HAPPY 2010!

Nothing feels different to me. It's just a jump in numbers from 09 to 10 isn't it? Seeing everyone else make a big hoo-ha over the new year, seems like I'm the only one not drowning myself in this joyous period. Perhaps it's true that as one grows older, these passing years simply means nothing. Ahh shit. I am still young right? Yes, so true.

Okay, I see people splashing their new year resolutions across their fb and blogs. So, here's mine:
1. Cut down on my frivolous spending.
2. I will try to cut down on messiness at home and at my workplace.
3. Can't think of any other for now, shall leave this open for future entries. (:



I've always been someone who's straightforward and speaks my heart. However, lately I've learnt that not everyone can take my words lightly. Even a slightest simplest sms will send me into whirls of thinking on how to reply. I've since learnt to reject in a subtle unknowing manner, and to speak only after thinking through the consequences my words may land me into.

That aside, lately I've been hooked onto prawning! :DDD For the first time of my life, I went prawning at East Coast yesterday! At first we took up the 3-hour package, then maine and me decided to extend because it was soooooooooo fun waiting for the prawns to get hooked! Although our skills ain't there - only 4 prawns within that 4 hours, we still went home with one kg worth of prawns for dinner...


East Coast Prawning.


Yay! Our very first prawn!! (:


Using chicken liver as bait. Or maybe I should say teeny weeny bits and pieces of chicken liver. (:


"Our" catch for the day!


The catch waiting in the basin to be shelled. (:


I know it doesn't look very yummy, but looks doesn't = taste.


stir-fried prawns with butter and cheese. (:

I did not steal anyone's prawns okay! Hahahahaha, we had so much prawns eventually because some guy who was prawning with his two kids decides to give us all their remaining prawns. Fucking nice right! We didn't go seduce him or whatsoever, but I swore the entire pool of prawners (is that what you call people who go prawning? haha, I dun care, I think it is) who saw the kid giving me their catch was green with jealousy boiling high. :D There was this funny auntie who stood behind us throughout the last 2 hours, I wondered if she wanted to steal my pathetic catch lor. And when the little boy came to give us his catch, she was smiling as if it was her they were giving the prawns to. Some people are simply so funny.

But okay la, I think they gave us the prawns because there was a bimbo squealing off when the prawns jumped off her hands and she funnily swerved her rod over the fence when she got her catch. I don't know who the bimbo is though. (:

So after the hearty catch, I cabbed home while maine drove off to find her dad. And along the way, I was thinking hard to decide the fate of these huge prawns. And the results were YUMMILICIOUS I swore. My sister loved my prawns too lor!

Backdate to New Year Day. Woke up early morning to do up the accounts for clique. I realised how much I've spent for the past 4 months only when I start digging through the stacks of receipts. ): That is why, I made my new year resolution this year to spend lesser, shop lesser, use the cards wiser. (:

Anyway, was late when rushing off to meet kim so I had to flag a cab there instead. At first I flagged one citycab, and then the uncle mumbled some foreign language I don't understand, and simply signalled that he can't take me. So fine, because of that thirty seconds spent understanding his words, I missed 3 other empty cabs. KNN. Then when the next empty one came along like 3 minutes later, I got on and told the cabbie my destination - United Square. So he drove off for less than 200m and then told me he doesn't know his way there.

Cabbie: Uhm, actually I don't know how to get there from here. Do you know how to go there?

Me: Erm. There's a reason why I'm taking a cab right? (If I jolly well know how to go there, I would obviously drive there myself - minus the fact that I don't have a license yet haha.)

Cabbie: Oh okay. So how do I get there? CTE?

Me: Yes. (then I gave him directions to turn to CTE)

(on CTE, exiting to Thomson Road/Balestier Road)
(He was making a turn, ready to enter some carpark.)

Cabbie: So it's here right? Novena Square.

Me: Err. No, I want to go to United Square.

Cabbie: Oh okay.. (drives off to the front junction) I think its that building (points to United Square) but I cannot turn here already, can I just drop you off here?

Me: No. I said I wanted to go United Square right? This is far from there. Can you just drive further up and see if you can make a U-turn anywhere? (fuming like mad at this point, how dumb can he get la!)

Cabbie: I cannot make a turn here..

Me: I KNOW! That's why I said go up front to see if you can make a turn right? (Fuck la, I'm the one paying the cab fare can!)

(So further up the road, there was a turn-in which leads to the cab stand of United Square and he turned in so I unwillingly paid him the $11 cab fare and got out of the cab, still fuming at the whole ride experience.)

I know I was a bitch. But if you jolly well don't know your roads, then get a GPS or a directory!! For goodness sake, don't be a cabbie if you don't know how to drive around la! KNS!

What a way to start off the new year! ><
kim. 5 months of internship, 5 months of close friendship and counting on. (:

With that, shall end this first post of this blog with..



Happy New Year!! ♥

sometimes the different facets of life exposes the ugly sides to it - just like the windshield wiper opens up the road for the driver.
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