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[	Current Location	|	Office	]
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 Work's crazy-busy. I have scary deadlines looming. In the midst of all that there's the bar, of course. I dunno. I think Boss may have a vague idea that he'll just squeeze it all outta me in June and leave me free in July for the bar. If that's the case, it'd be awesome but I can't be banking on it.

Watched Prince Caspian over the weekend. Meh. Not as good as the first and I still don't know the reason for a couple of things in the movie. Whatever, I needed a mindless zone-out period on Friday evening and this hit the spot.

I'm at work now. Yeah...came in at 7.45am. One of my deadlines is imminent and work's aplenty. 

How are you all doing?

[	Tags	|	food, job, misc, personal	]
[	Current Mood	|	calm	]

I am determined not to let my dismal performance at school taint the rest of my life. I'm still feeling a bit blue about it, in addition to absolute bewilderment as to a couple of my grades, but I have been researching alternate career paths online and it has boosted my morale some. Hopefully something good comes out of that.

But on a more pleasant note, things have been great between 3L & I (touch wood), and we have been having a rocking good time exploring the city and its surrounding areas. Last Saturday, we decided to head to the prior-mentioned Siamese Princess for dinner, but when we got there it was so crowded, there was no seating for us. But all was not lost because my sharp eyes had spotted a quiet Hunan-Chinese restaurant bang opposite the Thai place. So off we went, ducking into the uber low-profiled entrance... only to find an incredibly classy and quiet outfit decked out in the most aesthetically pleasing colours and paintings!! The food was par excellence; we started off with the incredible and spicy stuffed hot peppers and  I had a lamb dish (I can't recall the name right now) that was so juicy and tender and well-flavoured, I'm salivating just thinking of it! Between that restaurant & Rangoon, sorry white folk, I have to conclude that Asian cuisine is the best there is :)

Sunday was dedicated to grocery-shopping and D&D for 3L. We cooked hamburgers on the grill, giving it the flame-cooked flavour....yummmmm. I love burgers! But as we were chatting with each other (the D&D group, i.e.) the subject of strip joints came up. Now, 3L & I have never gone to one of those and I have always been ambivalent about going. It just seems like one's asking for trouble, particularly if one's in a solid relationship. Why have temptation thrown in your face when not everyone is a Gandhi?? So I said 3L & I have an agreement not to have our bachelor and bachelorette parties at a strip joint, which drew tremendous and raucous outburtsts from our company. No no, they said, that's just not right! That's no fun! Plus, the bachelor's party is not for the bachelor, it's for his friends. And so on.

Well, no go, folks. Even if I'm ok with going to strip clubs, I despise the concept of bachelor/bachelorette parties being hosted at these venues. A marriage is to be celebrated, not to be thought of as restraining one's sexual desires! I don't think a marriage is sacred, but I certainly don't want to be married to a bloke who views it as ending his sex life and therefore needs to go look at a whole bunch of boobies the night before. That just offends my sensibilities and I don't want it for me, ever. Luckily for me, 3L is of a like (if not the same) opinion.

But that's me. What do you folks think?

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[	Current Mood	|	content	]
[	Current Music	|	Every rose has its thorn - Poision	]

Hope everyone has NYE plans all sorted out. After a fortnight of frantically hustling to solidify our NYE plans, we've fiinally decided upon a potluck dinner party at 3L's. My bro is here with me and because that twit is underage, no bars at midnight :(  I'm a huge fan of being among the thick of things and people - the more crowded, the better - when ushering in the new year, so am a tad disappointed. But having my friends and bro around me for 2006 makes me happy.

I ventured out a little in the city on Thursday. Having initially planned to go to South Street with S, we ended up at The Gallery at Market East when God decided to piss on us (does it work as a metaphor??). I had a great day out, although I proved to myself once and for all that I can't just window-shop. I had $20 with me for emergency cash, and I spent half of that on a blouse from New York & Company; no emergency there except the urgent need of mine to BUY. THAT. GODDAMN. BLOUSE. S and I spent a good couple of hours doing girl talk and shopping. I must say, shopping with a girl after all these months felt incredible! There's something very therapeutic about pawing the sale racks and laughing at bad clothes and swooning over the good pieces.

Today, 3L and I spent the better part of the day out, driving and running errands in and out of the city. Since I have the Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), making the most of the sunlight is key to avoidance of my temper tantrums. The drive went a long, long way in that direction. After making yummy beef tacos for dinner, we are just chillin' on the couch, settled in for the night watching Last Laugh 2005. Peace out, folks. Have yourselves a happy new year!! I'll be back in 2006.

*The title has nothing to do with this post, but I adore that song!!

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[	Current Mood	|	cheerful	]

I've spent too much time recuperating from exams this week. But it's been totally worth it. After spending Christmas with 3L and his family, my bro and I went into the city to stay at my place. Thursday being the last day of exams for the law school, I went out to TPDS with a couple of guys from law school. The drinking started out innocuously at Temple's beloved Draught Horse, and continued at TPDS, albeit with a different group of friends. The funniest thing happened at TPDS - that place has a dance floor and since I love to dance, me and a couple of my girl friends went upstairs to boogie. This one bloke was introduced to me by a friend just before we all headed to the dance floor, so T tagged along and started dancing with me. Now T looked totally gay; he had on the requisite tight clubbing shirt, a decorative kitchy chain, and a lithe build. Once we started dancing, he seemed to be totally into it and talked incessantly about all the dance clubs in Philly. He told me how much he loved to dance and that he frequented all these dancing waterholes whenever he could. But then he suddenly started complimenting me on something... because of the loud noise, I couldn't really make out the ends o sentences, but he definitely said something about me was very cute. And by then I had told him that I was attached, so he said. "You're very cute, you know...it's too bad you have a boyfriend." I was totally stumped because I was dancing with him thinking he was gay! I later asked my friend who introduced me to him whether he was gay and she was like, "I have no idea..."....but in my defence, my other girlfriend thought T was gay, so there. At least my gaydar, despite being off, wasn't apparently all that way off.

Bro and I went back to the burbs on Friday, where 3L surprised me by showing up a lot earlier than I had expected. He had decided to partake of the holiday spirit and enjoy the long weekend by making it just that little bit longer. Worked for me! So we were making dinner when the K's called and asked to watch King Kong. Since am a sucker for a movie and 3L didn't mind watching that movie, we all decided to make the 10.30 p.m. showing. Big mistake. The movie is 3 bloody hours and 30 minutes long!!!!! We came home, exhausted, at 2 a.m. The film was good, really good, though and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. Just shouldn't have watched it at 10.30 p.m., especially when 3L had woken up at 5.30 a.m.!

I've had a relaxing weekend, filled only with movies such as Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Tadpole, which I had to discontinue because it was a tad too creepy, and trashy books (whose names I don't recall off the top of my head). 3L has tomorrow off as well, so I am extending my weekend till Tuesday, when I intend to step back into mainstream society and launch my job hunt. Hope you all had a merry Christmas!

PS: I've been experimenting with background images, let me know what you think of the current one, yea?

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[	Current Mood	|	Zapped-out	]
[	Current Music	|	What's your flava - Sean Paul	]

Oh my god, this is what being revived from the dead feels like! And I'm going to die twice more before this week's over. I officially hate coffee, the mere thought of the smell of it is enough to make me nauseous (I remember reading somewhere that "nauseous" as a word doesn't exist or some such thing...well, they're wrong. I checked)!

In other news, I had one of the busiest weekends ever. Friday, after writing here that I'm going to Iron Hill for dinner and then to Narnia, I did neither. I bought the tickets on fandango and then... sort of just... slumped on the couch. I didn't feel like moving, not even to the kitchen to get a glass of water. So I decided to let the money slide and sit on the couch till I couldn't even do that. Yea, it was a pretty disappointing way of spending a Friday evening... THAT Friday evening. But it was ok, because Saturday was filled with activity.

3L and I went to Cereality. It's such a brilliant concept! I had the blueberrylicious smoothie which was just absolutely smooth-tastic. And we unexpectedly bumped into company - an old woman - who listed some fun, off-beat eateries to try out in Philly. You know, it never struck me just how many people out there know lawyers; this woman's son apparently graduated from Temple Law! When I told her that I'm still a current student there, she gives me this look and says, "When you graduate, make sure you stay as sweet as you are now." Me, sweet. Obviously she's a stranger!

But really, sitting there in Cereality, taking in the sights and sounds of University City, it was simply divine. I'm a hard-core city girl, I crave the hustle and bustle of the city. The suburbs are just too quiet, there's too much space and hardly anythin going on. As I tell people, I want to open my window and see people milling about at any time of the day. I don't need space all that much, I don't want it all that much. The pulse of University City suits me wonderfully; I love to see students rushing past me, complaining about their classes or their boyfriends, I even enjoy frat and sorority kids planning their next big keg party. I lap it all up. Next year, when I finally graduate and move out of my current apartment, I'm most likely going to look for a place on Penn's campus. I like youth - suburbia is too colourless and drab and OLD. 

Saturday night saw us attending the Js' party. It was, again, a lot of fun. We had decided not to go because of my exam on Monay, but since I really wasn't studying and since I was desperately in need of company, attending the party seemed like a really good idea. And it was. One of the thing I miss about S'pore is my interactions with friends there. We used to group together and laugh our guts out - either by dishing out dirt about others (not much) or poking fun at each other in front out our faces (plenty of this). I miss that here. I find that people in this country are very polite and civil to each other, and can't take barbs too well. I can play along with that as well, but I need to mock and jeer, not in a mean-spirited way, but in an obnoxious kind of way. J's party proved very opportune for that, and for that, I will be eternally grateful!

Come Sunday, I was all drained and decided,  in what must be the nuttiest ever decision, to watch Sex and the City's first season...and then Christmas with the Kranks. Obviously that didn't leave me with too much room to study. So I didn't. By Monday, I was alternating between panic and pure apathy towards my exam. Ultimately, I think I screwed up but what the hell. I'll still graduate next May. I still have two exams left - one on Wednesday and the last one on Friday. Copious amounts of coffee are going to be consumed till Friday, and then I'm going to impose a temporary ban on all coffee-based products. That includes tiramisu! Now you know am serious.