earthquake

beijing was mildly affected when the earthquake ripped through cities and towns over on the other side of the country. i was through a press release when i felt a fainting spell. and when i looked up, saw the room spinning. i felt sick and my first thought was that something terrible was wrong in my body. vita, who was sitting next to me let out a moan and said it was an earthquake.

we had to evacuate so jiana and i, while the rest of the office were still at a loss, took the lift down. downstairs everyone had gathered and crowded the streets. i saw everyone peering skywards and jiana said they were looking to see the sky change colour which supposedly happens during an earthquake. we walked past the people and the mad traffic and to the phone shop to get her a recharge card. then we went to macdonald's, got a hot chocolate and sat on the bar table watching the frantic crowd outside. an hour later, we were back in the office and news got round that there had been a massive earthquake in sichuan.

the next day i received a call from my client notifying me to be on standby. now that the tragedy has happened, every foreign corporation wants to pledge their loyalty and support. so press releases and official letters to the government and media had to be drafted as soon as possible.

last night joa and i had dinner with tilly at a singaporean restaurant in our vicinity. it's called Lau Pa Sat and and it had one of those simple coffee shop decor which wasn't impressive. although we had been warned but joa and i still enthusiastically ordered black carrot cake, char kway teow, fried hokkien noodle, sambal fishcake, and 3 cups of ice milo. the food was bland and the portion was too small. worst of all, we paid almost SGD40 of what we probably could have get at 10 times better quality at just half the price. no way would i ever tell my dad about this experience. we swore never to return to Lau Pa Sat.

finally i bought 转角遇到爱, both season one and two! stumbled unto it at the video store outside the peking duck restaurant. the pricetag writes SGD39.90 for the double bundle so i waited till the next day and went back to get it at SGD24. not exactly a steal but an okay price. it debuts tonight on our tv set.

my canadian housemate returns home this monday, leaving his room paid and vacant till june so we need to look for another housemate. meanwhile, on our way home yesterday, joa asked me how much i loved him and i said, "as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky". i asked him the question in return and he thought for a bit before answering, "as deep as the ocean but not as high as the sky because at least the ocean as a limit". so yeah. i'm convinced there's a cap to his love for me.

he's been bugging me about his moisturiser of late. china has a bad stock of body lotions and moisturiser and the very few ones that are available cost a might. it just occurred to me that i've been looking so hard for his moisturiser that i've completely forgotten that we've run out of garlic in the kitchen and how am i to stir fry the chicken and the cabbage tonight?

i also need to get shrimp sauce and a toaster oven. was thinking of going to the zoo this saturday but there's a thunderstorm out there and the weather's been just miserable of late. so maybe we can just have a slow saturday and head to carrefour to have sushi and shop.

can't wait to get off work. there's a quake in my head. oopsie! bad time to joke like that.