Sanguinity

2011-09-07T08:53:00.000-07:00

DIY Crack Nail Art

You may be wondering this is a rare post 'for i hardly blog about self DIY nail art. No worries, you're not at the wrong site. It's Joanne here. And YES, I'm into this kind of crack nail art recently. What's more, the below one is of the combination of my favourite colours- Black & White. Nice not? haha.

Happened to chance upon this newly introduced crack nail polish at Faceshop one fine day while shopping for a friend's birthday gift. In the end, i couldn't resist the temptation not to get one for myself. It was love at first sight in fact. The sales assistant offered to try it out on one of my fingers to show me the effect. It was plain awesome when the black nail polish cracks instantly after you apply.

Cool isn't it? Is that your style?

The above design was done up using three different nail polish colours. Firstly, i applied the white nail polish as a base coat. (Note: Without the base coat, the crack nail polish will not be able to crack. That's how interesting it is!) Next, is to apply the second layer over the base coat, in which, my black crack nail polish. The last step is to give it a matte finish by applying a transparent glittery polish colour. As easy as that!

Of course you can also try applying other base colours like GOLD, RED....etc. It might turn out nice, who knows! So, HAPPY D-I-Ying!

This is my first attempt in D-I-Ying, well but definitely not my last. In fact, I've just purchased a menicure deal with deb. It's going to be cool experiencing 3D nail art and tip extension. All just for the price of 25SGD after the discount. Thinking of doing it after exams as the validity period is till December. I guess I'll probably do it when nearing my 21st party. Anticipating 3D Nail Art!

That's for now.

2011-07-31T05:17:00.000-07:00

Calling for votes!

Recall back my previous entry...

Still remember the Visume Wars? Yes, it's time to call for votes. This must be a crucial period for all participants. Your vote matters to them as that one vote makes a great difference to those who are in a tight competition. So, vote wisely.

All you need to do is to visit the prevview.com and search for this Visume War Competition that is hot on its heel. Click on the *view* button to browse through the participants' visume first before coming to a decision which is your favourite! Simply just have to take few minutes off time and vote for the best visume.

So, hurry vote NOW. The Visume War has begun!

Click on this link:http://www.prevview.com/visumewars/index.php/user to view the participants' visume before voting.

The participants have their own strengths in their Visume. They did their best. It's now time for us to give them our support!

For now.

2011-07-05T05:06:00.000-07:00

Visume, not Resume!

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NOTE:

Prevview.com has officially declared a Visume war In Singapore. You may be wondering, what's this Visume War ALL ABOUT?!?

Have you heard of the Visume War Battle?

Unlike any other video showdown, this war appeals to every jobseeker's most basic struggles, allowing one to stand out from the sea of jobseekers with similar talents and credentials.

Calling upon interested participants between the age of 18-35 years old, this is one great opportunity for you to enter this professional field battle, showcase your talent via this platform.

Fret not, you're not the first one to do so! Many have participated in this war zone. Check out one interesting Visume below.

As seen from the above video, John may appear to be an Ah Beng, well, but he sold us with his dead pig. First and foremost, let's talk about his attire. First impression of him judging from his attire is pretty good as he is smartly dressed in this video resume. Although some of his actions appeared to be typical "Ah Beng" of that in Singapore, he managed to pull it off with his confidence level. Secondly, he is able to prove himself to his employers with his experiences, dedication and degree attained for Finance & Economics and i feel that John has good interpersonal skills which will aid him in this job. However, one thing to note is if John gets the job, he will have to take special note to some of his actions which people still see him as an Ah Beng. He has to further improve on that.

Can you perform better than him?

There are few more good Visumes as seen from the war zone site. One simple entry caught my attention. Under most viewed, we've one participant Daniel Ho Sheng who is able to exude the confidence as seen from his Visume. Despite not much of a creativity in filming and editing, i can see his professionalism and with his eloquence, i believe he will be able to handle the PR and communication line if he's IN for this job.

Apart from having the most important factor - CONFIDENCE, sometimes, a little creativity will just do the trick if you're someone who's into the creative line(eg. advertisement companies). I'm sure they need potential people who are able to develop their creativity in this career line.

You can also view directly as seen from the above print screen page- war zone (view entries) for other participants' visumes.

This is one rare opportunity not to miss! The chance has been given, it's up to your own calling now! As mentioned earlier, Visume War on Prevview.com serves as a platform for you to showcase your hidden talents. Step forth and bravely express your self. You might be the ONE companies are in search for.
No harm giving it a try though... It's a experience afterall.
What's more, $10,000 worth of attractive prizes awaits you. Job positions/vacancies available for you too! Come On NOW! Enter this battle field.

How to register?Simply have to fill up your particulars in the form above which can be found under the registration section in Visume Wars.

With Prevview's Video Resumes(Visumes), you can:

Present and showcase your BEST SELF.
Express why you should be hired.
Entice your employer to know you BETTER.
Bring Life to your paper resumes.

So, HURRY, WHY WAIT?

Channel 8's private screening

2011-05-23T20:00:00.000-07:00

Channel 8's Private Screening- C.L.I.F

Always, i've been an avid fan of Channel 8's drama shows since young and would never fail to catch the drama promptly at 9pm every weekday. Currently on air is this "The In-Laws(麻婆斗妇)" with my favourite star-Rui en, starring in the show. As most should have known by now, there's also this upcoming star-studded drama titled "C.L.I.F(警徽天职)" right after the end of 麻婆斗妇. Judging from the advertisements, you know that this is definitely a MUST watch show 'for alone the short trailers aired on tv are simply thrilling and exciting.

Once again, i'm so honoured to be able to receive this exclusive invite, this time round from Channel 8 to attend the private screening of C.L.I.F last Friday. Having this rare opportunity to watch the highly anticipated drama show ahead of others is really cool and i'm thankful to Channel 8 for selecting me as one of their 20 bloggers to cover this exciting event. As you know that i'm someone who is interested in this kind of police investigative thriller show, you can imagine my excitement for the whole of that week, anticipating the arrival of friday's event then.

The event was held at Sinema Old School.
For this private screening, i was able to bring along a friend and sok was my companion for the day. Sinema Old School is located somewhere at a hilltop and huff and puff we made our way up this really long stretch of staircase before reaching our destination. The crowd was there way before us. Mainly the fan clubs and few other bloggers. well, but we're not late! haha.

The theatre is located at Level 2 and we were barred from entry till about 7.30pm when it is nearing the event's commencement time. Meanwhile, we proceeded into an air-conditioned shop whereby we get to exchange our coupons for popcorns and drinks. The whole atmosphere feels as though we're going into the cinema to catch a movie minutes later...

Bloggers had the priviledges to take the first two row seats whereas those fan clubs took the seats behind us. It was definitely a good view from my center seat! Some of the fanclubs as seen from the below photos: Rebecca's, Joanne's, Elvin's...etc. That's not all. There are more to it.

The drinks and gourmet popcorns we got from the shop. Thanks for the munchies! Good combination to go along with a theatre show.

And now, a shot of me with my gourmet popcorns:)

The event commenced at about 8pm. First on stage is definitely the host before the introduction of casts. And we have got Ben Yeo as our host for the day! He's a funny chap! we were entertained by him before the main casts of the show entered. Ben took a quick look around the entire theatre and he noticed the different fan clubs coming to support their respective idols. Just then, Elvinology exclaimed: “我们要黄俊雄!” Ben replied saying that “不要以为黄俊雄没有来，等一下你们就不尖叫！我注意你们很久了！”(Haha). He also mentioned if they want Elvin Ng, he can be seen in the show later! LOL.

Soon, we welcomed the arrival of the main casts with applause. First entered was Tay Ping Hui, followed by Joanne Peh, Chris Tong, Aileen Tan, Rayson Tan and then Romeo Tan. The artistes line-up for the day! A pity Elvin was not there. i would love to see him in person.

The casts introduced themselves and a general description of the the show. There were some humourous contents in between. Such like Aileen Tan who mentioned that we have to support this show of theirs, a little support will do if not they "没得捞" (Haha). If i'm not wrong, Rayson Tan also mentioned "Power Rangers" who referred to the team, they as the police investigative officers in the show. It was entertaining throughout this short casts introduction session. Afterwhich, the celebrities proceeded to the back row along with the host, took their seats and all ready to watch this 45minutes' first episode (minus the commercial breaks) with the audience.

C.L.I.F. stands for "Courage", "Loyalty", "Integrity" and "Fairness", which are the core values of the Singapore Police Force. It is a collaboration with the Singapore Police Force that aims to create a drama of unprecedented realism which helps viewers understand how police officers operate in their workforce. Judging from the advertisements and poster boards, the trailers and the photos are simply thrilling and realistic that you ought not to miss it! The first episode started out in Thailand and it was about riots. Scenes of riots that occurred first in Thailand, then in Singapore. Explosive bombs, fights, tactical assault vehicles(shiny red trucks)...were featured. How real can all these be! Just so convincing!

Apart from that, we have to give credits to our dear artistes for their remarkable acting skills. I believed that they had put in a lot of efforts, undergone tough trainings in the police unit in order to portray their individual roles well. This filmed drama wouldn't be a successful one without a good script, sound effects and animations, most importantly, marvellous acting skills from our celebrities. For a moment, I feel as though the main casts who appeared in the first episode of the show are REAL police investigative officers in reality. That's how good they can be! Everything is so real and convincing!

Anyway, Elvin is a funny one when he appeared in episode one and he took on a different character this time round. Well, but no doubt he's a policeman himself in the show. I'm not going to reveal the entire thing here. You shall watch to find out for yourself!

Don't miss this show, seriously!

No videos and photography were allowed during the show. Nevertheless, you can still watch the opening and the different trailer segments below.

C.L.I.F. 警徽天职 Opening Song

Trailer Launch #1

Trailer Launch #2

Trailer Launch #3

After the 45minutes' show, the celebrities were invited back on stage, this time round to our priviledges, for we get to capture photos of them for the next few minutes. Everyone including me was busy snapping away. Check out my snapshots below.

Joanne posed for me. How nice of her!:)

That's not the end to it. Apart from watching the first episode, there's also a Q & A session right after that whereby 8 lucky winners will get to walk away with some goodies. My friend and I were really fortunate to be one of the lucky winners. The host, Ben Yeo asked both of us these questions respectively. "What does C.L.I.F stands for?" & "At the riot scene in Thailand, what did Ping Hui say before he deployed the baton?". Mine was the harder one. When the question was first being asked, it stumped the whole audience. No one could really answer it except Tay Ping Hui himself as that's one of his lines in the script. The host was kind enough to say out the answer once, then he picked someone to recite the answer after him. I decided to give it a go and in the end i got it! Woots! Thank you Ben Yeo:)

Goodies brought back.

Love this C.L.I.F diary book. It seems like a limited edition!

Interesting huh?! This turns out to be a USB mouse. So useful!

After the entire thing, we could also take photos with the celebrities. A pity some of them were blurred and i missed the chance to take photos individually with Joanne Peh and Tay Ping Hui.(Though in the past, i did take once with both of them... that was like ages ago, lol.)

More photos below. Happy browsing:D

Joanne Peh and her fan club, Jollity

A nice group photo.

Lastly, a shot of me with Aileen Tan! (This is the clearer shot.)

C.L.I.F(警徽天职) debuts 31st May, every Monday to Friday, 9pm on Channel 8. Do remember to catch this upcoming drama on the weekdays. Trust me, you ought not to miss this show! I'm already soooo looking forward to the second episode!

Once again, thank you Channel 8 for this exclusive invite and the goodies. That day was a happy and memorable one.

Support Channel 8♥♥

That's for now!

2011-05-12T03:50:00.000-07:00

I ♥ Channel 8!

Having grown up watching Channel 8 shows, I've developed a liking for Channel 8 drama shows ever since young. My buttock would be glue-sticked to the sofa right in front of my television, without leaving my sights off the drama shows airing at 9pm every weekday night. That's my favourite segment of Channel 8. As we all know that there's always repeated shows airing at 5.30pm during the weekdays' evening, I would never fail to catch them again despite having watched once. I would say i'm an avid fan of Channel 8 right from the start. The different genres like "family loving kinship", "romance", "detectives & mystery case solving"...etc interest me 'for they are always entertaining and of high climax in those of my favourite dramas. You wouldn't want to miss any episode of it! Fortunately, we've got xinmsn online now, even if missed, we still get to catch yesterday's episode online.

Over the years, there's a huge leap of improvements in Channel 8's drama shows with better scripts and most importantly, good acting skills by the actors/actresses who portrayed the roles/characters well. Below are some of my favourite Channel 8's shows with stars like "Rui en", "Jeanette Aw", "Joanne Peh", "Elvin Ng", "Dai Yang Tian" taking the main leads in the respective shows.

Be it with families or friends, we would always love to discuss the respective role(s) played by the actors/actresses in the show as well as making predictions of what will happen in the next episode. In particular to this, I've a special liking for detectives, mystery case solving genre kind of show as i'm someone who is more into thrill. It is always exciting to catch the next episode, to find out who is the next killer or victim. There's always a great sense of satisfaction knowing that the detectives in the show managed to crack/solve the mystery. How cool can they be, seriously! So real life and convincing despite only a show.

Recently, I've heard of this upcoming Channel 8's show- 警微天职(C.L.I.F). I swear I will love this show 'for it's on one of my favourite genres, police investigative thriller.

With that, i do hope that I'll be given the opportunity to attend this private screening of the highly anticipated drama 警微天职(C.L.I.F) ahead of others. Just trying my luck here. Hope that I'll be one of the lucky shortlisted bloggers chosen by Channel 8. Thank you:D

2011-05-09T08:33:00.000-07:00

Channel U's Ladies Night Cooking Workshop

Are you an avid fan of Channel U? Have you heard of this recent show on air titled "Ladies Night(女人聚乐部)"? Ladies' Nite is an all-new ladies’ magazine program. Hosted by both Michelle Chong and Vivian Lai, this program is broken down into 3 main segments: Cooking, Trends and Wellness. I was pretty honoured to be invited to cover this Channel U's event last Saturday. The entire event was a cooking workshop and shortlisted bloggers were able to bring along three friends to the event. We had the opportunities to learn how to cook from the two pretty celebrity hosts and on top of that enjoy an intimate high tea session with them. How wonderful could that be! I was on cloud nine then upon receiving the invitation from upromo.

The cooking workshop was held at Cookyn Inc, somewhere around Queenstown.

We arrived slightly ahead of some of the bloggers and so, started to take photos with the event signboard just outside the Cookyn Inc Block O before the workshop commences.

The celebrity hosts, Michelle Chong and Vivian Lai arrived at 2pm and the cooking workshop commenced thereafter. Before the cooking OFFICIALLY started, the hosts were mingling around with the bloggers and friends. They asked whether we've watched "Ladies Night" and also which other celebrities would we like to see in the cooking segment of the show. As we all know that male stars like "Dai Yang Tian", "Elvin Ng" etc are currently on high popularity, their names were mentioned. I was the one who mentioned "黄俊雄(Elvin Ng)" and straight after that, a little secret is let out of the bag from Michelle. We came to realize that Elvin can't cook!

Well, 厨房是女人的天下嘛! 会煮菜的女人是很有魅力的! We shall now check out how the two celebrity hosts teach us the two respective dishes during the workshop.

Before that, let's have a shot of Michelle and Vivien! We're all ready to learn from them!

Michelle started out first as the preparation for her dish is much longer than Vivian's one. She taught us how to go about making this "Steam-Baked Fish Roll".

Firstly, she chop the onions, garlic and mushrooms into smaller pieces. Soon after that, the next step is to heat some oil in a fry pan and saute the onions, garlic and mushrooms. (The pan took some time to turn hot as the whole cooking place is air-conditioned.) Following next is to make the roll. Michelle first laid out cabbage at the bottom, add the ham and then the mushrooms. Before putting in the dory fish, she actually wiped the dory fish with paper serviettes to dry it. On top of that, you can only add some corriander leaves to enhance the taste.

And NOW the fun part, Michelle gonna' start to ROLL it. I feel that the rolling part is a challenge because if it's not rolled properly, the whole fillings inside will come out and the dish won't turn out nice. This requires some skills, huh?
(Note: It is also important to roll them as tightly as you can.)

Soon after the successful roll, Michelle placed the whole roll inside the aluminium tray and added in ginger, wine, water and chicken powder to further enhance the taste. Up till this step, the preparation is near to completion and it's time to bake this healthy dish in oven after covering the lid with foil. (Note: Keep the shiny side of aluminium foil down.)

Till this step of demonstration, we proceeded back to our own table to start preparing the dish. Before our dish preparation, let's have a shot!

It's HANDS ON TIME! The Bloggers and friends' turn to prepare the first dish!

In the midst of our preparations, the hosts also went around to see how we were coping with the first dish. Michelle kindly offered us another mushroom when she saw that ours was insufficient.

(p.s. i wasn't able to capture any photos during our cooking process as we were all busy preparing the dishes and you know, our hands were all uncleaned. Credits to Channel U for some of the photos taken during our dish preparation.)
Meanwhile waiting for the fish roll to be baked for 20-30 minutes' after we're done with its preparation, we proceeded on to learn the second dish from Vivian, known as "Cold Rice Salad with Prawns". Check out Vivian's cooking process below.

Firstly, Vivian cut the french beans, tomatoes into smaller cubes as well. She told us to remove the seed areas inside the tomatoes as the water will actually cause the rice to be wet. This cold rice salad with prawns is easily prepared as one will just have to mix the rice, prawns, diced french beans and tomatoes, corns, olive oil, corriander and even squeezed orange juice together, simply just stir to combine all these mixed ingredients. As easy as that! On top of that, you can also add salt and pepper to enhance the taste. Vivian mentioned that the sweetness from the orange when squeezed out into orange juice will enhance the cold rice salad's taste by giving it a slight sweet taste.
Lastly, is to chill the whole rice salad in fridge. This whole cold rice salad will appeal to young children 'for the appearance is colourful. This is yet another healthy dish.

Same thing after her demonstration, we're back to our respective tables to prepare the second dish. Cooking is seriously fun. Assisting is one thing, but being one of the main "cooking chefs" is really fun. On top of that, having the opportunity to learn how to cook from the two celebrity hosts is an interesting one.

NOOO! i didn't finish the whole bowl! haha.

Friends, look here! SMILE:D

I guess at this point of time, you guys must be excited to see how both our final dishes turn out to be. Before that, let's check out Michelle Chong's and Vivian Lai's one!

Check out Michelle's masterpiece.

Now, check out Vivian's masterpiece.

*Applause* to both the hosts' masterpiece. Nice right?:)
Check out ours now!

Not bad also right?! tsktsk. Drooling at the sight of it?
(Others thought ours looks more like a piping hot fried rice dish, but in fact, that's a cold rice salad served! Does it appeal to you?:D)

On top of that, there was actually a competition among the different groups. We're supposed to decorate our dishes and even come up with our own names for them. Coloured papers, pencils, crayons were provided for us to design on the papers.

i drew out this design and sok thought of a unique dish name. Meanwhile, deb was helping to snap the process of us designing our final piece.

Presenting to you, our final piece -翡翠鱼卷

Photo is DEFINITELY a must take!

This was our final presentation!
And GUESS what? Our group emerged as the top winner of the competition and we were awarded with Fann Wong's designed tee. Saturated with happiness. All smiles.
Congratulations to our team!:D

Apart from this competition, there was also a "Q & A" session whereby 5 lucky winners will walk away with some prizes. To top if off, my friend and i were the two winners out of the five. We were asked questions like "Who are the two celebrity hosts in this ladies night show?" and "How many segments are there in this show?" (we did our homework hor! Lol.)

Refreshments were also served and we had an intimate high tea session with the two celebrity hosts. How wonderful it is to not only learn cooking tips from the hosts, but also to indulge in nice pastries specially prepared by the chef!

After the refreshments, there was a video interview going around and the two celebrity hosts went from tables to tables to interview some of the people. i was interviewed but not too sure whether it will be aired on tv, lol. Our big group was also asked to say out a slogan along with Michelle and Vivian!

This was how the slogan went: 女人聚乐部，欢迎你加入! YEAH!

Do catch Ladies' Night(女人聚乐部) hosted specially by our two celebrities- Michelle Chong & Vivian Lai every Tuesday, 8pm on Channel U.

That's for now.

2011-04-28T07:22:00.000-07:00

The smarter skincare

Sponsored Review

It's been quite some while since i last reviewed on a sponsored product. Today, I've got some awesome stuffs for you all. They're none other than these two bottles of serums, namely Viccal and Hanamei. These skincare products were sponsored to me to try out for 1 whole month. After 4 weeks of continuous usage, i'm all ready to introduce these two serums to you all, netizens.

READY?!?

Let's get started!

There are a total of three collections for this VICCAL serum. I was given viccal serum 2.11(Detoxify & heal) as requested to test try for one whole month. A brief description of this viccal serum 2.11 product here: It is a calming serum which delivers detoxifying benefits to repair and renew skin's condition. On top of that, it also helps to reduce the appearance of inflammation and diminishes the visibility of pores over time, improving skin texture naturally.
You've got to choose the smarter skincare which suits your skin condition. I personally requested for this serum 2.11 for intially i felt that it will be a good try to experience the effects brought about by a serum which will first detoxify and then heal. Yes, i was not wrong after 4 weeks of continuous usage.

As we all know that there is bound to be toxics in our body. The reason for pimples outbreak could possibly be due to the toxics in our body. As the name of the viccal serum 2.11 goes - Detoxify & Heal. You will first undergo detoxification before the healing process. During the detoxification process, there is slight pimples outbreak on my face. I understand that it is irritating upon seeing pimples on your face, however FRET NOT, 'for the later part of the day is the healing process. After 1 month of usage, i noticed that my face is smoother with smaller pores. On top of that, there are also lesser blackheads. Although there are still slight pimples on my forehead, however this is inevitable as our body is constantly removing toxics. I believe with continuous usage, i will be able to see even more visible results!

This viccal serum is also recommended for skin conditions prone to breakouts, acne, mild eczema, blackheads, whiteheads and oil seeds. If you're experiencing such skin conditions, do give this serum a try!

As seen from the above photo, the viccal serum is similar to that of an iodine solution. Lightweight and convenient for you to bring along when overseas too!

Direction of use:Apply 3-4 drops twice daily after cleansing and before moisturising.

Check out my before and after photo.

My skin is smoother and of more radiance now.

Next up, i'm going to introduce you another product known as Hanamei.

This is a Hair Removal After-care Brightening Serum. It contains multiple botanical actives that help minimise ingrown hair while lightening skin that has been darkened by hair removal and micro-abrasion. This serum also moisturises skin to maintain smoothness and suppleness.
I believe this is one good purchase for most girls out there. Girls will find it annoying to wear sleeveless if they do not shave their underarms. You wouldn't want your image to be ruined if others spot your unshaved intimate areas like your underarms when you raise up your hands. Therefore, it is important to look presentable in front of others. After shaving/waxing, this hair removal after-care brightening serum can help to brighten the darken areas at your underarms, elbows and even suitable to be used on your kneecaps.
Overtime, you'll be able to see the results for yourself. And that is of course, smoother and fairer skin. Now you look good in front of others and this might possibly boost your confidence too.

Direction of use: Gently pat a few drops on the desired areas after cleansing. To see even more visible results, use twice daily and massage until serum is fully absorbed into skin.

Where can you purchase them?

Viccal: You can choose to call/email prior to orders or enquiries here.
Viccal is currently stocked at these two clinics. Check them out here.

Hanamei: Dial 6343 0157 for orders.

Thank you thesamplestore.sg, viccal and hanamei for this sponsorship!
That's for now.

2011-03-25T05:29:00.000-07:00

The weekenders

Having frequent western and chinese restaurants, it's time for a new change of taste. This time round, we visited an indian restaurant under sok's recommendation. If you still remember i did mention in my previous entry about the palatable indian delicacies savoured at my friend's 21st party. It is simply heavenly delicious. Till now, i'm still missing it...

Finally, i had the chance to see the restaurant for myself. With the initial thought that this indian food is actually located at one of the stalls in coffeeshop, i was wrong. It is a restaurant by itself, air-conditioned and well-known for its varieties of indian delicacies. Quite a number of people patronize this restaurant according to sok. Indeed, we saw the crowd.

It took the waiter some time to serve us our food 'for it's almost full house in the restaurant. We were served with briyani, veggie and pumpkin. You get to choose between rice and briyani. Of course, we went for briyani. One good thing about having your meal in this restaurant is it's free flow for the briyani/rice, veggies and crackers. It seems like buffet though, but not entirely.

For other side dishes like mutton, chicken, potatoes etc, you'll have to order straight from the front stall. Fish head curry as gravy for your briyani adds on to the spice, just awesome! It completes the taste. If you're a spice-lover, you'll definitely love this meal.

Camera roll... Let's look through some of the photos taken for the day.

Not just western and chinese cuisines, we're loving indian delicacies too!!!!:)

This is how the inside of the restaurant looks like. Since it's not a foodcourt, the price is slightly more pricey, well, but definitely worth the meal. Each of us paid around 10 plus dollars for this hearty meal. As you can see, it is similar to normal restaurant food price.

Pamper yourself with varieties of indian food.

If you're interested in visiting this Karu's curry, it is located somewhere around bukit panjang area. You can take bus 67 straight from cck bus interchange and alight at the stop just outside the restaurant:)

Weekend Is MY LOVE!

Yet on another weekend, i met up with them as usual on the Saturday's evening. This time round, we went for finger lickin' treats at KFC.

A picture of me!

Thank you wk for being my photographer! haha. Love this shot. Do you find it familiar?;) I took this to participate in the recent KFC Sogood, Snap it contest on facebook. Hereby, i would like to express my gratitude once again to all supporters of mine. A BIG, SINCERE THANK YOU for all your votes. Much appreciated:)

If you've not voted, do help to vote for my entry! Thanks a million.

That's for now.

2011-03-03T21:04:00.000-08:00

Recess week is gone in a blink of an eye!

Our long-awaited recess week is gone just like this. You can see how amazingly time flies. With the commencement of school after a short one week break, it's back to Monday blues now. well, but thankfully for the friday off. TGIF. Anyway, it wasn't that productive for me during recess week. We're supposed to use the break time to complete our assignments and do revision for test. However, first two days of my recess week were spent indulging in fun, haha! Now, i shall fill you in more about the fun part of my recess week. And yes, it's definitely playtime and not mugging time!

Dated back on 21st feb...

i met up with vivian, ling and yanni to shop for shu wen's birthday present. Guess where we head to? The frequent shopping areas are like Orchard, Bugis... etc. Orchard was our destination then. It wasn't a good find earlier after shopping around far east and so we continued on to some other shopping malls in orchard. Anddd... finally we set our sights on a bag from pretty fit. Lovely and suitable for our birthday girl. we have similar taste.

By the way, it was really coincident that day having to bump into another two friends of mine in orchard, when we were about to leave far east plaza.

we girls went to chill after few hours of shopping, didn't get anything for myself though... me and yanni went to try out this bubbletea shop @ wisma-Share tea. The flavour that i ordered has a strong tea flavour. Not bad though, but i still prefer koi. i'm also waiting to try gong cha one day! It wasn't so much of a shopping spree for us that day but rather to get shu wen's gift:) However one thing, cam-whoring session is inevitable, haha!

Love this vintage feel after editing. Recently, photobucket having new applications. Rather fun playing around with their new effects. nice. I'm loving the vintage and lomoish effect.

That's for monday with the shopping of gift:) Andddd soon the next day, it was flowers' ksession time cum premediated surprise plan for our birthday girl @ Marina Square. Check this out now!

Dated back on 22nd feb...

Before the commencement of our ksession, we visited this olio restaurant at marina square for lunch. That day, i brought along my dslr. I love using dslr in capturing food.

That day, i ordered this nasi padang meal despite being in a western restaurant. The rice tastes alright. i like the skewered chicken.

Soon after lunch, it was just nice for the three hours' of ksession. My friend earlier made reservation for a room and she also told the person that we'll be having a birthday celebration there. Little did we know that they actually went to the extent of helping us to decorate the room with balloons and a birthday banner. How sweet of them to do so. Thank you kbox.

The main lead for that day - SHU WEN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Glad she likes the bag.

And once again, we're going gaga over bad romance, poker face, but this time round with two new additions, telephone & paparazzi. haha.

we girls sure know how to have fun. That's one of the main reasons why i feel comfortable in this clique:) Love the girls. Glad to bump into them during my uni life. I know we'll have more interesting upcoming activities during semester break! well, but alone in school is good enough 'for we are always crapping non-stop! Am i right? tsktsk.

One other thing, we sure love kpop thrill. Ever since we formed this flowers clique, we've been to countless kbox sessions, of which most are priced at 8 nett and this time round even cheaper, 6 nett! Can you believe it? I'm wowed by this irresistible kbox deal. A pity promotion ending soon, around mid march if i'm not wrong.

To end off, a full clique photo:D

That's the first two entries for recess week. Next up, i'll be posting up my third entry soon. Stay tuned!

For now.

2011-02-18T00:16:00.001-08:00

Naruwan, Welcome to Taiwan

Apologies netizens, this is seriously a delayed post. But still, it's up now:)

Having been to Malaysia, Hongkong, Bangkok, the next stop is Taiwan. An awesome 5D4N Taiwan trip to mark the start of the year 2011. A good start and may my family be blessed for this whole year. Despite the previous short semester break i had, my family and i managed to plan a short get-away to Taiwan. Yesh!!! It's Taiwan, the place that i've been longing to visit since few years back. Dreams come true. I finally got the chance to do so last semester break. You could imagine how eggciteddddd i was when it was nearing my Taiwan trip. We went during first week of january after the countdown. Our flight was Singapore Airlines and it was a nice flight with meals provided on board plane. This is the reason why i prefer SA to budget airlines 'for there are better services, media facilities and definitely more comfy seats. When it comes to long hours' flight, I'll definitely not go for budget airlines, haha.

Check out the first part of my video here as we bid farewell to Singapore and welcome Taiwan.
OFF THE CHECKPOINT TO OUR DESTINATION

How great it is to be able to bump into my idols first thing upon landing in Taiwan. Though it's only a poster... hahahahaha! Photo as keepsake, definitely!!!;)

There's no time to waste when you're overseas. Every minute counts, especially when it comes to this food and shopping paradise, Taiwan. I believe most must have heard about the ravings of food in Taiwan. You can never have enough of them. Alone the streets down Xi Men Ding, you can see hell loads of stalls, selling all sorts of Taiwan delicacies you can ever find. In particular to this Ah Zhong's mian xian which i would like to recommend it to you. This is one of the best food i've savoured in Taiwan. It is heavenly delicious, keeping one warm during the winter season. The taste is lingering in my mouth now. The thought of it every now and then makes me feel like teleporting back to Taiwan to have another bowl again. The interesting thing about having this Ah Zhong's mian xian is that there's no proper tables and chairs for you to have your meal. You'll have to stand to eat. Despite that, there's still hordes of crowd queueing for the food. I'll be updating you more about this food paradise in another entry.

Speaking of shopping, Taiwan is no doubt a shopping paradise. To me, food still rank top, then shopping. The reason being some of the items are still exorbitant or of similar price to Singapore's. Definitely if you were to make comparison to Bangkok's shopping paradise, Bangkok's one is dirt cheap! Well, but i'm not saying that Taiwan's shopping is not good. I still enjoy and indulge in its shopping paradise during my stay there. Perhaps, partly it is due to the winter season and i can't find those normal t-shirts when i was there during that season. Nevertheless, i got my accessories, bags, shoes, light winter wears (both tops and bottoms)...etc) Bags and shoes are best buys in Taiwan. I bought a checkered design sling bag as well as a black school bag and they cost around sing dollars 9 plus each. Shoes are also going at around this price. Near 10 sing dollars for a pair. So worth the buy given the cheappppp price! My shopaholic fever is back always when i'm overseas.

I love my bags and shoes' designs! Now i can wear flats to school.

With that, check out the second part of my Taiwan's video to find out more about the hot spots we visited in Taipei.

You must not miss out Shilin Night Market, Xi Men Ding, Dan shui...etc if you ever visit Taiwan. There are many more places for us to explore and we've yet to even comb the entire Taipei. Just alone Taipei is 6 times larger than our Singapore! Oh my goodness. Imagine if Singapore is this big, you'll have endless shoppings each day...

A quick post for now. That's for the shopping paradise in the video, more of the food recommendations in another entry. Stay tune. Watch this space.

That's for now.

2011-02-13T05:18:00.000-08:00

Bestie turns 21:D

It's high time i blog another entry again, tsktsk!

Speaking of birthday partys this year, in particular to twenty-first celebration, my bestie is the first among us to hit 21. Time flies. In the blink of an eye, we're going into the third year of celebration for her. However, this year's was a different one for it's a lifetime most important birthday celebration - she's finally hitting her twenty-first!!!:D Another best part of it was, her birthday coincidentally fell on chinese new year. Twenty first cum chinese new year celebration! A good sign. Double Blessing in this rabbit year!

And so, i went early with wk and joyce on that day to help her out with the preparation before the commencement of her party. We blew some balloons for decor. At the same time, indulging in her house bak gua and crapping jokes as usual. It was a fun, enjoyable process having to help out our bestie prepare for her twenty-first. Though we didn't get to do much for her... Hope you don't mind, girl!

Apart from her 21st birthday celebration, we were also celebrating her grandma's birthday together with hers. So, you could imagine how lively the whole atmosphere was then with both celebrations in the house! And having both birthdays falling on chinese new year! Such a coincidence!

Below are some photos captured before the commencement of my friend's party.

Since there's no crowd yet, it's best to cam-whore! haha!

Buffet set up beforehand, awaiting guests' arrival.

How could we possibly miss out a shot of birthday girl herself?!? haha.

Around noon time, the guests arrived. The party began. Time to indulge in the buffets!!!!

A varieties of food. There's also a mixture of chinese and indian food for you to choose from. Guess what, we went for........ INDIAN FOOD! It was sok's strong recommendation! As such, we went to try out the indian food first. There's mutton, briyani, curry veggie, fish head curry etc... The indian delicacies are simply marvellous! The spice is damn shiok! There is no way you can ever resist the temptation not to have it the second time! HEAVENLY DELICIOUS!

Afterwhich, we shared a plate of chinese food. Love the prawns dipped in sauce. wk love the shark fin and he had three bowls of that. I'm not one who really fancy shark fin soup, so i only had a spoonful of it that day. well, not that bad actually! haha.

Before i forget to mention, sok is really good at making mua chee! She personally made mua chee for her guests on her party. So sweet of birthday girl to do so. And her mua chee is delicious! Seriously, we were all like gluttons that day! First was mua chee, then indian food and chinese food then back to indian food again. I'm seriously missing the palatable indian delicacies now... Wanna' have it again another day!

At the same time, we guys also met up with other junior college friends during sok's party and we took some photos as keepsake. Sometimes, it's good to have common friends 'for we get the chance to catch up with one another during this kind of party, be it a short while. It was also nice mingling around with her poly friends. Despite us being older than them by few years, we managed to get along well together and ended up playing gambling cards, haha! Still in the mood of the festive season... The usual thing most will do during cny.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SOK TING! (It's still your birthday month)

HOPE YOU HAD A BLAST 21ST!

Be blessed, girl!

2011-01-30T06:04:00.000-08:00

Pamper yourself with Love More Mask

Sponsored Review

Parcel came knocking at my door not long this month. Feeling elated upon receiving my couriered parcel 'for i'm sponsored with Taiwan's Love More masks by samplestore this time round. Yesh!!!! Masks are girls' best friends, especially during this period when Chinese New Year is on its way! I'll definitely want to keep my face in tip top condition to welcome this new year! I'm so glad i'm actually sponsored with masks. You came just at the right time!

Have you heard about the highly raved facial masks from Taiwan? They're known as Love More Mask, which also comes in 3D form. Love More is one of the best selling brand in Taiwan at current.

I was lucky enough to be sponsored with three different boxes of Love More Mask, namely Alps Spring & Phytoncide Moisturizing mask, Provence Lavender nighttime whitening mask as well as Rose Crystal & Tourmaline Peptide Moisturizing Duo Lifting mask. Endorsed by Taiwan's actress -Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning 许玮宁. If you've watched Autumn's concerto《下一站幸福》, you'll know that she is one of the main actresses in the show.

Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning

Apart from this Love More Taiwan endorser, we also have Love More Hongkong endorser, Kary Wu, who gave good comments on these masks.

Kary Wu 吳雨霏

As quoted from Kary's blog, she mentioned this "To babes who want to become prettier, let us enjoy "LOVE MORE MASK's" Magic!!"

Fantastic isn't it?!

I can't wait to try them out and see the effects for myself!!!

Today, i'm going to recommend these two masks to you, of which are my preferred ones among the three.

First and foremost, is this Provence Lavender Nighttime Whitening Mask. This lavender mask helps to relax your skin during the night time and maximizes your skin's blood circulation.

The key attributes of this product are:

Whitening and Brightening
Supple feel
Oil-control

Directions of use:

Fit the mask onto your face
Remove the mask after 15-20 minutes
Pat your skin lightly to allow remaining residue to be absorbed.

When first applied, the mask was actually tight fitting but there wasn't any discomfort. It is just nice to cover the entire face. There's quite a lot of essence so you can leave for absorption after removing the mask. I could feel it rejuvenating its effect on my skin. I'm definitely feeling more refreshed after using it. For just once, i'm already seeing effect to my skin. Rather instant effect, i would say. My skin is now smoother, fairer due to the whitening effect. On top of that, it's good at oil control too. Love the whitening effect♥♥

Next, i'm recommending you this 3D mask. I've never tried 3D masks before, hence, it was rather an exciting first attempt for me, tsktsk!

This 3D mask comes with ear hooks and it covers not just only your face, but also part of your neck. It's definitely tight-fitting with the hooks.

The key attributes of this product are:

Brighten dullness skin
Enhance moisture level to your skin
Promote collagen synthesis, increase skin elasticity

Directions of use:

Fit the mask onto your face.
Pull the hooks at the two sides to your ears.
Pull the hook at the chin up to your ears.
You can massage your face while waiting for your mask for 15-20 minutes to maximise absorption.

I love this piece of 3D mask too! Similar to the previous one, it rejuvenates its effect on me instantly. It brightens my skin and enhances the moisture level in my skin. My skin is now smoother and fairer! Due to this tight-fitting mask(with the additional ear hooks), it also has this lifting up effect which i feel it's a plus point!

Love More mask also comes with good packaging. Just look at the packaging alone for individual piece! So sweet and kawaii!!!

If you're interested in purchasing this Love more mask from Taiwan, it's available exclusively in Watsons.

Price of Love more mask:
3D Mask (5 pieces) - $ 8.90
Mask (5 pieces) - $7.90

Alternatively, you can also redeem the love more sample from thesamplestore webpage. The sample is free but with standard postage fees applied. So hurry, grab yours now!!!

Click here for Love more sample redemption:D

Thank you for this sponsorship!

Now i'm ALL READY for CNY!!!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR ALL! Be BLESSED in this rabbit year:D

2011-01-01T06:15:00.000-08:00

The trend is back during semester break.

Usually after a semester, we'll try to organize a senior cum junior day outing to catch up with one another, in particular with our seniors! This is the norm for cds. On a happier note, i'm glad it once again went on smoothly as planned. Considered successful huh though it's only a small group. It's always the usual few who are available and agreeable to this outing, hence, we decided to keep it small this time round. Nevertheless, there was endless fun with them all that day.

Early in the morning, Jie ying agreed to meet us up for a morning breakfast 'for Sok will have to leave after 11am once again. Thanks Jie ying for being willing to meet up this early with us, haha! Sorry to deprive you from your sleep, lol.
As my friend got to leave early, we must definitely capture some photos with her and Jie ying as keepsake. As for me, i decided to leave more phototakings towards the later part of the day since i'll be with her and the rest throughout the afternoon and evening time:)

Soon after leaving lot one, my friends and i proceeded on to our next stop, Buona Vista, to meet eileen and later on meet fang xuan straight at Holland Village for EVERYTHING WITH FRIES! If you still remember, in one of my previous entries, i did mention about this western cafe restaurant which serves delectable western food. This time round, i'm back to this place again for it's also one of my suggestions!

They have all the starters, main courses, desserts...etc written on the wall. It looks as though it was written with white chalk on the old kind of blackboards in school. Nice interior design.

These were what we've ordered that day. eileen went for this breaded king salmon main course. The salmon tastes okay, but we all feel that the sauce that comes along doesn't go very well with the salmon. Next time round, we shall just do away with its sauce. we couldn't make out what sauce is it either after tasting it.

my friend brought along another small accessory-like camera and we all were fascinated with it. Note, this is not a fake camera! It is REAL and it works on those kind of films, whereby after you've captured, you'll have to wash out the films in order to see those photos. Somewhat like the old type of cameras but with a more artistic design! How interesting, isn't it?

After a fulfilling lunch at Everything with fries, we proceeded on to our 3rd stop for the day, which is Haji Lane. I've never been there before but heard others raving about this place.

This is Haji Lane. It is located somewhere near bugis area, but you'll have to walk a stretch of road. Haji Lane is more like rows of shophouses as you can see from the above photo.

Some random shots captured in the shops in Haji Lane. It was more like a window-shopping for me in the end 'for i didn't get a single piece for myself. i'm just not in the shopping mood nowadays, lol. Except when i'm overseas, i'll then go all out for a shopping spree there!

We managed to comb the whole Haji Lane 'for it isn't that big. Soon after that, we proceeded on to Iluma for a tea time break. Our legs were almost breaking and we were all tired out from the long walk. we went to this ice-cream dessert place to chill.

And again it's CAM-WHORING TIME!!!!!

Great day out with the seniors once again! Andd this time round, we have more seniors joining us! The more, the merrier! Thank you seniors for all the fun and do take care! We shall be seeing you guys some other days again, most probably after the end of next semester! That's our cds trend, isn't it?:)

That's for now.

2010-12-31T07:52:00.000-08:00

December is the month for me!

Received lots of goodies and gifts in the month of December♥

My birthday gifts!!!!! Wonderful celebrations with different groups of friends which left an indelible mark in my mind. Thank you friends♥ Hopefully next year's 21st will be a BLAST!

My christmas gifts and souvenirs!♥

The lucky me who got chosen as one of the lucky winners in the draw. Anddd i received this Philips Toaster, lol.

The kao hamper i received from the Liese Bloggers' challenge! Once again, expressing my gratitude to all those who voted for me♥

Not forgetting the 4-in season Narnia movie tickets that i've recently won from InSing.

This is a lucky month for me! Anddd i just got myself my desired baby canon dslr to pamper myself with the bonus, tsktsk! i'm so eggcited to use it during my TAIWAN TRIP!!!!

Love the month of December 2010. Time flies. Year 2010 has come to an end and here we are welcoming the arrival of 2011. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! May 2011 be a better year ahead! LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST!!!

That's for now.

2010-12-29T19:37:00.000-08:00

Keep the fun spirit alive!

It was hell loads of fun last Thursday. We've got activties lined up for us from morning till late evening with different groups of companions. Early morning, the trio met up for movie at GV Plaza Sing. I've got the priviledge to purchase 1-for-1 movie ticket during my birthday month 'for i'm a Golden Village member. With this fantastic offer given to me, i extended out my invitation to wk and sok. Together, we proceeded down to Plaza Sing to catch the 11.30am show- *HELLO STRANGER*! It has been ages since we last watched a movie together. The very last one was *Alvin and the chipmunks*. And that was quite some time ago...

We boarded bus 190 and headed down to plaza sing. We reached our destination on the dot and soon after purchasing the tickets at the counter, wk went to buy nachos cheese munchies.

Our row numbers.

*HELLO STRANGER* is a thai movie. BUTTT, it has got both english and chinese subtitles so you don't have to worry that you can't make sense out of the entire show. To me, i feel that it is a nice, touching romance movie with some comical essence. Though a hilarious show, some parts are really touching when both the female and male lead come together. Sparks Fly* I shall not reveal too much of it here! By the way, the male lead is kinda' good-looking and he's a funny chap inside the movie. You know something, throughout the whole show, we've still yet to know their names in the movie 'for as the movie title goes: "HELLO STRANGER", haha!

As the synopsis goes:

A love story about two strangers who know nothing about each other and fall in love.
He is a football fanatic, videogame nerd, social butterfly, comic lover, tired of love stories and a cynic of love while she is Korean soap opera fan, beef lover, devout radio station listener, avid book reader, and homebody. Together, they are perfect strangers who will travel, eat, share a room, and talk about anything and everything including each others top secrets.

Soon after movie, Sok got to rush down to meet her secondary school friends. Wk and me continued with our own activities for the day. Firstly, he accompanied me down to some ulu places in Chinatown to collect movie tickets 'for i've won 4 narnia in season tickets by InSing. It was difficult finding our way there but we managed to get the tickets at the end. Thank you wk for your company. After that long search and we finally got hold of our tickets, we went on to settle down at a dian xin restaurant, somewhere in Chinatown to have a tea time break. This dian xin restaurant recommended by him is simply terrific! Love the egg tarts and the fried shrimp dumplings to the max!!!!! The thought of it now simply makes one drool. Anddd we've yet to try their claypot which also seems good.

You have my guarantee! This restaurant seriously sells yummilicious dian xin. You've got to savour. The photos alone are appealing, don't you agree?!

we've also got koi to pamper ourselves under this hot weather.

That is not the end to it. Towards late afternoon going to evening time, we met up with another group of companions, our seniors (eileen & michelle)!!! Michelle is finally back from Aussie, not permanent stay here but just for a short summer break. She's flying back soon next week. Still, we're glad we get to have this rare opportunity to meet up with her. Thanks eileen for informing us that she's back! And yet again, it's FOOD!!!! we just love to pamper ourselves and indulge in different varieties of foodiessss!!!! The next stop was Soup spoon.

I recommend you the chicken soup here in Soup spoon! It is the best among the rest we've ordered. Inside the soup, it has got lots of tender chicken chunks and it seems like there's no end to it!

And nowwww it's CAM-WHORE TIME!!!

wei kiat and michelle

eileen and me

How could we have missed out taking photos with the seniors when we don't often see them? Definitely phototaking is a MUST here! haha.

As we continued to walk along Orchard, we chanced upon this christmas tree right outside Ion Orchard! A good time for another cam-whoring session! The bling bling christmas tree makes a nice background during the late evening. Anddd coincidentally that day, my friends and i bumped into 陈罗密欧 at Ion Orchard. He's one of the finalists in the Star Search Competition in case you guys don't know who he is, lol.

It was a nice session out with the seniors. Hope to meet up with the seniors once again after the next semester for there is always laughters, joys and fantastic memories left behind when we are with them!

CDS simply rocks! It brings us all together! Common Dreams Shared♥♥♥

That's for now.

2010-12-21T19:53:00.000-08:00

we're already in the festive mood♥♥♥

This year's christmas was a special one to me. Frankly speaking, i'm not the one who often celebrates christmas. To me, 25th december is just another ordinary day of public holiday. This year's one was different. I had my first ever gift exchange with flowers over at Bugis's TOPONE. It was unique in a way for that was the first time i had a formal gift exchange with the girls whereby each one of us drew lots and buy a christmas gift for the person we've chosen. On top of that, to make it more exciting, we're supposed to come up with a word, phrase or a sentence to describe this secret person we've chosen! The task given to the rest was to guess the identity of this person during each round!

Let me just share with you what we girls gave individually! This is FUNNY!
Ling took the ball rolling and she started with *ACCESSORIES*- Guess who?
Next up, followed by Vivian and she said:"这个人通常很少生病!"
Shu hui mentioned "这个人一出身就和我有关系!"
Me: "This person has strong principle!"
Yue lian: "简单就是美!" - wOw, just 5 words phrase to describe this person.
Lastly, followed by shu wen who gave this description: "不男不女!!!" (All of us couldn't help but burst out into LAUGHTERS!!! LOL. This is way too funny and we were all hoping this person she described isn't us!)

That's how interesting we flowers can go to the extent in making our Christmas gift exchange a more interesting and exciting one!:) I totally enjoyed that session!

So in the end, i was that lucky one picked by vivian and shu wen was the one picked by me. Both ling and yue lian was the lucky pair 'for they managed to choose each other's name! On top of that, they also gave each other facial stuffs. What a coincidence! Vivian got me a black bag hanger which matches the black bag they gave me during my birthday! Thank you, girl. For myself, i got shu wen a cherry body lotion & shower gel from bodyshop.

Not forgetting yue lian's christmas card which she will never fail to give us each year, tsktsk!
Shu hui's souvenir from taiwan and vivian's ezlink card sticker!
Thank you babes!

This time round, k-session lasted as long as 7 hours continuously. From 11.00am till 6pm. And with mastercard, we get to enjoy 1-for-1 offers! That's so FANTASTIC!

You know, i actually fall sick at such an untimely period when i've activities lined up for this whole week. Despite that, i insisted going k-session with the girls yesterday. i wouldn't want to miss out the fun with them! To my surprise, it did not worsen my condition, but rather, help to unblock my blocked nose and clear my throat, LOL.

Now, i'm sooo looking forward to meeting deb and xiangna later at Orchard!!! woOhoO! i shall enjoy my life to the fullest during this short three weeks holiday before the next killer semester commences.

LASTLY,

MERRY CHRISTMAS IN ADVANCE TO ALL! Share the joys of this festive season with your love ones♥ GOD BLESS YOU!♥

HOHOHOHO! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!♥♥♥

That's for now.

2010-12-19T04:05:00.000-08:00

J.E.S.H premediated a surprise plan for my advance birthday celebration. With the intial thought that we would be meeting one another @ lot one, wk and joyce popped out of nowhere and shocked me. Sok was with them. She all along knew about this 'for she was part of this secretive plan, lol. Thank you j.e.sh, i'm touched by your appearance outside my workplace!

Soon after that, i was told to choose a place to settle down for dinner and i suggested pasta mania. Guys, thank you for that fulfilling and yummilicious dinner treat. i love my bacon fusilli. That's not the end to it. As i was busy talking away with wk, joyce handed me a handmade birthday card, followed by a j.e.s.h strap during the later part of the day. i always love handmade stuffs. Appreciate your efforts in decorating the card. The one and only handmade card by j.e.s.h in this world. tsktsk. Not forgetting all your heartfelt wishes.

yum!yum!

In good and bad times, i know you guys are always there for me, to be my listening ear, to share my happiness and sorrows. Our friendship wouldn't come thus far without one another's effort and commitment. Thank you for always been there for me. May our friendship last for many years down the road.

Cheers to our close to four years friendship:D:D:D

Thank you for this birthday surprise.

That's for now.

2010-12-16T19:25:00.000-08:00

This day has come. Not doomsday, but our long-awaited freedom.

Yeshhh!!! Exams OFFICIALLY over!

With that, it's time for me to first blog on my birthday celebration. Sorry netizens, this entry is delayed but still, it is within my birthday month. i promised to blog about it to thank the efforts put in by my lovely girls in their secret planning of an advance celebration for me amidst our stressful exam period. Thank you girls.

Coincidentally on that day which happened to be the submission of our last assignment, the girls secretly planned a surprise birthday celebration for me. Frankly speaking, i wasn't up to any suspicion 'cause all along we've already said we will be going for a mini celebration to reward our hard works in accomplishing ALL our assignment tasks. Near to 12 assignments in a semester... phew! we survived not just that but also our exams.

Anyway, we proceeded to jurong point's Ding Tai Fung for a lunch celebration. Yanni joined us as well. The more, the merrier. And it was there where the girls celebrated my birthday. ARGHHH! i was rather touched and taken aback at the same time when the cake was being served by the waitress. Vivian also offered to take a picture of mine with her polaroid and afterwhich we took turns to take pictures with the instant films. Thank you vivian and ling for bringing your polaroids♥ Love the photos♥

These photos above are not the actual ones captured with the instant film. They're my self-edited version. lol.

well...but the below ones are!!!

my birthday cake!♥

At Ding Tai Fung, we ordered their famous xiao long bao!

Yummilicious! Sometimes, it is time for a change of western to chinese delicacies! The xiao long bao reminds me of the time when i was away on a hongkong trip and my family and i went to this restaurant for DIAN XIN! i love dim sum! And hongkong sells the BEST dim sum, haha!

Here's a full clique photo.

Thank you flowers for the lovely bag, sun block and birthday card:D Thank you yanni for the handphone strap with my name:D I ♥ them all!

Girls, you made my day!

That's for now. Next up, i'll be blogging on another birthday celebration by my lovely j.e.s.h clique. Stay tune.

Goodnight peeps.

2010-12-01T00:46:00.000-08:00

Shoo away, blackheads and dark circles!

Sponsored review

Have you ever fret over your own skin condition by making complaints about your blackheads or dark circles?! I believe most girls must be concerned with this most important feature - FACE. Yes, it is everything to us! It's not the thing about looking good, but rather, how to keep your face in good condition. Ginvera had earlier sponsored me two products -(Ginvera Green Tea Marvel Gel & Ginvera Green Tea Jade Eye Roll Away) to test on them. Here i am, to fill you guys in more about the effectiveness of these products.

This is the Ginvera PR kit sponsored to me!

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(This is how it looks like inside.)

For those who've yet to try this particular product, you must be wondering whether this Ginvera green tea whitening marvel gel works wonder. And so, i am here to share with you guys about the effectiveness of this product. Personally, i feel that my face is rejuvenated after using this Ginvera green tea whitening marvel gel. After trying out this product for a couple of days, i could see the instant improvements made to my face. As mentioned earlier under one of the efficacies, it helps in removing blackheads easily in just one step. Yes, it did. Another part which i like about it is that it also helps to keep a shine-free complexion. Who wouldn't want a shine-free complexion and zero blackheads at this age?! haha. Therefore, it's VERY IMPORTANT to take good care of your face!

Note that skintone is lightened. (I tried applying this to my hand to show you the outcome.)

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Check out the direction of use:

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2010-11-18T20:07:00.000-08:00

Sincere thanks to all those who voted

The Liese Bloggers Challenge has officially come to an end couple of days back. Announcement of winners is published on facebook and i'm saturated with happiness upon receiving this piece of good news. Screams* I'm one of the top 20 winners, still couldn't believe it at first sight. First and foremost, i would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who voted for me and even some friends who went to the extent to vote for me daily during this contest period. Without your votes, i wouldn't be one of them.

This made my day:D
Congratulations to the other 19 bloggers!

It was an enjoyable first attempt participating in this competition under thesamplestore. Thank you ling and vivi for introducing this "samplestore" to me:D

Thank you once again for all those who voted. Every vote counts and i sincerely appreciate your help for that.

That's for now.

(P.S. Anticipating the arrival of my kao hamper, tsktsk!)

2010-11-16T19:31:00.000-08:00

Start up your day with a hearty morning breakfast♥

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. we believe that most people must have heard of this saying: 早餐吃得饱，午餐吃得好，晚餐吃得少.

Breakfast is the secret to staying healthy. It is important to take your breakfast for you wouldn't want to feel lethargic for the rest of the day... Eating a good breakfast sets the tone for the day so do not overlook this important meal despite how busy you are in the morning!

As such, I was out early in the morning with sok and wk for a kfc hearty breakfast. We ordered a variety of breakfast meals. With a.m platter meal, a.m american twister as well as a.m waffle meal! On top of that, we also shared a box of 6 egg tarts to complete our meal! (tsktsk) Anyway, this was my first time trying the egg tarts. Just one word to describe KFC's egg tarts: OMG! It's thumbs up!

Sumptuous breakfast meals to welcome your day!

Piping hot egg tarts!!! it wasn't that hot though when we ate it for we didn't eat it straight when first bought. Yummy kfc egg tarts which are finger licking good!
we were preoccupied in our own conversation that we forgotten to capture a snapshot together. Nevertheless, below is an old photo of ours to complete this entry.

That's for now.

2010-11-15T08:37:00.000-08:00

i'm like a tourist...

Apologies netizens for this late entry... i was kept busy with school assignments and preoccupied with some other stuffs for the past 2 weeks, thus having no time to update this blog of mine. Dated back on 6th November, i went on a learning journey with my uni class. We reached our destination early in the morning. While waiting for all to arrive, my clique and i were busy snapping away right in front of Victoria Memorial Theatre. It's nice having Victorial Memorial Hall as the background. With famous Sir Stamford Raffles statue standing behind us...

Nice shots captured with vivian for the day! I always love taking photos under the sun because somehow it makes one's face appear flawless in these photos.

That's with Shu wen & Shu hui!

oOps just realized i've forgotten to take a photo with ling here. Well, but we do have our full clique photo taken with Sir Stamford Raffles, haha.

Along the way, we stopped over at different sites. We were told about the different history sites in Singapore. There was a story behind each of them. For once, i feel as though i'm like a tourist. Fancy having lived in Singapore almost near to 20 years, i'm rather clueless towards the history of my own country. (i'm not a history student, tsktsk!) However, given my short attention span when it comes to the talk on history stories behind Singapore, my attention was easily turned to something else in our vicinity, haha! Frankly speaking, the one thing that i'm anticipating right from the start is the tea time break at yakun whereby we'll get to savour traditional coffee/tea and toast bread.

Still, i paid attention to some parts which interest me...

BREAK TIME! Time to chill @ Yakun:)

As we moved from one site to another, i captured some nice captivating shots along the way. Below are the ones...

My friends feel that this photo doesn't look like it's somewhere in Singapore. It looks more like England though... If only...

Guess where was this taken?
Right outside of yakun.

The whole learning journey took about 3 hours plus from morning till noon. Soon after that, me and my classmates proceeded to a nearby shopping mall for lunch. We went into this Japanese ramen restaurant and there we have a variety of side dishes (as you can see from below pictures) and shared a bowl of AKA Ramen among 7 peeps. Personally, i feel that the side orders are only so-so, well but as for that bowl of ramen, it tastes good. i love its ramen soup!

Here's a photo of our small class. There are still few other classmates seated at the other table...

CHEERS!!!

It was a tight schedule for me that day. Soon after lunch, i've to rush down for tuition first before meeting up with my besties during evening for our usual chill-out weekend's nights... Can you believe it? I actually had ramen twice in that day. One from that Japanese restaurant and another one from Ajisen. In comparison, i prefer the Japanese restaurant's one to Ajisen's. On the flipside of the coin, i feel that Ajisen's side dishes taste much better. I'll definitely go along with either my favourite white fish or chicken wings. HOWEVER... Too much ramen in a day actually makes one puke! lol.

That's for now.

2010-11-04T07:29:00.000-07:00

Liese gives your hair a new look!

Sponsored Review

This isn't happening! I couldn't believe my luck:) Recently, i signed up for a challenge on facebook and to my surprise, i was one of the 100 lucky bloggers chosen to participate in this Liese Bloggers' Challenge! Wheeee! Saturated with happiness upon receiving this piece of good news from the samplestore.
The parcel was couriered right to my doorstep. (How efficient of samplestore to do so in less than two days' time!!) I was sponsored with 1 hair treatment + 1 hair styling product by them to test and review on.

Here's a zoom-in image of the two liese products sponsored by thesamplestore.
The blue one is the liese clear cube wax and the pinkish "spray" bottle is the liese juicy shower!

If you're one with frizzy and dry hair, fret not. Your problem can be solved now. Liese is here to your rescue. Ever since i started using this product one and a half weeks ago, I'm beginning to see better improvements to my hair. In particular to the liese juicy shower which helps to tame my frizzy hair. Initially there were damages done to my hair after frequent rebonding and dye. Even the normal conditioner itself which i've been applying all these while doesn't help much in taming my hair. However, after using liese juicy shower, it leaves my hair frizz-free over a longer period of time. With that i do not have to worry about having frizzy and dry hair during phototakings.

Another part which i like best about this juicy shower is that it gives off a pleasant berry scent when sprayed. Not only does it quenches my dry hair and smoothens my frizziness, my hair also becomes smoother overtime.

Have you guys ever tried styling your hair before? If i didn't remember wrongly, i did try styling my hair back in my younger teenage years purely out of fun. That was a few years back. After rebonding, i hardly even do so for fear of spoiling my hair since rebonded hair is already straight. When i was first introduced to liese clear cube wax, i had this impression that it is similar to those kind of wax outside whereby it's sticky and it makes your hair hard after applying so as to keep it in shape. I detest those gel and wax whereby they've a sticky feel after use and the worst part of it is if one were to style wrongly at first attempt, he/she will have to spend so much time to clear them off your hair. Liese clear cube wax is a different thing. It has a non-sticky feel which i like best about it. It is so easy to style and the wax helps to tame your hair by leaving it frizz-free and straight whole day. Not only that, it also gives off a fruity scented smell. With that, i wouldn't mind styling my hair every now and then.

Liese juicy shower and Liese clear cube wax are my best partners now. They're what which i really need now to help maintain my rebonded hair. Frizzy and dry hair, off you go!

Halt! This is not the end of the post because next up, i'm going to show you a step by step hair treatment and styling tutorial with regards to the usage of Liese juicy shower and Liese clear cube wax.

CHECK THIS OUT!

That's with the Liese treatment and styling hairstyle tutorial. Hope you've enjoyed the video♥

This is the best hairstyle i like among the rest. You can also try styling it yourself at home!:)

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Thank you Liese and thesamplestore.sg for this sponsorship!♥♥

2010-10-27T08:42:00.000-07:00

Post-"exam" celebration

It's been a long wait... it's been long since we last had a good meal together. Back in the past, we used to have good times after school whereby we'll proceed to the mall nearest to our school for a good lunch. This semester is so hectic and we hardly have any long breaks, let to say have a good meal at jp! On top of that, the pile of assignments is stacking up each day at the beginning of this semester. I'm almost suffocating from all these stress for the past few horrendous weeks. Looking on the brighter side, thankfully a test is now over and more assignments completed as time flies. This calls for a mini celebration after surviving through the ordeal!

With that, me and my uni clique went for a mini celebration at jp and pampered ourselves with good food to reward our hard works. We went back Ambush(One of our favourite eateries) and indulged in a sumptuous lunch. Finally some good relaxation time together:D i miss those fun days with them... (In particular to those addictive k-sessions)

i simply love my thai basil salmon, especially the salmon and sauce! It's really appetising! Probably during my next visit, i'll try out the bratwurst sausages! Looks appealing on my friend's plate! haha:)

Alright, just a quick post here! Tomorrow is going to be a long day in school. I need ample rest to keep myself awake in class. Goodnight world:)

That's for now.

2010-10-18T08:38:00.000-07:00

Food Is Happiness

Everything with fries

In less than a week's time, i met up with that two besties of mine and this time round, we visited "Everything with fries" over at Holland Village for dinner. Have you heard of this western eatery before?:) "Everything with fries" is well-known for their sandwiches! Also, you've got to try their strawberry and nutella milkshake if you ever drop by this cafe restaurant!

This is how the eatery looks like. The inner decor of "Everything with fries" restaurant:)

A group of ACJC students were laughing away loudly among their own conversations in there. I find it rather disturbing at first. However, on second thought, their behaviour reminds me of the time when i was out with my drama peeps back in my jc life. we were once like them... Laughing uncontrollably in a cafe, not mindful of our own images. We're always the centre of attention and will be in the limelight whenever we gather together, haha! Frankly speaking, i miss those times badly...

Anyway, back on the food topic, this was ordered by sok. Her order was a pork chop sandwich meal with curry flavour fries as well as caesar salad.

As for me, i'm not totally new to "Everything with fries" for that day was my second visit there. I kept to my preference and ordered back the same meal which i ordered the first time. Mine is known as Tandoori chicken sandwich meal with sour cream & onion fries and caesar salad! I only had a change of fries from curry to sour cream. And the conclusion is: i prefer the curry one to the sour cream. Wk ordered the same sandwich meal as me but with a different flavour of fries(curry) and coleslaw instead. According to him, he preferred our caesar salad to his own coleslaw. Another vote from Sok! They mentioned that the caesar salad was crunchy! I'm not really a veggie lover though... In the end, the caesar salad went into my friend's mouth instead, haha!

As you can see from the above photos, it's rather a huge portion and definitely fulfilling and worth the price! If it is your first-time visit there, i will recommend you the tandoori chicken for i find that this is their speciality there.

i always love visiting Holland Village for there are many nice eateries there where one gets to savour varieties of food. Apart from this "everything with fries" cafe restaurant, there is also this stall(can't remember it's name) which sells yummy katong laksa and nasi lemak. Also, you can easily find a nice ambience cafe in holland village and chill in there. Speaking of all these, my mouth is drooling over these palatable delights! Food is happiness! tsktsk. At the same time, i'm anticipating the day after our test when me and my uni clique will have a mini celebration at jp. We ought to reward ourselves with good food for our hard works!

Way to go, peeps!!!

That's for now. Time to turn in for the night. Goodnight world!

2010-10-02T10:04:00.000-07:00

we were all once young and had been through the six years of primary school education life, experiencing the joy of celebration during this yearly children's day occasion. 1st of October rings a bell in one's head for it's a special day which every child will look forward to. I admit i'm one of them back then. Saturated with happiness upon receiving children's day presents from respective class teachers. The excitement comes in when you're unwrapping your present, all ready to reveal the surprise gift in your pack. That was some years back since i last departed from this age group.

Well, there's a change of status now. i'm no longer the one receiving presents from teachers, but rather, a teacher who gives out presents. Frankly speaking, i have never expected myself to be a teacher one day and i'll be embarking on a new teaching career in the next few years down the road. The obstacles ahead are not visible at current but there are bound to be challenges. Since i've chosen this path, i am all ready to take on any challenges in future and work towards my goal in building a successful career. I hope i'll be able to meet my own expectations at the end of the day. Trust that it'll be a good experience thereafter.

Way to go!

Just look at the kids' happy faces. Kids are naive, innocent and they lead almost a carefree life every single day unlike adults. It's good to be young for it's stress-free during childhood life. We all once belonged to that age group and i believe you still remember how it feels like being a child.

Well, anw i'm still young at heart. (tsktsk) I'll not let my youthful years go to waste as there are still many more things awaiting me.

Hereby, i wish all my students a Happy Children's Day. Enjoy while it lasts.

That's for now.

2010-09-21T01:35:00.000-07:00

Hang on there

Life has never get any better ever since the commencement of this semester. With increasing workloads each day, it's almost impossible for you to continue slacking any further. Unlike the previous semester when i almost led a carefree life in school, this semester is a huge difference. Year two's workloads are much more demanding and overwhelming. Worst still, the modules taken this semester have lots of contents for you to digest and before you knew it, report assignments, presentations are nearing datelines! How on earth can we have sufficient time to accomplish our tasks within such a short time frame?!? Seriously, this is not a good life.
Fast paced, stressful and hectic lifestyle.
This is part of our curriculum and there is no way we can avoid. No doubt the journey is going to get tougher, but we just have to hang on there and give one another the support. Things will be fine as you go on. I've just completed my first presentation for AED201 module. I think my group did ok for most of our audiences were engaged in our Amazing Race activity. On the flip side of the coin, there were also some flaws pointed out by one or two audiences which my group has overlooked. Seriously speaking, given the time constraint as we were the first group to present, it's kind of rush to complete everything perfectly within a week. I guess we did our best. Prof said he'll take into consideration we're the first group to present and maybe be a little more lenient. i hope so. Still, overall it was not too bad a start. Anddd finally one is down!

Amidst all these stress, i'll find my own ways to de-stress. You have to balance your life and not just spend your time solely on studying. i believe most of your out there will agree this fact with me. For myself, i'm always glad i have wonderful friends as companions on a weekend night. For once, i'll forget all my troubles and stress when with them.

Thank you guys♥

God bless all.

2010-09-13T08:30:00.000-07:00

Bem vindo ao Nando's

Thankfully to this public holiday due to Hari Raya, it was another happening outing day with that two besties of mine. We sticked on to the plan of visiting Nando's restaurant for lunch. It was a first time visit to Nando's eatery for the three of us. All along i had this impression that Nando's eatery sells Indian food. I was wrong. In fact, they sell mexican food! Nando's restaurant is of high popularity in Bugis given the long queue. Wk was queueing for us while me and Sok went off to Iluma for a short while to get some koi bubble tea to quench our thirst.

After queueing for about 20minutes...

we finally got our seats!

Wk ordered a 1/4 chicken with two sidelines main course under the chicken meals section with an add-on soup. As you can see in the below photo, it definitely looks enticing for meat lover. Choice of sidelines to choose from are: peri peri chips, old style chips, Mediterranean rice, coleslaw, peri potato salad...etc.

As for me and Sok, we shared this Espetada Rustica under their signature dishes.

There are 4 pieces of chicken thighs stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes and skewered with red onions, served with two sidelines. We chose the same two sidelines for both main courses. The peri peri chips and mediterranean rice. Looks tempting huh? Especially the four big pieces of juicy chicken thighs.

One can also choose from extra hot peri peri to hot peri peri to mild peri peri to lemon and herbs. And according to them, you should start with lemon and herb if it's your first time at Nando's, and go for mild peri peri if you're feeling adventurous or evoke tears of joy with Extra Hot Peri Peri. we went for the mild peri peri. We would say Nando's food have their own unique taste(sour spicy). It's more like a mexican dish as mentioned earlier with a piquant taste of strong spices. This wasn't so much to our liking. Perhaps we're just not used to this kind of taste. However, it was not bad a try!

After this filling lunch plus a hearty breakfast in the early morning, we went on to shop around Bugis. To be exact, i'm just accompanying my friend for some shoppings. I'm no longer that fascinated with shopping ever since i returned back from Bangkok. The reason being i've already bought most of my tops, bottoms from there at a cheappp price! No point shopping that often in Singapore now since the stuffs here are more costly. Furthermore, my wardrobe is almost full! I guess if time allows, i would love to return back bkk next year and bring home another bag of clothings to feed my wardrobe that will last for the next one year. Yearly shopping rather. tsktsk.
Anyway, back to my bugis trip. Despite we were all full, somehow we got tempted by Chewy Junior's and ended up having small quite bites of sugar sticks before heading back home.

we're cam-whores:)

If only time freezes at this moment.

New semester has commenced. It's once again the hectic and stressful school life whenever a new semester begins. This first part of year two is going to be a short semester. Time is tight, yet we have many tasks on hand to meet datelines. i shall endure. Freedom will be here in another 11 weeks's time.

That's for now.

2010-09-03T08:03:00.000-07:00

weather is perfectly fine for a ride♥

The idea of going to the beach was long planned with them ever since couple of months ago. Unfortunately, it wasn't a feasible plan back then for we're all occupied with studies and work stuffs... Still we did not give up the idea of going to the beach for picnic cum cycling for we believe the plan will be successfully implemented one day.

Finally, on one fine Sunday, this beach plan was successfully carried out. It was kind of a random decision. All of a sudden, we came to a consensus the day before when we met up on our usual saturday's evening. Can't help it given our extemporaneous personalities by nature, haha! It was SO SO SO RANDOM!

However, the plan had to be postponed initially when it was raining cats and dogs on the Sunday's morning. As predicted over the weather forecast, Sok told us that it will be a straight 5 hours heavy rain islandwide. How true can the weather forecast prediction be?!

With that, we decided to change our beach plan to shopping instead. And now the problem comes in...Which good places in Singapore to shop? AMK Hub, Orchard, Bugis...etc. We didn't manage to reach a consensus for a suitable place to shop and chill-out and we simply just board the train and head down to the east... As the train moves on further down, we notice a change of weather. Sky was not overcast, black ominous clouds were no longer seen... The weather is getting more sunny. Weather should be fine for a ride, we thought. Most importantly, our cycling plan need not be postponed! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a whole load of fun despite cycling for only two hours at the beach. The weather was bright and sunny. It's unlike what was predicted over the weather forecast. Even heaven is on our side! We rented two different bikes, one of the normal single bike and another one was the double bike. We cycled in the wrong direction at first and upon coming to a dead end junction, we made a U-turn to the opposite direction for better scenic views:) It was a nice ride along the way. With Sok as my front cyclist on the double bike, i feel so safe seated behind while capturing snapshots of the captivating scenery along the way... And of course, wk hopped onto the single bike. After cycling for a short while, we stopped over at this Bedok Jetty and this was the place where we captured some nice photos together as a trio clique along with some fun jump shots!!! (Thank you photographer Sok for helping me and wk with those jump shots!)

It has been quite some time since we last had such a wonderful trio outing together. Though it's only few hours of fun, but we treasure those times spent with one another. Happy moments are always transient, but the memories that we once shared will always be there...

Cherish our friendship♥

Hope you've once again enjoyed my self-edited video!♥♥

i would love to go marina barrage for picnic some days too. I've long heard about this place and seen nice photos from friends' ablum as posted on facebook. I'm sure it'll be a nice place for a first time visit!

That's for now.

2010-09-02T07:31:00.000-07:00

Jetstar Airline

i promised to rant about my Jetstar flight after my return back from Bangkok. My friends and i were utterly displeased with the services and attitudes of the customer service officers from Jetstar Airline. Dated back on 16th August 2010, the day of our departure, we missed our flight due to the congested traffic jam in Bangkok. The distance back hotel isn't that far away but it took us exactly one hour to reach back our hotel mainly because of the jam. By then, we knew that time is tight and we hurriedly flag a cab from the hotel and head straight down to the Suvarnabhumi Airport(BKK). Still, we missed our flight in the end. Upon knowing that the boarding gate is closed and we're unable to check in our baggages, we immediately called up Jetstar Airline and told one of the officers about our situation. We asked whether they would be able to help us rebook the earliest return flight back Singapore. However, the person returned us with a "I don't know" remark! What kind of attitude is this, seriously?!? The person who picked up our call simply did not offer much help to us when she heard of our plight. To add on to this, my friend's call was then diverted overseas to Jetstar's headquarter in Australia for we wanted to seek help with regards to our flight issue. She held on to the call for as long as 25minutes only to find out that the person hung up the phone on her when it got through finally.

This is not the kind of service we are expecting from Jetstar Airline or any other airlines given our plight. Your officer should, or at least, have offered to help us rebook our return flight, or provide us with possible alternatives to our situation. Imagine having almost "stranded" there for a day in Bangkok when you missed your flight? How worrying can that be for your families back in Singapore? Of course, we're not trying to push the entire blame to Jetstar Airline on the flight issue. We're partly at fault for missing our flight for we didn't expect there would be such a bad jam in Bangkok at that time. i'm just disappointed with the services provided by Jetstar customer service officers. Deborah and I have earlier wrote in a complaint letter to their airline and hopefully they'll look into this matter and improve their services thereafter.

2010-08-22T07:04:00.000-07:00

Greetings to Thailand, Sawadee ka♥

i'm safely back home from bangkok since last Tuesday. Time flies. In the blink of an eye, 4 days 3 nights' stay in Bangkok has come to an end. Despite the fact, i'm still very much in holiday mood and i'm missing bangkok sooooo much now. My friend was right. She said we would leave the place with reluctance. i miss everything there, the Amari Atrium Hotel, the daily breakfast buffet, the food(signature dishes), the bunch of friends who were with me during the trip and most IMPORTANTLY, the endless shopping spree in that paradise during our stay.

To add on to it, this entire bangkok trip was not only an exciting and fun trip, but also a thrilling and nerve-wrecking experience that we've encountered. Coming to think of it now, it is rather dramatic having to encounter few unexpected incidents occuring one after another. Who would have expect us to miss our flight?! Oh my goodness!!!

Sounds scary huh? Anyway, i shall fill you guys in about the fun part of Bangkok first before we move on to the nerve-wrecking experience part that was encountered.

Our flight was early in the morning back on the 13th August and which also means that we'll have to wake up even before dawn to get ready to set off to the airport. Thankfully, adeline's dad offered to drive us to the airport if not we'd have to on-call a cabby at this wee hour. The flight was slightly delayed and we landed in Bangkok roughly 9 plus near 10 in the morning. Definitely, the first thing to do is to check in hotel and leave your heavy baggages behind before you start off your first day of exploration in a new country. Upon our arrival in Amari Atrium Hotel, we received a warm welcome from the bell boy who opened our cabby door and carried our luggages for us. Soon after, we were served with a welcome drink at the dining area. First impression of the hotel's lobby and dining restaurant area was pretty good. Nice and cosy ambience, warm lightings and good services by the staffs there. Check out my video "Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part One)" below to find out more about our accomodation in Bkk:)

Bangkok Holiday Trip (Part One)

Room 1907, thanks for the nice stay:)

The moment we stepped foot into streets of Bangkok, we became SHOPAHOLICS!!! i really have to say this: "Bangkok is no doubt a shopping paradise!" Even for myself, i can't resist the temptations not to shop there. I've to admit that i was a shopaholic during my stay in Bangkok. Their clothings there are rather fashionable and most importantly they are not charged at an exorbitant price. What's more to add on to it are the bargainings with the stallholders and the wholesale prices almost EVERYWHERE!

Few shopping malls and street markets we've visited: (1) The Platinum Fashion Mall, (2) MBK, (3) Chatuchak weekend market, (4) Suan Lum Night Bazaar.

(1) The Platinum Fashion Mall: This shopping mall looks kinda' like Singapore's Far East Plaza where there are different small shops lining side by side to each other in different levels. This is where WHOLESALE prices can be seen almost everywhere in the mall. For eg. A shirt alone costs 250Thai Bahts (ard 10.60 sing dollars) and if you'll to get three pieces at one go, they'll charge you at a wholesale prices of 150Thai Bahts each (ard 6.40 sing dollars). That's what they meant by WHOLESALE. The more you buy, the cheaper they cost!

How cheappppp can that be, having to bring home a top or bottom at ONLY 6 plus sing dollars!!!

(Since most shops there have this WHOLESALE policy, it's not that easy to bargain prices with them given the fact that it is already sooo cheap for one. However, you can still give it a try 'for we managed to bargain in some stores.)

(2) MBK: One of the higher range malls in Bangkok. MBK Center has long stood as a top shopping landmark of the metropolitan. You can find fashionable trendy clothes, cool accessories, nice jewelleries, hi-tech devices like mobile phones and computers there etc. With more than 150 dining establishments, you can easily find an eatery and comfortably sit in to dine in with your families/friends after a tiring day of shoppings. This place is also where we bought our snacks and food back for our families.

(3) Chatuchak Weekend Market: As the name goes, this market only operates during weekend(sat and sun) from 9am till 6pm. According to my friend, the first customer of the day gets to bargain a good price 'for the stall owners in Thai have this belief that the item must be sold out upon their first customer. They believe this brings them luck, showing that it's a good start of the day!

(4) Suan Lum Night Bazaar: A pity we didn't visit Suan Lum Night Bazaar on the first day:(:( It is less crowded compared to Chatuchak market and other malls we've been to. The good thing here in this night bazaar is it's easier to bargain with the stall owners. One thing also to take note here is the high prices offered by the stall owners. Therefore, it is important to BARGAIN a good price with them. You wouldn't want to purchase something back home from Bangkok where you can fetch a similar price like one in Singapore! It's not worth buying if the goods there are charged at an exorbitant price. REMEMBER it's BANGKOK, so everything MUST BEEE CHEAPPPPP!!! tsktsk.

Now, check out "Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Two)" to find out more about the malls and markets we visited during our stay.

Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Two)

Thailand is well known for their "TOM YAM SOUP" and "PAD THAI" so it's a MUST for you to try during your stay there. The first day when my friend ordered the tom yam soup noodle at Platinum's foodcourt, we were all in love with the soup♥ In comparison with the tom yam soup tried at a street eatery near Suan Lum Night Bazaar, we preferred the one at Platinum to it. Thai's tom yam is different from Singapore's one. The spices the Thais use for their soup enhances the taste, making it even more spicy and sour. Nice♥

Apart from indulging in Thailand's signature dishes, deborah and me also visited one of their popular coffee houses like "Black Canyon Coffee" for tea session despite overseas. The price of ice-blended frappes and cake delights sold there are slightly cheaper than Singapore's ones. Not forgetting Red Mango's Yogurt, which is one of the best yummy yogurts that i've savoured so far. Deborah recommended this Red Mango's yogurt to me and i was told that the yogurt there is also cheaper. As you can see, the standard of living in Bangkok is lower, therefore most of the things there are cheaper than the ones in our country. Be it clothings, food, menicure, massage and EVEN TRANSPORTATIONS! (It is superrrr cheappp to take cab in Bangkok. Most of the times, we were travelling to and fro places by cab!)

Check out "Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Three)" for more recommendations of food in Bangkok!

Bangkok Holiday Trip(Part Three)

i'm missing the daily breakfast buffet in Amari Atrium Hotel too! This and that...AHHHH!!!! In short, i'm missing bangkok♥

That's for now. Next up, i'll be ranting on my jetstar flight:( Stay Tune.

2010-08-10T02:12:00.000-07:00

Netizens, apologies for the delayed posting of entries. I've been neglecting my blog for quite some while with no frequent updates 'cause i was kept busy with the compilation of photos in my video editings. Instead of writing an entry, i've decided to blog them up here with videos instead.
Sit back and relax.

KPOP THRILL over at CCK's newly opened kbox outlet.
Awesome sound system, spacious room, variety of munchies (mixed nuts, potato chips)

Dated back on 5th August '10

International Seafood and Teppanyaki Buffet Style
Indulge in vienna buffet and savour not just only the fresh seafood, cold dish, teppanyaki dishes (fish, chicken, beef) as well as mouth-drooling desserts!!!♥♥♥
A western-chinese buffet style.

Dated back on 6th August '10

That's for now.

2010-08-03T07:22:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MUM

Coco Exotic Indulgence

Best wishes from the family. Happy Birthday, dearest mum♥

That's for now.

Are you game enough for some console thrills?

2010-07-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

Are you game enough for some console thrills?

There's an awesome entertainment area out there along prinsep street which is a must go. Previously known as The Hangout, Playnation is founded at creating a cosy nice ambience place for youngsters to chill and have hell loads of fun with boardgamings and console games. Be it console or boardgames, it's definitely going to be a memorable and exciting stay for you there.

The more the merrier, as the saying goes. Despite having not meet up for ages, this bunch of people continues to be as crazy as before, or even more now. The fun is always there with their presence. Self entertainment, laughing at our own nonsensical selves, full of lame jokes and craps; that's what we always do. It's a norm. So long as its CDS peeps gathering together, you will never fail to witness that. i miss my seniors and we've been longing for a senior cum junior outing some time ago. Finally, it was successfully carried out on the 29th july. Though it wasn't a complete one with everyone in, however, we all had our fair share of fun that day. GREAT QUALITY TIME spent together.

Time to brief you our lined up activities for the day.
First Stop was NONE OTHER than Playnation.

You can have a go at wii or xbox over at playnation if you've yet to play one before. As we only went for console games, there were no boardgames involved. Wii was first played. With guitar hero (first game) lasting as long as two hours. SIMPLY AWESOME TO THE MAX!!! Guitar Hero is a musical game, more like a rock band game though where you can unleash your inner rock star. It consists of 2 guitarists, 1 percussionist and 1 vocalist. All in all four players are playing as though like rock band stars each time. i ♥ being a guitarist as well as a percussionist! All went well till weikiat started hogging onto the mike and singing off tune. He's trying to be funny out there but had definitely fulfilled his entertainment purposes. That's him. (*laughs*)

A joker in my clique who never fail to tickle me.

Presenting to you, this trio rock band.

(Jie ying, Eileen, Me, Fang xuan, Wei kiat, Yi Qiang)
And now presenting to you, the six of us! :D

Time flies. Our happy hour(2pm-6pm) @ playnation was over in the blink of an eye. Evening falls and its time to satisfy our hunger pangs. We came to a consensus to choose cafe cartel for dinner over the rest of the restaurants in Plaza Singapura. "Tender Chicken and Butter Tiger Prawns" was what i ordered there. Taken aback by the portion of this main course meal where it comes not only with the hotplate itself, but an additional salad side dish, not to mention my add-on soup and drinks. You can imagine how fulfilling this meal is for me that day.

Over dinner, we chatted, laughed over trivial stuffs, cam-whored etc.

With my lovely seniors♥

Our dinner and chit chatty session went beyond 9pm and this is the time when all cakes, ice-creams, beverages are going at half price over at cafe cartel. Their 50% irresistible promotion after 9pm. We went for it despite after the full meal. Eileen, jieying and me shared a maple waffle syrup served with cookies and cream ice-cream and the rest went for brownie, ice-cream sundae and cheese cake respectively. Sweet delights for the night! (Sadly, the waffle and brownie aren't under the promotion delights. we overlooked it.)

It was a lovely night spent with them. Also not forgetting the thrilling and exciting part in the afternoon with our console games as great companions. One thing to note here is wii can be real tiring. Most of us were zonked out after playing that 'cause it requires lots of vigorous hand movements. My muscles are aching even till now.

Anw, eileen brought along her EOS 550D Canon DSLR over the other day and that was the first time i actually played around with a DSLR. She took good photos of us with it. i'm coming to love dslr even more. The buttons may seem to be a lil' complicated at first but slowly, you can easily get the hang of it. Something interesting i've found out from her is you can get to choose either auto focus or manual focus. With manual focus, you can play around with the zoom in zoom out lens and capture nice focused images with blurred edges. How awesome, isn't it? DSLR does wonders.

Baby Canon, i'm bringing you home one day.

That's for now.

2010-07-26T08:28:00.000-07:00

The addictive drug runs in me

Yes! You're right! You didn't see wrongly! It's once again another kbox session for me. We have an additional companion with us for the day, weihao! He claimed that he loves phototaking for he was once in photography club. With that, we could easily capture nice photos of our full clique gathering. Thank you, photographer weihao!:) And this time round, not just one camera, 6 different cameras (be it phone cameras or digital cameras) are going around. That explains the number of photos we're tagged individually on facebook, tsktsk! Cam-whoring Day!

It was set at AMK Hub's MOF for lunch to satisfy our hunger pangs before ksession. This particular outlet of MOF is rather big and cosy to chill with your friends. They even have sofa seats there. I guess if we're staying a bit longer, we would have moved over to those sofa seats. It was only a short lunch for we're planning to queue for koi after that. Every minute is precious if we're sticking to plan:)

i love this shot here.♥ This adds on to our collection of full clique's photos.

A more spacious room, additional of mike makes the entire four hours of k-singing a more enjoyable one. KPOP Thrill. i dislike those rooms which are squeezy, making it difficult for one to cross over to choose songs on the screen.

Speaking of koi, as promised to try out another flavour, i ordered oolong milk tea yesterday. We were planning to "smuggle" our koi into kbox secretly. The plan was a total flop. we managed to bring it in successfully at first but unfortunately in the next few minutes, the kbox waitress caught her eyes on our koi when she came into our room and confiscated them:(:( Mood Dampening! There goes my freshly made oolong milk tea. As a result, it did not taste that fantastic after end of ksession. The ice melted.
(Amk's KBox is soooo strict!)

i'm glad i actually bumped into these 5 girls in my uni life. School days are livened up with their presence. Fate plays an important part here having getting to know them. i will treasure the friendship ties we have and hope our friendship will continue to grow down the years. Well, its only the end of year one; there's still three more years to go! There are many more places out there for us to explore and seek fun together. P-L-A-Y is always in our dictionaries. And weihao is a funny chap! Somehow, he's somewhat like another guy friend of mine. haha!
Loads of fun with the peeps!

That's for now.

2010-07-24T07:27:00.002-07:00

We're now grown ups

i believe most of your must have made some good friends ever since your primary school days and till date, you're still keeping in contact with one another. That goes to show how lasting your friendship is. It has been more than 10 over years since we last left primary school. Frankly speaking, i have a vague memory of my life in there during those days... Back then, when i was still young, i don't mingle around with that many friends except for the usual bunch of people. Today, i'm thankful that i am still in close contact with two good friends from my primary school. Our friendship bond for more than 10 over years... Sometimes it's hard to come by having to maintain such a long term friendship and i treasure that.

In the blink of an eye, we're now all grown ups. However, we hardly change a bit though. For look wise, i guess everyone has matured through the years. Having not change a bit was referred to our characters and how we often crap and joke during our "dialogue" session when we meet up each time. As usual, we feel comfortable sharing with one another about our life, our ups and downs... This is the reason why i often enjoy sitting down, chatting with friends over a cup of coffee 'cause this is the best time to catch up with one another especially after you've not seen them for so long. In fact for me and my two primary school mates, we are not the ones who often meet up, sometimes even as long as a year. But, we are not strangers to one another though. we're still good friends, good buddies.

Finally, the three musketeers' meet-up was a success back on the 22nd july. we have planned to catch an evening movie, inception over at Bishan's GV. It was still quite some time away from movie and we decided to get some koi first to satisfy our desires.

For myself, i had a new try. ICE-CREAM Milk Tea flavour. In comparison with the previous one (original milk tea) which i had, sadly there's lesser pearls for the ice-cream flavour one. i love the pearls from koi. It's fresh and chewy! Perhaps during my next try, i will go for oolong milk tea or some chocolate flavour ones.

There's still more years down the road...

INCEPTION INCEPTION INCEPTION

A dream within a dream...

Here's the trailer:

The mind manipulating, brain-bending Inception is the defining movie of the season, if not the entire year. It's one of those ultra rare movies that actually lives up to the hype and even surpasses the most fanatical expectations.

That's for now.

2010-07-20T21:20:00.000-07:00

There's always a backup plan

When plan A failed, there's always a plan B to act as backup. Choosing a place for outing is important just in case if premediated plan failed, there's always some other things to keep you occupied for the day. K-session was a total flop that day. The duration to sing was too short as we did not book a room in advance. Despite having the 8 nett promotion, still, it was not worthwhile to sing just only for two hours. With the initial thought of catching a movie together after ksession plan failed, it was once again another flop. The second failed attempt for the day.

Eventually, the day was spent playing pool and arcade after lunch at secret recipe.

That day was the very first time we played pool together.

There are different strategies in playing pool. Ultimately, the one who gets the black ball in after every other ball is hit in wins the game. Somehow after this game, we came to realize there are good players inside our clique. It's not just a game of pool alone, but to learn from and share tips with one another.

After knowing one another for quite some time, almost near to a year, it dawned upon me that we have never once been to arcade as a whole before. The common hot favourite games are none other than daytona, time crisis, bishi bashi, taxi driver game etc. we tried them all. i had a whale of time with the girls over at marina square's arcade. For once, i felt as though i've returned back to my teenage years. This was one of my favourite pastimes then.

The next time round, we're not gonna' miss k-session again. Probably, on the next monday?:)

That's for now.

2010-07-12T05:29:00.000-07:00

i can't be tamed...

Apologies for this really late and long entry. i've been kept busy with school experience for the past one week plus till there's insufficient time for me to take a second look at my blog and start blogging a new entry. It was really an exhausting week. Having to wake up at 6am during the primary school observation period was already a chore, and worst still, 5.30am every morning during the secondary school observation period. i know i should not be complaining about loss of sleep here for its going to be the same lifestyle once i step foot into the actual teaching career. Allow me to rant about it here first before i don't get a chance to in future. i still regard this as my honeymoon period though...

Amidst that busy week, there's still the existence of fun. You know that, i'm a person who balance my life. It's not all about work and studies, we need our own playtime as well. And so, i chilled out with two different groups of friends on respective days after my observation. Despite already overcomed by fatigue, i still carried on the meeting plan with them... sorry, i just can't be tamed...tsktsk!;)

So here they are,

Dated back on the 7th of July, the ahas celebrated deb's 20th birthday with her over at manhattan. The strength was only four as two others were down due to their busy schedules. Despite that, we still carried on with the birthday plan (premediated surprise). She was taken aback when the waitress walked towards her with a brownie ice-cream cake. Overall, the surprise was a success.

Despite a year older for her, its going to be a better year ahead. Just like fine wine, we grow better with the years.

Dated back on the 8th July...

A hunt down at ikea with two other besties last thursday after my school experience. That was the thing which kept me motivated till the end of the morning session and i left exactly on the dot at 1pm. Coincidentally deb was asking whether i'm free to lunch with her after we knock off at one. i accompanied her. Though it was only a short lunch, i managed to capture some photos with our birthday girl(Deb) and that's the second day i'm celebrating with her.

Soon after that, i proceeded off to meet wk at cck platform and we headed down to woodlands first before changing to the next mode of transportation, boarding on bus 168 from woodlands interchange straight down to tampines ikea. Usually if you were to take mrt down to tampines, it will take you at most 50mins, however, the bus ride only took us 35 minutes to reach our destination. It was a pretty fast ride with wk as companion and given the fact that the bus does not stop that often as it mostly travels on the expressway.
Tampines ikea is somewhat sok's territory. It was my first visit there. The first impression of it is its GIGANTIC!!! They have this huge warehouse in ikea where all the stocks are kept

This is exactly how the warehouse area looks like.

This cafe restaurant at level one sells delicious and cheap hotdog combo at only 2 bucks! i love ikea's hotdogs. In fact, we all love it. sok and wk will never fail to add in the mustard together with chilli sauce. For me, i'm just only having it with chilli sauce for mustard sauce isn't to my liking. Aside to this hotdog combo, the cafe also sells yummy quick bites like curry puffs at only 90cents each. After the first taste, i felt as though i was eating old chang kee's curry puff. Ikea's curry puff has equally nice fillings inside in comparison with old chang kee's and in fact the egg is bigger! Not forgetting the vanilla ice-cream going at 1 buck per cone, you've got to try them.

After the short quick bite, the hunt began. we went on to explore this gigantic furniture store. There are few showrooms where their display of furnitures and designs attracted our attention. we liked the colour combination used, mainly black, white and grey mixture which gives the room a cosy and classy feel. If you have the intention to revamp your house and are currently contemplating of which kind of furniture designs to go for, you might want to consider ikea for they have nice designs in there and the furnitures are not charged at a exorbitant price. It's affordable and you can have a go at DIY-ING your own house!

There are many other fanciful toys under the children's section which caught our attention. Cute, soft fluffy toys for you to cuddle! we were especially interested in those doggy soft toys and we really have the urge to cuddle them back home. i also chanced upon handmade finger puppets which come in a whole packet. A pity i didn't capture any photos of them. They're kawaii.

Ikea is well-known for delectable quickbites and and main courses in their cafe restaurants. Apart from the hotdog combo, they have crispy chicken wings which are finger-licking good as well as meatball meal where the meatballs are tasty and they blend well with the sauce. It's time to dig in during evening time and we indulge in a variety of palatable food. Indeed a sumptuous dinner meal. Night falls soon and we headed back home on our bus ride... i simply just zonked out straight after washing up.

i'm thankful for my bunch of friends who has always been there for me. i always love their presence and i enjoy their company. Especially when the trio gets together, there's no absence of fun and laughters. Time spent is always insufficient and we can never have enough of it. Another week is coming to an end, i'm hoping for a next outing soon. tsktsk. Love you all.

That's for now.

2010-07-04T06:04:00.000-07:00

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

In the Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between Edward and Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
(Main cast crews: Kristen Stewart(Bella), Robert Pattinson(Edward), Taylor Lautner(Jacob))

Rachel and I are twilight fans, not really die hard fans though... Still remember last year we accompanied each other to watch new moon. This year was no difference; we went on to catch eclipse together when it was first released on 1st of July. The cinema over at amk is awesome. I've never been to amk's theatre and the moment i stepped in there, i was awed by the red spacious seats. The seats are very comfortable and me and rac got a couple seat which is like super spacious. We've no idea how we managed to get that seat, but anyway it was so worth the ticket price having to watch my favourite movie in a nice cosy theatre. Only 6 bucks for that day and it was booked in advance the previous day. (i just come to realize you can actually purchase movie tickets the day before without any additional charges.)

This is amk's cinema theatre.

we satisfy our hunger pangs by indulging in new york new york before the movie. i ordered this fried chicken with mozzarella cheese. It was a good try. The mozzarella cheesy fried chicken tasted not bad. However, the serving is a huge portion. It's too filling for me. Soon after lunch, me together with rac along with her boyfriend went to play pool to kill some time before our eclipse movie commences. It was a 3.50pm show.

Eclipse wasn't a letdown. Back then i didn't really like the new moon's story plot in the movie. It ended off too abruptly. This time round, personally i feel that eclipse is much better than new moon. I would say it's the best among the rest of the twilight saga series, except for breaking dawn which is yet to be aired. New characters are introduced in eclipse- The Newborns. As the malicious vampire, Victoria continues her quest for revenge, Bella is once again surrounded by danger. The newborns are all ready to hunt her down with her scent. This makes the whole movie nerve-wrecking and i could feel the adrenaline rush during some parts of the movie in eclipse. Heart palpitation, cold sweat... i experienced all those throughout the movie. Other than the nerve-wrecking part, the funny part of the movie was when Edward and Jacob were both fighting over Bella. Both their jealousy, it's really cute! (*laughs*)

Thumbs Up for this movie, eclipse:D

That's for now. School Practicum commencing tomorrow...

2010-07-01T21:24:00.000-07:00

singing indulgence

i didn't expect singing to be one of my favourite pastimes nowadays. i've to admit that i've been to k-session with friends multiple times this semester break till friends would actually give me a title, "TRUE KBOXER QUEEN" (*laughs*). It didn't dawn upon me till i browse through my past blog entries and facebook ablums that i've actually visit it more than 3 times within a month or two. Indeed, it's fun singing and i'm coming to love it even more... It can't be blamed especially during this period when they're still having this irresistible offer of 8nett per pax in celebration of their 8th year anniversary this year. Promotion is valid all the way till mid-october. So hurry, if you have yet to go! This is too good an opportunity to miss. Where on earth can k-session be as cheappp as this?!?

Accompanied with my uni friends (the flowers clique), we made a trip down to amk to sing. We chose a central location which would be convenient for everyone. It has been sooooO long since we last met up since the previous gathering, which was also ksession. The previous one was a full clique outing, but not this time round... Two had to absent themselves for their staff meeting in their allocated primary school coincidentally falls on the same day. (no worries yue lian and shu wen, we'll hold one more after the practicum!)

It's also a ritual norm for flowers to capture multiple photos every outing. i brought along my camera as well. They're surprised 'cause they thought i didn't have one.

Both me and vivian love big watches. They're our favourites! Coincidentally both our watches are white in colour! Just that one is adidas brand and another is puma!

Candid shots add on to the fun. we had a few funny shots and in one of them vivian said she couldn't help but laugh at my expression. Somehow i felt that i look kinda' retarded in it, but somewhat cute. haha!

After the 4 hours plus of k-session, we proceeded to amk hub to have our dinner. Pepper Lunch for dinner. Something sizzling hot to satisfy our hunger pangs. i ordered this chicken and beef pepper lunch. It was nice cooking the beansprouts, corns, chicken and beef on the hot plate, as though back to the stone age times...

Practicum is drawing near. It's not teaching assistantship this semester, but school experience. Guess it's gonna' be interesting observing different levels in school and we'll have to do a reflection thereafter, i guess so. This is a good opportunity for us to pick up useful pointers from experienced teachers; their approaches and teaching methodologies. There's so much more to learn...

That's for now.

2010-06-22T23:18:00.000-07:00

I just love their presence

I'm back here again for boardgamings! It seems like this is one of my frequent hangouts but in actual fact, that day was ONLY my second visit to decoders' cafe. Ever since i was introduced to decoders' cafe, i've never thought of going back to minds cafe anymore. Most importantly is mainly because of this big factor here: Convenience. Decoders cafe is so much nearer for we people staying around the west area. Convenience matters most to me.

Accompanied with another group of companions, my lovely sisters, we made a trip down to decoders' cafe back on the 17th June. It's been quite some while since the four sisters gathered together for an outing. Back then during cca days, we could almost see one another every single day due to the hectic training. With them around, there's bound to be fun, laughters and good memories left deeply etched behind... The four drama queens...
"HAPPY HOUR", daily which costs only 6 bucks for non-members with an additional of 10% off total bill for NTU, NUS, SP, NP students so long as you bring along your matriculation card. That's great deal, isn't it? What's more to add on to it is you also get 25% off the ala cartes on weekdays. Where on earth can you ever find such good deal for boardgamings?!? i can't resist the temptation not to visit it the third time some other days... We played a variety of games like taboo (TOP FAVOURITE), cluedo, saboteur etc.. Cluedo and Saboteur are more of the thinking games where you will have to crack your brain and come up with strategies to counter-attack your players in order to emerge as the overall winner. Taboo is more like a word-guessing game. we partnered each other and there's 2 different teams each time. Initially, we kept on guessing correctly only 8 cards. As such, our ultimate goal for this taboo game was to beat this score. we managed to, with kerong and sok(team) achieving a record as high as guessing correctly a total of 13 cards! Congrats girls!

Me and kerong also ordered this tiramisu waffle served with maple syrup for a light lunch delight. Though i couldn't really taste any tiramisu inside, but this waffle is quite tasty with a sweet crispy crust. Here's some random, candid, funny shots captured after our happy hour at decoders cafe. There's more to it but i'm only uploading few of them up here! (The rest are already on facebook!)

i just love hanging out with my drama peeps. we share strong friendship bonds even till date despite having left the drama society for quite some while... There's so much to catch up with one another every outing and time is always not enough! No doubt happy moments are transient and time flies especially fast during this period! At least, those moments will be deeply etched in your mind after each and every fun-filled day spent. yeah, and i'm sure it will always be there. Love you all, sisters:D

That's for now.

2010-06-22T01:35:00.000-07:00

J.E.S.H

16th June 2010, a day where j.e.s.h is out to enjoy a whole day of fun-filled activities, bringing back good memories with us...With tcc lunch promotion hot deals as well as kbox irresistible offers!!! How can you ever resist all these temptations?!?:D Let us once again relish those wonderful, memorable moments...

If only time could freeze at this moment...

That's for now.

(P.S. i just came to realize the joy in the process of making a video. At least in this entry, i managed to include most of the photos which were captured on the day itself into my self-edited video. Pictures speak a thousand words, but i think videos do even more. Love them to bits.)

2010-06-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

Dare to Lead; Dare to Overcome; I'm an Adventurer!

Are you an adventurer? Are you brave enough to take the risk? That's the classroom in the wild over at Jurong bird Park which kept me busy and weared out during the two days' camp on the 14th and 15th of June last week. Last year, i did attend this classroom in the wild event but in comparison with this year's one, it's much more happening during the whole camp with a change of new camp site. There's definitely much more to explore over at Jurong Bird Park rather than just around the woodlands vicinity where we held our classroom in the wild the previous year. This year was special too, we had more teacher helpers with us and more importantly, my bestie(sok) joined me for this stayover night camp as well. As the saying goes, the more the merrier...
(More of the fun will be elaborated as you read on.)

This is the aviary which we visited during day two. Have you ever tried feeding the birds before? That was a brand new experience for me. The aviary is located at Lory Loft in Jurong Bird Park and we took a short tram ride over to this station during day two. You can easily come into close contact with many colourful birds flying around in this open area and sometimes even landing on your shoulder. we are supposed to feed them with this liquid food and the birds are fighting over them. With their sharp screeching chirpy sounds which would sometimes cause slight discomfort in your ears...

"BEHIND THE SCENES"

So what exactly does it mean by "Behind the scenes"?!?

In short, we were actually given the privilege to tour not only around jurong bird park, but also the places which are in the restricted zones. Usually if one purchases a ticket to visit jurong bird park, he/she will be prohibited to enter the restricted zone. For us, we were allowed to visit places in jurong bird park like the clinic area (a place where vets operate on the birds), weaning area as well as the place where the nanny will have to take special care of the new-born young birds.
As seen in the above photos,
1: This is the weaning area where different species of birds are kept in the same area so that they can mix around and get along with other species. We were told by this bird park camp coordinator, Ivan, that birds are sometimes kept not just only to their own species; they get to mix around with other species as well.

2: New-born young birds need to be kept in this incubator, designed with special temperature for they can't suit to the outside room temperature. Apart from that, the nanny will have to feed them every 2 hrs for they will always go hungry during this stage.

3: Samples of eggs. One of which is the ostrich egg, coated with colour pigment. For your information, these eggs can hold up to a man's weight (as heavy as 80kg) largely due to their hard egg shell.

4: This is the baby parrot (not fully developed), kept in the incubator and taken with special care by the nanny.

5: This one that you see here in picture 5 is a once-alive penguin!

The Lodge on Flamingo Lake

A nice scenic view of the flamingos

We were well-fed during the 2 days' camp. Breakfast, lunch, dinner were all buffet style. As compared to last year's classroom in the wild where we were treated to sakura buffet, this year's one was somewhat on par despite not sakura. I especially love this american breakfast during day two. They're all my favourites. Delectable morning delights along with a cup of hot milo to start your day with. we were also told to eat our fill for later on during afternoon, it would be exhausting especially for the teachers during the treasure hunt game. we're gonna' run and sweat like hell!

Thank god i was actually allocated to a group of young kids (around the age of 5-6) and they will not be involved in the game. i just took them for a tram ride to tour around jurong bird park. That's my assigned task, tsktsk...

This video was taken as i was touring around jurong bird park in the tram ride with those kids. The whole tram ride took about 10-15 minutes for us to comb through the entire jurong bird park. Nice captivating scenery aong the way through the glass panel.

Apart from the tram ride, we also went for two different timeslots of the birds of the prey show on respective days. One of the teacher helpers was selected to help out during the show. i managed to film down a short video on it. Here it is.

(Sit back and enjoy for the next few seconds.)

i belonged to this clan, nightingale. So i was one of the nightingale facilitators during the camp. my friend belonged to the kingfisher clan initially, but in the end she was swopped over to join me in our nightingale clan. As a clan, we have our own cheers, one of which is the most common one(Cheer #1) which i believe most of your must have heard before. This is how it goes:

Cheer #1

Everywhere we go (Teachers)

Everywhere we go (Students)

People want to know (Teachers)

People want to know (Students)

Who we are? (Teachers)

Who we are? (Students)

We are the nightingale! (Teachers)

We are the nightingale! (Students)

Mighty Mighty Nightingale! (Teachers)

Mighty Mighty Nightingale! (Students)

Ee-ya-ee-ya-oo! (ALL)

Cheer #2

Sha-ka-la-ka Pi-ya Pi-ya

Waka Waka Yay, yay.

Gooooo Nightingale!!!

Sounds familiar? The usual cheers and shoutings that one would use during camp.

Nightingale managed to emerge as the top two winners of the treasure hunt game during day two. They claimed the victory and glory for our clan. Three cheers and three cheers and three cheers for nightingale; hip hip hooray X 3!!!

Overall, the 2D/1N adventure camp was memorable. i kinda' miss it till date. Much more happening than last year's classroom in the wild for this time round was an outdoor stayover-night camp at Jurong bird park. It has been decades ever since i last visited jurong bird park. Around the age of nine, i guess so. That was many years back. i'm thankful that i was given the opportunity to revisit the whole bird park once again. The serenity of nature

Awesome!:)

2010-06-18T06:03:00.000-07:00

A New Beginning11th of June 2010, this special day is a joyous occasion which my family is celebrating for its my cousin's big day. It has been a long wait for the arrival of this day, especially for the old folks. My second eldest cousin is the first one to get married from my mum's side. Though i've been to wedding dinners a couple of times from my dad's side, however, this 11th of june's cousin wedding holds important significance to our family for this is the first time we are holding such a grand event in our family. i was excitedly anticipating upon the arrival of june 11th then.

Early in the morning even before sun rise, we woke up to wash up and get prepared to set off to my cousin's house for the wedding traditional custom, which they called it the tea ceremony. That was my first time attending it. Back in the past, i only went for the wedding dinner during the night instead of tagging along with my parents to tea ceremony. This time round, it's different. That's with my cousin and her ready-to-be husband. Nicely dressed in wedding gown and suit respectively, along with my cousin's "sisters" who were behind them...

Having to wake up at dawn and to stay perk up throughout from morning all the way till night is seriously deadbeat. We were all overcomed by fatigue by the time the whole wedding ceremony ended. But it was great experience! i had loads of fun with my family:D Multiple photos were snapped as keepsake. i love most of the photos captured with my digital camera that day... Above are some photos which we took in the lobby before proceeding right into the restaurant for the wedding ceremony. It was a good take, with my family, my cousins and relatives. Supposedly, i should be driving my family to this venue, Holiday Inn, to attend the ceremony. However in the end, it was once again another failed attempt. i didn't rent or borrow any car either. Dad said it wasn't worth it to just rent a car and drive there during the night for the charges are high and you would have to waste another day on saturday for we couldn't possibly return it on that friday itself when the whole wedding ceremony will end as late as 10plus night time. There goes it... Here's one of the photo which brother took for me right outside the entrance of another chinese restaurant. They were located on the same floor. i like this flower pot. Nice pink petals. For friends who know me well, you guys should know that black is one of my favourite colours. It simply goes well with any colour except for the really dark ones.

Next up, here's a video which i've filmed during my cousin's wedding. Her husband looks kinda' funny when trying to pop out the cork of the champagne. i was given the privilege to sit right in front at the red table. This was my first ever opportunity to experience that. How cool! As a result, i also ended up standing right in front of him when he was doing that action and i tried to stay a distance away for fear that the cork might just hit straight right into my face! (*laughs*)

i was saved though...it didn't hit me!

Before ending my entry here, i would like to once again express my heartfelt wishes to this lovey-dovey couple, wishing them a blissful marriage. Your journey begins here and there's a long way ahead of your...

(P.S. This entry is supposedly to be posted up on my blog quite some time ago and i've to apologize for the delay 'cause i was especially busy during this whole period with adventure camp and outings. i'm finally able to settle down now and take a breather off my hectic schedule. And there's seriously few other blog entries lagging behind!)

i just need a bit more time... Till date, i'm enjoying every moment of life and i will continue to.

That's for now. God Bless, Love my family and friends:D

2010-06-07T22:02:00.000-07:00

The Foursome

Weekends night are always meant for my foursome clique. Our weekly basis meet-up on a saturday evening has been implemented ever since last year. Till date, we still keep to our promise. i always love their companions. We can chat almost everything under the sun. Our common goal, our studies, the novelty and variation that we are pursuing in life. We love to indulge in delectable delights and entertainment. We're always out to source for better ambience places for food(sounding as though food ambassadors here, tsktsk...) as well as entertainment, thrill and fun in this small little dot on the map. i do hope that one day, we can leave singapore for another country out there, travelling overseas with one another. So long as it's a overseas trip together, i don't mind the place that we're heading to. More importantly is each and everyone's presence that i'm more concern with.

During last saturday's evening, wk and joyce met up with me and sok at causeway point for the usual dinner hang-out. Initial ajisen plan was changed to cafe gelare for waffle ice-cream. We shared two different types of flavours of waffles. One of which will be a liking for fruit lover and another one is a more common type of chocolatey waffle served with maple syrup and your choice of ice-cream. i have never been to cafe gelare for waffle ice-cream before, not even once. Hence, i left the choice to them, so long as its not cinnamon flavour! You know, i just hate cinnamon to the core. (*laughs*)

And as shown below, these are the two flavours of waffles that we chose.

Freshly baked frutti tutti waffle served with chocolate cookie dough ice-cream, chocolate syrup and whipped cream.

Freshly baked chocolatey waffle served with wild strawberry ice-cream, maple syrup and whipped cream.

i love this wild strawberry flavour ice-cream. Nice recommendation from wk. It tastes a bit sour and sweet at the same time! Yummy. The ice-cream there tastes like yogurt too. Simply Thumbs Up.

Good evening times were spent. Though its only a few hours of meet-up, but i'm glad we leave some good memories behind once again. Photo-taking is definitely a usual routine every outing for they are meant for keepsake. i love you guys♥. We've also made plans for the next outing, a much more happening one this time round for its going to be a whole day event.

Anticipating the arrival of that day...

That's for now...

2010-06-06T23:35:00.000-07:00

Sing along with the lyricsk session is back on that friday. It has been quite some while since i last went out with jiaqi 'cause she was busy with work for the past few months after her graduation from poly. Finally, i got to meet her up last friday for a k-session over at Safra Country Club. Kbox is currently still having this $8 nett promotion per pax in celebration of their 8th year anniversary. Promotion will be valid till mid-october. Meanwhile, you can just sing as much as you want given this cheap offer during the promotion period!!! Irresistable offer!

Though it's stated there that you get to sing from 2pm to 7pm, however, this is subject to the availability of the rooms depending on the number of reservations for the day. Last friday, we only got to sing from 2pm to 5pm. It was not that bad though for there were only the two of us and each one of us held on to one mike. Songs after songs. Mixture of english and chinese songs were sang. This was the first time that i challenged a whole straight row of english songs towards the end. With Miley Cyrus's "When I Look At You", "The Climb", "Party In The U.S.A", Justin Bieber's "Baby", "Michael Jackson's "Heal The World", Salvage Garden's "Truely Madly Deeply", Taylor Swift's "Love Story" as well as Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and "Poker Face". That should be all if i didn't remember wrongly. i especially like "Love story" for its a very nice and soothing song sang by Taylor Swift. At the same time, i was also introduced to some of the old english songs that jiaqi chose. Sounds a bit familiar when she sang it but i just can't remember the song title for it. Usually only the chorus part of the old songs rings a bell in my head. i don't really have good memory for songs, especially their lyrics! I will have to follow the lyrics on the screen, haha... One exception to it is unless the songs are under my favourites list.
And as usual, i sang my favourite chinese songs from autumn's concerto:D I just came to realize that most of my favourite songs are quite emo. Not that i'm an emo person, but somehow i just like the meaning of the lyrics behind those songs. Sadly, one of the mike was a bit faulty that day. Towards the end, we shared mike, of which the one with the better quality. Not only having encounter with faulty mike that day, the room which we were first allocated to had poor lightings. It was so dim till i can't even see my friend's face. Let to say capturing good shots during our stay there. We had a change of room then... Given only the two of us in that kbox room, it was quite spacious. However it was freezing cold in that room. My hand was almost stiffed when i came out from that room. Jiaqi and i started sneezing for we are quite sensitive to the coldness.

we decided to have something hot and we came to a consensus to have pepper lunch for dinner after ksession. I love this unagi pepper lunch. Yummy Tasty Sizzling Hot Decadence! This is actually under student meal promotion, $5.90 nett for this combo (Unagi Pepper Lunch + Drink) Coincidentally it was also the release of results on 4th of June. As i was having dinner with jiaqi, i received smses from friends that results are out during the evening time. i started feeling a bit uptight and jittery upon receiving those messages.

Heaving a sigh of relief after the check... Not that bad, i thought. i maintained my last semester's results, with slight improvement this semester. I'm an easily contented person when it comes to results so long as i didn't perform worse off my expectation or drop drastically as compared to the previous one. Still, there's definitely more room for improvements and my goal for next upcoming semester in year two is to score an "A" for one or two of my modules. i hope i can continue to keep my fighting spirit there during the exam-mugging period.

That's for now.

Bon Voyage

2010-06-03T08:26:00.000-07:00

Bon Voyage

She's leaving for U.S.A in less than a week's time. With that, it also means that i will have lesser one companion to accompany me for tea session. Gonna' miss her and our favourite tea session times together... Yesterday evening was sort of a bidding farewell session for her before her U.S.A trip. Her flight is sooO early in the morning, if not i will go send her off during her departure day to U.S.A. OMG!!! U.S.A (Los Angeles, Las Vegas), she's gonna visit these cities during her two-weeks holiday in America. How i wish i would have signed up for this trip too. It's a rare chance, once in a lifetime having such good package offer for a U.S.A trip. Two weeks stay for just 2000plus to 3000. i shouldn't have give it a miss, argh!!! Back then, my bangkok trip was actually back to back with this u.s.a trip and that's the main reason why i gave it a miss. Somehow, bangkok trip is now postponed to august 13th to 16th due to the chaos there.

However, if i were to go for this u.s.a trip, i would have missed my cousin's wedding on the 11th of june. It's around the corner and i'm kinda getting excited for this is the first time that a cousin from my mum's side is actually holding a wedding. She's the first one to do so. we captured many many shots at coffeebean yesterday meanwhile savouring our cake delights and hazelnut ice-blended coffee. i love deb's newly bought canon ixus 130! The photo qualities are good, of sharp images and there's actually this interesting "fish-eye effect" that you can play with in this camera. i was telling her that i wanted dslr camera and my another friend, jiaqi once told me that canon ixus 130 the next second best option to dslr for the mega pixel is as high as 14.1 and the turn-out of the photos is clear and sharp. It's only then did i realize that deb actually bought that camera which i was referring to after telling her the whole chunk about it. she didn't even recognize her own camera's brand name...haha!

Having a good camera with high mega pixel is important. i think it's very worth spending a little more on a good one for this is something that will be with you for the next few years. It's going to be long-lasting provided that you take good care of it and don't drop or misplace it accidentally. Camera is of the utmost importance here when it comes to overseas. You need good camera to capture the most captivating scenery over at other countries. Both of us ordered the same drink- Hazelnut ice-blended coffee and we shared two pieces of cake namely "chocolate in a thousand leaves" and "carrot cake" Carrot cake wasn't so much to my liking mainly due to the cinnamon. i loathe cinnamon. Hazelnut blended coffee was a new try for me and i recommended deb that too. i once had a sip of my friend's one and felt that it was nice. However, i still prefer starbuck's java chip or perhaps blackforest at coffeebean to it. well, but it's not a bad try though...we have no idea how come we couldn't even finish up the two pieces of cake last evening. They weren't of very big portion, but somehow we just can't stuff them all into our stomach! Shouldn't have ordered two cakes in the first place. Now, we know...Deb is my photographer for the day. She likes taking candid shot. i wasn't caught off guard. i stay alert! haha...And so, why are you secretly shooting me again now?! (*laughs*) This time round, it's my turn to take one for her. My first attempt failed for she said she looked too serious in the photo. Hence, i got her a more relaxing, funky one during the second shot and she was pleased with the photo:) i was telling her she looked as though she is in u.s.a's coffeebean. Anyway, U.S.A has coffeebean there for sure and all coffeebean outlets look mostly the same... So, just pause and imagine yourself there already for the next few seconds...

Have a safe and smooth journey there, girl. Be sure to take lotsssss of photos and spam your facebook with them. Enjoy your two weeks holiday over at las vegas and los angeles. Looking forward to your return back in singapore to share your exciting stories with me during our next tea session. Bon Voyage!

Off to prepare for k-session later at safra's country club. That's for now.

Maintaining a long-lasting friendship

2010-06-01T23:47:00.000-07:00

Maintaining a long-lasting friendship

13 years of friendship in the blink of an eye. She has been my first best primary school mate ever since the age of 7 when we first entered P1. Time flies, it's 13 years later now and we are still good friends till date. i'm actually impressed by the fact that though we don't often meet up, sometimes stretched even as long as one year plus, our friendship is still as solid as before. It requires both parties to play a part in maintaining this long-lasting friendship just like how it takes two hands to clap and i do hope our friendship will continue to grow... A pity another good primary mate of ours couldn't join us for she had work on weekends. If not, it would be a complete trio's outing. i miss you, girls.

We always have countless topics to chat with each other especially the fact that we're meeting only like after a year or so. Definitely, there's so much to catch up with one another. i had a good chat with zhen on that saturday. It seems as though we were back to those carefree childhood days, with the innocent juvenile minds... The chat went on and on and our food almost went cold. Usually i don't really have liking for mushroom pasta with creamy sauce but on that day when i ordered chicken and mushroom spaghetti, i actually love it. i didn't find it too creamy, just nice for my appetite. Lovely decadence.

Zhen was helping me to capture a photo with her sony ericsson camera phone at Jack's place. i love this shot. A warm glow of candlelit effect...
Meeting up once a year isn't enough and we have more plans coming up soon. Planning-in-progress, tsktsk. Though now they are busy with work, but time can be arranged to accomodate one another's hectic life or work schedule. Mermaid, are you doing fine? You're a busy busy girl! Let's hope we can meet up soon again for our next outing trip together as a whole.

Allow me to digress a bit towards the end of this entry, i actually have this desire to go universal studio, somehow, a sudden urge. i know its expensive but i guess it's worth a first-time visit. Singapore is sooo small, have been visiting the usual places over and over again. Perhaps Universal Studio would be a new experience for most, if not definitely for me, haha...

2010-05-30T22:18:00.000-07:00

Waterworks`

The past whole week had been a whole load of fun with different groups of friends. First was the meet-up with my ahas for a dinner gathering, second was a visit to coffee house for tea delights and the one which i'm blogging now is with regards to the wild wild wet trip with sok and deb on 27th May. I've got free tickets to downtown east's wild wild wet and so along with my playmate companions, we set off to wild wild wet! The weather was good that day, given the fact that we were going swimming and it's not raining. No doubt we were suffering from oppressive heat 'cause the weather was super humid and hot, hence it makes the best choice to dip yourself in the pool under this kind of weather. It has been quite some while since i last went wild wild wet. The last visit was about 8 months ago, during mid-june last year... Everything was intact, not much changes to it except for some child's play facilities where they are undergoing some small renovations there. This professor's playground here was our second stop after the Ular-La. Ular-La is my favourite there and on that day we the three girls managed to have the whole big float to ourselves without sharing seats with others. Sok was smart enough to notice the camera that wild wild wet has installed in some corner of the slide and she was making funny faces at it as we were sliding down. In the end, it was captured. During the second time when we took the slide once again, me and deb did not fail to make funny faces at it...it turns out to be really funny, especially my big darlie smile... Looks funny though..

we didn't really went to play every single facilities out there. Instead of having fun at the different facilities, we were actually more engrossed into our own chit chatty session, our own girls' talk. we sat down near the pool area where there will be waves every 30 mins. It was a good spot to chit chat when it's not wave time and we simply just talked about everything under the sun. It's so comfortable talking with them. There's not even the slightest restriction. Love my favourite girlfriends. After our swim, we were hungry and we went to kfc to share a meal before bathing. We ordered a set of two-piece chicken meal to share. we wanted something that's not so full for we will be having dinner back at home and for deb she's meeting her friends for dinner elsewhere too. Sok helped us order the food and intially she wanted to treat us. i refused. She has been giving me treats a few times and i'm feeling a little bad about it. Maybe for the next time, it should be my turn to do so...(haha) Don't reject my offer, alright.

It was a great day spent at wild wild wet! Though we only had few hours together, good times were spent! i had hell loads of fun with my two lovely girlfriends. Chatting is really our forte. we can simply sit down there, going on and on with countless topics with one another. And i'm glad that most of my friends shared the same interest as me, tsktsk...

That's for now.

2010-05-27T20:31:00.000-07:00

Extravagant yet highly pleasing delights

Coffee club was our second try for a new taste of high tea in other coffee houses. For ambience wise, this is definitely a cosy, ambience place with nice lightings and comfy seats in the restaurant. Somewhat on par with tcc which i've been twice before with another group of friends. Me and Deb explored our second coffee house (The Coffee Club) a couple of days ago. i chanced upon this tea de-lites promotion on its website and was tempted by their appealing tea delights images. However, in the end, it wasn't as planned. Both of us ended spending not only on desserts, but on ala carte main course as well as drink, exceeded our budget by a huge line. It's still alright to be a spendthrift once in a while, but definitely not ALWAYS. If not, we will really go broke at this rate (*laughs*) This was the main course which i've ordered. The sauce wasn't to my liking. i only love the grilled fish with the seasonings. Somehow, i preferred deb's tom yam sauce more than my own one. This ice vanilla mocha here is nice. A chef recommendation. (There's a vanilla ice-cream float on top of it) Main course was over and it was not long before we started ordering our dessert. Muddy mud pie, a dessert which i've long wanted to try. My friend also recommended me this dessert at coffee club, saying that it was yummy. However, having this muddy mud pie was somewhat a horrendous experience for me and deb. You can easily see it from our captured photo of mud pie above. Do not be scared off by this first. Mud pie isn't as bad as what you've seen at first sight from my photo if you've yet to try. Let me do the explanation here. We actually asked for a bit more chocolate syrup and the dessert chef ended up giving us a whole pool of chocolate. Deb, who is a chocolate-lover can't even take this sweetness. Unless you reallyyy have a sweet tooth, you can still go all out to ask for more.

Anyway, it wouldn't be this bad if we've never asked for more syrup. A lesson learnt. Real fulfilling lunch, more like an early dinner instead. That's for dinner as well. Time to work out and burn off the huge intake of calories. It's shopping spree time after our meals at coffee club. Freshened up ourselves in the toilet and captured a few shots before proceeding off to heeren and far east plaza to hunt for shoes. It wasn't window-shopping; we didn't go home empty-handed! i love the shoes which i've bought at far east's mimosa. it kinda matches my newly bought charles and keith bag.

Recently, i've been a shopaholic! I'm spending as though like a drunken sailor. Also, i finally bought my long-desired gadget, an ipod touch. Still figuring out the functions in it. There's still much to learn...

Signing off from here now. Stay tune to the next upcoming blog entry of mine.

2010-05-23T21:18:00.000-07:00

A smile costs nothing but gives much

Multiple shots, aha's ritual norm. Unglam shots, inevitable...well, but to maintain a good image of ourselves, i should try to avoid uploading them here (*laughs*) It's another aha's outing once again last sunday. Initially was planning to go zoo with them after my tuition, fortunately it didn't turn out as planned. i gave it a miss in the end. Anyway, that's not just how i'm going to spend my sunday after tuition idling and lazing around back at home. Initial plan was changed due to some unforseen circumstances. The rest of them did continue their zoo trip and me and dor changed to meeting them in the evening for a dinner instead. we indulged in high tea session once again, this time round more like a night-tea session! haha. Mocha Chips New*, my favourite at mc cafe now. Once again, it's not a full clique outing. One is missing in action!!

And as you can see the above two combined pictures are taken with different gadgets. The first combined piece was taken with my samsung omnia II and the second one was by deb's lumix digital camera. Definitely, the turn-out of the photo and its quality will be different between using a camera phone and a digital camera. Speaking of digitial camera, i've this urge to buy a new one for myself. i'm disappointed with my old lumix camera for the quality of photos isn't up to standard. You can usually see i don't bring my camera out most of the times. Any good recommendations? (Actually i do have one in mind, but it's a bit expensive.) Thank you to this kind person who helped us take this group photo at mc cafe that day. We were having second thoughts on whether to approach this man here to help us take a picture 'cause he was busy chatting away with his girlfriend and we wouldn't want to disturb their lovey-dovey couple chats. But still, in the end, we approached him...

i'm satisfied with this group snapshot, with everyone showing our radiant smile, haha...

Time flies, May is coming to an end soon and june is drawing near. Anyway, i would most probably not be going for my bangkok trip. We've asked for a refund from jetstar airlines and the hotels in bangkok. Fortunately, the hotels in bangkok acceded to our request and they will refund us our money within a month, phew. And for jetstar airlines, most probably we will get our refund back either by vouchers or full cash refund payment. Of course, cash will be better! i just hope the money will be credited into my bank account soon...in a month's time... Seriously it's such a hassle to cancel your trip when the country that you're intending to go happens to be in a chaos state. Dampens one's spirit. Luck just isn't on our side. i would say we're just not fated to go bangkok together. However on the flipside of the coin, to think it positively, giving this trip a miss would serve us better rather than risking our life by making a trip there. Well, there will be plenty of chances in future...

More activities coming up the next two days. Gonna' meet deb tml to try out The Coffee Club's new promotion of Tea- DeLites at Raffles Place, Just Acia's(probably) dinner during the night along with xiaoli as well as coming's thursday wild wild wet with sok and deb:D Saturated with happiness!!! Looking forward:)

That's for now. Signing off from this entry... Stay happy and cheerful always, my motto continues. Enjoy life to your fullest, peeps!

2010-05-19T21:30:00.000-07:00

The pleasure and enjoyment in life

Yet another enjoyable and memorable day spent with deb on wednesday...i satisfy my cravings for sushi. After few failed attempts of asking friends out for sushi buffet, yesterday's one was finally a success! That's with my partner, deb who agreed to go on a sushi buffet date with me, haha... Sushi Indulgence for the day.The first few favourite side dishes that we've ordered were ebi fry, soft shell crab roll, fried tofu (BEST), salmon kamage etc. i was quite full after having these first few plates, couldn't understand why for i didn't have any lunch either. Wonder what's wrong with my appetite... It was not long before we became full and we started capturing some snapshots in the restaurant. It was more like a break for us before we continue our second round of buffet... Somehow, i was "fascinated" by the utensils, plate cover and cup around me and started trying out different angle shots with them, making them appear to be larger than actual. i'm just being bored (*laughs*) Deb followed suit soon after... And here we have a whole series of funny weird shots in our most creative ways... Which is the best entry here, you decide:DA more proper one for now...

Sushi buffet was more for our lunch cum dinner for the whole buffet lasted for three hours (3pm-6pm). We left on the dot. Not to say that we ate throughout the 3 hours, in fact, we did not. We were busy chatting, laughing away and self-snapping shots at the same time. Speaking of the buffet, we were a bit pissed off when we were charged additional cost for the wastage. It wasn't that much but have no idea why the waiter charged us for additional two plates of food. It was unfair because i don't think we should be charged that much. Alright, shall not ponder over this matter. Let bygones be bygones.

Initially we intend to have only desserts or ice-cream during the late night. Just wanna' have something cold and find a good ambience place to chill-out. In the end, we went over to Starbucks to have something hot instead. We ordered cafe mocha and cappuccino tall. Cappuccino tasted bitter and we added some sugar to sweeten the taste. It didn't help much though...Cafe mocha was so much better and the choco powder enhanced the taste.

Finding a good ambience place to chill out along with a freshly brewed cup of coffee in starbucks during the night with companion of your good friend was an enjoyable night spent on that wednesday. Somehow, Deb and me felt that we were like enjoying taitai's life for once...(*laughs*) Without pleasure and enjoyment, life would be arid. Enjoy life to the fullest and don't waste every little bit of it. For me, my goal of life isn't like ultimate wealth, a massive amount of stuffs or having the most perfect car and house in reality. More importantly is to savour and enjoy every moment of life in pursuit of fun and happiness. So long as i'm doing things that i enjoy doing or to my interest, i'm contented. Every single meet-up session with friends matters a lot to me. i'm someone who treasure family ties and friendship a lot. i love heart-to-heart talks with friends when we're out and that's the most memorable part that will be deeply etched in my mind after our outings. And i'm thankful that most of my friends are those who belonged to the same category as me, who are there to share my woes, to lend me a listening ear and we feel very comfortable with one another, talking almost everything under the sun.

That's life to me and i'm feeling contented with my current status quo. i'm quite a blessed girl.

That's for now.

The Last Song

2010-05-15T08:23:00.000-07:00

The Last Song

The Last Song is set in a small Southern beach town where an estranged father (Greg Kinnear) gets a chance to spend a summer with his reluctant teenaged daughter (Miley Cyrus) who'd rather be home in New York. He tries to reconnect with her through the only thing they have in common -music, in a story of family, friendship, secret and salvation, along with first loves and second chances. Here's the trailer of the movie

I felt that "The Last Song" was an average-rated show. The story plot is mundane, revolving around the usual family, friendship and relationship problems. With the intial thought that this would be a romance movie, i was actually partly wrong. It revolves around more towards kinship with a twist towards the end of the story. The ending was touching and there's this young boy character who acted well in "The Last Song". i felt so. His emotions are really there and most of the times, i was touched as i was watching his part especially when he teared badly upon discovering his father's critical condition and having not much time left as the father was diagnosed with cancer...

As you can see that it's a sad story towards the ending. The dad passed away. i was affected by that and i teared too... we are all human beings and we do have emotions... Life is fragile, just like how "The Last Song" story plot has depicted in the movie. More importantly, we ought to treasure the ones around us, our families of the utmost importance here and our friends....

2010-05-12T22:03:00.000-07:00

Masquerade

PJ's Masquerade (12th May)

Venue: NUS University Cultural Centre (UCC)

Time: 7.30pm

It's another arts appreciation day. This is so far the third one which i've been to this year. Actually this time round, i'm quite fortunate because this ticket was actually given to me free by my cca teacher, ms chung. i didn't get to thank her personally but only managed to text her to indicate my heartfelt thanks. Still, thank you so much, ms chung! i enjoyed myself that day:)

i went along with joyce on the wednesday. Seriously speaking, i've no idea where exactly is this UCC in NUS, except knowing that NUS is located somewhere in clementi. But no worries somehow for i have Joyce to be my street directory tour guide for the day. She's from NUS, haha...Initially we saw many other pj students alighting at a much earlier stop. Joyce was pondering whether we should follow suit 'cause it's simply the whole group alighting that we are seeing here... After much considerations, we didn't. She was quite sure we should alight at a much later one and she was spot-on! This is the first time when i was not late or arriving just-on-time for a concert/performance for i have a marvellous tour guide with me! Thank you joyce:D we were really lucky on that day apart from alighting at the correct stop. The tickets that were given to us were actually different seatings, one at the upper level and another one the 1st level. we almost thought that we would have to be separated in our seatings...Fortunately, a kind soul appeared at that moment and was willing to change his tickets with us, phew! Thank you, kind soul.

What's wrong with the snapshots captured outside UCC?!? erm, i guess i've forgotten to use the red-eye reduction mode. My eyes seem to be burning with *inferno*, laughs! And well in another shot, i simply forgotten to turn on flashlight; thus, i look like a total black figurine! Still, these two failed-attempt shots are uploaded here simply because i like the "I" wording carved outside UCC. It's lovely. They actually have this whole statement: " I WAS HERE" right outside the entrance. Coincidentally, apart from me and joyce who went for this pj's masquerade concert, we bumped into our juniors, tingmin and borui. It's been ages since we last saw them. OMG!!! What a coincidence! Therefore, we definitely have to leave some shots behind as memories... (They sat right behind us!)
There were dance, choir as well as drama performances. Solely from all the performing arts group. i especially like this remix hip hop dance by the dancers up on stage. They danced along with this song "sorry sorry", imitating the famous korean dance troupe, super junior's dance movements in that song. Apart from the hip hop dance, i felt that the first item up on stage, "Sama Tak Serupa" by the Malay cultural society was a unique dance cheorographed. The pj choir had their ever longest performance, lasting up to 50 mins after the intermission with the whole of second half belonging to them. They performed songs under themes like "The Lion King", " Aladdin" etc along with the alumni's segment. Bits of drama are incorporated inside, making it more lively throughout the whole "Magnificence" performance of theirs. Speaking about my own chinese drama performance, i felt that our juniors did a great job in bringing out the emotions in the individual's character. One thing i don't quite understand is why are the audience laughing most of the times during the play. It's supposed to be a sad story. i wonder whether they're making a mockery out of it simply 'cause they don't appreciate drama plays or have they really enjoyed our drama performance...

Overall, the masquerade concert was a success! A great one, i felt so. Glad to have this opportunity to return back as a senior to root for my fellow pj's juniors in their performances.

2010-05-11T06:11:00.000-07:00

Moments worth remembering.

It's been a year plus since i last went back to my college ever since i graduated in 2008. i have a vague memory regarding the last time when i visited the school. erm, perhaps its long ago during our juniors' syf competition. Far way back...

Time flies in the blink of an eye. i missed cds life sooOOoo much, even more than i missed the college. tsktsk. The best part of my two years college life were none other than those evening times spent rehearsing for our play with my fellow actresses and actors on stage, mingling around with the group of wonderful backstage crews. Seriously we really to credit them for such a marvellous job done on the props. Without the unity of the whole group, our achievements wouldn't come thus far...

And finally yesterday, i got to re-visit those wonderful cca days once again. Got notice from jieying (senior) a couple of days before 10th May that our juniors will be having evening rehearsal on the monday in preparation for their upcoming performance in NUS this wednesday, which is today! It's a good opportunity to meet up with my lovely batch of cds peeps and my wonderful seniors. Though not all were present yesterday, but i'm glad i actually went and have a chance to catch up with some of them there. Those laughters and chit-chatty sessions that we once had, those old jokes that we once crapped, those memorable stage life experiences that we once shared; they all came back. Those good old days are back. No doubt, a year or two has passed, but we have not changed much. We're still the same old batch of us, not much difference though... Still as crappy as before... (*laughs*)

If only time stood still then...

And that's with few captured snapshots. we have with us our own batch: me, joyce, weikiat, meiqian, ruiping, yongsheng who came back. And with our lovely bunch of seniors, jieying, fangxuan, pochieh, caoyang, yi qiang; though not all, but it's a great evening spent!That's the new batch of our juniors who will be performing in upcoming PJ's Masquerade. The play they're putting up is similar to our syf play back in 2007, perhaps with slight changes in script lines. In a way, we seniors are back to offer them some useful tips to enhance their acting skills apart from catching up with one another. i'll also be going down with joyce to NUS Cultural Centre Theatre to give them support later on. Juniors, put in your best efforts and enjoy every single moment when you're up there. Shine on stage:)

2010-05-09T07:31:00.000-07:00

it's been long since we last catch up...

Holidays are always the best part of my life. The only time when i really get to slower down my pace, take a good look at things around me and spend more time with my family and friends. It's almost ages since i last met up with Jasmine. Finally, we get to meet up yesterday and had a great day spent over movie, arcade and a simple dinner.

A romance comedy that explores courtship, love, marriage and family in reverse.

A synopsis of "The Back-up Plan":
After years of dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has decided waiting for the right one is taking too long. Determined to become a mother, she commits to a plan, makes an appointment and decides to go it alone. On the day of her artificial insemination, Zoe meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) -a man with real possibilities.

Trying to nurture a budding relationship and hide the early signs of pregnancy becomes a comedy of errors for Zoe and creates confusing signals for Stan. When Zoe nervously reveals the reason for her unpredictable behavior, Stan commits fully and says he's in.

Never before has love seen a courtship where a wild night of sex involves three in a bed - Stan, Zoe and the ever-present massive pregnancy pillow. Or, where "date night" consists of being the "focal point" at a near-stranger's water birth which does for kiddie pools what "Jaws" did for swimming in the ocean.

The real pregnancy test comes when both of them realize they really do not know each other outside of hormonal chaos and birth preparations. With the nine month clock ticking, both begin to experience cold feet. Anyone can fall in love, get married and have a baby but doing it backwards in hyper-drive could be proof positive that they were made for each other.

Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Noureen DeWulf.

Personally, i felt that this is quite an entertaining movie with essence of comical contents in it. i watched the 3.50pm timeslot over at jurong point's golden village with Jasmine yesterday. Intially i suggested D13, the Ultimatum which is a NC 16 show with some violence contents. The sad thing is they only have this available timeslot at 6.15pm which is quite a late session. And we changed to Back Up Plan. i didn't regret my choice watching that. It's a nice, sweet romance comedy. Some of the parts are hilarious and somewhat exaggerating. well, but all these funny and exaggerated parts will tickle you and make one burst into laughters as you're watching. It's a public place though, and i kept to my composure. But inside me, i was tickled by those funny scenes.

So what's up after movie... Jasmine suggested going to arcade and she recommended me this newer version of Bishi Bashi game where players have to help each other to meet the scores so as to move on to the next stage. There's a total of 22 stages, but sadly, we didn't manage to clear all. i'm still a noob at this new game, trying to get the hang out of it.

Bento meal for dinner. Though we were not really hungry yesterday, but we just went inside Bento restaurant for a simple dinner meal. It was a nice chat with her yesterday over meal and a memorable day spent. we shall meet up again some other days, take care girl!:) ANnnnd put your heart and soul into work... tsktsk!

2010-05-08T08:34:00.000-07:00

For that special someone...

"Mum carries the child in her womb for nine months and in her heart for the rest of her life." These few words sum up the importance and significance of the word- mother. On this special occasion 9th of May, dedicated to the greatest love of my life - Mum.

The one who motivates me in my studies ever since i stepped foot into school;
The one who has all along being my confidant all these years;
The one who shares my joy, happiness, sorrow and worries;
The one who provides me with unconditional love♥;

Is NONE other than you, Mummy!

i'm really grateful for all the things that she've done not only for me, but for the family all these years. On this special occasion, i just wanna' tell you how much i love you and a BIG 'Thank You'. You're always that special someone in my heart whom i earn respect to. i hope you've enjoyed the pre-advance Mother's Day celebration last week:D

Hereby, i wish all mothers a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

This was the cake which me and brother bought for mum. Coco exotic indulgence! She loves♥ it.

2010-05-03T20:40:00.000-07:00

Allow our creative juices to flow

Allow your imagination to run wild;

Allow your creative juices to flow.

You can easily have this notice-board, handmade personally by you for your friends' birthday. It's a sweet thought here. Something unique part of a birthday gift. The one and only found in this world which is none other than your own DIY board filled with loves♥ and beautiful memories with your friends. To spice up the board, we added on interesting, funny captions to tickle them. We have our two april birthday girls with us here. They're none other than xiaoli and xiangna. Somehow, this seems like a norm, aha's practice of belated celebration. Ever since we left secondary school, everyone has been busy with hectic school schedule and we could only find a common free timeslot during semester break. Still, apologies for this belated celebration with you girls. Thank you for your understanding:D i especially like this 6-seaters dining area in LAI LAI's restaurant. It gives a cosy feeling. We have this whole spacious area to ourselves and our laughters reverberated louder each time in our seated area. There's just too much laughing gases inside us, can't help it! (*laughs*)

Again, Dororin is missing in action. It's always hard to get her out for she is always so busy. As me and deb were designing the boards for the two birthday girls yesterday afternoon, i was pondering to myself at the same time: we hardly have a complete clique photo taken together. Not even ten, i guess! Alright, our next goal is to have more ahas' clique photo captured in the ZOO! The next upcoming activity for us, falling on 23rd May. i'm looking forward to our zoo trip 'cause this time round, we should be able to see everyone's presence. Most probably, i guess. If nothing crops up...

A carefree day

2010-05-02T19:35:00.000-07:00

A Carefree Day

Part one of the day

1st of May, 2010 is coincidentally my cousin's birthday as well as labour day! i always like public holiday falling on weekends, especially saturday. You might be wondering why 'cause usually saturday is as well a weekend break for most. Unlike for me, i have to help my boss out on saturday, hence, most of my times were devoted to mindmatters instead. I've been waiting for this labour day for quite some while. It's time to take a one day break off from my hectic sat! How wonderful!

Anyway, this is not an entry about the birthday celebration with my cousin, instead, we actually had pre-advance Mother's Day celebration. Allow me to further elaborate on this wonderful day of mine!

Dad, me and bro brought mum to causeway point to indulge in a sumptuous lunch. It was a late lunch though. Mum had cravings for pizza, and so, we accede to her request and went for this feista combo meal, inclusive of a crunchy cheesy bites pizza, one regular pan pizza accompanied with drinks and soup of the day. All of us went for berri sparkle instead of summer sparkle. Thirst-quenching! This new crunchy cheesy bites pizza tasted not bad. i love the cheesy part with cornflakes on it.

Though there's already cheese inside the pizza itself, but you still get to dip into this rich cheese sauce. You will love this meal if you're a CHEESE-LOVER! Mum's the STAR for the day for it's a pre-advance Mother's day celebration with her. She gets to enjoy this pizza treat from us. It was a fulfilling meal despite me having only a small portion. I was trying to save my stomach for the later part of the day as i will be meeting my besties over at bishan for manhattan. Oh gosh, two good meals in one day! I'm a extravagant spender! Well, but should be alright once in a blue moon. (*laughs*) Anw, it was meant to be a treat for mum! i love this berri sparkle here. There's little chuncks of strawberries inside.

i'm a strawberry-lover:)

Part two of the day

Following up next was part two of my day. Evening dinner with sok and wk over at manhattan. Manhattan was my first try that day. I love the fish. In comparison with fish n co', i think somehow i preferred manhattan to it. The fish is very crispy on the outside, soft and fresh on the inside. i chose clam chowder over asparagus soup with an additional top-up of one buck. Erm, i think ambush's clam chowder tasted much better, tsktsk.

This was the fried dory fish i ordered. $9.90++ main course.

i really enjoyed my day. It was a good break. An opportunity for me to spend more time with my families and friends. If only it could be like this every saturday. Alright, i should not ask for that much. Actually i do feel contented helping out over at mindmatters for i've a bunch of funny colleagues over there who tends to tickle me with their lame jokes at times.

It was a carefree day spent last saturday, with no tuition, no work, free from studies stress, purely just devoting my time to my precious family and friends. I love you all. The significance of your presence.

i'm a happy girl!♥

2010-04-29T20:03:00.000-07:00

Post-exam syndrome

A deep breath of freedom. No doubt, we've regained freedom! It's finally the end of our exam for this semester. The chapter is closing. Time flies, in the blink of an eye, we have just completed year one of our university life. This has been the long-awaited moment. To step out of the exam hall and from then on, free from worry and stress for the next four months.

Of course, we ought to celebrate this wonderful moment. To unwind, we went ambush to savour nice treats followed by k-session at safra. This seems to be a norm for we flowers. A post-exam syndrome of endless fun of k-session! i took back my all-time favourite salmon pasta over at ambush. Instead of clam chowder, i decided to go for desserts, tiramisu this time round. It was really tempting to see shu wen had that back then. well, but clam chowder is equally nice too! Ambush is one of my favourite restaurants despite the fact that yesterday was only the second time that i've been to. The reason being its a nice ambience with delightful food , and more importantly, their services have left an indelible mark in us.

Cravings for desserts? You can go for a try for this tiramisu at ambush! sweet sensations! Tiramisu indulgence.And with my all-time favourite there, the wild salmon shell pasta served with thai basil sauce. This is my strong recommendation there. Especially the thai basil sauce; it's very appetizing. Especially if you're a salmon-lover as well...You won't resist the temptation to order a second time during your next visit! erm, but i guess i will go for a new menu dish during my next trip there. i have an urge to try their bratswurt sausage.So, here i am, going to run through a whole collection of photos from yesterday's k-session. Vivian is always an efficient photo uploader. i can always blog very soon the next day after our outing. (*laughs*) Speaking of our outing, this is so far our very first clique outing for this semester. To be exact, an official one. For those who have been following my blog, you would have seen familiar faces of my clique peeps in earlier entries tagged with birthday celebration. For the previous few months of this semester, we were also having fun together, but its more towards birthday surprises and celebration rather than an outing. Even if there is, we were busy shopping away for presents, haha...

i managed to satisfy my cravings for singing yesterday. Sang a whole lot of songs. I have been telling myself after watching autumn's concerto that during my next visit to k-box, 《我爱他》，《幸运草》，《亲人》and《你为什么说谎》 would definitely be under my songs selection list. A pity i could only sing 2 out of the 4 songs 'cause the KTV songs list doesn't have all four. Still, it was a great feeling having to sing despite only the two songs.

Oh no, i just realized i didn't capture any photo together with shu wen. i'm still waiting for the full clique photo in her camera:)

It's wonderful knowing flowers. We seem to have endless fun whenever we are together. Joking and crapping; our forte! Our minds are always occupied with new outing ideas, new surprises for individual's birthday. To sum it all up, i would use this word to describe our clique- creative. A uniquely creative clique!:D

Cheers to our one year anniversary friendship! it's been a year... ...

2010-04-26T05:23:00.000-07:00

Freedom is nearing

Awwwww! Screams* First rhetoric paper is down and with the second one (Reading in Children's Literature) which is also the last one coming thursday, we'll be exam-free for this semester. The second semester is coming to an end soon; time flies... Loads of fun are awaiting us during this upcoming holiday. i'm very looking forward to the june period which is going to be the most happening part of my holiday if everything goes all well as planned. My friends and I have long made plans for a short holiday trip to bangkok during this coming june period. we've even gotten the flights and hotel booked in advance. However, we know that bangkok is in a chaos state currently and definitely we would not want to take the risk. i do hope that we can successfully change to another destination; chaos-free. Perhaps we may consider some sight-seeing, scenery-captivating places or nice beach areas in other countries.

Not just that, i'll also be attending cousin's wedding this coming june 11th. Mum has hinted me to rent a car and drive the family over to the wedding venue. Of course, i would very much love to. i'm all out to get my hands on the steering wheel once again!

Following up next, i'll be involved in a 2D1N camp, a june holiday special programme organised by a centre. So, nightingale facilitator, here i come! My buddy is joining me in this time round's event as well. Excited. There's still many more activities left unmentioned but most importantly, this upcoming four months holiday is a great opportunity for me to catch up with all my good friends. i miss you guys!!!♥♥♥ Hope you all are doing fine ya'.

Last paper to go! Let's strive for the best!:D

(P.S. By the way flowers, is the kbox outing after our last paper still on this coming thursday? *laughs*)

2010-04-15T20:22:00.000-07:00

Out on a venture for new hang-out!

Ever had any experience visiting a cosy and comfy entertainment area where you can chill-out with your friends and have unlimited boardgamings during your stay? Not just that, the loads of fun and laughters that you're gonna have there. As you start to reminisce the old childhood days when you played boardgamings with your playmates. These are all good old memories back in the past...well, but it doesn't mean you can't have them back now. Though we are adults-to-be, we can still indulge in all these boardgamings fun and have a whale of time NONE OTHER in DE CODER'S CAFE!!!

In comparison of de coder's cafe with minds cafe, i preferred de coder's cafe to minds. The reason being its so much cheaper and convenient. De coder's cafe is located around clementi area; for those staying around the west side, i believed it should be quite convenient for all. Earlier last sunday, i made my first trip down with sok and wk to de coder's cafe to have our first ever experience there. lt was marvellous! we played games like cluedo, uno stackers, taboo etc...Our favourite games were cluedo and taboo! Taboo is a guessing-word game which is rather challenging. Somehow, the player who is giving the clues to another player who is guessing seemed to be more uptight (*laughs*) There are some little tricks hidden in this taboo game. For example, if you will to pick up a card with the word on it -MASS RAPID TRANSIT, you can say it in a way like (MRT in long form). The player will be able to guess it correctly within the shortest time! Alternatively, if you have this kind of word like "obscure" which is a bit difficult for the player to guess. You can choose to break up the word-form into obs-CURE. You can prompt the player to guess the behind word (-CURE) first and gradually prompt him later to guess the front part which is OUTSWARD BOUND SINGAPORE in short form- "OBS". Afterwhich, ask them to combine the two words together and they will get this final answer right! This is a tactic taught to us by one of the assistant crews there. i just come to realize there's so much hidden tactics and fun behind a simple word-guessing game! Cluedo is one other game which is exciting and challenging. we seemed to have transformed into detectives!

i like the background colour of de coder's cafe! its a mixture of red with black colours:)

Alright, just a short entry here; got to rush off to school for submission of assignments soon!
Finally after 2.30pm later, assignment workloads will be completely off my mind... lts time to concentrate solely on revision.

2010-04-13T09:06:00.000-07:00

April Babies , not april fool...tsktsk

We have our two April babies here with us, they're NONE OTHER than Vivian and Peiling! The last two april babies who have just turned 21 this year! Consecutively the previous two weeks on saturday, me and my clique went to attend 2 parties; the first one was vivian's and next pei ling's. Peil ing's ice-cream cake is AWESOME! Vivian's theme is an interesting one- headgear. As long as you have something on your head, be it hat, pins, hairband etc, you fit the theme! For me, i wore a hat over to her party.

Through these few months from feb to april, i've been to different parties of my friends' in my uni clique. i had a *taste* of different themes during their 21st party, explored new hunt-outs ranging from pasir ris chalet to Cdans resort to home parties which are suitable for the organization of a 21st party. Nonetheless, i savoured a variety of cakes, from fruit and nutty cake to durian cake to coco exotic to swensen ice-cream cake!!! Mouth drooling!!!

Seeing my friends preparing for their 21st party makes me excited in planning my own one as well. I know that the whole process of planning is going to be a tedious one for you have to make calls to catering, venues as well as ordering a cake. However, all these will be a worthwhile! Definitely. lts only on that actual day when you see all your friends and relatives coming down to celebrate with you, i guess you'll be the most happiest birthday gal/boy on that day!!! i can't wait for my 21st to come...

Before i end this entry, i would like to hereby dedicate a birthday song to all the april babies (vivian, pei ling, xiang na, xiao li, jana, adeline)

Happy birthday to YOU

Happy birthday to (BIRTHDAY GIRL)

Happy birthday to YOU~

To all my april baby friends, hope you had a great day on this special occasion of yours. For those whose birthday are not over, do have a great one too! Wishing you guys all the best for your future endeavour and may whatever your heart desires for your birthday COMES TRUE!!!

(P.S Special thanks to my bestie, sok for lending me the hat!)

2010-04-10T08:49:00.000-07:00

下一站。。。是。。。幸福！

Hellooo netizens, apologies that it has been quite some while since i last updated my blog...Previous few weeks were kept busy with school assignments (tons and tons of workloads), preparation for friends' party and NONE other than chasing this taiwanese drama show- autumn's concerto. Initially i intended to leave this show to the end of exam. ln the end, i couldn't succumb to temptation after few mentions by friends. Well, it's always the case when it comes to watching drama shows, and what's more, romance drama; my favourite genre!

Autumn's concerto (下一站，幸福) is indeed a very touching and sweet show. I felt that it was on par with 命中注定我爱你。Currently, these two are my top favourite taiwanese drama shows. Just one word to describe -Superb. lf you've yet to watch this 21 episodes' autumn concerto, you ought not to miss it. Trust me, you'll cry almost every episode. My heart simply goes out to the main female lead in the show having to lead such a life since young...

“ 有些人的人生，是直达车，有些人却是慢车，中间总要经过许多站，经历许多人。。。有人总是下错站，坐过头，不是错失了窗外风景，就是错过了身旁的人没有人知道，能陪自己坐到终点站的人，究竟会是谁。。。相爱的人，真的就能一路到达人生的终点站吗？”

我们的人生在这一站相遇，是否也能够一起抵达下一站的幸福。。。

Touching slogans, background music, nice story plot as well as marvellous acting skills of the actresses and actors. Hurry and catch it if you've not. Below are few lovely photos which i'm adding to my ablum collection:D

安以轩(Ady An), 小小彬，吴建豪(Vanness Wu)

安以轩是我的偶像了！TskTsk...

一段感人的爱情故事。。。

为爱而牺牲。。。

为爱而付出。。。

为爱而勇敢。。。

只要有你的那一站，就是幸福♥♥♥

(P.S. 小小彬好可爱哦！）

2010-03-27T09:20:00.000-07:00

It's a wonderful feeling to have you guys as companions here...

lf i were to calculate myself, i've been in this work ever since A levels for about 1 year plus till date. i could vividly remember the very first day when i stepped into the office, it was a day before my birthday. The first impression of this place then was that it's a cosy small environment to work in, noisy at times for you have to handle kids but that's what that makes the whole working experience an interesting one. As compared to the past jobs which i've held, this job is much more flexible and a more relaxing one. Gradually as each month passed, colleagues that i knew in there came and left. There's this particular friend, jasmine whom i knew in there. i got along well with her and i feel that we have many things to chat under the sun. It was a nice experience working together with her. Soon, she left the company and i was back to working alone. A sense of reluctance... i don't know what was it that kept me going on back then...but still, i survived through... Thankfully for now, i managed to introduce another two good friends of mine over to this company. One being my 8 years great friend ever since secondary school and another is my really close friend from jc. i'm really glad to have their companions here. i always think it's a great feeling to work together with friends and i was never wrong.

You guys will get the hang of your workscope in no time to come. No worries. No doubt during the beginning, one would feel a bit jittery especially on the first day of work for you're new to the working environment. i've been through that as well...:) Slowly, just take your time and everything will be perfectly fine:D i'm elated to see your presence here! You make my day a happier one.

Here's some little photos that i've combined into a piece.
erm, is it the same wear by chance?!? (*laughs*)

2010-03-24T05:47:00.000-07:00

Food Critique

Earlier was a new experience for me. i had my first ever food review over at parkmall's fish n co outlet. i came to know about it through one friend, regarding the food review sharing session at 2pm over at this particular outlet of fish n co' where we are supposed to give feedbacks for their restaurants. She helped me signed up for this. Sounds pretty cool, isn't it? For once, i imagined myself as a *professional* food *ambassador*, commenting on fish n co's quality of food, ambience, price etc. We gave very honest feedbacks to them for we would want fish n co' to further improve themselves in all ways. lt was rather a fun food review session with the PR people from the fish n co' headquarters. No stress at all. lt seems more like a relaxing conversation where we just discuss about our *likes* and *dislikes* for fish n co':D Anw, light refreshments were also served. i came to know about this new side dish they are going to introduce, prawn fritters! Tasty.

Apart from that, the coolest part of the whole session was when we were asked to sample two new dishes served hot straight from the kitchen. I can't really remember the exact name of the dishes but they are main courses which come with fish and rice. One is marinated with soy sauce, another one comes with tomato sauce. i preferred the one with tomato sauce on it cause it doesn't taste as bland as the first one. But still, i do not have much liking for these two dishes even though they are going to be introduced on the menu. i still prefer the new york fish n chip! lt's my all-time favourite there! In comparison with the decor ambience of fish n co', i still feel that they do not surpass TCC. Up till now, the best ambience restaurant which i personally think so is TCC.

At the end of the food review, my friend and I were given a $20 fish n co' voucher by the company to thank us for making the trip down and be part of this focus participation group in giving our feedbacks!:D Overall, it was a nice experience for me.

Not just that...

Rachel and me also had an belated birthday celebration with jiaqi earlier. we ordered this slice of chocolate truffle cake for her. Though she said she was full, but we still went on to order a small slice of cake for her. How can a celebration possibly do without cake? haha...

A little small gift here which i've gotten for her. i like the decorations on the paper bag. Looks kawaii. Now make a guess what's inside?!?

I shall reveal it here!
lt's NONE other than this rose honey colour lipstick.
i like this kind of sheer glossy colour lipstick. It makes me tempted to buy as well. In the end, i got myself a similar one as hers.

2010-03-22T08:04:00.001-07:00

Stress Workloads=.=

Perhaps this is a norm when it usually gets closer towards the end of another semester. I would say that this semester is passing especially fast. In the blink of an eye, we're now in the month of march 2010. After about 8 months of university school life, i would consider myself settling quite well in this new environment, just that stress isn't avoidable. Last semester was stressful for i had 5 modules to handle. This semester isn't as easy as well all thanks to this particular module (ALS101=> Academic and Education Discourse Skills) which requires higher order thinking. i have a report for this which is due in april. Currently right now, i'm in the midst of collating my questionaires done by friends. Another chinese report of mine is almost done for the drafting part. i will proofread it again after i've transferred it over to my lappy. i hope the word count doesn't exceed more than 5000 words if not it seems really lengthy. As you can see, tons and tons of workloads! well, but i try not to stress myself out too much if not i would not be able to handle things well. Things are going quite alright for me here, so not to worry! i'm doing fine:D

i'm always finding ways to motivate myself. One such is the upcoming 3 months long semester breaks which i'm going to have soon after my exam. This never fail to motivate me. Awaiting me are my thailand trip, meet-ups with different groups of friends and many other activties lining up behind. lf i will to start counting down now, it will soon be due in another one month plus. For those who are with me, we gonna' be free soon! So, hang on there peeps!

Stay CHEERFUL each day!
Tomorrow will be a better day.

(P.S Thank you all those who've helped me with the survey.)