scotland yard overreacting

finally completed 3800 words for my sunday feature...bad idea to cramp interviews & writing all in one day....too heavy duty... hopefully it's good enough stuff that ppl would wanna read... i'm totally zonked out. waiting for my colleague to give me a lift home...

was just watching cnn while waiting... scotland yard seriously overreacts every time they have a scare...bomb scare found in haymarket but the whole of leicester square, fleet street, park lane... everything is closed off, oh n not forgetting the tubes as well....reminds me of the July 7 attack n the false alarm 2 weeks later... guess Singapore prob inherited kiasuism from our colonial masters way way back...

oh wow... haven't realised tt it's been 2 years since the fateful July 7...still remember interviewing ppl and logging tons of quotes that day and then taking a long walk home cuz the entire transport system was down....

anyhow, all i can say is, poor Brown. trying to shed off the Blair sidekick image is tough enough...ok...i must confess i'm bias. i'm a big fan of Blair... he definitely made Britain more cool... alwiz enjoyed watching his speeches n parliamentary debates on tv...fine i'm a geek.

on to random stuff...

this song made me cry last nite... i dunno why....

Pussycat Dolls
You Don't See Me

This is the place where I sit
This is the part where I love you too much
This is his heart as it kids
'Cause I'm getting tired or pretending I'm tough
And here if you want me
I'm yours you can hold me
I'm empty and taking and tumbling and braking

[Chorus]
'Cause you don't see me
And you don't need me
And you don't love me
The way I wish you would
The way I know you could

I dream a world where you understand
That I dream a million sleepless nights
But I dream a fire when you're touching my hand
But it twists into smoke when I turn on the lights
I'm speechless and faded
It's too complicated
Is this how the book ends?
Nothing but good friends

[Chorus]
'Cause you don't see me
And you don't need me
And you don't love me
The way I wish you would

This is the place in my heart
This is the place where I'm falling apart
Isn't this just where we met?
And is this the last just that I'll ever get?
I wish I was lonely
Instead of just only
Crystal and see through and not enough to you

[Chorus]
'Cause you don't see me
And you don't need me
And you don't love me
The way I wish you would

'Cause you don't see me
And you don't need me
And you don't love me
The way I wish you would
The way I know you could

1000 more words to go...

this is gonna mark my 3rd straight day of camping out in office after midnight... n it's all the property market's fault...at least it's the weekend 2moro...suffering from serious lack of sleep, i'm gonna sleep in...

even the intern sitting behind me says that my dark eye rings are comparable to pandas....

brain dead

1 banking industry piece n 1 major enbloc article later i'm officially pronounced brain dead.

bz bz bz

have been a human typewriter for the last 3 days...it's been boring conferences in the day followed by mad rounds of typing throughout the night...tink i've been filing 3 articles a day since the middle of last week n they're were all pretty long ones...wonder if anyone bothers to read them....high brow economics stuff... ok lah at least 2moro's exclusive is on REITs...maybe someone will give the header a glance...

think for the next few nites i'll have to work from home at nite...i'm still not done with one of my gst article, this sunday's property feature and 2moro's exclusive!!!!

okie i better get out of here so i can go home n continue working on my article...

the grass is definitely not greener on the other side... no wonder i was told good luck by one of the big bosses on my last day at my paper...

london. london. london.

oh btw, my mum gave Dolly away cuz she n my dad couldn't put up with it's incessant howling throughout the nite for 3 nites in a row and it shat all over the house as well despite being toilet trained. Mum's friend's aunt wanted it, so my mum gave it to her within hours!

i've also chopped off my hair...shoulder length... now it looks like a mop...pong n messy... argh...mayb i shud go for extensions... vain me...but no matter how vain I am, I'll never be as vain as u AT! (this is for all the uncalled for insults...)

new family member

one of my worst nitemares has turned into reality...there's a dog in my house!!!!!!

i have a phobia of dogs cuz the ones i've encountered have left me very sick...my neighbour's dog licked me when i was in secondary 1 n i had rashes for about a month... i eventually got over my fear in uni but the sheep dog tt marie, ben n i played with on our horse-riding trip resulted in our viral infection tt lasted for 2 weeks...was vomitting n having diarrhea for tt whole period...from den on i vowed never to get near a dog

anyhow, my bro's fren is leaving for an overseas posting n his mum absolutely hates the dog, so he brought it to the spca to be put down. being the animal lover tt my bro is, he took pity on the dog and brought it home from the spca.

oh, the dog's name is Dolly... yes wat a name...it's a 6 year old jack russell

my first encounter with it was when i returned home from st james at 4am n yesterday... the moment i stepped into the house it barked non-stop n woke my entire family up. today when i got home from watching fantastic four, as soon as i stuck the key into the keyhole Dolly howled at me and scratched the front door...i was terrified n din barge till my dad held on to it n i dashed straight into my room...

i noe i can't play hide-and-seek with dolly forever... mum even said i have a new baby sister to take care of (cuz i'm born in the year of the dog)...seems like it's gonna b a permanent fixture at my house.

although i feel for Dolly's situation, i'm still trying to come to terms with it being a part of my family...havent been successful though...been avoiding it like the plague n will make sure my mum or dad is tending to it b4 i dash out to the toilet n back to my room...

sighz...