Old Fashioned Guppy

A recent series of debate and conversation had set me thinking.

I always thought i was a born romantic. That I would stand by my chosen man , for richer or poorer, through sickness or in health till death do us part .

But i also subscribed to the idea...that you know, my man..life partner..will take care of my every material, want and needs...i will be super well taken care of.. never starve or want for anything bla bla bla..(Oh come on i dont believe im the only one who subscribes to this idea --->, u read the fairy tales, did Cinderella, Snow white, Belle, Repunzel etc go for the ugly, poor non-prince ? absolutely Not ...its always the rich handsome prince) and they lived happily ever after. because he is a prince! he will provide for her take care of her and love her forever and ever and ever and ever!

i Wiki-ed the word " husband" and found alot of stuff...but one line stands out to me : In premodern times a husband was supposed to protect and support not only his wife and children, but servants and animals of his domain, and the father was awarded with much authority differing from that of his wife.

I always dreamed that the one i chose will be ambitious, successful, rich , flambouyant, charming, loving, devoted and i will be the intelligent loving woman behind him and his every success. Fast forward to today .. what do i do if

• I make more than the man of my dreams
• I am more aggressive and ambitious than the man of my dreams
• The man of my dreams wants to stay home , and work from home
• The man of my dreams subscribes to the notion a wife is just as responsible to protect and support not only her husband and children, but servants and animals of her domain, but still obey and allow the husband to be man of the house. lord of his domain.

Does this mean he is NOT the man of my dreams?

This debate went on over the weekend... as i argued and debated with him over the traditional roles within a family unit. we could not reach any mutually acceptable agreement on this idea.

I decided I will be the small woman, I will make soup for he who wants to be taken care of financially, physically , mentally by his woman.

the simple ingredients : Potato, radish, wolf berries, carrot , red dates , braised peanuts fresh chicken thigh pieces chop up all the veggies , wash the chicken pieces , toss everything into a slow cooker , poor in boiling hot water and switch on the cooker...leave to stew for 4 hours ...Voila! delicious soup is ready with minimal fuss

As i watched him drink my home made soup, one constant thought ran through my mind. I much prefer to make the soup watch him drink it happily... than bring home the bacon. Will i change my mind? Will I be willing to give up my dream job : to be a nuturing little woman, a supportive wife? whose main job was to make my home , my family the only career goals of my life? Only time will tell...
Heheh meanwhile, the soup was...super delicious if i do say so myself , and true to form, i really do make idiot proof delicious nutritious soups!

I Win !

I said it before and I'll say it again...

Nobody denies the guppy what she wants muahahahahha!!

Oh dont be mistaken, Im not that hard up to watch a movie with this guy, I just wanted to watch a movie with him because he actually said - "No" . Nobody says "No" to this guppy..muahhahah!

It all happened a couple of months back, i was bored and proposed watching a movie with this buddy, and he actually declined because to him watching a movie was an activity you do only with your Lover/date ...boooooooo with that i told him , "You will watch a movie with me, I promise you!"

...and we did on 28th November 2009 at 720pm. So nyeah!

Whats up with young people these days, have we all run out of ideas on what to do on dates that the only thing we can think of doing with our lover/girlfriend/boyfriend is to go watch a movie with them? what happened to watching movies with platonic friends ? where the hell do they get all these silly warped ideas? how is watching a movie an "intimate act" .. Im speechless ...

oh as a side note , there was another lesson to be learnt, and i will share with all of you here my happie gupsters : if you are gonna act all principled and have a strict code of conduct and all (watch movie only with lover) , then dont get caught in the act (watch movie with lover and all her friends, btw she was not your lover when u went to watch the FIRST movie with her lor so nyeah) what a load of nonsense this whole thing has been.

In any case... I win I win I win

Oh incase you are wondering why there were 3 ticket stubs ? yeah i asked porkchop to join us but he couldnt make it , so we had an empty seat between us...

yes yes...sigh since he already gave in to watch a movie...despite his silly ideas... might as well make him comfy with a seat between us :P I am kind to those i defeat muahhahaha..

nut jobs...you find them everywhere these days...must be the water we are drinking

Happie Night Out

Banzai to long weekends! Banzai Banzai Banzai!

Met up with Fluffy for dinner and drinks last night. Its been quite awhile since i last met fluffy. Since it was going to be a public holiday on Friday , we decided to head down to Balaclava to join some of fluffy's friends to party and enjoy some happie booze !

Kulcha was going to join us - but only after he finished with his dinner date with friends later in the evening.

But before the happie boozin, ofcourse this little guppy had to be fed! Fluffy and I decided to head down to the nearby Waraku japanese restaurant and feed ourselves a sumptuous japanese dinner !

Guppies love japanese yum yums! Ofcourse we had to engage in some serious cam whoring while we dined :)

It was good to catch up with fluffy before her upcoming wedding ...i was shocked to learn the girl has planned for the first week of december to settle alot of her wedding needs.

GIRL...YOU NOW HAVE LESS THAN A MONTH TO GO BEFORE YOUR BIG DAY!!!! No more dawdling! stresss.....

Check out our mouth watering yum yums!

Tuna Gespaccio

Beef kaninabe...a hot pot o soup contained in heat proof paper heated over a naked flame

chargrilled bacon wrapped quail eggs

Grilled Unagi (eel) with sesame seeds sprinkled all over...and fluffy posing with the bottle of sesame seeds hahaha

After the happie meal, which we over-ate as usual, we decided to take a short stroll around the mall to walk off the food before we head down to Balaclava to meet with fluffy's friends.

It was love at first sight

And then we met him -- the cutest most handsome cutie cutie we had ever seen.. we could not resist his charms ..... we had to take a picture with him...

Awww Gingerbread man...will you be my man ?

No! He's mine! Guppies love rich sweet and totally irresistable gingerbreadmen who love shopping!

White White Whine......stay close to meeeeeeee

The evening ended with lotsa white wine and booze at Balaclava...fluffy's friends actually booked 3 tables at the place. At first i felt abit shy ..hahah i didnt know any of Fluffy's friends, but they were all very friendly and generous. a flew glasses of wine later..haha i felt right at home. I bought a bottle of whitey, fluffy bought a bottle of whitey ..her friends bought gin, and other funny funny drinks..

Kulcha eventually joined us later in the night, and he too bought i dunno i think by that time i lost count..was it 2 or 3 bottles of whiteys? hehehe not sure but by the end of the night, i decided it would be better to leave my car at the mall and take a cab home instead. Its amazing, Fluffy drank quite abit but she was still sober enough to drive home ...while Kulcha..as usual turns beet red with just one glass of booze..hahaha

As i rolled into bed in a tipsy high, i recalled my last few jumbled thoughts were :

• Wah im happy a buddy is going places embracing new opportunities
• Do rolling stones really gather no moss? is the world really small enough now for geographic distances to not matter? sigh...i hope so.
• Is Fluffy's male friend Calvin really gonna be her bridesmaid?
• Where is my car ?
• Hahahaha its fun to watch women flirt when they get high...party on...

Cheers Babes!

Tonkichee Treat!

A well fed guppy is a happie guppy...

I am a loved guppy indeed...just this week alone, so many friends have fed me lunches, dinners, yes indeedy..let the feeding continue..

Today i had something to look forward to..afterwork, I was meeting Tracie for dinner at an old favourite - Tonkichi restaurant at Suntec City. And the best part about this dinner? Tracie was giving a treat muahhahaha...

But before i headed out there , I caught up with moomoo and Kulcha at the Amara Hotel ,hehe they were on their way to some other spot, but moo thought she would bring some pressies for me and Tracie -- a big ol bunch of pretty orchids! ( light green with purple centres!) before they headed off.

So pretty -- guppies love flowers...ofcourse I had to camwhore with my pretty pressie..
Tracie got her bunch of orchids when i finally caught up with her at the Tonkichi restaurant, ofcourse I made her pose for the guppy cam with her flowers too :Dawwww so pretty...

And then it was on to some serious dining --
Tonkichi is no simple japanese cuisine joint, ...it is THE place to eat japanese deep fried pork cutlet meals!
Pork katsu....

prawn tempura, oysters, croquette, and a pork cutlet for this guppy -- yeah i need variety! A well fed guppy is a happie guppy...

After dinner we went window shopping around suntec city mall...sigh so many pretty shiny things ...i want to buy em all...but ofcourse the greedy guppy mind is willing, but the guppy wallet is weak...sigh sigh sigh..

We then took a quick detour to enjoy some sweets...at this dessert joint ...for the life of me i cant remember the restaurant name... but dont worry, everything looked pretty but alas the desserts...didnt really taste as good as they looked.

This was the mango sorbet and crepe we ordered...because it looked pretty hahha it was crepe with marangues layered one on top of another...the sorbet and mango sauce were so tarty and sour it made tracie's eyelids twitch everytime she took a mouth fool..it was hilarious

This was our dessert "fantasy" i think...an assortment of chocolates and macaroons.. pretty and cute...but only the strawberry macaroon looked and tasted like a proper macaroon...everything else either lacked that omph, or was just funny tasting...

Tracie thought the lavender dessert tasted like soap... hahahah i thought it was ok....erm coz i never ate soap before HAHAHAHHAAHHA

This dessert had a real cute TINYYYYY macaron on top of the creation... it tasted like some indian sweet bean pastry...it wasnt funny...yes the desserts really do not taste like they look... we were sorely dissapointed

" If we were food critics i swear this place wont last long...the desserts here cannot make it...hahahha" cried Traciebut the tiny macaroon is shoooooo cutesy !!!

Damn it, all that sugar and calories..wasted on sub standard sweets...we will stick to Canele next time babe!

Hustled by a Hustler!

Pool Hustler !
Tracie, Anthon, Moomoo ,Kulcha , Porkchop and I met up for dinner at this place called Tims ...in Toa Payoh, a neighbourhood restaurant , that serves up pretty good grilled steaks and the like .

As usual, Porkchop and I got lost trying to find the restaurant and were late...hehhehe when we finally found the place, we realised that we had actually visited this restaurant Tims before..but we knew it as a Nepalese food place, not a western steak place.

With more realistic prices at this restaurant set up, we ordered alot of food, everyone had their order of steaks, we ordered oysters kilpatrick, fresh oysters, baked scallops..there was soup, salad, garlic bread.. there was just so much food.. ( yes decadent dining again)

The food was too tempting, when it came, i could not be bothered to take pics of everyone elses order..just quickly took pics of my food so i could eat my steak and lobster dinner while it was still piping hot! hahaha Guppies lurve allll forms of seafood! especially Fresh Raw Oysters!

After dinner, the gang decided to go play a round of pool... This little guppy doesnt know how to play pool. but seeing as everyone said they were not good players...i went along anyway.

When we got there..and the game begun, it became very clear -- who was a pool virgin and who was a Hustler - who played like a pro grrrrr! We been hustled! Kulcha was a damn good pool player ...of the ANNOYINGLY GOOD variety hahahaha

Anthon can play but he is the ultimate gentleman beng, ofcourse he can play pool , now the biggest surprise for me, was when Porkchop picked up the cue and he could carry a game too! whoah... I never knew...

The women tried to play a game too.. but ahem as we were all non-pool players. our game took like FOREVER to end...think the guys got bored waiting ..hahaa although they did try their darnest to teach us HOW to sink a ball..ahem it just wasnt working...in the end we cheated so we could end out game and let the men continue on with the session proper.

I spent the evening watching the men play..,making some observations i never noticed before. I just realised...damn! Porkchop could be slightly taller of the 3,

and Porkchop actually had smallish defined arms? huh ? since when HAHAHAH.Hah or mabbe i was just too sleepy and he was wearing a tighter smaller sized tee, nevertheless..it was enough eye candy to keep me awake..

EH ofcourse i was perving lah...its a pool game for goodness sakes and i cant play pool ofcourse i perve at the guys lah!
Im a simple guppy !

This here pic of HUSTLER of the night...is blur...because he kept moving around. Yep seriously think Kulcha spent his youth playing pool, badminton, bowling and never went to school thats why he is so good at these games..damn it. THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING HE SUX AT! aaaaaa!

Needless to say..Anthon and Porkchop were defeated by Kulcha .

But it was a fun evening nevertheless

On the way back , I asked Porkchop when he started learning pool, and if he could teach me. his response : " Pool is a guys game la, not for little guppies. you need to calculate angles, and actually think .. girls play pool to impress the guys they like, thats about it., Pool is a boring game "

guppy : " boooooo. I can so calculate angles dammit! booo!"

HAND BURGER ANYONE ?

Sunday morning, woke up with nothing to do. I went to the waxing salon to get my waxing done and then met up with Porkchop for a round of Hand Burgers at City Hall!

Yep you heard me right - its Hand Burgers., not Hamburgers!

The place was bright, it was packed..we didnt really know what to expect but the pictures on the menu looked good! As it was the busy lunch hour, our food took awhile to get to us, so this guppy busied herself camwhoring :D

"Ok , prices on menu still look acceptable " declares Porkchop

We were pleased when our orders did arrive - everything looked yummy! Check out Porkchop's Blue Cheese Beef Burger! it came with this wierd baked tomato stuffed with salad thingy...

pear sits on top of blue cheese on top of thick slab of mince...spinach and lettuce...on toasted bread buns...YUM

"OK Guppy stop taking photos...eat eat eat " nags Porkchop "Not until you take a pic of me and my burger!" cried the guppy

This is my order --" The Works "handburger...bacon, sauteed mushroom, cheese, bullseye egg, sitting on slab of mince beef...tomatoes and lettucel...on baked toasted bread! DIVINE!

The damage...$43.31 ...yikes abit steep for burgers aint it ?

Guppy Warehousing Pte Ltd - for all your storage needs!

After the delicious Handburger meal, porkchop and i went to a few malls, i wanted to buy a new handbag but i just never found one that called out to me...they were either too boring, LV, or too expensive, Kwan Pen. sigh I went home empty handed ..

When i got home, i opened the door to one of my bedrooms and went into shock! This was what greeted me when i opened the door to one of my spare bedrooms...

My parents were in the midst of moving to their new place...and had decided to store their stuff in my spare bedroom..This is not "a few boxes" lor... Oh my gawd do you guys see the sewing machine? what the hell do we need a sewing machine for?

There is no way stuff accumulated over decades, in a big 2 storey house can all fit into a 4 bedroom government flat. And. no, my home is not a self storage warehouse facility! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

tomorow is another work day...

let there be no more surprises...peace peace

Quiet Night In

At last, Its finally Friday again.

The work day went by in a blur. It felt like i was just going through the motion, performing my job , like a robot, I wasnt inspired. I wasnt thinking. I was just..well doing. What is wrong with me? :P

By 430pm I could not take it anymore. I shut off my work PC, got the hell out of the office . Once out, I did not feel like going anywhere or doing anything . I just headed straight home took a shower...and fell into bed.

at around 730pm I felt hungry. i got out of bed...and headed to a nearby mall in search for dinner ...think I had bangkok chicken rice at some thai restaurant. And then i just roamed the mall in a dream like state...stepped into a jewelry store perved at some diamond earrings...almost blew 1k in there...until i saw my reflection in the mirror...Eeeks! I wore my teeshirt inside out! i was walking around the mall, perving at jewelry in a diamond boutique with my shirt inside out.

How embarassing.

By about 9pm i was back home again. all is quiet except for the kitties. I poured myself a glass of whitey and sat down in front of the telly , finally decided to start on this dinosaur puzzle i got recently.. hee hee ( yeah and decided to take pics as i worked along the way)

Check it out ..The Challenge :
yikes so many pieces... what the hell...the instructions looked complicated...

stressssssss... so many pieces..that all look alike...dammit!

OK ok I can do this!

Aaaaahh now the head has come together...

Kitty wants to help too! TADA!!!! yeah it wasnt that hard afterall....but too bad kitties just wanna swipe and chew at the dinosaur paper sculpture. where on earth can i display my exciting achievement for the day ??!

Im listening to some music now.

rats. that was my last glass of whitey.

Its the weekend .

woohoo.