coffee prices have risen, taxi prices have risen, petrol prices are exorbitant, mrt fares have risen, bus fares are going to rise..but salaries have stayed put! singaporeans complain but they know they can do little because we'd just be put down, crushed, fined and black-marked. il faut ecrire en francais en cas des amendes. je ne veux rien d'ennui. enfin, le gouvernement devient avide de plus. 41 ans d'independance, 41 ans de l'autorite..j'etais satisfait du parti, en fait, je suis en faveur d'eux, mais ils jetaient ma confiance petit a petit. ils sont si intelligents. qu'est-ce que les autres nationalites font dans telles situations? ils font des greves. mais, le gouvernement sais que nous ne pourrons jamais faire comme ca.

on a happier note, i finally met up with my pals! and i finally zouked and sheesha-ed..the clubs in spore are definitely better..minus the drinks :P

ooh ooh! i got the wedding photos finally.





















(1) immediate families at the signing of the marriage certificate.
(2) entering the banquet hall!
(3) bride unveiled
(4) à la santé!

and i couldn't believe it! when kor and diana were at berlin, they saw the whole brazilian team going out of hotel Kempinski, including KAKA AND RONALDINHO...!! grrrr...so lucky. the horse dashed up the bus last, apparently afraid to catch the public attention, so diana couldn't catch it on video. so sad. but at least i gotta see my kaka :) he's really cute. i bet that even you haven't seen the brazilian team up front. heehee.

and it was really funny. we realized that me and eug, pete and di went to the exact same places to tour and we all took the same photos. haha. great minds do think alike! i'm gonna miss my bro now that he's not ard at home :(

and thiago, je suis desolée..my video camera model can't digitalize the video of the chantilly fireworks. hope my bro's video cam can tho, then i can upload the video of the football team!

and then there were goodbyes to be said. so many. heart wrenching, tear jerking.

i love their spirit and passion, all of them 40 odd pple crowded in this tiny room to support their country. i'm a changed woman, i'm a football supporter!

but it's good, cos catching the world cup fever was easy. it was so fun in europe. baby came to join me to travel after exams. it was berlin -> prague -> vienna -> salzburg -> munich -> paris. berlin was all bout world wars, learnt all of it in 2 days. praha was apparently damn gd for partying, but somebody was too much of a square. :) we joined ida and lydia in vienna, and saw the city upside down on a crazy amusement ride. salzburg was beautiful with all the mountains and rivers and obscure castles atop. munich was more history and concentration camps haha..loved it, all the gore and torture. muahaha. paris was the eiffel and a ballet that i had to drag an uncultured baby to watch one. now that was a shoddy summary but oh well.

i'm back up on my feet, on the ground, in the real world and obviously back in singapore for good. without nympho, without beer, without french, but it's been cool.

so lemme backdate to show you guys what's been up in my life :)

spain - 24 to 29 May
madrid was pretty much just shopping, museums, cool urban life, the santiago bernabeu stadium of real madrid and a day trip to toledo.
we caught a flamenco performance and bull fights. flamenco's such sad music, plenty of guitar but amazingly skillful guitar..dragging the notes from the highest to the lowest, making cool sounds. talking bout which, too bad i can't put a sound clip here, it's "total eclipse of my heart" guitar version just for me! :P














hated the bull fights. filled with black market tickets and rowdy men betting on bulls. the silliest thing to bet on. and obviously men will win bulls, i mean it's 5 (maybe more) men against 1 bull..and sometimes, when the bull charged towards one of them, he wld run behind the gate. i guess it's a rule in the game but it makes humans looks like cowards.

barcelona
this was the clincher that made me love spain! antoni gaudi's works fill the city with dream-like curves. and the pubs and beaches are cool.