Ben’s 22nd Birthday Dinner at Hog’s Breath

You Know My Fluorescent Pink Nail Polish?

Well, that’s the color of my new pink pants. It certainly is entertaining to see (in person) the reactions of people when I tell them this. Hahaha! Fluorescent pink nails are not enough. Anyway, I went shopping with Phuing yesterday and got these pants because 1. They’re fluorescent pink YES! 2. I need more jeans and pants for when I go to Kazakhstan. 

Don’t you just love them? =)

Own Time Own Target

Yesterday was a busy day. We finally submitted our Kazakh visa application forms. The Kazakh dude was quite cool. Hahaha. Then I dropped by school with my dad to settle the loan agreement. Feels good to finally complete these tasks. Don’t have to worry about them anymore, hooray!

After that, Jingzhong and I went to FFT for a quick dinner where they said the food’ll take 15 minutes to get to us but at 5 minutes to 8 our food still wasn’t there! How did they expect us to finish eating our food AND get to our play in 5 MINUTES?!! And they hadn’t even finished cooking our food at that time!

The whole reason why we decided to stay and eat there is because they said we would get our food in 15 minutes, giving us enough time to finish it and get to the play. Furthermore, their register’s time is set 10 minutes fast (so they thought they were not THAT late in giving us our food) but Jingzhong paid with NETS and the NETS receipt showed the correct time. Doing charity is good, but even then you must have an acceptable level of service. If you’re going to take more than 40 minutes to cook our food, TELL US and we’ll just come back another time. Now, we won’t ever go back.

Sigh.

Anyway, as you can see from the title of this post, Jingzhong and I went to watch Own Time Own Target yesterday night. We had to watch it hungry! GRRRRR. Afterwards we went to eat bak chor mee yum. I love bak chor mee. I wonder what’s the first thing I’m going to start craving when I’m in Kazakhstan? Hmmm.

Jingzhong rented a manual car. It is very entertaining to watch him drive. It’s totally old school and reminds me of my dad driving in Australia when I was young. 

Full Tank

Botak Boys

Anyway, OTOT was made up of two plays – Full Tank and Botak Boys. Full Tank was okay, pretty funny. But Botak Boys was much better and way funnier. Hahaha. Totally retarded. Jingzhong was whispering explanations throughout the play, but I more or less understood the lingo and everything. There was a lot of hokkien too but I roughly got the idea. If I didn’t understand then I’d just ask Jingzhong! We sat near Ivan Heng. Haha. You should hear him guffaw. HAHAHA! Like that.

Okay, I’m off to Arab St to get new crystals for my camera. I can’t stand it looking so normal and clean. See ya.

The Start of The Decline

I met my Nanyang friends for dinner today. We went to Spizza!! YUM. Shared a Nadia and a Franca with Mandie. Mandie is going to tell me all about her trip to Russia and give me lists on what to eat and where to go! So exciting! =) And it was good to see Carol and Lyn. 

As usual our conversation covered many topics, but was full of fun and loads of laughter. Pot brownies, cellulite and stretch marks, dropping babies, coed dorms, Kazakhstan, perverted Italian men, hot Italian girls, Korea and plastic surgery (as long as Jeanne’s there this topic definitely comes up), tennis and Federer and him touching his hair in between points or SOMETHING like that, metabolism rates, how apparently women start declining at 25 but we must’ve started prematurely at 20, Russia, our good ol’ Nanyang days (of course!) and our good (and some not so good) ol’ Nanyang teachers and classmates.

=)

My New Shoes

I decided I needed slip-on heels that weren’t too high, too formal, or too elaborate.

Thing is, I actually don’t have a plain pair of black heels for presentations because I always get distracted by the prettier, brighter coloured shoes. Jingzhong complains of this all the time. His argument, when I want to buy shoes, is always ‘You don’t even have a decent pair of black heels for presentations!’ Which, unfortunately, always works in deterring me from buying shoes. Like that bright pink pair at Topshop. If I had my way..

Anyway, I got these shoes because I thought they looked cute, with the heart and everything. I got them in Malaysia at only S$12 or something. I like them because they’re pretty simple but not as informal as flip flops!