A lot of pple i know are going overseas. Makes me feel sad for various reasons

a) They are close to me
b) when's the fucking last time i went on a holiday? (besides Malaysia) Ans= 2 yrs back when we went to HK. when's the last time i went for a family holiday? answer = 6 yrs ago when iwas sec 4 when i went to NZ with my aunt my mom and my cousin Andy

So within 1 week
Ms Madeline Huang went to USA for 6 months
Andy -- Thailand for 1 week
Uncle Bob, Aunt angie claire and andy off to hk ( after andy comes back from thailand) for 1 week
Yiyu to taiwan for 1 week in jan
Boyan to Japan for 1 whole week (funny how everytime we want to meet, either 1 of us are not free. Best friends who haven't met up for 2 yrs + lol)

I'm SAD!!!!

went to see Warlords with Andy & his GF and Simon yesterday. Kind of a gory show. took cab to meet them there..and there began my little adventure

a) Cab driver didn't understand me. I said orchard ROAD! then he kept on saying huh? huh? (shld have listened to my gut feeling and gotten off) but oh the dummy i am..i stayed on

b) After abt 3mins of explaining and repeating orcahrd road (mind u i even say orchard road in CHINESE!!! correctly mind u) he *or so i thought* finally got it.

c) We were travelling correctly to orchard road....until he turned at the Botanical Gardens. *faintz* I told him Uncle ORCHARD ROAD!! WU JIE LU!!! gave me very very blank stare. In the end i said u know takashimaya? go there!!!

Uncle: " oh takashimaya..i know. I thought u wanted to go Nasi Road."

i was thinking like wtf...How in the world does Orchard Road becomes Nasi Road? Hell...the only thing similar in the 2 words is they both have the letter "A".

SO THANK YOU TAKASHIMAYA! If not i would have been in nasi road instead of enjoying the movies with my cousins.

He did cut off 30 cents off the fare.
For dinner we went to the super nice restaurent Shashlik at far east shopping centre ( near borders). Steak there was DELICIOUS! Total cost for 4 pple = $133.

Fucking hell..order 2 bowls of soup to split into 2 portions for 4 pple... they charged us $2 for that!! what type of cut throat price is that??? KNN!!!

After our very full dinner filled with very entertaining conversation, walked back to sommerset MRT stat. I must say.orchard road's xmas decorations this yr is very nice. IVAN GO TAKE XL THERE! VERY ROMANTIC. If it doesn't rain that is. even if it rains, as it did yesterday, it's still quite a beautiful sight. So much for my idea of taking meiting there this yr. haha.

a bit weird. my cousin and his gf holding hands then simon and i walking in front or behind of them so as not to intrude on them. I must admit i felt envious seeing them of course. Then again Andy's or i shld say his gf is lucky to have him.

after that went home. with me feeling happy but with the usual tinge of sadness after seeing so many couples in orchard road. Haiz...