aromatic dinner

whichever family that is staying directly above me on the 24th or 25th floors of my block is damn freaking lucky...the smells that come from their kitchen at mealtimes are so tantilizingly aromatic that i am always getting the urge to find out the origin of the scent, in the hopes of getting a warm, hot home-cooked meal.

the craving for freshly cooked food is so powerful, and yet so unattainable, that i am now going to rush down to ntuc and buy some squid and prawns to make my own spaghetti marinara dinner for tonight.

but i doubt if i can replicate the sensational and alluring scent from what must be the best tasting cuisine ever...

damn it. knn, i bet that they're all fat...that's my only respite. muahahaha. >=)

cheers. =)

word of the day

escapism (es·cap·ism)

1. the tendency to escape from daily reality or routine by indulging in daydreaming, fantasy, or entertainment.

2. an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

let me out. sigh.

videographsky - ballet under the stars

i had an eventful saturday night...



how about you? cheers. =)

gallivanting

i let my baby go out just now...at around 11pm...she wanted to check out the nightlife scene...this was mainly cuz i've been keeping her in this whole week...she says she felt "stuffy"...whatever.

it's now 2.32am and she still hasn't returned any of my calls...i've watched a total of:

1 x 2.5 hour long vcd from my parents' oldies collection
0.5 x episodes of national geographic
0.5 x episodes of the discovery channel

and she's still out there gallivanting with god-knows-what...

most of the time, she'll respond and come home almost immediately, but sometimes i can get so frustrated with her...and it's no use looking for her cuz there are too many places to look...argh.

come home soon gingin!

don't worry baby...pei hwan and i won't punish you with a long-deserved bath tomorrow...we promise. really!

*update @ 2.48am: baby gingin comes back home after a simple "meow meow" call from pei hwan...sheesh...but good thing she's safe and sound now...cheers. =)*

tomorrow tomorrow

continuation of the series to "where the hell is matt"...



brilliant man...this guy has been everywhere...

it kinda makes me think about my life in general...why am i working so hard? to earn more money which evaporates with each vapour of alcohol and each whisp of smoke? or should i be realigning my goals and objectives in life instead...

maybe i really have been stuck in singapore for far too long...more than half my life already...and with each passing day, with each "hmm...what's there to do today?", another 24 hours bites the dust.

don't know why i'm in such a contemplative mood...maybe it's cuz i've cut down on my tigers...haha. but chin up sky, tomorrow is always only one day away. cheers. =)

resignation

two colleagues just resigned today...at the same time some more.

i'm kinda sad...but also kinda happy for them...at least they had the strength and courage to uproot and leave...i seem to be far too embedded in my work to be helped...sigh...time does make breaking away harder...

it's almost kinda like being in a relationship...but let's not go into that lah hor? a lot of mending hearts and egos around...

one friend said that it should be a joyous time for the two of them...and that they should rejoice and bathe in the shock-of-resignation-afterglow from their boss...but they seem to be more stressed out from the proceedings than anything...what with handing over accounts and blah blah blah...

but frankly ah, if you ask me...i wouldn't really give a damn. if you treat me like shit...then don't expect anything good when i'm finished. full stop.

"finito. good luck with the rest of the crap that you laid on me...goodbye!"

all the best, girls. cheers. =)

journey(s)

there're so many different places that i wanna go...things to see, food to eat, cultures to experience...

i'm so glad that pei hwan is an experienced traveller. she was actually abroad for 2 years backpacking in south east asia...seeing the sights, tasting the cuisines, and mixing with the locals...it was a pretty arduous task convincing her (when i was wooing her at least) that i'm a well travelled individual myself, given her credentials, but maybe for once, the predator becomes the prey...hahaha.

i digress...

i went to the singapore science centre the other day, with the intention of watching an imax movie at the omni-theatre...but since they didn't have anything good on, we (pei hwan and i) ended up in the science centre gift shop...which had an impressive range of telescopes on sale. there were some really huge suckers going for a few hundred dollars only (of which i didn't have the strength to fork out for)...but anyway, there were a lot of pictures in the shop of mother earth taken from outer space...that made me think yet again of how big our planet is...and how much of it i still haven't seen...

check out this video i saw from billy's blog...it's inspiring.



i can't wait to begin my journey(s)...

cheers. =)

summon

moby swings into car park at club street.

car park auntie 1 (cpa1): let's get him good.
car park auntie 2 (cpa2): yeah!

moby finds a shaded area to park.

cpa1: wait...wait...he's reversing...steady...steady...
cpa2: yeah!

moby finally parks car.

cpa1: don't show yourself just yet my dear...
cpa2: yeah!

moby puts $2 parking coupons which lasts for one hour.

cpa1: damn it.
cpa2: damn it.

moby leaves for appointment.

cpa1: no worries, we just hang around till the idiot's coupon expires...
cpa2: yeah!

*57 minutes later*

moby comes back to the car park to replenish parking coupon.

cpa1: shit. this guy is good.
cpa2: yeah!

moby puts an additional $1 parking coupon for another 30 minutes parking.

cpa1: so it's a test of endurance now huh?
cpa2: yeah!
cpa1: shut up. we'll outlast him if it's the last thing we do on our underpaid but overworked shift!
cpa2: yeah!

moby gets delayed for 30 minutes at customer's office cuz of unnecessary nonsense from crazy customer.

cpa2: shall we move in now? shall we move in now??
cpa1: no, my dear grasshopper...we wait...it's much too early. are you drunk by the way?

moby's customer continues his charade of complaints.

cpa2: now? now?
cpa1: ok, ok...i know this is your first time, so i'll let you issue the ticket even though it's just 21 minutes late...
cpa2: wow! yeah!

moby comes back to:


summon

sigh. =|