On Sunday we had dinner at Shashlik, a cosy restaurant tucked away in a corner of the sixth floor of Far East Shopping Centre. I’d been meaning to go there ever since Deepblue told me about the place many years ago, but somehow never did get the chance to.
Wed 10 Mar 2010
asterisk meetup
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Belated post! Because I’m finally free in the evening in a day when I end work at 5pm, I’m blogging a backlog.
It’s been a while since the asterisk girls met up, but it was imperative that we did so with Shan coming back to town. The date, February 22, was set weeks before the actual event.
Wed 10 Mar 2010
Summer Wars
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So I watched Summer Wars in the last weekend of February.
In a nutsheel: an unknown user takes over the disarmingly cute cyberspace of Oz, with disastrous and life-threatening consequences. Nothing new there, but what made this movie so close to heart was the theme of family. Spoilers below!
Sat 6 Mar 2010
Happy Birthday
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Wed 3 Mar 2010
cold truths?
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Am plugging this interview by Tokyo Damage Report with an ex-visual kei industry insider. I’m wondering what percentage of the bands out there now actually fall under this yakuza style of manufacturing.
(qiong! omg YOSHIKI is still there masterminding everything from America!!!)
Perhaps that’s why the bands I now like and support, are the older ones who had that extra special something and made it; and are now kinda free to do whatever they want with their music and image.
Wed 24 Feb 2010
Five months
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I could blog about happy things.
Like the JC meetup at Marche on Saturday when Hoe Wan was back from China, and how we rushed to get Royce chocolates at Takashimaya before it closed.
Or the lunch at Qianyi’s on Sunday where I ate the best yusheng ever.
Or the asterisk meetup on Monday at Ma Maison because Shan’s back from Scotland; with Whittard’s hot chocolate lucky pick and too-small portions that saw us heading to Macdonald’s for more prosperity.
But I won’t.
I can’t will myself to be happy. I’ve made too empty promises. I’ve done too much hurting.
Wed 17 Feb 2010
music spammage
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I stumbled on this indie Canadian alternative band, Metric, while reading a yunjae fic, lol. This is “Twilight Galaxy”, acoustic version performed by the vocalist and guitarist. It’s beautiful, simple, and haunting.
Lyrics below:
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Tue 16 Feb 2010
CNY 2010
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Had a steamboat reunion dinner with my nuclear family on CNY eve, then went for night shift. So many GEs and patients with rash after eating abalone, or head injury after getting drunk. *twitches*
Spent CNY day 1 in a postnight stupor, nine hours of sleep debt in the balance, no thanks to two night shifts in succession. Headed out for lunch with my extended family at Sakura. My 4-year-old nephew is the cutest thing ever! His birthday was on Valentine’s Day, so my cousin was telling us how he helped baked his birthday cake: “I told him, put the flour on the weighing scale till it reaches TWO-FIVE-ZERO.” Why is the youngest child always the cutest? Or is it because the fact that he’s male (and with two older sisters) triggers some inner paedophilic instinct in me? LOL.
Then went visiting in the evening and fell asleep after dinner there, for THREE HOURS, to my mortification. Sleep debt: five hours. And I was working the next day T_T
So I was reading The New Paper’s feature on zodiac compatibility.
Rat
- chemistry with Ox, Rat, Monkey, Dragon
- not compatible with Horse, Rooster, Rabbit
No wonder I don’t see eye to eye with my brother (rooster) and sister (horse). LOL.
