some people live for the fortune. some people live just for the fame.

Who is EXCITED!?? I love Alicia Keys, by the way.

By the way, I'm throwing a shout out to my cousin Joe who says that he will just skim my blog because I am "quirky". Nice.

SO this morning I really couldn't go to sleep until like........4 am? I guess I am worse jet-lagged than I thought. I got home at a reasonable hour after (missing) watching the F1 race (that Indianapolis lost to Singapore...lame) and shopping a bit. I bought a nice business card holder, and I also bought two colors of havaianas, which are "good quality" (as my friends tell me) flip flops - one pair brown, the other champagne. nice. If I really find myself lacking, I will buy a pair of white or black havaianas. I miss my red purse... :(

So what else is new? I missed Asian food so much that I got teased for eating so much since I've gotten back. It's not my fault that Mexico and London didn't satisfy me. But I am planning to go wakeboarding (no cancellations this time!!) this Sunday for a few hours, so hopefully I will get a bit of sun as well as someone's eyes bleeding out because of my round tumtum. WHAHAHA. seriously. laugh out loud. I need to stop gorging myself with delicious Singapore food. Today I had a bowl of beef udon, sun maki and a raspberry fizzy, sugary drink (esprit) for lunch.

Tonight I will be cleaning my apartment and doing loads and loads of laundries. I figured out that my washing machine:
1. likes to eat my socks
2. likes to chew my shirts
3. doesn't like to take a big mouthful
4. takes less than an hour
5. cannot wash reds before whites. cannot wash anything before whites. or else the whites are whites no more. they are pinks. or greens.
6. eats my money

So hmm...what else is new? I had a small chat with a guy with whom I went to junior high school. I bothered a few of my friends. Rescheduled wakeboarding for Sunday. and OH YEAH I got a new number for Singapore. No more prepaid for me! :) I didn't get another phone though. Not yet at least. I have to pay a minimum of $100 to get another phone, but since I already have two, I'll just carry two around because I have like 900 minutes to use up from my other phone (even though I cannot have any incoming calls, which is totally lame but whatever).

Buying an iphone is $208 with a 2-year plan. That is super cheap, man! I feel like I should have waited to buy a phone because I would have saved a lot of money, but it's ok, I guess because I wanted a phone before I knew that I would be based in Sg and not Dubai.

I was back at work today and reading more about the Mex project. I'm thinking about signing up for gymnastics classes, which are on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons. I think that I would rather sign up for the Thursday night one because I can hang out with my friends on Saturday afternoons. The only bad part is that I might be very sore the next morning (Friday). Waking up sore on Sunday would be ok because I get to recuperate some, but Saturday afternoons are when we all hang out, so because I need my exercise, I think Thursday is the way to go. It will cost me $500 to get out to December 13, which I think is quite reasonable. I want to find out if I can purchase enough for 10 classes or so though or more because I don't know how often I will be out of town. I will check out the place/class this Thursday night after work.

Is there anything else to ramble about? No? Well I'm going to upload a video of one of my cousin's daughters being really cute.

eating char siew pao and um pork porridge

so i stayed out late last night playing pool with some of my friends, and then i slept over at a friend's house and watched a few movies (on top of the four that i watched during the flight)

so let's see. from london, i went to paris for a day and a half to visit ma famille! i met some of the cousins (the arrangements were so last minute :p, so i didn't get to see everyone). i will upload pictures later. my cousins' children are SO cute! SOOOOO CUTE! and I had a good time just seeing family again because it's been over 1.5 years since I've seen them last (Christmas 2006). Well anyways, it was about a two hour train trip back to London, then a 57lb trip to the heathrow airport. for real. i have the most precious video of my cousin's one year old daughter scooping rice to put into the rice cooker. PRECIOUS!!!!!!!!! (lalu!)

then, what else? then i didn't sleep on the airplane because i couldn't fall asleep, so I watched What Happens in Vegas, Prince Caspian, House of the Flying Daggers, and Don't Mess with the Zohan. Yeah...I was that bored. I was even bored enough to follow my trip across Europe, Middle East, South Asia and down to Singapore, even though it was all in Chinese characters. Bored.

I ate a lot too on the plane. I'm sorry of in love with the pretzels that were salt and vinegar-flavored. yes. I think I preferred the plane's food to the food in Mx, and besides two meals (even though it was just a cream of chicken with roasted corn, it wasn't too shabby).

yes.

ok so what else? i got back, unpacked a few things (well, my laundry basket is now overflowing if that is what unpacking is actually) and then headed out to meet my friends who I missed!!!!!!!! so now I am going to play risk and eat dinner with ma famille singapore!

and my friend SH is totally doing my hair right now. I think that we're going to have a good laugh.

and i love john paul mitchell tea tree shampoo. it is the best. and i might look like an alien right now.

LOVE YOU!

Sans