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Saturday, August 29, 2009
the entry about a sporadic entry
you know one of those days when you seriously need a retail therapy when your days are dour and despondent. well, i found mine and here's the spoils. these are only the shoes division. more apparel remedy to come. watch this space!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
the entry going gaga
i believe in karma. case in point: back in the heydays when i was a klutzy flight attendant (a.k.a. the literal airhead), many chinese national pax and their equally worthy bad breath were oft the cause of my haughty complaints. of late, i think i have been suffering from a mild case of halitosis myself due to my late night stakeouts, to which my friends would retch, cast me a nasty look, and question me if i have just downed a clove of garlic or something.
reeling the story back in, in case you folks now have shoddy, second impressions of me, let's bring on the glam with gaga and her slam. picture this: a sea of thronging crowd at fort canning park (10,000 folksies, as stated by lady gaga onstage later) packed in cliques, some young, some old, but all nonetheless awaiting with bated breath, peals of excitement bubbling amidst the frenzy for the kickoff of the performance by up-and-rising starlet lady gaga.
where one could have nonchalantly performed a sub-par standard gig, lady gaga took a vaudeville-esque performance to a nouveau high. she teased us during the dialogue sessions with her sweet, raspy vocals, wowed us when she went full throttle into her ass-kicking piano sessions and robust, circa christina aguilera vocals (no offence, but you're kinda sloping off, miss c.a.), and entertained us thoroughly with her backup dancers and slick dance moves.
on a side note, this entry was written when i was taking a dump. night peeps!
reeling the story back in, in case you folks now have shoddy, second impressions of me, let's bring on the glam with gaga and her slam. picture this: a sea of thronging crowd at fort canning park (10,000 folksies, as stated by lady gaga onstage later) packed in cliques, some young, some old, but all nonetheless awaiting with bated breath, peals of excitement bubbling amidst the frenzy for the kickoff of the performance by up-and-rising starlet lady gaga.
where one could have nonchalantly performed a sub-par standard gig, lady gaga took a vaudeville-esque performance to a nouveau high. she teased us during the dialogue sessions with her sweet, raspy vocals, wowed us when she went full throttle into her ass-kicking piano sessions and robust, circa christina aguilera vocals (no offence, but you're kinda sloping off, miss c.a.), and entertained us thoroughly with her backup dancers and slick dance moves.
but with only one album under her belt, the nonetheless engaging performance lasted a mere 60 minutes. still, it was all worth it despite being surrounded by the clamors of stark-crazed fans' shouts, swears, and pig sweat included.
lady gaga, me, and jem
i apologise for the quantity and quality of pics. i was just having too much fun.
on a side note, this entry was written when i was taking a dump. night peeps!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
the entry about siam revisited
i'm back in bangkok!
it's a titillating world peppered with some spicy food, or of every kind of imaginable spicy food at all; even their drinks i suspect have a tinge of piquant zest. to top that off, the cloudless, sweltering weather does not let up at any point of the day. do you know what it is like to hit the showers six to seven times a day and change underwear every other hour? showering sounds like a privilege in some parts of the world, but when you're loofah-ing so much more till the skin is sore, it becomes a chore.
because this trip is a pilgrimage to the mecca of asian ibiza clubbing, most of the days involved sleeping till the late afternoons, waking up groggily in the evenings, half-heartedly self wondering what the heck happened the previous day and guilting oneself to ponder upon and grasp the meaning of it all, then meeting up with bunch of like-minded friends for the only meal of the day, and then it's back to hitting the labyrinth of a makeshift club, grubbing for more and more alcohol, that holds over three days in bangkok till the wee hours of the morning, some parties even as early as mid-noon.
because of this mere reason, shopping has been crammed into the only two-hour slot i've managed to allot myself during the penultimate day of my stay here. nevertheless, i managed to procure this much of merchandise from siam square, mbk, siam paragon and along the dingy streets of silom.
the other few highlights was that i managed to bump into a thai actor, freud nuttapong, whilst schlepping around siam square, and oh, did i mention about having dinner on the roof-top restaurant of the banyan tree hotel dubbed vertigo, cos it does give one a sense of it to acrophobics like me when elevated sixty-two floors off the ground, with the architect, casey, of the said building himself?
it's a titillating world peppered with some spicy food, or of every kind of imaginable spicy food at all; even their drinks i suspect have a tinge of piquant zest. to top that off, the cloudless, sweltering weather does not let up at any point of the day. do you know what it is like to hit the showers six to seven times a day and change underwear every other hour? showering sounds like a privilege in some parts of the world, but when you're loofah-ing so much more till the skin is sore, it becomes a chore.
because this trip is a pilgrimage to the mecca of asian ibiza clubbing, most of the days involved sleeping till the late afternoons, waking up groggily in the evenings, half-heartedly self wondering what the heck happened the previous day and guilting oneself to ponder upon and grasp the meaning of it all, then meeting up with bunch of like-minded friends for the only meal of the day, and then it's back to hitting the labyrinth of a makeshift club, grubbing for more and more alcohol, that holds over three days in bangkok till the wee hours of the morning, some parties even as early as mid-noon.
ruz and sherlyn all dressed to party it up
andrew, another close friend of mine, also all geared up
the club has a video montage of the songs whilst playing them.
can you guys figure out which music videos these are? i could!
(click on picture for an expanded view)
because of this mere reason, shopping has been crammed into the only two-hour slot i've managed to allot myself during the penultimate day of my stay here. nevertheless, i managed to procure this much of merchandise from siam square, mbk, siam paragon and along the dingy streets of silom.
the other few highlights was that i managed to bump into a thai actor, freud nuttapong, whilst schlepping around siam square, and oh, did i mention about having dinner on the roof-top restaurant of the banyan tree hotel dubbed vertigo, cos it does give one a sense of it to acrophobics like me when elevated sixty-two floors off the ground, with the architect, casey, of the said building himself?
freud, star of a horror flick, and me, both all kinds of cam whore.
kc, the architect and owner of the chain of banyan tree hotels and resorts.
does anyone notice the slant of the glass?
alright, i 'fess up. i was so hungry i had two main courses.
view from atop vertigo
picturesque panorama of the northern province of bangkok
Friday, August 14, 2009
the entry about possession upkeeps
if necessity is the mother of all inventions, then aesthetic pragmatism is the paternal extremities of re-inventions. still apparently harboring an insatiable appetite after color-customizing my brand new iphone (see three entries down), i decided some work on my macbook air was definitely in place. voila! comments are welcome, good or bad.
intently continuing in the fashion (no pun intended) of making all things non-chiaroscuro -- life is after all a gamut of colors -- i gamely upped the stakes and put shades of different colors to my room. i raked the originally glass-paneled walls with a lime green wallpaper one on side and another with the alphabet soup adjacent to it, schlepped a couple procurements from ikea and decked my room with spices of red and blue, and finally nailed on some tastefully bought paintings. the original room looked like this, but after a couple of touch-ups here and there, here's the outcome:
my advice to folks looking for a decadent change in their bedroom outlook with a moderate budget would be to go consult ikea. the shelf-life of their bits and pieces look decent yet affordable enough to last you till the next hovel makeover, which should be pretty soon all over again.
intently continuing in the fashion (no pun intended) of making all things non-chiaroscuro -- life is after all a gamut of colors -- i gamely upped the stakes and put shades of different colors to my room. i raked the originally glass-paneled walls with a lime green wallpaper one on side and another with the alphabet soup adjacent to it, schlepped a couple procurements from ikea and decked my room with spices of red and blue, and finally nailed on some tastefully bought paintings. the original room looked like this, but after a couple of touch-ups here and there, here's the outcome:
my advice to folks looking for a decadent change in their bedroom outlook with a moderate budget would be to go consult ikea. the shelf-life of their bits and pieces look decent yet affordable enough to last you till the next hovel makeover, which should be pretty soon all over again.
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