lasik change my view

haha, how apt! i finally decided to go for lasik after postponing it from last december. I went down for a check up on monday, and had the surgery on wed morning. Boy, was I nervous? well, i wasn't until i slept on the operating bed cos the operation was at 8.30 and since i slept only for 4 hours the night before, i was actually kindda tired. Only did i lay down and see the red laser beam did i get nervous...the whole thing was done in under 10 minutes and I was out of the clinic by 10. That fast!

In fact, prior to my operating, I was so bored and decided to snap some photos of me in my very first operation outfit:

As to rumours you heard that u get to smell a burning 'aroma', well, it is true, I can smell a burnt smell while the laser was beaming onto my cornea and since u have to open ur eyes throughout, u do get to see the entire procedure being carried out.

Was it painful? Nope, was it worth my 2400 bucks? Every penny.

insomia

i have been having bad insomnia since dunno god knows when ages ago and these days, it just keeps getting worse because not only can i not get to sleep, i often feel hungry and has been snacking at ham and cheese sandwiches and milk and refrigerated nuggets at 1 or 2 am (in fact, see photo of what i just downed at 1 am)! that is so utterly sinful, not to mention that it's nearly 4 weeks I've stopped my jogging...man, i can so feel my already huge belly ever expanding: how to fit into those tees i got from hong kong?!

anyway, school had started for 1 week and i am actually still in the midst of trying to plan a finalized timetable on the courses I am taking. I had already dropped wealth management for a special communications topic in media relations (though i missed out on the first lesson cos it had the same timing as wealth management) and is now considering dropping change communication AND investment banking to gather all my e-dollars to bid for world tourism on saturday (?!). well i am doing tha, then i'll only be doing the following classes: Arts East West, Negotiation, Media Relations and World Tourism. With the two classes I am doing TA for, I'll still need to go to school on mon, tues (though only 6 more weeks to go for the negotiation class), thurs, fri and sat.

Still so undecided... I dunno if I should take media relations or change communications, and also, i really think that investment banking, though great to learn, but it'll just pull my grades down further. Also, I can so see myself ding world torism cos I have such a great interest in it.

Oh, and also, a good friend I knew since JC pop the dreaded Q to me today: that he needs to borrow some cash cos he is in financial problem cos he took some uncalculated risk by making soccer bets! Man! I was shocked when he asked for 6k, where did he think I'd have so much moohlah to lend? And besides, I always find cash to be the most important thing im my life, hell, it s even more impt than my own life! In the end, I felt so pressured by the friendship (though I am not even sticky close frens with him)that i decidd to lend him 1.5 k, whoch means i am missing another oppourtunity to enter the HK stock market. Well, think about it, if i get my 999.20 bucks of TA pay, and he defaulted on the 1.5k, i am losing 500.80...not big sum to buy myself another pair ofprada shoes or bag, but still, 500.2 can be used to buy a really nice suit from zara which I had been eyeing for a ong long time.

shopping in hong kong!

So, I bought yet another bag...yes, why the hell do i need so many bags yeah? But this is different (and isn't that what I always say with a new purchase?)

I may have 2 Jack Spades now but they are in canvas. this, however, is in leather! haha...and at 20% off, I only paid 3,500 HKD for it so i personally think its a steal at less than 800 sing dollars for this. and I like the structured look of it, which unlike my mulberry, need not have any things to bulk up its frame. And I am so using this as my work bag if I can get a job...haha...

I like how it looks! not to mention the nice brown color of the leather!

As for Mum, she got a really nice Celine sling from its recent Cruise Collection (no discount then) and the price of that is lesser than my Jack Spade at 2,900HKD. Whether I find that a good price, i will not say. Haha. But she loves it because she has been looking for a small bag since like forever.

At the airport, where there are not so many China tourists trying to snap up lotsa stuff like in Tsim Sha Tsui and Central, Mum and I walked around the shops before departing and she managed to find a square wallet at Prada (also from its new collection) to fit into her newly bought Celine sling. I love the yellow nappa leather and it feels so supple!

dinner and drinks with michelle and celina!

I met up with Michelle and Celina on Friday night in Hong Kong. Both of them were pals I met while on exchange in Vienna and what a difference 1 year can make. Both have graduated and are working (Michelle with Goldman and Celina with HedKandi HK).


Anway, Michelle bought me to a really nice Japanese place in Causeway Bay where I have the best Eel wrapped with omelette ever! And the hot stone pot rice and grilled beef tongue were delicious! After that, we had really good desserts in another Tong Shui shop around the area and the Mango Pancakes were drool-worthy!


Then, she bought me to take the tram and we headed over to Central (also known as where Gerald wants to work cos its the busy and glam Asian Wall street with good shoppin and great food) to meet up with Celina at Lan Kwai Fong, the clubbing central of HK. We had a few drinks at a lounge before Michelle made an early exit and Celina met up with her friend and we 3 headed to this club where for 120 HKD, you get open bar till 1 am. But the club is not fantastic. Even Celina loath the place because its not that big and it is filled with people who are very local. I made an early exit around 2+ and headed back to my hotel for some doze...But the night was fun and I really thank those 2 for meeting up and bringing me to have a great time in HK!

Hong Kong (yet, again)

I arrived in Hong Kong on New Years Day and man! I just love the city! The food, the shopping and especially in Decembe, the nice cool weather which we here at the tropics never get. Plus, it so happens this ear that while I was there, the territory is having a week of lower than expected tempeatures due to some wind direction so I cannot possibly complain anymore bout' the nice coolness!

haha...i stayed at Hong Kong Island's Wan Chai area and despite the hotel being a nice Renaissance managed by the Marriott chain, with comfy looking beds and all, the pillows sucks big time and mum and I both did not managed to get any nice sleep at all over the 4 nights!

Another new beginning

the year 2007 just passed and it's now 2008: another year, another new chapter in everyone's life.

2006 was awesome and sad because of the exchange, 2007 was stale but fun because of the friends i met and had the oppurtunity to strengthen the friendship, oh and of course, my pride-the patek.

what will 2008 bring for me? well, for one i am sure is that i am graduating come april and i am still jobless. I am stuck at the crossroads which I have dreaded i will eventually have to meet. 2008 will no doubt, be a major turning point in my life: one that will get me started onto the life and path of adulthood.

Why am i sounding so morbid this forst hour of the new year? haha...well, one thing's for sure and it's that moi needs to get some beauty sleep cos in 5 hours, moi needs to jet off to hong kong for my shopping trip and pig out at yung kee's roast goose, tsui wah's cafe foods, sweet dynasty's carrot cake and beancurd, and hui lau sin's mango desserts...yummy...and visit posh shops in landmark (even if i cannot afford), check out my fav. tsim sa tsui mall call ocean city, and lastly, ifc mall and meet michelle!

so, happy new year everyone and thanks for being such nice readers of this blog for the past 12 months (an some of you even longer!)