Singaporean fooooood!!!

Being away in Rome for 5 days really had me craving for local hawker food.. especially with Italy being a country that serves only its on fare in restaurants.. they don't even have the normal breakfast in MacDonald's!!! they serve crossiants instead.. *shudders*

i wouldn't have that problem in australia or states for instance.. i can easily find Asian food anywhere there..

in defence, i'm not the only who feels that way for that flight! the crew had similar sentiments too..

we were fantasizing about char kway teow, BBQ stingray, ba chor mee and hot soupy dishes.. i mean i totally LOVE the pasta, pizza and gelato in Italy (they are mind-blowing!) but it's still nice to have a piping hot Asian dish at the end of a cold wintry day..

G-E-L-A-T-Oooooo.. <3

somehow the Italian food always get cold really fast.. i doubt it's the weather? because i never have that problem when i eat Korean food (considered as Asian dish also la) during Seoul's winter..

so the crew made plans to have supper on touch down day! headed down to the best BBQ stingray in town at Changi Village and ordered the biggest portion, together with char kway teow, ice teh tarik and jia jia liang teh!

the next morning i bought the black carrot cake, nonya rice dumplings and the colourful 9 layers kuey..

what shall i have for lunch later?

hmm, haven't decide.. yum yum.. I love Singapore!!

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my blogging has been kind of sporadic lately.. not that i do not have time but sometimes i just do not have the urge to do so..

different flights every week, meeting new people everyday.. so many novel things are constantly popping up all the time.. sometimes i feel so overwhelmed i don't know what to blog about anymore..

i really wish i can pen everything down but that would mean being fixed to my laptop 24/7..

however if i were to just write a one-liner to summarise it, it doesn't seem to do the "experience" justice either.. so more often than not, it never made it here..

but i shall try my best and attempt to summarise what i've been up to lately..

here goes..!

Sojourn Resort, Siam Reap

the Villa

Fish Spa!

it's so itchy when the fishes nibble

Angkor Wat at sunrise

people perched on the ruins around Angkor Wat

Mingwei wants to go THIS way

*jumps*

Angmoh dude having siesta at the temple

all smiley for Breakfast

THE "award-winning" photo.. lol

Ta Phrom, where Tomb Raider was filmed
(note the HUMONGOUS tree trunks! wicked!)

tromping around Ta Phrom's outskirts

gorgeous Bayon Temple (our favourite!)

the breath-taking ruins

Hurricane Ketsana said 'hi'.. %$#@&*

best french restaurant in Cambodia?

even the king dines here..
that's his signature on the menu.. awesome!!

we whacked our way through their menu
and the bill came up to quite a tidy sum.. opps! haha..

Osaka with Erica (right) and Irene (left)

taking the train down to Kaiyukan Aquarium

wah, big fish!

the whale shark in the Pacific Exhibit is magnificent!
largest fish in the world- full length 12m

came back for a quick bday trip with jingwen to Sentosa!

Sun-tanned the whole afternoon
but didn't get any darker.. crap..

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that's all for the moment!! part and parcel of my everyday life =] =] =]

back to the bottom of the food chain..

from today onwards, i'll officially be business class trained! although the 2 SNY flights have been relatively uneventful, i'm still a little intimidated by what will be in store for me in the coming months…

feeling unsure, making silly mistakes, getting tongue-tied, fumbling around looking for an item that refuses to be found...!

but i'm looking forward to the day when i'll be as comfortable in business class as i am in economy.. just hope that i can quickly get the period in between over and done with!

God, please bless me with sweet passengers and non-zappy crew! Amen.

Musings

are there days when you feel you are stuck in a roomful of people who just doesn't bring out the best in you?

i do.

i feel like my personality is suppressed.. i feel awkward, clumsy and totally uncool.. just like when how one would behave awkwardly around a crush.. but in this case, it has nothing to do with opposite sex jitters..

such individuals can be anyone from either sex, any age, race or background.. he/she is just some random guy or girl who totally sucks my sense of humour, wittiness and personality out of me (yes, yes.. whatever little i have u snide people!)..

when these "social vampires" appear, i just say the stupidest, most inane and unintelligent things.. i would somehow lose the ability to mingle and end up standing at the edge of the group sticking out like a sore thumb..

the confidence and self-esteem built over the years will dissolve, giving to way to this meek and boring snivelling girl that i myself don't recognize.. hell, if i'm the third party i wouldn't want to hang out with "myself" too..

maybe i'm too harsh on myself but that's how i feel..

if it gets bad enough, all the unhappy memories and insecurities that i harboured in my teenage years will ooze up if i allow myself to get carried away: the unrequisited wish to have a sense of belonging and to be accepted.. hating the fact that i must somehow be different because why else i couldn't clique with everyone..

i felt that way today.

it wasn't a really pleasant feeling.

i should just checked myself into a mental ward huh? hmm, i wonder whether my company covers that..

YOU hate me don't you?

i know someone up there hates me.. who? i don't know.. probably God..

the foul mood from saturday last till today.. hey, in fact i'm still damn pissed over it.. so that makes it a double whammy..

so what's the other thing that makes it double? let me enlighten you, dear readers..

i had one hell of a hairdressing experience.. it's like the most disastrous incident ever..

i thought it was bad that i had to go for a perm myself, spending hours alone on the stupid chair.. reached there since 3pm and waited till 4pm before my hairstylist was free.. it was only 6ish pm when she finally put on all the curling irons and connect it to the ceramic perm machine..

and my nightmare started..

the bloody machine broke down on me! fuck..

i was watching shows on the laptop and i felt something was amissed.. why isn't the irons heating up? when she then admitted that the machine was spoilt and panicked a little.. she offered to use hair dryer to do the heating up instead and i gave a flat "no".. hell, i'm paying good money for this and this is MY hair.. you don't try funny alternatives on it.. she then started making phone calls and stuff..

it was just so that may of her friends' shops were already closed as it is a sunday or do not have a similar machine.. thankfully a friend agreed to go back and open her shop for me to finish the perm.. unfortunately, she's out having dinner and we have to wait till she finishes then she'll give us a call, which came only 1 and a half hours later..

when we were waiting for the call, i thought it's better to settle the bill so i asked how much it is.. i totally flipped when she told me that i'll be charged the full price..

hello? because you only accept cash hence i always have to go withdraw cash to pay.. and now because your machine's spoilt, i've to go withdraw cash with all this ceramic shit hanging in my hair.. you still expect me to pay in full???

long story short, she gave me a discount and threw in a bottle of treatment cream for me.. and of course, i got sniggered at all the way from the shop to the atm and back.. did i mention that there's actually a queue at the ulu atm at circuit road in the middle of the night as well????

i rot at the shop for 1.5 hours listening to her prattling non-stop about how unfortunate it is for her that the machine broke down, how she should have checked and stuff.. i just grimaced and shut her out.. i was just so tired and my scalp felt sore from the heavy equipment pulling on my hair..

by the time we drove over her friend's place and i finish my hair, it's 10plus already.. to think, i stepped into her shop a grand 7hours earlier..

by the way, her mom and her wheelchair bound stepfather was with us throughout the whole affair and her mom drove me home after.. i can't be bothered to explain how her parents fit in..

the whole day have been so bizarre and it would have been hilarious if i wasn't the one going through it..

it's definitely ranked up there in my list of suckiest experiences..

Upset..

i haven't been so upset in ages.. it's not at all like the sadness when i get misunderstood or general unhappiness when i quarrel with friends or family..

it's a blood boiling anger that casts a mask over my face and makes me glare balefully at any living thing that dares to give me a second glance out of curiousity (because foul mood is written all over)..

it's already disappointing enough that i got called up for an early turn around and hence i can't join my friends to club.. when they are partying in the wee hours, i'm preparing for flight and by the time they are having their supper after partying, i'm on the cab to the airport..

but that's expected.. i was on standby after all..

it was what happened on the flight that made me so pissed.. i wish i can put it down in words here and bitch to my heart's content but that wouldn't be too professional and i'll never know who's gonna drop by this space..

i was still all smiley (albeit it looks a little frozen) when we were leaving the aircraft.. but once i went out of their sight.. my face turned stormy and it stayed that way till now..

the rage is all pent-up inside and i've no avenue to release it..

"i worked my ass off onboard and that's what i get in return from u.. u asshole!!"

Flash Mob

A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via telecommuncations, social media or viral emails. The term is generally not applied to events organized by public relations firms or as publicity stunts.
~ Wikipedia

it started with me telling mingwei about my evening at pump room and how the band, Jive Talking always play "I gotta feeling" by Black Eye Peas.. (Jive Talking is an awesome band by the way!) he then showed me this flash mob in chicago dancing to the same song..



was so amazed that i started looking up for other flash mob antics on youtube..

The Great Trafalgar Freeze

Michael Jackson in Stockholm