i heart impromptu meetups

esp those that involves yummy truffle fries, pasta, a hot date and tons of mosquitoes

since gina was busy at her boss' birthday sarah and i decided on a whim to just meet for dinner tonite which really was a terrific idea! it makes life so much more interesting and exciting not being able to plan these things out... haha but i did haf to gif up jogging. oh well. i mean exercise can always wait rite? dinner with my gf definately not - this is why i'll never ever lose weight... ZERO self discipline

since i arrived slightly before sarah, i decided to take the seats outside as tonite was rather cool and i guess fresh air is good for a tired soul... bad bad idea... after abt an hour and a half later... sarah begged me to leave as she was getting eaten alive! whenever sarah's around... she's like my mosquito repellent, the little insects seem to stay away from me and go after her instead :D goes to show they arent that stupid afterall haha

while having dinner, sarah tried to convince me of the need for couples to spend alot more time together. and truthfully i never understood that, still dont. she tried explaining that by spending more time, you will understand each other more and therefore leave less to miscommunication and therefore will love each other more? or somewhere along that line.... while writing that out it just dawned on me why i cant seem to see it her way.... i tend to date guys who were/are friends first so i already know them on some level ah ha! the bulb just went off :D hahaha but i still dont quite get how spending so much time with just one person can be good for a relationship... afterall wldnt u just get on each other's nerves even more? there is a reason y there's a saying that distance makes the heart grow fonder
oh well it works for different pple.... of course to say, by the end of the night we agreed to disagree haha its always been the case whenever topics like this comes up. we just seem to view life differently which is good i guess and it seems to work out between the 3 of us despite our differences

think i'll try to make apple pie this weekend. cross fingers and toes including sarah's and gina's that it'll come out! esp coz it'll be my first time making a dough... this shd be interesting hehe

THANK god tmr's friday.... and then my boss will be away for a week! dont think i can take another week like this one :p

my one drink wonder + birthdays + surprise arrival

makes a great weekend :) haha now that the lack of sleep + alcohol haze has finally settled, and all the photos start streaming in.... of course many werent remembered :s and i knw i said it was terrible just a day ago but it really did feel like it!

friday's shenanigans

we had lishan join us after sooo long and i shall spare the embarassment of the brilliant pictures :)

sat started off at the rooftop opening of fullerton bay hotel - sarah was my gorgeous date for the night

the view from the top

when sarah saw this... she commented how this was one angle of fullerton hotel no one really sees

my fav picture of the nite

it was johanese's 25th and we were there celebrating it with his multiple girls

i really think i officially need to lay off alcohol while the older generations are arnd coz i find that i do really silly things that is fine with friends just not while the adults are arnd.... really need to remember this!

my great family friends.... i've had them around for forever! and hopefully this will continue to be so

then it was off to butter factory.... this time i made sure sarah at least made it up the stairs and into the club :)the it was downhill all the way into a spiral of oblivion

from one family of childhood friends to another group of boys who haf really seen me thru alot... i really did enjoy sat nite and now everyone has to go back to life

another week just passed.....

and what happened over the week?

i dont quite remember....

i basically spent all day today sunday in bed recovering from a very very very bad nite out.... i've realised that everytime dre's back, my liver takes a huge workout and last nite was no different whatsoever. ben says that even thou i always curse and swear at the end of it, i still will continue on coz i love them too much hahaha which is true. one thing i remember for sure commenting to sarah about how looking on at them, some things just dont change and after all the dust has settled, we're still good friends

but this weekend was spent with my one drink wonder :) johanese's bday, a new rooftop with pretty pple all of which was documented by sarah of course which picture shall come soon enuf and not to forget the major flooding that occured

my life would really be so different if it werent for my friends

breaking in the kitchen officially :)

i've been really busy entertaining my dearest cousin lauren... she's been staying with me for the past few days and i'm really going to miss having her arnd. as an older cousin, i never understood how parents do it but with just a blink of an eye, all these young kids all grow up so fast esp coz i only see her once a year. and like her brother, the next thing i knw, she'll b in her teens and dating......

since the cece sarah and cece gina haf been busy all week, i had them over to my new place to break in the kitchen

i think i've definately gone over my spending limit this month......

do u spy my new love? i freaking spent a fortune on it... and it weighs a ton too sigh

the next heartattack i had was when i was buying the beef.... i cant believe crappy beef was soooo expensive here in sg its pure daylight robbery! i think it was just made worse coz grocery shopping in LA would not cost me that much esp with the quality of beef i had just purchased

anyway menu for the night was....

beouf bourguignon

garlic mash

blanched asparagus

mac&cheese (for the cousin)

a platter of cheeses and pate

sausages and onions (frm a cousin)

and dessert i attempted key lime pie!

into the beef bourguignon was a whole bottle of red wine.... and just a tiny bit of beef stock -  not even a cup!

of course since im such a scatter brain now.... i totally forgotten that i needed a blow torch for the meringue. so as always when im in need of extra ingredients.... sarah comes to the rescue! she went all over sg helping me find one for the meringue

do u see the cool browning effect? hahaha

and the result of it! heh

my sat didnt quite end there as sarah and i adjourned to zouk for a bday gathering of all the ac boys and after sending my few drinks wonder of the nite... i joined my own group of more ac boys where a good surprise lay in wait for me :) i cant believe all the young girls these boys haf hanging on them! one even looked freakin 12 with her braces on.... yeesh

oh well.... what good are these kind of girls for other than to play with?

anyway its really late and i really shd head to bed as tmr is a start of another week. hopefully some good news will happen tmr!

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.




Jane Austen

tmr's 3rd July 2010!!!

or actually i shd say now.... i haf to be up in a few hours to head over to my cousin's for her wedding but im still in search or the perfect love quote
these are just some i've found so far tt i like but not really looking for

Friedrich Nietzche: There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.


Bertrand Russell (Marriage and Morals): To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead
 
Bette Davis: Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
 
Diane Frolov: There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Erica Jong in 2004: Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
 
HL Mencken: Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
 
Robert Frost: Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
 
Robert Heinlein: Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
 
Kathryn Nelson: Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.
 
Rainer Rilke: For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
 
Marvin Taylor: Love is not singular except in syllable
 
Dr Seuss: You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams
 
unknown: You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving
 
Victor Hugo: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves
 
Unknown: You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry
 
unknown: True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.