Birthday 2011!

Hello, last day of 2011!

I shall blog because today is the last day I can blog for the year! But I was looking around the photos and don't know where to begin as I haven't been blogging a lot and all the photos are all jumbled up and I didn't even organize them into folders nicely. Next year I'll do a better job!

Feeling was complicated..u know....ushering the new year in just 10 hours. It always is. Reflecting the year, making new plans for next year. This 1 year has been awesome but it passed a little too fast eh?

Met up with Step at the mall the day before my birthday. He was there, with cupcakes, balloon and holding a bouquet of roses. How cute.

Roses on the 1st day, but bloom like mad few days after, the size of my fist.

Awesome cupcakes. Sea salt & caramel, Christmas Red Velvet, Caramel Biscuits & Cream, Cookies & Cream, Chocolate Irish Cream, Devil's Food and Madagascar Vanilla Bean!

Cream of mushroom soup, spaghetti carbonara, a large 12 inch pizza with half of Pork Pepperoni and half of Pork Hawaiian at Pepperoni Pizzeria.

Our very rare couple photo. We hardly take photo because he always refuses to.

Went to Orchard after dinner. This year's Orchard Christmas Light Up theme is "Christmas In The Tropics". Streets after shopping streets filled with scintillating, glowing blue flower lights, turning Singapore’s shopping district into a huge flower garden. Each flower is composed of five little hearts bound together by a star, expressing the spirit of the season.

Marina Bay and Resort World has all setup their own Christmas decorations but I did not go to take a look even. Maybe next year!

Christmas blooms sponsored by Hitachi I think..because there's Hitachi banner all over the place. I actually think this year's decoration has nothing to shout about. It looks plain and mediocre and the colors are boring.

Tangs. One of the winner for best dressed.

They always have the most complicated designs. Last year's is hideous!

Ion. You can go in the tree and up. Also one of the best dressed winners.

Harro!

Paragon.

Paragon has these..err..horse..all over.

The annual Tiffany's tree.

Every building in Orchard will all compete for the annual Best Dressed Building competition. This year's winner is Orchard Central which I did not take photo with.

Taken off Google. Wah what a big difference if you take with a DLSR versus my little compact camera.

We went into Ion in search of supper after walking the whole Orchard, and stumbled upon this little store in B4.

Turns out to be that awesome 4 fingers crispy spicy chicken.

Seafood birthday dinner with family at Defu Seafood Paradise. Chili crab (Singapore is all about chili crab..not very nice also) and the butter crab.

Everybody! Eldest sister and brother in law came back from Philly for 2 weeks.

Never tried butter crab before but turns out to be really good! I thought I'd get sick with too much butter but it did not! I guess that's why it's one of the must-order there.

Brother bought a very chocolatey cake from Jane's Cake station and it kinda melted a little. Incredibly light and moist!! And unlike most of the chocolate cakes and brownies, it didn't make me gross out even after finishing the whole piece of cake.

Dad was supposed to be here but rushed back hometown because the neighbors say it had been raining non stop and it's going to flood soon so he had to go back and pack things up!

Hmm...ok.

Abrupt end to the post because very lazy already.

So,

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012!!!!!!!!!

SEE YOU NEXT YEARRRRRR!!!!!

*throws confetti everywhere*

Boxing Day 2011.

Happy Boxing Day guys!

Christmas dinner with everything except Turkey. None like Turkey so instead they bought pork and pork and pork.

Let It Snow!

Merry Christmas Everybody!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Photo Diary II

Pardon the photo qualities. That's the best 3GS can offer!

We met up with Xiao Jun and had dinner in Le Bistro Parisien at the colorful & unique Haji Lane. Supposed to be a French restaurant but they had all these Malay posters of which Kevin claimed is the same Malay actress all over the restaurant. Identity crisis much? Food is OK. I had Norwegian Salmon, crispy skin, fresh but a little too pricey for such a small piece of Salmon.


The photo was clear when I view it through the phone and PC but once I uploaded it became blur as hell and even cropped away half of Amy and whole of Asri wtf.


MRT major breakdown on Thursday for the 1st time in 24 years causing havoc. My friend was in a cab and this message popped up on the driver's screen. What a strong cab community hehe.


We walked past this unique shop A Thousand Tales. It's actually a cafe bar cum furniture shop. The whole place is designed like someone's home and every piece of vintage furniture displayed including those we sat on and used are for sale. There's no menu. Cocktails and mocktails are prepared to your liking. The waiter will ask you if you like it sweet/sour/salty/bitter and if you like any kind of fruits. If you're not satisfied with your drink, they'll take it back and "fix" it until you're happy with it. They fixed mine cause I asked for sweet and anything lychee but my drink came nothing close to lychee. They took back and added a lot of lychee liquor which made me passed out in the MRT later that night tsk tsk.


We found this place 4 Fingers Chicken by luck when we were shopping in ION. It's a fast food joint selling Korean fried chicken. And boy, those are really some good crispy spicy fried chicken! We ordered 12 pieces of drummet & wings for $13.95 including fries and root beer. The next day we went back and bought another 12 pieces. Then my brother in law went to ION and bought another 12 the day after. Good chicken!


Once you go brown, you never go black. I colored my hair brown for the 1st time in my life, $139 for hair cut, wash, coloring, treatment. I've always had black hair and I wanted to do something before birthday. Initially wanted to cut it short and stylish but I just had short hair last last year. Thought of perming it but long enough. So the stylist suggested I color it. You can't see it clearly here but it's extremely brown and I'm still not used to it yet. Hopefully all the chemical doesn't ruin my hair and make me loss more hair. I'm almost balding!


Stephen's bus from KL reached the mall at 4pm so I texted him to meet in the mall's Burger King at 5. When I reached Burger King I saw him with his backpack and holding a balloon and bouquet of roses standing there. What a cute sight & a pleasant surprise.


Coffee cake in office for the December babies in office. It's a custom where the bosses will take turn to buy birthday cakes and do a mini celebration in office every month.


Reebonz came to office! Only a week earlier the branded vendors came to set up stalls in our cafeteria selling authentic LV Prada Coach Miu Miu Gucci and definitely made good money. Then this week the whole Reebonz truck came and parked there with glass display of all the branded bags. And you thought Singaporeans can only spend a fortune in Orchard. Now they can even spend all their money in office.


Horrace's farewell lunch in BBQ Chicken also boasting the best Korean Spicy Fried Chicken. I tried the 'Hot Hot Drum' set. It's good but it's not good enough compared to 4 finger licking good wtf.


Sister came back with huge packet of Garrett Popcorn, widely claimed as the best popcorn in the country. Many already told me to try it out. True enough it has the best caramel popcorn but then you can't have too much of this thing. You get sick of it because it's very sweeeeet.


Stephen bought me a MacBookPro for birthday. Breaks my Windows right click habit. I don't know where to start when I power on the Mac and I have to google even the smallest thing "How to rename folder" wtf. Ironically enough, since I started using the Mac, my desktop never acts up. Not a single blue screen the whole week! Feeling threatened huh Windows? *shows fist* wtf.

Photo Diary

Random photo updates.

It's time of the year to get the Christmas tree out of my cupboard and the little nephew set it up all by himself. Ok not really all by himself. My brother setup the tree and the little boy hang all the ornaments up.


I dreamt that Stephen won lottery of 17 MILLION dollars and he gave me 5 MILLION wtf. And then when I found out we're rich, the first thing I wanted to do was take a cab out for supper after midnight WTF! Coz cabs have extra 50% surcharge here so I never go out past midnight. My dream proved I'm not a greedy person at all. Taking a cab past midnight is what I really wanted haha. I digressed. My point is, I dreamt we kena lottery so the next day I went and bought my first ever toto. My colleagues taught me how to buy and how to check the results. Anyway, the conclusion is I didn't win. Duh.


Chocolates are on sale everywhere for Christmas. I passed by this little store with free Toggi chocolate tasting. And it screwed me for life. It's so good I bought a lot and had one everyday.


My dad came over for his birthday so we went for Italian. Wanted to go for the Pepperoni Pizzeria but it's fully booked so we settled for Spizza. It didn't meet expectation and it's not cheap either. No next time!


Sorry if it's gross but hear me out. I went to the dentist alone! For the 1st time in my life! The clinic opens at 6.30PM. I reached at 6.40PM and waited for 2 hours fml. For the whole 2 hours I'm considering chickening out coz I can't stand the dentist drilling sound. Freaks me out! It's my turn and the dentist went 'Hi how's your day? How are you feeling?' all chirpy and stuff then I said "Not so good. I'm kinda scared" haha wtf. "Dont worry you're only doing scaling and cleaning. It doesn't hurt at all". When she's done cleaning, she asked me if I wanted to replace the old filling to the new white ones. My 2 old fillings are grey ~1mm each and it was back when I was 13 years old. She said everyone changed to white nowadays so it'll look invisible and it doesn't hurt (she promise).

Dentists are the biggest liar ever. It hurts like a bitch!! And while she's half way drilling she said "Oh because its white and it's better in quality so it's slightly more pricey". Turns out to be SGD40 for 1mm filling. I changed 2 and plus teeth cleaning is SGD130. Tell me again why my mum never force me to take dentistry last time? Anyway you can see from the photo above it's all white. Used to be 2 small grey ones at the same side.


Went to KL for a weekend and lepak in Midvalley the whole Saturday afternoon. Didn't manage to buy anything as we have all the same brands here with newer goods and bigger collection so I can't find any reason to shop in KL. Christmas deco is not bad though. Ohh actually I DID buy something. I bought 2 pairs of heels from Vincci coz we don't have Vincci here! I miss Vincci and its cheap heels!


Saw a long queue for the Gelato Fruity store in Midvalley. It's a standard size of 100g. I picked my Almond flavor, and queued at the counter to pay. This girl behind me chose the same almond gelato and queued behind me to pay. And when it's my turn, the cashier took one of the almond gelato on the counter for me and she quickly said "THAT'S MINE!!". Both gelato is of the same flavor and weight. Both me and the cashier look at her. Then the cashier shook his head and took the other gelato for me.




He bought a bike despite me saying No for 345987234762358 times. It's like his life long dream to own a big bike. I can foresee him spending a fortune to get a newer better bike very soon. I didn't quite enjoy my 1st ride coz the helmet is too big and it covers my eyes 98% of the time.


Won 2 pax free passes to Zouk Christmas Eve party from some online lucky draw.

My birthday is in a week and Christmas in 2 weeks then it's New Year! Why can't I feel the holiday season yet? Work's a bitch and I've been super robotic for a few weeks trying to get projects done but seems like none is working as planned. Bah!

Robots.

It's 3.45PM. I feel completely drained of energy. I looked around and all my co-workers are still diligently typing away to their C# and C++ and ASP etc. None is surfing the net and nobody seems distracted, even at the slightest.

After 1.5 year working here, I still cannot catch up with the working culture here. It's a vast difference compared to my previous one. I honestly do not know where they get all the energy the concentration the dedication the commitment!

I don't know whether this is a Singapore thing or just my company. I have talked to a couple of my friends in the same industry and they all say the same thing.

For instance, our lunch time is quite flexible, anytime from 11.30AM to 1.30PM. But we only go out for lunch at 12.20PM or something because everybody is so caught up with work and then reach office before 1.15PM. It's not uncommon to hear cube neighbors' sighing and complaining why the time passed so fast and that they did not even realize it's already 6.30PM. (And yes, I usually reach work at 8.25AM and leave around 6.45PM. Well what did they say about fitting in wtf) .

Seriously? You do not realize it's 6.30PM? I've been counting minutes since 3PM! I really wanted to ask them if they really REALLY did not realize it or they're just saying it to prove they very rajin wtf. Huh. I think it's the latter la but then all the way from after lunch till 6+PM I did not hear them talking rubbish or walking around doing nothing.

And...NOBODY takes leave all year long. WHAT THE FUCK??!! What are all these people made of huh? I secretly suspect they're all human skin coated robot wtf. They usually have like 15 or 20 days of leave by the end of the year and my boss have to send email out EVERY week to force people to take leave because they're not allowed to keep so many leaves till next year. WU SIAO BOH! Need to force only take leave! Then I ask them why they never take and they say "how to take? so many things to do!" And some even negotiated with the boss to keep the leaves till next year coz they really cannot find time to clear them this year.

Oh and about breakfast. People eat breakfast before they reach work. And if they didn't manage to eat before they reach work then they will tapao and eat in cube. Coz the culture is starting from the official working hours is WORKING hour not EATING hour wtf. Anyway my teammates dont quite give a fuck about that because they go to cafe and eat every morning anyway. And they'll continue doing that until some KPO want to complain about them I guess.

Is that why the country progressed and developed so much faster? Because the government have secretly built an army of robots with human face?? Are the human all dead?

Reminds me of the Robot song
"
It is the distant future, the year 2000.
We are robots.
The world is quite different ever since the robot uprising.
Affirmative.
We no longer say yes. Instead we say affirmative.
Yes, affir-affirmative.
Unless we know the other robot really well.
There is no more unethical treatment of the elephants.
Well, there's no more elephants, so.
Ahhh...
But still its good.

The humans are dead.
We used poisonous gases.
And we poisoned their asses.
"

YOU HAVEN'T HEARD OF IT ?? Oh please. Go youtube it NOW! It's called Robots by Flight of the Conchords. One of my favorite album.