Back again

Hmmm...time has past so fast. Its been 5 months now since my traineeship as ended. I have not been updating this Blog for a long long time ( i can hear A.Banana complaining at the back!!)...
Anyway, started working already since March 1st. Life have really change a lot for me personally .....I use to have really interesting life where most of my friends/colleagues are cool cool ppl from Colombia, Tunisia, Portugal, China, Taiwan, Morrocco, Romania.. and of course one crazy Mong Wong from Muar. But now, it has change to all of them are from Malaysia. Even the language I use daily change from only English to English+Malay-bish+Chinese-bish+Indian-bish+Spanish+Arabich+Rubbish and all the bish bish that i need to use to survive in the working world....... Hmmm...how i miss the "simple" but fantastic life in St Louie Louie. Gone were the days of Oz and Morgan St. Good bye to the days of Busch Stadium and Savvis center. Gone were the tim sum sundays and late nite shakes at Steak n Shake......hmmmm.... All this replace with 9-6pm sitting down at the office looking and searching for the next nicest person to buy my machine. Go to bed at 10pm and wishing evert moment to fly and hope that the weekend would come faster.... Life......the next stage begins. ...

Moving to Andrea/Elma's

Awaken by Lena at 12 pm to open a new checking with First National. But end up not doing it because of difficulty with the address. Then we went to Best Buy (to claim Walid's laptop accessories) then to Sam's club then to St Louis Bread company for lunch. I really have to thank Lena n Walid for keeping me busy all this time. Keep me away from boredom. If not for them i would be Zzzzzing in bed. A.Banana called said that she will be finishing early from work today. Went to GSC to hang out a lil before heading home to pack my stuff. Yahooooo....finally i am moving out of boredom. We went to Cheesecake factory. It was awesome. Hungarian Beef and JAMAICAN BLACK PEPPER SHRIMP was fantastic....and then of course GODIVA CHOCOLATE CHEESECAKE to put the icing to the cake...to complete it. It was a wonderful dinner. Later we had to their house to unload stuff and to plan for upcoming weekend......oohhhhhh....i cant wait....

Perfect dinner, life in the afternoon......end to boredom.

Back to Boring Daily Life

Hmmm....life went back to my normal boring schedule laaa today. Was having a blast during the weekend. Never knew i could have so much fun....or prob its because that I am toooooo boring here since everyone left St Louis and last weekend i have the golden opportunity to have a crazy time. there is life after all!!!! thank you god/buddha!!!!
Made a resolution to at least move out of the apartment latest this coming wednesday....lets see how thing turn out... I woke up early today when Lena called me at noon to go shopping la.Finally settle the shopping promise made to Karen LLF......so happy manage to get it out of the system....hmmmmmmmm......then got over-bored and decide to go to library to return some books la....but to make life worst...bored enough...the library ppl made me pay $8.8O la for late fees......god....give me a break la.....bored enough adi now got a speeding ticket from the library somemore....arghhhh......i want my weekend!!!!!!!!
Now in office listen to DJ Sammy and Yanou mixing the Heaven song.......so good la..no calls and total clubbing music.....Lifeeeeeeee....

Back to reality.....i want my weekend.

WeEkEnd CLuBbinG

Finally i have chance after sooooo long to go out party la.
Started day going "chopping" with Lena and Walid to Best Buy @ Chesterfield. The "B" Walid finally got the laptop after spending nearly 2 month of his life searching & trying to decide which laptop to buy and which not to buy. I am sure that he would have qualified for be Mr Dell at the end of his journey to search for the Ultimate Bra...i mean Ultimate Laptop. Anyway just glad that he finally did it. I guess.....buying something is actually about crossing the line. Everything that we see has its good and bad side and sometime we might get lucky that to buy a good deal....like getting a LV bag along NYC Fifth Ave....only for like 10 bucks each....hehehehehehe....but again its only a matter of crossing the line.. then when we are over the other side the most important is to learn to appreciate what we have and this would be fine. I think other people's stuff always looks better cause they know how to appreciate their stuff and makes it looks good to others eye....hmmmm...i am starting to confuse myself....so simple la. So back to my daily story....the we head to St Louis "Roti Tiam" for some, as usual, awesome panini and soup and salad. After the short stop to fillup our stomach and Walid tested with his new toy via the free wireless, we amazing decided to head to Marshalls for shopping. But along the way our crave for ice cream got the better of us, so we made another quick pit stop @DQ for some ice-y cream. After all the sinful shopping at Marshalls....got home and prepared for the night. We made another stop at Walid&Lena's place before we head to A.Banana's place. Oh forget to mention that met Francine and Lucas....@ their place. She look so happy while he look so much better ...healthier...after coming out from her room....hmmm...wonder why.
We met A.Banana and Elma @ home and we some how manage to convince Elma to leave her bed and come with us downtown. We went to our new hang out place. I would recommend this place to anyone living downtown St Louis...AbsoluteGoosed.....serve excellent martini and bloody mary la. Oh not the mention the 3 Musketeer that i tried too was excellent. It was our lucky night cause tonite we manage to get Mr Play Hard to Get Uy David to come meet us. After a long chat( Not going share but its got to do with work and interns in general.....yeah keep guessing) After the bloody mart and 3musketeer we decided to go home. Hahahahahhaa....but it wasn't so easy la. Its saturday nite man.....Elma wanted to go home but she would stay with the option to go to Taco bell to get some burrito...hehehehehe....we drove to Del Taco...hehehehehe. Taco after taco and burrito after burrito, we cross the Mississp to Illini to Oz. As usual the excellent music and dancing charm us all night long until 2 simple lady name (combanation of their name) AlBanana decided they want to go home. One stated her boots is killing her while one stated tiredness...but once we are out of the club ...they started to feel regret and blame each other la....for coming out so early...so simple la. Later we head over to their place for some Kevin Spacey movie, shisha, coke and vodka + vomit....then was ZZzzzzzzzzzz.....

Sat night well spend with excellent clubbing with AlBanana, Walena and Uy Tan.....thank you guys...love ya all (so girlish laaaaa....)

NYC Day 2 + USOpen Women Final

We work up early today. Andrea had bought her ticket to Liberty Island to meet Ms Statue Lib at 9am. We went straight to Battery Park. While she board the ferry, I went for some breakfast. Then walk around the downtown area of Manhattan. Wall St, Ground Zero (which there was protest against building a new building on Groud Z) then was to NY Mercantile Exchange, The World Financial Building. Later we went to United Nation and Grand Central Station. Then from UN we walked all the way to Metropolitan Art Museum. Along the way we stumble upon the Peruvian embassy on 49th. Unc called and suppose to meet him in Chinatown for lunch. Met Maricel at the steps to the Museum. We decide to head to Chinos-town to meet Unc for lunch. Lunch was a nostalgic one. Remind me of the "chak fan" back home. My first time in US to have this kinda Chinese restaurant but apparently according Unc its all over Chinos-town in NYC....After lunch we went on seperate direction. Me and Unc went to Chinese Electornic store and JRD to cheack out PsP for my cousin while Andrea and Mari went to Lil Italy. Learn that buying stuff in Chinos-town you can have to luxury of not paying tax.
Later we took the 7 train to Flushing. Andrea got confuse as she stop at the last stop of 7 train but the tennis stadium is at Shea Stadium. Tons and tons tennis fans came flooding into the stadium as each 7 train arrive. We found out that the men's final would be Andrea Agassi who beat a newcomer while Federer bear Hewitt. We took load of picture in the ground, went to the globe and did a little people watching before went intot the stadium. We each given a JP Morgan Chase hat at he door. The opening ceremony for the Women Final was pretty fancy with fire works and singing of Americ the Beautiful by a choir and a unknown artist. Kim Clijsters vs. Mary Pierce. For the first time watching a Grand Slam tournement...i would rate this match at 70%. The beginning was pretty interesting where Kim and Mary gave a brilliant performance. But as the game run to the 2nd set Mary could not perform as good as she did in the 1st set. She had to rap her thigh and also prob is her age has cought up with her compare to Kim who is only 22. Final score 6-3, 6-1.

Clijsters climb up the stand to her family after the final point. Beside she also won additional 1.1 mil add to her winning check of 1.1mil. thanks to her triumphs in three of four US hardcourt tournaments linked together by the US Tennis Association as the US Open Series. After the match we decide not to follow the crowd head downtown instead we head towards Flushing for some supper. It was a nostalgic moment again for me. Its a amazing to find chinese restaurant open until 2am. remind me of "siang malam" in bukit china and all the "char koew teow" for midnite supper back home. After supper it was a long long ride back to Brooklyn.

Ground Z, UN, long walk to Art Museum, 1st Chinese "chak fan" in US, USOpen women final and 1st Chinese food supper in US......

Em Left + NYC + USOpen =Sadness/Happiness

Em didnt really sleep this morning cause she had to pack her whole life into 2 luggages and 1 carry on. She spend the whole nite packing and sorting things out in the living room while Unc M sleep in the living room cause the day before he had given his bed away to A.Banana. Somewhere between 2 am and 4, I manage to catch some ZZZs. After we sort everything out and put everything into the bad, we realise that maybe we dont have that many stuff after all. Or prob some of the stuff we already send home or worst still....it going to appear when it my turn to pack come Sept30th. We'll see....
We load Em's lug into the car and drove the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. To our suprise Mr Noodle already waiting there when we arrive la..I thought that he would be at his usual MIA(from his previous promise with Norton) Then A.Banana came with Elma(she left before we even met her) Em's flight is at 6.20am while A .Banana was catching a flight also this morning to NYC at 6am while mine is at 8.20am also to NYC la. After checking in the lug and said goodbye to A.Banana we head to our fav airport hang out place...Starbucks. Emir appear while we were stoppping by to w.draw $ @ the atm. At this point Ms.Fickle minded Tan could not decide on the amount of cash. It took 4 financial counsultant from Peru, US, Tunisia and Malaysia to finally convince her the correct amount.Chat about the ppl in MC, we chat about the life in STL.......etc. Then came the sad moment about 6am when we walk her to the gate A. But wait!!! Emily is flying AA. AA in Lambert is in Gate C. hahahahahaha....we got the wrong gate being to emotional. SO EMOTIONAL laaaa.. Then we turn back head back to Gate C. Bid our final farewell, shed a few tears, hug...etc. She took a last look and that was it. "Emily has left the building!!!!" She was all but gone from STL. 1.5 year just fly by like that. So sad la.....sobs.....sobs.......sobs......
Emir left while Justin and Mauricio walk me to the train station to East Terminal for my flight on SouthWest to Chicago. I knew it would come but I tried to control it. I told myself a million times not to do it but when the moment came.......all hell broke loose!!. I cried. My life here in US has given me a chance to meet great and wonderful people and Mauricio is one of them. I just couldnt imagine my daily life without "bitching" and "arguing" with him. I cannot bear the idea that I will not be hearing anymore of his whining. So sad la....arghhh..... After a hug and handshake we went our seperate ways. Thats the last time i will see Mauri in STL..... While waiting at the terminal i just couldnt stop thinking about the happy times in STL...until when Em call me from Chicago.....i accidentaly hung up the phone....argghh. Flight from STL - Midway (chicago) then to LaGuardiaNYC. Arrive in NYC call A.Banana and we met at Madison Square park. Then we took the sub to Brooklyn Bridge station to meet me amor Flavia O. We walk to the middle of B.Bridge took pics and called Mauricio. While the gals chat away with Mauricio , I enjoy the magnificant view of NYC. We later took a walk to ground Zero, Wall St, NYSE and Trinity Church. Then we got tired of the bag that we were carrying the whole day, we decide to drop it at 86th St + 2Ave, where Mari's foster family house is. Its a pretty cool place with lots of restaurant. We experience the Friday Jews Bread cutting ceremony. Its was a pretty cool experience. I got chance to wear a kippah...a yellow one!! We went to a pizza place for dinner. It pretty weird to only order pizza in slices (but they are BIG) as usually we would order like the whole pizza...weird. After dinner me and adrea head to Brooklyn to my Uc's place. When we arrive at his place he was waiting outside his house trying to call my cell. He was waiting for me since 11.30pm...and it was nearly 1am. Apparently he left the house key with his friend who also has been waiting for us since 4.30pm. Got a piece of advice from my Unc about keeping ppl waiting......lesson learned......Unc cooked some noodle for us for supper and after that straight to Zzzzz.....

The Day Emily left St Louis, cried @airport, Unc M left, arrive in NYC, lesson from my Unc....

Uncle M' Bday

Today is Mauricio birthday. Finally he keep his promise after 1.5 year promise to cook the turkey for us...haahahahaha...we finally manage to force him to cook for us. It was nice of him to put in so much effort to cook the turkey. He even woke up early today just to prepare the turkey....on his birthday....
It was a long process. I felt bad so around 12 I woke up and lend him a hand with the cooking. The kitchen was in the mess. After i help him to clean up a little went back to bed.
Woke up about 645pm and everyone was waiting in the living room. Serenella T, Stefano, Stephanie, Sara was already waiting. Then Maria and her bf came while Jamile went and bought a cake. A. Banana came last. There wasnt enough space for everyone so we have to serve the turkey in buffet style...ahahaha.

After dinner we took out the cake and sang H.Birthday in Eng, Cantonese, Germany, Finnish, Spanish and Italian...hhahahaha....we found out also that although its in Spanish but there are many version to it while the Brazillian Portuguese birthday song involve interaction among the crowd....what a entertaining birthday song....We made Unc.M gave a speech....Later Serenella , Stephanie and Sara left while the rest of us continue to do our sharing ...

Turkey for a Peruvian birthday party....