Here’s what Xaby wrote about the trip, together with ideas contributed by Grace and myself.

The day began with us cabbing to the airport from Grace’s house in the small hours of morning. It was Xaby’s maiden experience taking budget, as well as our first time taking a half an hour flight in our lives. Before we could warm the seats with our butts or to go into three-level deep sleep like that of Inception’s, it was time for us to get out of the aircraft. The immigration checkpoint took us quite some time, and it certainly didn’t help that there were no clear instructions to us as to where to line up in front of the counters. We settled for the “Countries with Visa” counters eventually, given that it was the shortest line. Took a cab from airport to Bukit Bintang and arrived at Sungei Wang at approximately 9am. Most of the shops weren’t open then, so Xaby dragged Bee and Grace to Cotton On, but only to get mocked by Grace. “Singapore got no Cotton On hor?”

We then went Starbucks to get our morning coffee fix and Bee discovered free Y5 connection. So the three of us started finger tapping vigorously on our mobile phones – tweeting, FBing, Whatsapping, stalking, you get the idea….. (Kidding about the last one actually.) Shops were beginning to open for business so we decided to forsake our Internet for the benefit of contributing and boosting the economy (read: shopping). Before we knew it, it was already a quarter past twelve, that means, we could finally unhand of our heavy backpacks that we’ve been lugging for hours in our hotel room! After some Whoas and Oohs of our comfy room, we decided to watch some TV. Masterchef on Star World caught our attention and again, peals of laughter broke out among us, no thanks to what Grace said. “Look at how they prepare their food, the way they dribble their sauce just reminds me of what Rui En always say.” (If you have no idea of what we’re talking about here, check out http://rbkd-online.com/2009/01/27/im-just-a-kopitiam-girl-tnp-flame-awards-2009-babe-of-the-year/ “Most of the time, she said, she opts for the kopitiam instead of those ‘restaurants where they give you those small portions with a dribble of sauce’.”)

Before we headed out of our hotel to meet the rest of them for lunch, Bee started to arrange her bedroom slippers in an untidy fashion. That left us a little curious, and it wasn’t only until Shirley asked which room we were in did we uncover the curious case of Bee’s untidy arrangement of slippers. So the conversation went a little something like this:-
Shirley: Which room are you guys in?
Grace: 0713
Shirley: Whutttt? 7 and 13? Double omen!
Xaby, Bee & Grace: Srsly?! Are you kidding us!
Xaby: But neh mind luh! In math, we learn that two negatives give us a positive. HAHAHHAHA
Bee: And just arrange your slippers untidily!
Grace and Xaby: OHHHHH. Like what you did just now!
(Tadah, mystery case #98371214 solved.)

There was also a series of prank call incidents, where innocent victims such as Xaby and Jean were involved. Xaby tried to connect to Phyllis’ room via the Room-to-room complimentary service, but was connected to Joanne’s room instead. (Perhaps it was because of fat fingers, we can’t be sure.) Joanne picked up, and gleefully started her “professional hotel concierge service” that got Xaby fooled badly. Nicely done, Joanne! Hahahaha. After confirming the meeting time and venue for dinner, Bee, Grace and Xaby went out to explore Petaling street, aka Chinatown. Without a doubt, that has definitely got to be the best place for shopping. Grace got herself a henna design on her right hand, it was supposed to last for 2 weeks, the shopkeeper boasted. Sadly, less than a couple of hours, the henna design on Grace’s hand started to appear faint already. (So much for 2 weeks, Ms. Shopkeeper.) Anyways, while roaming around the streets of Chinatown, this knock off Marc Jacobs bag caught Xaby’s attention. Trying to test the waters and push some limits, Xaby decided to haggle over the price of the MJ bag, with a starting price that was so low, the shopkeeper didn’t even want to entertain her. Eventually, Grace and Xaby got their Cath Kidston bags at an extremely good deal. See, the importance of honing your bargaining skills, everyone. After almost squandering close to half of our assets, the Malaysian ringgit that is, Bee, Grace and Xaby went back to Bukit Bintang and met up with the others for dinner.

We had our dinner at Jalan Alor, famous for the stretch of food stalls along the road. Scrumptious dinner awaited us, but it was a pity that we couldn’t appreciate it. We had too much junk food for the whole day – the countless cups of sugared drinks and desserts such as sticky mango rice. So that pretty much summed up our first day in KL.

Day 2 of our KL trip begun with waking up at 7am and meeting the others at the hotel lobby at 8.30am. We set off in search of this “pond” in the “jungle.” By lunchtime, we got the best surprise that probably wasn’t included in our itinerary. Wink wink wink.

Went back to the hotel to send the others off while the three of us sneaked into the recreational area of the hotel despite already checking out. Owing to the fact that the weather was just so HOT, we bathed thrice a day on the average while we were in KL. So we crept into the recreational area, where the swimming pool and bathrooms are, stole some towels and began bathing away. Just to digress a little, we just have to say that the bath foam in the bathroom was really good. Our skins were completely moisturized!

After the invigorating afternoon bath, we were charged and ready for our final stretch of last minute shopping. We started splurging even more, upon seeing so much of our assets that we’re still left with despite leaving KL for Singapore in a couple of hours. We even contemplated foot reflexology massage!

Given that there are no A&W fast food restaurants in Singapore, having dinner at A&W before we return back to Singapore was definitely something to die for. So we feasted at A&W, ordering their signature (junk) food from the curly fries to the root beer float. Then, it was really time to bade KL goodbye.

Lugging our even heavier backpacks, we took the KLIA ekspres train to the airport. And during our 25 minutes train ride, barrels of laughter broke through again, with all due credit to Grace’s impromptu suggestion of how we should pose in our photos. Also, not forgetting how Grace tried directing us to the flight baggage gate instead of the gate to the KLIA train.

We arrived relatively early at the airport, and decided to display our true blue Singaporean idiosyncrasies. We stood in front of the check-in counter way before the counters were opened, just so that it guarantees us of our seats in the plane. See, kiasu-nism, in its best epitome.

All in all, the jokes that we cracked, the hoots of laughter and fun we’ve all experienced together under the really really HOT sun – as cliche as it sounds – were simply beyond measure. One important lesson that we have all learned from this trip, as Bee put it, was, “I miss leeching wifi from Starbucks. It taught us not to take internet access for granted.”

Whispering our goodbyes,
Roomies 0713
(Bee, Grace & Xaby)

On a side note, I hope I won’t get too addicted to travelling, my parents have already started nagging at me. Hur hur! So next destination, Seoul?

我愛得痛快

Congratulations Rui En!

“I wanna stand beside Rui En again. SQUEEEEEEZE!”

“I wanna hug Rui En, but…… ”

Ruivin Ruivin Ruivin Oh~~~

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Have been so caught up that I didn’t realize Unriddle will be airing soon, until they were counting down on TV.

4 August 2010
Weekdays 9-10pm
Channel 8

6 more days.

“People don’t recognise [me], which I loooove. It’s like a disguise… They go, ‘Eh that girl looks a bit like, er but cannot be, the hair is not right’,” she said, laughing while her assistant attended to her flowing locks.

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YOU SEE! There’s nothing wrong with my eyes! It’s just that my mum’s eyesight is exceptionally sharp.

I’m sure this joke sounds familiar to some of you. LOL!

RUIVIN!

This 5:33 minutes video is really addictive!
Have been looping this video for N times because THEY’RE SO SWEET, OMG! <3

“很高兴大家都觉得我们很登对”
Aiseh man! LOL!