3 down, 2 more to go!

YES only Company Law & Society and the Environment left and I’ll be done with my degree… hopefully..

Had homemade bacon and cheese pasta with a bottle of riesling for dinner with my beau yesterday… Yummy yum. No, I didn’t cook, someone can cook much better than me. My duty lies in polishing food off my plate.

 I got a ”Post-torture to-do list”… plastered on the desktop in my lappie… hehehe. Seriously I need to think about it less, for now. Freedom is distracting! lol. That, and I still wanta finish off my exams not just half-heartedly. I just need to thank my beau here for calming me down in my bouts of paranoia. The stress is weighing me down so much I’m starting to have a mini breakout on my face (horrors!!) and I’m losing weight in the wrong places…. (MORE HORRORS!)… I should have more wholesome food to gain back a bit of weight to fit my clothes better.

Really, the last thing I want is to look anorexic. I see so many pencil-thin sticks trotting around in town with their clothes hanging off their teeny shoulders, with their faces all sunken and looking like they’ve been on cocaine.. It’s so soulless.. Ahh well. A food-addict like will never ever be anorexic. haha.

People I’ll be free after 12 June!! (Although my diploma course won’t be over till end of July, I’ll be MUCH more free to meet up and stuff…) And I’ve got a 2 week holiday in the last 2 weeks of June!! I can’t wait to catch up with everyone who actually wants to catch up with me. (Just that sometimes it’s so pointless to meet a person who’s always too busy to make time for me…. *sobz*)

Oh another thing, party idea pending.. Anyone know of any place good for a low-key, just drink and talk but low budget party? No coffeeshops and fast food places!! lol. Throw me ideas, won’t you.

Scotsman in LA!!

Get me a ticket on the Late Late Show!!!

Italian paperwork?? What paperwork??

“First rule of HairClub: Don’t talk abt HairClub!”

Take a breather

Hi all, I’ve been busy with exams; they’re still not over yet, 4 more papers to go, but since the next paper’s in abt 6 days I think I’ll hafta come here and update for a bit before I forget what I wanta write.. So.

Yesterday and today are the most hectic days for the past week, because I’ve had one paper per day (Commercial law yesterday and Hospitality facilities management today)… But being me, I had to unwind after each paper, even if it means I hafta wake up early to revise at the last min for my paper today.. I’ve been naughty, but it was worth it (quote Craig Ferguson on letter to Santa…. hehehe). :p

For the first time ever, I attended a wine appreciation seminar with my beau at Spain2Dream in Vivocity and OMG it was so worth the 10 bucks registration fee… Not only did we get a lecture on the making of Spanish cava (Spanish version of the French Champagne) and wines, we got to sample 2 types of cava, one red wine and one white (all on free-flow), together with tapas, tortillas (which is nothing like the Mexican cousin…it was made from potato, egg and onions like an omelette, and is not spicy at all) and various olives. AND we got a 20 bucks voucher each so he got 2 bottles of sangrias for SGD1.80 ((SGD10.90 – SGD10.00) x2) and I got a block of cheese for free (retails for SGD10) also a bottle of Juve y Camps cava for abt SGD47++… The lady who runs Spain2Dream is, ironically, French(!), much to the amusement of the Spanish gentleman who guided us through the appreciation seminar. All in all, it was worth it. I’m saving my cava for post-exam celebrations.

Today was equally great cuz I got the great news that I passed my hospitality supervision with 85% (when I only expected abt 70%) and I went for a day out with Shuwen shopping and having girly chat (we bumped into a friend of mine in Starbucks!! Can’t avoid familiar faces on a busy saturday in S’pore. This place makes you think everyone’s running in circles with you, just in different directions) etc.

Lunch was at Azabu Sabo, this Hokkaido ice cream place which I raved about before, but service and food quality were obscenely disappointing today… The waitresses looked like something’s up their asses, the green tea they refilled was semi-lukewarm, the service was very impersonal and insincere. And the dessert was substandard!
I ordered the one with sweet potato and azuki beans base, with vanilla soft serve on top, drizzled with green tea. The azuki beans were given sparingly (it used to be a huge dollop of it hidden undernearth the ice cream), the sweet potato wasn’t warmed up enough, the ice cream was already melting and leaning to one side when they served it.

The verdict is out. I’m not going back there again.

But at least I got great deal at Novo… Got a pair of the gold Gisele Bundchen Ipanema shoes for SGD27! It’s for charity *innocent blink*, it’s gorgeous and snakes around my boney feet like golden twines…. I absolutely love it.

Oh I feel like such a shopaholic.. bleah…

On a bitchy note, Imbecile seemed so pissed off today. I got this strange sense of satisfaction to know his weekend’s not starting well for him. Muahaha. And the office airhead couldn’t be smug with me cuz well, I got a friggin 85%, thank you very much. So there. I’m pleased.

Starting tomorrow I shall hafta end my frivolously premature enjoyment and make sure I prepare enough for my next paper…Criminology!!!! I kinda like it, especially the topics on feminist criminology and punishment… Fascinating things you’ll find there if you dig deep.  

Signing off!

Say what you want, but I think this is degeneration.

To think gay men are facing the same glass ceiling as women did, pre-feminism..

Young Gay execs to break pink ceiling..
By Ben Klayman and Kim Dixon

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Corporate boardrooms are slowly becoming a somewhat friendlier place for gay executives, but as John Browne’s sudden exit from the top job at oil major BP Plc showed when his sexuality became public fodder, there are still challenges to overcome.

Browne stepped down last week when a UK court lifted an injunction preventing a newspaper group from publishing details about his private life. He was scheduled to retire in July, but stepped aside to “avoid unnecessary embarrassment and distraction to the company,” adding he had always regarded his sexuality as a private matter.

“There still is a pink ceiling for openly gay executives,” said Malcolm Lazin, executive director of Equality Forum, a group that promotes civil rights for gays.

This is supposedly very true…

You Are Emerald Green

Deep and mysterious, it often seems like no one truly gets you. Inside, you are very emotional and moody – though you don’t let it show. People usually have a strong reaction to you… profound love or deep hate. But you can even get those who hate you to come around. There’s something naturally harmonious about you.

What Color Green Are You?

Last dash

It just occured to me how close I am to freedom.. I’m still thinking about my exams, of course, which is going to start in about 2 weeks’ time. Plus I should start thinking about raising money for going to NZ next year..

All these years of academia… It’s been going downhill from O levels. My Dad sometimes reminds me about how I used to score distinctions and get awards. (I was the model student/ scholarly geek/ law-abiding teacher’s pet, until I experienced personal low-points & the ugliness of elitism which the education system here convinced me spelled the doom of my life. Well. F*k the system, I’m going to get outta here as soon as I can because Singapore’s too small for me, and I’m not Singaporean.)

Apparently A level sciences and math weren’t really my cup of tea. So yea, I didn’t get into the university that my parents hoped I’ll get into. I didn’t have the perks of an Ivy League education. But still, in a few months’ time I’m going to have a diploma and a degree from world-recognised institutions. So f*k elitism.

I’ll pull my socks up and end with a flourish.. Nail that bloody degree with decent honours and have a HUGE party to celebrate. I want everybody I know to meet everybody else I know. I have this theory that if my primary school friends know my secondary school, junior college, business school and hospitality school friends, there will be more people coming to my funeral when Life ends for me.

I wanta watch my own funeral.

Have you watched Big Fish? If people you meet only once remember you and celebrate the existence of you with everybody else who meant a lot to you at your funeral and they actually talk about you long after you’re six feet under, man, you must be one helluva human being.

Today I admitted to having a huge ego, to which The Capitalist Infidel agreed without a second thought. I think I should tone down. Or my beau’s going to have a hard time.
Sometimes I think I should take up a menial job in order to be humbled.
Or the ego just comes naturally when you stay in Singapore for too long. I started realising I’m not one of them and I was glad I had that realisation. That’s when I started planning about NOT staying here to work or worse, become a PR/ citizen like many Malaysians. 
Being Singaporean doesn’t sound very glorifying for me. Sorry LKY, your plan didn’t work on me.

So anyways. Yes watch out World, I’m going places.

Yea I have ego problems….

You Are a Chocolate Cake

Fun, comforting, and friendly. You are a true classic, and while you’re not super cutting edge, you’re high quality. People love your company – and have even been known to get addicted to you.

What Kind of Cake Are You?

You Are Designer Panties

You demand the best, from head to toe. And your panties have to be pure couture, for your own luxury. Men feel like you’re a worthy challenge, though you can be difficult to catch. You exude a polished, sexy vibe that tends to attract confident men.

What Kind of Panties Are You?