Sunday, January 29, 2006
Paris Hilton of KL, Rawang And Some Say, Ulu Yam.
***** This is a long overdue entry and should have been written just before my exodus to the Thai Island. ***** “Hi Otto. Wanna meet up?” the sweet voice purred on the other side of the phone. “Sure. I am heading to Starbucks soon,” I replied. One hour and a pair of shoes later, I was sitting in Starbucks, having my Ice Latte and sharing a strawberry donut with Nikki. Waiting for dear sweetling to appear. Appear she did, in a sweet wee top and flat ballerina slippers. She was my all time favorite bartender and now an acquaintance I kiss left cheek, right cheek whenever I see her on weekend nights. 19 years old chronologically but wiser than many who are much older. Street wise, that is.  This was the very first time I met her for coffee sessions, rather than the usual vodka and a round of Kings. Yeah, come to think of it. She was the chick I did the American Pie “You do, we do” (girl on girl, boy on boy action) scene. We slid tongues five seconds after two boys did the same.Muahahahahahaha! Kissed left cheek, then right. She just returned from shopping over New Year’s in Singapore. Blah blah blah. I was planning my island trip. Blah blah blah. Her boyfriend did not permit her to club as much as she used to. Blah blah blah. Three pairs of shoes and some blouses from Sg. Blah blah blah. And the topic of D and his new gf surfaced. Slowly but surely. *** This post is now private. Please email me if you wish to read the rest of this post. |
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Turning My Back On Blogging
I've decided to turn my back on blogging in the first half of January 2006. Was frolicking on some deserted island with Alex and had the most beautiful time, doing absolutely nothing other than:
 Will be back in form soon enough. Lots of stories and some photos, I promise. Just after the whole CNY thingy, of course. Gong Xi Fa Chai *** Related Links
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
It's The New Year's And We Can Cry If We Want To
At midnight, the boys lit a whole box full of fireworks (sourced through a friend of a friend of our favourite pirated VCD Ah Beng) ushering the New Year. All emotional, everyone gathered and gave each other warm hugs and greetings for the coming year. I spoke to Alex on the mobile while the crazy people started dancing the Gay Gordon. Two by two, hand in hand, them crazies skipped and hopped in a row by the pool. It used to be the latest dance and house music, booming my ears deaf at New Year’s Eve and counting down with friends with mixes of cocktails and beers. And for 2005, it was a quiet affair, where Scottish tunes welcomed the New Year. Who would have thought? Little Miss Otto all grown up. Finally. The party could not get any better than it did. The weather through the evening was perfect (though it drizzled a little at 10 p.m.). Everyone started arriving for the casual buffet dinner at 8 p.m. and everyone was certainly in a good mood by the time I arrived at 10 p.m. Dressed in a tiny black blouse and Levi’s Super Low Cuts, I was with my group of friends, mingling, drinking and chatting till the countdown at midnight. And the fireworks were just beautiful, lighting the skies above with a parade of colours. *** This post is now private. Email me if you wish to read the rest of this entry. Labels: life |
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Over
One More Day Alex will arrive in KLIA on the 4th of January sometime after lunchtime. The happiness I feel inside is immeasurable. The cold in Europe means we will be frolicking in the sun for two weeks in some remote island. He needs a tan and I need a reason to wear the two bikinis I acquired recently. In the pass, I have hardly spoken about him. To anyone, even to close friends. I think I guard my relationship with him dearly. I love him to bits and am very protective of him. Perhaps our love has been a long journey. It has taken me some time (approximately three years) to realize how precious he is to me. And now that I have found him, I will never let him go. Wherever You Go It is ironic. During our FIRST private moments together (away from E and the two other boys we were traveling with), he said the most unusual thing. “I promise I will follow you wherever you go,” Alex said. My heart was, “Yeah rrrrrrrightttttt…” with severe case of reservation. We have traveled everywhere together. We’ve been to many places in Malaysia. One weekend a few weeks into our acquaintance, we took a trip to my childhood vacation spot, Fraser’s Hill. I described the place as, “beautiful highland with lots of flowers and trees, lovely English cottages and scones for tea”. I was quite puzzled as to why he did not find the place as exciting as I did. I visited him family home in Scotland and found out why. His home was a “beautiful house with lots of flowers and trees, lovely English cottage and scones for tea’. 0_o We’ve Been To Burma The adventure of our lifetime. I remember clearly once we took a taxi to the middle of nowhere to see some antique. We bought home some stuff and got into the taxi again. On our way to the hotel, the taxi driver stopped his car in the middle of Yangon’s traffic jam. Without warning. Without signal. Without a clue as to why he did so. My eyes followed him as he avoided motorbikes and the over crowded local minibuses. 20 meters or so, he bent down and picked up some dark piece of metal. He walked back towards the car, chucked the whatever black metal thing that dropped off the bottom of our taxi into the boot and continued driving us. Needless to say, we arrived safely. There was this one time, the car door opened while the taxi was in motion. I could see the fuzzy tar road through the little gap between the door and the car. Got hold of the door and slammed it shut. Classic. We’ve Been To Scotland “Just be careful of them, midges,” Alex’s parents said over dinner. Alex suggested that he would take me for a road trip around Scotland, visiting an aunt in his paternal grand father’s farm in Lismore, up up up all the way till John O Groats and then down the East coast from Aberdeen to Inverness etc and back to his parent’s home in down south. “The what?” I asked. “What midges?” “Oh you WILL KNOW what they are when you see them,” Alex’s brother said menacingly. For days and days, I screamed whenever Alex opened the tent. “Careful of them, midges!!!” Cost of campsite per night £20 Cost of dinner £30 Cost of watching a very nude Alex running away from midges PRICELESS We’ve Been To France and Belgium With friends. For the booze, of course. The last trip a week prior to my departure for Malaysia with two other workmates of his. The boys perked up during lunch hour when three younglings (who considered tearing 40s dresses after every few songs a norm to their singing routine) sang sexy numbers. I think these were the songs sung during WWII, to cheer the brave soldiers on. Highlight? Stacking 12 crates of canned beer and 12 bottles of wine into our Audi. And getting away with it *wicked grin* We’ve Been To Alex Until now, that is. Alex asked me to join him in London for a period of six months earlier last year. He started working (big boy now) late November 2004 and he was happy playing a grown up. He said I would love it there and suggested that I leave Malaysia for London for a period of three years. I thought he was mad. Leave all my friends, my shoes, my clothes, the unlimited spending and restaurant dine-ins? Madness, that’s what I said. I must admit that I have never taken a look at the price of anything I ate or purchased prior to being in London in March 2005. Being with him and surviving with him on his one person salary, away from my comfort zone and salary was such an amazing experience. It made me realise a lot of things that I had taken for granted in Malaysia and how sinful and inconsiderate my spendings were. Being with Alex and being only with him (away from my friends, real and artificial) also brought us closer. I never enjoyed playing “Desperate Housewife” more than I did last year with him. Each day was a blessing and each morning was a joy. We bathed together and hugged each other till he went to work. Then I worked from my iBook till lunchtime. I cooked us lunch almost everyday. In traditional pornstar high heels, of course. He walked home for lunch and we sat happily in the living room, chomping down whatever I cooked. Then we sat in the garden, admiring the flowers that we’ve grown together. When he was off to work during the second half of the day, I continued working. Or writing. Or weeding. Alex grew some onions in the back garden, so I could see the bulbs grow. He bought me a bird feeder and made me a bird table, so I had birds for company as I wrote and worked at my iBook. Alex is the most humbling experience I’ve had. He does things that I never thought of doing. He does things that I now will do for him, because I love him. Because he loved me. I grew up a Christian (a practicing one, having taught in the Sunday School for more than 3 years previously) and grew up believing that I knew what love was. Because God is Love. How ironic that I learnt love from someone many would consider a sinner and an unrepentant one, might I add. But this much I can say is true, I learnt to love from Alex because he showed me what love was. Not hooblah jooblah words. Just pure love, in action. But We’ve Never Been To Me Not YET... but soon. So now love has come to a full circle. And love has come to me. I am feeling very excited. I sincerely can understand Tom Cruise's need to jump on the sofa. I feel like jumping on the sofa, proclaiming that I've found me. And now that I've found me, Alex and I can go to there and be happy. And I guess that this is the essence of Nude, Not Naked - a broken girl's journey to finding herself and finding love. The road was hard and the journey was long. But when she got there, the experience was like walking on water. Because love makes you light. Don't be alarmed if I fall head over feet Don't be surprised if I love you for all that you are I couldn't help it It's all your fault ~ Head Over Feet, Alanis Morissette. |