Call me Annabel L

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY GAY LOVER IN WUHAN - YEELIN (30/3)
AND
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELLE CHOW CHIN MUN.
as you turn legal, stay safe and have fun enjoying being 21!
dreams come true!
i love you =)

Yao, Weiwei and I at the Gala Premiere of Shinjuku Incident. Yao lost his composture when Daniel Wu swaggered past. -tsk tsk-

From today onwards, I shall be known as Annabel L.
I reckon this is the only way to have a connection with Daniel Wu.
Maggie Q, Amanda S and Lisa S.
He loves women with their surname being defined by only a mysterious alphabet.
So therefore, I shall kick away the Lim and call myself
Annabel L.


Shinjuku Incident is a fabulous movie.
One of Jackie Chan's finest performance to date and will probably do down as one of Derek Yee's accolated directed movie. I shall be a biatch and spoil the fun by telling you what is it about and all since such info are readily available at a mouseclick or a flip of newspaper/magazine's movie review. What I would really say is that spending SGD10.50 on this movie is uber worth-it. The gripping storyline, climaxes and anti-climaxes, DANIEL WU BARING HIS PERKY BUTT, jackie chan's showing off his kung-fu chops...really, spend that 10.50 on this movie than say a meal at Pastamania?
Just bear in mind that, food, after digestion, becomes shit.
Daniel Wu's butt, will remain deeply etched in your mind.
-winks-

spot Yao's "salty pig hands"!

He is not only handsome or suave.
His name, should be next to the definition of "Handsome" in Oxford's Dictionary!
But of course, Takeshi Kaneshiro is my Greek God but we'll swoon over him another day, tonight belongs to Daniel Wu. -grins-

Vivo was bursting at its seams with the high volume of people (kaypohs and crazy fans) hanging around the red carpet hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars. I doubt anyone was there for Jackie Chan. I thought people were more interested in Daniel Wu and maybe...the enormous gargantuan nose of Jackie Chan. I was in for a surprise, many aunties and foreigners went "JAAACCCCCKKKIIEEEE" hysterically when he appeared with that mega watt smile on his weathered face.

Apparently, old (flirty!) men still has their charm over matured women.
Young girls like me, we just wanna see Daniel Wu.

I owe Ah Neal my life because she was super nice enough to bring me along for the movie and thanks to Wei Ping, who was gracious enough to give me the extra ticket at the last moment so dear Golden Boy Yao and I could see Daniel's butt on screen and drool about it.

Okay I am exaggerating.
The butt scene lasted for less than 10 seconds.

His nose was too big for my camera lens.

Swoon now girls, faint!

So yes, after a tiring day of killing my brain cells and squinting my eyes at the computer screen during work, this perked me up.
Remember, do not call me Annabel Lim.
I am Annabel L.
At least for now.

my apologies

Q: What took me so long to type a post?
A: My lappie died and I had to wait for the arrival of my brand-new ACER (yes i know Acer again!) 4935G and install all the necessary programs before i could let my fingers fly across once again.

My birthday celebration was a crazy, messy affair. My Smurfs peeps are insane drinkers and would stop at nothing to see me "Merlion", which i did,eventually. Initially, i was pretty worried about drinking because you never know what you will say in a drunken stupor. Will I point my long middle finger at the policeman like Vanessa? Will I turn physical like dear Liboon? Will I morph into some evil creature?

Luckily, all i did was to knock out and sleep.
Just this once, being 21, I let my inhibitions loose.

I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the many friends who wished and reminded me of the my aging. Celebrating 21, is a toast to the many tight friendships i have made and rekindled over the years. I honestly was very touched by each and every one of your gesture to make my 21st memorable in its special way.

It was probably the best event I ever had since the start of the year.
You guys made me felt loved and taught me how i deserve to be good to myself.
So this year my birthday wish..
I wish for direction.
I wish for faith.
I wish for trust.
I wish for restoration.
I wish for joy.
I wish for strength.

I wanna get a job that I am passionate about.
I wanna learn to embrace myself.
I wanna live life like how God wants me to.
I wanna love those who deserve my love.

and of course
I wanna marry Raymond Lam..or maybe Jay Chou or Dan Humphrey or Wu Jiahui or Daniel Wu or ...gosh!
What a decision!
-giggles-

So, as i bid my adolescence adieu and go head butt into adult world, I will learn to be mature but try to maintain the simplicity as a child.

My 2 cousins, brother and Jonathan (Red Cousin's hilarious bf)

Uh, and ya that above pic will go down in history because that is the first time we went out as cousins and probably the only pic for the next 500 years where you will see me brother and I together.

Tell me, do we really look alike?
-guffaws-

21 grams

A little more than an hour and I will have all access to this world.

I can vote.

I can get married.

I can go to jail.

I am 21.

12 March 1988

12 March 2009

21 years of mayhem

21 years of drama.

While the all my '88ers are gonna throw a huge party to welcome adulthood, yours truly have mellowed and decided that she rather have a tiring week/month/year-long celebration with individual pockets of friends. Not that I abhor the idea of having a party to celebrate the entrance to Adult Jail, I am just lazy to plan a party. Thinking of a place to eat and what gift to extort from my brother (!) requires the death of lesser brain cells.

But anyways, I have enough drama in my life to rival TVB's drama serials so I much rather have a subdued mellowed celebration.

I REALLY AM AN INTROVERT AND ADORE PEACEFUL QUIETNESS.

Not like any of you gonna believe.

Must be the age, I've lost my Mojo-jojo. -guffaws-

I hope God will not deem my 21 wishes too much to swallow.

It's my birthday and I am becoming adult.

So i reckon this is the last time i can be a brat and demand my way.

But luckily for God, I have yet to come up with 21 earth-shattering wishes. I can hear Him heaving a sigh of relief. When I do, I make sure I'll squeeze Him dry.

-evil laughter-

I am 21.

I can rule the world!

ngor ho zhong yeet Hiong Kong

Initially I had wanted to blog about my 4 days in HK but due to unforseen circumstances (read: MY ACER LAPPIE DECIDED TO DIE ON ME AGAIN), thus I am left with no personal laptop for me to do my stuff and time is an issue. I needed to beg and borrow my bro's computer to check my mails and play Facebook. So rather that I bore you with my jolly good time in Hong Kong over numerous posts, I shall just do a little excerpt.

Pardon me if I make you feel like quitting your job/cut classes and fly to Hong Kong now.

Hong Kong is da bomb.

They should just grant me Permanent Residency.
-twinkles-

The HK MTR lines are as complicated as Mathematics is to me. Our Singapore only has like 7 lines? HK outdid us by having 11, excluding KCR railway lines. Somehow, I prefer our MRT to their MTR. Their MTR move at such high speed that i kept getting my ears popped and there wasnt much scenery to see as it was all underground. The only thing that piqued my interest during these MTR rides was stalking the people around me. -guffaws-

What I saw on the train:
#1: Handsome Ang-moh.

Good-looking enough to make up for my loss of not able to kidnap/stalk Raymond Lam in HK.
Tall, dark, brooding good looks.
Deep-set almond eyes.
Gosh, he is yummy enough to be eaten.
-sings "i'm a man-eater"-

#2: Funny Girl
She appeared out of nowhere when we were on the train to Tung Chung.
She came.
She sat next to this guy.
She stared at his DS.
We giggled.
She sat next to me.
I stared at her.
I said hello.
She froze.
I scared her.
-chuckles-

#3: Hungry Boy
We all break the "No Food and Drinks in the Train" rule at some point in our life. You'll be lying if you said you never, you are not even supposed to drink from your water bottle! But this secondary school boy tops the list of rules-breaker.

He was eating Mac's ice-cream cone during his entire ride.
I am impressed.
How on earth did he got pass the gantry checks!

Second day loot.
-rubs hands in glee-

Third day's loot.
happybrokehappybroke
happily broke.

Shopping at HK is the best.
I love H&M so much that it is my happy pill.
Everytime I pass by H&M, I would turn to Jess and she would know I am DYING to go in. Even if i come out empty-handed, I'll be as gay as a lark. The air in H&M is just pure different. They probably did a hex on me because I dunno why on earth am i so mesmerized that i bought near to 700HKD worth of stuff inside.

With brands everywhere, HK is the melting pot for most international fashion groups. I went to Times Square at Causeway Bay with the purpose of finding Fred Perry with Jess and also to check out Kate Spade for Vanessa. Fred Perry's sales people were uber nice. Despite us being in the shop for like light years and finally settled on the design/colour/shoe we wanted. The sales people at Kate Spade can just bang wall and die. They have noses high up in the sky that I think God can touch them and will want to twist it off.

I wouldnt mind if you see me no up because of my lack of branded goods over me but must you look us up down left right, and only greet us "Welcome" when you saw the Fred Perry paper hanging on Jess' arms?

The guys over at agnes b was way better. He offered me to try on their watches and get me stuff i wanted to see. Too bad i saw nothing to my liking if not i sure am glad to burn a hole in my pocket. Since we couldnt afford to buy agnes b accessories/clothes, we settled at agnes b cafe and enjoyed sipping tai-tai coffee and nibbling cakes and then spend 300HKD buying agnes b chocolates. -grins-

And I had a jolly time at LKF's FONG.
Despite being in a wrong crowd, karma for crashing a private party, we managed to find a comfy corner with sofa and fried snacks and just slacked there. I think we were exhausted from the 3 days of shopping that neither of us went high or dance, we simply sat there, camwhored, rest and chatted.

Hong Kong was and is amazing.
I was supposed to go there and unwind.
I came back unwound and penniless.
Happily broke would be a great description.
But oh wells.
It's my 21st present to myself anyways.
heh heh

my love affair with H&M

My 4D3N escapade to paradise went by in a flash.

I walked all over Central that I can confidently tell you now I am able to bring you from Point A to Point B by heart. I could even draw a map if you would allow me to. The streets of HK are pretty confusing and sometimes those signs that HKTB put up to direct tourists like you and me are screwed.

Jess and I wanted to go Lan Kwai Fong. So we exited from Central MTR station and we turned right towards the Central Mid-Levels Escalator as directed by the sign. As we walked, we saw ANOTHER sign that directed us BACK to where we came from. Exasperated, we sought help from a friendly hiong-kong-yan who told us to take a cab as LKF was pretty far. But we walked and realised that LKF was simply 2 streets away from the freaking exit we came out.

That is why, map reading should be made compulsory.
Some countries just have problems with directional arrows.

And English.

Day One - 01 March 2009 Sunday

Being at Changi's Terminal 1 at 5am sure brought an influx of emotions upon me. Was it just 6 months back, at the same place where I had a teary send-off to Wuhan? Back then, i was an emotional wreck, now I am at peace with myself, the only wreck i am causing is to my wallet.

4 hours later and we found ourselves at Hong Kong International Airport (Chek Lap Kok) on Lantau Island. Took the Airport Express to Hong Kong Station then took the MTR from Central and finally arrived at Mong Kok in one piece. I led the way to Sincere House on Argyle Street where King Wah Hostel was situated on Level 10 based on my memory.

Everything seemed to be in the same spot since my last visit in 2006.
The same newspaper vendor spot.
The same Best Denki-alike store.
The same store selling my curry fishballs and smelly toufu.
The same building caretaker.

The only difference is my companion and the state of mind.

The outlook of the building may seem dingy but at least it was safer and better than Chungking Mansions at TST. The previous time I was here, I also stayed at another hostel at Sincere House and since i am still alive and in love with Hong Kong, it means that staying in a hostel overseas aint that a nightmare. Afterall, I am on a shoe-string budget and i see no point burning a few hundred bucks on some hotel where i can used it for better purposes like, food?

Small clean room.
After lugging my luggage in,

there wasnt much walking space left but it was good enough.
SGD80 for 3 nights, such good deals, where to find?!

Hui Lau Shan
The mango dessert is soooooo goood.
If only i could tao-baoed it back to SG.
-smacks lips-

We spent our first day around the Mong Kok area.
Argyle Centre is a gem.
It is like the Far East Plaza of Hong Kong but forget about bargaining because even though HK is part of China, HK is more like SG. You should be kissing the floor and the feet of the shopkeeper if she is willing to shave off 5-10HKD off your purchases. Most of the clothes there are repetitive, a la what you can find on taobao.com, so be careful of being ripped off.

FYI, i.t. in HK is like our Club 21.

anna sui wallet were like going for less than 150SGD

dkny strewn over the floor.

-faints with joy-

Headed to Langham Place where there were sale everywhere and i met THE ONE.
Time came to a standstill.
My heart raced.
My hands trembled.
My eyes watered.
My knees wobbled.

I nearly cried with joy when i saw..

H&M.

My eyes literally lit up when i saw the bright lights and mannequins decked out in H&M.Went in and i realised half of Mong Kok was probably in there.
The clothes were in a mess and i literally had to dig and pull them out.
Wanted to try out the clothes but the snaking queue was a major turn-off.
Still, i was totally mesmerized by H&M.

My stomach threw a tantrum and I decided that dinner was more important. Dined at Ajisen and we saw people taking part in a ramen-eating competition. They were supposed to finish one bowl of Ajisen Ramen in 3.5 minutes. By completing so, they get a free meal if not they have to pay.

This two guys failed.
But there were people who really did manage this feat.

One ang moh actually managed to finish the bowl of ramen under 2 minutes!

He probably had a huge mouth that was immune to heat.

Or, he was really hungry.

Maybe if Yao or MX was around, I'm sure they'll "owned" everyone there.

-grins-

will be back with more HK updates. =)