CNY day [3] (2007)

I want to try more Green Tea flavoured food!

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Today was by far the best out of the 3 days of Chinese New Year. It has suddenly occurred to me that we have one less day of holiday this year because the first day of CNY fell on a Sunday. I feel so robbed, haha.

I woke up relatively early after a late night of just me and my DVD player. Damn, my body clock is going bonkers again. Dragged my lazy bum out of my bed and threw myself into the shower lest I fall asleep brushing my teeth. I have no idea how, but my contacts tore today. It’s a first for me, even though I don’t really take very good care of my contact lenses. It just tore, like when I opened my case, there it was lying in the saline solution in half.

Singapore needs to be air conditioned I tell you. Someone should come up with a new form of fuel for energy that is in infinite abundance so that the whole of Singapore will stay cool 24/7. I was sweating bullets by the time I got to the bus stop. To add fuel to my fire, literally, I missed Amanda’s bus stop and ending up walking more than usual to get to her house. The best part is the word air conditioning is non-existent in Amanda’s house-laughs bitterly.

Fortunately, with chary planning, I was smart enough to wear a nice baggy shirt that kept me relatively cool once I found a nice spot to plan my ass-that is of course in front of the fan! We had lunch at Amanda’s house and watched dreadful concerts performed by Chinese artiste on Channel ‘U’ for 2007’s countdown to CNY. My addiction to Sims 2 has officially vanished. When I sat in front of Amanda’s computer with Sims 2 on the screen, the urge to play just wasn’t there. Haha, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. So that’s another obsession I lost this year.

Everyone left for Nicole’s house after lunch, all the while sweating even after we reached the bus stop. The feeling of relief engulfed us all when the bus finally came and we were greeted by the nice cool air conditioning and availability of seats. Yay, Nicole has this nice executive apartment. I like executive apartments, if I ever live in a HDB next time, which is highly probable, I will buy an executive apartment.


Haha, adorable young Nicole. Before her plaits and all.

After a quick tour of her house-it was our first time there for most, if not all of us- we settled in her living room while YY gushed over this guy on Channel ‘U’.





Pigging out on snacks cam-whoring and root beer managed to satisfy us for the next hour or so. But I got bored after a while and went upstairs to help Nicole to pick out some stuff to wear to Darren’s house. There was this interesting dress that reminded me of kuahlapis. But she ended up wearing this interesting skirt and some PMK top. Which by the way she claims is “ah lian”, but I’ve seen my fair share of “ah lians” and it’s safe to say that what she was wearing doesn’t qualify.

OMFG, Nicole’s sister is like her splitting image just that their facial features are, to a very very very small extent, different. They have the same posture, same facial expression, almost the same hair style and height!!!

Darren’s house was the last stop. Finally, I got to play black jack! It’s the first and only time I will get to play black jack this Chinese New Year, how sad is that. Poor Yvonne, she lost a lot of money. Everyone won apart from her and Nicole- and Nicole only lost $0.50. We attempted watch Dream Girls and The Holiday while playing, multi-tasking while gambling obviously failed. There was this point in time when someone asked: what’s she doing with that old man? And of course no one could answer, because no one was paying attention! Even now as I blog, I have Elizabeth Town playing on the television and I’m not sure what’s going on with Orlando Bloom and Kristen Dunst.

It got incredibly comfy in the living room because there was a lot of leg space and Darren was hospitable enough to switch on the air conditioning! I guess we were too comfortable to leave the house for dinner, so Nicole and I ordered in and stuffed our faces until it was time to leave. As usual, Pouty had air for dinner, it must have been DELICIOUS. It’s a new alternative to the WAFFLE (singular) that she usually has.

I missed going to my dad’s boss’ house today. But it doesn’t really matter to me because if I had gone to my dad’s boss’ house, I would just be sitting around, watching tone deaf people sing karaoke and wasting my time. So what if I had fast food instead of delicious catered food that cost a few hundred dollars per person? The company enough was worth it.

- On a side note, I really cannot tolerate people who try to come off as nonchalant online. It’s rude and annoying and not cool-if you actually think its cool- and I just want to snap back. But the whole issue of politics and being politically correct refrains me from doing so, so I guess my little bitch fest shall stop here before this turns into a semi flaming entry.

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