Hello 2012, 

Thanks for not being an asshole to me so far. You’ve been great. I remember the day I kicked 2011 out the door. It was not more than a week ago….

27 Dec 2011
The last week of my relationship with 2011 was an eventful one. The girls and I went out to watch Sherlock Holmes at Cathay. Lyn had just came back from her shopping trip in Shenzhen, China and being the bestest best girl friend ever, she bought us some girly gifts! (I think a little part of her did it to save my fashion sense as well.)

And my favourite gift of all – only realized how much I loved this thing after I started using it. I love Lyn for introducing me to the ever so humble looking but way awesome bag organizer! It’s a bag you put your shit in, before you put it in another bag. Sounds ridiculous but it’s amazing.

After the movie, we sat outside Cathay, talking about what girls usually talk about. Life, boys and production. (Last bit probably not true for all girls.)

Towards the end of the night, someone called out my name and out of the darkness peered my favourite dude from secondary school, Rasyid! This boy was one of my bestfriends back in school and because life got in the way, we haven’t seen each other since we graduated. Great thing we lived so close to each other as well so we got the whole longass bus ride to catch up and talk about old times.

28 Dec 2011
The very next day, the girls and I met the girls of Prettig, Sha and Jo, for lunch at Fish & Co. As usual, lots of nonsense and even planned a Pretcho trip to Bali hahahahaha Such a hilarious duo and always entertaining to watch this combo.

31 Dec 2011
The early hours of new years day was as usual, pretty uneventful. I stayed in bed for most of it, watching the latest episode of Chuck. We had all planned to meet at Harbourfront Mrt Station at 5pm to make it in time for the doors of USS to open for NYE at 6pm. Somewhere somehow, my brain had disregarded the total first half of that plan and I chilled, and grilled (a cheesedog toast) and took my time with everything. It was at about 4:15 that I realized I was dead wrong about the plans.

Thankfully, I was merely just about 10 minutes late and although most of the boys had made it there on times, a huge chunk was way later than I was. Phew.

Our group was 21 people strong, which comprised of ECHO, everyone in Embrace Them Ghosts, some dudes from Fall Of Mirra, Yan, Fhasha and some of their family members. We all made our way on the monorail to Universal Studios Singapore, where I haven’t been for a while but somehow have not really missed hahahaha It was chaos right from the beginning.

Sya took the lead and did what she does best, tour manage. It’s incredibly difficult to lead a herd of mostly boys and somehow, she managed it hahaha

As soon as we got in, Joel and I bee lined to the counter where they were giving out free party hats and noise makers. We all then paraded our way through USS, obnoxiously of course, and headed straight to New York for the Parade to start. A lot of familiar faces featured in the parade, most of which I recognized as my fellow escorts, who’ve upgraded themselves to becoming performers. Pretty awesome sight!

I can’t remember much of what happened after that but the true highlight of the night was being part of the proposal! Yan had planned it with us, and he was so nervous the whole day hahahaha What a wonderful experience to be part of this truly beautiful moment. The remaining 19 of us plus everyone at Far Far Away at the time were cheering them on. Awh, gives me chills thinking back on it! So happy for these two!

And the whole gang:

After that, all of us went nuts, sprinting to all the grueling rides. I had been on all of them except the Transformers ride (which I still didn’t get to go on because some idiot set off the fire alarm in the place -_-) but I was so nervous going on them again for some reason. It was crazy, but so much fun!.

The most classic ride to me was sitting next to Farhan on Battlestar and listening to him scream in complete horror hahahahaha What was even more classic was seeing the picture taken from the ride’s camera. I still laugh like crazy looking at it. Rex and Farhan’s expressions can take care ah seriously hahahahahahhahahah

We didn’t have much time for everything but it was pretty fulfilling nonetheless. Most of us were scattered all over the place when the countdown was happening but eventually did find each other to snap some last few shots.

After USS, we all decided to go out for supper at West Coast where we PBG-ed and hung out the night away till almost dawn.

One of the best new years celebration, ever. What a way to leave 2011.

1st Jan 2012
And oh, the story doesn’t quite end there. New Years day was spent with my parents, aunts and cousin at Fort Canning for the Misteri Jam 12. Took lotsa pictures but they’re all with my cousin so….. I don’t really know when or if I’ve ever going to see them hahaha Kinda lame to be honest. The sound was horrible. ECHO shows have better sound than that shit. -_- I was hungover (from being tired) and completely exhausted from the night before to enjoy it much.

2nd Jan 2012
The next day, I went out for dinner with another set of cousins for  my baby niece’s birthday. She turned 1! *cue tears*

Birthday girl!

Tomorrow, I set out to Negeri Sembilan with my friends for a show. Road trip! Pretty darn stoked!

SO 2011 ended great, 2012 is starting out brilliant. The ECHO girls had our first meeting just a few days back and we’re planning bigger and better things. I am overall, ecstatic about our plans for 2012 and hope everything falls into place nicely.

I feel blessed to have the company I do, my beautiful family and this new year to start fresh. I hope everyone feels the same.

Happy New Year to everyone on wordpress and may all your wishes come true this year! It may be our last so let’s go out with a bang, shall we?

#PMA2012 

3 years on, I’m more of a fan than ever. Would’ve absolutely paid to go for this one but since Prettig had helped us so much for our shows, it was only right for us to return the favor for their biggest show ever. That’s saying a lot considering what awesome shows they usually do. And plus, who would actually complain when you get a crew pass for a Parkway show?! Yeah not me for sure.

So as they were in 2009, amazeballs. I knew the songs this time around and was in and out of the venue, taking care of door sales, injured people and trying to catch every single song. It was manic but fun haha 2 boys got really hurt from the stagedivers. Immediately flashed on something I learned from my sister, who took first aid classes. Immediately also made a mental note to get my own damn cert. (Just googled it and it’s $200 not including GST. Fuck you guys.) Anyway, my sis taught me when try to get them to respond to questions like their name, where they were and uhm, what their favourite parkway drive song was. Haha One dude forgot Parkway’s whole set, and another forgot his name. Strongly suggested they both go to the hospital immediately but I’m not sure they did. Really hope everyone got home safe. In the midst of all that, i still got to yell out “RETRACE THE STEPS RETRACE THE STEPS” and “SINKING ALWAYS SINKING!” and “SO CRY ME A FUCKING RIVER BITCH!”, so me happy as a clam.

While packing up after the show, Sya grabs me and Lyn by the arm and goes “Let’s go meet the band” and I’m like “Fuck my hair sucks”. But yeah, we got to meet Winston again and holy hell he remembered us from 2009 hahaha What a sweetheart. Didn’t quite get to chat with any of them because we really didn’t feel like intruding but got shots with Winston and Jeff Ling. My 2 favourites so again, haaaaaaaaaappy as a clam.

And of course, my giglife family. <3

Such a great day.

Standardly boring day but as I was having lunch in a crowded restaurant, I found myself feeling, tasting and hearing things differently. My senses seemed to have been drastically enhanced all at once. I could feel the hot breath on my left cheek of the lady ordering next, taste the buckets of salt in my food,  I could feel the sweat under my shirt tickle down my stomach, hear a young couple pour a glass of coke 4 tables away, listen to the kid at the next table wheezing like an old man on his death bed- I was basically Spiderman. It was irritating as hell.

What I found most odd is how I don’t notice these things more often. Was it annoying? Definitely. Am I missing life on purpose? Perhaps not. Do I want  to continue feeling, touching and hearing things like I appreciate the air in my lungs? Yes.

*Photo that has got nothing to do with post* haha

Or else… well I’m gonna die alone. News update, I have decided to suspend my dating life, forever. Why? Because it’s a hopeless case and I don’t have time to be hopeless. I realize my blog has either been quiet or plastered with pictures (yeah, I’m THAT blogger now). I’ve been epic sick these past week and now kinda down because a whole week has gone to shit.

My new favourite show is having it’s last season. Way to go in discovering Chuck at such a shit time. But well, I guess if I’ve followed them through the years, it’d hurt more to see it go off air. I’ll be in pieces once Shonda Rhimes announces Grey’s last season. Or when McDreamy leaves. Chuck is by far the best action/comedy series there is today and reading through the kinds of shit they had to go through to keep the show on air is ridiculous. They probably have a whole lot of people watch that shit online. They need to track these things for real statistics. Chuck is not aired in Singapore so we don’t have any other option but to watch it online. People need to give shows like this a sec. It wasn’t very appealing to me at first. I remember Sya having to ask me over and over again to get into Chuck (hehe) and I took awhile to because, yeah it didn’t strike me as anything special. Once I got through the first ep, I was hooked. It took me just 1 month to watch all 4 and a half seasons and now I’m at the point where the theme song is my phone’s text tone and well, this:

So if you haven’t watched Chuck, give it a chance. It’ll surprise you.

I’m planning my wedding to Zachary Levi. Somebody let him know please.

Also, The Walking Dead is still blowing my mind.

Truth be told, there were a lot of guys in my past that I toyed with, emotionally. Never promised anything and at the same time, next promised there’d be nothing. I’m not the hottest girl on the planet and I wasn’t back then either, which was probably my strong suit. Not intimidatingly good looking but not entirely hideous. They assumed this meant I was a nice girl. I wasn’t.

I know I was hurting them but because I had been hurt by ONE guy in my past, it made me think it was okay to hurt others. And that’s not fair.

I have 2 of them on facebook. Wouldn’t say we’re casual friends – just on each others list for the sake of being there. Both of them after a few confusing/torturous months/years of me, got girlfriends. And both dudes are still with the same girl to this day. This was 5 years ago.

I don’t feel messed up about this. I honestly don’t. Heck, I’m even stoked for them. They probably hate me and think I’m made of ice. Which I was for a while.

But I think I’ve mellowed over time and age – right now feeling like I actually want to be in a relationship. But people don’t wait. Relationships don’t only come when you’re ready.

Well I fucked up and paying the price I guess. C’est la vie.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them – because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
RIP Steve Jobs, 1955-2011