the night settling in looking back on a year ending with woe.
iTunes is spinning: jeff buckley - "grace"
it is my new years eve. and for the first time in
years, i am staying in to watch the new year ring in. this is a rare occasion as in many previous december 31st, i out roaming the streets of causeway bay and lan kwai fong clinking beer bottles and champagne classes and splurting out our drunken resolutions. this year, i will be sitting at home snuggled between my mee mee, my ga jeii and my stinky winky dog. i am content.
the year two thousand and four has ended on a sad note. as we look upon the twelve contries struck by the recent 8.9 earthquake, sending out a tremendous tsunami over it's areas. the areas hit hardest were thailand's phuket and phi phi island and also sri lanka. i count my lucky stars that my mom decided to take me to singapore for our mother daughter vacation instead of the original destination of phuket that i was pushing for. funny how things turn out. it was like a decade or more ago that my whole family was in san francisco waiting to board the plane for our trip to hong kong. and we were offered complimentary tickets and overnight stay in a swanky hotel if we gave up our tickets for other stand byers. my parents kindly refused and we boarded the plane for hong kong. the next day, the news reported that a major earthquake has struck san francisco, and me and my loved ones would've been affected if we had decided to stay. it's wierd and i guess everyone feels a little meloncholy and thankful this time of year. but i really am glad to be where i am. but in all honestly... this is when i'd rather be alone and without anyone to love. i couldn't bear the thought of losing my mom or my dad or my sister and even my stinky dog. i'm old enough by the standard to being considered independent and on my own, but still too young to let go.
as time ticks by, i only have a week left in hong kong. i'm neither too excited to leave nor too sad to stay. school will be starting on monday. i'll be there the monday after. and if anyone cares my new years resolutoin this year is to... let go.
it's 12:08amtorontotime/1:08pmhongkongtime: the weather has turned for a cold front here and i've got a yucky pimple growing on my chin.
bee stung kisses
iTunes is spinning: damien rice - "the blower's daughter."
And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky.
chrissymas is past and new years is still yet to come. i have two more weeks here before i head back to school and snow. yippy. but today is boxing day, and i guess there really is no big huge shopping day sales going on here. but i also wouldn't know i didn't really go out today. but i've done a fine job in starting a dent in the mee mee's credit card.
yesterday i went tsim shai tsui, rather fondly known as TST. i went to agnes b in hopes of buying the perfect pair of winter boots that i saw in singapore. and really dissapointedly now, i say, i left empty handed. they're sold out all across hong kong, in my size. my poor little retail heart couldn't take the shock. it was definitely treaded and torn apart by this horrible news. so then i had to console the poor barely beating organ with other shoe temptresses. so instead i bought a pair of summer shoes. heh. ironic, since i was looking for winter shoes. and i have my eye on another pair of cute pink flats, and in search of new winter boots and maybe pick up another pair of sneaks while i'm here. we'll see. right now the sales are just starting, it's at it's young and infant stage at the moment. most stores are at the 30% off mark. and hopefully... this is being really hopeful that the young sale will grow older to 50% before i leave. it's very unlikely, or more so definitely not likely that i'll make it to see the sale reach it's senior citizen discount of 70-90% off. that. i can only imagine.
one thing i hate about hong kong is that... things sell out here so quickly. everything i saw in singapore that i wanted, that i knew i coudl get here as well i just waited to get here. 1. the agnes b boots. 2. this pretty shu umera duo eyeshadow that i wanted. 3. a pretty pink stila umbrella. 4. mac makeup. well that's not true. well half true, they still sold out of the mac eyeshadow set i wanted, but i managed to pick up another collection instead. it has the green i've been envy for and a lot of pretty golds and taupes. furthermore, i'm proud to say that i've highly influenced my sister in the makeup department. yesterday she bought a mac set as well, and a lip stick AND an eyeshadow from anna sui. all fine delectable choices. jenny stamped approved. i haven't bought anything
ultra exciting yet. i keep waiting to see something that really jumps out at me. well i have seen things that jumped out at me, but the price tag was just too extravagant. dior earrings and kate spade clutch purse will have to stay on the shelves reserved for jenny's window shopping eyes only. my long winter coat search is still going on. they either don't have what i'm looking for altogether, or not the colour i want. i saw a really pretty tan one, but it was just too light of a colour for me, my face would blend right into my coat. as of now, i've got my brown eyes on a black fornarina coat. it has yet to go on sale, but i have faith. patience not so much... but it'll have to do for now.
i've rambled on way to much about everything and nothing in particular. but mayhaps someone managed to muster something of interest upstairs. and tomorrow i will be making yet another trip down to mong kok to pick up my digital camera. the model you ask? well you'll just have to see. i think i'm also going out to pick up an ipod as well. ouch. that's going to hurt the wallet. i've got my eye on two pretty pricey items, and these i guess are what you can say are my 'christmas pressies'. so don't ask me what i got for christmas because now you know.
as five pm ticks nearer and nearer i have to now go out and entertain some guests. or more like a lot of guests. my dad has apparently invited the whole church staff over for a dinner. yay. great. feel the ooze of my enthusiasm. but don't be fooled by the face you see below. which are the female members of the LO family. winky eye doggy accounted for as well. my dog is so cute. even though she's only left with on eye and a loss of hearing she still charms her way into our hearts. as my sister says, it's just as though she's permanantly winking as us all the time. not a bad thing i say. except it adds to her mischeivious nature. as now that she has so much time on her paws, she likes to sneak into the kitchen garbage can and dig through the trash. what's the fun in that you say? i don't know. but i know that you know she's gone through the garbage everytime because afterwards she has the
smelliest of all smelly farts of all times. mark my words. you'll never come across a stench as bad as hers. hee. mmmm. dinner time here i come. this post has gotten way to long and way to pointless.
me and my ga jeiiiii.
the only females my dad can stand: me, my mee mee and my ga jeiiii.
(well us and but but as well)
it's toronto time 4:26 am. and hong kong time 5:26 pm and i saw my first cockroach of the year. ughickshies. *shudder.
a feast upon a higher source.
iTunes is spinning: Gatsby's American Dream -"Badlands"
so tonight we had another one of our infamous dinners where it lasts for about 5 hours and consists of continual eating, drinking and entertaining of one another and loved ones. it was also the very first birfday of my newest little cousin, toby, whom i finally got to meet for the first time. is he ever a cutie, a little cranky tonight because he missed his nappytime earlier on in the day, but all in all we got him a christmas/slash birthday cake and he was satisfied with stuffing it into his mouth all the while throughout dinner my doggy was beckoned underneath his highchairtable as toby often and without fail dropped bits and pieces of his dinner into the open waiting mouth of button. so after a festive feasting of a scumptious meal and of holding the hand of a little one while he raced around the house, not yet able to walk on his own but yet with a free spirit and the will to venture and wanderlust his way through the night i am now exhausted and happy to retire into bed.
but before i leave, i present to you, the world, my dear little baby cousin toby.
and this is my other little cousin who's all grown up now. accompanying me here joyously is riyuchi and his baby brother.
tomorrow is another day. one of my sister friends is arriving to spend a few days with us before she heads off to christmas with her family. so it'll be another fun filled day and maybe i'll get out to go do some mores shopping. i've actually done lack thereof. surprisingly, but unforgivable.
i heart you.
it's toronto time 11:42 am and hong kong time 12:42 am (well for once we're both in the ams) i'm off to dreamland and i'm sick of snuggling into the covers of an empty bed with no other warm body to nuzzle and no nook to rest my head into and especially no one to spoon my bottom.
waving to an ambient light from above
iTunes is spinning- well. actually. iTunes isn't able to spin anything for me to groove to at un momento.
so here's a quick update from the CHANGI singapore airport. i saw the sign
FREE INTERNET and naturally i gravitated towards a familiarity of life i left behind five days ago. ahhhh communication with the outside world.
mmmm so before i board my flight number 567 back to hong kong here's what i have to say about singapore:
-i am a little sunkissed and bronzed
-shopping is very not fun and expensive
-but i still managed to buy a pair of nifty hot pink sneaks
-guys can be named "abby" here
-it's unbelievable scorching hot
-you may have to 'pop a squat' my ultimate fear of a hole in the ground toilets
-oggled by a lot of gross asian men (i'll save those for you lauren)
and on an end not, i managed to catch a lovely stomach flu my second day visiting, and without much more detail, i'm out.
peace jiggies
it's 12:18am singaporean time/same time as hongkong which makes it about 11:18pm toronto time, and i wish all my snuggle bumpkins a good night. party hardy and i miss all my little and big ones.
you'll never be worthy enough to become the catcher of my downfall.
iTunes is spinning: matchbookromance -"lovers and alibis".
on this glorious tuesday, i've managed to yet again waste away most of the morning doing what i please. i've managed to ALMOST watch the entire episode of last thursday's O.C. however. i've yet to finish, as the last bit i am unable to download. i'm at the part where julie and jimmy are kissing at the SnO.C. and dear god before i know the ending please don't let lindsey be the secret of caleb. . . that will be trouble brewing in newport beach i tell ya. however, if anything happens ryan my dear. remember that i'm only a moment's flutter away my love.
i've also finished watching king arthur yet again. i love this movie. everytime i watch it again... i'm reminded of why. i just really like it. i think the knights compliment each other in character really well and my i love the fight scene on the ice. it's amazing. *zing. if only i could bow an arrow like that i'll be the sexy archer lady in town. and if anything, i'll land myself the sexy lancelot. damn if knights were that hot, i'll definitely be willing to transport back.
in furthermore of my entertainment watching antics, i'm now on disc five of freaks and geeks. i've got one third left of season one to watch. it's been a blast. and my new favourite word for poop is "turd". and i'm a bum patter. and was that steve urkel in the mathlete's for lincoln? or was that my eyes. and special guest appearances by jason schwartzman is always good.
tonight, the mee mee and i are going to get my eyes checked at the local mall and also pick up some ammenities for tomorrow's trip to the city that doesn't allow for gum chewing, singapore. i'm not sure how i'll be able to survive i'll need to stock up on candies. i hope to soak up the sunshine and return with a sun kissed tan. hope. i'll have to remember to pack my bikini and forgotten sunscreen in the trunk of my
car.
allinall,
in the meantime i'll be busy fighting off annoying-unwanted-stalkeresque-exboyfriends in hope that eventually they will catch my drift, that no means no. and that no means that no i really do not want to hang out with them because aside from all the enticing promises and allures of bounties and shinys... that no. i am not interested. and everytime the phone rings with a calling for me, i dread saying the friendly greeting of 'hello' because the voice in return isn't the one that i hope to hear. it's not the one that'll bring a smile to my face and a flutter in my tummy. and it's most certainly not the one that i want to go on a date with. so then
in the meantime if anyone happens to call my house, more than once, many many times over and over again and all you hear is the busy signal... that means that... i'm 'busy' or that maybe just maybe someone forgetfully forgot to hang the phone on correctly....maybe. and dear god i hope this forementioned person doesn't somehow stumble upon this place of mine and read this horrible haterant i'm obliterating towards him at the moment. . ..
have a good day. and please don't come again.
it's easternstandardtime: 1223am/hong kong time: 123pm and in life and love, i hate being stood up for a date. real or not. aside from being a stupid million miles away, that's hard enough already. but having someone make themselves so unavailable to you... it's even harder to bear a smile and keep on walking through the day.
reminiscent of a time when...
iTunes is spinning: Mr. Big -"next to you"
i've been out of my element for wayyyyy to long. if you think that i'm a shopping maniac in toronto and i can take on any consumerism driven stature. hong kong is wayyyyy out of any amateur's league. coming back after an almost two years absence from this land full of cheap goods, i'm actually reminded in awe at all of the vast goods placed for sale. you have your high end goods, which are quality for their money. or you can have your cheap goods at the price you pay. i ventured out into what we call the district of 'mong kok'. and if you think that shopping in north america is horrendous at christmas time. then welcome to hong kong full time. everyday seems like it's christmas with the amount of people in the streets hustling and bustling. today, i actually bought _nothing_. save these words, because i dont' think it'll happen very often. i'm actually waiting to see all that's out there before i start buying. and unlike north american good return policies, in the kong, pretty much everything is a FINAL SALE. and so on the list of shopping to buy i have:
-ipod
-digital camera
-cell phone
-everything else too much to list.
and so today i browsed the many many electronics store for a digital camera so i've narrowed it down to four of which one i'd like to possess eventually:
1.
Canon ixus 40
2.
Canon ixus i5 in dark grey or red.
3.
Sony DSC-T3 in black.
3.
Sony DSC-P150 in black or blue.
i'm definitely leaning towards one of the sony ones because i'm already at home with the way the camera functions and works. that and for an added extra fun of the mini movie options, on the canon it's a "vga" format. bradley help! what does this mean. . .mmm. that and WOW mp3 players are SO TINY now. imagine a matchbox. but a little smaller and little fatter. WOW. small. as for cell phone options i think i'm looking at getting the
Panasonic x400.
so far, the clothing category hasn't been impressing me too much. but i also haven't gone really anywhere yet. i'm sure i'll see more. in the meantime i've got my eyes on a few pairs of nifty fun shoes and a ton of sneaks that i'm thristing after. i've also been happily stuffed today full of all the good food that i dearly dearly missed. yums. which also means that now... i'm in dire dire need of a belly rub. i have a feeling this will be a every so often reoccurance for the duration of my stay. i need a bellyrubwhore.
it's now easternstandardtime: 810am/hongkongtime: 910pm. and tonight walking home i pass by a very very familiar bench near my house in this park (that's pretty much deserted at night) and i'm thinking... i definitely made out on that bench at one point in my past slut life. . . . .don't let your kids out at night.
when you're only left with a bullet, i'l bring the trigger if you promise to pull it.
iTunes is spining: boys night out -"hold on tightly, let go lightly."
so the age old question of my bad procrastination series comes it it's 887 episode. in today's show we'll discuss how reading a book titled "4 blondes" by sex and the city guru writer candace bushnell is so much more enticing than that of "seizing the light: a history of photography" writtten by robert hirsch. wait. this doesn't even need a discussion. i came to the conclusion of this enticement with the non-elaboration of the topic sentence. and so folks, be sure to tune in tomorrow for the next episode in this on going procrastination series. it will feature a solver to dealing with procastination whilst packing.
in the meantime, "do it for love"
the goonies never say die!!!
it's seven: twenty two and i'm sixteen hours away to freedom... pshsshhuuuuuut *power up.
giving up the fight to read and living up the power to procrastinate.
iTunes is spinning: say anything -"woe".
She said "I can't get laid in this town without these pointy fucking shoes.
My feet are so black and blue and so are you."
Please take me out of my body up through the palm trees to smell California in sweet hypocrisy.
i'm offically fed up with reading pdfs online. officially. three more days till home and good food and fabolous shoppping. untill then i have to somehow make it through my last three days of hell in the year two thousand and four.
all i want for chrissymas is a good snuggle: (the more the merrier)
it's three: fifty nine and i need some sex drugs and rock and roll to get me through the pain of hell i feel my brain is being dredged through. cheers.
an unexpected finding of love...
iTunes is spinning: Coheed and Cambria -"god send conspirator."
So yesterday while on the job on the phone eating my pack of m&ms i came upon a sweet surprise. a red m&m in the shape of heart. and no i didn't photoshop it. i still have the physical evidence sitting on my desk as we speak to prove myself true. sigh. and yes i actually resisted the urge to eat this little morsel of love and decided instead to save it to show it to you all. merry heartshapedredm&m day!
in other good news, i bought this pair of trouser jeans that i've been trying on ALL summer, everytime i went into ae, i tried on this pair of jeans and everytime i didn't buy them (greenie can contest to how many times i really did try them on) it was a lot. but i never buckled to the temptation of buying that at sixty eight dollars.
because i knew that one day, like this particular day that when i walked into ae, they woudl be on sale for thirty four dollars. thirty four! yippy skippy. now, i should go try them on again to see if i got the right size. you'd think that after so many different occasions of trying them on that i'd now know which size i wanted. but nope. that's life. no actually that's me.
CRAMCRAMCRAMCRAMCRAMCRAMTIME!
it's seven twenty nine and i'm on my way to be accused and charged with the offense of statuatory snuggling. and how do i plead?. . . .guilty.
i thought i was saying yes to you.
iTunes is spinning: Pearl Jam -"state of love and trust"
the countdown begins.
-7 days till school's done
-7 days till no more test and projects and essays
-7 days till i go leave on a jetplane for hong kong.
so today was a pretty un/eventful day. woke up not as early as i'd like to take my lover's car in to get the defrost fixed, then it was off to sheridan for print class. and it was another day bypassing the parkingtolldude who lets me through without paying yet another day! then had the ultra long critiques. but on critique days the print prof brings in treats and goodies so you're on a sugar high all day long. it's great! well critiques ended at 3 today since a lot of people didn't who up. but all the power to me since i got to take off to do a little chrissymas shopperoonies. i think i managed to cover all my odds and ends on the present giving stuff. which is good, i'm on top of it this year. i also got the cutest strawberry shortcake (stain free!!) sheets at value village. yes i went to value village, if you spend some time at that infinite abyss of thriftiness you'll be surprised as to what you can find. then after a good 2 hours of shopping blissfully, i also stopped to fill up the lorider at sixtynine.eight cents! what a deal. then of course it was back to picking up the lover's now fixed defrost/recall done car. made a pit stop at good old bulky barn to stock up on munchies and treats for the long weekend of studying. ew ew and ick.
so of course, tonight is obligatory o.c. night. and it was definitely an awesome episode. the new characters are really rocking my world, the new chicks are hot and fun... ducky's of course hot, no seth cohen, but still hot and i'm really really digging ryan's new haircut look this season. he's definitely gaining more points in the hotness category. *yums. i'm really digging the prime time guys this year on my favourite shows. rory's got herself two new hot man potentials eveer since she FINALLY broke up with dean... or dean broke up with her. bah. doesn't matter since she's single and she's got logun huntzberger and marty on the list of yummy guys. it's sad. yes it's sad. i actually devote three hours of my time everyweek regardless of what i have to do to watch three shows:
wed night
8pm: America's Next Top Model
9pm: Gilmore Girls
thurs night
8pm: The O.C.
but i must say that i'm pretty disspointed with this season of america's next top model. none of the girls really stand stand out to me. i think my favourite was still the second season. the first was still good, better than this season's at least.
anyways my running commentary on this week's tv shows is over. and now i'm going to have to go find seth cohen to see if he wants to go get ice cream, and it'll be my treat, but two scoops only. if not, i can always wait for the bus with ryan.
it's nine: five one and tonight will be the only veg night i can spare until i go home. till then sweet sayonara.
