元宵节的 Last Weekend!

25 February 2013

Many gatherings to celebrate the last weekend of CNY 2013 and ending 2013 蛇年的元宵节's weekend with a blast!

 

蛇年初十四 》 Dim sum lunch with 娘家 at Yan Palace Restaurant!

蛇年初十四 》 Steamboat over at Luther's place! / Play date with Livie / Feasting Mama-inlaw's home made abalone lou hei!

蛇年初十五 》 Baby Joel's baby bash @ Downtown East Chalet! / Next generation of HXDA - look at that little handsome man in the arms of his proud Mama!

 

Snippets of my 蛇年！

18 February 2013

蛇年初九 》恭喜发财，开工大吉！

It was a wholesome week of feasting and feeling happiness in our nevereverland (many activities i.e sleeping, resting and slacking)... today is back to reality world!

Sum-ing up all my activities for the past week from 年初一 all the way till today with lotsa collages!  (Ok lah, not everyday I have something to share... but at least I have like 7 days packed of activities?  Schedules are back to back ok...  sometimes I missed having to wake up at about 10am everyday and think what plans we have in mind to do or to go...  Hehe!)

蛇年初一 》  Waited for the arrival of the youngest member in the family to 拜年 with the 奶奶&爷爷 before I head back 娘家 for lou hei then back to Bras Basah to bond with the extended family for the rest of the day... won $2 during the mahjong session!  Huart ah!

蛇年初二 》 River Ang Bao 2013!

蛇年初三 》 Baby Livie's 周岁派对！

蛇年初四 》 Had a 1.5rounds of mahjong session with the Gramms!  I won my cab fare - S$10!  Then a movie date with ah Thiang to catch <<Ah Boys To Men 2>> at I12 Katong.  So brave of me to catch a movie without my rag.  >_<"

蛇年初五 》 情人节快乐！Sucha wet wet Valentine's day this year!  Started to rain since the night before and feeling so cozy (other than lunch...) we only stepped out of the house and dressed up for dinner at Vivo (and everywhere was so super long Q...), so we only settled down at the restaurant with the shortest or no Q - JJ.com Fish Mart.  Food was meh...  Sakuraya was better!

蛇年初六 》 A trip to Gardens by the Bay with ah Thiang (took MANY MANY colorful photos... so naise!) before meeting the HXDA gang for lou hei at 周庄！  Joe was snipping his share of lou hei towards us and the whole table is FULL of hei(s).  We were practically scooping the hei(s) off the table top!

蛇年初七 》 人日。Another round of lou hei at Joe's house... his face turned green when we suggested another round of lou hei during Yesterday's dinner!  This time he is more gentle... the hei(s) only fall within the plate.  LOL!

蛇年初八 》 Gathering with the NYP-ians at SimCik's house.  Then an early dinner and kopi with SimCik at Vivo while he waited for the ferry from Batam to arrive to fetch his MIL and son home.

 

你在蛇年发了吗？

That's sooo much of fun for the past week!  (when are the next holidays coming???  can't wait already!)







Voluntary Work at Bishan Home!

16 February 2013

My first visit to Bishan Home on 年除夕！

It was yet another project by Bishan CC YEC together with NUS SSC to celebrate CNY with the residents.  I am so proud to be part of the team and very excited interacting with the residents there.

There will be the next outing coming March - to the Singapore Flyer!  Heard this project was headed by SimCik, confirm, die die-must-haves to go support right?  ah Thiang and I are going.  :)

Heaps of sponsored hampers for the residents at the briefing room / Song book for the CNY celebration / Chicky dance performance / Residents at the CNY celebration / Lou hei with the residents / DIY 财神爷 costume by the NUS SSC / Group photo with the team!

Bishan Home for the Intellectually Disabled is one of the first purposefully built residential homes for the people with intellectual disabilities in Singapore.  The home is designed to provide a family setting in bedrooms decorated with colorful murals and clustered into neighbourhoods, each with its own shared communal living space for the social interation and recreation.

You can read up more information from the weblink ---> clickme.

Valentine's Day 2013

14 February 2013

情人节快乐！

 

In French, “I love you” is “Je t’aime”.
In Spanish, “I love you” is “Te Amo”.
In German, “I love you” is “Ich liebe Dich”.
In Chinese, “I love you” is “我爱你”.
In Korean, “I love you” is “난 당신을 사랑”.
In Japanese, “I love you” is “わたしは、あなたを愛しています”.

May you filled with 满满的爱 today.

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 Happy happy Valentine’s Day!

 

 

蛇年行大运！

10 February 2013

“通通枪枪“。。。 “通通枪枪“

 

过年咯！！！ *sets firecrackers*

 

我和 ah Thiang 祝 everybody 迎春接福，岁岁平安 ，金玉滿堂，一本萬利，大展鴻圖，福壽雙全，萬事如意。。。

 

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Last but not least... 祝蛇年行大运！發啊！！！

收工 Dinner at Ma Maison!

08 February 2013

收工咯！

We celebrated 收工 and dinner was a simple affair at Ma Maison, The Central - bascially an excuses to utilize the dining voucher we had lah!  *grinz*  ;P  So so so happy and looking forward to the upcoming long LONG CNY holidays!

Dinner Date at Sarang!

07 February 2013

Dinner date with 남편 (the husband)!

Need to utilise my soon-to-be-expired OC vouchers by 8 February so we decided to go check out the restaurants in OC.  Also a 'lil celebration with my 남편 for all the good news we received in the month of January!

I was having a sudden craving for Korean food due to overloading of <Running Man> variety shows and the current <黄色复仇草> drama series... still drama-mama-ing at eposide 59th (halfway through thou' they have total 108 eposides!) but I think I can marathon-ed the whole drama-mama during my one-week CNY break!  And that explained the dinner date with my 남편 at Sarang!

Sarang means love - Imma also decked in love-prints cardigan!

Sarang was having some 50% promotion on the selected wines and ah Thiang, who never fail to order alcoholic beverages, ordered a bottle of some berry Korean wine. *gan bei!*  We ordered a portion of kimchi that was alittle too sweet for ah Thiang's liking and my favorite spicy rice cake (really spicy at the end of the meal) for sides and beef short ribs and BBQ pork belly for mains.  I personally prefer the pork over the beef but ah Thiang is the opposite.  HA!

It was abit pricey for a tableful of dishes (btw, the size of the table also very small) with small portion.  Our bill chocked to about S$105 before discount.  Nevertheless, we will come back to try out other dishes or even dine outside the bar counter and enjoy the breeze!  :)

Pre-CNY Reunion with the Gals!

04 February 2013

Hello February!

Last weekend before CNY!  Roar roar roar... hiss Hiss HISS! (It's the Snake year btw...)  Finally done with all the spring cleaning... and now left with changing new sets of bedsheets, sending the quilt cover to laundry and I am all ready for CNY!  Oh.  Not forgetting to bao Ang Bao (our first Ang Bao-giving for the very first year!)... some chore that I am very excited to do but saving all excitment till CNY eve!

Lou hei with Hui, Jade and Paul; Best girls-get-together session to kick start the year!  Such a pity that Gloria and Juay cannot make it, if not it would be the bestestest get-together lo.  Most of their partners cannot make therefore the reunion turned out to be a girls night out instead.  :)

Lou hei at Peach Garden at Chinatown Point!  And boy, we are feasting like we are attending somebody's Jade's wedding banquet!  (she's the only one left on the shelf now!)  *teeheee*

A sumptuous feast that consisted of lou hei, shark's fin soup, fillet of sea perch, abalone, king prawn, sesame glutinous rice ball and 年糕!  We paid a heffy price of S$68 per pax (I think now everywhere lou hei also comes in this pricing...) but it's all so worth it cos we had so much to talk about and catch up throughout the dinner!  It's the company that counts - TRUE?  Truely.  20 years of friendship... still counting!  Huart ah!

 

 

Nana's Green Tea Cafe

30 January 2013

Met up with Julie for dinner last evening and we tried one of the new restaurants located on the new wing of Plaza Singapura - Nana's Green Tea Cafe!

I read reviews that this is the first outlet outside of Japan!  Decorated in zen style, the use of wooden frames as table that kinda creates a private space between the diners in an open concept cafe (somehow the wooden frame made me felt like visiting a prisoner, without having the glass panel in between and missing the talking phone...  drama drama... heh).

Menu has wide selection of Matcha drinks and desserts.  Julie ordered the Ebi Fried Curry Udon and I had the Gyu Shabu Goma Dare Udon that is served cold!  It contained all my favorite bites - cherry tomato, corn, cucumber, udon and best of all - their special seasame sauce as "soup base"!  Minus points are the sliced beef that are abit over cooked.  Overall still yum yum.  :)  If I have a choice, I will order again, minus the beef.

Requested to have our drink served after meals so that we can catch up alittle before we both head home for an early night.  My Matcha Latte was served very thick and has this 'powdery' after-taste and I had to add sugar plus more sugar syrup (kooped from Julie's as she preferred to have less sweeten stuffs) otherwise it will still taste bitter...  My preference is still Starbucks'.  I'll come back for the desserts next time!

Dining at Brasserie Gavroche!

27 January 2013

I was feeling alittle under the weather for the past two days and am so glad that I dragged myself out for the dinner date with ah Thiang, Yeo嫂 and her dining companions (Limin & Serene) at this local French place located in one of the charming conversion shophouses along Tras Street on Friday evening.

In fact, this restaurant was sooo recommended by the Yeos (who recently dined days before our dinner date) to come and try again!  Oh.  I loved how my Angus flank steak was grilled into perfection - medium well, and the 'soup base' from the Grandpa Henri’s pork hotpot was simply souperlicious.  够味！  I must say, prices on the menu are on the high side and I won't come back anytime soon unless I have special occassions worth celebrating.  (heh... then again, I already have plans in mind where to go for our 1st wedding anniversary lo!)

Oh, notes aside... the server who took our orders looked pretty much like Dr Carlisle Cullen from the <Twilight> movie!  (... and Serene agrees with me!  *wink*)

Baking CNY Goodies!

21 January 2013

It was a working weekend for ah Thaing (last last weekend, last weekend and this weekend too!)!  So.  Me as a good daughter & daughter-inlaw, spent my weekend with the family!  #bonding

Kick-start my weekend with a mahjong session with my folks after our lunch at Pizza Hut while waiting for the husband to knock off from work.  We started late but managed to clear 1.25 rounds cos baby bro fetching his GF so we tongbang-ed his car ride home...  Well, it was a 一家输三家...  :(  Fred not, this weekend I go back (for by-election)... and I will win back all my loses!

Then Sunday afternoon at home helping out my mama-inlaw, she's baking her CNY goodies - pineapple tarts and chocolate chip cookies!  Bascially I did nothing much lah, just 'supervising' her at the process, 搽搽这里，抹抹那里 and helped her to cut the big pack of walnuts into smaller pieces (she is baking walnut and fruit cakes this weekend!).  Can't wait to start feasting on CNY goodies!  Heehee.

Sashimi & Dim Sum Weekend!

14 January 2013

Simple weekend; Just the two of us.

Feasting yummy food and watching series epsoides of Running Man together over the weekend.  I am missing my nap times...  :(

We are back again for nice and fresh sashimis at Sakuraya!  Kick-started our Saturday with a yummy sashimi brunch at 4pm-ish as ah Thiang is working (and for the next few Saturdays too).  Then a 'lil shopping around the mall and end our Saturday evening with a foot massage (overheard the masseuse attending to me won the lottery first prize!  it's worth a 10grant leh!).  Life's good.

Then on Sunday, we had dim sum breakfast with the papa-inlaw at the newly opened 陆羽茶楼 in Chinatown Point!  We are the first customer at 10am (they opened at 8am on weekends and we actually booked the table in advance just in case it gets crowded like Yan Palace) but in the picture, we like booked the whole restaurant!  Haha.  Crowd only started to come in like after 11am...  I liked the deco especially the wall with full of chopsticks and was told that they operates under the same management as Kenko Wellness (what a diversement of investment!).

Well, the 皮蛋粥 was the worst I ever had.  Not sure if it was my taste bud or what, very super bland and I thought I can salvage the taste by adding soya sauce but it just got worser... yikeeees!  Not cheap you know, cost S$5.90++ per serving/bowl.  Any other porridge stall would have served much tastier bowl at S$4.  Aside from the poor-tasting porridge, it was siew-mai-licious and they served not-too-bad dumplings and pork-ribs too.

Our spending last weekend, coughed up to S$400... my poor husband needs to cut down on his expenditure in the next coming weeks... *cough cough*

Dinner Date with ex-DDs!

09 January 2013

Last week, Mr Daswani called to wish the newly-wed, Mr & Mrs Arthur Tan post-new-year wishes... recollecting how long it has been since we last met (last meet up was at our wedding lah... almost a year liao.).  So.  Being always the unofficial organizer of all dinner dates, I made an impromptu arrangement with just a few of us (Jean, ah Thiang and myself) to reminiscing plus bitching about the good 'ol days at DD!

It is always a challenge to find dinner venue when you have peers with special diet, therefore finding a pizza place is definitely a good-est choice so that he/she can has vegetarian pizza or pasta all by themself, then we can has all the meat to spike them off over the whole dinner date.  We just did the same thing (had pizza) when we had our post-new year gathering at SC's place last weekend.  ;)

Anyhoots, Yesterday's dinner was a fast one as he has 'curfew' over being home by 9-oddish.  This time his excuse was his home was infested with bed-bugs therefore he has tons of housekeeping stuffs to do before he starts to travel for work in the next weeks.  And ah Thiang, as usual always making racist comments about him, how dirty ah nehs are and always have ku-tus, blah blah blah and so on...  HAHA!

My review on the menu we had: some corn soup was too sweet for my liking but I loved their lychee rasberry thingy drink.  Yummy.  So regretted didn't change my drink, rootbeer with ah Thiang (he offered to change with me leh...).  This was on Alex's (Jean's BF) treat so no complain har.  HEHE.

Nice.  So, I've just received news that we will have a post-CNY dinner coming up with Hwangs when he is back from his Xi An trip with the wifey.  Have to start planning where to lou hei coz they sure ask me to think one!  Tsk.

Sim Cik's Advance Birthday Celebration!

07 January 2013

Jessica and Andy are back from HK and we decided to do a post New Year gathering at Sim Cik's place... and a surprise pre-birthday celebration (the earliest advance celebration ever, quoted from the birthday boy...) Yesterday!  We pot-lucked sashimi, sushi from nearby J8 and ordered pizzas and Jessica was in-charge of getting the surprise birthday cake.

We had a long chat on some religious stuff (about the bible classes that SC is now attending...) and also the couple's upcoming wedding preparation in two months time!  Can't wait for the couple to tie the knot soon!  Our next date will be CNY... hang it there, gonna be in a spiffy 4 weeks time!

2012 New Year's Eve

02 January 2013

Our post Christmas gift-exchange with the HXDA was postponed to New Year's Eve and the Quahs' hosted the party at their humble adobe - The Peak!  The host whipped up a wholesome yummy feast for everyone of us, Nigel sponspored the Christmas logcake from Awfully Chocolate and the lovely weather on the 27th floor of the Peak was extremely cooling and shiok which made the party awesome-er!

The fun part begins...  Thomas prepared us to draw our number by using the mahjong playing cards.  Everyone of us was skeptical about getting the gift-exchanged from Nigel due to his ultimate level of creativity to preparing of the gift exchange, and every year the ban list gets longer and longer.  But this year, we have two outstanding gifts that we will bitch about for the rest of 2013...

Nigel's past records:-
Year 2009 - piggy bank filled with 1-cents of coins (Munic)
Year 2010 - heaps of 武林密集 writing notepads (... still Munic)
Year 2011 - CT Girls CD (the curse was passed on to Helena)
Year 2012 - *roll drums* (scroll down to see the new winner!)

TADAAAAA!  Announcing champions by the level of creativity...

Second runner-up was Helena ---> she wrapped up the gift box filled with styrofoam balls and when XY opened the box (also due to the strong winds), the whole atmosphere feels like snowing!  She was made to open her gift at one corner of the house!  Aftermath was the host to clean up the balcony platform!

Runner-up was Thomas ---> inspired by the axe brand medicated oil advertisement, he gifted a dozen of them and the lucky guy is Joe!  Joe shared his fortune of medicated oils to us a bottle each and some super lucky ones got two!  HAHA.  (maybe next year, don't know who will gift pampers or 如意油!)

Champion still bagged by Nigel, fourth year running! ---> this time was all about efforts.  Our 大哥 printed his very own LV wrapping paper and gotten the gift to be wrapped in A4 paper carton.  Gerine was so curious in what was the biggest gift, she took the biggest risk (by saving all of us...) and chose his present - a cartonful of wet tissue & tissue papers worth S$15!  Munic almost went crazy the moment she finished opening the carton!  gua gua gua.

So this was our year-end gathering we had with the HXDA and always looking forward to the following years of fun together!  :))

After the gift exchange, we quickly hop onto the streets and get a taxi to head downtown and meet the Yeos' for 2013 countdown!  Traffic was smooth and we are in time to catch the fireworks at Pan Pacific Hotel!

We had finger food and tea at the alfresco cafe at the hotel level 4 while waiting for the countdown and played some 'continuation of guessing and some naming games' with Serene, the BF, Limin and the Yeos' of course... ended the night with a glass of Moscato in the room and a game of Monopoly deal (I won of course! it's sure a sign of good start to 2013!!!) before we head home and hit the sack (it was like 3am when I KO-ed!).

2012 was Beautiful.

01 January 2013

Decided to pen down one of the MOST beautiful moments in 2012;

 

I got married to my ah Thiang and that was the most beautiful thing that has happened in my life.

 

2012 was indeed beautiful.

 

May 2013 be another year filled with warmth, laughter and lots of love for all!  :))

Happy 2013!

01 January 2013

In year 2013, may God gives You...

12 Months of Happiness,

52 Weeks of Fun,

365 Days of Success,

8760 Hours of Good Health,

52600 Minutes of Good Luck,

3153600 Seconds of Joy...

and that's all!  Huartttt ahhhhh!

Last Post for 2012!

31 December 2012

Today is the last day of 2012 - hope everyone had a blast for the year 2012!

A baking Sunday over the last weekend with the family.  Lut invited the family over for a NYE's eve luncheon at his place.  He wipped up a rendang feast while SIL baked chocolate moist cake and I borrowed the oven to bake potatos (instant one lah, bought from Target supermarket!).  It took us more than 20mins, in fact 3 rounds of 20mins to bake the potatos cos either the temperature is not right or we have added too much water.  Outcome still taste abit 'hard' on the potato.  Neymind.  I still have another box to try!

Yeos' third wedding anniversary!  We had dinner at Saboten - free flow of cabbage, rice and miso soup before we pooped over to their room at Pan Pac to check on the best spot to capture the view of fireworks for tonight's celebrations.  Their room view only can see whole of Bras Basah.  Think tonight we need to early early camp outside for the bird's eye view!

It's their now, yearly tradition to celebrate their wedding anniversary cum NYE's celebrations by booking a room in the city and view fireworks over from the floating platform.  And of course, it's our yearly tradition to gate-crash them.  LOL!

Before gate-crashing of Yeos' tonight, we are meeting the HXDA for our post-Christmas gift exchange!  This year party will be held at The Peak - thanks in advance to the Quahs for hosting the HXDA yearly event.  Imma can't wait to see who will 破戒 and buy the items from the forbidden list and get punished!  *evilgrin*

Grace & Chern Min's Wedding Celebrations!

27 December 2012

Love is just a word until two people come together and give the word real meaning.

Congratulations to the gorgeous couple; Grace & Chern Min!  Wedding celebrations held at Marina Mandarin Singapore and we, too are the other gorgeous couple!  Teehee...

Christmas!

26 December 2012

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,

The gladness of Christmas give you hope,

The warmth of Christmas grant you love.

May you have a merry merry Christmas!

 

With love,

Mr & Mrs Friendly

Our Christmas celebrations with the Hwangs & Yeos at Little Part 1 Cafe and desserts at NeLi's Ice Cream with toppings of some 'juicy gossips' on whats raving online about the scandal of ZRvsYNvsAY!

Cheers to many Christmas celebrations to come! / Bored with punny faces while waiting for the dinner to be served >_<" / Julia photo-bombed with Yeo's mashed waffle ice cream!

Will blog more with pictures in the nexxxxt post (cos I forgotten to bring my SD card out... I have more more more and more pictures snapped over the dinner with gifts exchange somemore)... keep waiting!

It's our first Christmas but he is not in town to celebrate with me & the extended family.  'Tis what he has missed!

Packed gifts for the 'lil ones in tow to the dinner! / BBQ over at Daniel's - Thank you for hosting the family with yummy grills this Chirstmas! / Some Koi at the pond - FIL suggested to BBQ some fishes for dinner... teehee! / 'lil ones say HELLO - its a huge bunch of 'em!

In less than 24hrs, I am already missing ah Thiang terrible-ble-ily... but but I am also starting to miss me having the bed to myself.  HAHA!  Anyhoots, he is coming home tonight!  Whoopwhoopwhoop.  今晚 Imma 去机场接相公去！:))

Meanwhile, enjoy the festivities!  Ho ho ho!

Merry Merry Christmas!

25 December 2012

 

(our 哈密月给 Jade 带回来的信物)

To everyone out there;

Enjoy the festives,

be jolly and

make merry!

Ho Ho Ho!

Merry Christmas!

 

Weekend before Christmas!

24 December 2012

Christmas gift-exchange part 1 with the Yeo's before out next session with the Hwangs' tonight!

Friday, we went for a late-night ice cream boops and I must say their selection is quite limited and too "milky" taste which is not to our liking.  Headed over to the nearby hawaker for mee-hoon goreng!  Yum.

Fulfilled Yeo's wishlist of buying a coffee maker since the misses do not approve of buying for their home (and anyway they did not have an official house-warming, so we got this for their Christmas!).  So thoughful right?  We're sure that this will be their best Christmas gift for this year.  In the pictures, ah Thiang was like the salesman giving a product presentation to sell the capsule and the machine!  So punny.

A Christmas catch-up with Jade on Saturday.  Jessie has her usual lancing session, so we asked Yeo to join along.  Decided to try out the new coffee place located at the new wing of Plaza Singapura - Hoshino Coffee, a Japanese concept hand-drip coffee place.  Food was meh but the service staff (looked in her teens, a young student on her vacation-job) was pretty attentive thou' and helped us took photo!  It was then exploration of the new-face-lifted shopping mall along NEL...

Always.

24 December 2012

There is always somebody who loves you.

 

Always.

Happy Birthday Popa!

23 December 2012

Popa's birthday celebration and mini-Christmas gift exchange with the family!

This year with execption, we celebrated Popa's birthday in advance (normally we celebrate birthdays on the actual day).  Because the Tans are celebrating the extended family's 喜事, Grace's wedding on 27th!  Whoopwhoopwhoop.

Our celebration was a simple yet tasty fare, pots of herbal goodness with the family!  Since I won't be home to celebrate this Christmas, we had this mini-gift exchange over the dinner.  So happy.

愿祝贺啊爸，福禄东海寿比南山！ Huart ah!

Surviving the Apocalypse

22 December 2012

 

The Mayans have committed one of the world's greatest prank ever.

 

December 21, 2012 is over.

 

Now, mark the beginning of a new era!

 

 

Christmas Pressie for Moi!

18 December 2012

Christmas is exactly a week away!  Days by days, months by months and years by years passed... 2012 is coming to an end.  Well, some said the World will come to an end on 21st December... if this is true, there goes my fat pay-check (AWS month okay...) for December and 那这个月我就不是白干了吗？！ :(

Something I look forward in the next weeks... to show off my new Kate Spade bag!  YAY!!!  I've been wanting to get this model - cobble hill small leslie.  就是对它念念不忘。 So this, I buy myself as Christmas pressie!  :P

During our honeymoon vacation, we went to all the premium outlets to look for this design but no sign of it in any outlets we visited (plus no time go retail outlets...) so I bought other bags instead (total 4 - Michael Kors, 2x KS and Coach).

After my vacation, I bugged Oba to SP for me... and she did!  So nice right.  She said her friend cannot SP two bags so she sacrificed her model for mine leh.  *TOUCHING*  很多人情债啊！ She even gotten the bag to be nicely wrapped and I am so 不舍得 to open up and check for defects.  Bad move right - she purposely one!  LOL.  I do so kena for very long (much contemplation in Japanese...), I 不管三七二十一 and opened up the box to do the check the very last min before my bed time.  Now it's neatly packed into the box waiting for 开幕典礼！哈哈哈哈！

Similar to MK design which is more structured, boxy and gang-ho look, KS design comes with a softer leather feel and more lembek look and of course accessibility is better compared to MK.  Both are my current favorite bags NOW.

Next time for sure I will make space to make a handbag closet in the room (like Jessie) to showcase and display all my bags!  I think I am more a shoes cabinet and handbags closet person rather than a walk-in wardrobe.  So.  Don't judge me.  HAHA!

Nookmag 3rd Anniversary Party & Weekend BBQ!

16 December 2012

It was the Nookmag 3rd anniversary last Friday and of course, we were invited to the street party held at Haji Lane!  Weather was kind to us and we had free flow of burgers, drinks and beer and pop the cake (instead of the normal cake-cutting session)!

Then was <The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey> movie date with the Yeo's and I named it ,,An Unexpected Journey with the Orbits".  I was extremely super turbo uber tired and I actually dozed off 2/3 of the movie!  Woke up at the scene when the Hobbit, Bilbo escaped from Gollum (eh, I actually know their names OK...) after stolen the ring onwards... story too dry or what?  But ah Thiang and all say it was not too bad leh... mm, ok lah my bad, maybe I will find one day to re-vist the movie before part 2 and 3 is out.  Felt so guilty having to waste S$7.50 to sleep in the cinema.  >_<"

Weekend BBQ with the Sapurians!  It's another get-together-session, ghost story-telling session plus mosquito-feeding session too!  Haha, that's Benny, ah Thiang, Mike and Edna photo-bombing.  LOL!!!

Now... must chop chop get back to the table and finish painting the second Xmas presents for Yeo's!  ah Thiang target to finish the last color by tonight!  Compared to when we first started, 路来路好看了... 我们很有心 hor！Dateline is drawing near...  赶工去咯！ Can't wait to surprise them with the two pressiessssss!  :))

Christmas Shopping with the Folks!

08 December 2012

Kick-start our weekend with the folks at Pepes Indonesian Restaurant before we start our Taka additonal 10% Christmas shopping!  Fwah.  We all 如来如早 start our dinner lo... normally we had dinner almost, after 8pm... but by 7.20pm we were already halfway through our dinner - so that we can chop chop go shopping!  HAHA.

Food was OK (but we liked Sanur better although they served the similar kind of dishes)... service was MEH and rude.  How this goes was when we place our order, we enquire about the free flow of rice but that is only applicable to order of white rice (S$1.80) but since we all ordered yellow rice (S$2/serving) we also can get free flow of white rice.  So.  We did ordered two serving of white rice and this was charged to our final bill.  I asked why are we charged for the refill and it was the waitress mistake by telling us the wrong information.  Guessed what... she asked if it is OK for me to sign off the bill.  !^$%#@*^&%  WTF!  I asked her nicely if she would asked a customer to pay for her mistake and she said no.  Then?!?!  Go revise my bill lah.  She quickly apologized and went back to cashier.  Naymind.  I am not so angry but what pissed me off was that the cashier (whom she looked upon as supervisor... I still remember her name ok, cos her staff bao to to me one!) came and told us that in the menu clearly stated that only order of white rice then we have refill so remind us next time we will make the same mistake.  I told her that it was her staff's mistake who told us differently from what is stated in the menu hence it is not our fault!  Then she just walked off and have no guts to present us the revised bill and gotten her staff to do it instead.

讲了还没那么气， 越想越生气！So so so so pissed.  Damn.  Grrrr.

Anyways, 我大人有大量... this didn't spoilt our mood for Christmas shopping...  So happy we that we managed to get the Yeos' pressies (imma sure this year is a BIG fat pressies we are getting them and imma sure he will like it alot!!!) and the upcoming HXDA gift-xchange!  Can't wait for the Xmas to faster come.  Ho ho ho!

Hello December!

03 December 2012

The season of joy is here, a big HELLO to December.  :))

My food prints for the whole week!  Too much feastings - eat die me. (trust me, I had glutton-ed more than theses...)

Mix-grill from The Queen & Mangosteen / Pollo al Mattone with Panzanella from Pizzeria Mozza / Lunch at TCC@MBS / Yakitori with Jessica & SimCik at Nanbantei Japanese Restaurant / Favorite frog porridge with the Yeo's / Taiwan small-eat with the folks at 吃在台北

Munic's Birthday Celebration!

24 November 2012

Some snapshots of my short weekend before I start my long work week ahead - setting up of booth for OSEA 2012 and to mend the booth for the next four days (already planning what to have for lunch for the next four days at MBS...).

HXDA celebrated Munic's birthday at Long Beach Seafood Restaurant - easing his craving for 竹蚌 (gosh, I thought only preggy has craving but look, is the husband not the wife!  LOL!)...  ah Thiang did not join us cos he booked out quite late in the evening... and it was raining heavily and and plus feeling super grouchy for not able to get a cab from camp... thus he had fried rice from home instead.  #disgruntedman  >_<"

Visited SITEX and bought my accessories and beautified my gadgets - camera skins for my XZ-1 and Hello Kitty external power tube!  Did some free shopping at SAFRA Mount Faber's store (using his NS credits...) and had Porn's Thai cuisine for dinner before heading to our impromptu movie date - The Twilight Finale Saga; Breaking Dawn Part 2!

I love Saturdays!  ^^

Munic and his birthday cake! / My Saturday get-up! *SWEE SWEE* / My buys at SITEX! / Dinner at Porn's!

Baby Ken's First Month & Converse Connectivity Event!

19 November 2012

Last Saturday in pictures!

ah Thiang finally traded-in his D200 for D800 so we moonlighted in a Converse event, organized by SimCik to earn extra bucks to cover our losses.  ... nay, HAHA!  Pictures turned out really nice.  Nicer than his former toy I must say.

We rushed down to Bugis Junction for the event right after we attended Puay Yong's baby Ken first month celebration held at TCC Marina.  The girls are unable to make it so only ah Thiang and I turn up as representatives for the gang.  :)

After the Converse event, ah Thiang 跑台 to attend his staff's wedding nearby Bugis (Queens' Hotel, I think) and I met up my folks for dinner and kopi session at CBTL!

What a busy Saturday...

A shot of us with the pretty Mommy and baby Ken @ TCC Marina!

Posing for the event shot and look... ah Thiang's new toy!  I looked so pretty in the screen preview...  Tsk!

Our Honeymoon - SIN/LAX/SFO/LAS/LAX/HKG/SIN

11 November 2012

HELLO, I have not forgotten my lil space here!  Back from my 3weeks of vacation last Friday.  I can't believe I've almost forgotten my password to on my computer, just because I have MIA-ed for the last tweleve working days?  Only managed to try three times before I recalled my newly changed password.  *phew*

This post will be the executive executive exclusive summary of my WHOLE honeymoon (well, if I have the damn time then I will do a proper post of each places we visited... but.  I highly doubt so... because... I have just wasted the whole blardy Sunday - almost 10hours of uploading nine albums onto Facebook and imma now super pissed, tired and can't wait to hit the sack NOW!).

Aaaaaaawesome trip to the sunny California (real sunny, my face shade has gone two shades darker!), having to super-glued my ah Thiang 24/7 and kenna nagged/scolded by him throughout the trip (kept taking photos lah, slow lah, late lah, buy and buy lah and the list goes on...) HAHA!  Shopping.  Shopping has never been so shiok-ed throughout all my travel trips especially in the States!  I have the whole list of loots to list but nay, just too lazy.  Anyway, ah Thiang liked Disneyland alot too and say wanna bring his kids there when they are five years old.  Oh!  Imma going back Disneyland five years later (provided I get pregnant now lah...)!

Some of the highlights of our three weeks holiday:

Cloud-less clear blue sky in LAX / Mickey's Halloween Party (costumes proudly sponsored by Edna) / Monterey Bay / Lombard Street / Golden Gate Bridge / Yosemite National park

The horrible Hollywood Tower ride at Disney California Adventure / ah Thiang's winning at LAS Casino / Hoover Dam / Grand Canyon - West Rim

Universal Studios Hollywood / Hollywood Walk of Fame / Sunset at the Getty Centre / Hong Kong night view / View from The Peak

Short right (already said it's an executive summary liao)...  Imma old already and have not been sleeping well since day 1 when I left for my honeymoon and somemore I've been sitting on the same spot since noon to upload my photos with errors kept poping up... no image on the albums that I created on Facebook... must understand the fustration I've been thru the whole of my Sunday (12hours of screen work! no joke.).  So, thats my summary of my honeymoon!  #missionaccomplished  *pat on the shoulder*

Gonna enjoy another two more days, decided to take another day off from work before I slog like mad to pay off my credit card bills (my loots including six pair of shoes, four bags, clothes and misc purchases!  see I so enjoy my honeymoon cum holiday cum shopping cum sightseeing!).  #卡奴  LOL!

It has really been a fantabulous trip ever.  I hope, we can plan such trips annually.  GOODNIGHT!