twenty-first celebration - the third

combi celebration for both me and taupok !
usually its my job to plan december celebrations,
but i bullied him into planning this year's cause its my 21st. heheh.

he surprised me at my doorstep with a cake!
i was actually still sleeping/nua-ing when he knocked on the door,
and my sleepy eyes didnt see it hidden behind his back :x

two candles each . :D

wore my fav white toga top x black fishtail skirt.

went for sakura international buffet dinner, which we've been wanting to try for some time.

quite worth the money, cause the variety was awesome max.

its mostly japanese, but there was also a good mix of stuff like chinese/malay food too.

eat until stuffed :x

 sushi! plus smoked norwegian salmon.

 cold tofu and soba ! my absolute fav.

fresh seafood. scallops, mussels, and pok's fav salmon. (:

classic hawaiian pizza, plus summer vege pizza

om nom nom grilled shiitake skewers.

tempura prawn, seafood roll and fried durian :D

nuggets, takoyaki (which were quite nua), and salmon smth. :x

cereal prawn without prawn, otah, siew mai and chawanmushi

prawn paste chicken, and baked cream seafood.

caught the hobbit, which quite intrsting.
my poor butt ached like shit cause it was freaking 2 hr 50 mins !
and cause we didnt know the length, and picked the 9pm slot..
we ended up freaking running for the last train. :x

nothing very different,
but its awesome cause its quality time spent with pok before leaving for genting  ♥

twenty first celebration - the second

the celebration with my ahs girls - jazz, minyu and ruiting. :D
a really simple meet-up, the way i like it. (:

went to ulu chai chee community center for KTV, bwahaha.
omg the price is really cheap, 3 hrs $8 for students, $10 otherwise.
and the room was huge for 4 people. not like teoheng LOL.
very super worth it !

satisfaction of the night - managed to sing 那些你很冒险的梦 :D

went for dinner at pastamania. seafood tom yum pasta! heheh.
spent an awesome amount of time gossiping and reminiscing.
i didnt really love my secondary school days,
but there are some moments which are so classic you just cant forget. ;p

oh and my gossip sources fail max when it comes to my sec school people.
because i seriously isolate myself from them,
till my 'new' news was old news since 4 years ago LOLOL.

doing what girls love to do best. camwhore ! 

very lucky to still have kept in contact with these awesome people.
kind of didnt have the chance to meet much for the past 2/3 years cause all were busy with school.
especially them la cause JC students are no-lifers. LOL ;p.

but yeah, guess thats the one of the perks of 21st years.
you take the opportunity to catch up with people. :D

with ruiting; pang unlimited.

got to know her through dance, 

always walked home tgt after prac cause we're practically neighbours ;p

jazz; my laobu.

the most bimbotic of them all. hahahah.

and i recently discovered we eye-candy the same guy. HAHAH.

minyu, my laopeh.

yeah she and jazz got scandal. one package set LOL.

this is what twenty-firsts are really about.
not the glitzy presents, but cherishing the quality time you spend with loved ones.

twenty first celebration - the first

first celebration for my twenty first birthday for the past two days.

second uncle insisted on having a big celebration so i agreed after awhile.

having some mixed feelings about my decision right now cause i dont know if it was right.

caused a certain amount of unhappiness but i guess its now too late to regret..

so i tell myself i should just focus on the happy and positive side of things; life is too short and fragile.
kinda easy to say, hard to do. but i'm trying.
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took half day leave on friday for a hair/nails pampering session, sponsored by my mom's family.
thank you jh for booking the appointments, and bimb for accompanying me for 4 hrs. :D

was quite happily eating my tako and yakisoba from gindaco.
got a phone call from a very frantic jh.
she booked the caterer for the wrong day, so the freaking driver was at the chalet alr.
no one was there at the chalet as well.

the company refused to take the food back and deliver tmr.
they only gave us two options:
either to set up and pay the driver, or to discard the food.
we had to make the decision almost immediately cause the driver said he was rushing off somewhere.

which is total bullshit.
no one around, how to pay?
you tell me must discard if i dont pay on the spot, then i still have to pay for the discarded food?
thats not giving me any choice at all isnt it.

i'm super sure this is not the first time such thing has been encountered.
shouldnt they have more feasible options ?
even if it was our mistake, the caterer was also being unreasonable.

anyway, it was such an unlucky mistake.
i felt so bad when jh apologised for screwing up.. cause its not easy to handle everything herself.
at that point i really wished i never ever agreed to holding this event. :/

so i was feeling pretty lousy when i reached the chalet.
really no mood, and not at all looking forward to the next day.

then i kena surprised by bimb and boss at the door. LOL.
with 21 bowls of laoban tauhuey. thank you boss! :D

around 5 mins later, wayne and cliff walked in. like what the shit. surprised max.

but nothing prepared me for the shock of the day. hahahah.
was watching tv and kinda emo-ing. :x. then i felt someone poke me.
i knew pok was standing behind me so i thought it was him ma.
brushed the finger aside but kena poke second time.
so i turned around, saw ahsok and i screamed damn loud LOLOL.

paiseh moment of the day, walao thank goodness no video.

thank you guys for accompanying me, even for that short while . :D

saturday morning - back to work. thank you cliff for the free ride. :)
thank goodness patient volume was low, cause i need energy for laterrr.

back home, dad and mom were trying to prepare all the food for dinner.
felt a mix of feelings again.
very touched that they were doing all this for me.
and yet feeling very bad cause mom didnt get to rest well after work,
and dad skipped work altogether.
btw he's a taxi driver, not bus driver. so no crime committed :B

when i put on the bib i was like, mamam. LOL. #glutton

third aunt did my makeup and hair for me. :D
its awesome cause its natural looking; she knows i dont like over the top. ♥
and she did those amazing waterfall braids for me! learn especially for me some more

hosting a twenty first.. i think i suck, despite all the things i told myself to do/not to do.
didnt really manage to talk to everyone, though later i think i became the entertainment cause kena sabo.

present from clique. 

had to fulfill these terms and conditions so i can receive my voucher omg.

walao really is karma like shit, whole clique + bfs come up with one dare to tekan me.
except no. 2 (which no one takes seriously cause we forgot who is shirlee alr), thought by bimb herself,
i think no.5 (cliff's) is the easiest and least embarassing.
no. 1 (levon's) was my favourite. HAHAHA.
no. 4 (lzl's) is omg wts. he steady until bring speaker ._.
other than feeling super idiotic i was stunned cause pok knows the moves LOL. everyday practice.
AND THEY RECORDED EVERYTHING. D:

oh well, their form of sweet revenge cause i was responsible for quite some stunts i made them do.
clear all my karma in one shot ! so glad next year no more liao :B

birthday cake was AMAZING. handmade by jh, props and all.
its like an iceberg with penguins happily dancing around blue flame.♥
seriously i have an obsession with them. penguinophile LOL.
other than being pretty it was also damn nice.
to the extent that si ern (diehard cake fan) took first bite and immediately wanted more HAHA.

quite happy that yj came down too.
walao i thought that he would have forgotten, cause he has high pangseh potential. :B
and he damn cute, gimme angbao cause he didnt know what else to give LOLOL.
thanks stupid pb. :D

caught breaking dawn later on at 2am with bimb, jx and pok.
BEST ONE EVER in the whole series. serious.
love the plot twist, made the whole fight even better than the book. :D

mac breakfast after we booked out, and slept happily after unpacking.

i just want to say again,
A BIG GIGANTIC THANK YOU.

to my parents for being always supportive, for bringing me up.

to my sisters for loving me no matter how much i bully them.

to my family for their care and concern through the years.

to ahpok for being in my life, and always giving in to me. love you :D

my no-pay boss. :D

yj :D

newsstand!

pbl group

thank you cs and lzl too !

to my awesome shit friends who are always there to gossip, listen to my rants and give me support.

life wouldnt be the same without you all. ♥

random thoughts.

1. nothing is set in stone, only change is permanent.

most days we follow a routine, its almost the same.

but if we think about the details, its not.

everyday is different, a new chain of events.

same same but different. (:

2. learn to let go when you should.

some things are just beyond our scope of control.

we're not alone; each of our actions can directly or indirectly affect people around us.

no matter how small it may be.

so instead of holding on to worries which have no solution, just clear your mind.

no point regretting, so long as you learn.

no point worrying when you cannot do anything except wait.

3. i'm scared of getting pierced to death by sharp objects

sometimes i look at stuff which are sticking out.

like, er, the handle on my bathroom shower.

and i'm like, damn, what if i one day slip and fall and this thing goes through my stomach.

walao i'm freaking morbid. :x

4. location announcements in chinese on the mrt.

not needed, seriously.

to my personal experience, all the aunties uncles know very clearly locations in english.

they might not know how to pronounce it, but they know.

except maybe the new stations on the circle lines/LRT.

however, there are alr 4 different languages written on the signboards.

i'm sure they understand what they can see.

many people say this move is just to benefit the cheena piangs.

well, the best way is not to make it convenient for them.

instead they should learn, learn how to integrate and gain acceptance.

what pisses me off most actually, is the reaction from the minority groups.

many of them are laughing at the location names.

which, yes, some are really funny. i sometimes laugh too.

its irritating however, when they think those names have been translated for fun.

majority of these names have actually existed for very very long.

and some of them actually have a meaning to them, a kind of story for the place.

its just because they dont know how to read it, thats why they have nvr realised.

it didnt have any significance, other than being brushes or strokes to them.

its like how we dont understand written arabic or tamil.

each race is different and unique, and we should exercise mutual respect.

whats meaningless to you doesnt mean its of no value to others.

5. one life, live it.

life is too short to have too many regrets.
treasure every moment you've got.
cause you dont know which is going to be the last.

which is why i just eat and heck care the calories. :D

really lorh, some girls track every calorie they consume.
its kind of overboard sia.
eating healthy and eating to stay skinny are two different matters.

afterall, better to die happy and fat.
there's always dance central to combat it also ma. one meal at a time. ;p

horrifying

you know how everyone says kids nowadays are different ?
more stress in school, more pampered.

well. after hearing what jx told me about her friends,
i think thats the least of worries.

its their attitudes and what they are doing which scares me. alot.

she's telling me about her friends who smoke in the school toilet.
their cigarettes are obtained from friends who steal them from their dad.
classmates who put on makeup, have piercings.
friends who cut their wrists.

and her web of relationships are so complicated.
what fling what ex-bf/gf, god-brother and what not.

did i mention jx is just in PRIMARY SCHOOL?

wtf right. this kind of things, i only heard of during sec school/poly.

omg thank my lucky stars i'm a 199x kid.
if i were her generation, i'd probably die in primary school sia.
i barely survived rss at that time with all that rich kids shit.
cant imagine with all this kind of drama.

i'd probably be picked on even more x_X

scary.

mistakes

every action has a consequence.
and every event happens as a chain of consequences.

i often ask myself, what if?
what went right and where did i go wrong.
what can i do next to make things better.
and most importantly, if i could turn back time,
what could i do to change it.

sadly, there is no turning back.

one action just leads to another.
a chain which cant be broken.

and some damages can never be repaired.

it just sucks that in the end, you still cant avoid the inevitable, no matter how hard you try.

forgive me for not being perfect, will you?

USS with family !

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUANJIE! :D

decided to go universal studios singapore to celebrate cj and jh's birthday!
both of them havent been there before, and have been wanting to go for ages.

and i couldnt wait to take the transformers ride!

which i did. and omg it was freaking awesome.
its a roller coaster + 3D ride, and the first one ahpok didnt nearly die of, LOL.
probably because the cinematics was awesome enough to distract him. :D

completed my battlestar galactica challenge too heheh.
the first time i went i took the human route.
this time its the cyclon route.
can you say 360 degree turns and few times upside down? :B

and yup, i did it alone. again.
everyone chickened out after the human route they took before i came.
i was left to happily run towards the nonexistent queue, due to the rain.
i dont mind repeating my stunt though. ^_^

best part of the whole thing, we managed to convince mummy to go with us!
and very surprisingly she was very steady about going for the rides.
transformers, the mummy, she was like, bring it on. (Y)
now i know where i inherited my guts from.

very simple and awesome shit day :D

birthday boy

with our bfs :D

my super duper awesome mum and sisters

hi. we're so cute :D 

my two adorable aunts/oranges. :D

group photo !

with cousin JJ ! :D

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Tell me is that what happens just for having a good intention
Look what happened to my good intentions
Why won't anybody answer my question
Why is the silence so loud?
I think I've thrown it all the way
I don't know, I don't know
But lemme know
Hear me out before you label me the bad one

the smell of freedom

In September i was notified that UWA had reviewed its course structure,

and i had to attend an advisory session for pathway adjustment.

the dates for the sessions actually clashed with the days i was at sentosa with ahpok.

i could choose to email askUWA if i couldnt make it,

but being the awesome bf tt he is, he said it was okay to go down to psb just for it.

better to clarify and confirm everything personally ma.

v satisfied with the outcome cause i had a total of 2 exemptions and 3 removed units.

which meant 5 x $1.7k = $8.5k savings!

and it also meant i could graduate earlier. hehehe. :D

but the sucky thing was, with the adjustment i had to cancel my travelling plans to taiwan.

cause instead of a break in March it was pushed to Sept.

and both my steady travel buddies - bimb and cliff - had alr started school. :/

suck thumb nia lorhs, have to delay again.

and due to overseas plans in Dec, i would be missing 2 practicals for my G6 term.

to fulfill course requirements and to fill their pockets, i had to pay $150 for make-up prac.

LIKE SERIOUSLY. EVEN MC ALSO MUST PAY WTF.

AND THEN.

i received a notice from UWA for re-enrolment for academic year 2013.

and in that email they mentioned one of my rearranged modules had changed its availability.

instead of being offered in G3/4, its gonna be in G1/2 2013.

naturally i panicked.

so what's gonna happen to my original G1/2 units?

cause what the hell, please dont tell me i need to extend my course duration.

push and push till i will graduate later than the original. -.-

at this point i was feeling fucking pissed with all the admin screw-ups that UWA was giving.

so i sent this angry email to askUWA.

and guess what?

" There have been changes to your course pathway since the advisory session, 

please take note as follows.."

WTF THANKS LOR UWA/PSB.

update also dont tell me, make me panic like shit !

okay la also my own fault minimally cause i thought the deadline for re-enrolment was 18th nov.

when its actually 18th dec, bwhahaha ! 

i still tell them in my email its URGENT and please reply ASAP. :x

but hey, so long as it gets done right. :B

so final story is.

i'm on vacation from now till 25th Jan 2013

wahahah cause my G3/4 unit kena push up to G1/2, 

then G1/2 kena push down to G1/2 2014, but i alr have exemption for that.

G6 2012 module can take in G4 2013, so i can escape from missing prac. 

another positive side is that next year i'm gonna have more breaks cause of unit blanks.

its all alternate so i also wont slack off and lose the pace to study.

AND TAIWAN TRIP MIGHT BE POSSIBLE. :DD

so yes, imma free bird hehehehehehe.

the moment i dropped the change of enrolment form, omg i felt so happy !

imagine all my evenings are now free.

except for clinic work which i can still arrange in advance.

so far i've found the time to:

visit baby wayne and ahma.

sleep before 12pm without feeling guilty.

watch walking dead season 2.

play dance central 2.

all on weekdays. and its only tuesday! *grins*

moral of this absurdly long post?

all things happen for a reason. and will work out in the end. :D

5th year x gardens by the bay!

almost every anniversary, we must go somewhere new.
1st year was at Singapore Flyer
last year was at Universal Studios.
this year was at Gardens By The Bay ! :D

i guessed the location as soon as he reminded me to bring a camera HAHA.

thank goodness he told me lor!
because i ended up snapping photos of almost everything.
took a total of 300 plus pictures there :D

other than the heritage gardens, we went to the flower dome conservatory.
we were happy to pay 12 bucks for air-con on such a hot day. hahah!

the flower dome features mainly mediterranean and australian plants,
and in addition there are floral displays which change with seasons.
this time it was autumn when we visited!
so there was a v pretty harvest theme, and everything was orange, yellow and red.
simply amazing. :D

first real bouquet in 5 years. hahaha :D

  

dragonfly walk and OCBC skyway.

 

 

the one on the right is damn cool. looks like a metal flower !

 

 

the true flowers are much more purple and striking in real life; photos dont do them justice.

 

cant help but think of cross-fertilisation and genetics when i see these hybrids
i'm such a geek :3

 

 

autumn harvest. spot the cheeken staring at YOU. :B

 

actually i'm in love with daisies. :D

 

teeko ahpok and emo me. HAHAHA.

  

thank you ahpok for such an awesome surprise! :D

watched ah boys to men on the same day too.
i love the parts where they reminisced about the old army days omg.
ahpok was also v nostalgic when they showed all the tekong shit (:
cant wait for part two!