Yatta!!!!

New guy added to my "celeb crush" list, after repeated viewings of a particular "Heroes" trailer (huh???). Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours, Zachy! :) .... because every girl loves a bad-ass rebel.

I'm still at Season 1 where Sylar hasn't even appeared, so no spoilers please! :p

Diarios de motocicleta.

New(?) photos of my favourite Latino lover. We share okay, Kavipuff and Cecil! ;)

Pics from gaelgarciadaily.livejournal.com, my daily feed of all things Gael. :)

Always be my baby.

David Cook...

My American Idol 2008! <3

Somewhere a clock is ticking.

As I was walking back to my office to pack up and leave yesterday, I crossed paths with a tall, bespectacled (GOOD LOOKING) Caucasian guy along the corridor (hey, when you work in an environment like mine, any guy can become Brad Pitt). I almost had to do a double take because it felt as if he was some hot martian from outer space who DID NOT fit in with the puzzle that forms our boring, mundane, female-dominated, eye candy parched workplace. Anyway, since I'd never seen him before, I just uttered a soft and polite "Hi" and entered my office.

Moments later he walked past my office along the corridor again, so I asked instinctively, "Are you new?"

In retrospect, I thought of many VERY lame answers to my own question, but I'm glad he did not answer them in any of those ways.

In fact, he'd already walked PAST my office, but upon hearing my question, he backtracked and stopped right in front of my door. We then had a short conversation about who he was and why he was here, where he came from and how long he was going to be here for, blah blah blah...

Post-doctorate, and just one month in this country, he said. One short month. :(

...... I'm shattered. Just when I thought he'd be here to permanently salvage the dire situation of a lack of eye candy at work. Baaaaah.

Oh well, at least he appreciates good film too. I saw a copy of the SIFF program booklet on his desk. :)

I've nicknamed him 'Freddie Meatballs' together with HJ (hmm... private joke). :p

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess.

Snow Patrol - Run.

Oh well. If I can't have meatballs, xiaolongbaos tonight would do fine, too! ^_^ Hmm. I think I need lifetime membership at DTF...

Riot in Thunder Alley.

3 April
13 April
14 April
16 April
27 April
14 May
16 May
20 May
23 May
25 May

I kind of enjoy being supposedly 'obscenely savant' and being able to shock people around me with the things I miraculously remember, but I wish I could just as easily let go of certain dates in my memory... and of course, the events associated with them.

Maybe we're trying
Trying too hard
Maybe we're torn apart
Maybe the timing
Is beating our hearts
We're empty.

The Click Five - Empty.

Beautiful Stranger II

After meeting (and sharing an amusing brief moment with) Beautiful Stranger I in Cambodia over a year ago, I'd never met another guy who managed to steal my heart in less than a split second without any interaction whatsoever... until this week.

Close to 11 on a Tuesday morning and as I walked into Starbucks at Bugis Junction looking for a table to sit at, I spotted a well-dressed-in-office-wear Asian guy sitting on a sofa-seat in a corner, reading the paper and sipping a hot coffee (I like good looking men and I like coffee, but I LOVE it even more when the two of them go together). He had his eyes focused downwards on the paper, but at that moment I just KNEW he was going to be 'above average', or at least 'my type'. As I walked past him, my eyes stole a glance at the paper he was concentrating so intently on, and... gasp - a Japanese newspaper (he was indeed not a local, haha).

I immediately sat down at a table where I thought I could spend the day 'observing' him without obstructions to my excellent view. I did a mental full body check: Hairstyle - pass, face - pass, clothes - pass, shoes - pass, ring on left hand - NIL (why this even mattered to me, I have NO IDEA), reads Japanese news - pass (this proves he is not a dumb ass and is passionate about current affairs).

After putting my things down, I went to the counter to get a drink. Minutes later I got back to my table thinking, this is where my fun will start... but to my dismay, I only got to sit down for literally a few seconds when he finished what seemed like his second cup of coffee, folded his paper, took out a pair of brown glasses from his briefcase and put them on (*swoons* I love a guy in geeky glasses!!!). I knew he was leaving. Just when I was so thrilled to see him. :(

And guess what he did.

He placed the two cups of coffee together on the tray, stood up, and returned it to the counter (!!!). I noted that he exchanged a polite 'thank you' with the barista before he walked out the glass door... along with my heart. *sighhhh* I have to admit that he totally scored brownie points from me with that tiny insignificant gesture. What a gentleman, and a good looking one, too. :)

At that moment it hit me. It's not so much that my standards are impossibly high. It's just that I know too well what I want and don't want in my partner, so my criteria becomes too specific and narrow such that it makes me seem like a very picky person. Besides, I'm not your average slender, submissive long-haired Singapore girl, so it's not as if I get much male attention anyway! The truth is, I hardly meet anyone here who fits the bill, and even when I do, the circumstances under which I meet them are way too unrealistic for me to try to spark off a connection, let alone a friendship OR a relationship. Nice looking guy on public transport, Starbucks, ruined temples in foreign exotic countries, blah blah blah. How to initiate anything without coming across as desperate or a freak??? So, in all such situations, I have no choice but to let it go. :(

Sigh, it's okay it's okay... because according to my very own Sour Grapes theory once again, this nihonjin is probably attached, gay, very chauvinistic, addicted to Japanese porn, has low English proficiency and speaks with a terrible Japanese accent.

That being said, isn't it funny how I'm always meeting eye candy at Starbucks?!

I looked into your face
My heart was dancing all over the place.

Madonna - Beautiful Stranger.

So don't let me down.



If I swam the longest river just to call your name
If I said the way I feel for you will never change
Would you ever
Fool around?

An evergreen classic I grew up listening to, and I still like it lots. Sappy sappy!! ^_^

Not my lover.



David C. (tied with David A. for top spot in my heart) from American Idol 7 takes on the great Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". Oh dear, I think my heart just stopped!!!! But I mean it in a good way. ;)

*happy sigh* Indeed my dream come true. ^_^