Fast Cars, Good Food, Good Company

the 3 ingredients of a blissful time.
(well actually i dun really need fast cars)

i just had a fantabulous friday and saturday!

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On Saturday the group went to Johor for go-karting.
Lu, poot, ann-ma and callie came along as well.

Lu: "your friends look very decent lei"
"how so?" i smiled.
"decent like, I dun think i can swear and show middle finger."

i did call her a facebook slut just before we all went home so yea we did sneak in a not-good word.

she brought along her bf's super professional looking camera and was struggling to take non-blurry pictures while others went "wow! you must be very pro"

it took us all of 2+ hours to get through customs, in the sweltering heat too no less.

took the time to catch up on botox models, hollywood actresses, my bombed juggling show ("my lightsticks won't break. then i whack until my chain broke"), and "inbreeding".

ann-ma: "so who are the couples?"
"no couples here. all sisters and brothers in christ"
"but always got inbreeding one ma"
"hehe, ya, true"

"i'm too sinful to go church"
"no la, don't say that."
"and i enjoy being sinful"
"okay.....keep the devil horns down..i can see them...."

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After we finally got through customs we jumped into a cab and went on our way.
gd thing the driver is chinese so henry had a good time chatting up with him on all things johor.

the driver himself didn't know where the place is,
"wah you all very li hai hor. can play until this kind of place"

and we realised we had to drive on 5km of dirt track full of potholes through an abandoned planatation.

it was actually quite scary.
thank god that it wasn't dark yet, and kev had the good sense to put a guy in each cab.

the driver was quite reluctant to drive in,
but he relented in the end,
while henry continued chatting with him on all the different kind of animals that could jump out in a place like this.

"after got tiger how?"
"here got tiger meh?"
"got tiger they also won't say ma!"

we finally found our go-karting circuit,
which the driver entered through the main gate with a "here then the road so nice! for what?"

the wait there wasn't that long,
and soon we were buzzing on the tracks.

Poot and i made a bet so that it would be more exciting.
the winner gets more food and the loser needs to sing a song during dinner.

it was pretty fun.
there were some tight turns that were scary but once you got used to it it was ok.

Poot actually overtook me during the first lap as i watched her race past me indignantly,
but 20 seconds later her engine stalled and i overtook her again. (hehe!)

there wasn't really a loser in the end because she lost count (!) of her laps,
but she sang so much anyway her cab driver had to switch on class 95.

it was pretty much accident free,
save for one incident where a sister crashed into the side and flew off her kart i think.
her injuries weren't too serious but she was quite shaken.

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after that it was a cab ride to fabulous food.
my most memorable food/friend moments always involve stingray and sugarcane for some reason.

i remember having sugarcane and stingray with the cedar folks at chomp chomp.
i remember having sth like that with steph at chomp chomp.
i remember having sugarcane and stingray with henry at chomp chomp.
just recently i had sugarcane and stingray with jialu at makan sutra.
and now it's sugarcane and stingray and crayfish and kangkong and a whole lot of stuff at taman sentosa johor!

oh the food was great and yummy and we had a good chat too.

cool stuff.

on the way back we were singing old macdonald's with different emotions and different singer styles. nice. :)

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friday was really good too as i met shan for lunch and she shared with me her stories.
ah..so she was quite a mambo queen in the past!
now i know who to jio for clubbing.

after lunch she wanted to do a prayer for me but there were too many office pple around so we huddled to some bush in a corner.

"you know what we look like. we're two girls looking secretive and then we go find some bush and hide behind shaking bushes"

in the evening had a good dinner with callie, poot and T.
3 of us then headed off to Timbre.

everytime T and i go watch a band in action,
the resident band is always not around and we'd end up listening to some stand in.

first time it was wala,
now it's timbre.

i thought Old School would be full of pubs like dempsey,
but timbre seemed to be the only pub.
quite strange, but interesting to visit for the first time.

the two person accoustic band sounded better from the car park than inside the pub.

i cannot do accoustic bands.
it's after office hours, there're drinks involved, and accoustic pieces just put me to sleep.

and T's mini-van is actually quite nice to sleep in. hehe.
callie didn't seem to keen to sit behind, so i plonked myself there.
he had a nice sofa in there so it was very comfy.
and i sat there visualising a 4 piece band squashed behind and taking a road trip to malaysia,
it'd be so hippie.
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i'm enjoying a non-commital period.
no deadlines, no tasks in my free time.
just chill.
it's been a month since i had that.

toastmasters on thurs was fun and my thirst is back.
i may do a speech the next session.

i asked God for a subject to speak on during my jog and i have an idea now.
not sure if it'll work, sekali bomb again.

i'm two speeches away from "graduating" to the advance manual!

i'm feeling the peace of God again too.
there is a lot to be thankful for.
i'm very blessed. :)

Thank You.