Mummy!!! It's Over!!!

Walau what have I been doing for the past 9 days? I wonder if I should have taken 5 days leave in a row in the first place. Oh well... take it as a much needed break to recharge my batteries for the remaining 2 months of 2010, cos there are plenty of things happening which requires plenty of energy i.e. more wedding dinners/ROMs, reservist, AFA, TGCC, Christmas and NYE!

22nd October 2010, Friday

Was cleaning up the remaining left side of my room, i.e. my computer table and the 3 drawers, as well as the shelf above my pc. Now half of my room is spanking clean and neat. The other half are the display cabinets, TV and other cabinets. Will be another round of headache when I'm clearing that area O_o...

Went to meet up with the kiddos and Aaron and gf for some card games at TCC @ Bugis Junction. It's Friday night and therefore they decided to come out for this thingy. Since I'm so free for the whole week, decided to join them for Monopoly Deal there. Played from 9 plus to 12+. In the end we had to take cab home again lol.

23rd October 2010, Saturday

As planned, Selina and Liyang picked me and Momo up to have dinner at The Garden Slug. Wow... I've been to this restaurant several times within 3 months lol. This time we had to sit outside since the whole of the indoor tables were booked for some event I think. Saw the plenty of cats and parrots around the area. The parrots at the petshop at the end of the block kept saying words like "happy birthday", "hello" etc. There is a resident cat seen sleeping at the bench at the front door of The Garden Slug. Lazy kitty.

Resident cat. Resident evil.

First time had to sit outside.

Big and juicy portobello mushrooms! Each one as big as my fist!

Tried this bolognese. Quite ok.

Momo got this dory fish. The fish and mashed potato goes very well with the tartar sauce.

Selina ordered this "baby food"

And Liyang got himself an MMM - Mouthwatering Meatball Melts. The meatball is heavenly!

Ate until wanna puke again. Their portions are really out-of-portions! I'll definitely pay half price to get half of the portions instead!

Then Selina drove us all the way to the Night Safari to the highly anticipated Halloween Horrors event. Wacauz the queue of cars along the road leading to the entrance of NS was so long, and we were asked to park our cars along the road as there weren't enough carparks. Had to walk a long way in. Coupled with the fact that the weather forecast shows thunderstorms throughout the night, we decided to go to the NS on the 30th instead. CrapZZz... Oh well, 30th October DIE DIE MUST GO!

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Spring Cleaning 2010

Wacauz I see the amount of rubbish/treasure in my drawers can cry.
Now still at the first two drawers only.

Threw away lots of stuff found in my drawers:
- Transistors, LEDs from SC30X (those to be placed on circuit boards)
- An organizer with metallic casing from Singtel Mobile dated 2000
- Lots of namecards/business cards (some which I don't remember who or what it is)
- Dragonball cards
- Various expired cards
- Lottery tickets (those that I share with MKG or other groups)
- A watch (forgot who gave it to me, doesn't really matter now lol)
- Spectacles + case
- Matchboxes
- Angpows (with no $ inside of cos!)
- Empty (and non-empty) medicine bottles
- A packet of 4 pens (I remember this! They cost $2 each...for charity back in TOTs in NTU)
- Shit I found another packet!
- A stick of cream (no idea what it contains)
- PDL x 2 (2 slips of papers for Provisional Driving License dated 2003)
- Bus tickets
- Final Fantasy VIII cards (extras)
- Leftover stickers from Megaman figurines (the remnants from peeling off the used stickers)
- Fifa World Cup 2010 Stickers (extras)
- Summon Ticket ($30! WTF!)
- My whole set of ST Electronics namecards

Found and still keeping:
- Receipt for my Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike. $657. Always forgot how much it cost lol.
- Ayumi Hamasaki armbands (went to wash them)
- Plenty of other miscellaneous things

Ok now all 3 drawers are empty. The next thing is to put them all back into an organized manner. Faint...

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Long Overdue Post

Once again, laziness (+ busyness) prevented me from updating my blog eheheh. So here goes:

9th October 2010, Saturday

So we went for our JB trip as planned. First time going to JB with the kiddos. And best of all, it is the first time Joy actually stepped into JB. Have to make sure she's taken care of like a little girl (well...she is...ahhaha). We went to get our tickets for two movies: "Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen" and "Eat, Pray, Love". Think must be the first time I watched two movies on the same day at JB. We then had lunch at Nando's, my first time trying food from this supposedly very famous restaurant, as can be seen from the long queues outside its outlet at Bugis Junction. Not too bad, but not to the point of having to queue like mad for it.

2 movies in a row.

Sides are pretty good.

The chicken is quite nice too.

Momo is HOT! Joy is MILD.

Then we went to watch Chen Zhen. Momo and Kiwi and me had already watched the show previously but since Momo wanted to watch again in Canto, we went ahead to watch it lol. WE MISSED THE OPENING AGAIN! WTH... Think we were one or two minutes late. Watching the show again within one week didn't really bore us, or at least to me. I like Donnie Yen movies, for all the action and fighting scenes. But they actually cut off a few scenes from the movie, making it shorter by roughly 15 minutes or so. DiaoOOoo... But still, worth to watch for a second time.

After that, we went shopping for our stuff. I went to shop for my own clothes alone while the three of them went to grab their girls' stuff. I managed to spend up to RM200+ for the first time on my trip to JB lol. Haven't been shopping for clothes since dunno when. Then we met up again to watch Eat, Pray, Love. Quite a nice movie. 3.5 stars.

Next we took a cab to Taman Sri Tebrau Hawker Centre, which was in my usual JB itinerary. First time the kiddos were there, so I brought them to this place I frequented. Ordered quite a bit of food including crayfish, veggies, beggar chicken, salad youtiao, pepper crabs. End up only Momo and me were finishing up the crabs. Yumz I love crabs. Especially pepper crabs. Crayfish was awesome too. Spent about RM30+ per person. We then took a cab back to City Square before making our way back to Singapore. Don't you just love to go to JB for cheap and good movies, food and clothes? =P

Pepper crab! YUM!

Momo so happy that she kena giap by crab.

See lah? Play play play!

10th October 2010, Sunday (101010)

Nice date eh? Went to ECP with Momo. There was some dog events there, so we went to take a look. So many cute doggies running around with their owners. These dogs got such good lives huh?

HDR of the evening sky at ECP. Will use it as my next wallpaper!

18th October 2010, Monday

The start of my week long leave. With NO PLANS at all. Then again, I have plans to do some spring cleaning to my room. Time to take out the trash. And also of cos, to update my blog. Takes lotsa time to blog you know? Especially with plenty of photo-editing.

Suddenly I saw Claire saying meet up for some drinks or dessert on FB, therefore since I have nothing planned for the afternoon, I went to meet her at Iluma. Had some yogurt at Berrylite. Yea it's her birthday so I thought it's nice to meet up for a while for some birthday dessert lol.

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Get Down (ゲッダン)

Wahah didn't know there's such a meme craze of Get Down (Get Down). Just heard the 1997 Hirose Kohmi's "Promise" on Japan-A-Radio. Didn't know it's made super famous by this meme. I even saw the Megaman video before hahaha.

Anime Version nice!

This version the best hahaha!

Oh and here's a boliao pic I made, from a pic taken by Aaron when we went to Play Nation for games hahaha!

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Mid-week Wednesday!

Yay! 2 more days to weekend! Today went for the One Citi Orientation held at Pan Pac @ Marina Square. Had to wake up at 6:30am! Feeling sleepy like siao. Attended the boliao orientation program with Peiying, as well as Huiyun, our office-mate. The lunch was nothing much lol. Ended about 2pm. We decided to clear the remaining half day as we were too sianz to go back to office after the morning half of boring talks. Therefore we decided to check out the movie theatres at Marina Square and finally chose to watch "The Switch". Wah when was the last time I watched a $7 weekday movie? Finally my SAFRA card came into good use lol. The movie wasn't really anything fantastic at all, although Jennifer Aniston was acting in it. 3/5 stars at most. After that we had no more programmes and therefore I went home while HY went to Esplanade library while PY went to Taka to buy her things. Feeling super tired sia...went home and slept for two hours lol.

1st October 2010, Friday

Can't wait for the day to end. Went to get Ros' 50mm lens from Li Teng at Tampines after work. He and Meiqi came down to Tampines to shop. I then went to Tanah Merah to wait for the other people to go down to Bugis together. We then visited this Thai restaurant at Sunshine Plaza called Aroy Dee. The place is so small yet super packed. Super good business. We waited for a while before we could get tables. The food is really good. WAYYYYY better than the Suan Thai Restaurant @ Liang court that I went to with my family.
After that, it was Play Nation! Woohoo! First time going there. Wah the place actually quite big. Behind the main area is a whole stretch of rooms and TVs for people to play Wii and Xbox. We got the super mega ultra big room. All 10 of us could fit into the room very comfortably. There were sofas and tables and 1 Xbox and 1 Wii. Nice sia. It cost $14.90 for the 1st 2 hours of gameplay. Up to you to play Wii, Xbox or the tonnes of board games inside the room. We even extended for another one hour after the initial two hours cos time really passed so quickly when you're having fun. There was this very fun dancing Wii game called "Just Dance" that I discovered almost at the end of our 3-hour playtime. Only managed to try a few songs. Next time shall play again!

[Pix to be uploaded when I get them from Aaron and/or 010]

Then almost everyone wanna go home liao. Only Joce and Kiwi wanted to stay out and do something. But since nobody had a solid plan, we all went home... -_- Then Joce and I were very hungry so ended up looking for food again. Had supper at techno kopitiam again. This time it's dim sum. Kinda sux. I think only their buns are nice. 豆花下一次 ok? =) Then we chatted and chatted over everything until super late lol. Zombified... At least I know again that the 3 stars are called Orion's Belt lol.

2nd October 2010, Saturday

Met up with Naizhu, Hock Seng, Alan and special guest appearance, Wenyao, for dinner at 313 @ Somerset. We went to try this German restaurant Brotzeit. Nice outdoor setting with good ambience. We ordered plenty of exotic food and a 500ml glass of Oktoberfest beer each. Alan and I shared this 2-person serving of pork knuckles. Damn nice but awfully sinful. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna store most of it in my spare tyre argh.

Celebrating NZ's end of job-hunt.

WY's Medallions

NZ's white sausage

HS's sausage and potato wedges

Alan and my Pork Knuckles

We then went to watch "Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen" at Orchard Cineleisure, with Kim joining us and WY not joining. Momo and Kiwi also joined us for this movie. Missed the first few minutes of Donnie Yen supposedly stepping over bullets -_-. Think should be watching again this Saturday at JB hehehe. The movie is quite alright, but not as fascinating as expected. Of course can't compare to Ip Man... but then still worth watching. Every Donnie Yen show is worth watching. Just that there weren't much action and fighting sequences in the show. 3.5/5 stars.

3rd October 2010, Sunday

Need to get wedding angpows for the wedding dinner later on at night. Therefore went downstairs to grab them, and also pei Momo go down see how much it is to repair her sis' lappy. Walau $100+ for a fan!? 杀人放火! So she didn't choose to get it repaired. We then went to Blic Ice Cream Cafe for some ice-cream. And was made to do something silly ahahha.
After that I prepared to go for Adrian's wedding held at Pan Pacific. Almost all the Blk 22 guys were there. It's been a long time we all met up. And as usual, now the only time we can gather so many people is during a wedding liao.

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