this love… and other random stuff
wasn’t with my bf on vday. last year neither. lol. but it’s okay. cuz i’m gona see him in 3 days time! (: and we’ll get to spend almost every single day together for most part of the rest of this year.
he sent me this image ytd which made me very happy.
heheh. knowing that i’m on his blacberry’s wallpaper makes my heart go all melty! am happy that i’ll always be on his mind. and here’s my blackberry wallpaper.
❤ hehe
ok, my screenshot photo damn blur but still see-able la huh. hahaha.
i must credit Jasper Leong for the photos. he’s our friend and an awesome photographer!!!
time seems to have flown by so quickly. it’s time to head back to launceston. that little quiet town with little life and pathetic choices of restaurants. but still i like the cold weather and beautiful scenery! (:
these past few months of working has been great! too bad i couldn’t get an internship position at any archi firms. /: but the random jobs and freelancing as an interior designer weren’t too bad! haha. best part about working, is that i’ll have more $$$ to spend! yay.
bought new blouses, cardigans, jackets, pants, tights, shoes, iPod touch (not with me yet) met up with friends, visited wh in penang, and i didn’t have to ask dad for $ at all. (: even have some savings to bring with me to aussie. that shall be my Melbourne holiday fund (prolly going there in june. hahaha. can’t wait to visit my friend sylvia. her baby boy will be born by then!)
i’m always curious what my future kid would look like or would i even have a kid cuz i’m damn scared of pain. lol. always had the thought of how awesome it would be if babies can teleport themselves out of their mom’s womb. hahaha.
it’s my last day of work. next two days will be spent busy packing my luggage… have a feeling my luggage would be overweight lmao.
bought 5 architecture books from Page One on sunday. quite sad that bookstores are closing one after another. ): boo. but the closing down sale was pretty awesome. all books had a discount of at least 70%! too bad i only knew of the sale pretty late hence the detailing books were already gone. urgh.
ooh i met up with my primary school friend, wan ling, a few days back! photos still in my camera. haha. we were in the same class from primary 1 to 4. we were 7-10 years old back then! x) after pri4 she transferred out to another school becuz she moved away. i’m glad we’re still keeping in contact! she’s my oldest friend ever in the sense that i’ve known her longer than any of my other friends. pretty cool to see how we have all changed and grown after all these years. catching up with her was great! (:
-here comes the abrupt end-
cuz we all need a blue sky holiday
lol the king of the jungle looks so cute here. x) and he looks bored to tears.
one moment she’s eating, the next moment she’s on the ground asleep. WHAT A PIG! lol. our presence does not seem to bother her at all. lol
spotted sheep! hahaha. i’d loveee to have one. so comfy to touch! x)
comel (malay word for cute) camel!! xD
for a moment i thought they were naturally born this way till i saw
this. then i realised that they dyed the animals’ coats. lol! hope they dont get weird sorts of poisoning from the dyes.
these photos sum up my short roadtrip to Hobart and Richmond. lol. we went to visit the zoo at Richmond called ZooDoo and it was awesomeee! loved the fact that we can actually interact with the animals. lol. except the tigers and lions. no wish of interacting with them anyway.
we’re having our easter break now. but i have 2 assignments due on the tuesday that comes after this hols! /: doing my work now. shall try to finish it sooner. i’m super bad with time management. *sigh*
HAPPY EASTER ANYWAY 😀
I Love ROADTRIPS! x)
here are a few photos from MSA night. rest are in my fb hehe.
some of the archi year 3s who were there. i’m the only year 2 in this group! =p
after a day of rest, 5 of us embarked on our roadtrip!
Freshest oysters possible. The girl at the oyster farm just took these babies out of the water. x) DEEEELICIOUS!
Kat, wanhoe, and Tim! Don’t know the name of the place :p somewhere in Freycinet!
the path leads to the lighthouse. beautiful. (:
Kat at the top of the world! 😀
my slipper broke when i was walking in town so i bought this red shoe. cute? x)
myself and kat. (:
she sells seashells by the seashore! not.
it starting drizzling.. and TA-DAHH!! 😀
looks damn good? well it tastes even better! too bad you cant have it! neh ni neh ni poo poo. :p ok kiddin. this is from Kawasemi. a jap restaurant in Moonah at Hobart. order the dinner bento!
Russel Falls! there was a hugeee longg flight of steps up to the next part of the waterfall. the next day my calf muscles were aching. =_= in serious dire need of more exercise man! hahahaha. :p
on our way to Mount Mawson. (:
after a 30mins drive up, we found ourselves here! (: helloooo mountain!
myself and wanhoe. (:
aww. (: little kat looking all so happy and smiley. hehe. stay that way kitty!
spot tim! x)
wanhoe with our very first proper snowman! x) asian style (the slanted eyes)!
this was a remarkable roadtrip. me loveee! x) tasmania can really be so awesome.
okie i’m still busy, so that’s it for now. I’m supposed to finish reading my book about Walter Griffin. Wanted to just post 1 photo, don’t know how i ended up posting so many instead hahahaha. okie bye.
birthday post nextt.
with jeslynnnn! ;D
everybody, this is JESLYNN. say HI JES! haha. she’s like one of the only people who talks to me during Australian History class. hahah. and the one i stick to in classes. and she’s cool.
Me and my kitty kat x)
the year 3s had a site visit in hobart. and i tagged along. hahhaa. (: anyway, this is kat. everyone say HI KAT. she was my buddy in class. the word is WAS. now she’s in year 3. so no more kat. =/
Shoutouts
Hey Singapore. 🙂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
and to my dear tp maties Tan Yu Ting, Cindy Lim, and Brandon Lim, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOO! the 8th 9th and 10th August babies. 😀 miss y’all all the time! hope all your 21st birthday parties are awesome.
little town
a few weeks back (or maybe a month lol), wanhoe was so nice as to bring me and kat to hobart (which is about 2.5hrs away i think)! we went with him, ivan, and asyraf. stopped by Ross to try the famous scallop pie, which was good but not thatttt awesomee. haha.
that’s hobart. it’s the main city in tasmania. more happening than launceston definitely. it was nice touring around (: the mint icecream still isn’t as good as wendy’s mint madness. =P hehs.
dinner at a Vietnamese place. (:
o bar. (:
my camera died right after that.
D:
something’s wrong with it. it keeps saying that the card is locked, when the card isnt locked.. hahha. how. D: sad.
anyway, we went to salamanca market the next morning, chilled and ate stuff before heading back to launnie.
first trip to hobart.. more to come i guess! (:
i loveeee the easter break!
submissions on monday, wednesday, and thursday! how crazy is that! goodbye to sleep! =(
anyway, damn sad la the stupid camera is giving me problems. or maybe it’s the memory card. it keeps saying that the card is locked. out of the blue, all of the sudden! =/
couldnt take many photos during the two days one night trip down to hobart with kat, wanhoe, asyraf, and ivan. haha. but it was fun. x) definitely better than launceston. more stuff there! but still nothing much to do lol! ohwells. it’s the company that matters right. ;D
had an easter/housewarming party at sam goh’s place. haha. it was rather fun. everybody brought a boiled egg and drew stuff on them/wrote well wishes on them. =)
after a day’s rest, i went on the MSA trip to strahan! the company was awesomeee, the scenery was awesomee, the whole trip was awesomeeeee! hahaha. we had SO much FUN. and i gained a whole lot of new experiences. ;D
hehe. there’re lotsa damn nice photos with friends. waiting for all of them to upload into fb hahaha. kat and myself are waiting to change a new profile picture.
we went to sheffield, zeehan, henty dunes, strahan, the gordon river cruise, burnie, then devonport before heading back to launceston. the road trips were so long! had to sit in the van till our butts turned numb. but it was alright. hahaha. i stayed awake mostly throughout. chit chat talk cock. (:
sheffield was just for lunch. pretty alright..
zeehan was where we stayed at. instead of a building, the accommodations were either individual caravans or individual cabins! dropped our baggage off there before heading to the awesome henty dunes! photos are amazingg! hhehee. waiting for people to tag/send me. i have no idea how there can be a hugeeeeeeee stretch of sand in the middle of the forests. and the beach can be seen from there! hahaa. sounds weird right. but it was amazing nonetheless. sunset was beautiful. (:
dinner was damn yummy curry chicken and pan fried curry chicken (i helped! i helped! teehee). izzy was the main chef! haha.
kat, su jan, izzy, and myself shared a caravan. heh. sorta partied at night in our caravan. just us with wanhoe and asyraf. it was funfunfun. and izzy went crazy. hahahaha. funny shit. x) next morning we had to get up at 6plus am! breakfast was goood. yummy mayo tuna with bread, yummy leftover curry with bread, and potato chips with bread!! su jan and some others told me that potato chips and bread make a good combo. thus i tried. hahaha. hmm. wasn’t that bad. but tuna and curry still taste better with the bread!
i met a pissy dude! tskk! seriously annoyed with his hostility and attitude. like wtf is wrong with him! tskk.
after breakfast we headed to strahan for the gordon river cruise. stayed at the top deck most of the time. it was such an exhilarating experience! crazily strong cold wind against our bodies, surrounded by 360degrees of beautiful scenery.. just for those few hours, it seemed as though nothing else mattered in this world, as if assignments/troubles didnt exist.. (: too bad my sg mates aren’t there.. ohwells.
one of the best part of the cruise was the lunch BUFFET! ahhaha. fatness. but whatever. hahaha. ate soooo many pieces of smoked salmon omg it was so yummmyy! ❤
stopped along some islands and explored them a little. kinda like pulau ubin i guess? xD
after the cruise we started headed back to launnie. stopped by burnie to grab dinner. stopped by devonport to top up on fuel..
and you know what! of all the places mentioned, only burnie and devonport had mobile coverage! like damn. for two days we couldnt use our phones! wanted to upload photos immediately onto twitter/fb but there wasn’t any receptionnn.
haha. seriously don’t like the pissy dude. he has issues man. ohwells.
kayys. i dont know how i found time to type all these out when i’m running out of time to finish up my assignments man!
that’s it! maybe i’ll add photos onto this post after the thursday submission!!!
😀
hope everybody else had an awesome holidayy!
xoxo
fond
i seriouslyyy wonder when is the next time we’ll be doing this together again. (: i can’t stop missing you people. always wishing you guys are around then i wouldnt have to feel so alone at times. when i wana talk to friends about stuff, i turn around and don’t see anybody i can confide in. i know all my close friends are just an sms/call away. but it’s still kinda different not having your presence around. since i’ll be here for quite some time, seriously hope i’ll be able to find friends like you guys here.
okay. pop quiz time! what is this thing in the image below? x)
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haha.
could it be a fishball in soup?
or glutinous rice ball in some kinda soup?
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WRONGZ!
that, is a upturned xiao long bao floating in chinese tea!
gross or what hahahaha.
presenting the creator of this masterpiece…. DAIDI!
🙂
road trippin
after enrolling on monday, me and vince got convinced by some new friends to skip tuesday’s orientation to go on a road trip! (: went with vince, anju, aun jie, and aun jie’s elder sis (who was the driver :D). we went out of launceston and headed towards devonport.
the country side is like SO BEAUTIFULL. (: we didnt have the need to use the air con at all. cuz the wind here is chilly, thus opening the windows is enough. haha. and i saw COWS and SHEEPS by the countryside!!! hahahah was so happy watching the herds munching away on the fields. hahaha. cuz there isn’t such a sight in singapore. anju was amused by my interest in the animals. i suppose that’s cuz sheeps and cows on fields are a common sight in nepal? lol.
our first stop was the blackberry farm! (: it said to horn three times. and so we did. then a lady came out with boxes of blackberries to sell us.
that’s aunjie in picture with the farm lady. (: the blackberries there were big and juicy! sweet, with a tad of sourness.
went to see how blackberries were grown. =) they are grown in rows of tall bushes! way cooool!!! hahahaha. my first time seeing!
after leaving the blackberry farm, we headed towards the raspberry farm! lol. but didnt get to see the raspberry plantation cuz only authorized people were allowed in. we could only go to the cafe, which sold rather cool stuffs! all sorts of raspberry products. (:
they had all sorts of raspberry products! raspberry tea leaves, wines, socks, jams, brandy, etcetc!! lol. i think they are kinda toooo commercialized. the blackberry farm seemed like a more authentic farm. bought some raspberry products though! haha. wines.
the area around the cafe was kinda pretty. =)
after that we headed to the cheese factory. the countryside scenery is really pretty. really reminded us of the windows xp’s wallpaper. photos i took with my digi cam don’t justify the beauty of it in real life.
there were so many variety of cheese for us to try! x)) haha. but only took photos of a few.
bought this for my family. =) but haven’t posted it out yett! hope it doesn’t go bad. =/ lol.
our next stop was sheffield town for lunch! =) more nice scenery on the way.
had lunch at sheffield town. think it was a scottish restaurant? cuz of the decor there, and the scottish looking man who played the bagpipe there. lol
spent some time at sheffield before moving off to…. THE CHOCOLATE FACTORYY. 😀
outside, the sun was scorching hot. however once we get into shade, when the wind blows it’s so cold.. lol.
went to the chocolate shop they have there. and yay there was free sampling of a variety of chocolates! heheee.
i think. i gotta go sleep now. lol! so this post will be continued later on! hahahaa. cheerios!!
HELLO!
hahhaaa. i’m alive and kicking. using internet at a new friend’s house hahhaa. his name is JACK! got to know him through church friend’s cousin. lol! yay for free internet. x)
anyway, i’ll try to find a place to stay at within next week hopefully!
went to the market this morning with jack and his friends (anju and bicky). anju and bicky are Nepalese. i’m staying at anju and bicky’s place for next week! hahaa. i took manyyyyy photos. but haven’t uploaded any yet.
anyway, thank you dear friends who did show up at the airport to send me off. and it’s really okay for those who didn’t. =) not as if i’m never coming back.
leney was nice and picked both me and mat up to the airport where we had our last meal together for this half of the year at crystal jade (T3). xiao long baos were as good as ever. love the feeling of the soup bursting out of the xlb’s thin skin in my mouth. totally yums. when i get back, xlb will be the number 1 thing on my list of ‘food i miss so much and wana eat asap!’
daidi wanxin and weiling joined us at crystal jade later on. (= after our meal we headed back to T1 where my family and relatives are. sam, gj, and sc were there too. really thank my friends for the really practical wonderful gifts they gave me. polymates shared and bought a pretty coat for me, which i am wearing now as i’m typing this post! coldd. sam gave me a really nice white knitted jacket thing i really love. haha. so thanks xoxoxo!
wah there was like so much drama at the airport. not cuz people are sad or crying, but cuz i got everyone anxious for me. lol. wanted to check in about 56 kg of stuff. lady said the over weight charge amounts to $1300++ wtfff. almost fainted when i heard that. decided to give up two boxes! one containing all clothes, the other containing bags and shoes. =/cousins were trying to help me salvage as many things as possible from those two boxes.
and now, the amount of clothes i have will most probably last less than 2 weeks!! tamade! =/ and i missed out some clothes i really wanted to bring along. sigh~ will get mom to send them over to me.. lol. but dad is right, with that 1300+ i can buy so many more new clothes! lol.
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i’m at anju and bicky’s place. they are really nice people. (: glad things worked out the way it did. was praying for it and hurray! here i am. happily typing away in a comfortable room in a nice house filled with lovely people. but it’s only till the 19th. gotta gottaaa find a place before that!! hope i’ll be able to…
jack cooked lunch. =) this is the third meal he has cooked for me. thanks jackkk! hiro is a jap staying temporarily with jack. hiro’s really funny! hahhaa. in both the strange and the humorous way. he’s a parrot. he likes to imitate people! and he likes to mislead people to think that he and jack are gay. but i know he’s just kiddin la. nice dude. he’s studying Education! gona become a primary school teacher! hahaha. coool. just like audwee kan. but audweee not cool. =p hehh. kk kiddin once again! i ❤ audwee! (:
went to jack’s church where my parent’s friend’s cousin is. their meeting was held at her house. really pleasant old lady! and her house is lovelyyy!! she and her husband bought it at an unbelievable price! that house in singapore would probably cost like 3 or 4 million or so cuz the area is really huge. they bought it for below 500K sgd!
though people are nice, but there are things you have to hang out with them longer before you can understand about them. didn’t know some stuff at first. now i know. just have to compromise and understand them. cultural difference plays a part.
I MISS MY FRIENDS ALREADY. =( how good it would be if the bunch of us went to the same uni and lived togetherr.. today i missed my parents a wee bit when i saw grapes at the supermarket. cuz parents always buy grapes.
jack, anju, and bicky are all architecture students. =) anju and bicky are taking their masters. way cool! have alot to learn from them. asked them quite alot of stuff. very helpful people!
anyway, it’s sunday the 14th! valentines day and chinese new year! so happy chinese new year to all my fellow friends and relatives! and happy valentines day too. (: woe is me.. away from all my loved ones..
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yesterday (saturday), jack brought me around town! their town is kinda like singapore’s orchard road. it has manyyy shops. but! not as many shops as singapore though the land here is pretty large. cuz, they don’t have tall buildings at all! i haven’t really seen a two level shop yet. or perhaps i didnt notice..
town is walking distance from the architecture campus! probably like 10mins walk from school. lol. so far i’ve been walking quite a fair bit cuz none of my new friends drive.
food here is more pricey than singapore’s. but i haven’t really tasted any reallyy awesome food yett…
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tomorrow is the start of orientation! but their orientation is veryyy different from singaporean schools. no camps no games no fun. just purely standard stuff like getting our student cards, some welcome speech, tour around the school… that’s about it. temasek poly’s orientation is the bestt. love the camps organised by tpsu! haha.
gona stay in school probably only in the morning. afternoon i’ll be in town once again, scouting for houses with the help of jack.
oh, i met like a few singapore poly architecture students who are here for their third year, at the supermarket just now! so good la, to have good friends around..
cindyyy mattyyy leneyyy daidii etcetcetc wherefore art thou theeeee……..
sigh. hope i’ll be able to find friends here i can get along with as well as how i can get along with my polymaties.
i miss my friends already! =/
THANKYOUUUU
hehe. have been veryyy happy for the past week! was out every single day after work with friends!
monday: watched The Spy Next Door with eugene and jemima at plaza singapura
tuesday: had dinner at the Red Dot Brewery located at dempsey with sebastian (he treated woohoo! awesome food and beer!)
wednesday: had dinner at Ippudo with audrey (she treated woohoo!!)
thurs: company dinner at Yan Palace (company treated woohoo!) after that butter factory with colleagues!
friday: steamboat dinner at grandma’s with relatives! (early reunion dinner just for me hehh ❤ )
my friday’s just about to end. =) busy trying to backup the windows vista and installing the windows 7. have quite many photos taken with friends to post, but too busy for it. just a short update for now! will post up photos sooon. (:
work is officially overrr!!!
i had awesome fun with all my friends. love them. i wonder where else i can get friends like them! lene is gona take half day off her work just to send me off at the airport *awwwww* so sweet! hahahaa. and thanks for all the gifts my dear friends. relatives gave me early ang bao. and woohoo! this year’s collection is by far the most i’ve ever received! can totally feel their love and concern for me. i love my relatives.. so thanks thanks thankssss to all of you people who make my life so wonderful! 🙂
yeaa so true!
Lene says:
hahaahas
so we eating jadey ar
last jadey meal
we bond with jadey
part with jadey
jadey’s our best fren
and our delicious fren
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and so, i think my last meal before leaving sg will be crystal jade’s XLB. 😀
whoopee!
manager agreed to let me take half day off on sat (which was supposed to be my last day). thus now friday is officially my last day of work! hehe. plus! i’m blogging on my new notebook! hahaa. happy. oh. and i took like 15mins to figure out how to switch on the bloody wifi! lol! turns out it’s a small icon on my notebook i can tap on! i was looking for a button or switch. no wonder i couldn’t find it! hahaha.
dad hasn’t collected the windows 7 disc yet from bendemeer. thus i haven’t started installing everything yet. now just using the windows vista business version which was preinstalled. hope to get this notebook fully prepared by next wed at the latest.
went to watch The Spy Next Door with JEMIMA and eugene just now. jemima is my new colleague! hehe. today’s her first day at work. =) hope everything goes well for her.
lol. yupyup she’s the jemima from tp iad! my coursemate! (:
1 or 2 out of 14
okay firstly, congrats to brother!
he passed his driving test on the first try (just like me and lene hahaha)! but he’s still super unstable though. dad let him drive for the very first time today. and i was super worried that he’d crashh. kept helping him to look out for cars. we were like ‘nooo!! sloww down sloww down!’ or ‘go laaa! accelerate!!’ or ‘left left leftt!!!!’ or ‘turn right! turn right!’ or ‘whoaaa!! keep to your own lane!’ or ‘ahhh!!! what are you doingg!!!’
lol. very bad. but at least he didnt crash. hope he won’t get into any accidents like i did. =/ lol.
k secondly, YAYYY DAD BOUGHT ME A NEW LAPTOP! the HP one that i wanted! ProBook 4310s. Intel Centrino 2, 2.8 GHz, 4GB DDR3 Ram, 500GB hard disk memory, ATI Radeon Graphics 512MB, free upgrade to windows 7!
the guy gave us a 100bucks discount, thus making the laptop $1899! (: came with a hp mouse, and some other miscellaneous stuff. have been scouting around for laptops, and this has the best specs with the best price! plus it’s pretty too. x) proves that pretty things aren’t all bimbos. i’m gona be busy installing and transfering stuffs into this laptop in the next two weeks.
very touched that dad bought me what i wanted. my previous laptop was still running fine… just that this new laptop’s specs is wayyy better. lol.
was actually considering to buy a car at tasmania without letting my family know.. cuz parents strongly object to letting me drive there (afraid i will crash and die there). cars are veryy affordable there that i can easily buy one without them finding out… but after dad bought me this laptop, i’m very happy and satisfied, and feel that i should be more obedient! hahaa. so shan’t do things my parents object to anymore. x)
saturday was a SUPER BUSY day for me! left home early in the morning at 9am, got home only at 2am! went to the pre departure briefing for us singaporean students who’re going to study at the aussie uni at feb/march. it was held at the orchard hotel ballroom.
as far as i could see, the people there were all with their friends or family members. whereas i was alll by myself! tamade. felt a tinge of loneliness. lol. lazy parents didnt wana accompany me there. saw many unsw people! few utas ones. but there’s another briefing for utas students on wed. suppose i’ll definitely see more utas students on wed. =) met some architecture seniors who’ve returned with their masters and graduated with honors. seriously aspire to be like them! lol. after the briefing i stayed back to chat with my archi seniors. asked them lotss of questions and got to know so much useful stuff.
from orchard i travelled all the way to changi airport! lol. met up with irene at about 2pm. accompanied her till she boarded her plane. chit chatting with her is always fun. =)
a few days back after work rene brought me to a special TCC at boat quay. the TCC there is designed in such a manner that it’s like an art gallery! paintings are hung on the wall for sale! really arty farty type of drawings. seats there are bean bags. =)
after leaving changi airport, i went back to town! met my parents at cityhall area. unexpectedly ended up in funan the IT mall and that was where and when dad bought me the laptop. hahahaa. was supposed to meet the tp maties at around 6.30 to 7pm at newton. warned them not to be late. but was late myself =/ hahaha.
dinner at newton, then went to orchard where we had coffee, walked alot, and played alot of funny games. photos are with daidi. my camera’s batt wasn’t charged thus i didnt use it at all lol. anyway, really reallyyy enjoyed hanging out with them!! weng yuin and jinhe even bought me a gift! well two gifts actually. lol. chilli crab flavoured cup noodles, and a headphone! x) super practical. and so coincidentally i really need a new headphone! =)
my tp maties are so awesome! howw?? i’m really worried that i won’t be able to find any friends like them at utas. )= hope i’ll at least have like 2 really nice friends there.
my family and relatives are awesome too. relatives are organizing a farewell dinner for me! but they planned it without asking me la. =.= hahaa. they chose friday. however friday i’m supposed to be at sam’s dance concert at victoria concert hall! already bought the tickets. =/ gona give up the concert for dinner with relatives.. cuz aunt says my relatives aren’t free on other days.. ohwells. nvm. still appreciate their efforts. (: love my relatives!
out of two weeks or so, only 1 day is reallyyy awesome. other days are pretty mundane, which is why i have not been updating over the past days. =p lol. those 1 or 2 awesome days are what makes life worth living! so far everything has been rather good. i’m satisfied with life at this very moment.
Kay Pee Ohh
see. it was like freakin crowded everywhere on new yr countdown night. lol. met up with samantha, guijia, and carissa (: haven’t seen carissa since like sec 3 or 4! that’s like 4-5 yrs back already! she’s samantha’s ballet friend. used to tutor us math/chem i thinkk.
and so the four of us wandered around cityhall and dhoby ghaut before finally settling down at somerset. x) a bar named KPO.
it’s a two storey place. ambience and crowd were pretty alright. just one thing i didnt like about it- the music. tamade. they kept playing those trance/techno songs. in other words, songs which annoy me. i love a wide variety of music. just not trance/techno/monotonous songs. once in a while there were okay songs… and so this was where we counted down at. =] drinks and snacks check! party poppers check! wonderful friends check!
with all that intact, the countdown began. 🙂
haha. it was heart warming seeing people hugging, jumping around, hi*fiving, screaming for joy, etc at the stroke of midnight. it is the one moment i see the human race (at least those within my sight) bonded and singing the same tune. (:
during christmas and new year, it’s not just the celebrations/presents that i look forward to. but also little things like smses/calls/letters from long lost friends. hahaha. or rather, friends i haven’t heard from for the longest time. really nice to know they haven’t forgotten me, nice to know i came across their mind on that very day. (: likewise i like my friends to know too that they were on my mind. but tamade didn’t get to sms some people since i lost their contacts when my phone got stolen. ohwells.
and so after chilling at KPO we got back to roaming the streets. found ourselves a nice little area to take photos at. (: secret place! hahahha. leave a comment if you wana know. x)
haha. from this we can gather that sam and carissa have both not forgotten what they learnt at their ballet classes. (:
pretty decor (:
haha. this particular stretch of wall doesnt seem to belong to singapore dont you agree?
hahhaa. in the first picture, sam and gj are having a cold war. in the second picture, gj handed sam a bunch of flowers thus making sam happy and ending the cold war. hahaha. their expressions are quite funny ya. pretty good actor/actress!
though our celebration was a simple one, i still enjoyed it throughly. (: was happy. it’s always the company that matters!
may we all have a happy, happy new year. 🙂
christmas day <3
had church xmas service in the morning. (: sang christmas carols and heard a guest speaker talk about the twelve gifts of the magis. after which we stayed a while to eat! there were loads of food (alot of which i didn’t take photos of).
then dad drove us to novena square. i left to meet the polymates at pepxi’s place (at yishun zomg freakin far) while they walked around novena.
thankyou dear chefs for preparing the food. (:
hahaa. mathilda brought a small xmas tree. and we tried fixing it up the best we could- which turned out to be pretty good! hahahah! in our opinions la. who cares about your’s. as long as we’re happy. lol! =P
then we feasted till we were pretty full before proceeding with our log cake! =D mango flavoured! YUuUuMmmS!
after which we had our gift exchange! (: think everyone was pretty much satisfied with what they got. haha. drew lots.
there were still alottt of food leftover, thus we played indian poker! hahaha. loser gets to eat. it’s a damn good way of finishing up food! so none gets wasted. (: plus it’s an easy yet fun game to play.
everybody helped to pack up and cleared all the mess before leaving. (: see, that’s what true friends do. we help each other. i’m reallyyy glad to have known this bunch of wonderful friends. they make me believe that there are manyy really nice people out there in the world. hope i’ll be able to find friends like them in my uni! when we’re together, nobody’s pretending- everybody’s our true self. we can get along so easily! it’s fun being with them. hhaha. all the small little things make it fun. it’s hard to really find examples to state, cuz they are too little that i forgot. =/ ahhaa. but i do remember how fun and sincerely happy i was being with them. they’ve been a major part of my life over these past three years. hope we will continue to stay in contact always & forever till we’re all wrinkled with grandchildren! hahaha. ❤ whoever gets married better send invitations to the rest of us ah! *looks at cindy & lene*
thank you all the dear people who made my christmas eve and christmas 2009 a very happy one. and thank you to those who gave me presents. (: hope everybody else had a wonderful christmas tooo! hahah i’m looking forward to the next christmas. wonder how it would be like! MERRY CHRISTMAS! (:
christmas eve
after work i went home, had dinner, then happily prepared to leave home to meet sam and gj. though my camera batt was sufficient, i still took it out to charge. then, TAMADE! i freaking left home without the camera battery! wtfwtfwtf. not the first time i’ve done this laaa. sooo, our only source of photo taking was through gj’s iphone3GS. =/ ohwelll. better than nothing.
anyway, met them at a cosy restaurant near tanah merah where they had their dinner and we stayed there for quite ahile to chat. after that we decided to head down to clarke quay to countdown. (: was rather crowded, but definitely not as crowded as orchard. which was exactly what we wanted- a not overly crowded environment which still has the christmassy mood and right ambience with the countdown! it was still rather ‘dangerous’ out in the open though. sam got sprayed by some annoying kid with the snow spray thing. and tamade it was stinky. seriously. don’t know why that particular brand was that smelly. thus we headed for cover in Indochine! not bad. (: so we stayed there, played some drinking games, and counted down to christmas! woohoo. xD macdonald’s fries for supper before we headed home.
i wore a green top and a red shorts! (but i realise my shorts can’t really be seen in these photos lol) was sooo into the whole christmassy mood. (: my earrings are little santas! heh.
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anyway, a veryyy shocking thing happened on xmas eve…. xD hahaha. MY LITTLE BROTHER BROUGHT HOME A GIRL FOR THE VERYYY FIRST TIME! and we’ve neverrrr heard of him having any gfs before or whatsoever. lol. thus we were alll veryy interested and curious about the whole thing. she even stayed for dinner. x) apparently brother gave her a givenchy perfume as her xmas gift. that dumb ass has no whatsoever experience with choosing perfumes. that perfume is tooo mature for her la! she’s only sweet 16. haha. and he’s retarded 18. she got him a CK perfume. lol. mom was saying that it was the first time in her life she smelled a nice smell coming from brother’s body hahahaha.
could tell that the girl was a nice and good one. =) very guai guai type. had a pretty face, slim figure, long hair, a teeeny weeeny bit taller than me, was carrying a backpack, wore sneakers, short black cute dress, AND WENT HOME AT 9 PLUS cuz her curfew is 10.30pm. ahahah! what a gooody two shoes in a good way! =) well done brother.
xmas eve 09 was remarkable. 😀
more outings = more $$ spent = less savings
haha. not updating for a couple of days makes me feel uncomfortable. so gotta update! hahaa. have been going out and spending as if my money grow on trees, but they don’t ): ! lol.
i think i’ve already sorta lost track when i went out with friends. hmmm. Ate this with seb at cedele like last week? or the week before that. lol.
have no idea if we watched any movie after that. can’t remember much.. =/ so that’s all i’m gona write about that outing! lol.
last thurs after work, eugene irene and myself went to have dinner together at plaza sing. our first mini colleagues outing! x) had hong kong cafe food. then i brought them to 1 caramel after that.
the following day (fri) i met up with weida for dinner. it was at double bay- an aussie cafe/bar. we went there especially to try the Pure Blonde beer. i’m not a hugeee fan of beer, but still quite alright with it. pure blonde was rather good. (= dinner was some fancy fish dish thingy. totally forgot to take photos of the food. it was good! both of us had a fancy fish thingy. hahaha. after that we went to walk around abit to aid the digestion of the foood.
saw some pretty good live performances. (: this is in the esplanade. love the xmas trees in the background.
and this was outside esplanade. =) really good jazz music. but i think the pianist was kinda cocky when he kept emphasizing that HE composed the songs. took all the credit. didn’t even say stuff like “my band members encouraged and helped me alot..” hmm.
next on saturday night, i met up with irene and eugene again. this time we went to Timbre at the substation. introduced irene to the best live band in singapore- the goodfellas! ahaha. she loveddd them too. =D yayy! i’m gona let all my friends know how awesome the goodfellas are.
beauties and the beast! wahahaha! =X
anywayy, i’ve caught the flu bug. boohoo for that. i hate flu, cuz mucus is just plain disgusting and duper annoying when it blocks my nasal passages. rather be having fever instead seriously. =.=
shooo! away with the flu bug!~
have been searching online for accomodation near school. found a few prospective choices! =) but haven’t confirmed yett.. cuz the school hasnt gotten back to me regarding those accommodation related to utas which i applied for. damn slow la! =__= i’m kinda kan chiong already, that school’s gona start about 2months later but i still haven’t settled my accommodation issues yet. darn. nvm, i shall pray and have faith that God will show me the way!
i slept at 9pm last night! that’s my record for this year! the earliest! xD cuz i was reallyyy tired at 8pm. now it’s already 12am. so i’m gona sleep now. sleeeppyyy~ nights all and stay happy! (:
happy feet ;)
cost us 65bucks each. tamade. i don’t think it’s really worth that much lehh… but what to do. ohwells. haha. so must make the best out of it! i showed everybodyy i know my nails, and have been wearing open toes shoes or slip ons everyday! hahaha.
yet another week
whoaa i’ve been so busy! hahaa. busy with work, and also busy with going out with friends! couldnt find time to blog at home. hahaa.
monday i met up with leney for crystal jade xiao long baos at takashimaya.
tuesday i went home to play guitar. i’ve mastered the song Time For Miracles by Adam Lambert already!! yayy! x) i lovee that song. people who haven’t heard it should hear it. by the way, it’s from the soundtrack of 2012.
wednesday i met up with samantha for dinner and shopping. =] had dinner at a jap restaurant in ion called Aoba. i think the food there is pretty average. ohh very unexpectedly met a loser i used to hang out with, who is still a loser after so many years. tsktsk. so people, do not be losers. be winners! have goals and work towards them. =] anyway, tangs was having xmas salesss!! yayyy! haahhaa. 50% off some stuff! me and sam chose our own xmas presents! hahaha. which was bags. i chose 2 bags, sam chose 1 bag. i paid for her bag and she paid for one of mine. happy! x) made her bring it home and demanded for her to wrap it up in xmas wrapping paper before handing it to me on xmas! hehe. i brought her bag home too and of course i’m gona wrap it. =]
thursday met up with sebastian for Ninja Assassin. somerset 313 was already open! so we walked around abit and had teppanyaki (which was rather salty) for dinner which resulted in us being late for our movie. lol.
On friday i met my ex colleague Clement the lemon! hahaha. yong zhe was supposed to meet us too but he fell sick. get well soon zhe! (: and so we walked around and around orchard. went to the orchard central’s rooftop garden for the first time. there are a few restaurants up there.
today (saturday) after my half day at work, i went to parkway to visit the dentist with mom. met a primary school and secondary school ex classmate there! was very surprised cuz i haven’t seen him since sec 4. might be going to watch new moon later.
tomorrow i’m going mani and pedi with my tp maties! x) hehee girly day.
sigh i brought work home to do. =( am supposed to be working hard. hahaha. rushing a mont blanc project which will be built soon at the sentosa resorts world! finished the 2d drawings. now doing 3d. sucks mann so busyy!
my office has two levels, those on the 2nd level are all falling sick one after another! think they’ve been passing the virus to each other. lol. i dont feel very strong. hope my immune systems holds up! hahaha.
this is one of my colleagues. :] her name is irene.
k that’s all for now. x)
stay happy everybody! merryy soon to come christmas!! i love christmass!!!
yuumms with the polymaties <3
met the polymates at orchard ion and we had Watami for dinner. jap food! 🙂 we had to queue 1hr before we could get a table for the 8 of us! lene couldnt join us, but so coincidentally we met her at ion. lol. she was with her own bunch of friends.
our FOOD. 😀
my wonderful polymaties (some are missing from this meetup lol)! 😀
after dinner at Watami we went to have dessert! 😀 Marvellous Cream & some crepe thing.
wanted to watch movie. but there were only movie timings available after 12am. thus we went home. (: though the meeting was rather short (3hrs plus), it was sweet! 😀
next year when i’m away, i wonder who amongst my polymates will continue snapping photos and documenting them (in their blogs). lol. someone please bloggg about your outings k so that i can be updated about what’s going on.. i am guessing that mathilda and lene will be the ones snapping and uploading into facebook. but lene blogs like twice a year while mat doesnt really post photos in her posts! =[ ohwell..
haha. are we gona have a christmas partyy together? ((:
Happy Birthday Jesslyn Novianty!
hahaha. your birthday present was that alligator cookie jar thingy and the other stuff which came along with it k. so err not sending you any other gifts this yr.. =p wanted to send you a card. but i realised that after my phone got stolen, i no longer know your address. hahaha! cuz i saved it in that phone which got stolen~ .. roughly remember bits of your address la, but not the whole thing… yea so.. probably will send you something on christmas! (:
since i’ve gotten pretty good at digital thingys i figured that i should probably put my skills into good use by creating a lovely birthday greeting card for you. so here it is. 😀 happy birthday once again! i know you’re so gona have fun at vegas. so envious!! well take care okay! (:
Changing Appetites
thursday (yesterday) after work, i went to marina square with eugene. had changing appetites for dinner. it was goood! (: and i love the fact that everywhere i go seems to be nicely decorated for christmas!! 😀
Melovesmints :) 