Had tea at Gloria Jean's after lunch today... After you placed your order, they will ask for your name and later call for you when your drink is ready. Yours Truly's name was spelt like this:

SYNDEY

Interesting and amusing... Made my name sound so much more sophisticated yet complicated. Heard of Sindy, Cyndi, Sindee, etc but this is a first haha... (FYI, I really hate my ang moh name and very much prefer people to address me by my chinese name... But, oh well.)

Toilet Maid

Scrubbed my dad's toilet like crazy last nite... If my toilet is the airport or hotel's toilet, his would be that of a kopitiam. So, I tried my darndest to elevate its cleanliness status to at the very least, that of a shopping centre or my office toilet hee... Ignore the clutter yah, coz I also don't know what could be thrown. Went shopping for my tools first... The photos do not do justice to the 'Before' toilet... coz it's way much dirtier and grimer! And photo of the 'Before' toilet bowl was purposely not taken to prevent loss of appetite. Just imagine the inside is as dirty as the outside of the 马桶.

Before and After:

Scrubbing is a tiring workout! Appreciate the clean toilets that your mums maintain at home! Haha =p

想

"今天有回来吃吗?"

"这样晚了还不睡?"

"厨房有凉茶, 去喝."

"今天不懂要煮什么."

"去拿 piriton 吃."

"起来了, 去吃了再回来睡."

"不会帮忙一下啊?(!)"

Coming home with more than 2 sets of eyes in front of the tv.

Not the silence.

The Squabblings. Scoldings. Chatting. Laughter. Tears even.

All other 人与事 which makes It Complete.

下雨了. 荷尔蒙在作祟吧. 哈.

1st Post of 2008!!

Shall begin with a meaningful and worthy cause. Last Sunday, me n some volunteers from my company trooped to Jln Bt Merah to do house-cleaning for some old folks. Did you know there are some blocks catered just for the elderly? Well, knowing is one thing, but to be there to see for yourself is really another matter...

These units are so tiny and cramped, with 1 living room that serves as a bedroom as well, and a corner as a kitchen with a tiny toilet. The most heart-wrenching part comes when you see this elderly folks... some are ill, some have to take care of their bed-ridden partners, some are abandoned by their kids, etc... But there are some who are old but still v strong ones of coz... Thank goodness there are home services who take care of these folks. We were told that many donations and contributions of basic necessities and food keep pouring in for them.

Anywayz we were assigned to the unit of this 92 year-old 阿婆 who looks like she's just 80. Friendly with a very positive attitude. Her house and furniture were quite dirty and old though. Was wiping her brown wardrobe and wondered if it was white initially (-_-") and she has a cupboard which is 80 years old! Changed her lightings, wiped everywhere, washed the toilet, swept, mopped, etc... Ain't easy, but it sure was fulfilling and a great sense of 满足感 at the end of the day... Not 阿婆's cleaner house for her to live in, but her happy and smiling face. =) The other team went to a 99 year old Uncle's place to clean. That Uncle is alone and taking care of himself despite his age, but he couldn't control his bowels so have to wear pampers... The stench in his house was just so you-wouldn't-want-to-know....

Other stuff now! Had a nice new year chalet @ Aloha Loyang with my vball mates, a yearly affair for us for abt 3 or 4 years now? The place was quite spacious, with 2 bedrooms, 1 living room and 1 kitchen. 1st nite was pot-luck then 2nd nite BBQ and countdown...

Went to Jacky Cheung's concert on 5Jan.. basically its a encore session from last year, so 90% of it was the same. Preferred last year's performance though... nvm, coz its FREE! Hee...

Fish Leong <<今天情人节>> Concert 29 Dec 07

First time got free tix for a concert! Had 6 some more... The pre-concert feeling was v different from all the other concerts that I've watched though.. wasn't excited at all, felt like I was going for a movie instead.
Stage setting was by far the nicest I've seen; more unique and aesthetically appealing. Perhaps Fish's songs are the more lovey-dovey and slow type, seems like her fans are the same genre - damn quiet and boring! I'm not saying her songs are boring, but the ambience was really quite dead, unlike those of Sammi, Jacky Cheung, Jolin, Grasshoppers, etc., where the crowd was already screaming like mad way before, during and at the ending of the concert. Even the few of us were just giving courtesy applause...

Due to Fish's not-much-stage-antics, the performance was enhanced by stage props, acrobatic acts from China, some cheesy cheerleading acts and lotsa balloons... Her voice was good though! Clear and pitch perfect. She sang lotsa familiar and nice songs.. <<分手快乐>>, <<如果有一天>>, <>, etc... Quite touching when she sang <<勇气>>... 阿信 from 五月天's guest performance was great! Rockish and explosive.. seems like it garnered the most screams and applause that nite ha...Me & Zozo actually turned to each other and said 'Now this is what I call a concert!' in unison...

Anyhows...This concert had also 为 my crazy concert spree this year 制造了一个完美的句点... Don't think I'll be this crazy in the near future... yet. Heh.

My No.10

Christmas Bliss

How was your X'mas? =)

Had a simple yet v sweet n nice dinner on X'mas eve... No.10 cooked pasta for me hee.. went for my fave supermarket-ing to get all the ingredients.

Felt like a princess hee... Thank you No.10!! *Hugs*

The Day Before Tomorrow...

Just came back from grocery shopping at Carrefour... there are sooo many Carrefours here! Damn crowded too... The gals spent 600+ dirhams on their stuff! Stocking up their inventory, since we have a car to deliver the things back. Machiam war coming haha...

Soaked up the sun by the pool day this morning... then B cooked noodles for us, then watched dvd again... Another nonsensical show - this time its 'Dumpling' by Yang Qian Hua.. People eating foetus to regain youth n stuff... Yucks...

Cooked our 'last dinner' in DXB together... Yummy... Tmr R&R till we leave for the airport at 8+... Should be reaching SIN ard 2+ pm. Quite dry huh, duno wat to type liao... waiting for them to watch dvd again....

It's Your Turn Too, Shir!!!!

She's always teasing us for being older, when my bday is just like 2 days earlier than hers... so, welcome to the club! Ha!

Last nite all of us cooped together in Tek's room to watch the thai horror movie 'Alone' while waiting for 12 midnight. The show was about a pair of Siamese twins who later got separated and 1 of them died and yada yada yada... not a very scary show but its nice to watch together... I mean, how often do you have time to watch dvd together nowadays?

Anywayz, Tek cooked Dukbokki (Korean ricecake) for our lunch.. its nice but quite spicy.. Then we went in search for Spice Souk to buy dates (which is the famous local product here btw) but it was a disappointment... Proceeded to Spring Bamboo, a Chinese restaurant, for dinner. Food was not bad, service ain't that good though. Chilled at this Holland-V alike place after that and then cut her cake from Baskin Robbins at home.. Nice cake but v jelat... n looks like shit haha!

Later gonna watch dvd again... 2 more days to home... Suddenly I feel my 16 days here are so short. Hmmm... Post vacation blues beginning.... Cham...

p.s. Have loads of photos but gotta give me sometime to upload =p

26th Birthday, Dubai Style

Actually did nothing much lah, just wanted to make the title more seh, or rather I can't think of any thing heh... Spent my day at Mamzar Beach - have to pay 5 dirhams to enter. Not too bad, clean sand and sea but I very much prefer Jumeirah Beach.

Then went back to the apartment and prepared for the nite. Had Italian food for dinner.. its mushroom soup was nice! Had seafood spaghetti as usual... Yumms! Then we went to this chillout place at Jumeirah Hotel named 360 (deg)... Kindda special coz we were 'chaffeured' to the spot via a buggy. Cool place with nice house music... a little like Cafe Del Mar... V v cold though, coz it was by the sea but the night view was magnificent...From our table, it was Jumeirah Hotel on the left and Burj Al Arab on the right. Only bummer was we weren't allowed to bring my cake in, so we cut it back at home instead.

So that was it, my simple and nice little birthday celebration... Thank youuuu for all the birthday sms-es and wishes, sorry I couldn't reply to you yah...

Tomorrow or rather later's gonna be another bday celebration, for Shir. 4 more days to home....