Happy Birthday to Me!!!

30th Oct 2007 ~ My 24th Yr on this planet!

Hehe.. Celebration started back on 27th Oct.
I went to Japanese Association with my good frd.
I tried out the Japanese tradition game.
With upon completion of 10 times, I get a little snack bag...

After which, we went to Orchard to Sun Moulin to get our tea break. We bought alot of mini bread and cakes.. But no whr to go and sit, we decided to get a coffee/tea at the macdonald.. My frd said that the green tea cake is for me as my birthday cake.. Hehe.. We sat there watched the crowd went by us.. Then we went for our dinner and my friend ordered a longevity noodles and veggies for me.

I went home and found a parcel awaiting for me..
Its from Japan, Sayuri Chan! She bought all my favorite and post it to me. Tea, Rose perfume, hair clip, Star shape sugar and bath salt with my favorite character from Berisai no bara, Andre! Kakoi!!!!! Arigatou ne!!!

28th Oct~ Stuck up had his 2nd graduation ceremony.. We had plans already to have high tea together to celebrate his and mine birthday. Since I did not go to my jap class, so miao and I met early to go find him and take photo together!! Mdm seah cant make it in time( I tik coz I inform her too late) and Xiang no reply..

After which, we went to Marina Mandarin hotel to have high tea with the gang plus Mdm Seah.. We met our old schoolmate, William. Wow, ppl really change over the time...
Its Asia Buffet, and miao miao wanted international.. But fully booked liao.. So bo bian la hor! Miao miao tahan abit la...
Before Mdm Seah left, she handed a present to Xun and me..
She gave me a necklace.
She said she is not good at buying present.. but.. but... its so nice!! Thank you teacher!!


After High tea, Mdm seah need to go home liao, then 4 of us decided to go shopping... But as usual la.. We end up going for a drink again.. We went to NYDC to have a rest... Salute to the 2 guys still could eat.. I couldnt liao.. Ordered a Chamomile tea to help digestion..
Hahaha...

29th Oct ~ I had lunch with my client.. She treated me to indian food and Mango Lassi. Not bad... We talked alot about my career path and etc. Im kind of lost now at a cross road for my future...
Sighhh....

I have some interns under my care now.. Haha.. maybe on usual days Im quite nice to them ba.. They knew my bdae is on 30th coz its a day b4 another intern gal, they went out and bought me a bear and a nice cup.. Im very touched actually.. When one gal asked me what I preferred? I told her not to buy anythg coz they are on internship and not earning much. I dont want them to spend money.. But they still did... My lead bought me my favorite drink and a muffin!!! I had the bear and mug left on my wkstn.. I could hug whenever I want! My favorite instructor from sw svcs, is overseas now and he said hes getting me a gift when hes back!! So sweet of him(He even sent me an sms today!!!)

30th Oct~ I woke up early in the morning and my parents are getting ready for work... My mummy prepared Mee Sua for me with 2 hard boiled eggs!!! Yummy yummy!! Since Im not working today, I went back to sleep.. When I woke up, I saw my parents left an ang bao, birthday card and the Mee sua on the table for me... Im really so touched!!!

I had an appt with Jesline at Vivo City today.
She said that she hardly had a chance to shop w/o her kids tagging along.
So we went shopping together.. But maybe its due to bad night of sleep, Im a bit tired actually..
But shes full of energy despite long hrs taking care of her 2 kids... Pei fu Pei fu!!!!
We went to "He She Hui" to have Dim Sum for lunch..

She gave me a pearl pendent as my birthday present!!
Im so so so surprised!!!!
Then I went to buy a pair of diamond earring for myself.
I had been wanting for 2 yrs to get a pair of it for myself. So this yr, to pamper myself, I bought a pair of it.
Jesline helped me choose one. So in the end, I bought a pair thats quite off my budget... But its really nice.. I cant resist it.. Hahaha

I came back home for dinner. My bdae dinner? Steamboat!!!!!
Then I had my bdae cake.. Its not a full cake, coz my sis bdae this sat and we took too much cake eating a bit............
So my dad jus bought 4 slices of cake(my mum not a cake lover so share share wif dad)...
We kept laughing coz my dad played a hokkien song and my sis asked r we supposed to sing with tt song or bdae song?? Then she sang along with the hokkien song that sent all of us grouching our tummy n laughed!!! My dear dear sister!!! So cute at times..

Thanks to all of u for sending me text sms and msn and card for all the well wishes and also, for the time taken to celebrate with me...
And more of u to spend with me later the week!!!
Thank you! And hello to my 24th Yr on earth!!
Hai yo.. old liao la...

My Tarot Card Reading

You are The Lovers

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.

The Lovers represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made.

Originally, this card was called just LOVE. And that's actually more apt than "Lovers." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that the you have or will come across a person, career, challenge or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.

What Tarot Card are You?
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!!Desserts!! ~ 2

Haha.. For those who know me well, shld know tt Im a big dessert lover. This is dessert showcase part 2. For the start - First pix is the little cookie bag that Shio San gave me during the show last xmas.. After 6 mths, threats from my dad tt if I dont eat it, he will be, I opened the package with Xiaomei to eat while watching Takarazuka !! SHIYAWASE!!!The next package is Senbei from Takarazuka theatre, Shiho san brought back from Japan and I took one to eat.. They have pixs of flowers on the Senbei.
When Sayuri's Mum came, we went to Marina Mandarin hotel to have dinner. The choices for dessert have so so MUCH!! Im so excited and kept eating the dessert. Believe me, this is jus 1/10 of the range they had tt night!!! The tiramisu is the best!!!!Im looking so fwd to go there again!!! Her mum bought me a box of cakes from Tokyo, Ginza. Its nice!! Theres orange cake, green tea cake, fruit cake etc etc!!! I loved the green tea cake most!!
We went out for a team lunch to Waraku. I had been there many times but had yet to try the dessert coz, Im always too full for dessert. This time round, we left space for dessert and we order the Green tea ice cream and assorted ice cream imported from Japan. Just nice! Not too sweet!!
At times, I liked to go for Savory desserts too. Thai desserts had both sweet and savory. This is at Sabai @Ngee Ann City Shopping Center. They sell authentic Thai dessert prepared for Thai chef! They have buffet for the desserts. One price for all the desserts on the displayed table.
Its Azlina's Birthday and we prepared a surprise for her.. Wanted to sneak up to her and wish her happy birthday with a mango cake. But jus as we were preparing, she turned around to talk to me and saw us with the cake. All of us went silent a moment b4 saying, YOU SPOIL LA!!!! Like tt no more surprise liao!! Hahaha! All 4 of us kept laughing!!!
Josephine and I went to one new cafe to try out the food for dinner. And it comes as a set with a drink n dessert of the day.
Its mini banana boat ice cream(served in an ice cream bowl..) Hahaha.. Even though Im not a banana boat lover but I quite enjoyed this one.. Maybe coz Im too tired from wk this day n needed somethg sweet to boost my energy.. hahaha!
Its Xiaomei's birthday and of coz, there must have cake to celebrate the day isnt it..
We were out earlier so when choosing cake, I made her choose what she like. She chose a cake tt filled with lots n lots of chocolate from a bakery shop.. YUMMY!!! Chocolates!!!! Good Choice!! Hahaha
Its girls night out for miao n I, so we two went to MOF to have dinner and DESSERT! Well... I chose back my green tea shake... Miao thought she had choosen a new choice, but seems tt, she had mistaken, she ordered back the same ice cream.. Hahaha.. End up we two ate what we had previously missing out other type of dessert..
Sayuri had a craving to try out one bakery at VivoCity b4 she head back Japan. Xun n I happily tag along with her.. We ordered ten disc in total of dessert for our afternoon tea!! When miao met us later, shes amazed by us and of coz, calling us siao to eat so much dessert!! Hahaha!! We had cakes(my tiramisu cake!), ice creams, pies, mooncake. tea, etc!I cant resist them!We finished them all! Dont doubt us!!I have proof! *Grinzzz*
I liked chinese dessert too!
This is sweet potato caramel. Heres how to eat, the chef will coat the hot sweet potato with melted caramel and the moment the dish is served we have to dip the sweet potato at once into the ice water provided so tt the melted caramel will be harden. Its a tough dish and u have to act fast to dip into the water and to avoid ur hands being tangled by the caramel bits... My parents ate this the first time and find tt its a special dish..
Its mooncake festival.. And wat we have for sure? Mooncakes la!!!
There are all sorts of different types of mooncakes.
From the tradition type with or w/o yorks to yam to chocolate, fruits, durian, wine, champagne etc etc.
Amazing isnt it! But I still like tradition ones. The new types are interesting but will get bored after a while.. Oh yup, theres green tea type which I liked too!
Recently Im very much into this chinese dessert, Mango Sago with Pomelo. Its a sweet, cold, yummy dessert. If Im at a chinese rest, I will order this as my finishing touch!
Ok tts all folks for now... Part 3 will be right up..... Sometime..

11th August 2007 ~ One Night At Swissotel

Ive been wanting to stay at hotel for a night to relax.. Alright, I could always do it with 2 nights but too expensive liao. Told my vendor(the managers here) to get me upgrade to a better room.
They got me huge room, high floor, habour view, and gave me complimentary chocolates and fruits.. Cool!!! The bed is so cool, feel like sleeping there forever w/o moving.. hahaha.. The cable TV is good too.. but no cartoon channel.. hahaha...
The view from here is wonderful! At different time of the day I kept taking photos of the view.
Well, always compliment view of other countries, but Singapore's view is good too!
Sayuri was a little late coz her school ends late. So I treat myself to enjoy the room and view!
Not wanting to waste a good relaxing time at the hotel, Sayuri and I decided to get dinner and some snacks back to the room. Xun came to visit us with his frd(whom a bit shy).. But quite cute...
Hahaha...
Sayuri and I kept disturbing Xun, and hes so shy...
Hahhaha!! Did he blush??? hmmmm shhhhhh......

Saw the little blue star thg in Sayuri's hand? Xun got it at NDP and he brought one to give Sayuri as a gift.. Im so jealous not coz he give her present, but coz its Blue star!!! Tts Hoshi gumi's color!! BLUE STAR = Takarazuka Hoshi gumi!!!! I also want!!! Xun say ok ok, he will give me, he got 1 more at home.. HAHAHAHA!!! He visit me at my office and pass to me after tt week.. so sweeeet.
Xun seems to liked our room alot.. Not wanting to leave.. Hahahaha..
But I still dont understand.. The place is so cooling, how could he still sweat so much??!?!?
Soon Xun left with his frd for dinner... Sayuri n I finished our dinner and continue to do nothing in the room but lazed around.
Its too nice to do anything.. So do nothing lor!!!

But a bit too bored also... and feeling full.. so we went out for a short walk, and half way, we met Xun n his frd again!!! We two gossip bot them again.. Hahahaha!!

Continue to laze around in the room and taking more photos around after a good bath..
Hahahah!!! We actually a bit boliao la..
But simply want to relax only!
Soon zzzZZzzz...... But we two continue to yak yak yak... And have good talk over personal stuff... n then, zzZZZZZZZ
Morning!!! After a good night rest... we wake up to the warm morning sun... Hungry hungry... Breakfast... Not bad

After breakfast more lazing around to enjoy the luxury and more photos taking.. Hahahha.. I jus got the hang of playing with Xun's Camera...
But soon its 3pm.. Got to check out.. Im so so reluctant to go off!!! Its one of the comfortable tt I would loved to be....
But well, thanks to Sayuri, if its not her, I dont think I will get a chance to relax here.. Coz she had told me that she would want to try this hotel... And of coz, Ive always wanted to try too.

18 August 2007 ~ Art + Dinner

Sayuri chan told me she would like to visit Singapore Art museum. I hadnt been there for nearly 10 yrs. So thought its a good idea to go. To align with National Day, the Art Museum displays works from Singapore and Asean.

Its quite interesting and hermmmm a bit strange, hows some are being considered as Art piece.. Well Im quite bad at Art actually. Recalling back in Sec School, I always get no more than 59 for my Art. Hahahaha...
They have a drawing corner for kids to draw freely on the board. Big kids, Sayuri chan n I started picking up crayons and drew.
Can up make up wat had I drawn? Hahaha.. I wrote Takarazuka with the 5 gumi, Hana(flower), Tsuki(Moon), Yuki(Snow), Hoshi(Star) and Sora(Solar).
Sayuri chan laugh n laugh...
She drew Pocky. The anime character which she quite into it..
Maybe this is one of the best part I enjoyed for this trip.
Hahaha

Next we saw theres a chair and a drawing board with water color to paint. Sayuri and I took turn to paint.. Nice pix?? You believe we drew?? hahaha of coz not la... Its was painted already. We just took photos with it for fun.
Im looking for a present for my friend(not wan to say name.. wait she know).
After the Museum trip, we went to Suntec to find. I saw the make your own bear shop and I was thinking should I buy one or not. But after playing around with the bear costumes, Im so hanged to it then I decide to get one for her. After stuffing the cotton into the bear, have to give the bear a "shower". Its to blow and brush the bear to make sure they get a shiny suit of fur.
This is the end product of my bear... I wanted to call it Takarazuka bear, but cant la... So I name it after the birthday girl.
I chose a ballet dress with little cute shoes.
And I chose extra thing for this bear bear, a pair of wings!!
This reminds me of Ichiro maki at her Grand finale at Elisabeth show.. Hahaha...

My sister booked a table at Pan Pacific hotel, Hai Tien Lo. Why? Coz theres fireworks today and my mum had been wanting badly to watch live. So my sis n I were talking about going to a restaurant to eat and could watch it at comfort level.

As theres no more seat left, facing the Marina bay, so we were seated at another side(the restaurant is a round concept). The waitress told us that when the fireworks start, we could go to the other side and watch. The guests had already been informed.
Its 8pm. We shall start our dinner first.
We ordered a few dishes and to be honest, they are quite nice(though quite expensive.... oh ok.. my sister treating.. hahaha). I Like the veggies.. Very fresh and crispy.
Its 9pm, but the fireworks had yet to start... Everyone,(not jus us, other guests also) starts to get impatient.... Finally, its 9.20pm (I tik), We heard a Pomm, everyone rush to the corner, that could see the marina bay. So cool!!!!
I used my handphone to record the fireworks.
At last, 15mins ended.. We could have our dessert!!! I like mine!! Ive ordered mango sago.. Its so nice!!!! I loved Sweet sweet dessert.
My dad ordered Avocado with ice cream, its very very nice.. but I still like mine... hahaha!!

Xun, Sayuri and I ~ Part 3~

28th July part 2 ~ After Zoo.... We needed dinner.. Coz we only had bee hoon in the afternoon, 2 pack shared by 3 of us.. so well.. We were feeling hungry already...

So we took shuttle service back to Yishun and search for a bus to town.
Actually we are all so tired.. We went home late the night before, out so early in the morning and walked the whole day from 10am - 4pm, with little rest..
No wonder poor Xun knocked out soon we boarded the bus... Jus as naughty Sayuri n myself thought that we could quietly take pixs of him sleeping, Xun woke up... Sayuri and me kept laughing at him... Hes a bit paiseh(sorry la).. As soon as Sayuri and I finished taking photo together, we two also K.O.. We slept from Yishun to Bugis.. Too sleepy...

Sayuri chan had craving for Curry Fish Head, but Xun not tt keen...Coz..he will start to sweat like hell when he eat spicy food.
So we decide to go for something mild.. Chicken Rice!!(Sorry Eriy, I know u missed it alot..) We head for Soup Restaurant located at Suntec.
Since, Im in charge of ordering, so we had, Chicken of coz, sambal veggies, Steam fish and homemade Toufu.
The Chicken is quite good!!! But.. hermmm a little overprice though(tts of coz compare to Five Star Chicken rice which is also Yummy!!)
Sayuri chan and Xun were discussing where to go for dessert. And the day before, we suggested bringing Sayuri to eat durian, being a good sport, she agreed(though shes very scared...). We decided to go to the one at Bugis village.
I knew of a stall there that sells durian and we could sit down n eat.
Sayuri had tried durian ice cream and durian pancake before, shes still not so scare of the smell. But D24 durian, once, freaked her out.
I went to order 2 durian, one sweet one bitter. Though only 2 durians, but there so much flesh that we are so so so FULL... And surprising to me, Sayuri ate 6 or 7 of them. Now durian to her, is acceptable. Though not at the super yummy range, but its, between, ok and oiishi.
From Left:
1.Hmm wat shall I do? 2.EEEKKss..Xun get tt away from me. 3.Ok la,not bad..