ok here are more spain pics...been bugged long enuf to show more pics...bleagh....

thats a fruit market off La Rambla in Barcelona....happy sia i tell u everyday go there buy fruits to eat.


then this is La Pedrera in Barcelona....note the curvy lines of the structure, thats a very Gaudi concept...love his works. see, even the chimneys are curvy.





















thats the spiral staircase in the Sagrada Familia, also by Gaudi... anyone who has seen barcelona pics will have seen this. Gaudi designed it to look like the spiral design on the back of a snail's shell...
and then this is the Port Olympic in Barcelona, where they held the water sports for the 1992 Olympics. wow i tell u, look at the yachts there, its amazing can...makes me wanna own one myself. if i have enough money to waste i'll take a boat liscence or watever the industry terminology is, and then maybe buy a yacht (yeah i'll continue dreaming) haha...

wore this super bright orange-y/scarlett dress yesterday. very grecian-goddess like, looking at the way the straps twirl. got quite a bit of attention haha.

just came back from a drive... guess where i ended up?

-his- place.

didnt mean to go there, just drove around and the next thing i know i was down the main street of -his- place. and since i was so bored and sleepy at work, memories somehow came back. i remember the first time i went there, still remember that when i left, -he- stood at one of the windows watching me wait for a cab. still remember one early morning when i left, -he- called me after i left the car park to give me directions to an area i was familiar with, so that i would know how to get home.

and up to now, i still wonder whether -he- liked me back then, whether we might have stood a chance if circumstances were right.

on a slightly brighter note, i went out for dinner with the older PBs last night. those i was close to, that i feel comfortable with and i can talk to. actually didnt really wanna go, was feeling damn sian somehow, but im glad i went in the end. some pics off tbh's phone...

and yes i will load the rest of my spain pics real soon.

shit im going to be the last one left.

ewok has got an offer, so she'll tender today. im really excited for her that she's found something but im really the last one standing already! but over the weekend have decided that i will tender at the end of sept so that end oct i will leave the bank. and take nov to study for my cfa and dec to bum around and play and hopefully i will have a job in jan 2007. hahaha..

the way i "sold" my idea of not working in nov to god-ma and mother is that cfa exam is really expensive and the level one only comes twice a year and i dont want to fail it, and that i definitely have no time to study while i work. i mean i DO have time to study but like 2 pages per night or something liddat.

but yeahhhhhh.... why doesnt anyone want to hire me???

before i put up the rest of my spain photos, i must record this night.

• he asked if my bf was staying over tonight.
• he stays way on the other end of the island and doesnt mind taking a midnight cab back after we drink.
• he's bringing a wine which long ago i mentioned to him that i like.

yes i know it sounds quite normal. but it jolted me halfway thru class that i didnt feel very comfortable with it, in fact i felt wary. blame it on the not-very-nice experiences i've had in this year alone with a lone guy who comes over to my place late at night or in the wee hours of the morning to drink, or after drinking. we usually end up either *ahem* or almost there, with only me insisting and insisting and insisting that i didnt want to. so now im really wary of lone guys coming over late at night or early in the morning, even if they're frenz coz i've learnt that somehow i have male frenz who in a state of drunkedness or not-so-drunkedness who want to screw me. i think the only male fren i trust is w. (have told u that b4 btw, and i really meant it. i think even my oldest guy fren i cant trust somehow in that sense)

so i'm very good, i turned down all 3 invitations nicely and rescheduled them to other days this coming week. which in the meantime made me realise there's tons of frenz that i actually would like to meet up with and catch up but there just isnt time in a busy life (altho i am not that busy in the office lah. i jus end up with stuff to do or whatever.....time jus flies somehow without me getting resumes sent out or studying for a solid period or spending time with mog).

maybe i should sit down and ask myself if i have somehow changed my mentality. am i getting old? i used to be so liberal and everything was ok ok ok, until recently when i started having more doubts.

came back from spain on sunday. so since im still enjoying my leave i shall slowly post up pics.

b4 i start, let me give some recommendations to people who wanna travel in europe without much hiccups.
1. even if you're not backpacking for real, carry a backpack rather than drag along a suitcase. after amsterdam and italy last year and spain this year, i'm damn glad i carried a backpack on all those trips. streets are not as smooth as spore, and most of the time you're walking along cobbled stone paths which is NOT condusive for happily dragging a suitcase like in spore. plus when you're running to catch a train or need to change metro lines, you'll be walking up and down tons of stairs. carrying a backpack is definitely easier.

2. go buy your supply of water from a supermarket. wanna know how cheap it is? a 5liter bottle of water cost approx 0.6euros, approx SG$1.20. on the other hand, a 6pack of beer also costs around 0.6euros. so beer drinkers, there you go. buy your beer from a supermarket and store in your hotel room fridge. saves you lots of $ on beverages spent outside.

3. in spain, try to pick a hotel on the main streets. just veer off the main street into a side street and you can suddenly find youself in a quiet seedy street. creeps me out which is y i hated exploring the side streets in barcelona and madrid. lucky in barcelona, my hotel is along the main street (La Ramblas. its definitely the happenin' street around.) and madrid as well (pick something along Preciados or Gran Via)

ok now im going to put up random pics. in case the stupid blog is too huge to load, i shall do it in 2 parts. **sorry for the misalignment of the pics but stupid website cant load pics properly**

the MUST-SEE in barcelona- the Sagrada Familia.

go look it up on the net to read its history, im not going to blog that.

before you go into the structure itself, note the pillars outside. the foot of the pillars each is a turtle. so he thinks the turtle here wants to drink some water...haha..

never thought i'll see the day where i'll wear a toga top again. but it was damn freaking cheap - H & M (a US store) was having 70% off this piece so i paid only 3.75euros for it.

this was taken at the top of Parc Guell. another must-see after the Sagrada Familia. when you go there, everyone queues to take a picture with that famous mosiac lizard/gecko. damn hard to get a moment alone with it! anyway if u want this fantastic city view with the Mediterranean in the background, climb up the little path all the way to the top.

and i didnt realise ALL shops are closed on sundays (except the tourist souvenir shops and restaurants). so on sunday afternoon when we wandered into the shopping center at Port Vell AGAIN (we like went there everyday in Barcelona) i was so happy to realise the shops were open! so greedy me jumped into mango to buy all the cheap tops i was eyeing over the last few days. right after i walked out of the shop i realised i lost my sunglasses! tmd! i loved that pair altho it cost me only 10bucks at Marine Parade. anyway i used it as an excuse to buy this white retro Mango pair. love it =)