Stylist Adventure with a twist

I'm BACK~

Omg! There's so much to update and so little time!

Because I'd been to Krabi and another country side, there always didn't seem enough time to update. More over it was sweetheart's notebook that I needed but he seems to be busy finding for Wii online.

So now since I'm back from the Kingdom and am not gonna have sweetheart here with me for the next 6 days, I'm gonna have plenty of time to blog, I mean that's if there isn't loads of homework cos tomorrow's gonna be my 1st day of school!

So excited to see all my friends, Ain, Mag, Tricia and all the Kcians that I've yet to meet in school!

AHHHH!!!!!


So excited!

ok for now, I'm gonna pack my sch bag for tomorrow and choose what to wear! lol It's back to the same old routine when I was in RP.


=))

Updates gonna be soon!!!!

posted by Melanista @ Monday, July 30, 2007 0 Comments

Jam, sweet or sour?

With darling to drive me around, it seems a little too weird. I mean back at home, I'm the one who's driving, the one swearing, the one ... ... complaining.

Now, it's the other way round! LOL Now i know how sweetheart feels when I'm agitated on the road. The thing is, sweetheart doesn't utilize much of the horn. That's a bad start. Cos when I'm the one behind the wheels, the horn, is my best mate! And sweetheart best mate on the road? Me.

=((

Although he meant to scold all the other road users who makes him irritated, I'm the one who hears the complaining! I kept telling him to horn, horn LOUD and LONG. *evil laughter* But he always horn by just a, I would say, soft roar. No, not even a roar, more like a cat meowing instead. -_- Then his hands are back on the wheels but his verbal complaining, carries on.

Oh well, I suppose I'll give it some times for sweetheart to get used to the hornin' more often. LOL I'll impart my horning skills to him in no time I'm sure and yes, before I know it, he'll horning more than verbal complain. Hehe.

Oh n regarding shopping here. I must say that the things here are getting more pricey than the last time I'm here. No more 199 shoes to be found at the common places I used to shop. Now it's more of 199 at road sides instead, which reminds me to speak softly to darlin in eng and try blend in with the crowd so they'll charge me cheaper and give me discount when I ask for one. lol

posted by Melanista @ Thursday, July 19, 2007 0 Comments

1st day!

Today's my first day in Thailand, no wait, I mean yesterday, but it was only for the night cos I took the night flight on Swiss air.

And so my parents drove me to the Changi airport and I had myself marched into DFS, thinking what I should get for myself. And i think my mom was pretty worried, I mean, it's the usual her, being the worried type. Anyway, I didn't get anything for myself if not I think I will have to head back home right after shopping at DFS. =( That would have been a sad case.

So, once I've gotten all I needed at DFS, I'd realized I was already late so and hurriedly went to the gate finding no passengers at all. Thinking it would be the only few of us boarding the plane, I was pretty glad as it would mean more room for me! =))

But little did I know the rest of the passengers were already on the plane and were waiting for us! In fact, I was the 2nd last person to board the plane. =((

Everyone gave me a certain look that made me feel so guilty and no air crew members were helping me with my hand luggage! Although I would have easily said that the ride there was horrendous and all but I have to say that it's good to take a stop over flight because they have inflight entertainment! =))

I was contemplating on either watching Desperate Housewives or Melcom In the Middle and I ended up not finishing the show. =(( So I've concluded that too many options are bad. I mean, NO! They don't only have all the shows I've mentioned, they also have games, movies, songs, etc. So yup. After all the trials on the rest, I came down to the above mentioned shows. Which of cos ended like how I told u.

So when I landed in Thailand, I was desperately wanting to get out fast as it was quite late, moreover sweetheart was waiting for me. =))

BUT the most foreseen circumstance happened! The custom que was extremely long that I had to wait about 30 mins to get out. =((

So I saw darlin', waiting and wavin' at me from a far distance. And after about another 30 mins, I've finally reached and got myself comfortable in my sweetheart's growing up place. =))

posted by Melanista @ Tuesday, July 17, 2007 0 Comments

A typical date - I like!

Craving for meat, sweetie and I headed down to Tony Romas at Suntec. And because we had a booking of Harry Potter at 6.45pm we had to chew quickly as the movie was at The Cathay.

And so we ordered a side salad, Carolina honey ribs and ate quietly throughout our meal. And yes, I admit forgot to take the pic of the food before we ate, because we were simply too hungry!

*the pic of the food. looking way too unglam. lol but it was GOOOOOOD.*

=)

After dinner we rushed down to Cathay to catch the movie on the very first day of release of Harry Potter! =))

In the midst of it though, I marched out of the movie theater, headed towards the snacks counter and got ourselves popcorn and ice lemon tea! *yum yum* all those tony was not enough for us, hungry people.

The verdict:

I think the contents of the story are all too compressed into a 2 hour movie. I would have preferred if they elaborated more on some parts of the movie. It's a lucky thing that sweetie and I read the book before thus we knew what was going on but it would have been a little blurry if we hadn't. Overall, I would give it a 3 out of 5 stars.

posted by Melanista @ Thursday, July 12, 2007 0 Comments

Day out with Mom, Night out with Brook

It's deja vu all over again.

Lunch out with mom at Thai Express, shopping at Paragon and Takshimaya. =)) Nothing beats mom and daughter outing!

It's always great to eat out with my mom because she always makes sure I eat to the fullest! LOL For some reason, we always over order and so we end up asking each other to finish up. I'm always the one who end up eating the rest because mom would argue that she ate breakfast with my dad already.

Yup. So the silly me went to order noodle, rice and prawn toast! 3 dishes of carbohydrates! The reason being, I wanted noodle, mom wanted rice, and I wanted her to try the prawn toast. (which is superb by the way)

lol

yup, and so we work out by walking! =))

Had a few buys here and there. And I'm loving it! =))

After a few hours of walking, I headed to meet sweetie while my mom went to meet my dad. A perfect day spending with perfect people.


(sitting by the pool side, enjoying the breezy night on our 51st "monthsary")

posted by Melanista @ Wednesday, July 11, 2007 0 Comments

Back to school

It's been quite a while since I've woke up early in the morning just to get myself to school. Wait, let me re-phrase that.

It's been quite a while since my parents and I woke up earlier to get me to school. The only difference is that I go school with Kenneth now.

After being in the work force for a month or 2, I've realized it is really, much more tiring compared to schooling. So anyway, I went for orientation today and had myself mingled around with a few "newly made friends" (or at least the ones who were grouped together with me). These acquaintances are surprising friendly and I'd got to learn a little about themselves. It's a pity most of them are of different degree as me. Most are actually from accounting and finance.

So the tour began for us, the location of:

1. library
2. canteen
3. popular bookstore

well, that's about it.

It ain't a huge school to start with. But I'm glad I'm in a "petite" confined area once again. I really dislike huge buildings. It gets particularly irritating especially when I'm late for classes. Not to mention, when you're ON TIME in SCHOOL but LATE to CLASS.

So after the tour, we had some interactive games introduced. I would have though I wouldn't be as interested but who knows? I was quite enthusiastic myself. -_-

It was silly kids' games to be honest. Like,

1. dog and bone,
2. poison river,
3. pass the rubber band with a toothpick sticking out of your mouth.

But, somehow, yeah, it did get me all excited. It's especially so when my group won all the games! =))

Right! After that, the level of "excited-ness" went out of my window as the next in line programme for us was to simply listen to the CCAs they offer.

I really wasn't interested because the ones I was looking forward to hear was not going to present. Plus, my butt was really hurting from sitting too long in the hall.

And so i headed down to the arena for the other CCAs booth, after which I met up with Mag and Tricia! =))

It's so good to see them again after so many months. After all the little topics we chat about, I'm EXTREMELY sure we're going to have a hell of a time in SIM. (ohhhh! not to mention having Ain there too!)

I simply can't wait for school to start so I can attend classes! =)) I'm in love with studying for some reason, but the down side of it?

The waking up part.

p.s: Mag! Your hairstyle is still way cool to me!!!

posted by Melanista @ Tuesday, July 10, 2007 0 Comments

Bad place to makan~

Ok~

Seriously, people out there just seems to be testing my patience. I mean LITERALLY.

The story goes like this,

I was hungry, and so I went to eat near my place. It's at Kaki Bukit by the way, near the MacDonalds'. I went to a malay eating house and ordered for "Tom Yum Seafood", and yes I quite expect it to be ready within, tops, 15 mins. But NOOOOOOOO, I had to wait till almost 45 mins for it. I mean, if I'm at home and ordered Mac, I could probably got it by then!

I was pissed even more so when I saw people who came much later and has gotten their food within 5 mins! -_- But then again, it might be because they ordered the food that were ready made, but still! 45 mins for tom yum soup!

I marched my way to the cook and asked him myself personally where was my order slip. When I first reached the cook, he was ACTUALLY talking to another of his colleague, and he wasn't doing any cooking at all! After I told him off, and he said, "Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, ok" (countless to be precise), he started to cook my tom yum and yes, it took him 5 mins!

WHAT BLO*DY 5 MINUTES!

And when the tom yum finally came, I dug into the ingredients and found small chillies, i mean "un-chopped" chilli or should i say, "HUH!?! Chilli in tom yum?!?!" I could have screamed if i bite into them if I didn't notice it early. -_-

ARG.

I would have walked out of the place if i wasn't that hungry. And yes, I immediately took pics of the shop name, with them looking at me. But i didn't care. I was simply too angry.

Didn't they ever come across the phrase "A hungry man is an angry man"?

posted by Melanista @ Tuesday, July 10, 2007 0 Comments

The Yummiest Food!!!

On Saturday,

1. Brook,
   
2. Beau,
3. Pinrath (Brook's yet another childhood friend) and
   
4. myself

headed down to Ng Ah Sio Bak Kut Teh at Rangoon Road.

It's pork ribs there never fails to meet my expectation of another day's of yummy level. The "you tiao", green vegetables, peanuts and of cos the pork itself is as delicious as always. I never seem to get bored of eating it!!!


So yup!


After which we headed back to Brook's house to play games and all, and we did play a few different kinds of card games which made Pinrath lose about $30+ when he only did have $10+ left in his pocket. LOL

It's hilarious because the last time they played cards back in Thailand, Pinrath lost too and he was so broke that he asked if he could owe them because he needed the money for his petrol back. I mean, it's alot like deja vu.

Right! After playing for the whole afternoon, we decided to head back to Seafood center for the chilli crab once more! =))

So yup! No signboard AGAIN!

LOL it's been like 3 consecutive weeks that we ate there. But then again, IT IS the best place for chilli crab. So YUP!

The symptoms of being overloaded with food was once again felt.

=((

Too bad no pics were taken again but if you guys wanna see the ones I took way back on June, there's the pic.


chilli crab

Oh! One more tips to guys who are wondering where to bring their date for dinner, JUST NOT SEAFOOD, especially crabs or lobster!

LOL

I mean, the girl would not be able to be on her most feminine, and of cos both of you will be more interested to dig out the crab instead of having a good conversation. - an advise from Pinrath.

And yesh! I do agree on what Pinrath had to say, but for me and brook?

LOL

NAHHHHH!

We just simply love crabs plus, being 4 years+ together, we've pretty much have the awkwardness thrown out of the window.

=))

So the very next day, which is on Sunday, we had steamboat at Parkway!




Haha yes, it's more of a food tour again for my weekends.

Cheers everyone! =))

posted by Melanista @ Tuesday, July 10, 2007 0 Comments

It only took 7 months!

OMG!

I'm telling yoU! I'm SOOOOO pisssed todaY! I mean I've realized I can swear quite alot when I drive and yes, I mean by ALOT. And I do frown quite a few too.

1. S**T U!
2. CR*P U!
3. Hurry u BLOO*DY SLOW POK!
4. ARRRR******G!
5. FREAK U!

Yesh, that's usually what I scold. I mean some people are REALLY slow on the roads like, how they would go 40km/h on the normal busy road and for god's sake! Some drivers take pretty darn long just to get out into the main roads! It really pisses me off especially when there's a red traffic light on the main road and there's free excess to turn, but NOOOO some stuuuupid people had to take their own sweet time to turn and when it comes to the other cars in the que behind, the traffic on the main road has turned green.

So anyway, what happened today was that I was at Cantonment road going towards Tanglin area when some crap driver scr*wed up and brake really hard and so the rest of us had to break too. But because the taxi driver behind me (whom i suspect was hogging me) couldn't break in time and so yes after my screeeeeeeching tires, a loud bang came after, from behind.

Thank goodness for the invention of safety belts because I could feel the impact was pretty hard. The first thought?



Of all cars on the DARN road!

SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!

And so the first thing I did was to look at him in the eyes and gave him a SUPER IRRITATED look on my face. I mean if he wasn't so close he would have braked in time, PLUS he PURPOSELY chose my lane because it was the LONGEST lane (i mean knowing how taxi drivers like to be RIGHT behind so the darn meter would keep adding up).

After which i asked him in the most fierce tone I've ever used, "HOW?!!"

But it didn't come out right, I sounded like the person who was in the wrong instead. I mean I can never really sound bad when I intend to say a single word.

And so he apologized and explained that he could get it done in his workshop, and I added that the car is new thus I demanded that it should be done in TOYOTA and no other. He tried to explain that Toyota itself would be expensive and all but, HELL! Like I give a darn!

So, anyway, to think about it, I was actually quite cool, in the sense that I knew what to do. The first thing I did was to whip out the camera and shoot every inch of my car that was kissed. AND not forgetting to ask sweetheart to take his cab license picture too.

HUMPH! Since he appeared into my life in such a manner he'll get treatment from me in SUCH A MANNER!!!!!

And so I wrote down every detail like the road name, the time of the accident, his FULL name, hp number, IC number and i made him sign besides his details and I scared the Sh*t out of him by telling him that if he don't pay for the repairing fee from Toyota, I'll report him the very instant!

YuP! and so that made him have a sleepless night, I think. Cos the very next day, when my parents went to meet up with him and agreed to have our car to be repair by our very own mechanic but spare parts from Toyota itself (which really did help to lower the repairing cost), the taxi driver was very thankful and complained to my parents that he was so worried sick because I kept insisting on Toyota repair center.

YUP! There! my very fist accident, less than a year of driving experience.

Conclusion?

I DISLIKE taxi drivers.

But then again, I do like them when I'm car-less.

posted by Melanista @ Friday, July 06, 2007 0 Comments

Happy Happy Days

Darling sweetheart have officially got his new HP! =))

I chipped in for him as a pressie and he's loving it! No wonder I have been getting his SMS replies pretty fast lately!

And because he have been working for close to 3 months already he has yet to treat his parents. So Beau and I went along to decide for East Coast Beach "No Signboard Seafood!" =))

Once again, the tummy is filled to the brim of my mouth, smile on the face, walking a little wobbly when I got up the chair, you know, all the symptoms of being way too full. But there's nothing I can do, my hand just keeps on going back for more food. To think about it, I've realized this ever when I was little. I have no control over food, it's more of other wise.

So after the main course, the waitress was asking if we needed any dessert and Brook said no thanks. But Best said "Dudeeee" to Brook and went on to say "eh, ya" to the waitress.

So when the menu came again once more and Best was reading it, he meant to ask Brook "what the hell is hashima" BUT the hilarious part was when the waitress replied "eh? eh? oh it's......"

And I started to laugh non-stop. LOL Because Best was "oh oh, not you eh" , *smacks Brook's hand* But he said it so softly that the waitress didn't hear him. So, haha it pretty much went that way. And yes, I'm sure I burned quite a few calories there just by laughing at this scenario.

So back abt FOOD controlling me, I mean i can literally be "fished" by food especially the ones I love. I might have run around, jump up and down just to have a bite or 2.

And YIPPIE! I've finally got a booked flight to make my way down Thailand for 2 whole weeks to (the ever so beautiful word) shop! =)) Oh and to enjoy myself till the fullest before school reopens for me once again. =)) I can already foresee that I'll still in holiday mood when I get back for the 1st few days of school.

Wednesday





Thursday



As you can see, I ate Samy's Curry yesterday. The dinner was accompanied by good company. My parents and Brook's mom. =)) Oh but Beau missed it.

Man! the curry fish head is deliciously succulent. And nope, I didn't use my hands to eat this time and nope too, I ordered for white rice still.

And for the record, please do not press the button below.
( trying to get pics of myself but he budged in on the top right hand corner. and his peace sign fingers beside it. )

posted by Melanista @ Friday, July 06, 2007 0 Comments

Independence Day

Opps, he meant "Happy Independence Day".

posted by Melanista @ Thursday, July 05, 2007 0 Comments

YeahhhH!!!

Pink! Pink! PINK! PINK!

New Pink Nano !!!


Pink mini for sale!!! =)) Peace out!

posted by Melanista @ Wednesday, July 04, 2007 0 Comments

Book is offically 2 decades and 2 years old! We're finally the same age!!! =))

While some was not looking forward to the 1st of July because of the increase in GST, but others were because the Government was to give the "rebates" to Singapore citizens, Brook was looking forward to it as well because It's His Birthday!

=))

Well, it's a pity I didn't take many pictures because my bag was simply too small to have the camera in it.

So! On Saturday itself, I brought sweetheart to Club Chinois at Orchard Parade Hotel to have a delightful meal! I mean it's can't be any worst because it's under Tung Lok and yup! No surprises there even though it's our first time visiting.

It's really worth the money, especially when there's oysters, big prawns, loads of desserts, lobster, peking duck, chocolate fountain and many many more!

Although I love to have taken the pictures of everything we ate but i got quite conscious because there's 2 waitresses that were "looking after" our table. They were so attentive to us that when sweetheart accidentally dropped the prawn that he was shelling onto his lap, one of the waitresses immediately showed up with napkins for him to clean up. I mean,talk about good service!

Oh and because I've requested to have a birthday cake and asked if anyone will be singing the birthday song when it's going to be served, the person in charge told me that they do not sing, but DID in the end. (again! Another reason to be tipped!) =))

And on Sunday itself, I caught the movie Transformers because Brook have always wanted to watch it even before it was showing in the movies. I would say it did exceed my expectation because I'm not one who is really into this kinda movie which I therefore, would pass this as an exception.

Oh and so after the movie, Brook, Beau, Best (his bro, btw) and myself went on to Paragon to have a little stroll while waiting for dinner with his rest of the family and family's friends.
We went to the Soup Restaurant! I would have loved to take all the pics, but like i said, =( my bag was too small, plus it would have been weird to take pics of the food in front of everyone! I would however, rate the food there 6.5/10. I guess some dishes are just nicer than the others that they have.

ANYWAY! The magical moment was actually more of how Beau, Belle and myself managed to "go toliet" but in actual fact, escaped to get Brook's birthday cake! (with Belle actually going to the toliet and then back so it wouldn't seem too obvious. Hehehehe)
Cos poor Brook haven't had his little celebration the whole day. Yup! And we had for him a strawberry cheese cake (which is really delicious btw) from Bakers ' Inn!

So blur sweetheart have not noticed that I had been trying to get his attention on me so as to lure him not looking at the huge paper bag we brought back from toliet. And we managed to keep it a surprise till we got back to his home! =))

posted by Melanista @ Wednesday, July 04, 2007 0 Comments