

(2) Cui has a not-so-secret crush on me OR she hates me!

Miss NYC, the weather, the company, the milkshakes, the shopping, the afternoons of doing anything I please.

El Carnival

Hmmm had a sudden whim to look through the few pictures we took some weeks ago at the Law Society D&D. Unfortunately, my camera takes very unflattering photos - time for a new one. (I bet it went haywire when i dropped it in Rome while exchanging it for my ice-cream cone with TR. Anything for an Italian gelato!)

Not a mind-blowing night anyway. There were too many speeches, tedious prize presentations and a cringingly bad stand-up comedienne. It ended unnecessarily late - lucky to have nice people giving me a lift home :)

we only wore our masks for about... a minute?

the grub for the night

cam whoring in my kitchen - good lighting!

I took 5 pictures of Ben simultaneously and he still managed to hold the pose!

A Taxonomy of Barnacles

Am reading the very quirky and entertaining A Taxonomy of Barnacles by Galt Niederhoffer. I like the charming way this author describes the life of a bunch of eccentric sisters and their dysfunctional family. And it's set in NYC!

There's a bit of Special Topics in Calamity Physics in it, but not as depressing an ending I hope. Nice to chance upon a good book! Bought it from the open air branch of The Strand bookstore outside Central Park in NYC for half its price. Admittedly, the first thing that attracted me was the cover with its vintage drawings. So pretty :)

Paper Value

Scrapbooking has caught Singapore by storm considering how a new shop - Paper Market - has mushroomed in Raffles City. Perfect location!

Better still, two of Popular's up-market sister shops - Urban Write and Prologue - also carry a small range of scrapbooking products (mostly from S.E.I). The best thing is (1) I can use my Popular card to get 10% off; (2) the stuff there is at least $2 cheaper than the specialized scrapbooking stores and (3) I can get sticker lettering for less than $4! Make that 3 best things!

I COVET: the Photo Box Album from Kikki.K (a new Auzzie stationary store in Ion selling erm, Swedish inspired stationery). It costs a freaking $99! Can somebody convince me that it's worth it? I've made two trips down to evaluate my option and it's embarrassing to make a third. In the meantime, I'm sourcing for materials to construct a similar one. It looks seemingly easy.

Wedding fever

This year must be a blissful and bountiful year cos so many of my friends are getting hitched! Very excited with all the happenings (so long as I'm not the main star :D). The only difficulty I have now is finding a suitable dress for all the bridesmaid and dinner stuff!

Bing is glowing, as far as I can tell from my occasional glimpses of her along Circular Road. She looks more feminine too and contented :) A pity I had to miss her wedding in June.


Next up is Carol's engagement at the Flyer. Quite cool if you think about the nice backdrop and the intimacy of saying your vows in an airborne capsule with no pesky people swarming around you. Comes at a price though but $$$ doesn't matter the slightest bit when you're talking about your wedding (purely my opinion)!

Then there's Julia & Han's wedding in Indonesia this Dec. Her photoshoot is gorgeous and so special. I love the idea of snowboots!



There's Shuxin & WQ's wedding next Jan. I have not planned anything for her Hen Party arrgh but all in good time. Don't you think they look fabulous in their photoshoot?


And of course Laura will be one of the prettiest brides of 2010 :)

They still rock!

I'm a bit old to derive such unabashed excitement and joy from a pop group's live concert but the sad fact is that MLTR's concert last Friday is my first live band concert. It was AWESOME and the best part? MLTR is still the same. Comfortably so. No weird new hairstyles, mid-life career outfits. Same love ballads. Same voice that I hear countless times. The only material change is the guitarist who is now a fellow female Dane.

Excited - concert hasn't started

Fort Canning at night

Sweaty and hungry - concert still hasn't started

Jascha Richter, blond as ever!

I feel kinda sad that a few years from now when MLTR plays again in Singapore, it'll be the same fans, albeit older, who will endure the damp grass and humid air to belt out the same old songs. Do the younger folks even know who's MLTR? Do their new songs even come on air nowadays?

Dog days of summer

It's fascinating how the English language is influenced by astrology and other pagan references but most people are unaware of it. Take the phrase "dog days of summer". I've always known that it refers to the hot weather in summer but why "dog" not "cat" or other animals for that matter.

I did a random Wiki/Google search and unearthed a perfectly satisfying answer - the ancient Greeks labelled summer days as "Dog Days" cos they were days when Sirius (the Dog Star) rises and sets at almost the same time as the sun!

Season 2 - Close

Here's my spontaneous, emotional and utterly irrational reaction to the last episode of Gossip Girl Season 2 (which I've been saving to watch on a dreamy, rainy day like today). It has a fabulously romantic ending which makes me wanna shout "I love Chuck Bass!"

S'pore on foot

We thought that National Day was a nice excuse to explore one of the yet to be explored "hidden gems" of Singapore - Pearl Hill Park. It's unbelievable how hundreds of people mill around Chinatown and SGH but never seem to notice this ancient(creepy) park in the middle. Guess what's in the the centre of the park? This walled-up reservoir and I mean walls the height of fortress walls! Kaypoh me was inclined to scout acound a little more but chickened out when I remembered we were going to catch Orphan at midnight.

I've come to appreciate the mini S'pore flags given out in primary school and which we took for granted and chucked the moment we stepped out of school. Not only did we have a hard time finding one but the specimen we bought from Sheng Shiong was badly made from cheap plastic. Glad it's not that obvious from the pics!

The weather was hot and neither TR (who probably owns thousands of them) nor I (who buys hundreds of it) had with us a rubber band for the hair! Oh well, no one can blame me for not being patriotic :)

44!

I found myself riveted to the screen while NDP 09 played out to a skin-tingling fireworks finale. I found myself singing along to nostalgic national day songs which I never dreamed that I would hear again ("It's The Little Things"). TR turned to me with an incredulous look, "NDP this year is not bad... The music director got it right for once." It's hard not to enjoy a full-blown musical!