CNY Day 2 Nite

CNY Day 2 Lunch aka Tribute to Chris's Parents

Had lunch at Christine's place on Thursday...Her parents are very hospitable and warm people and i was very honoured to get a chance to taste her mum's excellent cooking...Her mum cooked up a storm! What with 2kg of beef balls and 5kg of beef rendang...But it was all very yummy, especially the rendang...There was also this healthy (heh heh) indonesian dish which consisted of fried fish cake? that had to be eaten with this special sauce...In the end, i think i ate about approximately three rounds though still nothing in compared to the amt Chris ate which included a grand total of 15 beef balls (no kidding), and other stuff...Either she was very hungry or the middle-child syndrome kicked in and she was silently competing with Min to see who could eat more of the beef balls that their dad had brought in from Indonesia...Overall, it was a great lunch and i want to thank her parents for having me over...

After that, we played bridge and as expected, Chris and Min kept losing...In the end, they had to do a forfeit...Dewei kept suggesting that Min and Chris french kiss for the duration of a photo shot (i think he has a thing for lesbianic acts) but i was kind enough to suggest that they just kiss each other's toes...So that will explain the photos above...Perhaps the one thing that was realli heart-wrenching that day then was when i went to see Christine's so-called 'newly refurbished room'. After surveying her room, i casually asked her what was in a cabinet above her desk and she replied that it contained rubbish...But when i opened it, to my horror, i saw a gift that i had thoughtfully bought for her lying in the midst of other miscellaneous items like rough paper...Tsk tsk...

CNY Day 1

Day 1 of CNY celebrations...Went to my grandma's...As you can see, i haf lots of cousins cos my dad has 11 brothers and sisters...That means alot of ang-pow giving (for the adults) but also alot of ang-pow taking (for the kids)...$$$...hahaha...Had an especially enjoyable time cos we played quite a few games including heart attack and bridge...

Sweeny Todd with Chris and Zhi

On Tuesday nite, went to watch the incredibly twisted film called Sweeny Todd. It was a good show with some twists at the end but it was the company that i enjoyed most. It felt great meeting zhi after so long, and it reminded me of the times we (chris included) used to hang out after work for tea at Taka delifrance or dinner at Marche and just laugh the nite away at things like the reverse mohawk that we proposed Chris to have in order to get rid of her stray baby hairs...Thankfully, it was no different that nite...Although this time, it was zhi who was at the butt of our jokes, what with her requests for salmon sushi with the white part of the salmon angled at 90 degress to the way it was cut, her pronunciations of "he-rarchy" for "hierarchy" and "mah-you" for "mayo" etc...Chris would always burst out laughing and point accusingly at Zhi everytime she pronounced something wrongly...

Anyway, before that, did some shopping as well. Bot a new pair of converse shoes and a tee at revoltage...Orchard was freaking pack for a weekday but i guess it's near the holidays and people must have taken leave to get the whole week off...Met shuzhen, my mkting project group mate and fellow Hooked member at Taka...She reminds me of Famke Jamsen (who acted as Jean Grey in the X-Men movies), who i think is incredibly hot, and she's got a great personality to boot...I think it's her eyes...It's slightly slanted like Famke's and she's got what i call "bright eyes"...Almost as if you could see her soul thru them...

The next day (new year's eve), went to school for lessons in the morning...Still having trouble speaking out in Chng's class though...i find that everytime i plan on something to say, i get very kan chiong...But if i just say something without thinking too much about it, i dun get the "i-can't-breathe" syndrome...After dat had a good chat with Claudia over lunch...The kind where you feel good about after it ends...I think it's great that we can connect and understand each other both at a professional, academic level and interpersonal level as well and it's been great knowing her and working with her on so many projects...I remember when we did EL1101E together...Our first project in the first year, first sem of school...She invited us to her place, treated us to pizza and cooked other snacks for us...And although we got like 50/100, it was still a great experience cos she was so incredibly generous and thoughtful...And this hasnt changed for the near 4 years that i've known her...Additionally, she always brings great insights to whatever we're working on...The thing is, i can be so sure about what i want to say that i fail to take other perspectives into account...But i can always rely on Claud to look at things from another way...In other words, i think we complement each other very well and i'm always glad to get to work with her...

Ok, dat's it for now...Happy Chinese New Year guys!!!

Mouth Ulcer

Haf a giant mouth ulcer at the back of my mouth near my wisdom tooth...I think it was caused when i assaulted my own mouth with my toothbrush when it accidentally slipped from my hand...Hurts like hell especially when i swallow...Dang! And so near CNY somemore...Hope it heals by then...I wanna eat all the cookies and kueh kueh!

Sometimes it realli takes an outsider to point out to you all the things that you take for granted...So thanks Christine for constantly reminding me of how much my parents love me and my sis...Especially my mum...I cannot deny having a relatively more antagonistic and contemptuous? relationship with her but recently i'm beginning to realize how she's always been there in the background for me and how she gives and gives unceasingly to us and i can just brush it all off as part and parcel of a mother's duty...How obnoxious and ungrateful of me!

As they grow older and i grow older too, i'm gonna try to show more love and care for them...Even if it means throwing aside all internalizations of male machoismo bullshit to hug them, kiss them and tell them i love them...What a pack of bull society is sometimes...to construct emotional restraint and inhibition as hegemonic masculinity and to socialize all males into becoming the "strong, silent type". After all, what's the point in saying "i love you" only after a loved one passes on? That's not displaying strength, that's outright stupidity...And i shall endeavour this year to not let such foolishness continue for me anymore...

Horror of Horrors

On my way to class this morning, Christine called me twice to tell me all about her five minute interview...I think she likes me...But that's beside the point...

When i finally stepped into class and sat down, i noticed the zipper of my jeans poking out a little bit from under the zipper flap (the part of the jeans that covers the zipper)...Thinking that it may have been caused by the way i was sitting or the tightness of my belt (overly tight maybe?), i sorta brushed it aside until it hit me that i may not even have zipped it up in the 1st place...

So for a good ten minutes, i kinda sat there trying to look calm and collected while fretting like mad on the inside...Then when i chanced upon a sneeze, i took the opportunity to excuse myself...Once in the toilet, my worst fears were confirmed...Horror of horrors, my fly was indeed undone...again...This is like the second time in 6 months...The last time being at YPL (when i was heading to the tuition agency at Toa Payoh to teach)...Crap...No wonder Yun ping gave me a really funny look when i first walked in...On the brite side at least i found out early...Btw, what's the nicest way to tell someone that his or her fly's undone?