Virgin expedition: May 2005

Gosh that song has gotta be the saddest in the world. Brings back such bad memories of me sobbing at the Top of the M restaturant 5 long years ago with my then boyfriend. We were having our romantic goodbye dinner when this idiot serenader comes to the table and thought it would be so cool to sing this song since I was leaving the country. OF COURSE i started bawling, spoilt my makeup, ruined my appetite and scared the musician shitless that he actually stopped playing midway through and scuttled off in shame and horror.

Anyway, this time, leaving on jet plane is a happier moment. Aside from the fact that I will be leaving poochoo (my nickname for Chiara) for 10 days, I am simply ECSTATIC that tomorrow afternoon I will be on a jet plane headed to NYC for a full week of debauchery and obscene money spending. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! no tears this time!! and how efficient have I been!!!

My work is almost done, my desk is cleared, MY LUGGAGE IS ALMOST PACKED eventhough I think i will have to take some things out in order to make space for shopping. Sometimes it's just too tough being a girl...but that's another blog for another day.

ok...will update this blog once i am back from hols...

Ciao tutti!!!!

No not my first time that way...get your head out of the gutter...it's my first time blogging. I will write about my other, more significant first when I am feeling nostalgic ok? Am pretty nervous I must say but then again, I am old already, so venturing out into new territory and trying new hobbies always gets me nervous.

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that's me!!

Anyway, it's lunchtime here in ole yodel-land and in 3 days, i will be on a plane Stateside..NYC to be exact and I cannot wait...my first girlie holiday in 2 years and i am just so excited. Will miss my baby Chiara immensely but i am not going to discuss that. I have realized that in life it is very good to compartmentalize..if not, sure go crazy wan....but that's another blog for another day.Back to dreaming about New York.

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Chiara and me!!

Being Singaporean i cannot wait to hit the shops - but also being a deprived working-mum, i also CANNOT WAIT to party party party!!! just with the gals...no boyfriends and hubbies around to bother about...oh and not to forget, feasting on good old junk food which i am deprived of living here in Europe. No 7-11 even to get a Slurpee when needed. Not even McDonalds' breakfasts!! can u imagine? In singapore, i used to look forward to nursing my hangovers with a delicious oily, calorie-laden sauasge mcmuffin and hash browns. mmmmm...can't wait....and to hear english being spoken around me...wow...how wonderful would that be?

Its funny, one would think that coming from singapore I could go home and be comfortable speaking english but with all this mother tongue business, english seems to be a foreign language these days back home. A faaar cry from what I used to hear when I was growing up. By the way, I left Singapore 5 years ago, just as it was all beginning to go downhill...linguistically i mean.By the way, what the hell happened? If anyone out there can tell me why I only hear Chinese, Malay and Tamil being spoken around me, I would really love to know.

I guess when I was growing up, if you didnt speak English that meant you came from a dirty government school...yes, yes, I am a convent school girl...and a true snobby one to boot. But these days it seems that good convent girls also speak "mother tongue" and blend in perfectly with those government school types. EEEEEE!!!

OK ok..enuff bitching abt govt school, singapore, switerland and all the rest of it...would love to talk more but really should get going. Afterall, lunchtime is long over and need to get back to planning my wardrobe for NYC...and getting some work done in between. Here's a pic of team NYC on a trip in Mykonos 2 years ago...