Gambling

This time yesterday, jacke, ronald n i were in the car, drivin home from Linda's place. We went out for dinner at the Riversdale Hotel Bistro. I dunno much about bistros, but my perception of a bistro is much like a pub, dark, alcohol, big hairy men. No no, this one isn't like that at all. I saw a lot of old ppl, as in, retired, enjoyin life, walk with a cane kind. I would say apart from my group n the staff, the average age of the customers is 45. Probably higher, but i'm just guessin. The Pokies is just next door, so i saw some slot machines from where i seated. The bar is still there, but there was no one sittin at the bar with their drinks. The whole place was brightly lit, not as dim as i have imagined.. AND, you queue to buy food. Yep, how weird is dat?? No one takes your orders from your table, you queue up to order n pay for food (beverage to be ordered from the bar) then look for a table to sit down.

Jonathan, or "Ke Leng" as we call him, brought us here. For those of you not familiar with the Hokkien language, "Ke Leng" means Indian. No prizes for guessin dat right. ;) His fren works in the kitchen, so he basically brought us here to pay his fren a visit.. *sweat* We paid 15 bucks for 2 jugs of coke, n i paid 25.90 for my steak, salty, if i may add. The texture of the meat was good, there were some burnt parts n the sauce was salty. It was a so-so meal, too expensive for the quality we're payin.

After the meal, we headed to Linda's place for poker! More accurately Texas Hold'em. My 1st time playin this game, our capital was 21.50. Capital amount was alright, since our normal mahjong capital is 65 bucks, with the occassional loss of more than dat amount in the last few games. Not me lar of course, i don't suck dat bad in mahjong. But in this Texas Hold'em, i must admit i was a bit nervous. Bf Jacke, Ronald, Jonathan, Yoon n i played. Linda was supposed to finish up her 3000-word assignment, but i doubt she even touched her assignment last night. hehe We started at 11:30pm, n the game ended close to 5am.

It's hard playin with them, perhaps it's becoz i'm not familiar with the rules or even the skill of playin the game. Jon was unwilling to lose, no no.. That's not wat it is.. Jon wanted to win, to maximise any winnings he could squeeze out of us. Ronald was blur as usual, just following the flow, ppl play, he play, ppl don't play, he don't play. And adding to that, he drank alcohol more than all of us, downing at least 2 glasses of reds, n a Tiger, i think. Very unusual of Ronald, if u ask me. The time we were at April's house for the 70s party, he got pissed (angry, not alcohol pissed) coz the host persuaded him to drink! O_O Anyway, Yoon was rather vulgar the whole night, jokingly dissin off Jon for not playin n Ronald for playin. haha It was funny, but it wasn't really fun. Jon's attitude in the game, was like.. real gambling, not playin for fun with money. I know Jacke was alright, couldn't even catch him bluffing when he did. hehe

I played for fun, to me it was just passing time. It didn't matter if i lost all 21.50, we were just hangin out as frenz. At the end of the game, only Yoon lost. :P Jacke won about 3+, Jon won about 7+, Ronald broke even, n i.. Smart Mz.. Guess how much i won?

drumroll plz..

A GRAND TOTAL OF 80.. CENTS..

haha, good huh? 80 cents in my 1st game, i'm so proud of myself.. keke Although there was once i lost around 200 on Carribean Studs at the casino. That was my worst. I don't gamble very often lar, i'm not a gambler, okay? Don't worry my frenz, this is controlled gambling.. My loss at Carribean Studs kinda started with my winning at other tables, more than wat i lost, so i didn't really lose much of anythin.. Except for sleep, coz i was kinda like.. playin Carribean Studs at this hour too.. hehe Okay, enough about me gambling experiences, i'm off to bed, it's my bed time now.

Adios amigos~ Tata ^-^

Isn't it gorgeous?

Okay, i must admit dat i have been secretly lookin for a phone to buy for a long while now. why secretly? coz no money mar, cannot anyhow say wanna buy phone. my SE S700i still functions alright, but since i've used the phone for 20 months now (since Feb 05), i figured it could be time i change to a new phone.

it's really a good phone, except dat u can't accept ur calls once in a while (which is not often), n ur caller ID doesn't show ur contact when he/she calls (rather often). maybe becoz there was once when i dropped the phone on the concrete floor, it split into 4 parts - main component, battery, batt cover n sim card. all 4 parts flew out from my handbag n dat was a very "ouch" moment for me. so ladies, plz ensure u zip/close ur handbags properly to avoid any "ouch" moments like these from happening. but being a typical careless person who doesn't know how to take care of her gadgets, Ms See here scratched n dented the phone in every possible way. it's quite a good thing dat the screen doesn't scratch as easily, if not i would have had to change to another phone a long long time ago.

anyway, once again i have to remind myself dat becoz of financial difficulties, the plan of buyin a new phone has to be put on hold. havin no income n lil to spare, buyin a phone OR signing up for a new plan is absolutely gonna kill me. then again, let's move on to the MAIN topic of the day, the gorgeous new phone dat is out with 3G network. THE new Sony Ericsson W850i.

i totally fell in love with the w850i the 1st time i saw it. being quite a fan of SE, wat better way to support it than to get myself another SE phone? oh, btw, the w850i comes in white too. check out the video here. there's actually not much big differences in the specs between my current phone n the w850i except dat this supports video calls. bf kept askin me to subscribe to a plan with 3G so i'll have a phone dat i can at least use to call ppl. hehe, i'm currently on an Optus prepaid, n i've got like a pathetic $0.30 left. so i can't make any calls, n i only have 1 sms left to send, not to mention a local one.. an international sms costs $0.50. anyway, sorry to u guys whom i used to call n sms yeah? kinda broke right now, plz don't send me smses dat i need to reply to immediately, or to forward to other ppl. *note: charz, thx for sendin me the MONEY bee forwarded sms, now i can't be rich at all, let alone in 4 days time. :(

alright, enough about phones n money, i'll continue with my updates from the previous post:

1. poor me needed new (more) shoes/slippers. remember the turqoise havaianas? i tot i needed a black pair n a white pair, as advised by Min Hui, but i was wrong. i'm not as casual as havaiana thongs.. i bought a pair of white fashion slippers n a metallic grey pair today. cheap by Aus standards, but convert back to RM, i could get 4 pairs of slippers or 2 pairs of high heels.
2. had dinner with Linda, Yoon, Ronald n Jacke. Linda cooked Bak Kut Teh, NICE!! Linda's place is really nice n neat, if only i could be half as neat. :(
3. weather has been warm n nice, but it's still very cold indoors.
4. i only went to the women's conference the 1st day, totally skipped the 2nd day.. 35 bucks.. aih.. so sorry, MH.. but the 1st day itself was eye-opening, haven't been to a christian function for a very very long while now.. it's amazing to see how ppl can surrender themselves n let go of their egos n self-control to cast unhappiness away.
5. most laundry has been done, baskets are piled up EMPTY.. n all my ironing done too, YAY~
6. Mq informed me dat my piglet cd folder is in her house.. n i bought David Tao's new album *drool*.. Mq also bought Jay Chou's new album. keke
7. Had 3 drivin lessons from Ronald's couz Grace, a lil less than 3 hours, $90 spent.. *heartache* 25-mins drivin test on the 9th november, hehe, hopefully i don't speed yeah..
8. Mq's show "Mousetrap" was good! a tad too long but good.. it was very interesting n the whole crew did an excellent job. the storyline reminds me of Wz's script during trinity college, the split personality story, remember?? anyway, i'm so proud of u, sis.. u make a wonderful producer.. ;)

~ photo time!! ~

L-R: Min Hui, Lee Inn, Mey & Diana outside Chocolate Buddha.

1. sis Mq on stage after her speech.
2. Jacke n i congratulating Mq.
3. the audience, some pretty, some not so.. keke
4. me n my lovely sis, aren't we pretty?
5. i made Mq sit on the chair n took some pictures of her. love the african daisies i bought for her??

Mq: okay lar, now dat the show is over, must start to study already, alright??

Good luck to all of u takin exams, this month, next month, next yr.. :P

Jacke is right, time IS a deciding factor. we shall all wait n see. wait patiently.