happy birthday

to us...



we're TWO years old now (:

we had plans for dinner at Hangout@MtEmily at first. but in view of our upcoming roadtrip to Melbourne, we had to save money
so.. we decided to make dinner together instead! :D

we went grocery shopping for the ingredients for carbonara dinner (:


and mac slicing up the bacon (:


the final product (: im quite proud of it, other than the fact that the sauce was a tad too cheesy for my liking
the rest of the evening was spent making friends with grey's anatomy (:

and if you asked me, this beats a fancy restaurant anytime (:

vday

mac came over to my place the night before vday, to surprise me with Teuscher chocolates (:





from the website:


sooo beautiful and sweet (:
however, after i successfully guessed the price of the chocolates, it was sooo "heartpain"!
i couldnt bear to open up the chocolates until today, when i couldnt resist anymore
i took the liberty to have one as well, and the chocolate was so pure and fine it literally melts in your mouth, as cliche as it sounds

on vday itself, mac took leave and came to NUS to join me at school! (:
we drove to clementi for lunch + bubble tea to satisfy my cravings and then back to school for classes
after that, we went to the cathay for a movie before joining the rest of the youth group for steamboat dinner at yusong's house, in our valiant efforts to resist being sucked into the commercialization of valentine's day
the steamboat session was REALLY good, much to my surprise
although our pastors did make really lame efforts at playing vday table games, or put up love-song dedications, and what nots :p

the 87ers came to my house for wii after dinner, before driving out to labrador park for a midnight picnic (: hahaha!
there were like loads of couples there as well, including MOUTers who parked their cars there and shielded their windows
*scratches head and wonders what they were up to*

ANYWAY.
my sister and i went to sentosa last wednesday before reunion dinner (:


with our dogs (:
we inflated our little green turtle float, and (unsuccessfully) taught them how to swim
and they call jack russel terriers "water dogs" sighh

chinese new year 2008

happy CNY to everybody! (:


chinese new years are always awesome because they're a good excuse to indulge in good food, play cheena games (MAHJONG!), get loads of free money with no guilt attached, and best of all, meet up with everybody to have a great time of fellowship amidst kinship and friendship

this CNY, fortunately or unfortunately, has been wayyy too much fun, effectively ruining all my efficient study plans that i've ambitiously allocated beforehand
sadly, i only realized that when i opened my much-too-filled schedulebook today to realize i've done almost nothing of what i had planned originally
and almost everything that i havent planned

this chinese new year saw...

1) STOMP! (again)

enmei and i right before we transported our instruments down to the main hall

didnt have any more pictures of stomp because the cameraman was one of our crew :p
the performance itself however was... a total disaster - our beats were off, we danced off-beat, we couldnt hear a thing
and prolly worst of it all, i was downright center, and in the brunt of the limelight of disaster
however, it was FREAKING FUN (: we were just having so much fun up on stage making all our mistakes, laughing at ourselves, that it didnt really matter that we were screwing up the entire thing completely hahaha
all of the girls got so high before the performance itself that we were practically laughing at everything and nothing, doing all sorts of stupid things that bordered on insanity, that everything else didnt really quite make the cut for silliness (:

2) Mass photo-taking session!


with the people i grew up with and love the most (:


with the families who watched me grow up, and grew along with me


with the people whose best memories are shared with (: minus mac who wasnt there!


and with the best girlfriend i'll ever have

(lide i'll put yours up tmr! hahaha)

3) KBOX!
pictures are still with my cousin, but yes, we went to kbox on day 1 of CNY (:
it was a maddeningly expensive charge of 28+++ per person, but it was the first time every single person in my paternal family went for a karaoke session together, young and old alike
therefore, we did "baabaa blacksheep" to "stayin' alive", from beegees to backstreetboys all the way till the wee hours of the night

4) Cell group visitations
we went visiting with our new cell group this year - J(jesus) walkers (:
we went to junyan's place, and then my place


heres us at junyan's really big and nice house with his family
we played mahjong the entire time we were there and i won the last 2 rounds! (muahaha)

and then at my place, we played Wiii!!
ginger kept everybody well entertained as well.

after that it was worship, sharing, more wii, and pizza + dvds (:
more pictures maybe another day! (:

those high points make school starting tmr really dreary :(
to make things worse, i havent touched ANY work at all since forever
and on a last note, celine's going back in a week's time! SIGHHHHHHHH

bikequest 08

thats the reason i have a real sore butt, painful arms, and feel like i've swam 20,000 laps
i think we cycled around 110-120km (by dan's calculations), including the mistaken routes we took
it actually felt like germany all over again - with all that mass cycling, traveling on roads, reading maps to get around, and cool (bordering on cold) weather thanks to the rain before we started
we started off at east coast park, where we were bestowed our bikes for the night, and then set off to different pitstops, ours being zouk as the first
i didnt bring a camera, so photos are courtesy of sharon (:


decked out in our cycling attire. cotton shirts from giordano that were ohh-so-soft (:


heres the 4 of us on nicoll highway (:


it was a pretty long journey before we reached central literally hahaha

we played a few games at the zouk bridge, which was near the valet parking lot, which conveniently meant that we had to cycle past dozens of staring puzzled people decked out in their best glam attire looking at dozens of us helmet-heads zooming past
not very glam.


after botanical gardens and ACbarker/balmoral plaza pitstops, we had supper at newton circus

me and my butterfly tattoo. because our team name was - BUTTERFLY RIDERS! (:

(much to the guys' dismay)

the rest of the journey slowly droned into a test of determination when the butt aches set in
we cycled to orchard tho! it was one of the places i reallyreally wanted to cycle to
we went past fareast, and the entire stretch of orchard.
the feeling's really awesome, going past paragon and its marble floors, plaza sing and its quiet stoicism, and cathay with its bright lights with not a single soul around
i must say, i like it alot better at night (:

we reached back at eastcoastpark at about 630am, but by the time we packed up and debriefed it was nearing 8am
the drive back to mac's was rather torturous. i was so tired i fell into a deepdeep sleep at every single stoplight that mac had to take over the wheel
we had stomp practice after that at church till 6pm hahaha
and with that it concluded the longest amt of time i didnt sleep in a day(s)

words

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”

---

i made my way all the way to town, queued damn frickin long for parking lot, and went thru 2 ERP gantries for dresses today
1) to buy the dress from yin&yang (which prolly costs too much than it should but heck its beautiful)
2) to watch 27 dresses (which, was fabulous if i may say so)
humor: check. hotgirls&guys: check. typical predictable love story: check. beautiful clothes: check.
whats there not to like? :p

cooped in a cooper

i drove junyan's mini cooper today!! (:(:
yes, i know its really cheapcheap thrill (for me, not him) but its my first time in a cooper after all
it would really have topped my list of dream cars if not for the fact that it was so low, has a heavy accelerator pedal, and only has 2 doors
but its definitely a nice car - any sponsors would be gratefully accepted (:

the past few weeks have been rather hectic (as usual)
from joshua's 21st party to exciting stomp practices, from shopping to outdoor bible study, from church kbox session + buffet dinner to the visiting of new places for lunch outside school
from the arrival of our new murano to the arrival of our new maid (yay!)
it has been a very busy but exciting 2-3 weeks

also, in my attempt to save on NUS parking fees today, which, are excessively exorbitant
i brought both mine and my mom's laptop to acer hospital to get them fixed for their respective illnesses during my lunch break
and got my laptop reformatted back to the acer image (:
it feels like brand new now, and its soo much faster as compared to when it held the NUS image
after which i met the parents @ yacht club for a nice lunch with a nice view before returning back to school for classes (:

yes, feels like i've accomplished quite some today (:

another day

ytd's was melody's 21st birthday @ yumcha (:

(i koped this frm celine's facebook btw since i didnt bring camera hahaha)
happy birthday melo!! (: thanks for the invitation dear

the food was glorious.. so here're just some of the interesting foods we had

birthday (backside) buns. which was hilariously entertaining


fried giant pepper prawns with their backsides stuffed in a sliced pineapple
but it was superrrrr nice

the only people who were ontime and the only people who consumed 4-5 plates of peanuts while waiting

we took a group shot after. zhenjie send mee!

there was sooo much food there (i think it was a 10-course meal, no?) i think i reversed all my efforts @ swimming and pilates class
there was a strawberry fondue to top off all that, arranged beautifully in the shape of a flower bouquet
i had alot of that course, naturally.

speaking of food, today was DG day, after which i went to ngeeannpoly for lunch with ernest, zhenjie and lide
i know its absolutely random, but thats the first time i've seen the inside of NP proper even tho i go pass it everyday

sunday saw yet another stomp practice, that was actually really fun
its pretty amazing how fast things get put together this time round, and how fast it works out
after that mac&i met my mom for some bag shopping and she got herself a gorgeous Balenciaga bag
no pictures available at this pt of time. my casio's still with the camera hospital doctors

but i do have a picture of another gorgeous bag

any sponsors? :P

loved

i know im a little late for this, but i just wanna thank all those who made my birthday one that i'll never forget (for better or worse)
i came home from the 2nd day of celebrations, lugging all of these


prolly the most presents i've ever gotten at one go from all of you bright shiny peeps(:
for the 2 days of celebrations, i've thoroughly enjoyed myself
from the people calling/msging/msn-ing/facebooking their happy birthdays and showering me with loads of love and presents, to the family & familyfriends badminton to wii-ing at my place, to the grand birthday cake to chorused birthday songs, to the lovely birthday dinner @ mt faber to the lovely gifts, to the candle-midnight-surprise, and perhaps even the part where i got thrown into the pool...

just wna say that, i've been loved, and thanks for all tt lovin' (:

in the midst of it all, i forgot to take pictures -.-
so here're some pictures from people's phones and cameras

cell group + mini celebration on 10th jan

cecilia & catherine bought me this brownie from P.oosh for the mini celebration (:
it was frickin good

mass badminton @ parcpalais 11th Jan


the old, the young, and the lovers hehehe


my 3kg birthday cake, that came with a huge chocolate key


candlelights at the stroke of midnight. ok not really. but well appreciated (:
dunking pictures are.. CENSORED

birthday dinner @ mtfaber jewelbox
a really beautiful place with hilltop scenery and sunset. unfortch, i went late and saw only the end of sunset






so that was that for my birthday (:
the next day, we had stomp for CNY and then victor's 21st birthday @ outback


there's sooo many people's 21st coming up within the next.. 2 weeks.
january is truly the month for lovin.. and being broke hahaha

sweet 21st

"thank you Father for the most memorable and beautiful birthday ever
for reminding me of Your love and the people who care about me
and for everything that turned out so perfectly


amen."

nightout

i thought i was growing too old for zouk/phuture
but after 4 tequila shots, 1 (whats that called lide), 2 jugs, and 1 chivas, zouk/phuture was my thing again (: