So I went to the StyleWedding.sg launch today. Invited Lil but she didn't want to baulk at the sight of happy couples, so she turned me down. So I asked another colleague along instead. Lil, tonight was for advertisers and clients, it's only open to the public tomorrow and Sunday.. no happy couples today :) only media, hoteliers, restauranteurs (is that how you spell it?) etc. Had quite a nice time, except I had to lug a HEAVY bag of Style Magazine (very thick) and other stuff around Orchard Road. Not good when your intention was to go shopping. Ended up taking a cab home because I simply could not accept the idea of hopping onto a bus with a HEAVY bag of stuff.

Today, we also had lunch with Teresa Hsu from Heart-to-Heart Service. I mentioned her in a previous post. She's 108 years old and her parents and siblings are long gone. But she said something that really cracked me up - "Not many people forget to die" (in reference to herself of course). I thought that was terribly witty! She's an amazing woman, she is.

Was reading someone else's blog and I realised that I miss going for lectures in Murdoch. I loved pretending to be studious and walking to campus with a bag full of books (that you don't need for the lecture), then finding a seat in the LT (akin to choosing which pew you wanna sit in), waving at friends who just walked in to come join you in your pew, taking out your lecture pad, doodling, yawning, staring blankly, daydreaming, checking out that cute blonde in the second pew, getting distracted by that cuter Vietnamese hottie in the sixth pew, watching the movie (I was a Mass Comm student. We have funky lectures), counting down the time till you get out.... I MISS SCHOOL!! I MISS MURDOCH!!! I was always late for tutorials though. Of course I had no excuse, seeing that I stayed on campus! But what an experience. What an experience. I totally loved every bit of it. Wouldn't trade it for the world.

You know what else I miss? Cooking. I miss the times I decided to pamper myself and wake up early to prepare a sumptuous breakfast of sausages, scrambled eggs, toast, fried tomatoes and fruit juice. And the times I baked pumpkin, made mulberry jam, grilled a gorgeous beef steak, made mushroom soup from scratch, baked apple crumble, cooked pasta, stir-fried black pepper beef, oh and of course, my signature dish - Chicken with Basil Leaves and Mushrooms. I miss inviting people over to my place for dinner, or going over to someone else's place with my dinner contribution. I miss sitting down after dinner and just chilling. We fret about tutorials the day after. Dinner is strictly dinner. And coffee of course.

I miss going to the beach with the girls, cruising down South Street to Freo and Cottlesloe Beach, car windows down, wind through our hair, yelling out french songs at the top of our lungs, shouting to other drivers and whoever cared to listen that we were French-born Chinese... we were crazy girls, we were.

I miss (in no particular order):
Oriel's
Indiana's
Matsuri
Garden City
Applecross
South Perth
Boat Shed Cafe
Conca's
Carousel
Freo
Bertini's
Kaili's
Cicerello's
CHICKEN TREAT
Nando's
Kardinya
Murdoch Uni
Murdoch Uni's Asian Caravan's Polo Chicken, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Squid
SV
Perth City
3Ds
Masters Mocha
PERTH ROYAL SHOW
Vultures
Fast Eddy's
FCC
Swan Valley
My boss and colleagues at the Freo City Council
East Perth
Miss Maud's
King's Street Cafe
Cheap dairy products
Baskin Robbins
Simmo's
JESTERS PIES
Watching videos (in Perth, we rented videos, not vcds or dvds)

Ok, that's enough for the day. I'm going too far down memory lane. I might cry soon.