Jetlagged me

So yeah, I'm suffering from jet lag in the worst sense:

dysfunctional during the day and wide awake at night.

Why?! Some would say this is normal me anyway though. So here I am back on good old xanga writing a post though no one reads xanga anymore. Rambling:

I'm bored. But excited.

Excited because my babe Ada has just arrived and with her comes the promise of shopping, drinking and dancing...ALL ON HEELS!

Aali will arrive with the tummy growling of Peking Duck, which we (as in two tiny girls) will consume. Mmm...really Aali shall we bring our own tea to be really cheap? And use only HALF a pancake so that we won't run out? The owners recognise us and our obesity-defying ritual. We will also be chatting about how things are, girl code for gossip with discussions on how to change things even though we know most things are just spinning on their own gravity. Oh and we get to go visit school. Joy.

Garwei woke me up this afternoon from my 'i-dont-care-about-jetlag-let-me-sleep' nap and he will entertain me with food (hopefully) and then I will drag him around everywhere until the moment he has to leave for Ozzy land.

Lee will arrive to take me on the adventures of Shum Shui Po to find that bracelet! I hope she'll feed me too actually...oh and I will get to see Rory her beloved pup again. Indulgence in magazines and movies will occur and we will once again be taking turns to pay for taxis for when we need to go 'over there'. Starbucks. We'll take our infamous walk to Starbucks where I can have some REAL Starbucks coffee.

Ooh me and Aali have to build something in Starbucks and leave for the staff to quizzically clear up. The Effielbuck was awesomeness to the max!

Oh god its freezing here.

Then finally Janhavi will arrive and take me to the place she saw 'the hottest guy in the world' in which case if we do find him I will try to steal him from her to keep all to myself. Muahahaha...or maybe I'll just find another one amongst the clan.

I'm gonna get to see my favourite baby, Caitlin in a few days and thinking of that makes me feel all giggly.

We will party it down New Years Eve in style somewhere...

Christmas I am apparently in charge of appetizers and dessert for the family dinner. Great! I can make...bacon on the grill. Bleughfelulaa

So that is why I am excited. Bedtime! I'm going to fix my camera tmrw so that you lovelies can have a pictorial rep. of my happenings without having to read long dull posts; such as this one!

Toodles

One man, three kids. Three not particularily well behaved children, far from angels, you could tell. But man,

were they beautiful.

And it wasn't just the dark curls, the fawn eyes and the tiny hands that couldn't quite grasp anything. It was more the way they were transparent; innocent and untampered with by knowledge and understanding. It's that particular simplicity and unabashed curiosity (eye's wide, mouth agape staring out the window at the streaking streets of HK). Most people know that's what makes a child a child. I saw it as a 'sand through your fingers' moment, a part of growing up (no wonder Peter Pan didn't want to! He knew what he was getting at!) It was the recognition of that useless valuable time and age. The time which everyone had but never knew and now, remember. Like a clip of memories being played to a man with amnesia; very much there but forgotten. And because it was so precious it was beautiful, like most precious items are.

Anyway aside from staring at beautiful children on buses (haha) there has been some small time action going on in the island of 852:

At Tribecca

One of the 'rooms'; the stage and the bar

Me et Janhavi

One of the Tribecca staff took templated polaroids for EACH of us! For free! I'd show but my scanner isn't here. Realllllly nice.

The stage. Princess' indeed!

Me being gay:

Some randoms we made friends with.

So we danced the night away to hip hop- i really had forgotten hk clubbing and wow it is nice to be BACK! the DJing was perfect, the songs were ziiiinnngggg, Sebastian the bar guy was uber sweet even when we had no idea what to order and was being picky! Lawyers bought us champgne (weird) which I drank in a gulp. One of them said 'any drinks u want are on me' and I rmber thinking 'you're strange, its ladies night, its all free!'

Miss Ada teaching 'today is Tuesday!'

Miss Robynne teaching 'today is windy'....

Hot times...

Lounging at the AMC

We tanned within 15 minutes not kidding! Janhavi tanned a LOT more though lol

The blazing sun...

M for Marina!

Yay update done, now I don't have to do another one for aagggees!

Major update on the funnest events from term two taDA:

London

The underground which kath aali and i concurred whilst dragging a very drunk janhavi with us =D

Mmmm...vodka bleughh

early morning happenings

beauty is pain so kath took off her heals on the trek to wherever we were going lol

the famous and delicious bow tie pasta mmmm was soo good especially with the OC!

ways to smoke without setting off the alarm II

kath aali me

Southampton

awww i looove u two too

tom giving us a preview of his costume for my party... (twm and chris on the side)

random nice photo: george, clare, steph, stewart, me, lucy, doug, cat (a EXTREMELY good night i remember!)

me cat lucy

Pirate Party

our ship hhehe: beng, heesh, twm, george, carl and richards back

some pirates were hippes too lol

me zee

dave, carl, heesh, nick

janhavi and aali on skype to lee in NYC and Angie in Shanghai!!!

Disney party

esmerelda, cruella de vil, the white rabbit, woody, scar and simba, princess jasmine (in her red costume), the cool fary god mother and mulan

kath, graeme (tarzan), lucy, clare, cat, doug

everyone as before plus mickey mouse and tinkerbelle

oooon the busss

pochahontas!!! (however u spell that) woody and tarzan!

Abs, Robin Hood, The Magic Carpet!, Captian Hook!, Aladin and Woody again!

The two woodys

janhavi aali kath <3

the carpet was an interesting sight to see on the dance floor...

hunchback , hook, me and jack

stewart, heesh, chris, twm

bals, kev, richard, random guy, matt

Cowboys & Cowgirls + one indian party

the cowboys

the indian and the cowboy

medical cowgirls were always thinking wisely

me stewart

our erm barn or wherever cow ppl hang out: heesh, dave, steph, george, stewart, tom, edmund, chris

me, graeme, heesh, dave- the asians dont look at cameras

twm, edmund, chris, matt

tom (ahem what?), me, graeme

the cowgirlies =] so pwety

random guy, twm, steph 'hm. whos HE', tom

erm...rock on?!

steph and the girl with the baa bag

More Pirate Party Pix

peter pan being killed by tom the pirate! nooooo

me stephanie steph

captain hook strangled me!!!

us and the bday boy richard!

a very cool candid! doug me george, steph, cat, lucy, clare, stewart

The story behind this gap: No one has been known to get through it. But if someone does their name goes on the board of fame and a free drink is served. Here is steph trying

here is me trying

Nope apparently we're too fat for the gap. =[ sad times

More cowboy night pix:

the guys and their guns...and arrows: matt, dave, twm, heesh

what she's really thinking when she picks up a syringe!!

the clan

we got arrested by each other

gave difficulty in drinking and playing that stupid bunny game the guys love hmf

heeeellloooo

tom steph clare me stewart

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ok done yippeee i dont have to bother for another two months. enjoy! taaa

Haha couldn't resist sharing this one:

'The Perfect Man'

The perfect man is gentle

Never cruel or mean

He has a beautiful smile

And keeps his face so clean.

The perfect man likes children

And will raise them by your side

He will be a good father

As well as a good husband to his bride.

The perfect man loves cooking

Cleaning and vacuuming too

He'll do anything in his power

To convey his feelings of love on to you.

The perfect man is sweet

Writing poetry from your name

He's a best friend to your mother

And kisses away your pain.

He never has made you cry

Or hurt you in any way

To hell with this endless poem

The perfect man is GAY.

Looondon

+ Chinese food

+ An OC 'marathon' of an episode and a half

+ A fabulistic afternoon of shopping shopping SHOPPING- the purchase of much needed and satisfactory clothes/accessories. yup i so did need a hat/jumper/jacket waistcoat thing.

+ Groccery shopping and walking back with hands full (felt like we were actually living together)

+ I cooked TWO pizzas AND spag carbonara all by meself whilst janhavi went with kath to get her top. <proud that you didnt get the other one! very good self control!>

+ and then there was Fabric

First to be ready

We left an hour behind schedual

but brought along two friends

Ended up getting lost (not our fault that english transport is pathetic)

and walking for THREE hours...on heels

We kept warm and really quite positive though

Found a fire there

pink pink pink pink...

yummy yum yum yummy. we had strawberries and cream after!

we got followed by strange guys that did not speak english and looked really slimey. ew.

but whatever our spirits were high even though the time read 1:30am and we had noo idea where we were

reminded me of me home sweet home...not that we have these lanterns everywhere. duh.

loving the hyperness. also loving the sneaking on to the buses we rode without paying. its skill!

getting quite aggravated with the lost factor

finally got on a bus!!! (paid? nooo) and thought we were going somewhere! and we were and ended up walking around a BIG BIG building and lining up in a long long line and really really needing to pee.

effect of our two friends had worn off with all that walking

x some guy gave me a spanish lesson that included the word 'bein' very interesting

motion potion

taking a break from dancing

xx

partying hard that one

she aint crazy. but the guy that was shouting at the wall in a corner was. and very VERY funny ahahha got a video of him dancing and also another of a gay guy dancing lalalala

aali you really were with us in spirit xx

us all

the red room that doesnt look quite red hmm oh well

drum and bass/techno/trance whatever it was lights i think it was a mix

my sexies leaving

was a good night

The entire weekend was exactly what I needed. Thank you for listening to me moan or interrupt conversations with irrelevant thoughts. The best 'therapy' ever- even better than retail therapy!

Didn't quite realise or appreciate how I'm so blessed with friends who will listen, just listen. Who will discuss with you for the 50 millionth time and tell you that you will be okay. I guess you never feel support until you fall on it. Me= lucky

Let it all out (get it all out)
Rip it out, remove it
Don't be alarmed, when the wound begins to bleed

'Cause we're so scared to find out (what this life's all about)
So scared we're gonna lose it
And knowing all along
That's exactly what we need

And today I'll trust you with the confidence
of a man who's never known defeat
But tomorrow, upon hearing what I did
I will stare at you in disbelief
Oh inconsistent me, crying out for consistency

And you said "I know that this will hurt
but if I don't break your heart, then things will just get worse.
If the burden seems too much to bear,
remember, the end will justify the pain it took to get us there."

And I'll let it be known (at times I have shown)
Signs of all my weakness
But somewhere in me, there is strength

And you promised me (that you believe)
in time I will defeat this
'Cause somewhere in me, there is strength

And today I'll trust you with the confidence
of a man who's never known defeat
And I'll try my best to just forget
that that man isn't me

Reach out to me
Make my heart brand new
Every beat will be for you, for you

And I know you know
You touched my life
When you touched my heavy heart
and made it light

Thanks Sam for the lyrics. You always 'scout out' the relevant songs.

* 7 Weeks!