10, 9, 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1... Happy New Year!!!!!! 2006

31st dec

Time: 11.30am

damn.. (wat a word to start things off.. ) ok.. im supposed to be at the salon by noon.. n yet im still at home, rushing to get ready.. damn.. im always late.. (maybe i shall include another new year resolution --> to be punctual for appointments - social n personal ones, not just for work appts..)

Time: 1 pm.. Location : bukit gombak hair salon

Here i am sitting in a cosy salon environment.. attended by a sweet looking punk gurl part-timer.. dis is the first time in 3 years since ive decided to go to the hairdreeser to revive my hair.. the thinning of my hair is worrying me.. so ive decided to let the profesionals handle it rather than having me to have my own hair treatment in the toilet :-)

so.. we had a good hair wash.. a nice layered cut.. a blessful protein hair treatment.. followed by hair straightening.. and VIOLA!! i look like .. err.. somewhat younger.. fresher.. ahh.. as long as my hair is healthy.. dats all that matters..

one thing different about the salon.. somehow u dun feel that ure at the salon.. ppl are chatty.. friendly.. yes... the women bitch (yesh.. makes life more interesting dun they??) and we were all happily watching 'pontianak' story 2.. (i dint noe pontinak can ride a horse for that matter.. the next thing u noe, these pontianaks will drive a lamborghini or 'jaguar' soon enuff.. yah..our directors are losing their sane and logic nowadays.

i even met my old school madrasah school mate.. wat a coincidence..

oh yah.. there was this small little naughty gurl, whose cheeks are as round as eggs, who came for a haircut with her granma before she sets out for nursery school next year..

u shud have seen her... she was so bubbly.. brave enuff to come to smell the protein cream that was on my hair.. extremely intrigue by the steam coming out from my head..tickling all the customers who were around.. hehe.. she can barely sit still for a haircut.. but trust me.. after the haircut.. she looks even more adorable.. liek a little china doll with puffed-up cheeks.. hehe

its nice to be in a place where u feel rite at home.. maybe that's how u forged a bond with your hairdressers huh?

Time: 3 pm.

Ok.. 3 pm.. not bad i took 2 hours on my hair.. hehe..


Time: 7.30 pm... location: jurong swimming complex

Here i am sitting with ain selling countdown tickets at the front most gate.. aisha.. always up to sumthing on every new year eve's.. well this tym we are volunteering again with yuhua c.c. (yes.. helping kak mus out again..) the only difference this tym... we had another partner to help us out.. our old uni fren ..mustafa.. hehe.. of all the times to have him around.. but it was fun.. just having him around make me felt as though i was there for an MS event instead.. it seems that we were doing what information counter ppl should do instead of selling tickets.. ah-mahs, ah-peks.. pakcik..makcik.. ah-chis.. we were all directing them to the goodie bag counter.. something the cc should have foresee.. lack of direction sign boards.. heh..


Time: 11 pm

here we are at al- majlis.. happily enjoying my crispy chicken.. yummy..
new year's celebration dint turn out to be as 'happening' as i expect it to be.. except the usual entertainment by a rather stiff bellydancer.. and not-tht- bad vocalist ..

well.. i tink the kids had more fun than we do .. partying with all the poppers and mini trumpets and not forgetting their 'sprays' and funky party hats.. worn by the adults too.. hehe..

Time: 1 am

home sweet home...

"2005, a year filled with many happy and also sad moments. Whatever mistakes were done then, cannot be undone. Whatever bitterness of life we experience, we keep it only as a lesson in life. May 2006 will bring us closer even with our difference. May we learn to care and share. May we forgive and forget. May we cherish our loved ones throughout our lives. Hope the new year ahead will help us appreciate life with lots of love, faith, hope and dignity."

Ageing.. No one can stop it.. Not even anti-oxidants

U noe that time is catching up upon u when u start attending grad nite.. but its not urs.. but your students.. ;-) there they are clad in the minimal amount of cloth as possible.. (we noe who ahh..), glitters & glamour here n there.. gravity defying hairstyles heh..

D day started off with a long college day.. followed a dash window shopping around suntec city, trying to fill up our time before we are required to be seated for the next event (which is to end at an estimated time of .. err.. midnite?) haiz.. u bet it was a loooooooong day for me n my collegues..

nevertheless.. we were salvage by the not-so-bad 8 course meal dinner plus some cheapoh singing entertainment by aspiring amateurs singers.. who cant seem to make it.. (luckily the bad was blessed by good instrumentalists)..

To further 'lighten' the whole entire grad nite mood.. we had a pretty predictable host who made the school do the chicken dance along with the cheeky tune n our skimply dress prom queen.. (including the head of the school.. hmm... something u dun get to see everyday.. heh.. ) despite having to dance around the dinner table.. i was still tinking of my heavenly pillow n bed at home.. yes.. i hear them 'calling'..

grad nite.. prom nite.. hmm.. never been much of interest to me.. except for expensive dinner settings.. n free food.. good food that is.. hehe.. oh yes.. so called door gift n lucky draws.. seeing your school mates in their best attire... n besides that.. i couldnt tink of anything else..

oh.. its the last tym you will get to see your whole entire class... yah.. the last tym ive seen my classmates .. all of them.. was during my prom nite.. we were busy taking photos of one another.. n i even snap a photo with this guy whom i hated throughout my school days.. well... in a good sense we parted positively.. no more hatred.. just the sweet memories of picking on each other during school days..

well.. dis is just the beginning.. im looking forward for more grad nites in years to come.. n as years pass by .. its goin to be more significant for me n my 'babies to be'whoa re going to be under my care & supervision.. heh..

ah well.. time & tide wait for no man.. not even woman.. :-)