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laments from a trip

1. i lost my mom at the airport (my parents came along being singaporeans so they cld enjoy the free hotel nights bunking in with me). somehow we missed seeing each other while walking out and it was rather dramatic because my dad insisted she was left on the plane, the international globe trotter he is so not. he wanted to re-enter the plane to search for her after the gates/doors have closed after the stewardess left the aircraft. i told him it's not possible for them being the professionals they are to leave behind someone on the plane and get out themselves. no la i tell you she fell back to sleep in her seat. no i tell you she will wait for us one and will not go off on her own. nobody i tell you nobody argues with the lam family becoz we're self-righteous indignant pigs who think we are right even when proven wrong. SO we hankered ard for an extra 40 mins because of this which had me rushing to the hk ofc after that. you know there's a very valid reason why i don't bring my parents out.

2. basically i worked 2 solid days there glued to the laptop n it's more work than i do in a week ~_~ so by the time i get off at 6pm and had dinner i barely had the energy to shop @causeway bay. but the things there were generally more exp than kowloon....like S$40-50 for a top whereas i cld easily get S$10 for any piece of clothing in fa yuen street.

3. stayed at express by holiday inn which is just behind times square. hotel's chic and new but the bed's rock hard which means i couldn't sleep sufficiently at night. and dumbass me went to drink hk's milktea for dinner on the last night which kept me awake till wee hrs of morning and resulted in some spooky hallucinations whereby i thought i heard sounds in the room. get this...we stayed in rm 1303 and when we switched to kowloon hotel on our own over the weekend we got rm 1330! how weird is that ok?

4. my office is in central very much like raffles place but with vivocity incorporated in it? there are loads of branded boutiques and starbucks interspersed within office blocks. great view to the harbour and you cld walk to the next mall with interlinking skyway but nothing cheap to eat. mostly takeaway outlets and restaurants unless i think if you knew how to get to the streets and ate at the typical roadside eateries. then they had a lot of random tables and chairs outside the malls for you to sit and makan leisurely albeit not quite like alfresco dining.

5. it rained the friday i got off work and the amber rainstorm warning followed. it's windy with a light drizzle meaning the only time i could shop i couldn't walk 1 step without getting wet! bummer ain't it? totally dampened (sorri cldn't resist) my mood too and with my parents lugging ard waiting while i went in shop after shop i cldn't shop leisurely as much as i wanted to coz i felt bad they were bored! remind me again why i brought my parents along?

6. we were in an eatery having our beef brisket/ball noodles and sharing table with this arsehole. my senses being sharp as ever distinctly felt that something was amiss. the stupid f*** had his hp out pointing at me and i knew he was trying to discreetly snap a picture. i am not imagining this ok i felt thoroughly disgusted and sick. i sorta stared at him to show that i knew what was going on. it was like come 'on i was wearing a spaghetti top with abit of lace trimming and a cardigan. mind you no cleavage at all lor! i'm not like a bloody ms F cup so at that moment i very much wanted to dig his eyes out to show him that those are paddings milord! that's what push-up bras are made of capisci? made me so traumatised can.

7. ok then i wanted to do something to my hair in hk coz their package very worth it. straightened my fringe, plus color/highlight, treatment and cut for HK$499 which is less than S$100! damn cheapskate huh me? anyway i didn't want to waste time n decided to pop by on the last working night so that the remaining days i cld shop. plus it was also raining. i got into a shop at 9+pm and they told me it'll take ard 2 hrs. in the end i was their only remaining customer till 12.30am! haaa poor hairdresser had to wait there for me as well. i was so lethagic and trying hard not to fall asleep too. guess i wasn't in the right frame of mind to manage time properly.

8. somehow miscalculation on my part also ended us nearly missing the plane. when we arrived at the airport, the check-in counter had already closed for our flight! i think we arrived 40-45 mins prior to departure time. mad rush again.

so that's how it is. my second (woops now i remember first was to jakarta for some $ laundering transactions for my ex-boss in samsung) biz trip. well done novie! it could have been alot worse T_T

ok the first pic shows my co. bldg n there are absolutely no partitions in the ofc between workstations even the MD's ofc is glass walled imagine how stressful that is? erm...my sushi lunch / beading accessories shop / IFC mall where branded stuff are n airport express hk stn stops there / shopping at the wholesale sham shui po / beef ball with soup inside! / my black dust ball hp holder kekke now all i need a white totoro to pair them up.

posted by novie @ 9:38 AM