You hang up!

"You hang up"

"No… YOU hang up"

"NOOO you hang up"

"Ok Ok.."

*pause*

"You're still there?!" *giggles*

"You hang up"

"NO.. YOU hang up!"

"NOOO you hang up!"

Don't we all have our 'You hang up, NO,YOU hang up' moments? (remember? Ross in an episode of Friends)

Today at work, while my nosy-ass colleagues were listening to my 2 min conversations with Grumpy over the telephone, I did a 'You hang up, NO, You hang up' just to make their skin crawl.

Grumpy, as usual, being his Grumpy-self, said "Are you done? Because I'm really gonna hang up"

Sheesh. FINE, HANG UP!

You can sleep on the bloody sofa tonight.

Home

When the going gets tough… I think of 'home'… back in KL.

I miss getting cheap French manicures and facials. (NO, I don't normally wear sunnies at home in my own room. Dopey took this pic)

I miss being silly with the family dog, my true love, Simba. (Again, pic by Dopey. Gawd I look awful here! haha..)

My Simba.. the loyal watchdog. Baby boy, you're looking in the wrong direction. The gate is the other way.

I miss being with the family during Chinese New Year.

I miss seeing the boys in the family get pissed drunk on the eve of CNY, while having steamboat, in front of all our parents.

I miss the all the swearing $#%^%$# and 2^nd hand smoke coming from the mah jong room. Next to me is my cousin, the gang leader of the boys. At the table, Grandpa, uncles and Dad.

I miss my cheeky little cousin, Dinosaur Boy. I still love every inch of this little devil, despite the fact that he hardly remembers my name. I'm never around.

I miss how my little cousins annoy Mum and still put a smile on her face.




I miss sitting in the car with Grumpy, driving around KL city (swearing #@$%#@), because we're L-O-S-T… trying to get to KL-freaking-CC.



I miss my friends. I miss sipping 'teh-o-ais limau's' any time of the day/night with my BFF's!!

Most of all, I miss HOME!

Birthday gifts

Grumpy is turning 26 y/o soon. His birthday happens to fall on a month which has never been kind to me financially. And he knows it. Which is good because it's not my fault that everything is due in May.

We've been together for nearly 9 years now. I still can't believe it. But back then, we used to ask each other what we wanted, and we'll even buy gifts in front of each other and pay for it there and then. And if each of us wanted something expensive really bad, we'd go halves (or 60/40, 70/30, etc…. you get the picture..) But it's a whole different ball game now. Recently, we've been surprising each other with something none of us would expect. Which is fun! He could wrap me a can of paint, I'd still be amused!

So anyways, Grumpy said "Please don't buy me clothes, OK" and hints that he'd like some fancy schmancy Bose home theatre sound system.

"Oh shut up! I'll get you whatever I feel like, OK?" Then he goes on and on about the Bose system.. Yea WHATEVERRR…

But look what I got him…

An Ed Hardy tee-shirt. How cool is that?

It's not Grumpy's style.. but who cares? Lets give 'em Ralph Lauren polo tees a run for their money!!

The dog likes it.

And look, even Ed Hardy's a doggie lover. I love the bulldog prints.

Love is blind

It's quite bizarre but recently, I've been hearing nothing but weddings, marriage, babies, etc. I'm so happy for the 'soon-to-be' or 'just-turned' newlyweds. It's such a joyous and amazing chapter in their lives. While I've recently purchased my first home, I've been getting the "So, when are you guys tying the knot?" questions. I'm not annoyed by it… but my aunt sent me an email recently. She told me about what a Buddhist monk discussed recently. While I call myself a Buddhist, I'm not really that religious… spiritual? Maybe..

He said "As we all know love is blind, so what is marriage?"

"Marriage is the institution for the blinds", rather funny but is true to a certain extent.

"So what is the wedding ceremony?"

"A ceremony to seal our entry to the institution?"

Oui!

Jules, you’ve got a mortgage now!!

Grumpy and I are now proud owners of our first home! OMG! We bought the 3 bedroom place 2 weeks ago which I was raving about in previous posts. I actually preferred a 2 bedroom unit, but we didn't get that one during the auction. We drove straight to this other place after that auction, and we won the bidding! OMG! We went WAYY over our budget but what the hell….?! It was such a daunting experience. We pretty much signed our lives away with all the doco's etc. On the flip side, we're ecstatic over this and the good thing is that the loan just got approved this afternoon.

champagne!!! champagne for everyone!!!!!

Post-auction, I went to work on Monday, overwhelmed, trying to keep it quiet (as the loan wasn't approved yet). I needed some help from my HR dept and I informed my boss about it immediately after I stepped in the office. We went for our Monday mid-morning meetings, and he starts off with "G'morning everyone. Did you hear? Jules just bought a house over the weekend!!!" Gee thanks Mr Manager.. so much for keeping it a secret. After the meeting, everyone went back to our desks and my team members were giving me the silent treatment… "yea someone bought a house and did not want to tell us". But they were all very happy for me, and since then, before I step out to hit the shops during lunch, I get a "Jules, you've got a mortgage now!!!" reminder.

Hit the sack

Sleeepppp… why don't I ever get enough of it?

Once I woke up at 4pm on a Saturday (after a night out with the girls). But I think I found a logical explanation for this.

Rating 1 for Life

Mondayitis.

It is not all fine and dandy for me. I know things could be worse.

Anyways, I had a pretty crap weekend. I was driving home with the dog from lunch on Saturday, turning into the street where I live. It was sort of raining, roads were wet. Before I know it, some car hit MY car from behind. Goddamnit. My car!!! I didn't go all hysterical to the girl who was driving too fast. I was in shock. The dog was in shock.

my poor baby

the car that hit my poor baby

Sigh, the last thing I need is a car accident and all the inconvenience that comes with it.

I'm not one that is superstitious or anything, but only a few days ago, I rang a different car insurance company to check if I could get a more competitive quote on the premium. The girl asked "have you been in an accident in the past 3 years?" I replied "touch wood, nope. I have not". In my head I'm thinking Rating 1 for life, Rating 1 for life… (I'm quite proud of my Rating 1 for life)

Then guess what? Saturday arvo comes, BANG!

His and hers

Fridays at work… I love Fridays! Despite Friday's being my least productive day at work, I must admit I do have lots of fun with my colleagues. I had lunch at Wagamama's. It was packed… as always.. on a Friday. Had grilled salmon with ramen noodles. Yumm! Then I went to grab my daily fix of frozen yoghurt.

By 3.30pm, everyone wasn't at their desks, and instead at someone else's. (if you've got an urgent query, leave a message on our message banks and we'll return to you on Monday).

Peter Pan came to sit next to me. The next thing you know, we're showcasing the latest boy/girl ear/nose ring. Made from a humble paperclip.

For him.

For her.

For him, again.

For her.

Haha Peter Pan is quite a character. He's a bit weird, but we all need some weird people in the office, don't we? Otherwise it just wouldn't be complete.

The night ended with some drinks at Bridie O'Reillys. We had a great time. Everyone went home drunk, except for the Belgians and French, of course. No one can get these Europeans drunk. They can have 7 pints in a row and still stay sober ass. I had 4 pots and jumped straight to bed when I got home.

Psychobabble (Part I)

While some people put a lot of important and intellectual content into their blogs…. Mine's more of a light breeze….

Let me introduce you to the recently renovated Sofitel Melbourne..

I'm taking this picture from Level 45. That's Level 35 down there. It looks like its Ground Floor or something… There are some popular cafes and restaurants on Level 35.

View from the hotel room.

Two country bumpkins in the hotel bathroom.

OK, enough of Sofitel.

Went clubbing on a Friday night with one of my BFF's from work, Little Miss Fun. She will probably stop talking to me once she sees this picture is on the Internet. It's my cheap mobile phone (free on $29 Cap – can't complain). The way the flash goes off, you'd have to have super eyes to withstand the bright lights in a dark club.

After clubbing, we go back to the car, to find some goose paid for everyone's parking tickets (unfortunately, this is called vandalism, but nobody cares)! How good is that?