Cracking Butt Crack!

When you see a photo like this, please bear in mind that we love each other VERY much in the office. Which is why we are confident enough to do shit like this.

This is Mark talking to Deb, while flashing his butt crack at Terence who is being weird.

There, this is the space where quality work gets produced. No joke.

Durian in a bowl??

Shan had an extra ticket to Victor/Victoria and invited me along, so when Mom said she was going to Swissotel, I decided to tag along. The Plaza Market Cafe at Swissotel is a place that Mom goes really often because Keith and family loves that place. Well in my opinion, the food is good and the buffet has a huge variety of choices.

On this day, I reignited my love for the Durian Pengat (they translated it as Durian Pudding, which I guess is fair enough but still not enough justice). I love durian in a bowl!

In sickness and in health...

Today, Eunice's elder got married, and for some weird reason we were all superbly excited and all went to the wedding. (I know, don't ask me why) Our dear Eunice looked so pretty that day! :)

I can't wait for one of us to get married and we can do all that shebang. :)

Nestled in the tropical rainforest....

Our office is located in a pretty sweet location, outskirts of the city - means lower rent but still near the city and kinda accessible, affordable food of walking distance, its an office's haven!

There's this rainforest that is growing on the wall by the back door - right opposite the construction site that gives us no peace...The juxtaposition is so stark!

Go clubbing? I say lets raid the bar!!!!

I was invited to the launch of a new magazine that was held at Velvet Underground - a club. In fact, back in the day, it was the cool go to place..I guess it still is. I was never a frequent occurrence at the place. Anyways, so I was craving for some clubbin' - okay who am I kidding, I was craving for some good old alcohol, you know the stuff you drink to make the world a better place? Yeah, so I asked Dionne along and even though the party was dead. Well no not really, it was dead initially, but it picked up as the night progressed, Di and I were just not having fun. But I did have 3 lychee martinis to myself - that was happifying.

I think Dionne and I had more fun watching each other than actually enjoying the club. And we're both happily attached. Great party guys.

This guy is really weird - take 2.

This is a usual occurrence - I look up from my table and there's Terence, stood behind Mark, 'working with' him. I call this creative hand over hand. Basically, Terence has these weird ideas about how things should look. Well no, he has amazing ideas. But its hard to understand how to get it done if you are not him, hence, he has the habit of talking us through his ideas - also known as training or 'experiential learning' if you are fancy.

But once in a while you get a picture like this and no one knows what is going on. Yeap.....weirdo. But these are the people I work with, and boy, do I love them. :)

And this road belongs to you??

The construction of a new condominium behind our office has been the bane of our lives since we've moved here, the non-stop drilling, yelling, construction noises and not to mention the random construction worker chilling by the backdoor. (Once I was going out of the backdoor to grab a drink from the corner shop, one of the workers was just chilling by the door, and when I opened the door to get in, I totally banged into him -how was I to know if he was gonna be there??!) Anyways, and today they like closed the road (that does NOT belong to them) just because.

I hate that construction site.

Red Bull gives you WINGS!

While Mark momentarily disappeared today, we all thought that the aliens had kidnapped him. Turns out that he'd forgotten to eat lunch and had went out to try to get some food, but didn't find anything he fancies. So, the logical thing to do is to grab a can of old school red bull, because thats what people do.

As he cracked open that can of red bull, and my oh my! We could smell the aroma (yes, I am calling it aroma) of that sugar filled energy drink. Very nice.

Lin on ze drums...

Okay so this is not a proper photo, its a snapshot of a video. But thats only cuz I forgot to take a photo today! And Lyn took a video...so I figured...why not. But do not check out the video, I can't believe that she uploaded this video!

Nevertheless, Rock Band was super fun and I am definitely hanging out at Lyn's more often now. =D

Strange and Stranger....

Okay so this is seriously strange. We were at Shaw, and this is after we watched 2012. We were waiting for the queue to the bathrooms to ease up, and Alvin saw the giant poster of 'Alvin & the Chipmunks' and his eyes lit up. So he stood under the poster and posed for us even though no one asked him to..... Anyways, so in order to take a photo of him standing under the poster, I needed to take a photo from an awkward angle...which resulted in the above atrocity.

Can you spot me among all them cards?

I was putting together a list for a client today, so I had to breakout the name card tray and attack them. Its my very inefficient style of working.

This is what I should have done, I should have had a database list, tag each contact accordingly and when I need them. just go to the list and pull out contacts. Of course, its easy to say what I should have done, the key is that I didn't do that. HA.

They cook for me......

Well not really..but they cook for us! They are the 10 chefs who will be making an appearance at Chefs For A Cause. I can't reveal the photos now, because they have to do into the cook book...so I'll have to wait.

Now you see it...Now its all dark.

Did not do anything fun today, so when Dave dropped by to help Terence pack the stuff for training, I snapped this photo cuz I thought it was funny.

My life is really not fun huh. lol.

Iced Milk Tea with Grass Jelly

We went to the Hong Kong Cafe at City Square Mall today for dinner and this drink comes with my meal. I really enjoyed the drink, in a weird way. It was Iced Milk Tea with Grass Jelly. It felt kinda weird really, like grass jelly instead of pearls in bubble tea.

But I like it, I guess I am a milktea/milkcoffee (totally just coined that) person.

Can I eat that?

Today was the photoshoot (food) for Chefs and it was so fun! I got to meet all the amazing chefs and get to interview them and watch them put together the amazing dishes that they have contributed for the cookbook, and, I was lucky enough to be able to taste some of them - SO NICE.

Now I can't wait for the actual event. :)

WHART?!!

Today Mom dragged us into an organic shop after breakfast, when I saw this interesting product. WHO DARES TO DRINK SOMETHING LIKE THIS??!

-shivers-

The day Nat Geo paid us a visit...well, not really.

Today, a locust decided to pay us a visit. Which was kinda cool because it was overcast and going to rain, which is why (we suspect) that it chose to pay us a visit. But no matter how we knocked at the plane, it just stayed there, in all its majesty. When I say majesty, I am so not kidding. The patterns on its body is so intricate and its legs are so strong, the joints are so nicely chiseled.

I am in awe.

The diamond of my heart

:) I totally did not set this up to shoot! I woke up and found the heart all upright (well not really) on its own. Either it decided to do that to surprise me, or I was totally silly and did not realise that I'd left it there the night before.

Either way, it made me smile. =)

Free rides for three years?

Once again, I haven't done anything remotely exciting today. I was on the bus home when I saw this poster. And that got me thinking...wouldn't it be nice if I had free rides for three whole years? I'd save a shitload of money.....

Singapore's first Eco-mall?

We decided to venture out of the office for lunch today. It was hot, we were brave. (Even though Terence grabbed an umbrella along the way.....for some weird reason unknown to mankind.) So, we walked all the way to CitySquare Mall behind the train station.

This photo was taken when I was at the food court, buying drinks for everyone. I thought it was interesting that they are planting grass on top of a building. Kinda cool. I'm excited to see how this would turn out.

'Dude...Billy Bombers!'

'Dude...Billy Bombers!' was what I said to Lyn when we walked into Cineleisure in search for food. And dear Lyn replied, 'OMG! Lets!' and in we went. :)

I had 2 free back massages at TrueSpa and I'd invited Lyn along... so after the back massage (we totally were almost sucked in to sign a 36mth deal with TruSpa!) we decided to grab some food, we'd decided to go Japanese until Lyn said she 'kinda want meat' and I said, 'Jack's Place The Heeren, lets go, it'll be empty!' So on route to The Heeren we realised that there was this huge facade outside of it (I'd thought it was closed), so we decided to go to Cineleisure instead.

But isn't it great that I caught Lyn right under the American flag? =) Thats a HUGE hint.

The day of 2 breakfasts

Today, being a usual Sunday, I woke up to a pot of steaming beehoon for breakfast. Which I really do enjoy. But then halfway thru the morning, Mom asked if I wanted to go for breakfast with Keith... of course I said yes, anything to get out of the house by that time.

And tada! This was what's in store for me! Ngoh Hiang... & Bee Hoon! Not that I am complaining, I am a fan of ngoh hiang. Its one of the many local delicacies that I am proud of. I am proud of Singaporean food, which is more than I can say for other parts of the country.

Scariest Places on Earth

When you see photos of the TV is when you should know that I did nothing exciting today. Which is exactly the case here. I absolutely did not do anything exciting at all today.

But the sister and I did watch Scariest Places on Earth together and boy it was scary. Kinda random too because why would anyone put themselves through all that trouble just to scare themselves?! This episode was of the story of an American family who travelled all the way to Romania to spend a night in a notoriously haunted old castle to then freak out and did not spend the entire night there.... hmmmm......

On another note, I caught up with all my TV today. How bittersweet and how am I supposed to continue with my life now??!

Here rattie rattie rattie....!

So in a bid to find out if there is, indeed, another rat in the office, or if the snacks were holed by the rat (more affectionately known as THAT DAMN RAT) that the boys caught. Deb and I came up with this swanky idea of leaving a bait. So, we left this on the floor last night.

(Imagine Mark's horror when he finds that on the ground this morning.)

As expected, we don't really have a family of rats living in our office (even though I really think we do), this bag of Mamee noodles was left untouched. See we even left a note for the rat, from us with love!

Perhaps the rat has become smarter this time round, we'll need smarter ways to combat it. Or perhaps there is no rat at all.......

We don't really know, do we.

Who's the rat?!

So being a hungry monster this afternoon, I went to rumage through our box of snacks and to my horror found the above!! There were holes in the packets of snacks. I almost died.

It was then that Deb and I concluded that either the rat that the boys caught the other day had been living in our midst for a long long time, or that there was another rat in the office!! In order to find out....we took radical steps.

Stay tuned to find out.

This guy is really weird.

So today was Terence's JCI Award Ceremony thingum and the dress code was black tie, so of course, to a lot of people that is 'damn I have to wear a suit??!' but to my dear Boss it is, 'Yay! Any excuse to break out the tux!' And of course, he looks suitably out of place here in this picture while he poses for the camera and an indifferent ALvin trying to work on my computer.

Just another day in my office.

YOU BOUGHT A F*CKING MERCEDES????

That was literally my response when Gary told me that he'd bought a Mercedes, I thought he was going nuts. But then we met for supper and I had a chance to ride in his new swanky car...I was impressed. Like I told Martin, I feel like I had a huge dick just sitting in it.

His car does the whole blue tooth phone syncing thingum where he syncs his phone to his car and when he needs to take a call while driving, the call is broadcasted through his stereo. HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT???!?

Now I want to learn how to drive and buy a Mercedes. (Hear that, Martin?)

Where did the subtitles go?

So today was my last official interview for the festival - I had to take Mr Taichi Yamada (who wrote 'I haven't Dreamt of Flying in a While' etc) to Hello Radio for an interview. Catch is, the interview will be conducted in Japanese. Nice.

So while they were having that pre-interview discussion, I was sat there thinking, 'Where did they subtitles go?' I used to watch a lot of Japanese drama series on TV, hence looking for subtitles when hearing Japanese comes as a second nature to me, I guess......

This is my 'I'm just standing here, waiting for someone to come marry me' look

After all that madness at Festival today, I ended it off with a lovely dinner with Wena, Terence & Alvin. Courtesy of Wena of course, she drew this coupon at Blackout. But not before coordinating the photoshoot for Amanda.

And while you might be confused after reading the title of this post, Amanda was in a velvety cheongsam dress and said that it was her 'I'm just standing here, waiting for someone to come marry me look'. Nice.

But the photo was of her other look - the wild 'fuckedup' look. (I didn't say that, she said it herself!)

Meeting Amanda was really cool, I like her music and I like her style, I like that she doesn't usually give a fuck about a lot of things (or at least gives the impression that she doesn't). And I like that she can put Gaiman in his place.

Indeed, they are so in love. But who isn't? :)