Saturday, July 29, 2006
girly girly girls
Went galivanting with Mich and Jingjing today after work instead of gg home to practice piano and pack my room as planned originally (yeah, what's new huh?). I ended up buying some grey woolly couplet and drinking a few pints of Boddington, Hoegarden and Stella.But you know what?
I MISS MY GIRLY OUTINGS!
It's been really awhile since I last felt so good...so alive, so me. :)
We really talked about everything, and anything. It's really great to be among friends, to be able to say what you want, without them judging you.
Well, not that it really matters if someone judges you since you ought to do what you want to do, but it always feels better if nobody judges you, all the same.
All in all, a good outing.
XxX,
audrey at 03:58
5 lamb droppings
Friday, July 28, 2006
orange ciggies
I just found out that there are flavoured ciggies for sale in SG.And they come in flavours such as strawberry, orange, cherry and apple. So fun!
Guess how i knew about it??
From Desmond of course! Nah, he's not gay..he just likes smoking girly ciggies and posing like one. wahahhaa...
But it's okay. We still like him. :D
XxX,
audrey at 14:26
5 lamb droppings
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Fish Tales
Hello.Yes, this post is about food again. :)
Met up with Xiangrong (who incidentally MIA for like god knows how long!!) and two of his friends, John and Nicholas yday for dinner at Clarke Quay.
We went to this place called Fish Tales because XR just had to have oysters for dinner and apparently, the oysters at Fish Tales are particularly cheap on Wednesdays.
Anyway, the oysters were going for a dollar each. So I guess, yeah, cheap. But they were quite small though.
I had NZ Pink Snapper while XR had the Black Cod. Portions a little small though. I have learnt that cod is yummier than snapper. Haha.
Oh, and here's me with my Erdinger White!
After dinner, we went for ice-cream at Hagen Daz. Sinful!
I had green tea, brandied cherry and mocha choc chip with strawberry and hot fudge topping. Er, the cone that is stabbed in the middle was by courtesy of Nicholas. He was thick skinned enough to request for cones despite the fact that we were dining in.
This is Nic, with his ice cream and inverted cone, acting silly. Haha.
Here's Nic again, pretending to pee a fountain. Hahaha. 
He wasn't too successful though. The water is going the wrong way! hahaha.
Here's Nic and XR wearing my earrings. Gay right? Wahahaa.
XxX,
audrey at 12:57
2 lamb droppings
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Fish soup at Upp Serangoon
Yday, David brought me to Upp Serangoon to eat steamboat for dinner.
Wow. Nicest steamboat i've had! The soup base is the best! As good as, if not better than, the PS fish soup! Yummy!
Unlike the usual steamboat (maybe I'm just sua ku and ignorant..so far all the steamboats that i've eaten are like that) where there put candles/flames to keep the soup hot, this one used real charcoal. And the charcoal is not placed under, it's actually dumped inside the spoke/Chimney thing. So the soup is never too hot to bubble over or splash up. Cool, huh?
The only drawback? The smoke gets in the eyes. I didn't take any pics of myself because i kept squinting...wind was blowing in the wrong direction lah! So, only pics of David being a pig. Wahahaha.
Oh, oh...and the bacon rolls and fried squid are the BEST! Absolutely delicious!
Yes, fuck the diet and the healthy lifestyle. hahaha...
XxX,
audrey at 11:29
1 lamb droppings
Monday, July 24, 2006
A Ritzy Affair
Went to this pretty cool jazz lounge at Ritz Carlton yday...it's really a very nice place. The band there is fantastic! We hung out til 1am..which explains my extremely puffy eyes today. :(
This is me, Boon and Evelyn. The setting so nice right? Yellow lights and all.
Left Euphoria, Right Mojito.
I had a Euphoria. So cool right? Hehe..the glass is so tall. Wanted to hook arms with Boon to drink, but the damn glass stem was too long. *sigh*
David had the Mojito..some drink with many mint leaves in it. He didn't really like it though, think he didn't appreciate the leaves in his cup. I thought it looked it like grass in soda water. Hehe..
Left to right: Corona, Kir Royale and Afterglow
Boon and Mich had an Afterglow. Some rum + banana + dunnowhat drink. Not too bad, though it reminds me slightly of cough syrup. While Evelyn had the Kir Royale. It's really yummy..but there are some funny black stony stuff in it which sink to the bottom of the glass after a while. Wonder what are they.
Anybody knows?
BTW, the jazz lounge serves very interesting nuts. The nuts there all pretend to be something else. The cashews taste exactly like eggs and the almonds are spicy.
Hahaha...Quite interesting. :)
XxX,
audrey at 11:22
1 lamb droppings
Friday, July 21, 2006
TGIF
My bag is FINALLY here. After a super long wait...the Spontini has finally landed.Here's how it looks like.
I'm so happy. :)
Reasons for being happy today:
1. It's FRIDAY
2. I am wearing my new Mphosis top
3. I am using my Spontini
4. Union tonight!
Also, yesterday I went for my company dinner cum KTV session thing. We had steamboat with 3 different kinds of soup. 
There was ginseng, seaweed (at least i think it was seaweed) and ma la soup. 
Here's me and Margaret..before we started eating.
Twain, Yours Truly and Desmond
I discovered that eating Ma La steamboat is quite dangerous. There are these black pepper lookalike things that hide themselves in the food...they are nothing as mild as pepper! They are highly dangerous and one should avoid eating them at all costs! They are worse than chilli padi by like 3xs! You sweat buckets after eating one.
See the Ma La thingies? They are hidden in between the chillis!
Just look at Mark's face after eating 1. So swollen!
Here's Irene, Margaret and myself. Margaret went abit cuckoo after eating a few of the Ma La thingies. Hahaaha. Too hot maybe.
After dinner, we went to K-box at Paradiz.
Shiok!
XxX,
audrey at 10:27
2 lamb droppings
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
insurance
I have had a sudden change of heart.I no longer consider insurance agents to be the bane of mankind (sorry jp, don't take offense hor. In my eyes, u are not a financial advisor/agent/pesky person. You are one of my preferred bachata partners! hehe).
Yes, i used to avoid them like the plague because everytime they see me, they will somehow, in the most magical sense, know that i hate insurance plans and then try to sell me something.
It's amazing how they can tell that i am under-insured and how they won't take no for an answer. I swear they have some special radar or something...else how would they know?
Anyway, i met up with Winston today and was pleasantly surprised. For one thing, I have been inordinately mean to him. I had been avoiding his calls (I labelled his name as "Do Not Answer" in my phone contact), ignoring his smses and when i accidentally picked up his call (he used a different number to call and I had to pick the call in case it was one of my clients), i was extremely terse, curt, rude and horrid. I figured that I ought to turn them off rather than give them a chance to turn me off.
And yet, he was super chirpy and didn't seem to take offense at my apparent rudeness.
Maybe it's part of the job (I guess you do have to be quite thick-skinned to be an insurance agent to handle all the rejection and rude people) or maybe not. But whether or not it was or wasn't, I was suitably impressed. Impressed because I am extremely turned off by rude people and if someone did that to me, I would probably snap at them.
Anyway, I was impressed enough to listen to him with my full attention.
Interestingly, he didn't try to coerce me into buying a plan. Unlike some other agents that i had been conned/forced/threatened into meeting. Which was very refreshing...because I don't intend make a hasty and half thought through decision of parking my $$$ for 2 decades.
Most agents that I have meet are the "hit-and-run" kind. The type that doesn't really really know what they are talking about. Ask them something and they will just give you a practiced and highly superficial reply...which isn't reassuring at all.
Harlow??!! It's 2 freaking decades and like at least 30 grand we are talking about here ok!
Anyway, turns out this guy is currently taking a Masters in financial services or something like that.
So, yeah, cool.
XxX,
audrey at 20:07
0 lamb droppings
Road Trip!
Alright!Finally. I've done it.
I have booked the room for KL.
Now, I just need to secure my Annual Leave.
*cross fingers*
P.s: Thanks Margaret, for your invaluable advice. That said, if the room sucks, you're dead. Hahaha..Just kidding!
XxX,
audrey at 18:02
0 lamb droppings
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
test test
1,2,3...New skin...Nice??
XxX,
audrey at 12:51
4 lamb droppings
Run audrey, run
Apparently, I am not as unfit as i thought I was.Apparently, I can run. Was late for my gym class today so couldn't join in (it was a step class and i couldn't just walk in and lay down the step boards could i?) hence i decided that I would pound the treadmill instead.
Guess what? I ran 3+km in 20mins. Abit slow, i know, but 3km nonetheless! So happy!
And I wasn't even really winded. I stopped because it got boring to keep running nonstop for 20mins and there were more fun things to do at the gym.
Yeah, more fun things meaning, er, weights and crunches. Hahaha..Yes, mad, i know.
Okay, i'm happy. I not unfit anymore. Guess all those Bodycombat, Boxercise and whatnot classes helped afterall.
Maybe I should aim for 5km next round.
XxX,
audrey at 00:19
0 lamb droppings
Monday, July 17, 2006
R.I.P
My right big toe's toenail has died on me.
Yes, i am missing a toenail on my foot. A very conspicuous thing i would say.
I don't know what happened...though Michelle attributes it to too much nail polish and a general lack of sunlight for too many years.
I spent 45 freaking minutes cutting the dead toenail away..and here is the picture as proof.
No, it didn't hurt. It was just gross, extremely disgusting and rather scary. Yuck. Gives me the jitters even when i think about it now.
Anyway, I hope the nail grows back. If it doesn't, im going to have a very hard time. I really want to paint them a vampy red soon. And I want my toenail back by the time I go KL this August!
Sigh. Anyone knows how to make a toenail grow back quick??
Help me. I need to revive it asap! My toe feels really cold in the office without the nail. :(
p/s: Hope I didn't make you lose your appetite with all these pics. My apologies.
XxX,
audrey at 00:26
4 lamb droppings
water dog
Brought zz to Sentosa today with my bro, Dawn and Millie. Haha..what a day!
Firstly, i have no idea how to get to Sentosa. So, based on Dawn's relatively good sense of direction (thank god!) and some luck, we managed to make it there without much trouble. I had to only U-turn once! Haha..yes, i expect to get lost when i drive.
Anyhow, upon reaching Sentosa and finally navigating our way to the Beach Carpark (which I must say, have extremely tight parking spaces, damnit!), we set off to look for JP, Shawn and Christine.
It was pretty hilarious because i think we must have spent like at least 1/2hr looking for each other. Thank goodness for the invention of the handphone! Hehe. Well, i can say i know Palawan beach pretty well now. :D
This is me and Dawn with our pooches, zz and Millie at Palawan beach. Hmm..I think zz looks fat in this picture.
Anyway, the highlight of the day was that I discovered that zz can swim!!! There i was, happily standing at the shoreline, wetting my rather tired feet when zz suddenly went charging into the water.
Gosh. She looks like a giant piece of seaweed with legs when she swims. Hahahaha...But she was really happy..splashing all around, swimming in circles and stuff. She was really tired at the end of the day though.
It was really Zsazsa's day today. After swimming and eating her kibbles, she had Ben & Jerry's ice-cream...and following that, some sweet egg and Saba fish from Sakae. Needless to say, we went to these places for snacks and dinner of course! Best of all, we were undercharged (hooray!) at Sakae. Hehe. Only S$96+ for 6 people..cheap!
Anyhow, it was really great...and i really want to go back again. This time with my bikini, 3 towels and doggy shampoo. Haha.
XxX,
audrey at 00:11
1 lamb droppings
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Up, up and away!
Went rock climbing (or perhaps wall climbing would be a better term) on Sat after 1.5 class today at a place somewhere near Union with Terence, Ryan and TH.
It was really great! Haha. Free climbing (picking any and all stones to go up) was really easy. Almost effortless. But then, after we more or less got the feel for climbing, we graduated to doing only colored stones. Damn hard can?!!! Some stones are so high up, u need to sorta jump up and grab the rock. Scary!!!
Terence was our instructor for the day. This is him teaching TH how to tie the knot...the knot that my life depends upon. Haaha.
Here's Terence, squatting on 1 rock, preparing to jump up for the elusive rock above.
This is me in action (obviously). Hehe...hanging on for dear life also must pose! Haha.
This is TH. His legs are sooooo long!!!! Hahaha.
Poor TH, he was the one to belay me most of the time...I did offer to belay him but my offer was rejected outright. Seems I don't have quite enough mass to make him feel safe. Hah! The benefits of being petite!
This is TH at the end of the whole shebang. He is, as the phrase goes, "shacked until cannot think". It's some army saying or something like that.
Here's Ryan doing his thing. hehe.
Overall, it was great. For S$10, inclusive of equipment, for the entire day...it's really a steal!
Can't wait to do it again!
XxX,
audrey at 23:51
0 lamb droppings
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
spinning back into life
I went for my last (in case you were wondering, there were only 3 classes in total) spinning technique class today.Man, I suck at spinning.
Personally (though I hate to admit this because it's so goddamn embarassing), I don't believe that I suck at alot of things. Well, maybe i don't suck at alot of things because I only do things that I am good at. Which is really the wrong attitude to have in life - to only do what you are good at cuz then you miss out on alot of other good stuff. But then, maybe i am just naturally talented (which is far more unlikely). But WTH.
Anyway, I discovered (to my utmost horror!) in the 3 spinning classes that I suck at spinning and keeping my balance. Never in my life have I ever admitted to myself that I am bad at something. Never. I have never tried something to the best of my ability and then still suck at it.
Seriously....this came as a real shock to me. When I flunked Math in school, I knew it was because i was lazy and didn't put my mind to it. And it was true, because though I fail Math all the way from my first common test in Sec 1 to my Prelims in Sec 4, I managed to score an A1 for E-math in the 'O' levels.
Same for everything else in my life. I have always believed that if i really put my mind to it, it'd work out in the end. And so far, i haven't been proven wrong. Until today.
But today, I felt like such a failure ( i have NEVER felt like a failure in my entire life before. Ever.). To have all my flaws (bad posture, wrong spotting, feet/ankle not close to each other, etc.) pinpointed in class. I was really at the point of giving up...it was like i'd try and try for that 1 to 1 1/2 hrs and it'd still be wrong.
The worst part was, something so simple as getting my back straight, shoulders back and down, I couldn't even get right.
Then, as I was disconsolately walking home and trying to stand tall (aka correct my posture), it suddenly dawned on me that i have been having the wrong attitude toward life all this while. The epiphany came when I finally (yay!) managed to get the correct posture. Meaning to say, I was really and truly standing tall...AND was feeling tall as a result.
With the new posture, I felt like I was a completely different person. I suddenly felt like I was in control...and wasn't hiding anymore. I felt like Vincent (whom I incidentally quite admire because he is so forthcoming and so extremely confidant). It dawned on me that my posture is really a reflection of my inner self. If I walk around with my back straight but head down with eyes on the floor, having the right posture was pointless.
With my head up, looking straight and walking upright, I realized that it really didn't matter that I sucked at spinning and maintaining balance. It didn't matter that I was at the bottom of my spinning class. Neither did the fact that I need like 100 hours of practice to reach even average standard really bother me. I felt confidant!
I realized that I take failure just too personally and seriously. In fact, I realized (for the first time, thank you) that I take any kind of failure or criticism too seriously. So seriously to the extent that I hide my real self...in fear of breaking any social norm, pissing someone off, angering my boss and so on. I realized that I have been too afraid of speaking out, of being myself and was letting the situation control me rather than me taking charge. Shit, I don't even look people in the eye when I talk to them.
I realized how pathetically insecure I really am/was. I realized that I was really really very insecure and just a ghost of who I really can be. For the first time, I truly admitted to myself that I am an insecure person.
It may be surprising to you that I say I am not a confidant person with a generous dose of self-esteem...considering that I am relatively extroverted. Or maybe you already know and just chose to keep quiet. I dunno. But it's true.
I think I hide too much. Am too fearful of being embarassed or being wrong. Which means I hold back, and constantly live in fear. When I say "fear", I don't mean mortal fear. But the crippling, pathetic fear that makes you hold back.
Anyway, I decided there and then that I am not going to be afraid anymore. Because when I am afraid when there's really nothing to be afraid about, the only person to lose anything is me.
Henceforth, I am going to stand tall and be strong. There's nothing wrong with me. There's nothing wrong to be myself and there's definitely nothing wrong about being wrong or failing.
So thanks alot Vincent, though u'd probably never read this. I really walked away with something very valuable from your class...and it definitely has touched me in more ways than one.
XxX,
audrey at 23:51
4 lamb droppings
candyfloss
The piece of eye-candy that I have been eyeing for the last few weeks has been truly and completely relegated to just eye-candy status. I no longer habour any infatuation school-girl crush thing for him. All romantic notions have been crushed.
Reason?
I just discovered that he pouts into the camera while taking photos. So unmanly. *bleah*
Experience has taught me that males who pout into the camera with eyes wide open in some stupid kawaii pose tend to be:
Egoistic
Mama’s boy
Think he is God’s gift to womenkind
Has deep seeded issues that surface only months into the relationship
So, goodbye goodbye, my piece of cute eye-candy. I have discovered that you’re nothing but fluff.
XxX,
audrey at 12:42
2 lamb droppings
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Learning to be grateful
The reason why I think i am angry so often is that I am just not grateful enough for all the little things happening around me.I'm not too sure if it's my job that is turning me into this horrid, ugly angry person...or if i was horrid, ugly and angry to begin and my job was just the catalyst to set me off. Whatever it is, this anger just has to go.
Either that, or i need a new job.
I just realised how angry and frustrated I am when I read Esther's blog about her new life in America. So romantic! She's leading the type of life that I used to (yes, i'm older and jaded now) dream about. Breakfast in bed, a doting hubby, lots of free time...But I'm glad all the same that she's happy.
On another note, now that it's been proven that such men do exist, when can I find a guy in SG who is not stingy, petty, narrow-minded, childish, bad-tempered, egoistic nor smart-alecky and is not gay?
Most Singaporean guys seem to think that chivalry consists only of opening doors for women, reluctantly paying of their meals and carrying their shopping.
I'd really open any number of doors, carry my own freaking bag and shopping as well as pay for my own food if I can find a guy who is down-to-earth, generous, even-tempered, well socialized, and intelligent. I guess he doesn't have to be a good-looking...Er, the Hideous need not apply though.
Dawn is right.
I have accumulated just too much bad karma in this life!!!
I have wasted too much food, bitched about too many, broke too many hearts, spent too much $$$ on crap like shoes and makeup..and now i am paying for it.
I'm doomed. I'm never gonna get married.
Great. And so now that I've realized my predicament, how am I supposed to be grateful again?
XxX,
audrey at 12:40
4 lamb droppings
Thursday, July 06, 2006
stupid people annoy me
Gosh..I am so totally fucking mad right now. So mad i have to stop work halfway to complain here.I HATE Indians. Especially the fucking Indians from Thinsoft who try to slang Singlish with me.
Which is so completely off. Who the fuck slangs Singlish??
First, Singlish is not cool. Second, trying to slang the “lahs” and “lohs” just does not work with a heavy Indian accent, complete with all the rolling Rs.
How much more stupid can these people get man?!
Can you imagine this?
“I toollllddd you alllrrready lah…Sssoo maanny timesss. I carnnot understand lah”
Aka
“I told you already lah, so many times! I cannot understand lah.”
*stomps feet in frustration*
XxX,
audrey at 11:11
2 lamb droppings
Monday, July 03, 2006
power to the people
Was just chatting with an acquaintance online today…and he said something which really struck me.I was, as usual, complaining about work..and how pay-wise it could be better i.e. commission.
He then commented that rather than only looking for monetary compensation, my customers should be considered as my commission.. At first, I thought he was this overly optimistic and very crazy chap who liked to work for free…Until he said..
“actually that's true u know.. in this world.. we really depends on who you know not what u know..”
Wow, truly! And which I totally, and fully agree with.
At first, when I first graduated, with my head in the clouds, I always thought knowledge (in the know a lot of stuff, read a lot) was power. Wrong!
Knowing the right people in the right places is power. Knowledge in itself is useless.
So, this means more hob-nobbing for me!
Power to the people!