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Disaster movie (literally… or not)

Been trying to get back into regular lifestyle blogging (and failing miserably) because I can’t stand the idea of the idea of not remembering anything from the past 20 years down the road.

Lol I bet you won’t hear from me for at least a month again after this post but whatever. Gonna start by backtracking into the last week where quite a few good things happened actually.

 arnold's chicken 2 piece meal

Editor drove us out for lunch last Friday (Aug 29) and treated us to Arnold’s Fried Chicken 😀 We were just running out of ideas on what to eat for lunch in the neighbourhood. My first time trying Arnold’s!

Just the day before (Aug 28) we were at this prata place and they had a new menu. There was this hot dog prata that looked quite good and promising:

hot dog prata

Decided to try it with egg and what I got was this:

kampung cafe prata

Doesn’t even look the same LOL CAN YOU FEEL MY DISAPPOINTMENT?? (Btw I got the ‘Expectations’ picture by Googling ‘hot dog prata’ and it was the very first image that appeared so I guess that’s what they did) But to be fair, it tasted quite all right.

 ocbc macarons

 ritz carlton mooncakes

Macarons from OCBC and mooncakes from Ritz Carlton all for me 😉 Companies send us gifts quite often especially during festive occasions; as some PR thing I guess? Hehehe job perks.

Love the packaging and both looked just as good on the inside. The macarons even came with a Chinese chess set. My mum was so thrilled when I brought both boxes home. That was after I lugged them home in a box and everyone looked at me like I just got sacked.

woman carry office box

Watched Lucy (7/10) with Andre after work that day (Aug 26) too at AMK Hub. I liked it but he didn’t! Thought it was pretty original and entertaining. Scarlett Johansson you so fine… funnily enough, we’ve seen all her 2014 movies together.

– Under The Skin was beautifully bizarre (5/10)
– Captain America 2 was okay (preferred the prequel, 5/10)
– Chef didn’t have enough of her (first movie I’ve seen with zero conflict, 5/10)

In fact I’ve seen all her 2013 movies too. Don Jon (6/10) was hilarious and meaningful but didn’t like how it ended. Her (6/10) was boring, pretentious yet well-directed and meaningful at the same time.

 amk hub ban mian

Dinner before Lucy. I love tom yum yu mian!! Anyway, it was a total disaster before we entered the cinema all because we tried to sneak drinks in (like we always do).

1. Bought my milk tea and orange juice which we tried hiding my tote
2. Spillage probably because I’m using a different, bigger bag aka more space to wobble
3. Tried to wipe my stuff and went back for new straws
4. Decided to put the drinks in the plastic bag (it had a base) with my mooncakes and macarons
5. Cinema stuff said bulky items weren’t allowed inside so we had to leave the box with them
6. Lied that I’m going to try moving the things into my tote
7. Shifted the drinks over into my tote
8. Spillage in the plastic bag so wiped everything again
9. Threw straws away and said we’d get new ones later
10. Gave cinema staff the box and pretended that we’d changed our minds
11. Went to claim free popcorn
12. Sat down in our seats just as the Cathay logo appeared
13. Realised we forgot our straws so he went back out to get them

Thank goodness no one missed the movie.

“I have orange juice hands.”
“OJ hands sound good.”
“Do you want a OJ slap?”

Seen quite a lot of movies together this year actually (particularly ever since my usual movie buddy aka David left for the other end of the world. We used to watch till there was not a single title currently screening that we hadn’t watched).

“It didn’t get under my skin, just on my nerves.”
– Some critic’s review HAHAHA

– Wolf of Wall Street (Idc it didn’t any Academy Awards it was hilarious and Leo was amazing, 8/10)
– Deliver Us From Evil (shitty ending… plus we all know horror films aren’t supposed to be happy 4,/10)
– Sex Tape (entertaining but let’s face it — trashy like with most romantic comedies, 4/10)

Just to add on. Leonardo DiCaprio was fantastic as always but I knew he never stood a chance the moment I watched Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey… even though I like Leo much better. So everyone else bitching about his once-again snub, just shut up ok?

This entry is getting way too long so I’ll stop here… I still have so much to share!! Working tomorrow morning even though it’s a Sunday.


Sleepovers at 18 and 21

Had a sleepover at Ling Yue’s house with Clement few days back on Wednesday/Thursday. Let’s just say I’m utterly disappointed in myself. Times have changed and I’m not even kidding when I say age is catching up with me.

Let’s do a comparison to my last sleepover with friends aka the two times we were at Mark’s house during TEP, on August 27 and October 21 in 2012. (wow has it been that long?)

Sleepovers at 18 Sleepovers at 20
No problems staying up all night, refused to sleep First to surrender and K.O.
Only slept when I went home the next day Slept at 4am+ after a few hours there
 Finished 5 movies and played some games  Finished 1 and slept through the other 2
 Nothing extraordinary I think
 Only woke up more than 10 hours later
 It was 10am when I reached home
 It was 3pm when I woke up

We planned to have a BBQ at Ling Yue’s condo but didn’t manage to book a pit. So we downgraded by planning to have pizza except that nowhere has 24-hour delivery. So we downgraded again to McDonald’s plus chips and wine from NTUC hahaha.

Watched Hello Stranger which Clement said was nice but Ling Yue and I kept dissing it. I remain horribly unimpressed by most romantic comedies and this was no exception. The characters were so annoying and wishy-washy!

Wanted to see Pee Mak (which I loved because it made me both laugh and cry so hard) but couldn’t find it. Watched some videos and I was in stitches from laughing so hard because of how Ling Yue ripped everything apart.

Settled on another Thai rom-com called 30+ and On Sale after that. About 10 minutes in, I told everyone I was going to bed LOL. Clement and Ling Yue went on to watched My Sassy Girl (Korean version, which I loved as well) before they called it a night.

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They took a photo of me and said I was all sprawled out like Patrick from Spongebob.

Okay I’m simply overworked because I’m sleeping too little as usual and I’ve been doing triple my usual workload this week. Plus I had alcohol this time. And I wasn’t watching anything scary to keep me up.

I don’t think I’ve fallen asleep in theatres this year yet ok!! Cos I don’t go as often as I used to so I only watch the ones I really want to see. But even when I do fall asleep, I’m pretty sure the movie is to blame for being boring. Not me!! Action movies with all the loud sound effects included i.e. Man of Shit.

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Had lunch and dessert together before we parted ways. I guess it’s nice that we all live in the neighbourhood. And I’m glad we could do something like this together as a mid-week break since all of us are weekend workaholics.

Back on the subject of aging… I’m really not kidding!! I’m so easily tired nowadays, I’m getting fat, the conditions of my hair and skin feel like they are deteriorating everyday. If you noticed, I don’t even post or take selfies anymore -_-

But okay, it’s been a pretty good week with some good news even. All will be revealed in good time 😉 Sigh I’ll be working tmr while everyone else is watching NDP 🙁 Andre wanted to give me tickets T_T And did I just use 3 emoticons in 1 paragraph.