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Just found out this morning that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt have separated. Sob sob! They are my favourite Hollywood couple…am so disappointed! Are almost all hollywood marriages doomed to fail after a certain number of years?

Anyways…to fulfill my rant and rave for the day…I’ve given serious thought and came up with the following topic: Stupid VIP convoys. If there’s one thing that really ticks me off when I’m driving…it’s those extremely stupid VIP cars/convoys together with the police and their irritating siren. It’s ironic how a VIP that is probably not so very important can have the police to stop the traffic and clear a nice path for their car to go through, while an ambulance with a probably critically ill person has to fight it’s way through a traffic jam? Where’s the logic in that? Idiots. All of them. Every time I see a police barricading part of the road and then a car with tinted windows (I thought we weren’t allowed tinted window anymore?!?!?) zooming past, the first thought that comes to mind is to wish that their car will break down and whichever stupid person in the car will get stuck in the middle of nowhere for hours and hours and hours (preferably days!!!) and all the passing motorist will just laugh and jeer at them and not stop to help. Grrr.

Popped into Kino during lunch the other day….was so inspired by my resolution to start cooking/baking again that I went to search for more cookbooks! I ended up with the following three books:

1. Still Thinking Of You by Adele Parks
2. The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (been on the top seller’s list for quite some time now, so thought I’d give it a try)
3. Ta Da! Jamie’s Dinners by Jamie Oliver (love him! love him!)

Oh, and I actually finished a new book a few days ago: Handbags and Gladrags by Maggie Alderson. Problem is I took it into the shower with me (nasty habit, not the right way to treat books, shower hogging….yes, I’ve heard all the comments and complaints!) and now it’s all crumpled and the cover’s peeling…haha…so it looks pretty awful in the photo. Anyways, I would rate it a 7.0/10. The story is something like a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada if Andrea did not quit her job….so you get to have a teeny weeny glimpse of how a senior fashion editor in a magazine works…the perks sound too good and unrealistic to be true at times, but it does have it’s down-to-earth moments. Overall, it’s a light and fun read. Back cover synopsis:

Emily Pointer would rather jog naked through Harvey Nichols’ beauty hall than be seen with last season’s handbag. A fashion stylist with Chic magazine, Emily is a natural blonde, an effortless size 10, travels the world for work and gets 30% discount in Orada. As far as she’s concerned, life is perfect. So surely a night of wild sex with a hunky Australian photographer during the fashion show season in Milan will be just another fabulous experience to add to the package? Instead, Emily starts to discover that life can be messy â??Ã?ì and the designer clothes in your closet can be squeezed out by the skeletons lurking in there too. From the bestselling author of Pants On Fire and a former magazine editor herself, comes the delicious tale of a woman who was kidding herself that another Birkin bag was all she needed to achieve fulfilment.

Been spending the past two days researching Mercedes’s new A-class. The car is so cute and compact looking (actually saw the real thing down in the basement car park the other day…really nice!) that it’s well on it’s way of joining my I-want-it-now list. Gorgeous!! I can imagine zipping around with it…will definitely drive a lot more if I have this car! Will also definitely have to eat bread and butter for the next…oh…10 to 20 years?

Finally picked up my memory card for my XPhoneII from Low Yat yesterday. The phone has been pretty good so far…battery life not too bad though I’ve been tinkering with it ever so often that it’s hard to properly measure the proper standby time, etc. Joystick is a bit fiddly…don’t know if it’s because I’m not used to it or it IS fiddly. Still trying to get use to the navigation…a slight problem cause there’s just so many things inside that you have to either remember what keys to press to reach a certain function and be very very patient. Anyways, on the way back, I happened to catch a glimpse of this really yucky yellow dress which was being displayed along the roadside. There was also a horrible (really!) black and pink cheongsam…was about to snap a picture of it but a car pulled up beside ours (we were actually at a junction waiting for the traffic light to turn green)…darn! Anyways…behold…(what’s with that swirly thing at the top and side of the dress?!?!??!)

Hubby’s out attending a friend’s church wedding at Concorde hotel…he’s actually one of the groomsmen….and we’ll be going for the dinner tonight. Hopefully will be able to get some good photos…=) Was actually suppose to join him this morning…but I really couldn’t drag myself out of bed…!