Wednesday, February 28, 2007

some of many krabi pics

As promised, here are the pics from krabi..Mouse over the pics for captions.

Pardon the pixelation..decided to seriously downsize them so you don't have to wait forever for them to load. Will upload more when i get more pics from th and mich.


XxX,

audrey at 15:27

4 lamb droppings




Tuesday, February 27, 2007

back from krabi and the 2nd bad case of false bravado

Hello!

I'm back! And very badly burnt...again.

Anyway, Krabi is a very nice place to go. The beaches are sandy white and waters crystal clear..and best of all..NO SAND FLIES!!! Hahahha. So the beaches there can go! :)

Maybe it was CNY or something..but the entire place was swamped with Ang Mohs. Looking around amidst the seas of Caucasian faces and you would be inclined to think that you are on a beach in the Carribean than Krabi, Asia.

Anyway, we stayed at Ao Nang town and spent a 2 days on Phi Phi Island. We did a Sunset Tour which included island hopping and kayaking as well as canoed around the Hong Islands. It was totally fantastic!!

Ah, and then there were the bunches of topless women! More incentive for the men to want to visit Phi Phi I guess. Heh.

Will put up the photos when i get them from mich and th. forgot my camera for the trip. :(

The whole trip was great, except for the fact that 1 of our party was pissing the hell out of us for the whole trip. The whole company sort of banded together because we were all so annoyed.

This fella is none other than the guy below.
It's actually quite hard to make everyone unanimously hate/disgusted with you, you know.

The main problem with this fella was that he tells a big bunch of lies just to fit in with the group. Or maybe it's to appear cool or have us look up to him, i dunno. But anyway, he was telling lie after lie about how he drinks, smokes and travels when every other thing about him just screamed the opposite.

Kinda reminds me of someone else i know, but well, that's another story.

Anyway, I won't bore you with the details of what a jackass he was, but on the last day (when we were all so pissed off with him) when he had finished using all his Thai baht, we didn't offer to lend him any money (because he always tries to not return!) and refused to share any food or water with him during lunch so he had nothing to eat until he reached the airport. We also made him sit alone on the plane home. We were that disgusted.

Moral of the story?
Don't pretend to be someone you are not. People can see through the lies and will generally think you are an idiot. If you have bad luck, you get stuck on a trip with people who have no qualms exposing you for what you are.

XxX,

audrey at 13:27

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

and away we go...

Alright!!

I'll be heading off for Krabi in less than 24hrs so i guess i update you guys when i'm back.


Ciao!~

XxX,

audrey at 01:11

0 lamb droppings




Friday, February 16, 2007

the aftermath of Vday and over-sentimentalism

Ok, i am sick, stuck at home, bored and angry. So don't expect anything even remotely nice in this post.

In fact, you may even wish to skip this altogether, or if you read it, discount it completely if you are a big fan of romantic love.

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Anyway, in light of Vday past, recent happenings and certain blog entries...I think the world is over sentimental and tries too hard for love.

Valentine's Day.
The only day in the year where men are willing to dish out a hundred bucks for a bunch of half wilted flowers, dress up and bring their dates to a fancy restaurant that serves pre-cooked/microwaved not so fancy food at exorbitant prices.

After all that effort and money, do people even know the origins of Vday ?

Not to burst your bubble, but Valentine's Day originally began as a holiday for a god who protected shepherds' flocks from the wolves outside Rome.

It's through sheer capitalist manipulation, plain stupidity and flock mentality that we spend hundreds of dollars on this day alone for sheep.

I don't know about you, but personally, i think it's only worth celebrating something if you know exactly what you're celebrating. Not just celebrate because everyone else is celebrating it.

Worse, some men buy their women flowers and brings them to dinner just because he has to, not because he wants to. That is so sad. I'd rather just skip the whole shebang altogether.

Least i don't have to put up with the game of charades.

Strangely, alot of women like charades and have come to expect a great deal from the men on this ridiculous day. I cannot understand it.

Why would you want to turn love into an obligation of flowers, chocolates and dinner?

Does it mean that if he does not spend a few hundred dollars on you that he loves you less? I think not. Sure, it proves that you mean something to him for him to part with that kind of money...but what does it say about you?

Ah well...I guess that's life.

We spend half the time wondering if we did something right and the other half of it trying to make something wrong work.

Of course im not condemning all romantic gestures on Vday...and yes, it's nice that people do make the effort to take some time off to celebrate love itself. But please, let it be for the right reasons...

Not some commercialized shit that marketeers want to you believe.
And not certainly because of social norms and obligations.

So what did I do for Vday this year? I bought jp a bottle of wine and he made (or at least tried to make) me black pepper steak and buttered shitake mushrooms. Unfortunately, I was too sick to eat much of his labour of love...took 5 bites of the steak, a handfull of mushrooms and went straight to sleep.

I really appreciated it though. Though maybe pizza next year would be a better plan.

Haha.

XxX,

audrey at 12:20

2 lamb droppings




Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Happy Early New Year

Just a thought...but do you need to give ang pows during CNY if you're divorced?

Does this mean you can stop giving ang pow if you get divorced?

How to explain to the little kiddies why auntie/uncle is not giving ang pow from this year onwards?

Following the same train of thought, does this mean that a divorcee can go around collecting ang pow from his parents again?
Oh, and happy Vday to all too!~

XxX,

audrey at 10:13

1 lamb droppings




Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Ma Maison

Sorta celebrated an early Vday yday. Maybe I'm really getting older because I now consider Vday nothing but a gimmick to milk the romantics.

A freaking stalk of rose is at least S$10 on that day can?!

Ridiculous!

Anyway, we had dinner at Ma Maison yday. The ambience there is really nice and the food is great...You should go if you can.
We had Paella (seafood rice), Italian cheese hamburger steak, cuttlefish ink spagetti, some cheese ball fritters and black sesame ice cream!

Here are just some pics to tempt you..

That's me...not knowing what to order..
Me again, being a complete glutton.


JP looking famished.

Close up of JP and the black inked spaggetti!

Ok, dont want to blog anymore. Hungry!!

p/s: you all should go on Monday night. 20% of the bill if there's a lady at the table. :D

XxX,

audrey at 16:17

2 lamb droppings




Monday, February 12, 2007

Trivia for the day

How do you change the water for the pussywillow plant without removing all the CNY decorations?

See steps below.

Step 1:
Get a hose and smile for the camera.


Step 2:
Place the hose into the vase full of dirty water.


Step 3: Squat down and suck hard.


What? I work in a creative agency, what's wrong with using an unconventional way of changing water?

XxX,

audrey at 17:53

0 lamb droppings




Friday, February 09, 2007

An angry woman.

I am irritated with 2 people who think I am stupid.

At least I think they think I am stupid.



Irritant No. 1:Mr YL
Me and my friends are supposed to go Krabi together but so far, I have been doing all the research, planning and booking of tickets. Although I don't get to pay less, nor do i have a 30 hour day to do the extra research, i do not mind because I really prefer to know what's going on when I am on a trip.


What i do mind is that not only does he not show any appreciation, and on the 2 occasions that I asked him to help with hotel booking, he conveniently had to rush out for an appointment. But yet, he is ever so free to chat on MSN all day on every other occasion that does not need his involvement for the trip.
Even his so called "thank yous" which are oh-so-casually-dropped, are out of obligation.



Just 5% of genuine appreciation and 2% of your time will do very nicely, thank you.

I mean, such thinly veiled bullshit is very insulting. Does he really think I cannot tell?
I think he is very stupid to think that i will fall for such pathetic excuses.

If he steps on another sea urchin, I will just leave him there to drown and die.

If he gets stung by a jellyfish, i will be the first one to piss on him. I may even throw in some shit for good measure.

I also hope he gets food poisoning at krabi so the only thing he can do is stay in the hotel room alone while we are all out sunning ourselves.

Fucking freeloader.



Irritant No. 2: Mr SG
This guy is another one. He thinks that he owns the world and walks around like he is a model doing the catwalk.

What am eyesore.

Worse, he talks to me like he thinks I am an idiot. Asking questions when he shouldn't and talking real S-L-O-W.

Talking slowly because one is thinking before speaking is one thing. It's another thing to speak like you are talking to a retarded person. It's also another thing to speak to someone else like that just so you feel good/establish your superiority over another person.

I am not sure if he realizes it, but he should come to his senses soon because he's appearing as a complete prick-cum-asshole-pain-in-the-ass.

Well, i guess if he does know it and IS doing it on purpose, then he really IS a complete prick-cum-asshole-pain-in-the-ass and should be shot multiple times in the head and in the dick.

I don't know why he's not dead many times over yet because I'm sure he has been shot many many many looks of disgust and disbelief before.

Some people can be so incredibly thick-skinned and oblivious, it's unbelievable.




Yea, if you can't tell already, i'm in a bad mood...so go away.

XxX,

audrey at 10:01

0 lamb droppings




Thursday, February 08, 2007

Growing up

Have you ever wondered what is the line that you need to cross before you cease being a child/teenage/young adult and become a fully fledged Adult?

21 is universally recognized as the age whereby people cease being children and are officially adults. Yet, how many 21 year olds can really be considered adults?

I'm 24 this year, yet i feel like I still have a long way to go.

So, what gives?

Obviously, age is not a good indicator of adulthood. You can be 30 (im NOT referencing anyone here) but still have the mentality of a child.

Maybe the emotional maturity of an individual is a better gauge for adulthood.

I find it especially laughable when I meet "adults" who expect to be taken seriously when they are just really 16 year olds stuck in an older body.

In fact, it annoys me. Annoys me because I don't know how to deal with such people.

Because they are so emotionally inmature, I feel like treating them like they are children but this would be so insulting (at least I would be insulted if I were treated like a child who knows nothing.). But yet, when I interact with such individuals as if they were adults, I end up vomitting blood all over the place.


It's like "OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! What the hell are you thinking?!!!!!???!! Grow up grow up grow up!!!" in my head million times over.


Sigh. Perhaps the best policy is simply to ignore and avoid such folk at all costs to preserve sanity.

Not that I know many to start with lah.

XxX,

audrey at 10:23

3 lamb droppings




Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Have you killed anyone before?

Check out what we found along the corridors of my office building?

2 dustbins with a bunch of legs sticking out.





Cool huh?

XxX,

audrey at 16:52

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Monday, February 05, 2007

Telling the truth.

I've just been told by Dino that i'm a "little firecracker". Maybe he meant dynamite but was too polite to say so.

Anyway, this and some other stuff at work got me thinking...am I really that fierce?

All i do is simply to tell the truth as I see it...to call it for what it is. And telling the truth as it is without mincing words equates to fierceness for most of the people out there.

Perhaps it is because of my lack of patience that I cannot be bothered to dress up the truth and spruce it up before telling it. I dunno.

In fact, if you think about it, most comments that are labelled "bitchy" and "mean" are just cold hard facts. Facts that are stripped down to the bare minimum.


My opinion is that most people cannot handle the truth.
They want to be told the long version, go the roundabout way. The version full of half truths and white lies. Maybe 1/2 truth + 1/2 white lie = fact?


If you can't say what you think but neither can you accept what someone else tells you...isn't that a very uncomfortable, repressed sort existence?


I guess if we still lived in Ancient China where women were only to be seen and not heard, I'd be able to accept people keeping their thoughts to themselves. Or, if we lived in an age where the ideas of free speech and human rights were still unheard of, i'd be able to accept that too.

What I cannot accept is that people tend to keep their thoughts to themselves in this time and age of freedom, only to explode at the very end where no amount rectification can help.

Same goes for relationships.

I really appreciate my friends who can speak their mind, and who in turn, accept what I tell them graciously. And who, of course, tell me when I do something wrong in turn.

What would you rather? A friend who simply watches you act like an idiot or someone who tells you that you are acting like an idiot and that you should change?

Give me the latter any day man. I don't want to be no idiot.

Perhaps I should really just hold my tongue when I speak, but simply cannot afford the patience for people living in a world of their own. I hate talking in circles man.

Of course, truths are hard to swallow...but if you can't even accept a fact for what it is or speak your mind when you have the chance without repercussion, what sort of ficticious life is that?

Just some definitions for your consideration:

Truth
noun, plural truths [troothz, trooths]

1.the true or actual state of a matter: He tried to find out the truth.
2.conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement.
3.a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like: mathematical truths.
4.the state or character of being true.
5.actuality or actual existence.
6.an obvious or accepted fact; truism; platitude.
7.honesty; integrity; truthfulness.
8.(often initial capital letter) ideal or fundamental reality apart from and transcending perceived experience: the basic truths of life.
9.agreement with a standard or original.
10.accuracy, as of position or adjustment.
11.Archaic. fidelity or constancy.
—Idiom
12.in truth, in reality; in fact; actually: In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire.

XxX,

audrey at 18:21

2 lamb droppings




Friday, February 02, 2007

in the spirit of boon

Ok, im on a roll today...3 posts in a day...Must be the after-effects of passing a test.

Anyway, was bored waiting in the office for mich to finish up with her meeting in her office and meet me so decided to search for salsa videos on you tube....think i need more inspiration for my dance.

Anyway, came across this clip of a couple dancing salsa ala Beetlejuice style.

Nothing very very technically spectacular with the exception humanely fast spins but overall the whole concept is damn cute.

Enjoy.

XxX,

audrey at 19:29

2 lamb droppings




Google certification

I passed my exam...very happy.

Turns out I still have my mugging skills (though somewhat rusty) with me.


I'm now a Google Advertising Professional.


Heh. Damn good mood now.

XxX,

audrey at 18:26

0 lamb droppings




An allergy to words

Why do people like to use the phrases "Can do" or "will do"?
Nobody uses it in their daily conversations to their friends or family. But its use is ever so rampant in the office.

It's so irritating. Can do.

What is its opposite? Cannot do? Won't do? Don't want to do? Actually-I-don't-want-to-do-but-will-do-because-i-have-no-choice?

I find it offensive when someone answers "can do" when I ask or tell them something.
It's just so dismissive - something like an afterthought to shut you up or like your efforts were "just enough".

I did not ask for approval so why presumption to give it without being asked?

It is even more annoying when business associates like to attach the word "thanks" to their sentences. I find it especially annoying when "thanks" is repeated a few times as a sentence on its own, as if to convey sincerity.

"Thanks, thanks."

Why don't you just say "Thank You" rather than use a short form (thanks) if you were really sincere? Repeating the word thanks several times in a single sentence really doesn't work for me. Besides, it defeats the purpose of "thanks" being a short form. Come to think of it, I don't recall anyone saying "Thank you, thank you, thank you." profusely before.


Bah.

XxX,

audrey at 15:33

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

bail

Went to the Subordinate Courts today to bail my friend out for drunk driving.

The whole place was so depressing man...everyone there was stressed out, edgy, worried, scared and angry. Just walking into the building made me depressed.

Anyway, I have to wait 2 hours and forsake my lunch hour to get my friend out. I also had to declare either $5k hard cash or pledge items valuing $5k.

I told them they could have my Bravia and iMac if my friend didn't show up for his court hearing.

Anyway, it was quite scary sitting in the same room as the other bailors. Maybe I never had any brushes with the law before, nor associated with such folk, but somehow, all the other bailors knew exactly what to do and expect. I guess they must have had the experience of bailing their folks out many many times.

I, on the other hand, had to spend a fair bit of time wandering around the Courts looking for the bail center and the process to get someone out.

And the lawyers and officers there scare me.

I think they must have practiced the art of glaring in the mirror for many years now.
They also must have had alot of practice being rude.

Whatever.

XxX,

audrey at 15:12

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