the amazing incidents

i watched spiderman 3 at plaza singapura yesterday after work. man it's hard to get hold of the tickets, isn't it? i had to cancel the plan to watch on friday because they were sold out. can you believe that? we have like a billion cinemas here in singapore and there were still not enough.

i like the movie, entertainment wise. storyline is not so good, i think the 2nd sequel was better. it's hard not to choose doc oc over that boring cum gloomy sandman and that 'how-the-hell-you-could-become-venom' venom.

one thing i learned from spiderman 3 is that if you pray hard enough, help will fell from above.. in terms of black foreign paranormal substance that can turn you into a superhuman so you can beat your enemies to death.

of course that's in a perfect world. or at least the world where people just pray hard. in our present world, we had to bare all the difficulty ourselves.

you know i never thought stress could kill you, but apparently this local HP girl who recently died after 8 hours working non-stop on her laptop proved otherwise. to think that she consistently woke up at 3.30am and started working at 4.30am, she must be a real life superwoman.

i sincerely hope she gets the rest she deserved now.

i am so blessed that the only common thing i have with her is probably the fact that we write blogs. sometime ago i took this online test to check if i'm under stress.

do you feel stressful at work? no
do you worry about your health?
do you lose sleep thinking about something? no
do you worry about your financial capabilities? no
do you worry about your family? no...
..etc etc

ok maybe a little for that last one, if they pester me about marriage. but the fact is, it's official i'm 'understress'. come on, i took this test during working hours, how stressful could i get?

even so after our little trip to batam island last weekend. finally i can say i'm a true singaporean. PR i mean. in the end all of us could make it to the trip. and the rain chose to stop falling too! i felt like everything just fell into place.

ok maybe not totally. ok so we were kinda conned into eating expensive tourist-price nasi padang lunch after we arrived but that's ok. after all it was just like 8 dollars per person. not even enough to buy a carl's juniour set.

then 3 of us decided to go back before nightime. duh. talk about anti-climax. i mean, you paid 30 dollars for the ferry so might as well make the trip worth it, right? at least my memory of batam does not mainly based on getting conned by the nasi padang restaurant.

at night, we paid the entrance fee to the live band executive club when we as the hotel guest should get in free. still ok too. it was just 5 dollars. did i mention the band was good? the voices were good it was a pity the music was a bit too loud. this is the first time i entered a club and able recognize half the song played.

other than those small little tiny blunders, we also went to this spa on top of formosa hotel, and tried the whole body scrub massage or lulur as the local calls it. it was only 16 dollars for 1.5 hours! cheaper than bangkok.

after they massaged you apparently to loosen your skin, they put this sandy grainy substance on your skin and began scrubbing. it felt good at first, until the liquid evaporated making you feel like a piece of plywood being scrubbed by sandpaper. i was like, oh god my legs gonna get pointy skinny.

at least in the end i felt relaxed (as if i was ever stressed-out) and more importantly my skin felt a few years younger. not that i needed it, the messeurs already thought i was 27. hmmm i must be ageing a lot within these few months because just last april, this guy in tanjong pagar club thought i was 24.

i tried the locally famous avocado chocolate too. it was good, although to tell you the truth, i think the sudden headache i got after that was caused by that drink. i'm not sure how, but must be the high calories content sent the blood rush all over my head or something.

we paid this street band to play us songs, and it was good

these kids enjoyed having their photos taken while one of their brothers working

before we went back the next day, i bought myself a sk8er shirt ($10), a korean-made adidas shoes ($24) and chocolate brownie kukus ($3, which all my colleagues loved it).

see who says you need to go madagascar to have fun? after the kenya airlines nairobi-bound plane crash few days ago in africa, i'm not that eager anymore to go ahead with nairobi trip plan.

that is at least until some black foreign paranormal substance drop onto me and turn me into some kind of superhuman.


...ed