TABLOID NIGHT

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
-Erma Bombeck-

Dear LN,

Hi! You miss another outing by the Joy Luck Club this year. We had it at the Curve last night – only the 3 of us. We miss you very much and wonder if you are doing fine.

We called the meeting to order at 7.50 pm. I was fashionably late as I was waiting for my boss to tie some loose ends before he is off to Bangkok again for his business trip.

As I was late, I told them to decide the place to eat and to swear off any raw food (Japanese) as I was having a very bad case of sore throat and cough. Who knows? I might even get salmonella with my weakened immune system.

I was very taken by the Curve, (that explains me being almost a permanent fixture there) its cozy, parking is ample (and only costs RM1– KLCC is far too expensive for my liking now), and its simply spacious and fabulous.

We decided to go to La Gourmet House for dinner. It was a good choice – Party Girl’s favorite, apart from Tuan Ee. I had one big ass plate of Barnyard Deluxe. It was satisfying especially when you have it with a glass of peach tea (and the doctor advised no oily food and no iced water).

Okay, here’s the summary of what we have discussed over our gossipy dinner (as requested by Party Girl).

7.51 pm – Party Girl asked me if I had to stay back to sing extended version of Negaraku.

7.52 pm – Party Girl and Jane said I looked fat. I am trying to justify why am I getting fatter? The diet is not working? Do I exercise? How is my blood pressure?

8.00 pm – They asked me if I would like to have some pizza and some sausages as well – considering they just commented that I am fat – I sincerely don’t know why they still wanna stuff my face with more food.

8.05 pm – The gossip begins. Another tale of unsuccessful marriage. Sometimes, I wish that I hadn’t listened so much – seriously, life is a bitch. I finished my mustard and I stole some from Jane.

8.30 pm – I was still trying to finish that big ass plate of sausages.

Barnyard Deluxe - Yum!!

8.45 pm – Party Girl couldn’t stand the smoke blowing right into her nostrils by a darn smoker next to our table. She picked up the tab and we shifted to some place else to continue gossiping.

8.50 pm – We shifted to Winter Warmers – I love this place!! Pretty table cloth, pretty little cups and saucers painted with roses and flowers. Simply looking at the danty cups is definitely worth it. A quiet and cozy place to catch up.

9.00 pm – I am still deciding between having tea or coffee….. ended up with Rose Coffee and a piece of Lavender Cheesecake. Sweet!

Rose Coffee and Lavender Cheesecake

9.05 pm – Gossiping continued. From terrible dates we had to terrible dates other people had, dating internet people, internet gaming addiction, total change of personality in some of our friends, stupid things people would do for love, and we all agreed to let those people foolishly in love to feel the burn and pain, rather than telling them their mistakes from day one when they do not listen to rationale at all, (Who are we to them anyway? Nothing can stand in between two persons in love, all rationale ceased), places where we travel to, planning to travel, belly dancing, clubbing scenes, jealousy, divorce cases… really lah.. seriously – we can put any tabloid papers or magazines to shame with the amount of juicy gossips.

11.15 pm – We still cannot stop talking till those people in Winter Warmers gave us the look and we had no choice but to continue our useless yet fun gossiping some other time.

Ah well, that was all what we did last night. I know all the bad mouthing would do us no good and probably we had accumulated hordes and hordes of bad karma (especially me) and go to hell, but.. who cares? We hope you could join us soon (in the Curve – not hell).

Lotsa Love and xxx;
Gina, Party Girl & Jane