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What's a girl to do?

We walked arm in arm
But I didn't feel his touch
A desire I'd first tried to hide,
That tingling inside was gone
And when he asked me:
'do you still love me?'
I had to look away
I didn't want to tell him
That my heart grows colder with each day

When you love so long
That the thrill is gone
And your kisses at night
Are replaced with tears
And when your dreams are on
A train to train-wrecked town
Then I ask you now, what's a girl to do?

He said he'd take me away
That we'd work things out
And I didn't want to tell him
But it was then I had to say
Over the times we've shared
It's all blackened out
And my bat lightning heart
Wants to fly away

When you love so long
That the thrill is gone
And your kisses at night
Are replaced with tears
And when your dreams are on
A train to train wreck town
Then I ask you now, what's a girl to do?

What's a girl to do?
What's a girl to do?
What's a girl to do?



horse and i

Got woken in the night,
by a mystic golden light.
My head soaked in river water.
I had been dressed in a coat of armor. They called a horse out of the woodland.
"Take her there, through the desert shores."
They sang to me, "This is yours to wear. You're the chosen one, there's no turning back now."

The smell of redwood giants.
The banquet for the shadows.
Horse and I, we're dancers in the dark.
Came upon the headdress.
It was gilded, dark and golden.
The children sang.
I was so afraid I took it to my head and prayed.
They sang to me, "This is yours to wear. You're the chosen one, there's no turning back."
They sang to me, "This is yours to wear. You're the chosen one, there's no turning back."

There is no turning back.
There is no turn.
There is no turning back.
There is no turn.
There is no turning back.
There is no turn.

given the M.I.A. treatment...


in it's original flavor...

I HATE YOU JIMMY!
YOU ARE A COWARD!
I HATE YOU!
I HATE YOU JIMMY!
I HATE YOU!
I HATE YOU!

did plenty of touristy things.
got swindled by a taxi driver who drove us to one of the 'aquariums' to look at 'fishes' and have seafood.
tense moment between driver, owner of the whorehouse and us *inject slow-motion and background music like in amazing race whenever there is trouble brewing.
hot and wet.

sights we covered -
1. grand palace and wat phra kaeo
2. wat arun
3. wat pho
4. national museum
5. chatuchak weekend market
6. jim thompson's house
7. erawan shrine
8. thanon khao san

food was delicious - plenty of phad thai and green curry, some cupcakes and a candle-lit dinner at eat me art restaurant.

what we had at eat me (1/6 soi pipat 2, convent rd) -
1. starter - duck and melon spring roll with sour plum sauce
2. mains - a. pasta with prawn and pernod, b. chicken filled with duck liver
3. dessert - lemongrass creme brulee
4. peter lehmann barossa shiraz

Airline of the Year

Traveled on Cathay Pacific Airlines. I was not impressed. I wondered how thay managed to bag 'Airline of the Year 2006'. Food was bad, the service was even worse; I witnessed one of the flight attendants chiding - rather loudly - the passenger for walking to the toilet when the 'Fasten Seatbelt' sign was on. Following that, she even announced over the PA system for everyone to leave their seats even if they need to use the restrooms. Her tone was stern.

Lodging

Stayed over at kenneth's place which is just next to Wanchai MTR Station. It felt like staying in hotel since the unit was the size of a hotel room. The compromise you have to make for staying neat Admiralty/Central area. But it was all good - loads of dvds to watch and tons of music to transfer to my ipod!

Highlights of the Trip

And of course shop, shop, shop!
- Canon Ixus 800 (hugely discounted courtesy of Kenneth - many thanks!)
- Alexander McQueen shirt (my first ever!)
- Pink Puma Miharas (did not know what was running through my mind)
- Loads of munchies from Macau

Stories abound on the history of the oatcake. Many believe it to be a Potteries tradition and it's been called all sorts of names, from Tunstall Tortilla, through Potteries Poppadom to Clay Suzzette. The oatcake probably has its origins in the Staffordshire moorlands where isolated farmers would eat oatcakes when they were cut off by bad weather and couldn't reach the shops to get bread.

My version - berry willies as I affectionatey call them - is an update of these said oatcakes. The berry willies are much smaller in size and have berry conserve sandwiched between two biscuits of oatcake. For those with a sweet tooth, you may choose to sprinkle icing sugar on the willies.

Enjoy!

Mousse is a form of creamy dessert typically made from egg and cream usually with other flavors such as chocolate or fruit. The ingredients are beaten separately and then folded together carefully to produce a light and fluffy yet extremely rich confection. It is then chilled to maintain the fluffiness.

Once only a speciality of French restaurants, chocolate mousse entered into American and English home cuisine in the 1960s.

Depending on how it is prepared, it can range from light and fluffy to creamy and thick.

Presenting the chocolate mousse cake (domestic god version):

Madeira cake is a popular Old English traditional cake. It is a simple pound cake to which lemon zest can be added halfway through baking. It has the appearance of a small loaf. The cake is traditionally served with Madeira wine but it is more common now for the cake to be served with tea. Madeira wine may sometimes be added to the cake during baking.

While the name "madeira cake" is often thought to have originated from the Madeira Islands, it is actually named after the wine that accompanies the dish.

This is my version of the madeira cake (courtesy of nigella lawson's "how to be a domestic goddess").

Domestic goddess's version:

Domestic god's version:

boot camp: redstone arsenal.
everywhere i go i see the us army the us marines and the us reserves.

finally got a break and now at a-town aka atlanta.

damn.
exercise on mon and test on tues.

i miss home!

i never knew they re-shot the music video!
very retro!

basilique notre dame


city hall in the background - i think


biosphere - this is modelled after a bucky ball i.e. buckminsterfullerine (C60)


lunch at rue st. catherine


there are in fact two rainbows in this picture!


olympic park - montreal was the host for the 1976 games


this sculpture is called illuminated crowd


le hotel

aaron: i think that's clay seating a few seats to our right?
me: really?
aaron: yes! i recognise his double chin. that's clay's double chin!
me: ...

turns out it was indeed clay.
he was rather friendly.
shook our hands and took photos with us.

p.s.
dear clay,
although you seem like a nice guy (i'm sure you are),
it is still unforgivable that you make SHITEOUS music!

who needs 'deja-vu' when you can have 'blindfold me'.

this shit is total wack!

nipplegate is so LAST season!

if she joined this year's singapore idol.
there has been a petition to her record company to DROP her!
and it's obvious why!
SINGAPORE IDOL CALIBRE I TELL YOU!

to transform this...

to this...

looks like moo-riah is back!