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Why’d you have to be so cute……..

It’s impossible to ignore you……….

Must you make me laugh so much……..

Its bad enough we get along so well……..

They say if you think about someone or something too often, you’ll actually dream about it too….

Well I’ve been dreaming about the same person for the past few nights… all in different acts or scenarios, but always the same person.

So how do you get something or someone off our mind? I’ve been keeping myself busy trying not to give myself time to even think at all.

But how busy can you keep yourself occupied in 24hours? There are bound to be those few free minutes for your mind to wander again…like when you’re brushing your teeth, or when you are waiting for a cab, or even when you are waiting for your food to be ready in the microwave oven…. I can’t help myself at those times!!

So how in god’s name can I can save myself from insanity and just stop thinking about it…..

This is one of those times where I wished I have tht red beaming gizmo from MIB to just wipe out some of my memory…. ahhh….if only…. i’ll be at peace then.

The next time anyone ask me which is my favorite place that I’ve visited …it’ll be Cape Town.

It so lovely there, the scenery is fantastic. I was so mesmerize by the beautiful mountains and the gorgeous beaches there.

The hotel that we were putting up at was great as well. Huge room with a pantry area equiped with a microwave oven and the best part, free internet. Cool!!

The minute we reach the hotel, we were greeted by this chirpy friendly lady. She’s Soraya, our tour guide lady. Always waiting at the hotel lobby when crew check in, to arrange tours for new crews.

Anyway I was so excited and I wanted to do so many things and see so many places. But due to the short layover, I had to K.I.V alot of the other activities and places for next time.

There we a total of 7 of us that went for the tour. We started out at 9am and our first destination was to Camps Bay. It’s a stretch of pubs and bars located opposite a beautiful beach. We hung out at the beach for a while and took a lot of photos.

After that we headed to Seal Island… to see seals of course. We had a short boat ride to a nearby shore where hundreds of seals gathered. The boat ride was fun…got a lil wet here and there. I saw a lot of elderly couple on the boat and I thought it was so romantic of them to go on holiday with each other and have such a great time. The couples were holding on to each other trying to balance themselves and take pictures at the same time. So adorable… sigh, it is at these kind of moments that you wish you have tht someone special with you. I so wished i had my someone with me then. (Note to self: Honeymoon destination = CapeTown)

Our next trip was to Cape Point. But on the way there we manage to spot some whales a long the coast. Soraya said we were very lucky to actually see so many whales along the route. Getting the opportunity to see this gigantic creature flip its tail and fins and popped its head out of the sea, yea…i would say we were very lucky indeed to witness this magnificent event.

It was a pretty long drive to Cape Point but it was worth it…. my whole point of going to Cape Point is to take a friendster worthy picture of the signage Cape of Good Hope. It was super windy then, so taking a good photo was not an easy feat but after a few many shots, I manage to get one or two good shots.

After the photo taking sessions, we drove further up of Cape Point towards the lighthouse to get a better view of the Beacon of Hope, which is where the 2 oceans meet, the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. I could actually see the 2 currents crashing into each other, forming a long line of white waves right in to middle of the ocean…awesome eh..

Next we headed to Table Mountain. The weather that day was perfect. A lil windy but at least it’s fog free. We had to take a rotating cable car up to the mountain’s plateau. From the cable station we could see the top of Lion’s Head (another peak that’s a part of the mountian range) and as we venture around the plateau area that leads to the eastern side of the mountain, we could also see the Devils Peak and the 12 Apostles. The view from table mountain is spectacular, but unfortunately we did not have much time to spent up there as the place closes at 7pm and we given a very unpleasant warning to head back to the cable station with siren sounds similar to the ones you hear for bombing evacuation during world war 2.

By the time we got back to the hotel it was about 7.30pm and we were all so tired and hungry but very happy indeed.

I’m already looking forward to my next trip here. I’ll go for the great white shark cage diving, whale watching, helicopter ride and robben island. I can’t wait!!!

Jeremy brought me and gwen to clarke quay for dinner after picking us up from bugis on sat, halloweens night.

The place is called Kura No Nake, which means ‘treasure in a quay’. Its located at Allson Hotel, Clarke Quay.

The place is run by this 3 japanese sister, which happen to be hot kawaii babes (tht’s according to Jeremy). But anyway the place looks good and is patronised by a lot of Japanese customers. (I think we were the only local chinese in the entire restaurant when we were there).

We were all up for Sashimi and our waitress, which in my opinion came across as very pushy, recommended us the 8 sashimi combo selection.

The 8 selections includes

Maguro - Tuna
Chu Toro - Tuna Belly
Aji Tataki - Horse Mackeral
Tai Sashi - Sea Bream
Uni - Sea Urchin
Amaebi - Sweet Prawn
Katsuo Tataki - Bonito
Hamachi - Yellowtail

We also ordered some side dishes:

— > marinated beef tenderloins cubes on hot plate
—> sizzling tofu with melted cheese
—> teriyaki cod fish
—> shabu shabu

The sashimi wasn’t that fantastic though… the sashimi I had with Wen at Robertson Quay was better. But at least I finally tried the Uni, and I especially love the Aji and Katsuo, especially taken with some Sake….lovely.

I normally do not fancy sake but the Sake that Jeremy order was very nice indeed. Very sweet and not too strong. Its called ‘Pa Hai San’. Gwen helped me translated it in English, which means ‘eight sea mountain’. I so so love that sake and i swear i’ll go hunt for it on my next Japan flight.

So overall, Jeremy’s fav dish was the shabu shabu, Gwen’s fav dish was the yellowtail sashimi and amaebi and mine was the SAKE…. yes yes..i’m such an alcoholic.

My recent frankfurt trip was very eventful indeed….

—>got to go on an eating spree…..Frankfurters and beer, pizza and spinach, crispy duck…

—> got 4 bottles of good red wine….

—>got chauffuered to dinner on a FERRARI… and its not red or yellow … its GREY…thank goodness   : )

—>got very good steak and wine for dinner…3 medallions steak, with separate gravy of blue cheese, dijon mustard and brown peppercorn.. excellent with the chianti and we finished it off with sambuca, ‘Averna’ ( a digestif liqour to break down the steak ).. and a handful of pralines… superb!!!

—> got to drink more long island tea and silver tequilas and watch ‘Harold n Kumar goes to White Castle’..at last

—>and in the end got extra 2kg to shed now….. but it was all WORTH IT..!!!

When it comes to

New York

….seeing the Twins is a must itenary.

Initially I was suppose to meet them for dinner yesterday, after touchdown…but i was too tired as usual.

Kevin couldn’t join for dinner today bcoz of a very important date… so Kenneth and I had our own candlelight dinner instead…sort of…

Kenneth brought me to this lovely place for dinner, called WHYM on

,

Its a small dimmed cozy joint, modernly decorated with a red and black theme. Serves asian infused western food.

We were fortunate enought to get a table for two without reservations when we got there. Our waiter, Matthew… was absolutely charming and helpful…not to mention cute too.

The Menu was rather interesting….

you can check their dinner menu at their official site http://whymnyc.com/

Here’s what we’ve order:

Drinks > A Guava Martini for mua and a Cocunut Mojito for Kenneth.

The mojito was good, my martini was a lil too strog for my liking…as far as martinis r concerns..i’m still sticking to lychees.

Appetizer 1 > Matthew recommended the Crimini Mushroom soup with caramalised onions and almond flakes. It was great… a very aromatic rich thick soup with chucky bits of mushrooms…though I think traditional croutons with have done a better job at added some crunch to the soup instead of almond flakes.

Appetizer 2 > Togarashi Shrimp : Battered fried shrimp on a bed on mashed banana with coconut milk, drizzled with sweet ginger plum sauce. The shrimp was fresh..but the batter they used to fried it was a lil too hard.. the coconut banana puree was just nice but the sauce was too strong.

Entree 1 > Plum Glazed Short Ribs with tamarind sesame noodles and thai basil slaw. The meat was very well marinated and tender, it was perfectly glazed but it didn’t go well with the bland noodles and dry slaw.

Entree 2 > Blackened Mahi-Mahi (its fish btw..) with a pomegrante glazed on spiced hummus and topped with huge curried onion rings. The fish tasted like our very own ‘ikan bakar’, i couldn’t taste any pomegrante glazed though… the hummus was a tad too salty and the onion rings weren’t crispy enough….but overall i’m fine with having ‘ikan bakar’ and onion rings are always yummy.

Side Dishes > Sexy Mushroom: 3 mushrooms, shiitake, oyster mushroom and black trumpet on melted mascarpone with herbs. A lovely pungent(from the cheese) dish… though the black trumpet should have been soaked or cooked a lil longer for it to turn softer.

The table next to us ordered the Wasabi Pea Crusted Tuna which looks fantastic… it was slighty cooked on the outside and the tuna flesh was still ruby red inside… now tht’s the way to have tuna…. slightly seared. Most of the time tuna main courses are always overcooked…and cooked tuna just tasted fricking horrible.

So after dinner, we went over to a drinking joint called Bamboo 52, on

, btw 7th and 8th. Kevin joined us there after sending his date home first… we have some beers there ..chit chat for awhile… had a sore throat by the end of it as ppl basically talk very loud there… 

After the drinks Kevin insisted that I go to Times Squares to see the well lighted buildings there. And he was right…

Times Square

at night is ten times better than in the day . We took some shots there an then later headed back to my hotel.

I just bid kevin n kenneth not too long ago…and I already miss them…. we had a great time catchin up…. looking forward to seeing them again soon.

I’m lost and  i can’t seem to find myself……..

I’ve been seeing and meeting quite a number of people lately and I found that when i’m out …i act differently with each one of them ….

I act so differently with every new person I meet that…I think if all of them were to meet and talk about me, they wud all be like…’No way!!…tht’s not the Jane I know’.

Has the ‘wayang’ skills that I use for work everyday finally got the better of me? Have I been a little too good at masking all my true emotions and putting on a facade expected by the people i deal with at work? Too good that, even i myself somtimes get confused and misled into thinking tht it is the real me.

And with all the different masks that I use for different people I deal with I end up having different personalities…or maybe I’ve always have …,being tht Geminis tend to have more than one personalities.

But why do i change my personality like changing clothings for every different occasion..or in this case , evry different people I meet. What is my real personality then? Do I even have a true personality?

>One says that I’m bossy but at least I know what I want…and i tell people what i want.

>Another says that I’m very ‘chin chai’, easy going and I’m a good listerner…but very indecisive.

>Another says I’m a timid, goody 2 shoes, very ’si man’ kind of girl…a little reserved ad quiet too.

>Another says that I’m cheeky, witty and very manipulative with words.

>One says I do things very slow and lady like, while another says that I do things very ‘cho lo’.

So which one am I really?

I’ve seem to lost touch with my true self and i know it…but somehow I don’t know what to do about it.

Is there like an idiots guide to self-personality discovery that might be able to help me?

I think the only people who really knows me are people that I know long enough to trust. U know..people that I’ve spend significant amount of time with to allow them to piece together all those contradicting irregular specks of personality tht I show them little by little.

I guess I don’t open up my true self to anyone that easily and i don’t trust anyone that easily anymore too.

Sad things is that, nowadays its diffifult to find someone that has the patience to slowly allow me to trust them and slowly let them see the whole picture of whom I really am….

Can’t sleep now…so i’m on a blogging spree…

I feel like my health is deteriorating… rapidly too…
Ok ok i admit i have no one else to blame but myself…

I so gotta change my lifestyle….

I used to eat loads of fruits, cereal, greens, and have ‘hot proper meals’ and the usual snacks of course…
Now…i still snack…and only snack. I practically survive on chips, chocs, struddles, bread and instant noodles and wine at home.

I did make an attempt to stock up on fruits…but whenever i’m at the supermarket…i just then to pick it up…walk around the aisle and end up putting the fruit on some other aisle…
yes..the reason why sometimes u see oddly misplaced items being chucked on the wrong aisle, its because of inconsiderate ppl like me whom are too lazy to put unwanted stuff back to its original place.

Plus my snacking routine has increase a lot lately due to the fact that my sleeping patern went haywired and i am again down with insomnia….

So with the unhealthy binge eating of junk and the lack of good rest….
i feel lousy, my skins is at a horrendous state.(i think might have to resort to buying my first acne cream.) I can’t concrentrate on work…i’m tired all the time.. and i’m also hungry all the time…

But despite snacking every 2hours or less…i actually lost weight….
i was happy at first but i figured it doesn’t make sense at the rate tht i’m binging on junk it must be due to malnutrition i guess….

I’m so killing myself…. I so need my dad n mum to nag and force feed me with wholesome soups, fruits and veg and all those healthy stuff they use to overload me with…

Sigh…what to do…. this is what happen when u are all alone with no self love and no self discipline.

People….S.O.S…

The next time u see me at a supermarket — > make sure i have fruits and veg in my groceries basket.

Ask me out for dinner or makan more often —> else i’ll be snacking or having instant noodles at home.

The next time I complaint i’m dead tired and wanna take a nap in the afternoon —> forbid me to do so as i will wake up at some ungodly hour to snack again.

May I have the strength and motivation to help myself out of this rut.

I was dead tired when i touchdown into London. Nodded off in the bus with my neck in a very odd position… looking forward to the freshly made bed tht awaits me at the Cumberland hotel, a modern funky hotel with florescent green and fuschia interior lightings at the lobby ..and the bathroom..eerie. The room is relatively small but the bed is cozy.

Anyway as we were about to reach the hotel…we pass by Primark… my eyes popped up so wide my eye balls nearly fell off. That’s it i’m not waiting another minute…i’m gonna check-in, dump my stuff in the room, change and zoom over to primark.

The minute i step in it was like a flea market…wait..i think its worse tht a flea market. But heck…its Primark waddya expect…its always like that everyday. So i grabbed my shopping bag and headed for one corner of the shop…the place is so frickin huge i gotta cover sections in systematic order if i dun wanna miss out on anything.

At first i was kinda uncomfortable of having to shove around with so many women…and some whom are 3 times my size. But after picking up a few clothes i went into my own world…everything else was blocked out…the ppl, the noise, the caos… all i see are clothes, boots, bags, and lingerie…..and it was like tht for the next 4 an a half hour.

Here are the goodies tht I found:

A green long sleeve top
A glittery off-white cardigan
A lil black casual dress
A greyish clean cut coat
A mini black skirt
A pair of sunnies
A clutch bag
A black metal bangle
A pair brown heels
A pair of leather gloves
and ….sigh a pair of boots, lovely green-turcoise knee length boots (i’m a sucker for boots, i really dun need another pair…but…but…they’re boots, i love boots )

oh and loads of undies and lingerie….

The damage to my bank account came up to about 102pounds. But for 15 over items… i think its justified.

Next stop… NewYork New York!!!

I got a puppy..!!!!!

After 1 year of contemplating on whether to give in to jay’s persistant request to get a dog, i finally caved-in and got one.

Initially it was just to fulfill a request to visit the petfarm with him…and i dread going to the petfarm coz i just cannot stand the stench of kanine odour there. I had to resolve to applying a whole chunk of ‘tiger balm’ under my nostrils to mask the smell.

I nearly passed out at the first 2 petfarms we went to…then we came to the 3rd and that’s when we saw the cutest tiny jack russle, only 3months old (born on the 20 Jan 2007). He had the perfect spots, all at the right place and there’s something in his eyes that just melts your heart. We fell in love with him on the spot.

It been almost a week since we brought him home on the 8th april 2007.

He’s name is ruffles ….a.k.a ‘the tyrant’ ….a.k.a ‘bad boy’ ….a.k.a ‘dirty dog’, ….a.k.a ‘mutt’.

He smells, poops everywhere, and yapps throughout the night…

but he can still melt our hearts with those adorable teary puppy eyes…

And no matter how naughty and filthy he gets…at the end of the day he’s still my ‘good boy’.