2010 may and june

im missing london :(

so i decided to finally post some of the hundreds of pictures i had stored months ago.


this was taken during one of our dining sessions at lincolns inn. if you're wondering why we often take pictures during dining sessions, its because thats when we all dress up and look smart :)


pretty flowers... unfortunately the candle wax dripped like nobody's business.


i think jo looks very pretty here. eh jo, steal this pic. haha...


with nat at jeannie's birthday. this is the only picture i took with my phone. but its ok coz jeannie's bf had a huge ass pro looking cam and took better pics =p


oh, i liked this outfit!
i wanted to wear the vest coz i bought it and never wore it, and i didnt wanna look too business-y coz it was just a girls night out, so i paired it with jeans shorts that errr... i cut myself from a pair of old jeans =p


love the fit of this vest!




it was cold out, so i wore tights.


slapped on some makeup and i was out the door! (i think i was early for once!)

dinner was at incognico


i think this was supposed to be minestrone soup... didnt seem like it to me. i didnt fancy it much.





min yuen n jeannie were much smarter and both opted for fish starters that i must admit were wayy better than the soup.


their pork chop


my sea bass (this time i think mine was nicer =p)


min yuen




jeannie




nice table centrepiece


hmm... i cant remember if this was good or not... my fault for blogging so late =p


i had these huge portobello mushrooms in my fridge, so i stuffed them with cheese, herbs and tomatoes!


fried rice n some pork leg thingy that i probably got from tesco or something.


random "my little pony" that i saw on someones garden wall


pasta with meatballs and stuffed mushroom


lovely pink roses


i used to do some mystery shopping to supplement my pocket money and this was one of the receipts i had to take a picture of as proof for the mystery shopping company.


man... i used to be so healthy!


the next few pics are gonna be of the same dress with different belts coz i was trying to figure out which matched it best.


i was supposed to slim down to fit the dress, but eventually i altered the dress myself to get it to fit me =p


the pattern of the cloth is reminiscent of my primary school uniform. i have half a mind to wear it to school one day =p


to date i havent worn the dress out yet coz its slightly outlandish... even more so now that im back in malaysia. ok fine, also coz i gained weight. fml






mantou instead of rice coz its faster to cook. wtf


ready for dinner with alex at theo randall
we went there with high expectations coz of the high ratings and good comments on toptable, but alas it was a disappointment :(
not to say that the food was bad... it just wasnt as awesome as we hoped it would be :(


i love this dress! it can be worn in a multitude of ways! :D
its one of the only things i got from the american apparel rummage sale.




got slippers at the side. HAHAHAHAHA




complimentary bread


i cant remember what this is... could be devon crab.


some sort if ravioli... not bad


i like this picture :)


my sea bream (?) tasted so-so


it came with veggies.


beef (?)


even the tiramisu wasnt that good :(


i rather liked this tho :)


complimentary truffles


then we decided to walk all the way home from mayfair.


so i walked all the way through hyde park in heels


im mimicking the statue btw


at least we managed to get some pretty pics out of the walk, with the flowers blooming and all...


if u were in london around may and june 2010, you would not have missed elephants all over the place. they were done by artists and being sold for charity if im not mistaken.


another picture of the flowers still gorgeous... they lasted several weeks!
in malaysia my roses always wilted in a few days. fml


my attempt at making a wrap. eh not my fault the bread was so lousy it tore so easily ok!


sunscreen check. hat check. shades check.
all ready for shi jye's picnic!


i super love this dress. partly because i've always been partial towards oriental prints, but the clincher was when i discovered that this dress was a wraparound! totally ingenious!


i'll post up the rest of the pics that i took at the picnic later coz these are all the pics from my phone and the rest of the pics are in my cam.


random outfit picture coz i liked that my scarves and ballet flats were purple :D


taken when i was still interested in going to china.


i tend to take my outfit pics in the lift coz thats the only time i have to take them (im usually running [literally] late) and if im a lil slow, the lift reaches and the doors open, resulting in shaky pics coz i dont wanna get caught camwhoring. hahahaha


my attempt at salad. i was so pleased that i managed to get the beef just right. cooked on the outside but red on the inside!


ah this was when i signed up for the studio london and jordan burr thingy


i took their pics so that if it was a scam, i'd have proof of their identities. hahahahahah


black, white n grey
i like this outfit too :D





and thats all the pics for now. i'll post the rest up when i either feel nostalgic or rajin or both.

cutenessssss

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i'd prefer them alot less red tho. pink would be nice... lavender too... or any other pastel-like colours :D


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jo, i think u mentioned this before. totally amazing. the black stuff is oreo crumbles and there's ice cream underneath. ingenious! (hmm... somehow i get the feeling i blogged about this b4...)


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and for those who wanna try out baking, check out this site!

too good not to share

lets face it, my blog is pretty much dead.

why?
dunno... i guess i lost inspiration somewhere along the line.

anyway, this is just too good not to share.
awesome-ness max!!!

homezers

ohaiyo!

im back in kuching! got back on the 2nd but apparently im still jetlagged coz i woke up at about 4.30pm today :S

not much to update. just gonna laze around for now =p

i think my blogging has evolved to just posting my life itineraries -_-"

so its time for another update.

my last day of work was last friday and on my last few days of work, i was really racking my brain, thinking what else did i need from harrods before i could no longer use the staff discount. i couldnt come up with anything important, so that was rather anticlimactic -_-"

i did however buy some godiva chocs and some laduree macaroons ;)

alot of my peers are enjoying life right now, chilling and bumming around... actually they started doing that since june when their exams ended. i cant deny that i slightly envy them, but bumming around does tend to get mighty boring after a few weeks of it *comforts self*

compared to them, my life is still on fast forward. now that im done working at harrods, i've gotta prepare for my re-sits which will end on 17/8. after that i've got to pack up my shitloads of crap and arrange for their collection and shipping. plus i gotta finish up the mountains of food that i have lying about the house, and i intend on trying to sell some stuff on ebay and giving the rest away to juniors or whoever i know who lives in london. i've also got another session at the saloon that i've got to use up. then on 27/8 - 30/8 i'll be off to prague. on 31/8, imma sit my ass on a MAS airplane and whoosh back to Malaysia.

u'd think i'd finally be able to start chilling back home right? but noooo on 13/9 i'll be jetting off to shanghai to check out about teaching english there in exchange for learning chinese. i'll be back on 20/9 and thats where the plans have reached. anything beyond that is to be seen. if the programs they have are appealing and suitable, then i'll prolly go over to china to teach english. quite exciting :D

(eh, if i go to shanghai, i would have lived in some of the worlds most metropolitan cities! kuala lumpur, london, shanghai! err... actually KL is not in the list, but its up and coming! wtf
next on my list are either NYC/LA/Tokyo.... but no la, im not too serious in trying to live in all the most metropolitan cities in the world. it was just a thought that occured to me... but u know what happens when a person gets an idea... [inception =p] )

if i dont go to china to teach english... i might stay in kuching and chamber or maybe try my luck in kl. but whats more appealing to me would be to try my luck at being an air stewardess. damn, if only i didnt get motion sickness quite so easily :(

but i iz also wans to bum around doing nothing... oh wait, i iz done that for nearly my entire degree course already. wtf

biting my tongue

before i bitch, i wanna make clear that these incidences dont sound particularly infuriating, but bear in mind that i was working an 8 hour shift in an understaffed restaurant (which means i was running around like crazy) with only a 30min break the entire shift. also it was a generally sh*t day. kthxbai.

today, a customer came to the till with 3 cups of soft drinks. she asked if the drinks were refillable. i told her yes. she then told me that 2 of the cups were for the same daughter and she wanted me to charge her for only 2 cups. i told her that we charge each cup taken as one cup. she then loudly exclaimed "dont be silly!"

i then took all the cups and splashed them onto her face one by one and said "actually, now they're all free of charge, how much more would you like?"

obviously i didnt do that. i just bit my tongue and let her have her way because it was harrods and she was a gold tier rewards card holder.

ugh! obviously she was the one being unreasonable, but nooooo i was the one being silly. geez! so ridiculous! if she only wanted to pay for 2 cups, then return one cup la, its refillable anyway! *rolls eyes*

then there was a another rude family. see, the way the cafe i work at works is that for the hot food, the customer orders at the hot food till, then they will be given a number. the customer then takes the number and orders drinks (if they wish)at another counter and pay for it all at the last till. simple right? oh and each number given is entered as a table in the till.

so i was at the till again and this family of 4 came to me with 2 numbers. i explained that i had to do the numbers separately because they opened separate tables within the till and tables could not be combined on the till. meaning that they had to pay for one table 1st then the next table 2nd.

this obviously doesnt trouble them much at all as all they have to do is pay each amount as i tell it to them. if it troubled anyone, it would be troubling ME as i had to key in their drinks order, tell them the price, take their money, give them change and their receipt, and do it all over again (doesnt sound like much, but it all takes time and when there's a queue you dont wanna keep others waiting too long) - i would have only needed to do this once if they had ordered together and gotten only one number.

but the idiot father who was paying tried to insist i put the tables together and when i told him i couldnt, he said "this is a very stupid way of doing things!"

hellooooo... if u wanna pay for everything together then order together la! why you go and take separate numbers! its common sense to order together if you're paying together! dumbass.

but i had to bite my tongue again and act apologetic. ugh.

normally these fools dont get to me, but like i said, today was a generally crap day and i'm having my period, so its a contributory factor.

working again tomorrow from 11-8pm. my last working day is on the 7th, cant wait!

i was so upset, i went onto asos and tried to do some retail therapy and ended up with a shopping cart worth GBP115! and mum, before you panic, i did not hit the buy button. i managed to cut it down to GBP40 and saved the remaining items, to pay for when i've done my visa stuff and can touch the money i have in the bank. see... so sensible! *proud*

oh and there was one day when i was working (11am-8pm), i was asked if i would cover an event that evening in the store after my shift (8pm-11pm). i was uncertain if i should take it coz i'd obviously be exhausted by then, but i figured what the heck, its just another 3 hours and they were paying GBP12/hr -its nearly twice my normal wage per hour! so i took it. unfortunately i didnt get to see any celebs (i was hoping to see jennifer aniston coz she was coming to the store the next day to launch her perfume), but i guess the pay itself was incentive enough. my arms were dying by the end of the night though, coz we had to carry huge heavy plates of hors d'oeuvres for 2 hours straight, circulating the room, a plate of food in one hand, a plate of tissues in the other, and we couldnt put them down to rest our arms (duh, if not it'd look so un-posh. lol). imagine trying to gracefully extend a plate to a patron when your arm muscles are cramping and screaming in protest. i have a new found respect for banqueting staff.

and since we're on the topic of waitressing stuff, here's a "welcome to my restaurant" pic.

and no, thats not my uniform -_-"
its from the set of studio pics i mentioned before.

super brief update

i've received my 1st paycheck! :D
my next will be on 23/7 and im looking forward to it coz i need the money :(

i went and had some studio shots taken on tuesday, i'll post them up soon =p

jam packed weeks

these few weeks are gonna be super packed for me. im working on the 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 16th and 17th*.

on the 5th im going for afternoon tea with jo, on the 6th i'm gonna go to a studio**, on the 9th i have the black tie dinner for dining at lincolns inn, on the 13th i have another dining and my kdu friends are coming over in the afternoon to make sushi.

so my only 2 free days in the next 15 days are on the 14th and 15th -_-"



*im also watching swan lake at 7.30pm


**i bought this package thingy (GBP30 if im not mistaken) over a month ago and it included a "luxury day at studio london" which includes:
-champagne reception
-mini facial
-hand massage
-hair styling
-makeover
-photo shoot
- one free image on print or disc

the other part of the package (which imma do next time when i can find time) was for a salon called jordan burr.
1st visit:
-consultation
-cleansing n conditioning treatment
- designer cut shampoo n style
-colour consultation

2nd visit:
-follow up consultation
-highlights (up to 12 foils)
- shampoo n finish
- hair treatment

3rd visit:
-follow up consultation
- accent highlights
- cut n finish
- valid 4 times in 1 yr (means the 3rd visit stuff can be done 4 times within the yr)

im prolly only gonna do the 1st n 2nd visit then pass my remaining one to a fren to use. i thought this package wasnt bad... quite worth it what... got damn alot of things. hahaha...