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We attended our first Japanese class this morning at Ringo Language Centre. What fun! For our first lesson, we learnt the different pronounciations of the Japanese language, ie. the basic a, e, i, o and u coupled with consonants. We also found out that we have been pronouncing sushi (and probably all other Japanese words!) wrong all this while. Yes…it’s pronounced se-shi, not suu-shi. Oops. Though I doubt anyone would understand us if we were to go to Genki Sushi and said, “I want this seshi and that seshi”….=)

After class, we went off to Midvalley cause I needed a white tube top to wear under my sheer kebaya top for the dinner tonight. No way was I going to parade about with my bra showing…I mean, if I had assets to show, then maybe I’d consider it…but since I didn’t…a tube top would be good coverage…=) Managed to get 3 butterfly hairclips from Evita Peroni as well…gold and pink to match my kerongsang (brooch) and the color of my kebaya.

A quick check on the rabbits (Moshi is much better, thank god!), and then it was time to get changed. We left home about 6.45pm…luckily there wasn’t any traffic jam in the city center, so we managed to reach Mandarin Oriental at about 7.15pm.

With ‘Colors of the World’ being the theme, we saw many Chinese ladies wearing saris, Malay ladies wearing cheongsams, a couple of ‘Japanese’ ladies, a couple of ‘Korean’ ones, and one Red Indian! Most of the men came in long sleeve shirts and coats (guys just have it so easy!), but we spotted a few wearing Samurai costumes, and one wearing a kilt (he refused to reveal whether there was any further clothing beneath the kilt..)…=) Nevertheless, majority of the people present still wore the traditional evening gowns…I guess it’s just too much trouble to find something new to wear when you already have something nice hanging in the wardrobe! Our Country Business Manager, Piyush Gupta, was very sporting though…he turned up in an Egyptian costume (though at first glance, we all thought he was dressing up as an Arab Sheik)!

The food was so-so as usual. We’ve been to Mandarin Oriental about 6 times, all Chinese dinners, and not once was the food better than average! This year’s emcee was pretty good though…he organized a game that was played throughout the dinner whereby the hall was divided into two groups: the Ku Wak Chais (gangsters) and the Sat Sei Lei (kill you all) group (names chosen by the nominated group captains!). There were altogether 4-5 games which consisted of getting the group to yell and clap, guess the song titles, etc. and the group that won each game would win points. The games culminated with each group forming a huge circle around the hall and doing the Chicken Dance (yes…imagine a few hundred well dressed people flapping their arms about)…! Unfortunately, the group that we were in, Sat Sei Lei, lost the final game which carried 20,000 points, which put the Ku Wak Chais in the winner’s spot. As TI aptly put it, instead of Sat Sei Lei, we Sat Ze Kei (translation: instead of killing them off, we killed ourselves instead!). The group leader won himself some vouchers, while the rest of the participants won…free soft drinks for 15 minutes. *snicker*

There were performances by Arthur Kam, drummer extraordinaire, together with his elder sister Genervie who played the electric violin. I had so much fun watching Arthur play the drums…the beat was absolutely infectious and you could see that he was having fun up on stage as well. Their performance was followed by 5 songs from none other than our first Malaysian Idol, Jaclyn Victor. Unfortunately, the crowd was too busy eating and socializing, so alot of her comments and teasing went unanswered. However, her final song for the night, Gemilang, caught the crowd’s attention and everyone was clapping by the time she ended her performance. Yours truly managed to get a photo with her…=) Up close, you could see that she was a little bit tired (or was it frustration with our Citibankers ‘dead’ attitude?), but she was very accomodating…smiling, laughing and posing for the cameras.

The night ended with myself, KC and TI posing for silly photographs taken by my very patient hubby…(more photos will be uploaded soon)…=) Oh, and we had quite some luck in the lucky draw too…hubby, KC, CY and AO won some vouchers!

Hubby and I left before they finished announcing the 5 grand prizes for the lucky draw as we wanted to beat the crowd and the jam out of the basement parking area. On the way back, I started feeling abit peckish, so we made a detour to Haagan Daz @ Bangsar Shopping Center. Feeling all silly, I walked past the night crowd at Coffee Bean in my formal kebaya to get two scoops of icecream: Mango Sorbet and Strawberry. What wouldn’t one do for food! Yum!

Back home, hubby decided to play photographer and started taking photos of me with our Canon D-SLR. I think we spent almost one hour fiddling with the different settings and lighting. He did manage to get some good shots and some closeup of my kebaya embroidery and kerongsang (brooches). By the time we finished, I was half dead with exhaustion. After a quick bath, it was off to bed…I think I must’ve fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow!

They have been hammering away the whole afternoon and it’s driving me nuts. I hate loud noises. And what’s worst is these idiots seems to be hammering at random. It’ll be quiet for a few minutes and then suddenly, a loud bang! Then quiet again. Then a loud bang. Each time that happens, I get a shock, and I think the bunnies are scared too.

Bloody stupid idiotic assholes. Hope they nail their fingers to the wall. And whoever is dirtying the corridors and the elevators with all the dust, I hope they nail their fingers to the wall as well. I’m sick of staying in an apartment where I can hear everything left and right and up…well, can’t hear the downstairs one. I’m sick of contractors dirtying the corridors. I’m sick of the stupid guards falling asleep at night and not doing what they are paid to do. I’m sick of the stupid guards bringing in their stupid friends into the apartment compound. I’m sick of that one guard that smokes in the elevator (I hope he chokes on his own ciggie smoke!). I’m sick of the corridor light above our door blowing all the time and that no one bothers to fix it until weeks later.

It’s bad enough that our apartment is sitting North West this year (bad in terms of Feng Shui)…we’re not supposed to be doing any renovation at all for the whole year. And these people are busy banging at walls, etc. I hope all the bad chi and bad luck flow over there. Argh!!! Extremely pissed off right now. Idiots!

And now they’re f**king drilling!

I just found this interesting website called 43 Things and the related website for places that you want to go, 43 Places. What I like about it is that once you’ve done the thing that you want, you get to click the ‘I’ve Done This’ button to show off your success *grin*. Similarly, at the 43 Places website, once you’ve visited one of the place on your list, you’ll get to click the ‘I’ve Been There’ button and share your photos and stories. How fun!

So what are the 43 things that I want to do? And the 43 places that I want to go? Some serious thinking required, although my list of 2005 resolutions will definitely be replicated there! =)

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Hubby attended a seminar yesterday organized by Visa International and since it ended at 5pm, we were able to catch a movie at GSC @ Midvalley last night. The only show that looked remotely interesting was Bewitched, starring the lovely Nicole Kidman and funnyman Will Ferrell.

While the basic idea of the show was pretty good (the show was about Will Ferrell’s character finding a star for his upcoming remake of Bewitched…yup…a show within a show), I found the storyline and dialogue to be rather disappointing. Will Ferrell’s character Jack Wyatt is so irritating that I just wanted to smack him with a broomstick. Hard. And while Nicole Kidman as Isabel Bigelow looked gorgeous as always (just love the sweater and white shirt combos she wears in the show!), what’s with that breathy ditzy voice?!? All in all, not a show that I would pay to watch in a cinema…I expected a sweet romantic comedy (after all, it’s by Nora Ephron, who directed Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally!) and ended up watching a light, fluffy, no-substance show. What a let-down.

I’ve just spent the entire day editing the photos on my previous website using Adobe Photoshop. I came up with a brilliant idea of creating a fuzzy border around my photos, and also watermarking them. All in all…I think I edited about 50 photos before I found out that there’s a batch tool that I could’ve used! Argh! Well, the last 70(?) odd photos were done using the batch, so it was alot faster. Problem was…I had some photos that were not of the same size, and therefore, I couldn’t use the batch function on those photos. Still, editing a couple more by hand vs. editing ALL is the lesser of two evils!

Done! Off to sleep!