Monday, August 18, 2008

She came over ... :D






Two and a half glorious days. Very short lived but it was wonderful nonetheless. SY flew over for a visit. :) I picked her up early Friday morning and we just spent every minute there after enjoying each others company. Honest to be told, there’s really nothing much to see or do here in Abu Dhabi. So we ended up browsing through three different malls and watched two movies in the cinema. The first mall we went to was Marina Mall. It’s the biggest and the best one compared to the rest. We had brunch (at the Food Court) and tea (Cinnabon City) there. Shopped a li’ll as well ... bought SY a 2GB ipoh Shuffle as she misplaced her Nano sometime ago. A couple of rather cool T-shirts for our respective brothers and a new mobile for moi. My new toy is the very basic Nokia 1680 and it set me back by approx. RM250. A simple device to keep my Malaysian Maxis line open. SY said it looked very much like a toy … literally and it has Arabic written on its plastic keypads too.

We had a simple dinner at a Chinese Filipino restaurant, Chow King and the food was rather disappointing.

Oh yea, also at Marina Mall, we watched Tropic Thunder. Freakin’ hilarious I tell ya. Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr and get this … Tom Cruise as a fat, balding, mean motor mouth cursing machine. Also cameo appearance by Jennifer Love Hewitt and Lance (the gay N’Sync dude). Really funny scripting but a word of advice … DON’T BOTHER WATCHING IT BACK IN MALAYSIA. Our censorship board will kill the movie. Get the uncensored DVD and prepare to laugh your guts out. What’s the story about??? … go google it yourself la.

The next day, we went to Abu Dhabi Mall. Lunch was also at the food court and we then watched Mirrors. Some horror flick with that guy from 24 in it. Forgot his name ... Keith something if I’m not mistaken. Quite a decent watch le. Now the recipe for a good scream film is to take something simple … something easily available in our everyday lives and spook the hell out of it. This time around … as it so blatantly points out in its title … it none other than mirrors. Demon wrecking hell on humans from the other side of the mirror. BOO!!! I’ll give it a spook rating of 3/5. Oh and we met my friend Hiskandar at Starbucks too … small city Abu Dhabi is.

After that, we went back to the hotel to rest and freshen up before heading to Khalidiya Mall. We overstuffed ourselves as Chilly’s and then bungkus-ed Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Sinful fluffs of sugary goodness but it’s worth every calorie man. SY gave it a double thumbs up and so did my colleagues here.

On the third day, I went to work in the morning before sending SY to the airport in the afternoon. Goodbyes are always painful. I’ve been really looking forward to her trip here and it really felt like a blink of an eye before she needs to return home again. So much TLC while she was here … really gonna miss it now that she’s a couple of thousand miles away. Sighhh … going to plan her 2nd visit her as soon as possible. :P

7 comments:

MochaSourcream said...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder... the feeling of missing someone and knowing that u r being missed at the same time is beautiful...

Anonymous said...

Happy lor u..... well, at lest 2nd trip coming up :)

Werrrrr..... IPOH shuffle ar??? OOOOOOOOooo made fr Ipoh???? LOLOLOLOL!!!

Jamie said...

nice to hear that bro....

Hopefuly it will keep you going for another month before the next visit and before you know it...WALAAH...its your time for R&R

Anonymous said...

good good...a second visit is always encouraged...but of cuz with a longer stay...hehehehe...
try celebrate merdeka in abu dhabi lar...muahahaha...

Anonymous said...

Are you feeling happy right now?
Haven't you received the 'toy' i sent you two days back? I courier it thru the airline from KLIA, you know? Weight is around 50kg, height is a lil shorter than the norm, and some says it's kinda quite cute too!
And the 'toy' looks like a pig too! BTW, the toy's name is Tan Jian Joo.
;)

Anonymous said...

before i forgot, you can always treat it as a punch bag. Just in case your "Made in India BOSS" bullied you, you can vent all your anger on "THE TOY"...But one word of caution, never to use it as a lonely companion (just in case you miss you other half too much), coz irreversible mistakes are gonna happen, and there is no CTRL+Z button on it!

Adrian said...

Heya MSC,

Easier said than done le. A short temporary absence is ok ... but anything longer will only hurt.

Jazzy,

Yala yala ... i know my england very lousy. :p

Yo Jamie / SS bros,

Yea ... it was real good that Sy came over but like I said ... too short lo. Hopefully her 2nd trip will be longer. This time around, no chance to take her to try Manchurian Chicken yet. :)

Sam,

Thanks for the li'll piggy you sent over. Haha ... use him as a punching bag??? hmmm ... wouldn't want the animal rights activists up my backside. Hahaha.