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Low Down: Inuka and Omar. Chia and Kiat

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collage Swiped from williamnyk . During my first day in Singapore, didn't spend much time with my dearest as KH's boss demanded that a stupid task be completed and tickets to a play were already bought beforehand. So let's just call it bad timing. Hoewever, it wasn't a total loss as it gave me a chance to meet my long lost friends Chia and Kiat whom I had not met in 4 years. They had recently gotten married and SK and I wanted to treat them to a meal since we both couldn't make it to their wedding as it clashed with our BKK trip . We met at the Singapore Zoo and we were an hour late ( due to my zombie-ness in the last post ). By the time we arrived in Mandai, Chia and Kiat were already waiting in the KFC ( wonder what's with KFC and zoos ). Chia had woken up at 7:00am to prepare egg mayo and sardine sandwiches-- just like old times in Form 6. Brings back nice memories. It was a wet morning and we nearly abandoned our plan, but the rain let up so we did

Low Down: The Bitch and the Prawn

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Transparency Swiped from Edgar Thissen . Hi everyone. I've been real busy trying to chase my deadline lately and frankly, it ain't looking good. Sooner or later, the gauntlet is going to be thrown and someone's neck is going to be on the chopping block. A responsibility I can't shirk. My team is already working very hard and I only have myself to blame. To make things worse, an ad hoc thing has popped up and I have been given the green light to forget about my current project at the moment. Well, let's just say that it isn't a pretty distraction. I'm nearly at my wit's end. Just waiting for the final straw. Heh. Negativity aside, I'm sure there are quite a few of you ( DanielH! ) who're dying to learn about the sordid details of my 'conjugal visit' to Not-So-Sunny Singapore. I'm not one to kiss and tell, so I'll just say that I had I loads of fun down south . Heh. Some random observations about JB: Motorcycle shops open till lat

IOU

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Photo-0088 Swiped from williamnyk . An interesting bi-lingual notice I saw stuck on the side of a TNB wiring hub: WSS Ah Weng: Where's my 11 days petrol money and salary for sending your indon up / down USJ, Cheras and Sungai Besi site I'm from a national school, so my Chinese is definitely sendirian berhad . But I guess that the part in chinese is not quite talking about the same thing. Seems different. Can anyone verify this?

Fuego

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Photo-0104 Swiped from williamnyk . We pre-empt today's episode of "Healthy Cookin' with Richard Simmons" with a small weekend food segment. Skanky details of my SG trip delayed until further notice. :P. Guest chefs are SK and my sister. Tortilla Chip Dip SK brought back a EUR2.00 packet of Fuego Tortilla Chips, so my sister whipped up a dip that ironically costs more than the chips. Here's the recipe: Mayonaisse Cream cheese Parsley Boiled eggs Lemon juice Bits of crispy bacon Directions: Baling all together. Voila! To demonstrate a slice of her life in Germany, SK prepared us her typical breakfast. Here's the recipe: Wheat bread Cheese Tomatoes Coral lettuce Bacon Paprika-Pepperoni Salami Directions: Stack 'em all together. Voila! Trivia: She told me that she used to boil / fry the cold cuts before eating them. Kinda like cooking sashimi? Hehe. Had junk food the whole day. Satay. Durian. Leftover soup. Instant noodles. Prunes. Bak Zhang . Dragon Fruit.

Advent

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Untitled#5 Swiped from espion . After two long months since KH departed, we finally get to meet again. I will be going down to Singapore to "improve bilateral ties". Heh. We parted in very clouded circumstances. Thunderclouds over our heads. The last time we saw each other, SK needed to whisk me to KH's side by the cover of night. The last time we touched, embraced. Looked into each other's eyes. Kissed. Since then, we had resorted to the distant crackle of voices through copper wires, strings of 1s and 0s floating through telco waves. Sweet SMS. Skanky MMS. Simple chats via IM. E-mail conversations. A rare hand-written card. A treasured letter. Some lost thoughts in the mail. Good things come to those who wait.

The Animal Farm

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My New-Found Calling, And My Entry Into The Photoshop Challenge #2 Swiped from drp . KK did the impossible the other day-- he actually managed to set up a gathering with a few of my ex-coursemates from UM whom I have not seen in ages. I had thought them extinct. I got off work and had KK pick me up from Sri Petaling where we picked up Egg and Fan before heading off to The Curve to meet the rest of the rare species. Specimen I: L3 She was such a sight for sore eyes. I have not met her since I graduated in 2003. We were never that close, but she was part of the gang. Had been hiding out in Banting ever since. My expeditions never go that far. Nothing much had changed. Still the lion-maned woman I knew from years back. Specimen II: Fan The last sighting was 2 years ago at a mamak hang out in Seri Sentosa. I knew her usual watering holes, but both of us just didn't bother. She always played the busy card. Well, I guess it's true by the looks of things-- panda eyes. Alway

Meme 8

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through Swiped from _Neverletmego_ . I have been tagged again. QueerR this time. I will not bother with the rules as I always believed in buang yang keruh, ambil yang jernih . So, here are some quick facts about myself: F1 KH and I are in love, but I must admit that we still have a lot to learn about each other. And I definitely have a lot more to learn about love. F2 I talk too much for my own good. I hate lulls in conversations. I have lost count of the times my mouth has gotten me into trouble. I endeavour to follow Thumper's mum's advice: "When you got nothing good to say, don't say anything at all". F3 I'm a giant mess. My mind is most cluttered thing in the world. My desktop looks like a typhoon hit it. My room is in disarray. Organize me. F4 I am on the brink of being labeled a procrastinator. Perhaps, this has something to do with F3. I'm not making the best of my time. I don't get things done as they should. I always have to force mys