Hanging out with Trina

I was contemplating whether to tell Trina about me and Valente. I mean it's kinda weird that we're dating, cos we're like working together, and Claudia is Valente's sister! I wonder what would happen if she knew. And what about Mike and Angel? I mean don't they have policies about stuff like that happening at work? As much as Trina's my friend, she's also my lead... what if they think dating him is gonna affect my work? I dunno...

Trina was shocked when I told her... I'm kinda shocked myself... haha.

Anyway, we cooked the pasta for her and her housemates, and we went to get dairy queen ice cream and rent a movie. They chose some asian-american movie which was quite boring... I fell asleep. haha. Well Valente came to pick me up after his work to take me home.

Great Mall Adventure

Wow, me and Sam have the same off day this week! Anyway, we heard so much about Great Mall in San Jose, which is kinda like an outlet mall, but it's in one gigantic building, so we wanted to go there. We were going to go there by bus, but then Valente was off on that day as well... so... we kinda pressured him into taking us there. =)

Well, just as we were going to turn into the parking lot of Great Mall, we stopped at a red light and then *BAM*. Valente's car got hit from behind! This silly lady apparently didn't see the Valente's HUGE RED VAN and ran right into us. Valente got out, and got her driving license before we turned into the carpark. Anyway, the back was a little dented... She didn't want us to settle this thru the insurance, cos the car wasn't hers. It was her boyfriend's. So, Valente got her number and her driver's license number. I hope she pays up.

I feel kinda bad for the rest of the day... cos if we didn't ask him to drive us, we wouldn't have been hit. Me and Sam treat him to lunch and then off we go on our shopping spree. WHEE!!!! Lotsa stuff to see and buy. There's this shop called Charlotte Russe, and I bought 2 $3 tops from there! so freaking cheap.

After a long day of shopping, Valente took us to 99 Ranch which is an Asian supermarket to get groceries. We are planning a Singaporean night somewhere near National Day, so that we can invite our friends to eat Singaporean food! I'm gonna cook... pretty excited about that... :)

Tuesdays are Dollar drinks nights at the Blue Lagoon down on Pacific Avenue, so Valente took me there. Wah can't believe you can get housepours for a dollar each. So cheap. You can get really drunk on very little money here in the USA. After that, we went down to Beach Deck to sit and chat for a while. I asked Valente why he liked me. He says that he likes me because I'm fun to hang out with and I have a nice ass! haha. Never really thought I did, but i'm glad someone thinks so. Security came along after a while and chased us away though... hehe... I can only conclude that they do their job really well.

oh... I see...

Going to watch Catwoman with Mike. I think Halle Berry is HOT!

I asked Valente out last night... I just have to know. We went to Saturn Cafe. This is a

place that sells vegan food. Which is kinda like vegetarian... no meat, but alot of beans. The decor is really funky too. The tables

are glass-topped with deconstructed dolls and stuff. Some of them look quite freaky...

Yeah... so I actually asked him if we were dating. He said yeaaaah... I was like okay... so I guess we are. Interesting... I don't

mind... he's really funny, and nice to hang out with. I am entertained whenever I'm out with him. So I guess we can "date" for as long as I'm in Santa Cruz.

Dating who?

I'm so confused... This is all happening too fast...

Today, Aunty Dorothy and Uncle Roy sent me back all the way from their home back to santa cruz... I love them so much...

they're such darlings. Imagine, they're both over 70... and still driving 4-5 hours, and taking me all over the place. More on my

trip later.

Anyway, I had to work today at 6pm. As I was walking to work, and along the way I bumped into Laura (Supervisor for

Barnacle Bills). She started asking me whether I was dating someone. I was like no, why do you ask? And she said that the

people at Fisherman's Galley were talking about me dating someone. But they wouldn't tell her who is was... OMG! how come

they are talking about this?

In the first place, I don't even know whether we're dating. Are we?

I only went out with him twice, and it was 1 kiss. He didn't even contact me over the weekend or anything.

Should I ask him? I feel quite stupid.

keeya's party and more...

Rachel left today... so sad... yet another singaporean gone... i'll miss her cheerfulness and bubbly character...

anyway, was closing today... as usual, but Valente came to pick me up cos he was goin out with some friends.

We ended up going to keeya's house. she has this little one bedroom place. it's really cute but tiny.

we stayed there for a while, then left about 2am... he walked me back up to my room...

now for the momentuous part. we hugged, and then i turned around to open the door. suddenly, he grabbed my arm, spun me around and kissed me!

i was shocked for a while. really stunned. i think we just hugged again, and then i turned around and continued to open my door and went in. i didn't know what to do or say. nothing.

my first kiss.

other than that, i'm off to spend the weekend with Uncle Roy and Aunty Dorothy today. they're coming to pick me up at 12pm. i'm so excited! more about that when i get back. :)

Sushi at Takara

OMG... the best sushi i've ever had.

Jeff took Sam and me to Takara, where they have really good sushi. i'll describe one of them. this one is called the sunrise. it's got tuna wrapped around rice, topped with a raw quails egg and salmon roe. omg.... it's just fabulous... and u have to eat it in one big bite... u taste the flavours sliding down your throat... ummmmm... heavenly...

tired and looking forward to the weekend!

omg... it seems like so much stuff has happened in the past week and i'm just SO tired... i'm really really looking forward to this weekend. i'm going to oregon to visit with some friends of the family! the couple that i'm visiting are really really sweet, and they'll take care of me so much! i'm really looking forward to a nice, restful weekend away from work!!! woohooooooooo

neway today i just came back from a sailboat trip around monterey bay. it's pretty cool! i love being on the ocean. it's just the sun and the sea, and it's calm and relaxing, soft music playing in the backgroun, and we just sat and talked. quite romantic really, just no one to share it with... hahaz... it was so cool.

oh i got a B.R.A.G award on sunday! actually, 2 other of the singaporeans got it too... but apparently according to the manager, they hardly give out this award to people... so yeah! i'm pretty happy that i got it... i can go pick a prize too! think i'll go get the capitola mall voucher... wahahaha... go do some shopping!

oh yah... i can't remember if i talked about this guy being super uncooperative when i 1st became lead last week... neway there was a 180 degree change for one of them!!!! oh my goodness... i'm so shocked! and i have no idea what sparked off that change too! k this guy is called brandon, and he used to be the laziest guy on the cart. he used to stand at the cash register all day and refuse to make drinks! even if was a little busy and there were a few drinks piling up, and no new customers he'd just stand there and refuse to help. and he'd absolutely REFUSE to make ice blended drinks (cos they're the messiest to make). this really pissed some of the espresso staff off... BUT, suddenly, last week, he started becoming hardworking! omg... he would volunteer to make drinks, and even ice blended ones, he'd volunteer to wash dishes (he never would volunteer), he'd automatically go and clean off tables and the counter top, AND, he became so much more friendly! he'd say hi to samantha, and play "cai quan" with me, and let me draw pictures as a forfeit on his arms... i'm jut amazed! i wonder what happened really.
i wonder if he got hit on the head and suffered from shock or something... it's amazing...

then valente has been working there for a looooong time. he's like the master of all drinks. and nobody really dares to scold him... neway he used to take long breaks... and he wouldn't come back for 45 min - 1 hr. NOW... he's always back within the allotted 30 min, and he even comes back early!

i'm really amazed... i wonder if i'm an excellent motivator or what... or maybe both of them have some ulterior motives... but i'm still happy... i think it's the favour of God. it would be so hard if they decided to not cooperate. cos i'm really a new staff, and lead over people who have worked for a much longer time than i have.

yep... i'm happy....

:)

Sail around Monterey Bay

This morning, we went for a sailboat trip around the Monterey Bay. It was really nice weather and all! Here are the pics.


On our way to the Santa Cruz Harbour... we had to walk through the railway tracks.... It's like a 15-20 minute walk to the harbour. The girl in white is called Maryna. She's really slutty and goes out with different guys all the time. WOnder what else she does with them man... She got promoted to being lead just 2 weeks after she got here! I wonder what she did to bewitch Everard and Claudia.... Maybe it's just sour grapes, but I just can't stand her! She's just so bossy!


Me and Sam... Look at my slitty eyes... I have eye infection... sigh.


Me and Grace... the one who waited up with me to go and look for Sam... hee...


This is Julie. She's a campus crusader... and she works at the espresso cart too! she's from south carolina or something like that... she's got this nice southern accent... think she's pretty!


Me and Julie again... I look kinda crazy...


That's us, the singaporean gang. From left, Sam, me, Rachel, Grace, Delphine and Kelvin.

the mystery of the spot

i didn't discover it, if that's what you're wondering, I didn't even get in there!unfortunately, cos when valente took me up, the earliest we could get tickets was too late... cos both of us had to work at 4pm.

but it wasn't all wasted, i got to eat a fabulous breakfast burrito. I don't know why they don't sell stuff like that in singapore. I must have described it in one of my earlier posts... meat, potatoes, cheese, goodness knows what else, all wrapped up in a burrito. yummmmmmy. then, we went to see a motor home park. this place belonged to one of his friends... a little shabby kind of place. it's a real trailer park! too bad i don't have any photos of it... but it's really interesting. people actually live in such small spaces. it's amazing.

another weird thing happened today. we both went to wardrobe to get our uniform for work. when we were in wardrobe, he used his apron to smack my butt. so i just hit him back. the wardrobe lady asks the other one to give me the number for women in crisis. this apparently is a hotline for abused wives. i went like, oh, so you mean abused colleagues don't count? and they were like, oh so you mean he's not your boyfriend? i was like... NO....

Where the hell do they get these ideas? it's really really weird. i've only been out with valente 2x. I've never been into wardrobe with him before... so so so strange...

A pic of both of us... during our break. he came to sit with me for a while...

I have a chauffeur

There was another party at La bahia last night... so what's new? There's a party every weekend.

The cops came to break up this party really quickly, and they made everyone return back to their rooms. Me, Rach and Sam were downstairs hanging out cos we didn't wanna seem unsociable. SO cold.

well it wasn't too bad cos David was there too! it was kinda strange, cos david suddenly started whispering to sam and rachel, and they burst out laughing. later, i found out that they were talking about me and valente. david actually asked whether they thought me and val were "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". apparently david and sam gave the thumbs up and rachel gave thumbs down.

*faint* can't believe they are talking about this when nothing's happening! so strange. and me and valente only went out ONCE.

anyway, after the cops came to break up the party, most of the people went up to the irish room to hang out. valente wanted to go in, and he asked me to follow him in too. i decided to try hanging out with them, cos they kinda seemed like nice people. they were mostly from rides... so i didn't really know them. Valente and i just started chatting, and he asked me what haven't i done since i've been here. i really want to go to the mystery spot... have heard tons about it too! so i told him i wanted to do that. and valente volunteers to take me! so nice of him rite? tomorrow... or rather today... we're going! he actually volunteered to teach me how to drive too! oh i hope he'll really teach me...

do you think he will?????

weird

Valente was acting all weird today... He, the master of the espresso cart, kept screwing up! HE screwed up at least 2 drinks. He was acting all melancholic, and when i asked him what's wrong, he just said nothing. Then i asked him a few more times, and he like looked at me and said, well, i thought you'd have more fun last night. I was like, what are you talking about? i had fun...

crazy man.

Dunno whether he's joking or what, cos he's always crappy.

lost and found!

what? or who? you may ask? samantha was lost for a long time yesterday! oh well... she wasn't really lost, or in any form of danger... but i just couldn't find her. neway... the story goes like this. i was supposed to have japanese dinner with her and jeff. BUT... at the last minute, rachel brown doesn't show up for work! so... bettina had to take over her 2-10 shift. i actually wanted to leave early, but then claudia (that "nice" lady) asks sam to carry on working after i leave early! which doesn't make much sense cos BOTH of us wanna go have dinner together. neway in the end i stay, and sam goes back to tell jeff the bad news. and i tell her that we are hanging out later that nite after i finish work with valente and some other people.

THEN... i run back home at 10.15 and discover that i cannot find her! she's nowhere to be found, not in the room, not in anyone else's room either!!! i panic a little, and leave her a gazillion text messages. i even call her! no one replies. valente shows up at 11 and i decide that i should go with him, cos i have no idea where sam went.

we went to this pub where there's cheap beers all night. i've never drank so much beer in my life. bleargh... did i mention i hate beer? it's got the most yucky taste and makes you pee a lot. okay neway back to my story... i tried sms-ing various people to see if they know where sam is. i even call this number which is supposedly jeff's number. (but it's his off day and i get trenton instead, poor bugger, that was 2am) grace goes and knocks on my door , but she's not in. she goes and knocks on jeff's door, but no one answers... BUT she thinks she can hear sam's laughter in there! so she waits for me to get back (poor girl) so that we can go knock on his door together. i go back, and i pound on jeffs door. and keep knocking... and guess what??? yup sam was in there... bah... it turns out that they had gone for dinner anyway, and then gone back to jeffs apartment with a bottle of red wine. and they were just drinking and talking (the whole night alone together *wink*). AND she tried sms-ing me but she didn't put a +1 in front of the number. AND, the number that i have been sms-ing all the time thinking that it was her number was WRONG. haha... it actually is quite funny....

yeah neway we found each other after like we were supposed to hang out for dinner and stuffz... we only met each other at 3am... sigh... neway it was a pretty interesting nite for me... i had fun!

blogging in the past in the present

This post is written on 29 August 2005, but purposely backdated so that no one can see it on my blog homepage. Well, if you actually bothered to dig into my archives and find this post, then good for you. You are now reading about the beginning. The beginning of what you may ask? It's the beginning of a summer fling. Why am I writing about this now at this point of time? I don't know. I really don't know. I guess part of the reason is for cartharsis. I have moved on, and I just need to talk all this out so that I can finally relegate all this to my memories. In the rest of the archives, you might find other such entries... but this is the beginning.

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The Beginning

Yesterday was the day me, Sam and Jeff (our housing coordinator) were supposed to have Japanese food. We had planned this last weekend during one of the parties at La Bahia. Valente was there too, and wanted to come along. We agreed that we'd ask him along if we really were going.

Unfortunately, Rachel Brown fell sick yesterday, and didn't show up for work! Claudia asked if either I or Sam could work her shift. I agreed, since I was working less hours that week. Her shift ended at 10pm, which is kinda late for dinner. So we decided to call off the dinner. Valente had suggested going out for drinks with Maritza after dinner, so we agreed that we'd go out for drinks still.

I ended work at 10pm, and rushed home to change. To my horror, I didn't find Samantha at home. I ran around to all the other Singaporean rooms to look for her, but she was nowhere to be found. Valente was coming at 10.15 to pick us up. Valente arrived, and I still couldn't find Sam. Well I decided to go off without her, hoping that she was safe together with Jeff. Turns out that Maritza couldn’t make it too. So it was just me and Valente.

We went to this bar called The Avenue for dollar beer night. There, I hung out with Valente's friends. There was this girl called Cori. Cori's a bartender at another bar on the wharf. She's really really nice, easy to talk to, and just overall cool. David and Brandon showed up too!

When the bar closed, we went to the liquor store and got more beer and went to Cori's house to hang out some more together with Brandon. We just sat around chatting and I started playing finger guessing games with Brandon. I was still kinda worried about Sam, and decided to ask Grace again whether she has seen her. I remember Valente hugging me from behind and then saying I smell good, and also kissing my back a little. Valente starts talking to another Mexican guy and they start arguing about racism and stuff... Anyway, Valente says we should leave, so we did. I wanted to go and look for Sam anyway. Anyway, we arrive back at La Bahia, and Valente and Brandon go to the Irish house together, and I go together with Grace to look for Sam. The short story is that we found Sam in Jeff's house after much pounding and screaming... Apparently they had gone out for dinner and had holed up in his apartment with a bottle of wine.

Finally, we get back. I bang on the door to the Irish house just to let Valente know that we found Sam and that we're heading back upstairs. Me and Sam just sit in the kitchen and talk about our night. It turns out that all those frantic messages I'd been sending her did not get through cos I was sms-ing the wrong number. And all the messages she had been sending me didn't get through too cos she did not put a +1 in front of number. She claims that she and Jeff are only friends... well we'll see about that later.

Anyway, Sam goes and takes a shower, and I slack on my bed for a while. I hear knocks on the door, and to my surprise, I see Valente outside. He looks like he wants to come in, but I don't let him cos I don't wanna wake Elaine up. I go and sit outside with him on the stairs. He says that he's really tired and drunk, and needs to rest for a while before he goes home. I ask him to come in and crash on my apartment floor for a while.

While he lay there, we chatted, and he asked if I had fun. And I said I did. He left after a while, after Sam finished bathing and Elaine woke up.
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This is the beginning.

i got it!

YAY YAY YAY!!!! i got promoted to lead! thanx everyone who prayed... :) neway now i got a pay increase... which is a good thing! neway my "competition" was this guy, brandon, who has worked there for around 2 years, and he knows more stuff than me, it's just that he's quite lazy, and none of the leads have a good impression of him... neway, the day that i was told, he was called into the office by everard too. the rest of the day, he was in a very very bad mood! oops... not really my fault tho... neway i hope he's gotten over it by now... else it'll be very hard working with him!

then on the same day, i was working with these 2 guys, brandon and david. there was another new girl who wasn't very familiar with the drinks training. THEN, after this girl comes back from break, brandon and david both need another break. i told one of them to go, and turned around to serve a customer. the next time i turned around, both of them were gone! leaving me alone with the new girl. AND there was a mini rush of orders during the time they were gone. and the new girl was not very fast! BAH. i mean i dunno if they did it on purpose, but it was so irritating. maybe they were just trying to challenge my authority. but it was irritating. AHHHHH.

this week looks like it's gonna be an interesting week. on wed me and samantha will be going to have japanese food at takara (some japanese restaurant near by) the best thing is... jeff (our housing manager) wants to come along too! so he'll prob be driving us. wahahahaha

yesterday, angel asked if i have been hanging out with locals alot... i guess i have been... much more than i've been hanging out with the other work-and-travel people from other countries at least. cos there's a group of us singaporeans, we gather together and talk a lot of the time. but for me, i came here to make friends from here too (mainly cos they have cars... wahahahaha). and in a way, i think i've been pretty successful! i mean, trina is such a nice girl, i love hanging out with her, and she never makes me feel as if i'm imposing. yeahz. now i think the thing for me is to try and get to know other people from other countries, not just americans. maybe i should go downstairs and hang out more often... but it's cold there! brrrrr....

yeah some of the people i know don't seem to wanna make friends with other people... so that's pretty sad... i think that defeats the point of us being here.

oh well... today is my 1st day officially that i'm lead! i'm gonna have to find a balance between recognising that i don't know the most stuff and being a leader just the same.

yup yup! i'm gonna be the best lead i can!

breakfast burrito!

woowhee... today i actually woke up for breakfast!!!! wow... yeah... i know it's a fantastic accomplishment... we all got like $5 food coupons to eat at the restaurant, so we all gathered together to have brunch. k, so it wasn't that early... but considering i only get home at 1.30am from work... it's EXTREMELY early! yah... neway the breakfast burrito is SO GOOD.. it's really yummy... there's potatoes, eggs (scrambled eggs that come in a packet), and salsa and sausage. wow... it's the equivalent of eating macdonalds breakfast! yum yum...

and the best thing is... one of our friends is working in the kitchen... so we get extra ingredients!

oh yeah...

neway today seems like it's gonna be rather sian... feel tired cos i woke up earlier than usual.

by this sunday, the singaporean gang will be reduced to 9. jialing and shuhui are leaving! they're going back to singapore to start school... sigh... how sad... i'll miss them... it's like when we are away from home, i really treasure the friendships that i make here. yeah....

Here's pics of us...


Yeah me, looking all tired and rumpled... I'm wearing a BIG green jacket that I found at the espresso cart. no one knows who's it is, so i'm just using it for now.


Oh yeah, after that we went down to the beach for a little bit of sun...


working later at 6pm. sigh...

Angel and Aimee

Today I closed in the FSO with Angel. Closing with Angel is really fun cos he's such a nice guy, and cute too! He's funny and slack. Oh and Aimee always stays back cos she doesn't like to be home alone.

Anyway, while we were in the office, Aimee was talking to me, and she was talking about Angel, and how she would be so unhappy because these European girls would throw themselves at Angel. And how hard their relationship was the last few years. And this sweet looking girl said "I'd kill any girl who touched him". scary... haha. Anyway, I think that was kinda like a warning, "DON'T EVER TOUCH MY ANGEL". Warning noted.

Anyway, after we closed up, Aimee gives me a ride home, and I discover an even more shocking truth! Aimee and Angel are MARRIED! OMG. She says they haven't told many people, and not even their family knows.

Married. Freaking married. And she's like YOUNG. Like 21. She wants to be a mother too. *faint* I can't imagine myself married at 21.

Consider myself sufficiently warned off. Note to myself not to get close to Angel.

4th of july celebrations!

omg... 4th of july is such a fun day here!

the nite of the 3rd, there was kinda a little party at mike's (michael murray-a food service manager) house. i was closing, which meant that i got out at like 1am! but trina (the ever nice girl)and valente came back to pick me up and take me there. it was pretty cool. they are cool people to hang out with. mike's house is really pretty too! he and his neighbours share a little bar place which is really comfy, and it such a nice place just to hang around in. we sat there drinking and talking. Actually something kinda weird happened... I sat in one of the armchairs that he had, and propped up my feet on the other chair. Valente sat down on the other and put my feet on his lap... and started rubbing my feet. haha... or maybe it's just normal.

then on the 4th itself, i was closing again... but i got to see all the fireworks!!!! omg... they're so pretty! it's so different from what we have in singapore. these fireworks are not BIG ones like national day, or company sponsored like CNY ones, but they are set off by ordinary people. so... there were tons of them! and they went on and on forever. there were little ones, swirly ones, ziq-zag ones, and BIG starburst ones! i think it must have gone on for at least 1hr. so pretty so pretty...
oh and then after that... one of my colleagues told me that fireworks are illegal in california. (right.) well... it's a useless law, cos everyone was setting off fireworks!

that night... i only got home at 2.15. omg... it was so busy!!!! heez but really fun.

yesterday was a busy day too! cos it's kinda a public holiday. it's not an official one, but cos 4th of july fell on a sunday, so, many businesses and financial institutions were closed on monday. the boardwalk was super busy! valente was really crappy yesterday... omg... cos today i was telling him that we were going to a club cos my friend is leaving soon, so it's kinda like a send off party. and he goes "so can i come too?" and of course i say yes. he asks " can i be your date?" then i'm like "no... i cannot date my colleagues... it's not good work ethics!" k this makes him subside for a while, THEN he asks again, whether he can be my date! i'm like no.... then i think about it... hmmm there might be a cover charge... if there is... and he's my date... he can pay for me! so i tell him that. and he says "well, that depends, will you put out?" (for those that don't know, put out means like have sex) i was like of course NOT! i'm a good girl. and he's like "yah, i'm a good boy too!" (yah right.)

neway he was just kidding around... he's the crappiest guy on the face of this earth. but pretty decent. i trust him.

omg we had such stupid customers yesterday too! let me give u an example of one. this indian lady comes up. she asks for 1 cup of tea, but she wants 3 tea bags in it. i tell her that we'll have to charge her for 3 cups of tea if she wants 3 tea bags. (makes sense right? since the water and the cup costs practically nothing) she's like no no no... she only wants 1 cup of tea and 3 tea bags. i repeat what i just said, which is that 3 tea bags=3 cups of tea. she's like no no not 3 cups, 3 tea bags. i repeat what i said again. i think i must have said it 5 times. then she says ok. so we charge her for 3 cups, which is like 5.40. and she's like "why is it so expensive? i only want a 1.80 cup of tea!" i repeat again for the 10 millionth time that 3 tea bags= 3 cups of tea. then she says "oh then i don't want it." DUH! can anyone be more stupid?? maybe she's just trying to take advantage. but it was just stupid... bah.

yeahz... neway i don't know i the results of the lead thing yet... claudia refuses to tell me anything. trina says it's good news for me... but unless claudia speaks... it's nothing. ahhh.... more waiting... hope they raise my pay in time for this paycheck... heh heh.

more exciting news coming up soon!

:)

what an exciting day!

wheeeeee! yesterday was one of the most fun off days i've had in a long long time! ok neway... the day started out with this guy inviting me me to go salsa dancing (at like 3am in the morning). and i agreed, if my friend could come along too. k so rachel agreed to come, and we made plans to go salsa dancing at night.

at 11 am, i get a call from the food service office. the one in charge of admin tells me that everard (director of food services) forgot to set a time with me, and so i'm supposed to call him, and gives me everard's home number. (oh the background to this is that everard asked me before whether i miss asian food, and of course i said yes. and he was like oh one of these days i'll take u out to lunch to eat curry. and then we kinda agreed on friday but did not set a time) k so i call, and we set a time, and he tells me to ask the rest whether they are free too. so since i know that it's rachel's day off too, i ask her along. kelvin was off too, but we couldnt find him. so everard took us to lunch at this sri lankan restaurant. chicken curry, vegetable curry.... WOOOOOO... it was so good! and at the end of the meal, we had sri lankan tea, which was like singapore kopi tiam teh. sigh. it reminded me so much of home! i think that since he's asian (1/2 sri lankan, 1/2 malaysian) and his wife is asian ( 1/2 cambodian, 1/2 thai), he kinda has a soft spot for us. i think we are the 1st batch of asian students that have come here. yep... so we're pretty lucky!

after that fulfilling lunch, me and rachel walked along the boardwalk and went to visit with my friend working at the merchandise shops. we were there to place our orders cos she gets like 70% off everything she buys!! whee... good for souveneirs. we go walk over to the espresso cart to talk to valente (one of my colleagues). we wanted to find out if the guy that is taking us out tonight is trustworthy. as we're doing that, we bump into alex and his friend juan. they want to go for a cruise around downtown in his car, so they ask us if we wanna go along. we go and it was SO FUN! 1stly, his car is a convertible, 2ndly, his sound system is awesome! so it happened just like the movies. we put the top down, the music was blasting... and we just took a drive around downtown. FUN FUN FUN! hahaz... they're not cute though, and they're just 18... i'm hanging out with lotsa kids these days! still had alot of fun!

after talking to valente, we discovered that he didn't really know that guy, and he doesn't have a very good impression of that guy. k... me and rachel still decided to go... but we had a back up plan! we got trina to come and pick us up at 12...

this guy came at 10, we went to one of his friend's house to drink 1st. the friend was house sitting for his boss, and the house was beautiful! really beautiful. and he had to look after the boss's cat too! it was a really beautiful persian cat. so pretty.

then after that we went to the club. it's full of mexican people. we tried to learn salsa, he and his friend tried to teach us. not very successfully. hahaz. oh well u know me... i've got 2 left feet! i can't keep to the beat very well! imagine me trying to dance salsa! hahaz... it was fun tho. i can do the basic steps. i can't spin very well. haha. then the music changed to spanish house music. k. i can dance to that kind of music. don't like it very much though... but at least i don't have to worry about where my feet are going. haha. that guy was a little too grabby for my liking... i don't like him. he wants to see me again... but i'm pretty sure that i'm never going to go out with him AGAIN. he's not even cute! bleargh.

then at 12.15 or so, trina picked us up. she took us to her old house to smoke hookah (before u guys kill me, it's not addictive or harmful. it's an arabic fruit gum thing that u smoke thru a water pipe. some people even say that it's healthy. i did it before in singapore before, just that it's called shishah). she was living with a couple of people, and there were 3 guys. one of them was gay, and he was the cutest! oh this life is unfair... he was the most friendly too. or rather he was the only one awake to talk to us. the other 2 were passed out on the couch. haha. then she took us to her new house, which was a major mess cos she just moved in. where we ate some pizza, and then she took us home.

i got home at around 2.30am, and there was a party going on in the apartment just below! they were all gathered in the stairwell smoking and drinking! omg... it was SO SMELLY! and they were really loud too! bah. and i had to pass by there to get back home. disgusting.

and i went to sleep, the noise doesn't even bother me anymore! hehe. what a change from the time i 1st got here and was complaining all about the noise.

so that was my exciting day. whee!

nervous...

claudia is suppposed to announce who got the lead today... ahhhh... i'm a little nervous... and the best part is... i'm off today! which means that either i find out tmr... or i go in to the office to find out today... which is kinda loser... heh heh... so i guess i'll just play it cool and find out tmr then... ahhhh...

neway u know what... after that last post.... i had such a bad headache! it was a combination of not drinking enough water and expending too much emotions... AND... i went for the interview on that day too! (claudia pushed forward the interview) she said i did pretty well, and gave pretty good suggestions... oh well... oh well... we'll see how it goes.

oh i'm going dancing tonight! it's my day off... :)

yay!