Wednesday, October 31, 2007

No Comment!

Yeah right, no comment from me(?!) on MY blog?! LOL!

That is such a ridiculous title... 'No Sex, Please, We're Singaporean'?!?! ...and the government wonders why the population is dwindling to nothing. Well, we're either living somewhere else in this world busy having hot and sweaty sex or they're not 'allowing' us to procreate when the urge arrives... even in a bed on a plane LOL! How, pray tell, are the flight attendents going to monitor what everyone is up to in these suites when they're having sex themselves somewhere else on the plane!? Oh believe me, I know some of them and my friends are related to a bunch of them... the stories I've heard are pretty hilarious and disgusting! So they can say what they want, it's still going to happen... question is, will the flight stewardess partake when invited LOL!

My question is, are they going to make it illegal, like everything else back home, about this no sex in the air deal :) ...and now that oral sex is legal, is oral sex, sex?! :D


No Sex, Please, We're Singaporean

Sex Not Allowed in Airbus A380 Double Bed Suites

Even though Singapore Airlines has equipped its new A380 jets with private double bed suites, company officials are saying you'd better not do the bouncy bouncy in there or you'll meet with their stern disapproval. What are they going to do? Throw you off the plane? The first couple to book one of the double suites wasn't too impressed with the airline's prudish demeanor.

"So they'll sell you a double bed, and give you privacy and endless champagne -- and then say you can't do what comes naturally?" asked Tony Elwood, a 76-year-old passenger who booked the suite with his wife, Julie. "Seems a bit strange."

Let's not forget that Singapore Airlines is based in a country which still deems it okay to smack people with a rattan cane for even the slightest transgression, so you'd better keep that johnson in your pants, big boy. "There are things that are acceptable on an aircraft and things that aren't, and the rules for behaviour in our double beds are the same ones that apply throughout the aircraft," proclaims Stephen Forshaw, a Singapore Airlines official. He warns, "If couples used our double beds to engage in inappropriate activity, we would politely ask them to desist."

Since the doors close on the suites, how on earth are Singapore Airlines flight attendants going to know who is engaging in the old in/out and who isn't? It's always so noisy in aircraft anyway, you could be screaming to high heaven and no one would ever know.

We're thinking one of the most difficult temptations to resist aboard a Singapore Airlines double-bed flight is avoiding asking one of those gorgeous flight attendants, known as "the Singapore Girls," to join us inside the comfy suite. But then, for the $14,320 price for two tickets in one of the suites, we'd hope a good swift caning would be included in the ticket price. [Times Online, via Fleshbot (NSFW)]

Monday, October 29, 2007

Time Flies...

Yesterday, we celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary! I have known the king now for more than ten years! It seemed like yesterday when I was upset he ALMOST didn't want me to move to Memphis with him (and still not wanting to marry me lol) and today, I am looking forward to leaving this place.... things change, situations change, people change, our lifestyles change... but the churches will always be here muahahahaha!

In commemoration of our wedding day, we went out and got some Krispy Kreame donuts. YUM! I don't like donuts but when it comes to KK, I never turn one... or two... or three down :)

We're postponing our 'special' anniversary dinner for when we're out of town. We're thinking of hitting Boston later this week... no concrete plans yet... but we hung out at home most of the day, kept out of each other's way (me on Facebook, he on the Scrabulous site both with tv's murmuring in the background) and eventually, got together for dinner - pizza and baseball - actually, he was watching baseball and I had the laptop in front of me playing scrabble :D But I did cheer and congratulate the husband when his team won the world series.

...so it was a pretty uneventful. Some people might think - BO-RING! But hey, boring is sometimes (I said sometimes!) good... no drama(!)... we were both happy and contented with not having any special plans for the day. We are happy in our relationship and just glad to be with one another at home on another special day.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

I'm A Happy Camper

Yes you read right! I'm in Memphis and I'm happy. Woke up with a smile and hours later, I'm still glad to be sitting in front of this machine burning time. We've been home since Tuesday evening and it hasn't stopped raining since we landed. It's threatening to rain till tomorrow afternoon so I'm thrilled to bits! I almost feel like I'm in Seattle... as long as I sit here and dream :)

No luck on the house hunting front. We found A house... but I don't know if it's THE house. The king certainly likes it a lot. I liked it enough but they're building this humongous house in front of it that will block the perfect view it has now... so uh uh from me. Not that the view is that important but it's priced right now as a house with a perfect view that is about to be taken away... I also fell in love with downtown Bellevue. It's a bigger Germantown with serious shopping, restaurants and unlike downtown Seattle, no homeless bums asking for change! I like that a lot! I'm hoping to find something we like in Bellevue - a short 20 mins drive (or with traffic, four hours! LOL). That would make me very very happy :)

I'm also happy 'coz I found a new cleaning lady lol! Yes, it's the little things tho' this isn't little to me. I told the last cleaning lady a good month ago that I will call her when I'm back in town; and with all our crazy travels coming in for a day or two and leaving again, I haven't called her and of course, she has't called to check in. Well she did but I told her I would call her when I needed her. I think she must have thought I was trying to fire her or something... well, guess who lost her number lol! ...but fear not! My German girlfriend came to the rescue and gave me her cleaning lady's number - who was actually someone I had spoken to before but didn't have any openings. My other friend moved away and yup, I'm taking her spot. Happy happy joy joy!!

At the rate I'm going, I wouldn't mind staying here longer - as long as the rain persists lol... ok, maybe I'm truly out of my mind... but with the grey skies, the pitter-patter of the rain pounding ever so lightly on the roof of the deck, the cold air outside I can almost feel and the humming of the dryer ('coz I'm constantly doing laundry), I can tell you this is going to be another perfect day!

Friday, October 19, 2007

Back Home And Off Again

Well we've been home a few days... three, to be more precise... and tomorrow morning, we're flying back to Seattle. Yup, more house hunting sessions. We'll be back in the middle of next week, hang out here for a little and I think before this month is over, we'll head back out to Asia. Probably Tokyo... maybe Thailand. Not too sure about the latter yet.

California was a blast! I got to meet some of the king's friends from business school (a few were nice and interesting, namely those who have seen more of the 'outside' world) and his three pool (as in snooker, not swimming) buddies from law school whom the husband had a weekly pool game with back in the days. I really liked this bunch of guys. They certainly were not a bunch of tight ass lawyers but three really fun and funny guys who haven't changed a bit since their crazy grad school days - at least their wives claim so. Both wives (one's divorced) were already in the picture when they were in law school. It's kind of nice to hear stories from them about the king when he was still a kid... well sort of a kid - 20 years ago, he was merely in his 20s :D I mean, I've met quite a few of the husband's high school friends here but their stories aren't half as fun and interesting as the grad school ones. Maybe most of them don't remember much due to ????? ... or the husband just wasn't that exciting in high school LOL! But yes, these Stanford guys were great fun to hang out with.

I also got to meet an old friend of mine. Donald's grown into the young man we all thought he would be; in a good career path and newly single - yup, just like the husband, he's not ready to do the commitment thingy... men! But yes, it certainly was very nice to catch up on 20 years of gossip, news of D's older brother Ivan, and younger sister who was merely a toddler when we were all teenagers. She is now going to college with boyfriend headaches. Wow, now I KNOW I'm old lol.

I have to update my Yelp entries on all the restaurants we tried in California but right now, I have other things to concentrate on... like playing scrabble on Facebook lol. I should have more time to blog and yelp after this Seattle trip though I'm thinking of heading to NYC for a couple of days to hang out with my girlfriend, Gen... hmmm... decisions decisions.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Hanging Out On Santana Row

We took the longest 4 hour flight from DFW (Dallas) to SFO (San Francisco) yesterday. No upgrade (arrgh!) and I got the middle seat (of course) in front of two idiotic Russian women who just wouldn't shut up! They were so obnoxious - even threatened (in the nicest way) the guy who was seated on the aisle seat on their row to move! Poor guy... and as if that wasn't bad enough, they had a constantly crying baby who actually crawled onto our row... seriously, they needed to sedate all three of them! The one of them - yup, the Einstein of the two - pulled down the 'table' (right behind my seat, of course) and pounded on it to entertain the kid while singing. Un-phucking-believable! NTAR NTAR!!!

You know I couldn't get out of the plane fast enough when we landed :D

Well... after a quick run to our favorite hang out at the Embarcadero (Hog Island Oyster - best grilled cheese EVER!) and dropped by at our favorite local chocolatier a few doors down to Ricchiuti Confections to pick up a couple of boxes of Fluer de Sel (YUM!!) and two bags for almond covered chocolates, we then took a short drive and dropped into Henry's Hunan on Sansome (the king's favorite Hunan place) to get take-out for our dinner-in. We then started our nice longer but more scenic route (not on 110 lol) to San Jose.










Awesome! For one week, I'll be surrounded by Gucci, Ferragamo, Tod's and the like. Plus, I'm a minute walk from Singaporean, Chris Yeo's restaurants. It's not authentic Singaporean food (you can only get authentic Singaporean food in Singapore) but it's good enough to satiate my taste for hawker food from home ...so THIS is my current paradise :D When my girlfriends took me to Santana Row the first time to the Straits Restaurant for our girl's night out, I fell in love with this area. Solid shopping (yup, high end boutiques, familiar mall shops and a short walk across the street to Nordstrom, Macy's... and a grocery store), good restaurants and a hip hotel. I'm happy!

We're here for the king's 20th college reunion at Stamford. I don't think he's going to be doing too much with the law school friends but I know I'm included in most of the events with the guys and their families from business school. Should be fun... it's poker night tonight so I'm hanging out here and meeting a childhood (well, teenhood lol) friend of mine and my brother's whom we'd just found on Facebook so I'm excited. Donald's apparently been in the San Jose area since the late 90s!! I can't wait for updates on all the other 'kids' we grew up with :) Okay, he's a guy so maybe not that much info lol.

We might also get to have a meal on Google campus. That should be an experience :D Will update with pics and/or videos of anything interesting :)

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Funny

I don't like receiving jokes via email - people who know me (or have read my previous post) know not to forward me anything like so; not if they want me to read it... and I extend the same courtesy towards them. However, when I read this piece on ELT news (a site about teaching English in Japan) this morning, I figured why not share it with you guys and post it here... after all, if you have time for my blog, surely you can spend some time with this entry :)


The following is a telephone exchange between a hotel guest and room-service at a hotel in Asia, which was recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review:


Room Service (RS): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."

Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor sunteen??"

G:"Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ow July den?"

G:"What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"

G:"Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."

RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"

G:"Crisp will be fine."

RS: "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

G:"What?"

RS: "An toes. July Sahn toes?"

G:"I don't think so."

RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes??"

G:"I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?"

G:"English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We bodder?"

G:"No...just put the bodder on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G:"I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G:"Excuse me?"

RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"

G:"Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy....rye??"

G:"Whatever you say."

RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."

G:"You're very welcome."

(Thanks to Duane Flowers, who posted this to the Jalttalk mailing list)


Funny right?! :D

Monday, October 08, 2007

Some Of You Will Disagree

I just took this survey and this is what they said about me... see, I'm not as bad as you think.

I am 40% Asshole/Bitch.
Part Time Asshole/Bitch.
I may think I am an asshole or a bitch, but the truth is I am a good person at heart. Yeah sure, I can have a mean streak in me, but most of the people I meet like me.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Last Minute Trip

We're making a less-then-48 hour trip to Seattle. Yup, purely house-hunting. Well, that and to get away from the forecasted 90+ degree weather here this weekend. I think the king was just trying to be nice before I go postal on him lol... plus it's THAT time of the month (yes I know it's tmi - too much info - but it's my blog and I can write whatever I wish and you can choose not to read or like what I read :D).

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on a house but honestly, I'm not too hopeful this time... :( Maybe we need to move somewhere else lol.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

I'm A Millionaire ...!

Well, a millionaire not so much in dollars and cents; but I was just informed by American Airlines that I have officially 'collected' a million miles. Yes, one million miles! That's a lot of miles to redeem :) Yes it includes all my flight and credit card bonus'. I didn't start flying American much before I was married... I was a former NWA loyal customer... then I came to Memphis and it all changed, funnily enough; because Memphis is a Northwest Airlines hub lol. So it's pretty impressive how much I have accumulated in six short years hee hee. Of course, you're reading this from the wife of THE mileage whore who used to fly around the world to get as many miles as he could. ...don't ask me why 'coz just as I couldn't relate to it, I was, before I knew it, calculating my miles like the he used to; an act I still can't justify lol.

As I understand it, I'm getting some gifts in the mail... it had better not be a bloody towel! That's what the king got when he hit a million Hyatt points. Lame-asses! According to the husband, Mister AA Mileage Whore himself (three-million-miles around the corner), I should be getting more upgrade certificates. ...the real ones that count. Yup, free international upgrade certificates!!! Awesome(!) 'coz I'm running low on the eight I got at the beginning of the year and I'm trying to conserve as much as I can flying cattle class whenever I am able to get decent seats. But this means I'll have two more months to blow them all off (yes, unfortunately, they do expire at the end of the year); which means no more economy class till 2008. YEH!

See, I'm really not that hard to please :D

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Addicted

The house is in a mess (clean, however :D), my errands are left well, I still have to run those some time... and I'm just glued to this monitor! I'm simply addicted to SCRABULOUS! I've been playing it on Facebook with the king, my pals in Australia and Japan... the time difference turns out to be a blessing in disguise (for a change). I have beat the husband two out of about two hundred games! Hey, that's two games he remains bitter for lol! We get so competitive it's hilarious. If you were a fly on the wall in this household, all you'd hear is... "... silence... silence... YOUR TURN!!! ....silence ...silence... silence... YOUR TURN!!!" You'd think that we could sit in the same room and play our real scrabble game but how would we surf the net, read our feeds and check email all at the same time right?! :D I guess he could move into the same room I'm in with the laptop but we fear each other peeping on the other's tiles LOL!

If you're on Facebook, come join us in a game. If not, do it online and enjoy! Yes, of course it's foc (free of charge).