Saturday Brunch

F is back in Sg. What was supposed to be a short stop over for her before returning to London became a one week ordeal of getting documentations done when her serviced apartment in Jkt (Marriot) was burglared in the most absurb manner that I wouldn't have thought would happen in such a reputable hotel.


Anyway we decided to grab brunch yesterday (though I was most reluctant to get up early..yeah! i know i know..bad friend! boo!) since most of last week was quite tied up for me; so I called along C and we decided to hit PS cafe at Palais Renaissance since it was the most convenient for both of them.

But in the end, I was the one who was early :/

It being quite overcast instead of being too sunny, I decided to sit in the open area, overlooking the Thai Embassy. Being early is good as well, since there weren't much people around and it felt really serene and laid back. Brunch is supposed to feel this way :)





I would like to come here one day with a book..





































While waiting for the rest to come.

































I lurve places with high ceilings. It just give that sense of airyness.


































I wouldn't say that the service was good.. In fact, I was quite put off by the fact that the server forgot our water, menu, and my hand was in the air like for a full minute before someone saw us. Yes, the place was busy but busy shou;dn't be an excuse for bad service.

Anyway the place aside, we sat and talked for 3 hours..F is seeing someone now and I'm actually quite glad for her. Hope that things will work out fine this time round, despite the age difference, its not easy to stay alone so far away.

Sometimes fate works in mysterious ways..like how we three were the most unlikely friends, sometimes I wonder what had kept us together after all these years - C being the chi chi branded stuff lover, F the totally girl-iness personified, me being always the athletic one.

Oh well, hope F's plan to be married by 2012 comes true :))

Love of Siam

I blogged about the song almost 2 years ago, and its still one of the songs that frequently get played on my Ipod. And on Wednesday I finally caught the show!! :D

I was surfing the GV website looking at something else, when I suddenly saw something familiar somewhere at the bottom of the listing....what?! Since when has the show been showing in the theatre? (like since 16 Jul..already 3 weeks!) And then it was a flurry of smses to Jun zi who was the one who gave me the MP3 (but she had to cover a soccer match..) and then to a few colleagues who might have been interested. My email to them went something like - It was a hit in Bkk in 2007. It is a show about 2 gay boys. The song is very nice!

And in the end 3 dear colleagues decided to join me for the 3 hour show starting from 9.15pm, without even knowing what the movie title was, cos I forgot to give that info in the hurry that I was sending out the email. Haha!

There are some universal themes, and love will always be one that revolves around anybody's life. The story centers around the 2 boys, Tong and Mew, but the theme manifest itself throughout the film. Love for someone - your family, your loved ones, your friends, and the other emotions that run with it - hope when you just secretly watches someone, pain when you know that the loved one will never return, guilt when you wish you can turn back time and undo the wrongs, sadness when unrequited.

It's painful to watch the ending, when both apparently love each other , for one of them to tell the other, that they can't be together, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't love him. Sigh..

Anyway, the show was beautifully shot. Though the movie was a bit slow, but the plot develop at its own pace for its own reasons and there was never a dull moment or bland screen shot. And with the scores that tug at the heart strings, it's really an enjoyable movie. Of course it helped that the two main characters are cute. ha!~ But my favourite scene is still the one when Mew's grandmother sat with him at the piano, telling him that every song played tells the listerner something. She then played the song that Mew's grandfather used to play to her, and asked Mew to listen for the message in the song. Mew listened, and said quietly, "Grandfather is saying that he misses you".

It's good that we finally caught the show on Wed, cos from then onwards, the show is going to be screened only in the afternoon at about 1pm. Good thing was, the 3 colleauges liked the show, so that kinda relieved my guilt of having to leave the theatre only at 12 midnight. :))

I want the soundtrack!

(The only thing that marred the show was..the people in the theatre grovelling and snickering when the 2 boys kissed during one shot. I mean, come on! You know what the show is about, and with all the ratings and advisories, you would have known what is likely to come up during the movie. If you are not prepared for it, then don't watch! Inconsiderate idiots..)

Super random

I am damn shag now. The only reason why I am blogging is:

- I had a wedding dinner to attend
- I have to check if the loc is going to be affected by the road closure for NDP so I went to onemotoring.com
- then I decided to go put a mask on cos my face is probably damn dry from the pool and the sun - then I check blogger while I am waiting for the mask to dry
- and I just want to bitch about how shag I am.

ok done bitching. Gg to change and hit the road.

yay, this is a boliao entry to prevent me from falling asleep while waiting for the mask to dry. hah~

Out of the blue

Tomorrow being National Day, my FB is flooded by posts by ex-colleagues, depending on their luck, lamenting the lack of or celebrating this long weekend. At one instance, I kinda miss the actions on the ground - the excitement building up to the event, the adrenalin of managing incidents real time, and the comaraderie from your work goup, all fatigue from the hours spent making sure everything turned out well.

All these makes anyone hardy enough to be able to survive most situations I think. That now, I find civilian life a bit lull..Sigh.

Not so "happily-ever-after" afterall

Met a long time friend for dinner tonight. It was one of those cases where we were all caught up with our own lives, and most of the time, even when we meet up, it would be with everybody else. We had not talked like how we did..like never.

For one, I almost wanted to stuff the pork knuckle down my throat for not knowing about the problem she had with her husband for the past year, even if we had met each other for group gatherings and stuff a few times within the same period.

We talked about things that happened in our lives, and the conversation drifted to how couples around her (there weren't a lot of married people around me I realised) were having different kinds of problems. By the end of the conversation, I was kinda relieved that I was single.

I mean, when two persons get together, to me, it seems like it is to be forever. But reality shows that things are not all that rosy for a lot of married people out there. Of course, personally I heard of a case whereby the couple led separately sex lives (yes) and they are putting up the married front just for the kid. But after hearing some of the stories my friend shared and others which I came across, I began to ponder why people get married in the first place. Of course, some weren't that bad - secretly hating the in-laws, another one continued to put up at her mum's place while the husband stays in the HDB flat they bought together, but there were some that really brought the bile up, like how someone's father brought his mistress home.

I wonder if I am too old fashioned, to still believe in the sanctity of marriage when all these things are happening nowadays. Without sounding too mush, that two persons can meet in mind and thoughts before they decide to spend their lives together. So what happens to trust? And the promises, vows made..? Maybe, an ever-after marriage is becoming a rarity rather than the norm.

In my friend's case, it had been just that even though they have the common vision of spending their lives together, their approach and priorities were all different, and that problem had tangled itself up as time went by. Not that they don't love each other - my friend had said that she still see the husband as a life partner, just that they need that extra luck to go around to solve the issues haggling them. Though my first thought was, why hadn't all these issues been thrashed out before they got married, but I understand, two persons can never be the same, and it's only though real communications that problems get solved. Sometimes, real communication hurts, and it's only human nature to try to avoid them.

It's not easy, and I pray that my friend's problem can get some resolution..My tummy is feeling flu-ey..think my body reacting badly to this reality check.

Lisa Ekdhal

Be prepared to get drunk.

When your mood is dark and stormy..

It happens every now and then.

I get a bit overwhelmed with the things happening in life and then suddenly the world is a bleak and miserable place, with crashing waves and I'll feel like I'm struggling to keep afloat, paddling frantically with a misearable piece of buoy, if any.

That's what happened during my weekend. But finally when Mum got home, I got a bit of solace even though my mood was thunderous when I saw her at the airport. Then the mounting waves calmed down a little, but I still felt a bit stormy, when an sms came from an unsuspecting friend to go chill at Wala. I was torn between staying home to rot or go out and face the world. In the end, I believe the sms came for a reason, so I forced myself to get dressed and got out of the house.

Being out was good, cos I was forced not to snivel, and since I had to walk a distance (one can never get a carpark lot at the main HV carpark, unless you wait there for eternity maybe), I couldn't jolly well walk all scourged up, so with my back straightened, I faced the world as I made my way though the revellers before I hit the joint.

The Unxpected was playing, so it was a shoo-ed in for great music and booze. But nothing beats when the song was as dark as the mood I was in.

The Unxpected cover was on Youtube, but you might as well go check out the real thing - it's much better.

Master of puppets - Metallica