Convention Contortion

I really envy the people who can get drunk very easily. Why? Simple. It's cheaper.



The past few days I've been employed by Hess to be one of their exhibition staff which was held at the KLCC Convention Centre. The pay was good and it was recommended by a good friend of mine who worked side by side with me throughout the three days. I had to basically lug things around, pack hundreds of goodie bags, speak to engineers about career opportunities and what Hess does and also give them chocolates. Not to mention being hit on by old men, not because I'm good-looking don't get me wrong (insert Zoolander Theme here), but because they wanted a cup of hot coffee.

Unwrapping literally hundreds of paper bags and shoving Hess newspapers and pamphlets inside practically gave me a dozen papercuts which I don't really notice until I get back home and start wondering why the heck do my fingers itch. I found a really tiny piece of paper stuck in
my finger actually.

Yes I spent the whole 3 days speaking to people, showing them my pearly whites despite me sweating through my red polo shirt. Conversations usually went like this:

"Hello! Would you like a Hess chocolate?"

"Mm." *Looks at the wrapping* "What is this?"

"Chocolate."

"Oh! Choklit ah? Wah so nice ah. Tenk-U."

OR

"So what does your company do?"

"Hess actually does exploration and the production of oil."

"Okay, do you currently have any projects?"

"Um, I'm not sure. I'm actually the exhibition staff *shows name-tag*
but if you want, I could have one of the people from Hess speak to you
regarding your inquiry."

"No it's okay. Thanks."

Okay most of my conversations went like that. The ones that were annoying went something like this:

"You're Carigali Hess right? Do you know so-and-so?"

"Sorry, this is NOT Carigali Hess. Hess is actually the parent company of Carigali Hess."

"Oh. But is so-and-so here?"

"....No."

Poor thing, these people don't know that Kathia and I bitch about the marketing people who drop names just to show off to their little friends that they know people.

The last day was interesting though. I got insulted by a passer-by who apparently thought I looked like I had a hard life and gave me a freebie toy from Schlumberger. Yes, my partner in crime and I raided the whole Hall 1 convention centre to get a Phua Chu Kang contractor
hat, a small football, a few pens and notebooks, sunglasses, caps and bags.

So the 3 days of working was gone, and I got paid quite a bit from it, only to spend it all in one go on Friday night with my friends at Liquid. It was good money down the drain, literally since I puked out my insides on the side of the road. Like all other alcohol induced nights, only bits and pieces of what actually happened would haunt me till the day I kick the bucket. I remember the dancing, the wild whorish dancing. Slutty as it may be with the rubbing and the popping of the hips, I still have fun despite shivering everytime I think about it.

That's me, Whora Flynn Boyle.

Foam Party @ LQ

i'm so drunk and tired rite now but i gotta blog. this is how dedicated i am to my diary entry and to u guys who actually take the time to read it.

i had a fantastic night. it was spectacular and great! the foam (FAB [detergent] + water) was pouring down like rain and it was wild. even now sitting here i cant really remember what happened throughout the night but i remember dancing alot, the green lasers moving and the people who were screaming and playing with the foam and water. it was seriously the best night i have ever had in ages.

okay i think that's enough for me...i'm really exhausted and i'm about to pass out from the amount of alcohol i have running through my veins. till then, peace out.

One Night In Liquid

just got back from a great night a-gain! i finally realized that i still have market value out there in the vicious gay circle. woo hoo! not only that, i am dating a really great guy, someone who is stable and so much more level headed that i am, and that's what i need in my life; stability. he's fantastic, he smells like...water, i know this coz i was sniffing his neck the entire time i was at Liquid. well anyways before i head on, let me retrace my steps.

at first i met up with my friends at 65, my local watering hole which i sometimes work at when there's not enough staff. it was okay until one of my friends punched me in my stomach playfully, i detest people playfully punching me, especially when i just ate. so i tried not to let that get into me and i just continued on with the night. i was supposed to meet a friend who came down from singapore who is going out with a guy i used to date (but now we're friends). they were busy consumating their love for each other and decided to flake on me. another thing which i loathe with a passion; people who make plans with u and do not even bother to call or msg to tell u that they're not going. that really pissed me off since i was already there and they first told me they were too tired and then asked me to pick them up.

anyways lets put that anger into a bubble and blow it away. the guy i'm currently dating now was showing no signs what-so-ever that he was interested at first, so that kinda made me upset as well, until he grabbed my hand and held it really tightly. everything seemed to melt away and i felt...well hard to be precise. and then i realized something, i dont usually get hard when i hold hands with someone, only my exes and that's when it hit me, i really really really like this guy. so i tried to analyze him, seeing what his body language was like, how he reacts to my arm brushing against his and everything. i think he's not very open towards public affection and he was making an effort to keep it inside, coz he pecked my cheek at first. then our lips touched and i just felt for that mere nano-second that nothing really mattered and i was floating on air.

well the night passed by so fast, we left Liquid to rejoin my family of friends at 65 and had a drink at the local coffeeshop nearby, recapping the whole night to them and them to us. we had a laugh making jokes about each other and stuff and just thinking about tonight i just gotta say that i had loads of fun tonight.

ahh the rain is slowly falling hitting the ground...it is a fantastic time to lie my head on my pillow and hold on to my favourite pillow tightly and drift happily into my dream land. a great ending to a fabulous day....

Spontaneity

just got back home from a very great night. it was indeed a fabulous night and spontaneity does pay off. let me recapped what happened...

at first, i felt so tired (as u would probably know from my earlier diary entry), and was grouchy as hell. i drove all the way to 65 and i was the first few to reach the karaoke pub which i frequent. sitting there alone with the staff i was smsing this guy called julian. i dont know why but i didnt exactly get a good vibe from him, especially when he kept on sending his photos and told me about his exes (apparently his latest of his two exes passed away in a car accident). i dont know...i just got a warning from my friend who apparently knows him saying that he likes to find out ur particulars and if u're loaded, he'll stick on to u like glue.

so i didnt give him much response and then Dicholas came and asked me to join him for dinner. two of his friends from SG were down and we went to join them at this chinese restaurant just outside of 65. i didnt really felt like stuffing my face infront of strangers so i just sat there and cracked a few jokes and talked a bit. after dinner Chris arrived with his friend from SG and we went back into 65. at that time there were a few patrons inside and that's when things got interesting. we sat down and William and i shot a few games of pool, and i won a free drink from him. such a sweetie pie. he honoured out little bet and did buy me a drink.

accustomed to being labeled as a social butterfly, i went around talking to people whom i knew. using my PR skills (as if i had any) i just started making conversation to whomever looked bored. yeah so i basically fluttered around. and that's when i needed a break so i stepped outside for a minute. that's when Kenny came and started doing his Paris Hilton bit, funny bloke. and Desmond from SG also came down and i saw him walking towards 65 and had a chat with him just to catch up on things. that's when it was time to head down to the local gay club, Liquid (LQ).

LQ was incredibly fun. William & Anthony bought a bottle and using my contact(s), i managed to smuggle Chris and Ken in. we went upstairs to the disco and planted our bottoms at the bar. so knowing very well i cant drink much, i managed to get Anthony drunk and William...i think high. so yeah and the bunch from 65 also came down to LQ and we basically just started hanging out with each other. there were these two brats making out with each other at the corner of the bar right next to us so me being me, i got up and started snogging Allen, this guy i got to know from 65. i dont know how i manage to get myself into these sorta messy situations but we ended up on the middle podium dancing and snogging each other.

awkward moment alert: the staff and allen's friends are very close. so they were giving me the i-know-what's-going-on-between-both-of-u look and things just got weird. plus allen...i'm sorry to say is just not my cup of tea judging from the way he kisses. so anyways there were people who were hungry so the whole lot of us went to the nearest mamak to eat and have a drink. i was walking inside and there was a table with these four guys, one of them was wearing a red shirt over a black tank top/t-shirt i think. he was kinda cute and i was sorta checking him out but he caught me a few times so i just shyed away.

ALERT: if u're the cute guy wearing the red shirt and u're reading this, drop me a msg!!!

so yeah after that we all left and i had to send chris and ken back to the hotel, but we ended up going to what we call "Motherland" where we met Tyios and Gan there. it was fun talking to them and i could sorta sense that Gan was giving me a vibe...call me self centred but i think he was checking me out. i thought he was kinda cute as well. it's just way too bad that he and allen are good friends and....i know allen likes me alot but i just cant; i need someone alot more....manlier (catch my drift?). anyways it was about time to send them back to hotel and get back home to Mr. Q, so i was about to ask Gan for his number when the conversation got shifted and it was back to the topic of me and allen again. i really dont know how i get myself into these spiderwebs....

so all in all it was a fantastic night, it's one of those nights where u would remember it even after a few years and say, that was a fabulous night....

Ambiguity

Ambiguity makes people nurse grievance.

my biological clock seems to be working backwards. i sleep late at nights now and wake up late in the afternoons. i hate this sorta schedule, coz when i wake up late in the afternoon, i feel like i've wasted my whole day and in result i get cranky and grouchy.

so what happened last night? i went to my cousin's wedding dinner with my parents, met alot of relatives there, got to catch up with my two cousins who were pretty cool and i wondered at that moment why we didnt hang out with each other much. i had wine and beer, but i drank beer first coz "Beer before wine makes u fine, wine before beer makes u queer". heh

so yeah i think i had a bit too much to drink last nite, i'm not a really big fan of wine but i managed to drink about 7 or 8 glasses of it before i got light headed and decided to call it quits and stuck to iced water. the wedding dinner was pretty...and a bit tacky, but i shall not go into that coz i aint no wedding planner. but there was the chinese 8 course dinner which was cool, i love the chinese course dinners!

during the wedding, the bride's sister (who was japanese) wanted to sing as a gift to the bride and bridegroom, and as she sang, my cousin and his wife started dancing to the music. i guess it was the music and the fact that they were in love with each other that made me think about my wedding. am i even gonna get married? i certainly hope so! but to a guy who loves me more than he loves anything else.

so there i was, sitting and watching them dance, while dreaming of my own scenario where my partner and i danced to the first song we heard and loved, it's gotta be something romantic like sade's by your side or norah jones' don't know why. and to create that perfect moment, we wouldnt care about anyone else in the banquet hall, we would dance and kiss each other and hold each other and whisper softly, i love you. sigh...my wedding would be a beautiful one, if i ever get the chance.

so after the dinner, i left to LQ to meet up a few of my friends who were there. basically talked nonsense and was in a depressing and nostalgic mood (it was the wine...evil wine) and i was basically bored. i didnt feel like dancing, i felt like sitting down and drinking myself silly and chatting, something which i do ever so often, but my friend dragged me to the dancefloor. it would have been fun if i was high and i was kinda showing signs of boredom, so we moved up to the disco. it was like a steam room up there! sweaty bodies and people raising their arms so u could get a whiff of their armpits? it wasnt exactly fun to be walking through that. so i decided to head to the loo and grab a drink and just stood silently beside the dancefloor just looking at the sea of faceless people dancing like there's no tomorow. most of these people were on X anyways so they had dialated pupils and were high as a kite.

so my vision shifted from all these people into this guy dancing in front of me. i was kinda staring at him and didnt really notice it until he caught me looking a few times and i just pretended not to look. he was kinda cute and too bad he was dancing with a over-the-hill white dude (DONT U HAVE ASIAN PRIDE?!?). so yeah bad for me but good for that jackass. so my friends rejoined me later and we were basically just standing there chit chatting, with the music blasting into our ears, i have no idea how we even managed to get a conversation going. so yeah we left after i got my ass grabbed by some weirdo who was obviously alone. bastard...that was really rude.

so yeah we left to mackers in centrepoint and chatted till about 5AM before i dragged my sorry tired ass back home to get some shut eye. all in all it was a fun night

i miss being with someone

Liquid Dreams

so liquid was fun! last night was the weirdest night ever, with claudia's birthday at mackers, my friend coming down from kuala trengganu, us getting high and mighty at liquid, etc etc. so let me start off by recapping what happened the whole day yesterday.

it started off with me procrastinating whether to hit the gym at 2PM in the afternoon, i was thinking well i should go but i'm dead tired from working out the whole week so i should reward myself with a little bit of time for myself. so i just lazed around my room for the rest of the afternoon. i also got a msg from Jason saying that he'll be coming down from KT and he'll probably reach at 8 something which was cool coz i had Claudia's party at macdonalds (yeah i see the irony, we're alittle bit too old for that) which was funny but quite dead. so Jason arrived and met up with all of us and so did Audrey and Caroline and we spent about an hour sitting there wondering whether we should leave them and head down to LQ or stick with them and try to get to know the rest of them. yeah we decided to ditch all of them and head for LQ.

so once we reached LQ we got a table and sat down to order our drinks when i noticed some weirdo looking in our direction. i didnt think much of it coz i mean we were lookin pretty hot that night, heh heh heh. so we drank and drank and drank and went to the toilet, drank, drank and went to the toilet, etc etc. this process was repeated about a couple of times, i think we all have bladders the size of walnuts. so yeah as i was coming out of the toilet with Audrey, the weirdo was there again and we had to pass by him to get to where we were seated and trust me this guy was a freak! he was wearing jeans, a skull imprinted black t-shirt tucked into his jeans and gelled hair, it was a scary sight. so kinda scared and kinda high i was holding on to my friend's hand for dear life hoping nothing would happen and then it happened. he slid his hand across my stomach and felt me up. yucks, gross, disgusting! ughh i had to shake the feeling off.

i bumped into a friend whom i havent seen in a very long time as well, he sounds like he's doing fine ^_^

oh right and i saw my ex's ex there as well. he was like staring/glaring at me and Jason, i didnt wanna say anything, i just tried to look away. he was on the phone most of the time for some unknown reason, i just hope he's not spying on me and reporting back to my ex like his other ex did. it was weird enough he knew my name and it was definitely weird that he would wanna say hello to me in the club. for what? to acknowledge the fact that he was there during the 10 months we've been apart? well he didnt need to do that, his pressence was already felt.

so all in all it was a good night, i havent clubbed or drank for ages! black label just tastes better when u're sober...