Sweet Victory... Well Almost...

I ALMOST whooped a guy's ass at pool today. He'd gotten on my nerves 10 mins after I walked into the bar... loud, brash, obnoxious... chinese guy claiming to be Canadian but with an accent that was a mixture of every other country BUT Canada. Nevertheless, me being me, decided to give the guy a chance, maybe he wasn't so bad afterall... Yeah, right! The last straw came when he made a racist comment. From that point on I was determined to put up a fight if not take him down at pool (NOTE: Do not be misled, I am a mediocre player. Lucky for me, I apparently get better the more I drink!) Unfortunately we weren't able to finish the game coz the bar was closing. Oh well, I'm just glad he didn't have any reason to gloat... the asshole...

Pot Calling the Kettle Black

Behaviours that you once disapproved of in others are suddenly OK when you do it...

Arrrghhh!!

*Warning: author is in a self-pitying mood*

These last few weeks have been a little crazy. Deadline for one thing is almost immediately followed by a deadline for another. And little ol me is stressing herself out (to the point of having nightmares) of not being able to meet said deadline, and I'm back to my bad habit of forgetting my dinner. I would say that part of the stress is due to the fact that the 'assignment' involves a fair amount of creativity, something I find rather challaneged by. BLEH! If all goes well I'll be done by Friday night, otherwise, it's gonna be bye-bye Saturday and Hello work... again. I'm praying hard I won't have to stay late Friday. Moi has a hot-chocolate-and-marshomellow date. Now who in their right mind would wanna miss that. I also hope I won't have to go in on Satuday coz I'd been invited to a pot-luck dinner party that evening (meaning I'll need the afternoon to shop and cook) and it would be a great chance to meet new people. And I can start with the host! hah!

Holiday plans are all coming to naught. My initial plan of making a trip up to Beijing during the Chinese New Year (or Spring Festival as they call it here) went down the drain for 2 reasons: i) the person I was hoping to meet in Beijing was smart enough to make plans to run away to warmer climes - Malaysia, and ii) friend of mine who'll be country hopping around Asia will be down and will most definitely NOT have clothing thick and warm enough to withstand the temperatures of Beijing. Next option was to take a 3 /4 hour flight to Hainan island where the sun will be shining and the sea will be warm and i will be able to get my tan back!! But I heard it's gonna be jam packed with people and is probably too late to get any form of accomodation by now. Option 3 hit me a couple of days ago while I was stabbing the keys on my keyboard and cussing the damp weather. If I can't get the sun, sea and sand, I can still run off to a place where the temperatures are at least a little more bearable... like Hanoi! (between 16 to 20 degrees on a good day I think, as compared to 2 - 6 deg here) Plus, it would be a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and just C-H-I-L-L before A. flies in on the 18th!! Unfortunately a certain someone will be away on those exact days, so there goes my accomodation ( ;) just kidding G.)

So yeah, I'm fresh outta ideas.

Ok time for a beer and Scrubs...

Hello 2007!

Oh i forgot to report on the events leading up to the new year. Let's see, J. was down and funnily enough despite my plans of planting myself in the kitchen, we ate out most of the time. Which is a good thing, since food in Shanghai ROCKS! Despite that fact, J's first few meals consisted of every other cuisine BUT chinese.

Did the touristy bit on the Bund on Saturday. Even took the bund tunnel train across the Huangpu River to Pudong. Nothing spectacular really, the strobes and laser lights werea rather cheesy, and there are other much cheaper ways to get across to the other side of the river (like the 1.50RMB ferry), but it's just something that you gotta do at least once. I rather enjoyed myself and was quite happy to have paid the 40RMB. Once on the other side, we hit the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Got ourselves the 100RMB ticket and went all the way to the topmost observatory level (the Space Module - 350m). I thought it was well worth the money (if you convert it to Singapore $$). The view was spectacular and you could see for miles on end and photographs just didn't do it justice! (It also didn't help that we were taking shots in 'Night scene' mode WITHOUT a tripod...)


New Year's Eve was spent pigging out (I'm not proud of it! OK, maybe a little) at the champagne brunch at Westin Hotel. We got there at 1130hrs and left at 1500hrs. How's that for making our money's worth! The best part was, when I made reservations for the brunch, I forgot that I'd accepted an invitation for Singaporean style dinner that same day :s :s. We had 4 hours to rest and digest before having to run off to venue #2. Still, we managed a decent portion of food. I mean, it just wouldn't do to be rude now, would it. :p Food was great, wine was a-plenty and we were all in high spirits to the point the karaoke set was switched on (but of course). Bellies full and wine almost coming out of our ears, we took our leave around 0100hrs and headed to a rather pretty club by a lake where drinks were a tad more expensive than the usual places I hang out at (still a little cheaper than in Singapore though) and the shisha was AWFUL. Oh well... Happy Belated New Year people!!