Half-moon necklace (Purple)

First Order received (and done) for the half-moon crescent necklace.

This time it's in purple and I made it for my colleagues.
She paid for the materials and I was "forced" to get a free lunch from her. lol

I personally liked this necklace a lot and I'm glad for the colours I selected.
Took me just a few hours to get it done within a day.
Quite successful.

Brought it to office to pass it to her but meanwhile I've shown it to a few others and they liked the colour combination too. I used a heart-shapped clasp for this necklace. turned out pretty sweet.

dong cheng dong cheng!!
CNY!
POCKETS-FUL OF ANG POW TIME!

BUT! For me, it's also the time for questions like "when r u getting married" / "when can i stop giving u ang pow?"

*slap head*

i went o'er to ching's hse to visit first during the earlier half of the afternoon before heading off to my uncle's house for visiting.

it's a once a year thing and all my relatives (father's side) will just gather to my uncle's hse.
it's like a one stop station basically.

we arrived a little later than we normally do (tho we still ended up being the earlier few to arrive) tsk tsk tsk...

we all probably missed out one or two family members who came earlier in the day.
but oh well, so did everyone else haha


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no little ones running around.
unlike chingling's hse where we were being greeted by this huge grp of kids blocking the doorway and chattering non stop. i nearly went crazy. it's been awhile since there's been a child in the family. i'm somewhere around the middle if you were to go and count in order of age amongst me and my cousins. the oldest one has probably just hit his thirties not so long ago and just got married last year or so.

babies not in sight YET but i suppose... soon?

this year wilson's a smart boboy. he borrowed his brother's car out to drive us in. hehehe save me the trouble from sitting on his bike when it's a day where i deliberately dress up a little more and pinned my hair up. no complaints from the folks about his driving skills so i guess it's a PASS! HEHEHEHE

my aunt didn't recognize me. -__-"
must be normally i always dress too shabbily.

check out how fat bryan's pocket is (with red packets).
wilson was commenting on how it looked like a second 'wallet'.



actually this year not bad lah. my mom give face and came with us hehehehe.
as usual my uncle bugged me with questions about my digicam. buey tahan.
not pro wanna act pro. wah lau.

as soon as we can 'siam' the place,
gu drove to send my parents and i back home first. he dropped me off at chingling's house where i hung out with ching and HL first and he stayed home for a couple hours to spend some time with his family first. later in the evening he joined us at east coast park's mcdonald.

talked cock as usual hahaha since all our brain cells are pretty much fried and cant think too intelligently so we talked crapped about work shite, office politics, and stupid ppl.

a cute cat came and sat near me but it was hiding behind the plants. took some pictures of it but forgot to post it up. she's pretty ppl shy.

by the time we're leaving the 'amusement park'... well not exactly a park as per se but yea there were these rides that stopped operations already but the gang decided to randomly pose in it anyway.


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Ching loves doraemon.

Just a follow up photo for XMAS potluck with my ex KC school/class mates.


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Esther's back in town these few weeks from Australia but will be returning this weekend so I hurriedly arranged for a quick gathering. Majority of those I've asked turned up except Kelv n LJ who had work and couldn't come in the end. Billy's off for his flight so he wasn't there either.
hopefully the nxt time i arrange an outing, everyone will be around. not that it's an easy feat since we've all grown up and has stepped into the work force.

i was kinda in a mad rush to get everything planned, organized & settled. was workin my ass off during weekends (my weekend is burnt, no rest @ all) and i just got home at around 2.30am on monday morning, slept for a few hours and had to head back to work in my office before rushing out after work to orchard to meet up with the rest. omg.

i was a little late and my body esp my legs were aching from all over. i limped my way to swensen while wilson went over to the nearest atm to draw out some cash and i was waiting outside swensen for the rest to walk over. forgot that i've asked them to meet @ heeren's spinelli cafe.

food wasn't too bad actually.

it's nice gettting to meet the peeps on monday since it's been years since i've last seen them especially kero and frankly speakin, he still looks pretty much the same!! except maybe he's taller and slightly more built than the scrawny boy boy last time.


picture on the left (2002) ; picture on the right (2008)

i didn't realise until sano started laughing and reminded me of something.
both photos above, though on two separate occasions, were taken while i called out for kero suddenly and snapped the camera shutter immediately. ahahahaha

actually...everyone looks pretty much the same hahahhaa brought back some old memories when we were still 'young' (altho i'm not that young anymore but for their current age.. they still fit that bill).

we wanted to go to partyworld at first but it was kinda expensive. $25 per pax. so we decided to head to cine's kbox. kinda stressful when everyone's kinda good in singing hahahahaha too bad est has a curfew and sano + kero had to leave earlier. in the end it's only left with wendy, gu and i singing till almost 1am hahaha

Half-moon necklace (Gold)

Another handmade project of mine.
Got the pattern from a book found in Bugis Junction's Kinokuniya book store.

I had a super hard time getting the beads I want and in the end, I STILL did not manage to located all the beads I wanted and had to settle for 'alternatives'.

I kinda hate having to settle of alternatives but oh well.
At least the necklace turned out really chic.
Only downside is that I'll probably switch to buying the metal parts (T-pins/9-pins/clasp etc) from another shop than the one I went to.

The quality seems lousier and in just ONE day, the gold turned brownish rust colour.
shit.

I brought the necklace to office to show some of my colleagues and surprise surprise,
I've got an order. hahaha

but i'll probably leave it till after CNY before I start working on it.

For the one I made for myself, since it's my first time trying out this pattern, it tooked me quite awhile to get it done up to my satisfaction. I probably dismantled it AT LEAST thrice cos I wasn't too happy with the results.

ended up sitting in the same spot for more than 4 hours making it hahahaha

Swanky Franky (Beef sausage wrapped with Bacon, topped with cheese)
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Beef Sandwich
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Can you feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel it?

saliva dripping yet? hahahaha

gu decided that we'll have dinner @ botak jones (toa payoh) on friday night.
we decided to order something new from our usual orders.
he ordered sausage while i tried out their sandwich.

as usual, i'm not expecting sandwich to be too filling but omg.
this was HUGE.
seriously.
i had to stop wilson from eating most of his fries and side dishes and had him focus on finishing up his sausage first and i was RIGHT.

after he finished his sausage, he was pretty full.

i almost regret ordering the jalepeno chilli stuffed with cheese and soup.
almost cos they tasted good so that kinda kept me from regreting but i did feel super bloated after eating all those stuff.

I'M SUPPOSED TO BE ON A DIET DAMNIT!

p.s. i thought the pics of the food turned out pretty gd hahaha

呵呵，其实偶尔用中文blog一下也挺过瘾的。
索兴就一直这样下去吧！

。。。

其实也不能啦。
如果真的索性就用中文来写文章，
可想而知，我因该会收到很多“勒索”信和“抗议”书吧？
然后就会有朋友来投诉说看不懂，要我翻译。

我真是自找麻烦。

唉~。

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我今天差点起不来。
最近都在用新的枕头睡觉。
爽呆了！
然后...就这样一直躺着..躺着..躺着...直到我老妈快把房门敲烂了。

我妈大概也知道我起不来，
猛 K 我的门。

然后，上了巴士，又睡着了。
然后就这样睡着睡着...

*拍拍！*

*惊醒*

哦。到站了。
猛拍我椅子的是巴士司机。
呵呵

丢脸丢到家了。

好想找个地洞钻进去。

Hello, 2008

又迈入了新的一年。
感触应该很多吧？
只觉得近年来，时间都过得非常快。
2007...我都干了些什么？
回顾一下吧？

注：以下《回顾篇》是不照顺序的。原谅我吧？我记忆不好啦！

想法/感情/友谊

性格上，算得上是有变得比较积极，“友善”，也因此结交到了些新的朋友。
虽然说友谊上，有得也有失，“失”是什么，我不想多说。不过“得”到的，
一辈子难忘。可以说是和好几位朋友塑造了个更坚固的感情。
在这一年里，我陪伴了些朋友度过一些感情上比较艰难的日子。
不过好在不开心的日子也过了。看到朋友的坚强，我不禁替她们感到骄傲。

终于有了住在我家附近的朋友，能偶尔串串门子，喝杯奶茶什么的。
看似简单却可欲不可求。

IMAN去了英国就读。

兴趣/嗜好

找到了好几个让我日子过得很愉快的网页。
Sana 的漫画网志
湾湾's 漫画网志
四小折's 绘本日志
Cute Overload

2007里，我大概把前半辈子没看过的动画都看完了吧?
好！我会多多加油的！

定了很多套漫画！超感动的！
《四叶妹妹》
《白鬼夜行抄》
《玻璃假面》

我终于收集完了Terry Goodkind 的 小说！

做了很多手工艺品。
技术上有进步。会再接再厉。

买了井上雄彦的《流浪汉》绘画册，超兴奋的！！！

我终于买了支 graphic pen！

买了RYUK 和 L 的 模型！

成就/新体验

成功的报读大学。

我终于...踏出了新加坡国际！到了吉隆坡！
活到24岁才第一次出国，有够可怜的。
不过是跟我家阿牛和好友一起出国，所以很好玩的说。

亲自体验到跟PRODUCER等级的工作人员在当地拍摄的感觉。
感触很多。算是初体验所以很多事情，还反应不过来。
不过能够去也是件好事。能学到新事物。

换了新发型。

终于，事隔8年后，我鼓起了勇气自己去了牙医洗牙。
我看我因该是疯了。

成功的举办了BBQ 2007！！
虽然当中出了点小篓子，
有些人也没能来到，
不过大致上还是很顺利。

食物

2007我开始吃韩国餐也迷上了他们料理。
我的最爱是 yuh gae jang 和 年糕!!!!!
说到韩国，今年也眯上了很多韩剧。
李准基！！哦，超爱他的。

迷上了BOTAK JONES 的西餐！

吃了生平最好吃的CHAWANMUSHI （KELVIN哥做的！）和 COROQUETTE (北海道食展）。

动物/宠物

认识了我家楼下的肥猫和它的同等猫类。
可惜仁慈的那两只小猫被抓走了。

黑仔和白仔都过世了。

无意间捡到了MUSHROOM。
可惜我妈妈怕猫，所以自己不能领养。
不过后来还是替它找了了位好饲主。
现在它可是位妈咪了。

额外

第一次抽奖有我的份！中了部数码相机！

参加了两位堂姐/哥的婚礼。

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总的来说，
我觉得我度过了个很丰富的一年。
希望2008也能够多姿多彩。
朋友和家人都能够身体健康。

最后当然不忘祝福一下，
大家新年快乐！

was given this cute pencil sharpener by MH when she returned from her trip to Taiwan.

apart from the fact that it looks really lame and cute, what really cracked me up was when i took a more detailed readin of the "instructions" or whatever nonsense that's written.



using the below table allocation as reference, i'll use the numbers to explain the text.



Area (1)

- 看好要設計的小人與你的相對位子
Locate the position of the backstabber.
- 緊握產品默唸"他的名字 + 是小人"三遍
Hold the product tightly while chanting "his name + is a backstabber" three times
- 小心翼翼的將產品鎮壓在小人出現的方向
Carefully place the product towards the direction where the "target" will appear.

Area (2)

- 報復指數 : 4 顆星
Revenge Lvl: 4 Stars
- 專治手段毒辣之小人,就得用非常手段. 沒事捅他數秒,保證以尖治奸.
Against the most despicable people, extreme measures are required. When you have nothing better to do just stab him a few times, satisfaction guranteed! (some meaning lost in translation)

Area (4)

- 不能給小孩子抓周
Keep out of reach from children
- 不能削蘋果
Do not use it to pare apples
- 不能插手指
Do not insert your fingers

Goodbye 2007, and Helloooooooooooo 2008!!

i'll let the photos do all the talking.





gu and i went shopping earlier on that day and we bought quite a number of stuff from FOX MEN/WOMEN. they were having post-xmas sale and it was a gd grab! i bought two shorts and gu bought two tshirts. i even bought a dress for CNY already. no need to worry about shopping for the nxt 2 mths.

p.s. i had hangover the nxt day. it's been awhile since i drank hard liquor and twice in a row in two weeks is abit xiong for my stomach irregardless whether i'm drunk or not. (i wasn't)

So... i pretty much puked my guts out the nxt day starting from 9am till 2pm, puking out whatever i choose to eat. so i ate nothing but drank tonnes of warm water and end up puking them out again. oh well, "washing" my intestines with warm water perhaps a gd idea too.

POTLUCK AND MORE POTLUCK!!

my "specialty" to bring to potlucks nowadays, is the dijon deviled eggs.
muahahaha

ever since learning how to prepare it from an online website and trying it out during my BBQ during 2007, it has more or less garnered quite a 'fan' base of people who tried it and loved it.

it's easy to prepare and taste good.
SO, i shall continue with this until everyone gets sick of it.

we were supposed to have potluck @ Colin's place on Saturday night.
it was supposed to start at around 8pm+, 9pm but well,
unforseen circumstances often occurs and gu and i pretty much got there at around 10pm instead. we were starving so we went down to the kopitiam to grab some food first.

i started preparing the eggs in the later part of the day at around 7pm or so after learning that we'll most prob be starting the potluck late. i got to watch my "Jumeng" first. hehe

gu bought donuts.

i finally completed making the three bead purse keychains Yuki ordered from me (my Wednesday, December 19, 2007 entry) and brought it along with me to the potluck to pass it to her. heh.

It was a good night spent hanging out with some neighbourhood people and most importantly, THERE'S SOUP!!!! i love drinking soup and Yuki made a whole pot full of soup and i helped myself to three bowls full of them hehehehehehe the soup was well done like my mommy's and for those who drank the soup, they drank at least 2 bowls!

beer, wine, mahjong, food, tidbits and tv expected.
along with lotsa crapping of course.
time seems to fly by then and soon, it's turning 3AM!
shocking.
5 hours just went by in what seems like a blink and HL msged us. lol

yea, at 3am.

she's finally done with celebrating with her ex-classmates and was checking if we're still around.
THE NIGHT (erm day?) IS STILL YOUNG!
so we told her to drop by anyway.

with another round of crapping and drinking soup,
2 hours flew by and ZOMG IT'S 5+AM in the morning!!
i would've loved to hang around longer BUT, I can't.
got another round of potluck the nxt day with my ex-KC classmates/schoolmates.

HL kena tompang home on Ben's vespa.
damn cool lah hahahaha and very funny sight.
anyway, it's a vespa. very safe de.

gu and i walked home slowly and when we opened the home door,
hehehe.. lights were all lit up in the living room.
UH-OH..
momsy and dad is up!!! OMG la hahahahaha
then mom chided us jokingly that we got home to sleep only when ppl are waking up. tsk tsk.

we concussed right away and it's the nxt morning already.

the moment i woke up i started preparing the food that i'll be bringing to the potluck (the eggs lah, duh!). i let wilson sleep a little longer till it's nearly 12pm before waking him up to have him send me to yvonne's condo.

the new The Icon condo located in Tanjong Pagar has lotsa nice shops below (as expected, for expats and ppl who earns big bucks), the condo my friend is temporarily staying in has a great view. too bad there's no furnitures in the house yet so we pretty much sat on the floor and ate.

not that it mattered anyway.

lotsa people came reaaaaaally late and those who came early (a pitiful sum of 3 and that includes me) were starving big time. so we entertained ourselves mainly by playing with my yvonne's baby. heh

baby has a trick up her sleeves! she can raise her eyebrow like The Rock!! and it twitches cutely.

my eggs were well liked (see!? proven receipe hahaha) and surprisingly, quite a number of people managed to turn up. it's a pity Feng couldn't join us that day but i did end up getting to meet WX whom i've not met since years after i left KC secondary. she didn't recognize me at first until i told her who i was. lol

ah it's not the first time i get such reactions anymore but it's a pleasant surprise.

as usual, i'm the one who talks very little during gatherings (depends).

i'm waiting for DL to post me the group photos we took.

Denise knitted this super duper cute blankie for baby.

would love to do something like this someday as well.

after having learnt that she knits quite alot as a hobby and quite a no of my ex sch mates would meet up with her to knit, i've exchanged my numbers with her and we've agreed to meet up and knit together someday soon. probably in january.

u'll be seeing lotsa new handiwork related posts soon!!!
can't wait!

some after thoughts
1. I'm glad for the gathering at Colin's house.
core reason for me being glad, i guess, was because this has already been a scenario that i've dreamt of. i have not many neighbourhood ppl / friends that i know of who AT LEAST live within walking distance frm my hse until recent years. havin friends who normally always live either in the central, if not, west side of singapore... is not the most convenient thing. having live so far apart, the ability to meet up face to face diminishes and most of the interactions comes from MSN chats or if not, occasional smses. to hang out till wee hours is rare since we each have our committments now and having to go home in diff directions.. doesnt help if you can't share cab. if even MSN chats or occasional smses lessens, i really don't know what to do. i enjoy the night and like to spend time just chilling with ppl at night. this really helped.

2. i'm glad i initiated asking denise if i could join them to knit.
me, in my old self, would think about it forever and rephrase that question ten thousand times in my mind but end up not saying it.

what to do on a christmas night where you have no plans but to stay home and slack?

take lotsa stupid pics.

and so we did.

armed myself with my digicam, i went into my room with the unsuspecting gu studying his homework where i demanded for him to accompany me in taking random pics.

gu has this trademark popeye face (pic on left) but i personally liked the one on the right cos it made him look cute like a lil boy of some sort.

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having potluck this coming sat with ching n friends and having yet another round of potluck with my pri+sec sch classmates. might be going out for new year eve celebration though there's details still to be worked out.

am lookin forward for a relaxing weekend heh.

went out with gu and his kakis on christmas eve haha..
we went to crew room which was located in katong village.
nearby only. no need to worry about going home after drinking hahaha.
we is cheapskate.

what to do. cab fare not cheap now.
it's becoming so obvious since everyone around me is gradually becoming very reluctant to stay out late till after 12am (midnight charges).

the guys' mission of the night was to make one of their buddies dead drunk and they managed to do so BUT... i bet they sorely regretted after that hahahaha since the guy was around 1.8m tall and not skinny.

my boy (gu of medium height and built) and his other friend are both smaller in terms of size as compared to the intoxicated guy haha so they had a super hard time helping him out of the pub.

i heard the other two guys who sent him home kena scolding from his mom for making him so drunk hahahaha

gu and i eventually left for home after that and once we got changed into our sleeping attire we slept like pigs.

by the time we reached home it was about 3am in the mornin already.
haha crap man. the guy who was drunk took damn long to 'sober' up or at least, enough to start walking out of the pub (that took us one hour AT LEAST) to get to a cab.

can hardly consider it a super happening night but it was enjoyable nonetheless. =D

Christmas Gifts

heh.
spent quite some time doing up about 12 of these bead purses for my colleagues as christmas presents.

nice?

heh decided to take a more 'pro' looking shot of each design.
nxt time show ppl at least more presentable haha

i made just about 3 colours of each kind (four colours as shown above).
two were made into zipperpulls with decorating beads and the rest were a simpler zipperpull.

what's surprising was that apart from the 12 that i've made, i've separately received a total of 8 more orders for them. (sold them at a price of course)

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this year's christmas lunch in the office wasn't just as fun as it was the previous year.
not that the previous year was super fun either but this year, it was just less happening i guess.
i had a lot of random gifts last year but this year ppl kept flooding my table with cookies n ice cream. was busy eating the ice cream all up bwahaha

A week away from work

omg.

after one week of leave (i was clearing my annual leave),
and being back at work now...
i'm dying a slow death.. with the work squishing me like an ant.

*pulls hair*

day 1 of my return and i returned to the office with 200+ (nearing 300) emails waiting for me. i cant see my table cos there's papers and files on it along with some sweets and chocs (?) on it.

i spent the entire morning just clearing emails.
then i realise chocs and sweets was from Leonard.
omg. he left the company. like.. Q.U.I.T his job.
*slap head*

boss was asking weird questions that i wouldn't have known

b c o s I w a s n t A r o u n d ?

so... yea.

actually in a way i was still glad for that one week's break altho i thought i could've spent it at home rotting but then i soon came to realise that was not meant to be. before i even started on my leave my planner was already filled up with bookings on things to do/ppl to meet for the week.

not that i'm complaining tho.

just comparing back then (erm.. ok say.. 2 years ago) from now, that's quite a change.

it showed a change in me being a person, a change in my personality and a change in my lifestyle. it seems so small a change yet in truth, it's pretty big.

i've always been quiet i guess. more of an introvert and can't socialise well (more evidently so in the past maybe say... 7 years back) and my life is seriously boring. hanging out with friends every alternate day may seem normal for others but it isn't so for me. to have even an outing may earn itself a huge star in my planner and i may look forward to it a great deal and when it does get cancelled somehow, i think i can literally see a grey cloud hanging above my head. yes, i was that much of an antisocial.

it's my face i tell u.

lost count of the times ppl say i look fierce and unapproachable at first glance.

*cries*

anyway, just a recap,

Monday i went to Kailing (my pri sch friend's) wedding dinner @ Grand Hyatt in Scotts Rd.

I was supposed to meet up with Ling Chee but I forgot that my friend's wedding falls on a Monday as well so we had to postphone our outing (which in the end got cancelled cos she had other engagements).

Ok, i was approached by someone from a talent agency. quite funny.

i stepped into the hotel and was abit stressed at first cos suddenly see a couple of ladies in super glam gowns then was thinking to myself "wah lau!? are they attending Kailing's wedding? must wear so glam!?" then suddenly realised there's quite a lot more teens wearing glam leh. guys also got. then blur. then walk to toilet saw a tv and saw the following text.

"TEMASEK JC PROM NIGHT"

CHEH.

I'm surprised to learn how that many of my KC classmates are now in the line of being teachers. and to be at the wedding being surrounded by table-full of teachers is... weird. the crowd is very guai tho bcos of that. even the yum seng also sounded really guai.

guai = well behaved

i like the ambience of the ballroom except that from where i was being seated, i cant see the wedded couple. only two out of the (dont know how many others were invited) of my pri sch classmates came for the wedding. two others that i know of weren't able to attend the dinner. too bad. havent seen one of them for ages.

this time i went alone w/o gu.

Tuesday i went back with CL, HL and gu to Discovery for lunch and to meet up with some old colleagues.

we sat by the koi pond for awhile looking at lao da.




"food!! gimme food!!"

after lunch we pretty much made our way back to katong area and wanted to go for KTV in katong shopping center BUT, it was fully booked. damn suay. so we thought of making our way to the bowling alley upstairs. CLOSED. wah lau! double suay. then walked across the road to try to eat some TW snow ice. SHOP IS GONE. WAH LAU EH. triple suay. even my comic shop also gone!! siao boh!!

anyway, we really ran out of ideas on what we can do so in the end we went to Settler's Cafe to play boardgames.



around 6+ ah gu left to meet his classmates. we probably wandered around parkway for awhile before meeting up with Ching's friends at night and that's probably how we spent the night.

Ate in this German restaurant. the sausages was nice. serving was huge but so was the price. Ching ordered this pig trotter so damn huge and in the end both HL and herself don't eat pork. the poor guy friend of hers had to eat it up. i helped a little. omg la.


i swear i'll not eat pork for a long time..

the rest of the night was spent in siglap slacking.

I can't quite remember what I did on Wednesday.

I was supposed to meet LC on Thursday but that was cancelled. Kelv has already previously asked me to come down to his outlet since Starbucks is giving away free coffee that day between a certain timing. I pretty much took my time going down since I'm not meeting LC anymore and when I got there I was pretty put off by the amount of ppl crowding ard Starbucks to get their free coffee. Later I heard from Kelv that got an auntie queued twice. tsk.

Had dinner w kor in Paragon's Thai Express restaurant. I ordered yellow curry chicken + rice and kor had some beehoon thingy hehehe.

I met up with Karen on Friday. Initially we were supposed to meet up in Orchard but since she cancelled her dental appointment and was craving for shi nai hk cafe's food, we switched out meeting place to my area instead. upper east coast rd's shi nai hk cafe opens in the evening till late night so i thought the outlet in east coast park would be the same so i told Karen we will go Parkway and have our lunch instead.

MY BAD! Realised shi nai hk cafe in east coast park is opened in the afternoon!! OPPS.
ahhahaha later Karen smack me.

we had fish and co instead. ended up ordering the same thing hahaha
had a good chat o'er lunch and nua-ed in the restaurant for a pretty long time (karen lazy bummmmm) before making a move to walk ard parkway. i mean.. parkway is near my house lah hahaha so i pretty much go there often enough so haha abit sianz but even karen found it sian. think she really in her usual chirpy mood.

since my wallet is abit thin nowadays i also no eye look ard in case i get tempted to buy things.
i saw a pullover that i liked alot n top shop but the price is stupid lah. $73.

we walked ard until really nothing left to walk before heading towards my place to nua somemore until dinner comes along to go shi nai hk cafe and eat hahaha

since karen's o'er at my place it was a good chance to pass her the crystal angel i previously made since she's already told me several times that she would like to have one.
gu joined us after his class.

BBQ 2007

paiseh. took really long to post this up until kena complain lol

This took place on Nov 24th (a day after my birthday).

I started preparing for the BBQ probably sometime in September but started most of the work in October and early and November.

I even did up an invitation this year! (what's new)


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Took leave prior to my birthday (happens to be a friday this year) as well as thursday to do the groceries.

The planning was a little tiring and did get on my nerve a little hahaha since I kinda did alot of things myself for the start but I was glad everything turned out well.

I was so damn worried about the weather.

I was conned out of my house on friday lol
gu and ching they all wanted to help me celebrate my birthday but gu let the cat out of the bag by accident and I FOUND OUT!!! MUAHAHAHA..

oh well ahahaha it was quite amusing lah.
I was really surprised to see Ling Chee and Xiao Min there though and the strawberry strudel (heartshapped & full of candles!!) tasted superb.

There was a few hiccups for the BBQ this year since there's around 4 people who said they would come but ended up not being able to due to various reasons so there was some leftover food but overall, things still went well. It's really too bad that Immy's in UK this year and Billy's probably overseas still and couldn't attend.

I tried to prepare as much variety of food as possible and also to come up with more original ideas/recipes than the typical chicken wings and hotdogs.

It was quite a challenge since I had to avoid pork products as well as created more dishes that's vegetarian friendly but somehow... we managed it!!

Glad the idea was welcomed and well liked!
My fav was the dijon eggs, beef kabobs and thai tunghoon (my gu prepared this!).
Most of the things we either prepared or marinated on our own, like the salads, my kabobs, the dijon eggs etc. I had fun but as the time draws nearer to 6pm i'm getting quite panicky.

I even placed two rain dolls out on my window to pray for good weather for Saturday and HL is on standby to the rain dance if in case it rains.

I'm so freaking high to see the sky being so clear and having the sun shining into my kitchen lol
gu complained about the lack of breeze but what the heck! IT'S A SUN SHINY DAY!

some after note: after i took the rain dolls dwn the nxt day it started pouring muahahaha

It's prob one of the rare occasions where I see ppl eating up all the cold dishes first (there's quite alot) before we even finished cooking the food over the bbq pit.

the fire took awhile to start properly bcos the first batch of charcoal we bought proved to be abit problematic. heard it's bcos the charcoal was abit moist and the fire ended up not being hot enough to cook the food fast enough.
tsk. to think we bought it from NTUC.

so we went over elsewhere near the pit and bought a new bag.

things went pretty smooth after that.

Jere, YK & Sureen drove o'er to help carry most of the heavy stuff over.
Thank god!!

the pit wasn't all that near McDonalds.

hopefully the next time we have a BBQ, more ppl will be able to attend.


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For those of you who attended (or was invited),
you can download the pictures we took that day from (this link here)

Pls take note that I've uploaded this file on December 03.
They will be available online for download for only 7 days.

I guess it's been a really long while since I had a longer break.
Not ever since I left school and had school holidays or something.
Working life is choking up abit and I need a breath of fresh air somehow.
Public holidays just ain't enough.

This one week leave I took will do me some good I suppose.

But even having said so,
I initially expected to stay home the whole week to rot but somehow...
my week is pretty much lined up with things I need to do already.
Oh well.

Went borders earlier on today.

Terry Goodkind's latest novel is out!!!!!!!
omg lah.
expensive.

KONATAAAAAAA!!!
KAGAMIIIIIIIIIIII!!

LUCKY STARRRRRRRRR!!


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muahahahahaha

i've gotten my hands on this poster.
pasted it behind my seat.
helen say i wanna rebel cos i pasted it on our company logo.

OPPS!

OMG LA.

Japanese ppl gets more and more creative each time!!
Now....they brought my miniature food display to another level!!!
now..now... you can even 'create' the food display yourself and indulge in the joy of playing with fake food ingredient and utensils. WAH LAU I WANT!


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If you wanna read more, here's the article I scanned from Ani-Wave mag.
It's in chinese. Can't read then just look at photos also fun. heh.


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And they have.... tze char stalls with pretty girls!!! hahahahaha
But I think this is not a japanese creation.
Probably by a local (HK) toy maker or something.


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If you wanna read more, here's the article I scanned from Ani-Wave mag.
It's in chinese. Can't read then just look at photos also fun. heh.


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