Appreciate ME now & avoid the rush later: September 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Miss me?

Outings.

Haven't been updating, have I?

That's because I'm an extremely busy woman! *hehs*

Busy socialising and also working hard to pull through this sem.

These photos are seriously overdue...taken dunno how many donkey weeks ago at Suntec City (kudos to Eleanor for them)...

I wanted to go MS to search for Moley Phua's 21st present tt day, and Eleanor was nice to pei me eat dinner and Gary joined us as well. But I ended up letting them wait for me cos I was rushing my podcast assignment in school. In the end I took cab down and the taxi uncle was super nice. Can't believe there are so many nice people around me! =)

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Fast forward to last Saturday morning.

My dear old momsie suddenly had the urge to handmade popiah. She prepared all the ingredients (with my help of course!) and as usual, it was superduper tastylicious, and it was fun wrapping the popiah too! I can put as much toppings as I like! =)

Lester and Shalyn, if you still remember cos I do, James asked us during our first session at Kelly Services what is our favourite food, and I answered him "Anything that is edible", and he thought I was childish because to his overly matured mind, that was a primary 6 level kind of answer. Of course I was abit pissed at that, but being kind and forgiving, I decided to let it go.

Anyway, the main point is, if you ask me that question again, I'd definitely say that whatever my mom cooks is my favourite food. Nothing in the world can beat that. If ever next time MOE sacks me or it's the other way around, I'd force, erm, persuade my mother to set up a restaurant that will serve all her trademark dishes. And if you, Moley Phua and lustylester are jobless still, I'll consider to hire the both of you as my HR manager and Marketing manager respectively... *hehs*

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Same Saturday, at night.

Our Chiang Mai teambonding session at Jumbo Seafood, Clarke Quay.

I think we ate more than that...

That's my teammates for Project Huh? 2008 (Help Us Hear).

Luckily we made a reservation beforehand, if not we won't get a table, given the huge crowd of seafood-eaters patronising the restaurant.

In total I think we ate over $300 worth of delicacies. =)

After dinner we went for coffee at TCC, where we chatted, joked, suan-ed and nua-ed the night away.

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Fast forward again to today.

Had comm skills earlier, and we got to pick our individual oral presentation topic for next week.

My topic is neither difficult nor easy, cos my audience is angry/upset parents, and I have to convince/persuade them of letting their children to participate in the school's fund-raising activities...

So I have to pretend my classmates were boiling mad parents and I have to make a 3-min presentation. Just great.

Train-ed down to orchard to collect my agnes b bag. Love it. *wide grinz*

Train-ed home and had to tolerate a lovey-dovey young couple still in their honeymoon period beside me. Not that I mind. I'm happy they've found their love, but making kissing noises that loudly and saying goosebumps-raising honeyed words? WHERE'S MY IPOD??? *rolls eyes*

Anyway...

Met up with my Gossipy for dinner at Aston Express, Tampines.

I can't believe Aston has opened so many branches around the heartlands. There's two at Tampines can! When's one going to open at Pasir Ris?!?!

The one we went to is just opposite TP, at blk 829.

The food was nice and relatively cheap, but it was the company I have that mattered. =)

We ate, gossiped, ate and gossiped even more. We gossiped so much that we downed two glasses of homemade ice lemon tea each. Actually, not very true lah, I'm just exaggerating. Think Aston added a tad too much of MSG so we got pretty thirsty.

Is it a trend to have a cuppa of coffee after dinner because there's nothing else to do?

Apparently it is so, cos we bus-ed to Starbucks and chilled out there.

Turned out that the manager of Starbucks was our poly mate, and she gave us discount for our drinks and even offered to give us cakes for free (but we only accepted the discount but not the cakes cos that'd be too much of us)! And to think we were not very close with her... That's bloody nice of her hor...

Muahahahah...we are so bloodily silly but cute. Nothing beats the Gossipy.

Our next outing/gathering shall be at the cinema cos Moley has free tix to MIRRORS. *hooray!*

My lovely lovelies...请保持通话!!!

WAHAHAHAH!

Sort of bumped into XY after that, so I went home with her...

Some uncomfortable silences, I feel...

Suddenly can't think of anything to strike a conversation...

So unlike the past, which I miss dearly.

Face it, wanwan.

Things have changed. That's how memories came about.

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I can feel the stress increasing daily. Lots of assignments to be due soon but still not done yet:

Southeast Asia essay
Early Modern Asia essay
Benny's group assignment
Rani's group assignment
Comm. skills oral presentation prepared speech

I'm so dead.

ps: Went TS to search for my lei huo xiong xin vcd part 2. I'm not going to give up until I own one. And hopefully, Ivan the sales rep from TS can help me with it. I remember you and your promise, IVAN! Shall wait impatiently for your good news.

pps: Xiao Hei (my new laptop) is giving me problems again, even after a major operation. I've asked another top surgeon to examine it, and hopefully, Xiao Hei can 起死回生 and serve me faithfully again.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

I saw a 巨星 today!!!!

I saw a MEGA SUPERSTAR today!!!

Absolutely cannot believe my luck! Or my eyes!

Guess who I saw just now at Forever 21 (Wisma)???

Quick leh...make a guess!

No?

Okie...I give you a clue.

She's a huge celebrity from Hong Kong.

Still dunno? *tsk tsk*

All right, I shall be kind.

She is pretty and charming and sexy even at her age. And her latest work is Bangkok Dangerous, also starring Nicholas Cage.

Now, if you still dunno who I'm referring to, go find a wall and bang yourself against it.
I SAW CHARLIE YEUNG!!! 杨采妮!!!!!

Hooray!

Still can't believe I bumped into her *snaps fingers* just like that. At F21 somemore.

I didnt notice her at first, as she was dressed totally in black with a black cap.

But it was her huge GUCCI tote bag and GUCCI flats that caught my eye.

She was standing before me at the cashier counter, and when she turned halfway round, tt's when I got a shock.

To make sure I wasnt seeing wrong things (as I have the tendency to recognise people wrongly), I stared and stared (discreetly of course!), and I'm 101% confirmed plus guarantee plus chop it's her.

Fighting the urge to tap on her shoulder and ask her if she's who she is, I attempted to remain calm, like nothing happened.

But how to?!? When a huge superstar like her is just standing in front of me!?

*tsk tsk*

For those who dunno her when you should, this is Charlie:

Pretty hor?!

Bumping into her totally brightens up my day! Which I have no idea why. *hehs*

But I assume there's a huge possibility to bump into celebrities nowadays at town, cos F1 race is approaching and everyone's coming to witness the heart-racing night race!

Even Lewis Hamilton has arrived in Singapore!

So.

Go hang around Orchard road everyday 24/7, and you might get to see Xiao S too! *heehee*

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As I was saying, I went shopping all by myself at town today cos my lovely mother gave me an aeroplane at the last minute. *tsk tsk*

And today's Scotts Isetan private sales, of course I must go right?!? So I did loh.

My gosh...the place's like a battlefield can!

People (mostly women) are fighting against one another to get what they want, and many of them were carrying bags and bags of prized possessions.

I wanted to look at the cosmetics, but it's nearly impossible, so I figured it's best to avoid it.

I went straight to agnès b boutique, which is another mini battlefield, and I saw it.

OH YESH!

It's exactly what I want. The right colour, the right size, the right bag.

So I quickly placed an order, which I have to wait till next week to get it:

*muahahahah* Can strike it off my wishlist liao. Costs me $175.50, after a 10% discount.

It's good to wait this long. *hehs*

Spent 35 minutes queuing to make payment. That's how huge the crowd is.

If you tell me Singapore's economy is going downhill, you're so wrong.

Went to Wisma next, and that's when I saw Charlie.

Bought some clothes at F21. 100 bucks gone.

Fast forward to Far East Plaza, where I got two pairs of shoes: sandals and flats (which my lovely old mother thinks the flats are what monks will wear. *hrmpf* She has absolutely no fashion sense at all, that woman). Byebye my 50 bucks!

Thank goodness I turn 21 this year.

Cos I'm applicable for the growth package! *woohoo!*

Shall wait impatiently for 1st Oct to come. At least my bank account won't be so pathetic. *hehs*

Bag, clothes and shoes I have, so it's time to head home.

Shopping is soooooo fun! =)

ps: My dear Eleanor, I have uploaded the photo you said I forgot to upload. Check it out at the previous entry yeah? =)

pps: Looks like there's no more lie huo xiong xing II vcd in Singapore. Anyone who knows where I can get it pls let me know yeah! Your help will be deeply appreciated. =)

ppps: Can someone watch Connected (保持通话) with me when it opens next wed?!? It's been so long since I last saw my Louis. *hahah*

pppps: BeBe just wanna say hi and bye to you all! Lovely, isnt she. =)

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Movie and Dinner with Eleanor, Gary & Jaron

Harlow peeps!

How's life?

Hope it's fine for you all... =)

Well, I'm actually struggling with all my essays and projects and whatsnot, which gives me little time to go shopping, much less to blog!

But here I am, at 12:55AM, posting a new entry with photos! *hehs*

Before I continue, I wanna complain about my newly purchased lappy.

Told u it's 4GB ram right? Which means it's supposed to process info fast, like snaps fingers kind of fast right!?

So wrong.

I dunno why, but whenever I tried to surf the internet, it took AGES for the website to load. I can wait up to 5-8 minutes just for one stupid page to load fully, and when you are already accustomed to fast speed beforehand, there's no way you can tolerate that few minutes of wait.

That's how frustrating it can be, especially when I'm trying to do research for my essay. Waste so much of my time, just to wait for the toolbar to appear. *big sigh*

Can't imagine what we'd do without technology. *tsk tsk*

Okie enough whining.

Apart from chioning my english essay, I still got a life okie!

Met up with Eleanor, Gary and Jaron for Babylon A.D. at GWC and dinner at some ulu but very nice place.

The movie was free, as we've got complimentary tickets.

So we went Great World City to watch it, and it was my maiden visit there! *heehee*

A bit suagu I know.

Anyway, the movie was pretty nice, and Vin Diesel is sooo....big and muscly.

After the action-packed movie, Gary drove us all to some ulu place at Lock Road for dinner.

Seriously, I didnt know Singapore has such eateries around can!

The place is somewhere in the middle of a 'jungle', but the restaurants are definitely unique!

We went to Villa Bali, where it serves Indonesian (Balinese), Thai and North Indian cuisine, and not forgetting, alcoholic beverages.

Food wise, not too bad. And it's not very pricey too. Definitely affordable. =)

But one minus point is, because of its ulu location, it's advisable to drive there, cos I dunno if there are any buses that go there. But according to Gary, the carparks at weekends are full. So...take taxi.

Apart from Villa Bali, there's Villa Frangipani, Verge, and some other restaurants.

There's even a T-Rex at the bottom of the hill! *roars*

Enjoy the photos! =)