Mocks you when you use "ya".

As in,

"Thank you, ya."
"Looks like her, ya."
"See you later, ya."
"Take care, ya."
"I'll bring the cake, ya."

Not to be confused with "Hi ya" or "how ya doin'". Ya in this case is acceptable.

Ya?!

It's not endearing like "Eh" or hip like "K". "Ya" just makes you sound stupid. Not silly; silly is fun and cute, just plain stupid.

Unless you are from Brittany and speak Breton, you have no business saying "ya".

And the thing is, a lot of my colleagues and fringe friends say it a lot. Especially to impress.

/mock

Ya?!

Don't roll your eyes. Read your last sent email or SMS, see if you used "ya".

If yes, slap yourself with a trout.

Thank you.
(@BlackBerry)

Sigh! Do I want to spend a weekend in Fiji?

24 hours of flying, then a couple of days of work. A whole weekend free but alone. Then a few more days of work. And 24 hours of flying.

Without internet.
Not too sure about the blackberry, too.
Food is not great, beach (at least in Suva) is not great.
A whole weekend without WAAGH!

Do I? Do I?
decisions, decisions....

(@BlackBerry)

Stuck in traffic, to the airport. Home, Toto, Home!

Trying to ignore the man scratching at the car window, trying to interest me in a badly battered, origins unknown bottle of "mineral water."

I am already on the way home, I should give him all the change I have in my pocket.

I gingerly reach for the car window's button with my right hand as and with my left, tried to empty my pocket of change.

Almost immediately, I hear a click of car windows being locked. I looked at my driver, he was shaking his head "NO"!

The man outside is still scratching pathetically at my window. My driver is looking at me through his rear view mirror with Clint Eastwood eyes, daring me to open the window.

I struggle with my conscience; my safety or someone else's survival for the day?

Oh, joy! Traffic clears, and the car speeds off, leaving the man to scratch at another car's window.

I crank up the AC, snuggle into the comfortable seat and smugly congratulat myself for thinking charitable thoughts.

The path to the airport is paved with good intentions.
(@BlackBerry)

I am having nightmares.

Visas chasing me down dark alleys!

Visas wielding chainsaws and smashing through car windows!

Visas bloodied and carnivorous, gnawing at dead babies!

Lists! I need lists!

(In MBTI terms, my inferior function is rearing its ugly head.)

Lists! I need lists!

Give me lists!!!!!
(@BlackBerry)

I am sooooo dead.

Just found out I need a VISA to get to washington.

And my travel agent did not tell me!

I leave next thursday, and right now I am on the way to jakarta.

I am sooo farked.

Plan:
Sunday (today) arrive jakarta. bite nails to the quick.
Monday - ask colleague to arrange for VISA interview appointment on Friday. Bite nails.
Tuesday - confirm interview and hope it takes less than 3 days to process. Bite nails.
Wednesday - confirm that it will take less than 3 days to process after interview. bite nails.
Thursday - bite nails.
Friday - arrive singapore. Get to the visa interview. Bite nails. Saturday - bite nails.
Sunday - bite nails.
Monday - call embassy to confirm that visa will be ready by wednesday. Bite nails.
Tuesday - call embassy again to confirm that visa will be ready by next day. Bite nails.
Wednesday - collect visa. Marvel at how short my nails are by now.
Thursday - leave for washington.
(@BlackBerry)

@house (Dempsey)

Sitting here next to the DJ booth, watching people bob their heads to the music.

Colourful sofas line the sides of the room, walls are bare.

Beautiful people pose with their drinks, but all I'm interested in is the one metre sausage I just ordered.

One metre sausage!

More head bobbing, I peer towards the back, is my sausage coming?!

Finally IT is here, served on a long metal trough. Head-bobbing posers look on with envy.

Unfortunately, under the harsh glare of a cell-phone, the sausage is scrawny and shrivelled. Supposedly served on a bed of rocket, I count approximately 10 sprigs. For a metre! That's one sprig per 10 cm! ($25)

The truffle fries were not much better. The serving about the size of a large fries from McDonalds, the fries were cold, oily and thin-cut. No hint of truffles anywhere, oil or not. ($16)

Alright, enough whining about the food, back to head-bobbing posing with my vodka cranberry. ($10)

At least I didn't pay for the food. I would really be angry then.
(@BlackBerry)

Watching Star Trek NOW!

Star Trekking across the universe!
(@BlackBerry)

Is standing still.

(@BlackBerry)

Listening to a Kiwi talk. I want to shoot myself.

Can you guess what the following words are?

Hippiness / Geist / Sheaves / Hoital / Riflict
Spictacoilour / Breef / Vigitibil / Succisfil
Intiristing / Iffict / Cannict / Cannicter
Haire / Nitwerk / Sid / Lift
Proispirity / Loon / Liddar / Sittler
Tist / Ovitin / Iral / Hid / Sits / Ginders

Answers below:

Hippiness is Happiness / Geist is Guest
Sheaves is Chefs / Hoital is Hotel
Riflict is Reflect / Spictacoilour is Spectacular
Breef is Breathe / Vigitibil is Vegetable
Succisfil is Successful / Intiristing is Interesting
Iffict is Effect / Cannict is Connect
Cannicter is Connector / Haire is Here
Nitwerk is Network / Sid is Said
Lift is Left / Proispirity is Prosperity
Loon is Learn / Liddar is Leader
Sittler is Settler / Tist is Test
Ovitin is Overturn / Iral is Arial
Hid is Head / Sits Sets
Ginders Genders

Catchphrases for today:
We must embrace the vision for the future.
When we get it together, together.
The fish rots from the head.

Shoot me now.
(@BlackBerry)

Celebrity Smack is now following you on Twitter!

Haha!

When are they going to realise most people don't respond follows with auto-follow?

Or is there another sinister reason for this random following?

Gee....
(@BlackBerry)

$4.50 Laksa at Toast Box Suntec City. WTH. 0 Stars!

Four Fifty for a small bowl of oily, salty and watery laksa.

2 tiny shrimps, half a boiled egg and 3 pcs of toufu.

Why did I even think I would not be disappointed?

Laksa fail!
(@BlackBerry)

At HR Summit 09

So far, not looking very good.
(@BlackBerry)

Fantastic weekend, thanks for asking. And you?

A weekend of beer, poker and Waaaaagh.

What more can a girl ask for?
(@BlackBerry)