afraid of the dark??

one of my fave things to do on the evil isle is sit by the radio at midnight with my mum and listen to ria's 'misteri jam 12'. its a malay program where listeners send in emails & kall to share on air personal enkounters with the supernatural. pontianak (a.k.a 'fatimah rocker') & pocong are always hot topiks. i found it entertaining until last week... they talked about hauntings on pulau ubin. the hairs on the back of my neck stood on ends!!

as most of you know.... my fren drowned at ubin. i was there on the island but was far away at the quarry at the time she drowned. a few kallers apparently mentioned that my "late" fren has turned into "sumthing else". sumthing skary!! lots of reports of families fishing by that river klaim they've seen her. it was kreepy!!

a kouple of days ago... my brother in law made me watch a reality style doko kalled 'wujud 2'. they challenge skeptik viewers by chucking them in haunted parts of the evil isle from midnight to dawn & place infra-red kameras to kapture the experience. oohmygaaawd!! the images!! so skaaaaary!!! i havent been able to sleep well since then. *shudders* i dunt understand why we're kurious kreatures who challenge & question the existence of such things. just becos we dunt see them dunt mean they dunt exist!!

giggly grrlfrens

irenes youngest brother Jacky made us watch this horrendous video kalled '1 guy 1 kup' where this dude squats on a glass jar & inserts it in his anus. the glass jar breaks!!! theres blood & broken shards of glass everywhere!!! it was so gross we broke into severe giggles!!!! jacky sekretly kaught us on kamera fone........



gawd. no wunder my jaws were aching from last night. i just realized i am such a grrlie grrl sumtimes!! aiyoh... so kuniang laughing & squirming. oh dear. haHahaHAHAHA!!! i'm too tired from my earlier kick boxing sesh to blogg right now. but i'll try put up a kouple of entries before i leave the evil isle. good night yo!!

arty farty party

darling andre invited me over his studio for an intimate gathering of old frens from our lasalle days. he katered food. drinks were free flowing & he had an amazing mix of musik blaring. his studio was in a "light industrial" area on the west side of the isle. but fuckinell!!! the krew didnt show up. thats weak hey? a fren goes thru all this trouble to organize shit... and no one fronts!!! fuck 'em. big uuup!!! to my man andre. becos i had a blast!!!!!!



the guilty party: andre



rebecca, stephan, din & ah long

i'm loving andres space!!! we were both painting majors in lasalle. 2 other painting majors were at the party as well. but andre & me have always been kontemporary artists. so i LOVE love looove love his works. din-ability is now a freelance illustrator/ comic artist/ animator. whilst 'ah-long' is a chef at his parents buddhist veggo restaurant in chinatown. but andre..... he stayed true to fine arts. wat a trooper. i am so genuinely happy for his success and hopes he goes on to make it very BIG in asia sumday!!!!!! bless. 

touch me.

today me bestie & i went to kenko "wellness" spa for a full-on massage & foot treatment. gawd!! it felt soooo good. i didnt realize how tense & worn out my body truly was till my legs "kracked" every time the lovely masseuse applied pressure on them. my left ankle feels so much better. fwaar!! the spa sesh left me very lithely. all i kud think of after was going for a skate!!!!! ..... but i was damn tired. too relaxed liao!!!! 



we went window shopping & ate lots of junk food. *bliss* we wudve watched a movie but were both too knackered. i even fell asleep on the bus just now!! got strange looks from a few passengers. my guess is (a) i was snoring (b) sleeping with my mouth open (c) drooling (d) sleep talking (e) or nodding off on sumones shoulder??? fuck if i kare!!!! i seriously needed this day out. had loads on my mind. ooookay... maybe i shud update this tomorrow arvo. i nodded off to sleep for a few sekonds just then. haHahaha!! yes i shall. word!!

新年快乐

my "re-union" dinner was with me bestie soya bean irene & her family (whom i havent seen in over 6 years!) we had steamboat dinner & watched this fucking funny taiwanese variety show on telly. thank jah my mandarin is okay. no subtitles!! my bestie decided we'd pop by kwan yins temple to pray before braving the krowds down chinatown. channel news asia estimates 200,000 were gathered. it was insane!!!




this is the first i've lit 3 joss sticks & prayed to kwan yin. irene was telling me the temple gets krazy alittle later. apparently the first devotees to place their joss sticks into the urn at the stroke of midnight get bonus "brownie points" in prayer. but the risk of getting prodded & burnt by the hot amber tips is a given in the mad rush. so we were quite happy to miss out on the hysteria & prayed early. in the meantime heres wishing everyone  新年快乐.可能您所有的愿望成真!!

job hazard

i spent a most relaxing evening at lower pierce reservior with my parents. we packed a picnik & sat by the water awaiting the sunset. mum whipped out her berita harian (malay newspaper).... and slowly we eased into a komplikated konversation on work ethiks. an aussie is imprisoned for insulting the krowne prince of Thailand whilst a lokal bureaukrat was bagged for bragging about his trip to Paris kosting S$42,000. even the venerable monk of ren ci is being charged in kourt for forgery & misappropriating funds.

mum randomly asked.... "you willing to go to prison for work sayang?!" she knew journos get thrown in jail often for kontempt in refusing to name their "sources". some get tangled in defamation suits whilst others who incite emotion & free thinking are deemed "dangerous" to korporations & korrupt officials. when push kame to shove... is protekting demokracy & the 4th estate more important than protekting oneself? tough question mum!!! i asked myself if i wud be that person who lived in fear or go all out "guns blazing!!". its interesting the attitude every individual has with regards to work ethiks. live to work or work to live?

lower pierce reservoir

BFF

they say an akurate "measure of who you are in life is the; sum of your experience". i thought about this parting ways with irene & andre last night. both of whom i've known for over 10 years. so much has changed since then. priorities... money... work.. marriage. we all know the deal. but its nice to know sum things dunt change..... 

irene talked with her hands flailing around okassionally swearing in hokkien. while andre the intellectual artist with every puff of his cigarette says sumthing hilarious or deeply profound. we talked.. laughed & "kried" so hard last night... i felt 17 once again!! i have a good feeling about the rest of my stay. for the first time in yeaars.... i slept well on the evil isle. 

evilest isle yo!!

back on the evilest isle again. uuurrgh.... i'm knackered still. so much has happened in just 2 days!!!! its maaadness. i'm sunburnt (already) from swimming with papa. throngs of people everywhere!! krazy ass taxi drivers & food!! lots of it. i plan to be at a kopitiam in ang mo kio every morning for a cuppa kopi + half boiled eggs & kaya butter buns for brekkie reading a kopy of the straits times... 

tonight i am meeting me bestie irene to session sum sambal stingray at newton circus. kant wait balls. . . . fuuuck me. i am just too brain dead to blogg about anything remotely intelligent. i think the evil isle is sapping all my "super powers"!!! haHaha!! seriously. sorry everyone. i've been sooo tired since i arrived. but i promise to update this alot more regularly soon. majulaaaah singapuraa!!!! pffft. *faints*