boo,boo, skip to my boo!

Loving the moustaches!

2010-06-17T19:10:00.005+08:00

I had came across a new photo app on tuesday and I'm having lots of fun playing with it! Here are some pictures I recreated with Pictoon!
For those who has an iphone and is keen to have some silly fun, check it out here to read more about this app. Alternatively, you can download a lite version from the app store to try it out!
The full version offers more "stickers" and 2 more "balloons" and doesn't have the watermark at the corner of the photo! And it's only priced at $0.99! Hehehe!

Go download and have some fun now!

No more Miss E?! Heehee!
This is my new profile pic for Facebook!

LayC called Boo - Colonel Lua!
She thought the white moustache resembled Colonel Saunders from KFC!

Hehe! I had fun putting moustaches on LayC and Wymen too!

Dpn't you think we look very good?! Hehehe!

Oh no my pic looked squashed here!
DSLR pictures doesn't fit as well!

Ps. I'm wearing the same dress in almost all the photo! Hahahaha!!!!

Orchard Road flooded!

2010-06-16T13:57:00.003+08:00

For the 1st time ever! Or rather, 1st time in my life I have seen Orchard Road flooded! The water were knee-high and it was from a major downpour since wee hours in the morning! Friends were super excited on Facebook! Everyone was posting images and videos of the flooded Orchard road!

Here are some pictures I took from Facebook!

Hermés at Liat Towers!
Any damaged Birkin bags?!?!

Starbucks, Wendy's and Massimo Dutti were all submerged in muddy waters!

Check out the video posted by Shi Ying's friend here!

I am considering to go take a look myself after work later!!!! Heeheehee!

Boring weekend ahead!

2010-06-11T15:00:00.004+08:00

It's Friday and I am not excited!

The cause of my boring weekend - PC Show! Every 3 months, I have to suffer a boring weekend due to an IT-related kind of show. Boo were required to assist in all the different shows that usually spread across 1 weekend in the following months - March, June, September and December. So, if it's not the IT show in March, then is the PC Show in June, if not it'll be COMEX in Sept or eventually, SITEX in December. So predictable.

Boring, boring, boring.

Told Shiying that I should probably start planning for my wedding this weekend since I will be so free! But I think highly unlikely I'll get anything done! Just so not inspired today to start thinking what shall I do! Although I wrote on my wedding blog that I am in a current "information-overload" state-of-mind! Hahaha! I think maybe that's why I stop thinking already!!!!! Hahahaha!

I know what to do when I am absolutely bored! Shall look at this video I took of Boo last weekend! He and his atrocious Korean! Hahaha! Cracks me up every time I watch it! Wahahaha!

Watch Mr. Boo and his weird-accented Korean!
Hehehehe!

Sweet Daddy

2010-06-10T10:37:00.001+08:00

I was checking my email this morning when a picture of a cute little girl at the bottom of Nylon Mag's e-mailer caught my attention. She is a blond long hair girl, about 4 or 5 years old, wearing her PJ and saluting while in front of her was a plate with something that resembled the American flag. A closer look at the little thumbnail and text, the "American flag" was actually a pancake! I had to check it out!This father Jim is really such a great father! Making very cool and interesting pancakes for his daughter, Allie, which is such a cutie!!! Here are some really cool ones I like!

Jim's cute daughter, Allie!

This was the picture that caught my attention!

How funny looking can the Alien get?

How can anyone make a 3D pancake?!
I'm amazed!

Hahahaha! Pancake-tasting Taco! Nice!
Like Playdoh which you can eat!

This is totally AWESOME!!!
Make a bridge and eat it?!
How good can it get?!?!?! Hahaha!

It sets me thinking after looking at the devotion of Jim to his daughter, Allie.... It's really quite something for fathers to spend time in the kitchen to whip out cool breakfast for their children!
It's really not a culture in our Asian society for men to do something like that. I do think that are a few out there but not many. It's a job more women are willing to take up.

Asian guys are preoccupied with making more money for the family. It's been like that for the past few decades or even centuries! Usually, as I see it, the way of showing concern is mainly by providing more money so that the family can have a comfortable life. It's really not a bad thing I say. Who doesn't need money? The only 1 thing that we can't get enough of besides Love, of course!

The route has never been easy.

The route to earning more comes with a price to pay. Usually the children gets neglected in some families. In some cases, the fathers will be too tired on the rest day to want to do something for their children. And making something for the kids; in this case, cooking; the usual male counterparts will gladly pass the job to their wives! It's another Asian stereotype that the kitchen belong to the women only!

Of course I don't mean ALL fathers. I am sure there are exceptions out there. I just hope there will be more!

To all the fathers out there, do something for your little darlings today!

Check out Jim's site here!

*All images are taken from Jim's Pancake blog-site*

My Wedding Blog~*

2010-06-09T12:14:00.002+08:00

I have started a wedding blog! Hehehe.....

Check it out here!

Spams!

2010-03-01T08:56:00.003+08:00

Oh my god... So many spams on my blog!!!!

Is it because I haven't been posting?! Hahahaha!

Damn it!

STOP SPAMMING ME!!!!

Merry Christmas...............

2009-12-24T19:53:00.007+08:00

It's Christmas eve and I am all alone.

Well, not really alone since Regina is here in the office with me too.

I'm still feeling pissed about the fact that Casper's colleague actually planned their company Christmas dinner on Christmas eve. It's Christmas eve! Most people are celebrating Christmas eve with their loved ones! Who wanna spend Christmas with a bunch of people you probably love to hate? I mean, seriously, how many colleagues do you not like?! I'm being truthful here!

I was giving Casper a hard time just now over the phone. Initially, I was fine but the more I thought of it and the more people sympathize with me, the more pissed off I got! Argh! I know he doesn't have a choice but he seemed quite happy that he will be going to the ktv with his colleagues after the dinner. He also claimed that the rest of his colleagues' spouse or other half is totally cool about the company dinner happening on Christmas eve! So now I'm the imbalanced one ya! I don't believe!

The fact that I'm going to Taiwan in another 5 days time didn't cheer me up either. So it sets me thinking, it's just another day, why am I feeling so uptight? I seriously doesn't know the answer myself too. Blame it on the stereotypes!

Oh well......

I should stay positive! I hope my next Christmas eve will be a fruitful one.

Me, at my neighbour's house when I was 3.

Me, now.

Dearest friends, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas! ♥

I'm back!!!

2009-11-21T09:53:00.005+08:00

Ahhh... Alot of friends had been asking me about my blog! It has been dead for nearly half a year!

Hear my explanation!!!

I'm really too busy!!! (I know you'd probably be rolling your eyes now cos it's really a very lousy excuse! But hello! I have a day job ok! Huhu...)

OK, so here are the reasons why I had failed to maintain my blog!

1. My 30th birthday party!

The whole of June and 1st week of July, I had been super busy with planning my party and did I mention I hand-made most of the decorations and my super cute invites?! That period I was staying up late folding paper boats, cutting little cartoons of myself!

2. Work

Work was super piled up! I had to design the Spring Summer 2010 collections, coordinate photo shoots(4!), do touch-ups for the models (close to 100 images!!!) and liase for a website for PC!!!

3. Travel

In October, my team and I finally made the Europe trip! It has been in the talks for almost 3 years already! So, we did finally made it to Barcelona, London and Paris for about 10 days! It has been 4 years since I've stepped foot on European soil! Honestly, I was dreading the entire trip at first! I really hated the way we Asians were treated there! I hated the food especially the cold hard bread rolls and endless meals of pastas, pastas and more pastas! That seems to be the only food we knew how to order! Haha! Ok, more about the trip later!

4. Facebook and iPhone

Hehe... Guilty as charged! I'm on facebook everyday now! Especially when I started owning my iPhone in September! All I have to do is to go home, on my wireless modem and touch the facebook app and I'm connected to everyone! My desktop is collecting dust on top of my table now! Haha! Maybe blogspot should have an app for blogging so I can start blogging more(excuses!!!)!

There you have it! My good reasons(uh-hm!) why I fail to blog!!! Heehee!

I will try to blog as frequent as I can since I can now use my phone to blog as well! How fun!

Ps. This entire entry were written on the MRT! Yes, on my beloved 小白2! (for those who doesn't know yet, 小白2 is the name of my phone!)

My parcel arrived!

2009-05-28T11:29:00.000+08:00

Last week, I caved in and ordered some items from Martha Steward Crafts! I have been pondering like forever already! I was very concerned about the shipping charges initially (US$21.95 for 1st item leh!) but Heck it lah! I am really dying to own some of their lovely punches!!!!

(picture from marthastewartcrafts.com)

Bone Folder
Perfect tool for scoring and folding!

(picture from marthastewartcrafts.com)

Doily Lace Edge Punch!
My favourite!

(picture from marthastewartcrafts.com)
Double Scallop Edge Punch!

So lovely right! I actually wanted more items but I am like kinda broke now! Anyway, I haven't ordered from them before and I didn't know the service standard so I didn't know what to expect too.

But I was very pleased with the fast delivery! Within 1 week, I received my parcel via Fedex! Now I know why it cost so much for the delivery. Not like some merchants who will charged you alot and send via normal post services.

Yay! My parcel screams for attention!

Yay! My circle-cutter, bone folder and 2 punches are
nicely presented in their pretty packaging!

The Doily Lace punch is really to-die-for!
The effect is very gorgeous lor!

I got so excited I immediately tried to make something with all these tools!

So I made a money envelope for Dulcy!
It's her bday next Sat!
Look at the lovely Doily Lace edge!
Nice right!!!

I also tried cutting some circles with the circle-cutter!

Here's a look at how it works!

I am having so much fun! I am also dying to have a HUGEEEE Craft table lor!!! It's really very hard to do something while confined to the tiny space on my bedroom floor!

Pray and Hope I will get a new pad soon!!! I will make sure I will have a huge craft table! Hehe!

I'm having a Partee!!!!!!!

2009-05-21T18:01:00.003+08:00

My E-invitation on Facebook!

I had finally decided the theme for my big 3-0 birthday bash! It's gonna be Nautical Chic! It's predictable but is the easiest theme to make everyone dress up!

I so want the "Ah-Lian" theme but I have mixed reviews for this theme, saying that it's too difficult lah or they won't wanna be caught dead in the 90s Ah Lian fashion! Hahaha! Some of them are quite excited though! Especially Celine, who was going to borrow her ah lian friend's Ferragamo Bow hairband (the must-have Lian accessory of the 90s) and a Sonia Rykiel quilted bag just for my party!

Sorry Celine! I'm gonna disappoint you! But I am doing one of your favourite theme too!

I am so excited about my party and I guess some of my friends too but not some of the invited guests though. Well, I guess it's just another party for them then......

I'm so going to source for nautical stuff to decorate the place and also nautical-inspired games!

I finally went to the Dentist.......

2009-05-18T17:59:00.004+08:00

and had my rotten wisdom tooth taken out!!!!!

An artwork for the collection I did for Young Hearts Story Bra
back in 2002.

I am so proud of myself you know! I had the worse fear of going to the dentist and I finally gathered all my courage and went and had my rotten tooth of 3 years taken out! It's gross, I know! Wahaha!

My primary school dental nurse was the cause of my phobia of dentist! Until now, I can still remember the dental visits I had in primary school. Especially in Primary 1 or 2, the visits were very frequent. I recalled shaking in my seat whenever I saw fellow classmates walking pass the corridor with a yellow dental card on his/her hands and prayed hard that my name will not be called. And whenever I got unlucky, I would walked as if I was a inmate going for my death sentence! Wahaha!

The dental nurse had super tight curls and would wear a typical nurse uniform. She would scream at all of the students irregardless what we do or don't do.

"SIT THERE AND BE QUIET!!!!!", is all I heard once I stepped into the room, ALONE. (As if I can be very noisy alone lor, I was like going to cry liao!)

"Come here!!!!!"; "Rinse your mouth!!!!"; "Open your mouth BIGGER!!!!!!"

She was never gentle. Never caring.

I was traumatized.

So when I went to secondary school, I opt out for dental visits. I was so glad I don't have to go to a dentist anymore! But of course, now that I am older, I kinda regret not taking care of my teeth.

I hate that nurse.

Think my tooth was more like the on the the right!
Wahahaha!

Nevertheless, I started going to the dentist again! I am very happy I had taken my tooth out and going through it, although I did shiver til I almost puked! Haha! It was still a great relief for me!

In comparison, this new dentist I went to was so gentle! I will highly recommend him although the place's a lil ulu lah! I still think Dentists is a male job. Females are too rough for this! I will never go to a female dentist ever! Hahaha!!!!

It's Boo's Big 3-0!

2009-05-14T14:53:00.000+08:00

Boo just turned 30 on Monday! To celebrate his big 3-0, we went to House for dinner! Was planning to surprise him but in the end, I was so busy, I couldn't make it in time to go pick him up!

The stupid taxi driver nearly spoiled the evening when he took an extremely long route to Dempsey! Usually it would have cost be about $6+ to reach from my office at Outram but this time, it cost me $11!!! I was freaking pissed! I had to keep my cool, if not the whole evening will be bad lor! Curse him ar!

So! Here we are at House, having a simple but great time!

Boo's looking real happy!

The Ice coffee Boo ordered didn't came with milk and when we requested for it, they came back much later with a tiny espresso cup filled with hot steamed milk.
I liked the tiny cup! So cute!

Skinny Pizza!
My 2nd time having this super crispy pizza!
Very nice!
But I ordered the wrong one this time. I should have gotten the squid ink one...
The Salami and pesto was alright lah, but there is feta cheese on it though....
My portion!

Boo taking a big bite!
We ordered the American Sliders as well!
I had it the other time with Celine and the Boeys and I like beef patty!
Oh! And not forgetting the lovely duo fries!

Delicious truffle fries and sweet potato fries combination!

The burgers looked so cute!

The Guiltless Chocolate Cake!
It's realllllly verrrryyyy Swwweeeeet!
I feel it's way to sweet to be called Guiltless!!!!

Oh well, the cake was suppose to be served for another purpose!

Which is.........

.... for me to put this on! Hahaha!!!!

My Boo acting cute with my tiny hand-made card.

Boo's making a wish real hard!!!
Look at his face!
Hahahahaha....

Still wishing!!!

It was Boo’s 1st time to Dempsey (he knows he is “suah-ku”!) and he really liked it.

A big 3!

Mine's coming soon too! Yikes!!!!

Us, with my tiny card for keepsake!

And we headed home after that!☺

Boo waving goodbye to me!
Bye~!!!

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What a Surprise!!!!!!

I had to tell this story!

Earlier on Monday morning, Boo's colleague, Tracy, msn-ed me to ask if I can join them for lunch at Tiong Bahru Plaza to sort of surprise but I couldn’t as I had to clock in and out for lunch. So I offered an alternative to show up with a birthday cake to surprise him when he is having lunch! And I had made them change plans to have lunch at Great World instead so it would be nearer for me.
So came lunch time, I had lunch at the food court and continue to liaise with Tracy with the timing. I even helped to get the cake so as not to rouse any suspicion!
After getting the cake from Sweet Secret, I went straight to the Crystal Jade Kitchen on level 3 with the cake. I met Tracy, who showed me where Boo and his team were. Not thinking too much of anything, I lit the candles and slowly paced my way to the private room.

“Happy Birthday!”, I said when I step into the room.

Boo’s face lit up and I looked at the rest of his colleagues. At the corner of my eye, I saw there were another table next to theirs and I thought it was his colleagues too, so I turned and look……..

I saw a really familiar face. It was Justin, my boss’s son and I got a shock! It took me a good 5 seconds to realize my Boss was there too! And I turned and my familiar faces I saw! Not only some of my colleagues were there, the Taiwanese buyers were there too! Oh my god!!!

I was utterly embarrassed and shocked! People both familiar and strangers were looking at me and the commotion I caused!

My boss stood up and congratulated Boo. (Yes! CONGRATULATED! He went like, “oh your birthday ah, gong xi gong xi ah!”) I was like thinking, “gong xi???!!!!” Hahaha!

After the short 5-10 minutes commotion, I quickly made an excuse to go and exited the private room and head back to the office!

LayC, Kim and Dulcy were waiting for me at the taxi stand and they couldn’t believe my luck too! Goodness!!!!

I told them, “guess the surprise was really for me, not Boo!”

Hahaha!

Tiramisu, KL and so much more!

2009-03-22T03:18:00.000+08:00

This is my 3rd time making tiramisu and I'm still exploring the different receipes and methods of perfecting it!

For the recipe below, I have used Cognac instead of the Marsala wine which was widely used in many recipes I've seen online. But I had just bought a bottle of Marsala wine earlier and I will used it for my next round which is later! Think I'm super addicted to making this coffee dessert!

My mum who is slightly diabetic is also very addicted to eating it! I am trying very hard to keep it away from her! Hehehe...

So here's the recipe and the method. Feel free to use the recipe and try to make one soon!

Miss E's Tiramisu

Ingredients

500g mascarpone cheese
4 eggs
4 tablespoons of sugar
6 tablespoons of Marsala wine/Cognac
4 tablespoons of milk
½ cup of black coffee
cocoa powder

Method

Add the milk , 2 tablespoon of cognac and 1 tablespoon of sugar
into the black coffee and mix well.
Leave it to one side for it to cool to room temperature.

Separate the yolks in one mixing bowl.
(I only have 1 mixing bowl, thus have to use my mum's
tradtional kueh-making tray for the yolk mixture...hehehe).

Put the whites into another mixing bowl.

Add the remaining 3 tablespoon of sugar, and 4 tablespoon of cognac into the yolks.

Mix well with a whisk.

Add the mascarpone cheese onto the yolk mixture and mix well til even.

The mixture should looked something like that.

After you are done with the yolk mixture, start whisking the egg-whites!
I don't own an electrical beater lor, so I am using my mum's vintage
spring egg-beater (older then me, ok!).

This is hard work lei!
Beat, beat, beat, beat, beat!!!

Can see that it's beginning to become fluffy?!

Finally!
Whip the egg-whites until stiff peaks form and you are done!

Pour the fluffy mixture into the yolk-cheese mixture and start folding in.

Looked like clouds!
Continue to fold into the mixture until everything is even!

Voila!

All done!

Time to soak the sponge fingers!
BIG TIP!: soak ONLY the SUGARED side of the fingers!
Try not to pour too much coffee onto the fingers if not it will get very soggy!

Cute dessert cups from daiso is great for tiramisu!
At only $2 for 7 mini cups with lids!

Lay the fingers on the bottom of the container.
You may also use the rectangle microwavable containers that you might have recycled from a tabao meal!
As the containers are too small for my sponge fingers, I had to break it to fit!
Always placed the soaked side facing up too!

After you had the bottom layer of sponge fingers, pour the cheese mixture to cover over it.

Remember to pack the fingers close together!

A special method which I have seen from this lady who shared her recipe online - sprinkle cocoa powder on top of every layer of sponge fingers before to you pour the mixture!

So here's how it's gonna be like!

sponge fingers -->cocoa powder -->cheese mixture -->
sponge fingers -->cocoa powder --> cheese mixture.

Ta-dah!!!
Almost all 7 cups are filled!

There is 1 cup which was half-filled. I think the eggs I used were a bit small therefore there wasn't enough mixture for all 7 cups.

Place the cups into the fridge and chill for at least 8 hours before you consume.

Lastly, sprinkle cocoa powder generously before serving!

Miss E's version - get a small bar of milk or dark chocolate, see which ones would you prefer, put in into the fridge to make it harder and when it's hard enough, take a small knife and start shaving some chocolate bits and sprinkle on top of the cocoa powder.

Very shiok!!!! For the serious chocolate-addicts like me!!!

Try it and let me know how's your results!

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Saturday with Celine and Bert

Last Saturday while Boo was working his ass off at the IT show, Celine and Bert baby-sitted me! We went to shop, eat and hang out. It was pretty cool!

Celine in a very sexy back-less top
which you obviously can't see and she would have kill me if I tried to make a big fuss about the top by snapping pics and posting it online! Hehehe!

Bert finally let me take a nice picture of her!
Hehehe.... She's all decked out in adidas lor!
That day she bought 3 more adidas tops and 1 more pair of adidas sneakers.
She intends to build a 7-day adidas wardrobe.
And Yes, she works there.

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To KL with Dee and Shiying!

Was told to make a trip with Delia and Zihanna (Shiying's new nick!) to KL to make a presentation for the Isetan buyer on tuesday morning therefore we had to fly in from monday morning just in case we turned up late if we had flew in from tuesday morning instead~!

BORING!!!

The only excitement I had was the shopping! It was quite shiok to shop in KL lah with Sing dollar slightly stronger then the Ringgit.

Lunch at T1 at 3.15pm.
Popeyes chicken!
That day the chicken really tasted quite bad lei! There was a very strong frozen chicken taste and it was quite oily lor!
I think their standards had continued to drop further!

Having fun inside the gate while waiting for our Air Asia flight!
This is my 1st time going budget!

The "receipt-like" boarding pass.
I didn't know they have to save on this also.
Worse still, the counter staff also had a "budgeted" attitude!
Was telling the girls that Air Asia even had to SAVE on the smiles and the 'thank-you's!
Lousy attitude!
PUI!

Zihanna and I were busy talking pictures of each other!

We're reaching our hotel!
The supposely to look like sphinx statue looks suspiously like a lion!
Wahaha!!!

We were treated to dinner at Tony Romas!
There were no pork ribs for the obvious reasons lah and we had forgotten about it!
Here's the famous onion loaf!

The funny waiter from Bangladesh, Raya, showed us the different sauce they have to go along with our food. But I felt there wasn't a need because we didn't even order any ribs!

While explaining, he drew a smiley face on the plate!

Free mini baguettes as starters!

Shiying and me both had a "blacken" salmon!
Very delicious!!!

By "blacken", it doesn't mean chao ta (burnt) lah!
It was a method of cooking they used - to cover the salmon with spices before they pan-fried it!
The result - nice and crispy on the outside, juicy and tender on the inside!

Huge dinner serving of chef salad to share!

The servings at Tony Romas were huge and we can't really finished the food! My Malaysians colleagues had to pack the food back in order not to waste it!

After the presentations, we went kuku!!!!

Our current favourite thing to do!
Action shots!!!!
Zihanna suggested we do some actions pose while waiting!

Zihanna shows you that she is young and full of vitality!

I am trying very hard to jump high!!!
I lao liao lei!!!!
Think this is my highest caught on film!
Wahahahha!!!!

Delia's doing a good job too!
Yeah!☻

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I ♥♥♥♥ Hair Velcros!

My recent obsession - hair velcros!
Machiam like "gou-yuks"(medicated plasters)!!!
Wahahah!!!!

Got mine from Watsons just now.
Been looking for a pink one!
I had forgotten to get my colleagues to get some for me when they went to Taipei!
It's super handy lei! Perfect for those with bangs!

Now, I don't need any more clips to clip my fringe up whenever I do my make-up!

This 'hook-like' fibers hold on tight to your hairs and doesn't fall off easily!
Go get yours now!!!!

It's only $4.95 for 2 pcs in a pack!
Sasa sells them too!

Ok! I think I had blogged long enough!!!! More then 3 hours liao! I shall go sleep! So tired!

What a busy Saturday!

2009-03-09T11:50:00.001+08:00

Last Saturday, I learnt to make Tiramisu! Christina was so kind to teach us how to make this sweet non-alcoholic version of the very famous Italian dessert! We had discussed it after our boxercise sessions and we have decided to head to Dulcy's place to learn the ropes!

Me, being the "not-very-domesticated" woman, just went along to have fun! Hahaha.... Although I have always wanted to learn baking and making sweet stuffs, I have never been enthusiastic enough to start! I only ogled at lovely pictures of cupcakes and muffins and other sweet treats!

So there I was at Bedok Central with Christina and Dulcy - 15mins late (as usual) buying stuffs for the tiramisu! We met at NTUC but after 15mins we left the place with nothing! We were looking high and low for the sponge fingers which are absolutely needed for tiramisu. There wasn’t any mascarpone cheese too! So, since Bedok has 3 supermarkets and a Phoon Huat outlet, we thought we could get it elsewhere lah. So we went to Phoon Huat to try to see if there were stuffs there we need and luckily, there were the mascarpone cheese but unfortunately, the sponge fingers were sold out! Damns! We thought we can have better luck at Shop & Save next door but no sponge fingers in sight! We let Dulcy go back first with some of the stuff we had gotten and we continue in search of the sponge fingers!

I had to brave myself to go to Seng Song (there is always an over-powering fishy stench at the entrance) to look.

Nope. Non existence.

Went back to NTUC to try to look for alternatives. By then, we had wasted 1 hour walking the whole of Bedok Central! Then, I gave Boo an SOS call! I remembered that there was a Cold Storage outlet at Causeway Point and most likely Cold Storage should have it! We were so desperate til we were almost getting biscuits as alternatives!

Boo immediately rushed out of the house to help us get the sponge fingers and took a cab from Woodlands to Bedok to make sure we weren’t waiting too long for it! That’s very nice of my boyfriend! Hehehe!!!!

Before Boo arrived, we started with the mixture 1st. As I had promised Christina not to reveal the recipe for this tiramisu, I will only show bits and pieces!

The Ingredients!

Our cups of instant coffee.
I seriously don't recommend this.
Buy Kopi-O from the kopitiam is better. Eggs!

Add in the sugar!

The girls!

Add in the mascarpone into the egg and mix well!

In less then a minute, my mixture is soooo smooth....

The Sponge fingers!
Boo is our saviour!
Soak the fingers with coffee!
Don't put too much if not will end up like my soggy tiramisu!
2nd layer of fingers~!

Done!
Put in the fridge to chill for 8 hours minimum!

I left my dessert in Dulcy's fridge and collected it the next day cos I was meeting Kristy and Edwin for dinner! Yay! We can see baby Chelsea again!

Dinner at Pasta de Waraku at Marina Square

The many faces of Chelsea!

I looked so tired!
Chelsea looked very stressed!
Kristy is looking real happy!

After shopping, we need some refreshment!

At Changing Appetite

Chelsea was biting the table so her mama took a piece of baby wipes to wipe it and gave it to her and she continue wiping from there! So funny! Here she is, wiping her mama's arm!

Daddy Edwin craves for Mudpies!

He initially wanted Coffee Club's mudpie but too bad they closed early!

Boo ordered a brownie!
Guys and their sweet tooth!

See, Boo is always capable of making kids imitating him.

My best friend and her Joy!

peek-a-boo!!!

Bleh!
Auntie Celine and Baby Chelsea shared a funny moment together!

Oh what a busy and fulfilling saturdays with all my good friends with me!

So, how about the tiramisu?

The Verdict:

My first-ever tiramisu after testing, wasn’t as good as it looked. It was a bit too sweet and the sponge fingers were too soggy. I think I’d prefer the alcoholic version and maybe not use instant coffee as there wasn’t really much coffee taste to it.

Boo took a bite and gave me a “please-don’t-ask-me-to-have-another-bite” smirk. My mama says she likes it! Think she is giving me face lah!

I tried another recipe last Wednesday when I had the day off. I searched for some recipe online and saw a few easy ones and I combined them together, use a different method and made an alcoholic one!
I like it better then the 1st although I need to add more liquor and use stronger coffee!
I am thinking of making 1 more tonight or tomorrow! Will take pictures and share the recipe!

My neglected blog!

2009-02-17T13:32:00.007+08:00

OMG! What has happened to me! I got so lazy to blog!

Damns! Hahaha!

I just realized I have a few unfinished post not done with yet! The whole Chinese new year blog, my 2 sistas's birthday celebrations, my boss's birthday... etc etc!

I figured that it has got to do with PET SOCIETY! I'm hooked!!! For those who have facebook accounts should probably know about Pet Society. It's a online game developed by Playfish that lets you adopt a virtual pet and build a beautiful home for it! You can earn coins and paw points by doing daily task like cleaning your pet, feeding it and also make it happy! The coins earned can be used to buy food, furniture, decorations, clothes and even change the way your pet looks!

The welcome screen.Here's my pet, Pipi!
She is so happy to see me!

Pipi is hungry, I'm feeding her a chocolate donut!

I make her happy by brushing her with my golden brush!Whenever your pet's hygiene bar gets low, shower it with soap to make it nice and clean!
And you can earn points and coins showering it too!

Pipi is sitting in the dining room with Vday decors!
I'm still poor so I can't afford to buy alot of decorations for Pipi,
unlike my friends whose pets lived in luxury!

Changing outfits!
Friends can send each other items like clothes and furnitures!
How Cool right?

Alternatively, you can pop by the boutique or the furniture store to purchase more cute clothes and furnitures!
There are new items every week!

Shortcuts to where you wanna visit!

Stylist - Where you change your looks. [eyes,nose,mouth,ears...etc]
Bank - Where you use real money to buy coins. [for people who want more things faster]
Clothes - Where you purchase clothes for your pets.
D.I.Y. - Wallpapers, windows, floor coverings and doors for your house.
Luxury - Luxury items like furnitures, clothes and other items that cost way too much!
Stadium - For pets to race and pet on races to earn coins if they win!
Furniture - From couches to fridges to beds. Special Mystery boxes avaliable here too!
Food - Feed your pet with items from here. Special items avaliable if there is a festival coming!
Cafe - Buy cakes and coffee and also meet different players's pets from all over the world daily.

Visiting Friends!

You can choose what you wanna do to your friends!
Pipi is visiting Peppermint - LayC's pet!

Pipi had choose to kiss Peppermint!
Peppermint is a dirty lil girl! Look at the flies around her!
Hahaha! She needs a shower!

Peppermint having herself cleaned by me while Pipi hanged out!

So you see the reason why I have been not blogging? Hahaha.....

So go install this application if you are already on Facebook! And don't forget to add me!!!!!! I wanna clean your pet!!!! Muahahahaha!!!!

ps. Will try to blog more often! I have alot to share! :)

I'm busy with........

2009-01-14T10:18:00.024+08:00

Selling Bras (and panties, of course)!!!!

Usually 3 weeks before the Lunar New Year, we have to help out at our stores or counters and this year is no exception. Every year, the days differ. Like last year, I had to work for 2 whole weeks at the Bedok shop including the weekends. For this year, it’s just the weekends - Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from the 9th of Jan onwards right to the eve. So my last weekend was at Metro Paragon and I was quite bored as there weren’t many customers during the day time. Not as busy as Bedok’s heartland crowd where everyone is dying for your attention!!!

I’m so not looking forward for the next 2 weekends. *SIGH*

Well, well….. Just have to get it over and done with! Meanwhile, I should indulge myself with lots of retail therapy! Hahaha! Shop shop shop!!!!

We were invited to Dulcy’s love nest for her house-warming party on the 1st Saturday of 2009! Here are some pics!

Corine and Simon were the 1st to arrive!
Surprising Wenn was quite early too!!! Hahahaha!

Dulcy's Ikea Xmas tree!
The top looked slightly bare though....

Our gift to them!

I had spent the entire morning planning and making this "house" envelope!
I like the result!

Dulcy suggested we should all mark our cups so we will not replace them over and over again.... Good way to save some cups!

Nana even went to the extend to mark the wine glasses with tapes and name written over it.

Hahahaha.....

Guess whose hand is this!

As I was trying to take a picture of all the food, Shiying reached out for her drink at the same time! Hahhaha!

My beloved PC Girls!

Happy Bellies!

The Ikea cake tray is very pretty lor!

Prefect for holding pretty cuppies like these!

I am so wanting one for myself too!
Cuppies from Coffee Bean!

Dunno what was Simon talking about....
He was like so excited!

Vintage cabinet!
This 40 year-old cabinet was from Ka Chong's house before they moved it to their love nest! Very nice! But I told Dulcy that the iron in the middle is quite an eye-sore lah!
Huhuhu....

Dulcy wants us to be considerate to each other.

Heehee....

Very effective and cost-effient way to keep your stuff!
Dulcy kept some of her clothes and other stuffs in these wine cases!

Her hubs, Ka Chong, works in a wine place so he got these for free!

Good right!!!!

I took a proper pic as keepsake!

Inside of the card!

Cupcakes time!

I pretend to pick my nose when I saw Boo's still snapping away!

Hahaha!

Nana, taking a pic of her cupcake with her iphone.

Did I mention that she just got engaged?!?! Huhuhu....

The boys were left to entertain themselves!
wahaha!
Boo as usual, cannot take his hands of his DS!

Sunday with Boo

Asked Boo to pose and he did this.
Irritating lei!

I think he was mimicking me!
Act cute! Hahahaha!!!

The new outdoor tables are nice but it can be quite a nuisance if things started dropping thru the gaps! The gaps where quite big lah, I can imagine bits of cakes dropping thru the gaps! Wahahah!

Me enjoying the classique chocolat cake and lime tea!
Yummy!!!

Boo didn't feel very well so I almost finish the whole slice of cake to myself!

No wonder now I so fat!

The lime tea was goooood! I ordered it because it was good for colds and I wanted to force Boo to drink it!

Boo's calling the restaurant to check if we could leave the cake in the fridge.

We had like 2 hours to kill before our appointment!

The cake couldn't be out for more than 45 mins!

This is where we'll be celebrating Boo's mum's birthday later!
Hokkien food!

The weather was just nice for photos!

Wah! So many aircons!

It is so not environmentally-friendly lor!
1 shophouse need so many split systems can you imagine how many there are in the whole area?! Oh my goodness!

Boo as Mr Fei Yu Qing....
We walked down this mini park at Ann Siang Hill.

Felt a little wierd cos the end leads the the back of the shophouses on Amoy St.

We were strolling at the perimeters of Far East Square and we spotted a museum.
The Fuk Tak Chi museum is free for everyone to go see!

I like this big model of a junk.

Hope my 2009 will be as soon sailing as the message!

Rediffusion box.
My mum used to have 1 at my old place and she would listen to it everyday.
Boo's no stranger to this, he used to do recordings for Rediffusion from a very young age.
We were saying that maybe I have heard him before when we were young.

huhu....

"huh"?!

We were walking along China Square and saw Don's Pie and Boo was hungry, so we went across the street in search of some nice in-between snacks.
It was like 30 mins away from meeting his family for dinner and he finally cannot tahan his hunger pangs and bought a pie to eat!

"Wahhhhhhh........"
Boo's exaggerated expression again! Hahaha!

Boo's really to attack!!!

Look at the thick mashed potato covering the pie....
It was really very delicious but rather oily.
At $5.40 for a pie, I think it's a little too pricey for that size.

But it was very delicious lah.
Do try!

Another Year came....

2009-01-02T19:42:00.002+08:00

Happy New Year everyone!

There seems to be alot of plans for 2009. I really hoped it will be a good year for me. Looking back, last year has been smooth-sailing for me in terms of work, relationships and health despite a really, really bad start. However, the problems haven't been solved. Yah. My brother is still jobless, bumming and living off me.

I have to plan my escape route.

Run.

As fast as I can.

Holding my mum close to me.

Sigh........

Nevertheless! I will keep my spirits up! It's just the start of the year!

There are still 363 days to go!

Here's wishing all of you

A GREAT year ahead!

All the best in whatever you do!

Dreams do come true.....

2008-12-12T20:08:00.010+08:00

......For Boey and Shan!

It was a wedding that I have been waiting forever like Wymen and LayC!

I am so excited to be part of the wedding of Boey and Shan, happening at the Raffles Hotel last Saturday, on the 6th of December, 2008!

Here's the full story!

Was making this ang bao the morning before I went for my manicure!
I bought special cardstock from Cosmo Cricket and also dotted swiss cardstock from Bazzill Basics. Added a personal touch with their names printed in a tag which I cut with scalloped scissors! Thought Boey can appreciate this kind of humour so I decided to use this "Do Not Disturb!" tag! And I added a little bit of royalty by stamping a crown and 2 keys (to represent them) with gold stamps!

"Big wishes in small packages"
My Personal touch to the ang bao!

♦

♣ Arrival at the Hotel ♣

Boo ran across the street to meet me for a few seconds!
I made a special angbao for Derric and Jaroline too! Coincidentally, the wedding was at Carlton Hotel which was very near to Raffles Hotel!

Celine and I cam-whored in the toilet before we went for our duties as receptionist!

I think my dress matches the interior of the restroom!
Oh by the way, he has colour codes for his wedding - black, cream, gold and pink.

So I had to wear this super repeated dress again! Hahaha...

Love this picture.

I can shoot quite straight ah! hehehe....

My manicured nails with champagne gold nail polish completed with black tips!
My idea was to match my dress colours!

Paid $31 for it! (>_<)

Once outside, we went to the reception table to get ready to receive the 1st batch of guest who were invited for their Solemnisation. Then in between, it started to drizzle and we had to shift in and out for 3 times. The rain plan was to shift entirely indoors for the ceremony but we all knew Boey and Shan really wanted to have it outside. There was 1 point that everyone - guests, hotel staffs and helpers were all waiting for his orders whether we should follow the rain plan or the stick to the normal plan.

And he was standing in the rain.

So poor thing...

Then Austin came and laugh at me for being a "suay chui(mouth)" for cursing him that it will be raining when we met for meeting the week before. Then he say he also waiting for Boey to make the decision as there were no DRIZZLE plan. Hahaha...

BUT I DIDN'T CURSE HIM lei!!!!
I was just asking or preparing him in case it really does start drizzling halfway mah!!!

:(

♦

♣ The Reception ♣

Shan's lovely colleagues helping her to do up a display of her photos with Boey!
So nice of them!

One of their favourite photo printed on canvas displayed next to the reception table but it got shifted elsewhere after the 3rd moving.

Celine and I were on Boey's side helping him to direct all his guests.

Boey came and gave us a warm welcome!
Here he is looking so sauve!
The "always-crappy" BKC is now all grown up!

I think we haven't been photographed together since the graduation show way back in 2000.

I was much slimmer then! Shucks! Hahaha...

♦

♣ The Solemnisation ♣

Boey, waiting in anticipation and Stan, The best man.
It was very heart-warming to see this scene! Stan and Boey were like twins a few years back. They were so close til they had gotten identical tattoos on their arms. But I think now they kinda regret it! Hahaha..

Here comes the bride!!!
Shan's looking gorgeous walking down the aisle with her dad. I think she had forgotten her hand bouquet again! Hahaha... I heard later that she kept forgetting it the whole day! Hahaha...

I love this pic!
Alot of feel! I love long trains. Perfect for photos like these....

Going through the ceremony with Pastor Kenny.
Boey couldn't stop grinning the whole time!
I kept telling Celine, "look at his hamster grin!" Hahaha...

But it was very sweet lah.... (^-^)

After the ceremony, we resumed our duties!
It was getting dark when the guests started arriving!
Celine and I had a hard time with the list cos it was kinda confusing and the fonts are way too small! Hahaha... I think we are getting old....
Celine grabs attention with her dangerously low cut dress! huhu...

The lovely couple came to the reception table to take pictures with us!
Katherine and Shan's long time friend, Jamie helps out at her side!

Bird cages as ang bao box!

How innovative!
See the amount of angbaos it can hold!

♦

♣ The cake-cutting session began! ♣

Look at the beautiful REAL cake!!!!

The top 2 tiers are real and made by Raffles Hotel's pastry chef!
Boey told me that initially they really wanna turn down his order because they are not confident to do the exact design that he wanted but in the end, it turned out to be exactly what they wanted! So Pretty lor the cake!!!

So happy!!!

Have to thank LayC for snapping these lovely pictures when I was on duty!

Great display from Shan's colleagues!
It really bring out the entire Royalty feel of the wedding!

Closer look!
There are photos of their trips all over the world!
So lucky!

After the couple cut the cake and the guest were ushered into the 2 different ballrooms - The East India room for the relatives and the Bar & Billard room for the friends and colleagues!

The whole fountain area were quickly emptied and 4 of us became so lonely suddenly! Hahaha...

The funny thing is that we didn't know what to do next. Like should we continue to wait? Or should we pack up and go? I was making alot of noise lah cos I was super duper hungry!!! So by 8 I told the girls that let's pack up and go! But none of them seems to like wanna leave cos there wasn't any instructions given to us to leave by a certain time! So we had a small discussion and we packed up and reception area and took the bird cages full of ang baos to the suite!

♦

♣ In The Suite ♣

The room had a very strong colonial feel to it!

And I got so excited when I saw Shan's babies!

So cute!!!
Their "babies" were all dressed up!
Boey's mum sew these tiny outfits for their kids! So sweet of her!

They were lying around so I thought I should put them nicely before I snap a lovely pic of them!

They are really very detailed people lor!

The dining table was lined with rose petals and a gift from Raffles Hotel.

So sweet of them.
Great service ya?

Shan came in to change into her evening gown!
I didn't realise that my face appeared in the little mirror at the back until I saw Boey's comment on this photo in Facebook!

I assisted Mr B to change into another set of suit as well and these are his cuff links for the white suit that he was wearing.
Even the cuff links must match!

"Are these from Paul Smith???", I asked on Facebook.
"nope...they are from paula smiten...huhuhu", he replied.

So typical Boey.

Me and lovely Shan!
So gorgeous she look.... Boey is a lucky man!

Oops!
When I told Shan I wanted to snap a pic of the beautiful top tier of the wedding cake, she accidentally broke the tiara! It was very, very fragile!

♦

♣ Bar & Billard Room ♣

Finally, I get to eat!!! Hahaha... by then I wasn't really hungry anymore.
Celine and I went to join LayC and Bert at our table but we found that all of the boys had gone to the big sofa area to hang out! Even Wymen had forsaked his new wife of 1 month to be with his old classmates! Hahahaha...

So 4 of us just chatted and ate. We felt that it was more like a Xmas dinner then a wedding because our tables were located at the patio of the Bar & Billard Room. So a bit isolated lah but it was fine cos we were entertaining ourselves! Haha...

Boey and Shan came to greet their guest at the Bar & Billard room and pop another bottle of champagne!
That's Perng fliming them in front~!

I helped myself to the delectable desserts!
The wedding cake was so delicious too!

Towards the end of the dinner, we suddenly heard Stan shouting out from the room telling us that Boey is going to sing! And we immediately ran in to join in the fun!

He was singing "Sunshine" by Gabrielle.
He told the guests there that he had slept at 5am the previous night cos he had spent all the time to rush out the slideshow of them.

SO SWEET!

The TP girls!
With us is Katherine! She is looking so pretty too!

Stan drank so much that he is sooooo RED!!!!
I had to take a pic of him being wasted! Hahaha...

So typical Stan.

Heehee....

I got bored and went around the fountain to pic roses off the floor!
They are still fresh so kinda wasted so I picked a few of them!

Bigggg Antique chandeliers!

The reception girlies and the lovely couple again!

♦

♣ Back to The Suite ♣

Nicely set up by the hotel staffs.
A private dinner for the 2 of them who didn't managed to try the food at the Bar & Billard room that night.

A sweet gift from Boey and Shan!!!
I told them they shouldn't have spent that kind of money to get pressies for us....
The wedding is already so expensive!
They are so sweet to all the brothers and sisters and also me and Celine.
They hand-picked all the gifts lor!

A warm thank you card from them.

♦

♣ Let the Counting began! ♣

Boey and Shan asked if Celine and I wanna stay a bit later to help them count the angbaos and we gladly accepted the request! We were more then happy to help!

So we started by picking out the special ones!

All the interesting, non-conventional Ang baos!
Mine is inside too!

Celine took over the recording from Shan because she was more familiar with the list!
A bit confusing lah the list and the fonts were so small! I gave up at the reception too! Hahaha!
Here's Celine, looking really serious!

Counting and sorting out!

That's ALOT of $50 bills!!!!
So shiok!!!

We ♥ moneeeeee~!☻
Who doesn't?!?!? Hahaha....

Celine's taking forever to count the $2 notes while me and Boey finish stacking the $50 notes!
She was like so distracted! Hahahaha...
Slow lah!

I ♥ my angbao!
It matches the "Do not disturb" sign!

♦

♣ Going Home ♣

The back of the Royal Carriage!

When I reached earlier the day, I already wanted to take a pic while it was brighter but Austin told us to hurry up since it was getting kinda late! So I didn't managed to take! Damns!
So before I left I have to take a picture!!!!
It's so darn cute lor!!!! The most happening wedding car ever!!!

Us and Royal carriage!

♣ The Crown rocks!!!♣

The other cars PALES in comparision!!!

Wahahaha....
The bigger cars with the "Oh-so-normal" flower decorations weren't even asked to park on the 1st lot of the Hotel! The other couples must be really jealous!!! Hahahaha!!!

The Raffles Hotel's looking majestic and festive with all the christmas decorations!
Very, very beautiful!

Would love to have my wedding there too. Actually it was one of the top few choices on my list of wedding venues!

Perfume from the Lovely couple!!!

I am really happy and honoured to be part of Boey and Shan's wedding. I have know both of them for more than 11 years now.
I am truly happy for Boey for finding a perfect wife for him since he so deserved a kind-hearted girl like Shan!

~♥ I wish them Eternal Bliss! ♥~

Q-pot X Blythe!

2008-12-04T12:48:00.001+08:00

Q-pot x Blythe.

Cutest collaboration ever! OMG!!
"Princess Milk BisQuit de Q-pot" is a CWC Limited Edition Neo Blythe with only 3000 dolls worldwide!

Doubt I will be able to get it or rather I don't think I can afford to spend that kind of money anymore! Lovely.... just so lovely.......

*drools*

I couldn't resist anymore!

2008-12-01T17:02:00.005+08:00

And I bought it!!!! I have been putting off buying this cutie for a few times already and I finally couldn't resist it anymore and got it!!! Huhuhu...

Big fat gingerbread man from Coffee Bean!
So cute!!!!

huhuhu...
I ♥ gingerbread man!
Kim posed with it too!

Kim arms seems to be placed nicely over it's head!
hahahaha!
Purely coincidental!

Hehehe *evil grinnn*...
I'm going eat the cutie!
(Although I really can't bear!)

Awwwww!!!!!!
Armlesssss!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm...

This one seems like sleeping in the jar for a few days already...

Abit DRY lei!

OOPSY!
No more limbs!

Poor Gingerbread man!

Are you having fun yet????

I'm surprise....

2008-11-27T11:28:00.003+08:00

That there is this angmoh with the surname Yeo!

I was just surfing the WGSN site and I came across an article on "10 photographers worth looking out for" and happened to click the PC.P Agency which Ellis Parrinder (Top indie artists photographer) is under and saw this other photographer named David Yeo. With an impression that he is a fellow countryman made big in the UK, I went to research more about him in his website. It was then I saw his photo!

'He's ang moh!', I thought immediately.

Surprise, surprised!

Check out his gallery. Quite cool!

Pride プライド

2008-11-26T11:54:00.002+08:00

I can say this is the best Japanese drama I had ever watched. It's not slow, not draggy, very romantic and at the same time it's filled with intense Hockey games! This is one of the show that made Kimura appear more heroic then he already is! And it didn't make him too arrogant like alot of his movies. Plus the song by Queen is perfect! The japanese are very good with finding the perfect song for all their dramas.

I think I bought the box series (VCD) 3 or 4 years ago when it first hit the stores. Nana told me Kimura is super suave in it and is a must-see drama so I went to get it! And I was hooked!!! Very nice and romantic lei the show!!!

Here's the opening!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I was watching 娱乐百分百 one night and 小猪 was telling 小鬼 about the scenes in Pride and it reminded me of the memorable scenes in the show too! So I had to watch it again! Too bad there aren't DVD version of the show but not I will definately buy it!!!

I'm now at epi 5 of 9. Losing sleep over the dorama! Hehehehe!

This post is more then 1 month old....

2008-11-21T12:59:00.006+08:00

Since I spent a long time uploading all these pics, I thought I should just still upload it. Don't waste the limited photo space I have in blogspot!

Here are my Tokyo Again photos! Enjoy!

Dulcy on board the A380!
My turn for a picture! Bunny is travelling with me!
There is a new side compartment at the window seats in the A380
and ours wasn't properly cleaned!
We found a piece of tissue inside!
Obviously the previous passengers mistook it for a dustbin...
(-_-)

Well I selfishly "choup" the 2 seater window seats,
the rest of them had to squeeze in the aisle seats....
Sorry lah, leg long, needs more space lah!

Dulcy packed her stuff nicely into the compartment, It's extremely handy,
hope all planes in future will have this and I will not dread sitting next to the window!
Our night snack!
Turkey ham and cheese Panini.
I asked for white wine to help me sleep but it didn't work at all!
I didn't manage to sleep much! The seats were soooo uncomfortable!

Ended up with a super sore back and legs!

The view at 430am....
What a beautiful sight!
Dulcy and I went to wash up before they start the breakfast.
It was 430am and we are already slapping on makeup.
Gosh....
My skincare and makeup!
The Paul & Joe makeup case (bday pressie from the girls)
are always very handy when I'm travelling!
Kim, doing her makeup at the airport while waiting for the airport transfer to arrive!
Her lovely Paul and Joe suitcase is so eye-catching!
This is one of the nice Ton Katsu place in Akabane station.

The only Japanese food my boss will eat is fried pork cutlet lor...

See my seto!
Golden brown pork strips with cheese is waiting for me to devour it!
Miso soup has mini clams in it!
When I showed Boo this pic, he say something that I didn't expect at all!
He said, "Mickey Mouse!"
Can you tell????
My boss got upgraded to a suite because all 10 of us was held for more then 30 mins waiting for the chambermaid to clean our rooms and this toilet in his suite is fully automated!
All of us are so intrigued with the seat cos it will automatically lift the cover when we open the door! Not only that, it will light up also!
Damn the japanese!!!
PC Girls!
My boss got us these huge grapes!
So sweet!!!!

Look!
The grape is almost as big as the cherry tomato!
My new toy!
Hanari Tofu in Halloween cat costume!
Cute right!!!
My blistered feet!
After 1 whole day of wearing the crocs mary-jane,

My feet were covered with blisters due to the constant rubbing against the rubber shoes!
I thought they were comfortable lor!
My feet were hurting so bad that I skipped the delicious Ramen session with the rest of time and limped back to the hotel room after grabbing some convenient food.

I got the Onigiri and tea from the convenience store and a mexican MOS burger for dinner!
Sigh.... I miss the delicious Ramen.....
I got a cake from Chocoholic too!!!!
I saw this bear cake from the poster from the previous trip and was dying to try it this time round!!! So I got the cake!!!! This cake not cheap lor... It's ¥588 (¥617.40 with tax) which is S$8.50!

Gonna sleep and not eat it 1st!

Cute right!
I couldn't "bear" to eat it!!!
(pun not intended! Haha)
I ♥ the cake!
Pass this Comme Ca store in Shinjuku and saw a collaboration with a certain character in the window and Dulcy immediately say that she is Lu Guang Zhong's girlfriend! WAHAHA!!!
Mobile Crepe van in Shinjuku!
Road's close on Sundays! It was damn crowded!

Me and Dulcy at the newly revamped "Girls" section on the basement 1 of Shinjuku's Famed Isetan. Here we are at the quietiest part of Isetan - outside the toilet.
Huhu...
Made Dulcy pose with the on-coming crowd at the Shinjuku station.
The ticket covering her mouth is her idea... Haha...
I looked like an idoit lor.....
I thought Dulcy was going to take a half body shot of me with the crowd at the back so I stood with my knees bent so she can capture the ppl at the back.
But when I got my camera back, the pic shows me standing like this!!!
Bloody hell! Haha...
On the way from Sunshine plaza walking back to our hotel.
And we saw these 4 people performing an "art"?
The 2 guys kneeling are actually doing something like a break dance.
The lady and the guy seated was stationary.
I wonder what message were they trying to put across???

Dinner time!

Angie wanna eat Phyllis's beef rice and noodle set!
I ordered a bowl of beef udon!
Look at the semi-cooked egg!

Delicious!!!!

The york is slightly darker in colour then what we have at home!
It's so rich and creamy!
Phyllis got the other Halloween edition Tofu for her kids!
Now my Tofu have a friend!

The next day we have Tonkatsu again!
This one is more expensive then the one we had the 1st day.
They gave us a bowl of sesame each table to grind!

There is an Ojisan behind us, smiling at us and asked where we're from and told us this 2 set is the most popular and the most delicious set!
Special sauce for dipping!

Halloween edition Crepe!
Must try!!!
It was Halloween-everything in Tokyo!

I've gotten the 1st one - Pumpkin pudding and vanilla ice-cream

with lots of whipped cream!

H&M Harajuku!!! It's a massive building!!! (@_@)
I think it has more then 12 storey of Fashion Haven!!
Lovely Gatcha machines outside a fashion store!
I tried my luck on the top right hand one and my boss was laughing at me...
Maybe he thinks I'm still a kid!
At the Fujiya restaurant with Poko! Or issit Peko???

The older ladies ordered a limited Strawberry Shortcake!
Tiramisu Parfait!
Matcha Parfait
Streets of Shibuya.
Bathing Ape store

The girls waiting for our pasta!
Milk tea for me!
Love how the sausage curled up on the pizza!
CUTE!
Kim's salmon pasta!
Nice!

Softbank phone ad
Why can't we have phones like this in s'pore?!?!
SIAN!!!!
Shibuya at night....
actually it was only like 6pm!
Eh.... My shopping...*blush*
Huhuhu......
Yeah!
Huhuhu......

DAIKANYAMA!!!!

Aronzo shop at Daikanyama!

Miss E Vs Rhody!
Pretty cigarattes for da ladies!
Pretty lah but I still won't smoke!
hahaha....
Cute pig pig!
Love this store building lah!!!
So GOD DAMN COOL!!!!!
The Cath Kidston store in Daikanyama is so pretty!
It wasn't open yet and we were standing outside the store looking
at all the merchandise they are selling.

LayC and I had came across the Cath Kidston catalogue once inside a japanese magazine we bought and when we saw the price, it was like day robbery lor! Hahaha...

The double or more of what they are selling in England lor!
Can you imagine it's more??!! Anything else in sterling pounds is already like so expensive!

Entrance of a traditional Japanese house. Look! So low!
Traditonal Japanese Symbols!
We came across a Gallery and we went in to take a look!
Lovely cushion cases!
Lovely artworks on the wall!
I wasn't even sure If I can take photos so I sneak a quick pic!

Time was running out so we thought we better head back to the hotel to meet the rest of them to head to the hotel. But when we got to the small Daikanyama station, we heard the station manager announcing something and everyone just stood there. The ticketing outlets are all closed and we saw some chinese characters on the LED screen - "人事务....blah blah blah....". So we immediatly assumed someone jump on the tracks and commited suicide!!!

I freaked out lah! Cos that's the only way I know how to get to Daikanyama! We need to get back to the JR line from Shibuya station! But the only way I know is now closed for operations! Cabs are extremely expensive in Tokyo lor! Dulcy and Kim will kill me man! I was the one who suggested to go there!

So, I immediately asked the station manager for directions cos I overheard him telling some other commuters the next possible station to take which is the Ebisu station. I have never been to Ebisu lor! Panic man!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone commited suicide?!??!?!
How to go back?!?!?!
Walking to the Ebisu station with the direction,
"walk in front, turn left and blah blah blah (in japaneses), 10 mins walk"
And so we just walk.....
Some cool shops along the way so we assumed it's the right way.

Love this "Katie" store sign!
The brick wall just made the words stand out so much!

We got a bit lost and we asked some kind people along the way. All they can do is point and try to tell us as many landmarks as they can with their limited english and we were like playing a game of charade!!! There was a kind lady with her son. She was very helpful in helping us understand. We reached a small station and we thought we could link it back to the JR line but the young station duty officer wasn't of any help.

I asked him can we get back to the Ikebukuro station from here? He told us " JR line, go up turn left" then I asked again like can this station link? He repeats the same thing again lor!!!! For like 4 times!!! I gave up! So we went up the stairs and dunno turn where cos infront of us there is a "left" and behind us also another "left"!!! Piangz...

Time was running out and we panicked lor, cos we have been walking for close to 30 mins despite the station manager at Daikanyama saying was 10 mins! We were outside a Starbucks cafe and there was a lady giving out drinks so we try to ask her for the Ebisu station. She doesn't speak any english so from her actions we can guess it's where she pointed then we tried to ask her is it every far??? She couldn't understand and keep trying to direct us by gesturing. So we gave up and thank her for her kindness and headed towards the directed path.

And less then 1 min, we saw the bloody station in front of us lor! It's a big station as well, complete with malls and stuff! HIAYO!!!! What an adventure man!!!

So tired and hungry, we bought riceballs to eat. We decided to spend the last bit of money on snacks for the family and last min gifts.

I ♥ Chocoholic!
Behind Chocoholic is the Swimmer store which I absolutely love too!!!!
3 of us,
eating happily outside the hotel
since there is no eating or drinking in the lobby!
We shared a Bento.
I was attracted to this bento set but it turned out to be rather disappointing...
It didn't really taste as good as it looks....
Maybeline, showing me the 2 plush she got for her kids!
She wasn't aware that I was taking her pic as well! Hehe....
Throughout the whole trip, she refused to let me take any photo of her!
OOPSY! huhu....
My pretty cake box!
I made a terrible mistake not to eat the mousse I got from Chocoholic!
But the time I reached the airport, the whole thing just turn to liquid!
Sian!
The Hello Kitty plane caught Maybel's attention and we went to take a closer look!
At 1st I thought it was Japan Airlines, who knows it was actually Taiwan's EVA Air!
Surprise surprise!

So now, after 1 month, I am finally done with this post! Gosh!!!
More photos of my trip can be found on the links below!

Tokyo Again I
Tokyo Again II
Tokyo Again III

Tokyo Again IV

A really long time....

2008-11-19T16:22:00.002+08:00

since I last blog...

My goodness... I am so occupied these days... I have my Tokyo pics saved in draft and not posted it yet simply because I haven't finish typing in the descriptions. And now I have more photos to post! I've posted it on Facebook and friends are already bored of my Taiwan pictures!!!

Now that I am done with my holiday, my sis had gone home, Laysie and Wymen's wedding is over and cleared alot of work; it's time to start blogging!!!

I am inspired to change the look of my blog abit. Unfortunately, I dunno how to do html and stuff so I am kinda stuck with the boring simple default look from blogger. Anyone wanna teach me??? Haha....

A380!

2008-10-03T17:12:00.004+08:00

I'm going to fly in the Giant tonight!!!!

So excited!

Although I will be so darn scared but I'm excited! And of cus, I'll be at the economy class lah! Not the Private 1st class SUITES!(I wish!!!) Hahaha...

So I heard the economy class will be on the upper deck! I'm going to take pics later! See if there is any difference from the Boeing 777-300ER we took to Hong Kong last month. The pics from the Singapore Airlines website is the same! I am hoping and wishing for more space for my legs!!!

It's an overnight flight to Tokyo Narita! And straight after we leave our luggage at the Hotel, it's hit the streets time! Gosh.... tomorrow will be a LOOOOOONG Day!

My sis calls it the Mothership!
Wahaha!!!

♥♥♥ Cheerios! More updates when I am back!!!! ♥♥♥

R.I.P. beloved headphones....

2008-09-30T16:25:00.006+08:00

I broke my 5 year-old Audio-Technica headphones this morning! I was talking to Angie and wanted to put on my headphones and when I couldn't make out what she was saying, I pulled the ear pieces apart and "SNAP!"!!!! The right ear piece is on my hand, separated with the body....

Split into 2 now....

I was quite upset! Boo hoo.....

I remember buying this headphone after Grace bought the white one and I like how it wraps your whole ear and it doesn't hurt like my ipod earphones.

NO choice.... time for a new headphones!

Good Bye, headphones! Thank you for shutting me off from the vicious world when times are bad! Wahahaha.....

So Drama.... wahahaha....

Hong Kong again!

2008-09-23T20:29:00.001+08:00

Yes, my 2nd trip this year. This time round me, Dulcy and LayC were there to present our fall winter collections to the HK promoters. Boss, 沈太 and Angie were with us too for this trip. Was dreading this trip since the previous week... hate presentations.... english ones still ok but since I joined 8 years ago, I had only made 1 or 2 presentations in english!!!! Most of the time were in Mandarin lor!!! Speaking in Mandarin is no problem for me but presenting things like Brand philosophy in Mandarin can die! Wahaha.... Good thing for me that my Cantonese is not as good as it is... if not I probably have to give a full presentation in Cantonese lor!

So, last wednesday, prior to flying, Boss told us about the expensive dinner he had booked for dinner that night. At a chinese restaurant called Xin Tong Le (新同乐) at Happy Valley. When Mr. Sim told me the price per person, I nearly fainted! It's HK$2000 (S$400) per pax!!! Wah lau eh!!!! Very ex! My mum said that she had never ate such an expensive meal in her whole life before... So haven't I!!! Hahaha.... it was my 1st most expensive meal in my life!

Thank you Boss! Huhu...

My boss is a very generous person, always treating us to sumptuous meals! If I hadn't join SCH, I doubt I will have any chance to eat all the hor liao!

Hey LayC, what are you writing on the MTR???

It's actually a Motorola HP ad!
cute idea!

Dinner at Xin Tong Le

Nice napkin display!
The waitress told us that the chopsticks used in the restaurant are
at least 40 years old!!!
No wonder the bottom part of the chopsticks are a darker colour!
Yucks! I like vintage but not this kind lah!
I like the floral wallpaper at the back.

We had the whole of 2nd floor to ourselves!

Double-boiled Sharksfin?
The chicken stock soup base is rather thick and salty.

Must be at least double-boiled.

XO sauce looks real good right?!?!
Crystal prawn!
It has many properties that are good for diseases like Parkinson's disease
and also anti-aging etc. etc.
There is a write-up on this type of prawns too!
Telling us all the benefits for consuming this crystal prawn.
Prawn fritter.

Deliciously crispy!

Here's another Star of the menu -
"14-head" abalone!!!!
My 1st time devouring such an expensive abalone!
I was enjoying every bite of it!
Abalones are my favourite! Wahaha!

Scallops!!!
Big whole scallops cooked to perfection!!!
Pork Rib with Chai po!
Very fragrant~!
The skin of this chicken is so crispy and the meat is so tender!
There wasn't any "chicken smell" to it.
The waitress was so proud that chicken in HK are not frozen,she was so proud that she said she has been to Singapore and she nearly puke after eating our frozen chicken.
Such arrogance ar!
荷叶饭

Was really, really full when this lotus leaf rice came.
Managed to eat some and I couldn't stop after that!
The rice was so delicious! Every grain is so flavourful!

The award-winning dessert!
It's warm water-chestnut cake (马蹄糕)
sandwiched between pastries shells.

It's the best chinese pastry I have ever eaten!!!! Behold!
The finalé!
Bird nest in Almond cream!
Look! How fine it is!
The whole bowl is filled with so much bird nest!
More then what I usually eat in a year!
After the finalé, my stomach almost burst lor!
I had to hold my stomach and walk! So afraid that when I let go,
my whole stomach will fall to the floor!
Wahahaha!
Back at the new Novotel hotel at Nathan Road!
Loving the wall mural on the 6th floor lift lobby! LayC!
The new contemporary feel of the rooms are very comforting!
Lipstick-like containers that are so so modern!
Amazingly, I didn't take any of these home despite the lovely shape!
Near the shower!
Like the bathroom and mosaic tiles!
2 different types of pillows for us to choose from!
Honestly, feather pillows are just tooooooo soft lah!
LayC and I bought the same stuffs!
The collagen are so cheap!!!
2 for HK$389 - $60+, $30+ for one!!!
I saved more then $20 for 1 can!
Too bad I don't have more cash to spare if not I would have bought 2 more!
Lunch the next day!
Very famous char siew and roast goose at Tsuen Wan!
Boss found this shop by accident and is actually a very famous roast shop!
See how fat the Roast pork is!

♥Mini celebration at Hui Lau Shan!♥

It's my 8th year anniversary at SCH(18th Sept)!

I made Angie treat me at Hui Lau Shan but in the end she had to treat
Dulcy and LayC as well! Hahaha....
Angie and her Gui Ling Gao!
Always eat the same! Boring lei!
LayC's having a mango and jello drink!
Dulcy ordered a papaya and hashima dessert!
She took a few sips of the Hashima and complained that it tasted wierd

so when she took a bite at the papaya, it was sour!
I tried a tiny bite and it was indeed spoilt! Yucks!

A must-eat!
Mango mochi!
My 芒果神冰! ♥
Mango ice-cream, mango pudding, mango puree and mango bits!
SO SO MANGO!!!
Wahaha!

Me look so tired after 1 long day!
My hair is so messsssy too!

Day 3 - 2nd presentation and going back SG in the evening!

The red, red lantern at 糖朝!
Good thing that we were at the private rooms on level 2!
The lunch crowd are killing us with the noise they were creating!
The classic paper placemat!
Eventhough they had moved and renovated,
the paper is still the same!
Bird nest on the egg tarts!☻
Traditional 杨枝甘露!
Ok only lei... quite disappointing :(

So here you have it... my HK trip... 3 things I did - Eat, presentation and shopping in H&M. Didn't even go to Mongkok this time.... No cheap bags to buy.... Sian... Hahaha... anyway I was broke too!!!! Good thing I managed to sneak an uncensored version of Lust, Caution back... huhu... or am I not supposed to say this??? Oops!

I want a son like him....

2008-08-24T22:53:00.003+08:00

If I can't have a boy friend like him, I want a son like him! Who is he? The answer is the talented Evan yo 蔡旻佑! He is such a talented and cute young boy! Ok lah, not so young.. but he is only 21 lor! My gosh.....

He can play the violin and piano very well. Don't you think guys who can play musical instruments are very charming??? They just make all the girls swoon........... His 1st album is very nice and there is this song call "我可以" which is very simple and very sweet. I was so attracted to this young guy until 星光帮came along with my darling 楊宗緯 and 林宥嘉 and the most recent "oh-so-geeky-but-do-cute" 盧廣仲! Geek is so IN now, thanks to Luella Bartley. My new collections are so geeky and superhero inspired too!

Enjoy the videos! The first one is featuring Evan yo, singing a self-composed/remake of "Shuang Jie Gun" - Jie Lun's fast number, for 娱乐百分百. The 2nd one is my current favourite song from 盧廣仲which you can already hear from the sidebar here on my blog!

Baby Isabelle's 1st month luncheon!

2008-08-20T18:45:00.006+08:00

Yes, another baby 1st month party I'm attending. This is the 3rd baby party I've attended this year! For anyone who doesn't know by now, Baby Isabelle is Louisa's baby daughter born on the 7th of July this year! My boss's 1st grand child! We all can tell that he is so so SO happy! He had been dreaming of this day! Hahaha...

So it's a simple luncheon at a not so simple place - The Line @ Shangri La Hotel on National Day. And boy, it was sure crowded on that day! Funny thing is that we are seated together with the rest of the buffet crowd. Feel a little wierd cos there is like not much interaction and the sections in which we are seated at are all spilt up into sections. Most people who arrived just sat and started attacking the buffet line like most other paying guest. I did brought the girls over and told Mr. Sim that we had reached and we took a peek at the cute, chubby baby.

And after that, it seemed like our own private party at our own long table. Boo was invited too so he came and squeeze with us.

The buffet had a huge selection of different food! It was so much different from the "local fare" buffet at Goodwood Park hotel my sistas and I had the week before! I'm sure the price is way different too! Wahaha....

Shiying cut the bread and I placed them nicely.
I'm very interested to eat the pointy pointy mini loaf!
Cream of Asparagus!
Shiying and Sweeyee!
I simply nicknamed them SY2 and SY1 respectively.
How to differentiate the numbers?
Easy, just go by who is older - senior's first!
The other 2 PC girls - Wenn and Dulcy.
I noticed their skin glows lor and I didn't DI the pic.
The "good-friends-since-sec-school" duo!
Dee and Kim!
Welcome back Kim!
Boo and Me!
The fat-face couple! Damns!!!
Hahahaha....
Fresh Oysters!
Although Dulcy claimed that it wasn't the freshest she had eaten.
Kim found this super long breadstick and we wanna play with it!

They made me pose like playing a flute,
then Boo suddenly turned and took a bite!
Me tried Indian food.

The staring incident!
Starring Dulcy and Shiying!
Seriously, I had forgotten what is it about!
Wahaha....

Stare!!!!!
My dessert plate!
Now I know why I still haven lost weight....
*sigh...
The temptations of sweet stuff....

This little cuppie is made from chocolate!
Cute!

Real Vs Fake!
Can you tell which is the fake macaron that was hanging from Dee's phone?
I helped Louisa booked cute lil cuppies from Cupcake divinity.
There is 160 of them!

I snatched the Ladybird one!
so funny!!!
The SCH Girlies!

Coincidentally, we arrived with similar colour code without pre-arrangement!

Nothing seems to go right this time....

2008-08-06T19:06:00.006+08:00

SIGH..........

My latest campaign..... feels like.... a flop!!!!!!!!

It's like pure bad luck ever since the 1st day.

Design wise - No luck with whatever fabric I want...... the lace I want to use is confined internationally....... Cannot meet minimum quantity so have to change designs and I thought, OK lor... Change designs nevermind lor, just change the designs the best that it can look and then shoot chio chio still can make myself happy and sell my designs super well can liao. Happy liao.

But hor no lor! I can't believe my luck when I start to cast models all the way back in early June lor!!! No models lor that suits my exclusive label lor!!! SIAN LEH!!! I thought I can fly Anastasia back again this year since no one can match her standards liao. Without Angie around to make the decision and no one to back me, I made a SUPER daring decision without any consent lor - that is to pay HALF her air ticket from Milan to come back just to shoot my campaign lor.

Image copyright from Pierre Cardin Lingerie
Shot by Simon at Flux Fotography
Touch-up and DI - Me!!!
Model - Anastasia from ave management.

Oh Anastasia......
Where art thou?!?!

After so many calls, so many emails, so many sleepless nights (everytime I wake up in the middle of the night and I will automatically start thinking about this problem then I can't sleep already!) the agency tells me to forget it since the air ticket is toooooo ex and even half the air tic is over my budget..................

So when I approach another agency, and almost found a some-what quite suitable model, the 1st agency offered to fly another model from NY for me. This model's portfolio looks ok but I haven't seen her real person so I am not sure what I'm in for PLUS I send the other short-listed model for casting and the photos that came back is so not flattering lor.

HEADACHE AR........................

Then the model war started. 2 agencies fighting for this job. Called me almost every hour lor. 1 agency tried to talk me through to book their girl, the other one keep brainwashing me. It was so bad everytime I hang up the phone I get a splitting headache........

So after a few days, we finally made the decision to fly the girl from NY. So there is no going back but yesterday when I saw her, I was so disappointed lor.... No right she can pose lah BUT she looks so old lor.... her boobs also not natural. Double blow man! Then my booker still call me and tell me: "think I won't ask her back in Sept already... she don't have market in S'pore lor...oops, you get what I mean hor?!" I felt like at the point, I had been stabbed already then he came and push the knife further in and not only that, took the knife and started turning the handle right and left then left then right again and says "DIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! You bitch!!!!"

(I bet if Yvonne is reading this, she will be laughing out loud lor! Thinking.... Elaine "or-bi-good" lor, don't wanna book my Zoe lor!)

So I have No luck with models, no luck with location, my samples cannot be done in time and sooooo many other problemssssss..... I am so going crazy already.

Tomorrow is the shoot already. Going to dbl O to shoot so hope all is well. Hope the model don't look so old. Hope I don't need to do toooooo many touch up after that.

Pray hard for me, will ya?

Baby Tasha's party!

2008-07-31T14:55:00.002+08:00

It's Baby Tasha's 1st ever party!

Date: 19th July 2008

Time: 11.30am (relatives session)

Venue: Clubhouse @ basement, The Nexus.

Invites designed by LayC!

This is my 2nd 满月party I've attended in July! The 1st one is Baby Chelsea's party which I've to travel all the way to Jurong West to attend! My best friend, Kristy had to stay so far from me! We are like on different ends of the island lor! Very chams!

Ice had made me the "official decorator" of Princess Tasha's party! Wahahaha... sound like machiam I'm David Tutera lor! Wahaha.... of course I couldn't do it alone so I roped in all the sistas's help!

Prior to the actual date, I went deco-shopping with Boo after his sister's solemnisation. It was a good thing that all the party and gift suppliers had moved to Middle Road! It's so accessible now! So I got lots and lots of balloons - pink and white, rolls and rolls of ribbons, big "It's a Girl!" banner and streamers. I had quite a hard time cos the selection was limited. The decorations are mainly for 1st birthdays. Damns!

Here are the pics of that day's event! I've also uploaded 110pics in my flickr page.

Take a look here!

Tadah!
Presenting Baby Tasha and Mama Ice!
BB: "Yawwwnnn... I'm so tired, can don't wake me up or not?"

LayC was in-charged of the balloons cos I am scared of balloons!
Hahaha...
with the help of Amber, John and Bert,
we managed to have quite a fair bit of balloons!
LayC printed the word "Princess" and I contributed with "Tasha"!

The cute "3D" banner I've gotten from P&G shop at middle road!

The pretty and cute cupcakes from cupcake divinity arrived!!!
All of us got sooooo excited when we saw the cupcakes!
We immediately threw what we were doing and started snapping pics
with all our cameras!!!
Girls being Girls!!! Hahaha...
Poor John, the only brother helping out!
Boo's not feeling well then Wymen is working! So didn't went earlier to help!
OOPS!
Cute right!!!
So lovely the cupcakes!
LayC was snapping, snapping, snapping!
So I went to disturb her!

My Mug shot!
Hahaha... I made this $$$ envelope!
It's Tasha with a tiara!
So pretty pretty!
Always pretty to have Girls party!
Cute, pretty and PINK!!!
It's like A star being photographed and the sistas are the reporters!
We have a new addition - Sista Tasha!
Huhuhu....
eeee... so ugly!
Wahaha... I'm having some silly fun with Ah Tan!

Ah Tan's turn!
She was not ugly lor, so LayC had to help her!
Good job, LayC!
Red eggs!
A must at all the 满月parties!
What a spread!
Buffet catered from Neo Garden!
Their buffets are so far the best I've eaten.
Damn Svelte Mama lor!
I'm so jealous lor..... I can't tell she had a baby lor!
Hahaha... my current figure machiam like I had 2 kids already! Damns!
Made Boo act silly with me!

The rainbow cuppies sistas!
Bert loved the rainbow cupcake so much she immediately claimed it's hers
and didn't wanna let any of us have it too!
Until there was an extra one for Celine!
John and Amber's having a good time too!
The Chois has to do this!
Wahahaha... machiam 交杯酒!
Celine and her rainbow mustache!

Wahaha... The Chois decided to recreate some new looks for the cuppies!
*we were a little bored actually...huhu*

*Tadah!!!*
The Chois' new creation!
The Sistas lazing on the couch!
Damn comfy lor the couch.... we were hogging it like forever...huhu...

Sleepy Tasha's blowing bubbles...
Hehehe... so cute...
The sleepy boys...
Boo was sitting and sleeping at the same time!
Wymen looks kinda bored too... huhu...
Back at home!
The princess is going to change her diapers!

Our attempts to carry the Princess!!!

Auntie Elaine goes "Ang-gugu~!"
Auntie Celine got all tense up and her arms and legs
suddenly got all raised up and seems like she is like doing ballet poses!!!

Very, very funny sight I tell you!
Auntie LayC turn!
We all think LayC has this calming or soothing effect on Tasha
cos everytime LayC gets near Tasha, she will fall asleep!
Hahaha... look at Tasha now.. she is almost falling asleep le!
For some reason, Tasha seems to be scared of Auntie Amber!
Look at her face.... wahahaha....
Back to mummy's loving arms again!
BB: "These aunties dunno how to carry me.... so uncomfortable!"

My Birthday....

2008-07-29T20:31:00.000+08:00

I know.... This post is wayyyyyyyy overdue.... Hahahaha.... My birthday was like almost 3 weeks ago!
I've been really busy and lazy as well... Too many photos and too many events that happened in July - Not only there was my birthday, there is also 2 baby Man Yue parties that I've to attend. And Baby Tasha's parties I've to plan for the decorations as well! And just when I thought that everything will settle down and I will go back to my normal weekends and getting ready to start my collections at work, I've been dropped a live bomb.

Yes. An extremely heavy burden was suddenly dropped on my shoulders. Just like 3 years ago, my manager, Angie, suddenly applied for urgent leave for 1 and half months.

In 2005, she also had to go on an urgent leave suddenly. At that time, it was quite a bad situation because it was so sudden. And there were no one else following her work and the things on hand! I was still in Young Hearts at that time. I was told to transfer to Pierre Cardin and was still very much struggling with the fact. Before I could even make a decision to go or not to go over, I was told to let the ropes in 1 day.

Yes, ONE single day.

I had no clues what to expect. I didn’t have a choice. I was thrown into the open sea – it’s either I drown or I try to swim. For sure, no one can help me. Now, it’s the same situation. It can’t be compared to the initial experience but the stress amount was greater. I had my own stuff on hand to deal with and now I had to oversee all the production stuff, POs and development stuffs as well. Although Angie tried her best to hand-over most of the things in 1 day, there are a lot of stuffs that are unforeseen and are happening right now.

The 1st 2 days she was away on leave, I nearly went crazy. On the verge of tearing out my hair when a lot of people just can’t find her and immediately came to me with questions! But I had no answer!!! I wasn’t in any position to make any decisions as well! And over the weekend, I lost sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and kept thinking about the next photo shoot and how to make things work. And suddenly all the problems at work just poured in. I didn’t sleep till 2 hours later. Goodness me……..

Ok ok. Enough of my problems at work! Here are my photos from my birthday! For those who had forgotten, my birthday falls on 11th of July! It’s very easy to remember! Just remember 7-11 and you will always think of me when you see a 7-11 store! Hehehe!!!

Ok, got to tell you a bit more! At the stroke of midnight on the 11th, I was disappointed that no one sms me at all! Throughout the years, many friends started messaging me before midnight and all the way thru to 2am! But this year – none! I got a little upset to be honest. But I assured myself that my friends probably will message me tomorrow morning or something. The next morning, still nothing, not even from my sistas until much later then the sms wishes started a little bit. A few friends chose to wish me over Facebook which is very sweet of them also. As I thought it will be yet another mundane birthday, a birthday surprise was waiting for me!

The 1st surprise is from the SCH girlies, as I thought we will be cutting a slice of cake in the office, they thought of a plan to eat lunch at MacDonald’s and Wenny still claimed that she had to go to the bank. I almost fell for it until when LayC got a call and the party on the other side of the phone seems to be asking her for the number of candles etc. So I suspected it was Wenny who went to get a cake instead of going to the bank! Hahaha… but I didn’t expect them to cut the cake there and then at Mac. Hahaha…. So it was sort of a surprise also!

Surprise no.2 was from Angie, my makeup artist friend! She was so sweet lor! She came specially to my office to drop a pressie on my table! Very nice of her!

The other big surprise was from Casper’s mum, aunt and sister. I was doing my work usually when LayC suddenly requested me to go to the front, to Regina’s table as there was something wrong with her computer. But from LayC’s tone of voice, I immediately suspected that something is not right and there could be a surprise lining up! So while taking the few steps leading to Regina’s table, I kept thinking…. What or who could it be?! Little that I imagined that Boo’s mum, aunt and Yan Jun was standing there! OMG! I was in shock till I didn’t know how to react! Hahaha… I must have looked very weird! Hahaha….

Apparently, Yan Jun had secretly liaised with LayC for this surprise. They initially only wanted to pass the gifts to her but she made them hide in front as part of the surprise! Hahaha… Yan Jun also ordered 2 extremely pretty cupcakes for me as a gift!!!! It’s really very sweet of her! I was really very happy and totally speechless when I saw the cupcakes. The lovely cupcakes were from the “Little House of Dreams” and they had a post on my cupcakes! Take a look of it here!

Boo’s family also gave me a cotton candy machine! COOL! They got so excited and they immediately gave me a demo on how to play and make cotton candy later with my colleagues! Hahaha! Which I did! SCH girlies heart the machine too! We had fun, fun, fun!

Pressie from Angie 姐! She got me a russian doll prints tote bag!

She didn't know I love Russian dollies so it was pure coincidental!

Boo's mama, aunt and sis baked and packed this lovely heart-shaped cookies!!!
It's for me to hand out to my colleagues!
How sweet!
I felt like a kindergarden kid again! hehehe...

These are cranberry and almond cookies!

Pressie from the SCH Girlies!
$$$$$
This s the 1st time Dulcy's in-charged of making a moolah envelope!

My lovely cupcakes from Little House of Dreams!
This is box 1!

Here's box 2!

How lovely right!!!

The bees! The bees!!!
It's so cute!!!
"Miss E" is my new moniker if you hadn't realised! Huhuhu...

The candy floss maker!
Here's me trying to make my very 1st candy floss!

LayC's turning to make a bigggggg one!

Yay!
LayC's candy floss is the biggest among us!

Me and my lovely cupcakes!
Boo arrived before our dinner date and he wants to smash my face with the cakes!
Hahahaha....

***Dinner with Boo***
at Wild Rocket!

Us!

Our starter - wild rocket salad!
The colours are so beautiful!
Roasted pumpkins slices topped the salad and
delicious pinenuts and feta cheese make the salad very flavourful!
Loved the shape of the lovely wild rocket leaf!
My main - Sirloin steak with white sesame dressing
and lovely little asparagus!
Boo's having the Duck Confit with Mum's yam cakes.
The duck was pan-fried to perfection - Soo soooo crispy!!!

Boo's side - crabcake!
I stole a bite since I am allergic to crabs! I don't want to break into rashes
on my birthday!!! huhu...

Dessert!!!!
This is ..... eh.... I forgot the name!
Shucks!
It's coffee with Gula Melaka(brown sugar) and vanilla ice-cream!
I had also forgotten about the name of this heavenly chocolate dessert!
Take a look at the next pic! A secret unveiled.....
Warm chocolate ooooozesss out!!!
So yummmmmy!!!!

We are all done...
On the way down from Mt Emily...
When I reached home, Boo presented me a pressie!
It's what I've always wanted - A PINK DS Lite!
hehehe....
Thank you, Boo!!!!

Next day.......

Lunch with the Sistas
at Shin Kushiya, Vivo!

Flipping the menu...
Celine and I waited patiently for the others to arrive....
Bored, we cam-whored!
So hungry....

Finally the girls came and we ordered a feast!
Yums!

Salad no.1 -Horenso Salad
It's made with young spinach leaves that explains
the "muddy" taste which I personally can't tolerate! hahaha...
Maki to share....
Fried calamari! Very Oiishi!
We've ordered a large Kushiyaki set to share among the 5 of us!
So it came with variaties of meat and seafood skewers, enough for everyone!
Salad no. 2 - Garden salad

yummy yum!
The chicken looked a little burned!
Oops! But it's still very yummy!
The yaki-onigiri, I feel, is a little too salty for my liking!

snap snap snap -
doing what I love - taking pics!
I heart the meat skewers at Shin!
It's very delicious!!!

LayC and Bert!
We are not eating.....
We are picking our teeth!!! Wahahaha.....
The typical hand sign... Hahaha...
Bert suggested I put 11 candles on my tiny cake!
So evil right!!!!
My lovely sistas!
Ice, at that time, was still under her confinement period so she wasn't

there... missed her!

Celine is enjoying the leftover chocolate cream on the wrapping!
Celine stuffing a cupcake in her mouth before she left to teach ballet!
Amber seemed to want to help her stuff it in further! Hahaha...
Kissy the duckie!
She took the duckie cupcake! hehehe...

The Husbands and to-bes came along!

Matching!
Wymen wore the salad on him! hehehe...
He had gotten stares from the MOS burger staffs
for wearing a MOS Burger X Uniqlo Tee!
The hubby and the brother-in-laws!
*look at John, he is acting cute!
Wahahaha!

Super Sweet Surprise
from Grace!!!

Grace dear, send me flowers! Very sweet of her to remember my bday and also send very sweet roses in a pretty watering can! But she got the date wrong! Hahaha... The flowers only came on the 15th and she had mark the calendar wrongly! Hahaha...
I really got so surprised when Regina intercommed me on tuesday morning and said someone is looking for me with flowers.... I was like "huh?!"
Then I saw the card, my heart went "Aw...........Grace.... I miss you so..."

Thank you Grace dear! Thank you for the lovely flowers! It made my day!!!
I miss you lots! Be back soon ya?!

Lovely flowers and birthday card!Her Sweet, sweet message!

I must thank all the great friends and wonderful family who showed me LOVE for my birthday! I'm someone who loves celebrations. Now I'm just waiting and planning for the big 3-0!!! I'm going to have a massive theme party!!!

Yanjun and Junxiong's solemnization!

2008-07-16T16:10:00.000+08:00

14th July 2008 - 3 days afer my 29th birthday, it was Boo's sister, Yan jun's solemnization at the Oriental Hotel.

Wanted to post my Birthday pics up 1st but decided I should post this 1st! My birthday pics will be up soon!

Recently, my photos have a problem. They are all very grainy, very noisy. I hate the quality! I don't really know what's wrong....... Maybe it's showing some sign of fading out! Oh my.... I will be so handicap without my camera! Maybe I should really splure on a digital SLR soon! My ultimate goal! Meanwhile, I'll just hope my trusty Canon Ixus 75 will hang on!

Here are some of the photos! I've uploaded the whole lot in my flickr page, here. Go take a look!

The inside of The Oriental.
This is where the Solemnization took place.

Me and Boo's family, his aunt and cousins from Switzerland.
Favours!
The cookies are baked by Boo's mum and aunt,

the tags were designed by me and I tied those bows!

Lovely ladies waiting for the ceremony to start.
Yanjun's bouquet.
Yanjun made this ring pillow herself!

any interested buyers?

The rings that ties them together!
huhuhu...

Placing the favours.

Boo and I.
The solemnization started and ended very quickly...
and after the JoP pronounced them Mr and Mrs Ang and
made them kiss, Boo's mum mentioned about the rings.

The rings were still tied prettily on top of the ring pillow.

He had forgotten to exchange them!

Hahaha....

It was a First for him!

He was so embarrassed, the back of his neck is still red when he hurried and left the building.

Boo's cousin, Weiwei.
Very cute little boy who just wanna have more cotton candy and fruits!

They finally got ready the buffet table right after the ceremony.
A little slow I think.
yummy savoury mini bites!
A table full of mini desserts!
How can anyone resist?!?!
Cute little custard pudding!
Small small strawberry cheesecake!
Extreme vivid colours found in this fruit platter!
Love the buffet stands.
Wished I had some at home!
Perfect for holding parties with!

Jams and fruits perserves for the biscuits and scones.
Baby muffins!
The kids, Lele and Weiwei, waiting for the Cotton candy machine to work.
For some reason it failed to spin out threads of cotton candy.

We waited like an hour plus and kept figuring how to make it work.

The kids were getting disappointed until Boo's cousin suggested using something to cover the

top as the temperature failed to reach a high enough level for the candy to melt.

Lucky, if not I thought I broke the machine.

Mini sashimi platter.

I didn't managed to eat this.
I kept wondering what was the filling......

I left the party early to go get Ice baby Shower decorations.

Damn.... July is so busy.

Surprise!!!

2008-06-29T04:56:00.007+08:00

Met Miss Tan at Raffles City yesterday for dinner! She initially asked all the sistas if we wanna watch movie but I wasn't really feeling for a movie so I asked if she wanna meet in the evening to walk walk instead since I am free and I was intending to wait for Boo to knock off from the road show at Funan.

Celine did a very sweet thing.

We were walking around RC and she wanted to show me the watches she kinda like at Agnès b. so we went in. I was looking around and I saw this cute little necklace on one of the display cabinet and I really liked it. Not wanting to burn a hole in my wallet, I didnt asked how much it was. So we left.

After roaming around she wanted to use the bathroom then we went. As she wanted to take a longer time, I was told to go walk around 1st. Which I did, carrying alot of stuff. Then I decided not to walk around anymore and called her to tell her that I'll be waiting at the fountain. I kept looking around to see if she is coming already. She did told me she was going to get some stuff 1st and I didnt think much of it and stood there and stare at the funny patterns coming out of the fountain. The patterns had such a soothing effect that I was stoning there and I didnt even notice she appear and had me a paper bag.

I was shocked by her sudden appearance and the Agnès b. paper bag. She wished me happy birthday in advance and this pressie is to make up for the many bdays she wasn't around to celebrate with me.

Aw.... I was so touched by her thought!

At Shokudo!
She bought 2 rings today - one from Swatch and the bow one from River Island.

Making funny faces!

My sweet surprise from my lovely sista!

A card she wrote in lightning speed!

Aw.... the necklace that I told her I really like when we went in initially.
She really went back and got it for me...

The staff as according to her were very cute as well. They recognised her and they wrap the pressie in lightning speed and also help her to watch out for me just in case I got bored and started walking around since I was at the fountain!

Nice staff at Agnès b. Raffles City shop!

Boo's series of funny poses!
He was supposed to mimick someone with his exaggerated poses.

Make a guess!

"Oh... I am reading a book!"

"The sun is so bloody glaring!"

"Let me put on my sunglasses!"
"OOh... How lovely I am!"
"Chay!"
"Please! I am so gorgeous, ok!"

1st ever Singapore Toy & Comic Convention!

BLING!!!!

The Chois!
I love the row of Smery To-Fus in front! So cute, they are pinching their nose!
Hahaha...
LayC with Lao Fu zi and Da fan shu!

Wymen's turn!
I am the 3rd party!
My childhood favourite - Lao Fu Zi comics!

The Chois are looking at how they play chess!
Hahaha...
Cute!
Yes, she is really called "Cute"!

I love the "fake" Tofu!

Funny!!!

These 3 are from the Devil Robots and Play Imaginative ollaboration.

Cute Cuddles!

Q-version of Yoda!
Boo says he looks like Samuel L. Jackson!

Hahahaha!!!

Vintage Star Wars figurine from the 70s and 80s!

The Artist drew this wall on the spot that day.
Too bad I went really late if not could have catch it!

Love the tokidoki characters!

The artists were kinda cute too.

Especially Mori Chack (Gloomy Bear artist)! Simone Legno (tokidoki artist) also not bad! Hahaha....

On our virgin trip to the S'pore Flyer to have some Popeyes Chicken!

Not pretty!
Hahahaha.... I have lousy camera skill!

Wah Lau!

2008-06-27T01:36:00.003+08:00

Shiying showed me this site yesterday!

And LayC told me 1 of my panty design was being sold for SGD$80!!!

Wah lau.... this seller claims that it's one of her favourite pair of panties.... $80 is probably like 20 times it's original price lor! The reason she is selling at such a price is because its USED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YUCKS!

Now I don't know how to react.... happy? Or SICK?

Like the time I discovered my designs were copied in China and Indonesia, I don't know whether should I laugh out loud or cry out loud! Hahaha...

Photo Shoots

2008-06-23T16:12:00.001+08:00

It's the photoshoot season! Every time this year I'll be so busy preparing for shoots and also getting my eyesight worsened by doing alot, ALOT of touch-ups and DIs. For those who still doesn't know what is DIs, it actually stands for Digital Imaging - which means altering the model's figure (make some parts bigger and make most parts smaller! Haha..), changing of colour, super-impose something or anything to enhance the feel of the pictures.

I must admit, I didn't learn how to do DI professionally. I just happened to pick it up from Joyce, whom use to do some touch-ups for models for PC. Then because I had no contacts for freelance DI artist and also I was thinking of helping my company save moola so I offered to do it since 2006. I just try my best to do and also pick up new skill since. I have enjoyed doing DI and bear with the consequences like getting my whole right arm cramped up til my shoulder from clicking the mouse and my myopia going from -3.00 to -4.00 on my right eye and also whole body ache. The only time I regretted for being a kind soul is when my manager takes me forgranted.

It really didn't get to her head how much I am saving for the company. I know.... alot of people will critised me for doing this. Like I asked for it. I could have sub it out to other people... etc.. etc.. But I really enjoying it right now... but all I ask for is some extra time for me to finish it up. Not like today shoot, tomorrow ask me if the pictures will be ready. Very irritating lor I tell you!

Anyway! Enough of her! Here's some behind the scene pictures of us fooling around and working hard as well. And for the 1st time I went to Old Changi hospital for loaction shoot! I almost got freaked out!

Shoot 1 - Happening lights!
We love the props so much that Dulcy and I took turns to shoot each other with Simon gege's EOS 1. So heavy lor his camera! I think got 4 or 5 kg!

Dulcy as Cheeky BatGirl!
It ain't heavy, it's me Bat!
Hahaha... lightning hits her ass!

Simon gege and Julia
Can tell that Simon really loved our fringed wig.
Look at him... I think he is trying to achieve the "大老爷" look with his
mistress next to him. Hahaha....

The girls!
What a lovely couple!
High-fashion version!
Hahaha....
Separated at Birth!!!!
After this pic I think I have a long lost sister between me and Essly!
Don't you think we looked so alike!!!
Dulcy's turn!

The 881 setup.
How happening!

I like the lights!

Shoot 2 - Old Changi Hospital

When I told Simon my collection is a lil ghastly kind of feel, he actually went to Old Changi hospital to recee and asked if I am interested to shoot there! I was like.... freaked out for a moment. But after seeing the photos.... I thought the feel was really quite good so no choice have to shoot there! If not there is like no where else!

Lucky we only have to shoot for half a day. We reached there at around 1.30pm and the sky was like getting dark. It looked like it was going to rain. There were a little sunlight.... Thank God. When we approached the slope going up the back of the defunct hospital, Julia suddenly told us that she had been here before..... AT NIGHT!!!

All of us immediately applauded her courage for going to the hospital at night especially me as I am the 胆小鬼 among all of them. As I stood outside the old, dilapidated building, I began to scare myself. There were burned joss sticks on the ground where the 2 big pieces of boulder (to block access of vehicles) were. The building looked old, dirty and covered with ugly graffiti. I walked in, going thru a few rooms at the back where we'll be shooting the few shots. The state of distressed are so natural and it's kinda nice in a way. I like the broken windows, the stained walls and also the decrepit furnitures left to rot there.

There was this room that had a toad in it! I was totally freaked out by then. Toads and frogs are the worse creatures ever!!! Grossss!!! I was hoping I don't have to go into that room and thank goodness, the wires were long enough for me to stay in the other room holding the lap top. PHEW! But I happened to peek at the toad trying to climb into a candle-holder and it's like so wierd! Funny but gross at the same time! Hahaha...

I'm so glad that Julia was really into the mood and she is like the most professional model ever besides Anastasia. She wasn't afraid of the creepy place nor the dirt or like having to change in make-shift places. She gave us super good shots. By 4pm. We were done for the day and ready to exit the place. Super fast. Fastest outdoor shoot ever! I'm so glad because it started to rain and I was cursing the sky and I was like so frightened that I might see something that I don't wish to see. Hahaha...

Simon's ready to shoot.

Julia seems to be like treading carefully to the place where she supposed to stand.

Angie sneak a pic too.
She gave us very nice goth makeup and hair!
Phin's the assistant of the day!

The Old skool doors.

Ugly grafitti marked the walls.
What a waste.

Dulcy, in one of the rooms.

This looks like it could be a dispensary last time with the little window there.

My right foot got bitten by mozzie even though I sprayed alot of repellent!

Simon's hard at work.
A sneak peek at my collection.

Oh! Courtesy Lion!

So 80s!

My artistic shot! Hahaha...

Algae-stained walls and ceilings.

Me, picking photos and hiding from the toad as well.

Dulcy showing how big the place is.
I was quite worried that when I load the pics, there will be something popping out from the windows at the back!
See how 胆小 I am!

ps. There were a strange happening when we were shooting the 2nd or 3rd set. One of the image of her close-up shot suddenly appeared in green in the laptop as I was going thru the pics when Simon shoots. As usual, i freaked out and asked him to change the pic's colour intensity immediately! I didn't touch the keyboard so there shouldn't be a reason why the colour will change by itself! And of all colour why GREEN?!!? So scary man!

Taipei

2008-06-18T23:27:00.012+08:00

Taipei - My 4th city in 3 months. Was not as excited about going there this time round because I was really stressed out with the presentation that I was going to give to the executives and shop supervisors there. The biggest problem I have is My mandarin. My chinese sucks big time and it had gotten worse over the years! Shucks. I am really glad my ah lao is super well-versed in our mother tongue. Thank god for that! So he helped me alot for the presentation but I think he can't help me with is my nervousness. Hahaha....

Whenever there is a presentation, no matter how much I had prepared and how many times I had done it, my mind will go blank at that instant and then *poof!* everything just disappeared! So I started talking rubbish. Even I couldn't understand myself! Don't think the promoters will know what I was trying to convey! Chams!!!! Hahaha... I think my boss still shakes his head whenever I try to explain our brand philosophy in mandarin.

Sorry Boo.... I have failed you....... Hahahaha....

So besides the presentation on last tuesday. Most of the time were spent travelling from 1 mall to the other. If not will be the lavish dinners we had every night. No pictures of the delicious taiwanese food we had cos I thought it was quite rude to start snapping pics when we are sitting with the important people at dinner. No Shihlin trip for us also. Really didn't felt like going to any night market this time round. I think most of the time we were too full and tired also.

But I would very much loved to go back to Taipei also. It will be great if I can go to 1 of the major concert party thingie like they also hold for NYEs or something!

One of the famous Taiwanese 小吃 - 蛋仔面!
The soup has a clear meaty sweet taste with bit of crunchy garlic in it.
Very delicious.

Visiting one of the outlets and it was raining!

My collections in the window!

View of our hotel from the lobby lounge where we had our breakfast.

I LOVE MISTER DONUT!
Yay! Taiwan also have!

My afternoon snack! Hot Red milk tea + mini donuts.
Guess what they call these 6 minis?
六小福! So cute hor!

Angie and Wenn enjoying their donuts!

Vivienne! Our Taiwanese MD?
Very very nice lady!

Mitsukoshi or 新光三越 at Taipei 101.

Nice oriental mouseys!

Our usual dinner set up.

My collection was featured in the Taiwan newspaper!

Whole paper on lingerie!

My 1st time trying this!
鱿鱼羹!

See how fine the mi fen is!

Big generous pieces of squid!

Other small side dishes Vivienne ordered for us!

I love the way they display the donuts at Mister Donut!
Everything look so good!

Presenting.....

One of my favourite food from Taiwan!
It's called 包心粉圆冰
And this particular one I'm having is 综合豆花 flavour.

There is a method to eat this iced version

1. Pour the desired amount of 粉圆 over the ice.
2. Do not stir as it will affect the taste of the 粉圆.
3. Eat the 粉圆 as soon as possible and Taste the Q-ness!
(Although the staff strongly recommend the hot version but I ate the iced version as it was really hot that day!)
The bowl on the left contains soybean curd at the bottom with 2 scoops of ice on top,the "mix nuts" mini platter is on the top right corner and the 包心粉圆("pearls" with fillings)is on the bottom right corner.

A closer look at the 粉圆.
You've got to try this dessert when you go Taiwan.
And you must go to this shop at 西门町and must only eat this shop
one - 罗东夜市的包心粉圆冰!
I first had it 2 years ago at the other famous night market at 隢河!
It's so yummy!

All ready to enjoy my 粉圆s!
What a satisfying feeling!!!

See what I am lugging home!

My favourite!!! Pon de Rings x 10!!!

Love the colours!

Welcome Baby Chelsea!

2008-06-15T23:23:00.006+08:00

My best friend, Kristy, had a baby last Friday! Baby Chelsea was delivered by 12.18pm at Mount Alvernia hospital. I was extremely excited and happy for Mama Kristy and Papa Edwin! I was on stand-by on thursday when Kristy told me she is checking into the hospital to await Chelsea's arrival and when I saw edwin's sms, I got so excited for her! Hahahaha!

So I went to Mt. Alvernia that evening to visit them with Boo!

Radiant Mama Kristy and her beautiful Lil' girl!

Auntie Elaine wants a pic too!
Look at Baby Chelsea, don't you think she looks like a dolly?!

Trying to take more pics of Chelsea!

Eh... She started to open her eyes while I snap snap snap!

Then she seems like she's gonna open the other eye too!
Will I get lucky!?!?

Yes!!!
Baby Chelsea opened both her eyes now~!
whoohooo I'm lucky!

Ain't she Lovely?!?!

Such a Cutie!
She is really a 可爱 little 宝贝!
I'm so happie for Mama Kristy and Papa Edwin!!!!

Back from Jakarta. Sick of Donuts.

2008-05-28T09:47:00.001+08:00

I seriously can't remember when was the last time I went to Jarkata. Was it 2003? I only remember I got so sick after travelling to 3 countries in a short pan of 1week. That time it was Jakarta-Sin-Taipei-Sin-KL. I got so sick in KL and puked and still has to do presentation for the promoters from Malaysia. I can still remember how I puked noodles out from my nose! Gross right! Hahaha...

This trip was quite interesting cos we get to visit a few factories and see how the different knit factories work. But it can get very boring when we are stuck in the jams! Traffic conditions are still quite bad in Jakarta!

The high-end shopping malls are so posh lor! There are more brands then in Singapore lor.... This time round, however, I didn't spot as many "bird nest hair" tai tais as the last time already.
Only one. Disappointing!!! Hahaha....

Julie also brought us to a DAMN POSH estate by the sea to see how LAVISH the rich Indonesian lifestyle is! The houses are huge and they have a mini river as their backyard where they park their YACHT at the back!!!! How rich!!! Sports cars in the front pouch, yacht at the back! A lifestyle most will dream off!

Here's photos from the 2nd day of our trip! Food and Donuts!

Jimmy, Julie and Linda brought us to this famous Indonesia restaurant for dinner!

All the ladies waiting for our food to arrive!

I don't usually eat or drink coconut but that night I just agreed to have 1 and I didn't regret.
The coconut was so refreshing!

I have macro this - look at the translucent flesh of the coconut!

It was having a good time scrapping and eating the coconut!

Traditional Indonesia fare!
Very delicious!
Too bad I can't eat crabs....
Angie says that this gravy was superb!
Damns!
Gado Gado
Very authentic taste - a bit different from what we have here.
Delicious grilled mini lobster!
Actually it looks more like a giant prawn...Hahahaha...

It's grilled to perfection and the sambal chilli that goes with it is "O-so-nice"!

The sambal chilli has cucumber bits inside - adds an extra bite to it!

J.Co donuts!
Julie and Linda bought a 2nd round of donuts for us on the 2nd day!
Although we were very full after dinner but the donuts look so appetitsing!
So the 4 of us decided to split and share so we can try all the different
flavours!

Somehow the donut in the middle reminds me of something...
Hahahaha!!!
2 boxes of 12 donuts for the past 2 days!
Wow - that makes 24 donuts for the 4 of us!

The remains of the Krispy Kreme donuts from the previous day.
The difference between KK and J.co?
Krispy Kreme like all american food, is richer and sweeter in taste,
whereas J.Co's donuts have a lighter taste.

Our room's view

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Weekends with the Sistas
Shopping at Far East with Celine, Dinner at Carl's Junior and watching Indiana Jones with Amber and John, LayC and Wymen.

Trying Gloria Jean's Coffee for the 1st time!
A pretty leaf pattern on my cappucino!
The coffee was so strong I can't sleep til 4+ am that night!

Amber and John shared this...
But I dunno what it is.... latte?
The leaf pattern is even prettier!

Da Sistas

And da Boys

Suddenly John found something very glaring shining at his direction!
And guess what it is?!?!

It was Amber's New Marc Jacobs bag!!!
Hahahaha... see her guilty but happy face!
Wahaha!

Weddings... HDBs.. etc etc...

2008-05-19T20:53:00.000+08:00

I've reached that kind of age where a lot of friends are either married or planning to marry in these 2 years. I have been asked that question too ever since they felt I have reached the marriageable age. I am sure a lot of my friends out there are also experiencing the same thing. BORING!!!

Aren’t these people bored of asking the same questions over and over again?
Recently met up with Boo’s friends and most of them got married last year and earlier this year and one couple will be married next month. Not many girlfriends left in the group; only me I guess until Shi Yong gets a girlfriend too then I’ll have company.

So every time I happen to join the group, Boo and I will be left at the background. The excited newly-weds and the-soon-to-be-married couples will be excited talking about their weddings and their HDB flats. Who’s the photographer lah, what kind of gowns, where they are considering to hold the banquet lah. Then also their love nest, where lah, how good their contractor is lah… blah blah blah...... me and Boo are just tucking in and basically left in the background lah.

Well, I’m fine with it. Because I don’t want to be asked the question again- Like WHEN wanna finally get married?! Just that I get bored with listening to the same thing over and over again. I figured that they do not have anything to talk to me about since I seldom join them and I am also not planning for my wedding thus no common topic.

No “bridal-bonding” I guess (machiam like smokers bonding… hahaha…).

Like meeting up with my secondary school friends is the same. Out of 7 of us, 4 are married and already parents or going to be parents. 1 already has a HDB and going to get married soon. So every time we meet, the usual – talk about weddings, babies and flats. Nowadays, I just meet one close friend. The rest, we only meet up with each other during weddings or events like that.

For my sistas, only 2 are married so still okay lah. We don’t often talk about weddings and HDBs and stuffs like these so it’s ok. We only stressed those who are single to faster get a boy friend! Hahaha…

OK, enough of boring stuffs! I am going to post my happenings for this week!

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Saturday with Boo and Sistas and the Bros
-lazing at home, dinner at Botak Jones with LayC, Wymen and Celine, Coffee with Celine at Siglap, KTV with Derric, Kor and John at Party World-

Boo with his pressie from me!
I bought him a Raoul belt and all thanks to Wymen, I had discount!

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Sunday/Mother's day/Boo's Bday with Boo!
-lunch with Boo's family at Shin Kushiya (Vivo), coffee at Pacific Coffee, shopping at Daiso, bought pizza for mummy for Mother's day-

Sorry, No photos from Shin Kushiya. Although I would have loved to show all of you how delicious the Yakitoris were and How good each dish is but I thought it would be rude of me to stop everyone from eatting and started snapping pictures of the food which I normally do! But usually with Boo's family I tend not to snap lah... Like No manners like that. Next time then!

Birthday Boy is feeling sick.
Stuffed nose for 2 whole days.

Me with the take-outs waiting for cab at Paragon.

Savoury Pudding and tart from Gastronomia da Paulo.
Asparagus pudding's at the back and the front is Mushroom tart.
Feeling a bit adventurous I think....Hahaha...
The mushroom tart is still ok but the asparagus pudding and a stuffed eggplant requires really acquired taste. Hahaha...

Pizza take-outs from Spageddies!
Four cheeses on the left and Chicken Bianca's on the right.

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Tuesday with Celine

-dining at Shokudo (Raffles City)-

Hamburg Omu rice

Check out the mouth-watering Watery eggs covering the tomato-rice
and the texture of the Hamburg.

LayC's thick but light-tasting mushroom soup.

Our Yakitori platter.
I love Yaki-Onigiri (grilled riceball) but theirs is a lil too salty for my liking.

Close-up on our food.
Grilled to perfection.

Most of the food are wrapped in bacon!
Can't go wrong!

Soft, fluffy Japanese style omelette with Bonito flakes and generous serving of mayonnaise!
Delicious!

Miss Tan's going to sink her teeth into the yakitori!

Mrs Choi "diao" me for taking pic of her!
lalalala~
hahahaha.....
Miss Tan poses with an attitude!
Eat omelette also so fierce! hahaha...

Mrs Choi's oily fingers~!

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Thursday with Amber
-shopping and dining and coffee session with Wymen and Amber's sis too-

Japanese food corner at B2 of Takashimaya.
Been always wanted to try there but is either forgotten about it when I have cash or when I remembered, I am broke!

My Katsu-erm..something set.

Amber's Katsu set.

Crispy!

We love the lil' duckies mint from Bath & Body Works!
Si Amber didnt buy for us! Wahaha....

LayC making ermm... funny position to the duck ducks.

Then she made the duckies kiss!

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Saturday with Boo
-hair-cut, eating and KTV-ing with old LZP friends-

New Item at 味香园at Temple Street!
This is Snow Ice - 雪花冰.
The last time I had this was when I was with Taiwan with Boo.
I love the cotton-like texture!
Boo was having th Mocha-flavoured one which we don't think it's very well done.
Should have tried the peanut flavoured one.

My tradtional bowl of Yam paste with pumpkin and Gingko.
I am a true blue teochew - I LOVE ORH NI to bits!!!!

Boo tucking in.
I bought him this bright pink tee!
hehehe...

What?! The Long weekend's almost gone!?!?!?!? OH NO.................................

This BB is so cute!

2008-05-16T15:24:00.005+08:00

Stumbled across this video in youtube and I like it so much!

See cute cute Charlie biting his brother, Harry!

ps. This vid is viewed more then 20 million times! I think I have contributed quite a bit too! Hahahaha!

The mini adventures of Boo and Miss E - Labour Day!

2008-05-02T22:21:00.006+08:00

Mini Adventures at Pasta de Waraku!

This Asparagus and cheese side dish is so delicious!
The orangey thing on top is crab or cod roe - Very yummy!!!

Yummy!
I like Wafu style pasta!
My Salmon and salmon roe spaghetti looks a bit tiny?

Boo's all ready to dig in!!!
Boo's double portion carbonara -
looks like other restaurants' normal serving...

oops!

Now say "ahhh"...

Wanna a bite of Boo's carbonara?
Playing with my camera!

Miss E vs Ice Green Tea

I don't like it!!!

Boo vs Ice Green Tea

Boo loves it!!!!

Boo has got such comical expression!

The idea of doing this "comic-style" layout was inspired by a serious of Boo's expressions shots. We got bored yesterday and he started snapping pictures of me but it was all blur! Hahaha... Lousy skills! So I used the "continuous shots" function in my camera and shoot him back! hahaha...

millimeter/milligram

2008-04-27T23:46:00.006+08:00

Millimeter/milligram - a new brand of cuties to fall in love with!!!!!! At 1st i thought it was either a scandanavian brand or at least it's japanese but it's not!!!!! To be very honest and my own personal opinion, I was very surprised that's it's Korean!!! The style of the characters are seriously not very "korean-ish". Maybe I stereotype Korean characters - like Dalki and mashimaro which made it very big in the local market as well as the asian market (if china copies it, it's big enough...huhuhu).

Ok back to millimeter/milligram or mmmg, I found their products by accident at woodwould.

woodwould is a uber cute and cool stationery/gift-shop found in the not so crowded The Cathay shopping mall.

I followed LayC and ShiYing there on friday after work to search for a pressie for Ching as she was going to leave the company. At 1st they wanted to get some Carrie Chau product for her at ForestNtrees but it was way off budget so we went next door to woodwould. I was there once or twice when it first opened and I really liked the stuff they carried. If I was not wrong, they seemed to carry more of the American kind of cards and stuff not like this visit that I saw alot of Japanese stuff from Decole and this new brand - mmmg! And of cos, I couldn't resist buying some stuff from there!

Chams! Already very broke and still spend unneccessarily!!! Shucks!

Boo and I hung out at TCC at T3 today!
It was a pity this strawberry chocolate cake's not fresh.
It taste like it's from a few days ago... :(

The classic cheesecake is still the best....

Russian doll card from millimeter/milligram at woodwould!

See when it unfolds - so cute!

I collect russian dolls and anything to do with it!

I got this too - stamps!

Nice petite lil' wooden stamps!

I bought a gold ink pad and tried to stamp yesterday!

Petite foam stamps from "kodomo no kao"(I think i meant child's face) -
also from woodwould!
Cute Russian Dollie one!

PS. Alvin text me today about the arrival of his baby son! Congrats Uncle, on your 2nd bouncy bundle of joy!

Nai-sa Land?

2008-04-26T23:30:00.000+08:00

Think LayC and I were damn bo liao in the office yesterday... She asked if I had unshare the Tokyo photos in our network and I told her yes I did. She want a particular photo in my folder so she told me to share it again. Which I did. But because I did, she had to pay me $10 for it and see what she gave me..........

Our msn conversation....

See what she gave me?!?!
$10!
But she purposely drew a "nai-sa land" $10.
Buay Tahan!

By the way, "Nai-sa" is actually "LAI-SA" which means underwear in Hokkien.
She's kept thinking it pronouced as Nai-sa. Hahaha...

Still got a sakura flower punched at the corner!
check it out man!
Layc, you really leh...
Ho eh ar, you!!!

How can I not blog about this?!

2008-04-23T22:14:00.010+08:00

If you look at the archives on the right, you will see that there is not a single entry for March. I can't believe that I was so super duper busy til there are no entries at all! Goodness! A major event that happened in mid March was Lay Sie and Wymen's Solemnisation at Chijmes! And I didnt even write an entry about this! How can! Hahaha...

The pictures of the solemnisation are already up on my flickr page if you wanna check it out....
There's a slideshow done up by Wan Sheng, their photographer. I must really say Wan Sheng is very good.

HE CAPTURED ALL THE RIGHT MOMENTS!

Good Job!

I wanna hire him for my wedding too! Hahaha.... Think I wanna recommend him to Boo's sister too since she has already fixed a date! Huhuhu...

Here are some pics of us helping LayC and Wymen!

- 1st Weekend -

The Chois!

Eat, eat, eat!!! Hahaha...

Another happy couple - Amber and John!

Boo helping with punching the hole on the tags!

Woah! So messy!
The useful mahjong table are filled with stuffs and tools!

John and Amber cut these!
These near perfect round circles are cut from
imported Japanese cotton print fabric with pinking shears!
That's alot of work!

The different tags -
Guest will be writing their well-wishes on the tags
and after that LayC says she'll compile them into a big scrapbook!

I'm helping to trim the tags with scalloped scissors!

LayC's showing us a sample of the favour.

Wymen's giving pointers on how to play the game.

The boys took a break to play Wii!
oops! The pics too blur!

Here's what they are playing!

Celine's looking pretty!

-2nd Weekend-

The bride-to-be is busy at work!

Boo's hard at work too!

Celine!

Boo and Layc doing the stand for the place-cards.

Celine's job is to filled the jars with
handmade candies from Marks and Spencer.

Me, tying and trimming the ribbons.

Jars and jars of the favours!

The favours are all packed up in a box-
ready to be brought down to the hotel the next day!

I would love to post a vid of the boys playing Wii! Their expressions are priceless!!! Damn funny I tell you! Let me go edit it first! It's way too long already!