Korean Day. Because

Moments before Melbourne

I was talking to my Korean colleagues today and somehow the topic of my friend Zack surfaced. They were in awe and couldn't stop going on about what a great guitarist he is. So in honour of Zack, this is one of my favourite songs of his which he played with Cosmic Funk Express ages ago.

When I first heard it, Zack had recorded it solo on his computer and let me hear it on a 2GB USB mp3 player. There were 3 demos he let me have and till today I love listening to it.

Anyway, here is Korean Boy by CFE.

Korean Boy - Cosmic Funk Express

May-be

This be the month of May, but what may happen in May may not be what I wanted. To my dismay I have maybe stretched the boundaries of clubbing mayhem and landed a sickness.

Envie opened last month and I have been a loyal, loyal supporter. When I say loyal I actually mean really really loyal. I did not go to any other bar except for Envie, not even across the steet to Frangipani or down the road to Twenty-One.

In early stages of Envie life I used to have a drink called Wrath. Then to support my boyfriend's cocktail I'd have one glass of 'Vietnamese Guerilla'. After we revised it I began ordering glass after glass after glass. Here is what it looks like. So if you see one of these at Envie you know what it is.

Strawberrilicious.

This brings me to my next issue of life.

Following many late nights at Envie + Vietnamese Guerilla x LOTS = sore throat. I did see a doctor but I neglected to care for my sickness and fell into a sicker well of cough and phleggmmm. *choke

My medicine corner.

And then there is this random picture when Mike and I shopped for Envie's Sunday barbecue for close friends & family. We shopped so much that our cart was full to the brim. No. It was full OVER the brim. We even had a leaky pack of chicken laying out a trickle of red road for other people to slip and fall on.

Buns away...

All in all for the sake of writing and because I got bored with my own work this has been a standard random post to entertain not you, but I who felt like I should blog a line or two.

Heal My World

Years have gone by since I first began blogging, and I've noticed the decline of my literary skills. Juggling a job, new address, a relationship, and friends has indeed been a great fulfillment of my life, thus making me content.

Suffice to say a sacrifice had to be made, and that sacrifice is my attention to certain detail. My memory can no longer retain bulks of information, rather only holding on to the gist of events.

I have realised the essentials I have parted with contributed to a great deal of who I am and what I do. I stopped reading. When that happened, my brain fell ill. To further infuse this brain failure, I quit my gym and joined a full-fledged yoga gym, which I now go pretty much NEVER.

So it's time I get Stephanie back.

All I need is time.

And time is what I don't have.

Yes, I should make time.

But time is precious.

I save it for the people I love, and neglect the things that make me better.

My current life has been in a bout of emotional waves and I fear the greatest wave of all, the feelings of depression. Of course I am not, but you know how they say 'prevention is better than cure' right?

Step 1: Get to the gym
Step 2: Read a book
Step 3: Lose weight

I have everything else in life except these 3. They were once my best friends who made me mentally and physically strong.

Operation Stephealy (Heal Steph) needs to get underway.

Visuality

As I now work for an online magazine, I have learned a few tricks to posting pics and videos. So let me try to do this, play with html and stuff....

Ok I have just realised there is a "add video" button. So I will just use that.

Let's begin the 'Visualisation' of my blog by going back to the beginning of the year. This new year's eve is one like no other before - for me. I spent it with my darling Mike at his best mate's apartment in Kuala Lumpur. Mike's family and family friends joined us at Danny's apartment and Jackie (mike's mum) prepared some lovely finger food.

It was a dim setting with house music playing whilst football was left on the big screen for the night. I had rose and white wine all night long and got a massive headache the next day.

Liam was the life of the party as he was only 8 years old and put on a few dance shows for us before retreating into Danny's room to play the Xbox in between.

10 minutes before midnight, we went down to the pool deck to catch a glimpse of 2009's 00:00 fireworks display. After the performance against the KL sky line, Liam got pushed into the pool and continued to swim around before being tossed in by Richard and Mike, and later tossed into the air by Dan, Danny and Shaheen.

So here's Liam being thrown into the pool in Danny's place at New Year's Eve. I think I can only upload ONE video at a time and it's taking awhile to load. It's not even a long video!





And below is the sequel.



The other videos were supposed to go onto Facebook but I only managed to upload ONE. Uploading videos are such a bitch. Takes forever, and doesn't necessarily process properly so it doesn't get uploaded.

I'll put the rest up another time - like tomorrow. This gives me things to post on my blog!!