Tea, Coffee & Scones

Last Saturday, I managed to meet up with the gals and tony for lunch. After lunch we retreated to Takashimaya's Copenhagen for tea. We ordered their famous scones but I have forgotten to take photos of them. Too busy looking after the little one. The place wasn't child friendly as they do not have any baby seat, so I have to let the little one sit on my lap.

Here is the little one playing with his new toy. A magnetic board which daddy got for him to play while we are having tea.

Their coffee which we think is worth the price as it comes in a big cup.

Their tea seat (excluding the cheesecake) consisting of a big pot of tea and the cup with saucer and the container for sugar.

I had their ice tea which was nothing special. Next time I would like to try their tea but of course it must be done without the little one. Haha.

Gals Talk

Met up with the gals just now for drinks at Coffee Bean. Its been a awful long time since the last time we got together. Of course the central of attraction is the little ones, my little one and D's little man! Our conversation also centres around them. Haha.

Looking back, we have known each other for 14 years already since our poly days! Now, it is hard for us to meet up as some will be busy with work and some will be busy with kids. Wish we could have more time to catch up and have our usual gals gossips.

Time of the Year

Yup, is the time of the year again. This year we gathered at my new place to celebrate our birthdays together since it is kind of hard of me to meet them outside. Therefore I decided to get them to my place and had a mini celebration cum house warming. One stone kills 2 birds.

Bb Jerold enjoyed the gathering too. He was 'talking' to the gals and laughing with them. I enjoyed myself too as it had been quite sometime since I last met the gals.

Happy Birthday to me and you too Sis!

CNY 2009

Time passed fast when one is lazing at home. That is what I am doing now. Haha. My company is closed for CNY from last Saturday and start work on the coming Monday. Hubby only took leave on Wed so I am at home doing nothing. Well my task these 2 days is to play with his niece and to bring her to and fro from school.

As for the first 2 days of CNY, let the photos below do the talking. Basically all we did was to go around visiting relatives and friends.

Have a Great and Happy Moo Moo Year!

Xmas Celebration 131208

Had a early xmas celebration with my poly pals yesterday. We had lunch at Dome Park Mall. There are the participants.

1st is of course Me!

2nd is Miss Jiahui.

3rd is Miss Wynne aka Mrs Chan.

4th is Mr Tony.

Last but not least is Miss Denise who is soon-to-be Mrs Lim. After an hour plus of chit chat and food, we had our usual pressie exchange.

In the end, we are all happy women and man. Merry Xmas!

Mr and Mrs Chan

Wednesday was my poly buddy and my hubby buddy big day! Yes yes, it was through them I got to know my hubby. They are also the first persons to be informed that we are together because they are our "mei ren". Haha!

I was supposed to be part of the jie mei entourage, due to me being preggie I can't be part of the them. Can only helped them to think of ways to sabo the guys. My MIL even reminded me that I can't even go up to their bridal suite due to some superstitious stuff. So I have to linger around the reception to wait for the lovely bride to come down.

Photos taken during the reception.

Dinner was great and I was laughing away when viewing the video of the morning session. It was truly very funny when saboing the guys. Too bad I missed it.

Birthdays!

Is the time of the year again. As usual, the four birthday gals including me celebrated our birthday together. We went to Straits Cafe @ Rendezvous Hotel to have buffet dinner. The food there was nice but the selection was rather limited. Nevertheless it is the company that counts!

Something funny happened during the dinner. Denise asked for a candle from the waitress and we took a plate of cakes. Next we sang whispered birthday song and blew the candle. Haha! We were kind of pai sey about singing the song as alot of eyes were on us as we light the candle. Haha!

白吃

Went to have dinner with Hui last night at Sushi Tei Paragon. We ordered quite a good spread of food - some random sushi, seafood salad with wafuu sauce, phoenix roll, zaru soba and my favourite soft shell crab handroll. After finishing the food, we called for the bill and made our way to the cashier to pay.

Cashier gal : Your total is $35++.

First thing that came to my mind, "huh, how come so cheap?". Hui paid and I took a look at the receipt. The cashier gal has forgotten to charge us for the 4 nos of coloured plates which amount to approximately $12 excluding the taxes. Haha!

Initially we were thinking of being a good citizen and tell the cashier regarding her mistake. After struggling with our thoughts, we decided to be bad customer this time round since we do not often have such "白吃" incident happen. Haha!

Xmas Eve

Had dinner with poly friends and after dinner, went to watch "National Treasure : Book of Secret".

The ending is quite predictable with the lead actor getting the treasure he was searching for. However I was quite amazed by the gadgets and construction of the City of Gold. Was wondering how they manage to build that. Another thing that kept me in thinking was Nicholas Cage's hair? How come it was unfashionably styled? Is he suffering from hair loss too?

231207 - Sentosa

For pre-celebration of Xmas, me denise and hui decide to celebrate it in Sentosa. We had a fun and sweaty day at Sentosa. I am rather amazed at the new developments and attractions they have. 1st stop is Sentosa Express. Don't we look like tourist posing for photos? Haha!

We took the new monorail from Vivo City to the Beach Station. Both Denise and I were 1st timers in taking the new train.

From the Beach Station, we took the tram to Tanjong Beach where we laze away in the sun for about an hour.

Me and Hui with our special pills pressie from Denise. I got the "Princess Pills", so people will treat me like a princess after I eaten the pills? Haha!

Next we head to the Dolphin Lagoon to see the pink dolphins in actions. Well it is also our 1st time there (very sua ku of us right?). Haha! The pink dolphins are actually grey in colour but as they aged, their skin colour will transform to pink. So if you see a really pink dolphin, that means it should be quite old already.

Next is the Skytrain and Luge. Only me and Hui played because Denise tried her hands on that before already. There is the both of us with the helmets for the Luge. Haha! Both of us were scared on the Skytrain ride. With our legs dangling in the air, we felt very insecure. Therefore we keep looking back in hope to lessen our fear. Once we reach the top of the "hill", we queued up for the Luge ride. It was a long and tiring queue. Bot overall Luge was fun.

Next is the Underwater world. Is my 1st time there too. Haha!

Wanted to try out the latest attraction - Cineblast, but the queue is very long. We decided to head back home. On the way to the monorail, we saw a very good location to take photo with the Merlion. Photo time again.

Other than the above photos, we 自拍 alot too as we find it troublesome to get people to take for us.

Overall is a nice outing except for the time we wasted in queuing up for the Luge. :)

How I spend my Saturday...

I totally love "Hero". It is really a very nice and entertaining show, not to mention the pretty face of Takuya Kimura. Laughter could also be heard in the cinema throughout the show, of course I am one of them laughing away. The money is really well-spent. Hopefully there will be more good shows from Takuya Kimura in the future.

Diana Bade

Last Friday was Diana's bdae, so we went out for dinner. Dinner was japanese buffet at Hanabi Restaurant. The food was so-so only. Maybe is because we ordered too much sashimi and were too full to eat other kind of stuffs. The food variety is also not as much as the one at Mirama Hotel. Will give a second thought to coming back here unless is someone's treat. Haha!

After the dinner, we retreat to Long Bar to have some drinks and have some gals power talk. I think it was our first time we went to a pub for drinks. Usually we will head to some coffee place. Since it was diana's bdae, we decide to finish off the night with some liquor.

Guess...

what did I receive in my mailbox couple of days ago?


It was a postcard personally drawn by Hui! It was so sweet and thoughtful of her to send me this. Thanks Hui! Actually this is the 2nd one she has sent, the 1st one never did reach me. I believe it was lost in mail as Hui has made a small mistake in my address.

essential brew, bad and good news

Last Saturday, I met up with the poly gals for lunch. After some discussions, we decide to head to Holland V's essential brew. It was our 1st time there and I was the one who suggested the place, however it was not up to our expectations. The food was so-so only. I only like the environment because they got this cosy corner where patrons get to sit on the floor. After having our main course, we decide to take some pics.

There is wynne and denise.



This is me and jiahui. We decide to do some funny poses. Haha! Don't we look silly?



Bad news.... My qs colleague has resigned. He got a better job at a main contractor company. Sigh! My efforts for teaching him for the past 4 months have gone down to drain. Don't know whether the next one will be a fresh grad or a experienced person. God bless me.

Good news.... My boss just told me last night that he will sponsor me and dear for a vacation after the completion of the Isetan project. ^_^ He will give me a sponsorship of $3,000! Hehe! I couldn't believe what I heard and I immediately called another colleague and ask her whether my boss is serious about it. She told me if boss wants to give, just take it. Maybe boss just want to show his appreciation for my effort in doing the Isetan project which I have spend quite sometime in preparing the BQ for the client and also doing the tender. So where should we go?

MAAD + Cheesecake

Hui and Wendy
Originally uploaded by paper kites
Here is a photo of me and hui that dawn from handmadelove had took for us when we had our portrait drawn.

Last Sunday, I gave another try for the cheesecake. This time round I forget to add sugar. -_- However, it still turns out okay but I still find it a bit cold. Think those baked type tastes much more better.



There are the ingredients needed for the no bake cheesecake



This is my final product. Don't look quite yummy right?

Update 3 + maad

Done
1. Confirmed on ROM and AD date
2. Contacted JP, consent form signed
3. Booked ROM Venue
4. Bought wedding bands
5. Booked Bridal Studio
6. Confirmed Wedding Venue
7. Signed contract and place deposit for Hotel
8. Confirmed date for 1st meeting with Bridal Studio designer and also to select ROM gown - 21st September 2007

Pending
1. Arrange meet parents session
2. Look for bridal heels for ROM
3. Efile for ROM

On Sat, hui accompany me down to Amara to sign the contract for the wedding banquet as Dear was still stuck in camp. I also paid for the deposit - $3k... Big hole in the pocket liao.

After that, we set off to MAAD at the red dot museum as we wanted to check out the place. MAAD is a place where local designers and artists will showcase their works and sell their stuffs. There is quite a variety of stalls there, ranging from jewellery to bags to handdrawn post cards etc.



At there, we stumble upon handmadelove booth. A few months back I chanced upon her website and intro it to hui. From there on, we have become regular visitors to her website. We loved her drawings! So we got her to draw our portrait for a small fee of 10 bucks.



Very sweet portrait right? Think only me and hui will appreciate because later when I showed it to dear and other friends, they commented that primary school students can draw even better. So sad. I feel that everyone has their own style of drawing. As for handmadelove, hers is more to illustrations type. Anyway I like can already. Hehe! Hui will be adding colours to the picture, will post a pic of it when it is done.

Death Note 2 + wedding

Yeah! Finally managed to watch Death Note 2 last Saturday. The ending is quite shocking and puzzling. Both me and jackson are not able to figure out why L wants to write his own name in the book. Anyone can explain?

I just received a sms from a sec sch friend that he is having his wedding dinner on 30th March. Still wondering whether to go or not. Reasons being ...
1. he is not a very close friend, but we met quite often when I was with my ex-bf
2. duno how will it be like to see my ex-bf again, after (counting)...3 yrs...havnt seen him since that day...
3. will I be out of place there? havnt been contacting those sec sch frenzs for a lagi long time...
4. should I go alone or with jackson? jackson might not want to go too...

But I am happy that he is ready to settle down and he only started to plan his wedding and new home last June! He is such a fast worker. Not like me, till now still havnt find our flat (been looking since last june). Sigh!

xmas 2006

Yeah once again it is the season of giving! Merry Xmas everyone! Well I started celebrating xmas last Thurs.

It was dinner at Jap Dining Sun with poly friends including bfs.
Wanted to go to Sun With Moon but it was fully booked, so they got us a table here.

There is our exchanged pressies, all wrapped beautifully. In the end wynne and me got each other pressies and same goes for Denise and Jiahui.

And there is the four of us for a group photo.

Oh I received a very special pressie from Jiahui - a handmade calender! Thanks gal, we love it very much!

I like this pic best!

Saturday was dim sum lunch with uni friends at Imperial Nan Bei Restaurant.

Group photo again before we start to attack the food. The dim sum is good! And the price is reasonable. Each of us paid less than 20 bucks.

There is Jina with Jiahui. Jina is back from Sydney on a 2 weeks break. We only get to see her once a year. Sob Sob. We went for abit of shopping after the heavy lunch in order for our food to digested. Then we settled down at Starbucks for some coffee to rest our tired legs.

Me with Jiahui

Me and Diana

Xmas eve was spend at my sis's friend house for dinner, games and drink.

The spread of food on the table. Each of us have to prepare something. For me and sis, it was fried chicken wings and mush potatoes (without the gravy). Haha!

Me and sis

Me and Dear trying to be funny

Gal's group photo

Group photo

Xmas is almost gone and next awaiting holiday is NEW YEAR DAY! Yeah!