L A ♔ B E L L A ♔ V I T A

Friday Night Beers


At Holland V.


Dinner at Yoshida. So yummy but so expensive. The yam dish & the negitoro maki each costs $24, and they were the cheapest items already! :/


Abit of randomness: That's Buddy and his hump buddy! And that's my Dad's platter of perfumes! Yes, my dad's, not my mum's!




BBQ


Anton playing with the control car we bought the kids.. he kept trying to tickle us by putting the car on our bodies and then using the remote to turn the wheels! Too cute.


My 2 favourite boys :)


Playing with bubbles & the games on my iphone.




Dinner with the boys. XO fish head bee hoon. We ordered lots of dishes and fish head bee hoon to serve 8 when there were only 4 of us! YUMS.


The ridiculously priced $450 crab, which was barely fleshy and didn't even taste that good..... We finally tried Hatch and while I love how the place is so chill, I personally found the food just average (the meat was good but the potatoes and toast etc, nothing fab?)...... And our favourite Crawford Lane Bak Chor Mee which we visit at least every other week.


Weekday Drinks... Holland V again, I feel like I live there.. I'm there like 4-5 times a week?


Yokie, Lauren, Jia & Siew. Was really good to catch up with the girls.


The boy cooks me supper in the middle of the night. So far I've had risotto, paprika sea bass, thai salad etc... and all from scratch! :)


And more chill out/beer/shisha sessions... You may be able to see a trend in how I spend my nights?


Kimmy wong & Kim huang .... and a group shot :)


My nails- black with a jagged french edge in silver! Would have been a perfect match for the killers concert, too bad it got cancelled ): Oh, and my entry/album is named after my bracelet, which I know doesn't look that nice but it's really pretty, I just have rubbish camera skills. We had it engraved last week with a "k" on the back panel, and "La Bella Vita" on the front.


Whenever I meet anyone, they always ask me "so what have you been up to" and my answer is always the same.... it's a resounding "ummmmm". Can barely believe I've only been back a month+ cos it feels like so much has been going on, even though really, I'm not doing anything remotely productive. Singapore for me always = family, the boy, the pals, food, food, drinks, shopping, TV, food, drinks, food...

Oh right, went to see Yeye today and I cried (it's been 3 years but still miss him.. no not howling weeps, but just a little bit).. and then we had lunch at my favourite Nanbantei (I always eat too much) before going for a shampoo/blow dry and a foot massage..

BIG NEWS: my little brother can drive, not officially, he doesn't have a license, but as I sat in the car he was driving today it struck me how everyone's predictions came true... MY LITTLE BROTHER ENDED UP DRIVING BEFORE ME. I STILL CAN'T MOVE THE CAR 2 inches without jam braking and screaming. EPIC FML ):

Now I'm waiting for the boy to come home from soccer so that we can have supper and watch Neil Patrick Harris guest-judge on American Idol. I absolutely love him & How I Met Your Mother.......

La Bella Vita, It's a beautiful life indeed! ♥ X ♥ X ♥

YOU AND I WERE MADE TO GET LOVE RIGHT

Last night, I was feeling under the weather so I didn't have much dinner, but ended up craving for some hot soupy noodles, and I absolutely refused cup noodles or packet noodles because it is mostly what I subsist on in London, and thus tend to avoid it in Singapore. Anyway, I was cuddled up in bed watching the telly while the boyfriend was preoccupied with fixing my mum's iphone when he said that he was gonna get the charger from his room. He took quite awhile (think 15 minutes at least) but I didn't go look for him, figuring he was probably just chatting with Mum or something. When he came back into the room, he was carrying the familiar green crystal jade plastic bag with wanton noodles in steaming hot soup :) Twas a pleasant surprise indeed. "You're my baby, I'll take care of you."
Today, he woke up at 9 to do a bit of studying. I woke up to find that he & mum had gone out to the supermarket to buy ingredients for lunch. Negitoro don and gyu tataki. My mum is an amazing japanese chef :) He did more work while I watched one tree hill (and he repeatedly insisted on checking my temperature), then we took a nap together. Snacked on Mushroom soup & karage before we pulled all the pillows off the bed and onto the carpet, lay down and watched Veggie Tales: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.
I spent most of it giggling like a five year old again, and Marilyn Monroe is right, spot on:The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead.

Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone

48 hours, a full spectrum of emotions: anticipation, excitement, disappointment, fear, confusion, sadness, optimism, trust, happiness, contentment, peace at heart, love.

One week apart, six lonely nights. Standing at the baggage carousel seemingly preoccupied with the simple task of collecting luggage, eyes scanning the crowd anxiously until I spot that familiar silhouette. The long, late night drive home. Having granny's home cooked porridge on the kopi-o style family table in the back terrace before showers and cuddles. Tears and an overflow of emotions until the slow steading breathing of slumber takes over. Awaking to your arms carelessly thrown over my waist. Morning goodness unfolds into a slow conversation, debate, argument about us. "We'll work it out, we always have, we always will." Lazy afternoon lunch and a ball of laughter over tummy crunches, or the lack thereof. We hit the arcade: like excited school children, we hold hands and cross our hearts and raise our voices; earnestly trying to clinch the prize, shoot the hoops, line the burgers and kill the mosquitoes. $20 dollars and half an hour later, we leave with a lighter heart and a fast approaching sore throat. An island wide car ride hunting for dinner- Thomson for Kampong Chicken, Sin Ming for Hokkien Mee, Newton for Olua & Rojak, Bukit Timah for Tau Huay. Night time nap, waking reluctantly so he could do his tutorial and I, unpack the harvest of my absence. Midnight MacD's, lying on his lap as we wait in the drive through, his fingers idly twisting strands of my hair, sex on fire blasting on the stereo. Two hours later back in bed, wide eyed, making jokes, trying to fall asleep again. Morning light streams through as he struggles out of bed and into the shower, betting with me that I'll still be asleep when he returns from school. He wins of course, when at lunch time he drags me out of bed to feed my starving tummy. Nap time again, hot plate bbq for dinner, a match of sheepy soccer 7-7 drawed.

Now: He's finished reading his chapter, and I, typing this post. We tiptoe past the other bedrooms to steal paddle pops from the freezer and are heading for a spontaneous walk around the estate. The night is young and explorers in love we are. Someone tell me, how do we freeze the clock?

Life

I'm back from Bangkok, I have so much to say, so much I want to remember about the trip but my thoughts are all over the place now, so in the mean time some random things about the past 2 days:

20th July 2009

• Emma Watson is much too pretty and Mischa Barton is so skinny. I need/want to start losing weight but my love for all things spicy, cripsy and carbo-packed is so great. How :( 
• D says it's okay because he loves me most anyway :) And that I'm not fat anyway.
• Funny moment in Mum's room when I stopped reading and starting "aspiring" on how to translate the smell, style, colour, shape, texture etc of my nickname into a human form. D laughed so so so hard that I had to admit it was quite silly. Mostly I liked the reminder that even after so long, we can still make each other shake with laughter. In my eyes, he is the funniest person alive. Sometimes I repeat his jokes to our friends like Bong or Jia and they always tell me to just slap him (bong) or stare blankly (jia) and then claim that only I think he's funny :/
• D brought home my favourite Koi bubble tea, and then we watched 2 episodes of a new K drama with Mummy before dinner.
• Went out to the porch to wait for my aunt to drop something and D came out to wait with me, made me "deathly promise" I will not eat less to try to lose weight. (I seriously seriously eat alot, I can have up to 6 ot 7 full meals a day, I kid you not.) Anyway apparently, a deathly promise means that if I break my promise, he will die HAHA, so cute.
• I love how he has a way with me. Mummy has been bugging me to collate some photos that I have spent the past four months procrastinating about but today the boy made me the cutest deal so before the weekend comes, I'll be collating those photos :)
• Mummy, D & I watched the Michael Jackson Live in Bucharest "The Dangerous Tour" DVD and it was amazing. He is seriously a legend, the king of pop, the man who lived & breathed entertainment. Next we're gonna try to get the only other released DVD (Korean/Japanese tour I think?) so far.
• I am a hyper active introvert. It sounds a bit strange but this means that I'm really quiet around most people, or awkward at least. Unless you're really close to me - then I seriously don't shut up and am retarded and fidgetive and hyer active and loud all the time. Mummy was saying how I'm always like this even without sugar (I hate sweet stuff, and this inclues almost everything: from chocolate to coke), so I said that maybe I should start drinking sodas or eating sugar sticks and the boy quickly said "NO NO NO, I'm old already, don't start on sugar, I really cannot handle you". He's not even 22, so actually, I'm older than him :)
• We played Human Golf. SO. FUN.
• Back to our room for showers. And even though I loved our BKK get away, I'm also really glad our lives are back to our comfortable daily routines :)

21st July 2009

• Was sleeping when the boy kissed me before he left for work as usual.
• Met Lionel & interestingly Steve at Crystal Jade by coincidence.
• Running errands alone in town.
• Most painful female beauty procedure I have endured yet, am convinced the beautician was under qualified, or at least completely unprofessional :/
• Parent's had hilarious friends over rocking out in the music room.
• Had another 2 hour+ long conversation with Bong consisting of everything from serious stuff to gossip to plan making and jokes. 
• The boy had water polo training tonight, is now playing a bit of pool and will be buying home some good stuff (chesse prata and what not) from Azhar for me :)

I'll blog proper when I've got my thoughts all sorted out. In the mean time, let me follow a journal I've seen that shamelessly blatantly pimps her twitter (quite funny). I'm almost always on @kimmywong as well as occasionally on tumblr for my random thoughts on life, love & inspiration.

Nice Cote D'Azur ♥ The French Riviera

Jialing, Karmeng & I took a trip to the French Riviera and found paradise. The trip really neutralized my view on France because prior to this, I'm sad to say that I'm not a fan of the supposedly most romantic city in the world. But the French Riviera is truly a beautiful paradise, kind of like a European Hawaii.

I am a worry wart, and as such was worried that the "Sea View Superior" would not be as perfect as described on the website- I am obsessive, whenever I go somewhere new, I must read every single entry (I kid you not) on Trip Advisor. But when we arrived at the Le Meridien in Nice, I was pleasantly surprised (and relieved) to find the most amazing view from the balcony of our room :)


Us on our private balcony facing the famous Promenade des Anglais with overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.... all the weariness from the trip/airflight melted away with the beauty in front of our eyes.


We set off to explore Nice


Beach Clubs on the Promenade des Anglais


Heading down to the Old Town... I love the best friend's bright red outfit :)


Three course lunch at a Seafood Restaurant in the Old Town


Mussels & Tiramisu


Ultimate Tourist Photos: Jia applying Sunblock & Kar Meng carrying a Gigantic Camera... Us posing in the Middle of the Old Town


European style- long, narrow streets


Set off exploring the Old Town




"Fucking Machine" HAHAH


The start of our brave hike up Castle Hill


Fifteen minutes in, we were perspiring like dogs and tired as hell but little did we know, we were still a long way from the top :(


Stopping to admire the view (any excuse to camwhore, really)




Along the way


Sat down for a rest because we were so tired and everytime we climbed a set of steps we thought that would be it, but for a long time it was always not :(


And then we FINALLY reached the peak, where the water fall was!


It felt like it was drizzling on us, but after that tiring sticky hike, it was quite nice to cool down.


We began the descend and at this point we asked Karmy if he regretted coming with two girls (massive whining & camwhoring & all) and he mumbled something about thinking more people were gonna come, and we burst out laughing and exclaiming that his jumbled reply was an indication that he did regret :)


Half way down we found the "Perfect Picnic Spot" that Jia read about in one of the guidebooks, so we stopped for a break & ice cream. I texted Daren to tell ask if he was proud of me for hiking all the way to the top without complaining and his reply was "Jia carried you all the way up right?" :/


Postcard perfect!! Click here for a virtual view of where I took these pictures from. A poetry reading was going on there, so quaint and old school and perfect.




We hit the beach for awhile


The bestie & I


And then back to our room, where we found afternoon tea prepared for us:


Washed up before heading out again.


Our awesome hotel.


Nice by night.


All lit up


We had dinner at The Old Town again, which was way more crowded at night, and then found this gelato place with more than 70 flavours including Bubble Gum, Coke, Thyme, Tomato, Basil and so on! Queer, and very cool.


And then back in our room, before calling it a night :)


Many more photos from the trip, but I have to be up by 7.30am so I'll upload them when I'm back from Thailand :)

Today was quite simply, perfect.

I woke up when Daren came over from work to pick me up for lunch. We ate at our secret date place, which we absolutely adore- completely unpretentious atmosphere, possibly the best pasta ever, and so cheap it's almost unbelievable. Intelligent conversation during main course, and sillyness (paw holding) through out dessert. Drove back to mine and he worked from home while I sat next to him and drew hearts on his skin. He headed back to work for an hour or so, and I went to run an errand. When he reached home and couldn't find me, the adorable boy rang me up and started whining and insisting that I tell him where I am (which I refused, cos the errand was ordering a surprise for him) and asking how long more till I come home etc etc etc. So juvenilely adorable. He wanted to pick me up, but I was already in a taxi on my way home- just for the record, wanting to rush home to him made the journey seem unbearably long. Came home and we lazed in bed for an hour before hitting the shower. Down to the back patio where we started pumping our inflatable pool floats (he did the work, i talked alot, as usual) and then he & mummy prepared my favourite home made dumplings for dinner, aww. Carole King's voice drifting lazily into our evening (piped in music), he twirled me around and in that moment it felt like all in the world was right. Drove the S convertible out for a spin after dinner and played with the night vision driving mode, way cool. And then home again where we hung out with Mummy doing some online shopping and having cake for supper. Back to our room, another shower, a bit of television and of course, our nightly conversations about everything & nothing. I started packing my luggage; he lay in bed waiting for me until he fell asleep. I just switched off the lights in the main bedroom, and am sitting in my dresser now.

Tomorrow, I wake up at 7.30 to shower & bathe. And then I wake him up at 8.15. We drop my maid in town, before heading to his place for him to pack. And then it's off to meet his parents.

You know you're head over heels when even the simplicity of daily life has a way of being quite simply, perfect. ♥ ♥ ♥