birth month

Feels like I've been counting down to my birthday for the past month.

The festivities intensified with last weekend's Crossdressing Pajama Party, and I indulged some more today.

Will be off work for five days, and the birthday break started well with a facial in the late morning. My facialist -- is there such a word? -- said my skin seemed smoother, so hooray!

Next stop was to get more MAC concealer -- still need lots of it before I can face the world, despite supposedly smoother skin -- and as I was queueing to pay, the girl in front of me commented that the beads-brooch combi I was wearing was very unusual. I took that to be a compliment, of course, so hooray again!

Shopped till I almost dropped the rest of the day, now that my self-imposed-shopping-abstinence-in-remembrance-of-tsunami-victims period was over.

When I couldn't walk any further, I limped to the over-publicised Latitude cafe, took off my shoes and read The Time Traveller's Wife until a friend snuck out from work to join me.

Came home, slept for a while with Chinese MTV in the background, woken up by Jay Chou video, mmmmmmmm...

After that, met up with some friends at this glorious chill-out place, The Villa Bali. Little wooden huts, a few mosquitoes, some white wine, great entertainment from two gay boys... and only five minutes away from my place on foot. What a discovery!

Plans for the rest of my break include sewing class, dinner with family, SpongeBob SquarePants movie premiere om Sentosa, reading, more sewing class, dinner with girl friends, haircut and watching lots of daytime TV.

I'm so self-indulgent, I would make a perfect taitai.