Bonjour!

Or as Mountain Man says ben zhoo....

We're finally here in Paris. Actually it's my 2nd day and it's Mountain Man's 5th day? I can't post something long cos i'm severely jetlagged. I slept through Twilight at the theatre earlier, missed a good 30 mins Rob Pattinson and wht's her name's romance developing.

We've moved into this gorgeous apartment along St Germain, i thought i took pictures of it but turns out everything was a blur. I really haven't been myself lately. This picture is decent enough. It's a 40m2 apartment, decor is tasteful and everything works (including the heater) so thank god.

Some quick highlights, not in any particular order;

Jim Morrison's grave. Mountain man requested tht i post this. He went to visit the cemetery while waiting for me to arrive. Well, don't get a chance to watch him live? u can now catch him dead.

You haven't been to Paris if u haven't seen the Tour Eiffel. We went up to level 2 only. They had this really cool slanted lift to bring us up.

Les Deux Moulins. This is not any ordinary brasserie. It's where Amelie of Montmatre "worked" in the movie. It's extremely crowded, and the food not's great. And remind me to never trust mountain man's knowledge of food. I saw "AAAAA Chitterling sausage" on the menu and wondered wht it was, he told me that it was very tiny sausages ... When i got the order, it's the size of my forearm AND when i cut it open, intestines kinda spilled out, like i cut open someone's gut. Eeeww...

Anyway for the past 2 days, i've walked like miles and miles... and i'm tired. So it's time for me to hit the sack. goodnight all! and, gong xi fa cai, hope i'm not too late.

AMEN to this!

Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.

If u give her a sperm, she'll give u a baby.

If you give her a house, she'll give u a home.

If you give her groceries, she'll give u a meal.

If you give her a smile, she'll give u her heart.

She multiplies and enlarges whtever is given to her.

So if u give her any crap, be prepared to receive a ton of shit!

Thanks apes for ur contribution. This made me laugh!

the dress

I've been anticipating the new first lady's inauguration ball gown. I am not disappointed. I'm glad she broke the mold of her predecessors by donning something more form fittin and doesn't scream "new money". i'd rank her just slightly below Jacqueline Kennedy.

Speidi!

I am starting to love these 2 people. there are no other celebrities more committed to making themselves known. And i give them credit for trying. Everything about them is fake. And ironically, being 100% absolute fakos is wht makes them unhypocritical. Don't you think?

Oh Le Shit

Mountain man and I are off to Paris for CNY. I love travelling... but i hate applying for visas. Yes, silly me had cold feet handing over my indonesian passport for a singaporean one some years ago, so i'm still having this helluva useless indonesian passpart tht doesn't allow me to go anywhere without a visa. And can i just say for the record that embassies are the number 1 most fu*ked up people, i daresay even more effed up than shitibank.

They don't budge, they have no compassion, they can kill u just by putting u on their blacklist. For the France (schengen) visa, i had to prepare 26 different documents to prove that i am worthy to set foot on croissant land. 26?! tht's like a record breaking number of documents. can u blame me for taking a little more time to prepare wht i need??!!! honestly i had wasted no time at all at getting this done.

So. my airticket says tht i fly on the 23rd. but the francaise tells me tht i can only collect on the 23rd cos the effed up Indonesian passport needs the approval of a certain francois in Shenzhen. ONE DAY DIFFERENCE. guess how much i have to pay... 1THOUSAND SGD DOLLARS PER PERSON JUST TO CHANGE MY TICKET. i am sooooooooo fed up. ONE DAY. can they be ANYMORE cruel. can't they just speed things up abit? i have like a million visas on my passport already, i have proven tht i am not a threat to any of the countries that i've visited.

ARGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... this is majorly upsetting.

MILK- macho man gets a broken wrist

I've been plagued with bad movies recently(remember heywood jablomey?), so i'm glad that
Sean Penn didn't let me down. His portrayal of gay activist Harvey Milk is extremely convincing. U may or may not think that the storyline was compelling enough, nevermind that really. It's watchable, worth paying SGD9.50 for...

And it's also fun to watch straight men kiss each other and try not to flinch. Mountain man went "EEeee" when James Franco licked cream off Sean Penn's face, not that he's homophobic or anything.

I'm a little disappointed Sean didn't win the Golden Globes. but then again, i thot last year viggo mortensen would win and he didn't. i better not jinx my favourites.

unfortunate ziyi

i won't post pictures here cos this is a PG rated blog. but have u seen Zhang Ziyi's sunbathing pictures?

for ONCE a chinese star (other than bai ling) gets unto international news, creates somewhat a scandal but then she doesn't know how to do it elegantly. there's nothing to be embarrassed about wanting to get an even tan, and it's perfectly alright to have ur boyfriend grab ur butt in in public... BUT HOW CAN SHE WEAR GOGGLES to the beach!! WHO DOES THAT? and come on multi-coloured toes? bah!

chicken pot pie

I tried a new dish a couple of days ago. i found this recipe from a friend's blog and felt i could pull it off. it wasn't bad for a first attempt. I added button mushrooms to the recipe which was a good call, added a bit of texture and flavour to the pie. I need to work on the pastry though, it was a tad too thin, and too salty (which was my fault cos i used salted butter). Maybe next time i shd try it with a flaky pastry instead.

the night before 2009

Thought i shd post some photos of the eve gathering that we had.

This one is very paparazzi. Chen is like Dan's bodyguard...

1.09

it's 4th of January.... the first entry of 2009. I need to start off the year with something memorable. IE, it's gotta be a really good entry. so i cracked my head for a bit, what to write what to write... then it occurred to me that i could also be really bad and still be memorable. haha, pressures off, writing a bad entry is easy peasy lemon squeezy.

so, i watched this very bad movie (Hamlet 2) 2 nights ago. this dude introduced himself as Heywood, as in Heywood Jablomey. It took me almost half and hour to realize it wasn't an ordinary name. i have a feeling that 2009 is gonna be a slow year for my mental growth...

I made an interesting discovery today as well.

Did u know that Katie Holmes is Tom Cruises' "beard"? before u bang table and tell me it's old news, i have more for you. Katie was the 4th beard choice. Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Scarlet Johanssen (in that order) were Tom's choices before he decided on Katie. The former 3 rejected or never made it to "audition". AND AND... Katie went "missing" for 16 days prior to the breaking news that she and tom were an item. No she didn't go missing cos she wanted to get a boob job or correct a deviated septum, but SPECULATIVELY she was at scientology camp getting brainwashed.

This begs the question...

How does brainwashing work anyway? Maybe Katie sat in a chair while Frankie Goes To Hollywoood's Relax plays in the background... if u don't know what i'm talking about u need to watch Zoolander (brainwashing videoclip attached, starts at 2nd minute, watch at ur own risk!)