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Was on leave on monday coz was supposed to go to KL last weekend.
but since i din get to go to KL, i had the day off.
woke up like 9ish coz the workers were happily hacking the walls outside my hse due to the lift upgrading program.
milled ard the hse for a while and ewen msn-ed me to ask to lunch.
it was a nice hot, sunny day and i felt like i wanted to chillax somewhere w a cold beer in hand.
so after lunching at the coffeeshop near my place and getting a new pair of specs at westmall, we headed to sentosa to catch some sun and down some cold ones.
saw this place called azzura (cant rem the spelling) dat din look too bad. class95-ish music while u relak in the sun.
but we ended up at cafe del mar coz there was more to see. lol.
and since it was after 3pm, we had happy hour 1-4-1 carlsberg.
but dat first glass was damn no kick la. i think it's the heat. i felt like i was drinking bubbly plain water w a head.
now the second tasted more like beer and dat was a good one.
chilled out in the sun for a little more and coz i din use any sun block, i quickly got out of the sun.
dun wana end up like tioman again, red as a lobster and peeling like some onion.
walked ard some more after leaving cdm and discovered wavehouse.
damn cool la! it's basically like a wavepool thingy powerful enough to surf on.
and it's quite cheap at $30/hr but i think if there's a long queue, ur $30 might give u one or 2 rides.
went home to shower and went out to meet my cousin who's back from dubai for the weekend i think. it was definitely nice seeing her again coz we missed each other when she was back during cny and i was out at sea. tried meeting up when i went to malta but she was in japan.
so had a little chat and all but left after an hr coz she was there w her other frens as well.
met up w candy, jo n sam for dinner and somehow decided to go k after dat.
ended up at shenton way partyworld, bought a 3hr block and din leave till abt 1.30am.
i would have died if we had booked 4hrs lor. coz by the 2nd hr, i was quite tired liao.
crashed the minute the head touched the pillow.
Been back from perth for abt 1/2 week now.
been too lazy to blog abt it.
but since i've got time in the office now w nothing to do, tot i'll juz do a quick update.
this trip is prolly one of the most incident/drama-filled trips ever.
got the confirmation email from customer on thur, 8 oct.
so tried to book tickets to perth but our travel agent said flights were full till tue nite which means i'll only arrive on wed morning to start work. so checked the internet for seats and they had seats available. tried to select the flight but the SQ website was busy and in the end the flight was full again. had to refresh for like ther next 30mins b4 i could get a ticket to fly to perth on fri nite.
met up w julien, a long lost church fren who's now a PR in perth. dinner on sunday nite at the little creatures brewery for pizza.
good food there i tell u. the nachos were power as well. 3 ppl, 3 pizzas, 1 nachos, all gone. well... almost all.
work was a lil hairy for the first 3 days coz i had not found the necessary info to implement the new switch i was supposed to install and got quite frustrated.
but thankfully a phonecall to the boss gave me a new direction to work in.
and dat pretty much solved all my problems.
the new switch was installed, ready to go on wed and needed the engines to be running to do a complete test.
engines were not ready until fri nite/ sat morning.
sooo... i have thur n half of fri to walk ard perth!
went to the casino on wed nite. won abt aud300 but after deducting cab money, i had won ard aud240.
met up w joe, an old colleague from the airforce days, for lunch.
walked ard and shopped abit. bought 2 starwars tees and a fedora from roger david, another 3 more tees from jayjays.
walked ard the city some more, visited the swan bells tower (din go up).
joe bought me a whole apple strudel from corica to finish. it was really good stuff. but it was too much for 1 person to finish.
so had apple strudel n beer for dinner dat nite.
met up w joe again on fri morning to go to harbourtown for factory outlet shopping.
bought a hoodie and a pair of shorts. went back into the city and got myself a rashguard to use when i dive.
macs was having an angus beef burger promo so tried it. decently good but the real thing din look like the peekture :(
but it was good stuff.
thankfully the weather was good on thur n fri - nice n warm. unlike the other days from sat to wed when it was kinda windy n cold.
sat was time to go home :(
wad i dun like abt perth is it takes amazingly long for a taxi to show up after u've called for one.
waited for abt 50mins for the cab to take us to the airport lor.
but dat was all over and i'm juz glad i managed to deliver the goods for the customer coz it'll definitely look bad if we had to charge them for no work done.
but coz i had to fly back on sat, i had to miss the long-awaited KL trip w some of the JDYC peeps :(
at least i could claim the money back from the office. so no loss there, except for the fun and the adventure. DANG!
"perks" of the job dat i have to live w i guess.
My poor dusty blog.
i've left it untouched for a little too long liao.
so time for some 'action'
lol.
2 sats ago saw auggy n cheryl joining in holy matrimony.
overall wedding experience was, imo, kinda wrecked by the presiding priest who decided that the wedding mass is like ordinary sunday -
to be quickly gotten over and done with.
and the experience kinda scared another fren who was getting dat same priest to preside over her wedding mass.
good job, priest.
but reception after mass was v nice food was good and there was a nice spread.
good choice, wedding couple.
sunday was nice n quiet.
until tues nite.
was on half day leave coz of the lee n wong wedding dinner - the augustine lee n cheryl wong dinner.
well... more becoz i was one of the emcee for the dinner, hence the need for halfday.
was there at 5pm and had a short rehearsal w geri n the banquet captain.
overall went quite well considering dat i had to emcee in mandarin.
u shd see my script. was kinda littered w hanyu pinyin all over.
well, the both of them are now in greece enjoying their honeymoon.
well, i think they are but somehow cheryl is fb-ing while on her honeymoon.
who the hell does dat? lol.
think the rest of the week went by quietly.
the last weekend had me playing mj on fri n sat nite.
i've got 4 words to say - Welcome home, Mahjong luck!
was quite lucky on both nites - winning 55 on fri nite n 15 on sat nite.
havent won like dat in like ages.
better keep at it while it lasts.
possibly heading to fremantle, perth in a couple of days for work.
but it all depends on the customer giving the go-ahead to purchase the spares n fly over.
i want my 1-week leave!
Grrrr....
Oh.. forgot to add dat during my mani last evening, the manicurist was commenting to another colleague dat i've got nice nails.
and dat they shd paint it red and take fotos like in the case of a hand model. hehehe...
all these yrs of mani/pedi has paid off eh?
kekeke... cheap thrill i know.
