gatherings. food. eat. grow fat!

21 dec - steamboat at bugis
i was late again! zhiming threw me a glare and complained he was about to faint of hunger :( and it didnt help that the original steamboat place we planned to go was having a terrible queue. :(:( eventually we settled at another one nearby.


deshelled prawn, thanks to the our official desheller!


desheller machine at work


meiyan!! :):)


hungry zhiming and pohhhh


we were supposed to each grab something from the pot & the crab claw is so AA! -_-

we were full, but not very satisfied (perhaps due to terrible space constraint).. and so we left for starbucks!


the girls - meiyan got to leave earlier


normal us


act cute us. rare lor rainbow joined in the fun! :)


crazy us. poh made us look into the camera with cringed-up faces!


big group photo!! :):)

christmas eve at ECP

the trio wanted a healthy and economical christmas eve celebration and headed down to ECP. you'll know later why it isn't that healthy and economical after all :)

bicycle rental for 2 hrs. but we covered 3/4 of ECP in about 1 hr or so. got bored and return the bike for FOOD HUNT. we were very excited over ice-cream chef! some of my friends might have received my irritable SMS to seek for directions.

lunch at C.Nai Hong Kong Cafe (why, the name is kinda.. 想入非非.. lalala..)



we were flipping through the menu and felicia noticed these strange names...



coke float = 黑牛可乐
7up float = 白马七喜

!!!

i didn't know 7-up is a PRINCE CHARMING! lol. and poor coca cola is a black bull? how sad.


pretty felicia tucks in her meal

oh wait.. her bento is about $9-10. my baked rice is around $9. but why the discrepancy in serving size huh?! felicia's bento is like an ultra value meal lor!


just look at the difference

we then went to the arcade nearby and played very cheap arcade games! i even tried the passe "dance dance revolution" and "para para dance" lor. cuz NO ONE IS AROUND! lol.

we got influenced by the bowlers downstairs and decided we should be bowling too! and we had a super lame guy giving us 3 socks and not 3 pairs of socks! felicia was sooo amused by the joker.

bowling was kinda stressful.. the people around us are either "spare" or "strike". us.. no comments. lol. but we did improve in the later rounds hor.


ling waiting for her turn

we left the bowling alley and began our walking trail for ICE-CREAM CHEF. thanks to reliable directions shared by mr koh!

yeah! place located!

alas. ice-cream chef is closed at 7pm for christmas eve. time: around 8pm. o_o

tired and famished (again), we took a bus to parkway parade. but the trio was too tired and decided to eat at nearby 328 katong laksa instead.

we went home afterwhich. no more jostling with the crowd in town! happy~

as you see! im gaining weight le la!

more eating/baking in next post :)

till then! :):)

this' a season to be jolly.. fa la la la la la la la laaaaaa~

i love you all!

i drew this using Paint again.



:)

competition week has been crazy

round one phase one is finally over. been popping by starbucks for days, gulping down caffeinated/non-caffeinated frappes and hot cocoa for the most times in a row. all the late nights and deprived sleep were crazy. one full week of it - the competition topic just couldn't get out of my mind. we've been working hard on coming up with the proposal and creatives - so hard that i even dreamt of having a meeting discussing about it. omg.

having to work with a team of people from different institutions for the first time was challenging and a real good eye-opener.

talk intelligently, give constructive comments and contribute something useful.

so far, competition has been bittersweet - im finally doing something close to what i want to do in future; yet there are two working styles i discovered (and dislike very much) which could possibly be rampant in the creative line.

such irony.

(POST EDIT: stuff here, deleted.)

POST EDIT: Let's try to make this a less violent post.

time to indulge in random things again..

(but this time round, 我是冒着被K的悲惨命运，小心翼翼地写this blog entry哦。)

mr koh, my kind friend, was forced to gladly offered to help me print 20+ pages of a really horrible exam case study (full page, full colour! grateful.). and so, i barged was invited (in)to his house!

honoured, i guess. i got to be the first (?) among the jc clique to see his uberrrrrrrr neatttt apartment. freaking clean and minimalist. and everywhere is in perfect order! omg, i'd have gone crazy if i stayed longer. after all, i'm a 乱中有序 kind of person. heh.

so while i was still amazed by his cd album collection (enough to open a small 2nd-hand cd shop) and the shelves of books, encyclopedia and the likes.. mr koh entertained me with Ngee Ann Secondary School's yearbooks.



mr koh was very excited kind enough again to show me his class pics + *ahem*poh*cough**cough* lower secondary pics.



some of them changed sooo much! goodness me. while others (those MJ guys), still look the same lor! i could recognise them in a second.



spot 3 familiar faces here (if you were previously from MJ):



and this oh-so-studious *ahem*poh*cough**cough*!!:



Conclusion: Girls change more than guys do! In terms of appearance I mean.

P/S: No hard feelings ya? Miss *ahem*Poh*cough**cough* :)

P/S/S: To Mr Koh who is ready to hammer me, something to (hopefully) "neutralise" the whole effect..

Presenting.. Shu Juan looking.. "Very-secondary-ish" (and I've to drag the rest of the class down.. Muahaahahah!)



Why didn't I read Seventeen/CLEO then? Sigh.
Why did I spend all my pocket money on food in Parkway Parade? Double sigh.

Strangely, this pic brought back less vengeance, more of innocent memories then.

I miss alllll my kakis to bits!

A lot to do this december!

The past few weeks flew in a flash. GOSH. Here's a quick list of what I did (if I can recall correctly):

• Event at Ophir Road
• Event at Taman Jurong
• A day of nail-modeling :D
• Part-timing at PA company
• Data-entry.. *Still feeling guilty, thankfully I've got a realll good boss :)
• K-boxed! My sis chose old-school + ultra difficult songs! Madness to the throat.
• Darling friends post-celebrated my birthday with a whole load of surprises *more about this in later posts ;)
• Shopped at IKEA. Woah.. Loads of random impulse purchases.
• A lot more shopping!
• Online shopping :)
• Watched 2 movies in a row - "Enchanted" and "HERO".. Memerised by Takuya Kimuraaaaa~~
• Being deeply impressed by 萧敬腾!!

Currently busy with..

• Competition Round I, Phase I
• Watching Cyril Takayama's street magic. AWESOME! He can grab hamburgers from posters! Or a handphone from magazine! 0_0 Go on and type "Cyril Takayama" in Youtube search engine.
• Online shopping
• Loving black satin-like feel structured skirt. Although I'm not quite sure if I'll be wearing it frequently, am still loving the whole coool structured sey. Woohoo~

Going to be busy with..

• Final Year Project
• Learning how to bake cookies
• Gatherings
• Competition Round I, Phase II

However, there are times when I'm not so busy.. Once, I was so bored at work that I drew this using Paint. Yes, that paint application in your computer right now.

The 16-17 year-olds love my random doodlings! :)

xXx

Alright, that's all for now.. Night world.

finally there's time for a layout change.

i've been reluctant to change the layout for 3 reasons:

1. changing the layout is time-consuming
2. i didn't have the luxury of time to do so
3. difficult to find another layout i fancy (tied in with the right settings for IE, not mozilla firefox)

today is finally a rest day for me.. therefore time to indulge in unproductive activities. ha.

more entries up soon :)

with deepest sympathy & condolences to the family members of the five dragon boat team members.

the fragility of life saddens me.

this is a strange topic to talk about.

was watching a random last 10 minutes of a real-life documentary on tvmobile this afternoon. strangely, those hard-to-come tears welled up my eyes. i was able to hold back those tears (for obvious reasons, i don't want to look weird in the bus), but it did feel odd to fight against your body's innate ability.

it's such a boo-boo to cry. i can't recall any day recent when i cried..
life has not been exactly smooth-sailing, but do not warrant valid-enough reasons to shed tears. yes, they can well-up (too bad this is usually a reflex action, therefore hard to control), but never fall.

i hate the funny sensation when tears are coming. i will be like, "oh crap! don't even start tearing!" and start looking away to divert attention. i detest attracting the wrong kind of attention from anyone who notices me about-to-tear.

when tears start welling up your eyes, what will you do?

i thought today will be just another day..
but you made the difference.

the lil' surprises, the lil' blessings..

i'm feeling so loved and blessed!
thank you for making today memorable (amidst the mugging).

thank you love~

promise post-exam celebration(s)! :) can't wait!

psst, takuya.. happy birthday! :) will definitely catch HERO! love u!!

i ❤ Nokia N95!!
whooping 5 mega pixels and loads of functions! too bad the black model i like only comes in 3.5G (which is also almost twice the price of the 3G version).

Nokia, i want a black version for N95, i don't need the 3/3.5G! or Singtel, please lower the price for 3.5G N95 model, like lower drastically please! hurhur.

*sorry for this random whiny post. this eye-candy just can't get out of my mindddd..