Halloween Night

Met Kar Cheng and Henglip to go to Clarke Quay together for a Halloween night out. Luckily 4th Aunt was driving, if not, we would have to take public transport with Henglip who was dressed as a gladiator (complete with a helmet crowned with red feathers).

Met his 2 fellow gladiators at Clarke Quay , as well as Cleopatra. We then trooped towards MOS and the 4 of them commanded a great deal of attention. Suddenly, Kar Cheng and I felt so old and out of place. We decided to celebrate next Halloween in costumes!

Civilian and gladiator

After seeing these Roman chaps enter MOS through the priority queue, Kar Cheng and I were about to go to Zouk when live reports from Wee and Ah Sir made us decide to enter MOS instead.

We saw many sporting bunnies, vampires, students, ghouls, Romans, angels, devils, police, warriors, Superman, geeks, princes, cross-dressers, nurses, Minnie mouse, sailors, French maids, brides that have risen from the dead, anime characters, doctors, geishas, penguin etc. Among my favourites was the B Man. If you are also wondering what does the 'B' stand for, apparently it is just a B, though I remembered he said 'blowjob' when I asked him. Anyway, he really is a jolly hero.

Henglip and B Man

Me and spastic Kar Cheng

The handsome gladiators and lovely Cleopatra

Princes from 19th Century Britain and a joker in a lime green suit

Nurses and S.W.A.T team hunks

After packing in some bloody expensive poison, we then flitted from the hip-hop room to the techno room to the retro room to the lounge, and all over again. The music kind of sucks because I am so used to the music at dbl 0.

KG later came and joined us after his D&D, and he said he could be the insurance agent with what he was wearing. Some fellow even thought he was the bouncer and asked him for directions.

KG and a spastic Kar Cheng fooling around in Henglip's costume

Some weird priest

I think I am in love with this sexy guy who dressed up in a RGS uniform.

This asshole spritzed me with water when I touched his showerhead. Henglip thought he was a lanternfish.

This joker in a trenchcoat came along and flashed his fake DVDs and announced "I am the real pirate!"

After some vigorous dancing at the techno room and some uncomfortable contact with some sweaty bodies, we got worn out and left. Conclusion of the night: Costume-wearers certainly had the most fun tonight.

I Love Mac's Breakfast

I love MacDonald's breakfast. It is worth it to wake up super early at 10.30am just to sink your teeth into their Hotcakes (ooooo ... the mapple syrup is like an aphrodisiac) and various unhealthy food. Somemore I had coupons which entitled Slug and I to an extra burger for every meal purchased, and so we got Sausage Egg McMuffins!

Fast food galore

I think the early waking was not doing Slug's brain any good. He put salt into his coffee and spread grape jam on his scrambled eggs. Disgusting.

We topped our lovely morning off with a walk around the Sunday flea market in his neighbourhood. There were many stalls selling clothes, crystals, decorations, towels, accessories and toys. There was a stall selling maternity dresses and as I was checking out a hideous black one with rainbow polka dots, the stallholder looked at me after saying "Can I help you?", giggled and went off. What the Hell. Can't unfertilized women take a sneak preview at the kind of fargly dresses that they probably have to wear at some point of time?

There was another stall selling some dodgy glue that was purportedly better than the trademark Elephant superglue and able to glue together rubber surfaces (like rubber flip-flops). The stallholder commanded an audience (including us) and started preaching about the goodness of the glue. As soon as the stallholder finished his baloney, everyone started fishing out money from their wallets, including Slug. I was baffled. It was like everyone was in a trance and giving him their money without any hesitation. And that was $2 for two tubes of glue that looked more like tampons.

To digress, here is my lovely Meow Meow.

The lizards' nemesis

And also Wee's Tiger (whom I think looks like Meow Meow).

A Day at Suntec

Went to Suntec to meet up with my Babs and poke fun at her, then had lunch with Slug at Changing Appetites. Set lunches at $7.90 only, and all cakes at 50% because it was Tuesday! Here I am relishing one!

Watched Me, You and Dupree after that. A funny show which is pro-women (meaning if you want to discipline your bf, put him through this show and make him learn the ways to treat a woman right!). After that, we had a hearty buffet at Siam Kitchen! It is a 20-course dinner that really made us want to puke. There were prawn crackers, chicken satay, minced pork salad, fried tofu, spicy pomelo salad, omelette, pineapple rice, prawn red curry, chicken green curry etc.

A feast not for the ill-prepared

Goodbye to such carefree weekdays. Hello to the working world.

Day at Vivocity

Went to Vivocity with Slug to take a look at the largest and spanking new shopping mall. Disappointingly, many great shops have yet to open and the crowd was horrible. After a quick lunch, we quickly fled to Suntec.

A damm huge slice of pizza with lousy cheese

Chomping on a 2-D Carl Junior's burger (it's actually a discount card)

Geoffrey the Giraffe has a paunch!

Sushi at Sakae Sushi

To make our day better, we had sushi for dinner. Looks like we would have to wait till December for Vivocity to be fully operational.

Steamboat with dearest cousins

Went to Marina South for a steamboat dinner with Ah Sir, Wee, Kar Cheng, his Thai girlfriend named Fern and two of his friends. When we arrived at the steamboat restaurant, the auntie waitress was fawning over Kar Cheng, whom I think really enjoyed the attention. We were given two tables in a poorly-ventilated area.

I got the chance to eat my favourite satay chicken and black pepper chicken, which Wee cooked for me. You should see her earnestness when she really gets into the barbecuing, especially her prawns. I should say the best items there were the humble fried butter bun and the fried wonton. To our amazement, Fern ate an assortment of food ranging from cockles to cauliflower, and two sticks of Potong ice-cream (!).

We had our pet peeves, though. Ah Sir was whining about her jade arms getting scalded by the oil sputtering from the steamboat. Wee was looking for some non-existent honey wings. Kar Cheng tried to impress us by cooking some garlic chicken omelette with onions, but apparently, he wasn't really impressed with what he had concocted. I was disgusted when my plastic chopsticks started to melt while cooking, and felt so stupid when I realised wooden chopsticks were provided.

Me, Ah Sir, Fern and Wee

I just marvel at the way Kar Cheng can look so spastic

After the highly toxic meal of oil, plastics and carcinogens, Ah Sir, Wee and I went to East Coast to chill out. Despite his friends' tempting invitation to some 'dirty bar', poor Kar Cheng had to be by his gf's side instead. At Coffee Bean, we had coffee and a great chat near the sea.

Girly shots at Coffee Bean

Usual topics for discussion: travelling, bitch about our relatives (I wonder why we will never fail to mention Ah Kiat), compare our pets (Bobbi, cats and even luo han), and update each other about our other halves (accompanied with some kindly advice that will fall on deaf ears). Keke.

Night Out with Kar Cheng and KG

Was supposed to go for dinner with Kar Cheng, but Kelvin (aka Kiao Gu) came in a cab and whisked us off to Joo Chiat. Kar Cheng is a gross cousin who wore a fargly-looking cap that has a blinkling neon green marijuana leaf. He is so obsessed with anything Thai that he listens to Thai songs, tries to irritate us by speaking in Thai, and worse, sets Thai songs for his mobile ringtones. Indecent things were also spewing from his mouth, like how his stools would emit alcoholic fumes if he have had a drop too much, how he likes to burp into KG's mouth (sick!), and many other explicit elaborations on the things that he does with his Thai girlfriend that were uncalled for. KG was not much innocent either.

At Joo Chiat, I was whining about my craving for barbequed chicken wings and the two men were greatly annoyed. Kar Cheng was groaning "带女人出来很麻烦!" We lounged at a pub and had an enjoyable chat over drinks and mixed nuts. It was boring because they were showing soccer and the only thing that was interesting was a Phip woman sliding up and down an angmoh's thighs (even that seemed boring after a while). At one point, we were wondering why there were angmohs in the pub, and KG made us smirk by joking that they did not want to go home after the IMF.

The boredom and my persistent demands for chicken wings (even the barmaid offered to buy for me when she overheard my whines) proved too much for the two men, and we left for Boat Quay shortly. We went to my favourite KTV pub as the drinks were cheap, the waitresses were foxy and the place was near empty. Then we started belting out our favourite songs happily until I realised the remaining patrons left quickly. All the better. Kar Cheng went for his Andy Lau favourites and KG went for Jay Chou songs, but the best part was when the three of us yodelled to 伍佰's 一生最爱的人. I think the bartender nearly went crazy because we were practically shouting.

Soon, the place started to see a steady flow of patrons and we had to give up our monopoly over the mike. As Kar Cheng had to work the next day, we left pretty early (according to our standards). KG was sweet enough to remember that I felt like eating chicken wings, and we all decided to eat supper before going home. KG was asking around the eateries nearby for chicken wings, but we eventually settled for some pricey and way too spicy phad thai at a Thai eatery. Not too bad.

What a crazy night spent with these two crazy fellows.

Mooncake Shopping

Went with Slug to the Mooncake Fair at the basement of Takashimaya to shop for mooncakes. I hate the crowd. We hardly had the chance to try the mooncake samples because of retarded gobblers who anchored themselves at the booths trying every single mooncake flavour and taking more than 5 minutes to ponder if it tasted good after each try. How slow could these people get? So I took vengeance by barging forcefully into the crowd, giving out 'tsk!' huffs and stepping on many toes.

Check out the many innovative mooncake flavours offered by the many participating hotels, restaurants and bakeries at the fair, like durian mooncakes, tiramisu mooncakes and even ice-cream mooncakes from Haagen-Dazs that costs a hefty $68 for a box. In the end, we decided on getting the traditional mooncakes with yolks from Tung Lok. I also learnt there exists a difference between red lotus and white lotus.

Then we proceeded to BC's house to pay a visit to his mother, a warm old lady who tends to talk a lot. We were also greeted by her over-zealous pug puppy called Bobby (which led Slug to remark 'Why are all dogs named Bobby?"). So we gave her the mooncakes and chatted with her for a while before making our way home feeling worn-out.

Movie with Ah Sir (2)

Went to watch Little Man at Cineleisure with Ah Sir. Throughout the show, the smell of Ah Sir's tuna sandwich was wafting through the air. Yech.

After that, we went to Tong Shui to have supper. We shared a bowl of Nissin noodles whose soup tasted so bland and had their delicious chicken wings. I amazed Ah Sir with my hobby of sucking on lemon slices (in my iced lemon honey) cleanly.

Ah Sir, if you are reading this, have you done what you are supposed to do? I hope the outcome is favourable.

Grassroots Activism at its Best

Went to Suntec with Slug for a rewarding walk after a tiring day of transcribing. We were cursing the IMF event under our breath because our bus route was diverted and we had to take a long walk through Millenia Walk to get to Suntec.

After lunch, we went to admire the pretty little fishes (and spotted a decomposing lionfish) in the aquarium at the basement of Suntec, and pestered Bo to take a break from work and meet us for a chat. While the two chimneys were puffing away, we chatted animatedly for more than half an hour before she was called back to work again.

Suntec was so ghostly quiet today, but I loved it. I hate crowds.

On the way home, we met the Cat Auntie again. This time, we really got acquainted with the neighbourhood cats through her(good Lord). Grey ones, white ones and black ones. And we even exchanged numbers (her initiation, not mine) so that she can entrust me with the task of feeding the cats in case she needs to go to Malaysia for some time (a task I further entrust a reluctant Slug to attend to since I appear in the West sporadically). Now I am part of the Cat Lovers Network!

Back home, Meow Meow has killed AND ate three stinky lizards. Sick.

Mi Mi is Missing

Mi Mi is missing.

I haven't seen her around for a long time, and I am starting to get worried. Slug and I could not find her at her usual hangouts. I am fearful of her getting knocked down by cars while crossing the road or worse, fall into the hands of cold-hearted psychos who abuse cats.

While Slug and I were walking home, we met the Cat Auntie again. As usual, she was feeding the strays, so we went over and chatted with her. She too, had noticed Mi Mi's disappearance. According to her, today was the third day she was not around.

Cat Auntie never fails to impress us whenever we chat with her. This time, she amazed us with her huge bag of at least twenty cans of cat food. Because the cats are fussy eaters, she makes it a point to remember every cat's favourite flavour. She said that according to a so-called Cat's Association, Friskies dried biscuits are not good for cats because they can induce kidney failure. She dislikes the Malays for giving the cats raw kunning or fried fish heads, because she claims it is unhealthy, so she prepares fish the healthy way: lightly salted baked fish fillets wrapped in aluminium foil. We cannot believe these cats have such gourmet meals everyday. On top of these, this devoted auntie goes from block to block late at night to search for the cats and make sure each has its meal!

Sigh, I hope Mi Mi would come back soon.