my post b'day celebration~~

happy valentine & friendship day to all my darlings~~~

ok, firstly i wanna thx all my swt darlings for the memorable bday celebration.. thx for acc me & spending time to help me celeb.. :) really appreciate for wat u guys have done for me.. as each celeb was on diff day so plz allow me to blog them one by one.....

10th feb :

only managed to wake up ard 11 plus cause of the late nite at St James.. the moment i woke up, i went to prepare straightaway cause we will be going to pingwei's place to bai nian.. met anna at marsiling station to go down together but there was a change of plan.. we went to ah chye's place to bai nian 1st b4 going down to pingwei's one..

pingwei posing at chye's place..

anna & me..

took a train down to boon lay with anna, meiyun, wei shyang & san thit.. as for chye & pingwei, they took chye's bike over.. boon lay interchange has changed so much.. 1st time taking the bus from the new interchange.. alot of memories flashed back.. how i used to go back home with teck at the old bus stop.. how i used to take the bus from the old bus stop to sch with yang etc... now i dun even know where is the location of the buses.... that is how time & things changes.. that is y i bought a camera to take down the 'memories' cause it doesnt fade...

1st time going to pingwei's place.. its just next to JJC.. from his kitchen window i can see the running track of JJC... had nasi lemak at his place & its really nice.. after the meal, its finally mahjong time.. from new yr since den i haven touched my fav. MJ at all...

ending of the game... the big winner is : meiyun

the guys playing 'in between'...

i left pingwei's place at 6 while the others stayed on cause my dad is coming over to fetch me to go out for dinner as a post-celebration for my birthday... we went to THE OASIS to eat taiwan porridge.. had been craving for it for mths already.. :) i thk the place is going to be teared down soon.... haiz.. another place full of memories will be gone to make way for new buildings & facilites....

after the dinner with my family, i went home 1st b4 going down to shyang's place to bai nian & gamble again.. haha.. too bad we dun haf MJ set so we play 'in-between' & blackjack instead.. 1st time to shyang's place also.. last time he stayed just 3 storey above me but now he has moved to the condo nearby.. i love their swimming pool there.. its really like a resort... we stayed there until 12 plus b4 he fetched us back home one by one... thx for e ride hunk.. :)

13th feb :

i din go for MA today cause i din do james' homework & judging from wat he normally do, he will check one by one n throw those ppl who din do his work out of the class... so rather den go n let him throw me out after that, i rather dun go even though i have already woke up & brushed my teeth..

went to sch for the afternoon MSM class with cheng n bra they all... i can only say that i cant catch a word of wat the lecturer is talking about.. theory lesson taught by a lecturer with strong accent is a killer to student.. so we just slacked all the way..

after lect, its war-time.. we need to book for our e-revision online.. everytime doing those booking online is like fighting a war.. everyone need to vie for the classes that they wan so its a 'fastest-finger' game.. not forgetting to mention, ur connection must be fast also..

by the time we finished booking our session, its already 730.. i am damn hungry by den.. we met billy at the atrium & went to town to have our dinner with lishan & yaoquan.. wanted to go to eat at Tony Romas one but den its like we always celebrate birthday there so we go for a change... finally we settled down at The Manhanttan@PS..

jean & qin cheng

best frenz in Uni

lishan & billy

look @ the amount of food we eat

we were deciding where to go after dinner.. the few options are chilling out, playing MJ, watching movies etc.. finally the b'day gal decide on playing MJ.. haha.. thk i am really turning into a gambler.. we decide to go to billy's place for the game.. me & jean took yaoquan's car which he parked it at sophia street.. along the way to get his car, we came across a super long staircase which looks damn nice under the lighting...

we stayed at billy's place until 1230 cause the next morning yaoquan & billy have to wake up early to work.. wanna thx yaoquan for sending me home specially even though the next morning he need to wake up by 530.. thx alot hunk..

lastly, i wanna thx them for e treat @ manhattan, the birthday presents & also the birthday greetings.. :)

greetings by : jean, qin cheng, billy, jai, lishan, yaoquan, brandon & wilson

my bday presents...

there will be another 2 more celebrations with my sec sch & jc frenz.. haha.. my bday is just like chinese new yr, the celebration will stretch for 2 weeks..... :)

super hectic week~

came back from KL last sat but just dun have the time to come online or am too lazy to blog about the whole lot of things that had happened over the past wk.. so much has happened..

3rd feb :

we left singapore early in e morning & reached KL ard 12.. went to have our lunch at our fav. restaurant... by the time we finished eating its already 1 plus.. decide to go straight to the hotel as we were afraid that there might be a jam near our hotel & might delayed our check-in time.. just as expected the jam there was horrible & the road changed also.. its only half a yr & so much has changed..

aft settling down, we went straight to SHOP... hehe.. but this time round, i din get anything from there except the nail polish.. as for my bro & sis, they bought alot of things.. forgot to mention, the shopping crowd was damn crazy also.. the whole shopping mall is filled with ppl like those sardine in a can... looking at the crowd the mood of shopping just disappeared.. i just wan to go back to the hotel & rest....

we went for our dinner at those roadside stalls below our hotel.. dun look down at those roadside stalls, some of them actually sell nicer food than those restaurant....

4th feb :

we woke up ard 930 which is considered quite late.. cause normally when we went on vacation, our dad will wake us up ard 7 or 8 just to go & have breakfast.. we went to the dim sum restaurant near our condo for breakfast cause daddy need to go there to pay the maintenance fees tat he had accrued for a few mths..

we went to their chinatown there to shop.. can sense the new yr mood there.. the feeling of new yr is stronger over there.. went to their famous 'luo han guo' drk stall to quench my thirst & saw something unique.. there's a auntie selling 'mua chi' but her 'mua chi' is very special.. its of diff flavours like sesame, pandan, ribena, mango, drangon fruit etc...

we went back to the hotel to rest aft one round of shopping b4 going to haf our dinner.. after dinner we decide to explore ard our hotel area & come across a newly open shopping centre 'Pavillion'.. there was a red carpet there & we wondered what's happening.. den we realise about an hr ago, stephen chow was there to promote about his new movie CJ7...

5th feb :

finally we went to find our relatives which means its the end of our shopping day.. while at my aunt's place, i just kept watching the canto drama she have & that is how i spent my day.. even though i brought my MA along with me but i dun have any mood to study at all...

at nite, we went for dinner & 'lao yu sheng'.. the fish the restaurant give us is damn pathetic.. really dun understand why ppl like to eat..

6th feb :

finally its the eve of chinese new yr.. at least today wont be as boring as yest cause this yr all the family members will be coming to my aunt's house for reunion dinner so at least we can help out with the preparation.. but actually we din help much also.. most of the cooking were done by my aunt & just like yest, i was watching the drama also....

dinner finally started..

proof of my mum doing some preparations also.. hehe..

everyone busy with the 'yu sheng'...

the family photo..

7th feb :

Happy Chinese New Year~~~ yeah... here comes the yr of the Rat... a brand new yr & marks a brand new start.. should leave everything behind...

wake up quite early cause must go to another aunt's place to bai nian den must rush back to prepare for the steamboat feast tonight..

my mum looks really pretty...

we went to haf our breakfast 1st b4 heading down to the place cause we need an hr to reach there... while waiting for the food the adults started chatting as for me, its snap shot time...

finally we reached the place.. my aunt was preparing a birthday cake for me & din expect me to reach so early, so when she saw me, she was quite shocked & ask me not to go near the table cause she wan to give me a surprise of how the cake looks like...

that's how the cake looks like.. its my one & only bday cake this yr.. really must thx my aunt.. :)

the chocolate from US that she took out specially for me..

we din stayed there for long cause need to go back to get somemore ingredients.. we went to the Jusco nearby & it was quite packed although most of the stalls were closed..

me & my sis..

waited for my aunt to shop & she really took her own sweet time.. finally can go back & rest.. felt damn tired & was having a slight headache...

look at food we had...

the doggie is damn cute.. esp when he goes up the stairs.. should take a video of it to show u guys..

helping out to lay the cake.. hehe..

8th feb :

was supposed to go back home today in e late afternoon one but den after the mini shopping with my aunt & waiting for her to finish shopping for hours, daddy got a little sick.. thus we decide to go back home 1st thing in e morning instead.. since we are staying for another nite, i tot of going to club at the zouk there with my cousin to countdown to my bday one but in e end, they are more keen to go to genting to gamble... so have to go with the majority.. thus we drive up to genting & reached there ard 10 plus..

it was really misty & cool there this time round.. it hasnt been so misty for very long.. not forgetting to mention the crowd also.. the carpark everywhere was full & the gambling table was surrounded by ppl... sometimes i cant even see the dealer or the table at all.. yes.. it was that crowded....

spent my countdown of the bday at the casino... we came down ard 3 plus & only managed to slp at 5....

9th feb :

its my bday.... but i dun feel special at all.. it just seems like any other normal day to me.... was waiting for someone's msg but it never arrived at all until a few days later....

we woke up at 8 & started our journey.. luckily we went back home so early cause the news at nite said that in e early afternoon, the expressway was having a long jam along seremban there le... but despite leaving so early, we only managed to reach singapore ard 2 plus cause of the jam along the causeway & b4 the custom in JB...

receive grace's msg to ask me to go to ms goh's place to bai nian later.. after everything had been settled at home, i went to ms goh's place.. was late for an hour felt quiet bad about it.. at 1st i tot aft that they will have activities one but everyone is going back home because of the assignment etc.. as for me, i was supposed to go & celeb with my family one but they say tml is better so the dinner was cancelled also..

at this moment, guochao msg me & asked me out for dinner.. we met at city hall & went to marina square to eat b4 heading down to the 'min ge chan ting'... the place is quite cool & i thk i will go there more often.. den teck called me & told me that his sec frenz will be going down to St James to celeb his bday & ask me wanna go or not... it was until den, guochao know its my bday... must really thx him for his treat.... :)

teck came to millenia walk to fetch me & we went down to St James together.. his frenz were already in there le.. met the bday boy who is born on the same day, same mth & same yr as me.. saw weide there also.. been yrs since i last saw him, he is just the same.. still as cheeky.. haha.. i din dance much that day just stayed ard the table playing games & drking.. its only hrs later b4 i went down with his frenz to dance for a while..

going to KL~~

will be going back to KL to celeb my chi new yr tml.. its been a routine for our whole family to go back there every yr ever since i was young.. in e past, i was quite excited to go back there cause the atmosphere of new yr is really alot better den singapore.. there's all sort of firecrackers that we can play in e past but now, its just like singapore.... wat excites me now is the shopping trip b4 the shops closes there..

luckily, my dad agrees to come back to singapore b4 my b'day tis yr if not i will be pulling a super long face during my new yr celebration there.. there was once when the 1st day of lunar new yr is the exact day of my bday.. despite knowing it is my bday, none of the relatives wishes me happy bday nor prepared a cake or wat for me.. tat's how 'close' we are.. after that experience, every time i was damn scared of lunar new yr falling ard or near my bday.. its really a disaster...

just came back from a small new yr goodies shopping with my parents.. we went all the way to tanjong pagar to get the mandarine oranges cause those that were in woodlands really cannot make it.. the size, the price & the quality is damn bad.. b4 that we went to geylang for dinner..

erm.. let's hope my weight will remain the same when i come back.. but i thk its hardly possible with all the new yr goodies & my fav. 'ba kua' ard... just cant resist the temptation of food.. shall just indulge myself in those new yr goodies & work DOUBLY hard when all this ended.. hehe..

celebration~~

in another few more days, we will be stepping into a year of rat... the last time when we celeb the year of rat i was only 11... now i am turning 23... when the next yr of rat come, i thk i will be in another stage of life...

during this 12 yrs, i have changed from a pri to a university student.. went thru the whole puberty thing & turning into adulthood is like a new phase of everyone's life... i wonder wat will the next 12 yrs have for me?? how will things change & differ from now...

from my uni yr 1 life until now, life has been like a roller coaster ride for me.. from a very naive & super boring person, i turned into a clubber & has become more n more disappointed in this world... which in turn leads to my openness to certain issues... see through alot of things in life & let go of alot of things in life... now, i have turned into a cant be bothered person.. no drive in anything i do & nth seems to interest me... leading a super monotonous life.. but time seems to pass by faster in this mode... mayb its because the things i do is the same throughout & not filled with different activities thus everyday seems the same....

but my life will change after chi new yr... or at least i hope there will be some significant changes.. i hope my life will be a little more happening but exams are round the corner also.. which means time for fun is becoming lesser & lesser......

sec sch day memories...

just walked past my former sec sch while going to supermarket to get sth.. past by the classroom when i was in sec 2 & sec 4.. alot of memories flashed back.. thk its all because of the sec sch supper gathering yest..

we met up yest at the prata place near my house... sit there from 10 plus until 2 plus.. talking about our life now, talking about wat happened while we were in sec sch... alot of things that were long forgotten lfashed across our mind once again... ha.. that's how memories is like.. only when u keep thking about it den it will not be forgotten if not, only when someone unintentionally mentioned it den u will try to ransack ur mind for that particular incident that had once been craved inside ur mind...

joon chai was talking about his unhappiness experience with our chem teacher... it was quite a huge 'event' but i just cant rem it at all.. den is the movie 'blaire witch project' that we went to watch with shaoyun.. if she din mentioned about that movie, i really cant rem about that incident also...

haiz.. those were the gd old days when we were in sec sch.. that was like more den 7 yrs back already.. how time flies.. its really funny.. in e past we dun haf much association with joon chai, pingwei & wei shyang one, its only aft we grad already den we become closer.. the r/s between ppl is so magical, isnt it??

turning 23 in the next 2 wks.. felt damn sian.. in another few more mths, there goes my student life...will be going into a new stage of life.. working adult... how will it be like?? guess i will miss my life being a student ba.. its more carefree & more time for me to acc my love ones...

among the 8 present yest, only me & wei shyang are still studying.. the others are all working already.. its so weird.. last time we were all students but now we are going into a stage where most of us are working & going into working stage le.... thk in another few more yrs time, we will be attending wedding dinner & full month celebration le... haha..

i really love those gathering with my frenz in sec & jc....

back once again...

i just came back from another genting trip on sun with my mum.. this time round, only me & her went there.... alot of my frens were saying that i am very garang & crazy about genting.. erm.. ok, i admit that i have been going there more often den i go to orchard this days.. haha... but come to thk of it, its really very near us ma.. jus a 6 hrs bus journey & da da.... going to orchard from my place need also an hr.. so its just a 5 hr diff.. haha....

i dun really gamble there as most of u know.. i go there just because of the cool weather.. that's sth we cant haf in singapore even if it rain for 3 consecutive days.. this time round, i was quite happy cause the weather is quite misty unlike 2 weeks back... love the relac lifestyle there.. can slp very late, den wake up very late.. the moment u wake up, u will feel refreshed by the cool morning wind.. not humid like singapore... den go for brunch, walk ard etc... if possible, i dun mind staying there for wks lo.. haha....

at 1st when we reached there, i tot time will pass by very slowly cause i haven been together with my mum for 3 whole day alone after she give birth to my bro & that is like 16 yrs already.. so feeling quite weird in the sense that my bro & sis are not ard.. like short of sth... haha.. but its really quite cool to have my mum all to myself for tat past few days.. erm.. tell u sth funny.. i actually felt quite sad on the coach back cause when i am back, i will need to 'share' my mum with my siblings... damn stupid rite??

saw weiming there on my last day.. he was there with his frenz but too bad cause he just reached but i need to go back le.. he saw me in e casino & came up to me.. hee.. i din wear my specs so cant see so far also la..

erm.. this is the 1st time in e yr that i went there.. everything seems like a fresh start.. not thking of the past & wat had happened there in e past like how i used to.. but at times the feeling will still linger for a while... now, i really thk everything is just a beautiful dream...... cause i really cant believe now about the things that i had done....

past memories~~

dun be mistaken.. this time round the past memories has nuts to do with r/s stuffs.. its all about my childhood memories... today we went down to my former grandma's place ( my granny passed away 8 yrs back ) for her death anniversary thingy.. woke up ard 8 plus by my mum & went down to the chinatown hawker centre for our breakfast... had the urge to eat those very traditional food like 芋头糕, 糯米饭, 油条..

den we took a bus down instead of taking the train.. gt a chance to walk the on the pathway which i haven been walking for more den 10 over yrs... everything has changed.. the buildings that used to reside those nonya families were pulled down & has turned into a carpark now.. the pathway that used to lead up to the staircase has become a place where the coffeeshop place their tables n chairs.. the old HDB buildings with the restaurant & carpark in front of em were pulled down to make way for newer HDB buildings that are taller now.... how time flies rite.....

after seeing so many changes, i saw a barrier in front of me which is e only way to lead me to a staircase down to my granny's place.. i tot the stairs is demolished or wat when i saw those barrier.. haha.. well, its actually there just to prevent the cars from parking at the pavement in front of it... the warehouse which i used to stand at my granny's window when i was young to watch the workers moved the crates has become a new condo with swimming pool.... that is how fast singapore is changing & how human memories fail on em... its only when u go back to the same place den all those small tinny winny memories that u haf kept deep inside ur heart will come back to u...

now i understand one thing.. time really wait for no one & how those changes changed everything.. its undeniable that all those changes are necessary to make the society a better place to live in & to make us more competitive against other countries... but haf u ever tot & realised that nowadays, we are growing further & further apart from each other.. is this a side effect of those changes or its just me?? in the past when i was young, i feel that ppl are closer & frenlier to one another.. isit because i am young den & is more innocent so i tot ppl are frenlier n closer??

that is why i prefer those older buildings n things.. i am not an antique person la.. i just feel that those old buildings have a life in em... they are 'alive', alive with memories of all the ppl that had played a part inside of em or have let the buildings played a part in their life... there are 人情味 inside em which is missing in those new buildings.. that is why when i heard that some places like maxwell market, tiong bahru market, chinatown building would be upgraded, i felt quite emotional... i am really afraid that the area ard my granny's place will go thru this kinda things also.... most of the places which played a part in contributing to my childhood memories were 'gone' ( everything has changed apart from the address ).. i really dun hope that the most impt place will change also..

cant believe i am such a 念旧 person rite??

exams.....

just went to pay my exam fees @ RELC with cheng, billy & yaoquan yest.. was working at wellington b4 yaoquan fetch me to IMM to withdraw money for my sch fees.. den we went down together to meet billy & cheng.. we were late because of e long queue at the bank but luckily, there was not many ppl at RELC so we din wait very long.. i can still rem 2 yrs back when i went to pay there on the last day of the payment date & how chaotic it was.. had a bad experience so this time round, we went on e 2nd day.. haha.. damn kiasu...

after making the payment & feeling damn heartache, we went to bugis.. i was damn hungry den.. haven been eating anything the whole day... we ordered alot of food & the both of us ( me & yaoquan ) managed to finish it lo.. it was raining heavily by the time we finished the meal.. had to wait for the rain to subside b4 we can go to bugis village.. billy & cheng need to buy present for their frenz... miss shopping at bugis...

we decide to go to billy's place for MJ later & went to fetch lishan.. really enjoy life rite.. haiz. duno how long this will end, exams is like 4 months down the road... can begin to feel the stress that is building up.. blur about everything & MA is really eating alot of my time.. i really have no time for other subjects... felt damn pek cek... but luckily, everything is sort of like back to normal & i am feeling much stable now.. not having those mood swing & temperamental tendency anymore..

had a short conversation with him on the phone because of my notes.. been months since we last talk over the phone.. e feeling is really very very different.. the feeling he gave me now is also very different.. to me, he is like a stranger now.. the person whom i know in e past is no longer there anymore.. i really duno wat has happened to him but i believe wat had happened must have a very big impact on him to cause such a big change.. he is no longer the optimistic, confident, humorous guy with drive that i know.... all i can sense is his unhappiness & helplessness towards his life.... no matter wat, i really hope that everything will turn out fine eventually for him... :)

back to billy's place MJ session.. after we ended the game, billy's dad taught us a new game.. its a poker type MJ set known as 'La Bi'.. i saw ppl playing the game b4 but dun haf any idea wat it is all about.. after learning, i thk its quite a fun game that needs u to come up with strategies to get rid of the biggest pt card... quite interesting.. hehe..

happy belated b'day ah ma~~~

finally we met to celeb ah ma's birthday.. we were all busy with our own life & haven been meeting often for dinner etc so i am really looking forward to our gathering to celeb ah ma's birthday... the 4 of us were really very close to each other during our JC days... but how we met each other & our impression of each other were very funny....

shu & ah li thk i am some sort of ah lians when they 1st stepped into our class because of my slighly red colored hair & my fav denim jacket which i always wear ard in e sch... ah ma, tot i am some kinda mixed blood because of my features ( another saying means i am pretty!! ) haha.. when i 1st saw ah ma, i thk she is really fair & pretty, must be some kinda rich family kids.. ah li & shu looks very sporty & athletic.. the type of sunshine gal... hehe...

as for how we become so close?? i also cant really rem wat happened to make the 4 of us bond together.. thk its because only e 4 of us in the class are not those study type & missing from sch type ba.. haha... den duno why, we have nicknames for each & every of us which caused the ah's group to arise...

i met ah ma in town 1st & waited for her to get her hair permed @ reds... perry ( ah ma's bf ) was there also.. haven seen him for quite some time also.. thk he slim down quite alot.. we had our dinner @ pasta cafe.. their pasta is fantastic...

we talked about alot of things over dinner.. den we were reminded of those outings to celeb birthday... we remembered shu's 17th birthday @ breeks buffet marina & 18th birthday @ thai express esplanade.. this is because we took alot of funny photos.. we begin scolding each other why we din send the photos over the net... den we remembered, those photos were all in hard copies.. it was taken even b4 those digital cameras were out... haha.. those were the days....

we used to go for buffets for our outings everytime.. be it birthday, after sch activities, going out etc... we really can eat alot alot that time.. was damn amazed by our appetite den... dun thk we will be able to eat like e past... its damn scary.. we talked alot about the past, rememberint & reliving those days when we were in JCs.. some moments were really being forgotten, only able to rem it when they mentioned it... that's memories, must kp reminding urself about it if not it will be washed away or masked by some even impt or fresher memories.....

we decide to go elsewhere for desserts & continued our talk.. while walking, we tot of going for some drks but den ah shu have to work tml so we have to forsake that plan... we ended up at TCC centrepoint.. oh, i love the ambience there.. i love the pillar which gives us a very victoria, very old feelings... duno why, i just prefer old buildings den those modern one.. felt that those old buildings have more life in them as compared to the new ones which looked so dead....

dark devotion ordered by me, ah ma & ah li...

the half eaten & 'beautifully' decorated tiramisu ordered by shu... ( decorations contributed by the 3 of us... )

when we were making the orders, the waitress seemed very shocked to see us ordering a serving of desserts each... is that very weird?? its not as if the portion is very big... ha....

group photo...

ah ma with her present..

ah ma bought each one of us a x'mas present.. that's so sweet of her.. she din buy for herself cause dun haf her size anymore.. if not we can all wear it together next time at our MJ session.. haha...

the sexy little undies with the cutie little ribbon behind.... :p

happy new year~~

its a joyous occassion today but guess wat am i doing the whole day at home?? ok... good guess, yes its my MA assignment.. just how interesting my new yr can be?? thk i really took the wrong modules.. okok.. dun wan to complain on e very 1st day of a brand new year...

felt quite refreshed.. brand new yr, brand new start.. bidding gd byes to all the bad things that happened last yr... really looking forward to wat this yr have for me... will it be as exciting as last yr? if yes, can it be filled with gd things & happy ones??

dun wanna thk about the past & just wan to look into the future now.. all e negatives thoughts that had bothered me were all erased away.. i wanna start everything afresh so i must empty everything..