PEARL'S tEXt & THE CITY

back for good?

2005-12-03T23:49:00.000+08:00

hey all..! i am back, back for good? well, at least back from sydney and back to blogging. well i was posted to sydney for work for 3 mths and hmm.. boy was i glad to be back to spore! missed all my family, dearie and friends. it's been almost 2 mths since i came back and suddenly i kinda missed sydney. was thinking abt darling harbour when i passed by the fullerton.. missed the shoyu ramen at ramen kan when i am having dinner at sakae sushi. most of all, missed my dear sydney colleagues and friends (binh) who spent their quality time with me while i was all alone in sydney.

anyway after i came back i decided to get a laptop. bought a fujitsu lifebook. it was good. signed up for broadband at sitex2005 and bought microphone and the original microsoft office thingy. spent quite a lot but i am feeling very hi-tech now! ahha, friends who know me know that i am quite un-computer savvy. but now i am willing to learn. hopefully this blog is the headstart for me.

watch this space. :-P

vegetables = beemer

2005-04-25T22:39:00.000+08:00

today i met my ex-colleague, Jes on the bus on our way to lunch. so we starting chatting on how we are doing etc. Jes then told me J who used to be our admin girl in our previous co. has switched job. so i asked Jes, "oh, isn't J working for another logistics co in changi area?" Jes said no and told me i wouldn't believe what J is doing now. apparently, J is selling vegetables in pasir pajang wholesale market. she has a store there and is managing it with her husband, Jac (who also worked with us in the past). What a coincidence, all the names i mention here start with the letter J! anyway, i was pretty surprised that they both changed their jobs in logistics industry to selling vegetables!

of coz it's not a bad thing selling vegetables. it is afterall a decent job and without vegetable sellers, we will not have vitamin A, B, C and minerals in our daily meals. imagine the harm it could caused us. we will have insufficient vitamins and will probably be constipated most of the time! urghhh...

nevertheless, i found it particularly weird that J & Jac actually set up a vegetable store. they were into some gold coin MLM stuff earlier on. probably it's easier selling vegetables than gold coins. one thing for sure, gold coins can't be eaten.

oh well, the uncle selling vegetables near my house is driving a nice bmw 520i. perhaps i should get someone (jade?) to start a joint venture with me selling vegetables soon? then maybe i can own a beemer 3 series in the near future! how lovely! :-)

the different coloured slippers

2005-04-18T07:15:00.000+08:00

jade and i bought 2 pairs of slippers (purple and yellow) from the one.99 shop a few years back. in order to be hip, we decided to have wear the yellow and purple slipper on each feet. so i got the right yellow and left purple while jade got the left yellow and right purple. seems funny but i thought it's pretty cool and unique. i still remembered while tanning at my aunt's place, there's this little girl telling her dad, "look, papa, that girl wore the wrong slippers! haha!" i stared at her and was thinking in my heart "hey xiao mei mei, it's not wrong, it's just different colours and that's fashion."

many years have passed, at least 4 years now. jade and i still have that purple-yellow slippers. i remembered we wore it to our bangkok holiday and JB weekend trip. its very comfy and despite a little worn, they still look very cool on us. recently, i got the chance to re-live the different coloured slippers trend again. i was shopping at metro and there's this bright pink slippers that caught my eye. i took it down from the shelf and tried it on. very nice. hmm.. the price tag says 2 for $5.90. cheap. so i took the other colour (turquoise) to try on and hey it looks good too. BINGO! i called jade and asked if she would like to share the slippers with me once again. she said yes and i happily bought the pink and turquoise slippers.

at home i was trying it out, figuring if the left pink and right turquoise or left turquoise and right pink will look better on me. was thinking of smsing jade to ask which she would prefer but i guess her answer will be "either is fine" esp since she hasn't seen how it looks like. finally after much hesitation, i decided on left pink and right turquoise. so jade can have the left turqoise and right pink. yeah that's it. i passed it to her on saturday and on sunday we both wore it to the SIFF. haha, how hip and unique! i hope this is not the last pair of different coloured slippers that we'll be sharing! :-)

the conversation

2005-04-17T23:56:00.000+08:00

jerome: what's in the briefcase?
martine: a key.
jerome: what's the key for?
martine: a lock.
jerome: what's the lock for?
martine: something important.
jerome: either you tell me or you don't.
martine: it has to be something important right? if a key's locked in a briefcase, it has to be for something important, don't you think?

pokemon

2005-04-14T10:17:00.000+08:00

i went to watch procelain on tuesday. it was a play about a gay chinese who shot his ang moh boyfriend 6 times because he says "it's over". if i can't have you then no one else could. scary isn't it? be it a normal BGR or gay relationship, there's always this thought lingering in some people's mind.

i guess we are more liberal now and there are so much gay issues going around. i think there's always gay people around but in the past, they do not dare to admit because it is taboo. now people can accept it more openly so its okay to show their affections towards their gay partners. not their fault anyway, its just a choice of sexual preference. nothing wrong rite? i can accept gay people but i admit i do take a second glance at guys who held hands like a normal couple. i'm just not used to seeing them holding hands but its cool with me.

i know of a gay couple in my blk. the guy is damn gorgeous, skin head and muscular. and his lover is a pretty decent looking guy too. once i took the lift with them, and he accidentally stepped on his lover's toes, he (sneakily) and tenderly touch his hand to ask if he's fine. how sweet of him huh.. if only he wasn't...

PS: why pokemon? only JW, AH and i know. ~ YEAH ~

desperate babies??

2005-04-13T22:12:00.000+08:00

the newspapers reported that last year’s birth rate was at the lowest at 1.25.
so people are not having babies huh? is it becoz they are not having enuff sex or not enuff time to make a baby. i wonder.

times have changed…. women are no longer like they were before. we have a career and can earn quite a bit to live comfortably, without having to stretch our hands to our men for $$$. women no longer want to stay at home and become the old haggard wives. we wanna go out and have fun! dancing, clubbing, smoking sheisha and basically enjoying life. who wants to stay at home looking after those jumping and screaming monsters?? oh puh-leese!!!

despite that, i do like kids and enjoy playing with them but not cleaning their shit and entertaining their cries! i'm sure there are many girls out there who feel the same way as i do. cheers to them! i guess thats why im still very much a "sex and the city" girl, not a "desperate housewives"!

blog... blog... blog....

2005-04-05T15:50:00.000+08:00

hmm.. let's see. why is everybody so into blogging? i was introduced to this blog world by my fren jade. so i decided to try it out. anyway had a hard time coming up with names like pearlparfait as my url. in case u are wondering parfait means perfect in french. im pretty much of a perfectionist. always want what i do to be parfait so as to speak. :-P

title of my blog is pearl's text & the city. had a hard time coming up with this one as well. i'm a BIG fan of SATC (sex & the city), loves carrie bradshaw and i thought, ok, since i'm going to be blogging away, might as well use tEXt & the city.

think i have enuff blogging for a start. gonna take a break now. so flog off.