My Life As Me

Kimberly's 2D1N Birthday Celebration!

2010-06-02T00:48:00.016+08:00

31.05.2010. Due to the fact that I'm left with less than a week's time before I enlist, it was time to celebrate BFF's Kimberly's 20th birthday first, since I will not be able to make on her birthday. So like how we celebrated BFF's Daphne's birthday, it was a 2D1N Stayover again.

We met up at Orchard first to go for the Aussie University Fair! After heading there for the 2nd time, I'm much more determined to head over to Australia to further my education right after my NS. Hopefully, by then money wouldn't be an issue! *prays hard* Well, got lots to discuss about it with my parents first though. After an hour or two of looking at the various universities, and Kimberly's application, we took a cab down to the restaurant that I've been having cravings for, Ju Shin Jung! Yup, today was "My Food Recommendations Day", since they haven't been there before, and following the Korean wave, we just have to make a date to this superb Korean BBQ! Yes, I've been there more than once, but who can resist BBQ Pork Belly, Kimchi and lots of K-pop music? I know I can't resist!

In case any of you are wondering, Ju Shin Jung has an outlet at East Coast Park as well, so you don't necessarily have to head to the one at Joo Chiat, which is the one we went to. It's located right at Katong Junction, a street away from Katong Mall.

Yup, like what it states on the menu. West: I think it's Pasir Panjang or somewhere there. East: East Coast Park. And Katong: The one we're at!

We were famished! All of us skipped breakfast just for this meal, although we did have my favourite YAMI Yogurt when we were at Orchard. Luckily, the side dishes came quite quickly and we were able to start off our meal first! *slurps*

Looking at it again just makes me salivate all over again! I say this everytime I see photos of the food!

PORK BELLY IS DELICIOUS! AND YES, I ATE ALOT!

Apart from just eating it plainly, adding many pieces of it to a piece of vegetable makes it even tastier!

*yum yum*

Look! Meat lovers scream and shout now! *screams*

I'm enjoying it, but what's with Kimberly's face? Or is that an orgasmic face?

Raw meat hurry and become cooked! I'm waiting to eat all of you!!!!

WOOT! They're done, and I did eat most of the meat. BFFs felt full eventually. Obviously, since Daphne ate 2 big bowls of rice along with pieces of meat, and Kimberly ate so many vegetables and drank 2 bowls of cold soup. It's a wonder they can still stuff food into their stomach!

Love the tea!!!

I'm waiting for the meat to be cooked so they can all be stuffed into my mouth. I'm a HUGE FAN OF KOREAN BBQ!!!! Who wants to head there again sometime?

A hungry man is an angry man! Despite having quite a lot of meat, I still wasn't very happy. So, I ordered more pork belly!!!!

There, now I'm happier! Stuff me with meat please!

After I could stuff no more, dessert came! Although it was just a heart-shaped sliced of watermelon and a cup of ginger tea, I think it's the best kind of dessert after a very meaty meal! Yes, I'm still very impressed with this place!

Very happy after this meal! Another meat eating meal soon please!

Yes, I have a very "interesting" BFF who likes to play games like that. And we weren't even told of it, our expressions were just like that when she was taking the photo. I can even think of the captions for the photo. Mine would be, "Must we leave? I want more meat please! It's playing Korean music, don't leave please!"

Hers would be, "I'm so full I feel so sleepy. I miss my boyfriend!" Yup, totally a random thought.

Group pic!

After that, we decided to head for some exercise before heading to our dessert shop! And of course, being the BFFs that we are, our exercise would obviously be KARAOKE! So we walked to the nearby Teo Heng, but the rooms were all full. So we had to think of an alternative, at Katong the other best thing to do is to play LAN! Cheap rates to play LAN games are available at alot of various shops around the area. So we decided to head into one of it and play some games!

Played for more than 2hours and we finally had some room for desserts, so off we went to my new favourite hangout, The Cheesecake Cafe! I also had the cravings for the cakes there! Took a bus there, and once again the service staffs were very welcoming!

Oh a reminder, if you want to have seats inside the cafe rather than sitting at the alfresco area, it's best if you call and make a reservation beforehand.

This time, they had a weekly special that isn't on their menu, the chocolate orange cheesecake. So we ordered one of it, and their peach jelly, rum and raisin cheesecake and my personal fave, chocolate banana cake!

So called "celebration" for the birthday girl!

Group pic!

We spent roughly 3hours just sitting there chatting. It's really very comfortable, since seats are separated quite far apart and the jazz music played makes one very much at home. And the cakes, very very delicious! We finished all of it within a half hour.

Time to camwhore!

The cafe has lots of various statues and lots of mirrors. Awesome place to do some camwhoring!

Sofa with cushions! LOVES!

Mirrors are everywhere! We can't resist not taking a photo!

I love this place! It's perfect! Everything is great there! Especially the staff! <3

Finally finishing at roughly 1130pm, we took buses back home. Showered, and played monopoly cards till 3+am before presenting our gift to Kimberly.

Spend 2 days doing this! I swear I'm not going to do any handmade gifts anymore. Takes too much of my time! But glad she loved it! The folding of the hearts was very very tiring! Happy that the final product looked so nice!

Group pic before all of us finally fall asleep!

HAPPY ADVANCED BIRTHDAY TO YOU GIRL! =D

Due to the following day being a Monday, and Kimberly can't apply for leave at her company. She had to wake up early to head for work, but that doesn't affect me and Daphne at all. We slept through till 1pm before finally waking up. Had lunch, watched videos before finally showering and heading to meet her to watch the show we want to watch the most!

Sex and the City 2!!! I was super duper happy when I saw that its M18 instead of R21! The first movie was super happening and was super funny as well! This one wasn't a letdown either! 2 and a half hours, but no parts of the show made me want to fall asleep. It was soooo interesting and hilarious that you won't even know that time passed! I personally recommend it to all members of O.C.K. and Frenz! You guys will definitely love this show!!! Confirm and chop!

Ratings: 9.5/10

Comments: Super nice, MUST WATCH!!!!

Cheesecake for Non-Cheese Lovers!

2010-06-02T00:18:00.003+08:00

Even though my internship days has ended for more than 3 months now, I'm still proud to say that I've still been keeping contact with my colleagues from Five Stars Tours Tampines. Headed out for desserts one fine night, my colleague said there's a shop that serves superb cheesecake, so we met up roughly around 10pm for some late night dessert.

This is one dessert shop that I personally recommend, although I don't really like the taste of cheese and milk. It's located near Siglap Centre and it has one of the best atmosphere for one to chill out and take a break, have a chat with friends over a cuppa coffee!

It's The Cheesecake Cafe! The interior of the cafe was really magnificent! Just makes one very relaxed. After sitting down, you wouldn't want to leave for hours, I can assure you that!

While waiting for the others to arrive, what more can we do apart from taking photos at such a cool place. Oh and one reminder, this cafe doesn't allow you to take photos of the cafe itself. While we were all in awed of this place, we took out our cameras and decided to take a photo or two of the place, but the waiter walked up to us and said that photos of the shop isn't allowed unless a party of the group is in it. How cool is that?! Although I don't know what's the difference of taking the place with or without a person in it. But what do I know?

My only fellow intern at the same branch of the company.

Everyone arrived, and we took more photos while waiting for our orders.

Anyways, we actually met up to celebrate one of our colleagues birthday, so a reservation of 12cakes was made beforehand, because their cakes are really awesome and would normally sell out before 10pm.

A mix of various slices of cake.

They have really really special types of cheesecakes that you can't find at other cafes, and they taste mad awesome. Even a non-cheesecake lover like me, love the taste of it! The cheese isn't too overbearing, and together with the various flavours, makes the entire cake damn nice! They do also serve non-cheese cakes as well, I personally recommend the Chocolate Banana Cake! DAMN CHOCOLATEY AND NICE! Oh, and their service was really great, maybe because the place isn't too big, the service is kinda personalize. They actually come to your table after some time to see if you need any assistance or just to do some refilling of your drinks. Super in love with the place!

Group picture to end off! Go and have desserts there, trust me, DAMN NICE!

I'm an Official Graduate with a Diploma!

2010-05-24T00:41:00.024+08:00

20.05.2010. Definitely one of the most memorable days in my life, I mean I'll try my best to remember this very day. It's the official graduation for HTMers leaving TP! =(

Yes, it's been 3 long years since the first day I've stepped foot into TP as a freshman. Thinking back, it has been one of my aim to head into TP and taking up this specific course when i was in secondary 3. I don't know where did the motivation come from, but apparently I did get what I aimed for, good or bad, I didn't really know at that time. All I knew was that, all other polytechnics and junior colleges doesn't attract me as much as TP does, call it the beauty of TP i guess. The school just gives me a very strong sense of belonging, maybe due to it's small campus but filled with warmth!

So anyways, purchased the Hogwarts School lookalike robe, or what we call the graduation gown, which is like chio, since it's red and black. It would have been better if it was orange. Let my niece put it on to take a photo, she didn't really like it, since it was super duper big for her, my sister had to hold it if not it just falls off.

Look at her! She looks like she's the one graduating and not me. Well, in 2 years time, she'll be graduating... from Kindergarten. =D

Headed to TP for the very last time, this time to collect my diploma. Mummy went with me, to view the ceremony, although it isn't a very big deal, since it's just a diploma, but I really appreciated her being there with me. Thanks mummy!

The ceremony was supposed to start at 930am, but we were asked to report at 830am. Well, I thought that we were to report one hour earlier to do some basic rehearsal or something like that, but I was so wrong. All the graduates just ~~stood~~ loitered around the area with their friends and family waiting to enter the auditorium. Which meant, I woke up an hour earlier for nothing! *curses*

Okay, so we finally entered the auditorium, and I'm super lucky that Candy, since her surname is Cheah and mine is Cheang for the record, we sat next to each other. At least we have company, rather than sitting alone, acting all emotional and freaking out before heading onto the stage or whatsoever.

While waiting for the start, camwhore!!!

We were actually separated, so more than half of the clique was seated at the opposite side, all dressed in black robes. If our campus was some kinda castle theme, we might actually be learning wizardy and graduating from magic classes! Imagine that!

So, the ceremony started on time, perhaps due to the fact that there's another one starting at 1pm, and if we don't finish it on time at 1130am, the next ceremony might be affected. Then you must be thinking, "but there's 1hr30mins more what?" Yeah, you're right, but if we end late then we won't get the chance to take pictures right? And there's something people might not know, HTMers are crazy people who love to take photos, like crazy amounts of them, I'm serious! So end early, means more time to take photos right?

What's so special about this photo you might ask. Well, on careful look, you might actually see a lady with a white tudung standing near the stage queuing for her turn to collect her certificate. Well, what's so unique about her? She's the only lady wearing tudung in HTM, and the only tudung wearer out of the 400+ students graduating. How rare is that? Total gem lah! Yes, Zakiah if you see this, you should be feeling proud of yourself, and thanking me for calling you a rare gem. =D

Took a photo with mummy before she heading off.

BFF! 3years ago headed into the same course, now we're graduating holding the same diploma! Proud of you or what?! Love!

BFF and BFF's BF! So many Bs and Fs.

Yeah, quite the shocker for fellow HTMers I know, but well, I used to be in the same project group as her. Yes, poor Steffi and Me! HAHA!

With Candy once again.

With Mr Pras, the tutor during the first semester of Year 1. I'll never forget the time when we all got back our Introduction to H&T project that we've done. It's a group project, and Mr Pras was saying how well we've done, and how he likes the idea and concept blah blah blah. And we all were thinking, "Okay, at least a B or B+ minimum!" But apparently we were so wrong! He flipped the page and written on it was C+! The group was totally pissed! Right fellow O.C.K.?

With lookalike sister, Su-lin! Clicked really well since the start of orientation! Although we went from the pure and innocent to what we are now, I'm proud to say, at least we walked and transitioned at the same time, due to what Ms Lau Biyin has imparted to us!

With the super bimbo Yin-ying! Although I can't remember how we first met and managed to become friends, but really enjoyed all the times we had together!

With Cassie, fellow project mate for the last semester of study. She's one who can really take jokes despite us calling her Bushy! HAHA! Enjoyed the times we chiong together for projects and gossip and complaining and ranting during those period of time.

With Soon Kueh Mei Bin. Fellow classmate during the days at Sentosa. Had fun going to Fort Siloso together with our various group members! And all the casual and random "hi", "bye" and chit chats!

Always that disgusting face, I'll never forget unless she decides to head to Korea for plastic surgery. =D

The leader of the club, my Ah Bu, Lau Biyin! Although she has been super busy working since the unofficial graduation, we still talk about her whenever the clique heads out. Just misses here whenever we're out, perhaps due to the lack of dirty talk I guess. Stuck together since orientation, and hope more years down too!

Sinee! Fellow Five Stars intern, although we didn't spend much time together during our internship, but I'm glad to have someone who stands on the same line when we're all unhappy about our treatment in Five Stars! It was a really tough time during that period. Lucky all the interns were very united!

AmyChua! The damn crude fellow intern as well! Every sentence ends with vulgar words, I think we can click damn well lah! HAHA!

Chloe! Classmate during Sentosa as well and fellow intern mate. Love the time spend during lessons at Sentosa, and Fort Siloso! Best day ever during Sentosa, since most of the time is devoted to projects and shit.

The impersonation of my smile! WIDE! SHOW YOUR TEETH! Apparently, joe isn't doing it right, so we did it again.

That's better, but Reuben is totally over doing it. Look at his face, ugly like shit! Oh well, even plastic surgery also won't help his face! =D

Sandra! The only intern with me at Tampines outlet of Five Stars. Miss the hours we spend in FSTP, complaining about when it will end, and hearing all the gossip of Five Stars! I'm glad we're there, still having lots of great fun with the colleagues, always heading out for good food and catchup sessions! Enjoy your university years ahead!

Sharon Pohpoh! Sentosa project mate! Tough times we had while trying to enjoy our days at Sentosa! Heading for mahjong sessions, playing computer games rather than doing projects, eventually chiong like mad to finish it all up. All our ideas were great, but too bad the tutors don't appreciate our work! At least we know we're proud of our work!

Sock, Leng! The super auntie Sentosa project mate and fellow mahjong khaki! HAHA! Super fun times during Sentosa period. Without the wonderful group members, I think I'll be super lonely! Awesome times we had!!! The many days of Superdog!

Priskoh! Fellow love love! HAHA! Can't even remember how we become love love! Are we in the same SSM group? Or not? Well, it was fun having super random chats on facebook!

Valarie Phang! Fellow classmate during last semester of study. Okay, I'm getting really tired at writing short memories of each person I took a photo with. Lucky I'm not that close with the entire HTM, if not I will be writing almost 300 short memory for each person.

I don't know about this, it's just random!

Fellow slacker, Regina! O.C.K. since start of Year 1! Enjoyed all the great times we had together. Project, slacking, SSM, and thousand million other things lah! You know I know can already!

Fellow slacker and the person who led me into K-pop, Sheila! Got to thank her for that though, enjoyed watching SNSD! HAHA!

Heng Ying! Super auntie, and super disgusting voice! Please don't sing anymore in future, it's really torturing for the listeners! I think we've told you umpteen times, but you always fail to listen! Seriously need to knock some sense into that thick head of hers!

Liling! Super meticulous! Always prepare small little gifts for us, whether it's a special day or not! Really appreciate all the small gestures and the hangout sessions!

Another random pic.

Fellow H13, Drusilla!

More of the class.

My rich brother, Donovan! Eh, you still haven't give me my allowance fot the past few months! You owe me, get mum and dad to transfer to me! HAHA! I think the only time we talked alot was during Public Speaking class in Year 1? Super duper long ago!

Fellow crazian, Xiaoting! Or Xiao Ting Dong!

One more pic with her.

With Mr Png, tutor during Year 2. He's super cool! Short and simple!

BFF and Mr Png!

The only 2 who stay in Yishun during Year 1. Tough time having to travel super far just to go home and to school. Lucky we had each other for company! I still remember the first day that I saw her on the bus. Thought that she looked like just another Minah, and a very arrogant one too! Totally didn't expect her to be in HTM, and in my class, and whats more eventually in my clique. Talk about fate!

Yes, the only gem in the entire HTM. Ms tudung, Zakiah! Awesome time spent since Year 1! Even though our clique speaks mandarin most of the time, I'm really surprised that she isn't really pissed at us, but we still manage well as a clique! I don't even know how she can endure it, if you throw me into a MAT and MINAH clique, I think I'll just die there. Really apologise for all the times we spoke in mandarin even though you were there, but not to worry, we weren't talking bad about you, because of we are, we would have said it in english right in your face! =D

O.C.K. and Frenz gathering for a group picture together. Apparently because we're quite a huge clique, it took us quite alot of time to get settled to take a photo! And seriously, it's a super long time!

Group pic! Definitely gonna miss the times where all of us can gather together and enjoy each other's company! Love ya guys!

More pics!

What's Graduation without jump shots right? Since it's a big group, it's super difficult for all of us to do a jump shot together, so we spilt oursleves into various small groups. First up, Biyin, Hengying and Cassie.

Biyin and Hengying look great in both, Cassie just look strange, think it's the hair! Get a new hairstyle girl!

Following that,Regina, Sheila and Jocelyn. Sheila's hair just looks super funny, total mushroom head! But the height off the floor for all of them is like the same lah!

This would be mad chio if Jocelyn can be abit more demure and do less of that crazy antic! She's like super high!

Next up, Sulin, Yinying and Zakiah. What can I say? It looks more like a struggle for air, look at their legs, total shaky feel.

Now this is nice, but where's zakiah looking at?

Next, Candy and Liling. 2 words, Go figure! I'm totally speechless. Maybe there's better pics of them in someone else's camera.

Too busy taking the photos of them, I became so tired, I just decided to sit down. The gown was super duper long, and makes me so uncomfortable sitting.

The super elegant and lady-like pose was the most comfortable! I'm a very sophisticated person! Whoever that don't agree can go fuck yourself and die! Yes, fellow O.C.K. and Frenz members, most of you would have fucked yourself and died! =D

Next, my turn. This totally turned out stupid! I was actually talking to Biyin when the others counted to 3. So in the end, Reuben jumped and I stayed put, making it look like he's totally despising me! HMPH!

BEST PIC! I think it's the best out of everyone's lah! Mad chio! And since we both have short hair, no hair covered our face, which makes it the best our of all lah! Super hot and handsome! =D

Super addicted to taking jump shots that we keep doing it.

A bigger group than before.

Eventually we decided to try all of us jumping at the same time, while putting the cameras on timer mode. Didn't turn up well, since we couldn't really grasp the timing well. See, I'm the only one who's up! Talk about being fast.

Next, Sulin's the only one up now. Seeing how difficult it is to coordinate, we just gave up.

With Ms Goh, the prettiest tutor lah! Don't even look her age! Nothing but praises for her, since she gave us pretty good results for our projects. HAHA!

After feeling the heat, and having super heavy perspiration since we were being driven out of the air-conditioned area, and taking so many jump shots, we headed off to change out of the formal wear, and head for our last O.C.K. and Frenz gathering, I guess. Since it's gonna be super difficult for all of us to meet up again! But please try, my dears!

Everyone loves my T shirt, I love it too! =D

With Yingfang before leaving TP.

With Steffi.

With Ming Fang.

Yes, I'm feeling super tired, typing such a long post, so forgive me if it gets boring along the way.

So, we wanted to go to MINDS cafe for some fun with boardgames, but after raising up many issues about heading there, we eventually decided to head to Seoul Garden for buffet. From heading to town, we went to Tampines Mall. Yes, pathetic I know.

Waiting for the bus.

Damn long since all of us gathered together.

Damn long since I last had Seoul Garden, food still tastes the same, but they were playing K-pop songs, which was super duper high!

Our tables were super duper fulled, packed with lots and lots of food.

If we were eating at a fine dining restaurant, I think we would have been kicked out. Too much noise pollution, and with Biyin, dirty talk came back, but we seriously enjoyed oursleves!

After lunch, we headed to watch Shrek Forever After, the Final Chapter.

Definitely don't suggest heading to watch it. Either I was too tired to really bother about the story plot or it was really boring. And of course, it's the latter. Nothing fanciful, it's just a very short and direct ending of the entire Shrek series. Although I really do love the kids Donkey had with the dragon. Imagine cute little donkeys with wings and can breathe fire, how cool is that! And a super duper fat Puss who can't even wear his boots? HAHA! And oh yeah, the totally funny scene, who sounds super wrong, Donkey and Puss talking about licking each other. SUPER FUNNY! Licking pussy, geddit? HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Rating: 6/10
Comments: Maybe it's that I'm feeling super sleepy, but it's seriously not a good ending to a Shrek. The first 3 are so much better!

Trailer:

Headed to Coffee Bean to slack and chit chat for more than 3 hours. This is the best thing we do, sit down, relax and slack! That's what we do best!

I LOVE O.C.K. and Frenz!!!! We got to meet up as and when we can to catch up on life!!

Now, I'm officially a graduate with a Diploma in Hospitarity and Tourism! Take that Ris Low!!!

P.S. I just wrote whatever that comes to mind, so pardon me for the boring-ness of this post!

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

2010-05-21T00:08:00.003+08:00

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

Being a K-pop addict sure is fun! With performances every thursday to sunday every week, I get to watch latest songs performed by the groups. And these are the latest songs that I'm addicted to...

MBLAQ- Y

I personally like the entire MV despite the fact that Korea is actually limiting the shooting scene. Well, to me, that's counted as the most important part of the entire MV. Nice song!

4minute- Huh

4minute latest song featuring BEAST!

After School- BANG!

Latest addition of another member, bringing it to a 8 ladies group, just to bring down the average age of the group. But seriously, it doesn't matter, cos the song is super duper nice, and their drum playing is superb! Love it!

2PM- Without You

Damn nice song by 2PM! I like the starting part when the 2 hands are imagining as if they're playing the piano, super nice!!!!

And of course lastly, having waited for quite some time, SNSD and 2PM's CABI song is finally done. I've watched it multiple times, and still isn't sick of it. It's an MV but made into something like a short drama. SUPER DUPER NICE! Bound to make you nose bleed or for those horny dudes or ladies out there, make you super high! The bodies just make you wanna drool! ITS FUCKING HOT!

SNSD + 2PM- CABI Song!

MAD CHIO! Love SNSD, Love Yoona and Taecyeon!

Yet Another Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song!

2010-05-18T01:00:00.003+08:00

Met up with BFFs once again along with JJ to catch a movie and obviously without a doubt, playing our latest addicted game. Apparently, it's so addictive that both my BFFs bought a set each. Trust me on the fun and addictive part!

Anyways, due to the fact that i've lots of movies that i want to watch but have not watched, it took quite some time to finally decide. Eventually, we decided on The Last Song.

Starring Miley Cyrus as Ronnie and Liam Hemsworth as Will. This is yet another storybook written by Nicholas Sparks. You have got to love the books written by him, simply awesome! Most importantly, many have been made into movies, like the latest Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe and The Notebook. Great storylines!

Last Song is more of family ties rather than relationship if you ask me. Okay, fine, apart from the scenes of romance between Ronnie and Will, most of the movie revolves around how Ronnie and her brother spend time and get to know their dad, who's down with cancer, better. It's very touching as to how you see the family finally gets to bond, but not to the extent of making you cry or tear. However, the piece of music that Ronnie and her dad finished was splendid. The part when Miley/ or maybe the subsitute hands was playing the piano, it was really a very nice piece, made me feel the sad emotions deep inside of me. Yeah, that's how amazing that piece was, to me.

Oh yeah, and it was also a very unique experience, since watching so many movies before, it was my first time hearing ladies in the cinema go "NOOOOOOOOO!" when Liam Hemsworth kissed Miley Cyrus. Not like "oh man!" kind of whisper, but really loud scream, "NOOOOOOOO!" Imagine the drama!

Storyline: 9/10
Comments: What can you expect from a Nicholas Sparks book? Great of course! I would have given full marks, but I ain't a fan of Miley Cyrus. And Liam Hemsworth isn't all that hot, I find his face kinda disproportionate, or maybe his nose is too big? That's for the minus one.

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

2010-05-12T16:35:00.002+08:00

For Your Viewing Pleasure

I know I haven't been blogging much, basically due to the fact that I've been rotting at home for more than a month now. No intention to find a job since I'm enlisting in less than a month's time, so I'm using the time to watch as much videos as possible. Since I've been staying home and all I do is watch videos most of the time, my brain can be said as dead, haven't been thinking much, thus the shortage of interesting topics to update.

However, I shall try my best and showcase the latest and interesting videos that I personally favour.

Currently, I've been a very insane K-pop lover, watching korean variety programmes and listening to songs from the popular bands in Korea, and I've got a latest addiction to F(X)'s Nu Abo, their latest single. It just keeps ringing in my head.

f(x)- Nu Abo

SOMEONE BRING ME TO KOREA PREASE!

BFF Daphne's Birthday Celebration!

2010-05-05T21:13:00.016+08:00

01.05.2010. Went to Downtown East's chalet to celebrate my elder niece, Rachel's 7th birthday. She had invited roughly 10 friends along, so I had to act as the entertainer for the day. To rid myself of such a burden, I called my BFFs along. Thank god for them, if not the amount of sweat would be 3 times as much. Having to play games, run around and mingle with kids totally tire all 3 of us out within minutes.

When it was the time for the kids to head home, we totally drop dead, relieved that it's finally over. Glad that my nieces had a great time!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL! =D

Took more Polaroids...

When it was time to pack up and head home, it was worse than I thought. Having to carry thousand million things was simply tiresome! So, cam-whore first to rest awhile.

During the celebration, my sister offered glitter tattoos for the kids. Being a kid myself, obviously I wanted one too.

Nice right? Got Mickey Mouse design too! (Picture above this, on my forearm) Super cool, but when it comes to washing it off, it's super troublesome.

BFFs had a sleepover at my place, since it was quite late when it ended. Daphne went out with her friends for a friend's birthday celebration. So, Kim and I had some time to make preparations for a minor celebration for Daphne, since her birthday falls on the same day as my niece.

Met her at the bus stop and brought her to the playground nearby where Kimberly was waiting. Surprised her with a cake, since it isn't our official celebration for her. First to celebrate for her face to face, at roughly 12am. *gleams*

While she was making her wishes, I got cream ready, and when she opened her eyes, the cream went directly to her face! =D

She didn't even get a chance to prepare at all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BFF DAPHNE! Love ya! =D

Headed back home, and took our long-awaited shower. We smelt totally gross, mixture of BBQ and sweat. *pukes*

Obviously, stayover includes MONOPOLY DEAL CARDS and CAM-WHORE!

I LOVE THIS PIC THE MOST!

Played for 3hrs or so, before having a heart to heart talk and finally slept nearing 4am.

02.05.2010. Took a Polaroid before leaving the house the next day. Headed to Kim's place for another stayover to prepare for Daphne's celebration. We decided to cook a meal for her, but we tricked her into saying that we're heading to Goodwood Park hotel for fine dining, and that she had to dress appropriately. The fact is that we're just gonna have dinner at Kim's place, but it's a meal we prepared.

Headed to NTUC and Cold Storage to purchase all the groceries. Because we have a budget, we had to head to this 2 supermarkets to compare the prices before making the purchase. It was tiring! The weather was super hot, and we had to walk to Causeway Point. After purchasing everything, we wanted to take a cab, but there wasn't any cabs in sight, which resulted in us walking back once again.

Not alot of bags, but the things inside are super heavy! And after walking for so long, it was fucking tiring! Yes, I'm complaining Daphne, so be grateful!

She doesn't look tired right? But she was really pissed off that we couldn't take a cab.

Everything that we've bought just for 1 meal.

Didn't really know what to give her as a present, so eventually, we decided to give her something hand-made. Took us more than 3 hours to finally finish it up even though it wasn't a very huge gift. I basically took 2 and a half hours to finish up all the drawings.

Not forgetting to take a photo while doing. Eventually we slept at around 1am, even though we didn't have enough sleep the previous day. But we woke up at 12pm the next day, and we still had ample time to do the preparations. I'm so proud of myself! =D

03.05.2010. The day of dining at ~~Goodwood Park~~ Kim's place. We decided on 5 different dishes, and started the cooking.

Cooking the pasta sauce, adding many other ingredients into the sauce.

Cooking in the clothes we wore to sleep. Yes, it's ugly I know...

Some of the ingredients.

Our menu for the day. We, not exactly we, more like I came up with creative names for the different dishes. The theme was L.O.V.E., which she needs the most right now. Click on it to enlarge.

We even put in effort to make the overall atmosphere like a hotel. Judging from how the table looks like, I can say it's not that bad.

She wasn't too happy when she was here, cos she took quite some time to finally decide on the clothes, but apparently we're not heading to the hotel. HAHA!

She was pissed at first, but she gave up eventually. Lucky she's staying just a street away from Kim, so her outfit wouldn't have to be judged by passers-by as compared to us heading to Orchard right? But she did look pretty awesome, with a dress, high heels, dangling earrings and a nice bag. Yes Daphne, I'm praising you okay?

The guest is at the table, checking out the menu.

We even offered wine.

The meal starts off with the first dish, Chick's First Meeting. In simple terms, it's just chicken soup.

Followed by Mixed Feelings. A variety of sushis.

A very happy meal indeed!

I love the soup! I think I drank 3 bowls of it. *grins*

Took shots with the Birthday Girl, while Kim was doing something else.

Without looking at the bowl in the centre, it does seems like a photo taken at a restaurant right?

Next is Walking the Red Carpet. It's just tomato based pasta really.

And a Mashy Proposal. Now this is one of my faves, and it's our first time doing it. It tastes super duper nice! It's meatballs and potatoes (both mashed and cubes), both goes super well with the sauce! DAMN DAMN DAMN NICE!

Camwhore time! =D

Lastly Duo Zi Duo Sun and Blissful Spritzz. Obviously everyone's fave, CHOCOLATE FONDUE! *screams* and a cup of OJ mixed with Sprite and Vodka! It was super super fantastic, I am so proud of myself that I'm able to cook, without even looking for recipes. It's all feeling! LOL!

We totally enjoyed the fondue! Never stop until we're totally filled to the brim!

This is the gift that we made for her. It's something like a photo frame, but for Polaroids. Wrote our wishes and drew pictures all over it. Click on it to enlarge. Daphne said my art has improved! *proud* I personally love the drawing in the bottom right photo. SUPER CUTE!

I love the bottom middle one! The heart shape mad chio lah!

Oh well, Daphne's 20th Birthday is over just like that. Kim's coming up soon, but since I'm enlisting soon, I won't have a chance to celebrate for her. But, I'll do what I can before it's here. PROMISE! =D

LOVE YOU TWO, KIMBERLY FONG and DAPHNE TSANG! *muacks*

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

2010-05-04T17:38:00.003+08:00

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Just found out about this really awesome short action movie. It's called Dead Fantasy, a fan-made CG starring casts from Final Fantasy and Dead or Alive games. It shows group of members from both games battling it out in different environments. It's just super amazing, I can't stop watching all 5 parts that are out. Fans of either games are bound to fall in love with it too! I PROMISE!

Dead Fantasy 1: Features a 3V3 battle. Yuna, Rikku and Tifa battle it out with Ayane, Kasumi and Hitomi. No magic used yet, but the battle gets better.....

Dead Fantasy 2: YES! Time for magic! The usage of Tifa's materia and the combo moves by the FF girls was MAD CHIO! Then Ayane used her magic to destroy the entire temple, leading them to a fight during a vertical fall. Halfway down, Rachel destroys the tower and brought all of them to a river of lava. There, Rinoa and Kairi (Kingdom Hearts) appears and joins in the fight.

Dead Fantasy 3: 1V1 battle between Tifa and Hitomi, total close combat style! Also features the usage of Materia, super exciting fight! Helena appears at the ending summoning a group of Kasumi X clones.

Dead Fantasy 4: Random scene of Kairi, followed by a fight between Kasumi and Yuna. Just then, Kasumi X clones appears and forces Yuna to transform into her summoner attire and battle using her Aeons, but to no avail. Before the clones could defeat Yuna, Cloud appears and gets ready for battle, but Kasumi teleports all the clones and herself away. The ending shows Cloud and Yuna on Fenrir (the bike) to a city.

Dead Fantasy 5: Continues from Dead Fantasy 3. First male from Dead or Alive, Hayate and his ninja clan takes over the battle with Tifa, causing her to face many enemies while impaled with lots of arrows. Tough luck for her! Tifa was then sent onto a helicopter with Helena. The scene then shows Kasumi battling out with her clones, and her brother Ryu appears to help her out, along with Momiji. Ending shows Cloud and Yuna seeing the helicopter with Tifa in it flying overhead into the city.

And you know what's the best thing? The girls from Dead Fantasy dancing to SNSD's GEE!

Dead Fantasy- GEE!

After watching all of it, I'm sure you're hooked on it too right. It's really super exciting! Love it!!!

Hello Baby Addict!!!

2010-04-26T00:37:00.002+08:00

Due to the fact that I didn't find a part time job that needs me to work everyday, I have been spending most of my time home. So, my friends introduced me to this variety show which I really enjoyed watching, and I got to share it with you guys.

It's called Hello Baby! First of its kind that I've seen. It's a Korean variety show, where celebrities were tasked to take care of a baby. First season of the show starred the famous and my personal favourite, SNSD! The 9 members had to take care of a baby who's less than a year old.

It's really funny, looking at how they take care of a baby, since they're all quite young as well. But they did get the hang of it with various One-Day Dads along the way. It's funny and heart-warming, seeing how they provide the love and affection to a baby who isn't really theirs. SNSD's season is a 22 episode series, and is available on Youtube. Trust me, all SNSD fans have got to watch it, even if you're not, watch it and I'm sure it will make your day as well.

SNSD's Hello Baby Episode 1 part 1:

The next season, which was aired just a few months ago featured the famous SHINING SHINee! At first, I didn't really intend to watch it, since I didn't really know or care who SHInee was. But after watching the first episode, I got totally addicted to it. The 5 members group also had to take care of a baby, in their case, a 4 year old. But considering that they're as young as SNSD or some even younger, it makes you think if they'll even succeed.

Their season of Hello Baby is more hilarious as compared to SNSD's, perhaps because the baby is older and more activities can be done as compared to a 1 year old. You can totally see their love for the baby, showering him with so much care and concern. Every episode of their series makes me laugh out super loud. Everything they do with the baby just seems so much more fun. You just got to watch it to find out. SHINee's season is a 12episode series, yes, it shorter than SNSD's one, but definitely created much more impact. Also available on Youtube.

SHINee's Hello Baby Episode 1 part 1:

After watching both, I can say that I'm slowly becoming a 宅男 and a K-pop Lover. More Korean shows to watch, if anyone has any variety shows that's really hilarious, don't forget to introduce it to me.

Love this part of the show, where they put on animal costumes and played with the baby! I'm definitely getting a higher dosage of them after watching Hello Baby!

The Bounty Hunter and Huntress!

2010-04-26T00:24:00.002+08:00

After more than a month not meeting up with ah bu, she finally texted us to hang out. So, we met for lunch @ Popeyes and of course having fun with our latest addiction, the Monopoly Deal Cards. Due to her work schedule, she had to leave after a few hours, so the rest of us decided to catch a movie together.

Watched The Bounty Hunter. Starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston. The show is about an ex-cop (Gerard Butler) becoming a bounty hunter catching people who skips bail and didn't appear in court. Apparently, his ex-wife (Jennifer Aniston) skipped her court session to follow up on an article about some murder cover-up. Along the way, they both got into problems of their own, and with only each other to rely on, they have to go through tough times, like staying alive.

Storyline: 7/10

Comments: Not very humorous, but the story plot is quite interesting. If one is SO BORED, don't mind catching it. =D

Trailer:

S.H.E. Is Definitely The One Concert!

2010-04-19T22:24:00.012+08:00

17.04.2010, the long awaited day for S.H.E.! After more than 2 years of not performing at Indoor Stadium, they are finally back! I LOVE S.H.E.!!!!!!!!!!!

They did have many other events happening those few days, like the Opening of Stadium MRT station, and the autograph session at Plaza Singapura. Unfortunately, I got to admit, I'm a little sick of queuing up to get their autographs, so I decided to be their low-key fan, since I have plenty of their autographs already.

Concert started at 8.30pm.

The view of the entire Indoor Stadium. Haven't been a patron since long long ago....

My S.H.E.-gaga partners!

The mad chio poster of them! Okay, so they were selling merchandises outside before the start of the concert, and I actually saw a T shirt that I liked, but there wasn't any stock left for it. The T shirt was actually packed in a box with that poster picture. What were left of the T shirts were all ladies, so I got a towel which was also packed in that box, since all I really wanted was the box. And guess what? The towel costs $25, and since I don't really have a use for that towel, it can be said that I just spent $25 on a pathetic box. I'm not a crazy fan okay!

We were seated at the centre, row 12. It's quite close, but when I want to take photos of them, it isn't close anymore. So the photos that I took weren't those of really good quality, but just bear with it!

Concert tix were totally sold out! Roughly 6000-7000 fans turned up. Oh, and at National Stadium, Mayday was performing as well, heard that roughly 9000 fans went, 2 famous groups in a day, wonder how much money they have earned! I want to be a celebrity and perform on a stage and earn cash like that too!!!!!

Most people came with red lightsticks, wonder how everyone got the info from.

The previous concert, most of us would have an idea of what they were gonna perform on stage, but this year, it was totally secretive. Guess it's a surprise, and indeed we were surprised! It was awesome!

S.H.E. is out! Wearing super duper chio costumes, like some S.H.E.RO! Super nice!

Sang a medley of fast-paced songs to create the "High" atmosphere!

The crowd was already crazy when they came out, screams and shouts can be heard! Obviously, I was crazy as well, sang along super loudly!

Next, they changed to super cute and vibrant coloured costume. It was some kinda crane, the bird kinda theme. Selina was the bird in the air, Hebe was the bird on the sea and Ella was the bird in the desert. I know it sounds a little dumb, but when you watch the video that supports that theme, you got to admit it was a brilliant idea. Sorry, due to prohibition of video taking, I don't have the video. LOL!

So, they got into a bird's nest and sang ballads. SUPER NICE! The crowd were waving their lightsticks according to the song and everyone waved in the same direction all together, well most of them did.

The beautiful costumes, I think it's really cute! And Hebe's hair is mad chio that night, so different from the hairstyle for the new album.

Their voice is still super good, best girl group in Asia!

Pretty faces, melodious voices, splendid costumes, what more can one ask for?

In such cute costumes, they did another medley of cutesy songs from their albums. Got to admit, with 12 albums, they will have to sing like for one whole day before they run out of their own songs.

SUPER CUTE!!!! *faints*

After that, a short cartoon with the voice of Ella introducing how the 3 girls met, and became the S.H.E. now. She said Hebe was the angel sent down from heaven to guide her, and her voice was superb. Got to admit, Hebe has the best voice among the 3 of them, and also the cutest!!!!

She sang an english song, can't remember the name of it, but it was GOOD! She also played a short part on the piano. Oh, and her looks were super sultry while singing the song, totally mesmerized by her!!!!

Next, Selina also sang another english song, can't remember the name of it as well, all I can remember was the hot dance that she performed.

Lastly, Ella sang a song she wrote herself, about her being a girl who isn't very lady-like. First time hearing it and totally the song suits her so well!

They then sang their songs Broadway style. SUPER NICE! It's like CHICAGO!

After that, they sang a couple of "High" songs again, totally bringing the atmosphere up again!

They were each standing on a cage-like box with their own initials in it. Not sure if you can see it clearly, but it's an S below.

A H!

And an E!

Next, they entered their princessy world. Coming out on a pumpkin-like coach.

Wearing total pink robes!

SUPER CUTE!!!! OMG!

Removing their robes revealed these sexy outfits. Damn hot! Totally changed from the girl-next door looks in the past, now they are the pretty ladies in skimpy clothings and high heels!

I LOVE SELINA'S DRESS!

So, they had their very own K session right on stage. Each one of them gets to pick a song, and sing it. And whoever is singing will appear in the MV. Damn cute!

Ella was first, and she sang 简单爱 by Jay Chou.

And she did appear in the MV! Totally surprised when the MV was shown on the screen. It looked more like RuHua than Ella, the makeup was too exaggerative.

Ella singing the song.

Sitting on a couch having popcorn, total karaoke style.

Next was Selina. She chose 崇拜 by Fish Leong.

Selina in the MV, total 1970s style!

Next was Hebe, looked the best in 1970s.

She sang 红豆 by Faye Wong. SUPER NICE!

They then sang a couple of high songs together. Sang Mayday's song, and the crowd went totally crazy!!!!

They then sang various special songs that represents a country or something like that.

It was super super high!!!! Just see the photos, I can't remember what songs they sang already.

They sang 中国话 and 恋人未满 for encore.

Overall the concert was spectacular! But a pity that it was too short. They ended exactly 2hrs 30mins later. I thought they would perform for a longer period, but they sang like over 40 songs! Total worth it. Hope they come next year for a concert again, instead of another 2 years or more!!!!

The things I bought this time round, 2 albums, a towel, and a lanyard.

I'm considering selling some of my S.H.E. items, any interested parties can just leave a comment, and I'll get back to you. In dire needs of cash right now, and they are my only valuables!

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

2010-04-18T23:03:00.003+08:00

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Frequent dosage of S.H.E. songs makes my night very emotional. Especially with all their ballads since their first album.

MVs from their new album, SHERO!

S.H.E.- 愛就對了

S.H.E.- 你不會

S.H.E.- 我愛雨夜花

Still suffering from the after effects of their concert.

Date Wrecked Night!

2010-04-15T23:13:00.004+08:00

Just got home from a movie date with BFFs. I think we've been meeting up almost once every week, guess we're trying to maintain a strong relationship with each other. So having seen the trailer for this movie, all 3 of us thinks that it should be a good movie to watch.

It's Date Night. Starring the "used to be" super funny comedian actor who acted in 40 Year Old Virgin, Evan Almighty and Get Smart! Yes, he's funny in those movies. Also starring Tina Fey, said to be a comedian, but I don't really get her humour AT ALL. All I can remember of her is her role in Mean Girls.

Well, I can't remember much of the story plot. The main situation was that they took up an anonymous couple's dining reservation at a very popular restaurant, and got mistaken as the couple. Because of that, lots of issues started happening to them, over a flash drive which consists of a V.I.P's (a wanker) pornographic images. Something like that. But the minor details, I can remember none, since I almost fell asleep in the middle of the movie because there's isn't even a climax in the show. All I can remember is the super duper cool Audi, lots of scoldings of whores, shut your vagina, penises that gives out blood, F you, bitch and lots of stupid humping, for a very disgusting horny old man. The man's a total wanker!

Storyline: 5/10
Comments: Not very funny, no climax, relative dull story plot. The trailer showed all the funny parts of the show, so don't bother heading to the cinema to watch it. I'm dead serious!

Trailer:

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

2010-04-11T21:36:00.002+08:00

For Your Viewing Pleasure

Girls Generation's (SNSD) Performance!

SNSD- Oh!

SNSD's Seohyun, Tiffany, Jessica, Sunny, Sooyoung- Wanna Be! (Spice Girls)

SNSD's Yoona, Yuri, Hyoheon- Deja Vu (Inna)

SNSD's Tiffany- Poker Face (Lady Gaga)

SNSD's Jessica, Taeyeon- Sweet Dreams, SNSD- Get The Party Started! (Black Eyed Peas)

I'm totally in love with SNSD now! S.H.E. and SNSD Rocks!

Live It, Love It! HONG KONG! (Day 3)

2010-04-08T00:49:00.000+08:00

3rd Day In Hong Kong! It was DISNEY DAY! WEE!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, after the 2nd day, I'm fully prepared to head out into the cold. So, early in the morning, with the "weather for the day" shown on TV, we were fully clothed from head to toe.

We're ready to battle the cold!!!!!!!!!

Headed to the famous Hong Kong Cafe! There was a franchise located near to our hotel, so we headed there for breakfast!

It's called 翠華餐厅, and it's indeed one of the nicer Hong Kong Cafe.

Took quite a heavy breakfast, because we didn't want to spend money on food in Disneyland, since it's expected to be EXPENSIVE and NOT TASTY AT ALL!

After that, we headed to another MTR station that is also located near our hotel. The East Tsim Sha Tsui station, which was said to be a faster way to reach Disneyland rather than taking from Tsin Sha Tsui station. Well, definitely the faster the better right?!

Camwhoring while waiting for the train. Apparently, the trains in Hong Kong come at a frequency of 2-3mins, which is so much faster! And they have so many different coloured routes even though Hong Kong is very small as well. Singapore's circle and downtown line better be ready soon! Competition is rising!

Took individual shots with our Disneyland entrance ticket!

The special train dedicated to the Disneyland route, the train only runs from the station to Disneyland and back. Call that specialization!

The train is very different from the other trains running on other routes. These trains have cushioned seats, special Mickey shaped windows and handholds. In each carriage there are a few Disney character statues placed as well. Super Disney-like FEEL!

Even the Disneyland station also very chio! Fantasy enough, way before we entered Disneyland.

The time we reached was exactly 12pm. Way too lucky! If anyone tells me that the clock is actually 12.01pm or 12.02pm, I don't give a damn. It's so obvious that it's 12pm right?! Those who disbelieve can fuck yourself and die!

Fall madly in love with the train sia! Refusing to leave without taking a last photo of it! And the clock still shows 12pm okay?!!!

HONG KONG DISNEYLAND! *screams in excitement*

So due to our over-excitement upon seeing Disneyland, we decided to leave our composure behind, and let loose our inner monster to enjoy the entire day in ultimate madness!

We started out with one jump shot, since we're all shy and demure. We didn't want the other customers to be startled by our sudden eagerness and enthusiasm! Eventually, we didn't care about the on-lookers anymore, we just did multiple jump shots until we're feeling exhausted but they did laugh at our stupid and hideous act.

After so many jumps, these are the best ones out of so many! Click the image for larger view.

Pictures of Disney characters hanging on the lamp posts along the way to the ticketing entrance! There was Winnie, Ariel, Mickey, Tinkerbell, Hercules, Buzz Lightyear and so many others! *at that point in time, I was feeling super excited already! Felt like a child once again!*

A very nice water fountain with statues of Mickey and Friends. They are all doing something related to water.

Mickey's riding a whale, Minnie's playing with a seal, Goofy's wake boarding, Pluto's playing with fishes, Daisy's trying out diving, and Donald's stuck on board a wrecked ship!

We've officially entered Disneyland! I ALMOST CRIED ONCE I ENTERED! The area was playing Disney songs, which were so nice, and made me very emotional! I'm serious!

The notice on top of the tunnel totally caught my eyes, and it's super NICE!

FANTASY!!!!!!!! Once one enters, he/she wouldn't wanna leave anymore. I'm sure of that!

"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. " - Walt Disney

THE EVER-SO ADORABLE STITCH! Although it was just a poster, we still posed along with it!

A super stylish bus in Main Street! But it apparently doesn't work I guess. Oh and I guess the driver must be a man with super short legs, because the space between the seat and the accelerator is super small, I was squeezing my way in just to take a photo!

Yes, the picture says everything. If you have whatever evil comments in your mind upon seeing this, keep it to yourself. Maybe you might also wanna look in the mirror first before saying anything, because by that time, I do suppose you would have nothing to say! HAH!

We're at USA MAIN STREET! SO CHIO! Still can see the castle behind us!

The various shop along the street! Even the exterior is so nice! What more the interior right?!

There was a marching band performing at the time, and they actually dance along to their music. Super cute!

The magnificent Sleeping Beauty's castle. I always assume that the castle is Sleeping Beauty's and not Cinderella's or Snow White's because I prefer the Sleeping Beauty. She's the only authentic and pretty princess among all! Disagree? Let me explain to you.

Cinderella wasn't really a princess, she's just an average lady who was stuck in a house with evil siblings and step mother. Poor girl! But she became a princess because she's lucky she had a fairy god mother who helped her gained that title. If the fairy god mother didn't appear, what more is she, except that poor girl?

Snow White. Fine, she's a princess! But she's ugly! Her lips are so small and so are her eyes, and so white for what? Super scary can!

Ariel. Princess in the sea. Got no castle, so shoo!

Belle. Also another average lady with exceptional beauty. Became a princess because of the Beast what. So also not counted!

Jasmine. Arabian princess, stays in some kinda Taj Mahal style palace, not a castle. So definitely not hers also right?

Yup, that concludes it all, which apparently means that the castle is Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora's castle lah!

Anyways, back to photos and the trip!

Group pic! Still can see the castle! How big is it? SUPER BIG!

Even the flowers in Disneyland is more beautiful than flowers outside! And the colours, so bright and nice can!

So, we entered Fantasyland! And the first person we saw was Cinderella! Wanted to take a photo with her, so we entered the queue. But eventually, got sick of waiting so long.

Yup, I'm a very impatient person even though I'm waiting for one of the beautiful princess in history.

So, with the intention to give up, we saw this super adorable little girl taking a photo with Cinderella, and she's really SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER CUTE! Decided to officially say bye to princess of history and head to princess of the present and future.

She's wearing Mickey ears! SO CUTE! Couldn't control myself! I simply adore cute children okay? Not that I'm a paedophile or what!

I was totally amazed! How can a little girl be so cute?!!! She's even cuter than my Nicole can!

So, we asked her mum whether its okay to take a photo with her, and her mum agreed! And she wasn't the least shy, she stood with us and smiled. SO CUTE RIGHT?!!!! CUTE RIGHT? CUTE RIGHT? Shit, I'm repeating myself! Really very cute lah! Totally win Cinderella can!

So, upon saying goodbye to her and her mum, we bid Cinderella the bitch farewell, since she doesn't wanna take a photo with us and walked away. Okay, actually it's because the queue became longer after we went out to play with the little girl.

Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs Statue.

So, the first ride that we took was the Story of Winnie the Pooh! Well, reason being me and BFFs love the Winnie gang, and also because we're nearer to that ride lah.

Pic with our favourite gang!

The ride basically brings us through a day in Thousand Acre Woods, and see what Winnie and the gang are doing. It's super cute! The carriage we were in was something like a honey jar, and according to the story, the carriage actually moves with it in a almost similar way. For example, Tigger is bouncing around, so the carriage starts moving up and down in movement, like it's bouncing as well.

Upon seeing a mirror during the ride, we decided to take a group pic, but we failed to notice the camera in front of us, until the flash came. It was all too late.....

Next, we went to sit on Cinderella's Carousel! Don't know why it's her Carousel, maybe because she's the only one with horses in those fairy tales.

There were like super alot of mirrors all around the Carousel, so took a photo!

While waiting for our turn on board the ride! More photos!

Super ugly! But I like~~

Me and BFF Daphne!!! =D

Finally on board! We each picked our favourite horse!

And mine? Still need to ask? Obviously, a white one lah! I'm Prince Charming! *coughs coughs*

We actually had found the schedule for the various shows in Disneyland before we came, so upon looking at the time, we immediately ran over to watch The Golden Mickey. Apparently, it was one of the "Must-See" when you visit. The previous time that I came, I missed it, so I would give anything to watch it this time round!

The walkway leading towards the auditorium for the show.

GOLDEN MICKEY!

Well, because the show only have a few timings, there were alot of people waiting to watch it as well. Lucky we're the typical Singaporeans! We entered roughly 20mins earlier to avoid the queue and to ensure we get good seats. So, being a Singaporean at that time wasn't really a bad thing!

Waiting for the show to start.

The show was amazing! It's something like the Oscars, but Disney style, and showcases wonderful Disney characters and stories. It's also like a musical, with song and dance. SUPER NICE! There was the Toy Story, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, TARZAN (He is super duper hot! Everyone's eyes were glued onto his body lah!), Lilo and Stitch, Beauty and the Beast and also Mickey and gang! The entire show gave me goosebumps! It was super enjoyable, definitely a "MUST SEE" I swear!

After that, we headed to Tomorrowland! And we went to ride on the roller coaster. It was super exciting! In the dark, where you can see planets, stars, the milky way and shooting stars, and thrilling music is also played from the speakers right beside. SUPER THRILLING! The first photo was super ugly!

So, we went and took a second time, and we still enjoyed it. Scream and shout like crazy! Each time on board just gets better!

Oh, and while we were enjoying our roller coaster ride indoors, it started raining outside. Getting heavier by the minute, but it didn't ruin our enthusiasm! We continued playing out in the rain, because we know most people will be looking for shelter and there wouldn't be a long queue for rides. GOOD TIMING TO RAIN!

Went on their version of "Go Kart", think something like CARS! But this one follows a specific rail road, so we can't really drive freely, so to enhance the overall experience, we decided to bang each others' car, since the people in front of us were going at really slow speed, and we were getting very wet due to the rain. By the time we got off the car, we were super duper wet, especially our asses, because the seat was filled with rainwater!

Not sure if you can see the rain, but it's actually quite obvious it's very heavy lah! But still didn't destroy our joyous mood. The parade was about to start, so we quickly made our way back to Main Street.

See, super heavy rain! But we didn't use any umbrella, just covered ourselves with our hoodies. Just got to love hoodies! Best buy, good buy, must buy! Shop selling hoodies can look for me to advertise! =D

The parade started, and it was sooooo different from the one that I watched when I came for the first time. Because it's raining, they changed the parade to a rainy day parade, and it sucks! But, a different experience. It was just a choo choo train, and all the Disney characters just stand on different carriages and wave to everyone, that's it. Lasted less than 5mins I think. SO STUPID! But Mickey and Friends were dressed in raincoats so as to fit the theme. But the usual parade was so much better, with so many floats and characters, think CHINGAY but Disney theme, and you'll get the idea!

After that ended, we headed back to Tomorrowland to finish up the rides. Took a pic.
I have a planet in my palm! BEAT THAT!

Then, we're astronauts from TEAM MICKEY! And we found a useless piece of rock, oh wait, I think that's a planet or something behind us.

Then, we went on this space disk thingy, which wasn't fun at all, but because there wasn't any queue and anyone on the ride at all, we went for it. It's just a ride that goes up and down while going in circles. And Kim actually enjoyed it, and requested for a second round, even though we all disagreed. Sucks to have a BFF who enjoys stupid rides! Yes Kim, I'm referring to you!

Next, we headed to see Stitch! Didn't know what it was about, just that it's also some performance thingy. But in actual fact, it's an interactive virtual show, and we are helpers of Stitch in space, and had to help him with things. Super cute! The show has alot of timings, but different languages are used at different timings, basically just Mandarin, English and Cantonese.

Got bored while waiting. Since we were like 20mins early, because the show just started, we had to wait for the next one.

The Stitch in the collage were taken in the show, cute right? It's just some virtual display on the screen but with someone talking as him to make the entire program interactive loh, like talking or making fun of patrons. Super cute, can watch!

Next, we saw Buzz Lightyear, so went and took some photos with him. No queue to take photo with him. Either he's not popular or that no one can see him. Because he's also hiding from the rain under shelter. Even a hero is afraid of the rain.

Having been on every ride and attraction in Tomorrowland, we left the area satisfied! Headed back to Fantasyland to watch a 3D performance. Mickey's Philhar Magic, didn't exactly know what it was, but should be interesting.

It was actually a 4D short movie of Mickey's magic hat, being used by Donald, and Donald went on a mission to get it back, by heading down into the ocean where he meets Ariel. And at this time, droplets of water were actually sprayed on us. Up in the air with Aladdin and Jasmine on the magic carpet. We felt strong wind blown at us. And into the jungle as well. Relatively short but very very entertaining, especially when we feel that things were flying towards us. Super NICE!

Next, we headed to the gardens where several Disney mascots were at. Time for photo taking!

We saw Winnie the Pooh! My favourite!

Then Goofy!

Mickey!

Pluto!

And Minnie!

The collages nice right? I also think so! Since I did them, I should be proud of my work right?

Next we went to the highly anticipated ride! It's A Small World! The "Most Goosebumps Raised" Ride!

The interior was super nice, like some kinda small world indeed!

The boat that we took!

This ride has the song, It's A Small World After All, played on repeat, but in different languages when we passed by the various dolls dressed in the country's clothing. There were also "Small Small World" versions of Disney characters placed along the ride, and we tried our best to spot them out.

First we went to North Pole!

Can you spot Bambi?

Then we entered Europe! I think it's Europe.

Can you see Marie the Chesire Cat?

That's Cinderella and the Prince.

Mexico I think.

Scottish doll playing bagpipes.

Some leprechauns and other partners' in crime I think. I can't remember exactly, so make do with whatever I offer.

There's Aladdin and Jasmine. Jasmine's pose is very seductive!

Then we went into the jungle!

Too many coloured animals that I couldn't really spot any special characters.

There's Pinocchio!

There's a doll trying to jump out from that hot-air balloon!

Then we came to Holland! WINDMILLS!

Some horse back riding dolls, on a 3 tiered fountain.

A boat and 2 chickens on top of sandy hills. Is that a nursery rhyme or just some weird combination?

Or is this Mexico instead? I don't know seriously!

Arabians dancing with tambourines in hand.

INCREDIBLE INDIA!

JAPAN! Those are either geishas or king and queen with too much make-up on.

Thailand? I think?

Vietnam or Malaysia?

China! What's with the lion dance?

This is like a mixture of generations. From Mulan and Mushu to the Dynasties period to the 夜上海 (Shanghai) period.

I shall assume this is Korea then.

Then we went underwater to visit Ariel, Flounder and the mermaids.

HAWAII! Surfing with Lilo and Stitch!

There's Nemo and Friends!

Volcano Dance? I bet they'll suffer 3rd degree burns after the dance. INSANE!

The coconut bikini ladies!

THE MASK! I miss the show!

Next we went into the land of "Light". Everything was White, Shiny and Silvery! The best part of the entire ride was here! The colours and the outrageous display of dolls and everything. Simply amazing!

Very circus and amusement park-like.

There's a Carousel too!

And dolls caroling. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Definitely one of the bestest ride! What with all those cute dolls, amazing song, and special theme in every part of the ride. *claps claps*

Even the exterior of the ride is magnificent. Comparable to the castle!

The overall view of the exterior of the ride. DAMN CHIO RIGHT?!

While we were heading out from the ride, there were dolls that were coming out from the "Small Small World" castle facade. Super cute, watch the video!

Next, we saw Alice at Mad Hatter's teacups!

This ride got me totally dizzy, since we practically turned the disc super quickly. So the cup turned super quickly as well. I almost felt like I'm flying out of the cup already!

Taken before it happened. I wouldn't have such a happy smile after I came down from the cup.

By the time we were done, the sun has set. Which meant that we have less than 2 hours to visit Adventureland and be back to the castle for the fireworks.

The night view of the castle, even more beautiful!

Adventureland, we didn't really had much time to enjoy all the rides in this area. We missed the Lion King performance as well.

The tree with lots of lights is supposed to be Tarzan's house. A raft will bring you across the river to his house. It's located right in the centre of the river. Cool right? But we didn't get a chance to go up the tallest place in Disneyland, because it was closed by the time we wanted to head up.

So we took a jungle river cruise instead!

The cruise brought us around the river, bringing us deeper into the forest and see special things inside. Quite a fun ride, with a very humorous guide. But the sad thing was that, near the ending of the ride, volcanoes were supposed to erupt in front of us, so we can feel the burning fire against our skins. But no eruption happened! And that was supposed to be the cherry on top the an ice-cream sundae! BOO-HOO!

While walking back to the Castle near Fantasyland, we decided to take emo pictures because the atmosphere of the area was really good. With only lamps shining brightly at specific areas, the other areas were practically very dark. Which made taking emo shots super nice!

And romantic shots as well! Looks like it's snowing right? Super sweet and romantic. Don't get jealous okay? If you are, go ahead and punch Kim in the face! She'll accept it, since she's all lovey dovey now! HAH!

BFFs emo together! =(

Lastly, we viewed the magnificent fireworks display! If you think it's like fireworks in Singapore, you're wrong! It's a combination of music, lightings and fireworks. 3 in 1! The castle actually lights up with various colours at different areas according to the song played. Then short scenes from Disney films will be shown on the castle walls as well. Fireworks shot up according to the song, with different fireworks that suit the song. SUPER NICE! I have a video of it, but it's size is too huge to be placed here. Sorry. =(

Walking along Main Street with no one else around.

Headed into their shops to do a little shopping. Saw super alot of things that we all want to bring back. But because of budget constraints, we only bought what we really really wanted. Actually, I really wanted everything! Someone bring me there again!

Group shot at the fountain!

Really enjoyed Disneyland! I hope I get chances to go to other Disneylands around the world! Sponsorship deals anyone?

To end it off, who said Disneyland is only for kids,

"It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement - I knew when I was a kid." - Walt Disney

"I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child "innocence". The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars." - Walt Disney

I SIMPLY LOVE DISNEY!

Headed back to somewhere near our hotel. We were famished by the time we finished our little adventure. And we saw this shop....

No idea what it sells, but we were too hungry to care. So we walked in, and were totally blown away by the food!

It's something like Yong Tau Foo, but Hong Kong style, you can order any type of noodles, and any type of ingredients, but their ingredients are really special. Lots of cow's intestines and pig's intestines, and other special things. I don't know how to say it, but it's super nice! And there are 4 different soup bases to choose from! Satay, Chilli, Clear Broth and one other I can't remember.

Perfect dinner!

Having no fear of shivering to death, since the weather was already so cold. We headed to one of the famous dessert shop for dessert! It's a shop specializing in MANGO products! And all their desserts are super duper nice! The fruits are really really fresh. Pricing wise, still okay, just like dessert at Swensen's or NYDC, but abit cheaper.

THE WONDERFUL DESSERTS TO END OUR WONDERFUL DAY!

The things that we bought from Disney! Expensive but worth the purchase! I WANNA GO TO HONG KONG DISNEYLAND AGAIN! No one should get sick of heading to Disneyland right?

Ending of with a photo of us at Disneyland!

Clash of the Titans? There's Only a Demi-God!

2010-04-07T11:30:00.003+08:00

Headed to the cinemas to watch Clash of the Titans with my BFFs!

The show was indeed very very thrilling. Got me sitting at the edge of my seat, and very very tensed up. It's somewhat a mix of action with horror I think, since the monsters and the companions are really really ugly and scary! Well, the story is about Perseus, son of Zeus refusing the offer by Zeus, Sanctuary and going on a mission to stop Hades and his minions in destroying the city. Okay, just to sidetrack, in Percy Jackson, Perseus is actually the son of Poseidon, but now he's the son of Zeus. Don't really know what is correct though, but whatever Hollywood presents, its all fiction, so don't brood over the topic like I did!

Help was gathered along the way to help him on his mission. The group fought groups of scorpions, found the 3 witches who told them the way to kill the Kraken (HUGE minion of Hades/Final Monster). Oh by the way, the 3 witches are super scary and disgusting!!!! And finally find Medusa and obtain her head. So throughout the entire show, you barely have enough time to relax, since it's filled with so much action. One might get dizzy because the scenes are actually very shaky, especially during the fights. But oh well, action movie, so just make do with it. And the ending was relatively stupid, since the city was still destroyed even though he managed to destroy the Kraken and stop Hades as well. And Zeus repaid his efforts somehow, with a very stupid gift. BAH!

Storyline: 8/10
Comments: Got me very tensed up while watching, and the action scenes are indeed very nice. But, I still hate the ending!

How To Train Your Dragon! I Want One Too!

2010-04-03T19:31:00.002+08:00

Brought my niece (Rachel) out for a movie today. Since I've been rotting at home for a few days already, I decided to head out of the house. So due to a significant number of good reviews of this movie, we went to watch it.

How To Train Your Dragon!

Got to be one of the best animated cartoons I watched. The main lead, Hiccup, son of the leader of the Vikings, apparently small, weak and highly incompetent managed to capture one of the strongest dragon in history, and tame it to become one of his pet. Yes, the name is kinda ironic, because Vikings are supposed to be named in the Strong category but Hiccup is totally not Strong at all.

So, the story goes of how he starts to know how dragons feel, and get to bond with his pet dragon, Toothless. Another ironic name, since the dragon does have teeth! The dragons in the show are super cute, with really really cute appearances! While flying one day, he found the dragons' lair and a super duper HUGE dragon! His father, being the leader of the Vikings is determined to get rid of all the dragons for good, but Hiccup knows that the dragons are fighting because of survival. So, his little adventure started. But eventually, he had to confront the super duper HUGE dragon, and face the consequences of being a dragon rider!

It's a very exciting show, I got to admit. The end of the fight left me with some tears, even though the entire show was a happy ending. And in the midst of the main story plot, random jokes are made, which really got me laughing like crazy. Yes, the main leads aren't cute nor hot, but the humour made up for everything. I LOVE DRAGONS!

Storyline: 9/10
Comments: First cartoon/animation film that I paid $10 for, and yes, IT'S WORTH IT!

Live It, Love It! HONG KONG! (Day 2)

2010-04-01T00:22:00.000+08:00

Day 2 at Hong Kong! This day was totally dedicated to shopping! Our itinerary states up to almost 10 different shopping malls located at different areas, so we started out early in the morning to ensure we go everywhere.

Headed out of the room wearing a T-shirt, shorts and slippers, went to meet up with BFFs, and ended up informed that it was raining outside, and it's cold. So, in my mind, I was just thinking, "aiyah, cold abit only la, not as if I will freeze to death." But for precaution, I went back to the room and grabbed a jacket.

Went into a random Hong Kong Cafe for breakfast. The meal isn't actually cheap in Hong Kong, if you guys think that way. Well, if you compare it to cheap restaurants in Singapore, food there is definitely cheaper than those. But if you're comparing with coffee shops, then Hong Kong foods' are actually more expensive. But most of the Hong Kong Cafe provides set meals, which are the cheapest deals you can get out of their menus, offering a main dish, side dish and a drink. Costs-wise, the prices of meals in a Hong Kong Cafe can range from HKD$20 to HKD$60, which is approximately SGD$4-SGD$12. Yes, more expensive than coffee shops okay?

Century Egg and Pork Congee with a plate of Cold Noodles. Well, the noodles were supposed to be hot, but somehow or rather, when it was served, it was totally cold. Worse than Soba noodles from Japan.

Cockscrew Pasta, or Fusilli with Beef Slices and the famous "Milk Tea" which is a "MUST DRINK" for every tourist. It was said to be made from stockings worn by real people, which is why the drink is so much more tasty. Myth or fact? I don't know.

Another "MUST EAT" when you visit Hong Kong is their Pork Chop Bun! It's super nice! Somehow or rather, Hong Kong's pork is so much more tasty than what Singapore has to offer. Try it! Oh and just a warning first, for hot drinks served in Hong Kong Cafes, the drink is actually tasteless, you got to add your own amount of sugar to the drink, even for Hot Lemon Tea. Whereby sometimes, because of this, the drink becomes awfully disgusting.

After a filling breakfast, we walked to the MTR station, and of course cam-whoring while along the way. Oh did I mention, once I went out of the hotel, I immediately regretted wearing such thin clothing. It was raining, not very heavily though, but the breeze and the rain drops were super duper cold. I think it was less than 20degrees that day, and lucky I went back to grab a jacket, if not it could be worse!

All the MTR stations have very artistically painted walls, and a very oriental themed writing of the station name. Super chio!

First Stop, SOGO @ Causeway Bay! It is super big can! It's like Ngee Ann City's Takashimaya X 5 I think. More than 21 storeys, all dedicated to SHOPPING! Local brands, international brands, random brands of items, all can be found there!

You know what's even better? You have to actually queue up to take the lift. Not just "stand around and wait for the lift, and once it arrives, fight your way through to get in" kind of queue, but seriously queuing up.

Cool right? Maybe Singapore's shopping malls should use this technique to ensure the first customer who's there gets to use the lift first. Especially Cineleisure! You know there's only 4 lifts that's able to go up to the 8th floor, and there's always a huge crowd waiting for the lift as the escalators are super un-user-friendly. Then people will squeeze and push until they get into the lift, like super typical can. If the management uses such rules to ensure they queue, won't that be better? Just hire a few more staff only ma, not as if can't afford it!

The super cool "Ding Ding" as they call it. It's just buses actually, but the big deal is, it follows exactly where the rail brings it, and they have like cables hanging on top of the bus, and it cables are actually linked to the bus. It's like a merge of MTR and buses. Wanted to take a ride on it, but super scared, since we don't know where those buses are going, and totally worried that we'll alight in the middle of nowhere and totally no way to return. Not that I or my BFFs don't speak Cantonese, but just a relatively dumb worry, maybe we should have taken it! DAMN!

So, next we headed off to the famous Times Square! It's something like Singapore's Suntec City, just a little bigger. Basically whatever that the shopping mall offers are similar to what Singapore's shopping malls have got to offer. Zara, Juicy, Marks and Spencers, everything is the same.

Lots of people heading round on a Sunday despite the rain and the cold.

With her sitting there, just GORGEOUS! Bet you can sense the sarcasm right?

So after heading to just 2 places, we got totally fatigue. If we had rewards, it can be justified, but we didn't even make a single purchase. So we didn't to skip many other places, and go to the largest mall, I guess so. IFC MALL @ Hong Kong.

It's supposed to be an airplane I think. Too artistic for me to interpret.

In this case, the shopping mall totally gives out the same feeling as that of Vivo City! 3 or 4 levels, I can't remember, of shops! And it's a huge circle concept, the entire mall, almost similar to Vivo! And on the top level, there's a concept store by Agnes b. All that Agnes b has to offer is provided all in there. The theme of the store is relatively nice too, totally feel like you're in another place and not in a shopping mall.

Yeah, so there was a performance ongoing when we were there. Some kinda jazz music performance. They played lots of songs in the Bossa Nova style I suppose, and got the little kids there moving. It was super adorable, the "Make You Wanna Dance" music, and the little kids moving on their 2 feet and all the parents crowding around. Heart-warming indeed!

So at this point in time, once we left the mall. It was seriously freezingly cold! The wind got stronger and colder at the same time! So we quickly walked round to find some shelter that will cover us from the wind for awhile, while we try and eat some bread. We walked along a walk-up with alot of maids lurking around that area. It's totally like the exterior of Lucky Plaza, just LONGER! I mean the maids were sitting all along the walk-way and they even built their own "homes" with cardboards to protect themselves from the cold. How cool is that! Totally SURVIVOR style!

We headed down an escalator that's supposed to bring us to the MTR station, but somehow or rather it led us to the bus terminal, and it wasn't covered up entirely on the 4 sides, so the wind was still blowing straight at us. We totally gave up and sat on the steps and eat our bread. IN THE COLD!

Look at her hair and you'll totally understand how strong the wind can blow. And you know what, BFF was totally covered up head to toe, scarf, jacket, jeans and shoes, and she's totally complaining about the cold. And all I got was just a jacket. My face, legs, feet were totally left out in the cold! FML!

I had no choice but to fully utilize my jacket.

But nonetheless, I always have time for the camera! =D

Eventually we gave up! Hid behind a wall, to prevent the wind from attacking us, literally!

I was so desperate for help that I asked GOD to try and stop the wind so I can get some warmth back into my body, but to no avail.

So we surrendered, and actually enjoyed ourselves for about 30mins out in the cold wind.

The wind made the scarf fly like a kite. I'm serious it did!

So, to make the game more interesting. Weikiang took off his jacket, rolled up his pants and went out into the wind.

Feeling victorious? He could outstand the wind.

Obviously not! Wind still wins. It was totally uncool!

So, I decided to try and have some fun. Since we rarely get such enjoyable weather in Singapore. Why not make full use of it.

Removed my jacket and VOILA! Lasted less than 3mins I think, I almost wanted to faint right there and then cos I totally can't feel my arms and legs.

IT WAS REALLY REALLY COLD! I SWEAR!

After enjoying the fun, till I couldn't even feel my own lips. We finally decided to head to the MTR station hoping that it's warm in there and not COLDER! We went to Watsons to see random items, and I heard the sales auntie say in Cantonese to a customer: "Tomorrow's going to be less than 12degrees, better get everything ready, it's freezing!" She actually said it pretty loudly, and boy, was I lucky that I understood Cantonese! We quickly bought some warm packs to prevent us from being total ICE!

Yes, the MTR station was very very warm. It's almost like finding some light in a very dark place. Guess that's called HOPE!

The station had really nice art works painted on the pillars. They were all musical instruments! Guitars, Pianos, Trumpets. And colourful too!

The station's forecast! Said to be 14 to 19degrees, totally got us worrying, since we didn't bring ~~enough~~ any thick clothings at all.

The station has 2 super duper long travel-ators, because the route to the MTR was super duper long! If there's weren't any of this at all, I'm pretty sure half-way along the way, my feet would have caved in, and I would require some assistance!

So, we got ample time for camwhoring, and to think of our next location. Since all the shopping malls are offering almost similar items, we decided not to go to any other shopping malls. So I remembered this sports apparel shop, where they sell branded apparels at super cheap prices. I came across this shop when I came visiting 2 years ago. With some hope of buying something, we headed there. It was also at Tsim Sha Tsui but the opposite direction of our hotel. This shop has plenty of franchises all around Hong Kong. It's something like our Sportslink, Royal Sporting House or World of Sports, but CHEAPER!

How cheap you ask? Each Adidas T shirt that we bought cost around HKD$149, which is roughly SGD$27. A jacket costs roughly HKD$254, roughly SGD$50 and shoes are also priced within the range. And those apparel are not those CHEAPO SALE items, they are all super nice and relatively new designs. So we spent almost 3 hours in that shop, looking at everything, thinking of purchasing everything. And indeed that was the only place which collected winnings from us!

Everything was stuffed into this suitcase, which we bought at a price of SGD$17 (HKD$85), after much bargaining with the uncle. The uncle's initial offer was HKD$150 if I did remember correctly.

With smiles on our faces, we happily skipped back to the hotel to take a quick hot shower before heading for dinner! The hot shower did help alot! I didn't even feel like coming out of the toilet after I stepped in, because it was super comfortable and warm!!!!!

We decided to have our dinner at KFC, and see if what Hong Kong offers has any difference with Singapore. Indeed there was! The meals and items were all basically similarly priced, but they offered many more items Singapore has yet to offer. So, we ordered a meal that has everything, so we can give everything a try!

Total price of it was around HKD$50 I think, for everything you see in the picture. There were waffle fries, one piece of drumstick, spicy popcorn chicken, a super delicious chicken and mushroom soup, super nice chicken and vegetables risotto or something like that, tortilla chips with cheese and a drink. Alot right??!!!! And it really tastes not bad too!

The interior of KFC, looks almost like Singapore's one right? It's like the concept is the same everywhere loh.

It's way more "Finger Lickin' Good" Than Singapore! Hurry and import the soup and the risotto!

Oh, the KFC was actually located at the 2nd storey of some random street. Lots of shops in Hong Kong aren't located at the same level of the street. It can either be at the basement or 2nd level of the building, with stairs leading up/down from the street. Pretty Awesome way to create mysterious feeling in customers I guess.

While walking along the streets, we found road side stalls offering "鸡蛋仔" or Egg Rolls or something. Tasted something like waffles but just a very innovative way of a waffle. One just has to twist each individual "Egg-like" waffle and pop it into your mouth.

Then we saw CURRY FISHBALLS! The fishballs in Hong Kong are super tender, to the extent of rock hard even, but super nice! As compared to our fishball in our fishball noodles, ours are so soft and limpy. The ones in Hong Kong, one can maybe throw it on the floor, and it might actually bounce back. That's how "Q" the "Balls" are!

Standing around an awesome graffiti wall chit chatting, and finishing up the curry fish balls,

Along the streets, we saw one of our HTM-er, who was in Hong Kong to visit his sister. Such a coincidence huh? Seriously, the world can be said as very small or very big indeed.

So the second day ended with another long shower and watching of television shows! Day 3, we're off to Disneyland! Bound to be a super duper long post, since we took ALOT, and I meant ALOT, like 1000+ photos can. Gonna take some time, for the photos to be uploaded!

Chop Up Those Who "Chop" Seats

2010-03-30T23:56:00.003+08:00

Back once again with more disgraceful acts from typical Singaporeans. This time, a very severe issue, the "chopping" of seats with tissue paper, or other non-monetary assets of a person.

I know I may be a little late in talking about this issue, but I haven't really seen such actions taking place, until today. Well, in coffee shops or hawker centers, that's what one mostly do to ensure that they get a place to sit. And if you notice, most people who do these kind of acts are mostly the OLs or basic working adults. Super "Sua-ku" right? In cheapo places still not that bad, at most people will curse the person who did that, and move on with their lives. But in shopping malls, and fast food restaurants still use this kind of method to "chop" seats.

This was at Subway @ Raffles City Shopping Mall. Yes, there are indeed limited seats provided, but one can always takeaway and find some random seat to eat, what's the big idea. So, the person actually used 2 useless name cards to "chop" his table, and actually, the man walking out of Mos Burger is the same man who "chop" the seats at Subway. Apparently, he wanted to eat Mos Burger but there weren't any seats, so he chose Subway as an alternative, and seeing that there's seats available, he quickly took out 2 name cards, threw it on the table, and walked back into Mos Burger to check for seats. So typical right?!!!! Eventually, he found seats in Mos Burger after 10mins, and he came back to take the cards, by then, potential customers for Subway have left. Maybe next time, we can actually sit on the seats that has some form of "chopping", and when the person return, tell him/her: "You CHOP the table only what, you never chop the chairs, so I can sit lah!" Piss the person off!

For this one, all I can say is STUPID! The lady left a newspaper and a packet of tissue with only 1 piece of it left I think on the uncleared table before heading off to make her purchase of her lunch. While she was gone, the auntie came and cleared everything away, thinking that those were trash left from the previous customer. Stupid right?! And she came back, totally bewildered, because she just lost her papers and a piece of tissue.

I got a super good idea how to ensure you can get a place to sit if you're not one those "Sua Ku" people. You just have to take whatever it is on the table, throw it onto the floor or into the trash-bin and pretend nothing ever happened. And if the person came back, just say: "I don't know, maybe the auntie clear away already loh. When I come, the table was empty liao, so I sit loh!" Feigning Ignorance Is Bliss!

And for those typical Singaporeans who always "chop" seats, let me tell you a way to ensure you seats, without having to lose your favourite tissue paper. Bring along mobile tables and chairs with you wherever you go, so you can always find a seat. If not just glue your hands to a table and your ass to a chair, super convenient! You can sit down anywhere and anytime you like! So, stop being selfish and keep your stupid tissue in your bag or pockets!

Latest Addiction!

2010-03-28T20:25:00.002+08:00

Introducing a game that one can never get sick of. A game that lasts for minutes but get you hooked on for hours.

The new Monopoly Deal Card Game! Easy to bring round, playable anywhere everywhere, rules are simple. Just one game to warm it up, and everyone's playing like a pro.

The game that got me and all my friends around me addicted. Everywhere we go, we play!

All you need is a crafty mind, crazy politics among your friends, and a whole list of vocabulary words apart from "FUCK!"

So buy a set and start playing now!

When In Rome!

2010-03-26T23:50:00.002+08:00

When In Rome! A new movie that was created by the wonderful people who did The Proposal. YES! The one starring Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock! Super nice I know! Both movies with super duper cute and hot leads! Okay, maybe not Sandra Bullock since she's way past that age, but the other 3, NICE!

The movie starring the ever so chio Kristen Bell (most people wouldn't know that she's actually the voice of Gossip Girl, but yes she is! And also stars in Heroes season 2!) as Beth, a very successful curator but a loser in love. Upset and heart-broken, she headed off to Rome for her younger sister's wedding. And there, she met Josh Duhamel (husband of the hot and sexy Fergie of Black Eyed Peas) as Nick, an ex-football player who got striked by the lightning on the neck while in the middle of a game. How accurate can the lightning be?

Due to the fact that she has been dumped too many times, she actually picked up 5 coins that people threw into the Fountain of Love. She didn't believe any of those wishes that people make were going to come true. But what she doesn't know is that, there was actually a spell. The men who threw the coins actually started falling for her, MADLY! And there, the hilarious scenes comes in, with those crazy men and their antics.

There was Dax Shepard (Kristen Bell's real life boyfriend) who acts as a very narcissistic model, who loves himself more than Beth. He basically loves his body alot, and doesn't mind showing it to others. Actions more than words.

Next is Will Arnett, a fake Italian painter who's actually an American who sells shoes. He's totally crazy, chasing after Beth across lots of streets just to paint her feet. Gross I know, but super hilarious!

Then there's Jon Heder, a magician who's super emo and doesn't really know his tricks really well. Consecutive stealing of watch from Beth and acting as a mummy is totally funny, especially with the contrast of emo hair, eyeliner and red nail polish!

And Danny DeVito, a super pervertic magnate who sells sausages. He's totally crazy, what with Bratwurst sausages speaking to him about the love with Beth and the desire to play Hide and Seek with Beth. Totally pervertic and not funny at all!

So, you guys must be wondering who's the 5th guy right? Is it Nick or someone else? Is Nick really in love with Beth or is he also under the spell? Watch the movie and you'll know!

Storyline: 9/10
Comments: Why wouldn't you want to watch it? With such cute leads, definitely worth watching. And romantic comedies are always hard to resist right?

Live It, Love It! HONG KONG! (Day 1)

2010-03-22T16:04:00.024+08:00

Before I started my first year in poly, I made an agreement with my BFFs (Kimberly and Daphne) that we are to go on a graduation trip together when we graduate 3 years down the road. After some time, I laughed at myself for actually making such a stupid pact, since we may actually drift apart in between the 3 years. But who knows? We did make it pass the 3 years, and actually DID go on a trip together! A 5D4N Trip To Hong Kong! Planning of the trip started out roughly 4 months before departure, with regular phone calls, meet-ups, and texts to settle the flight tickets, accommodation and the itinerary for the 5 days there.

Charges Incurred Before The Trip
Flight Ticket: Tiger Airlines (SGD$250 inclusive of baggage allowance)
Accommodation: Acesite Knutsford Hotel (SGD$200)

On 06.03.2010, our journey began! The flight was at 7.50am, so we were expected to check-in at 5.50am. Imagine the time! When I woke up, and left the house, the only sound I can hear was crickets, no cars, no people, ultimate QUIETNESS!

Met up with them at the Budget Terminal, after the appropriate procedures, headed to Macs for breakfast before entering the departure hall.

After 2 years, I'm finally sitting on a plane again! And heading back to Hong Kong! Super Excited! *screams*

My luggage (grey one) weigh about 5kg, since I simply have no idea what to pack. All I did was threw in a couple of shirts and shorts, and other necessities, since we had the impression that the weather in Hong Kong wouldn't be any different from Singapore.

BFF- Daphne!

BFF- Kimberly!

The point in time we were about to board the plane, the sun was only rising. The feeling of waking up early.... SUCKS! Oh did I mention, the Budget Terminal basically has nothing.. the departure hall basically has nothing much, a few duty-free shops and a cafe, that's it. IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED!

GOING TO HONG KONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tiger Airlines has got to improve their facilities! Usage of a plain A4 paper as a signage? Don't they have a printer or something? Deserve something better even though we're paying low prices right?

Boarding Passes!

On the most amazing ~~roller coaster~~ plane!

What do people do when there's no entertainment on board a plane? Wi-Fi PSP GAMES!

Self-entertain by singing along with the songs played in an Mp3!

Touchdown in Hong Kong! I'm there I'm there!

Took one of the Airport Express Buses to the vicinity of our hotel.

A21!

The bus is super cool! Unlike buses in Singapore that heads to Changi Airport, these buses have an area specially for luggages.

YES! COOL RIGHT?!! Passengers won't have to carry or hold onto the luggage while on the bus. SUPER CONVENIENT!

And and....

They have a leg rest for most seats! SO GOOD! It's like super comfortable coach to Genting or something! SBS and SMRT should implement similar things to add to the comfort level for us Singaporeans and tourists!

Camwhore in the bus!

The ride from the airport to the city area took roughly 15mins, and we got to see the various unique features of Hong Kong, like temples, cemeteries, super tall and old buildings and thousand million retail shops all along the streets!

My BFFs said that this photo is super emotional. I however feel like I'm either sleeping soundly or mourning over a lost one. LOL! What do you guys think?

Upon alighting the bus, we had to walk quite a long way to find the street our hotel is located at. SUPER FAR!

Arrived at the hotel!

The hotel is situated on top of a slope and isn't very big. The ground level isn't the front desk, but a small area for concierge and a lift. I was really disappointed once I entered the hotel, as the website has shown such beautiful and fabulous rooms and interior of the hotel. But who knows? It isn't a 4 star hotel as stated, but a boutique hotel that has less than 50 rooms? The front desk was on the 5th floor, with just one staff, and no uniform. Rooms are from 6th floor onwards with roughly 3-4 rooms per level. Kinda pathetic I gotta admit. But it's cheap!

The room was also quite disappointing, no magnificient view of the area, no comfy bed and its super small. But I got to say, the toilet is perfect! Super nice! Since I spend quite a lot of my time in the toilet, as long as the toilet is good, I'll accept any room!

After doing a little unpacking, and resting for a bit, we headed off to The Peak!

The photo isn't do the slope justice! It's like super duper steep lor! If you lose your balance while climbing the slope, I'm pretty sure you'll roll down onto the road and BANG, free curry chicken for all your friends and family.

I don't understand the ratio of 1:5 on the sign though, but I figured it has something to do with the steepness.

Train station that is said to be near to the hotel, but takes like more than 5 mins walk!

Had the feeling that I was back in Singapore. Kinda Deja Vu! But there's one bad thing about Hong Kong's MTR. The distance between the point of entrance to the boarding of MTR area is like super duper far can! I'm not joking! It's not like Singapore, escalator go down, you'll reach. In Hong Kong, you'll have to go down the escalator and walk walk walk like BIG WALK before reaching the area. Totally can slim down, if it becomes a routine!

A beautiful fountain thingy right outside the train station, "Central" or “中环”.

Walked to the Lower Peak Terminus, and we didn't get lost! We're like locals, don't even have to ask for help! *shines with pride*

This is the olden version of the Tram that will bring us up to The Peak, I guess...

We bought tickets that enables us to sit on the Tram up and down, gain entrance to The highest area to see the wonderful view of Hong Kong, and also to Madame Tussauds, wax museum. Cost: HKD$200, approximately SGD$40.

The tram! It's RED!

The ride up and down was damn exciting! You go like 45degrees while heading up, and 45degrees, with a almost leaving seat due to gravity kinda feeling when coming down. DAMN FUN! And the view you get to see while taking the tram. Breathtaking! But can't be compared to what one will see when you head up The Peak.

The previous time I went to Hong Kong, the Tram actually stops along the way, like an MRT, along the super steep track, the Tram actually stops and lets passengers alight and board. At that point in time, I was wondering to myself, who would want to stop in the middle of nowhere, since I don't see any houses located near the stop. But now, apparently the Tram doesn't stop anymore, it goes directly up!

The view while in the Tram! It's like already damn CHIO la!

There were a number of paintings hanging on the wall, with items or food or places and other stuffs that represent Hong Kong. I saw like dim sums, temples, lots of signboards and high-rise buildings. SUPER ALOT! And really, all are what one can associate with Hong Kong!

Set foot into Madame Tussauds and what do we get? Famous Celebrity treatment! Lots of flashes from various cameras and tons of microphones stabbing at us wanting to interview us! HAHA! Nah, that's like imagination and the desire to become a celebrity hitting at my head.

Jackie Chan!

This man here is supposed to be Jay Chou, more efforts needed in order to be totally alike. But maybe it's because he's too ugly, that's why the sculptor has difficulties copying the real look.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie! HOT!

Nicole Kidman!

BIG SMILES ON ME AND EDDIE MURPHY!

Check out those ABS on Aaron Kwok! *drools*

ANDY LAU!

That's Meryl Streep for those who don't know.

The ladies are trying to mimic the pose of that girl, I don't know who she is, so don't ask!

I'm married to Kelly Chen! Oh, on a side note, zoom in on the pic and you'll see she has super yellowish teeth! FUCK! She smokes!

Taking a photo with Leslie Zhang! Still love his songs! Retro Pop!

Princess Diana!

Pro-Nazi! GO HITLER!

Vying for the violin with Mozart!

Kim: WTF! Why is Shakespeare writing porn stories? *frowns*
Me: Wa! Super interesting can! Even better than those Romeo and Juliet! Who wants those when we can get super famous porn stories, right?

Kim: TRUE! Eh, Shakespeare maybe you wanna add this in, to make it more interesting...
Me: Yeah! Then hor, can add in maybe threesome or sixsome to make everyone more aroused!....

*inserts own ending here* I'm giving those super deprived uncles and horny people a chance to fantasize about their own endings. I'll say "Welcome" since I know most of you would be thanking me!

Anyways, back to more photos...

Man in White: Fuck, It's Jamie Bond! RUN!
Jamie Bond: I've Got A GUN! FREEZE!

Man in White: *moves an inch*
Jamie Bond: *BANG* Told you not to move! *blows at pistol*

We're stuck in a painting! And I'm wearing a bikini!

Okay, it looks more like those bra in ancient Chinese dramas...

Englishman, Pirate, Fong Fei Fei, Cowboy!

Girls trying to block shots from YaoMing. Oh, I have to give credit to the sculptor who created him, because he even has armpit hair! Super realistic can!

Beatles!

We're all trying to mimic the person on our right. And I think the 3 of us did a GREAT JOB! Just like a replica of it!

The museum also dedicated an entire room for Anita Mui! SUPERSTAR jiu shi SUPERSTAR! Always different! *jealous*

Current Shining Star, Joey Yung!

The ever-so HOT MADONNA!

King and Queen! But apparently the crown is super duper big, totally covered my eyes la!

Running for president! Guess who won? ME! (self-proclaim, but no worries, I'm gonna be a very good president!)

Our art and crafts session with Picasso!

We're the Invincibles! Full time construction workers, part time superhero!

A date with a SUMO! Kim thinks she's the beauty with the beast! But I think she's just a total whore! What's with that pose anyways! Oh and I've got super huge breasts and nipples and a totally sagging crotch area. LOL!

After much fun in the museum taking thousand million photos. We headed up to the top! It was super windy and super cold! The weather is terrific! LOVE IT ALOT! Spend some time looking at the breathtaking views and enjoying the cold breeze!

Don't know what's with the face! But totally EPIC!

The view! SUPER NICE RIGHT?! And it's quite foggy, but you can see the fog moving very quickly cos the wind keeps blowing! MAD CHIO!

The exterior of the mall!

Finally, the end of a tiring day! Headed for dinner and some random window shopping!

A new shopping centre that just opened for business a few days before our arrival. Nothing much, but the interior is super classy! Like our very own Somerset 313, but smaller!

That's the end of Day 1! Boring? It's just the beginning!

For Your Viewing Pleasure!

2010-03-22T01:17:00.003+08:00

For Your Viewing Pleasure

S.H.E.- SHERO

Album releasing on 26 March 2010! S.H.E. Concert in Singapore Indoor Stadium on 17 April 2010! Can't Wait!

Girls Generation- Oh!

Girls Generation- Run Devil Run!

From a cute and adorable dance to a switch to sultry dance. Still love them nonetheless.

Not so Secret Lives After All!

2010-03-19T22:28:00.004+08:00

For those who have simply no idea what it is all about, I've actually mentioned its first season quite some time ago. Just click here.

Since the debut of the second season, Our Not So Secret Lives: Crossroads on 22nd Feb, I've been constantly updating myself on the respective posts of both Trey and Jesse on their blogs located at: http://www.notsosecretlives.com/

Okay, to give a brief on the entire plot, the story revolves around a couple, Jesse and Trey, together with their friends. The main focus of the story is to actually broach on the topics related to SEX and the negative aspects of it (HIVs and STIs/STDs), which are rarely taught to youths except during Science lessons in Secondary School. It isn't a very unhealthy way of learning more about safe sex and stuffs pertaining to that manner, since the story is actually written in a very legitimate way. The entire "Drama" is actually being performed through personal blogs of Trey and Jesse, jotting down all their views and opinions on the relevant issues in their relationship.

In the first season, the drama (Sex, HIV positive) was actually revolving around Trey's and Jesse's best friends, and how the couple helped them the couple ride over the tough times. In this season, the spotlight is now entirely on the two of them. A plain and simple all boys' night out for Trey turned out to be a downward plunge for his relationship with Jesse. No spoilers provided of what happen next, but I'm pretty sure youths like me will find it quite a story, since it actually seems like reality and that we will have be able to make the best decisions when similar situations occur to us.

Trey actually wrote a song for Jesse, listen to it! Promise it's nice!

Start the Read Right Now At

http://www.notsosecretlives.com/!!!

For Season 1, It's Here At

http://www.notsosecretlives.com/season1/!!

Alice In Wonderland!

2010-03-19T00:07:00.002+08:00

Finally have the excess time to do up a post. Been relatively busy since the return from the trip to Hong Kong, with the IT fair and the uploading of the trip's photos onto facebook. Oh, to digress a little, the posts on the trip shall be done up once I'm done with all the collages and editing of photos.

So, had a little post-graduation trip meet-up with BFFs! Headed to watch the movie I've been craving for! That same day was also the day my sis and bro-in-law returned from Paris. Sister bought a T-shirt for me, although it isn't the colour I normally wear, I still love it!

Yup, we caught Alice In Wonderland! Love the casts! Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp!

Exactly like how the storybook by the author Lewis Caroll depict her adventures to be. Alice, a girl who had had nightmares of various uniques animals in the world she called "Wonderland" since she was young. When she was nearing 20, and under the pressure of a marriage proposal, she ventured into the woods, and fell into a hole, which brought her into "Wonderland". From there on, her adventure to help the White Queen gain back the kingdom from her evil sister, the big-headed Red Queen starts. Quite an exciting life for a young girl like her, even though she kept thinking that it was all a dream. The best quote I can still remember is between Mad Hatter and Alice,

The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
Alice Kingsley: I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Storyline: 7.5/10
Comments: Love the cast, scenery and the song by Avril! But with the ending talking about China AGAIN (2012 does it as well!), it ruins the entire plot!

More movies coming up, meaning more movie reviews! Clash of the Titans, Remember Me, The Lovely Bones, When in Rome, The Back-up Plan, Karate Kid, Whip It, Prince of Persia and so many others!

Bye Singapore! Hello Hong Kong!

2010-03-06T05:15:00.002+08:00

Heading to the airport now.
I'm going 买东西，吃东西，买东西，吃东西。 Or shop and eat, shop and eat.

Going to Hong Kong!!!!! Will do up posts about my travel experience soon! =D

John, Dear John!

2010-03-04T14:01:00.002+08:00

"Two weeks together, that's all it took, 2 weeks for me to fall for you."
Pretty sure that's the most significant line anyone can remember from the movie.

Caught Dear John, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Really sweet and romantic I got to say.

*spoiler alert*

The entire movie is about this guy called John (Channing Tatum) who's a soldier home on leave, meeting a college student Savannah (Amanda Seyfried) and falling in love with her over the spring vacation. Just a short 2 weeks, and they were deeply in love. To keep in touch with each other, because John is heading back to the army and is deployed to some other countries, they wrote letters to each other to inform each other about what's happening in their lives. Over a period of 7 years, they have been writing letters, meeting each other during short breaks.

Eventually, Savannah couldn't take it anymore, and wrote a letter to break-up with John. The real reason was because Tim, a friend of Savannah and John has gotten cancer and is going to die. He actually likes Savannah, so she obliged and married him, to also take care of his autistic kid, Alan. Eventually John found out, and because his dad who died, was a coin collector with a huge collection. He sold all the coins except one, the one John found when he was a kid, to enable Tim to live longer in this world. John said, "I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be." Really really heart-warming to see how he could give up his true love to fulfill a dýing man's wish. Although the ending was not to my expectation, probably because the first 2 weeks in the movie was really well done and I was expecting too much, it still wrapped up the entire show pretty well.

Definitely a show that's comparable to Sister's Keeper. Lots of scenes which makes you want to cherish whatever you have now, and be fulfilled.

Some memorable quotes that I can still remember:

"When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through."

"It doesn't matter where you are, because the moon is never bigger than your thumb."

Storyline: 8/10
Comments: I haven't read the book yet, so I don't know if the movie is as good as the book, or like most movies based on novels, a let-down. Shall read the book soon! Oh, and $6 is definitely worth it, to see the hot Channing Tatum half naked and his wonderful acting!

Hottest Teenagers of Mankind (HTM) Party

2010-02-28T22:10:00.010+08:00

Firstly, I want to say Blogger takes super long for photos to be uploaded! Hates! Pardon me for the random rant.

After studying for 3 years at Temasek Polytechnic, I'm finally graduating! Super proud of myself! *gleams*

So, HTMIG (Hospitality and Tourism Management Interest Group) organised our so-called FIRST Graduation Party for the diploma. Previous years have failed either because of insufficient people attending or the members of the IG couldn't be bothered to organise one. So I am really thankful that our batch of IG members are really enthusiastic about it, and sincerely thank them for organising such an event for us, the school-leavers. They really put in alot of effort to make this a success, of course without us, the very "on" HTMers, this party wouldn't even work out, so we're partly the reason to the success!

So the theme of our party was "AM (I R)eady!" It's literally asking if we are ready to proceed on to work/study/NS and also indirectly linking the entire theme with the IRs (integrated resorts) which are definitely the hottest aspect of the H&T industry now. So, the dress code was "Tourists VS Staffs", which meant that we have to either dress up as tourists visiting a destination or service providers that serve tourists during their trip. Not to complain, but initially when we were informed of the dress code, most of us were quite disappointed, as it's quite difficult to think of the various costumes to dress up. But having been there, and done that, I got to say, most of us were zealous in our efforts to come up with interesting costumes. No wonder HTM is the most "rah-rah" (TP's word for enthusiasm) diploma in Temasek Polytechnic. Kudos to us!

In our efforts to find something that matches the theme, my clique of friends headed down to Chinatown to look for some clothes that fits the theme "Tourists". We decided to dress as flowery people,mostly Hawaiian style. Obviously we ended up having a meal first before proceeding with our main purpose. We had lunch at this Korean restaurant located beside CTC travel agency, near Chinatown Point. Didn't check out the name of the restaurant, but it's opened by Koreans I guess, since the lady who greeted us was speaking in relatively poor english, with a mixture of Korean accent, I presumed she's the owner.

The restaurant offered set lunch at a price of $9-$9.90. The food was delicious and looks really good. Huge servings and even provides 5 side dishes to go with the main dish. Definitely worth the price! As for items found in their menu, the prices are still considered quite reasonable, and definitely looks as good as the photos presents them!

Food Quality: 8/10
Food Portion Size: 8/10
Value for Money: 8/10
Ambience: 9/10 (Small and peaceful)
Service: 8/10 (Although staffs are C-people, and couldn't understand English that well, they are still very polite!)
Recommended for: Anyone! People looking for cheap Korean lunch sets can head there and try.

After our filling lunch, we walked around the area, and in roughly 2 hours, all of us bought something flowery, which may/may not fit the theme.

On 24.02.2010, the actual day of the party, all of us got ready and headed down by MRT to Orchard. Did I mention that the party was held at...

So, it was rather embarassing for all of us, wearing flowery clothes which most Singaporeans won't be wearing when heading out and taking the train. But still, we did make it alive, and I shall assume that none of the passengers on board took a picture of us and sent it to STOMP! or were laughing at us because of our hideous outfits.

Logo for the theme! I think I'm ready!

The invitation card, 3 gold coins for gambling at a small table (Those are actually chocolate coins, and one has to accumulate 35coins to win a voucher. I basically ate 2 of it, since I couldn't be bothered to go gamble, and I must say, it tasted really well!) , and the door gift, a CHIP! Really nice, and fits the theme really well. Got to praise the person who thought of the idea! Although you won't be able to place a bet with that chip at any casino, but still, a really good souvenir.

Decorations put up in the banquet room, didn't really notice what the signs mean, but who cares! Poly to me must be something similar to what everyone else in HTM thinks right? There was also a heart shape made up from photos of various HTMers randomly found on Facebook I guess. Oh yes, whoever who likes those photos are able to take them off and bring it home. And of course, most of the photos are gone. Goes to show we're typical Singaporeans too!

Individual pics I took with all my friends and lecturers who were with me during my 3 years. Really thank all of you for enduring all my nonsense and sharing all your laughter, stress, tears and many more with me! Without all of you guys, and the support I have throughout, I wouldn't have made it. I'm not flattering you guys, I'm serious! You guys made my school life a BLAST, especially O.C.K. and Frenz! No clique better than this! Love you guys LOTS! Click on it to get a clearer view.

Due to the reason that O.C.K. and Frenz have more than 10 members in the clique, we were forced to be separated. And I got to say, it wasn't an easy task to separate us. Especially when I was to accomplish such an impossible mission! ~~Thousand million~~ Several times of changes were done after an e-mail was sent to the person handling the seating arrangements. Boy, was it tough!

The "Cheapo" family in O.C.K. and Frenz. Haven't introduced the members before, so I'm gonna do it now:

Lau Bi-yin- Mother of the family, 禽兽也不如 (Worse off than an animal/beast) person.

Jocelyn Foo- Other mother of the family, Lesbian partner with Bi-yin.

Reuben Ho- Elder son, Born because Bi-yin was super deprived and found a random ABNN to fulfill her sexual desires.

Jimmy Cheang (Me)- Younger son, Born because Bi-yin was again super deprive, found a stray cat on the streets, had sex with it.

Ong Su-lin- Youngest daughter, born from an anonymous sperm donor, from one of the eggs from either mum.

Cassandra Ho-Tan- Elder daughter in law, wife of Reuben, perfect match since he is hairless, and she's bushy.

Yup, that basically explains the entire family. Mostly fictional, and I'm pretty sure they'll all kill me if they see this. But, I got to keep a record for it, since it's my blog, I'll read it in the future, and definitely laugh it off, since I'm already laughing while typing this! LOL! Oh, and I'm not gonna delete any part of it away, so curse me if you want! =D

Group Pic! O.C.K. and Frenz with a shortage of some people, since they rather run away and take photos with someone else. You know who you are!

Next, I'll tell you about the menu! A Chinese dinner, that is neither filling or superbly delicious! No offence to the IG though, since this is prepared by the hotel.

Dish 1- Combination of Deluxe Appetizers: Roasted Duck, Mini Octopus, Deep-fried mushrooms filled with shrimp paste, Jellyfish and Spring Rolls. Got to say this is the best dish that is served, mostly because it's a mixture of various delicious items. Everything was not bad, but I didn't try the octopus so I don't know how it tastes, but it just looks gluey, and looks as if the octopus is still looking at me. GROSS!

Dish 2- Stir-fried Shrimps and Cuttlefish With Celery in "Tom Yam" sauce. The prawns were really fresh and tastes really well. Didn't eat anything else, don't like cuttlefish, hates celery!

Dish 3- Braised Shark's Fin soup with Bamboo Pit and Shredded Chicken. Delicious! The shark's fin was really shark's fin, and not those cheap pasar malam kind okay? I know eating Shark's Fin is bad, but seriously, who can resist the temptation of such a delicacy?

Dish 4- Braised Black Mushrooms and "Bai Lin Zhi" Mushrooms with Vegetables. The mushrooms were quite tasty, since they practically absorbed most of the sauce. But the vegetables were disgusting. The sauce and the taste of the lettuce was disgusting, doesn't even taste good together. Bet the chef didn't try it, when he decided to use lettuce. (That should be lettuce right? If I'm wrong, do correct me, but whatever the veg was, it's disgusting!)

Dish 5- Steamed Sea Bass in Soya Sauce. A very simple dish, but still tastes nice. The fish was very fresh, but the waitress who did the debone did a lousy job at it. There were still plenty of bones when she provided each of us a serving! I'm not reprimanding her or anything because she did help us alot, and always with a smile. But she should improve her skills at deboning. If you're reading this, I welcome you to help me debone all the fishes that my family cooks!

Dish 6- Wan Hao Signature Crispy Roast Chicken. I wonder who's Wan Hao? The chicken is indeed crispy, apart from that, nothing special. I would prefer a signature rather than this signature dish. My sister can do better than that!

Dish 7- Stir-fried Crispy Noodles with Shredded Duck Meat and Vegetables. Hate this dish to the max! Super alot of spring onions and beansprouts! Took me a long time to take them all out, and by that time, the noodle wasn't even crispy anymore! Lost the appetite to finish it up.

Last Dish- Pan-fried pastry Filled With Red Bean Paste, Deep-fried Dumpling Filled with Lotus Seeds Paste. The red bean paste pastry taste nice, very sweet! Didn't eat the dumpling though, because I thought it was the disgusting yam. Upon blogging now did I found out it was actually lotus seeds paste! Damn! Should have tried it!

Anyways, that's all for the menu. Sorry to say, but the food wasn't that great! Buck up, Marriott, if not I'm not recommending your hotel to other friends when they wanna arrange a banquet, because the food wasn't up to standards! HAHAHAHAHA!

The entertainment provided by the IG was really nice as well. Really thanks for all the efforts done. Can't remember much of what was presented and performed, but mostly games and videos. Didn't manage to take photos of them.

So, after the entire party ended, as well as all the photo-taking sessions. the clique was off to Top One! Gonna sing the whole night away! Because it was so late, there wasn't any trains going to Bugis, so we decided to walk down, and stop at bus stops to try out luck.

Because most of them were wearing flowery costumes, they looked like high end service providers from the social escorts group, and the lady on the right looked like their "Mamasan", who takes special care of each one of them, and ensures that they are "sold" for the day.

The unethical Singaporeans, walking along Orchard Road on their bare feet! They either are hallucinating that this is a beach with beautiful white sand, or that they are Indians walking along the streets during Thaipusam.

It was actually due to tired legs because of those high-heels and also the pair of new loafers which caused the heels to bleed. Well, like what people always say, 爱美不要命, Being pretty is more important than life.

Utlimately, we managed to catch a bus so that we can walk less. Look at all those flowery clothes, and the place we're going sure looks like they are all gonna be "SOLD"!

At the entrance to Top One is a steamboat shop, and at that point of time. Most of the people who were there were all C-people. It's like a horny C-people gathering. Upon seeing a group of ladies passing by, all their eyes begin to shine like stars. Super gross! Partly because they do indeed look like fellow country friends working in the Red-light district.

Don't you think so? And they are really very cheap! $2.50 for the entire room full of them. Don't even have to pick, you get all of them! Interested parties may send me an email, I'll negotiate with their "mamasan" for a better price, since you're all readers of my blog. =D

The entire feeling of the Karaoke has the red-light district feel. Maybe it's just the photos, what with the blurry faces and the long hair covering the face kind of tricks. It's as if policemen has found them, and are bringing all of them to the police station to detain them, like what happens in most Hong Kong dramas and movies. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Well, that's the end for the entire Graduation party day! And a shocking thing is that I actually spend almost 1hour and 30mins to get this done! Think I just have many things to say, but there are still many left unsaid. Till next time then! =D

CNY = 15 Days Of Gambling

2010-02-25T22:30:00.007+08:00

Apart from visiting relatives on CNY, most people will also make special trips to their friend's for a visit. For teenagers, we did likewise, but with the purpose to gamble!

CNY can be said as the only time when people can sit down and gamble all they want at home without getting caught by the cops for illegal gambling and other issues. Also, with the casino opened during the similar period, obviously this festive season has brought along more gamblers to Singapore, adults, teenagers and even kids.

Out of every 10 HDB homes, you can hear at least 1 home with the sound of mahjong tiles knocking against each other, or the sounds of people screaming, "Ah Pek, Ah Pek!", which means cards that represent 10 in Blackjack. This really shows how many obsessive gamblers there are in Singapore, without counting those queuing up to purchase their lucky numbers and win the 4D.

With 15 days for CNY, it only lets those addicted gamblers either go crazily happy or emotionally unhappy, since they'll be either winning alot or losing alot. But whatever the issue, GAMBLING IS FUN ONLY WHEN ONE WINS! 3 more days till the end of CNY, so keep playing! Whether you'll be smiling or crying after Day 15 will definitely be an interesting watch! Let's hope the news reports more deaths due to the inability to repay debts to loansharks. HAHA!

The teenage gamblers during CNY! We only gamble during CNY, I SWEAR! =D

Oh yeah, you know the 12 Days of Christmas song? Maybe one should come up with a song called 15 Days Of New Year, and the song shall reveal how a person celebrates for 15 days, and the ending is he dies because he can't repay the debts he owe for the past 14 Days. Interesting? I think so!

Movie Day!

2010-02-19T23:06:00.003+08:00

I still remember the previous time when I've watched 2 movies in a day. It was the hilarious YES MAN! followed by the super boring Twilight. And that was like more than a year ago? At last, another chance! This time IT WAS SO MUCH BETTER!

The first movie was Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief! A new fantasy movie based on the books, and it was really great! The entire story revolves around Percy Jackson, who is Poseidon, the greek god of the seas' son. The 5 books were all about ancient greek mythology, the 12 greek gods and goddesses, and how they can have sex with mortals and have babies who have unique powers when they grow up. It's really super cool, the mixture of myth and reality into this fantasy.

This movie is the first of the series of books. It shows Percy Jackson, a teenager with problems with english, but gradually finding out it's because he's part god part human, he reads everything in Greek. He is able to hold his breath in the water for really long, use water as his powers to attack and heal because he's actually the son of the Greek god, Poseidon. And there are many other people out there who are like him, children of gods and goddesses. Because Zeus thinks that he stole the powerful lightning bolt, he headed out on an adventure to explain to Zeus, but with many obstacles in front of him and his fellow comrades (daughter of Athena as well as a half man- half goat?), he had to overcome all of them before reaching the truth.

The entire movie wasn't a letdown, with humour as well as action! Lots of action! Definitely a should-watch when thinking of a movie.

Storyline: 8.5/10
Comments: Watch It! And wait for the sequels. Can't wait? Get the books then!

So, after that...

VALENTINE'S DAY! HAVE BEEN WANTING TO WATCH THIS SINCE LONG AGO! Yes, the reason's because of Taylor Swift okay? So what? I'm also a fan of many of the other stars, like Anne Hathaway and Bradley Cooper. This movie is really really sweet! For couples, definitely a snug and cuddle kind of movie. For singles, a "Fuck, I need a partner!" will be all you're thinking after the end.

It actually just shows how most people celebrates their version of Valentine's Day, big or small, happy or sad. And, there's quite a lot of shocking scenes that I didn't anticipate like Bradley Cooper and Eric Dane turned out to be a couple even though I thought he's going to end up with Julia Roberts. But still, very sweet! Love how Taylor Swift acted as a bimbo in the show, and those crazy loser dance moves, and the constant making out with Lautner. But really, the show is really really super sweet. Although slow-paced but you can hear "awwwww" quite frequently, because it's really "awwww-ish".

Storyline: 9/10
Comments: So many famous stars, $6 isn't a big deal! And with Taylor Swift, DON'T WASTE TIME! GO WATCH IT! AND LISTEN TO HER SING AFTER THAT! =D