Mine

February 10th, 2010

Today I drove Phoebe to Jalan YapKwanSeng and paid for her last payment.
She is 100% mine from today onwards…and I’m contemplating getting rid of her. Not in the cant-wait-to-get-rid-of-her-ugh sense but more like thinking about how it’s not feasible for me to keep her when I’m only going to be back once a year or less. The current arrangement is not looking well because she’s not exactly being kept in tip-top condition (sad but true).

I want to bask in this moment for as long as possible – that I have some kind of property (albeit a depreciating one *hehe*) – but I have to be practical. Everyone’s telling me that I have to be. Everyone’s saying it’s just a car (ooo! Don’t let Phoebe hear this or she may sulk!) but I have a hard time even when THINKING of letting her go because she’s my first purchase. First BIG purchase and commitment. It’s been 5 years – that’s quite some time, y’know.

I really hate to be practical at this very moment.
:bum:

Bye HK!

February 9th, 2010

Tuesday
Check-in online.

Tuesday
Hazel showed me her scrapbooking stash and also asked me to write something in their guestbook (guestbook weiii! Don’t play play! *hehe*). I thought I would look into her sticker collection and nip one or two but didn’t really dare to lah! So sayang. Anyway, I did steal a few coloured hearts.
:D

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Bits and bobs

February 8th, 2010

Here and there
“Romantic” walkway between OlympianCity and ParkAvenue.

Here and there
Outside the concierge.

Here and there
CNY decoration.

Here and there
The last view from the room that was my space for the past few days.

Here and there
Random – plum flowers lining the sides of escalators.

Blue skies

February 8th, 2010

Last day in HK and I FINALLY got to see some blue skies. Unfortunately, it didn’t last long.

Monday
And the sun came out for a while, too!

Monday
Blue skies WERE there…but the clouds quickly covered it as I got out of bed and reached for the camera.
:(

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Old friends

February 7th, 2010

After dumping all the shopping back at Poreiz’s place, I headed out again to meet HongHui and ChoiFong for dinner. HongHui had class till 5pm (wooohoo! Back to school!), so we were planning to meet at 530pm at Admiralty station. I think I was late…because he offered to meet me at Central instead and we went to TaiKoo station. I had no idea where I was going, I was just following the leader.
:D

He said I could spot him easily because he had a backpack and (at that time I didn’t understand what he meant) a nasal inhaler (because he was unwell) – it took me a while, especially when I can’t see clearly (neither can he because he’s unwell)…and even when I THOUGHT I saw him, I had to walk (almost) right into his face before I could go, “HELLO!”

Sen-Ryo
Hong said it is their favourite restaurant and the mall was ChoiFong’s favourite haunt when they were staying in the old apartment.
:hee:

Sen-Ryo
He was surprised there was a long queue even though we arrived earlier than normal dinner time.

Sen-Ryo
Serving #150. What was our ticket? #162?
:P

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