Ever since coming back from Shanghai last Friday,
Clem and i have been holed up at home,
enjoying being indoors too much to venture out.

Which is terrible and lazy, i know.
But it feels SO GOOD to just stay at home, make drinks, watch DVDs and just hang out with each other sometimes.

I couldn’t help thinking, “I can’t believe it, my favourite thing to do on a Saturday night is stay in with Clem.” 

To give us some credit, we did some major running around Shanghai for a full week,
so much so till i got blisters which he bought plasters for.

Not knowing how to say ‘plaster’ in mandarin to the girl in the pharmacy,
he played charades and acted out something cutting him,
blood spurting out with a wooshing sound and sticking something on with a smile.

She immediately handed him a box of band-aids.

Another reason i’ve been so reluctant to go out, is a new book i’m currently stuck on.
After finishing The Last Empress on my last day in Shanghai (i thought it apt to read a book about China while in China!),
i couldn’t find a single magazine nor book in English in the Huang Zhou airport and resorted to Clem’s World Without End.
Previously, i’d turned my nose up at his book, not comprehending what could be so interesting about life in the 1300s.
And he was trying his best to get me to read it.

Now that i’ve started, i’ve been making excuses for him to entertain himself with something other than me so i can curl up on the bed to read.
2 days and over 300 pages later, i was ignoring his pleas for me to get out of bed so we could go out and eat.
After he tried for an hour, StephTheVolcano smsed me out of nowhere,
saying we were having an impromptu girlie meet up.
I suddenly found some enthusiasm to get out of the apartment and jumped out of bed to take a shower.

Book vs. Lovelies…

Lovelies win hands down. 

glasses, balenciaga; necklace, me & zena; dress, bali

SpankyCammy insisted i looked like a Guinness pint,
cos my dress was black and my gold necklace looked like the harp thing.

I told the girls a revelation i had in Tioman.
Me: I know what i want to be when i grow up!
SpankyCammy: Aren’t… you already grown up 
Me: No. *denial* I want to own a guesthouse by the beach… or in the forest when i grow up!

It’d be awesome.
I can decorate each room in all the crazy ways i want.
And Clem can help out. 

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Olivia planned a get-together for JP’s birthday at WIP @ BSC.

Birthday tiramisu cake from Alexis MMMMM

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