A new year approaching always warrants spring-cleaning. Usually it’s the blackhole-like depths of my closet and the universal mess that I call my room.. one year it was my phonebook but before I could get to it this time around, my phone decided not to ever turn itself on again.. even the dude at the shop that I took to try get it fixed said it was beyond repair.. so this time I decided to spring-clean this blog by deleting all the older entries circa 1998-2003. Yes, that’s 6 whole years of recorded entries. Goodbye!

In the meantime, look out for the next entry, which will be dedicated to all of you party animals out there who has, in some point in life, driven the porcelain bus. Hopefully, you’ll avoid the hangovers this year.

2004 has been excellent.

My phone’s gone BUST.. *sobs* so for those of you who have my mobile number, please sms or email me your contact details.

Been meaning to post something funny here, but my computer battery wiped out when I was typing it.. I swear… and knowing me, I forgot to save.. will post again tomorrow.

Sigh.

My site went down this morning.. hehe. My hosting expires in 5 days. Not sure whats going to happen on that end — if this site becomes unavailable in December… check back after Christmas. Argh.

To say Ayn Rand has gripped me by the balls with the sheer force of her theories would not be entirely politically incorrect — but she’s not the reason I’m still up.

Work.

Does.

Suck.

(..a little, sometimes, and especially at this hour)

But I think I must be mad because I’m going to head home and read more Ayn Rand before I sleep. And get back into the office early enough not to miss my morning deadlines. AND on top of that, summon enough energy to attend the Looque/Elite Models launch before running off to the new Bliss opening night.

It doesn’t end right there, either, because Ayn Rand is not going to let me sleep, not even after a few champagnes and lychee martinis.. because she’s got me by the balls and I strangely want more.

Strategy boardgames are not entirely new to me but Risk is one that I have avoided playing until Sunday night at Julian’s — three days (and many games) later, I’m hooked. I have been playing shareware variants of Risk since Sunday so someone needs to battle me off this computer before I forget I have a job and a life somewhere.. but damn, I just can’t leave the game alone

Yes, World Domination is on my list.. mwahhahaha..

But first, a congratulations to my dear friend Joe on his marriage! Be assured #bangsar will be represented this weekend.. hehe!

Finally, a moment to breathe.

Work has been overly stressful this past week, and trying to find time and space to think has been almost impossible. I find myself no longer enjoying what I do, but instead I do my work because it needs to be done.. and I’m working with ridiculously tight deadlines. Also, having a dinosaur of a machine to work on isn’t helping reduce my stress levels and on Wednesday I actually snapped at a colleague — a first. Sigh.

On Wednesday night, I checked out Mambo Jambo at Zouk, which, much to my disappointment was too packd to be any fun at all. My bucket of Heineken took 30 minutes to arrive, and by then I’ve already decided that the party sucked a little. But it was also a colleague’s birthday and we got her so smashed that we had to carry her out of the place. That part was fun, because she’s an absolute darling.

Tonight, I think I will go check out some new places in town.. I haven’t been out for ages!

The holidays are just around the corner. If I don’t remember to post by then, I’d like to wish you guys a Happy Deepavali and Selamat Hari Raya!

I have given up trying to make time to write out a proper post, and many many emails are owed. Sorry.. yesterday turned out to be an 18-hour work day for me.

I open my ‘Add A New Entry’ page every morning only to have to close it at the end of the day.. I usually get as far as a couple of opening sentences and it’s bloody frustrating coming back to my desk and not remembering what it was leading to.

Things will be back to normal by tomorrow.

Five reasons why I haven’t been posting:

1. Dina Zaman: Gongkapas Times
2. Femme: Note to Self
3. Miss Tasha: Unspecified Reasons
4. Joe. My. God.
5. Geekslut

Warning: Contains explicit language and graphic descriptions.. not that they’re any less interesting without.

Will be on one-week hiatus starting tomorrow. Will also be virtually uncontactable. What utter bliss!

Last night’s Volvo S40 Launch Party was fucking awesome. There were oxygen bars, chocolate fountains and free-flowing alcohol… and a soup bar that served the best lobster cappucino ever! Cafe Del Mar was not bad either. Besides me getting half-smashed on Moet & Chandon and Long Island Teas, the music was rocking and surprisingly I still saw quite a number of familiar faces (Steph, just because you haven’t been out for two months doesn’t mean everyone else is staying in!)

Right.

Smashing night, dampened by the fact I’m sitting in the office right now rushing more work and rushing to make it to Thirst Asia Semis tonight on time. Pictures later, because my camera is with Nik. Who is not working on a Saturday. Bugger.