Pseudo Leggings

Love thy knee-high socks! Love thy knee-high socks! Pseudo leggings! Wait till I get the real deal. I love American Apparel!

2 Consecutive Days Off From Work

Unfortunately, I only got 3 days of work this week. I think I need to put in effort to appear 'in desperate need of money'. I mean, I need to feed my need for shopping, right? Plus I'm gonna be shopping FOR SCHOOL, okay.

But me being me, I tend to switch things around to my advantage, so no matter how unfortunate a situation is, I'll make it fortunate again. So this week, great, I'll have many days of rest. I forgot how tiring it is to be working at the box office. Trust me, it's taxing like hell. So I've decided to catch up with my social life instead.

On Tuesday, I slept most part of the day away, desperately trying to muffle out the drilling and construction racket. When I finally did crawl out of bed, it was late afternoon.

I took a shower, stumbled out of the house, headed to the supermarket, foraging for food. Then I got hit by a brain wave and decided to make beer-battered fish and chips. Beer, beer, beer. It's all I've been thinking about! OMG.

Before I did any shopping, called Farid and Dil, whom I apparently promised to meet up with the night before. So after much deliberation and coercion, I decided to go meet them. With the turn of some events, they decided to go catch a movie IN TOWN.

So I scrapped the idea of beer-battered fish, and went to meet them. I felt kinda off because I was dressed like shit and was heading to town. I wasn't even shabby-chic, okay. Just shabby. But what the heck, we were just going to TheCathay—the fringe of town.

Thought I could get free tix, but thought wrong. But hey! We paid 6 bucks for each tix, and got free popcorn and drinks! The undisclosed perks of working at the cinema lah, huh.

Then came Wednesday, where I met with Jana, who was going for a job interview at Ninewest. The lady offered me an application form too, of which I politely declined, though bewildered at first. 

“You employ guys?!” I exclaimed.

Jana was asking me to fill it in too, coercing me to try it out for the chance that I might get a higher paying job. But retail? Hmm... Maybe when I feel more ready for it lah.

Oh yeah, right before Jana texted me to meet, I was once again thinking of my beer-battered fish. I was fucking googling for fish batter recipes already, okay! Haha!... So I scrapped the idea for a second time.

(I did like a whole morning of online window shopping! Oh ma, I oogled at satin charmeuse jackets, vintage plaid shorts, basket weave sandals, patent leather loafers, rainbow tees, tailored pants from Junn J and went ga-ga crazy at drugstore.com.)

Fungry from thinking about my beer-battered fish, we went to have ayam penyet at Marina Square. Woohoo! FINALLY SATISFIED MY CRAVING FOR IKAN BAWAL PENYET LAH!!! Ayam Penyet Ria at Lucky Plaza ran out of pomfret for the longest time!

It was many weeks ago that the craving for pomfret penyet came about. After seeing Nenny swipe her pomfret clean like how a tame house cat would eat its fish, fried pomfrets just appear delectable and tantalising.

After dinner, Jana and I headed to Starbucks at Suntec, where I met two of her long-time friends. This is what I mean by catching up with my social life. It's been soooooo long since I met new people. I love people and people love me.

But I loved her friend more after she lugged out a bottle of Absolut Mango and offered me a shot or two. Haha!... The power of alcohol, people. Fucking hell lah, I'm succumbing too much to alcohol.

Oh, and I still cannot shake the feeling that I absolutely HAVE to go for the girl party tomorrow night! I would take it that meeting Jana's girlfriends was a sign that I should party tomorrow. Plus I'm off from work on Friday, so I'll have the whole day to recuperate post-clubbing.

Anyways, after hanging out at Suntec, Jana and I headed over to Toa Payoh, where we planned to surprise Leila since she was on closing shift at the cinema. Very much missed the times at Eng Wah Suntec when we would work together, break together, eat together, crap together, basically BE TOGETHER.

Yes, the pay at Eng Wah Cinemas was minimum, but we had so much fun! Those were the times, seriously. I want to enjoy work like before. At least there was more camaraderie back in the Eng Wah days. Who the fuck enjoys going lunch/dinner break alone?!

I suggested that I could go back working at Eng Wah, but with a slew of resignations and an unfortunate loss, I just don't think things will be the same.

I need a new job lah.

Free, Freer, Freest

Contrary to popular belief, the word 'freer', meaning more free, is actually a proper word. Hence I am not wrong to use the word in my daily speech.

The Strangers and The Strangers the Movie

Despite bad reviews, still went to watch The Strangers today at Cathay Downtown East, this mall called E!Hub or something. What's up with the ambiguous names, seriously...

The place, OMFG, is just gaudy. It's got this cheap indoor ferris wheel thingy contaminating its facade, and the whole place got splashed with so much colour, it just screams gaudy. We walked into the lift, with no idea which floor to go to, since it wasn't properly labeled on which floor the box office was.

On level 4, it was still unclear where the box office was. I don't like it when tickets AND snacks share the same counter. I want to get tickets without having to fend off the glaring spotlights of the snackbar. When I do wanna get snacks, then I really don't mind the glaring spotlights! But tickets and snacks together? I don't get it.

And the ticketing staff wasn't too friendly. Not rude, yes, but not friendly either. Delivered her lines correctly, yes, but could do with a more pleasant facial expression. And I would love for more time to pick my seats. I really don't need anyone to rush me.

“How 'bout here?” (tap tap) “How 'bout this?” (tap tap)

I just feel like I'm such a horrible customer that she wants me outta her face pronto. 

Moving on, the usher was the worst lah, seriously. OMFG, rude, rude, rude!

He stood at his rostrum, head down, apparently occupied reading some highly important shit. I inched closer to him, hoping he'd look up. Alas! He fucking just reached out with one hand, with his head down! Hmm, REALLY important shit he must've been reading...

TSK!

And the movie was just typical of C-list movies lah...

Hot obscure actors and nice theatrical masks. Like the gay subtext with the 2 pubescent Christian boys with their bicycles towards the end.

Told You I Love My Job

Woke up one Tuesday morning, greeted with a text message from Sue-ann, telling me that my name appeared in the papers, something about hospitality at work.

See http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_253339.html

I Still Love Colours

Apart from the socks, I got an oversized tee from the American Apparel store too! Just when I started to believe that I should only wear fitted clothes, I realised that I shouldn't rule out wearing baggy clothes. After all, it's not what you wear, it's how you wear it.

And why get it it 1 colour when you can have it in 7 all in one?!

Knee-High Socks Are Hot

For weeks now, I've been looking for knee-high socks. Maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, but I just cannot seem to find them at all! Until I went online to the American Apparel store. Thank heavens!

So I ordered these 2 pairs from the online store, paid a bomb for shipping and my order reached my doorstep 3.5 days later!

My mother chided me for buying, for the love of god, SOCKS! online, and paying a bomb for them. But I thought it was well worth the money. I love American Apparel and I FINALLY GOT MY KNEE-HIGH SOCKS!