slowcatchupkuan

Courtesy of the neighbor’s new pup.

Feisty little bitch.

And darn smart too. Comes over for playing session with my dogs in the noon and in the night for yummy nom nom.

Gotta remember to take a pic of her next time.

Cutest little thing ).

That’s a real long title LOL.

I can’t believe that World Cup is over. Just when i was getting started to enjoy the whole celebration.

I have to admit it’s more then 11 people chasing after a ball, World Cup is about victory, defeat and the whole world coming together to celebrate the spirit of sportsmanship, the cultural difference and the unity behind the game itself.

Wow, now i can’t believe i said that! But well, that’s how i come to understand the World Cup anyways.

I surprised even myself by staying up and watching the last few matches and learned a few stuff about football after all these years. I spotted offsides all by myself too. Impressive given my standard of footie knowledge before this is next to a big zero.

I’m happy that Spain won eventhough i supported Netherlands. I have a thing for underdogs and a thing for orange clogs . But Spain clearly played with more grace and skills (and clearly less rough judging from the amount of yellow card the orange team collected) so i guess everyone is happy except for the Dutch. Better luck next time in Brazil.

As for Paul the octopus cum oracle, i’m giving him a chance. Heck, i’m even giving his entire family tree a chance just for a while – i’m not having fried squid anytime soon i think). I heard Paul is 2 years old which is supposed to be quite old for a octopus. Don’t think we’ll see his tentacles in the next World Cup, thank god.

I digress for just a little.

The World Cup finals was on the same day as our 4th anniversary.

You know what, we don’t go all out for anniversaries or birthdays or any other occasions anymore. I think age and comfort had gotten in the way. I remember a time when we used to get gifts, plan where to dine and i would have a long blog post declaring my undying love or something in that essence. Haha.

Plain laziness. Haha.

This year we agreed to have a quiet dinner at Jarrod & Rawlins at Ampwalk.

The atmosphere was great. We had our privacy and the food? Fantastic.

This was taken one day before at Sushi Tei. Sad we always forget to take a pic of ourself on anniversaries

“Happy Anniversary b!”

You know what? I’m even planning to get married on 11th July because that means we’ll have less dates to remember. But mostly it means in the future he’ll have one date less to remember and i’ll have one less excuse to burn him *slaps forehead*

Meet the World Cup so-called oracle, octopus Paul.

and now meet the frying pan.

There’s where i’m wishing Paul is sitting right now. Frying.

Why is everyone a Spanish fan??! Am i the only one who rooted for Germany?

If Paul doesn’t predict Netherlands winning the cup at finals this year, i’m going out to have fried squid for supper.

Anyone know where to get sotong goreng so late at night?

As you can see, my new blog banner is very Glee inspired.

Uh, please don’t tell me you have no idea what Glee is because i might climb out of your computer screen spotting a long white frock and long dirty, unwashed hair and proceed to strangle you. Like seriously.

If you don’t know what Glee is then you either just woke up from a long coma or you are living in your own land of the 80′s. Do yourself a favor. Google it.

Ok, i’m being mean but that’s what crazy Glee fan does.

The boyfriend is much more obsessed than me because he listens to Glee numbers during work like for the whole day almost every day. But he of course denies it when his boss caught him.

You see, men loves to watch Glee keeps it a secret because it seems like watching Glee is not a manly thing to do. So moi become the excuse he is even watching it.

For example,

Boss: Hey you’re watching Glee!

Bf: Uh… (shit)… erm my girlfriend watches it all the time. I can’t get this shit tune out of my head.

Boss: Yeah, i know what you mean. My girlfriend does the same thing and i have to watch it with her. Bummer.

Bf: Haha…erm…

Wtf right. Hmmm….

See our attempts at the Glee pose during dinner at Silver Spoon. Totally fail liao.

I actually wanted to do some Glee poses for the banner but all failed. Hence it’s just cut paste photos of me doing various stuffs.

I’m a total Gleek. Don’t know that term either? Google it.

By the way, i’m really getting into the football thingy. Damn exciting. Why? Coz it’s fun supporting the opposition team when the boyfriend supports the other.

You should have seen his face when Argentina lost. Sad like a puppy. Crushed. Defeated.

Darn cute!

Ah, i’m beginning to see the wonder of World Cup. Go Germany!

I don’t know how people do it. Purchasing a new property i mean.

How do people get a new house and still have money to dine at expensive restaurants, join in the mega sale frenzy, change mobile phones like changing undies and on top of that have the luxury to travel whole year round.

It sounds impossible but i see and hear people around me proving me wrong.

How do you do it?? Please tell me the secret! Pretty please, with a big lump of Royce chocolate on top?

We have not even begun looking for a house and yet thinking about buying one already made us live like paupers.

Like,

1) We no longer go out for movies in the weekend. Instead we buy illegal pirated DVDs and watch it at home instead. (Of course with a 42″ plasma we recently bought for a extremely good “discount” makes it less pathetic).

2) We no longer dine out during the weekend. Well, sometimes but maybe once or twice a month. Instead we tuck our dignities under the couch and be content taking on the parasite role dining at my mother’s place else we cook our rather miserly dinner at home.

3) Shopping is a rare treat nowadays. We even shunt sales, opting to pamper ourselves with just one item per month… errr… mostly the one item is my stuff lar because he’s sweet like that to sacrifice his share .

4) Buying skin care samples online instead of from the mall and feeling surprisingly happy about it. It’s really cost saving and you get the same thing with a lower price!

5) Auctioning used or un-used items (clothes, skin care, handbags, etc) online.

6) We dig into the big bottle of coins we used to stash extra change to buy snacks and pay for small stuff instead of just chucking it in the bottle or on top of the coffee table where it’ll go missing and forgotten.

After all these, i’m still thinking of ways to save more money for future down payment and renovation. So, tell me how do people do it?

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How’s the World Cup doing? I have no idea. Right now, i’m just grinning to myself and chuckling because it annoys people that i always support the less popular teams in matches. It doesn’t matter that i don’t even know what’s going on. It’s just funny.

Right now i have so many mixed feeling and thoughts floating my mind it seems to be so over-cluttered, i can’t think straight, physically i’m beaten.

Seriously, have you ever felt like there are so many things going on in your head that you try so hard to concentrate on one single thought for the sake of finding a solution at least to that particular problem among the many but right at the end your mind seems to trail off? It’s like your mind has broken into tiny pieces and fragments of it scattered all over the place lingering just for a moment at the spot before moving on to another…

Like you feel so many feelings all at once that it’s hard to distinguish whether you are sad, guilty, happy, angry, disappointed, frustrated, contented or anything for that matter. Have you ever felt so contented and happy for a moment then all of a sudden it just doesn’t matter anymore and you slip further down into gloomy oblivion just to feel frustrated about everything and everyone around you, then in an instance you are lifted as you chance upon small glimmer of hope so things doesn’t seem so hopeless after all?

By then anxiousness sets in, anticipation sets in and you brace yourself brace your heart for further disappointment and you can’t even recognize what you are feeling anymore.

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with life that you began to wonder what the point of it all is and you feel that life is so tiring and troublesome?

I’m feeling like that now. Again the familiar tiny voice in my head appears like a long lost friend telling me things i’m afraid to hear, spinning me stories of hopelessness. Knocking on the skull of my head, making it throb with pain more often these days.

I’m aware that everyone is tired yet excited from the on going World Cup frenzy. Sad to say the boyfriend and i aren’t avid football fans.

Me myself is useless in football. I’m among those guilty of vouching for the team just because the have the best looking players. Haha! But as consolation, i did skip class and then last year rushed back early from work for the final World Cup match because i placed a bet i can’t afford to lose LOL.

I use to watch football every four years but heck this year i just couldn’t be bothered. Yet i feel tired all the same because of the people down at the mamak stall across the road, yelling “Goal” every time someone scores and from listening to Shakira’s “Waka Waka” song. It’s just too weird.

I totally dig vuvuzela though. Awesome! How can i get my hands on some???!

Anyhow, here are some of my really, really spider-web kinda outdated photos taken on the Bali trip that’s been sitting in my blog draft for like eternity. I took the opportunity to filter just a few nice ones.

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This is where we stayed. Satriya Cottages with really nice garden.

At Kuta Beach getting a temp tattoo

At Jimbaran Bay for a sunset dinner when the camera setting went haywire so it’s just 3 acceptable photos .

Hiking up Mount Batur (volcano) before sunrise. That was awesome!

This cowboy guide is showing us the hot steam coming out of the crack at the cervices of the volcano!

Ok, that’s all for today. Continue tomorrow.

By the way, which footie teams are playing today??