if shireen can cook, so can....ANYONE.

it's 11.22am and everyone's either at work or still asleep (at least joy and melt are). i wanted to make myself some pancakes for breakfast but it turned into a catastrophe! so i gave up and put some leftover pizza in the microwave to heat up. i hope i don't die. it's been in the fridge for some time now. ok i just threw it away cos it looked really suspect. that's quite a depressing start to the day...shireen can't even make pancakes to save her life! =/

ok time to move on.

so yesterday (so much for moving on), everyone in our floor went to either washington or atlantic city save for the 2 poor things who had to work and joy and me who decided to stay home and spend the day cycling and hanging out at the beach. it turned out to be a rather lovely day.

we decided to cook a really good lunch for ourselves and a really good lunch it turned out to be! i really gotta thank joy. i think i'm hopeless in the kitchen as you can see from my pancake disaster but joy patiently taught me everything, from peeling garlic to chopping onions to making the mashed potato and so on and so forth. thank you joy!!! =)

so this is us cooking!


watch us in action!


presenting....le magnolia roast


bon appetite!


so after our yummy lunch, we packed our bag and cycled to superfresh to get some stuff. oh yes, joy, melt and i bought bikes for 20bucks each from our neighbour. it was his last 3 bikes. fate brought us together i tell u! so, as i was saying, we cycled to superfresh and after that, we cycled to the beach! i think that's our favourite hangout right now.

our bikes suntanning...


it's gonna be a bright...bright...bright..sunshiny day!


shireen in the sky with diamonds...


it was a really lovely time at the beach. as usual. it was just the most amazing feeling! i was plugged into my ipod, singing and dancing to myself with my eyes closed and my hands raised up to the sky, surrounded by the sound of the waves, as the icy cold water was prickling my feet and the wind was ruffling my hair. nothing else mattered and i praised and thanked god with song and dance and a smile on my face and i must have seemed like i was 5 again and that didn't matter. and sometimes, i would glance to my right and see joy in the distance, dancing to herself too. and from time to time, our eyes would meet and we would dance with each other though we were at least 30 metres apart. haha.

so after that, we met the others at the one and only cinema in wildwood run by only one man who sells the tickets and popcorn and starts the movie and ends it and wishes you goodbye when you are walking out. watched the da vinci code and then we went back for a chinese food supper.

when we went back, we found melt, who had just come back from atlantic city, modelling her new clothes. they were all sooooo happy from their shopping. we were a bit jealous. just a bit. but i was more jealous that pamela had a comfortable armchair in her room so joy and i, what did we do? we stole her chair when she left the room and put it in our room. and you should have heard pamela's scream when she found her chair missing. joy and i immediately ran into joy's room and crouched behind her double decker bed in the dark, laughing and shivering, like little kids who were seeking cheap thrills while trying to avoid being caught. joy, joy, joy.

and oh yes, before i end, let us introduce our new roommate, cecilia. hi cecilia! =)


ok, wings night tonight! i'm hungry already! =P

p.s. joy came out and i told her my sad pancake story. i was genuinely sad and she made me do the pancakes again. and i made 5 beautiful pancakes in the end!! thank you joy!!! =)