My brother.. leaving on a jet plane

My lappy is still down *bigger bigger hint to Tom*
secretly using my sista computer right now...
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My brother is super lucky lor..After his graduation, he managed to get this well-paid job in a foreign bank. When i say well-paid job..i really mean, well-paid job..He's probably earning as much or even more than i am
lucky guy~ *envious*

When he told us that his company is planning to send him to London for three months of training...we are like "wow!!!! u're kidding!!" 好辛福

off he goes on the 19th Sept.... See! the whole family 出动 to send him off at the airport.... So how come i don't get this kinda treatment when i fly off!!
不公平！！ *hmmph* waiting for his friend's car to drive us to the airport..(messy hair..thanks to the wind!)
Family picture TIME!!!
Its hard to grasp why my brother is so tall. Our dad is not very tall, neither is my mommy...but he's like the tallest leh!!!
(Mommy...what did u feed him when he was young!!!)

His secondary and uni friends sending him off (really sweet of them)
Btw, notice that they are all guys even though he's from a mixed school??
Brother, O Brother, when are u gonna start seeing someone of the opposite sex? Computer games and anime are not gonna help u get a girlfriend, you know *haiz*

My brother taking BA to London..too bad my fren Clarissa is not on that flight...else could help me take care of him (HELLO!! your brother not 3 year old leh) I know, but...but but he's still my pet brother mah...

His company sent half of the newly joined pple on BA, and the other half on SIA (precautionary measures if you ask me)

Finally...GATE open~~

Off he goes...sniff sniff sobz sobz
im gonna miss him so much...no one to bully, to help carry my luggage down the stairs, to poke fun of...

Bon Voyage!! seeya on the 3rd of Dec....

Updates:
my brother made contact yesterday night..btw, his company is paying for this service apartment for him to stay in..the pictures he sent of his service apartment are totally outrageous! 1 bedroom + kitchen + living room+internet connection, fully air-conditioned!! ALL BY HIMSELF!!! He' living like a king!!! he laments about the living expenses in London..10pound (S$30) for a normal meal..now he knows how inexpensive food is in Singapore..At least he can start losing weight over there..haha

The perfect pair of shoe

apologies to whoever reading my bloggie...i know i haven been updating it..almost 3 weeks to be exact..

Dun blame me...Blame it on my "hand-me-down" lappy from my brother
(fyi, im using Tom's laptop now)
My lappy just died on me...again AGAIN!!!!! *arghhhhh*

Error message :problem with the cooling system. Please shut down and send for servicing!!

Damn~ that's not good

It's so unfair!! i have like tons and tons of pictures taken from my sightseeing adventures in Frankfurt, Amirstar and so forth that i wanna share with u guys but my lappy gave up on me.
Tom promise to take a look at it (like 2 weeks back?) *HINT HINT*
But everytime i suggest bringing my lappy over to his place, he'll just replied "some other time"
im probably better off sending it to the Toshiba servicing centre

As i mentioned, alot have been going on in the past few weeks. I worked. I visited interesting places. I took tons of pictures. I felt sick. I had a really bad toothache. i had food poisoning (again) from eating Indian food for four days in Amritsar. And i had been to the A&E department in St Vincent hosiptal, Sydney due to chest pain..WHAT??!!
Yupz, i was in the Sydney hospital for four hours while they ran some tests on me i.e ECG test, blood test, X rays. I was feeling really really shitty..
In fact, i thought i was going to die.Period.

And being the mommy lil girl, i sent a sms to my sista telling her about the my chest pain.
Bad Move=====>Tom lectured me about how worried my mommy gonna be once she learned that her sweet lil girl is in the hospital. And he's right! My mommy was damn worried! I felt so bad now thinking about it. *sighz*

(anyway, that's the name tag that i had to wear during my short stay there. Reason being that they might lose me..like "DUH" )

The funny thing was, the tests turn out normal. There's nothing wrong with me.
So why am i having chest pain? *sniff sniff*
The only possible reason that i could think of and which i mentioned to the doctor was the stoopid duck bone that i swallowed the night before . Yesh, i know it sounds really hilarious.
A DUCK BONE? *HAHAHAHA* laugh all you want, pple

It had been a really really bad two weeks. I'm just so glad im getting better.

Since im feeling better, moi decided to head downtown to look for shoes and accessories to match my white dress from Daniel Yam. One of my good friend is getting finally getting married. Ermm...wait. Correction: She ROM like 3years ago. So she finally holding the wedding banquet on 1st oct 2006. Yaay~
Its like a big celebration since its the same date as Childrens' day!!

This Jany arh, wanted all her jie meiz to be in a white dress. Since i don't own a white dress(and i hate to wear a dress) moi had to look around for a white dress just for the occassion. But i had to admit, moi look pretty nice in a dress. HAHAHAHA like a lil princess!! *bragging*

So the prefect dress must have the prefect shoe and accessories right?

After walking around with Tom for 7hours, moi failed to find the prefect pair of shoe!!
it icked me!
Btw, one word of advice, if you know you're gonna walked from one end to the other end of Orchard Road and back (and in between), WEAR COMFORTABLE SHOES!!!!!
walking around in a 4inch stiletto for 7hours straight is no joke. GIMME BACK MY Birkenstocks!!

Why is it so hard to find the perfect pair of shoes? The perfect pair of shoes that give the "ommph" factor. The perfect pair of shoes that makes you feels like a woman, feels confident and elegant...and i couldnt find it!!! *ARGHHHHH*

It doesnt help that the perfect pair of shoes have to be in either white or silver to match the dress that i got. That kinda limit the choices.

It was 9.10pm. We were tired. We were hungry. and my feets are killing me.
Just when i was about to give up and admit defeat, lo and behold, we were standing infront of ALDO shop and my eyes immediately zoomed in on the "perfect shoe"!!!
It's simple yet elegant..with a lil white bow infront. i tried it. it fits and its within my budget

Moi: I'll take it. Do you have a new pair?
Salesgirl: Im sorry. We dont have a new pair for size37. We do have a new pair for size38
(i was thinking "duh, i dun fit a size38')
Moi: So do you think the other ALDO outlets have a new pair of size37?
Salesgirls: We don't have a new pair for size37. We use size 37 for all our display shoes and for each design, we only have one pair of each different size.
(Moi and tom looked at her in disbelief)
Tom: So you mean to say that if we buy this pair right now, someone else walks in and they couldnt buy the same pair of shoes because the store only keep one pair of shoes of each size.
Salegirls: Yes. Until new stock comes in.

we looked at the pair of shoes. The right side being the display one looked kinda dirty(white gets dirt easily) and the sole looks worn. S$109 and they didnt even wanna give a discount. We walked out not buying anything.

I mean, don't you find this totally ridiculous? I mean, c'mon...its ALDO for goodness sake. Isnt it weird that a well-known company just keep one pair of shoes of each size? i really really REALLY find it unbelieveable...from a business point of view: IT"S TOTALLY INSANE!
So should i blame myself because my feet happen to be the size ALDO use for display purposes? Does that mean i'll never get a chance to buy a new pair of ALDO shoes because the store..YESH..because the store ONLY KEEP ONE PAIR OF SHOES OF EACH SIZE!
HAHAHAHA..that's so funny~

It's so hard to find the perfect pair of shoes...

Tom and Durians~

I just don't get it...
What's with Ang Moh and Durians?

You should see how Tom react whenever he pass by a durian stall

The look on his face is simply priceless..
he will just grab my hand and drag me as fast as possible out of the "hellish" zone
and i bet he was holding his breath all the while.....

Durians, let me tell you, can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, it is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Singapore (picture from the MRT)
To him (and i believe, many other Ang mohs), the King of fruit is possible the most disgusting thing in the world
and the smell? Phew~~ smell like poo poo, sewage, rotten eggie and watever watever nots

To me? It's THE MOST delicious thing in the whole world
the wift of the fragrant smell, the rich custard-like flesh richly creamy,
the aroma pronounced and the flavour highly complex.
what more could i say? "GIMME A DURIAN!!!"

"Gross, disgusting, pervasive scent of decay" is how Tom describe the durian smell
(ermm, did i mention that Tom said my fart last night was better than the durian smell..oppsie~)
Anyway, he made me promise to never ever bring durians back home! 不公平
*hmmph*

I mean if i can eat blue cheese (and i hate blue cheese!!!) because Tom loves Blue cheese,
ermmm, why cant he eat durians because i LOVE DURIANS?
there's some sort of inbalance here if you ask me

So just the other day, Tom and Moi were taking the MRT home from Cityhall when both of us smelled durians nearby. We scanned the surrounding crowd and pinpoint the culprits. This inconsiderate "Not PAISEH" couple obviously bought a durian cake and were standing a few meters from us!

Well, to smell and enjoy eating durians is one thing. BUT to endure the durian smell in an enclosed enviroment was just terrible! And people around (including us of cos!!!) were like just staring at this couple. If Looks could kill, they would probably have died a zillion times.

When we alighted from the MRT, i have this tremedous craving for durians! No kidding!!
and luck will have it, there happened to be a durian stall just outside the MRT station!
Woo Hoo~

The good thing was, Tom ACTUALLY ALLOWED moi to buy a box of durians
The bad thing: he only allow moi to consume the durians tommorrow morning"
Its either you eat it tomorrow morning or im not gonna kiss you tonight!"
*BLACKMAIL BLACKMAIL!!!*

One thing for sure, ladies and gentleman, please give a round of applause for TOM!!!!
*clap clap*
why? cos he finally agreed to taste the durians!!
btw, have you ever see a person who take a small lil bite of durian and afterwhich drinks a big glass of strong Whisky coke? I have.
and who later on keeps complaining that i have durian breath?
i lurv durian breath *faint*

But Tom, thanks for making an effort to try the durian even though i know its probably the worst thing you had even taste in you whole life..cos i know you did it for me
*awwww, so sweet*