Dinner @ SCCCI

Went for one of the worst sit down dinner I ever had in my life.. Daddy and his friends had this dinner at Singapore Chinese Chambers of Commence and Industry to commemorate the xxth years it was established (opps, forgotten abt the year.. obviously I wasn’t too interested). Needed pple to fill out the empty seats.. so as usual, the good daughter and son-in-law rise to the occasion and went with them to the dinner.. made the worst decision ever…

Hmm.. maybe I talked abt the good thing 1^st.. the place itself was astonishing.. never been inside SCCCI before.. glad to take a peek inside.. it was magnificent with all the old wordings and old photos… Really loved the “old” feeling that the place has.. hmm.. think that is the only gd thing I had to say abt that night..

Now, the bad things.. the dinner came with a big stage + live performance by some “白狗骨” band .. dun ask me what that is.. I dun know.. and during the live performance by that band, there are several singers (which I had never heard of) who performed.. that make the dinner turned from bad to worse.. bad singing + skimpy & ugly costume + bad figure….. oh my god… food was not even nice too…

After a few dishes, dear and I went to the toilets.. after that we sneaked out.. ke ke ke.. Planned to go for some fast food but none was opened… sigh.. it was only 10 plus but most shops at city hall were already closed

We went back to the dinner just in time for its last dish.. the dessert.. after a bad night + empty stomach.. dear and I went home to have cup noodle + marble cake and we watched our favorite series.. HEROS now.. what a night…

Dinner @ Hilton Hotel

Went to Hilton Hotel for dinner over the weekend… Utilized our gift voucher given to us by Hilton because we held our wedding there 1 year ago…

Thought it would be the traditional kind of international buffet.. but I was wrong.. Hilton had this themed buffet dinner where by the dinner theme would differ on a daily basis… Saturday was the Japanese deluxe night.. it was the 2^nd most expensive theme @ S$48+++ wow… we would never had spent that amt of money if we are to dine on our own…

The most expensive theme was the Wagyu beef theme which is on Thursday night @ S$58+++… Got this off from the internet …. “Wagyu is a breed of cattle naturally predisposed to produce beef that is densely marbled. In fact, Wagyu beef surpasses USDA marbling standards for prime-grade beef. Often referred to as the “foie gras of beef,” Wagyu has an exquisitely tender texture and incomparable, luxurious taste.” Though expensive, we felt lucky not to have chosen this day.. otherwise we would have nothing to eat..

Monday was the Herbs and spice night.. Dear liked that but too bad, we din know abt the theme dinner, else we would have chosen that.. One of the night is the Japanese Night (w/o the deluxe), the other is the Thai food night and one is the seafood night… can’t really remember the rest.

Me & dear are not great fans of Japanese food and we dun really take raw food too.. so din really fancy the dinner a lot.. But must really compliment the food.. they are nice indeed.. esp the fish soup that we had… we are really full though cos we took all the rice, noodle soup and sushi.. I ate lots of cake too… yummy yummy…

In general…we had a wonderful evening that night =P

Enchanted Night

Caught the movie “Enchanted” with my colleagues and sister (she stood in for one colleague who fell sick) during one of the weekday night…

It’s a Walt Disney production… The show was funny…mix of spoofs of different fairy tales…

This is how the story goes… Prince has this step mother who is Queen.. Queen wanna be Queen forever, so is trying ways to prevent Prince from meting the Special Gal.. Prevention plan failed and Prince met Special Gal.. On the day of the wedding, Queen turned herself to a granny and pushed Special Gal off the wishing well… Special Gal came to New York… Special Gal met Special Guy in New York.. Special Guy took care of her and eventually fell in love with her…a very fairy tale story with the “Happily Ever After” ending… quite a romantic show…

The female lead, aka Special gal held this belief throughout the show.. if you love someone, you must show it.. that’s how that someone know you love him…. This statement is so, so true.. my colleague even downloaded the songs as ring tone… I have it in my phone.. so now considering if I wanna use it as my ring tone =P

Looking forward to our next outing on 14 dec.. we’re having this special x’mas dinner cum gift exchange session… to top it up, there is something else going on too.. will let you know in due time =P

Our New House

Signed the contract for our new house in 2004… initial committed date to give us the keys were end 2009… apparently, think the keys would come earlier…

Drove past the construction site last weekend.. The building are up and the painting are done… even the block no are put up.. read the sign put up by the contractor at the site.. Handing over date to HDB is 07 Dec 2007.. ohhh… so excited, that would mean we’ll be collecting our keys soon… now, every day when I opened the letter box, I would be looking forward for a letter from HDB… I’m silly, right,.. but that kind of excitement and anticipation… hmm, dun know how to put it in words…

Am looking around for interior designers… My colleague who is getting the same area as mine had already booked her ID… I’m not so KS… so still looking ard for the perfect company to do up my perfect dream home…

I’m also using various software to do a mock up of the renovation and furnishing that I intend to have.. though tedious and time consuming… I enjoyed it quite well… it’s just like preparing for the wedding… hee hee hee…

Now, I’ll bring along my new house’s floor plan with me wherever I go… looking forward to just hopping by any reno company to ask for quotation.. of course, I had already done my homework.. so already had an idea of what we wanted… Even planned to make use of the upcoming trip to Bangkok to do some “small” furniture or display items shopping… ke ke ke..

So, HDB letter, when will you be arriving??? Tomorrow?

1st Year Anniversary….

Our new hse haven come yet, so no luck to enjoy this special day all on our own… But I am just grateful that dear is there to spend the day with me…Will make this day, next year a more memorable one…

We had dinner at Asian Kitchen, one of my favorite eateries… and after that, had this great session at Kenko Massage.. the after feeling was “SHIOK”… can’t wait to have more massages in Thailand.. atfer that was a supper session at Jalan Kayu… we are not the romantic kind.. so we just loved spending time together and chit chatting…

Had planned to go to Terminal 3 open house the next day but I was too tired.. din sleep well the night before becos of a mere “near” accident on the road… lucky thing is no one is hurt.. phew… dun wanna talk abt it.. so I’ll just left it as it is.. and oso it was raining very heavily too.. just felt like hiding under my comfortable quilt…

Anyway, we held our wedding last year at Hilton Hotel.. in return, Hilton gave us a gift voucher for buffet for 2 at Checkers Restaurant.. will be going there this Saturday.. looking forward to it =P

Come to think abt it.. there are so many dates for us to celebrate…
14 Feb : Valentine Day
12 Jun : ROM Anniversary
12 Jul : Dating Anniversary
03 Sep : My Birthday
22 Sep : Dear Birthday
25 Nov : Wedding Anniversary


Can’t imagine the no of things our hse will have if there is the gift exchange thingy going on at every impt date, every year… so instead of all those mushy mushy action.. we prefer to have “alone” timing… just imagine, the 2 of us, walking hands in hands and chatting away.. isn’t this lovely…

Looking forward to the next special date…

A Special Date... 25 November …

Time passed so quickly… I still remember that last year this time, I was so ,so busy…

3 days before 25 Nov 2006 : I was in office, clearing up my last bit of work… Was having a flu at that time and I rem Pet kept feeding me vitamin pills….

2 days before 25 Nov 2006 : I was on leave at home… Went to pick up my gowns… they really looked lovely… My relatives start streaming into my hse and the entertaining part also started..

1 day before 25 Nov 2006 : This was a busy busy day…

In the day :
My hse was so filled with pple that there was simply no air.... went for a manicure session in the early afternoon with my fav cousin, kexin at one of the shop near my place… asked the gal to do the manicure on her little fingers too… looked so adorable.. am very satisfied with the service… though the session was a bit long, but the gal was professional and thoughtful…. The shop has since closed down..

At night :
I checked into Quality Hotel… set up all my things there in preparation for the Big Day the next day… The suite was very comfy… enjoyed a bath in the tub and doing facial, while waiting for my “姐妹” to come… the ZHSS gals were to camp in with me that night while Lin Ling and Ah Bao were only to arrive the next morning… Chit chat till later with the gals on old times in school… unforgettable…

25 Nov 2006 : What can I say abt this day… all things just fall nicely into place…. Will be posting the link to my wedding photos soon on the blog.. am doing some organizing now… so u guys just have to wait a while =P

Bad night behind the wheels….

I was on my way to pick dear up from his RT.. not sure wat happen that day, but wasn’t feeling too good to be behind the wheels.. Alas, things really din turn out good in the end..

Was coming down from the multi-storey car park.. Thought I checked my blind spot area but I still failed to see an on-coming car moving up the multi storey car park.. I was shaken up.. Supposed to step at the brake in this scenario but instead I stepped on the accelerator.. luckily I was “soft” by nature when stepping on the steps… Another lucky thing is that the oncoming car driver braked for me…Otherwise, think we might have collided… that guy oso quite gentlemen… din scold me.. stare at me or point middle finger at me.. phew… I admit, it was totally my fault.. muz look out for blind spt more carefully next time…

Bad things behind the wheels din just stopped there.. was up on TPE to Bedok camp.. was supposed to exit at Exit XXX (dun remember the nos).. I was on the most right lane.. there was a taxi behind me, abt 2 car space away.. there was no car in front of me.. To my left side, there are oso no car directly beside me… but there are 2 cars to my left lane.. one on par with the taxi behind me and the other abt 4 car space in front of the taxi…

There are a lot of space for me to filter left, so I signaled and prepared to cut lane.. immediately after signaling, the taxi on the left lane sped up and drove to my side… I was thinking.. “ok, let him passed 1st, I’ll only filter behind him”.. so, I slowed dowm… But that stupid taxi refused to accelerate.. he oso went ahead to slow down… he was practically traveling side by side with me.. this went on for some distance.. I accelerated, he accelerated,.. I slowed down, he slowed down… I think he’s either trying to be funny or he’s looking down at female driver…

I got pissed off and irritated.. I turned off my left signal light and I sped up.. Going at abt 110km/h, I overtook the sedan that was abt 3 to 4 car spaces in front of that taxi.. then I on my signal light to filter.. that sedan, saw my signal, slowed down to let me passed… that taxi could do nothing becos that sedan is in front of him, blocking his lane… finally, I exited.. that taxi went straight… it was a blue cab, by the way…

The 1st incident left me shaken.. the 2nd left me fuming mad.. wat’s wrong with me on the road last night… Not a happy gal anymore… Maybe I shld practice more driving next time.. things like that shldn’t make me feel sad.. I muz be happy again =P

Muz 加油 加油 加油 !!!!

Sumo Baby...

My finance colleague just gave last Monday to her 3rd kid.. the kid arrived, weighing 4.02kg.. that's a heavy baby.. But this baby weighs the lightest among her 3 kids.. the 1st one, who weighs the heaviest, clocked a total of 4.9kg....

My colleague and her hubby are not that big size but they sure have "sumo" babies... here's a preview of the baby...

Shop Till Drop

Went shopping with my mum and sis on Sunday… almost dropped dead at the end of the day.. 1st, we went to Fox warehouse sale… so disappointing… the clothes are in a mess and the crowd is mostly made up of “tiongs”….. we went in one round, then escaped to kovan.. heartland mall….

At heartland mall, we shopped further at the pasar malam.. it was meant to be fund raising activity for Paya Lebar CC.. things sold are quite interesting.. saw a jewellery holder.. if my house is coming anytime soon, I’ll surely have bought it.. =(

After heartland mall, we had lunch at the hawker centre beside the mall… that was the only time I sat down and rest.. after that was a total nightmare.. we went to Bugis and the shopping seem never ending… even if buying a drink from Mac meant buy and drink while we shop.. oh my god…it’s was a 1pm to 6pm shopping trip for me… knees almost really gave way…

I’m so used to dear’s way of shopping… Shop for an hour and have tea.. then continue shopping for another hour and then have dinner… my stamina for shopping dropped, all tks to dear… oh dear, what is going to happen to my Bangkok trip…

Dun think my stamina will recover so fast.. so I guessed I haved to do a lot of homework before we go.. Bangkok, here I come… Must conquer you this time round.. ke ke ke.. but dear, dun worry, I’ll give you plenty of food and massage too =P… ke ke ke

Wedding Bells are ringing…

Wow wow wow… couple of years ago, it was dear’s frenzs who are getting married one by one.. the red bomb kept coming and coming… that time, dear was abt 27 to 29 years old… marriage time… now it’s my circles of friends.. who is turning 27 next year…. guess it is the time for my frenzs to settle down…

Here’s a glance of the upcoming weddings… So happy… So many pretty brides-to-be….

Dec 2007 : Pat’s wedding (Yeah, it’s just round the corner..)
Mar 2008 : SoonSze’s wedding
Apr 2008 : Bambi’s wedding
Jun 2008 : Shimei’s wedding
Oct 2008 : Peiling;s wedding

Must start saving now to have enough ang pao maoney =P