The Week of the Optimist

i’ve been extremely happy giggly over the past week because it’s been such an amazing week. while i was on that lovely holiday with Martian, i kept receiving lots and lots of good news from back home :) some of them i cant share right now cos i don’t wanna jinx anything, but there are some that i can!

like how some stuff that i did were published in the papers three times this week :)

two were about the Nuffnang Pajama Party, which i organized together with Michbaby and is an event that i’m very very proud of. we handled it so smoothly that Stewie the Control Freak couldn’t believe that everything was taken care of each time he called us for updates. haha! high five, Michbaby! though i’m a bit sad that i never got to have my chocolate fountain :( it is my dream to organize an event with a chocolate fountain!!!

whee we made the papers! this one was in the metro section of The Star (20th March 08), written by Tho Xin Yi. online version here. the article features Robb’s now-famous nipples :P Robb’s the guy clutching the Kogepan doll in the upper left photo.

and then the next day, the New Straits Times featured our party too!

another two-page spread :D story by Evangeline Majawat. i love the photo of our Nuffies, although Elaine the schoolgirl was missing. glad they managed to catch a picture of our three ‘I Sleep Better With Chipster’ winners too! click here for online version.

a big thanks to Kim Komm, our fabulous PR agency who made all this media coverage possible :)

we had a really good team behind our party :) but the party wouldnt have been so awesome without the 300 bloggers who came all decked out in their pajamas and other bedtime accessories like teddy bears and adorable bedroom slippers. so sporting! i remember when we were first going through ideas for the party’s theme and i suggested a pajama party, lots of people were like, ‘er…… maybe there shouldn’t be a theme. Malaysians won’t dress up wan lah!’. well, now that the event is over and the pictures and write-ups are all available for viewing, what can i say… :) i’m really glad we stuck to the theme. thank you to the 300 bloggers who brought such fun and life to our theme!!!! thank you for being part of our first birthday and the foundation for many more great parties to come :D

the 3rd newspaper article i was featured in is this one:

this was for the ESUM public speaking competition that i participated in last week. this article, written by Tan Shiow Chin, is coverage of the competition’s semifinals, which i shockingly managed to advance to. ya that’s me in the upper right photo holding a pencil and grinning like an idiot :P online version here, though my individual picture is not in the online version. but you can make fun of my long skirt in the group photo there :P yeah yeah… the long skirt jokes have been coming in droves over the past few days. i once told Skyler that i had to wear a long skirt for an interview, and she went “you mean YOU have a long skirt?” -______-

a bit of story about the ESUM public speaking competition: the first time i participated was in 2006. the first round was the topic Mapping the Global Future, which i did alright in. then i got the impromptu topic of Eco-tourism, which is a hard topic, but because i’d been to camps centered around ecotourism, i managed to do well enough to go to the semifinals. once your name is announced as a semifinalist, you have to get up there and start speaking on the topic ‘Storm in a Teacup’ immediately. i didn’t make it to the finals that year, but was happy enough to have reached the semifinals at least :)

then in 2007, the topics were Dynamic Earth and The Straw That Broke The Camel’s Back. i’d already prepared both my speeches, and if you’d read the article up there, you would know that i chickened out of the competition on the morning itself. haha. i was seized with this uncharacteristic nervousness because i felt so unprepared and that my speeches weren’t good enough, so i ended up not competing. it was a decision that i regretted to this day!

so this year, i vowed to redeem myself by making sure i turned up for the competition. i wrote down in my planner to start writing my speech at least a month ahead of the competition, but what with all the pajama party (same day as the competition) and college stress, i ended up writing both speeches only a day before the competition. damn stupid. so yes i felt very unprepared and again, almost chickened out, but i didnt. i forced myself to go and at least try my best.

the first round topic was New Horizons, New Frontiers. i did okay - not as good as i’d liked, and i think i referred to my cue cards too much. Jared and Errol, two guys in my room who spoke before me and thus got to hear my speech, told me that i did well. i didn’t think so lah, but it was very comforting to hear such kind words :) then Jared and i engaged in a long conversation about our mutual kiddy-love for Power Rangers o_____O

then it was time for the impromptu speech. the other 112 participants were getting topics like durian, bittersweet, me myself and i, the perils of smoking… and i got…..

BUDGETING.

YEAH. ANYONE WHO KNOWS ME KNOWS THAT I DON’T KNOW A SINGLE THING ABOUT BUDGETING.

so that’s what i spoke about. haha. i said that i don’t know anything about budgeting, and that’s why i spend so much money all the time and have no savings. i spoke about how i learned to budget quite accidentally - because my dad took away all my credit cards :P then i went into a few more steps on how to budget. anyway i thought my impromptu speech sucked BIG TIME lah okay :( at the end of my body paragraphs, i referred back to my cue cards and realized that i didn’t have anymore points. so i stupidly repeated the first point, and then i said…

“so, yeah, that’s about it. thank you.”

and i sat down. mmmmmmmmmm. well done lah lim su ann, well done!!!

i was so depressed lah and totally disappointed in myself. has all these years of public speaking trained me to end my speech like that? again, Jared and another guy said my speech was good but i didn’t believe them. i later bumped into Samantha and Tara (Thean), also contestants, and poured my sorrows out to them :( i didn’t even bother looking through my semifinals script because i was so sure i wasn’t advancing any further after that disastrous Budgeting speech.

but then they announced my name as one of the 15 semifinalists. oh my god. i almost died from the panic okay. i think many of us hadn’t expected to get through, because everyone (except for like one or two extremely calm people) started scrambling for their notes and cue cards.

as i was sitting in the front row awaiting my turn to speak, i realized how destructively pessimistic i had been. i kept thinking that my impromptu speech was so bad, even though fellow contestants said it was fine and that i was worrying too much :( i actually wanted to leave immediately after the impromptu speech because i was so convinced i wouldn’t be advancing to the next level, so i may as well leave early to help with set-up for the pajama party. well. i’m so glad i didnt leave. i think i would have killed myself if i really DID leave when i’d actually made the semifinals.

my speech on the semifinals topic If I Could Change The World was about the power of optimism :) yes yes the irony of the topic is not lost on me. but i did well. i think the audience liked my speech and i got a lot of really heart-warming and encouraging comments after my round. phew. when The Star’s journalist interviewed me about my topic, i told her that even on that day, i was just drowning in my own dangerous pessimism. it was again, one of those days that i realize how important it is to just look on the good side of things, and that even if bad things happen, i must learn how to accept it and move on with happiness.

something quite funny happened after that. one of the competition supervisors came up to me and said, ‘your speech has matured a lot since the 2006 competition’. i was like, oh! you remember me! and he went ‘yeahhhhh because you’re still SWAYING all the time when you speak!’ hahaha damn malu. i guess anyone who’s seen me speak would know how much i tend to sway from left to right when i speak onstage. my debate instructor used to yell at me all the time for that. haha. incidentally, he was the first person to notify me about my appearance in the above article :)

semifinalists who get to advance to the national finals were to be notified by phone. i was in China during the week they were supposed to be calling us, but i didn’t get any call so i was pretty sure i didn’t get through to the finals.

but then two days ago, i got the call :)

sooooo, the 4th article, which came out in The Star today:

online version here

i will be speaking with 10 other contestants this Saturday at the national finals. 5 of us from the PJ semifinals made it, the other 6 are from the Penang, Johor, Kuching and Terengganu semifinals. i am so EXCITED, i really really am.

and this time, i’m not going to let pessimism rob me from having fun :)

wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so going to need it!!

Comments March 26th, 2008

Three Things To Talk About

i am currently back at Martian’s apartment, where there are simply not enough snacks or tissue paper. sometimes i don’t know how he exists in such impoverished conditions. i got so fidgety that i couldn’t stand it and went to the supermarket this afternoon to buy some Hello Panda biscuits and tissue boxes back -____- oh and i also found PODS!!! did you guys know that Singapore now has PODS!!! i am munchin’ away with much joy.

i’m eating and sleeping properly again, as i always do when i am back in the care of Martian, and it feels good. the other day i woke up feeling faint and i only realized a while later that it was because that i hadn’t eaten for 2 whole days. i was so busy and stressed out with the pajama party and the public speaking competition (more on this soon) that i simply forgot to eat. incredulous. i think i need to take better care of myself :\

there are so many things i wanna blog about, i don’t know where to start.

okay first topic: advertorials! i saw Michbaby’s post about people who complain about advertorials, and she really hit the nail on the head when she said it is irrelevant whether or not a blogger is being paid to write a post. i cant agree more, and really and do not see why there are people who insist it is only ‘right’ that bloggers write ‘THIS IS AN ADVERTORIAL’ at the top of each sponsored post.

alrighty, i can’t speak for other bloggers, but i will only write about products that i actually use and like, or if i think this is a product that i want to tell people about. every word that i write in my advertorials is purely the truth of what i think of the product; clients CANNOT tell us to write good things about the product if we don’t actually like it in the first place. take my LipIce post for instance - i mentioned that i love the product and i have been using it since i was young, which is the truth. does putting that stupid ‘THIS IS AN ADVERTORIAL’ sentence at the top of the post change anything or lend some kind of validity to my opinion of the product?

some girl mentioned somewhere that i should ‘give room for readers to make judgment based on the fact that part of the reason i am writing about this is that i am being paid for it’. aiyah what is this overreaction lah. yes, we write about certain things cos the brands pay us for the post, but seriously, what is the relevance here if the sole purpose of following a blog is to read the blogger’s opinion? so you’re getting the opinion wat! -___- and you are being exposed to a good product that the blogger genuinely likes and wants to write about, why are you complaining!

look back on all my food posts and restaurant reviews- would it have mattered whether or not i was paid for it, if at the end of the day people who read the post got to know about this certain restaurant and its services, and became more aware about KL’s food scene? same thing, yes? just like i choose to blog only about restaurants i LIKE, i also choose to blog only about products i LIKE.

and it’s not like the brands give us a whole press release that we merely copy and paste onto our blog. we actually take the effort to explore and write about the products creatively and truthfully, as per our own opinion. so i dont see why there should be a credibility issue.

at the end of the day right… this issue of ‘THIS IS AN ADVERTORIAL’ is such a small and itty-bitty thing that i don’t understand why people wanna throw a big fuss here and there. i think there are bigger things to worry about in our world, rather than ‘why is this blogger getting paid for a post but then no disclaimer!!!11′. sigh damn petty lah.

second topic: Malaysian Dreamgirl! i’ve been following all the 4 episodes, and here are my favourites so far:

this is Fiqa, a Malay-mixed-Chinese girl with really stunning features and a quiet confidence. i was very impressed by how articulate she was in her audition, and i really like her type of look - intense, cool, with a little bit of androgyny thrown in. i warmed up to her even more when i saw in Episode 4 how she told her aunt not to let her mother watch an upcoming episode where she would be dressed in really tight shorts. so sweet :)

Valerie, who came onto the show with this really big frizzy ‘fro and with all this PERSONALITY :) from the episodes i’ve watched, she’s very bubbly and likable, and very unique. definitely the kind of girl who’s special without even trying, and the sort whom everyone wants to get to know. for her makeover, she got her big hair cut off, and she’s got this sleek slightly-pixie cut now that really complements her eyes and facial features. it’s great!

Jean, my favourite from the very beginning. not only is she so cute, she’s also smart. she’s studying pharmacy in IMU, and from the way she talks, you can tell this girl has substance. i immediately sit up when the camera is on her and she’s giving her opinions, because i know it’s going to be a good answer - no waffling or ‘dont know lah..’ kinda answers, but strong and spot-on opinions, but never aggressive. i love how she can look both cute and hot - she looks so adorable in the sportswear shoot, and then how stunning is that B&W picture? so yes, you can imagine how disappointed i was when she announced that she pulled out of the show. yes, Jean pulled out. my favourite pulled out. i can’t believe this T____T it’s really a great loss to the show. you can read her note on her withdrawal here.

some other random commentary: i actually like the camerawork on the show! it’s pretty good, especially the editing. but there are some parts that gets draggy and a little bit filler-ish, like the part where the girls went to Bar Savanh and there was like a good 1 minute of them doing nothing but dancing. and the judges can be a little bit long-winded sometimes. also, where is Sazzy Falak!!

okay who’s everybody’s favourites!!! faster say!!

third topic: Martian and i are going somewhere cool (literally) today.. :) hehe. our plane leaves at 7 a.m, and i’m supposed to wake Martian up in about an hour. i’m very excited cos i haven’t been to this country in a very very long time, nor have i been to this part of it. actually i didn’t even know that part of the country existed until Martian booked the flights on a whim. ahhh i can’t wait!!!

eh actually i was given the task of researching the trip but i haven’t done it. shit shit shit see lah shouldn’t have spent so much time eating Pods today :\

Comments March 19th, 2008

The Nuffnang Pajama Party

it has always been my aspiration to organize an event where i can actually take time to eat the food served, actually take photos and actually mingle with people, but i believe this will never really happen :P i swore to myself i would chill out during the Pajama Party but i obviously didn’t, because i was running around so much that i didn’t get to try the food (except for a .. something? a spring roll? that wenqi gave me. sniff i love you wenqi) nor take a single photo with my camera.

BUT I HAD SO MUCH FUN.

AND SO DID EVERYBODY BECAUSE IT’S ALL OVER THE BLOGS.

and so i am very happy :)

and thank god for official photographers because we got some pretty good pictures over here, courtesy of the one and only Kid Chan. i dont feel so bad now for not having any photos!

some pictures:

#1 bloggers in jammies :D note their wristbands - green for single, red for taken, yellow for… It’s Complicated. heehee

#2 check out the guy in the kain pelikat and the guy who brought his quilt! so cool!

#3 hotties in nighties!

#4 3 of 4 Nuffies with Ming and his friends in front of our very expensive Nuffnang wall :|

#5 Dawn Yang and Xiaxue, the princesses of Singapore’s blogosphere! :D~

#6 all of our 4 Nuffies on stage - Elaine the kawaii japanese schoolgirl, Emily the policewoman who will spank you if you’ve been bad, Ginny the french maid at your every beck and call, Natalie the nurse who will take goooood care of you

#7 them Nuffies with FireAngel! i love this picture!

#8 us girls giving out Nuffnang money for the Lumix Bidding Game, where guests bid for prizes using Nuffnang money they’ve collected throughout the night..

#9 .. by thumb wrestling or playing rock paper scissors. this is KY bullying money out of Huiwen :P i dont want to play games with KY anymore :|

#10 that’s Daniel (who came in zombie makeup?!) on the right and Keng Jin on the left. this was during the I Need Something game, and the ’something’ was a pair of slippers belonging to somebody, haha! i think both Daniel and Keng Jin grabbed one slipper each and got to stage on the same time.. so the emcee made them break the tie by doing push-ups with a Nuffie on top. HAHA so clever!!! Daniel won. eh Daniel don’t need to be lawyer already lah.. you can be a gym instructor!

#11 this is Liang, our awesome emcee conducting the Couple Wristband game. Liang is seriously the best emcee ever. EVER. he’s very good with improvising, fluent and comfortable with working the crowd, energetic, pleasant and very likeable. so if you need an emcee for your event, you know where to holler :) his website is over here. and i chose this picture because he looks damn funny in here hahaha

#12 the great Kenny Sia arrives! when he came onstage, everyone started yelling “WHERE ARE YOUR PAJAMAS?!?”, so he dropped his pants to reveal his boxers. damn sporting right. Kenny we love you!!!

#13 Kenny was hosting the Malaysian Dreamgirl event, where 11 of the Malaysian Dreamgirls made an appearance at our party and played games with the guests

#14 each Dreamgirl would strike a pose, and an audience member had to strike the same pose to win RM200 worth of Wella products. to the winners who have yet to collect their Wella prizes, please leave a comment here and we will get back to you!

#15 birthday cake from Mindshare <3

#16 the bosses surprised me by giving me a teddy bear and a framed card onstage :( sniff. i was so terharu!!! thank you, guys :) seeing everyone having fun that night was thanks enough for me. but this doesn’t mean you can take back the card and bear!! even though Firdauz wrote that stupid message on it :P it says- “you’re not cool, you’re overrated. and nobody likes you, except for us here at Nuffnang.” hahahaha Firdy that is the same message you put on my birthday card. why are you so unoriginal!

#17 this is Desmond The Client from Mindshare holding up the Macbook for the most number of Chipster packs in the ‘I Sleep Better With Chipster’ posts. the prize went to Jonathan of Penangite.net. you can check out his CRAZY post here

#18 David Lian won the Nintendo Wii prize for Quirkiest post, when i believe he was only aiming for the Best Pajamas prize. seriously, check out that outfit made from Chipster packets, okay!!! haha congrats David; you deserved it! i think you also earned yourself the nickname Chipster Man for the night. people probably thought you were a mascot that Chipster sent :P David’s post is here.

#19 Valerie won the iPod touch for the Best Pajamas post! how could she not win this prize; she actually handmade that top herself, along with two other Chipster pillows that were making their rounds at the party. so creative! click here to check out her post

#20 hehehe then us Nuffnangers surprised the bosses with a pair of undies that Estee made! the undies both read, ‘My Staff are blogging THIS!’. damn right we are :P

#21 then we made them put on the undies hahahaha

#22 and this is me being Central Bank and pumping liquidity back into the market for the Lumix Bidding Game after people started running out of money. you know why everyone ran out of money ah!! cos this KYSPEAKS kept winning everybody’s money!!!!!

#23 you see you see! he got so much money that he won the auction for the Panasonic camera. thank you Panasonic for sponsoring the prizes :)

#24 and this dude Roshann won the auction for a kiss from Dawn Yang, Miss Clapbangkiss herself. DAMN LUCKY. I ALSO WANT DAWN YANG TO KISS ME.

#25 this is one of the many teddy bears we bought to decorate the place. guests got to take them home after the party :)

#26 me and one of the white cushions also bought to decorate the venue. guests ALSO got to take the cushions home! sigh we are so generous. picture taken by Simon

aiyo i got a funny story to tell you all about the cushions and the teddy bears. did you folks notice the two old ladies at our party? i don’t know who they are because they weren’t wearing our event wristbands, and neither our malaysia or singapore team recognized them. anyway they went around stuffing our teddy bears and cushions into their handbags. i was very appalled when one of them grabbed a cushion from me as i was arranging them around the venue, insisting that she wanted a cushion, while the other one kept bugging me to give her one of our prizes because we supposedly ‘forgot’ to give her a prize. wtf. she was so rude that i just ignored her. and then she went to bug Stewie instead -______-

geez. i’m very angry because those bears and cushions cost us a lot of money, yet they went around just stuffing our decor items into their bags and then leaving the place. steal our stuff already then want to demand for prizes. wtf. why dont these people know how to behave in public.

and then there were some bloggers who gatecrashed. not even Nuffnangers to begin with, nor invited by any of our guests. very muka tak malu lor.

haih okay back to happy pictures. these were either sent to me, tagged via Facebook or shamelessly stolen by me from blogs :P

#27 Kevin and i. ahhh we go way back, to the days of discussing whether or not the media has a negative impact on society :P

#28 the people who made this party possible - the Nuffnang staff (plus Kenny wtf why are you in our picture!!!) after the event. whee! not everyone is in the picture tho.

#29 Kelz and i. all our pictures always turn out so nice wan!

#30 me and sexy Linora (nice new hair babe!) and Shin Chan the kehlehfeh

#31 me and Li Yin who was wearing damn nice pajamas, picture courtesy (meaning stolen from :P) of Hau Yon, one of the youngest bloggers we had at our party!

#32 with the supercute Povege!

#33 doing THE POUT with Hui Wen! she is the coolest :D

#34 with fellow BRAT Lisan who apparently didn’t realize we had free drinks and booze the whole night :P

#35 Mustard Queen and i! her headband matches our official Pajama Party design :D

#36 Thomas, who is like, very tall. and he wanted a Tall Blogger Award??!?! hahaha wtf?!

#37 this is Cindyluv! picture stolen without permission from her blog hehehe

okay no more pictures. if anyone took any photos with me (and i know you are out there!!!) that night, pleasepleaseplease do send me the pictures, ok? or put them up on your blog and i will come steal :P

well, it was really, really awesome organizing the Nuffnang Pajama Party, and i hope you all had a great time :) thank you all for being so cool and dressing up in pajamas, and for all that contagious excitement :) thank you for being such a great bunch of bloggers and party animals, who made this party the success that it was.

MWAH! <3 see you all next year!

Comments March 17th, 2008

Pinkpau Sleeps Better With Chipster

over Chinese New Year, Martian kept going around asking all his friends and family, “do you know the secret to a happy life?”

everybody will just layan him and go, “okay what?”

then he will say… “the secret is a good night’s sleep.” and this is the cue for him to start singing praises about the new Tempur pillow he just bought that apparently improves his sleep quality by x100000. and then he will start talking about this new mattress that he also just bought that is super comfortable and extremely nice to sleep on.

aiyahhhh. who needs Tempur and an overpriced mattress (but it’s really damn comfortable lah, i will give him that!) when you have ………

Chipster!

actually to be honest, the one thing i sleep best with is my boyfriend. but when he’s not with me, Chipster is a pretty good replacement! it keeps me safe and warm and loved until i’m back in the arms of the strong and handsome Martian wtf.

better yet, i can stick his picture on the pack of chips and pretend he’s here with me!!!

and THEN EVEN BETTER YET, i can eat them chips!!! boyfriend where can eat.

and that is why i sleep better with Chipster. the end. byebye.

hahahahahhaha this has to be the weirdest post i’ve ever written. i know lah i know lah, it’s not as creative as the other ‘I Sleep Better With Chipster’ posts out there.. but i’m telling you it’s not funny how much time i spent yesterday and today preparing for some ideas that i eventually scrapped because i couldn’t find the necessary props :( like yesterday, i stayed up till 6am trying to think of a good idea for this themed post. but then i thought, why the heck am i losing sleep over a post that is supposed to be about how well i’m sleeping? doesn’t that quite defeat the purpose?! and so i ate a pack of Chipster and went to sleep :P

this post is written for tickets to The Nuffnang Pajama Party, which will surely be a blast because ……. i’m organizing it. hehe. i’m really, really, REALLY excited and i can’t wait to party with all the other bloggers who will be there :) this is going to be the biggest blogger meet Malaysia has ever seen!

if you haven’t written your post to win tickets to the party, HURRY UP AND WRITE IT! (NOTE: the deadline has been extended to the 8th of March!) cmon lah, quirkiest post wins a Nintendo Wii okay!! best pajamas wins an iPod Touch and of course there is that grand prize of a Macbook for the most Chipster packs in one picture.

some of my favorite ‘I Sleep Better With Chipster’ posts:

1. Waffle, who is Nuffnang’s programmer. haha remember the recent Nuffnang crash?!
2. Suanie, hilarious as always!
3. Eyeris, an anonymous blogger who used toy spuds as his post’s protagonist :P
4. Kimberlycun, whose idea was so innovative!
5. David Lian, who is winning the Best Pajamas prize FOR SURE
6. Jolene, ever the good storyteller! check out her 7-11 picture! damn funny
7. Shaolintiger, whose punchline gave me the giggles for the whole day
8. Michelle, cos she thinks she’s Sailor Moon and cos she’s soooo cute
9. Thomas, who cheated and cleverly went to the supermarket to pose with all the Chipster packs! damn smart right!
10. Kenny Sia, just for that picture of him lying on the bed like a beached mermaid… hahaha!

any other funny Chipster posts out there? tell me tell me!

and also tell me what you’re going to be wearing to the party!!! :D *excited* as for me, i already have my outfit picked out. not by choice….. here’s a conversation i had with Martian a while ago:

Me: so Nuffnang is going to have this pajama party, and it’s going to be so much fun, and i’m organizing it, i’m thinking of the games right now, what games would you play at a slumber party? what food would be good? ahhh i’m so excited blablablabla

Martian: what are you wearing?

Me: i’m thinking maybe my blue slip. or the brown one… or maybe the white one..

Martian: CANNOT. SLIPS ARE TOO REVEALING.

Me: then what you want me to wear! jammies ah! i dont have any, remember?

so… guess what i got for Valentine’s Day? :\

me covered head to toe :\

actually i really really like these jammies :) they’re fuzzy and very comfy, and like any gift from Martian, i love them to bits! even if he’s so cunning!!! now i can’t say i don’t have jammies to wear to the party. sigh why is my boyfriend like this.

what i usually wear to bed:

my brown satin slip which is really nice to sleep in. that’s Pooch i’m holding btw!

one of the many shirts i stole from Martian! i used to sleep in these during those cold Hong Kong nights

shorts and a tee for when i’m at home. hahaha this Star Wars tee is practically a legend. my friends used to make fun of me all the time, because everytime they came over, i’d be wearing this same tee :\

okay lah since my usual sleepwear is not allowed by Martian’s standards, and i’m definitely not wearing Anakin Skywalker on my chest to a party because he later grew up to be a real jerk and broke Natalie Portman’s heart… i guess i’m gonna be wearing my new pink jammies :)

lastly, i want to say that organizing this party and - in the midst of planning - having to talk about Chipster ALL THE TIME is making me crave Chipster practically every day. it’s tough. i keep eating and eating and eating. at least at the Pajama Party, the Chipster chips there are gonna be in endless supply and FREE :D

Comments February 29th, 2008

The Valentine’s Day On Which I Chose The Better Gift

my Valentine’s Day began with such excitement and romance!

i woke up to…………. a phone call by Timothy Tiah who was emoing about the fact that the general election was announced that very morning, and that it’s going to be held on the 8th of March, which is the same date as our Nuffnang Pajama Party. which means we have to postpone the party. sigh, so romantic right. actually, no, i just remembered that emo election conversation was the second time he called me.. the first time he called (and kicked me out of bed) was to ask me to do work. wtf! you can’t evade him sometimes.

i want to tell you another story about Timothy Tiah. i told him the day before Valentine’s what Waffle suggested i give my boyfriend for Vday. such is the conversation -

me: stewie! i hate your programmer!

tim: har why!

me: i asked him what he thinks would be a good Vday gift for my boyfriend… then you know what he said ah? i said that my boyfriend’s idea of a good gift are things like an external hard disk drive.. so Waffle suggested i get him a hard disk preloaded with porn. WTF.

tim: eh.. that’s a damn clever gift!!! that’s really cool! i would love something like that!

me: *insert many protests* blablabla

tim: no no it’s so thoughtful! think about all the effort that went into customizing such a gift… it’s like the male equivalent of a mix CD for girls.

me: what the….

tim: but what did you eventually get your boyfriend?

me: i got him a digital photo frame! it’s soooo cute; it’s like one of those mini LCD screens that displays an automatic slideshow of many many many photos that you upload onto a thumbdrive and plug into the screen. hehe nice leh!

sample photo of a digital photo frame

tim: hmm yaa i’ve heard of those.

*long silence…..*

me: …. YOU DON’T LIKE MY GIFT????????

tim: er… it’s just that if i got one of those things, i wouldn’t really use it….

me: WHY

tim: er.. cos it wastes electricity

sigh such is timothy tiah. no i dont know why he is like that. ANYWAY i turned the digital photo frame on when Martian was sleeping and he was very surprised when he woke up and saw it on the morning of Valentines. and he loved it :D just like he loves the scrapbook i made him for our anniversary. we spent the morning looking at the 300+ images i’d uploaded onto the screen and naming all the places and events and memories linked to those pictures :)

yknow, i’m so glad my boyfriend likes sentimental gifts. otherwise i would have been knocking on all my guy friends’ doors on Valentines Day, begging them for their porn stash so i can upload it into an external HDD to give to my boyfriend. -____-

so after lunch, Martian told me he wanted to go and get his IC done because he recently lost his wallet and all the stuff in it. i was like… ‘what! you want to go and get your IC done on Valentines Day??’ so while he went, i was at Starbucks being emo on MSN about how my boyfriend ditched me on Valentines. and all my girlfriends were like ‘aiyo why your boyfriend so bad!’ yalar damn bad right.

but then he later came to pick me from Starbucks with …

my gift :(

and flowers :(

and this box of really really nice tarts that i forgot to take a photo of and ate already.

and this damn funny Bahasa Melayu card HAHA. with a really romantic message in it.

so actually he didn’t go get his IC done, but he just needed some excuse that i couldn’t say no to. ishes. now i feel so bad that i was gossiping about him with my girlfriends :( hehe but i LOVE my presents to absolute bits! the card is so funny and obviously i love the tarts (why does my boyfriend know me so well), and as always i am very excited about flowers .. but my main present, the one wrapped in pink, is just perfect. haha but i cant say what it is yet. cos quite coincidentally, i actually need it for an upcoming blog post. so i will blog about it later ;) give you 10 sen if you can guess.

hmm eh then what happened. oh thank you Wenqi for the candle, heehee. if you know what i mean wtf.

at night, we went for dinner at Nero Vivo, which is one of our favourite restaurants in KL. i made reservations like a month ago - i am so shocked that on VALENTINES DAY itself, my blog was STILL getting hits from people googling Valentine’s Day restaurants. and the hits from the 14th logged the highest number of search engine referrals in February! why are all these people so last minute!! i do hope they all managed to find themselves a nice restaurant for Vday :\

sleepy us

it was so nice having Martian back in KL for almost 2 weeks. no, we didn’t go eat chili pan mee or red velvet cake like we were supposed to do, nor did we drive down to Melaka and Seremban as planned, and we also didn’t have that quick weekend getaway to Tiger Rock… but we did a lot of other stuff :) stuff like mice-drawing competitions.. hahaha. and Nasi Lemak Famous at Bangsar which gave us bad stomachaches. dessert with Martian’s very delightful Uncle Chris who has a billion stories to tell. going to the pet shop to play with puppies! and sleeping in till 12pm on most days. hehe.

soooooo i had a lovely Valentines day :) we night-capped it with tau foo far and the best ever double boiled soup in Lucky Garden, heehee. what did you all do for yours?

happy belated Valentine’s Day, everyone :)

p/s: eh …to all guys reading this, seriously lah… if you were my boyfriend, you would prefer my gift over a bunch of porn in an HDD, right? … right?

p/p/s: it’s Tuesday morning. should i head to Singapore this afternoon and surprise Martian? just for fun. and so we can watch Juno, because it’s not showing here in KL and he’s not allowed to watch it without me. and also because he’s bought the new season of Little Britain on DVD! if i go, i’d have to come back home on Thursday though. aiyah how ah! it’s like such a short time only and i’ve really got so much i need to settle back here in KL. decisions, decisions. i think i shall flip a coin.

Comments February 19th, 2008