JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF L!


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got into a L frenzy, busied myself with taking photos of L in his various 'heads+expressions', and of course, the couch (my fav!).
there isn't 6 figurines yea. i merely took L's pics in 6 different poses and combined them with photoscape. i used a black bg and took the pictures with flash.

..but of course, my fav pose is still this. (below)


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i liked the 45 degree upward look of his eyes. this angle is very good. make it seems like L is thinking up a plan or something.

While I was parading around my L figurine and brought it to her desk,
Pam tried to use her Honda robot man to sexually assault L.

to no avail of course.

so in the end, Honda robot man stole L's seat and L had to sulk one corner.
BAH!


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Ah Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!! *sniffles*

was pak tohing with gu and walking around bugis junction before heading to liang seah street area for dinner. i was starving but my pickiness bug attacked me and i was craving for steamboat but they're all so damn crowded and besides steamboat, i couldn't think of wad else to it and was unwilling to eat just anything (cos tastebuds on strike). poor gu.

end up gu ate duck rice first while i sat and stared into space while struggling with my hunger.

eventually i decided to eat in tongshui cafe. not that the food was great though. haiz.

reckoned we still have some space in our tummy, we went in search of the dessert shop that gu was telling me about and saying that after much observation, it has always been very crowded. we finally found the shop and truth be told! it's really damn packed! but the shop gave off a very traditional feel with a old uncle trying to help the customers find seats. the bowls they used for the desserts were pretty old school as well. i was lookin around and realised although they managed to maintain tradition and standard of the food, the management style is very contemporary and there were quite a few intelligent looking young ladies helping out inside the shop. can't help but to appraise their marketing / business practice / process in terms of hawkering and is pleased to find out that they're one of the smart ones who will have their business flourish.

we ordered mango sago and black sesame seed paste with glutinous rice ball.

OMG THE MANGO SAGO DAMN NICE!
THE GLUTINOUS RICE BALL VERY BIG! SESAME INSIDE V SWEET WOO!

er yea so in simple words, go try!




Ah Chew Desserts

1 Liang Seah St #01-11 Singapore 189022

Tel: 6339 8198

Earrings for Iman

Nyaha!

I made these last week but I'm posting it up only now cos I don't want to spoil the surprise for Immy!

This pair of earrings were made specially for her since she's the birthday girl.
Now that's she's in UK, I had it mailed over to her along with a birthday card.
was really happy to receive her sms a week later (takes 5-6 days to reach) saying that she received it and loved the earrings. *beams with pride*

i bought a box to put the earrings in and stuffed quite abit of bubble wrap inside as well to keep the earrings from moving around.

The design of the earrings were an improvised pattern I've made from a beads design book I bought. The cross itself was from the design found in the book but i replaced the center piece with a different colour. with the cross alone i though the earring looked pretty tiny and boring so i added a string of beads to give it a more goth look. am fairly happy with the results. heh.

*BEAMS! with a wide grin with newly polished teeth*

yes! I've done it! I've finally collected my Nendroid L! muahahahahahaha... *trails off*


Nendroid L figurine (Click pic to enlarge)

ain't it cute!? the sofa!! I've waited for months for this and it's finally here.
now I have L and Ryuk. regret a lil for not buying Kira though.. hm.. and as I was checking out the back of the box to see how I can assemble L, I came to realise that if I've bought Kira in the first place, there would've been a set of handcuffs that links them both together!! Damn!

My fav expression is still the NIYARI! one.

I found the detachable hair and head concept abit eerie especially when you stare down into the box and see the faces lol. eurgh.. nanka kimochi warui. *shivers*

I'll work on this when I get back to office and parade my new L around.

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Neighbourhood Cat - Toa Payoh Cat


aint this little fella adorable? (Click to enlarge)

one of the sweetest lil thing i've ever seen.

cooler still is the colour of its eyes.
initially, my attention was caught but a cat lying/sleeping on the side wall surrounding a condo. it's kinda hilarious but i didn't take a pic of it (why didnt i!? geez). then i spotted this cutie somewhere further below. then it started meowing in a rather cute way. at us. so... i decided to lure it nearer. while both yeelin and i meowed back in response, it responded somemore and soon, it got off and slowly walked toward us. a lil wary at first but soon i was jiggling my bracelet to catch it's attention. but i was half hiding my hands behind me while i squat to almost it's level. i've come to realise this is a neat trick to use if you want to get a cat's attention esp teenager cats / kittens that's extremely curious at that given point in time. as it approaches, i took a pretty shoot shot of it. am quite happy with the result.

the older cat soon woke and got off. the funniest moment was when it also started meowing. it wasn't the typical 'meow'. it was like a series of meow and god-knows-what sounds. it's damn hilarious. almost like it was talking!

but I digress lol

the reason why we were in toa payoh in the first place.. was to taste Kelv kor's cooking!!
the day has finally arrived!!!! (after postphoning it xxx times due to various reasons).
and..and.. i've brought yee lin along! YAY!

starting off with a scenic view from the 16th floor...


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wah lau! kor ur view damn shiok!!!

i was in the living room and while i looked to my left, the entire sky is in view. OMG LAH!

actually kor's home interior is pretty cosy and i like the small window near his kitchen where you can peek in from the living room. it gave off a very cottage feel.

okok, once we got into Kelv's home, busy chef started working fairly quickly.
soon, yee lin and I invaded the kitchen to kaypoh.

laying around was the ingredients and our shy chef who refused to let me take his picture.
(OAO) why like that!

can see that he really spent ALOT of effort preparing the meals (and $$$!!) cos all is made with LURVE AND EFFORT n he is very generous with his ingredients!!!

yeelin is almost squealing at everything she tasted hahaha and gu was totally stuffed cos kor gave him too much pasta. tsk. my gu quite pointless. his appetite very small now. we two are very useless ppl to bring to buffets. shad.

as for me, as long i have my meat, i'm a happy girl.

what we had that day:

1. Tofu, with roe and scallop wing
2. Corn soup
3. Chawanmushi (DAMN NICE!)
4. Seafood pasta
5. Pomela sorbet
6. Codfish with miso sauce
7. Beef steak, potato and mushrooms with red wine sauce
8. Molten lava choc cake with raspberry ice cream

notable experiences:

it's my first time daring to try scallop wing cos it looks weird. i'm not very adventurous with food but i ended up liking it after i tried though. it's like how i ended up liking jellyfish as well. they look yucky but the chewiness won me over. only sad thing was i had some of the scallop wing stuck in my back molar for the longest time and that irritated the heck out of me.

the chawanmushi was probably the best i've ever tasted so far. the chicken pieces were so damn nice and the egg custard uber smooth! wo xi huan (i like) !!!

at first kor say 'yu zu' for the pomelo sorbet, i didn't really register wad a yuzu is until much later. so when i first tasted it, i thought the taste was rather unique. like flower. lavender or something. hah!

hehehehe

throughout our entire dinner, i was busy taking photos of the food.
ok lah enough of describing. i'm not gonna post the pics up individually cos there's too many,
so here's a collage to round it up.


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bet u're like starin at the screen now thinking of food right! muahahahaha (am evil for posting foodies photos)

we stayed behind till 10+ while sitting on the couch watching taiwanese variety shows before finally heading back home. gu's so stuffed his stomach was super bloated like he was three mths pregnant or something.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! SOMEONE PLS SEND ME TO NYC FOR MY BDAE!!!!!!!!!

after more than 8 years of fearful hesitation and paranoid procrastination....
i finally overcame my fear!!!

...

ok not quite.

but i've.. finally... braved myself against all.. and.. stepped into a dental clinic!!!!

omg i'm so brave i cant believe it ahahahahahaha.

but omg the smell!!! once i stepped into the clinic, i felt like pulling my hair and screaming my lungs out and run out of the clinic. i remember my secondary school days... (that explain why i havent stepped into a dental clinic for 8 years. i left sec sch 8 years ago)... where the evil dentist with their evil drills.. showing no mercy on our poor gums.. yes GUMS where they'll polish ur teeth with the gums. GOD DAMN IT!

and that doctor who failed to pull my front teeth out (i fell. don't ask. long story) properly having me wail in pain and my mom asking him to eventually stop and brought me somewhere else to have my blackened tooth extracted...ah damn the evil dentist who traumatised my life.

today's dentist was.. like an angel (almost) as compared to my past experiences with all those evil beings but still.. it hurts like heck but less.

ah alas.. my teeth.. they feel clean.. my gums.. they're aching.. ouch.

8 years of unpolished teeth has left them all covered in tartar with a left wisdom tooth that has cavity (shit, need another visit to get it filled), the dentist worked really hard today. the nurse is evil. first she nearly choked me with the jet or wadever sucking thing by jabbing at my already cramping tongue, then she left it somewhere near my throat. then for a split second she turned the glaring lamp towards my eyes... OMG I'M BLIND!! ok, that's for a second. i wonder if the dentist felt tempted to poke her with the drill.

it felt like my mouth was some construction site and buildings are getting demolished.

he said i have unhealthy gums. that's true. they bleed very easily. i have some sorta gum disease but now that my teeth are clean, and if i brush my teeth properly, it'll soon heal. =) heh! thank got i started using Sensodyne recently. my teeth used to be damn sensitive. it has significantly gotten better. the shrill sound coming from the drill is like... piercing through my ears perpetually. up to a point when he started drilling my right wisdom tooth, it was as if there was a sudden bout of air pressure going thro my right ear and the shrill noise rang right thro! got a shock man. he said cos the nerves are nearer there.

oh man. doc with special glasses, mouth mask, drills, gloves, evil nurse, glaring light.. i can never get used to that.

i was clasping my hands together so damn tightly that i realised i was soon shaking cos ran out of strength.

my mouth started cramping cos open too long.

the whole visit cost a whopping $131!
but i didn't pay a single cent MUAHAHA.
why? can claim from company heh. got medic card.

now i need to brave myself and get the cavity filled..


Sparkly clean teeth!



Happy me!

Surprise Surprise

choc chip oreo cupcake!
found on my desk!
courtesy of mi boss!
*beams*



a tad to sweet haha... i not too fond of eating sweet stuff but i was nibbling on the choc chips piece by piece.

i was kinda late this morning... bus took longer than usual to arrive.. wonder what time she came over to place the cupcake.. opps.

oh yes,
i've finally received THE sms from KKNM!!!
My Nendroid "L" is finally here!!!

Will try to collect it over the weekend. oh man can't wait!

long time no blog aye?

i think i didn't really follow up on the happenings after my KL trip.

when i got back i didnt realise my desk was rearranged but soon i found out anyway.
MH was the one who pointed it out, after which Ms Goh snickered pretty loudly.

Since when did the cap i knit for my bear (pic on right) ended up on top of Ryuk!?
How come bear's cap become my knitted flower?!



tsk.

was with gu pak-tohing around bugis junction over the weekend and saw this display before having dinner at Terra.

It was the car that's to be use for the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (url) performance!


Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car (Click pic to enlarge)

Will be going to watch this with LJ in early november heh! can't wait!

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before we reached bugis junction we actually saw this HUGE and seriously ORANGE red sun while we were on the ECP. i was so shocked but couldn't get a good shot! the sun was constantly hiding behind the buildings, damn!

when we got off the bike we tried our luck by going up bras basah to see if we can catch a glimpse of it yet but alas, it was somewhat foggy and the sun was gradually setting so we lost sight of it.

over so many years, being in this place where i've had many childhood memories to hold on to, it has become the centre of a concrete jungle. just looking around you see buildings, both old and new, surrounding it. at least there were still much familiar sights amidst the new buildings.
i can still see the old cathedral and allson hotel and victoria street. some shops have changed but oh well...


nearing dawn, facing victoria street (Click pic to enlarge)

we had another chance to see a huge glaring sun except that what we saw the day before was much more spectacular.

i took this shot with my hp and edited it slightly with photoshop to emphasize the glare.


glaring sun (Click pic to enlarge)

KL TRIP 2007

yay! my first trip overseas!

no.. i'm serious. it's my first trip. >_<

DAY 1

HL, our appointed wake-up-call IC called us up at around 6AM.

i slept at 2am... so basically.. i had only 4hrs of sleep. Whee! *faints*

she rounded us all up in a cab and abducted us to Beach Rd. =D

u see three blurry eyed ppl in the cab.

we had breakfast at a kopitiam across the road and was being served by a shaggy looking uncle who takes orders but don't bother listening and keeps looking away. we repeated our orders ten billion times. i suspect he is a bookie. oh well.

the bus ride took forever and i pity my ass.

it nearly cracked open.

i couldn't really fall asleep properly cos my neck kept falling to the sides and everytime that happens, i wake up. so while everyone is happily in lala land, i was awake. sad. oh yes, within the first hour of my bus ride my mp3 player died on me. battery flat. *cries*

other than the roads being wider, hmm there's nothing spectacular for me to view outside the bus while it's on he road. so i kept the curtains shut. at one of the stops (for rest), we bought some snacks like tea egg and baos etc. their 'da bao' really huge man. i wonder why singapore versions ones are like so shrunken..

there was this HUGE fish. i mean.. seriously huge.



ok pic not clear... here's another.


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just try to estimate the length of the fish by comparing with the tiles on the background. u shld be able to guage it's length. it's damn huge.

we reached KL at about 2pm in the afternoon and alighted at federal hotel instead of capitol somehow. our itinerary says capitol. so we're kinda clueless where our hotel is. had to go over to royal bintang and ask.

anyway, judging that it's prob quite a walking distance away, we decided to head straight to shopping instead so we went to times square and sungei wong to shop.

huge!

you somehow see a glimpse of singapore everywhere in the shopping malls. lol

the roads of KL was scary though. traffic was really messy and i was hugging my belongings real tight.

we had lunch in KFC first and boy was it gd!

then we shopped till we drop for the nxt few hours and by the time we're done it's almost dark hahahaha

it's just amusing how the shop attendants would greet you in cantonese. quite a culture shock for me. thank goodness i do know how to conversate in cantonese and could reply back.

we were looking for places to have our dinner but there wasnt somewhere that's not crowded available so we decided to check in first and place our belongings in the hotel first.

we were staying in Swiss Inn. it's quite near petaling jaya and now i know why pam say it's very luan there. it is damn messed up. all the roadside stalls and i saw pimps and prostitutes and fights and i was hugging my bag so tightly and since only ching and HL's hp has auto-roaming, we were trying our best not to get separated.

geez. i'll activate my hp to auto-roaming nxt time.

the hotel rooms looked cosy enough but the tv channels was boring. gu n ching was trying to find ESPN and the pprs indicated that we're supposed to have it on TV7 but there wasn't?!

we left our bags and brought the impt stuff with us and went dwn for dinner. we had claypot rice randomly and the food was good but i think we were ripped off. the boy serving us has serious attitude problem.

soon we saw those roadside stall vendors running with their stalls lol. think there's custom officer after them. then i was thinking out loud how our claypot stall owner is gonna run with his claypots.

i bought two pairs of jeans, magazines, dvds and a bag heh~!

it was really fun shopping in KL. all the variety. some of the malaysian girls have really nicely done up hairstyles but some of the guys... urgh. stuck in the 90s of Sg era with the coloured "cockroach feelers" look. gawd.

later that night ching's friend came to pick us up. we were supposed to go to the ktv at first but ended up drinking somewhere. there was this stupid man standing really close to the car door and just staring in. like he is gonna attempt to open up the door or something. really scary!

we were wearing rather shabbily and so her friend was really having a hard time thinking of where to bring us to (will get kicked out from clubs) that's safe enough since it's almost midnight.

surprisingly, at this hour, roads of KL was still jammed!

after a quick round of drink we went back to our hotel, bathed and was preparing to sleep until... I FOUND BED BUGS!

that sure created quite a ruckus. lol soon gu was QC-ing all our bedsheets and found bed bugs on all of them. EW. ching n HL got pretty freaked out and ching even started using the hair dryer to toast the sheets with bed bugs ahahahahahhaha

guess it's bcos it's already in the middle of the night and we're all tired, we ended up being really cranky and hyper as well. we called up the hotel attendant to tell them we wanna change bed sheets cos there's bed bugs and end up, the security guard came cos room attendants off duty already. so poor thing!! but the guard very nice guy lah then being cranky and hyper we kept laughing and crapping and ching kept asking the guard questions.

even tho the bed sheets were finally changed, we were still too paranoid so we decided to abandon the nxt room and all four of us squeeze into one room to sleep on the more qualified bed.

so two of us shared a bed each.
sad.

that concludes day 1.



DAY 2

we woke up at around 9am on day two. wanted to go try out this bah kut teh (or rather MUK kut teh) that's famous and recommended by Ranna.

think we don't really know how to appreciate it hahaha cos it's very herbal-ish. very different from singapore.

we did some last minute shopping and i bought another tshirt to go before we had to rush back to capitol hotel lobby for departure. had lunch in some kopitiam just across the street from royal bintang. wanton mee. the ah ma very character leh! can speak good english! she reminds me of my grandma. the wanton mee taste quite special lah. nice but i was interrupted with work (argh) so i wasnt in the mood and ate quite hastily.

we waited at capitol hotel lobby only to find the driver (without the bus) coming over to us ask to go over to federal. it started to rain somemore stupid! then have to blind run across all the back lanes (and nearly stepped on this super huge dead rat) to get to federal and when we're on it, the other passengers are already comforable seated within!

we sent a complaint letter to five stars tour when we got back.

then another round of butt splitting bus ride. since there's no street lights, the bus drove slowly. by the time we reached sg it was already 9pm or so. but i managed to try Ramly burger. DAMN NICE AH!



when we finally finally finally reached Beach Rd, we took a cab to shi nai hk cafe @ east coast rd for dinner. wah lau. tired man.

by the time i reached home my folks were already sound asleep.

shall surprise them with the presents tml.

Dinner & Dance (Back to School Theme)

Welcome to.. SPENA High!

Let me bring you some insider stories of the latest gossips in our school and the latest happenings so hold on tight to your seats!

with just one week of notice, i was told that we're having a D&D.

In September.

*roll eyeballs*

and i was supposed to be on leave to go KL!!??

*curse n swears!*

anyway ching n HL was really nice lah. they encouraged me to go for the D&D and have fun and thus we planned a more hurried holiday trip. just 2D1N.

and so i did went for my D&D and I must say, I did enjoy myself alot!

it was a back to high school theme and so when i first stepped into Sheraton Hotel, i almost thought i was at the wrong ballroom! couldn't recognize anyone! i mean... DUH they're wearing sch uniforms but i was still too shocked to register them as my colleagues hahahahaha

one of my directors even came in a primary sch uniform with blue blouse n navy blue shorts with a water bottle, soccer ball and plastic-ish cartooned pri sch schoolbag!!!

OMG TOO CUTE!

there were plenty of prettily dolled up ladies and in the assorted uniforms and the guys in the smart looking guy uniforms.

some of the peeps really went n get real sch uniforms!
that thought didn't appeal too much to me lah cos pointless getting a set and then thereafter what am i supposed to do with it? lol

Guess what's my door gift!?

Sony Walkman!

after i told my friends about it they pretty much wanted to smack me haha

i was kinda surprised when i saw Glenn Ong. i thought my eyes were playing tricks on my but no! he was our MC that night. hah! i secretly prefered our last year's D&D MC though. =P

he was funnier lah.

but i don't dislike Glenn so heh gd for me lah.

oh guess who else was there?

Kumar. with his stand-up comedy. I've never heard any of his acts lah so everything was shockingly new and erm.. shocking. but funny of course. Khim probably laughed the loudest? MH was pretty shocked hahaha but she had her fair share of laughing but since the jokes are very localised, she had a hard time understanding and catching up. Not as if i could translate everything without losing the laugh factor lah.

don't ask me about the food cos i was hardly paying attention to what i was eating that night.
in short, it wasn't too memorable. they served up quite a number of seafood dishes which ended up mostly on Khim's plate instead hahaha cos i don't take seafood.

oh we have this flower gang. what's dat? the pretty ladies who wore the flower crochet i made wahahaha..!

gatherings like these, we take tonnes of photos. that's prob the only activity worth doing.
other than that, it's about the lucky draw. muahahaha

first prize is Bravia TV can!?

imagine if i won that. shiok man!

but i digest. here's the pics! i combined them into three sets of collages so just click on them for the larger view (it's not that much bigger tho).





in case any of you guys find the tie i'm wearing somewhat familiar...

it's our TEMASEK POLY school tie!!!

wahahahaha i specially dug it out to wear k! imagine 3 years in poly and we never wore it even once! hahaha so stupid. don't even know why they gave it to us. i found another colleague who also dug out her TP sch tie to use hahahaha

the D&D more or less ended around 11PM or so. oh but before that, i DID win something frm the lucky draw!

11th prize... a Sony DSC-T100 digital camera! wahahaha i bet sano wants to smack me.


my precious!

RUNNING OUT OF SPACE

OMG. my bookshelves are facing this super huge crisis.

i was packing my comics the other day, trying to organize them properly (after every XXX months)... i came to realise i'm running out of space!!!??? omg how!?

i've two bookshelves but it's still not enough to keep call my comics books (it's a growing collection that'll continue till i'm in my grave. till then, i'll try to brainwash my kids and grandkids to continue my hobby...)



let me briefly explain the HOW of my insufficient space.
see the pic on the right?
ok, that's ONE level of the shelf. (for reference, in pic on left there's a total of 4 levels x 2 bkshelves)

get it now?

so now on this ONE level (back to pic on right), not only did i stack my comics in one level, i doubled it but adding more books ON TOP of the existing set. to save more space, i added another set INFRONT of the comic and another set ON TOP of the ones INFRONT.

confusing? well in simple words, each level i can sometime stack up to four set of comics.

sometimes 2 sets sometimes 4 sets. depends on space.

omg lah.

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pam came over my work desk and randomly sticked a sticker/talismen (anime ones) on my cubicle wall and walked off.



it says something abt good harvesting.

O_o"???

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borrowed some knitting/crochet books from the library and has been experimenting eversince.
crochet this flower pin ups and gave them to my colleagues.



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once again, having walked past my colleague's work desk, i saw these files that immediately grabbed my attention.

PANDAS!!!!!!!!!



OMG la too cool can? it's made by our Hong Kong office for the summer film fest. i asked whether i'm able to get the file as well and was told that my hong kong colleague has more hehehe so i immediately barged into his room and extorted for more panda files.

YAY NOW I'VE MY OWN PANDA FILES TOO!!

REPORTING... KERORO SPACESHIP!

cute aye?

I was walking past my colleague's desk and noticed this. being super excited i ran back to my seat to grab my digicam and took pictures of it.



my colleague bought this during her trip to Hong Kong for forty bucks i think. seriously cute and i like miniature anything and so having this huge keroro spaceship which you can further open up to find the other keroro members within in their respective stations was really amusing.

i molested the figurine for a long time before i was willing to head back to my desk.

at night gu and i camped in ching's hse to watch soccer and since ching just got back from her germany training trip from Koln, this is the souvenior we've gotten from her.



looks like sperm somehow? of course. that was the intention to begin with!

alcohol in sperm-design container.

hah!

Oosh @ Dempsey Rd
http://www.oosh.com.sg/

Being the ignorant me, I've only come to be aware of this area called Dempsey Road recently.

It was in celebration of the recent promotions of several colleagues of mine in my dept.
My boss then made reservations for dinner in Oosh, an outdoor alfresco dining restaurant and bar located in Tanglin Village (at Dempsey Rd) and we headed there after work. It's pretty near Orchard area.

At first glance, you can't really see what's within and if you're not aware of this place in the first place, you would've just missed it out and drive by.

There were little lights around and the roads are pretty small, narrow and dark.

But once you drive in, the area is simply alive with alot of restaurants sprinkled around in various areas, mostly rather expensive restaurants.

you get really quite a variety of restaurants serving various cuisines and each restaurant is pretty spacious.

since wilson and i arrived early and the rest were still in the office, we decided to walk around to explore the area. we walked along the small roads where there was hardly and lights and the road was pretty bumpy but cars still drove along it nonetheless and we saw people walking about in all directions so we decided to be abit more daring about checking out weird paths. what may seem to lead to a dead end is in fact more than what it seems. once we walked further in, it leads us to more restaurants!

korean, chinese, japanese, italian restaurants.. etc etc there were art galleries as well.

the place we dined in was especially huge. you can check out the website i posted above.

i seriously liked the ambience alot. it's pretty dark but very cosy and we're being surrounded by lush green nature. it has a very resort-like feel to it.

i wouldn't say things are cheap here but the price is affordable enough to enjoy a good dinner...
provided you've enough budget to spend.

you can always bring a date here. heh

we dined in the Garden area and there was live performance there. it was a pretty cooling night thus with the open sky with a few stars twinkling above and the surrounding green, nice!

I cant remember all the names of the dishes we've had but I basically ordered beef steak for my main course. for bites we shared mushrooms, calamari and chicken wings.

after the main course we had our desserts.


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see the chocolate dessert on the bottom right picture? milo-taste, warm tasting chocolate was oozing out of it!

一直压抑着心情与感想，加快着脚步心想说到了巴士站就能好好地把思绪写下来。难得又有东西能写。
不过即使这样，也好难。思绪一直源源不绝的浮现在我脑海里。就好像要强行的把大象塞进冰箱里。这比喻好像有点无聊。管他的啦。

轰轰烈烈的爱情固然精彩，不过以我的格性，心脏应该受不了这种起起落落得感情...

到了。

咦...笔呢？

纸...有纸吗？糟了，找不到...啊！有了。

又看了一本（上网)少女漫画系列。结果上瘾了。疯狂似的追看着结果却发现...竟然停留在第11本！？

原来还在出版中。烦。感情有时好难掌控。太复杂了。又想起了些不想回味的往事。自己当年所体会过的无奈，不知所措，绝望。不知所措是种很恐怖的感觉。世界好像失去了中心，脚底下明明很踏实的地板顿时开始瓦解。掉进谷底了的我不懂得要怎么样逃脱。

太阳失去了光彩，好刺眼。

真是的。少女漫画...特别有关恋爱的，看我还是少看点好...

NATSUMATSURI 2007 aka Japanese Summer Festival 2007

This took place on the 25th of August, in Upper Changi Rd's The Japanese Sch (Pri).

Long awaited event indeed!
Why long cos last year didn't manage to go!! they held this natsumatsuri in clementi last year and because of the limited space, it's not open to the public. haiz. then this year i forgot to purchase advance tickets so we took damn long to queue for the day admission tickets on the day itself.

gu and i chiong-ed around running some errands in the earlier half of the day.
so bushed at the end of it that my mood got abit crappy. the weather was really bad on that day.
sun scorching and with that stupid bike helmet, i'm constantly sweating.

before the event itself i've been asking around to see if there's any other interested parties who might wanna join me on that day. what was initially a group of 7 became 4 instead.

the other 3 backed out last minute. haiz.

gu n i waited at the bus station for YL and we took a cab over to the school.
was supposed to meet immy but she had to wait and fetch someone else so gu, YL and I went down to the school first.

end up.. we were locked outside the gate.
but we weren't the only one locked out. the entire mob was out. seems like the school won't be opening up the gate till it gets nearer to the time of the event. ticket sales starts at around 6:30pm.

saw a schoolmate in the midst of the mob but since we weren't that close i didn't really call out for him. he might not even remember me. there were quite a number of youngsters (almost 90%) and some wore their yutaka. you get to see all the different designs. quite a sight.

then there was 3 japanese kids (girls but two in lady yutaka and another in guy's). their dressing was quite attention grabbing (cos nice ma and the ones wearing the lady yutaka were all dressed up). guess what. stupid kid jumped queue and even sneaked in. then got chased out by guards. the mob watched in smirking silence. O_o

oh well.

we waited very long outside the gate. more than an hour.

finally, the gates opened and we moved in to join yet another queue for the tickets. we were quite ahead in the queue and by the time iman came, there was two lines of queue already. i spotted jeff (kelv kor's friend) amidst the crowd and called out for him. think he too long never see me so didn't recognise me immediately. stood squinting at me for the longest time before walking over and say hi hahaha my change in hairstyle and putting make up make me so unrecognizable meh!? basket.

iman came with sandhya and another friend and soon the pavement we were standing at became a mini poker den. with newspaper spreaded out, gu started playing dai di with them. i'm quite useless when it comes to brain cells killing games so didn't really join in. YL didn't know how to play.

soon the queue turned into three lines and i got bored and started taking random pictures of sleeping japanese boboys in yutaka. their mother is one japanese hot chick! woo..!

got know how long passed before the queue finally started moving and we hurried along the way to get our tickets. somehow we managed to buy the ones that had main dish included. (normally day admission + 12 coupons is $6. this coupon does not include main dish so you can only buy snacks). perhaps there were some leftover advance tickets? not too sure. anyway, we paid $10 for ours.

strangely it didnt take us too long to enter into the area where the event was held. couple of years ago it took damn long.

but there were some changes. there's no tracks in the field!! one whole big field now! so all the stalls were no longer centralized (quite disappointing) but spreaded out into the various halls of the school. there were very much more varieties in the stalls now but since it's spreaded out now i guess it became a lil messy somehow and the feel of the event minimized drastically. i still had fun walking around though.

only regret was to not have read the map given out to us more closely. we chionged to the nearest hall and bought the main dish there and to my horror, i realised only later that the other halls have had other food selections (those that i would've preferred more).

*pulls hair*

immy and gu and gang after the inital round of eating and look see look see, started sitting down to play dai di AGAIN.

YL and I decided to leave them behind and go explore ourselves.
there were many many stalls (sorry nvr take pic cos queue too long n v crowded.) and YL bought candy floss that started dripping all over her hands sprinkling it with pink candy. ee.
that's why u hardly see me eating candy floss hahaha..

a cute sight i saw and took pic of was when four japanese kids in yutaka stood around the candyfloss machine and stared into it with awe. what a sight! then another two proceeded to starting at the popcorn machine next. hahahaha

we saw this huge sunflower and its stalk was even taller than YL and I!

all in all I had fun that day except, it could've been better.

Hopefully next year it'll be better and we get to go again! This time I'll try to remember to get the advance tickets!

Here's some piccys to share! Can click on them to enlarge.




my colleague was showing me her photos from her Hokkaido tour trip.
OMG LAH I WANNA GO!! (but i'll die from all the seafood cos i am not a fan of theirs).
the cakes looks damn fantastic.
but i heard from her that she spent about 3k for the entire trip.
wah lau... better start saving real hard now.

YOKOSO MARIA'S DESK!!
(welcome to maria's desk) *hiak hiak*

What's this?

...my "pending"work for the next day.

SAD.



means all these are what awaits me when i come in to work tomorrow morning to settle.
one whole big stack of them. i normally just stack them all up like that right next to pc and clear them one by one so that i won't miss out anything.

my colleague realised i have post-its stucked directly on my monitor. asked me why did i stick it in such a weird place. seems so irritating.

well, that's the point actually, it's my way to remind myself what i need to do. to make it so painfully obvious lol.

right now i have to worry my ass off about chasing for payments, budgets, promax submissions.. omg lah. then there's the new york festival. *dies*

and oh yes, boss gave me cupcakes!!


cupcake!

so pretty ah!
but taste crappy hahaha
too buttery. feel like i'm eating a tub of margarine.

but i think the cupcake my boss brought back from new york last year tasted better and looked prettier hahaha

It's finally here! (click pic to enlarge)



Cant remember the exact date of which I made an order for the figurine. Probably sometime in June or so? or perhaps before that? This figurine was supposed to be in during July but I received an sms to come collect it only in August.

Besides Ryuk, I've also ordered for L!

Can't wait man! Ryuk looks fantastic! I've taken it out of the box and displayed it on my desk in the office and even tho my seat is pretty hidden, Ryuk still managed to attract attention to my also-manga/anime-crazy colleagues.

The paintwork is pretty good.

I didn't intend to get this in the first place. MH did. then i got tempted and placed an order as well. then I saw L... and got crazy. and placed another order. L's figurine has him squating (typically) on a couch. wahaha will post pic when I get my hands on it. Will molest the figurine crazily first though. Misamisa wasn't that cute. in fact, some expressions were quite bad. Light wasn't too bad. regret not ordering it. now that it's gone.. BOO HOO HOO!!! *cries*

Ryuk's mouth can open and close one! damn cute ah!

The figurine came with detachable hands. there's quite a few. one was holding on to the Death Note, one where you can attach apples to it. woo! apples got two variation. a whole apple, or one that's left with the core (cos Ryuk ate it up!!)

I paid for MH's Ryuk figurine. At first, she was supposed to be paying for it but since her birthday is coming up, YL and I decided to give it to her instead as a birthday present.

Maria's logic of the day: why deliberately spend on purchasing something for the sake of buying something for birthday presents when there's already an item available. muahahahaha!

Totally inspirational.



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