my weekdays are falling into a horrible pattern of wakey-up -> drag myself to work -> feeling lethargic for most of the day -> 630 finally arrived after painstaking wait -> dashed home for dinner with hubbi -> rot infront of the tube -> early retreat to bed by 11pm.
goodness! i feel like an old lady! why do i have to feel so bloody tired nowadays! *sigh*

hubbi was very sweet yesterday. he actually asked me out for dinner after work which is rare since he's such a homebody (meaning his idea of bliss is to make a beeline for home after work everyday).
but being a fudgy old lady, i turned him down cos i was too bloody tired, remember? and he went to tabao my fav. soup spoon (including my all-time fav - wedges!) back home for our dinner. *yippee*
thanks, bb. i appreciated that.

and now its near the end of the working week, finally! weekend will fly past like nobody's business but still glad it flys past at least.
i need a break sooN! a short getaway! the husband and i are contemplating another cruise this may! *hehe*
getting hooked to the lazy lifestyle. this time a shorter trip (3D2N) to malacca/KL perhaps!

okie, back to *bleh* work. feel like slipping back to moodiness. hope i can shake myself out of it sooN! :}

BYE BYE NELLY!

been some time since i last blogged! said it before but i want to say it agaiN! the weekend comes & goes too fast, yesh, too fast!
struggled through the long long working week, and before i know it, now's the end of sat night!
where has all my time goes?

met up with the dowers last night for nelly's farewell dinner. yesh! nelly is leaving for NYC soon for the next 2 years. *sobbie* i will miss her sooooo mucH!
dinner was at alexandra's HK street. despite rave reviews from many, i found the food so-so still. :I
after dinner, some of us went to this restaurant/cafe/live band place called Oosh. the ambience is fantastic! the potato wedges is delicious, albeit a little pricey!
had fun just laughing with them like old times! how i miss their company!

me with nelly @ Oosh!

i cant believe i slept my saturday away but i just did today. i slept till 10+ to wake up to brunch brought back by hubbi. only to find out im having an attack of a mini migraine so i went back to sleep from noon to 3+.
gosh! there goes my sat morn & nooN! *madness*

oh, must mention here that the husband can be quite sweet if he wanted to. he was saying that there will be a mini surprise awaiting me when i came back from dinner yesterday. so i did when i came home past midnight. he had rented 2 DVDs for us to watch over the weekend!
one of them being "Die Hard 1" which i wanted to watch for sometime. umm... yes, that bruce willis film. hahah.
and, the surprise didnt end here. when i went to bathe, i found "Godfather 2" dvd in the bathroom! was touched cos i had wanted to watch that show for the longest time (okie, since a few months back only) and he bought it! :)

anyway, back to "Die hard 1". we caught it today after i wakey up from my migraine attack. not as good as i thought but still quite a decent action film. nowhere near the league of Rocky. ha, im still obsessed with Rocky balboa!

left town for dinner with hubbi at california pizza kitchen. the peking duck pizza & potato leek soup is yummy! go try it if you've the chance!

met up with frances, jean for some window shopping (for me) at far east. was feeling tired by the way we parted way despite sleeping for so much today. :P

frances, jean & moi!

oh, for all those interested in how my someone special plant is doing (yes, jean yoU!). it has been mushrooming well for the past few weeks!

tada!

its been good but tiring nevertheless!

thursday (on MC)
been trying to catch up on rest the whole week. finally able to do so on thursday. spent alomost the whole day rolling ard in bed but still feeling pretty shitty and unwell. *sigh*
went out in the evening to meet candice they all at the isetan sale. maybe its the thronging crowd, maybe its me feeling unwell, i actually didnt get a single piece of stuff from the sale! unless you count the socks i got for hubbi. soooo unlike me!
at least dinner at TCC managed to cheer me up. hubbi joined us for dinner and we sure had alot of laughter coming from 4 girls + 2 guys! lolz.

friday (on half-day MC)
went to work for the 1st half of the day to clear some work stuff. work is really a pain in the arse! :( sometimes i wonder how long i can continue here before i got seriously burnt out.
but going by the flow, it seems that i will stay for another year. *shivers* i went off after lunch since im actually still on MC & my headache will really surface if i stayed on further!

went off to meet candice for lunch in town and we've fun just having chit-a-chatty session ovcer lunch. & window shopping at LV, gucci & all the atas-alike shops after that! ") sure perked up my feelings! heh.

left home for a quick nap & woke up feeling yukky again. but still, i made my way to meet jx,dan & zm for dinner. its been sometimes since the 4 of us hang out & it was nice. heard some good news (or so i thought) & feel really glad for my very good friend. :) good luck, mate!

Saturday
心中的大石终于放下了！：）
hubbi & me made our way to my mum's place in the noon. after which, we went to town to catch "300".
the show is fantastic, i love it! the graphics is gorgeous, which reminded me alot of sin city (one of my fav. movie for last year, by the way). and the no. of abs in the show is blinding. heh.
anyway, the show really protrayed the spartans as a courageous lots! i want to be a spartan too, with the abs to boot! lolz.

dinner was at 旺角 at cineleisure. the milk tea is delicious!
and im wearing my new gg<5,>

oh, and i bought myself a new wallet! :))))
was showing the husband which wallet im thinking of getting myself with my bonus payout next month, when he psycho (not that i need much, anyway) to just get it on the spot!
and so i did and im a v happy girl now!! *wow wee*
look, beautiful mahogany red vernis leather! *sweet*

unwell ba bee boo blabbers (again)

been feeling unwell for the past few days. hope this yukky feeling will pass soon!
this week has been a long and torturous one. and its only wed now! damn!
may it end soon with good news for hubbi & me!

okie some random updates on my boring life:
1) finished the book "the historian" finally. actually in a short span of 5 days. not that im a particularly fast reader (i dont really deny im one too, heh), but i speed-read some of the pages. the prose is just too flowery for my liking. no climax no twist at the end. its a pretty book with decidedly blah plot. i cant accept this. my high hopes for it dashed. :}
the only good thing that come out of this is it got me interested in a character in history. the character who inspired Dracula in Bram Stoker's classic novel.... DRACULA! lolz.

supposedly, its this Count Vlad Tepes Dracula who govern over Wallachia (which is in Romania) during the 15th century. he's one perverse character who L-O-V-E-S to torture his subjects & enemies alike. by his fav. method - impalement. in case, you are not aware what impalement means, its just sticking sticks or anything sharp through things. bodies for his case. :x
eeks. pretty gross stuff but got me intrigued nevertheless. so a quick research on him left me horrified at some of the deeds he did.
okie enough of dark n gory stuff, back to white fluffy thingy!

2) shopping shalala!
went for a quick lunch with ser yesterday at vivo which ended with me getting yet another top from GG<5!>
a piece for $38 is considered cheap for GG<5,no?>

3) finally caught "Rocky Balboa". think its more for (new) die-hard fan like me. bored the husband alittle though. guess he was waiting for those ring scenes which refuse to come till the last ten mins or so. ha. for me, its not as good as Rocky I but it will do. heh.

4) we've finally placed the booking fee for a car last weekend! an OPC car no less since we dont need it for work (given the proximity to our workplaces) but more for the weekends when we need to shuffle between our mums' houses.

so....we decided on Honda Jazz, a yellow one no less. *pretty pretty*. the package comes with free solar films, sports rims, reverse sensor etc all thrown in so i guess its a pretty neat one. price is a little steep even after the $17k rebates. bah.
but good thing is, our agent informed us yesterday that the price went out by another $1.5k after we confirmed. *phwee*

COE bidding is next mon which i hope we can get. but even after that, we still need to wait for at least 2 mths (according to the salesman) before we can see the car. *sigh*
no choice, seems like demand for car is high high high for the time being.

5) just gotten news for our group bonus for FY2006. left me a happy old lady. even after pro-ration (i joined my current company late mar last year), its still a good sum! guess i wont have much luck with my individual bonus since i have a lousy work attitude (or so deemed by my boss, bleh).
whatever. im gonna get myself a bag!!! and if, if , if , if ,if my finances allow, a new wallet as well! *swoon*
okie, materialistic me out!

im feel like shit. my whole body is aching.
arg! think i'm falling sick.
bleh!

最近,好多事发生.
一会儿兴奋,一会儿担忧.
时间过的好慢好难受.
新的猪年对我们属鸡的不是一个好年吗?
时间快快过,好的消息快快来!

Rocky Craze

Rocky
yes, im talking about the original Part 1 Sylvester Stallone's "Rocky" back in 1976. before you dissed me for watching such a show, you must read on to find out why its gonna worth every mins of your time!

for, "Rocky" ROCKS! lolz! im not so sure about Rocky II to V but I is really really good. pretty amazed to find out that its written by the italian stallone, no less! Remember in my last post, my review on "Taxi Driver" by Robert De Niro getting nominated for Oscars best picture? Why, Best Picture was nabbed by "Rocky" for that year! and stallone was nominated for best actor alongside with De Niro for his rocky balboa role! *wowwee*

so that really says something about this film. it was really good. 1st of all, there is only like 5-8 mins of "action" scenes (aka ring scenes) in the show. which means the rest of the show is about solid character development, good pacing plot & witty dialouge rolled together! stallone really shines as the painfully endearing protaganist who "go the distance" to have new found respect for himself. as Rocky's mantra is:"you never start living till you start believing in yourself"! the show is really inspiring.

plot is simple: rocky is a "bum" who took up boxing matches with equally "bum" opponents for some measy money & collects money for "loan sharks" on the side line. he's in love with his best buddy's sis who is very shy and all of his cheesy jokes are lost on her. somehow, luck comes along his way when the heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed, choose him as a opponent to contest for the title again as Creed thought it would be entertaining for a novice to be against him. Also, rocky's itallian roots will make a good backdrop for the match is scheduled on 4th of july (bcos america is supposed to be discovered by an italian..ha). so rocky has 5 weeks to train up & Creed is confident that he'll knock out Rocky by Round 3 (max rounds in Boxing is ard 15-18, i think). so naturally, rocky has no chance of winning but he never stop believing himself that he can "last the distance".

so we follow him in his now famous routine - hitting the pork, running up the flight of stairs at the museum of philadephia & that song "Gonna Fly now"! very very inspiring! & we learnt along the way that he knew that he cant win but he just want to last more than that 3 rounds.

and he did! he lasted till the very last round. the show has a very nice climatic ending where u cant help rooting for rocky the underdog. even though he eventually did not emerge as the winner (yes, creed retained the title despite rocky lasting till the end), we feel that he's one nevertheless. :)

gosh, all the above for Rocky. i must be mad.

whatever. and no one is gonna stop me from catching the 6th installment "Rocky Balboa"!

What's eating gilbert grape?
yes! finally i managed to get a copy of the very scarce very scarce DVD of "what's eating gilbert grape"!! its a 1993 classic starring my all time fav - johnny depp & Leo diCaprio! i like to think of it as a sleeper hit. and its drama/comedy/coming-of-age all rolled into one. cool!
its depp & Di Caprio at their very best, i would say.
now, only left the part to watch it with hubbi to convince him of that. *evil smile*

Goodfellas
yes, and i managed to get my hands on "Goodfellas", one of the films with De Niro & Scorsese partnership! im gonna watch it tonight!

okie, zap back to the real world. BYEEEEE!