Memes are a great way of encouraging the geek in me, so here we go...

Since I am and have always been a music nut. Here's my Top 5 for Friday. Gonna do this in 2 parts, heh. Yes, I an nutty that way. Ideas from the great Music Memoirs site:

Top 5 for Friday (Part 1 - Roadtrip songs)

1. Getaway Car - Audioslave. Chris Cornell (I could wax lyrical about his voice...but I won't. yet), song, road...that's where I wanna be...
2. Boys of Summer - Don Henley. My ultimate favourite for the summer. Top down (ok people, I was referring to the car...) in a convertible with da shades and the song blasting.
3. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard. Naughty. Raunchy track that is absolutely perfect to start the day off with...
4. I Believe In a Thing Called Love - The Darkness. Whenever I get in Jean's car, I somehow channel this song and am suddenly overcome by the urge to belt it out loudly...and out of tune ;o)
5. Drive - Incubus. When I was getting my life back in control and was going through many dark periods, I used to listen to this almost all the time whenever I commuted around. I am holding the wheel and driving now.

And because I am really, really psyched by today....here's Part 2.

Top 5 for Friday (Part 2 - Songs with "places" in the title).

1. Hotel California - The Eagles. C'mon, who doesn't love this song...the line "you can check out but you can never leave" haunts me, man.
2. Europe is Our Playground - Suede. The song that inspires and fires up the wanderlust in me. It also reminds me of the time that I was so facinated by Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series.
3. Where the Streets Have no Name - U2. "I want to run, I want to hide, I want to tear down the walls that hold me inside, I want to reach out and touch the flame..." when I feel trapped, sick and just tired of all the crap. I usually channel this song. Loudly.
4. Heaven - Warrant. My lighter waving, torch song of the 80s.
5. NYC - Interpol. The song that made me fall in love with the band and in facination with the city.

Wishing y'alll a stompingly great weekend!

What does one do if he is just not that into you?

You bloody hell up and move on. This little nugget of info didn't just drop into my lap, actually, it's from one of those blasted self-improvement books that I loathe but was tempted into reading just by the fact that it was lying around Belle's house and mocking me. And mocked supremely, I was. It was upsetting and frankly a little painful but it was kind of a wake-up call and just the thing I needed to get myself back into the scheme of things. Day-dreams are fine so long as they exist in your head but when faced with harsh reality it's better to make peace and move on.

For those in the know, yes, I am once again ranting about my current fav topic (aside from fretting over my lack of jazz shoes). I somehow need to purge this from my system.

Oh and for the people who do get noticed...sit up, take note then for pete's sake, say YES!!!

Listening to: Tender by Blur (Yeap, I need to find someone who can heal my mind)

What do Neil Gaiman's kids and yours truly have in common?

We all all the annyoing ability to sing that "Loonely, I am so loooneelly" refrain from that stupid Akorn song like a crazed chipmunk. What's with that song anyway? Apart from being the most bo-liao and annoying song on the face of the earth...geez.

The weekend was rather crazy, if bizarre. You could almost tell how bizarre it would be when:

1. One of our dance instructors got his foot stuck in a trash can. This one was a hoot - unfortunately for him, he stood right beside me and got the royale Witchy treatment. Evil cackle, belly laugh and I think people in the Clarke Quay could actually hear me. Mwahahaha...
2. Three cluess Singaporean girls and one lost former-Malaysian running around in KL, trying to boost the Malaysian economy and generally creating chaos wherever we went.
3. Naturally, when we got a little too lost, we called upon our ang-moh friend to take us around town. Yes, we're hopeless that way.
4. When warned not to go down dark, quiet alley-ways, we naturally did so. Twice
5. At Berjaya Times Square, we got chased off a children's carousel ride for being...too old.
6. We celebrated Jeannie's bday in advance by taking her to a place called "The Cockpit"...and no, it's not what you think it is...
7. We had a secret password to get into our rooms for meetings.
8. The password never changed no matter whose room we ended up in.
9. Li is hopeless at passwords.
10. Beo-ing potential in KL is as hopeless as expecting the sun to shine out of your arse.

All in, the weekend was pretty great as for once, some of us managed to sleep decently, we ate durians and ramly burgers at midnight and we bitched like...well, we always bitch, so that's no biggie. Heh.

This year has been pretty cool as far as things go. I mean, work has been a series of constant upheavals and trials that has got me thinking - is this crap really worth it? so many times but still...it does have some rewards at others. But enough of the whining.

What was new, however was discovering that I actually had more friends than I initially thought :o) Not to sound like the boring tv addicted/music junkie/ bookworm that I am but it's pretty cool to hang out with a bunch of like-minded people who are oftimes too ready to do silly things.

So I am thankful to the people who've made it though the mid-year mark with me. And although we may have our differences at times, it is wonderful to listen to other perspectives and accept that no one is perfect. Thanks for hanging in there when things got tough and know that you will always have someone who will listen or look out for you if things got hairy. Oh and if you need to kick someone's ass and are unsure of how to do it? Call me ;o) I'm a Witchy of many talents...

This post is dedicated to friends, old and new, to the ones who just popped up and who will continue to be a pain in the ass for many years to come...yea, yea, yea, you are all loved.

"To Days Of Inspiration,
Playing Hookey,
Making Something Out Of Nothing,
The Need To Express - To Communicate,
To Going Against The Grain,
Going Insane,
Going Mad"

To wonderful friends.

*Cue violins*

Things have been extremely interesting these last few days but what really, really perked up my this morning was receiving an email from a very old friend. Hello, Kole! It's great to hear from you again after a gazillion years! I'm thrilled that you're doing great...

So, the weekend began in a really awesome manner as for the first time ever, I actually managed to grasp salsa steps and managed to be twirled around the floor in a more or less respectable manner. A breakthrough, considering: I didn't slam into the bar/mirror/wall this week and was relatively on balance for once :o)

Confession 1: Who'dve thought I'd get my dancing feet? Am really starting to enjoy the class at last!

And as things go, things did get curioser and curioser as the weekend went by.

Confession 2: For the people that are currently into the whole mind-fucky thing, yes, I finally did confess to the whole crocky issue. I decided, well hell, I'll never hear the end of it so, I'll just admit to everything and act like a loon. At most, I lose a few extra marbles. Sanity be damned! And yes, I was impressed yet again :P

Confession 3: For the people who will be experiencing the whole HDB upgrading thing. My reccomendation: Move out. Have you seen the toilets they provide? It's like China all over again...Major ewwww

Confession 4: Patience is not my strongest suit. Right now, I'd probably need something like chain-mail or a bullet proof vest to protect me. Heh, especially after Confession 2. Why? Well, for the people who know me well, it is extremely unusual for me to just sit back and wait for things to happen. I'm more of a go-get-em sort and it's been excruciatingly slow progress in certain areas of me little existence at the moment. So what is my strongest suit then?

Confesstion 5: Apparently, it painful honesty. I can safely say that I am a victim of my own honesty. Oh well...

Overall, this has been a rather wonderful weekend, re-bonding with close friends, having breakfast with new ones and reconnecting with almost lost friends. Hopefully, it'll be a start to a great week!

Welcome one and all to yours truly's abosolutely first blog!

As it is still early days yet, I must say that the feeling is still pretty exciting...like that first date. All the expectations, the hope and that tingly feeling. Needless to say, I'll probably loose that one day soon. I may be starry-eyed, but one can only take that crap for so long. Heh.

So why blog? For the uninitiated, blogging is not just about slagging off your fellow man, government or certain evil friends who plant wholly evil ideas into your head - you know who you are! It's about babblering about the most wonderful existence on the earth! The experiences, the loves, the crisises (is this really a word?), it about the all lovable, the all neurotic, the all potty-mouthed - moi.

And so, if you have a minute or possibly more, hang in there or check in here once in a while and bitch along with me.