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Thursday, October 11, 2012

These few weeks working as an intern, having to adjust to the 8.30 - 6 office hours is definitely no easy feat.
Over the past few weeks, I've developed:

1) Severe, and I mean ABSOLUTELY SEVERE dark eye circles
2) Huge eyebags...................
3) Pimples. 'Nuff said.
4) All sorts of weird pain all over my body. Especially headache!
5) Excessive eye shit
6) Possibly even gain lots of weight


Every night I dread the idea of having to sleep late, knowing the next morning I have to wake up FREAKING early. Oh gosh..


 But one awesome thing about my workplace is.........

The people are so nice!
Everyone is SERIOUSLY nice.

That's something I am so happy about! :)


On the first day of internship, in fact, my boss actually treated us to Astons Specialties!
 Ordered grilled fish :-) Don't look tempting but it taste pretty good.....



Just going to blog about some events last month?
I finally went to Jcube for the first time! Dear and I went there during one of the days when I was still on MC, and yes, shopping waits for no (wo)man! Sickness is not an excuse to stop shopping, isn't it? Hahhaa.

Went to their Miyoc outlet and bought this uber chic dip dye denim vest!

 Freaking chio, and it's even better in real life!

Well, since pay day was near, I got myself some apparels from several blogshop.. My most recent purchase was from Missypixie! I bought their maxi dress in a really pretty light turqoise shade and that is SO my birthday dress :P


Bought some clothes from Vauntcloset as well!
Wore one of their asymmetrical pattern peplum top on a Friday when I was on my way to Blackbird Cafe to find dear~

 Asymmetrical pattern peplum top is from Vauntcloset :)

Since I was wearing a peplum skirt that day, I just tucked it in! Love it! 


Despite several attempts to SAVE MONEY, I figured out I might as well just give up. Went to eat dinner at Blackbird Cafe and my boyfriend whipped up a SPECIAL meal for me!

And yes, he combined all my favourite food in the whole.....................
 Mushroom, prawns, scallops are my favourite food in the world!! And this, was just heavenly.


On another lovely Saturday, when Dear worked 4pm, we decided to pay a visit back to Chockfull of Beans again for a late brunch, and they are just conveniently located at Changi Village!

This time, I decided to try out their mango ice blended with real juicy mango bits and whipped cream on top of it :) It was absolutely DELICIOUS. I just couldn't get enough of it! 

Ordered my Portobello Mushrooms with Eggs Benedict! And had a failed attempt at taking a decent polaroid photo.. Sigh but still~


Anyway the past few weeks Dear has been around for almost everyday. He even TRANSFORMED one of my house's old furniture into a brand new one! 

This is actually a fishtank holder but it got rusty so we were quite worried it might give way and break the fish tank. But Dear bought new paint (specially meant for rusty metal) from Homefix and gave it a brand new look!  


After that, he went to OTF aquarium and bought some aqua plants and rocks!
And..................
TADAA!

Look at how Dear's arranged the rocks! It's so pretty! Like a garden......


The aquarium has made the house a lot more livelier, together with the newly bought shrimps and tetra fishes!


So proud of him...
I was actually thinking how much we could actually save in the future if we just get old furnis from the gurunguni man and revamped them into brand-new looking ones! But prolly the idea wouldn't last long 'cos I'm not a fan of.. old stuffs user. Heheh :/



Been loving my Instax mini polaroid so much that I guess most of my pay is also spent on instax films? Just recently bought Hello Kitty instax films from Gadget Passion's warehouse.. In fact ,they are prolly the cheapest around in Singapore!


Dear insisted I use it during the month of November... 'cos it's *ahem*, my BIRTHDAY!

Well as seen on my wall, You can already see how frequent I've been using my polaroid..... Hehehe :)



Also bought some stickers to decorate my polaroid! 



Advanced Birthday Celebration for Mummy at Boon Tong Kee!
Well, we decided to give this a try for Mummy's birthday.. and wonder what's all the fuss about!

The outlet we went to was at East Coast Road, and by dinner time (On a Sunday), it was considerably packed. The waiters and waitresses were busy serving customers that somehow, they also mixed up our order which made us feel abit..... :/

Anyway, Mummy loves sea cucumber so we ordered Sea Cucumber and Mushrooms! ($24)
The mushrooms were pretty juicy.. I didn't get to eat the sea cucumber but it was finished within 10 minutes so I assume it was good too? :)


 Boon Tong Kee is well-known for their chicken rice, so of course, their chicken has to be of substantial quality. I thought that the sauce was really nice, but the chicken was cold.........

This seem like any other ordinary vegetable dish, nothing special, but nothing bad about it either. 


Steamed Egg - consisting of 3 different types of eggs. It was the ultimate dish we were looking forward to, but we were greatly disappointed. The steamed egg was so soft that it literally melted in our mouth. It was pretty bland and we thought it was a waste of money.... 


 Overall, I don't think I will be coming here except for maybe their chicken rice. It's not a restaurant that serves GOOD food that makes you crave for more. Just a normal restaurant with normal standard food.

 After dinner, Dear sent my parents home and we went to Woodlands Harbour/Bay/Whatever for dating and coincidentally, it was also Mid Autumn festival!

 And of course, the one behind him..... is his second wife. :(


Yesterday, Dear picked me up from work and we went to Jurong Point's newly opened Malaysia's food street - Boleh Malaysia! I came to know of it after reading about it on the newspaper at work. They mentioned that the food served there are all originated from Malaysia's street hawkers.

Boleh Malaysia is located on the last floor of Jurong Point (Pardon me, I haven't been to Jurong Point before.. And how could I not have?! It was indeed a great mall!) and we were pleased by how the ambience was! It was like a typical food court, however, it did have a Malaysia food street feel to it with the "temporary stalls" with the nostalgic signboards. 

There were already a huge crowd and many people were actually hovering around occupied seats, waiting for them to finish or asking them if they could share seats. Some of the stall vendors are Malaysians, after hearing their accents and their fluent Cantonese.

We wanted to go and try their KL Hokkien Mee and we ordered a small one ($4.50) and the small, is REALLY SMALL. It was quite a miserable portion and I felt quite cheated? 
But it was really good! Even better than the one we tried at Geylang.. but at only half the price!

We also ordered Fried Carrot cake with oysters and something else which we didn't find that nice.

Guess the best dish was the KL Hokkien Mee!


Anyway, after our dinner, we went to Ji De Chi for dessert and it was full-house! Thankfully we still managed to grab a seat and was served promptly. They have Durian snow ice too!!!!!

I was so tempted to try it, but decided to stay focus on Mango snow ice ($5) instead. And the price wasn't that steep either, compared to the other snow ice shops in Singapore.


 Finally it arrived!

Look at the toppings! Yogurt pearls that burst in your mouth and nata de coco! This dish is the ultimate dessert for all mango lovers!


After dessert, walked around Jurong Point before heading to the nearby prawning site.
Well, I guess I got abit upset about some stuffs so yeah, all the crazy stupid girly drama happened. Tried to control how I felt but I just couldn't take it.. Guess it hit me kinda hard. There was so much hurt inside me and so many emotions and thoughts running through at the same time that I just didn't know what to do.


Dear decided to make me feel better by asking me if I wanted to chill somewhere for a drink? I was expecting prolly some bar but he brought me to his old workplace, One Rochester.

I was so in love with the surrounding and ambience that I couldn't take my eyes off everything. There weren't much people there and the ambience was so ROMANTIC!




And yes, we were sitting by the sofa, surrounded by pretty lights and trees..


One Caramel (top)

Ordered a Appletini for myself, and it surprisingly turned out really good and refreshing! Yum! 


Freaking dark eyes (from faded eyeliner) thanks to the drama earlier on.

And I love our sofa cushion seat! 


Well, we kinda had a mushy-serious talk about the future, and I wasn't really expecting much from him, but we started discussing on where we'd hold our weddings at, style of the wedding, the food preparation etc, as if we were really going to prepare our wedding anytime soon -_-

Guess he really made my day that I ended the night smiling and with a lighter heart!


Really love nights like this....
Feel so blessed and loved right now. :)



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The June Holiday in Msia :)

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

It's been so long since I blogged...
It's not that I'm declaring this blog dead or whatsoever, but rather, I'm really busy and I'd really want to spend my time settling other stuffs rather than just spend my free time blogging..

Sighhhhhhhhh I hate school la.
It wasn't like this last time, I'd have ample time to blog and laze around on my bed on a Sunday afternoon.. but now, I don't know why the hell I have to take up a job and make my own life so damn miserable and busy.

Sianz...... I miss Malaysia a little bit but I MISSSSS my holidays the most!! :(
Wah lao so carefree and fun-filled.. Now is project-filled. FMLLLLLLL zzzzz!

Well, I'm gonna post up photos that I took in Malaysia~
Gotta say that my aunt's cafe's drinks and snacks are definitely the best.. Not being biased, but it's soooooooooo good that we always have got regular customers coming back for more!

Their coffee beans are Griffith's which is imported directly from Australia :)

 Chocolate ice-blended (Y)

 Super delicious spaghetti ever!! It's kinda different from Singapore's cos the sauce is specially made using my aunt's secret recipe!

 Looks like a Japanese cafe right? Hehehe :)

Okay this ice-cream looks pretty crap here BUT IT WAS MY FIRST TIME DOING THE SWIRL SHIT! aiya the taste good can le!

 The authentic Ipoh Hor Fun from the city of Perak!! :) This is absolutely the REAL and AUTHENTIC ipoh hor fun okay.. Almost all of the TVB hongkong artistes have came here to eat their original Ipoh hor fun. INCLUDING MY BOYFRIEND, RAYMOND LAM!

Damn sad when I saw his picture on the wall.. Why can't he come on that night when I was there?! :'(


Anyway I really liked this Malaysia trip this June holiday, because we went to Cameron Highlands for the very first time, despite the fact that I've been going to Malaysia for 18 years! HAHA.

 THE BEE FARM!!! 


 See the boxes? Inside are contained with honey pots so you can see bees flying around it :-)

 It is pretty scary to walk past these boxes because all the bees are flying around.. and one of the bees was buzzing in my ears! Arghhh

 So I suppose if we get stung and die nobody's gonna be responsible?
Just gotta pray hard that we don't smell like honey and attract all the bees :S

The figurines are so cute but in real life.... :S Hahah!





My brother was acting like a damn wimp.. Zzz I called him to take a picture of me BUT he was so scared that the bees would sting him or whatever shit la. Haiz......


 Can you see the bees? ;)



 Apart from the bees, the flowers were very bright coloured and beautiful!! The garden looks like any fantasy princessey world~ except for the bees of course. Hahahah

Next stop, we went to my aunt's "chauffeur"'s aunt's flower farm.
It was huge, with many different varieties of plants.. They even grew strawberries and made strawberry jams out of freshly picked strawberries :)


 I don't know what the hell a fighting rooster is doing at a flower farm, so yeah..
Looks quite cute! But it grew kinda aggressive when we walked towards it~


 Strawberry Strawberry~

Looks so yummy and tempting!! ;)


Okay la zilian abit... ugly and fat yes I know ):


My aunt buying the strawberry greentea for me :) heheh~

THERE ARE JUST SO MANY STRAWBERRY STUFFS IN CAMERON HIGHLANDS!
Slippers, bathroom towels, pens, erasers, fans, bags, clothes, hair clips, aprons, and many other more..
Seriously it's really like a strawberry heaven for strawberry lovers. Hahah~

The strawberry pens really caught my attention. They were so fluffy and cute! But it was freaking expensive as it was more catered to tourists. I tried asking if it could be lowered but she kept on insisting no.. Somemore don't even dare to look at me in the eye when she said the price.

Stupid arsewipe I can just get some stupid pen and stick some dumbass strawberry on it la and sell for $10 right! Somemore the quality looked like shiat made in China or something. Argh! 

Nevermind. 

DID I MENTIONED THAT ITS REALLY COLD OVER THERE?!
I was freezing like mad even though I was wearing jeans and two layers of clothes.. Luckily I didn't wear shorts there. I was thinking of wearing shorts as we'd be visiting farms and all, but thankfully I didn't!!!

No wonder the hotel rates are so cheap over there. They don't have to pay for aircon electricity consumption and all!
 Tsktsk..

 
Some random pictures~~~~







Most of the food outlets there are charcoal steamboat, but one of the residents over there recommended us to the organic charcoal steamboat. It was soooooooo damn good! The soup and the food was so delicious!

The area was kinda inside though, so only the people who are living there knew about that shop :( 








THE SUPER DELICIOUS STEAMBOAT~! 
 Yes, as seen on my cousin's expression at the back, we were kinda fascinated by the size of the pot because it was really unique and not to mention, HUGE.
Looked really traditional though, but the food is really awesome!

 ATTACK, YUMMY!


And yup.. One of the best meals in my life! HAHAH.

After that, we headed back to Ipoh after a long day at Cameron Highlands..
Wanted to go Mossy Forest but my aunt's chauffeur didn't know how to go there...... so my brother, my cousin and I spent the entire car trip laughing over my aunt's chauffeur bald head instead! I know I know it's really mean but he is SO IRRITATING. ZZZ, long story.

SO YUP, I really had a good time in Malaysia.
It's totally different from Singapore because in Singapore, our life are pretty organised and long ahead planned out by the government whereas in other parts of the world, you really get to witness and be exposed to different environments and places. It really helps to change your perspectives and thinking.

You will really cherish and appreciate what you have when you see what other people in other countries are going through.

So yup, OFF TO DO MY FAOM!
If not my tutor is gonna give the..... weird eye looking shit again -_-





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