golden dragon 2012

its chu xi ye and the whole chinese community is probably having sumptuous dinner with their family or watching the countdown or whatever, but i am here blogging because i have nth to do:(

well, at least i managed to clean up the house abit and changed the bedsheets. although my comforter was rained on (ARGH) while i was hanging it outside to dry wth what a suay start to the year. as usual it’s only my brother and i for tuan yuan fan and i was too lazy/tired to prepare dinner, so we ordered pizza hut and ate dinner while watching Mulan 2 on channel 5.

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i’m keeping my goal to lose x kg (not gonna say cos i dont really know how much i wanna lose) this year, so i’ve signed on with Pure Yoga for 12 months and omg my credit card bill’s exploding because i had to pay 2 months’ subsciption upfront + joining fee and thats already $500++ crazy expensive. i’m determined to go at least twice a week and i’m getting hooked!

i’m also eating WAY less, sucessfully avoiding rice at every meal the past week and i downloaded this app called My Fitness Pal which i found out from another blogger, so i’ve been inputting my calorie intake almost everyday! lol talk about obsessed.

and here’s sharing some photos from happenings this month:

and look what my sweet colleagues got for me for my birthday:D

birthday night ended with dinner with my lover boy and drinks at timbre (: we were a little tipsy so cabbed home to sleep at 11ish hehe. that week, i drank almost 4 days straight tsk tsk omgoshh.

on a side note, i was sunning my washed bedsheets + comforter in the afternoon and then it RAINED omg. i brought them in and rewashed them…and i sunned them again..AND IT RAINED.AGAIN. WTSSSSSSSSS shows how unlucky im gonna be this dragon year. nehnehpok.

the 1st of 2012

recently read my zodiak readings for the year 2012 and its not good at all. and i thought 2012 being a dragon year and all is supposed to being the dragons more luck..nehnehpok.

so anw, i had a very quiet nye this year, curled up like a ball with don watching the countdown performance at the float on  teevo and toasting the new year with a bottle of beer with his family. i much prefer such private events as compared to going to parties with the crowd, getting too old and boring.

and my upper right wisdom tooth is infected so i visited the dentist super last minute for an extraction. it was throbbing since ytd night and was worse today, couldnt talk properly and so no work for me. its a good thing its only an extraction and not surgery (cost a bomb omg). 2 days mc ftw!!

see? not a good start to my 2012 right.

anyhow, ive been spending my money on a few new things and my titanium pink card has been getting swiped way more than it should be. i blame this impulsiveness on the festive season and sale >:( got myself a new MAC powder under the Studio Fix series, new heels and of course a few pieces of new clothes heheh. that should be the last of my shopping already (i hope).

thinking of joining Pure Yoga for a year of unlimitted classes! one step forward to losing weight(:

and here’s a happy picture of me and don from a few days ago to end this post (my hair looks so brown hahah yay) :

Christmas 2011

Christmas is my favourite holiday (besides Vday although its technically not a holiday)..all the gifts and feasting and get togethers(:

Michelle was back to visit for a few days last week and we managed to squeeze in a movie tgtr in the afternoon. grabbed a cuppa at starbucks before the movie and we camwhored to pass time teehee.

met the timonies afterwhich for gift exchange over dinner! we played secret santa thanks to my brilliant idea and it was such fun hahah. yanning was my secret santarina and she got me a bunch of eye makeup stuff <3

We went on to watch a midnight movie (Sherlock Holmes) and leon’s car got locked inside Park mall parking lot omg hahha such an fml moment HAHAH.

Dad’s here for xmas! so i decided this year we shall have a nice dinner tgtr and it was quite impromptu so no reservations made which was quite a bad thing cos its xmas eve and a saturday. originally wanted to have western but vivo was SO crowded and every other restaurant have a long queue urgh.

Then my brother spotted a queue-less shin kuriya and so off we go! haha got seated in less than 5 mins(:

dad’s dinner: super healthy salad + agedashi tofu

my brother’s: true-blue unagi fan

Mine: garlic rice + assorted grilled goodness(:

and we ordered tuna & salmon sashimi to share yumtummmmsss

i dont know how the bill came up to a whooping $95 but hengs my dad was footing it lol. polaroids before we left for home:

and here’s a hugeass collage of me in my bright red cardi, fits the xmas mood so well dontcha think? (: love my puffed up hair too with the help of bumpits teehee cheating i know but i dont care

xmas turkey dinner + stayover at don’s tmr! i miss my boyf sooo much, this week is hellweek at work so i didnt get much time to even bbm him and by the time i reach home, he’s already in bed yayy tmr!

Have a merry & blessed christmas break y’all!

Lonesome Thursday

Today, I finished 4 collages for my manager, asst managers and senior at work. Because we’re gonna change team effective 1/1/12, 4 of us are super sad and i volunteered to hand-make the collages. Got the paper from Paper Market a week ago, where I had a hard time deciding because they have such gorgeous designs!

Needed more material from popular so i decided to travel to West Coast Plaza and finish doing them there as well. Here’s a sample of 1 of the 4:

We’re gonna write our msgs on the pieces of heart-shaped paper. sweet much? heheh i hope all of them like it when its done!

My get-up today for the lazy day (pardon the dusty mirror) :

No make up = pale & tired so i shall be faceless ahahhaaha. someone actually approached me for a “survey” and her opening line was “hi did you just come out from work”. ARE YOU SERIOUS?! i’m apalled.

Here’s a new addition to my desk in the office, I figured I need a source of happy thoughts while getting scolded by customers everyday T.T

And my DIY manicure that’s very festive season me thinks *beams at self lol*

okay, this is such a random post ahha i shall end it here. gonna go look for a nice place for timon’s xmas gathering this Sat evening. Xmas shopping with my fishcakes tmr!

4 months later

working really sucks the life out of me.

its been almost 4 (yikes!) months since i last posted something on this space. alot has happened but as usual, i’ll try to update and summarise as much as i can although no one else reads this blog except me anymore hahha.

1. work was so bad previously, i went for a Marketing position interview for a magazine. Used to be my dream job but i realised they dont pay as much and the office’s location is lousy. so, no go.

2. 5th anniversay (60 monthsary omgosh such a long time) at Amara Resort Sentosa, fully paid by the working girl aka me

3. dyed my hair a lighter shade of brown(: tried Hoyu products this time and liking it so far! colour is somewhat uneven but come on its diy, what else do i expect right?

4. Have been watching loads of shows these days. My idea of relaxing after work(: Besides the usual Gossip Girl & Kangxi & Mentalist, newly introducued to 2 Broke Girls from Huixin and i’m addicted!

5. Put on more weight. urgh. But Don & I signed up for 6 classes of Yoga for $60 (sooo worth it) and i cant wait to start going in January!

6. Took almost 2 wks worth of leave from work and took the opportunity to fly back to Jakarta with don who just finished his exams. Finally got him to try all the local food i’ve been raving about(:

7. random dinner dates with my girlfriends to keep me going at work because i’ve something to look forward to at the end of the day

8. i badly need to trim my hair, its such a mess

9. Done up a list of things needed to be done by 19 Dec, but i’m not even close to completing them. such a procrastinator.

10. My ocbc titanium pink card is love because its pink and it has 10% off at f21. damage done? check.

 

okeydokey i shall end this post abruptly here because i wanna go back to watch csi vegas my long time fave which i havent been watching for such a long time. don’s away for a 10 days ocip trip to cambodia and my weekend has been spent doing nothing but glued to my computer screen. hahah till the next entry!

convocation photoshoot

shengle got his friend to do our shoot for free many hurrays! it was so so hot and everyone’s sweating like mad but the pictures turned out amazing:D love the colour and lighting especially. here’s a sneak peek into some of the nice shots i personally like:

major loves all of these! shall take some time to choose the nicest ones from ceremony + ball + shoot to put together a nice collage so that i can display it in the office:D

precious weekend

this weekend was spent with no one else but my precious boy(: we fought a little on Saturday but all’s good now thank goodness. met up for brunch on Saturday before we embark on our heartland expedition, which turned out to be quite a phailure D:

our favourite porridge place in cheenatown on a hot, sunny afternoon:

so anhow, i decided we’re not much of the heartlanders after all. wanted to walk ard abit at chinatown but the sun was so scorching we ended up buying cheap toiletries at CK dept store -.- moved on to serangoon and bishan but the malls are so boring! ended the day at Novena church + dinner at novena sq before taking a long bus ride home.

Sunday morning church + lunch with don’s fmly, and then i being the nice girlfriend that i am followed him to plaza sing for a proj meeting. floated around PS for 2 hours by meself and got some new masks and tidbits for lazy days lol

tried these masks recently and i fell in love with the cute pastel packaging. apart from that, the masks rest well on my face and smells nice too. super love! so i lugged more of them from sasa today teehee^^different colour for different purposes(:

my loots:D

and we ended the day/week with my new-found love for gong cha milk tea lol. when did their milk tea become so good?!

i love how my photoscape software can achieve this vignette and vintage feel i so adore! foresee myself using those functions alot more in the future, cant believe i just discovered them today omg so noobz. ok time to have a good night’s sleep to prepare for yet another week of work T.T

precious weekends

National Day this year saw me being super excited because its a public holiday = no work! invited the timon peeps to come over to my place for a house party and omggggg super crazy night. everyone drank so much 7 of us finished a bottle of vodka and whisky :s most of the pictures are rubbish so im not posting here hahha! but we were super hungover the next morning and had to eat porridge for breakfast in fear of puking.

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more random pictures of my weekends(:

spot my manicure + new tribal necklace!

havent been camwhoring as much with don T.T i’m planning smth special for our 5th year anniv though its 1.5 months away still, eggcitement!

on a totally random note, im swiping my cards more than i should be. but i have so many wants omgoodness such a torture! alright, back to watching korean drama in the comfort of my room:D next week is gonna be HELL at work so the more i should embrace moments like these.

i’ve decided to stop bloging abt taiwan because there;s just too many pictures and i’ve no time at all since ive started working now :s plus all the pictures from taiwan are all in my external hard drive (for fear that my cui laptop crash and i lose them all) so its pretty troublesome to access.

its been 2 months (?) since i last blogged and omgosh im sooo lagging. life’s been good yet draining as well. I came back frm taiwan, started to look for a job desperately, got an opening from Jenny, went for interviews and signed my virgin full time job to OCBC. 1 month of training and im now working for real after surviving the gruesome tests and what not. i wouldnt say this is my dream job nor promise that i can last years doing what im currently doing, but at least the pay is decent and I have nice colleagues. so lets just see where my path will lead me to in the future & keep a lookout for better opportunities!

 

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random pictures of life’s joyous moments to summarise these 2 months of mia-ing:

hokays my bed is calling…till the next set of convo photoshoot pictures!

Taiwan day 5

its hotspring time

we visited the museum first, free of charge!

we had a 30min hotspring experience at the public bath house for NT40 per person. no pictures allowed but we were the last to go for that session so i sneaked a few ;p

fresh out of hotspring(: shower facilities provided but rmbr to bring own toiletries and towel!

and then we left this peaceful little town and made our way to Danshui! must visit tgtr since they’re pretty near(:

and nearing sunset time (abt 5ish in Taiwan) we bought ferry tickets and made our way to Fisherman’s Wharf! such a beautiful & gorgeous place:D

anddddd abrupt end of pictures again because i’ve reached the limit. arghh. but refer to my facebook album for more pictures of Fisherman’s Wharf! we camwhored sooo much with the sunset cos its so pretty:D i read somewhere online that you’re supposed to hold the hand of your boy/girlfriend while crossing the bridge and not to let go. so i made sure don doesnt let go of my hand HAHHAH.  stupid myth but fun anw lol

i’ve got day 6 & 7 to cover and im so lagging in my post! work is starting for real next Monday..im both excited and dreading it actually. hope all turns out well!