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