las day of the yr

very happy today coz throat itchy, las min recall BMP for a ktv session before the yr end!

we went Liang Court, the lightings are kind for taking fotos =)



... and juz before we end, i spilled my bubble tea and hit tibit bowl. Mian, and tadaa! we got cereal with milk!



hehe. ok, a quick recap of what i did for xmas.

++ the stada Libbon sisters did an early one with lunch at great world kenny rogers



++ xmas eve @ peng's new hse with the gossipers. theme: bling-bling hip-hop xmas this yr. we make-up with darkest foundation found at the revlon shelf, and wore our tee we painted on national day. result? see below:



++ and after this, i joined the cows at Wine Hut. Theme: My Super Hero. apparently most of them cld get gift tht fit tht theme. me - i toured orchard for 3 hrs, and only managed to get a little nemo tank fr borders. but it's super and cute n nice, wahaha!



++ met angie, mae & jessie las nite for a post-xmas dinner. always benefited fr the sharing of life stories with these gals. angie juz came back fr cambodia for Project Happy Feet. I hope more ppl will extend kindness, and those who hvnt realise yet, we are indeed very very lucky.

i dun usually hv resolutions, coz i knw it doesnt work. but maybe i shd hv one for coming yr: i wan to be more couragous and confident, so that I am able to take care of myself, and then my loved ones.

see u nex yr folks!

fast forwarded

ami is returning to sydney nex wk.

it didnt hit me very much in the first 5 mins when she first tell me. she jus called to say the embassy is giving some headaches and her lawyer advise her to return soon so tht they can take over. she has prepare us for a few mths by now, and we hv been talking abt it... so, yes, the cows are certainly going to miss her. but we didnt dream it'll be so soon.

after blabbering over the phone for a while, the news suddenly sank it. and joyce has left for her europe holiday that ami wont be able to see her before she return to syd. the chok suddenly came, and tears roll down my cheeks, just like tt. no more crazy laughter, no more friday nite movies with her crazy recommendations. no more humble hut outings and insane movie marathon nites. no more sleepy eyes looking at me while i go on complaining abt my work over impromptu dinners at sushi tei and toast box.

but we all knw it's for every good reason that she's returning. just tht lao-tian pressed the fast-fwd button and suddenly she need to leave next week.

we will see u in nine mths, ami!!

職場煉獄指數

housekeeping some of the old web links i stored in my inbox and found this. quite fun to do, to help u assess how u r handling ur current work situation.

This is my result:



it's like 80% accurate for me. try urs and let me know if it's true for u too.

转角遇到爱

One of my good gal pal send me good news: she's getting marry!! it does caught me by surprise coz this relationship wasn't such a smooth sail. but again, it's evident love & patience conquers all! :)

everyone who loves her are so happy for her.

"love is around the corner awaits u" she say to me.
"maybe..." i reply.

爱, 要转几个角才会遇到...?

吃喝玩乐!

i wan to intro miss jessie-orh's orr's work station. first there's boin-boin, then she brought her yao-less bear (aka waistless). she even hv a little crate of beetles pegs and the miffy pens in a pokka-dot ladder holder too! cute dao~ 已经很久没有看到别人的workstation有那么多toy 了...


And on sat, it's the KTV session with the hokkien sisters! cherry & boin-ma couldn't make it, pity. they just missed a good concert. ehehe...



the 19 yr-old ultimate young XiaoXiao reali can sing! she can do from Jolin to Ah Mei to Huang Yi Ling, 简直是易如反掌! um. i think i will cut an album fr her soon.



And we celebrated Pa's bday on sunday. just a simple dinner and a cakie of coz! :)


现在 12:15am. 晚上舍不得睡觉, 早上舍不得起床.

cows at lee palace

good ole times with the cows. it's been a long time since we gather for our fave steamboat dinner at Lee Palace.

沿海公路的出口.怎么走

听着, 唱着, 眼睛就红了.
也许, 是被词曲所动 .
也许, 是心疼ella和hebe.
也许, 是仿佛又看见熟悉的故事...

time out

took afternoon leave again yest. i just like the feeling of doing shopping when everyone else is working; enjoy afternoon tea when everyone else is rushing for appointments.

aft lunch and coffee, ami and i decided to walk down purvis street. told her there's some resturants there, so the group can go there nex time for a change.

seah street deli. we didnt finish the nice-looking cake. if u knw wat i mean =S


raffles hotel dressed up in traditional green and red






and this naumi is a cool boutique hotel. i'm in love with lobby, looks just like an happening lounge for chill-out by the nite.


this piece of wall looks melaka

Lee Guitar

am home early today, so got lots of spare time to blog :>



thrilled when i first knw Lee Guitar concert, but contemplated if i shd go. after my 4th guitar class, after hearing numerous TV & radio ads, and after reading ashin's blog. i decided to get my tix!

BUT! good lo, now only left cat 3 and above.
muaaaa!!! noo...!

ms cheng

was browsing thru some old vidz and found these, when she's still not so sammi. oh my kosh...



even a little heavy perhaps :S

my weekend

Hue mama was cruving for JB food, and it's been a whle since we hv nite movies at citysquare, so the usual few of us cross the bridge on sat afternoon to wong's humble hut.


and as SaL wld always do, making herself reali busy, she arranged to meet apr on sunday afternoon to catch the last of singapore biennale 2008. it's interesting, though some reali a little too abstract for us.



now SaL need to design our own CowTee, and put together a lunch and dinner for sat.. oh, and reali looking fwd to the hokkien KTV session nex sat with the TBL sisters! wahahaa..

Taiwanese

my sis came back fr her taiwan holiday las sun. yippee!!

and of coz, she bought a bought a whole lots of little things:



Here are my prezzies:



and jus wanna share with u some of the cute lovely cards she bought. ppl, these pop-up cards are only SGD 1 per piece! whr to find in Spore??



my colleagues knw i hv bad messaging experience with LG Shine. I bought it for it's hot pink case. but yet again, i'm found guilty with LG Ice-Cream phone. with it's looks again.





but this time around, i'm satisfied. besides being a flip-fone fan, i'm also very pleased with the very user-friendly menu and functions. i can also customised everything for mySaL! (LG Shine cant.. tt's y i'm so deprived) all is nice for a basic user like me, except for for the camera, which doesnt take very good close-up pix. but tht's fine, cant hv everything in a cheap fone :)

asked Von to chk for me, she came back to say the re-sale price for Shine is only worth $70 now! Gosh. I bought it at $450, and it's less than a yr leh! suan le, suan le. pray tht i can stick with this ice-cream, like forever, till the sea dry rock rot.

and lastly, wanna introduce our momo-chan:



sis had one las time, but died due to lack of love. so she saw this and bought a pair for us. hope to see it grow!

do ur part for the enviroment!

Apr send me this link here.

tips on how to be more environmentally friendly :) Super cute!

laid out

lay out ur 2009 resolutions too!

marketing gimmick

We had our dinner at the food court, and while waiting for the 2 boys to join us, Apr then took out a red paper envelope. it look like one of those which contain shopping vouchers. ordinary.

she said her boss bought this for her fr Japan. i look down at it - it's with a print-on leather look, like a seasoned wallet. i flip open. the paper money looks totally like some marketing gimmick to me, until i saw the man on the money...



Ladies & gentlemen - this is a JAPANESE FACIAL OIL BLOTTER!! now, look again.

Apologize!

My Gosh. I've been "..tooo laaaaate~" in office. and it's haunting my nite too. folks, hopefully by end of next week:



this vid is closer to the stumming pattern i need to pick up, and besides her good voice, she's certainly more an eye-candy than the rest of the 'sing-to-the-web-cam' guys. oh, and pls ignore the paging announcment in the background, a total spoiler.

CoLoUrs

No, i'm not done with HortPark yet. I love the colors of the nature. and with the good bright natural sun, anything comes out well on the camera.



And some back track - i dont think i've blog abt this tee-shirt creation thing. The Gossipers wanted to do a 'create-ur-own-tee' thing on National Day, so we all got something to wear together on Xmas this yr. So, well, we did. The theme was "BLink BLink x'mas". It's supposed to be Blink, but apparently some contestants obviously didnt get it. Here's some of the items:



i only got one vote. some judges said the chain was too thin. And mths after the session, i thot i found THE BLink BLink tee!



oh man! nice hor? but stil, i think mine is not too bad also la hor?! haa..

The Southern Ridges

wah. my sis went to Taiwan yesterday afternoon. i have the whole room to myself for 1.5 days by now. and i'd like to declare - i'm totally bored and lonely!

it's not the same when u come home and find no one to talk to, to share how's ur day's been. i tok to my mama too, but still, Mei, i missed you! and i need to bite the lonely bullet for another 7 days. argh!

some of the cows met on fri and we discuss going to Mt Faber for a walk, just to do something healthy on a sunday morning. so we there we were, finishing the whole trail of Southern Ridges!


the gals giving their best! wahaha.



group foto at forest walk



lots of vibrant colors at hortpark



recycle corner



in a corner at vivo marche


We took a bus up Mt Faber and started there, we finish the whole thing in less than 2hrs. We say we are not going to hv prata for lunch this time. but we went marche! haha.. we made conscious efforts to share food and eat light.

I'm stil stuck with my guitar. I'm really looking fwd to be able to play the tunes correctly.

and lastly.. xmas is coming. :)

he's jay!

was doing my routine checks at 杰伦部落, and got a glimpse on his latest dance steps. And i'm not guilty of this - reali, 怎么可以帅成这样?! check this out:



屌吧??

New Buckets for SaL

i like to make snap shots of the food before i eat, esp at dinners and gatherings, i'll be the first to get the camera ready. and my pals knw me - they'll keep their hands off the dishes until i'm done with the snapping. hehe..

one day mr lee asked: u take so many pictures for wat? do u hv a blog for them or do u post it to somewhr?

oh oh... no leh. maybe i shd. or else take for wat? so i decided to start sharing photos and get serious abt photography. here's my little corner at photobucket ^_^ i'll continue to update other themes too.

** Edit: i've shifted back to flickr :)


i've also signed up for guitar lessons at tiong bahru CC. The guitar Soo passed to me has collected 5mm of dust, and I've mumbled for the past 100 yrs that i wanna learn to play the instrument. Also, in preparation for my venture next yr, i finally registered myself for it.

there's too much things said and not done. u can find tht piece of time and mind for it too! hv fun!

And all u have to do is... Dream

took leave this morning. a last minute thing. just didnt feel like working.

laze ard, took a nap, and ran some errands. after dinner, i took out my long outstanding movies, and decided to pick this one for the nite.


it's good. i like it a lot - the music, the story, the 60s fashion & settings... and of coz, Beyonce. She's reali pretty! Towards the end of the story, Beyonce (as Deena Jones) finally falls out with her hubby-cum-producer/manager. She finally sees tht he isnt the man for her, and she isnt doing very much of what she wanted.

And I personally prefer this scene from the movie over the MV, very got feel!
Sharing with you - Listen.

waiting to heal

this is only a part of ur life... dun waste ur time my dears. dun let ur heart rule too much.

just happened to browse thru some blogs and i hv found this:

"People said you need twice the amount of time you know the person, to forget him... I say, you just need a closure."

i cant agree more. it's hard and painful, but u knw very well what is the right thing to do.

for my friends who are stuck in the pit hole of love & emotions.

amazing spaces in london and in new york

The Selby: It's a collection!!

Life Clock

"r u taking control of ur life?" ami quoted from one of her saturday nite movies.

if u hv wasted much of ur youth, pls do something NOW, while it's still not too late.