I'm a self knowing money managing tree hugger... how abt u?

I saw this personality quiz from a blog and decided to take up the short test. Well, this is who I am... it even says that 0% of the 13633 people who have taken this quiz are like me. Now, am i that rare?

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a Self-Knowing Money Managing Tree Hugger

Soon-to-be-retirement

After having my mp3 passed on, it is going to be my camera's turn soon. Despite so, credits go to it being so 'strong-willed' as it has already long passed its retirement age by over 1 yr (as canon repair shop only gave it a half yr warranty due to it being a replacement set).

Hence, I cant really blame it after using it for perhaps a thousand shots. So it is now in an unofficial near retirement status. Good bye soon, my camera. *sobs

It's Christmas!

Here's wishing all my dear loyal readers (you know who you are) a Merry Christmas and hope u all will have a wonderful and joyful season.

DIY Recycling

What can you do with an empty biscuit box, some laces, old bling buttons?

Well, the answer is to merge them together to form a new storage box. The tools which u need are relatively simple, just scissors, glue or double-sided tape and tada! A presentable and useful box has been created.

Before

After

Christmas Sale 2008

Refer to http://www.fashionstatementspore.blogspot.com/ for more details

Link Love

I just happened to come across a very excellent blogsite. The author is the person behind some of the designs at the ION walls at Orchard as well as involved in the designing of the Maybelline compact powder cover casing and many other projects. Felt that all the works are really brilliant! Had wanted to put some of the pictures here but fear of copyright issues. So just go directly to the blogsite ok.

http://www.lifeandcoincidences.blogspot.com/

Virtual Blog Shops

I have always wanted to open a shop myself- either a cafe or accessories shop. I know, I know... the two are of drastically different areas but these are the 2 top choices I can forsee myself planning to create in future. So before I start a real one, it is best to test market first. With the convenience of blogspot, I created an online blog store...early this year I think. I had chucked it aside until I finally made some updates in aug. Blame it on procrastination.

In case u r interested, here is the link:

www.fashionstatementspore.blogspot.com

Apart from placing it at online forum www.diva.com.sg and telling some of my frens about the web link, I havent officially announced it to frens cos too little items at the moment. Still working on improvements.

Over this past year, I have also researched for some online blog shops within singapore. Some of them are even featured in magazines or news articles. Here is a list of the active ones... Do let me know if u have other good ones to recommend...

Amber Jewels http://amberjewels.blogspot.com/
Beads of Lav Accessories http://beads-of-lav.blogspot.com/
Eaindria Creation http://eaindriacreation.blogspot.com/
Fluff http://www.lovefluff.com/
Jeaninegabrielle.com http://www.jeaninegabrielle.com/
Holical Archives http://holicalarchives.blogspot.com/
Swisshearts http://swisshearts.livejournal.com/
Ocha Cream http://www.ochacream.com/
Love Pretty Things http://loveprettythings.blogspot.com/

Fossil Watch- Private sale 6 Dec 2008

cant imagine i queued up nearly 5 hours just to buy a watch. yeah.. u heard correctly. 5 hours...well, this is of cos insignificant as compared to the "mc donald hello kitty" queues back in my sec sch days, thanks to my sis who wanted to collect all designs.

I was at city hall and decided to check out the fossil watch private sale. Hadnt had much info abt it..so just drop by to chk out whether there is any good deal... and by e time when i was at suntec, it was ard 4.30pm. the sale has started since noon. there's up to 80% discounts for D&G watches, adidas, fossil hse brands etc so the queue was terrible.. it is so long that it extended to the escalator. I started to join the queue and freaked, it was longer than the Singtel roadshow. But heck, just queue lar. Dun wan to miss good deals since I am here..

alot of the ppl came prepared, with frens, bf or gf...and I was alone.. so i just pluck in my mp3 and just stare helplessly at the queue, waiting for it to progress... within the next hr, those who went to chk out the queue at the entrance came back telling their friend that the queue was crazy and that they couldnt figure out the entrance at all.... cos it was totally packed w ppl at the front.. eventually, the ppl in front and behind me left the queue. I was still hesitating whether i shd give up... but since i queued for an hr already, perhaps i shd just stay on.. escalation of commitment bah.

time slowly passed...from 1 hr to another hr... then 3 hrs into the queue...i finally near the entrance...the signage indicated 3 halls but actually only 1 small hall is for sales....the others was for collection, customer service... and before getting in, you must put all ur things into a clear plastic bag and sealed...when i finally got in..boy.. it was chaotic... ppl are pushing against the tables showcasing the discounted watches..it was a pretty ugly scene. after squeezing for half hr, i was still at the back of the crowds... sian..so i was thinking of leaving empty handed but felt that few hrs of queuing was wasted... so i just force my way into the crowd to scrutinize at the different brands.. Marc Jacobs was too exp still, whereas they didnt have the colour i want for adidas..and the only D&G which i spotted was a little too simple...so i decided to settle for fossil...again.. my 2nd piece so far...

$65, at 40% or 50% off orginal price... think this is an old model... cos i cant find it online... but i still like it...

Chatterbox at Meritus Mandarin

after hearing much about legendary chicken rice at chatterbox from my sister, I finally got to try out the dish, along with my sis at Meritus Mandarin over wed evening... her main motivation to go was to catch the exquisite night scenery at the top of the hotel as well as to see if it is still the revolving 'top of the M' while I mainly wanted to check out if the food is as good as its price...

there are some renovations outside the hotel itself, so in order to get to the entrance, we need to further in from last time..and i would say that there has been quite a big change to the appearance of the hotel. It is smaller but brighter and cleaner than the last time i went there, during company DND abt 4 yrs ago...

Meanwhile, we had to take two different lifts in order to reach 39th floor. (and there are actually staffs stationed at lift lobbies just to direct customers to correct lifts..) In order to reach 39th flr, we need to take a short flight of stairs up. The scene at 38 lounge was very lovely though humid... In contrast, 39th was cooler but has a rather over-exaggerated red veneer dining atmosphere. As a result, all the photos we took w/o flash was practically tinted with a shade of red lighting.

This was the first time I try the food so I couldnt really comment if there is any difference.. but my sis commented that the portion of rice was much bigger... true enuff, the bowl is so big i think two person could share one portion.

However, there was generous serving of chicken meat (can choose between chicken drumstick or chicken breast meat) and although the meat is cold, it is tender and rather juicy. The rice itself is moist and fragrant and FILLING... in order not to waste $, we finished the whole bowl of rice. Burp*!

Aside from the meat, there are also cherry tomatoes as accompaniments apart fr the usual cucumbers. The soup is also quite nice, with atypical vegetables(which I think is lettuce shreds) and small piece of toufu. Did i forget to mention that their chicken rice chilli sauce is really hot and spicy..wooh! almost make me cough...

In all, the dining experience was good and the food is quite up to standard. However, this is mainly becos we had a one-for-one dining offer. Suppose we have to pay full price, then we would have hesitated. One suggestion though, the management ought to do something to the ambience, there seem to be a misconception of red lightings=oriental setting.

By e way, heard that the original chef was retrenched years ago and had since started his own shop "Mr Chicken Rice" at E!Hub, Downtown East. There were good and bad reviews abt it.. so next time i shall go try it out myself....

by e way, found this christmas tree made up of cute little teddies at taka, and they are soo lovely i feel like grabbing them home...

Wake me up when the Semester ends

gosh. finally the hectic weeks are over soon. Two more reports to be handed in, plus 1 exam and this smu study journey will end. How nice. Hope I wont change this opinion half a yr later from now. Not that I dislike my sch, it is just that 3.5 years at smu is ... enough. We once discussed that if we are to restart this whole journey again, hw would we react? Erm. the answer we gathered was that, we didnt even dare think about it.

But of cos there are still the plus sides of being a student, like getting student discounts, having concessions, and of cos, lamenting and complaining to our working friends how poor we students are..haa (note: the last pt might not be really accurate cos u might be amazed to find out how the pocket money of some students might be higher than an avg worker, sigh...).

anw, setting aside these grumbling... we girls took some time to have lunch outside sch... and we went to a 'cha chan teng', Chinese tea house at raffles city- Streets Cafe. Seems like we have some obsession with chinese food and dim sum, esp since we just went rivercity restaurant for its lunch buffet a week ago. But, seriously I dun mind cos dim sum and chinese food are actually my all time fav...cos they are yummy!

Honey Butter French Toast (Trust me, it is really scrumptious but beware,

u better get another person to share this (fat). Got my hint?)

Honey Butter Thick Toast (didnt try this, but lixian requested for more

honey to go with it. so guess it is def more plain than the butter toast)

Cafe Club sandwich. Ooh... I am gg hungry just by looking at it now..

sh*t. no wonder i put on weight recently.

Eat All You Can Lunch Buffet at River City Restaurant

Have you guys been to River City Restaurant at Excelsior Hotel for their Dian Xin, a-la-carte lunch buffet ? I just did over last Friday, together with my promo mgmt team mates. A pity joyce couldnt join us there...

This was my second time eating at the restaurant being the first time during Chinese New Year early this year where I went there for "Lou Hei" with my ex-colleague buddies. During that visit, I ate till I was so full that I had difficultly walking.haa.. so this time round, I was careful in choosing the dishes.

But since this is a buffet, it means that you can order any amount of a-la-carte food between 11am to 2pm. You get to choose dishes mainly from a list of steamed items, lots of Chinese deep fried food, and some desserts...

and my recommendations are:

In the photo below: 蚝皇叉烧包 Steamed BBQ Pork Buns (Top Left),
上汤小笼包 Steamed dumplings with superior soup (Bottom Right Corner)

Photo below: 芝麻叉烧酥 Baked Sesame BBQ Pork Pies (Top Left, 2 plates of 3s combined),香煎萝卜糕 Grilled Carrot Cakes (2 plates of 2pcs),

湘城鲜虾饺 River City Steamed Shrimp Dumplings (4pcs)

三丝素卷 Deep Fried Vegetarian Spring Rolls (3 pcs)

Close Up of 芝麻叉烧酥 Baked Sesame BBQ Pork Pies, one of my favourite dishes

One of the must tries:

香脆炸鸡翅 Deep Fried Crispy Chicken Wings

The price is at $12.90++ per person for adults and half price for children, on weekdays but plus the small plate of peanuts and such, the bill is about $17 per person... Not very cheap actually...in all, the food are quite nice, and I would give it a rating of 3.5 out of 5...

Can I ask for 36 hrs in a day...

How I wish there are 36 hours in a day. of which i will allocate 10 hrs for slp if possible.

There seems to be so many things to be done, and I am still figuring out why my final semester of just 4 modules seem to be as busy, if not, busier than previous sem.

A week ago, I had heard one of my schoolmate being so cheery in declaring that she will officially graduate in 4 weeks time. Then, it suddenly ring a bell to me tat yeah, I am saying goodbye to smu life at the same time too... mixed emotions again...

and yeah, wish me luck for the interviews....

.....

Looking fwd to tmw's dim sum lunch! ... now at least there is something for me to be cheery about now. =p

Latest consumer advisory from AVA

AVA has just issued a consumer advisory on the three additional China-made items that are contaminated with melamine.

And guess what? There are 17 Malaysia-made biscuits which are also found to be contaminated with melamine and has been ordered to be removed from shelf and to be destroyed. As 12 out of the 17 affected products are from Julie's brand, all Julie's brand biscuits are required to be withdrawn from sale. Now this is really gg to affect deeply the operations of Perfect Food Manufacturing (M), Julie's brand manufacturer.
Although there is only low level of melamine discovered in these products, AVA "advises all consumers who bought the implicated products not to consume them". so i discarded 5-6 packets of Julie's wheat crackers, very sayang to throw away unconsumed food leh but better to be safe than sorry. I have already been eating alot of them for years man.

And even malaysia made biscuits are also affected... now how am I gg to survive my break time in sch without biscuits? although AVA also indicated tat locally made Khong Guan and Meiji are tested to be free from melamine, i guess home made biscuits are the best lar.

I wonder if the prices of the non affected biscuits will rise as a result of this? Let's observe then...

Click here for AVA's consumer advisory (24 Oct 2008)
Visit Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA)'s website for more details.

All ready...

Yes! Finally the organizers have been printed and delivered and they are all ready to be bought by their new owners. Sales have started but not quite growing yet.... So friends out there, if you want to get a copy. Buzz me or email me to reserve a copy.

SMU Gourmet Organizer 2009 (Includes 12 recipes inside)

Only at $10 bucks each

Proceeds go to less privileged communities in Philippines & China

October 2009

oh gosh.. is it really October? I hadnt had much clue on how these 3++ years had just gone by so easily yet so laboriously... (ok, a little exaggeration here)

what triggers this tot is becos after the end of digital media meeting yesterday, yx, fiona and jac were buzy snapping photos in gsr, along the corridor, inside the printing room. They wanted to keep some memories before the end of our last semester in sch. actually, I had plans to do the same too- take snapshots of different corners of smu: my secluded locker, biz block vending machine, fav hangout locations and most imptly, best frens of cos!

But then, it suddenly occur to me tat my journey at SMU is almost ending soon. 4 more modules and I can say goodbye to classes, projects. To be truthful, I am delighted but fretful abt this. Delightful becos there wont be worries of exams, tests, participation, projects. But fretful becos I am afraid of not securing a good job or rather- a career. Everyone knows how bad the economy is now- the pool of employees is big but the no. of positions are limited.

So it is really wake up call for our batch to start job search. Over sat, I had gone to a career fair at Suntec convention ctr with lixian and geri. It wasnt very impressive actually, and there wasnt much choices for us. A govt agency wanted Honours Degree, (for god sake, how many honors do u think an uni can produce huh) and some wanted immediate employment or wanted experience. So it wasnt a fruitful trip.

In the end, we bumped into a fellow who is promoting upgrading courses. He approached us and asked if we are looking for education courses. We felt flattered when he first tot that we were fresh poly grads... but not when he realised that we are fr smu and asked why we are at the roadshow. He commented that "I tot 90% of SMU grads are headhunted?" Speechless here*...

Well chap, there are still 10% who are not and do u really think that employers would crawl, begging for u to join them? There really need to be some efforts at your own end to get what u want. If you dont impress them, do u think they will notice u?

Anws, I prefer to go look for companies rather than wait for them.

Good luck to myself.

Cool discovery (of my side profile)

I never exactly observe my own side profile before... so it was a really cool experience to have a Silhouette Cutting of myself during the Anna Sui's private launch of its new fragrance-flight of fancy...

They invited Welles Tan, a caricaturist as well as expert in Silhouette Cutting, aka shadow cutting, profile cutting as he calls it in his blog: http://sg-shadowcutting.blogspot.com/2008/09/profile-cutting-for-anna-sui.html...


here's my shadow cutting by the way...

Food for thoughts...

Things have finally been moving steadily for the making of our "baby", i.e. the SMU Gourmet- Organizer/Planner after months of efforts, blood & sweat in ...

...planning, seeking out sponsors, deciding on charity beneficiary, designing publicity emailers, finding recipe submissions, preparing the food for photography, requesting quotations, meet ups with sponsors, photographers, participants, designers etc...

For those of you who are puzzled about what is going on, here is a short explanation of whatI am talking about:

What?

- A school charity project to launch a SMU Gourmet Organizer/Planner cum Recipe Book

Who?

- By SMU Gourmet Club, SMU Office of Study Life and Special Interest and Community Service Sodality

Why?

- Raise funds for 2 community projects in Philippines and China through sale of the organizers.
When?

-To be launched in Oct 2008

So I am totally pleased and eager that there's remarkable progress- it has finally reached the printing stage and what's left is the publicity of the sale of organizers and of cos, payment of the printing and others...

Here's a exclusive preview of my 2 recipes, Cheesy Sausage & Tomato Quiche and Zebra Cake...

Cheesy Sausage & Tomato Quiche (to be featured in the organizer)

and the other one Zebra Cake (Backup submission)

Special thanks to John Nursalim, photographer and the person behind VisualMind LLP (http://www.visualmind.biz/), for making all the food photos to be so yummy-looking.

*More updates after the organizers are printed!

A Here-It-Goes-Again-Acute-Busy-Crazy-School-Week-Disorder

No. I don’t think I am able to think properly of what to blog this week. Not at least till Friday.

Meanwhile, here is something for you to ponder abt- What is the definition of a crush? yes, as in a crush on someone.

No.. in case u are wondering, I am not having a crush currently. It was brought up during grp meeting yesterday..helping my fren to fine tune the boundary of its meaning. Will discuss it another time.

is your blog a blog?

Now, ever since I attended yesterday's lesson on blogging, this question continues churning in my head-What exactly constitutes a blog? Does a url that ends with blogspot.com, livejournal.com, wordpress.com automatically imply that your blog is really a blog? Seriously speaking, I for once did believe in so. Until yesterday's class.

During our small group discussion, some points were raised by me and my colleagues (whom I prefer to refer as 'classmates') to support our stance for what consitutes a true blog. Here are the points:

- there should be frequent entries or blog posts
How frequent is frequent then, you would ask. my personal guide is: at least once weekly or fornightly, you wouldnt want to disappoint your followers by letting them wait for your updates isnt it? But, if you submit blog entries every few hours, I would say, I would feel so overwhelmed. So, use your own intuition will u? Quality matters apart from quantity.

- own writing style, content and personality
it wouldnt be called a blog if you purely copy other people's content or discussion. So yeah, have some originality or personality in your blog so that it adds value for those who read your blog.

-engagement and interactivity
blog should allow readers to comment and interact with you and others. connectivity is the key here.

- RSS feeds
it is not exactly a must but RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is becoming more common recently. it allows readers who subscribed to your blog posts to receive updates of your new entries.

Having raised up the factors mentioned above, at the end of the day, i would say that there is no real boundary to what is a true blog, only pure guidelines. Now, is my blog a blog? I would say yeah, because I said so. =p

The rising star in cyber world

Everyone's talking about digital and new media recently. Well, I guess it all attributes to the convenience of broadband, mobile network and wireless technology whatsoever.

Hence, it was just the right time to take up Digital Media Across Asia module. One obvious reason being that i can clear my Global and Regional Studies Elective. It is a big deal to me becos... i cant graduate without clearing this elective. The second reason was already mentioned- it is the in-thing now you know...

Plus, there is one more reason tat further spurs up my interests for this module. Because my prof for this subject- Prof Michael Netzley, is interesting and humourous. His lessons are engaging and fun in a way that it actually motivated me to read up 3 chapters of his readings before class. Now, I seriously seldom do that, except during exam period. Perhaps it is also because the required reference book, "Groundswell" by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, was informative yet reader friendly.

After 2 weeks of his class, I found that I had seriously under-rated the usefulness of digital media all these while. I had also thought that I was adept at using internet tools as well, until I attended the class. New digital tools such as RSS, technorati, google reader, del.icio.us, Plurk etc came into the picture and I was like, huh? What are they? I only know how to tickle frens or tag names in facebook. It was pretty overwhelming at first when prof demo to us step by step but I think, once you get started, it's hard to stop using them?

and I just discovered that Blogger is providing a new "Following" Feature. You get to feature your followers (your blog readers) on your blog and it is also linked with google reader. Woah... great addition. but dont get too excited yet, it is still in experimenting stage nw and will only be rolled out after few wks. But I got a feeling that it shd be ready before tat. Stay tuned.

Baby Blues...

Just over friday, i had joined meilin, jessie and yuan hwa to visit my ex-colleague who has just given birth early this mth.. all of us were lamenting it was a pity that she wasnt eligible for the recent perks for longer maternity leave.. e garberment backdated the effective date for longer paid-maternity leave to 17 Aug instead of the original 1 Jan 2009. Still, she doesnt qualify as she gave birth on 1 Aug.gee.. wat a waste..

Recently, all over the news are abt the parenthood package. Yeah, doesnt concern me yet but I do have some opinions to point out. The National Day Rally had addressed the problem of Singapore suffering a low birth rate and that Singapore's population will be halved after 2070...

Firstly, this situation came as quite a surprise for me as I tot that i had seen quite a no of young couples who are pushing baby prams ard shopping centres... in fact, i know of 4 friends and relatives who are already mothers or prospective mothers. So how can it be that there is still low birth rate?

So moving a step fwd, one commonality is that most are just having one kid. Yes. Just one. It is found that "Singapore's current low fertility rate of 1.29 - one of the world's lowest - is well below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per couple."
(Taken fr www.straitstimes.com/Singapore/Story/STIStory_261974.html)

Why is it so then? Some informal chats with my married frens had pointed out that their first child was pretty much a surprise or even a honey moon baby, so it wasnt exactly planned. in fact, this was the case for 3 out of 5 of my friends. They also commented that it was costly to have a child. In fact, costs already started way before they are born, check-up costs, baby necessities etc...after they are born, further monetary costs add on.

meanwhile, I read an article on Sat's straits times-"Want more babies? Allow surrogacy" by Andy Ho, a senior writer fr ST..
(http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/Review/Others/STIStory_270883.html)

In his article, he had suggested that Parliament shd legalise surrogacy to boost birth rates. I cant help but think: does surrogacy help (at all) to the situation? Although in his article, he has already pointed out 2 primary concerns, i.e. the legal status of the child and status of the women involved, I find that there is still a heafty price tag that comes with it. That is, the emotions of all the parties involved, especially when this involves a decision that cannot be revoked.

What comes to mind is that:
- Although the mother may show greater concern for the baby considering the amt of efforts put in, there is still the lack of natural bond between the child and mother.
- The surrogate mother may have difficulties relinquishing the rights of the child
- for those instances where the surrogate mother is a close relative; such as in the recent case in Japan where the surrogate mother is also the grandmother, there is this complication of family ties
-whether the surrogate mother is using her own egg vs using an embryo from the mother and artificially inseminated with the father's sperm or using donated sperm

There could be other more issues that may not be obvious now...and my personal stance is that Singapore is just not ready for this. Just not yet.

You may refer to the links for more details on this topic:
Foreign wombs for hire, Aug 17 :
http://straitstimes.com/print/News/Home/Story/STIStory_268975.html
Woman gives birth to grandchild, Oct 15:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6052584.stm

one of seven-deadly sins

here i am, in the GSR in sch...blogging abt my first post for the week. I just finished editing my internship report.. yes. finally...but not before i satisfied myself finishing episode 23 of Fated to Love you, aka, My Destiny...

A really unfashionable working class girl Chen Xin Yi has the desire to tie down her handsome boyfriend to be with her. Due to certain reasons, her boyfriend gets her to go on a love cruise and she started to ponder on how to lose her virginity and tie down her boyfriend. Xin Yi ended up taking cold medicine which made her drowsy and went into Ji Cun Xi's room. Cun Xi is the sole male heir to his family's company and has been in love with his girlfriend, Anna, for a long time. He planned to propose to Anna on the boat but she didn't turn up on the cruise. An island owner added drugs into Cun Xi's drink and Cun Xi became disorientated and returned to his own room. Xin Yi and Cun Xi end up having a one night stand. Xin Yi later finds out that she's pregnant and Cun Xi's grandmother forces them to get married. Will a couple forced to marry for the sake of their unborn child find love with each other?

so yeah....i discovered that I had committed one deadly sin- Sloth..
I had promised myself to print out the class notes and timetable and submit report & evaluation form first.. and yet I 'chuck' them aside to fulfil my "lust" for the drama. Angeline angeline.. how can u do that again??

Whatever it is. I am simply too addicted to this drama. It is such a damn touching drama. Currently it is ranked no.1 in Taiwan and response to the show was so overwhelming that they even added more episode to it.. Nw I am just awaiting final episode-24 to be broadcast on Thurs night... it might be silly that I got so hooked to this drama but I really cant resist those drama that bring together the elements of family ties, romantic atmosphere, artistic details, hilarious scenes and sad episodes....it even brought me to my tears several times...once again signaling my weakness for love....

Nw I feel so guilty to have tortured my laptop for nights to satisfy this desire.. hang on there lappie... it will be over soon.. =p

and by the way.. here are some photos that were overdue since fri...

8Q sam-Singapore Art Museum's new space for contemporary art...

Looks as though SMU is part of the structure...

The 8Q—Rate: School exhibition (16 August 2008 to 9 January 2009)

At the ground flr-this black (or shd i say green) chalk board house.I can recall those moments in pri sch where teachers still use white chalk to write on blackboard... and actually the white chalks do have other uses.. they are really good to hide any dirty stains on school shoes... xp

me and huilong took the chalks to vandalise the hse...and played tic-tac-toe...She obediently promises, " yeah... I'll study"

and boy! take a look at this...
Also at level 1...

for the rest of the levels.. hee... will make it up after next visit...too crowded on fri..

For more info, refer http://www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM/8Q-Rate.htm

and we also went to have our desserts- rocher tau hway... under the moonlight...

and just saw these photos.. haaa... 2 little children here...

Lost in emotions.. =P

Last week was like a special week.. some sorta of magical..haa.. i mean, how often do you meet up with your primary school friends?

It all started when I met up for lunch with stephanie-my primary sch fren. She happened to spot me one morning and realised that we worked at the same bldg.. I was in my last wk in my internship and she just started work for few days.. wat a sweet way of unexpected destiny.

and great thanks for her enthusiasm...she started a thread of mails on msn within 24hrs to organize a mit up for initially "A Class 6B gathering" to become an "Anyone-from-Yumin-Pri-Sch-Welcomed" gathering.. ha...it was sorta surprising to have almost 13 of us to mit up that night at Big Splash...of cos credits go to Steph for her wonderful networking contacts and efforts to search thru Friendster and Facebook...

and what was even more magical was that most of us practically looked almost the same since our last mit up 3 years ago... perhaps some do look the same since primary 6- scary thoughts..

it was enjoyable during the mit up.. most of them are doing well... .haa..there's Mr Loi, our PE/Maths teacher-to-be, IT experts-steph and hongling, accounting guru-peishan, technician and "photographer"- Mr 'Lao-Yin', HR Pro-Miss Ping Guo Mei, property specialist-Miss Rita.. 'Beer Connoisseur'- Mr Vincent, Pet-expert Mr Panda.. and eh..forgot to ask what "Boss" Jionghong and Mr Yewen are doing..haa.

it was hilarious when there was a little miscommunication in ordering drinks at old town coffee..haa..tat was like the climax of the nite man..

Yiying: "i want no. 100"

Vincent: " No.100? Hot rite?"

Yiying: "Yeah"

and when the drinks arrived... guess what? vincent had ordered a 100plus instead of the drink #100:white coffee...and it was yiying himself who gave the order sheet to the counter..haaa... (*shakes head)

To: Mr Yiying and Mr Vincent... this 100plus-miscommunication incident sure gonna be one of our future topic for next gathering...haa...

P.S: Pertaining my previous post...yes.. I registered myself to the window display competition and the deadline was extended to fri 1pm...which means.. i still got 3 days to prepare..I am still wondering how on earth did I persuaded myself to submit the registeration..

Singapore Biennale 2008

Singapore Biennale and Club 21 are inviting entries for a Store Window Design Competition. Yeah.. it sounds so exciting which really tempts me. But honestly, I got so much hesitation. There are bound to be alot of design students who have more hands-on experiences, support from their teachers, team members. And for me to wait for advices from my prof- I figured out that it might take few wks to receive a reply...and well..the deadline to register is ahem... the coming Monday- 11 Aug. So talk about procrastination.

I don't even have the courage to register. "Participants — single or in a group of maximum 5 persons — can register for this competition by sending an email to education@singaporebiennale.org with the subject heading: Club 21 Competition Registration, with your name, school and contact number. An email will be sent to you with contest submission details. "

And if I really want to get my feet wet on this... I nd to produce the following by this weekend:
- Artwork proposal submissions in 3D or marker rendering should be mounted on an A2-size board and accompanied with a 50-word rationale.

Now, shall I flick a coin?

Shopaholic-in-training

I am supposed to collect some free 6-piece travel sets for myself and my sis from AHAVA at centerpoint.. and when I reached the store barely after lunch hrs, the sales asst announced to everyone in the store that it has been fully redeemed. What? today is only the first day out of 15 days for redemption lor.. Sian!

and my feet is aching now... from too much walking obviously... went somerset this noon and then went raffles place for lunch w sis and back to somerset and then to orchard... in this pair of flats...

looks good, looks comfortable.

but no. it is not comfy at all... the insole is hard and the strap is loose. I nd to constantly grab the front of the flat with my feet in order to prevent it from flying off. and did i forgot to mention that it is also slippery? i almost slipped twice at a same spot.

but at least something to make my day... i managed to find a good buy from Tangs Studio while it is having sale between 30% and 70%!!!

Look at this gorgeous pair of black evening shoes which i bought at Tangs... I havent found any good occasion to wear it yet but I guess there will def be a chance to do so.. hee..

Sinful Chocolate Cupcake from Gastronomia,da paolo

Recently i seized an opportunity to try this Fudgy cupcake from Gastronomia at Chip Bee Gardens, Holland V.

My! it tastes as good as its name...

the outer crust is crispy while the inside is satisfactorily soft... and it is not too sweet either. now u cant blame me for being so easily contented, it really doesnt have much fault for me to point out-except perhaps the price? a cup cake this size is $3- it may not be exactly pricey as breakfast but i will most prob need 2 of this instead..

Gastronomia- da paolo

DA PAOLO TERRAZZA

44, Jalan Merah Saga,

#01-56 Chip Bee Gardens,

Holland Village

Tel: 6476 1332

http://www.dapaolo.com.sg/gourmet_rest.htm

Now you see it...
Now you don't.

Yes! A revamp!

yeah.. I recently realised that blogger.com doesnt allow you to delete all your posts without deleting your blog so I spent the whole time deleting my old blog posts one by one...

So yes! Designed a new colourful and bright blog header. I am still trying to post more often with more interesting posts but yeah. still trying lar... my work currently doesnt allow me to sqeeue out time to blog cos by the time I am back home after work, I am exhausted to even switch on my laptop and press ctrl-alt-del...

by e way, had a belated birthday celebration for geri yesterday, together with lixian... and she really got cheated by us- thinking that it was just a lunch...haa... how can you have tot that we will not celebrate for u leh! =p

Meanwhile, something on a pillar caught geri's eyes while we are heading to taka and I took a pix of it using my phone....
creative but just so unethical to use this method..and I am not gonna visit this website cos I think they dont deserve it.

P.S. It is Father's Day today (& I haven bake the cake yet...)