Tales of The Unexpected

I have finally "bumped" into the book I have been looking for almost the past 10years!!!

And so 13 years ago, I came across this short story my english tuition teacher used for the class' teaching material. It was an interesting story. A few years later, I tried to find the source of the story. But I only vaguely remember the book has "Strange" and "Stories" in it.

Today, I just realised there wasn't a "Strange" or a "Stories" word in the book title. It was "Tales of The Unexpected" by Roald Dahl. I bumped into it in Waterstones while browsing around for Short Stories books. Unbelievable! I finally found the book! Apparently it was first published in 1979!

Existence

P.S. I Love You

I have finally watched P.S. I Love You!!! Had been wanted to watch it for so long. And to my surprise, it was not that bad after all!

Well, I always thought it's a movie that will just make you cry. The fact that Jerry (the main actor) died and planned a series of letters and surprises for Holly (the main actress) completely puts me off.

Simply because I would thought that since he's dead anyway, why still keep reminding her of him!

I didn't enjoy the first part of the movie that much, but it gradually improved. It's a lil more than touching, inspiring I would say.

Although it did took her a whole year to finally let him go, maybe we do need that much time sometimes.

It's July...And it's Empty

Complete blankness,

Leona's Yesterday Plays,

Bookmarks aren't facilitating,

Spent 40 pounds online,

What is wrong?

Boredom strikes,

Nothing seems motivating anymore,

Hopes faded,

Utterly aimless,

When will bored of disappear?

When will emptiness be filled?

Butterfly House

Shochu

A random June weekend

Saturday, 7th June 2008:~

Went to Annie's birthday party @ Mestizo's. It was a dress up party, and so not quite knowing what I should go as, decided that a kimono works. And so, bought a short kimono online from afashion.net. Really nice and cheap kimonos. Not silk though, but the 100% polyester is good enough for 20 quid and suits the occassion.

Sunday, 8th June 2008:~

Saw Sian was in London visiting, this time her brother came to London from Msia. And so went out to Borough Market had lunch at a pub by the Thames. The food was so so only, maybe because of the crowd as well. After that, went to Harrods shopping and then just chilled out at Starbucks before I head home to get myself ready for another Monday working morning :)

Complimentary pics:

Hair Tips

After chopping off my hair, it's no more rebonding, no more digital perms. It all comes down to my own natural hair. And there goes more effort in blow drying to keep it in shape although the short length!

I always find it hard to blow dry my hair the way the salons can do to make it the shape I want. And so I put some thought into it. And actually thought of taking a course in Toni&Guuy or Vidal Sassoon (*kidding*). Amazingly, I finally discover the secret! It is the shape of the comb/brush I use!!! Completely spot on. I try recalling the last time I was in the salon, and bought the same shaped brush the lady in the salon use. And guess what, it does make a big difference!

Another brilliant discovery I found is in Boots! Toni&Guy's Straight & Shine Smoothing Balm, for sleeker, straight hair. This bottle of balm is like a pot of gold dropped from the sky! It is an absolutely and amazingly brilliant product! It contains anti-humidity agent to combat frizz, just exactly what I need! Just apply it on wet hair, blow dry and apply another layer and enjoy the swoosh and swish straight hair. Trust me, this is an absolute gift from heaven! (to me at least ;))

Birthday 2008

30th May 2008 ~ It was a "Sex and The City" night. Out on the 30th May! Exactly right for the occassion!

As expected, most of the audience were women. And of course it was a really girly movie. And I really really like it!

I'd say men would never know how to appreciate it, but it's a good potrayal of urban women dwellers trying to make the words Love and Life in the city works.

Aww and Carrie's dresses were so beautiful! Many said it was an overrated movie, and just another SATC series. Although I can't justify the fact, I can only say it is either you love it or hate it. And I Love it!.

Now tempted to buy the whole set of six seasons of SATC !!!

31st May 2008 ~ There is always a reason to pamper myself a lil and reward myself with a delicous and scrumptious meal in a Michelin star restaurant. The reason: my 26th birthday, went to Hakkasan (ref: Matthew Fort on Hakkasan) , the only current Chinese Restaurant with Michelin star rating.

Having only 6.30pm and 9.45pm bookings, we went for the half six one. Really nice decor, dimly lit decorated with black wooden frames and furnitures. Food wise, we ordered the dim sum platter which comes with eight variety of siu mai and har gau, the roasted duck with mango sauce and pork dumplings. The duck was really good! The meat is just tender and soft. I really mean it! haha. Main courses, the stir fry oystrich with yellow bean sauce was the best. The roasted silver cod with champagne sauce was nice too. And they also do Zai Choi (vege), the Monk Vegetables with beancurd was also yummy! We ordered a few other dishes: the jasmine tea smoked chicken (it was nice but can't really taste the jasmine tea, it taste more like soya sauce chic to me), a pork belly dish (think it was the Hakka stew) and a simple garlic stir fried morning glory. [Hakkasan Online Menu]

All in all the food was distinctly high quality. Considering we had two rounds of cocktails plus the yummy food, and the bill came to around £50 per person, it was a reasonably good experience. Being sort of a birthday bash thingy, would really like to thank Yi fei, Annie, Jun Jhen, Carman, Holly for the lovely pressies and also Freddy for the gorgeous cake :).

The table was meant to be booked for 2 hours. Although it got quite busy around 8 to 9, they didn't chase us out, and we stayed till around half 9 before leaving to AKA/The End clubbing.

@Hakkasan

Clubbing @ The End:~


p.s. More Pics...The only down side of AY's restaurants are the no photo policy. I really think it is completely unnecessary! Although we took 2 *grin*

Complimentary Pics: Birthday cards I got for my 26th Birthday. Did you sense something wrong? LOL. Just wonder why I keep getting cute stuff :)