Hush!

Move House!

2008-05-23T22:20:00.001+08:00

Harloe! What you still doing here?

I have move my blog to a new address!

http://findingmysunnyday.blogspot.com

Cya!

Suitcase!

2008-01-24T22:19:00.000+08:00

No, no.. not a story on suitcase. But about a cat who was almost named Suitcase... haha. Cute name for a cat! :) See the reason for my liking for these cute feline creatures? Cos' they are simply survivor!

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - Some kitty math: How many lives did little tabby Gracie Mae use up when she crawled into her owner's suitcase, went through an airport X-ray machine, got loaded onto a plane, thrown onto a baggage belt and mistakenly picked up by a stranger far from home?

"She's got to be at four or five now," Seth Levy said after his 10-month-old pet was returned Sunday night by a kind stranger who went home to Fort Worth, Texas, with the wrong bag and Gracie inside to boot.
The last time Levy's wife, Kelly, saw Gracie was before she took her husband to the airport. The 24-year-old went back to her house in Palm Beach Gardens late Friday to find the bottom step, where Gracie would usually be waiting, empty.

She tore the house apart looking for the cat, who had been spayed just days before. She and her dad took out bathroom tiles and part of a cabinet to check a crawl space and papered the neighborhood with "lost cat" sign.

Then she got a phone call.

"Hi, you're not going to believe this, but I am calling from Fort Worth, Texas, and I accidentally picked up your husband's luggage. And when I opened the luggage, a cat jumped out," Kelly Levy quoted the caller saying.
Rob Carter said he made it home with the suitcase before realizing it wasn't his — and there was a big surprise inside.

"I went to unpack and saw some of the clothes and saw it wasn't my suitcase," he said. "I was going to close it, and a kitten jumped out and ran under the bed. I screamed like a little girl." Carter said that he eventually was able to get the cat to come out from under the bed. "In the morning, I got close enough to see its collar and the phone number on it," he said. "So I called the number and got a hold of the crying wife of the traveler."

The tabby made the 1,300-mile trip home on an $80 plane ticket. Carter said he considered keeping the cat before he knew she had a home.

"We were going to name it Suitcase," he said.

via http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_on_fe_st/odd_missing_cat

Stressed!

2008-01-23T22:43:00.000+08:00

Feeling kinda stressed lately. Okie.. maybe not kinda stressed but very stressed. Perhaps, I was so overwhelmed with deadlines. I feel so "dead".

Seeing everyone started getting their jobs already has began to stress me up real badly. I am sure i am not the only one who felt this way. The slightest thought of my interview last last week already depressed me a great deal.. what a blow to my confidence! Seriously it doesnt matter whether you have done well academically or you have the industry experience... utimately it still depends on how you talk your way through to impress during the interview. Of cos, i wun deny the fact that academic results and industry experience do help u to a certain extent. Well.. :( I hate finding jobs.

The thought of getting money for grad trip is also killing me. Doubt my mum gonna provides me with her kind sponsorship, so financially I am struggling and I am not saving!!! Just hope my dear friends would go somewhere not expensive. Boo...

Of cos, the usual school work. Design project is gonna killed me as well.. plus I am the leader. eeew. And there's FYP which deadline is drawing nearer. Stuck with a half complete report and still halfway through experiment. I am seriously hardpressed for time.

Man.. I am damn stressed! :( Chocolates cant even save me for now!

Bad Start, Bad Luck

2008-01-14T21:37:00.000+08:00

Sigh. Sigh. Sigh. School have finally officially started one week ago. And I have so far experienced a rather bad start. Why is it so difficult to start school in peace? There's only 4 months left!!! I was suffering a spate of bad luck these few days.

1. Last week, I scalded my left index finger with 100 deg C water. Damn pain and Clumsy Momo burst the bubble of pus. It's causing me horrible pain for the past few days. :( Hope it will not leave horrible scarrings.

2. Last week again, I went for interview at a "strong rival company of my IA company." I seriously think that I screwed it. Not answering straight to the point. And they dun seem very interested in me as well. My hopes had long diminished. :(

3. Last week again and again, Clumsy Momo accidently kicked on the leg of the chair and injuired her small tiny weeny toe. The nail was almost broken and blood was dripping madly from the toe. Pain.. :(

4. Today, (This one I mus say) got shouted at in the LT by someone and worse of all, we were sitting at the front row in LT, few seats behind the prof. I thought that has given me and that someone unnecessary attention which I am NOT INTERESTED to have. Pls.. to that someone... spare me that unwanted attention and speak softer and dont embarrass me/urself anymore. I am not deaf and neither do I see u as an elephant. *Pissed* plus that's rude.

(Friends, I know it sounded very tactless and blunt. But there's always limit to my tolerance. )

6. I am still not done with FYP experiments! :( And playing with glass beads aint fun. :(

Give me a big piece of Jade to ward off bad luck ! ! !

I have finally get rid of the Interim Report!

2008-01-02T15:09:00.000+08:00

Damn! I finally finished and I am feeling so damn happy that I must tell the whole world. Hahaha.. Okie.. Even though its only half way through to my FYP and not progressing very well (especially the pace).

But still.. a short-lived happiness! I am so sick of reading journals after journals. And people calling me to ask me about gas holdup equation 1st thing in the morning and at night!!!

Lalala.. Finally my mood is back to normal. Wheeee... !

Sian...

2007-12-31T01:40:00.001+08:00

Sian. Feeling really sian.

Now I finally understand how he felt when I was away in Europe... :(

And instead of spending my new year with him, I am spending time with my FYP interim report. How sian is that?

12 Days of Indian Xmas

2007-12-29T01:32:00.000+08:00

:) I may be wols. But I thot this is really funny. hehe. Three... Butter ... Chicken!

Merry Xmas 2007!

2007-12-24T23:35:00.000+08:00

To all my friends out there,

Merry Christmas! And Best wishes! Sorry, didnt have the time to blog AGAIN. haha!

Messages to Individuals:

1. Mei, Jiamin, Mung and Chin:

Hey my beloved pals! Sorry that I didnt prepare any Xmas card this year. Wanted to "shamelessly" dig out my old cards, hoping that you wun recognise you have recieved the same card in the past and start writing but ... of cos I didnt as it's not very sincere too. Haha!

Anyway, thanks mung for always initiating our group outing and thanks to Jiamin who almost tries to "ruin" our plan (just kidding). And its always fun to have u gals around.. especially when it comes to gossips. Unfortunately Ms Chin cant join us at Hanabi, I thought she would have provide us more juicy gossips. hahahaha.

Hope we will have another outing soon before Jiamin flies back to Aussie in Feb. or a class outing will be good (though quite sadly we aint getting any responses from Facebook.)

2. Dawn, Ying and Shan:

My dearest gals! hehe. Sadly, no xmas xchange this year. But nonetheless, Merry Xmas to all of you! Bet Dawnie mus have lotsa fun in Japan *envious*. haha. Hopefully next year we can resume a christmas meet-up and exchange. Miss you gals and dunnoe when will be the next time we meet again... lalala. :P

3. Circle of trust people (you know who you are lah.):

Hey peeps! Sorry.. no cards for everyone this year. And unfortunately no xmas exchange and I was hoping someone would organise one.. just like the one we had previously last year. We have so much fun last year, squeezing in so many people in a tiny Honda Jazz and the car boot, and bowling at Safra. Hope that one is not the first and the last.

Although the circle is dwindling in numbers, we still have lotsa fun hanging out together as a group and i firmly believe that it's the trust for one another and *food* that bonds us all. Lets hang on together for the last semester and may we all find our desired jobs. And for the short term, uh.. good luck for the exams results and FYP.

Cheers!

And I Love You guys! :) Bye for now and have a Merry merry xmas again!

Happy belated Birthday to Our Dear Gal

2007-12-10T23:03:00.000+08:00

Happy Belated Birthday to Ying! Taken @ Olio Holland V.

What I have Been Doing These Days Part 1

2007-12-09T21:33:00.000+08:00

Guess where? Familiar?

Yupyup, it's the brand new Changi Airport T3. I have visited their open house last last weekend (haha!). The open house ended officially last week on the 9th Dec. Its was quite a sight and a real eye opener. More pictures right up!

After travelling to a few places, I have came to appreciate a few things about Singapore... and one of these things is Changi Airport. Hell ya, Changi Airport is the best in terms of interior design, facilities, shops and eatery variety and of cos, toilets! I guess I would not have much chances to take SQ flights and roam around T3. So open house was a good opportunity to explore the ground. :)

The Departure Hall and the Checking In counters. This whole place is lit with natural lightings with the help of the specially designed cellings of diffuser(?) or reflector thingy.

The check-in counters. All those are test baggages to test out the baggage system.. Not freebies.

I love the reflections!

Entering the restricted areas (transit mall)!

Bon Voyage!

A lot more immigration counters! I did stuck once within the gates cos of my sweaty thumb.

Some massage or resting lounge under construction in the centre of the transit mall.

Brewerkz right up above!

Toilets!

Orchids! Everywhere.. :)

The very spacious boarding area.

The arrival hall

Tropical garden right at the arrival hall

Baggage Area

:)

By the way, Bon Voyage to those heading overseas this holidays!

Blog Revival!

2007-11-28T23:06:00.000+08:00

Finally! Exams are over and I can resume blogging again during the holidays! Look out for more pictures and posts to come! :P

881.. Yo arh Yo

2007-08-25T01:10:00.000+08:00

Finally caught 881 today.. with my mum and sis. I absolutely love the movie by Royston Tan! You can either laugh or moved till you tear. Mum and I walked out of the cinema with red, swollen eyes.:P Especially towards the end of the show, many aunties and uncles (yes.. Uncle) took out their tissue and start sobbing. The final few songs were so so so sad...esp that particular song (which I dunnoe whats the title) describing the suffering of a cancer patient (most likely referring to Chen Jing Lang, a v popular Getai singer who recently passed away). It's so xin1 suan4. *sob*

The hokkien jokes in the show were fantastic and really hilarious. HahaHa.

Anyway, for those who haven catch, mus go catch the show or go rent the dvd. Dont wait until Channel 8 decide to show it (which god knows when) cos' all the Hokkien would be dubbed and some jokes are simply not funny if they are not expressed in Hokkien. Hahaha.

Cant find some of the nice hokkien songs in the movie on Youtube. But came across the duet version of one half (ji lang ji pua, kam ching bua sua....) which i thought sounded great too.

Another theme song of 881... (watch the movie and you will appreciate the song better)..

The Modern Poison Pen

2007-08-14T02:51:00.000+08:00

While surfing the forum, I came across this thread which I find it very disturbing. Not obscene stuffs or whatsoever. But what a female sicko (most forumers believed that sicko who did it was a female.) did.. to impersonate a "friend" friendster account whereby this "friend" has some bad blood with the sicko.

Here's the link to the friendster acct: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?statpos=bc&uid=47626524

See whats on the friendster description.

What even disturbed me further ( hmm.. maybe interest me further) is that it happens right here in my school. And the female sicko and the "friend" happens to be one year my junior. Gosh. I can even recognise our school LT and some of the juniors (guys) in the friendster's photo album.

Faint. This sicko is really sick to go jeopardized her friend's relationship. And very the free hor? I thought the year 3 should be v bz (unless they are in IA). Heh.

Photos From Europe

2007-08-09T04:46:00.000+08:00

It has been almost a week since I am back. I am still in the process of uploading pictures. haha! Once I am ready, will start on the travel blog soon... :) For now, enjoy some pics first...

Edited: For more photos and funny candid shots, here are few more albums to look at.
momo's:
http://www.picasaweb.google.com/momo0701
Lesley's:
http://www.picasaweb.google.com/lesleywmk
Jul and Kel's:
http://www.picasaweb.google.com/junyi07

Home Sweet Home

2007-08-02T23:50:00.000+08:00

I am finally back home! It's great to be home..and the first thing the moment I reached home was to dash into the bathroom. Hohoho.. cos I didn't get to bath for almost 3 days. The flight from Berlin to Doha for transit is about 6 hours, stuck at Doha for 5.5 hrs to wait for the flight back to Singapore and finally the second leg which took 7hrs. Man... i am shagged..

After bathing, I immediately removed the German Sausages from my luggage. Thank goodness it's remained "safe and sound" in my towel. I thought the heat in Doha might have cooked it within the luggage. Yes...I had quite a few people asking me where's Doha before the trip. It's in the Middle East. So at the airport, no matter you looked left or right, you can only see sands and more sands.. or some insignificant building next to the airport. The temperature there was like 36 deg C and according to some passengers who visited there before, it's relatively cooling compared to days hitting 40 or 50 deg C.

After unpacking my luggage and chocolates, I finally get to nua and talk to my mummy. Man.. I miss mummy so much. Regret not calling back often and making mummy worry. Opps.

Just as I was looking forward to reading Harry Potter, damn! I forgot that it's still with Sky. I should have bought the book in Europe. It's only 17.99 euros (About 36 SGD) at one of the bookshop in Munich. *heartache* The book here cost.. boo hoo hoo.. 50 plus SGD. Faint. I have to be dragged away by Ling and Les everytime they caught me reading Harry Potter in the bookshop. hehe.

So much drama, so much good food, so much good beer, so much fun along the trip. Yeah. Europe rocks. I guess once I get ready the pictures.. i can start work on the travelogue. Whee.. But now i gotta fixed up my laptop, damn. it just keep rebooting and i have no idea whats wrong with it. Maybe it has too much nua-ing while i am away.

2007-07-08T23:50:00.000+08:00

Leaving in 8 hrs time. Momo will be in Europe for the next 4 weeks. So for anything urgent, pls sms me. :)

And Good Bye to everyone in Singapore.

*Muackz*!

4 more days

2007-07-05T14:30:00.000+08:00

Just 4 more days... I am off to Europe for hols. From 9th Jul to 2nd Aug...

Wheee...

But I am sooo lazy to pack! haha. I am still wondering how many sets of clothes to bring. Argh. The headache of packing!

Every 6 months, i seemed to travel to somewhere further. From Bangkok to Taipei and now to Europe! Of cos... dont expect any further overseas trip in the next 6 months after i come back. Boo Hoo Hoo.

First time I am not travelling with my Sky. First time I am travelling with my friends. First time I am flying out of the Asia continent. First time I am away from home for almost a month. So many "first times"... all i can say is i'm v v excited but at the same time, beginning to feel a lil homesick (though i am still at home) and of cos.. a lil lovesick. I will miss my mama's homecooked food, especially.

In case you r wondering which part of Europe i am heading to.. here's my route:
Singapore ---> Berlin (Germany) ---> Paris (France) ---> Venice (Italy) ---> Rome (Italy) ---> Sienna (Italy) ---> Milan (Italy) ---> Prague (Czech Republic) ---> Vienna (Austria) ---> Salzburg (Austria) ---> Munich (Germany) ---> Berlin (Germany) ---> Singapore

Yes.. it's crazy. Seemed extremely packed. But our previous plan is worse. =)

Alrighty. I shall continue with my packing.. once again. Ahaha.

Sunday @ Nihon Mura

2007-06-18T23:46:00.000+08:00

I have made a new discovery on last Sunday. A new venue for class lunch especially we are sick of eating in the canteen.

Nihon Mura. A Japanese restuarant "hidden" at the new Jurong West Recreation Centre. (The stadium which we passed by along 179 bus route to school). Nihon Mura is a sister restuarant of Suki Yaki and the one at Jurong West is the 3rd branch after the branches at Revenue House and Tampines Sports Complex.

Thinking that it's located at such a ulu place, we didnt expect to see a queue. By the time we reached there around 2, there's a long queue outside the restuarant and suddenly we remembered it's Fathers' Day! haha. Fortunately, the queue cleared very fast.

So, whats so special about this place?

View from the restuarant.

Firstly, there's no menu. And it operates in Marche-style. But no card though. U use ice-cream sticks.

The open kitchen. This is the Charcoal-grilled counter.

In the restaurant itself, there's a few counters: The drinks/ice-cream counter, Charcoal-grilled, Raman/Udon/Don, fried items and a very fast-moving conveyor belt (Note: table not beside conveyor belt.)
To order your food, go to the respective counter and pick up the ice-cream sticks.

... so what do you do next with the ice-cream sticks collected? Placed them all in a cup on your table. The waitress/waiter will pick up all these ice-cream sticks from your cup and take your order from there. Cool rite? haha. Sorry. Momo is so very easily fascinated.

Besides the special way of ordering your food, you would be happy to know that each plate of sushi cost 99 cents only. If you like sushi and dont mind your sushi to have no QC at all, it's the place to have your sushi. Haha.. what i meant by no QC.. as the sushi (the rice part) is not made by the chef at all, its machine made. So you will realise that not the portion of rice can differ and the rice might fall apart.

Know whats the sushi you should whack most over there? The Salmon Sushi! Haha. Sometimes it's okie that they dont have QC. The salmon slice on the sushi is way thicker than the one i had at Sakae. hehe. And also "wider area" too.

Guess we almost lost count of the no. of plates of sushi we had. :) Other than the sushi, we have ordered other food. Sadly to say, only the sushi is cheap. Others are average in price or rather expensive. Their tiny weeny cup of Chawanmushi is a rip-off! Cost 3 bucks. *faints*

Yummy Baby Octopus. Very nice!

One of their Chef recommendation. Curry Chicken Katsu Don. Their katsu very the crispy!

Enoki Bacon. Golden needle mushroom wrapped with bacon. Charcoal-grilled. Damn nice. Idea for BBQ.

so whats the total damage: $40 for 2 pax. *burp*

I.. can.. Give.. u...Gatsssssbbbyyyy

2007-06-10T02:07:00.000+08:00

This song is stuck in my head.... Help!!!

If you are wondering what is that, it's the advertisement song for Gatsby's Moving Rubber.

Donuts Madness

2007-06-02T23:43:00.000+08:00

Yeah yeah... I know i know.. Donuts have made a comeback for so long. For about 6 months? It's kinda late to blog about donuts. Donuts have been the latest craze these days to draw long queues.. you can see aunties, kids, working adults, students at those queues, all willing to wait up to 3, 4 hours for their donuts.

The opening of Donut Factory at Raffles City Basement (The Marketplace) first started the donut craze. Soon, more and more donuts shop chains opened from the town to the shopping centre in heartland. In the past before Dunkin' Donuts disappeared from Singapore (I remembered there was one Dunkin' Donuts shop at Far East Plaza long long long ago.) , the nearest places you could satisfy your donuts craving would be the bakeries. Of cos, less fanciful flavours and much denser.

Just last year, I have my long craving for Dunkin' Donuts satisfied in Bangkok. Thank goodness, no queue at all. :)

Dunkin Donuts from Bangkok.

Just few weeks back, I tried the Vinco donuts from Vivo. Thank goodness it wasnt the weekend and hence no long queue. (most impt reason cos' is Mama's treat..) I queued for about 30 mins for my first dozen of donuts bought right here in Singapore. Heh. I would say not bad. Soft and I love thier chocolate glazed donuts. ooh. How sinful..... As compared to Dunkin, vinco donuts were much softer. Softer donuts are less filling, so you can fill your stomach with more. By the way, for those who liked Dunkin Donuts, good news! It's back in Singapore. However and fortunately, there's no shop for you to go queue at. You can order online and they will deliver to delivery spots such as selected MRT stations.

Recently, a new donut shop opened at Bukit Panjang Plaza basement, known as "Missy Donuts". Of cos, since it's so near my house, no harm queueing to give it a try.

However, it was such a frustration queuing for the donuts and the slow moving queue and noisy aunties just made things worse. Firstly, i queued for almost an hour. Not that the queue was very long in the first place. Secondly, when it was finally my turn to order, all the chocolate-flavoured donuts were sold out! Damn.. Just because the customer in front of me bought 24 chocolate-flavoured donuts.. leaving me with those non-chocolate ones to try. And worse... the crew werent frying any donuts cos they were still waiting for the dough to rise. Since i insisted on waiting for the chocolate donuts, i stood aside and waited.

Then there was 2 aunties beside me who also wanted to buy chocolate donuts started making noise.... Freak! 2 of them were complaining that they wanted to hurry get it cos they needed to go to work v soon.. and blah blah blah... and kept pestering the staff to make allowance for them. The new staffs were rather stunned and lost...by the furious ranting by the 2 aunties. Sigh. Poor girls. Yeah. The 2 aunties just get on my nerve, f**king irritating. Finally when the fresh donuts were out, one of the auntie attempted to poke at the chocolate donuts and kept asking what flavour. Oh pls.. you are not buying fish at market leh!!

Opps. Sorry for digressing. Just hope that I wont turn out like those aunties when i got older. Phew.

So.. in the end, we bought our dozen donuts : Kaya White Chocolate ( "Identical twin" - spotted the same one at Donut Factory), chocolate ice glazed, strawberry candy, Almond lover, chocolate rainbow, pistacho chocolate, mocha-ole...

Yummy. Me and Sky just sinfully finished half a dozen of the donuts. Urps! hehe. Surprising, the Kaya white chocolate which doesnt seem very popular with the customers, actually tasted really good according to Sky. The chocolate ice glazed was good as well... but the crew didnt do a good job of glazing. The chocolate doesnt seem to "harden" on the donut and appear rather watery. The rest of the tasting shall be done by my brother, who wants to eat but forever too lazy to go queue.

Closed-up of the donuts. You cant go very wrong with chocolate flavoured donuts.

Few weekends ago, Sky and I went shopping at Daiso and bought a pack of donut mix. Sigh. I thought we were such failures in cooking. The donut we made turned out to be rather hard. ahahaha.. it's so hard that my poor mum said that she had trouble biting and we can use these donuts to deal a blow on someone's head. haha..So Sky self-consoled himself on the failure by claiming that cos we fried the dough, thats why it became harder than usual donuts. What nonsense.

I shamelessly present to you....... momo's donuts.

Just For Laugh

2007-06-01T19:02:00.000+08:00

Hehe..! Funny video to share. Enjoy!

Cat Angel

2007-05-28T11:40:00.000+08:00

A mutant cat... with wings...

Granny Feng's tom cat has sprouted two hairy 4ins long wings, reports the Huashang News.

"At first, they were just two bumps, but they started to grow quickly, and after a month there were two wings," she said.

Feng, of Xianyang city, Shaanxi province, says the wings, which contain bones, make her pet look like a 'cat angel'.

Her explanation is that the cat sprouted the wings after being sexually harassed.

"A month ago, many female cats in heat came to harass him, and then the wings started to grow," she said.

However, experts say the phenomenon is more likely down to a gene mutation, and say it shouldn't prevent the cat living a normal life.

via http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2344838.html

Pirates of the Caribbean 3

2007-05-26T14:22:00.000+08:00

The pirates are back again! Urps.. Welcome to Singapore!

Watched the almost 3 hours long Pirates of the Caribbean 3 yesterday. Capt Jack Sparrow is still as funny.. and very "schizophrenic" this time round. However, I found it to be less entertaining than the previous 2.

Stupid me. I didnt stay till the end of the credits. Does anyone know whats at the end? Anyway... that's most likely another hint to the next sequel.. even though pretty obvious hints have been given towards the end of the movie.

Shrek 3 will be the next on the must-watch list! hehe...

NS Song

2007-05-16T01:28:00.000+08:00

Here's a interesting vid to share. All the guys who went through "National Slavery" can relate to what's in the song.

Sorry if the video doesnt fit properly. But enjoy the vid!

Laptop Skin

2007-05-06T02:25:00.000+08:00

Heh. Finally got my laptop skin from Garskin after a long 3 months wait. It was not supposedly that long wait... if not because of many screwed-ups along the way. Firstly, the guy at the shop (not the shop doing up the skins but one of their distributors) took the wrong measurement of my laptop. So... after about 3 weeks i paid a deposit at the shop, this nice guy (M) from Garskin called me to make an arrangement to meet up with me personally to re-do the measurements again. Unfortunately, I was too busy to meet him up personally, leaving this for my Sky to settle it for me.

Hell... so after another dunnoe how many weeks later, the guy from Garskin informed us to collect it at the shop where we paid our deposit. Lugging my heavy laptop there.. only to discover that they mixed up the serial no. of the design and gave me a wrong design instead! Brrrr... so we demanded a $20 refund of the deposit we paid. The stupid shop charged us $49 while the direct order from the Garskin website only cost $39! #$%*)

So.. in the end.. we decided to order direct from Garskin instead. and Ta-dah! It was finally ready and the nice fella from Garskin met us personally to help us stick on the skin. heh. Guess what... all this were done at a price of..... $0!! Freeeee!!! heh. M told us that cos they admited fault on their part and decided to give this for free.. heh. Save me my 39 bucks... keke.

Pretty pretty...This design is known as the "Night Blossom".

The interior of the laptop.

After Exams

2007-05-05T00:49:00.000+08:00

The smell of Freedom.... the smell of North Indian Cuisine....

Thurs was the last day of exams.. (actually 5 of us have our exams ended one day before and enjoyed the after-exam meal at Amoy St. ). and we have all gathered for a meal at this North Indian Restaurant at Riverwalk (situated at opposite Central, Clarke Quay). Heh.. ages since we have some nice decent meal...

This North Indian Restuarant offered buffet dinner with about 12 main dishes + Naan + a few side dishes. Many of us have not eaten North Indian Cuisine before... it's considered somewhat a special "exotic" meal we were having here besides the usual hawker fare or normal western meal we normally go for. This is definitely not my first taste of North Indian food. I tasted my first piece of naan dipped in spicy piping hot Chicken masala at the Sim Lim Square Foodcourt. From then on, I have become quite a fan of North Indian cuisine. This restaurant served cheap and affordable buffet lunch and dinner. We only paid about $15 per person for the buffet.

We'r ready to dig in! (The drink in pink is known as Strawberry Lassi. It's their Yoghurt drink but taste nothing like the usual yoghurt drink we bought from supermarket. It has a strong cheesy taste instead.)

Sambal Chicken, Tandoori Chicken and some Fish curry of sort..Take more gravy for the naan!

The naan. Comes in 3 varieties. Plain, Butter and Garlic. It was made by sticking the dough on the side of a large stone/clay pot, heated up by burning charcoal. Less oil (more healthy) and thicker than their cousin Prata. Eat it while it's hot!

Big Fans of Naan...

Food Galore!

Time for desserts! No no no... this is not the chinese Tang Yuan. This dessert is known as the Milk Ball in Honey syrup. Not advisable to consume more than one especially for people who have low threshold for sweetness. I think it's too sweet for my liking either... tend to get sick after a few more bites of these milk balls.

If you feel the need to freshen up your breathe after the heavy meal, the waiter will offer you this plate of green or colourful grains. Grab abit and chew them in your mouth. It contains some herbs to get rid of the smell.. and urh.. you will have this " bathing foam in your mouth" kind of feeling in your mouth.

Backdate...

2007-05-03T00:32:00.000+08:00

Happy 22nd Birthday to Xin!

Our dear ger finally turned 22 on the 10 April! heh. And her birthday "heng heng" fell on the week of presentation and report deadlines. But still... we managed to surprise her with Botak Jones and the cake. We had a tough time planning, equally tough to get the plan executed.

Time for birthday wishes! (" Wish for a bf who knows Fortran?") hehe.

I love this picture. Actually who doesnt? hehe. Anyway, all the pictures were taken by a webcam in the school comp lab. See.. we have made such good use of the school facilities. (eh.. we got pay school fees one leh.)

We love the school.. 's webcam ! Heh.

Before I end off... Would like to wish Happy belated birthday to another April Baby. Hehe.

Happy 22nd Birthday to meimei!

Boo!

2007-05-02T23:44:00.000+08:00

I am back again! Finally a long hellish-nightmarish-ultra-disgusting semester was over! Although it had been really tough for the past few months, I'm glad that we had all pulled through ... together.

These blog has been collecting plenty of dust and really inactive these months. Since the start of 2007, No time for blogging. Only time for typing reports. Sigh, Think I have never typed so many reports in my whole of schooling life.

Just change my blogskin. Damn cuckoo.. (i mean me!) Brrr... I forgot to save all those links to others' blogs from my old template. So.. pls leave your blog address in my tagbox. Thanks! More posts coming up soon!

Urps.. I just realised that this blog is best viewed with IE. (It looks really sucky when viewed with Firefox. heh.)

Memories from the Recess Week

2007-03-12T02:04:00.000+08:00

BBQ @ Lesley's House! Yummy...

Empty table of Plates..where's my food?!

Before the food is ready, lets camwhoring first. hehe!

The 3rd shift people waiting for their turn at the BBQ pits.

The yummy fruit salad made by Lesley's family maid. *two thumbs up* Creative use of mandarin oranges and walnuts...

Dont drool on your keyboard. More to come...

Chocolate Banana ... with choc melt to the right texture. Too bad, i say no no to banana.

Chicken, marinated with peppermint. Satisfying!

Yummilicious capsicum.. so pretty to look at, so nice to eat. Credits to Jul.. *her two "thumbs" up*

BBQ sotong! The chili was so damn shiok!

BBQ Stingray.. hot favourite of everyone!

The very soft and tender beef... Ling's favourite.

The logistics officer arrived to inspect whether the pit had been set up appropriately by his ka kia.

The 3rd shift people + the logistic boss. I think I have successfully captured Cehao's gluttony in every almost every photo he was in. (the fella sucking his fork)

Quarter-Life Crisis

2007-03-04T23:23:00.000+08:00

Today, I have stumped upon a thread when surfing the forum. (I was really bored with studying process control!)

Quarter-Life Crisis...

Perhaps, to most of us, we only came across the term mid-life crisis. Interestingly, (maybe i was slow or what) there's also something known as Quarter-Life Crisis. Quarter-Life refers to people of age 21-29. From the description of QLC in Wikipedia, i think i have stepped into a quarter-life crisis.. not only me but seems like it occurs to most people around me. QLC seems like inevitable phase we all have to go through. Somehow, everything (including many recent conflicts in school) can be explained by this. We are all suffering from QLC. Or maybe, just begin suffering from this.

Insecurity about near future.. always feeling that everyone is somehow doing better than you... financially rooted stress...frustration with relationship.. These description sounded so familiar.

The FYP conflict.. reveals the insecurities of everyone. Although I never expressed strongly on what had happened, I was upset and frustrated about the unfair competition that was started. Upset and frustrated about the kind of trust and openess we had for each other... But everyone is feeling insecure. Nobody want their project to be snatched away, nobody likes to be slower than their peers, nobody likes to be behind despite saying that they love to keep in comfortable pace. But peer pressure is pushing everyone to step up their pace instead. How weary is that? Is everyone hiding something, including the one closer to you? How much can you trust the people around you? Insecurities...

Anyway, read about OLC.. its real interesting stuffs. We might not be able to avoid OLC.. but at least cope with it was the the best we can do.

Young Millionaires Dreamers Club

2007-03-03T00:25:00.000+08:00

***The Young Millionaires Dreamers Club***

Club Profile:

-Officially Founded on 2nd March 2007.

-Initiated by a group of toto-crazy friends during a study session at National Library.

-Club mission: To achieve the million bucks in the annual angbao toto draw and change the club name to Young Millionaires Club.

-Member qualification: *The ability to dream (of what to do with the prize money) is a must. *Age between 20-25

-Membership fee: currently at 50 cents (payable as and when theres' 10 million dollars toto draw ) (Note that subjected to fee revision.

Today was the 10 million toto draw. Few days back, 14 of us bought 2 sets of 7 toto numbers just to participate in the fun of the 10 million angbao toto. Today, we bought another set of 7 numbers which we picked the number ourselves. Think all of us got so excited when we get together and started to think about what to do with the money if we won .... and CH even joking that he wanted to go home early to pack his bag just in case he needs to run away with the winning tickets.... And on Lun's car, we were waiting desperately and nervously for the toto results to be announce on the radio..(only to realise that the results were released after 930pm.)

Now i finally understand why my parents keep up with their 4Ds every week despite complaining to me that it's wasting so much money and they will quit betting on 4D numbers. It's buying a hope that makes you happy and winning to thrill you further.

Btw, we got 3 winning numbers right for the set we bought today. And 2 out of the 3 winning numbers were those numbers which i picked! OMG! But nvm.. everything in the name of fun... and haha.. better luck next time!

Year of the Golden Piggie

2007-02-26T01:34:00.000+08:00

Once again... the long awaited break is finally here. Chinese New Year holidays (unfortunately seems like its the only long weekend holidays for the whole of this year..).. then attend lessons for 3 days and now is my recess week. (Poor NUS and SMU peeps...) Not only did i get a moment to breathe normally, but also a chance to re-fill my bank account with the angbao money collected which has zero input since I completed IA last year.

By the way, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! *hold up two mandarin oranges* - Just imagine lah.

As usual, on the first day of Chinese New Year, the whole family (including unknown relative X and Y)would gather at my granny's flat. It had been years since we stopped doing house to house visit as everyone reckon that this arrangement would work best for everyone.

My granny house was packed to the brim. Relative X and Y's kids brought their gfs/bfs to fill up more spaces this year. The kids (my sister, younger cousin and my nephews - cousins' kids) have one room to themselves to play.. uh.. balloons? and making a din inside the room. The older kids plus the Uncles plus the Aunties had to retreat to another room to be able to talk in peace.

This year.. was a whee bit special. Firstly, there's a Japanese who visited! Actually is one of cousin's gf. I think she must have traumatised to see so many family members at one shot. Dressed very simply in a red tee and a brown trackpants.. she's very unlike the kind of Japanese ger i thought she would be. V plain features, freckled skin, rather tall, abit the chao lao (according to my parents).. and abit the chor lor from the way she hug the tin of love letters and gobble them up till everywhere was quite in a mess. >.<

But she was rather friendly and introduced herself as nami. I was tempted to speak to her in Japanese but.. haha.. to save the embarrassment, i better not. At least she can speak rather fluent English. Yah.. she had become the major attraction that day and my aunt was so darn proud that her son got a jap gf that she pull anyone to see Nami the moment they stepped into my granny house.

My youngest cousin, an irritating 6 year old brat, did the darnest thing during this year's CNY. Whatever angbao he recieved, he would tear them open in front of the person who gave him the angbao and take out the money to count. Although its extremely rude for him to do so, i think he has done it right this time.

Apparently, one of my aunt (my dad's elder sis) gave him a angbao stuffed with a dirty $2 note and he threw it back right in front of her.. going eeeeww... so little money, embarrassing her to the maximum. This auntie has a notorious reputation of giving such kind of angbao to us (or "forgot" to give) and hence, she was "blacklisted" every year by everyone. Once we recieved her angbao, we will make a mark. Haha.

But as our aunt, we respected her and nvr outright point out to her about her bad habits. So all these years, her "dirty deeds" was never exposed and all we did was to complain to our own parents. Even my parents cant help kpkb about it. $2 is already whee too little especially since we are all her nephews and nieces.. but giving us old black $2 note seems to be way too much. If so, I rather not have her $2 angbao. Whats more, she pretty rich running a business yet so tight-fisted with her money. Sigh.. perhaps, being stingy is the way to being rich?

L.o.V.e is in the air

2007-02-14T23:36:00.000+08:00

Happy Valentine Day to everyone! And of cos Happy Friendship Day too! Shall continue with photos and blogging soon... soon... I promised.

Photos from Taipei

2007-02-04T13:18:00.000+08:00

Taipei 101- At 4.45pm

I have finally uploaded my photos from my Taipei Trip. But still in the progress of uploading more.. Sigh.. Hardly have time to sleep... wheregot time to blog. This has been a v hellish semester. Its assignments, projects and lab reports. Ironically, I took less modules compared to my previous semesters. Well.. everyone is catching their breathe.. it's not about finishing homework on time, but its about finishing homework way before it was due.

Photos are uploaded here: http://flickr.com/photos/momo_bites (The corrected webbie.. Hehe)

Btw.. there's no pictures of me inside most of the photos uploaded. My ugliness will spoil the beauty of the photos. lolx.

22

2007-01-11T02:13:00.000+08:00

I am back.. uh 3 days ago? On my 22nd birthday. Strangely this year, dont have very huge "enthusiasm" in celebrating my own birthday. Feeling tired after 5 hours flight (1 hr delay at airport) and fell straight into bed. Woke up to find many sms wishing me happy birthday. Thanks guys and gals for remembering my birthday. :)

The sweetier thing awaited me after I woke up. My parents and sis bought me my favourite Begawan Solo's Pandan Kaya cake. It has been ages my family bought me cake to celebrate for me at home. Nice... Pandan Kaya cake tasted extra special that nite.. Family warmth and affection. Thanks pa, ma and sis!

Greatest thanks to my uni buddies for springing me a surprise during today's lunch at SBS (not bus co..)'s cafe quad. Xin tried very hard to divert my attention by making me stay inside the cafe to take cutlery for the gang.. haha.. and ta-dah.. a choc-fruit cake on my table. Thought the lunch at CJ yesterday was the celebration. muahaha. Special thanks to lesley who disappear and return back with the cake at lightning speed. :) hehe.. the birthday song was loud enough to embarrass me at the packed cafe.. but I like.

Oh. Thanks to my dear... for the webcam he bought me in Taipei. and being the first one to wish me happy birthday at the dot of 12 midnight. (of cos.. he has to.)

Away!

2007-01-02T22:03:00.000+08:00

Heyhey... I will be off to Taipei from 3rd to 7th Jan. Anything important please sms only. (I dun mind recieving Happy Birthday msg on 7th Jan!) hehe. Thanks to Weide for his advice! :P

Happy New Year 2007!

2006-12-31T15:44:00.000+08:00

***Happy New Year to Everyone! Its 2007!***

Countdown at Marina Bay!

Wishes for 2007:

1) More Money

2) Better Exams Results

3) Less illness. No cough.

4) Cut down on the amount of unwanted fats

5) Chicken pox scars to disappear totally

6) Better project mates ( i mean those that is not my clique one) hehe. Not those eccentric one who send me funny sms. ^_^

7) Less quarelling with bf and may us be happy always.

8) Offer me a job at SEPL!

May everyone has all their wishes come true!!! :P

My Last Day

2006-12-30T00:39:00.000+08:00

It was my last day of internship today. I have just completed my assessment presentation for GM, mentor and sup. What a great relief yesterday!

This assessment presentation was freaking me out totally as I was assessed by "big shot" of the "big company". Cant feel anymore nervous than any other presentations I have done before. But glad that it all turned out well except for a "gap" which my GM and mentor wanted me to close up. This "gap" was deterimental to my future career. And my sup really wanted me to close up the "gap" well...

I have come so far... from the moment I tried for a company which i thought i could have slim chance of getting into, doing something different from chemical eng... It took me so much courage. I am so glad I tried... I know if i dont try, i would never has the chance. Even if i fail, i should bear no regrets. Thank god I managed to be accepted into the company. When i know i got the internship, i was thrilled and i was jumping madly in front of my mum despite feeling sick from chicken pox.

However, i was uncertain at one point of time if i made the right decision to take up something different from my discipline. What if i have nothing to write in my report? What if i got a bad grade for my IA? What if I lost touch with engine totally? There's so many what-ifs... I was glad that things turned out better than expected. I totally fell in love with what I am doing and absolutely took pride in what I have accomplished. It has been a wonderful 6 months. Nice colleagues, great (and very loud) sup, interesting project, undeniably good allowance... what more can i ask for? (maybe a job later on.. hehe)

Today was my last day. Some of them give me a great big hug, shake my hands and it almost brought tears to my eyes. It has been so long that i felt this way... I was terribly touched. I was controlling my tears .. of cos. it would be damn silly to cry in front of my sup... hehe. I bought him cufflinks. As i know he gets bored during meetings and then itchy hand go touch other people's stuffs, i got him a set of cufflinks for him which he can play.. (cufflink is like some mini game) with. hehe. The more he talked to me, the more i bu she de him... and the place. muahaha... oh he also organised a farewell lunch for me at Jack's Place which quite a few people attend. Surprise surprise... my GM was there.

Now i must think of how to fill up "the gap" and send an email to my mentor and GM. My future rice bowl deps on this email now. >.<

Merry Christmas 2006 (Part 2)

2006-12-26T01:18:00.000+08:00

Xmas Celebration Part 2: JB Movie & Food Feast and Crazy Nite Out

This is the first time I am celebrating Xmas with my uni buddies. Looking exceptionally forward to meeting them cos they are always the most happening bunch of friends I have. hehe!

Xin, Jul, Kel, Ling, Lun and me met in the afternoon for JB. Xin, being the "guest of honour", got the honour of being scolded by everyone for being late by 30 mins. Surprisingly, the causeway and customs were very clear and less crowded this weekend, so we managed to reach JB in less than 45 mins. Ling suggested catching a movie over at JB City Square since it's still too early to go for makan feast.

In the end, we decided to watch Jay Chou's " The Curse of the Golden Flower" after a quickie lunch at Secret Recipe. Being the most typical Singaporean (except Lun but he has long gotten the Singaporean traits..) we are, we cant help gushing and exclaiming about the cheap movie tic. Their weekend movie tic cost RM 10.. which is about SGD 4. So much cheaper compared to our Weekend $9.50. Whats more the cinema is run by Cathay.. so quality of the cinema theatre is of the same standard as Singapore. Bloody worth it!

Alrite. Let's talk about the movie. It's a fantastic arthouse film by Zhang Yimou and definitely worth catching (even though Jay Chou doesnt look very appealing in the movie *shrugs*). As Zhang Yimou likes to use very strong colours in his movie, this one (as the title mention) was extremely golden and glittery. So be aware of being blinded by the strong contrasting colour of the palace's interiors and Chow Yun Fatt/Gong Li's ultra glittery GOLDEN costumes! Argh *Cover my eyes*... but nonetheless, the backdrop was magnificent.

The plot was easily understandable. Nothing too complicated... Gong Li's suppression as the Queen and Chow Yun Fat as the most heartless, callous, tyrannical King.. were all well-portrayed. Exception being Jay Chou again.. Cant help laughing at his face... and his futile attempt to squeeze out some emotions on his face. He just looked very off in his costumes and his moustache. *Cover my eyes*

Oh and you cant miss all the girls' boobs, almost spilling out of their clothes. Damn gross when you see their boobs wobble as they walked. According to my mama, she thinks that the boobs ressembled some kids' buttock. muahaha.

Late in the evening, we head off to our favourite place for a big feast:

Look at Ling, the one who cant resist sticking her tongue out when she sees good food... even when she only sees the menu. From left: Xin, Juan, Ling, Jul

What is life w/o good food man.... hehe. We had Chili Sweet Potato Leaves, Tofu on hot pan, Deep fried baby squid, Butter Crayfish, Steamed Soon Hock Fish, Beggar's Chicken, Dou miao. yummy.. all for the grand total of about 16 SGD per person.

Unfortunately, there's no purplish dragon fruit juice but no regrets! We tried Weilun's recommendation of another fruit juice which is a mixture of 3 fruits (strawberries, plum juice and cant remember the last one). It's a helluva good drink to die for!!! Hehe. That is if you are a sucker for sour stuffs.

How can we not pose for some photos with our favourite crayfish..... Gosh.. look at the amount of meat!

Back from Msia, meet up with Les and Cehao. What's next? Xmas xchange and Bowling at Safra Mount Faber!Thinking that Safra Mount Faber would not be as crowded with bowlers like Marina Sq. Wrong wrong! In the end, we were put on the waiting list.. and it was all waiting and more waiting.... while we were waiting for our turn, we took some bo-liao pics..

Jul, Xin, Juan and Lun illustrating 喜, 怒, 哀, 乐. We are good eh?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10. No 9 cos we dunnoe how to do it. hehe.

Les, Ling, Cehao's version. Who's better?

Now finally for the Xmas xchange... hehe. After a few rounds of drawing lots... I got Cehao's Piggie bank. (actually is froggie) hehe. And lucky Ling, got my red leather card holder.... :P

Everyone gets a present! Lesley gotten Ling's pillow case, Kel gotten Xin's (?) Nalgene bottle, Xin gotten Kel's piggie tissue box cover, Ling gotten my red leather namecards holder, Cehao got Les's MUJI tibits pack. Lun gotten Jul's shoes bag. Me got Cehao's turtle piggie bank. Jul got lun's present (not bought yet). hehe.. Merry Xmas everyone!

Merry Christmas 2006 (Part 1)

2006-12-25T21:24:00.000+08:00

It's finally Christmas! My long awaited holiday break... after 2 hectic weeks of work and OT every night just to complete the damn project. Most things are more or less done and I can feel so much ease now. Phew. Just as I wanted to take a break, I remembered about writing Xmas card and wrapping xmas gifts! Gosh. This year was a series of celebration from 22nd to 24th December... Seems like this year Xmas was my most happening (and most expensive) ever!

22nd Dec Nite with my gal pals, 23rd Dec Nite and 24th Dec Morning with my ultra-happening Uni buddies, 24th Dec Nite and 25th Dec Morning with my boy...

So this time, the Xmas blog entries are going to break into 3 parts... flooded with pictures.

Xmas Celebration Part 1: Xmas Party at Dawn's Place

This year, Dawn invited all her friends to her house for Xmas celebration and presents exchange. I was late becos of the retail convention which was held at Changi Hotel... the really far eastern part of Singapore, took quite abit of time travelling from the east to her house in the south.

When we were in secondary school, we used to have xmas celebration at her place too. And somehow, we just loved to "challenge the weather" and BBQ in the rain! haha. I remembered it was a hilarious sight when we tried to BBQ with the plastic sheet or umbrella shielding us from the rain. This time round, we were once again challenging the weather but unfortunately it rained again. We have to move all those catered food, BBQ or half-BBQ food to the function room below and eat there.

Oh yah. Before I forgot.. Welcome back, Shan! hehe. She's finally back from far far away Norway. She deserved a great thanks for getting us all those goodies from Norway and of cos, burning me her 5GB worth of pictures from Norway (when I was just kidding with her. Opps!)

The Four Of Us: Ying, Juan, Dawn, Shan

Be There or Be Square

2006-12-10T23:38:00.000+08:00

The day is finally here. A day which my dear table-mate, M, has always been trying very hard to remind me by sticking yellow post'it note on my monitor everyday.

"Dinner with Prof Y! This Sunday"

And I stick the note behind the LCD screen instead. Bahh stop reminding me! Haha. Especially when she herself got trouble remembering it too. The only thing we both can remember is what he said in the emails,

"Marketing girls, can you 2 plan a nice gathering for me and the 4 interns (M, Pau, SiX & me)?"

Marketing girls!!! How degrading it sounds! Both M and me were dying to strangle him for calling us that. But being the usually nice and angelic girls we have always been, we decided to forgive (but nv forget) and plan the gathering.

In his last email to us, "Marina Square. Lovely place. Be there or be square. :)"

So we were joking if we should turn up in boxes.. :P alright. That's spastic.

In order not to be late for this dinner, I stepped out of the house 1 hour earlier in case of jams at Orchard. Surprisingly, traffic was extremely smooth and I reached town in 30 mins time. Meet up with Pau and M at Marina Square's Puma Shop 30 mins before the official time. (M didnt tell SiX that we were already here). M was nagging at Pau for her revealing top and short skirt, as this might give the prof "a wrong idea". Haha!

We 3 were standing there wondering where should we wait for prof Y. Just as we about to drop him a message, Pau let out a squeak which startled both of us, our dear prof Y was right behind us! Then he said, "oh hi gers, I was wondering how to contact you. :)"

So we ended up at Waraku Japanese Restuarant. We took quite some time looking at the menu while waiting for SiX to turn up. We ordered drinks first. 3 of us have innocent iced green tea and plain water while... he drank Asashi Beer. SiX arrived shortly and we let her had the most honourable seat. :P hehe. The 3 of us were practising caution while ordering as..

We have no idea who's paying. Dutch, He treats us, We treat him?

I ordered a small yakiniku don. He was shocked and said I should order more. So he ordered a big plate of sushi. I was poking M's thighs under the table, trying to tell her "who's paying?!". The food came.. and yum yum..

From the dinner, we found out:
1) Prof Y has a driving licence (A US licence converted to Singapore licence). But he has second thoughts about getting a car cos its v expensive. Plus he is living within the campus.
2) His campus apartment has 3 rooms and he is not living with anyone else.
3) He is from HeilongJiang.
4) CH4242 (si le si le) 's first part would be covered by XR, then second part by him. and he claimed is not difficult. Yahrite...!
5) He dont encourage doing research cos it's a tough route.

It's payment time. And hehe.. he flashed out his credit card in time. He told us that he used to have quite a lot of credit cards but he had cut up most of them and left only one. Hmmm...

But *phew* great relief still! His treat! hehe. :P $150 meal....

For fun!

2006-12-04T12:29:00.000+08:00

You are The Empress

Beauty, happiness, pleasure, success, luxury, dissipation.

The Empress is associated with Venus, the feminine planet, so it represents,
beauty, charm, pleasure, luxury, and delight. You may be good at home
decorating, art or anything to do with making things beautiful.

The Empress is a creator, be it creation of life, of romance, of art or business. While the Magician is the primal spark, the idea made real, and the High Priestess is the one who gives the idea a form, the Empress is the womb where it gestates and grows till it is ready to be born. This is why her symbol is Venus, goddess of beautiful things as well as love. Even so, the Empress is more Demeter, goddess of abundance, then sensual Venus. She is the giver of Earthly gifts, yet at the same time, she can, in anger withhold, as Demeter did when her daughter, Persephone, was kidnapped. In fury and grief, she kept the Earth barren till her child was returned to her.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Fastest Fingers!

2006-12-04T00:32:00.000+08:00

Was chatting with A (my colleague from Finance) the other day while having lunch at Old Airport Road Hawker Centre. A who was from NTU too, started talking about the "main highlight" of uni life. Haha.. Planning timetable and subjects registration seem to have left a deep impression on her especially all those panic attacks she got from subject registration. Well.. some things will nvr change...

It's such a pain in the neck to plan timetable, especially for this coming sem. Limited PEs, "Title-seemed-v-boring" PEs, Horrible timing modules, Horrible Exams timetable and what have you... And the worse is I dont have time to plan due to work! Argh. But thanks to Xin, who updated me constantly on the changes and help me plan. hehe! Thank goodness both of us have cleared our PEs and GEs, therefore can share somewat similar timetable.

It's giving me panic attacks every now and then.. and you need extremely fast fingers (to click ur mouse).

Perhaps, beside the STARS planner, someone should really set up a timetable consultation firm. Haha.. talking about entreprenuership (dont know how to spell)....

Yeah. Its war time tmr and good luck peeps! Exercise and warm up your fingers abit yah?

*Just 2.5hrs before the "auspicious hour", recieve warnings that there are other pples choosing the same lab groups as us and there are only 9 vacancies! And find out about the most popular tutorial class! and everyone seems to be panicking .. worst some not contactable/gone mia/bz to reply email to know whats gg on. *Pulling my hair off* Arghhh*

Project J

2006-11-16T21:48:00.000+08:00

No word can describe the "hardship" (and Panda eyes) behind Project J. Pictures behind the scene are the best evidences. But mission successfully completed after one week of planning + intensive internal emailing + last minutes glitches. Yoohoo!

From 5 to 7

2006-11-14T00:26:00.000+08:00

GST will be raised from 5% to 7% and details on the effective date will most likely be announced next year on the "Budget Day".

"This is inevitable over the next 5 to 10 years. Infrastructure investments will cost money - R&D is to cost $5b over the next 5 years; as medical technology improves, people age and more will go to hospitals to get more treatment, so spending is bound to go up. As we tilt the playing field across the board, the lower income will be getting another boost, not just once in a while. Therefore its better to start building resources now so that when we spend more, we have the means to do so," said Mr Lee. To finance this, indirect taxes or the Goods & Services Tax will have to go up. "It will give us precious extra resources to implement social programmes like Workfare later on. Our aim is to help the lower income groups and the elderly, not to increase their burdens. When we implement the GST increase, it's not just the GST increase, it's the package which will fully offset the impact of the GST increase and begin to strengthen the social safety nets and tilt the balance in favour of the low income groups - we will not just raise the GST but we will have a comprehensive offset package," said Mr Lee. - [Channelnewsasia.com]

The "offset package" to fully offset the impact of GST increase? In the first place, how extensive can the "offset package" reach out to our lower income groups?

Pocket is going to gain a 2% increase in weight soon. Shouldnt all of our pay/allowance (excluding the ministerial pays hor..) go up as well in order to "fully offset" the impact of GST increase? Heh.

Perhaps a progress package every year would be a sweet deal instead of a one-time thing. Unfortunately, we cant have an election every year. Whats the point of letting us taste something sweet and few months later to find ourselves end up paying double/triple or more for what we got from the package? And It shouldnt be even called a "progress package". It should be called the "Citizen to Payback soon package" instead. Heh. Stupid. Then I damn "loo gi", I wasnt entitled for the Package this year cos I am not yet 21 (on 31 Dec 2005.)

Teh Tarik Kosong

2006-11-12T16:17:00.000+08:00

Yesterday nite at Jalan Kayu..........

L: Hey CH, help me order Teh Tarik Kosong!
CH: okie!

10 mins later...

CH: eh... no Teh Tarik Kosong leh..
L: Huh? Why dont have?
CH (Giggling away): ohh.. just now when i tell the uncle I want Teh Tarik Kosong, the uncle paused for a while leh.. he said wheregot Teh Tarik Kosong one. Cos Kosong means no milk no sugar and means become Teh-O. You "pull" Teh-O is still Teh-O mah... wahahaha...
Everyone: Wahahahaha....

Now I know..

A Lesson to Remember

2006-11-05T16:37:00.000+08:00

It was Beverly's 21st Birthday yesterday. The time 2nd 21st birthday after last Saturday Chin's party. Just recieved an sms on Jan's 21st Birthday party invitation on next Saturday. Its my parents' birthdays next week too. I think I can proudly declare that spend almost all my Saturdays this month on attending 21st Birthday parties. Hehe.

Last Saturday, I was 赌鬼. Yesterday, I was 酒鬼. I guess it all depends on who you hang out with. My JC frens are the gambling lots and the uni frens are the drinking lots. Yesterday, we almost lost count of no. of bottles of red wine we consumed. All I remember that it was bottle after bottle. Thank goodness I stopped drinking after I doze off suddenly. At one time, I finished the wine at one shot and the next moment, i feel sick and dont know why my tummy feels hurt. Hehe. It will be a disaster if I ever get drunk.

Poor CH and Bev.. got drunk quite badly. Feel so paiseh. CH passed out in the toilet. According to him, he did not know that he even gone to the toilet! One moment, his eyes had been reduced to "2 slits" and grinning silly at us. The next moment, he passed out and vomitting. sigh. Should have let him stopped drinking and tell him that he was not drinking Ribena. He drank so fast and his cup just kept refilling. He totally lost his consciousness after that. For a moment, he slapped himself on the face.. Bev also puked while taking care of him. This was the first time i saw someone got drunk so badly. The last time was seeing people puking by the drain at Zouk. V common sight.

While Bev gone back to rest, we were thinking how to bring CH home and tell the his mum. After he kinda stabilized, 4 guys carried him to Lun's car. The moment we brought him to sit upright, he started puking again. But luckily he puked into the plastic bag. Phew.. he managed to get back home safely finally, all thanks to his good buddy W and Lun.

He started calling everyone in the morning to apologise.. haha... I was startled by his call cos i was still sleeping. hehe. He was so relieved after he heard from many people's account that he didnt say any nonsense yst except slapping himself v hard and doing his "pig-tiger" growling (he sometime does that when provoked by us.)

Now.. if anyone ever want to drink, always know your limit! and control is the word. Dont drink too fast. o_O and it's a no no for drinking on an empty stomach.

@ Vivocity

2006-11-05T15:44:00.000+08:00

I went back to Vivocity yesterday. After my first "bad experience" when I was there 3 weeks ago, I found myself back there again since bf and I have once again ran out of places to go. Vivocity's opening was one of the most hyped up event in our small little island. The largest shopping mall in Singapore, with a surfing theme due to its location facing the sea and of cos, an artificial beach on top of the mall.. However, what i feel was a pity is the location. It's quite off from town. Most shoppers came by NEL. So the Harbourfront Station was packed with crowds and the staffs have to standby for crowd control.

The last time I went there, the artificial beach wasnt ready and was only "flooded" halfway. This time, the beach was ready and the kids were ready too.. for their new water playground. Another place to get wet besides the spurting fountain at Bugis Junction. hohoho...

The 3 foodcourts (Food Republic, Kopitiam, Banquet) were finally opened and several eateries as well. There's also some nice cafe, facing the sea. The giantic Giant hypermart was really huge and spacious. Giant hypermart + Cold Storage's marketplace (a more upmarket one) + guardian.. wah seh.. almost whole of Dairy Farm Group.

Took some pictures with my Lumix...

Back at Vivocity. The exterior of the vivocity. If not for the haze, sitting at the deck enjoying the sea breeze isnt such a bad idea afterall.

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Cable cars.. "shrouded" in the haze. Havent taken a cable car for a long long time. The last time was at Gentings.. Its even more scary to take cable car on a mountain.

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This is not a lake. This is a beach.

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Here's the artificial beach. of cos, it is not a sandy beach. No sand. Everyone was sitting at every corners. Many parents were dipping their feet in the water (looking kinda murky) while keeping watch on their kids. The murky water doesnt really look that appealing to me. eew.

The man-made "beach" at the top of Vivocity. I am so tempted to put my tired feet in for a wash.. hehe.

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No Lifeguard. But i dont see security officers anywhere either.

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Cute ! There's many of these coloured fellows around the beach. My favourite is the pink cow (bottom right). Apparently, there's also a few art pieces from the Singapore Bienale that are exhibiting here permanently.

2006-11-05T15:28:00.000+08:00

"Hey Bro.. Seems like the sky looks hazy today..."

Auntie Chin's 21st

2006-10-30T23:22:00.000+08:00

Happy 21st to Our Dearest Auntie Chin!

It was her big day last Saturday (28 Oct). Held at the Seasons' Park Clubhouse. I must first apologize for leading the wrong direction cos i turn at the wrong junction, and in the end everyone had some bit of exercise from the "brisk walking". But when we wanted to walk back to the after the party ended, I realised that walking the correct direction wasnt any better. The place is still v v far from the YCK MRT. Hahaha..

Finally our dearest Auntie Chin turned 21. One of the last few to turn 21 among us. Remember she used to "seek refuge" from us (my clique) in JC becos her clique sometimes went missing in action, leaving her alone. Always giggling away like little school ger whenever we talked about guys or another BGR gossips or "interogate" us on our relationships. Sometimes, she sounds naggy like obasan, talked like obasan, obasan's dressing sense, so that explains why we called her Auntie Chin! Hehe..

@ Auntie Sharon's Birthday Party! Nicely decorated. There's even some "ketupat" hanging outside the glass door. (Hari Raya Puasa mahh..)

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Whats amused me at the party was the part whereby a video of Chin's parents wishing her a happy bday plus a few NGs. haha! How many parents would want to do that to surprise their kids like this? So sweet of her parents!

Sigh.. The only photo with the birthday ger (or auntie?) in my camera is blurred. Baahhh!!

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Our table.. Ready to Eat. From left: Meimei, Meimei's bf, Dr Lim TH and Sky (my bf)

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We came abit late to "chope" the KTV room or pool table at the clubhouse. But thank goodness Dr Lim brought along some entertainment for us - a set of miniature mahjong (See pics below) and a stack of poker cards. Hope Chin's parents wont think we are some kind of die-hard gamblers. Playing the miniature mahjong was really an uphill task for us. You need to have reallie nimble fingers to arrange your tiles, move your tiles and take your tiles. If you are clumsy enough, all your tiles might be exposed. haha! In the end, we got so tired of playing with such small tiles that we gave up. Playing bridge was much easier.

The Mahjong Kakis' motto: "We mahjong anywhere! anytime! but not anyhow!"

Lastly, Best Wishes to Chinchin and Stay giggly always~!

P/s: Wishing in advanced Happy Birthday to Nov Babies (Jan, Bev, My papa and mama, Weide, Ying)!

Monday Crazy Night Out!

2006-10-24T23:57:00.000+08:00

Firstly, I need to apologize to those who dropped by my blog and find that there hasnt been any recent updates. Hasnt got the motivation and inspiration to do any blogging. Feel like doing something to my blog soon. I do get bored of things very easily...

This week has been a really awesome week for me. Have been working at home after the long Deepavali and Hari Raya Holidays. Not only that, I got to spend the night out with my dearest pals! Haha! Indeed, what a memorable night we have.

This time, the outing was planned by our dear "Mr Exxon". He planned to bring us to Handlegrill and then to Little Bali for a after-dinner chill out session. So after a few spins around the Henderson/Bukit Merah area (Mr Exxon strongly resisted the use of street directory as he felt that was an "insult".), we finally find our way to Telok Blangah area at Lock Street. We made more spins around Lock Street since Handlegrill seems to be nowhere noticeable. After many rounds, only did we realise that we were in front of Handlegrill all along and why we didnt notice is becos Handlegrill is closed! According to the parking uncle there, Handlegrill is closed on Mondays! Bahhh...

Lesson no. 1 to be learnt: Check the opening/closing hours of the restuarant.

So me suggested Greenwood Fish Market, located at Greenwood Ave (right behind NJ). Heard from the forums that this place is not bad.. famous for its fish and chips. (Yummy!)... This time Greenwood Fish Market was indeed opened but we have to wait an hour for 8 seats! Gosh... So we decided to come back again on a Tuesday for their "$1 Oysters Tues Night".. Yipee!

Lesson no. 2 to be learnt: Make reservation especially when you need so many seats. (But this time was a last min decision, what to do? sigh!)

Next, half of the people were in Mr Exxon's car to fetch Jan and another half in Kel's car, wondering where to head next. So those in Kel's car (including me) decided to go to eat Ma La Steamboat (at Beach Road, opp Concourse) as suggested by Xin before. Finally!! There's some place willing to accomodate us and is opened for business!!!

The Ma La steamboat was not bad.. quite popular and the restuarant was rather packed with Mainland Chinese (so can presume it's pretty authentic Szechuan Ma La). Their meat were in very thin slices and thus, cooking them took a shorter time. All the pig liver lovers love the pig liver, especially Mr Exxon who went gaga over the pig liver which "melt in his mouth". The pumpkin cake (fried) was served piping hot and the filling was not too sweet, perfect for those who doesnt like sweet stuffs. They also have cold dishes.. which I find worth a try. But not to be missed out, their mango pudding! Their mango puddings were in small bowls and condensed milk was added on top of the pudding. Yummy! All these for just $15. 20. ( 20 cents for a glass of iced water, free top-up) Cheap and very affordable!

After a hot and spicy meal, we wanted to head on to a chill out place. Unfortunately, the Ice shop near Burlington Sq was closed. Suddenly, someone suggested Mustafa at Little India. Haha! Mustafa is opened 24 hours. The only few times i being there were to exchange Thai Baht for my last Bangkok holiday. Little India is a place which I feel so foreign.. oh gosh! And that was the first time I visited there at 1 am!

Mustafa was packed with shopping crowds and it doesnt feel like 1 am on Syed Alwi Road. It's still bustling with activities at such hours... many foreign workers were hanging around. I guess its pretty common since its the public holiday. Once entered the mall, it felt as though you were shopping in some Malaysia hypermart. Haha! The Nike socks are cheap but limited in designs. Some of their sports apparels like jacket can be quite cheap as well. But what fascinated us the most is.. (nothing really surprising..) ... the supermarket section! Of cos, no one left empty handed with snacks like tim tam, chocolates etc for stocking up in office's drawers.

2 plus am.. after sending Jan home, it's late night movie time at Cathay Cine. We catched "Prestige"! Great show (even better than The Departed!) !! Before the show, Mr Exxon got a tummy upset and desperately needed a relieve. So the moment we reached Cine, he ran to the toilet and to his shock.. an "out-of -service" sign hung on the door of the male toilet.. damn suay. As he ran to another toilet on the next level, there's this James Bond's music playing.. muahaha.. adding on to his anxiety. (The gers were laughing very hard at the scene..dramatic..) Its not really funny unless you were there seeing what happened.

Thanks to all these funny pals I have. They made stressful studies so much lighter.. and life become so much happier with these insane fellas (including the insane me)! haha! To them: When can we have another outing like this? So fun!!!!

Monday Crazy Night Out!

The Convertible Dream

2006-10-19T22:32:00.000+08:00

After all the slogging, there must always be a time we have to pamper ourselves. Me? I am going to pamper myself with a convertible in the future! My long cherished dream..... (but then must get licence first eh.)

By the way, there's my sup's convertible.. Chic huh?

A Hazy Saturday

2006-10-08T23:25:00.000+08:00

The haze on Saturday was really the worst even since it hits our small tiny island few days back. The PSI was at 140 to 150, even at night. As I was travelling back home from the newly opened VivoCity along the CTE and SLE, visibility was very poor and it felt as if the cars were running on clouds.

Dont talk to me about VivoCity. Terrible!!! So few shops were opened for business and the renovation were not fully completed yet. And worst of all, so few eateries (not even McDonalds or fast food chains) were available for business and Food Republic wasnt ready in any time soon. In the end, the overwhelming crowd spilled over to Harbourfront and long queues were formed outside the restuarants. The poor cleaners at the Harbourfront foodcourt couldnt handle the crowds + not clearing the trays and rubbish fast enough, such that the trays and rubbish are stacked up at one corner for the cleaners to slowly clean up. Whole place was a mess and disappointment. Folks, go there on a later date and VivoCity official opening is on 1st December.

Saturday Haze. Taken from room at 22nd storey of Carton Hotel. If only the haze was due to coldness and not due to the forest fire in Indo!

Family Affairs

2006-10-08T23:12:00.000+08:00

I was at my cousin, Jenny's solemnization ceremony cum buffet lunch on Saturday, at Carlton Hotel. Finally she has decided to settle down for good with her long time boyfriend, Ryan (now cousin-in-law) after a good 12 years of courtship. Seen them together during their poly days since I was a kid, so thats really really very long. But.. the actual chinese marriage ceremony will take another 2 years later and they claimed that "they wanted to wait for me to graduate so that they can get big angbao from me." It's ridiculous! I am the younger one and I should be the one getting the angbao from them leh. hahaha!

The funniest thing was my por por (granny in Hainanese) asked my mum when would be my turn. Gosh... but I know por por meant well and hopefully she can be there to witness her next granddaughter to get married.

Finally... after 12 years of courtship?

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Majority of the relatives invited were from Jenny's maternal family. The paternal family only took up one table (out of four). My aunt, uncle and mum couldnt resist asking them one very important question in their mind the moment the newly weds dropped by our table. "eh.... what's your marriage cert number? We want buy 4D before the betting centre close." Old habit... hard to change.

Buffet lunch for the relatives. Love the roses decor on the dining table.. :)

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My youngest Sister. Mum said she is looking more like me. Haha! Except my eyes are a bigger than hers.

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The Cheeky Brat. My youngest cousin. He tried to look "pretty" with the strips of papers from the poppers. muahahaha...

2006-10-08T23:07:00.000+08:00

The Bride and Me.

I heart Cupcakes!

2006-10-04T03:04:00.000+08:00

Finally collected my cupcakes today! I have bought cupcakes for our 2nd year aniversary (also his 21st birthday). Cupcakes are currently the in-thing, replacing our usual birthday cakes etc. It's much easier to share with friends without going through the hassle of cutting the cake with a knife and of cos, the colourful frosting make the cupcakes look so much more interesting! If you are interested, below is my "cupcake directory".

CUPCAKE DIRECTORY

* www.cupcake-momma.net (One of the more value for money. Great range of fanciful designs to choose from. Cupcakes are homemade.That's where I ordered from too. :) )

* http://www.roomfordessert.com.sg/cupcakes.htm (Cute smiley design cupcakes. However less variety to choose from and a lil bit expensive.)

* www.c-cup.biz (featured on STOMP foodies club. Cupcakes looked real delicious from the net. Simpler in design but good for a cupcake sharing session with girl friends. Moderate pricing)

* www.thebakingbug.blogspot.com (Happen to run by a friend of my bf's roomie. They have v interesting decors on the cupcake to suit various themes. Looks good to me too! But seem like no pricing is available.)

* http://www.hotfuchsia.com/bakes_cup_cakes.html (Oh Gosh.. the figurines on their cupcakes are god damn cute! $3 per cupcake is average. Its also an event company, so those who need help in organising party, you might be interested too.)

*http://www.flourwerkz.com.sg/ (Not much pictures to see since the site is still yet to be completed. But looking at some of the available pics, they have very interesting designs. Can check it out few weeks later..)

Will add on soon....

Cupcakes as aniversary/birthday gift for my dear. :)

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Close up of the cupcakes. Darn it! It looked too pretty to be eaten. I like the blue frosting and the way it's on the cupcake.

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Me testing out the macro function of my new Lumix FX 07. hahaha!

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The Star on the Cupcake's pink frosting! (Btw, it's plastic and inedible.)

Meatylicious Affairs

2006-10-02T01:22:00.000+08:00

Another fortnightly gathering! In fact, it has been 3 weeks since we last met up for tennis (at Ling's condo) and BBQ (at Lesley's hse). This time round, our "food queen", Ling, brought us to this Vibe Restaurant at Meritus Negara Hotel for brazillian buffet. For brazillian buffet, the chefs go round the tables with the meat and their knife, cutting slices or chunks of meat for you.

Chandelier @ Vibe Restaurant.. nice eh?

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The restaurant not only serves very delicious barbequed meats but also cold seafood. The mussles and oysters are fresh... There's also different sauces to go with the cold seafood. Unfortunately, I didnt have the courage to try. My weak stomach might not be able to take it. (IBS is a bitch!)

Cold Seafood buffet... Mussels, Prawns, Fresh Oysters, Crab.. (Not in the pic.. duh)

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Enjoying the fresh oyster! *sluuurrrp*

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There's a great variety of meat for everyone (except vegetarian of cos.) They even have char siew to suit the Singaporeans' taste and their char siew are absolutely heavenly tasty! Definitely not losing out to those hawkers out there. Another meat which I enjoyed very much is the fish. I have no idea what fish is that but texture is almost similar to that of salmon's. Juicy and the fish kinda melts in your mouth..arh....

Some of the meat served. Beef, Chicken (Extremely Juicy and nice!), Bacon wrap, Fish (2 thumbs up!), Mutton and Sausages...

2006-10-02T01:14:00.000+08:00

The 2 guys ("Ah cek" and Ah Hao) enjoying their food. Haha..Ah Cek's hairstyle getting more funkier... very the hip lor.. Lolx.

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Finally it's dessert time! They have a great variety of desserts but most popular has to be its chocolate fondue. When you stepped into the restaurant, you would notice a chocolate fountain. A wide selection of fruits, marshmallows, dried apricots are available to go with your chocolate fondue. Unfortunately, they dont have my favourite strawberries!

Yummilicious chocolate fondue!

2006-10-02T01:10:00.000+08:00

Lesley has done a favour for everyone by going to the chocolate fountain to scoop a bowl of chocolate for us to dip. And Ling eating bread in fondue style. Haha... I think anyone who has seen us doing that will think we wanna drink up the bowl of chocolate. That's really sinful indulgence.. but we love it!

2006-10-02T01:08:00.000+08:00

Enjoying our chocolate fondue! Having a sore throat that day... but heck.. yi1 du2 gong4 du2.. muahaha..

2006-10-02T01:06:00.000+08:00

3 of the desserts served at the buffet. I was too slow to grab some other desserts that look equally yummilicious. Boo!

2006-10-02T01:04:00.000+08:00

Our Fornightly Gathering @ Meritus Negara's Vibe Restaurant finally ended off with lotsa meats + gossips + greatest scandal of the year + desserts.

No more EM3

2006-09-30T00:38:00.000+08:00

Finally MOE has decided to scrap EM3 for good after years of debate. This happen to be the topic of the PW(project work) I did in J1. Definitely a great move and worth applauding.

During my years, many education policies has given rise and then dropped within a short period of years. "Infamous ones " like the scrapping of mother tongue and SAT as a local University entrance requirement on the year we graduate from JC. Wonder how many of my peers went cursing madly about wasting the money to take SAT (for those who dont need them in the end) especially when it costs like 80 bucks per test. I myself wasted 160 bucks! Thats enough to cover my uni textbook fees k? Not forgetting I wasted 6 months taking AO chinese when I actually dont need to in the end.

Oh well.. Still glad that finally our education policy has moved forward one big step and lets hope it will still continue.

Sorry Lah!

2006-09-27T21:54:00.000+08:00

Greatest apologies to my friends out there who pop by to read my blog recently. Haven been updating for a month already. I am still alive, kicking fine and also highly active in msn. During this IA period, blogging has became a huge challenge especially my brain is normally not working v well after work. From now, I will try my best to update regularly. =)

7th Week

2006-08-25T00:18:00.000+08:00

This week is already the 7th week of IA for me. How time flies! But Boo Hoo... my allowance is still not here yet! Wonder whats wrong with the HR people after several reminders! No Call, nothing! My sup has already approved my allowance for July so long ago. Where did my allowance go to? Grrrr.... I am broke..

I apologised to those who read my blog occasionally. Hardly got the time to blog now especially I am always feeling so braindead after work and the amount of work is escalating! In fact, thats good news for me. Hehe. My sup is outsourcing some of his work to me so that I can learn the rope from him... Yipee! And I will be extending my IA which my sup is agreeable to it since he said that he needs me around longer. Wheeee! No more slacking during December and that means extra income for myself.

Preserving My Childhood Memories

2006-08-22T00:33:00.000+08:00

The recent "autograph bk" entry from Kenny Sia's blog prompted me to go on a frantic search for my autograph books. Autograph books were something of the past, particularly for our generation. I dont see my younger brother writing such thing but I guess the reason being is that he is introverted (and he still is.) and he only has eyes on online games. (Anything beside online games he would not have taken a fancy of. Hahaha!) I dont see my youngest sister writing such autograph book anymore but she writes letters to her friends in words which I can barely understand and she blogs too. (But she only blogs about her maple.)

I managed to dig out mine which was "well-hidden" (uhhump..) inside my old cupboard. It's not the common cartoon one but a very obiang book that says "Travelling Alone" and a choo-choo train on the cover. Sounded damn sad eh? But I was glad that I wasnt "travelling alone" now. =)
I remembered that this book was given to me free and no way i could have bought this book since i was a poor kid then. Haha! If I have the money, I could have bought a nicer one with my favourite cartoons.

After PSLE, everyone was super free. We spend the remaining days playing games like UNO, chess and of cos, writing such autograph books for others got common too. Our favourite Poem that were duplicated in almost everyone's book was...

" Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friends like you, hard to forget" or the "Roses are red, Violets are blue.."

Haha! This is in additional to many many silly things that we wrote. Best friends, Good friends, Bestest friend, Enemies, favourite food, drinks, colours, actress (everyone likes that usual few.. Zoe Tay/Fann Wong/Ann Kok Etc.) and actors (Chew Chor Meng "Ah Bee" etc).. many many favourites.

Hmmm.. this writing autograph book did not end even until secondary 1. Saw some of the posts written by some of my secondary school friends...and 1 eventually ended up on my blacklist (The one who rolled her eyes at me in SC). There's also one written by a p5,p6 friend (HQ) who also currently a coursemate in my Uni. Wonder how much things have changed. Used to be quite close to her until her attitude kinda pissed me off... hehe!

It was the last (most recent) entry that touched me the most and this deserves a worthy mention. An entry "re-written" by a close friend of 16 years. She kept my autograph book for a good 2 years before returning my book to me. Haha! It was the longest entry in my autograph book.. bringing back fond memories from our kindergarden years all the way to JC. She even enclosed a photo of her acting as a fox during the kindergarden skit! hehe! Re-reading it again makes me feel that I am blessed to have such a friend. Come to think of it, how many friendships in your lifetime that can last that long? IF she's reading my blog from Norway, just want to tell her that she will always be my bestest pal and totally appreciate her all these years. Sorry that I have been neglecting you. =( *Wave wave*

I always laugh at my sister who writes stupid nonsensical letter to her friends. Now looking at those nonsensical stuffs I wrote in the autograph when I was at her age 9 years ago, I shant laugh at her anymore. Haha!

A Wedding Style Birthday Party

2006-08-13T23:47:00.000+08:00

Just yesterday night, I attended the most "wedding-like" 21st birthday party. The theme of the birthday party was masquerade, meaning that everyone will have to wear a mask. (No.. not ur SKII mask or surgical mask or whatever facial mask.) And guess who's birthday is that?

Lovely..... Roses and Mask... Mysterious yet Romantic..

2006-08-13T23:45:00.000+08:00

Happy 21st Birthday to our Doctor Lim! He celebrated his birthday slightly earlier and according to Jin Xi, his actual birthday is on the coming Monday. His birthday party was held at one of the mini ballroom at Safra Mount Faber.

Happy 21st Birthday to Dr Lim!

2006-08-13T23:43:00.000+08:00

Only Auntie Chin, Mei and I represented "the JC friends category". That was really sad when it's only three of us who went up on stage to take pictures with him when his host shouted "Friends from NJC!!!". Well... unfortunately some of the JC friends he invited were away in US. (Mung.. hope this entry will be a good update for you since you are away in US. =P)

The Wedding-style Birthday Party.Nope.. no bride, only the "bridegroom" in his white suit. (Hahaha.. actually the "bride" is in Aussie. Nah.. Just kidding.) He also has 2 emcees that night to help entertain his guests. Oh, btw the 3 of us shared a table with his "elite" NS buddies who eventually left pretty much early before the cutting cake.

2006-08-13T23:39:00.000+08:00

The theme of the birthday party is the "masquerade". Nice purple complimentary masks! There we are. Doing some self-entertaining with the masks given to us. Thank goodness we were not expected to wear the masks and eat our food. Hahaha!

2006-08-13T23:35:00.000+08:00

Some of the food we had during the buffet. Salad, Sotongs, Assam Fish, noodles etc... Is a good spread of buffet food. Not forgetting the Spicy&sour soup... Not sour but kinda too spicy. haha...

2006-08-13T23:32:00.000+08:00

The 3 Sharons. The roses were given to all lady guests as complimentary door gifts.

2006-08-13T23:29:00.000+08:00

Me and Mei.. acting Kawaii... hehe =P

2006-08-13T23:26:00.000+08:00

Guess who? Auntie Chin duh.... she will be the next celebrating her 21st birthday.. in Oct.

2006-08-13T23:23:00.000+08:00

Cuting cake cum phototaking session. Tian Hong and his family. His cake is a "non-fattening, healthy, special homemade" yam cake. (quoted from his mum.) Interesting cake I must say. Is a multilayer of cake and yam...

2006-08-13T23:21:00.000+08:00

Thats Tian Hong during the JC days. Now, he is still the same as before except he spots longer hair now. After the cuting cake session, there was a photo slideshow presentation (So wedding-ish arh!), showing pictures of him when he was a baby to recent years' photos. Thats where the real entertainment come. Apparently there was a very huge picture display of him and Jm.. muahaha.. and the 3 of us just burst out hilariously. Tralala... (sad.. I wasnt fast enough to catch it on my camera.)

2006-08-13T23:19:00.000+08:00

Photo slideshow : Pictures of Tian Hong when he was a kiddo.

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Haha.. Thats what happened when doctor gets high. He took off his jacket and started grooving on stage. Shake it oohh.. what a show for the finale!

Bidding Farewell

2006-07-25T23:57:00.000+08:00

We have a small farewell gathering for Mung who would be flying to US anytime after 28 July. Since she will be stuffing herself with western food, burgers and fries for the next 1 year, we have the gathering over at Paragon's Ding Tai Fung to have some chinese food. She also took some photos of the food we ordered so that she can reminisce the taste and flavours she is deprived of. Haha!

Although it's just the 4 of us (Me, Mung, Auntie Chin and Mei), we have lots of fun chit-chatting as me and Mung dont get to see Auntie Chin (Dentist) and Mei (Pharmacist) very often. Sigh. As the days go by, the numbers of people we can call out for gatherings and mahjong are shrinking.

Here we are at Ding Tai Fung, Paragon. On our table... The Shanghai Xiao Long Bao, Pork Chop Fried Rice, Wanton soup and Braised beef tendon la mian... Yummy!

2006-07-25T23:52:00.000+08:00

Mung and Me. Normally it's just the 2 of us that are still on "active" mode. wahaha.. I will miss my favourite gossip mate.

2006-07-25T23:51:00.000+08:00

Mung, Juan and Mei.It's a pity that Jiamin not with us. It has been ages since we last took a complete picture of our clique. The last one taken was 6 months ago.

2006-07-25T23:49:00.000+08:00

The 3 of us (Mung, me, mei) and 1 "refugee" (Auntie Chin). Poor Auntie Chin, whenever her clique gone mia in school or now, she will "seek refuge" from us. But indeed, we have a fun time interrogating her, dun we? hehe...