Was just about to eat the chocolates I bought during lunch when I remembered that I've left it in the car. Remembered it when I got back in my cubicle and sat on my chair. Too lazy to climb that flight of stairs and cross the street back to where the car's parked. Thought I'd do it after say five or ten minutes.

That was at 1.30pm. It's now quater to four! Went to the car and got the chocolates out. It feel soft ... really soft ... all melted.Boo hoo. Can't have my chocolates now. I've placed them in the refrigerator at the office upstairs (no fridge in our pantry ... bad!) They're recovering now, I hope. Will check up on them at say half an hour's time.

:( ... I have a chocolate craving. Serves me right for my procratinating nature.

Tough empress, you'll just have to go without for awhile!

A little something I concocted for my friend the other day. I call it a good weather spell. Her wedding was on the 24th. I wrote this before that.

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abracadabra ...

hocus pocus ...

zim zam zoom ... *poof* (smoke effect)

viv will have lovely weather
on a day like no other
when she will say 'ay'
pledging her forever and a day
to the man of her dreams
in a dress of ivory and cream.

*no guarentee the spell will work. It's just for fun. :)

Had a gruelling class last night. Was corrected so so so so much by Mr Lee.

No floppy arms! ... Look up! ... Sharper turns! ... Shoulder leads before head and legs follows! ... Cha-cha-cha must be done step-by-step! Don't run through them! ... Create space for yourself! ... More shoulder movement! ... More hip movement! ... Remember to create hip movement before starting! ... etc.

Was poofed after class. Didn't even bother to stay back and practise. My limbs felt a bit unnatural after that.

Argh! So many things to remember! Have will I manage.

I have dance class at 7.30pm. Wondering if I should go home or go directly to the studio from work. Do I have time to go home?

Let's see. It's 5.45 now. 30 minutes to get home = 6.15, 20 minutes to the studio = 6.35. So that's almost an hour to spare.

I think I'll go home.

Ta da!

Still healthy. Sickly taste must have just been something I ate after all.

Choir practise was good. We timed 'The Living Creche'. It's about 35 minutes. After that, didn't have much time left to time 'A Night Of Wonder'. Will probably do that next week.

Conductor wasn't there yet again. Second week in a row. He's performing in 'The Fantastiks' in Bangsar. Replacement performance for the cancelled show due to the King's death.

The small choir's going to have practise again this Thursday. Yups! The same day I'll be meeting with the musicals group for Alex's birthday dinner. Oh yes, the small choir has a temporary name now. It's called 'Streetvoiz'. Cris has even set up a yahoo group for it!

Anyway, I'll be skipping that practise. Told them I'll practise at home myself ... yeah right!

I'll be off to Singapore on Friday! Yay! This time to watch Porgy & Bess. Hmmm ... still haven't got the bus ticket. Let's see if I have time to get it tonight after dance class.

Eeewwww! I've got the sickly taste on my tongue.

Why's that? I though I've had enough sleep to recover from the marathon.

Not sick yet but the bad taste should be an indication of the coming doom. Bones not aching yet though, which is a good sign. Maybe it's just something I ate.

Had a sleeping marathon yesterday.

Well, really needed it due to the VCD marathon early Sunday morning. Aunty Gnoh was gonna take the Korean series back to Ireland with her so I had to finish them before she leaves for the airport later that morning.

I think I watched from about 1am till 5.10am.

Then at 7am, my dad woke me up. They needed another car to go to the airport. Urgh! Bleeding brother won't wake up so I had to drive.

After the send off, felt hungry ... went for breakfast but couldn't eat. Not enough sleep I think.

Got home. Slept till 5pm.

Have to call Adrian. We've been planning and scheming a rescue mission. The mission is to get him to come out with us and the aunties without the parents.

He's quite a mama's boy and Aunty Maggie loves going on and on about 'My Adrian'. How smart he is, how sociable, how tall, how good looking ... etc.

Urgh!

Agreed he's smart. He went to Cambridge and all but the rest of us are not total idiots ... thank you very much.

Will make that call now.

Harry Potter was, as my 10 year old cousin would say, brill!

Daniel Radcliffe was so adorable albeit a little rounder than what I had in mind for Harry Potter but adorable all the same. Throughout the movie, I was going ... they've skipped this part, they've skipped that part, they've changed this part and they've shortened this part. Aunty Jackie says that if they do film the whole thing as per the book, the film would be 5 hours long.

Hmmm ... guess they should have made it into a miniseries instead.

Anyway, I liked the part when Harry went to Ollivander's. Loved it when he blew things up testing his wand and also the effects when he found his wand. Only complaint would be that he found his wand a little too quickly. Not that they should show them going through each and every wand but maybe just show a pile of wands of rejected wands after testing the first few wands before finding THE wand. Ollivander didn't quite fit what I had in mind as well. He was a bit too moody. I had a cheerier person in mind who speaks a little fast and would scurry from one side of the shop to the other.

The quidditch game was amazing even though the special effects could have been much much better. Plus, there should have been more quidditch games. Doesn't look right for Harry to be so unstable in his first game. He's suppose to triumph instead he adding fodder for critism for Malfoy.

They one character that I think was superbly casted would be Hermione. She's exactly what I had in mind. Irritating!

Oh yes, when I saw Snape, I kept wondering what the actor's name was. I know I've seen him in Sense and Sensibilities with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet but just can't seem to recall his name. I asked my aunt Chris who was sitting on my right who he was and she said he's Snape.

Haha ... I know he's Snape but what's his name.

We stayed until the cast credit came on and I finally found out his name ... Alan Rickman! Yep! It's Alan Rickman. He's also in one of Texas's music video. What was that song called? Don't remember. Nice song ... I think.

So, in conclusion, Harry Potter is definitely worth the watch. It's BRILL!

Oh no! It's raining!

We were suppose to have BBQ tonight! How are we going to do that if it's raining?

Come to think of it, how will I get to my car? Don't have an brolly with me.

Darn!

I managed to get through to the booking. Alas, Harry Potter tickets reserved for phone booking have all been booked! Have to go there in person.

The cinema's were closed. Didn't get to watch Harry Potter. Couldn't book nor purchase tickets for today from the counter when I checked at the cinema. Weird.

Found out why I could never get through to GSC MidValley. They only have one phone line open for phone booking.

ONE!

Can you imagine that? There is almost 18 screens there and they only have ONE phone line for booking! It's no wonder nobody can get through. It's like calling into a really popular radio station.

Trish will try to book some tickets for tonight's show at GSC Summit ... closer to home but not a very cool place to hang. If she can't get them, I'll have to go to MidValley to purchase them during lunch.

Oh yeah! Have to get mummy's present as well. I'm thinking ... those chains that's attached to your glasses and hangs around the neck. She should have one. Always misplacing her things. This from someone who keeps saying that papa needs to eat Gingko to improve his memory and that all of us are not ... what's that word??? 'Mindfull'. Another word for awareness, I think.

Not sure where I can find those chains. Maybe one of those stall that sells knick-knacks. Otherwise, I'll check at the optical shop. They should have some right?

Hurrah! Tis done. I can go home. It's still light outside. Been a long time since I've gone home while the sun's still shining.

Yay! Can have lunch now. Stef actually called to ask me to go home for lunch over an hour ago. Now I can.

Hurrah!

The King is dead

Well, it's a public holiday today ... and again, I'm at work. This is turning out to be a really bad habit. Can't really help it when that idiot keeps giving me things to do and not the time to do it. What does he think? I don't have a life? And to have all this work when my Aunts are down for a visit is just extremely bad timing!

Might not be able to watch Harry Potter today. All the entertaiments in the city area's suppose to be close as a sign respect to the dead King. Not too sure whether the cinema's are open. *fingers crossed* Please let them be open.

Still at work ... AGAIN! SMSed SM to cancel dance practise. Not sure if he got it. Will call him if he doesn't reply by 8.15.

C'mon! Hurry up and finish, emp!

Harry Potter

Woo hoo! I've just booked 6 tickets for Harry Potter tomorrow at 6pm. It's opening tomorrow and I've got tickets!

Hurrah!

Plus ...

it's been declared that tomorrows a holiday. Double hurrah! Shouldn't enjoy that too much as the cause for holiday is cause the King is dead. Should be a solemn day. Not one for celebration .... but then ...

I don't know the King personally and we are a country run by the parliament to it's not too much a biggie.

Yum ... no more growling stomach. Stomach feeling contented.

*Grrrroowl*

That's my stomach. I'm so hungry my stomach's growling! But alas, 30 ticks left till lunch.

grrrroowl ...

shhh ... hang in there. Only 30 minutes more.

My Aura Color

Groovy, baby! Your aura is a bright, shiny Gold — which means you're a kid at heart with a happy, generous nature. - Emode!

Haha ... kid at heart is true enough. Not so sure bout the happy and generous part though. I'm a bit of a scrooge.

I had a dream ...

It's not often that I have a dream when I go to bed at night. Even more so, a dream that I can remember when I wake up. Last night, was one of such rare occasion ...

I dreamt that I was at a party. No clue whatsoever what the party was for but ... everyone was drinking champange or something and talking and mingling when out came the guest of honour? Not sure but he seemed to be the one that everyone was waiting for.

It's Russell Watson. He came in and was requested by someone to sing for us and he did. I don't remember what he sang but he sounded great.

And then, he requested a volunteer to sing a duet with him. Guess what? To my surprise, I volunteer. My dream self seems to be a very brave soul indeed.

So, I went towards him and was given the lyrics.

It was in Mandarin.

I don't read Mandarin. So I told him and the guy who gave me the lyrics my dilemma.

I was so embarrassed, me being a Chinese and not being able to read Mandarin. Even more so when Russell spoke in Mandarin espressing his surprise at my lack of knowledge of my own mother tongue.

The two guys were nice enough though. They translated the lyrics to hanyu pin yin, Mandarin written in English letterrings. And we're ready to go.

Russell starts the duet and then it was my turn.

Don't remember how I sounded but I remember I've started at least a line of the lyrics before I woke up.

Couldn't get back to sleep after that. Tried but failed. I laid in bed and sang Russell Watson's songs in my head until my mobile phone's alarm came on.


I wonder what that dream was about? Was it to tell me that I should learn Mandarin? Should I be taking up vocal lessons? Or is it that the Barcelona CD that I've won a month ago, that I thought was lost in the mail, was finally going to arrive?