i am me

it's so good to be home. even if i was only in muar for a night. it just feels right. i have my couch, i have my tv, i have my computer, i have my room, i have my toilet. ahhh...nice.

anyway....

was in muar last night. drove down at about 6 in the evening. the whole family wanted to visit my grandmother after her harrowing experience of being led to believe she had a heart condition and had to be hospitalised a couple of weeks ago. thank goodness it wasn't true. oh well, the whole way down to muar, oh, i drove by the way. sigh....this is what happens when you get your license. your parents make you drive while they snore in the backseat. so, all the way down to muar, they made me listen to these cds of a pastor in singapore on singlehood and dating and stuff. gosh...could they BE any more obvious? hahahaha....but it not only gave me a new perspective to this whole dating and relationship scene, it kinda opened their eyes too. all their old fashioned thinking about how the ONE will definitely be out there for me and that God will preserve him for me and lead him to me is kinda like a whole lotta bullcrap. God presents us with choices and through Him, we learn how to choose and choose wisely. another thing he said that really made sense was about finding our 'other half's. why should we believe that we are not completely whole since we're not attached? instead of looking for our 'other half' we should be looking for our other 'whole'. well, it's easier to understand by listening to him and not to me. i'm like just summarising and paraphrasing.

so before leaving for muar yesterday, bea, lydia, datin su, aaron and i went out for lunch at Itallianes. love that place. great food, great environment and best of all, great friends to be with. we had a ball of a time there. you know how they serve bread with olive oil and balsamic vinegar there?

ooo..wait...nice breeze now. i wanna take a moment. mmmm.....

ok.

yeah, so we were so hungry, well, actually not really. more like greedy i think, we wolfed down the bread. we had all ordered and since the portions were so big, bea and i ordered the salmon fettucine, lydia and datin su ordered the carbonara, and aaron, being a MAN, ordered spaghetti and meatballs all for himself. since he's a MAN. and can eat a lot. yeah right. and as a communal dish, we ordered stuffed mushrooms. phew...sounds like a lot, yeah. yeah. it was. aaron's order came first and to his utmost shock, there, sitting there straddling the spaghetti, were these 2 HUGE, no. GIGANTIC, no. HUMONGOUS meatballs. they were literally the size of tennis balls. aaron's eyeballs nearly popped out and he looked at us.

' i think you should cancel the salmon fettucine since it's not here yet'

hahahaha....yeah so we did.

by then we were happily tucking into our food and the stuffed mushrooms came. oh and they came with cheeeeeese. mmmm....

so, datin su went,

'we need more bread. waiter!'

and gave a very ladylike, sexy flick of her wrist. instantly waiters were swarming our table. no, i kid. hahaha...but yeah a waiter eventually did come and datin su said,

'excuse me, could we have more bread? oh, and only the herb one ok? thanks. oh, and about 6 pieces, thanks.'

and proceeded on with her meal.

so after polishing off our meal, datin su wanted to dip her bread in the carbonara sauce lining the plate. which was a lot. so, polish, polish, dip, dip. and this waiter comes along.

'are you done with your meal? can i clear the plate?'

and datin su goes.

'no. i still want the sauce. no you can't have the plate'

and there we were with our jaws on the floor while she sits there blissfully dipping her bread.

'what? he's a junior from my school. i know him. it's ok wann...'

hahahahahaha....it was so cute. and 3 different waiters came over at different times trying to clear the plate and datin kept going, no, no, no annnnnd no. at least not until she completely cleaned the plate from all the carbonara sauce. hahaha....

so after lunch, we walked around 1u and noticed kids holding helium filled balloons. so we all had the same thought at once. LET'S GET BALLOONS!

we located the store giving out the free balloons and patiently waited in line, behind all the little children that only came up to about our knees. well, not all of us, more like lydia and datin. and after obtaining the balloons, off we went to a corner and starting sucking up the helium. what for? i hear you say? well, we wanted to see if sucking it would really make our voices squeeky high like how it is in the movies. AND IT DOES!!!! hahahaha...it was so funny!

suck, suck, suck....squeek squeek squeek. took some videos and will post them up soon.