High
Saturday night fever
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Retro night at Talent Hub's 1st Anniversary Dinner:
Heaps of fun and fros with platforms and poles! ;)
Retro night at Talent Hub's 1st Anniversary Dinner:
Heaps of fun and fros with platforms and poles! ;)
October round up
Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween everyone! :) Work has been mad hectic... so much so I'm sacrificing sleep to blog, heh. Here is the really, really long ass post that was promised earlier in the month.
Starting off; we (Chris, Cina, Yen, Yees, Emma and I) went to Korea! :D Since it's been yonks, I've already forgotten the names of most of the places we went to.
Taking off!
We landed in Seoul and took off for Insadong where we met up with Yees and Emma:
Because lunch was a whole mouthful of bad, we started snacking in the airport while waiting for our flight at Jeju Island. We love cake.
Once we got there, we got onto the bus which had the most ghetto looking, retro stylin' interior. They use green and pink neon lights for lighting at night. No joke.
We went to see some dragon head shaped rocks...
while Yees worked the camera...
... and found this amazing seaside place to eat, right on the rocks :p The locals had set up a sashimi stall behind a cluster of rocks--raw octopus and abalone with shoju! YUM :D
We had to climb some mountain in Jeju on day two :p
The view from the top was spectacular! There were heaps of people coming up by the time we got down o.O And some of us had shaky knees from walking downhill :p
After the massive climb, we went to check out a folk village... and no, it's not the ones that were preserved just for tourists; there are people who actually live in them. Very old school.
We had lunch (at least, I think this is what we had for lunch):
After lunch we went over to chill out by a waterfall and cam whored even more:
Then we headed off to another place with more rocks. Fun, right? But the highlight of this part was the silkworms! Just incase you're wondering: no, I didn't finish it (ech!) and crunchy, creamy texture with a bitter aftertaste ;)
We also braved the rain to visit a root garden without umbrellas lol
Day three was "Everland" day. The morning kicked off with abalone juk and then a obligatory group shot by the windy coastline:
If you're wondering what Cina was doing with the hand gesture... it's the T-Express pose (keep reading :p). We said goodbye to Jeju Island and headed off to Everland, the land of candy, coasters and crack.
And this is the T-Express:
With the first drop at a whopping 77 degree decline, waiting in line for it was terrifying. Dr. Emma was about to backpedal if not for Cina blocking the way.
77 degree drop kids, it's like being hurled off a wall, no joke. From far, the drop looked like cake... two seconds of thrills and chills, nothing we couldn't handle yeah? So wrong. Oh, so wrong. Turns out the two seconds felt like TWO YEARS of free falling... heck, Dr. Emma started screaming even before the drop T_T That ride was not fun :p But we sat it for the sake of saying "Yeah, the T-Express? Been there, done that."
Emma and I braved a few more rides that tossed us around in the air like they were flipping pancakes. The attendants were doing the macarena and talking in high-pitched "YOOHOOO"s every five seconds. What do they put in the water!?
We also got ears for -almost- everyone :)
We had more grilled stuff for dinner. For the record, I don't recall what it was I was doing when that shot was taken.
The next day, we went to see yet another mountain (for the view, naturally). Emma hiked all the way to the peak despite the tour guide specifically telling just us to not hike to the top. Yes, we were the rebel group in the tour :p
The skies were amazing that morning:
Does anyone see that "No smoking" sign there!? Seriously :p
After our relaxing morning walk, we went to the fish market and had lunch in the makeshift shops that were really just the shop keep's boat lol
Yes, more food (it's a gastronomical adventure :p)! Sashimi of sorts:
We went to Nami Island; serene and romantic despite possibly being visited by every other teen couple in South Korea. And yes, this is where they filmed Winter Sonata. They even have bronze statues of the two main actors, heh.
The next day, we went to visit the ever popular Dae Jang-Geum movie set and had some fun there:
Carrying Yees around ain't no easy task!
She volunteered, I swear!
I think we got hauled off to the Ginseng place after this... and naturally, had ginseng chicken for dinner (or was it lunch, hmm)
We headed back to our chic little pad in Seoul where I proceeded to plug in my mac and sat there until my withdrawal symptoms went away. Also, I managed to catch the infamous Starcraft gaming channel :D
We went to roam the streets of Seoul...
There were streets and streets of neon lights, vibrant buzzing and the somewhat usual techno/hip hop coming out of random bars. The people here don't seem to sleep :p
On the last day of the trip with our tour group, we went to learn how to make kimchii. Well, being a tour and all... they don't actually expect us to "make" anything. So, it was really just 15 minutes of us rubbing soggy cabbage down with pre-made chili paste.
Being touristy, we took pictures at this square that had a fountain built smack in the middle of it especially for the view (see that sexy mountain behind and how the fountain sits a little of right? Yeeeah.).
We made our way over to the Folk Museum and then proceeded to get lost in a massive (previously somewhat restored) palace:
We even had time to play some court games!
No, I don't remember the name of the arrow game... but Emma schooled us all lol
Now that touring was more or less done, it was time to shop! We were dropped off at Myeong Dong (I think! :p) and Yen tore into TheFaceShop and Laniege... and proceeded to buy almost everything :p Emma came in a close second with a truckload of everything else.
With Emma and Yees off to Japan the next day, Chris, Cina, Yen and I went for our own adventure... starting at Lotte Mart. We had to try their Bulgogi burger in the Lotteria:
Wasn't the greatest, but hey :p We also went shopping... for instant noodles. Now this may be silly, but the obnoxiously CHEAP thrill of buying instant noodles/candy/snacks in a foreign country completely overrode any logic :p
LOL @ Yen's "Oh my god, are you kidding me..." expression in the background
After that, we went over to Dongdaemun (it's either Dongdaemun or Namdaemun -_-) to do more shopping and at the same, Cina wanted to check out the baseball stadium. We looked for it and wondered if the directions were wrong... and this was our reaction when we realized they had PAVED the stadium down to make way for more shopping complexes. We had actually walked around what was previously the baseball stadium wondering if it had sank into the ground...
We also went to check out the man made river that was a darling spot to chill out away from the hustle and bustle in the streets above. Yes, above. The river (with smoothly paved walkways on both sides) runs underneath the main roads.
Our last dinner in Korea was by far the most delicious :)
We headed over to the DMZ the next day and explored the third tunnel. Going down was awesome... but coming back up was a massive chore. I'm not exactly the most fit person on earth so the 320ish meters at a 11 degree incline almost made my heart explode! :p Sorry, no pictures were allowed! :p
Whew, that was our South Korea in a nutshell (more or less).
October was a month of birthdays (amazing shots ninja-ed from Lola and Yen) starting off with Kyeth's at Euphoria, MOS :)
We're sipping on lychee martinis in the Sunway Lagoon Resort's lobby while waiting for the birthday girl to arrive!
Kyeth got a pole cake:
And we all love the cake :D
Kyeth and Sherlyn, the other birthday girl!
Vee and Lola
Aaaah!
Happy birthday Awesome! ;p
It was also Fiona's birthday and we had a pseudo surprise party (she saw it coming from a mile away :p) at Palete Pallete:
And did I already mention how much we all love cakes?
Fi handing out her cupcake cake :D
Adam munching on the icing
Lola made Fi chug it! And this was after the flaming too :p
And to end my amazingly long post, here are some random "Pole Out" pictures:
Hanging with Kyeth at Zanzibar; yes we came prepared!
The boys playing it cool at Zanzibar!
Raw @ Solaris. Pole family getting drunk and dance-y ;p
Happy Halloween everyone! :) Work has been mad hectic... so much so I'm sacrificing sleep to blog, heh. Here is the really, really long ass post that was promised earlier in the month.
Starting off; we (Chris, Cina, Yen, Yees, Emma and I) went to Korea! :D Since it's been yonks, I've already forgotten the names of most of the places we went to.
Taking off!
We landed in Seoul and took off for Insadong where we met up with Yees and Emma:
Because lunch was a whole mouthful of bad, we started snacking in the airport while waiting for our flight at Jeju Island. We love cake.
Once we got there, we got onto the bus which had the most ghetto looking, retro stylin' interior. They use green and pink neon lights for lighting at night. No joke.
We went to see some dragon head shaped rocks...
while Yees worked the camera...
... and found this amazing seaside place to eat, right on the rocks :p The locals had set up a sashimi stall behind a cluster of rocks--raw octopus and abalone with shoju! YUM :D
We had to climb some mountain in Jeju on day two :p
The view from the top was spectacular! There were heaps of people coming up by the time we got down o.O And some of us had shaky knees from walking downhill :p
After the massive climb, we went to check out a folk village... and no, it's not the ones that were preserved just for tourists; there are people who actually live in them. Very old school.
We had lunch (at least, I think this is what we had for lunch):
After lunch we went over to chill out by a waterfall and cam whored even more:
Then we headed off to another place with more rocks. Fun, right? But the highlight of this part was the silkworms! Just incase you're wondering: no, I didn't finish it (ech!) and crunchy, creamy texture with a bitter aftertaste ;)
We also braved the rain to visit a root garden without umbrellas lol
Day three was "Everland" day. The morning kicked off with abalone juk and then a obligatory group shot by the windy coastline:
If you're wondering what Cina was doing with the hand gesture... it's the T-Express pose (keep reading :p). We said goodbye to Jeju Island and headed off to Everland, the land of candy, coasters and crack.
And this is the T-Express:
With the first drop at a whopping 77 degree decline, waiting in line for it was terrifying. Dr. Emma was about to backpedal if not for Cina blocking the way.
77 degree drop kids, it's like being hurled off a wall, no joke. From far, the drop looked like cake... two seconds of thrills and chills, nothing we couldn't handle yeah? So wrong. Oh, so wrong. Turns out the two seconds felt like TWO YEARS of free falling... heck, Dr. Emma started screaming even before the drop T_T That ride was not fun :p But we sat it for the sake of saying "Yeah, the T-Express? Been there, done that."
Emma and I braved a few more rides that tossed us around in the air like they were flipping pancakes. The attendants were doing the macarena and talking in high-pitched "YOOHOOO"s every five seconds. What do they put in the water!?
We also got ears for -almost- everyone :)
We had more grilled stuff for dinner. For the record, I don't recall what it was I was doing when that shot was taken.
The next day, we went to see yet another mountain (for the view, naturally). Emma hiked all the way to the peak despite the tour guide specifically telling just us to not hike to the top. Yes, we were the rebel group in the tour :p
The skies were amazing that morning:
Does anyone see that "No smoking" sign there!? Seriously :p
After our relaxing morning walk, we went to the fish market and had lunch in the makeshift shops that were really just the shop keep's boat lol
Yes, more food (it's a gastronomical adventure :p)! Sashimi of sorts:
We went to Nami Island; serene and romantic despite possibly being visited by every other teen couple in South Korea. And yes, this is where they filmed Winter Sonata. They even have bronze statues of the two main actors, heh.
The next day, we went to visit the ever popular Dae Jang-Geum movie set and had some fun there:
Carrying Yees around ain't no easy task!
She volunteered, I swear!
I think we got hauled off to the Ginseng place after this... and naturally, had ginseng chicken for dinner (or was it lunch, hmm)
We headed back to our chic little pad in Seoul where I proceeded to plug in my mac and sat there until my withdrawal symptoms went away. Also, I managed to catch the infamous Starcraft gaming channel :D
We went to roam the streets of Seoul...
There were streets and streets of neon lights, vibrant buzzing and the somewhat usual techno/hip hop coming out of random bars. The people here don't seem to sleep :p
On the last day of the trip with our tour group, we went to learn how to make kimchii. Well, being a tour and all... they don't actually expect us to "make" anything. So, it was really just 15 minutes of us rubbing soggy cabbage down with pre-made chili paste.
Being touristy, we took pictures at this square that had a fountain built smack in the middle of it especially for the view (see that sexy mountain behind and how the fountain sits a little of right? Yeeeah.).
We made our way over to the Folk Museum and then proceeded to get lost in a massive (previously somewhat restored) palace:
We even had time to play some court games!
No, I don't remember the name of the arrow game... but Emma schooled us all lol
Now that touring was more or less done, it was time to shop! We were dropped off at Myeong Dong (I think! :p) and Yen tore into TheFaceShop and Laniege... and proceeded to buy almost everything :p Emma came in a close second with a truckload of everything else.
With Emma and Yees off to Japan the next day, Chris, Cina, Yen and I went for our own adventure... starting at Lotte Mart. We had to try their Bulgogi burger in the Lotteria:
Wasn't the greatest, but hey :p We also went shopping... for instant noodles. Now this may be silly, but the obnoxiously CHEAP thrill of buying instant noodles/candy/snacks in a foreign country completely overrode any logic :p
LOL @ Yen's "Oh my god, are you kidding me..." expression in the background
After that, we went over to Dongdaemun (it's either Dongdaemun or Namdaemun -_-) to do more shopping and at the same, Cina wanted to check out the baseball stadium. We looked for it and wondered if the directions were wrong... and this was our reaction when we realized they had PAVED the stadium down to make way for more shopping complexes. We had actually walked around what was previously the baseball stadium wondering if it had sank into the ground...
We also went to check out the man made river that was a darling spot to chill out away from the hustle and bustle in the streets above. Yes, above. The river (with smoothly paved walkways on both sides) runs underneath the main roads.
Our last dinner in Korea was by far the most delicious :)
We headed over to the DMZ the next day and explored the third tunnel. Going down was awesome... but coming back up was a massive chore. I'm not exactly the most fit person on earth so the 320ish meters at a 11 degree incline almost made my heart explode! :p Sorry, no pictures were allowed! :p
Whew, that was our South Korea in a nutshell (more or less).
October was a month of birthdays (amazing shots ninja-ed from Lola and Yen) starting off with Kyeth's at Euphoria, MOS :)
We're sipping on lychee martinis in the Sunway Lagoon Resort's lobby while waiting for the birthday girl to arrive!
Kyeth got a pole cake:
And we all love the cake :D
Kyeth and Sherlyn, the other birthday girl!
Vee and Lola
Aaaah!
Happy birthday Awesome! ;p
It was also Fiona's birthday and we had a pseudo surprise party (she saw it coming from a mile away :p) at Palete Pallete:
And did I already mention how much we all love cakes?
Fi handing out her cupcake cake :D
Adam munching on the icing
Lola made Fi chug it! And this was after the flaming too :p
And to end my amazingly long post, here are some random "Pole Out" pictures:
Hanging with Kyeth at Zanzibar; yes we came prepared!
The boys playing it cool at Zanzibar!
Raw @ Solaris. Pole family getting drunk and dance-y ;p
Weekly shortcuts
Monday, September 22, 2008
Adam (don't remember the flippin' address! ;p) has an epic fail of a learning curve with Bluetooth connectivity. In his defense, my own curve took a sinusoidal dump when my mac spun its wheels of death looking for an "unfound Bluetooth PAN."
Later in the same day, I bumped into Fi who said I looked completely different and normal out of the studio. We sometimes pole in our knickers.
Got ambushed at Pebble's station while illegally delivering mushrooms from Fay's table. That highly confused and a bloody month too early for Halloween psycho chick with the guitar and feathery head gear isn't me. Really.
Serious discussion with TJ as to whether or not I've ever tossed a "flaming bag of poo" onto my neighbor's porch. Them crazy Brit kids... and I never knew a douche was a poo bag. I thought it meant shithead and/or something to flush your girly parts with.
I think the peanuts in the rojak at Batai are clearly spiked--makes for pro-as-fuck brainstorming sessions after lunch, no shens.
Helped Ed pick out a purse for his co-worker. Such a pretty Pucci package :) Down with the Ferragamo! The Bottega was nice too... cough. But after all the deliberation, he reverted and decided not to buy it.
Nas rocked the Hangback and we floored the Superman (by floored, I mean we started from the floor to get used to the pain lol):
The seriously-holding-some-shit-in-look: the Superman, sorta kinda
For more pole action: Pole-artiy
Had couples therapy earlier for Aizat and Ditesh with Ditesh unleashing his inner female Gujarati. Wretched humor from the car all the way to A&W for drama between waffle bites... i.e. Ditesh with a shocking find and Raj offering penance:
"I'm sleeping with your *******" "Aha! I knew it, you fucker!"
Feel free to download the image to add your own captioning :P
Although I find the occurrence of social/verbal retardation amongst certain people curiously, albeit perversely amusing (in a purely professional "you dumb fuck, that's an inkblot" manner of course), I am simply too tired to put up with it any longer. I am bowing out (read: STAY AWAY FROM ME). It has been fun sticking a bloody railroad spike through my forehead every other time but I've really got better things to do. I'm not your emotional crash dump outlet. Been there, done that and safe to say I'm not a better person because of that. Rest assured, I will invoice for the therapy sessions accordingly.
Please drown yourself in the aquarium on the way out, thank you. Thank you very much.
Adam (don't remember the flippin' address! ;p) has an epic fail of a learning curve with Bluetooth connectivity. In his defense, my own curve took a sinusoidal dump when my mac spun its wheels of death looking for an "unfound Bluetooth PAN."
Later in the same day, I bumped into Fi who said I looked completely different and normal out of the studio. We sometimes pole in our knickers.
Got ambushed at Pebble's station while illegally delivering mushrooms from Fay's table. That highly confused and a bloody month too early for Halloween psycho chick with the guitar and feathery head gear isn't me. Really.
Serious discussion with TJ as to whether or not I've ever tossed a "flaming bag of poo" onto my neighbor's porch. Them crazy Brit kids... and I never knew a douche was a poo bag. I thought it meant shithead and/or something to flush your girly parts with.
I think the peanuts in the rojak at Batai are clearly spiked--makes for pro-as-fuck brainstorming sessions after lunch, no shens.
Helped Ed pick out a purse for his co-worker. Such a pretty Pucci package :) Down with the Ferragamo! The Bottega was nice too... cough. But after all the deliberation, he reverted and decided not to buy it.
Nas rocked the Hangback and we floored the Superman (by floored, I mean we started from the floor to get used to the pain lol):
The seriously-holding-some-shit-in-look: the Superman, sorta kinda
For more pole action: Pole-artiy
Had couples therapy earlier for Aizat and Ditesh with Ditesh unleashing his inner female Gujarati. Wretched humor from the car all the way to A&W for drama between waffle bites... i.e. Ditesh with a shocking find and Raj offering penance:
"I'm sleeping with your *******" "Aha! I knew it, you fucker!"
Feel free to download the image to add your own captioning :P
Although I find the occurrence of social/verbal retardation amongst certain people curiously, albeit perversely amusing (in a purely professional "you dumb fuck, that's an inkblot" manner of course), I am simply too tired to put up with it any longer. I am bowing out (read: STAY AWAY FROM ME). It has been fun sticking a bloody railroad spike through my forehead every other time but I've really got better things to do. I'm not your emotional crash dump outlet. Been there, done that and safe to say I'm not a better person because of that. Rest assured, I will invoice for the therapy sessions accordingly.
Please drown yourself in the aquarium on the way out, thank you. Thank you very much.
Somo pole invasion
Friday, September 12, 2008
Happy Birthday Lola! :D
Lola's Birthday
Tagging all 51 pictures on Facebork is hard work hehe Commentary includes (but not limited to) the adventures of hiding from Lola at the start, Adam and Jon getting smacked around by Lili and featuring the "Chug it!" chant :)
One big happy family!
The long island toast
Happy Birthday Lola! :D
Lola's Birthday
Tagging all 51 pictures on Facebork is hard work hehe Commentary includes (but not limited to) the adventures of hiding from Lola at the start, Adam and Jon getting smacked around by Lili and featuring the "Chug it!" chant :)
One big happy family!
The long island toast
Backstage from the Cloret's Pole Dancing Finals
Monday, September 08, 2008
Since Facebork decided to not upload my pictures, I have to do this manually and blog it :p
After many, many weeks of dedicated pole training, pole burns and blooper shots, Friday turned out AWESOME! Much love and grats to the winners: Lili (1st), Sam (2nd), Auto (3rd), Zoe (4th) and Kyeth (5th)!
Thank you to everyone else who attended! ^^;
I only have the backstage shots because I was obviously not out front during and after with my camera :P
Pietro strutting his stuff in his opening act
Hannah and Pietro rehearsing
Lola giving last minute pointers
The stage crew
Adam and a ninja shot of himself :p Cam whoring more than the rest of us hehe
Our glam stage for the night
After lunch--Emerald, Miss D, Jon, Kathy, Adam, Lola
The contestants watching on--Auto with the thumbs up and Kyeth in motion trying to run out of the frame
Hanging out with Lili and Nana
Sexy in red--Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita
Dry run: Lola and Liang, our emcee
Bernade hanging out in the changing room
After makeup (clockwise from me)--Nana, Kyeth, Nikita, Bernade
Miss D and Kyeth by the dirty hallway :p
Everyone sitting cool waiting for the event to start... they start freaking out 20 minutes later :p
My turn to grace the dirty hallway with Emerald and Miss D
Kyeth and Bernade in sizzling red!
Kyeth and Bernade with Lola; LOL@Kyeth's expression
Pole divas backstage--Miss D, Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita, Lola, Emerald
Vivyn, the sexy duo (Ivyn and Janice), Sam and Nana
Group shot with the duo, Nana and Vivyn
What a large bruise that is on Sam's knee! :p
Isaac making his debut into the group shots hehe Bernade and Zoe upstairs looking (most probably) at Lili changing :p
Lola all dolled up checking up on us
Miss D and her self promo :p
Vee and Lola
Miss D and more shameless self promo :p
If anyone has the FINAL group shot on stage they'd like to share, much thanks if you could send a copy over :)
I hope everyone had as much fun as I did on Friday night! :D See you guys in class/pole access this week and babyyy, you can leave your hat on ;)
Since Facebork decided to not upload my pictures, I have to do this manually and blog it :p
After many, many weeks of dedicated pole training, pole burns and blooper shots, Friday turned out AWESOME! Much love and grats to the winners: Lili (1st), Sam (2nd), Auto (3rd), Zoe (4th) and Kyeth (5th)!
Thank you to everyone else who attended! ^^;
I only have the backstage shots because I was obviously not out front during and after with my camera :P
Pietro strutting his stuff in his opening act
Hannah and Pietro rehearsing
Lola giving last minute pointers
The stage crew
Adam and a ninja shot of himself :p Cam whoring more than the rest of us hehe
Our glam stage for the night
After lunch--Emerald, Miss D, Jon, Kathy, Adam, Lola
The contestants watching on--Auto with the thumbs up and Kyeth in motion trying to run out of the frame
Hanging out with Lili and Nana
Sexy in red--Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita
Dry run: Lola and Liang, our emcee
Bernade hanging out in the changing room
After makeup (clockwise from me)--Nana, Kyeth, Nikita, Bernade
Miss D and Kyeth by the dirty hallway :p
Everyone sitting cool waiting for the event to start... they start freaking out 20 minutes later :p
My turn to grace the dirty hallway with Emerald and Miss D
Kyeth and Bernade in sizzling red!
Kyeth and Bernade with Lola; LOL@Kyeth's expression
Pole divas backstage--Miss D, Kyeth, Bernade, Nikita, Lola, Emerald
Vivyn, the sexy duo (Ivyn and Janice), Sam and Nana
Group shot with the duo, Nana and Vivyn
What a large bruise that is on Sam's knee! :p
Isaac making his debut into the group shots hehe Bernade and Zoe upstairs looking (most probably) at Lili changing :p
Lola all dolled up checking up on us
Miss D and her self promo :p
Vee and Lola
Miss D and more shameless self promo :p
If anyone has the FINAL group shot on stage they'd like to share, much thanks if you could send a copy over :)
I hope everyone had as much fun as I did on Friday night! :D See you guys in class/pole access this week and babyyy, you can leave your hat on ;)
Po-pole-arity: the Media Workshop
Friday, August 15, 2008
In before everyone else (thanks to Burger and Jon for some of the shots hehe):
Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Competition Media Workshop
By the time the media got there, we were pissed exhausted from our morning rehearsal--I used up way too much energy flinging my head around to our group's song in the morning :p
Also, long sleeves and jeans: bad idea. Trying to climb the pole with jeans: equally as bad of an idea.
I really thought the yoga room was going to be cold... and owned myself in the face. But it was a super fun experience :D
Enjoy the pictures and the colorful commentary... I'm off to Camerons, woohoo! ^^;
In before everyone else (thanks to Burger and Jon for some of the shots hehe):
Clorets Amateur Pole Dancing Competition Media Workshop
By the time the media got there, we were pissed exhausted from our morning rehearsal--I used up way too much energy flinging my head around to our group's song in the morning :p
Also, long sleeves and jeans: bad idea. Trying to climb the pole with jeans: equally as bad of an idea.
I really thought the yoga room was going to be cold... and owned myself in the face. But it was a super fun experience :D
Enjoy the pictures and the colorful commentary... I'm off to Camerons, woohoo! ^^;
25 on the 25th
Friday, July 25, 2008
I do this every year, so I figured why break tradition? :)
I kicked off year 25 with an excitingly anticipated conference call with the lovely Sara, whom I finally got to speak to after years of working with and Kevin! :D
And in no particular order, here's a recap of the fun, glamorous and obnoxiously horrific things of how "24" went:
Pole dancing lessons--and all the wonderful ladies at pole class :D
Pole dancing--on a stage with my awesome partner Misty in a club in front of a large audience... with really only (mom and dad, please turn away and not continue reading this line) a corset and those sexy pinstripe undies with red ribbons on the side.
Discovering Cyberjaya--I swear if I never got the job working at RSB, until today, I still wouldn't know how to get to that god forsaken place.
Team RSB--Rails Rumble, lots of Ruby on Rails, fun with CSS, a few Facebook applications and more geeky shit :) Oh... and AGILE... and converting from Dreamweaver (I only use split screen view! :p) to TextMate.
Team RSB--oh, the fights! Going to war and defending your shit. Thank you :)
Took public transportation to KL at eight in the bloody morning. Don't even ask.
Got a Macbook that traveled with me all the way to Chi-town! :D
Chicago--graciously hosted by Diana, Andrew, Jaime and Owen smack in the middle of winter <3 Much apologies to the guys shoes' which I puked on at the dueling piano bar after my orgy of drinks, heh. And Super Bowl!
Vegetarian food--like, seriously. In all my past 23 years combined, I've never had as much vegetarian food as I did working in Cyberjaya for those few months :p Every thing's a mushroom. Or bean.
Advertising at Proximity--I architect information, hah ;p And boy do I still hate Flash :p Admittedly, we have shit for internet but at least we get free beer and truckloads of processed sugar :D
My fuck-me-red iPod died. DIED.
Gave the second chance thingie a second try. Didn't work out too hot.
Swung around an obstacle course four stories up in the air with the crazy kids at Standard Charted. Oh, the drinking games. Much love! :)
Doing stupid shit on the webcam.
Mage went frost... and priest snagged the 2000 rating with Cibo (and a little help from sassy Higgins hehe).
Rediscovering what it means to have an "actual job" and how it cuts down dramatically on your social life.
Revisiting my teenager years of indulging my currently not-so-secret any longer teeny boppy girly crush fantasies.
Bumped into unpleasant clients (thankfully only two!)--the worst of the two being a misogynistic a-hole (pretty much self explanatory).
Whored my liver out to Turborg just so I could get to the KL Music Festival '08.
Salsa classes--just started! ;p
Streaked my hair red and adopted green contact lenses in the name of vanity.
Bumping into people with subzero PR skills. Yes, again, God kills a lolcat every time I have to tolerate this.
Two of my friends are engaged! :D
Obsessing over a track from the Ministry of Sound radio for ages without knowing the title (simply because it's so obscure I couldn't find it)--only to find it on someone's playlist on the first day at Proximity (thanks Yee Ee :D)! I have the track but sadly, I still don't know what it's called.
And that's that; I'm still high on my fever and both my brain and fingers have rebelled and stopped working... although, I'm not sure if I should include HTML5 to that list :x
Pictures will come tomorrow! :) Happy Birthday to all the other July babies out there! :D
I do this every year, so I figured why break tradition? :)
I kicked off year 25 with an excitingly anticipated conference call with the lovely Sara, whom I finally got to speak to after years of working with and Kevin! :D
And in no particular order, here's a recap of the fun, glamorous and obnoxiously horrific things of how "24" went:
Pole dancing lessons--and all the wonderful ladies at pole class :D
Pole dancing--on a stage with my awesome partner Misty in a club in front of a large audience... with really only (mom and dad, please turn away and not continue reading this line) a corset and those sexy pinstripe undies with red ribbons on the side.
Discovering Cyberjaya--I swear if I never got the job working at RSB, until today, I still wouldn't know how to get to that god forsaken place.
Team RSB--Rails Rumble, lots of Ruby on Rails, fun with CSS, a few Facebook applications and more geeky shit :) Oh... and AGILE... and converting from Dreamweaver (I only use split screen view! :p) to TextMate.
Team RSB--oh, the fights! Going to war and defending your shit. Thank you :)
Took public transportation to KL at eight in the bloody morning. Don't even ask.
Got a Macbook that traveled with me all the way to Chi-town! :D
Chicago--graciously hosted by Diana, Andrew, Jaime and Owen smack in the middle of winter <3 Much apologies to the guys shoes' which I puked on at the dueling piano bar after my orgy of drinks, heh. And Super Bowl!
Vegetarian food--like, seriously. In all my past 23 years combined, I've never had as much vegetarian food as I did working in Cyberjaya for those few months :p Every thing's a mushroom. Or bean.
Advertising at Proximity--I architect information, hah ;p And boy do I still hate Flash :p Admittedly, we have shit for internet but at least we get free beer and truckloads of processed sugar :D
My fuck-me-red iPod died. DIED.
Gave the second chance thingie a second try. Didn't work out too hot.
Swung around an obstacle course four stories up in the air with the crazy kids at Standard Charted. Oh, the drinking games. Much love! :)
Doing stupid shit on the webcam.
Mage went frost... and priest snagged the 2000 rating with Cibo (and a little help from sassy Higgins hehe).
Rediscovering what it means to have an "actual job" and how it cuts down dramatically on your social life.
Revisiting my teenager years of indulging my currently not-so-secret any longer teeny boppy girly crush fantasies.
Bumped into unpleasant clients (thankfully only two!)--the worst of the two being a misogynistic a-hole (pretty much self explanatory).
Whored my liver out to Turborg just so I could get to the KL Music Festival '08.
Salsa classes--just started! ;p
Streaked my hair red and adopted green contact lenses in the name of vanity.
Bumping into people with subzero PR skills. Yes, again, God kills a lolcat every time I have to tolerate this.
Two of my friends are engaged! :D
Obsessing over a track from the Ministry of Sound radio for ages without knowing the title (simply because it's so obscure I couldn't find it)--only to find it on someone's playlist on the first day at Proximity (thanks Yee Ee :D)! I have the track but sadly, I still don't know what it's called.
And that's that; I'm still high on my fever and both my brain and fingers have rebelled and stopped working... although, I'm not sure if I should include HTML5 to that list :x
Pictures will come tomorrow! :) Happy Birthday to all the other July babies out there! :D
Labels: birthday, drama, friends, madness, musing, pole, web stuff, wow
Think sexy, think pole!
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Here are the group shots (sorta) of all the lovely divas as promised! Yes, they're SFW and PG.
Our instructor, Lola!
Misty and Diamond; strutting the diva glam
Pillar humping with Misty
Vee, Lola and the girl from the pole cake
Newbie 8:30 class represent (Xandra, Amira, Misty)!
Customary head shot with sexy partner Misty
Group picture from left to right, top to bottom: Misty, Diamond, Belita, Pearl, Maya, Ophelia, Mona and Vivi
Group picture: Pearl, Diamond, Amira, Vivi, Misty, Belita, Mona
On a side note, I hate gas prices. Hate.
That and I've got more bruises from attempting the body wrap! I am so proud of my battle markings, rawr! ;p
Here are the group shots (sorta) of all the lovely divas as promised! Yes, they're SFW and PG.
Our instructor, Lola!
Misty and Diamond; strutting the diva glam
Pillar humping with Misty
Vee, Lola and the girl from the pole cake
Newbie 8:30 class represent (Xandra, Amira, Misty)!
Customary head shot with sexy partner Misty
Group picture from left to right, top to bottom: Misty, Diamond, Belita, Pearl, Maya, Ophelia, Mona and Vivi
Group picture: Pearl, Diamond, Amira, Vivi, Misty, Belita, Mona
On a side note, I hate gas prices. Hate.
That and I've got more bruises from attempting the body wrap! I am so proud of my battle markings, rawr! ;p
Poledacious
Monday, May 26, 2008
It's not every day you have a legit reason to dress up (or down, depends) and be diva style glamorous. Take that and piece it with a pole dancing competition--yes, that's right. On stage, scantily clad in front of a massive audience of unknowns and a shiny pole.
Especially in Malaysia, where we're still developing and pole is still somewhat parked in the taboo region of almighty taboos right next to all connotations of sexual deviancy.
Pole dancing is hard. I will be the first to say that I do not have the muscles in my arms nor do I have them in my abs to be able to do it correctly :p
And no, I didn't win the competition. Seriously, with only three classes under my belt I count myself lucky I didn't trip, fall and bonk into my partner. It takes a lot of nerve to get up there, strut your stuff and pretend you'll never have to see anyone in the audience (save for your friends) ever again... hopefully.
To everyone who's been bugging me for pictures: it's on Misty's camera! :p
Teaser shots:
Emerald, Belita, Misty--Belita looking like a superstar even before the event :D
Britney and Belita rockin' their beautiful costumes :)
Rehearsal with Belita sky high! She won best performer <3
Mona, Vivi and Emerald watching the rehearsals. Mona came in first place for the solo performance!
The Beach Babes working their routine :D Third place in the duo category!
Aimi, Misty, Diamond, Pearl chilling backstage
April the pole addict and Ophelia
Our first performer: Midnight Blue. Third place in the solo category.
The super lovely magnificent Maya! Second place in the solo category. Man, that wall behind her didn't look that terrible that night :x
Pole cake! :D
The guys, strutting their stuff. Yes, guys do pole dance!
Again, group shots are with Misty... and performance shots are with the photographer. I'm somewhere in that pile that'll be posted soon ;x
It's not every day you have a legit reason to dress up (or down, depends) and be diva style glamorous. Take that and piece it with a pole dancing competition--yes, that's right. On stage, scantily clad in front of a massive audience of unknowns and a shiny pole.
Especially in Malaysia, where we're still developing and pole is still somewhat parked in the taboo region of almighty taboos right next to all connotations of sexual deviancy.
Pole dancing is hard. I will be the first to say that I do not have the muscles in my arms nor do I have them in my abs to be able to do it correctly :p
And no, I didn't win the competition. Seriously, with only three classes under my belt I count myself lucky I didn't trip, fall and bonk into my partner. It takes a lot of nerve to get up there, strut your stuff and pretend you'll never have to see anyone in the audience (save for your friends) ever again... hopefully.
To everyone who's been bugging me for pictures: it's on Misty's camera! :p
Teaser shots:
Emerald, Belita, Misty--Belita looking like a superstar even before the event :D
Britney and Belita rockin' their beautiful costumes :)
Rehearsal with Belita sky high! She won best performer <3
Mona, Vivi and Emerald watching the rehearsals. Mona came in first place for the solo performance!
The Beach Babes working their routine :D Third place in the duo category!
Aimi, Misty, Diamond, Pearl chilling backstage
April the pole addict and Ophelia
Our first performer: Midnight Blue. Third place in the solo category.
The super lovely magnificent Maya! Second place in the solo category. Man, that wall behind her didn't look that terrible that night :x
Pole cake! :D
The guys, strutting their stuff. Yes, guys do pole dance!
Again, group shots are with Misty... and performance shots are with the photographer. I'm somewhere in that pile that'll be posted soon ;x
The ones that got away
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Random photo shots that never did get uploaded (omgosh red hair!?):
Christmas 07 @ DK Cafe - Minn, Joo, Phaiky
Christmas 07 @ DK Cafe - Sun, Cina, Leng, Yen
Christmas 07 @ DK Cafe - Chris, Cina, Sun (zomg the caroling crew)
Marc Residence's swanky elevator
Ms Read @ Marc Residence with Yees
Yees and Chris trying to be cute
Random photo shots that never did get uploaded (omgosh red hair!?):
Christmas 07 @ DK Cafe - Minn, Joo, Phaiky
Christmas 07 @ DK Cafe - Sun, Cina, Leng, Yen
Christmas 07 @ DK Cafe - Chris, Cina, Sun (zomg the caroling crew)
Marc Residence's swanky elevator
Ms Read @ Marc Residence with Yees
Yees and Chris trying to be cute
Labels: friends
Drink and be merry!
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Despite the parental warnings to stay indoors, we "celebrated" election night by doing round three of the beer binge:
Pho for dinner--we need something to absorb the alcohol right?
Quick shot of Yoong and Chris; stealing them away from football
I wasn't paying attention... but Man U lost? :p GG to the goalie and his red card lol
And more people arriving:
Cina and a sexy shot of Pau still apparently hungover :p Because my camera has no anti-shake, kudos to Pau who held that face for a good seven seconds or so lol
Cheers!
A toast to the 8th March '08 for it was quite the exciting night indeed! Especially for five states in Malaysia ;)
Despite the parental warnings to stay indoors, we "celebrated" election night by doing round three of the beer binge:
Pho for dinner--we need something to absorb the alcohol right?
Quick shot of Yoong and Chris; stealing them away from football
I wasn't paying attention... but Man U lost? :p GG to the goalie and his red card lol
And more people arriving:
Cina and a sexy shot of Pau still apparently hungover :p Because my camera has no anti-shake, kudos to Pau who held that face for a good seven seconds or so lol
Cheers!
A toast to the 8th March '08 for it was quite the exciting night indeed! Especially for five states in Malaysia ;)
Binging for Sunburst
Monday, March 03, 2008
Goodbye February, hello March!
And here are the yummy pictures from last month to yesterday night where we had day two of the Turborg binge in our continuous effort to make our way to the Sunburt KL International Music festival... with loads of "free" beer.
We learnt our lesson the first time: NOTHING is open in KL if you go too early *cough* so "breakfast" was actually lunch at about 12ish at JW Marriott. Yees you lied! Where were the superlicious egg tarts? When Dom asked if they had any, the server looked at him like he grew a third eye... and replied back caustically as if the peasant dish of an egg tart was not to be spoken off in such place of obscenely overpriced resplendence.
Breakfast at Shanghai Restaurant, JW Marriott
Dom; dim sum is serious business ;p
Of course we had to try this:
Fish spa at The Pavilion!
Hanging out with the fishes--multiple feet on showcase
First 15 minutes was all laughter and squealing (from Dom as well)... so much so the woman next to me thought I was high from getting my toes sucked on by the school of fishes. This is an absurd lie considering I can't stand getting my toes sucked on -_- Just take my word for it, k?
MY dirty feet
Feeding the fishies up close and personal
Dom getting tickled pink by all the fishes sucking between his toes :p
And for dinner, we went off to celebrate (albeit belated) Joo turning 25!
Pau, Mei and Joo: happy 25th Joo! :D
Leng, Terry and Cina... if you're wondering, yes, we are at Umai-ya! again :x
Mei and Joo
Group shot!
Day ONE of our amazing beer binge... started with them being FOURTY bloody FIVE minutes fashionably late. And I'm left to camwhore with the huge ass mirror panels (which will come in handy later) while I wait:
Camwhoring--checking out the angles!
The finally make it...
Cina and her beer
Phaiky and Cina--I spy with my eye...
Toasting with Phaiky!
Chris
Cina being possessive with her beer
Yoong and Mei joins the fun and this is what semi-tipsy people do with huge mirror panels:
We downed it all... and came back for day TWO:
Pau is recruited to drink, drink, drink!
Chris and her new haircut
Alas, we didn't finish the 16 bottles last night and ended up taking home about... seven? They're all nice and cozy sitting in Chris' fridge as this post is going out. Nevertheless, supply won't be running low anytime soon... we're going back this Saturday ^^;
Goodbye February, hello March!
And here are the yummy pictures from last month to yesterday night where we had day two of the Turborg binge in our continuous effort to make our way to the Sunburt KL International Music festival... with loads of "free" beer.
We learnt our lesson the first time: NOTHING is open in KL if you go too early *cough* so "breakfast" was actually lunch at about 12ish at JW Marriott. Yees you lied! Where were the superlicious egg tarts? When Dom asked if they had any, the server looked at him like he grew a third eye... and replied back caustically as if the peasant dish of an egg tart was not to be spoken off in such place of obscenely overpriced resplendence.
Breakfast at Shanghai Restaurant, JW Marriott
Dom; dim sum is serious business ;p
Of course we had to try this:
Fish spa at The Pavilion!
Hanging out with the fishes--multiple feet on showcase
First 15 minutes was all laughter and squealing (from Dom as well)... so much so the woman next to me thought I was high from getting my toes sucked on by the school of fishes. This is an absurd lie considering I can't stand getting my toes sucked on -_- Just take my word for it, k?
MY dirty feet
Feeding the fishies up close and personal
Dom getting tickled pink by all the fishes sucking between his toes :p
And for dinner, we went off to celebrate (albeit belated) Joo turning 25!
Pau, Mei and Joo: happy 25th Joo! :D
Leng, Terry and Cina... if you're wondering, yes, we are at Umai-ya! again :x
Mei and Joo
Group shot!
Day ONE of our amazing beer binge... started with them being FOURTY bloody FIVE minutes fashionably late. And I'm left to camwhore with the huge ass mirror panels (which will come in handy later) while I wait:
Camwhoring--checking out the angles!
The finally make it...
Cina and her beer
Phaiky and Cina--I spy with my eye...
Toasting with Phaiky!
Chris
Cina being possessive with her beer
Yoong and Mei joins the fun and this is what semi-tipsy people do with huge mirror panels:
We downed it all... and came back for day TWO:
Pau is recruited to drink, drink, drink!
Chris and her new haircut
Alas, we didn't finish the 16 bottles last night and ended up taking home about... seven? They're all nice and cozy sitting in Chris' fridge as this post is going out. Nevertheless, supply won't be running low anytime soon... we're going back this Saturday ^^;
Chicago '08
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hush hush, I know full well I've been procrastinating (and recovering from the dry skin rash I picked up... I blame the stale air on the plane)! ;p
Happy Chinese New Year to all :) Wishing everyone a prosperous and fantabulous Year of the Rat! :D
To kick things off... here are the pictures from my recent Chicago trip:
Chicago '08
Chicago '08 -- part deux; food and booze
Yes, yes. Due to some laziness on my part, I ended up Facebook-ing them as opposed to the usual Lightbox method ;/
Much love to Diana and Andrew who put up with me for ten days lol <3 Oh, and a shout-out to the lovely mom bloggers I met at Andalous on Monday (4th Feb)! :D Hope you guys enjoyed the food as much as we did ^^;
Hush hush, I know full well I've been procrastinating (and recovering from the dry skin rash I picked up... I blame the stale air on the plane)! ;p
Happy Chinese New Year to all :) Wishing everyone a prosperous and fantabulous Year of the Rat! :D
To kick things off... here are the pictures from my recent Chicago trip:
Chicago '08
Chicago '08 -- part deux; food and booze
Yes, yes. Due to some laziness on my part, I ended up Facebook-ing them as opposed to the usual Lightbox method ;/
Much love to Diana and Andrew who put up with me for ten days lol <3 Oh, and a shout-out to the lovely mom bloggers I met at Andalous on Monday (4th Feb)! :D Hope you guys enjoyed the food as much as we did ^^;
Festivities
Thursday, December 27, 2007
I gave up on the Youth Malaysia JScript... I'd have to re-write my CSS to accomodate their "bare" styling so that the dog ear doesn't look like an unwanted reject of a pixelated gif from 1997. What, you think I'm going to keep restyling my img tag for every id I make? Hell, no.
Onto the fun stuff--another session of picture whoring! I still need to nab pictures from Chris... although, I think they're all living in cold fear of unwanted pictures ending up on Facebook; case and point YEES who's really not selective at all with the pictures she put up :P.
Pictures are from the Christmas-y break we had: from overdosing on ribs at our first work "party", excessive estrogen at the Korean BBQ place, getting Yen pissed drunk (remake of 2 Fast 2 Furious on the LDP in attempt to get the nearest gas station) to caroling at DK Cafe <3 and bouncing shiruken-shaped carrots off the walls at Ninja Jones!
I gave up on the Youth Malaysia JScript... I'd have to re-write my CSS to accomodate their "bare" styling so that the dog ear doesn't look like an unwanted reject of a pixelated gif from 1997. What, you think I'm going to keep restyling my img tag for every id I make? Hell, no.
Onto the fun stuff--another session of picture whoring! I still need to nab pictures from Chris... although, I think they're all living in cold fear of unwanted pictures ending up on Facebook; case and point YEES who's really not selective at all with the pictures she put up :P.
Pictures are from the Christmas-y break we had: from overdosing on ribs at our first work "party", excessive estrogen at the Korean BBQ place, getting Yen pissed drunk (remake of 2 Fast 2 Furious on the LDP in attempt to get the nearest gas station) to caroling at DK Cafe <3 and bouncing shiruken-shaped carrots off the walls at Ninja Jones!
Picture whoring
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Only because I promised pictures for the longest time now!
Also, because I only have excellent selective memory, most of these are probably not in order at all. Pictures taken some time in the last two weeks of July 07 from Ms. Read all the way to Perhentian and right back at 7ate9 :)
p/s: For manually powered slideshow-esque effects, just click on the picture that pops up to move onto the next one ^^;
Only because I promised pictures for the longest time now!
Also, because I only have excellent selective memory, most of these are probably not in order at all. Pictures taken some time in the last two weeks of July 07 from Ms. Read all the way to Perhentian and right back at 7ate9 :)
p/s: For manually powered slideshow-esque effects, just click on the picture that pops up to move onto the next one ^^;
Another 24
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Happy Belated Birthday Pau! <3
The original plan was to have dinner at Alexis and then hop over to Skybar. HOWEVER, it took us TWO freaking hours to get to Alexis... without Pau >.< We decided to go back to KLCC instead to save Larry from actually having to crawl through Jalan Ampang neck deep in traffic.
Yup, not going down to KL on a Friday night -ever-. Such a nightmare -_- It's nine at night! WHERE ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM?!
We eventually made it to Skybar (Ed! Club 1500ms meeting, chop chop)... in a state of near hyperglycemic coma from dessert's sugar crisis.
This is really going to be a picture whoring post (god knows we take pictures every time we go over to Skybar... so paiseh -_-) and I'm not feeling particularly intelligent today... for the record, the entrance/area pictures were really for Ed since he's a nub and wanted to see what Skybar looks like.
Waiting for a table was actually a pain because the 33rd floor apparently had NO ventilation...
Pau and Larry; the royal couple.
Cina and Joo; evidently it has been a long day.
Because we had so much time, Mei decided to untie and retie the tie/sash on my skirt... I know, people coming out of the elevators were wondering what on earth we were doing too.
Sean and Mei; err...
A few long, humid minutes later... we were ushered in. Well, into Skybar's waiting room -_- Even though the slow simmer of a temperature didn't improve, at least we had sofas to sit on?
Skybar entrance.
Skybar doorway.
Skybar pool.
Skybar - left side.
Skybar - right side. We made Pau trapeze across the platform by the edge of the pool in her drunken state :p
Waiting area.
Still waiting.
Although you can't actually tell, it's actually extremely warm to the point of sticky discomfort -_-
Obligatory group picture.
I think mine is more yellow than yours... >.< The apple martini wasn't great -_-
Finally, the bartender came over to set up Pau's drink. She actually drank it all before the flames dissipated... UNLIKE MEI (two months ago) who just stood there, watched the flames disappear before cautiously sticking her straw into the glass :p
Happy effects kicking in ^^;
Happy Belated Birthday Pau! <3
The original plan was to have dinner at Alexis and then hop over to Skybar. HOWEVER, it took us TWO freaking hours to get to Alexis... without Pau >.< We decided to go back to KLCC instead to save Larry from actually having to crawl through Jalan Ampang neck deep in traffic.
Yup, not going down to KL on a Friday night -ever-. Such a nightmare -_- It's nine at night! WHERE ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM?!
We eventually made it to Skybar (Ed! Club 1500ms meeting, chop chop)... in a state of near hyperglycemic coma from dessert's sugar crisis.
This is really going to be a picture whoring post (god knows we take pictures every time we go over to Skybar... so paiseh -_-) and I'm not feeling particularly intelligent today... for the record, the entrance/area pictures were really for Ed since he's a nub and wanted to see what Skybar looks like.
Waiting for a table was actually a pain because the 33rd floor apparently had NO ventilation...
Pau and Larry; the royal couple.
Cina and Joo; evidently it has been a long day.
Because we had so much time, Mei decided to untie and retie the tie/sash on my skirt... I know, people coming out of the elevators were wondering what on earth we were doing too.
Sean and Mei; err...
A few long, humid minutes later... we were ushered in. Well, into Skybar's waiting room -_- Even though the slow simmer of a temperature didn't improve, at least we had sofas to sit on?
Skybar entrance.
Skybar doorway.
Skybar pool.
Skybar - left side.
Skybar - right side. We made Pau trapeze across the platform by the edge of the pool in her drunken state :p
Waiting area.
Still waiting.
Although you can't actually tell, it's actually extremely warm to the point of sticky discomfort -_-
Obligatory group picture.
I think mine is more yellow than yours... >.< The apple martini wasn't great -_-
Finally, the bartender came over to set up Pau's drink. She actually drank it all before the flames dissipated... UNLIKE MEI (two months ago) who just stood there, watched the flames disappear before cautiously sticking her straw into the glass :p
Happy effects kicking in ^^;
Singapore o' Seven
Monday, January 01, 2007
I know, I'm obscenely late and I'm crash blogging this because I have people hounding me for pictures (you know who you are!).
Regardless, here was my trip to Singapore with the merriest bunch of people around:
2007, ah! Breaking away from the usual monotony of reckless alcohol consumption to the point of liver failure and catching the spectacularly dazzling light show squished with a few other thousand reckless people in KL, we decided to... do the exact same thing, but in Singapore.
Our field trip started with a rushed breakfast:
Breakfast at Kluang Station, 1u. It's way too early in the morning, really.
Which eventually moved on to the bus ride with Aeroline line. And mind you, these were pictures of us before they served us lunch (i.e. one poor, miserably lonesome pie) that smelled surprisingly lovely but ended up almost as edible as last week's dirty laundry.
Las chicas with the Aeroline bus. Obviously too many cameras were going off at once.
Welcome to Singapore.
Being kids, we decided to take some memorable shots at the Clarke Quay (pronounced Clark Key) MRT... and also being kids, we couldn't hold still for long...
Clarke Quay MRT. Featuring Joo, Cina, Pau. Chris, Yees, Tzern and Leng.
Exploration before the night sets in:
Colorful shoes: match the shoes to the people!
Clarke Quay bridge and our friend, The Timer.
Keng Cheow St: we thought the street sign was cute :P
It's not even the 31st but we decided to get a head start at Brewerkz!
On the way to Brewerkz. Trivia: the pillar Tzern is propped up on is pointy. Very pointy.
Alcoholic fun at Brewerkz. Some of us had a little more fun at MOS after ;)
Cheers!
The party (or most of it) laugh, tripped and stumbled its way to MOS. The R&B room was SO congested people were just bouncing on the spot to pass whatever they were doing off as some funky sort of dancing. Wade Robson would've cried bloody tears, really. Well, the music was practically deafening so between not tripping from the heavy musk of sweat, explosive bass and five seconds away from literally tripping over someone elses' feet I guess it wasn't that bad :P
Although, the Retro room was fun... I honestly thought it wasn't so much the music as it was the psychedelic blinking fluorescent floor lights :D
Skipping ahead to the next night (past the Orchard Road crawl through the afternoon), six brave soldiers climbed on board the G-Max to have some good, clean fun. Naturally, I wasn't one of the six. In my defense, wearing a skirt and being bounced up and down several feet high up in the air would've been... an eyesore :P
G-Max crew. Group 1: Chris, Leng and Pau. Group 2: Phaiky, Tzern and Cina.
Before. I can't actual post the panic shots or they will kill me.
After. Kudos! They made it :D
We took the boat to dinner, because we're stylish like that. Not to mention uber tourists.
The least fuzziest of the fuzzy shots.
I thought the massive people jam in KL was BAD... but boy, the crowd at the Esplanade puts KL to shame. It was the longest (and slowest... and ickiest... and most unpleasantly pungent...) walk to dinner at Via Mar.
By the way, Via Mar turned out to be a terrible, terrible place to eat. It rained halfway and they "couldn't" do anything with us. Yes, we had no umbrellas because apparently the management had a quota as to how many umbrellas could be set up... amazing, yes? It's the landed Titanic... except, we had no string quartet and could at least mooch free wine, beer and creme brulee while we were stranded and forced to loiter.
Anyway, shots at Via Mar:
Yees and Chris.
Boy, Mei, Pau and Phaiky.
Group picture! clockwise from top left: Cina, Sun, Phaiky, Tzern, Terry, Chris and Yees.
Oh gosh, and we had two guests!
Guess who?
It's Ed (Nephy) and Randi (Koss)! :D
Ed, Sean and Randi. Don't ask why Ed looks like a puffer fish. He didn't seem to like the other normal pictures of him :P
The countdown... well, there was none :P Just an abrupt "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" through the speakers and the boom of the fireworks thundering in the sky above us... which Tzern and Yees managed to catch through some trees:
There were more of course, but snapshots of 30 minutes of fireworks from between trees just doesn't cut it :P
Since the roads were pretty much closed to any sort of gasoline-powered vehicle, we had to walk back. We took the long way. Yep, the long walk back to Novotel... in painfully high heels:
Group picture on uhm, a bridge.
The girls. It's dark, but the flash was as helpful as throwing bucket of oil onto our faces.
It has been a long walk :P
The three flatscreens. LOL.
The tunnel.
I completely ruined our cool tunnel shot by sticking my hands out at some weird angle that... well, yeah. Bad.
Clarke Quay alive at night.
We eventually made it back... after Ed got slapped by Randi rather loudly (and this is his story to tell ;)) and nearly all the girls had no blood circulation to their feet.
The final day before we left back to KL (did I mention the air conditioner on our bus decided to croak midway and we had to open our mini sunroof?): glorious shots of people who lack sleep, coffee and food.
Probably another one of Terry's crazy theories... Asian women maybe?
Phaiky, Joo and Sun.
Tzern telling the cam what to do.
What the?!
Upside down: I do *not* know how to use a camera...
Modern art sculpture?
Speaking of sculptures, we went to check out the wire art exhibition on the Esplanade. All interpretations are subjective.
Wire-d people.
Wire-d: I blame Chris.
Speaking of Chris...
Strike a pose.
Finally, to wrap things up, I wanted to just dump random shots that didn't really go anywhere (because I'm too lazy to narrate "The Joys of Public Transportation"). However, since the post has already spiraled out of control, I'll save these for another time! :D Meaning... when my other pages come up... yeah.
I'll do my Bali trip some time this week. *yawn* It's time for bed and dreams of where we'll go this year ;)
I know, I'm obscenely late and I'm crash blogging this because I have people hounding me for pictures (you know who you are!).
Regardless, here was my trip to Singapore with the merriest bunch of people around:
*****
2007, ah! Breaking away from the usual monotony of reckless alcohol consumption to the point of liver failure and catching the spectacularly dazzling light show squished with a few other thousand reckless people in KL, we decided to... do the exact same thing, but in Singapore.
Our field trip started with a rushed breakfast:
Breakfast at Kluang Station, 1u. It's way too early in the morning, really.
Which eventually moved on to the bus ride with Aeroline line. And mind you, these were pictures of us before they served us lunch (i.e. one poor, miserably lonesome pie) that smelled surprisingly lovely but ended up almost as edible as last week's dirty laundry.
Las chicas with the Aeroline bus. Obviously too many cameras were going off at once.
Welcome to Singapore.
Being kids, we decided to take some memorable shots at the Clarke Quay (pronounced Clark Key) MRT... and also being kids, we couldn't hold still for long...
Clarke Quay MRT. Featuring Joo, Cina, Pau. Chris, Yees, Tzern and Leng.
Exploration before the night sets in:
Colorful shoes: match the shoes to the people!
Clarke Quay bridge and our friend, The Timer.
Keng Cheow St: we thought the street sign was cute :P
It's not even the 31st but we decided to get a head start at Brewerkz!
On the way to Brewerkz. Trivia: the pillar Tzern is propped up on is pointy. Very pointy.
Alcoholic fun at Brewerkz. Some of us had a little more fun at MOS after ;)
Cheers!
The party (or most of it) laugh, tripped and stumbled its way to MOS. The R&B room was SO congested people were just bouncing on the spot to pass whatever they were doing off as some funky sort of dancing. Wade Robson would've cried bloody tears, really. Well, the music was practically deafening so between not tripping from the heavy musk of sweat, explosive bass and five seconds away from literally tripping over someone elses' feet I guess it wasn't that bad :P
Although, the Retro room was fun... I honestly thought it wasn't so much the music as it was the psychedelic blinking fluorescent floor lights :D
Skipping ahead to the next night (past the Orchard Road crawl through the afternoon), six brave soldiers climbed on board the G-Max to have some good, clean fun. Naturally, I wasn't one of the six. In my defense, wearing a skirt and being bounced up and down several feet high up in the air would've been... an eyesore :P
G-Max crew. Group 1: Chris, Leng and Pau. Group 2: Phaiky, Tzern and Cina.
Before. I can't actual post the panic shots or they will kill me.
After. Kudos! They made it :D
We took the boat to dinner, because we're stylish like that. Not to mention uber tourists.
The least fuzziest of the fuzzy shots.
I thought the massive people jam in KL was BAD... but boy, the crowd at the Esplanade puts KL to shame. It was the longest (and slowest... and ickiest... and most unpleasantly pungent...) walk to dinner at Via Mar.
By the way, Via Mar turned out to be a terrible, terrible place to eat. It rained halfway and they "couldn't" do anything with us. Yes, we had no umbrellas because apparently the management had a quota as to how many umbrellas could be set up... amazing, yes? It's the landed Titanic... except, we had no string quartet and could at least mooch free wine, beer and creme brulee while we were stranded and forced to loiter.
Anyway, shots at Via Mar:
Yees and Chris.
Boy, Mei, Pau and Phaiky.
Group picture! clockwise from top left: Cina, Sun, Phaiky, Tzern, Terry, Chris and Yees.
Oh gosh, and we had two guests!
Guess who?
It's Ed (Nephy) and Randi (Koss)! :D
Ed, Sean and Randi. Don't ask why Ed looks like a puffer fish. He didn't seem to like the other normal pictures of him :P
The countdown... well, there was none :P Just an abrupt "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" through the speakers and the boom of the fireworks thundering in the sky above us... which Tzern and Yees managed to catch through some trees:
There were more of course, but snapshots of 30 minutes of fireworks from between trees just doesn't cut it :P
Since the roads were pretty much closed to any sort of gasoline-powered vehicle, we had to walk back. We took the long way. Yep, the long walk back to Novotel... in painfully high heels:
Group picture on uhm, a bridge.
The girls. It's dark, but the flash was as helpful as throwing bucket of oil onto our faces.
It has been a long walk :P
The three flatscreens. LOL.
The tunnel.
I completely ruined our cool tunnel shot by sticking my hands out at some weird angle that... well, yeah. Bad.
Clarke Quay alive at night.
We eventually made it back... after Ed got slapped by Randi rather loudly (and this is his story to tell ;)) and nearly all the girls had no blood circulation to their feet.
The final day before we left back to KL (did I mention the air conditioner on our bus decided to croak midway and we had to open our mini sunroof?): glorious shots of people who lack sleep, coffee and food.
Probably another one of Terry's crazy theories... Asian women maybe?
Phaiky, Joo and Sun.
Tzern telling the cam what to do.
What the?!
Upside down: I do *not* know how to use a camera...
Modern art sculpture?
Speaking of sculptures, we went to check out the wire art exhibition on the Esplanade. All interpretations are subjective.
Wire-d people.
Wire-d: I blame Chris.
Speaking of Chris...
Strike a pose.
Finally, to wrap things up, I wanted to just dump random shots that didn't really go anywhere (because I'm too lazy to narrate "The Joys of Public Transportation"). However, since the post has already spiraled out of control, I'll save these for another time! :D Meaning... when my other pages come up... yeah.
I'll do my Bali trip some time this week. *yawn* It's time for bed and dreams of where we'll go this year ;)
The deal with the Ferris Wheel
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Disclaimer: This post is a feel good, picture whoring post that is two days late.
I say goodbye to my old camera:
Broken :(
And say hello to the new IXUS 800 IS! :)
Happy early birthday to June Leng...
Birthday girl.
and Tzern!
Disclaimer: This post is a feel good, picture whoring post that is two days late.
I say goodbye to my old camera:
Broken :(
And say hello to the new IXUS 800 IS! :)
Happy early birthday to June Leng...
Birthday girl.
and Tzern!