Can't help taking this shot.
Can you take a look at that crazy amount of food stacked up in the trolley??

well, they have two.


going for war or wot?

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anyway, here's one of those multiple blog entries due to my laziness and constant procrastination that resulted in plenty of drafted blog entries with non published.

met up with kelv for lunch with my mom and wilson at east coast road's beach road prawn mee.
as usual, the place was packed with people. business going strong. kelv wanted to meet up with us for laksa at first but i convinced him to a change of plans.

after prawn mee we went for dessert at katong.

the ice is not the typical ice-kachang type.
it's thinner and more flakes-like textured and tasted damn good.


Strawberry Snow Ice

kelv ordered mango and wilson had chocolate.

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Did i mention that i bought a new gfx pen? of course not. lol

oh well, yea i did. like.. FINALLY. so i started using it with my first project to test how good it is to finally be able to use a gfx pen rather than a mouse to photoshop my pictures. (i have no idea how i survived with a mouse)

sano once showed me a website that linked to a illustrator technique - imitating that of scanner darkly's way of editing photos.

i don't have illustrator but photoshop will do anyway.

i havent got the time to sit down and just draw for one whole day so for several nights and a weekend afternoon, here's my completed work.

if you recall, DENZEL the baby visited my office with his folks and so i've directly edited on the photo.

so.. obviously outline wise, it's traced.
but colouring wise, i tried to stick to how the picture is but shading wise, i'm pretty much on my own.

i kinda liked how it turned out. so much for a first attempt!


new hair cut.
and oh yea. contact lens. like finally also.



wilson's funky new do.



wilson n i brought his friend, guo wei, over to toa payoh's botak jones outlet and treated the bdae boy to a triple patty beef burger. his friend is tall and big but NO ONE survives the beef burgers from botak jones! he was so full when he finished his second patty i thought he was gonna puke beef when he struggled with the third.

quite amazing. i was nearly puking beef when i had mine and i ate only 1/2 a patty. geez.

i had fish and chips for a new attempt.
omg lah.
so damn big can the fish.
nearly puked fish.
my plate is not small alrite, and the fish is even bigger than my plate WTH?

while we ate my fries kept falling out of my plate.
when i finished my fish, i hardly touched my fries (too damn full).



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FREE CONE DAY!

yea so like what the name says, it's free cone day @ ben and jerry's.

so along with lotsa stinky students, we queued under the mildly hot sun but thank god they handed out fans!! and the fan is very cute.


meet my twin at work. she got smaller face than me.. DAMN.

almost unsuccessful attempt in group shot.
hand too short. cant hold it any further.

Read this article from a colleague's blog and thought it was pretty sweet so I decided to post it up to share.

Time a 5 min break to read this thro if you can read chinese.

I guess it goes out to show that more than often, we assume too much and think we're right in our line of thoughts and by doing so, we simply misunderstood / comprehend other's actions. i guess it's always easier to think that something is wrong when believing something is right is somewhat just a wishful thinking.

i read about this notion from terry goodkind's novels.

It's a very simple line, and amusingly tho not related, immy n I like to use it quite alot.

"PEOPLE ARE STUPID"

"People can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it's true."

when we fear, we instill life into these fears. and when that fear becomes too strong, our emotions overrides reason and without consideration of perhaps even the most obvious contradictions in our line of thoughts, we immediately conclude that so and so has happened. it is due to our fear. truth is, it might just be the opposite.

一度C的溫暖



一對夫妻面對突如其來的經濟變化，那一年的冬天，他的事業幾乎一敗塗地。

他們不得不搬出豪華溫暖的公寓，在市郊另租了一間簡陋的房子．房內陰冷潮濕，一如他們當時的心情。

他對她說〞相信我，會好起來的！〞她信。



白天，他在外面疲於奔命，有時一整天也不打一個電話回來．她理解他，知道他在外面所做的一切都是為了他們的將來。

晚上回到家大部分時間裡，他總是一個人坐在電腦前查資料、整理訊息、打客戶電話，然後昏昏地睡去，他很少和她閒聊。

她理解他，知道他很累，需要休息。



但不管怎麼累，他都要天天洗澡，那是他多年養成的習慣。浴室裡只有簡陋的沐浴，這讓她很懷念那套曾經溫馨的豪宅。

想起以前的日子，她有些傷心，因為她突然發現他不在乎她了。

不再對她噓寒問暖，這從洗澡這件事上就能看出來。



在以前，他總是讓她先洗，他自己卻留著一身臭汗在客廳或者書房裡，直到她洗完。這樣的體貼曾令她自豪和感動。

可是現下，他總是要先洗。每當她要走進浴室的時候，他就會突然說，我先來吧！

然後她便聽見浴室裡嘩嘩的水聲，生活的艱難磨去了他的紳士風度，改變了他們的相敬如賓，更削減了他對她的愛戀，

她想他為什麼不能繼續讓著她呢？這是不是說明他已經不在愛她了？


後來有一天，她終於忍不住了，問他為什麼。他楞了半天說，在外面跑了一天，一身的臭汗不舒服，所以急著沖一下。

她幾乎絕望了．他終於不再疼她了！她不僅僅失去了以前那棟豪宅，並且正在失去丈夫的愛情。


那一天，照例他出去了。她百無聊賴，打開了他的電腦。她驚奇的發現他竟然天天在電腦上寫日記！

她慢慢地讀著、讀著，然後眼淚股股留下。

她看到這樣一段文字︰今天她問我為什麼總是要搶在她前面洗澡？

我沒有說實話，我怕她為我難過，浴室很冷。

但我知道，在沐浴完以後，那裡面的溫度會升高一點點，３度、２度或者１度。



我想，那樣的話，她在洗澡的時候該會暖和一些吧？在這段艱苦和寒冷的日子裡，我想，我至少還能送給她這１度C的溫暖吧？！

omg lah my colleague gave me these links and I nearly went nuts.

It's the PAPER MUSEUM website.

I NEED COLOUR PRINTER!!! *ROAR*

you guys go check it out yourselves k? If you have coloured printers can even start printing out to make your own paper crafts.


DOLL HOUSES

if you wanna make paper doll houses like the above, just click on the picture and it'll link you to the page automatically. There's a whole bunch of display design you can adopt.



OBENTO

Click on picture to get to direct link.

Go explore urself yea?

Have fun.

Baby Dexter Denzel comes to visit.

don't ask me why but I have this bad habit of calling the baby "Dexter" somehow.
That name got stuck in my head.

Cute lil fellah ain't it?
He's a month old already.

He's dad and mom brought him to the office for all the adults in the office to go nuts for the nxt one hour.

I have no idea why... but somehow that baby just ended up in my arms. (kena sabo)


those cheeks.. very pinchable aye?

Denzel's pretty expressive and alert for a newborn.
Babies are normally pretty disoriented and won't really know where to look but this lil fellah here, he looks right at u! (and the camera)


OI! I tot i say no photo-taking!

my stupid colleagues say the above expression is because my hair was poking the baby.

Sorry lah!

I noticed how near my boobs is to the baby.
panicked for a split second and don't ask me why.

BEHOLD...! THE FURRY MONSTER BUNNY!!



i wanna say it's hideous, i can't.
i wanna say it's cute, it's weird.
it's... hairy. like.. big time.

it's really funny but thank god it's in air con area. how to survive with such a coat!?

i saw it in a pet shop located in novena's shopping mall. think it's now called novena velocity or wadever.

i had fun lookin at the cute bunny rabbits and hamsters and wilson was commenting on how well groomed and taken cared of these animals are. the hamsters looked very healthy and had nice coats of fur.

my nxt breed of hamster to keep will be a roborovski. they look really cute.



i heard they are some pretty fast runners so i guess i better not bring them out too often lest they start to escape. they're not very big in size but life span's longer than some other breeds of hamsters. around 3 years if i'm not wrong and these hamsters are more rare so they're pretty expensive. this hamster was seen at the pet shop in novena as well and they're being sold for $30 per hamster. at pet shop lovers they're being sold at $40 per hamster.

expensive.

my winter whites were only $18 per hamster.

speaking of hamsters, here's a update on my surviving bai bai aka. stinky babies.

the picture below is NOT, i repeat, not showing the hamster peeking out.

what it is doing in fact, is SLEEPING.

no joke! i realised my hamsters don't just close their eyes immed when they sleep. their eyes are open and they are as if in a daze. they only start to close their eyes when they really fall asleep. like deep snoring kinda sleep.

stinky baby below was resting its head on the doorway while it sleeps. quite a funny sight.

it's like me sticking my head on a table and falling asleep.



update on work:

it's busy packing packing packing PACKING and more PACKING!!!!!

i'm moving on down from level 4 to level 2 so we gotta pack away all our stuff be it our own table or the cabinets.. EVERYTHING.

i was busying packing all our tapes our files our equipments, felt like a labourer of some sorts, and decided to thrash all unnecessary items once and for all so i starting checking through all our tape stocks to see what's needed and what's not (can recycle).

the poor content services boys say they were conned up by me when they saw the amount of tapes they have to bring down (two rounds in total) then kept grumbling. *smirk*

but before they came i actually had Helen help look through the pile of tapes I sorted and stacked up for her to look through as well (in case she wanna keep anything).



seeing all these tapes sends shivers down my spine. imagine back in discovery i had tapes stacked on my desk as well to QC. as in.. literally QC. watching all those tapes and writing down notes and watching how one octopus escapes it's tank etc or how sea snakes are etc or how mad mike and mark were being chased by elephants... OMG.

and after much sweat and whining and kao pehing, i've managed to pack everything (almost) away. four boxes at the back are FULL OF TAPES.



can die.

Clay Art Workshop!



ok lah i should've posted this since ages and ages ago but i procrastinated. lol

I attended a workshop about a month ago on the 18th of March in Takashimaya.
It was sorta advertised by TheNewpaper and organized by an arts shop in Taka located just nxt to Arts Friend. (forgot which level lah..)

I paid around $14 bucks for the workshop and it's a one day workshop for 2 hours. (normally, a 2 day workshop with 2 hrs each would've cost me $75!)

it was pretty fun and i did learn much and you gotta use special paper clay and not just any paper clay but those that will actually stick together when you place them together. i got paper clay from arts friend and those were the wrong kind.

i made 3 lil clay art magnets of my own. frankly speaking, their texture is rather rubbery after drying. we were given the not so high quality paper clay but it's fine. felt as if i was playing with plastercine.

quite fun modelling my clay and my favourite was the basket of carrots cos i think i did quite a gd job with it. the cake was alrite but there's room for improvements.

you can click on the picture above to enlarge it.

I think I drafted this very long ago and got too lazy to blog about it lol

I drafted this like 10 days ago or something.

wilson n I went to tao payoh. he made an appointment to get a new haircut.

nice eh? at least it was something refreshing for all of you who has seen him in his older hairstyle.


on our home

i thought he look kinda cute n younger.

my boss brought this to work and showed us.
might've been a gift from someone.
what is it?
a thumbdrive.
and a "humping dog" one.

works only for laptop (cos of the way the insert is positioned)

how it works is pretty hilarious.

once you insert it into the usb, it'll keep humping non-stop.

abit irritating over the long run.




developed nearly 200 worth of photos and had some of them framed and added to my "wall of friendship".



anyhow, after developing those 200 pics which is pretty much a mix of photos like family, friends, colleagues or just me n wilson, i normally will have a separate photo album to keep photos that has only me n wilson.

soon i realise that photobook is full.

so i went to scout for a new one and found this one that's relatively big and sweet.
at least can hold alot more pics then don't need to keep buying photo album.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Words of Affirmation.

Complete set of results

Quality Time:		8
Words of Affirmation:		7
Physical Touch:		6
Acts of Service:		5
Receiving Gifts:		4

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

two days in a row i've met situations that blew my mind and had my froze on the spot.

yesterday while waiting for the green man to turn up at the t-junction between parkway and marine drive with gu n my folks, it was lights up for cars to move upwards to parkway and a STUPID malay (not bcos they're malay that's why i say stupid yea) couple decided to test fate n RIDE a fuckin bicycle across a starting traffic, thinking they can beat the traffic and cheat death.

well they did cheat death but not without the scare.

WHAM!

and an on-going vehicle slammed right into the rear tyre of the bicycle. thank got it just got started so it wasn't at a max speed but it did manage to twist the bike and slam the couple onto the ground.

everyone who witnessed that scene was frozen on the spot with shock. that includes me and my family.

my mom tot they were gonna die. they would've.. if it hit them directly.

the girl hurt her knee.

today, a near 10 cm long centipede got into my house.

well, to my knowledge, centipedes are poisonous and i definitely would not want it wandering around my house. god knows where it'll go.

can you imagine having it turn up in your room and just wiggle across your body while you sleep or something? it went into my toilet. even worse. imagine u wanna shit.

DAMN!

so me n my mom camped outside the toilet waiting for it to show up.

we're SO NOT GONNA LET IT GO so easily.
it's like a must-deal-with-or-we're-in-deep-shit kinda situation.

once i spotted it going up the back of the toilet door i had mom give it a full dose of sheltox. my mom sprayed at the door like no ends meet.

we tried everything from spraying shiteload of sheltox to slamming the door against the wall for it to drop into sight. it didn't. so we waited.

soon i saw it glide out the toilet n into the kitchen floor.

mom sprayed another full dosage till it finally stayed still and wiggled on the spot, positively intoxicated.

then we waited for damn long till it's dead before disposing of it.

gawd.

2ND YEAR ANNIVASARY



surprised my dear with this handmade (hugely oversized) card
and even placed it in a frame! LOL
placed it in a frame and left it on the bed.

countdown to the nxt milestone - third year annivasary!!

long time no blog. been delaying it for a while.

this year's hong bao collection is not fantastic. even though economy is supposed to be getting better, ang pow's are getting slimmer. what used to be filled up with red notes are now left with purple and of a undesirable denomination (i'm superstitious).

anyhow, it's the time of the year where ppl ran out of things to ask you and can ask one question. even if it comes differently phrases from different mouths, it's the same damn question.

"when can i stop giving u ang pow"
"when my turn receive ang pow from you"
"when getting married"

at least my eldest aunt has more sense.

the rest are being typically the "crowd".

for pete's sake i'm only 23 years old.

you wanna sponsor my wedding and care for my kid issit?

hearing such things during the sweetness of your relationship, this can bring slight thrills running down your back and a flush of warm glow up ur cheeks but no, we have more things in our mind to think of. the real deal about marriage.

i just got a dress and settled for it to be my CNY dress.

glad ppl agreed with wad they saw at the gathering.
i had a few nice compliments here and there.

mix and match of unhappy events with bored moments, i seldom had much fun during CNY other than a typical gathering of relatives whom i do somehow miss seeing. but after that few hours of gathering, it's back to woodenly going ard visiting ppl but not enjoying the company much.

then i realised. i really am too solitary. i had close one-to-one friendships but i belong to no close knitted group. thus gatherings seldom involved me.

then i'm thrust back into the past where i recall bitterly those mid-year and year end holidays where i'll stay home doing nothing for few weeks straight.

but at least i have him around with me always and that's comforting enough.

there is however, something left to have me feeling bitter about future gatherings.


in carpark in wilson's neighbourhood

this was another day. we met up with zhiwei and his gf.
but before that, we had to wait in suntec for zhiwei to finish work.


smile.

my dad's turn to show his cooking skill w/o my mom stopping him. heh
and.. dad can get abit extreme. in terms of overfeeding us.

just look at the amount of golden mushroom he thrown into the soup!



but actually, i like golden mushroom alot heh.

another project.

made a crystal angel keychain for helen.
now it's hanging my her hp. heh.

wilson never fails to surprise me and what more a surprise totally unexpected but very sweet nonetheless.

it's quite an amusing sight seeing him half hiding behind a pillar grinning from ear to ear.



lol so that's the sweet surprise.

i know he is awkward about stepping into a florist haha and since it's valentines day and prices of flowers are outrageous, the way he described the florist looked as if she was sharpening her knife when he stepped in was hilarious. like another sucker paying big bucks for flowers lol.

couple of colleagues saw him holding the flowers waiting for me and told me when i returned to the office.

lol



hehehe

Have been busying myself with a few tiny projects lately.

Ever since I bought those new books I've been sucked into a vortex of obsessive reading. Anytime I find myself with a moment to spare, my mind wanders to the story I last read, my hand reaches out to the book which will not be too far away from me and soon, I find myself engrossed in reading until I tear myself away after much reading to only go back to reading it in the next moment.

even so, i still managed to find some time for some handiwork projects... and erm work of course.

soon it'll be my 2nd year anniversary with wilson. yes it's been two years and time does fly. the official date of our anniversary falls on the 25th which will be a sunday, and already, wilson thought of what he would like me to cook for him.

besides that, i launched into a mini-project to make a card, or rather, display card for him as a gift. it will be framed up in my room once it's done but still, a gift from me to him.

it's not quite completed yet. i still need the frame.

here's just a sneak preview for you of what it SORT OF looked like.



you'll get a better look once it's all done. wouldn't want wilson sneaking a peek from blog to know what i've made for him. i'm quite happy with how it turned out actually.

besides that, i've had two colleagues with their birthdays coming up. one is next week so i've not made a gift for her yet.

as for the birthday girl who's birthday so happened to fall on the valentine's day EVE,

i made her two stuff.
one i made her chose a design and colours.
the second was impromptu but it turned out great.

the ring

ok this is the impromptu one

i took two shots.

one with the new owner's hands...



she's the same height and about the same size as me to i used my fingers as the guide for how wide my ring should be and it fitted her fingers just right!

AND, i took another shot on its own and played with this technique sano showed me from an online professional tip. turned out really nice.



...and the phone strap.

i took quite a while to finish this up. it's not toooo easy but it's not that hard either.

since i'm using a nylon wire, it's a little stubborn and warps in direction less than desirable and i had to sorta twist it into shape and FINALLY, and thank god, i managed to pull it off.

i did learn alot about what kinda beads would be right, pro and cons, techniques to use and avoid and why it is impt to choose the right beads of the right sizes or it'll be a waste of effort and money when you can't finally complete the project right.

it's all the more frustrating since though i'm not a perfectionist to the core, i'm a perfectionist nonetheless when it's gifts from the heart that should be totally sincere. one wrong twist or a wrong knot or missing a bead is very intolerable. i often find myself cutting up the wire in frustration (3 times in total) when near completion and simply re-do.

but in the end it's all worth it i guess.


(click to enlarge)

Dear Heizai passed away at night on Feb 3rd, 2007.
It has lost weight drastically for the past few weeks and though besides its weight loss, there's no visible signs of illness, we've lost Heizai.

So I did up a collage of Heizai.

Still remember the time when I first bought it, it was really tiny and small. Could hardly fit into my hands cos it's so small and in over a year it grew and grew and filled up my hands.

byebye heizai.

love,
ur mom n dad.

muahaha 2 plastic bags worth of books. crazy shite.

the girl from the bookstore was super fast with the wrapping of the books! she was helping me a wrap a protective layer. had helen help me carry the 2nd plastic bag of books hahaha we went to the info counter to redeem wadever that's redeemable... end up is red packets. cheh.

Sano's eyes are so gonna pop out from these!! *points below*

Death Note Merchandises!!!!
sadly, it's not mine to keep shucks! but oh well I get to flip around and take a look at them before scanning every single one of the postcards to send to sano. tsk. such a gd friend i am.

YOU OWE ME MAKAN K BOY!


Death Note Merchandises (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

So... what's available?

1. Death Note Note Book (with all the rules and scribbles of Light)
2. KeyChain
3. Postcards! Or rather... cards with drawings and rules behind.

The drawings are all pretty neat.

I bought a pair of black velvet heels for $19.90 from Century Square to go with some of the dresses I have. It's a very nice pair of heels that's very flattering to wear with BUT, my poor feet don't really suit pointed tip heels of ANY kind and even though this pair lasted really long on my feet w/o much pain but after many hours of walking, my feet is crying in pain man.

Conclusion: can only wear for max of 3 - 4 hours.



I walked and walked and walked in these and wah lau. wanna die. hahahaha but! it's not as bad as when i was wearing my white hush puppies strapped heels. that one, the heel super high, my feet, pain like HELL. like.. almost tempted to just take out my heels and walk barefooted. I is damn stupid also actually, shld've known not to wear that if I'm going to walk loads.

Kelv kor's gonna go INDIA again for NS. another round of curry. But he did promise to cook for mwe before he flies off hehehehe something to do with chicken so I'm gonna standby my camera to take lotsa shots! talkin about camera, I lent my digicam to burger (wilson's friend) cos he's going for S.H.E concert. hope it's safe n sound my dear camera!!! and when he returns it to me to upload the pics I can get a sneak peak lol

ok and I digress. back to kelv. what about kelv? oh yea, and he also promised to bring us to try out some makan places when he's back and I'll bring him to International Plaza to try the korean food soon. *wide grin* ok i need to diet lar!

i brought kelv to makan botakjones on sat. actually is jio him join me n gu cos the two of us wanted to makan there.

besides our main dishes, i ordered Jalapeno Chilli stuffed with Cheese for Wilson to try!
$6 bucks man! wah lau. the seeds were removed so I guess that tones down the spiciness by alot and wilson is mad lah. say not hot. to me, mildy spicy. but it's not the kind of spicy u'll get from eating our normal red chilli. this one is a tad more pepperish but oh god the cheese....


Jalapenos Chilli stuffed with Cheese
(CLICK TO ENLARGE)

...and I was saying THE CHEESE....!



just take a look inside! white portion is cheese, a tad greenish stuff on the lower part is the chilli.
kor say it's not easy to get these from random markets. must look ard. he was mentioning jason's market or something. the cheese was really soft and nice.. and sticky-ish. i like.

oh yea before we head out to kelv kor i actually took a shot of our carpark's fat cat. this time, we threw in gu's feet for comparison.



funny thing is, it meowed at us then came over to headbutt our legs again before... plopping down on the ground like that.

we got an uncle here who always takes care of fat cat and feeds it. then we notice how everytime fat cat gets too dirty like... not so white, it'll MIA a few days and return all sparkly white!!! we suspect...the uncle bring fat cat home to bathe.

must be!!!

but damn funny to think about.

i'm bidding my time to find the chance to take more pics of the cats in my neighbourhood. there's a chocolate coated munchkin at the kopitiam there. it's very cute n fat. choc fur but white paws and chest and uber short frontlegs.

so far always too many ah pek there so... yes i must bid my time for the right moment.

i've actually managed to achieve some of the items i placed on my 2007 wishlist!

..i'm gonna get my terry goodkind books today!
..I got FMA the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa!

more to come more to come!

i went shopping 2 days straight and i still cant find ANYTHING i like.

my colleague got married yday and i went for her wedding dinner at
Chef Chan's Restaurant (click name for link) yesterday in the afternoon. it's an afternoon banquet. The restaurant is located in Odeon Tower. In between CHIJMES and Bras Basah Complex. The food is not bad and the interior decor of the restaurant takes up a very traditional air. The menu is slightly different from the usual (at least no ee-noodles or wadever).

We had shark's fin, prawns, roasted chicken this is very good, steamed sea-bass i don't eat fish so i don't know if this is good, mushrooms with vegetables, glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leave can't really taste the lotus leave as well as the ones i had in tea chapter, glutinous rice balls which was super soft and once you bite into it, it almost melts away!, and century egg puff which was the chef's specialty but i don't like century egg so wilson ate it all up instead.


all ready to go

most of my colleagues came and i was seated with the group of colleagues whom i'm comfortable with so the dining experience was fairly enjoyable. but i think one bad thing about having a wedding banquet in the afternoon is there's almost this lack of closure. like after the last dish is served people started leaving and you almost don't notice it's time to go. unlike when dinner is at night, it drags on for quite a while and you feel the ceremony ending when it does end. there was this little hiccup earlier on when i arrived and there was no one in the reception area to take names or the red packets wadsoever so there was this confused mob including myself standing around for quite awhile before knowing what's going on.

i liked the decor but there was the down points as well. the waiter/waitresses don't really check on the cups of the guest to refill drinks. we either had to self-serve or call for them before we get our cups refilled. some of the plates n chopsticks wasn't clean and had stuff stucked!! my HR mgr was like QC-ing all our plates n chopsticks and cups after she found stuff on hers. lol

i overhead them saying that the restaurant might be closed down soon cos the Chef's retiring?? not sure how true this is but kelv kor say he'll still do private functions. heh

the last time checked, kelv hasn't updated his blog yet about our makan trip at botakjones (he said he will) so i'll check another time and post a link here when he does.

Check out Kelvin's write-up on his makan experience @ botakjones!
Kelvin's after-makan-thoughts!

Wish List 2007

• The other 9 Terry Goodkind books.
• Thumbdrive
• Graphic Pen
• Try out Stone Grill restaurant
• Go Hong Kong/Taiwan
• Make a beaded necklace for myself
• Make soup for gu (lotus seed soup)
• DVD Drive
• FMA the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
• finally develop my photos... like few hundred of them..

Been a really long time since I've last blogged man.. things to talk about are starting to pile up with all those photos to share. think can't drag it any longer =__="

My back muscles are slightly aching from the work out (or rather, lack of it) at bedok's gym with gu. woke up pretty early in the morning to get there but once i was there i'm abit stunned by -

first - the crowd,
and second - all the beefy guys (eee...)

i don't really erm.. fancy guys with over-developed muscles. looks very unproportionate. O_o

been eating a lot lately especially korean food haha just last friday I've met up with my ex-colleague and a colleague to go try out the korean restaurant located in International Plaza (nxt to Tanjong Pagar mrt stn) and it was good!!! actually three of us reached earlier but the 4 makan-steer was late so we walked around but seriously other that the super exaggeratingly long corridor with 10 lifts (i'm serious!) there's nothing much to see. it's a very old building with rather auntie shops BUT, there's gramaphone haha so that's where we stayed to kill time. when we were outside the restaurant there's only one group of customers inside and the staff wasn't able to converse in english (cos from china). lady boss was korean of course. we were led to a private room (woo!) and sat there while flipped the menu pages around excitedly. LC quite kanchiong (i bullshit la) cos she keep poking menu while ordering frm the staff LOL think the staff very stressed le. we took quite awhile to order cos there's quite alot of selection... only thing is that it's pretty pricey We order quite little but the serving is quite a lot so we were all pretty stuffed. We had korean rice cakes (damn chewy) and steamboat (with ramyeon in a big bowl of soup, 6 side dishes and rice for each and every one of us!)

i like my stuff hot and spicy so when i tasted the soup i was like "wooooooo.." hahahaha then when i had the rice cake i "woooooooo.."-ed again lol and so my colleagues were all asking me if it tasted good and all i did was woo and asked them to try. the kimchi was quite a killer. much stronger tasting that the normal kimchi i've tasted in terms of sourness and spiciness but it was good.



gu was the first one to throw in the towel and surrender. there's too much food and we were seriously stuffed.

but it was good food lah. we spent around $66+ in total so that's around $16.50 per pax. decent enough for restaurant lah i guess.

oh yea, one note, we used wooden chopsticks instead of the typical metal and flat one. i thought that was kinda weird although we did use the metal spoon with a longer handle like we would commonly see on korean dramas.

if you guys r interested to check the restaurant out, here's the add:
Koryo Jeong Korean Restaurant
10 Anson Road, #02-59, International Plaza, Singapore 079903

Business Hour:
Monday - Sunday (inclusive of PH)
11am - 3pm
5.30pm - 10pm

For Reservation:
Tel: 6324 - 3120/1

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TOGI on another hand, was a different story.
This restaurant is located in Katong area. I don't have the add except I know how to walk there (cos near my area) heh.


metal chopsticks

They had metal chopsticks!!! actually... it's not so easy to use cos it's FLAT. took quite a while to hold it right and grip my food properly.


Chicken Bibimbap

Can you imagine you got all these for just ten bucks!? alot can.

i ordered beef ramyeon. so sad!!!! no yuh gae jeang!!! wah lau!!


beef ramyeon

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actually just couple of nights ago wilson won a soccer bet and had to treat me n CL chicken wings + teh peng... HE LOST AGAIN AHAHAHAHHAHA so now we won yet another round of chicken wing + teh pengs. life's good man. *smirks*

i've bought a beaded jewellery making book lately and was trying out one of the designs.



...and tada...!



actually it was pretty fun to make. think i'll try the other designs soon..erm.. after i get a fatter paycheck.

oh well for the new year i DID accomplish some stuff.

1. i finally bought a decent compartmentalized box to keep my jewellery parts.
2. i finally washed my hamster tank after 2 weeks (they stink like hell).
3. i finally brought feng to botak jones and i think she loves it!

What intend to do is...

bring kelv kor to try the tanjong pagar korean food!
cos he's so sweet he said he was gonna cook for me n wilson over this weekend!

i had a CNY dinner with my aunt earlier last week along with my other cousins. i'm mildly surprised that they don't know any dialects at all. not even cantonese cos that's the most common language spoken in the family although our family's dialect is hainanese. we had the dinner in crystal jade and OMG i think the bill was like SGD400!? depending on the size of bryan's eyeball when he peeked at the bill.

his eyeballs were pretty big at that time.

I also did realised that since i have telepark pass... i can get 10% discount from subway woo!!

hehehehe

last but not the least....

i'm sooooooooo excited abt pam's wedding dinner in jan and jamesy's in feb!