Archive for September 10th, 2008

Cheapdrunk

Damn!! I just can’t stop blogging! Well, at least this tirade will cease from 22nd onwards, so I better write whatever I can before then.

If I were to blog this yesterday, it would have been categorised under “I bite”.

I think I am feeling hormonal again, and this could have been the monthly, routine “I bite” post, which… hey, was last posted in early August.

Then again, I met 2 fabulous chaps for dinner and drinks last night, and managed to get myself out of the extreme grumpiness that infected me yesterday.

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Well you see, some people from my distributor company kinda rubbed me the wrong way. The poor, sensitive, sleep-deprived Piscean was feeling hurt-ed when she was accused, talked down, and being pushed the responsibilities when… there was no one else to arrow.

So feeling lost, I went to other colleagues, who told me to hands off the issue, and ignore their requests. Yet, the phone calls kept coming in.

And then, there were the emails, and apparently, they don’t take instructions too well either.

So. I was just glad that lunch time came. I was just sulking and telling my colleagues how it just wasn’t my day at the lift landing, when suddenly……..

…… Someone wasn’t looking his way, knocked into me, who was just standing there, waiting. Basically the entire being of frail, little me, bounced off a little, and it could well have those very dramatic scene where I would gracefully fall to the floor, shrivelled up, and die.

Basically I didn’t fall when I lost my footing, because he stepped onto my slippers-clad feet, and that kinda tug me back into balance.

My immediate reaction? I didn’t yelp and just said to all those present, “See, like I said, just not my day.”

In my attempt to avoid all those calls/emails, I joined my colleague for a meeting.

But you know, when you have a bad day, you have a bad day.

All the 4 individuals who somewhat contributed to the different sagas in the morning, turned up when they weren’t scheduled to.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like seriously? I think if someone had seen my expression, it would be one of… nothing but grave.

And the worst thing was… in front of the guests, and while I was listening to the guests speaking, 2 of them pressed me and asked me….. about the MOONCAKES.

In front of people whom they were supposed to give to.

I could have laughed at the atrocity of it all, but I, the greatest coward of all, did what I usually do. I smiled and said I was told to hands off, and I can’t help even if I want to.

I could have just rolled my eyes and ignored them with my hormones playing devil’s advocate, but I do not have nuts to do so. Wuss.

What can I say, I think I am just an angel at heart.

We went to check out our joint event with Shiseido thereafter in Orchard, and I went for a, hmm, haircut.

My colleague, Darren, joked that I can multi-task very well. Hahahaha.

And then, I went to get myself a knee support band, cos my right knee is acting up again. Of all days! And walking proved to be agonising.

I mean, seriously, of all days? The very day when I was shopping around for a pair of jogging shoes, so I could jog the next day?

The very day when I commit myself to join Wenmei to jog the next day at HortPark?

It must be a conspiracy for me to grow fat, I tell you.

Sigh.

But the evening turned for the better, when I met up with Lingshen and Kaiming(I haven’t met them for the longest time!) – the 2 chaps I was closest to during my time in MDIS.

After graduation, Lingshen is now on his way to his 3rd degree. I looked and him and I feel like I have dyed my hair with too much hydrogen peroxide.

He is now a social worker, while Kaiming is now a social worker wannabe. And that, perhaps is the only flaw of the night – hanging out with 2 social workers.

Dinner was at Orchard Hotel, where we had buffet. And I was being mistaken to be someone else.

Lingshen said indignantly, “Why is it that everytime when you are around, there must be incidents?”

HELLO?!

Yummy oysters! I was joking that I need a boost.

The fantastic company for the night.

As we caught up since we last saw each other more than a year ago, Kaiming made me cry. Lingshen in stripes, and Kaiming in shirt.

I am not sure what we were talking about, but he asked us something along the lines of… “how to flirt effectively.”

Being an amateur, of course I didn’t comment much.

Then, he asked again, “Is it like, hi, I throw my underwear at you?”.

He was asking it earnestly, matter-of-factly, like it is the most seductive flirting statement one can make.

“Isn’t that how people flirt?”

Lingshen and I were stunned for a brief second, before we couldn’t speak nor stop laughing for a good 5 to 10 minutes, before I started having tears rolling down. And all Kaiming did, was to look at us very puzzledly, and thinking what he said was no wrong.

We walked to Orchard Towers, since I am a virgin there.

I insisted that we should check the place out, and all the 2 of them could think of, is how such a place will be perfect for doing surveys and projects.

I was dressed down yesterday, and I looked so innocently like a school teacher.

Just when the lady approached us to ask us table for how many, the 2 chaps backed out.

We scurried off the building and were led wandering in the night.

I said I was determined to finish 3 drinks in one night, and we searched for another place where we could drink.

Lingshen led us to here. Amidst all the Wahs and Wows, we arrived at St Regis, and for me, with a very sore knee.

He told us the 2nd floor has a nice drinking place, and he led us to the very posh lift.

Which has a red bench.

Since I was wearing a long, flowy, white dress, I let my hair hanging down, and sat there, as the lift opened when it reached 2nd floor.

Some staff walked in, and I think he was glad 7th month is over.

We couldn’t find the place after walking round and round and round the 2 floors, and Lingshen walked out of the hotel stabbed with sharp, dagger stares from me.

And then, we walked on.

Lingshen suddenly exclaimed, “Hey! I think is that one instead!”

*Speechless*

He thought St Regis is Regent.

So, we finally ended up at Regent.

Many people getting married.

I was feeling extremely tired, and lethargic, yet I remembered the challenge I set for myself.

So I ordered a lychee martini.

It came in such a weird shaped bowl that all of us were searching for the guppy that should be swimming in it.

And I silly-ly drank from it until it wobbled in my hands….

…. Then it hit me….

Like seriously?!

I felt like an airhead!!

I had 2 sips of it, and I was starting to feel drowsy.

They said I was turning incredibly red.

It didn’t help when Kaiming took out his textbook and started to discuss Group Cognitive Behavior with Lingshen.

And I dozed off on the couch after finishing my Lychee Martini.

I shall not admit that it was the alcohol.

When I sat up to take a sip of water, I dozed off almost immediately and I spilled water onto myself, which made me giggled at my own silliness.

It was at this point where they realised the severity of things, and decided to send me home, to save them from further embarrassments.

I went to the cab stand and started to complain how I was blacking out.

They were not being very helpful when they said I am a drunk mother, and I should be reported to the Child Protection services.

I hopped on the cab, and Lingshen made sure I could walk out of the cab before he continued his cab journey.

I struggled to get into the showers, and tried fighting sleep. I MSNed from bed, while lying down, and obviously, it was a very bad idea.

I woke up at 2.45am, only to realise I had dozed off at 11.58pm whilst having a MSN session. I had absolutely no recollection how I did so, and had no clue why I had felt so comfortable despite having my glasses on.

So rude of me, I didn’t even say bye.

I am a lousy drinker.

Like I said, it was a lousy day.

So lousy that the triangle I asked for, was warped, and didn’t look like a triangle at all.

What can I say? Always check the goods. Argh.

Never perfect II

My colleagues, upon reading Never perfect, had kindly illustrated their experiences with Mr Perfect-or-so-they-thought.

So.. Miss A has this to share:

Eg:

Multi personality…. MSN or any online chat (Joker)

On Phone (Machiam act philosopher, go on and on about all types of theories and “am so dead serious”)

SMS ( Normal caring sorta person)

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I was so freak out I don’t even dare to meet him in person, as It makes me wonder whether am I communicating

With one pax or different pax all these while. In the end I just get rid of him out of my life for good.

He explains his into role playing, for the sake to be able to think in a more rounded manner. But I just can’t stand it ….

Scenario 10

Attention seeker

He’s all well and okay, all that you wanted in a guy except for the fact that he is a pure attention seeker.

Once you are on the hook, he make you feel as though it was one-sided affection all along

I feel ya, sista.

Miss B, then shared this.

Scenario 11

They are successful, charming and super workaholics. They spend all their time working and earning so much cash that they are so generous. Every time they ask you out for dinner, you can be assured of a lobster meal. They tell you how much they like you but they know they aren’t ready for commitment; not because they don’t like your enough but because they have had bad experiences in love and they are so jaded that they are afraid of commitment. They are simply waiting for “the one” to appear in their lives so that they can pledge their undying love for her. Every day, you try to reform them and to make them believe true love prevails.

Jaded & cynical as they are, they believe that they should just throw themselves into work because work delivers the highest ROI. Whenever you miss them and want to meet them, they are always working into wee hours of the night… like 6am??

Then you realize they spin this story for every girl actually and you’re probably the 7th or 8th girl he’s sleeping with simultaneously at that moment. No wonder he’s always busy with work.

And of course, Weili has left a tag to say how scenario #1 had happened to her, before the horror of the past caught up with her with #6, and that it was a memory deserved to be censored, deleted, forgotten.

Some others, like us, remained scarred for very long time. Wahahahaha. I mean seriously, a trauma like this, stays.

Ladies, never, ever, censor such memories. They serve as reminders, they serve as painful experiences that should warn us, never to have too uhm… BIG an expectations out of Mr Perfect.

Ahem.

And then, I realised, the number 1, golden disappointment most reported, is…. #6.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I deduce, too-good-to-be-true-guys are.. well, you know, less fortunate, which in turn, make us very unfortunate.

Next time you wonder why a hot babe is dating ugly guys, you have to remind yourselves that, “Ahhh… I can see why.” Maybe, you will feel better.

And for guys who think they are perfect, who are protesting against this finding, send me your pictures/credentials and evidences(ahem, which will be verified) to fight your case, other than that, I also can say anything I want you to believe.

Coincidentally, I read this off from The Butterfly Tales,

For men, the ownership of a penis is a biological excuse to proxy the chastising of societal myopia on sexual liberty. Men have a penis, which drains blood from the brain to the penis in several instances, attributed usually by, short skirts, cleavages, hot women in body hugging latex or maybe in some parts of the world, the rear end view of a sheep.

When men see a hot woman, the thought process runs through a stimulus of varying questions. They think,

1. I wonder how it feels like to be in bed with her
2. Does she blow well?
3. I wonder if she licks ass
4. I wonder if we have to spoon after sex

When women see a hot man, they think,

1. I wonder if he has a nice personality

Yes, it sucks not to have a penis. It’s a generalization of a sample population I know, because I do have female friends who are primarily concern with more pressing issues like penis length, girth and wash board abs. And similarly I do have male friends who are also concerned with trivial stuff like character and compatibility, things that only prove to me they are gay.

Inversely, women are much more into details when it comes to sex. I’ve sat through many sex talk sessions with my female friends and I realize women divulge a lot more than men do. Here are some of the things they ask,

1. “Was he good?”
2. The size of the penis
3. “Does he kiss well?”
4. “What did you do after sex?”
5. “When?? How?? Why??” All these usually start with, “Oh my gawd!”

Men keep it simple.

1. “Was it a good fuck?”

Men don’t really want to hear details of their friend fucking some other chick, more so if it’s a hot chick. They are also not genuinely interested to know if that girl was great in bed, what they really want to know, is if they can score as well.

Fundamental differences of men and women.

And then, a possibly perfect boy spoke up(well, he had said that if a lady assumes a guy is all of #1 to #7, anything more is a bonus).

Inspiration for blogging comes in moment like that where the only thing I should be doing is STUDY. Of course, stealing ideas and improvising it for my own use comes handy too. So, today, I am going to talk about girls, and how imperfect they are.

Yes, girls, who will never be ladies.

Have we always been fantasizing about the girlfriend from heaven?

The drop dead gorgeous head turner who is a road hazard just by standing at the side of the road? The one who long silky hair, big sparkly eyes that will melt even the icebergs at Antarctica. Feminine but not weak, financial independent (although we all secretly hope to get more than that), smart, witty and desirable by others. Throw in the ability to whip out a good meal… bliss.

But wait, god is fair. And so he’ll definitely put in a few nasty surprise… like…

1. Hopelessly insecure

She calls you every minute, and demands you stop seeing all your BFBs. A psychopath whom puts in a GPS tracking unit in your car and wires your phone. A second look at the cute chick that just walk pass will result in endless yap about straying and that how insecure she feels. Don’t even think about having small talk!

2. Her way is the only way

There’s only one way of doing it and it is her way. After the make-up she puts on during courtship, the cracks start showing soon enough. She wants to go Changi by PIE and would rather U-turn than to take ECP. She thinks *insert anything here* is the best and you better agree to prevent World War III erupting.

3. Moral police

Nuff said. In a way related to the point above.

4. Illiterate to household chores

Being waited by her maid all her life, household chore has never been in her dictionary. To make things worst, you only realize it when moving in together. From washing the basin to cleaning the kitchen, clearing junk from the bin, washing clothes and all things needed to keep the house in one piece. And to make things worse, she throws her clothes all around, leaves her junk everywhere and makes a big mess for you to clean up. No good, no good.

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…and the list goes on.

And I’ve come to terms that god is fair and no one’s perfect. Not even myself =P

However, that doesn’t mean we should all jump into what look’s like a good deal, for many a times, it is usually too good of a deal. Taking from Let’s go to the supermarket, we should amble leisurely down the aisles and see what’s available – squeeze the fruit, taste the free morsels, or check out a new brand of juice rather than grab the first available item before a mad rush to the cashier. Not to the extend where you would rather walk out empty handed than to settle for second best, but least make an informed decision after careful research.

Life’s always fair, we just have to be patient, open our eyes and ditch that pair of glasses =)

All I read, and agreed with, is the part about “squeeze the fruit, taste the free morsels, or check out a new brand of juice“, though I know it probably means something very different from what I assume it to be. I swear it’s the alcohol from last night.

Cough.

There I was, being all shallow about physical attributes, and a boy, dwells deeper than that.

And then I refer back to Butterfly’s post.

I bowed my head in absolute shame.

And then I shoved my hand down my panties to check.

Have I being a male all my life and not aware of it all the while?!

Trying not to

I am trying to keep my breakfast in my stomach, though the thought of feeling less guilt from a heavy breakfast seems pretty appealing too.

I am trying not to barf.

What can I say? I am a cheapdrunk, though I would prefer a cuter nickname than that. :P