:: Back from Perth, Australia ::

Time wheeze pass me unknowingly... I'm back from my Perth trip...

It's great fun over there and this entry is gonna be a long long one... So folks, take your time to read...

Day of departure 08 July 06:
I'm gonna take the midnight flight SQ226. All 50 of us met at Changi Airport and can't wait to get to Perth... Dar, Mommy and Daddy sent me to the airport... Little June is in Melbourne... How I wish I'm going to Melbourne too... But Perth is just as well... Goodness me.. You can't believe my luggage is 20kg.. That's so crazy... Alright, it's winter there and I have to pack some winter clothings there...

(Me and Clarice at Singapore Changi Airport)

Day 01 09 July 06:
Arrive in Perth International airport around 7am... No time difference (For those who are not sure)Cool air welcomes me and YES! I'm in Perth... The coach pick us up at around 8am for Curtin campus... Our lecturer Corey was there to meet us... All of us were so stoned (I believe so... at least for me cos I didn't sleep a wink while on the flight)Played games and treasure hunt the whole campus... Feels like freshmen orientation... I love campus life...







Check in to Mont Clare Apartment... My "home" for the next 1 week... Cool, Spacious 2 bedroom apartment, fully equipped, even the groceries are stock up (No worries about being hungry at night). Dinner is served at K Cafe, juz next to Mont Clare Apartment... Nice dinner i should say... Straight back to my room after dinner... Dear tired...

:: My birthday dinner by The Esplanade::

Alright.. Here's some pics of my romantic birthday dinner...

:: My Birthday ::

Today is 2nd July 2006...

Princess Athena celebrating her birthday! I'm not gonna tell you how old I am this year but I think I look younger than I seems to be and let's keep it this way... hahaha

Went for dinner at Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe with Jeff... Food there is nice and sooo cheap... Worth the $$...

Prince Jim is gonna bring me to a nice little restaurant by The Esplanade later in the evening... Meanwhile, let me juz laze around...

:: After a war ::

Good gracious! I didn't realise I haven't been doing any updates for the past 1 month... Gosh! Wat have I been doing???

Well, anyway, finally the "war" with the books have finally ended... (At least for this sem, alright)... Finish my final "fighting" last thursday evening... That was a tough fight boy... It was all because of the "General of RMD" feeding us with insufficient info and leaving us to fight the war ourselves... Fine! I'm just keeping my fingers crossed... Please let me have the victory...

After the "war", Clarice and I went for Ben & Jerry... Yummy Yummy... Delicious!! I simply love it...

On Saturday, went to meet "Mahathir" with Dar... Long queue at the custom... Too bad I didn't have any special privilege to juz go through the custom (even tho I'm meeting "Mahathir") hahaha... Well, bought a pair of new Levi's Marrissa bootcut... I love the cutting of this jeans... Also bought a cream top at onli S$24...

Sunday is Daddy's Day... We gonna have our celebration on Tuesday! But I whip up a nice meal of soup, sweet and sour pork and some veg for Dad! My first try in cooking swwet and sour pork and it is still not too bad... Dad and Dar did give me credit for it... Intially, we planned to go Phoenix Hotel for Daddy's Day dinner, but Dad didn't want us to spend $$ so Mommy is gonna cook chilli crab and oatmeal prawn tonite... Yummy... Juz the thought of it makes me drool... Kekeke...

Well, tat's all for now...

PS: I'm leaving for Perth in another 18 days!

:: Aurora ::

Have you ever wonder what goes on over the other side of the world? What is there over at both end of the world (i.e. North Pole and South Pole)?

I am so amazed with Mother Nature... Especially in the Artic Region... The Artic is a vast, ice-covered ocean surrounded by tree-less, frozen ground, that teems with life, including organisms living in the ice, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals and human societies.

Most importantly, I love the Aurora (or Northern Lights)... They are all so beautiful and so amazing that it is created by elements that we can never see but yet surround us... It is like a painted sky to me...

Aurora is a beautiful natural phenomenon that often occurs in the polar regions of Earth. It appears as colorful clouds and rays of green and red (and sometimes blue) light that dance across the sky. The aurora borealis and aurora australis (Latin for "northern" and "southern" dawn, respectively) occur in symmetric ovals centered on the northern and southern magnetic poles of Earth. The aurora is formed when charged particles (electrons and protons) are guided by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere near the poles. When these particles collide with atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere, primarily oxygen and nitrogen, some of the energy in these collisions is transformed into the visible light that characterizes the aurora.

Here's some beautiful pictures of Aurora (Northern Lights)

:: Jandy Baby ::

Ok... I admit, I "steal" this from my Sis blog... Hahaha...

:: Super Duper Long Weekend (Again) ::

Yoz... Back from my long long weekend again... Public holiday on Friday, and office closed on Monday... What have I been doing for this whole month (haha... working only 4 days on almost every week) It was supposed to be a fun-filled long weekend, but then, Mr S and me couldn't make up our mind where to go (also cos pretty expensive to go for short-trip) for the long weekend so we decided to juz stay in Singapore... We planned a whole lot of activities but too bad, it didn't realli work out to be what we want.

On Friday, Mr S went for a game of badminton with his poly friends and me stay at home watching DVD till the afternoon... He came to pick me up and we went to JB... Yoohoo.... It's time for seafood again... Went shopping in City Square and Holiday Plaza... Bought a T-shirt for myself and Mr S bought me a Mickey diamante pendant...
Went on to Taman Sentosa for our dinner and we didn't even realised it is oredi 9pm... Along the way to Taman Sentosa, there's some celebration for Vesak Day, took some pictures of it too...It was almost 1am when we reached home... So tired...

Saturday... Supposed to be our hiking day... But as it rain the day before, Mr S says the soil will be loose and it will be very muddy... So, decided to stay at home and watch my DVDs again... It wasn't till the evening then I step out of the house for dinner... Had dinner @ Gluttons Bay... The hokkien mee taste MARVELLOUS... Satays are so-so, BBQ chicken also ok... The bandung drink taste good... Juz the right amount of milk and rose syrup...

Sunday = rest day... Rest @ home the whole day again, with Mr S doing his thesis and me back to DVDs... Cooked a sumptuous dinner for him and family... Well, the sumptuous dinner consists of Mom's recipe of Vinegar wings, Cream of Corn, steam eggs and vege... Yummy yummy... Everything was wiped off... Went to Mustafa with Royden and sis at around 10.30pm... Siao right, so late still go Mustafa... But it's so fun... There's so much to buy at Mustafa... Reach home almost 1am and I'm back to my DVDs...

Monday, office closed... Laze around for the whole day... Wanted to go KTV but I'm so darned lazy... Laze till evening then I start to prepare myself for class... Last lesson, die die also muz go... Hahhaha...

Well, that's about all for my super duper long weekend...

:: Gloomy thoughts ::

Was so sick yesterday... Gastric flu... Hate that kind of feeling... Ended up sleeping at home the whole day long. No strength for anything, not even for food.

Well, I may be over sensitive... Sometimes I longed for being single again... It doesn't matter if there is no one to share your happiness or sadness... As it is, I am not sure of what I want anymore... People are happily chasing after their dreams... But here I am, being indecisive...

Izzit my fault to be thinking faster than anyone of u? I do wish I can slow down my pace, not be so fast in my thinking and juz be a simple woman... Well, you may think that I am not that fast or I am not that complicated. But, well, that's juz your thinking... I'm juz blabbering too much here... Sometimes I wish to shout: "I HAD ENOUGH!"

I wish time can turn back to 2 yrs back when I'm still the happy me...

:: A long weekend ::

So fast.... The weekend is over....
I'll do some short updates...

Saturday

Met up with Jeff and Clarice for a BBQ session in the late afternoon.... Didn't book any pit, but we juz pitch a tent, bought food, drinks and a portable mini BBQ pit... It was so fun even though it's juz the 4 of us... Eat drink and be merry... Spend the night away chatting and laughing... It was fun indeed... Let's do it again some other day...

Sunday

Went over to Karen's house... Her baby Ginger is so cute... Super active and super know how to run... hahaha





Went to watch Election 2 after dinner with Karen and her hb... It is more of a guy movie.. Pretty gross... but worth watching it...



Monday

Went to watch Eight below... A super touching show.... Make me cry and cry... I love Maya, Max, Old Jack, Truman, Buck, Shadow, Dewey and Shorty... They are all heroes...

:: LouisDog World ::

Karen send me this link... It's full of cute stuff for doggies....
I'm in love with all these... Hope to buy for Jandy... (But it's too exp... Realli too exp)

Clothes for her











Toys for her







House & Bed for her

:: Man with JRT in Orchard Road ::

As the title says, Man with JRT in Orchard Road

I was on my way to Plaza Singapura on Saturday afternoon when I saw this man with his Jack Russell. The JRT is such a cute little darling... But that man is realli too much. He was riding on the bicycle with the poor JRT following him. The JRT was without collar or being leash. It seems like an abandon dog to me... She was crossing the road herself with an occassional glance from the man riding the bicycle. No one knows if the JRT belongs to that man or not. So after crossing 2 roads, flooded with people and cars, (the JRT could have been knock down by a car or trampled by we human)it started walking around the open space in front of Plaza Singapura.

I couldn't stand it anymore. I went up to the man asking him if the dog belongs to him. Yes! Indeed the dog belongs to him. He can even stare at me and say she won't bite. Now the thing is, it's not a matter of whether the dog will bite or not. But he is actually risking her life. A dog is a life too. You should be responsible for it. What will the man do if the dog is being run over by a car?

I shouted at him, telling him he is being a very irresponsible dog owner. He stare at me and cycle off, leaving the poor dog running after him...

I realli cannot stand this kind of things happening in our society. My frenz say that I'm being a "busybody". I shouldn't have go up to him and tell him off.

Why are Singaporeans becoming so cold-blooded? Maybe we realli should not care a hoot about people's business? I just wish that this society will be a better place to live in with people caring for one another.

:: Updates ::

It's been a long week... Preparing for my mid-term paper... It is the first time i'm so nervous about mid-term paper... But I was darn slow... Take 1 whole week to study 1 chapter... Hmmmm actually I took my own sweet time to study... Well, it's finally over, now I've got to put my "heart and soul" into our project... Dateline is due on 10 May but we haven start a single line for the report... Hmm.. Nvm, wait for Vin vin to start... Hahaha...

Oh ya... My Jandy is 6... Bake a cake on Sunday and celebrated 1 day earlier for her... She's so cute... Know how to pose in front of the camera with her pinkish birthday cake.

:: The Perfect Birthday Dinner ::

It's Jim Jim's birthday... Happy Birthday My Dear!
Like I mention in my previous post, we gonna go to a secret place for dinner...
Alright... I'll let the secret out... We went to My Secret Garden... It was a lush, cosy and right place for some quiet nights out with your loved ones...

The waiter and waitress there are courteous and friendly. We ordered Cream of Carrot, it tastes delicious and was serve in a very nice bowl. Rib-eyed steak for each of us... It was done just nice, the chef obviously did not use a lot of seasoning on the steak, retaining its orginal flavour (thumbs up). We wanted some desserts and the server recommended we try the triple choc or tiramisu... I'm greedy... I want both... It was so good that I wanted more (But I'm too full)
Me and Dar enjoyed the night together thoroughly...

PS: This is the place we want to hold our ROM initially and this visit tells me that I must hold it here... =D

:: Morning crowd ::

I believe all of us heard of the saying: "The early bird catches the worms"
All these while, taking a cab (fares are reimbursable) to work in the morning was a breeze... Mind you, I start work at 7am and I usually leave home around 6.40am(It is onli a 10 mins drive to my office) Recently, there has been too many early souls... Waking up as early as me, trying to overtake one another for the cab... Worse still, there's always this auntie still dress in her pyjamas dashing past me, trying to get a cab to her god-damned place... I mean, Auntie, where are you going in that torn and tattered pyjamas??!! Dun tell me you are going to work or are you are having an affair with some old man staying in my block and you are rushing home so that your old man at home won't realise you are out the whole night?

Darn this whole thing! Sometimes I even have to call a cab at this early hour in order to get to work... People! I really hate to be an uncivilised Singaporean who is always trying to vie for cabs with you people.

:: The making of Jim Jim birthday Cake ::

It's Sunday again... Had an intensive seminar for RMD yesterday... Was so bored from it... Well, enough of tat... I'm not here to whine about how boring the class was.

It was supposed to be a surprise for Dar... But since he stay over for the weekend, might as well recruit his help (Heehee)... My First Cake making experience... We had all our ingredients ready and there we are, starting our cake making session... First we try to mix the eggs and sugar together... It was my first time using an electic whisk (Gosh! It can be pretty dangerous wor!) Initially, everything was ok... But just as Dar was talking to me, I forgot that I'm holding the whisk and left the bowl... Whah!!! the mixture start to splatter around... Hahaha... (I think that's the fun part of making a cake) Start to clear the mess and continue... Finally, everything is ready... We gonna put the mixture in the oven for 30 minutes... (Pray hard the cake turns out well!)

*Ding* Finally the 30 minutes wait is over... The cake was.............. GORGEOUS! At that instant, I was so proud of myself for baking such a nice cake on my first attempt... Now it's the decorating part... Dar help out with the decor... He put lotsa and lotsa of chocolates on the cake... Ewwww... How sinful... Hahaha... Finally, we just have to put in the fridge to firm the cake and it will be ready...

Made pasta for Dar in the evening too... This is a pre-celebration of his birthday! We gonna go some place for dinner on Tuesday too (Shhh... Keep the location a secret first)

:: Sumptuous Dinner at The Paramount ::

My 4th uncle is so lucky... Struck lottery and won a whooping $50K... And he was generous enough to give the whole family a dinner... Initially he wanted to go New Park Hotel, but after I told him The Paramount serves better food, he ask me to make a reservation over there for 28 paxs.

So yesterday evening, we went for the dinner... A total of 26 paxs (2 of my cousins are not able to make it)... The food was great, company was great too... We had

Japanese cuisine:
Salmon Sashimi, California Maki

Cold Cut and Appetizer:
Pan-fried Shisamo (2 plates of it),Mini Octopus, Barbecued combination

Chef's Special Recommendation:
Mini Monk Jump Over The Wall, Beijing Roasted Duck, Poached Live Prawns, Deep-fried Prawns with Wheat and Butter, Baked Oysters with Cheese

Main dish:
Crispy Soft Shell Crab with Salted Pepper, Seafood Salad with Fresh Fruits, Sauteed Scallops with Celery in X.O Sauce, Sauteed Sliced Ostrich with Ginger and Onions, Crispy Beancurd Rolls with Salted Pepper, Deep-fried Marble Goby Fish with Chef's Special Sauce, Stewed Beef Brisket with Turnip in Claypot

Soup:
Steamed Minced Pigeon Soup in Bamboo Tube

Desserts:
Herbal Jelly served with Honey, Chilled Sago Cream with Honey Dew, Vanilla Ice Cream

Sweet Dim Sum:
Red Bean Pancake, Ice Cream Puff

Gosh! That's realli alot... We had more than half of what is on the menu...
So full after the whole meal... Need to go on a diet after this sumptuous dinner...

:: First meeting for RMD ::

It's a beautiful Sunday but well... when you have to drag yourself out of bed to meet for project meeting it's not tat beautiful anymore...
Met up with Jeff, Clarice and Angela for our first meet up for RMD. Darn it... It's all because of Joseph Tan that we have to make our first presentation the week after the first lesson. Anyway, we had fun meeting up...

:: I'm a Butterfly Princess ::

(With compliment from Nicole)

:: In Love With This ::

Oh no... I'm so in love in this bag... Should I get it?? (This will cost me approx S$145)