Now here’s something you never thought you’d see..

Izzo is headed to Outward Bound School and will be best friends with Mother Nature for the next 10 days (!!)

Fear of heights? Check.
Fear of icky creepy crawlies (read: leeches)? Check.
Fear of being left alone to camp solo for one entire night? Check.
And last but not least…
Allergy to 7-hour jungle trekking and stinky mud? Check and double check.

Okies guess I’m all set to go, bright and early tomorrow too! :D :D :D

:(

People have actually said, “What am I gonna do without you for 10 freakin’ days?!” and “Wow.. so I’m not gonna get to see you for 10 days.”

I can only nod and sigh, accepting that there are just some things you are not allowed to refuse, especially since you’ve signed the contract that enables the programme management to send you to Lumut (where the OBS camp is), Timbuktu, Mars, or wherever they please! You just have no say.

But at the very least, I managed to see the people I wanted to see before I leave…

Tonight was a mish mash of uncertainties, a bandaged knee, and a scratched car. But ultimately, it was also about the color pink and mind reading and forgetting birthdays and just plenty of heartfelt smiles. :)

I’m gonna miss you guys! Yes
you,
you,
you,
you,
you,
and you.

=) Be good, and pray I don’t get lost in the jungle okie?

So much to blog about, but there’s no luxury of sitting down and typing it all down nicely at my own pace… My daily routine is all about getting up at an ungodly hour (5.30 AM!), wrap myself in the world of investment banking for 9 hours, rush home to shower and gobble up dinner, and then either go out or catch up on much needed sleep. And the next day? Repeat, rinse, cycle.

Yupp, I’m definitely back in the working life all right. Le sigh.

You know what? Martell + Sprite tastes a lot like Coke… Coke liquer.. Heh. :)

And two days ago, a thought came up while I was having prawn mee for dinner in Amcorp Mall’s Ka Fei Dian. See, if you know me well enough you’d know that I always eat egg white without touching the yolk. So it was the same for my bowl of noodles that night - the poor egg yolk got left behind, swimming in the lonely abyss of the soup.

Well, without saying a word, my friend had readily scooped the yolk and ate it in one smooth movement.

And it got me thinking, right… Like, in terms of being in a relationship, would you actually prefer someone who is the same as you - who’d only eat the white of the egg and leave the yolk aside, that would wastefully result in two uneaten yolks? Or is it better to have someone who likes eating yolk while you take the white, and thus neatly complementing your habits?

Believe it or not, this egg question got my mind occupied for one entire day.. Haha. It’s totally random I know, but heyy it can go to a much deeper level if you really think about it… Ermm yeahh really. :)

Okie it’s almost time to leave the office, and to face the oh-so-wonderful traffic jam all along the Federal Highway. Ta!

I realize today is already the 7th but…. Better late than never, rite? ;)

Okie since this is a good friend of mine, I shall spend a bit of time to talk of our friendship. Heh heh. We were coursemates back in MMU, and I guess I first heard of him back in first year (Alpha), of the infamous “Maggi Mee Story”. >:) Mwahaha. (You can ask him about that yourself.)

The first encounter we ever had was prolly in Beta year, when I saw that he had a bunch of hip hop songs in his Winamp and requested for a copy of all those songs since it was so hard to find people who liked hip hop. :P Ah the times when we were housemates for a year (during Gamma).. it was truly a blast. Hahaha. I remember how I’d buzz him on Yahoo Messenger every day when it was mealtime, saying I was hungry and asking him to rush the rest of our housemates YunJeen, LapCheong, EngSeen) to get ready to eat.. Mostly coz my room was downstairs and their rooms were all upstairs of the townhouse we rented together. And Ed would get into a hissy fit and say, “Heyy is that the only reason you’re gonna buzz me online?!” LoL But the truth was, we prolly chatted too much.. like, he was the 3 people I’d always message first when I log on. Because we shared the same sense of humor and we always laughed at the same stuff, it was easy to talk nonsensical crap with him. And he also knows most of deepest and/or dumbest secrets… Thanks for keeping them quiet ya, haha.

And being a hip hop boi, you can be sure that he has lotsa “cool” dance moves.. LoL All of us in the gang have learned the steps by heart, from Step 1 to Step 4. Right, guys?? *winks at LC, Peeka, Wayne*

Hehe all right, basically we’ve been friends for about 4 years now and even though we hardly meet up coz he’s busy 24/7, it’s good to know he’s just a nudge away on MSN and there’s always something to talk about, even when there’s nothing. Err yeahh. ;)

So yupp… happy birthday boo! :)

Lurve,
Isobelabounzz

I used to think that life had a plan for me
until I realized life had to be planned by me
–Nelly - N Dey Say

The song got released in 2005, but 3 years later it’s still great to listen to especially on a drowsy night like now. Ahh. :)

Okie before this becomes overly too stale to blog about (right now it’s just slightly stale :P), I had a blast at the Cameron trip two weekends ago. And it’s all thanks to YC Tours and Travel - should any of you have any holiday arrangement needs, I can always pass on YongChia’s and Hong’s numbers to you. ;)

The theme of the trip was, “A can of beer a day keeps me happy all day!” Sheer brilliance, isn’t it? Copyright of this quote belongs to Mr William Lee yeah. :P I can’t believe I actually managed to work on my 10,000-word report that night amidst all the partying we had at the apartment. Ahahah. *pats self proudly*

Here are some of the pictures we took:

(L-R)Dominic, Hui Ping, YongChia, Hong, Sally, William, Nuri, me, HanRen, Garick, JienSing, Pauline, Lawrence

At the Boh tea plantation!

Having tea at the Boh tea cafe… a refill of hot water was RM0.50 -_-”

Boys being boys

Last Saturday at Velvet was a letdown, from the less than inspiring songs they played, to the dodgy crowd. Maybe the regular patrons were all at KLue’s Urbanscapes instead that night? Hmm. But we still managed to entertain ourselves and the last hour before closing was actually pretty fun, rite? WASSUP! :D *waves at Sabrina, Garick, and HanRen*

A few nights before that, I somehow found myself at Sanctuary.. Well it was all RongPing’s fault, honestly! :P We were doing all right sipping tea at Winter Warmers and exchanging gossip, when RongPing saw some of her friends from hometown and they told us to meet them at Sanctuary later. And that was how we ended up ordering cocktails and playing drinking games and just shaking and wiggling at Sanctuary till 1 AM… Ooh, the DJ played Backstreet’s Back at one point. Hahaha that was weird.

At the Curve that night, RongPing and I spotted a guy that, coincidentally, we both knew from different friends… the world just keeps getting freakishly smaller and smaller each day. So yeah, this guy was WaiSoon’s friend, Charlie - and RongPing was right, he does resemble EngSeen in some ways, mostly his style and that same thick eyebrows with sleepy eyes look. It’s almost uncanny really. LoL (EngSeen, you gotta meet this guy someday! :D)

Steering this post to a more emo path now, what can I say about the state of my life now? Some major shit’s been going down… But today it doesn’t seem all that bad. All it took was a simple shift in perception, but time did help a lot. :) Sometimes I wish I could go back to my safe and happy place.. When I try to recall, it’s nothing more than a hazy picture painted by head-resting-on-shoulder moments, the distinct scent of passionfruit, that dimpled smile, and a feeling inside that says everything’s gonna be okay. Then again I wonder if I really do miss these little things as much as I would like to believe? I think I do, but I realize I say this without conviction…

… And lately, everything’s just been felt without conviction. Hmm. *goes off to bed to ponder some more*