.. ::God is with us:: ..

Dead

2007-08-30T19:47:00.000+08:00

This blog can be officially pronounced dead - I hardly blog and I don't even think anyone reads my blog now.
hahaa.
But nvm! Just a short post for today.

School has been great! and I'm beginning to give tuition.
Believe it or not, I am teaching a Korean boy and a THAI boy! Whoots. That's like having two bull shots, cos I got two foreign boys.
Yay! I need to practice my thai very much because the thai boy can't even speak a proper line in English, so I have to teach math in thai.
Yucks, but at the same time, cool.

haha, anyways, I'm really l-a-z-y to blog nowadays.
so yea, if you're frequent reader, which I doubt so, other than my foursome babes, then maybe you can try coming like maybe once a month? ok, or maybe once a year. cos that's enough for you to read all my entries of the year. hahaa.

Very soon, my blog will just disappear from this universe.

O! i totally forgot about my thailand trip.

Or so, maybe a photo blog.
Since pictures tell a thousand words.

Soon. Soon. Soon.
But I don't know when.
Because I'm a bum.

Right now, I just wanna say that my life's good because God made it good.
And I love it.

It's 3 weeks to mid-semester break! I can't wait. hah.

Jesus My Splendour

2007-08-14T01:14:00.000+08:00

My God is good.

I'm thoroughly convinced He works miraculously.

From answering my prayer/questions within 3 days, to answering within minutes now!
This time using my friends, not just one but two, as his baits (do you call it baits? it sounds abit wrong...) for His amazing plan.

God has just worked a miracle on me. So much so I was tremendously touched by His works. I shouted for Pris, hugged her tight, and cried on her shoulders.

Tears of joy they called it.

And I LOVE it when it happens, because I know Jesus is in me.
Because He's in me, that is why He knows me inside out.

The Lord has just set my heart on fire.
(He ever saved me from a fire. This is the best testimonial for anyone who wants to believe in the Lord, because He's the Saviour.)

Coincidentals and God's plans can be distinctly differentiated, I feel it.
What happened was not just pure coincidental, I know it.

[ On a side note, my mood was dampened this morning when I rushed to school for thai class and A. Nook came out of the classroom telling us that there's no class.

Dampened not because I love thai, (I love thai of cos!) but because I rushed to school for nothing and thai was my only class for the day.

Looking on the bright side, I had brunch with my new classmates, some of whom I haven't seen before!

Needless to say, God has just energized me and I'm looking forward for school tomorrow.]

Jesus, here I come to you.

Off!

2007-08-09T15:23:00.000+08:00

Indonesia!

Bye again! =)

A night at NTU

2007-08-08T23:28:00.000+08:00

Stayed over at Anthea's hall room on Tuesday at Nanyang Technology Uni (NTU)!

Her hall is somewhat like Prince George's Park (PGP) at NUS, their design's almost the same plus they had those beigy rocky like thing at the lobby, like PGP's.

Emily should know what I'm talking about since she's in aki.

hahaa.

When I stepped into the room, memories when I stayed at PGP came flashing back.

Anthea's hall room is comfy with a fridge and air con!

I helped Ant do up her pin board.
See the background, the room even has a nice curtain and a sliding mosquito net (because NTU's hilly and foresty)

After we bathed. Their bathroom's duper clean, unlike PGP's cluster toilet-cum-bathroom.

Had some catching up session before we went to sleep at 1.30am, which was still quite early, cos Ant had a 9.30am lecture the next day.

Love ya babe!

Blading Pro? Yeah.... right.

2007-08-04T13:03:00.000+08:00

I'm quite excited about my weight, and how people have been saying that I've changed, so before the semester starts, I initiated to go blading again! to compensate the last time we didn't blade before I left for Thailand becos it was raining....

Amanda says "sawatdii kha!!!"
I can die laughing just by looking at this. HAHAHA.

After multiple blading sessions, I can blade rather properly now!

I love this picture loads!
Doesn't even look like ECP to me..

Union Camp '07

2007-08-03T14:55:00.000+08:00

Day 0.....

First day at Kent Ridge.

They had a new LCD so Justin prepared a powerpoint last minute.
Up 2nd right: Old camp comm from last year came down to visit us! John, Kin Ching and Wei Qiang! and current camp comm, Ching, Emily and myself!

First day was Scavenger Hunt, and I was station master for one of the stations called Spin 21, with Min Chu!

Freshies had to 'kiap' the poker cards with their toes till the end of the line, and add up the cards to 21. Before the game, they had to spin around 10 times on the spot, with the weirdest actions ever.

There isn't a picture here, but it was fun, becos Min Chu and I thought of variations, and each OG had to entertain us with something different.

2nd day started off with a 3-hour sponsor talk..... (*gulp)

Followed by pool games!

I organised Night Scrabble until my hair turned white, grew all over, pulled them out and it was all gone. hahahahaa
Of course! after nights killing my brain cells, it was sure successful and ended punctually!
Kudos to myself! heh.

3rd day at Sentosa.

After reki-ing for over 5 times, Han Chuen got a really cosy place called the iforgotwhat pavillion for wet weather programme. Really thoughtful of him!

I wouldn't have thought of that, and would have just followed last year's location at Palawan Beach.

First activity was this thing called 'Z' formation, where all of us, including freshies, councillors and camp comm to form a letter Z, and USD$3 per head will be donated to charity by Zorpia.

There were close to about 400 of us, so a total of USD$1200 donated to charity! Just by forming a letter 'Z'! How simple eh?

Beach games. I loved the float game, cos I made two girls pull a guy, which was pretty tough. haha.

I was dunked to the waters almost 6 times, just to award bonus to the freshies.
Rashes paid for that.

While waiting for the buses to arrive and bring us back to KR.

I didnt realised my hair had grown so long! I just cut my hair for S$5 in Thailand after a 38% discount!

Back from Sentosa is Mass dance - Casino Reuda!

Fourth day was War Games!!!

Followed by Chiong Night at Double O!

The music played at Double O was superb!

Last day before breaking camp.

The traditional handshake to thank each and everyone who participated in UC and forget all grudges!
I love the KC way - forgive and forget.

Bizcommers

and finally... Union Camp '07 - The Movie

The very next minute after breaking camp, I hurried back home to rush to Thailand.

Nonetheless, Union Camp wouldn't have been successful without my dear Camp Comm!!
All the 24 of us.

Meet up sooooon!! =)

Before I left for Union Camp

2007-08-03T12:24:00.000+08:00

Zen's 1st birthday party

Zen finally turned 1 on 1st July!
And there was another baby on her way out and was late for a few days already!

Magic show for the kids!
Right before my eyes.

What about the birthday boy? Busy being carried around

East Coast Park with Vanessa and family

Vanessa and family came over to Singapore on the 3rd July for a holiday!

Brought them to ECP, thought of cycling at first, but the kiosk was super busy to entertain us, so we decided to blade instead!

KC's Evening of Music, Dance and Drama

Pris performed for KC's emdd, been supporting her ever since I left KC.
Since this year she's Sec4, it will probably be the last year I'd watch emdd.

Bought tickets at the counter and still got good seats!

Catch Pris here!!! Zoomed up at her at the 4:06 min

Candice's Birthday song!

2007-08-02T14:06:00.000+08:00

O! I forgot to include Candice's birthday song in the previous post!

To the tune of The Archies - Sugar Sugar

Candice
Ah, Honey honey,
You are my candy girl
And you got us loving you

Candice,
Ah, Sugar sugar,
You are my candy girl
And you got us wanting you

I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you.
(I just can't believe it's true).
I just can't believe the sweetest thing we have is you.
(I just can't believe it's true).

Candice
Ah, Honey honey,
You are my candy girl
And you got us loving you

Candice,
Ah, Sugar sugar,
You are my candy girl
And you got us wanting youuuuu

BANANA MUFFIN!

Candice's 21st!

2007-08-02T09:14:00.000+08:00

Emily and I couldnt attend Candice's 21st birthday (party, if there was supposed to be one) cos Emily left for Korea for SEP and I left for Thailand for 2 weeks.

So yea, we arranged to celebrate Candice's birthday ultra early on the 6th July, when her actual birthday's on the 24th!

At Mind's Cafe.. I like to play to ring-the-bell game, where you ring the bell each time you see five fruits in that round. FUNN!! I won all 3 games we played, and Emily was labeled maths fail!

BOO to those who say I'm slow.

The birthday girl!

Care bear celebrating together! with the significant banana muffin!

* I just got the video from Amanda yesterday and watched Candice's 21st video all over again! yay =)

The C.A.R.E. bear hug is all complete now. =) *courtesy of Amanda.

Happy Belated 21st Candice!

Back home

2007-07-30T12:24:00.000+08:00

I'm finally back home!!

After 1 week at Union Camp, I dragged my sleepy and drained self all the way to Bangkok and slept like a log on the plane.

Hugs to mommy who gave me a deflated travel pillow last minute before I left and said that I could use it when I'm travelling long distance. Love her!

And it came in handy on the plane, a budget airline where no food's served and a sole 2 hour sleep to Bangkok did help to replenish my energy a little!

It feels good to be back home though I'm having Thailand withdrawal syntoms cos I love the trip alot! Not the shopping, but everything else which I've never seen/tried/eaten before. Will post up the pictures real soon, when I get the photos from my fellow friends who traveled with me.

I don't mind going Thailand again!

Sorted out my own photos and waiting for the other's. =)

I'm flying real soon!!

2007-07-07T11:41:00.000+08:00

Shits happen sometimes and you just can't avoid it.

I'm really tired. But I know God's there for me.
So hell yea, heck everything else!

I'm flying real soon!

This is an official bye till August!

Byebye for now!!

2007-07-03T13:05:00.000+08:00

I've been MIA-ing for a pretty long time!!

I'll say bye bye for now, because I'll be off for ... :

Union Camp 9th-14th July
THAILAND 14th-28th July
INDONESIA 5th Aug-10 Aug

One whole month of no blogging!

Blogging is pretty boring now.

Bye!

This entry's dedicated to...

2007-06-20T14:33:00.000+08:00

Hayashi!!

This is for you, cos you said you were bored at work. hahahahhahahah =)
*muacks!*

Virgin visit to the SPCA

2007-06-10T13:19:00.000+08:00

Had to do an article on volunteerism, and went to SPCA to interview the volunteers!

Some random pics.

The animal shelter.

Dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters and guinea pigs!

A Jack russell pounced on me in the office!
I'm not that afraid of animals (other than huge dogs) anymore. yay! =)

Dental visit!

2007-06-07T14:18:00.000+08:00

Visited the dentist after 2 long years!

Had this strong urge to go visit the dentist cos I just felt that my teeth were filthy.
hah! So I had Dad to give me the contact (he visits this dentist too, for years) and booked for an appt.

When asked "how's your teeth?" the minute I stepped into the room, I couldn't answer but smile. =)

"Let me see." he says.
"Wow not bad. Healthy teeth."

He removed the deposits between my gums and did a major professional polishing and clean up of the teeth for me!
I had the doctor on my right with his dental scaler and laryngeal mirror; and the nurse on my left with one long tube to suck the waste, and another long tube which discharge water to wash my mouth.
A lot of bleeding. I was told to rinse my mouth and I spit out 'red water'!

But I got a wisdom tooth growing at my lower right jaw. I just hope it doesn't dislocate so I don't have to pluck it off.

No fillings this time too! See how healthy my teeth are. heh.

EEeeEEeEeeEeeeeeeEee

Gelare on Tuedays anyone?

2007-06-05T20:32:00.000+08:00

Went shopping with Amanda last week and ate Gelare too!

Just look at the mouth watering ice cream waffle (Amanda took)!
I want more! *gulp*slurp*

*****

Met Phat and Monr online! omygosh!
They were on msn after work while waiting for a colleague to send them home. They had half an hour to spare so they msn-ed.

I was just looking through my photo archives and came across my birthday surprise from Thai 2 earlier this year.. I sighed and wonder how much I miss Phat!
The next second a msn window popped up on my screen and I saw Monr's nick! All I did was OMG! haha.

It's good to know you're safe and sound, with good working environment and kind people around you- sending you to and fro work.

I'm counting down yea? 5 weeks! AHHH!

T.mom's backk!! yayness! (:

UC Comm Outing.

2007-06-04T08:40:00.000+08:00

At ECP's jetty, we cycled there from Mac's.

All windy at jetty and Joe borrowed a fishing rod from a Malay uncle.
While we sat and and enjoyed the breeze.

Waited for O, Miss PD to save the day with one fish! before we left the jetty and continued cycling to the other end of ECP.

Again, waiting for Miss PD to finish picking her shells.
The rest of us were famished.

-Sumptuous dinner-School of Rock-MAHJONG-

Till 2am I couldn't carry on playing with aching thighs.
And didn't sleep a wink the whole night.

Now, I'm down with flu and cough. argh.

Farewell Phatchaa and Monrudii

2007-05-31T02:06:00.000+08:00

They've only gone for a day and I miss Phat already.

No one's Renuu-ing me at night now.

Miss you sooo much! Can't wait to fly to Bkk to see you, which is 1.5 months' time, and it's a pretty long time.

Work hard and send us an email, sms or smth, to tell us tt u're fine k??

Miss my t.mom too.

Made sushis again! For the whole thai class, before Phat and Monr left for Thailand.

Phat made cupcakes for us to try too. Her cupcakes were gorgeous and delicious! I'll go to her house one day to learn how to make cupcakes.

I love making sushis now cos I don't have to deal with fire :)

As for as I know, I'll be flying to two countries in July. I can't wait!!

Amanda's 21st!

2007-05-19T14:45:00.000+08:00

Met up 10.30 at Cold Storage to shop for ingredients

Sushi making!!! For Amanda's surprise 21st birthday party!

Sushi making at my house!

We had Chawanmushi
Sushis - Tamago, Sashimi, Salmon Roe, Crab Meat Mayo... etc.

All done and ready to go!
Waiting while my maid went to hail a cab at the main road, cos we just had too many things to carry (including trays and trays of food)

We had luggages too, cos we intended to sleep over!

Collaborated with Amanda's parents, to give us the keys to her house while she was working.

Look at her. She wasn't the least surprised.

Party time!

We decorated her house in time before she arrived.

Invited Jeanine, Keith and Loren (Amanda's cousins), Wenyi, Cheryl, Lynette and Wan Ting over too!

Amanda didnt know that they were coming.

Especially for Lyn since she was working at the same location as Amanda, but she knocked off 1/2 hour earlier and reached Amanda's house first!

We had our usual birthday songs for each other too.

To the tune of Hey Mickey!

Hey Manda, you're so fine

You're so fine you blow our minds

Hey Manda (huff huff - to be done by Lahiri who was sick, so he didnt come)

Hey Manda (huff huff)

Oh Manda, what a pity you don't understand

You take us by the heart

You take us by the hand

Oh Manda, you're so pretty

Can't you understand?

It's girls like you Manda

Oh what you do Manda

Do Manda

Don't break our hearts Manda!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA!

(we did it our bimbo way! brrahahaha!!!)

The birthday girl!

Our 3rd Foursome C.A.R.E bear hug!

From the previous':

Eh, we have a 4th one coming up very soon!

All of us present!

After party, we stayed over at her house! And we did lotsa rubbish....

For eg.

Caught in act!

And finally yum say-ing at 12am!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA!!!

Hope our sushi's passable and that you had a great time!! =)

Sad

2007-05-08T10:09:00.000+08:00

Just sad over everything.
I've been super emo lately.

-Thank God for a new life.

Post Exam Activities!!

2007-04-29T18:08:00.000+08:00

Freak.
Miss M is not the only one.

Yet another Miss M (pun!) No. 2 sms-ed me if I wanna watch the thai horror movie coming up, 'Letters of Death'!
Whoohoo!! It got me really excited because Singapore doesn't have many thai movies going around.

I have four more days left, till Thursday.
Christ will help me through all sort of difficulties, just as what was talked about in Homily in church today.

So I have a list of Post Exam Activities up and I sooooo look forward to it!! (P.E.A. Emily calls it)
yay!

Pris sings...

2007-04-24T21:17:00.000+08:00

"Tomorrow is the day Jesus sets me freeeee.. "

Haha.. I think it truly reflects the situation I am in right now!

HUH!!!

2007-04-21T13:17:00.000+08:00

As I was busy deleting photos, intending to upload some new photos in Friendster,

I spotted this:

"You can display a total of 100 photos in your profile."

-Wasted my time deleting.

Mysterious Person.

2007-04-21T11:22:00.000+08:00

This Mysterious Person, Miss M (pun!), has been sms-ing and tempting me with post exam activities.........

Sms no. 1:
REGINA!! Amanda doesn't want to watch the play, so left with me you lah and can, just nice can buy the 4 package. and we fergot about Pulau ubin!

Sms no. 2:
KAMP NAIL BAR ... $33 for classic manicure and pedicure (+FREE NAILART) till 15 May.
YOU WANT?!
(She sounds damn freaking excited. Like 15th May la!! Haha. can wait till our exams are over!?)

Who's this mysterious person?? Go figure.

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day!

2007-04-19T12:21:00.000+08:00

Emily asked me out for Ben and Jerry's free cone day on 17th April !

Couldn't join her, cos Thai 3 planned yet another surprise for ?aacaan Jeab on her actual birthday!

Thought I wouldn't enjoy free cone day!
We all gathered at White Sand's to buy lunch and Ratanaa reached early, so she started queuing first, while I was still parking the car.

And I cut Q! =p

Jang, we were two happy girls!

The rest didn't queue cos they were late, and the queue already extended more than three snaked-rounds.

?aacaan Jeab was in her computer room when we arrived (tried ringing the bell and knocking hard on the door but no response) and she didn't hear us sneaking into her house!

Bought a small cheezy heart cheesecake & a bouquet of flowers!
All recorded in video!

She was in a state of shock and the first thing she said was, "ARE YOU ALL CRAZY!?"
Yuuyii rebutt, "You didn't lock your door!"

Haha. Does that link?

Ratanaa highly recommended New York's pizza which we over-ordered!
The first squarish and biggest pizza I'd ever seen!

While we spent the rest of the time at her house playing and crapping ard as usual with a karaoke session again!

?aacaan Jeab took out her videocam and recorded all of us singing.
We decided to do a birthday video for her while she was away at the computer room.

With our birthday wishes (Amanda! I said the same thing as Emily's video! ahhahahahaaha!!), a poem and finally ending it off with a Happy Birthday song in THREE languages - English, Chinese and Thai (there isn't an official Thai Happy Birthday song, so we created one on our own! Exclusive!)

Here's our poem, which we created last min!! :

Thaa raw pen ?aacaan (If we become teachers)

Ncng ying: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak suay suay muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna be as pretty as you)

Canchiraa: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak talook talook muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna be as funny as you)

Ratanaa: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak phaa sanuk nay hcng, muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna bring fun in class like you did)

Yuu Yii: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak pen khon keng, muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna be as smart as you)

Renuu: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak soncay nakrian, muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna care for my students as much as you did)

Malinii: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak pen khon thii naarak muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna be as cute as you!)

Monrudii: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak baa baa muan khun
(If I become a teacher, I wanna be as crazy as you!)

?anchalii: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak pen khon thii dii thii sut
(If I become a teacher, I wanna be the best!)

Phatchaa: Thaa chan pen ?aacaan, chan yaak rak nakrian
(If I become a teacher, I wanna love my students)

ALL: muan raw rak khun!!
(As much as we love you!!!)

* forgive our horrendous grammatical errors. As long as you get our point.

?aacaan Jeab was very touched, she hugged and kissed all of us!

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I went home to study after that.
I was already a happy girl with a free ice cream and a successful birthday surprise.

Somehow, I enjoyed studying. =)

Pre Exam Celebration!

2007-04-18T12:47:00.000+08:00

This is how we had our pre-exam celebration (link)
It was just the two of us then (Amanda and me)

Now we've made it a foursome thingy!
We'll have Foursome pre-exam celebration in the next few semesters I hope!
But Emily won't join us next sem cos she'll be happily enjoying herself in Korea. boooo...

Wanted to celebrate the week before but Emily had submissions and Candice had law paper due.

We couldn't had it anytime earlier cos of my thai oral too.

Anyway, we celebrated on Friday the 13th this time!

With the rest craving for sushi for a pretty long time, wanted to eat at Sushi Tei. The menu was rather disappointing because a plate of two pieces of sushi can go up to freaking $8.00.

Emily suggested some Hong Kong cafe - Kim Gary (link)

They had really sweet carnationed-butter toast, which tasted really good. (which will be one of our post-exam activity)

It was our appetizer and we wiped it out pretty fast.

After dinner, Candice got us really pathetic by checking out this cute French guy at a salad shop.
HAHAAA!!

After which we gathered at a cafe to discuss our post exam activities!

My exams end on 3rd May and I thought I was already the worst. Candice's exams end on 10th! Emily and Amanda will enjoy almost a week earlier on 25th and 28th April respectively.

SHIAT.

Yikes!!!

2007-04-17T11:41:00.000+08:00

I'd rather I didn't see that!
*_*

A whole week of Thaiii...

2007-04-15T12:18:00.000+08:00

One whole week of Thai starting from Monday!!!

We camped at Perk Point, as last sem, to practice oral with classmates.
Monday - Wednesday, we camped at Perk Point till as late as 10pm, till the librarian chased us out, cos the library was closing.

This sem, we had to do a presentation, different from last sem's, where we were given a situation and talk with our partner.
This time was individual work.

We were given 20 mins - 15 mins for speaking and 5 mins QNA.
So we listened to each other's story at Perk Point and practiced asking each other possible questions the examiner might ask.

My topic was "Chiiwit khccng dichan tangtee dek con thung wan nii"
(My life as a child till today)
"......25 years ago..... How my parents met, how my parents had me and my sister, how my parents were always away working leaving my sister and I at home, how I have wonderful foursome friends who accompanied me whenever I was lonely, my life as a university student and what I wish for in the near future......"
Everyone called me Miss Puu, because ?aacaan Jeab has a friend who's name is Puu, who is very lor-sor! hahaha!
Very lor-sor meh?! I wanna tell everyone how I came into this world what!! What's wrong with that?! hahaaaa..

We were horribly stressed when ?aacaan Jeab came to Perk Point on Wednesday while we were writting our scripts on memo, that Ming Xian's oral presentation was the best that day because his story was the most interesting with him ending off the presentation by stripping into a sexy superstar!!!

S-T-R-E-S-S were written all over our heads. Anyhow, we continued to suu suu (jiayou!)

Wednesday night:
I tried memorising my 4-page script when I got home: in the bathroom while bathing, while getting a cup of water, while checking email. I repeated my script at least 5 times before I went to sleep.

Thursday:

We met up early before oral for lunch.
Our oral started at 12.20-3.20pm and any passer by could just come and sit in.

My close-knitted class stayed thru to support each other.
Monrudii even wrote 'suu suu' on a piece of A3 paper and 'suu suu'-ed each of us before our presentation! So sweet!

After oral, all of us were drained
I had a horrible headache when we first stepped into the oral room, and I had to ask Ncngying to give me a panadol.

AFTER ORAL at Munchie's Monkey!!

MM was our frequent hideout this sem ever since arts canteen closed for renovation.
Every Thursday's thai class, we'll hang out at MM to eat lunch, slack and crap.

Thai 3 full strength!

You can see how tired we were, because we really prepared so hard for oral.
We were just sooooo glad everything was over.

Saturday:

Thai 4 students, plus Ming Xian and myself, prepared a birthday surprise for ?aacaan Jeab!

She thought we were just gonna have a simple lunch out. She didn't know Ming Xian was coming!

We ordered food to share.

Thai 2 students went to buy the cake while we were eating!

Faa saay did all the coordinating.

Suddenly, when ?aacaan Jeab was about to eat a piece of crab, we started singing a birthday song out of the blue.

She turned around and screamed when she saw her Thai 2 students standing right before her eyes!

She was made to stand on a chair, as Fish n Co's trademark.

All the waiters and waitresses came together and gave a 'thunderation' birthday cheer!!
I felt like I was in some orientation camp.

All in all, there were a total of 15 of us!
We made hella noise because we kept laughing and laughing.
Thai always make me laugh so much.

HAHA! I forgot who... suggested we go and take neo print together. But there were too many people, so we split into two groups - Thai2 and Thai 3&4.

I am not very fond of taking neoprints.
But I think this neoprint is quite well taken! =)

Parting photos. We had so much fun talking nonsense and laughed so hard.

We parted at 4pm and rushed back to ?aacaan's house to feed her cats dinner.

After which we hurried to Park Mall for another birthday celebration, to eat again!

?anchalii blatantly remarked, "What's so Mongolian about this restaurant??!" hahahaa.
At this 'Mongolian' restaurant, nothing else was Mongolian but their deco.

They served Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Western food.

I couldn't eat much because I just had my fill of fish and co.

After dinner, Monrudii took out her speakers and mp3 player and we had a mini karaoke session!!

We promised we'll go for a KTV competition of Thai songs after exams!! yay!! I can't wait.

The rest got a cake for ?aacaan, while ?aacaan got a cake for Yuu Yii (the one in red)

It was a double surprise because ?aacaan thought we were celebrating for Yuu Yii while Yuu Yii thought we're celebrating for ?aacaan.

They continued eating eating and eating, from 6pm till 9pm! until the restaurant closed their last orders for teppanyaki, they still continued to order food.

O man, I felt so full for them.

While waiting for them to eat finish, I did some photo whoring!

THAI 3 CLASS!!

We crap so much and now we have begun to speak in Thai-English-Chinese-Hokkien.
"Lucky today I never 'say' (Thai word for wear) slippers. Heng ah!"

Love them so much!!!!

** Enough of Thai for the time being! Prepared so much for oral and enough of adrenaline rushes.. haha!!

Time to hit the books!

Thai Oral

2007-04-12T23:55:00.000+08:00

This week has been a really really busy week, with two tests and a Thai oral exam.

I am so glad that everything's over and thai oral exam went well!!! =) yay!!

I'll talk more when I've regained enough energy. I am currently thoroughly exhausted with thai words all over my head. I'll recharge myself first.

I'm fast sometimes!

2007-03-29T23:05:00.000+08:00

We had to write a fable/parable/folktale for a Thai assignment a few weeks back.

Guess what I wrote? I was pressed for time so I scribbled the fable, Tortoise and Hare (like boring!)

The following week, our teacher told us the story which she enjoyed reading most.

Heard of the Lion and the Fox?

The storyline roughly goes like this:

One fine day, the Lion was extremely hungry and he caught the Fox.
On the verge of its death, the Fox said "How dare you catch and eat me!? Don't you know that I'm the king of the forest?"
Lion said, "What rubbish! I AM the king of the forest!"
Fox said, "You do not believe me huh?! Try walking down the forest with me, all the animals fear me and they all run away from me!"
Lion said, "Sure do!"

As promised, as they both walk down the forest, indeed, all the animals feared and ran away.
Finally, Lion said "Alright, I admit defeat. You are the king of forest."

Do you get the story!?!!?!
Bet you don't! Cos I was the first one to answer in class and got the correct answer!

Yay to me!

Sometimes I don't get.

Like...

'I love my C.A.R., they're part of me.'

Like who will get it la!?
HAHA! OOPS! :X

Princess Regindela!

2007-03-28T22:27:00.000+08:00

[o07] Your love lavish on me says:
haha not sleeping yet?
heard you sleep at 12 one

-¤ [VN!63J] ¤- เรณู I miss & love my mom. says:
HUH! who said that!
i didnt realise is 1am already!
i thought its still 11pm?

[o07] Your love lavish on me says:
Haha some one say u will sleep before 12

-¤ [VN!63J] ¤- เรณู I miss & love my mom. says:
i don't!

[o07] Your love lavish on me says:
usually i sleep before 12 also
then my friend call me Shinderela

-¤ [VN!63J] ¤- เรณู I miss & love my mom. says:
AHHAHAHA!!
tts funny!

[o07] Your love lavish on me says:
so u can be called
Regindela

-¤ [VN!63J] ¤- เรณู I miss & love my mom. says:
........
eh sounds nice!

[o07] Your love lavish on me says:
haha quite cool !!!
sound very classy
mine...sound..very...gay...

Who's that person who has been spreading around that I have to sleep before 12am huh!!!

Thanks Shing, for giving me that title... haha.

G-O-D is the word.

2007-03-27T23:46:00.000+08:00

Difficult Moments, Seek God
Quiet Moments, Praise God
Painful Moments, Trust God
Every Moment, Thank God

(Thank you Hsi En for helping me find this phrase. I couldn't find it though I googled. His googling skills appears to be much better than me. Right.)

I so believe in this phrase.

Each time, whenever I have a question in my heart, I need not tell anyone or look for an answer.

Sometimes I'll pray about it.
Sometimes I'll just think about it (being trivial, being paranoid, being whatsoever), and this particular matter will be behind of my mind, or even forget to pray about it.

But God always answers for me, naturally, within the next 3 days.

It isn't the first time, it has been umpteenth time He had done this.

And I love it when the truth comes to light.
Because He lets me know that He's there every minute & every second. =)

Bizcom 28th-29th MC AGM!

2007-03-26T08:49:00.000+08:00

AGM starts at 3pm, we were the early birdies!

I came at 12pm though, cos I went to buy utensils for refreshments & asked for help to carry for me. Apparently, I under-utilised Eric. haha!!

Started the ball rolling by giving my parting speech.

There wasn't much of parting tears for me, cos I just joined the MC as HR manager just not long ago.

I was still sad though, then we won't really meet that much now that we've stepped down.

Voting process: Emily called out the vote and I did the counting.

Newly elected Vice PR manager Melissa with Emily!

Newly elected HR manager Charmaine with me!

Felicia! 28th Bizcom Chairperson and she got each of us a gift!

One less commitment now.

Back to books.

Thank you post.

2007-03-25T13:22:00.000+08:00

yay.. thank you!
I feel comforted.

Quite a number of people came up to me and said

"I read your blog you know..."
"How are you feeling?"
"Are you okay?"
"What exactly happened?"

No one gave me a hug though. =/

I really wish to tell you all what has happened? But its 4-5 different stories!
hahaha.. I won't have enough saliva to tell you all. One day wouldn't be enough I think.

But anyway, thank you all for your concern and all is well now!

We were listening to thai song during writing class on Friday and filling up lyrics again.
I like the song and Thai song makes my day! =)

Before Amanda reminded me, I really lost count of the days to exams!
It's like 4 weeks to exams and I'm still dillydallying.

Thank you Amanda for giving me a wake up call. It's always you!
Last sem was also you, who reminded me exams are coming when we ate at Fish and Co.

Brahahahaa =)

A sad week.

2007-03-22T19:14:00.000+08:00

I'm tired.
With two assignments due tmr, and test.

This week's hasnt been a good week.

I've listened to 4-5 unhappy stories and I shut my ears off if there's gonna be more.

You know, when you lend a listening ear, it tends to affect your mood badly some way or another, even though if doesn't concern you.

You just wish to say "awww..." and give him/her a tight hug and let him/her know that you're there.

Who's gonna give me a hug?? I'm feeling quite upset too, after listening to so many upsetting stories.

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I really don't know why you had to say such stuff? I just wanna tell you that you were very very mean.

Oh-oh...

2007-03-21T00:52:00.001+08:00

I just realised that the Union Camp '06 photos are in my archives.

and there were people who searched for Union Camp and came to my blog!

Ok, I've changed that to draft. =)

JOIN UNION CAMP!

2007-03-15T22:49:00.000+08:00

NUS Open House, in conjunction with NTU's and SMU's.

Went down to promote Union Camp to the freshmen-to-bes!

Slacking! That's Shing, our vice pub head.
Cos we couldn't find any guys to join Union Camp so we got abit restless. heh!

Emily and I regurgitating the pros of Union Camp and recruiting people!

Brooding over back-to-school issues? Afraid of being one of those lost souls wandering around campus?
Fret Not!
Union Camp's here for you to integrate well into university life! Union Camp kick starts the Freshmen Orientation Projects and is catered for ALL FRESHMEN to bond and also to interact with the seniors.

So why hesitate?
JOIN NUS' UNION CAMP '07 NOW!

or click here to sign up

My JC male friends are going to NTU, so I don't know who I'm advertising to now.....
-to anyone.

Wasan's Chingchong!

2007-03-14T11:29:00.000+08:00

If you smart enough to guess, Wasan's chingchong performance means......

It was part of NUS Arts Festival, and I never knew you were from NUSCO! I thought you were from SingCO.

Ok back to the point, the last time I watched a chingchong performance was in JC during CNY (Amanda was from CO too!)

I really don't know how to appreciate CO, seriously, but ok la huh, support Wasan and his item didn't waste our tickets.

Apparently, I heard that National Arts Council? called Wasan up for another performance because he acted like a monkey on stage!! WHOO! haha.

EeeE! He made four of pretty ladies, eeh, no, five plus Michelle, wait for him after the concert!

Ok she's here. haha. kapo-ed from Naam Waan's blog.

There, the star of the night.

Because of this, I plain forgot to do my thai hw!

Shan't say more, period. Before his head gets bigger, and it always does!

Anthea's 21st Birthday Bash!

2007-03-13T23:32:00.000+08:00

Anthea's birthday bash on 10th March! (and Jansen's too!) haha.

Her party was held at her grandparent's place and the theme was sunskirts/dresses for girls and berms for guys, cos there was a bbq!

We gathered with our primary schoolmates and did lotsa catching up and promised we'll meet again!
They were my primary sch good friends!, besides Ja Liy, Su Wern, Serene and Ling, whom I only knew in secondary school.

We were classified under sec school mates, basically just KC girls!

I just realised the photos are with a border, I got them from Moni, and it looks so sweet.

Anthea and me, if you can see, she's the girl on the top left hand corner of this blog, my good friend for 10 years and still counting!

Happy 21st, Anthea!
May the Good Lord bless you. =)

15th Day of CNY!

2007-03-11T13:50:00.000+08:00

Turned out that Jonathan was taught by ?aacaan Jeab all the way back then, when Thai classes just started in NUS!

I like this picture! natural but blur.
?aacaan Jeab was testing her camera and caught both of us...... hahaa..

After dinner, we walked down Esplanade and was admiring singers singing Chinese songs at the outdoor performance. I confirmed, plus chop, those singers aren't from Singapore for sure.

Jonathan and I were translating the Chinese words into Thai for P'Jang and ?aacaan Jeab. haha!!

Was told there were fireworks !!!

When was the last time I saw fireworks?! In primary 5, when we had the primary sch NDP rehearsal!?

I felt like I was watching a 3D show, because the fireworks shoot right towards you!

And you have the tendency to stretch your hand to 'grab'.

We took a stroll down the Hongbao River!

P'jang and I were born in the year of the Ox! So is Naam Waan!

I told them these were made of chocolate.

And they believed!

I was standing next to Emily's chocolate squeeze, but you can't see it from here.

That's the end of CNY, sob, till next year! :/

Surprise kiss on Regina

2007-03-11T00:55:00.000+08:00

A short video cut from the actual threesome video for Emily.

Hilarious!

Can't believe Candice posted this online.
Since she post, I'll post it up too!

hee.

Emily's 21st Birthday Bash Video

2007-03-07T21:09:00.000+08:00

Specially for you!

All started from Candice asking Emily out for a Subway lunch at NUS, but actually it was to get Emily away from studio so that I could take video of her archi mates!

Lie No. 1
Thank you so much Candice!!
hahha... Touch rugby and school.

Lie No. 2
Wanted to steal Lewis' hp no. from Emily, cos we wanted to include her JC friends inside the video too. So I switched off my handphone and said,
me: Emily, my hp no batt, can I borrow your phone to msg Amanda for awhile?
Emily: ok.
me: *msg Amanda Lewis' hp number, good thing her handphone is filled with messages, so her handphone doesnt record sent messages. hahahaha!*

Lie No. 3
Wanted to go to her house one Saturday after filming Cheng Xi, Ivan and Jiaxi so I msged her youngest sister, Geraldine, if they were going to grandmother's house that Saturday. (Emily's family goes to their grandmother's house every Saturday)

Geraldine replied yes and so we didn't go to her house.
I forgot to tell Geraldine not to tell Emily about it!
So she told Emily that Regina msged her to ask if they were going grandmother's house that day!

GRRR!!

Emily then msged me why I msged her sister for!
AFTER ONE HOUR, thinking of a convincing reason with Amanda, we cooked up one long story about one of my econs module required me to do a survey on stocks and property prices and I had to interview a group of people aged 40 and above, and remembered that Emily's dad is a housing property agent, so I supposedly wanted to go to her house to conduct an interview. But since they were going to grandmother's house, I didn't go in the end.

Lie No. 4
I bought a new handphone some time ago, and Amanda was playing with my phone while we were doing the video one fine day at her house.

During CNY, Emily saw that I bought a new hp, and wanted to take a look.
I remembered that there were photos of Candice in the phone (we're not supposed to meet Candice you see, or Emily will ask, Why did you meet Candice for?!) and I whispered to Amanda to send me a sms, so that Emily will return the phone to me and say 'Hey, you've got a msg.'

HAHA! Never expect Emily did so!

After which I sent all the pictures to Amanda's phone via MMS, and later she sent the pictures back to me on msn.

Lie No. 5
She asked me to accoompany her somewhere (Emily, you know where la huh, no need to mention it here.)
I lied to her that I had to do project.
Yeah right, project. Her video was our project. haha

LIES LIES AND MORE LIES...

In short, here's the 18min video Threesome made for Emily.
I've watched it the nth time and I'm still not bored of it!

Enjoy!
hahaha

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Emily's 21st Birthday Bash!

2007-03-07T12:21:00.000+08:00

Hello Hello Hello!!

I dressed as Hermoine for Emily's birthday bash okay! Who said I didn't dress up!
If you look closely, I wore a turtle neck top, had a book of sorcery and my magical wand!

I even memorised my magic words 'Wingardium Leviosa!!' (Gawd, Amanda can be a witch already, she taught me this, and she even knows how to spell it!!! Amanda has got A+ for WITCHCRAFT!)

-¤Hayashi¤ - ﾍｵ says:
dun mess with me~
-¤Hayashi¤ - ﾍｵ says:
lol!!!!
-¤Hayashi¤ - ﾍｵ says:
i'll turn u into a PIG!

I cast a spell on Lahiri, but I forgot what was my spell. Anyone remembered?

When I arrived, no one wore any themed clothes and so I dumped my sorcery book in the car!

Hello! I even had a cape ok, which I didn't wear cos the place was so hot, though it was cosy, cos it was overcrowded.

Can't imagine I was actually smiling at her party initially.

Because Candice was supposed to meet us at Amanda's house at 6PM to practice Emily's song but she was stuck at home rendering the video!

6PM - She was stuck at home rendering the video.
7PM - Still rendering!!!
8PM - The computer HUNG. (btw, Emily's party was supposed to be at 7.30pm)

OMG.

9PM - Done rendering but the VCD couldnt play on her DVD player (cos I asked her to try first before leaving)

OMG again.

Amanda and I couldn't concentrate playing daidee for a moment.

Amanda thought, 'Is there a player in the first place?!'
me: OMG! yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. there's a tv, but may not have a player.

We dumped our cards on the table, and Jeanine offered to play for both of us (haha!) and we went out to find Cheng Xi.

He assured us that there's a player, but I found something better!

COMPUTER!!
I literally screamed!!!

I msged Candice not to fret, cos there was a freaking computer!!
Candice says, "Raise my hands to the sky, and fall on my knees!"
Sigh.. if you understand how we were feeling.

While waiting for Candice, we lied to Emily (AGAIN! for the 6th time) that, Candice has gone to 7-11 to buy 2 Mars Bars for her present.

When Candice arrived, she actually thought she was supposed to buy 2 mars bars and said, "WHAT!? No one told me!"

FOURSOME!
Candice came as Lara Croft!

It was close to 11pm, and everyone started leaving, so.. we called everyone in for a pleasant surprise, which God has pulled us through.

Praise the good Lord!!!!

We also prepared a song for her, which we didn't really practiced, cos Candice was stuck at her house rendering the video, so we only practiced abit outside.

To the tune of Natalie Cole's L-O-V-E, here's our rendition of E-M-I-L-Y:

E - is for the girl's who's Emily
M - is for the way she smiles at ME
I - is when our eyes meet
L - is for the love that we bring
Y - is she so damnnnnn sweet?!

and.. let us tell you more about this girl,
She's, miraculously, still single.
If you wanna date her,
let us know, and we'll tell her
And you can paktoh togetherrr......!!!!

Followed by the video!
Glad everyone enjoyed the video! all thanks to Candice =)

Toasting to pure Vodka! and Tomb Raider killed me, so I died.

Happy Birthday to Emily!

Toast to Emily! at 12am! Countdown to her actual birthday on 3rd March.

Bizcommers.

Emily was pretty surprised how we managed to get hold of her friends.

Oh well, Thank God for Friendster!
and Bizcom database to contact Serene (I'm HR manager!). Miao Ling. Cheng Xi (who called up Ivan and Jiaxi for me)

Post-party:

We were curious how cosplay-ers act fierce.
Do I look fierce enough!???!?!!

I cannot act attitude la, scroll down for my CNY foursome house hopping post. I'll burst out laughing before the camera shutter shuts.

Pondering!

Our most natural poses, saying:
"Who's your daddy?!"
"We love chicken wings!"
"WE'VE GOT NO BANANAS!"

Drinking games (I didn't drink much alcohol, so I had to drink two cups of fruit punch each time I lost), Pole dance (I lost again, without realising I had to do a pole dance with the second loser that round!! Pole dance with Hsi En wasn't taken, but Amanda's pole dance with Jiaxi was taken! BRAHAHAHAH!!) and Lap dance!! (Nice one Lewis!)

C.A.R.E. bear hug! If you can recall, the exact same positions, same poses and a cup in my hand!

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Two of us has joined the 21st-clan.

Waiting for the other two now. haha!!

03S11 CNY gathering

2007-03-04T03:10:00.000+08:00

Gathered with JC classmates last night and we were still in time for the last Lou Hei before CNY ends today.

Ate at Taka's Crystal Jade XLB.
Was told that the one at Paragon's better.. is that true!?

So much for my photographic skills, I lifted the camera with my left hand and lou hei-ed with my right.

11/27 people came and where's the rest!

I sms-ed most people and even asterisk to pass the message around, but none of them did.
Bet alot of the others didn't know that there was even a gathering.

Nicholas was a rare find! hahaa

Went to a pub to drink after dinner but half of them don't fancy alcohol.

Jaime came along, and we went to Mind Cafe to play games.

We made hella' noise!

Dinosaur game - similar to Stock Market I played at SLC, which was to collect full pile of same coloured cards and grab a bone in the middle of the table. The person who don't get a bone loses.

I lost the game 3 times and was told to do a forfeit - to successfully get a piece of chicken from a table.

WHAT!?

Wenyi refused to let me off, and even prepared me a fork.
While doing so, she toppled my cup of Mocha float all over me, and I was spared from the forfeit.

It was a blessing in disguise.. though I smelt of coffee after that. haha!

I'm sooo not organising the next outing! I'll leave the job to the civics rep.

You! Civics rep. You've heard me. haha

Pre Emily's 21st!

2007-03-03T11:23:00.000+08:00

Threesome decided to do a video for Emily for her 21st birthday, and so I went around interviewing her beloved friends!

An extremely long story from Day 1 when Candice asked her out for a lunch at NUS' Subway, while I went to her studio to take videos of her archi mates!

Then blah blah blah..... the story goes on and on.. and all of you need not know except the birthday girl.

It was a tedious job! and super stressful when the mid terms clashing in the same week as her birthday.

We met up regularly, every Wednesdays, at Amanda's house to do the video!

Like some project. (dated 14th February in this blog. Scroll down to Happy Valentine's entry)

Candice too!

Last video meeting: 28th February

We went scouting Emily's ribbon for the CARE bear, as well as deciding what to wear for her movie characters'-themed party.

Jang! Just havoc-ing at Spotlight!

Of course we weren't gonna dress in that! haahaa!

I wanna get past this week quickly...

2007-02-27T00:25:00.000+08:00

For the past few weeks, my msn nick has been "Turn back time please.."

Yes, turn back time please, because my mid terms were coming and I thought time was passing too quickly.

Now that half my mid terms are over (I had two today! I'm kinda brain dead and I'm still struggling to complete my thai homework), I wish that this week will come by quickly, so that I can just take a deep breath.

Each semester is getting suckier...

Nonetheless, I still have something to look forward to this week!
Which is thai lesson after mid term break tomorrow!! yay*!!

And Emily's birthday bash!!
Have yet thought of what to wear, but will do so soon! =)

Lou Hei with Thai 3!

2007-02-23T13:21:00.000+08:00

Went to ?aacaan Jeab's house with Thai 3 before she leaves for Bangkok the next day!

So we went to her house to cook dinner!
No photos were taken, cos we were all busy cooking.

After dinner, ?anchalii prepared drinks for us!
Gin with Schweiz tonic drink and lemon!
Before that I was told to buy Schweiz tonic drink and lemon in the supermarket but didn't know what its for.
It was so obvious, until ?aacaan Jeab said "You don't drink, do you?!"

I don't drink!?
Ok, yeah, maybe, but if you give me, I'll drink!

Lou Hei time!

Each of us said something while each item was prepared, including the sauces!

Delicious!

Most of the time we were just wishing that all of us will score A for Thai 3!

haha!!

Ratanaa and me!
It was movie time! Pitch dark, cos all the lights were switched off to create the theatre effect.

My camera's flash's good!

Bon Voyage ?aacaan! See ya in class when you come back next week!

Foursome House Hopping!!!

2007-02-22T13:56:00.000+08:00

First stop was lunch at my house!
Mom cooked Western food ! whoohoo!

While waiting for her to finish cooking and Candice to come.... she was late, as usual!
We played RummiKub!

After lunch was lucky draw again, from the same tree.
But the top prize was gone the day before.
Anyway, threesome had good money this time around, while Lahiri got only $2! haha

There were somemore 2nd prizes ($30) on the tree but they didn't get it! Tough luck.

Next stop was Candice's house alll the way at Sengkang!
I drove dad's car, cos he didn't go out all day! yay!

The last time we went her house was in Sec. 4!
Her mom said that the next time we go there, we'll be bringing our kids.
Boo! what I get married first?! haha.

Photo whoring!

Catching kitkat balls!
Only Amanda got it, while the rest of us just kept trying n times.

The same pond we took with when we were in Sec. 4!
Positions changed, and more colourful!

Was supposed to act fierce, but what was I doing?!
I don know! hah!

Take 2. Do I look fierce enough?

Getting ready to photo whore again!
Lahiri couldn't stand us, cos he had to take the photos for four girls! haha.

If you notice what we did to our hair in these two takes!

Next stop was Emily's house!

After wishing the adults a prosperous New Year, we naturally got the mahjong table out to play MAHJONG!!

Uncle was like "WHAT! SO FAST?!"
hahahaha!

Playing mahjong at Emily's house was more liberated (yay!) and we could shuffle the tiles as loud as we wanted.
Playing mahjong at my house is as good as playing mahjong in silent mode. (!)

Amanda!

After the first half of mahjong, we went out to the park to play!

I borrowed any pair of flats available at the porch, I was tickled, cos it doesnt match my clothes!

At the park!
Look at those two behind me.

.... and two 'ghosts' behind me.
* Emily's favourite pose.

Emily told us to take a flower to sniff
I tried to pluck a flower out, but it stuck hard to the pot.

So I bent down to sniff, while the others didn't do the same!
Wwhat!!! Emily said to sniffffff..

Ok, take 2.

Dinner!

Then it was 2nd round of mahjong!

I was the biggest winner of the day of $92, because of this set of tiles, which got me the biggest winnings of 10 tais, cos I drew the winning card myself and I was zhuang!!

yay*!!

Had so much fun!

Didn't stop by Amanda's house cos she said her mom was working and her dad wasn't in the house.
In the end her parents came to Emily's house to give us a lift, so we managed to wish her parents New Year too!

** Happy Chinese New Year to one and all! **

CNY at my house!

2007-02-20T11:46:00.000+08:00

Photo taking session with the newborn, Ian, only 7 weeks old and the 2 elder ones plus their daddies and Zo Ma!

Sumptuous meal for dinner cooked by mom!!

Darlene's so fun with play with.
She sees herself on the handycam and made funny faces!
She knows what's an orange, who's who, and she knows how to gongxi-gongxi!

Next up is lucky draw!!
It has been an annual thing now and the top prize of $50 went to 2nd aunt!!

I got $8, which a blessing, cos its four-fold of last year's!

haha!!!

Fun!

** Everything else was recorded on video, so I have less pictures to post up!

Short CNY entry

2007-02-19T22:43:00.000+08:00

I don't know why, but I don't feel much of the CNY mood this year.

Probably because CNY has taken up two days of my mid term break, and I have mid term tests right after that, which is pretty sucky.

Kinda spoilt the whole CNY atmosphere.

The mundane routine all over again.
It was visiting at Grandma's place in the morning.

Dad was so hungry that he got us all up at 9plus and set off to grandma's house at 10plus.

No one was there, and the food wasn't even ready. -.-"

Not all relatives came at the same time, so we didn't wait any longer.

** Btw, I cut my hair!!

We went to visit their houses instead!
Zen, Grace Jie's son, was all smiles the whole night.
And also the first baby ever allowed my dad to carry.

Visiting ended at 12am!
We were dead tired and sleeeepie!

* Whilst visiting, I was searching through Adrian kor's new collection of DVDs he just bought and I found ONG BAK!
Everyone was talking about it in class last semester and the semester before, and I never knew what was going on!
So I watched till 2plus am. and continued watching the next morning! yay!
Now I can tell everyone I've watched ONG BAK!

Till the 2nd day of CNY!

Happy Valentine's!!

2007-02-14T22:12:00.000+08:00

Happy V'day to all!
My V'day was spent doing project!

If you know what I mean, sigh!
And the project is not even half done.

The due date is coming!! I'm so freaking out!
And my project mate msged me this evening, that another proj mate's computer kept hanging cos they couldn't continue doing the project after I left!!
Gosh. When will we ever get it done. Shucks.

Hitched a lift from ?aacaan Jeab and the traffic was horrible! We were stuck at AYE-ECP for two hours!
...
What a V'day for me!

Mom came back, and its her birthday on V'day too!
But the crowd is too overwhelming. Decide to go out and eat dinner tomorrow instead.

It's 10.12pm now on V'day and I havent eaten my dinner because of the traffic jam.
poo to V'day!

I won't poo V'day if I have a date. hah!

Updates!!

2007-02-11T15:44:00.000+08:00

I've been really lazy to blog lately, especially when this sem is excruciatingly energy draining.

I am so looking forward for the mid term break, though it isn't much of a mid term break since CNY take up 3 days already! poo!

Right after that is mid term tests and !#@!%@!#@!#!#!!!!
No more 8am and 6pm lessons for meeee!!! argh!

Anyway, updates!!

Last week we went to ?aacaan Jeab's house to watch Thailand vs Singapore 2nd leg!
Went there early to cook dinner!

While Naam Waan prepared dinner for the cats.

I chopped the meat, while Faa Saay chopped the sausages!
"Don't come near me, I kill!"
hahaha!

Sumptuous dinner!
Dinner was only ready at 8pm when the match start at 8pm!!
Cos we were playing around and ?aacaan Jeab was doing the work most of the time.
We gobbled our food and ran to the living room to watch.

We cheered for Thailand!
Just for fun's sake.

And Thailand No.14, Nutnum! He's cute!
haha.

Thailand VS Singapore!!!

2007-02-01T21:04:00.000+08:00

The score was 2-1 in favour of Singapore.

FUNNNN!! Had an eye opener that night!
Full stop.
Ask me if you wanna know more, I'll email you a-page-long experience. :)

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Mega Bizcom outing!

2007-01-31T13:53:00.000+08:00

Mega Bizcom outing last Friday!
The little ones didn't come in the end, cos they flew aeroplane.
So it was year2s, year3s, year4s and...

Raja Inn's food was good! But not the tomyam.. hurr!!!
We had our fill with free flow of food, drinks, desserts, ice cream and chocolate fondue!!
WOAH!
All for $21.

Went over to Cine to celebrate Jia Hoe's and Yew Mun's (Jia He and Yao Wen) birthdays! Over a week difference.

Babel next!
B-A-B-E-L
Hello! Then why do you think its called Babel!?!?!?

Post-party

2007-01-24T01:58:00.000+08:00

Went home to bathe and open up the prezzies!
Oma and Pris were more excited than me, that they opened all my presents when I was in the bathroom and they messed up my presents with the cards!!
I had to sms my friends to ask who gave what.

Reading my collage...

Realised tt we didn't take a family photo together that nite, so here it is!
Love you mom and dad! Wouldn't know what would my 21st be like without you both.
I am so fortunate to have you.
Kim Han says I look so much like my dad, while Violet says I look so much like my mom!
So! What u think?

Jj-jang! prezzies (without the late ones)!
too lazy to type who gave what..

** I like the minature Absolute Vodka which Melinda gave me, its so cute!!
Thank you!

And was told there are more to come! woah!

'You have great friends' - what I heard over the last week for the nth time.
Girls, I'm so proud to have you
Love you all *hugs and kisses* =)

21st Birthday Bash Part III!

2007-01-24T00:54:00.000+08:00

Also Darlene's birthday.
She's one year old.
Lil' cup cakes made by biao-sao!

Miscellaneous photos:

TPJC guys.

phii Wasan and phii Kim Han.
Naam Waan can't make it cos it was also her birthday and her friends were celebrating for her at the same time.
khccp khun maak kha, thang sccng khon. tcng ?athiibaay card thii khun khian na kha, phrc waa Renuu ?aan phasaa thay may keng leey!

Bizcommers!

Mom and Dad putting on the key pendant for me.
Liberation!!!

Awwww... They kissed me!
Thank you mommy for coming back just for the weekend!! Love youuu!!

Thank you speech.
God bless everyone. heh.

The birthday girls!
(One big, one small.)

My 10year-and-still-counting (*muacks*) best bud since pri sch, Anthea.

Oma came back from indo too, just to celebrate my birthday.
Love you Oma!!!

Packing up, we got abit hyped up!

Foursome!!! (our trademark, don't steal!)

Thank you once again.
Heart you all.
I'm so blessed... *sniff*

Photos taken professionally free-of-charge, call Mr. Photographer, Keith @ 9123 4567. brrrrahahahaha!!

21st Birthday Bash Part II!

2007-01-23T23:25:00.002+08:00

Emily helped me emcee the lucky draw segment after procrastinating for so long, cos we didn't know how to carry it out.
Anyway! everyone got a lucky number.
3rd went to Aiwei jie with a packet of sweets.
2nd went to AMANDA with a packet of Lay's chips.
1st went to Wasan with a $20 Top Shop voucher!!

Eeeeee.
He was still doubtful before that, asking if sure can win.
And I said sure can!!

He really won first prize! wat the.. !!!!?@!!$@^@!#?!#

Emily made him do an impromtu thank-you speech, and he ended up talking abt how he knew me and what was the first impression of me.
What!?!! haha!
The moment he said "21 already .... must..... "
I knew he was gonna say "klua nii klua naa may day leew!" but he didnt in the end. heh.
haha! and he ended off with a string of thai words.

Cake cutting!
Dad complained that no one's gonna understand what "Happy 21st, Regina!" means, and asked me to change to "Happy 21st Birthday!"
I said, Happy 21st sounds more classy, and the lady settling the bill for us also said so!
It's blackforest cake. Call Jack's Place @ 6287 6298

With the girls present...

... and with the guys.

My family and relatives!!

The weird thing was, the birthday song was after photo taking.
and Ji-Ko (2nd aunt) had me make a wish without a birthday song, which is fatal to me!
Cos no one has sung a b'day song to me in yearssss!!

Whipped cream on my cheek.

While distributing the cake, threesome suddenly grabbed hold of the mic and said "Regina, we have a surprise for you!"

Oh shucks! what surprise!!??

Threesome babes sang me a song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To the tune of Temptation's My Girl:
This is their rendition of the song, Our Girl.

We've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When its sunny outside, she'll come out to play
We guess you'd say
What can make us feel this way
My Girl (My Girl? Our Girl!)
Talkin' about our girl (Regina!)

We've got so much of her
(That sounds kinda gay!)
Really? Really?! Seriously?! Seriously!
What can make us feel this way
My Girl (My Girl?! Our Girl!)

Interlude

You're so slow baby; it gets us so pek cek
You're so blur Regina, that you always say
Huh?! Hm? Huh! DAMN!
What can make us feel this way
My Girl (My Girl!? Our Girl!)
Talkin' about our girl (Regina!)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Everyone was in awe.

So was I.
I literally sobbed.

I rushed to them and hugged them tight; and wiped my make up onto Amanda's shirt.

I cried the 2nd time that night.
Eeeeeeeeeeeee stop making me cry!

21st Birthday Bash Part I!

2007-01-23T21:34:00.000+08:00

Just got the pics from Mr. Photographer, Keith.

He took over 200 pics and I was busy sorting them out and I don't know where to begin, so I shall divide the party by parts.

The party was held at Costa del Sol condo function room, 20th Jan, 7pm!

There were lots of shitty admin stuff to do, and Amanda said she wld come and help me, but she only arrived at 8pm (Grr! luckily I didn't wait for her for the deco, I just did it myself) with Emily and Candice, only to find out that they brought me a enormous gift.

They did a collage for me with a CARE (Candice-Amanda-Regina-Emily) bear doll that says "You're so special!" when you press its tummy.

I was moved to tears when I saw the toot-est pictures of me.

Since the theme was retro, their collage retrospects our good old days starting all the way back frm Secondary 3.
Their design's retro too!

My CARE bear angel, wearing a necklace with the letter R.

A closer look: When you open the collage, the middle part's a compilation of photos the four of us ever took together.
Then you can flip the pages upwards.

Emily's page, and her msg.

Amanda's page and her msg.

Candice's page and her msg.

The table of early birdies, though they weren't that early!

Dinner time!
I received feedbacks that the food was delicious, call Neo Garden @ 6896 7757 and its 20% for special birthdays like 1st, 21st and I think 70th or 90th.
They shd give me 50% for publicity here.

There were ice cream too! call The Ice Cream Gallery @ 6246 2926
or weblink: http://www.icecreamgallery.com/
Its hand made, with less sugar and reduced fats, local flavours & even alcoholic ones.
Hot favourite's Durian!

Shake hands (x100)
Keith says like some prize presentation.

Bizcommers.

TPJC and TPJC gp classmates!

Dad brought two bottles of wine, and it was gone within minutes!

Walking ard like an air stewardess, "Any red wine?"

Lyn and Amanda made idunowhat bet, and says that if she comes to my party, she has to wear a skirt!!!!!
Haha!!

Godfamily!

Tune in to part 2!

Birthday surprise(s)!

2007-01-22T12:20:00.000+08:00

Birthday surprise no. 1

I was on the phone with ?aacaan Jeab on 15th Jan when she asked if I was free the following day for dinner!

Actually, behind the scenes, she informed all my Thai 2 classmates to come for dinner too!

At first I thought the dinner was cancelled cos it was already 6.30pm, ?aacaan said she'll call me after her meeting, and I was still at home at 6.45pm!!

Anthea even wanted to date me. haha.

I was told to go to Suntec's Tuk Tuk Thai restaurant, and I arrived pretty early!
?aacaan kept calling me to ask if I had arrived, I already felt something amiss.

?aacaan screaammmmed my name from the other side of the level and everyone there knew my name!
Then both of us moved to a 10pax table for.............?!

While discussing which tutorial slot ?aacaan was gonna teach, Monrudii tapped on my back!!
I turned and saw my classmates standing behind me and said "Happy Birthday!"

OMG! ?AACAAN!
I screamed.

?aacaan reserved a 10pax table and pre-ordered food cos apparently the chef at Tuk tuk is her friend.
Within minutes, the food arrived, a whole lot of em'!

After dinner, I thought we were all gonna leave soon since our plates were empty, so I went to visit the ladies and I came out....

CAKE on the table!!!
My goodness!
I was really at loss for words.

?aacaan, you're really so sweet you know!??

A lil' sneak peek at Thai culture:
?aacaan stuck 22 candles on the cake, so I joked "No one here's 22."
Actually there are, some of my classmates are year 3s and 4s.

I'm still at this obscure state, and can hardly believe that I'm already 21.
?aacaan had to add another year for me! my gawd.

According to Thai culture, an extra candle to your age represents longevity.

We even had the camera on a tripod and the picture still turned out blur.

Top: Monrudii, Yuu yii, Patchaa, ?anchalii, Sanranyuu
Bottom; Ncngying, Maaliiyaa, me, Malinii, ?aacaan Jeab

khccp khun maak maak maak kha, thuk khon!
I really had a great time.

Birthday surprise no. 2

Emily called me EXACTLY at 12am when I was lying on my bed, cos Pris wanted to borrow my lappie to watch youtube, grr!

Emily: *scream* HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
ME: OMGGG!!! Thank you!!
Emily: so what are you doing right now on your BIRTHDAY!?
ME: I'm on my bed, preparing to sleep.
Emily: WHATTTTTTTTTTTT!! u 're gonna sleep now? on your BIRTHDAY!?

heh.

No one has ever called me at 12am to wish me happy birthday, the most were 12am sms-es from well wishers.

So I was surprised this time around!

When Emily said Ha..pp.. I heard a beep on my handphone, that usually happens when there's a msg coming in while you're in a conversation with another.

I ended my phone call with Emily and checked my message inbox to find Amanda's 12am sms!!

Both of them had called and sent me a msg at exactly the same time!
How cool is that!!!

Thank you babes!!!

Had a couple of people whom actually I thought remembered my birthday and sent me sms-es.
I replied to one, "O! Thank you so much! How did you know today's my birthday!?"
He replied, "There's friendster reminder what!"
OH! ok! I gotta thank friendster for that!? haha. thank you anyway!

ALL these pleasant surprises override my gloom over a make-up lecture at 6pm on my b'day. (which is also my free day!!! argh.)

more surprises coming up! wait till I get hold of the pictures from Mr. Photographer, Keith.

Pre-party!!!

2007-01-21T21:43:00.000+08:00

Went to Concourse last Saturday to get decorations for my party!
and walked one round down the whole row of those shops on the top floor to kapo (steal!) unused cardboards

Amanda came over to help me with the deco the following Sunday!

We just couldn't get the designs right on Adobe Photoshop... for hours!

Amanda did the words on photoshop, I did a 'welcome' board.
Supposedly, 21 years of my life.
But the board was too small to put more photos, till printing all the photos, then I realised I didnt paste any photos taken in NUS.
oh wells, it was quite a last min decision, and I'm pleased with my work!

Went out to eat nasi lemak for dinner, and Pris came back to help us with Adobe.
She did it within minutes!
finally get down to work.
Amanda busy cutting, while I slacked since I was gonna be the b'day girl.

D-O-N-E!
All in a couple of hours.

E-invitations to a retro-themed party!

21st Birthday and prezzies wishlist!

2007-01-20T19:20:00.000+08:00

17 January's my actual birthday.
But it'll be on the 20th January instead, so that mom can come back over the weekend!!

For those who have received the invitation, please r.s.v.p me asap! So that I can order food soon.

Birthday wishlist!
Anything's fine as long as its not a display item!
I'd like something which I can use!

Nonetheless, I'll mention a few...

7) White retro sunglasses!
Probably squarish type!
Not the round and huge type, or the curved-in-too-much type either.
You get? Ok.

Not these: Curved-in-too-much and too huge type.

I want these!: Squarish type

6) Accesories are welcome =)

5) Clothings! I need some clothes for sch! Medium/large (if the cutting's small)

4) A bag. I'd like two bags, one for casual and one for school. The bag for school has to be big enough to squeeeeeeze in A4 size file! Any colour's not dull would be fine.
Casual bag - enough to put in two biggest stuffs which I carry (umbrella and water bottle)

3) Handphone. Hehe, my handphone's really old. is there such a thing called handphone vouchers? if there is, it would be good! :D

2) A pair of sandals/pumps/birks. Size 5 or 6, 36 or 37. size 5 or 36 would be better though.

1) Vouchers! Haha. This would be great, cos I didn't manage to shop much during the dec hols and there was nothing to shop in Beijing and Hong Kong because it was all winter clothings on the racks.

yay*!
That's all for now, I'll think of somemore and add on to the list!

P/S. This post will be up here till my party's over, for updates, please scroll down.

=D

2007-01-19T17:49:00.002+08:00

God is good! All the time.
And all the time! God is good.

My time table sucked this sem.
at first it was a 5 day week.

thai 3 registration was scary!!
I logged in at 9.01am when registration started at 9am.
The slots I wanted were gone!!! eeeeeEeEeeeEee.
it messed up my time table.
CRAP!!

Went for manual registration , and I got the slots to make a 4-day week!!
Tough try and it wasn't the slots I wanted, but ?aacaan Jeab is teaching those slots I got!!

Poo to all those 'Tuition is more impt or sch is more impt?'
(Amanda will know what I'm talking about.)
Poo to all the curses that I won't have 4-day week.

God answered my prayers!!
Thank GOD!!!

God is good! All the time.
And all the time! God is good.

Overdue pics since hol trip.

2007-01-12T18:55:00.000+08:00

Sent phii Jang off the day right after I came back.
She had to go back to Thailand cos her visa couldn't be extended.

Miss her! Take care phii Jang, till we meet again!
Sniff.

Sleep over!!! Miss the girls!

Record breaking for sleep over: Stayed up till 7am the next morning, and waved goodbye when my sister went to school at 6.45am!
The last record was 6am.

1st Jan 2007. Goodbye Hong Kong ->- Singapore

2007-01-12T18:43:00.000+08:00

** MGH No. 5 The hotel had us pay for an small Evian bottle for HK$36 approx S$7.20 which we didn't drink!!
We bought our own mineral water every night!!
Dad refused to pay and that took us quite a while to leave the hotel.

Don't ever stay in Mayfair Garden Hotel in Hong Kong!!

Back to Singapore.
10am flight!!!! arggh!

It was so early on New Year's Day so we went to Kowloon city-check in to check in our luggages instead of going directly to the airport.
It was so much cheaper than taking a cab down to airport from our hotel!

Then we took a train to the airport from Kowloon's city-check in.

Hong Kong's airport!!
I love it!

It's so huge!
Our gate was at the other end of the airport, so we had to take an internal mini train.

Hong Kong's such a nice place, but we didn't have much time to explore.
I wanna go Hong Kong again! I miss it so much!!

31st Dec 2006. Hong Kong Day 2

2007-01-12T18:20:00.000+08:00

Our 2nd and last day at Hong Kong!

Ate breakfast at Xi Hu Chun Tian again.
But it was bad, cos breakfast was abit more crowded and busy.

We had 14 pax, and needed a bigger table top.
The guy who moved the table was yelling at us asking us to make way.

Plates weren't cleaned properly too.

Nonetheless, they still had good and cheap food!

We finally got out of town area for a breather and went to the a neighbourhood complex in Tai Koo.
Apparently, Ik Conny's husband's brother stays in Hong Kong, so we went to visit his home!

The neighbourhood complexes are much quieter and peaceful than the area where we were staying.
Above the Tai Koo MTR station is a shopping center, and just outside of it, is the neighbourhood!
Even nearer than my house to Parkway!

After visiting, took the MTR again to Lai Chi Kok.
Its an industrial park area, where they sell clothes and stuff at really cheap prices!
They sell almost everything, even non winter clothings, which was a good place for us to shop, cos we can't wear winter clothings in Singapore!!!

But it was closed when we got there, cos it was a SUNDAY!!
GRRR!
Was so upset! Cos our flight back to Singapore on 1st Jan was early in the morning at 10am. :(

Went to Langham Place instead at Mong Kok.
I love the X'mas lightings and decos.

Stuff there were too pricey! Average piece of clothing costs HK$200-$250 approx S$40-50 even after 50% discount!

After steamboat dinner, we went to countdown!

At 10pm, the town area's roads were blocked so that people could move around more freely.

There were police vans and motorcycles and police were patrolling at every single corner.

This picture was taken outside Xu Liu Shan.
Emily recommended their mango ice cream with glutinuous balls.
Nice meh!?
I prefer Mango Sago with Pomelo in Singapore's 67 Temple Street!

Look at the people thronging the roads.
We were on our way to Harbour City again, cos we were told that there's fireworks there.

Fireworks were at 8pm!!
We thought it was at 12am!
The countdown at Harbour City was really pathetic.
Was so disappointed man.

Haha!
My dad asked, 'Do you want to take a picture with the policeman too!?'

The policemen were handsome and the policewomen were sooo pretty!
Ahhh! DragonAir had the prettiest air stewardesses throughout our trip.

30th Dec 2006. Hong Kong Day 1

2007-01-10T23:03:00.000+08:00

Played with Melissa in the morning!
The princess took hours to bathe, drink her milk, and her spoonful of Scott's (fish liver oil)

In the MTR - Off to Ocean Park!

Took MTR to Admiralty and took a bus to Ocean Park.
The bus ride took us almost half an hour!

The well-known long escalator in Ocean Park!
Does it look like its going up or going down?!
But its kinda obvious!

Amazing illusion.

Dolphin and seal's show next!
Their dolphin is humungous and nicer than the pink dolphin at Sentosa!

Shark's aquarium. Their version of Underwater World.

It was too crowded, we could hardly navigate.
My aunt queued for an hour for a ride round the Ferris Wheel.
-_-"

The night view of Ocean Park from its foot!

** MGH No. 3. My aunt went back to her hotel room and found a message from the hotel management to see the receptionist when they'd come back.
My uncle went down to address the issue, and they demanded a compensation of HK$20 for a drop/tint/dot of Scott's on their towel.
Obviously, uncle refused and told them that he'll teach the housekeeping dept how to wash it if they didn't know how.

** MGH No. 4. I brought the wheelchair down to the lobby at night. Usually Dad does it, but Mommy had diarrhea that night, so he brought mommy to Yau Ma Tei to see a doctor.
The stupid bell boy coerced me to pay HK$20 for the wheelchair for the night.
CRAP! My father had a discount for HK$10 only! and he had me pay HK$20, and refused to let me go back to my room, until I had to call my father twice.
When my father came back, he gave the bell boy a thrashing for
1) making me call him unnecessarily (he has to pay for auto roaming)
2) for cheating us HK$10.

Haha, I made it sound like as if my father's a tyrant.
Oh please! The hotel sucked. totally.

29th Dec. Shen Zhen ->- Hong Kong

2007-01-09T12:42:00.000+08:00

Hong Kong!!!!
An underground tunnel through a mountain!

Met my relatives at Hong Kong, and stayed in Mayfair Garden Hotel at Nanking Street.

** I'll never never never never never ever stay in this hotel ever again.
We had an unpleasant experience.

** MGH (Mayfair Garden Hotel) No. 1. You gotta kick the door open to the room.
The room's cramped like shit.

But that's not the point, I don't mind a small room cos Japan's worse.
Its their hotel management that sucked.

** MGH No. 2. We had about 7 luggages with a wheelchair and the silly small hotel doesn't have a concierge.
Had to lug all our luggages up into the room that's slightly bigger than a pigeon hole.
They'll charge HK$20 for per luggage per night if we leave it with them.

My father argued (cos he felt it was absurd for a hotel not to have a concierge) till he got a discount HK$10 for the wheelchair to be left at the lobby per night.

Their bathroom was survivable though.

After leaving our bags at the hotel, it was time for lunch and tea!
So we yumm-cha-ed at Emily's recommended Xi Hu Chun Tian at Austin Road, just two streets away from Nanking Road.
Btw, its on the 11th storey, not 7th.

They had almost half price for tea from 2pm-4.30pm.
We were there at 3.30pm, and had really cheap high tea, with so much food!!

This resembles Orchard Road's Paragon!!!

Down to Harbour City.
I was wearing Melissa's hat and fits my head perfectly!

At Harbour City!

Avenue of Stars, Xing Guang Da Dao.

'Symphony of Lights'!
Pris managed to take this pic with lasers. I love it!

The wind was too strong, and we had a toddler with us, so we had to go back early :(

So much for Pris' photographic skills.

28th Dec 2006. Shen Zhen Day 2

2007-01-09T12:04:00.000+08:00

Shen Zhen's Wen Hua Zhi Cun (Cultural Village)

Tried to be cheeky for once. heh.

Watched a show where they had waterfalls, fire and gigantic props for an hour.

27th Dec 2006. Shen Zhen Day 1

2007-01-08T01:27:00.000+08:00

Went to Shen Zhen's famous Window of the World.

Dad said we'd ever been there 10 years ago, but I don't remember a thing.

Window of the World is the one of the largest tourist attraction in China and has over 130 scenic spots, you basically take a trip around the world in a day.

Fugly Merlion!!
People should just come to Singapore to see the real one.

We have 6 in total. or is it 5?
And it was my thai teacher who told us in class.

The Throne Hall of Kyongbok Palace, South Korea.

The Stupa, Burobudur, was contructed in the eighth and ninth centuries. It stands 42m high and is an expression of Indonesian art.

Angkor Wat is a temple in Cambodia completed in the twelfth century. It is one of the most prodiguous monuments of the Buddhists architecture in the world.

Wat Xieng Thong is a royal temple in Laos built in 1560 on the banks of Mekong.

THE GRAND PALACE OF THAILAND!
So far all measures a ratio of 1:15

Eiffel Tower, standing at 108m!
measures a ratio of 1:3, the real one in France stands 324m!

From the top of the tower.
Windy and freezing cold!!

Mount Fuji
Doesn't it look like the real one?
Especially with the trees and all.

Taj Mahal.

The Sydney Opera House.

The Little Mermaid of Copenhagen.
Made in 1912 according to H. C. Anderson's fairytale and is now a symbol of Denmark.
Measures the actual size.

The Idyllic Sights of Windmills and Tulips, Holland!
Beautiful!!
I love it!

The Great Temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt.

See the 2nd head dropped off?
I don't know the reason too. Thought it fell off and they didn't repair it.

I googled about it.

The Great Temple is dedicated to Ramesses II and a statue of him is seated with three other gods within the innermost part of the rock-cut temple (the sanctuary). The temple's facade is dominated by four enormous seated statues of the Pharaoh (each over 20 metres or 67 feet high), although one has been damaged since ancient times.

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt.

Hopped on the camel.
Stink like shit! And even had foam coming out of its mouth.
YUCKS!!!

Hui tribe!
I think it isn't Mongolian, its the tribe Han Xiang's from in Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2.
Anyone remembers?

The Niagara Falls

Mount Rushmoore National Memorial, USA.

I carried it. heh =p

National Congress Building of Brazil.
I like the dome and the bowl!

Well, it was just so-so!
I'd rather go to the actual place and see their real monuments, than see artificial ones.

26th Dec 2006. Beijing ->- Hong Kong ->- Shen Zhen

2007-01-06T01:59:00.000+08:00

3hrs again back to Hong Kong!

I like their X'mas tree!!!

Though it's all the same design, I like their balls in different colours.

And finally you see that I no longer wear the same red jacket as in Beijing cos Hong Kong and Shen Zhen is slightly lower than air con temperature.

Dad's friend rented an Apec (My mom calls it that, but I have no idea how you call it, I'll just call it MPV - Multi Purpose Van), to bring us to Shen Zhen.

It was so comfy!!

Transit again at Hong Kong! =(
I was dying to just skip Shen Zhen and settle down at Hong Kong straight away!!!

On the expressway to Shen Zhen.

Stayed in Shen Zhen's Xing Tao Yuan Jiu Dian (direct translation, New Peach Garden Hotel)

Their door is sensored and the room is huge with two queen size beds!
And the room is meant for 2 people only.

We can squeeze somemore! 3 people can sleep on a bed.

Woah!

Garden full of lychees!

Tiring day on the plane and a 2 hour MPV ride to Shen Zhen... ...

Massage for RMB$28 approx S$5.60 onlyyy!!
One hour!
Shiok!

26th Dec, a day after Christmas.

They removed the Christmas tree, and put up Chinese New Year deco!

Might as well, since they don't have nice decos for X'mas compared to the ones in
Hong Kong.

But still! Eeeeeeeeee!! Christmas last for 12 days!!
Hmprh!
I heart Christmas more than CNY! Bleah!

25th Dec 2006. Beijing Day 4

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Last day in Beijing!

First stop: Yong He Palace Lamasery

Yong He Lamasery was originally used by Qing Emperor Yongzhen as residence before he ascended the throne.
It was Emperor Qianlong who converted it into a Lamasery.

A lamasery is a monostary for monks in lamaism.

Next stop: Soshow City

Supposedly a small scale shopping centre which sells cheap stuff.

But nothing I fancied.

So went to Ai Mian Ai (Love Noodle Love) restaurant to eat ice cream!
Super yummyliiicious!
Vanilla topped with red beans, glutinous balls and corn flakes.
Only RMB $8 approx = S$1.60. So cheap!!
yummmm!!

Next stop: Foot reflexology at Beijing Olympic Stadium (still under construction)

A massage parlour just next to the stadium for the athletes competing in the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics.
They've hired 6000 masseurs in total for this event.

It was time to bid goodbye!

This was the most spontaneous bunch of tour mates ever, especially the four musketeers (the fathers of the four families) which made the tour so enjoyable and merry for the festive season!

Merry Christmas!

24th Dec 2006. Beijing Day 3

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Took a trishaw ride through ancient Beijing's Hutong (narrow streets and lanes) and Siheyuan (Commoner's dwelling) and see how commoners lead their lives.

Even in rural areas, there live rich people; singer Faye Wong, bought a huge house in this area.

We were invited to a local resident's home and learnt how to make jiao zi (dumpling)

If your dumpling can stand, it was well done.
If it can't, then good try! haha.

Everyone tried making (I didn't, lazy =p) and it was all on video.
My tour group is a spontaneous lot, super fun!!
(I'm the oldest among the kids. booooo.. Well, no one believed I'm in Uni 2nd year. haha. That's a good sign!)

Whole stretch of pubs and clubs!
Resembles Singapore's Clarke Quay, cos it has a river next to it too.

Some interesting chill-outs down the row!
Starbucks Coffee in Chinese's direct translation is Xing Ba Ke Ka Fe!

Next stop: Bei Hai Gong Yuan (Bei Hai Park)

Bei Hai Park is originally built as a playground for royal families.
It has now become a commoner's park.

The surface of the pond has slightly turned into ice, and the fish still could move!
God's creation is simply amazing.

We turned into royal blood!

I tried being a Ge Ge (Princess!)
The photographer giggled and said that my dad really looks like a Huang Di (Emperor)

The whole tour group thinks so too!
Then he'll be Huang Huang Di (Double Huang! Double royalty!)

A family in our tour group cross-dressed with their son dressing up as a Ge Ge and their daughter dressing up as the Huang Di.

Fun!!!!

Next stop: Beijing's Famous medicinal hall, Tong Ren Tang.

Took our pulses and were told that we have all those stupid nonsense high risk diseases symptomns and pestered us to buy expensive herbs all in 6 months and 1 year dosages.

Siao!

Had a less than 5 mins (supposed to be 10 mins) express body massage instead for
RMB$20 approx. = S$4
Toot!

Next stop: Yi He Yuan (Summer Palace)

Emperor Dowager Ci Xi came here each summer to hold court or just to spend the season, hence the name.

Full of red and white diamonds clock!
Drools!
A gift from France to Emperor Dowager Ci Xi.

Emperor Dowager Ci Xi's fish tank!

One of the earliest phones used by Emperor Dowager Ci Xi.

Doesn't the three dots just remind you of something?!
HAHA!

Summer Palace is dotted with magnificent lakes and beautiful mountains. It is the largest and best preserved Imperial Chinese Garden.

Emperor Dowager Ci Xi rebuilt and expanded the garden to its present size and splendour. She spent a total of 4.5 million taels (taken from the military/defence fund) just to build her own playground and retirement home.

!!!!!!

High up there, is the place where the Emperors and Emperor Dowager Ci Xi pray to the Heavens.
Despite its height, for sincerity, they have to climb all the way up by themselves without any help from servants.

Empress Dowager Ci Xi's ship.

She goes fishing with it.
The eunuch will jump into the water secretly, swim to the line and hook a fish for her.

She'll then lift the rod and say "AH! Yu! (fish!)"

And she's happy for the rest of the day.

Omg, how pathetic.

People were walking on ice, despite the sign "DANGER: Do not walk on ice!"

Xiao Zhang explained, only the surface of the water is ice, if you accidentally fall and your weight crush the ice, you will fall into the 0-deg waters, you won't be able to even move your legs to swim and freeze to death!!

So he didn't allow us to walk on ice.

He still allowed us in the end!
HAHA!
Closest to shore where the water is very shallow (ankle length, IF we crush the ice)

The ice is very very very slippery! Just like ice skating, even though we weren't wearing skates.
Gotta be really careful and walk v v v v slowly.

Janggg!! Reg and Pris on ice!
Brrrrr!!!

23rd Dec 2006. Beijing Day 2

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Great Wall of China!

Great Wall of China is one of the greatest architectural wonder built in ancient China, also one of the Eight Wonders.
It stretches over 6,000 km from Shanhaiguan Pass in the east to the Jiayuguan Pass in the west.
We started climbing the wall from Pataling (Juyong Pass), and heard that Great Wall is the only man made structure visible from the moon!

There were separate levels and we were advised not to climb above the 4th level if our health doesn't permit.
I climbed till the 2nd only. I was lazy =p

"It's a small world after all!"
Met my god-grandparents there!
They're super fit, I presume they climbed up to the 3rd level and above, cos Pris saw them walk past us when we were at 2nd.
Clearly shows our fitness sux!

There were certificates, to certify you've climbed the Great Wall.
** Certificates my arse, you gotta buy them.

Like university degrees could be bought too.

Next stop: Shi San Ling Tombs (Ming Tombs)

The 13 Ming Emperors and their Empresses and concubines were buried here spreading over an area of 40 square-metres each tomb.

The main hall was turned into a musuem, displaying ancient items belonging to the Ming Dynasty.

Palace's utensils - everything made of gold.

Ming dynasty's gold and silver ingots.

The Emperor's looooooooooooong jade belt.

Emperor's 'hats', for different occasions, ranging from parties, formal events such as choosing scholars or meetings with advisors.

Emperor's armour for hunting and his arrows.

Emperor's and Empress' robes respectively.

Next stop: The Legend of Kung Fu musical.

Shaolin monks and their marvellous kung fu!
Hoo haa!!

From monkey fists - phoenix fists - eagle fists - snake fists.......

...

22nd Dec 2006. Beijing Day 1

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By the way, we stayed in Huang Yuan Da Jiu Dian (hotel)
They claimed its 5* hotel. (kinda my foot!) its probably 4* the max.

** With suckiest same breakfast everyday, how can it ever be 5*?!!

The room's spacious though.
Mom and Dad got a suite with a living room!

Here's our tour guide, Peter Zhang.
We call him Peter or Xiao Zhang.

I ever called him Peter Shu shu (Uncle Peter), he screamed and demanded I call him Ge ge (Brother), if not he'll not take a family pic for us.

Arrogant but funny and good tour guide!

First stop: Gu Gong (Forbidden City)

This tree is 500+ years old!

Dragonclaw date plant.
It is a slow growing tree and its fruit is inedible.
Its curly branches first appeared in the Forbidden City after founding the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Cute!

Yang Ming Zhai.
Emperors Jiaqing and Dao Guang of the Qing Dynasty came here often to read or take a rest.
Sir Reginald Johnston also gave English lessons to the abdicated Emperor Pu Yi.

Empress Dowager Ci Xi (Tai Hou)'s bedroom.
It was believed that the length of the bed should be just the length and width of the person sleeping on it and not much longer than that, which represents longevity.

Only high ranked wifes of the Emperors will have these crystal-like rock placed infront of their bedrooms, to show that they're of high ranks.
Obviously, this is placed infront of Empress Dowager Ci Xi and the Empress' bedrooms.

Chu Xiu Gong.
Residence of imperial Empress and concubines, and also where Empress Dowager Ci Xi gave birth to her son, Emperor Tong Zhi.

This is where Emperor Tong Zhi ascended his throne at the age of 3 after his father died.
Heard from the tour guide, he actually pee-ed in his pants when his advisors bowed to greet him.

Old MAHJONG TILES!

Emperor Pu Yi westernised the palace because he was influenced with Western culture.
This is also because why he is the Mo Dai Huang Di (abdicated Emperor)

80-90% of the palace is made of wood.
To prevent fire from spreading fast, in any case if there should be one, every few metres place a big tub like this to store water and put out fire.
During winter season, they will burn charcoal underneath the tub so that the water will not turn into ice.

Exploring Forbidden City!

Directly infront of the Emperor's study/office is a red wall.
According to fengshui, facing the wall means some sort of bad luck, so this was placed infront of it, with a hole carved in the middle to ensure the Emperor's safety at all times.

Forbidden City is huuuuuggeee!!

Their palaces look all the same to me!

Temperature check: -2 degs.
The water in the river has turned into ice.

Out of Forbidden City, pose with Chairman Mao (Zhu Xi)!

Directly opposite Forbidden City is the world's largest public square, Tian An Men Square, covering an area of 400,000square-metres.

Mao Ze Dong Memorial Hall.

Historical Musuem of China.

595 days to Beijing 2008 Olympics! (photo taken on 22nd Dec)

The Emperors and Empress Dowager Ci Xi have 128 dishes for breakfast and 256 dishes for other meals.
Arranged in rows of 16, the first row use your eyes to look, second row use your nose to smell, and only the third row then you can start eating.

They call it the handicapped-meal (Can Fei Can), where the Emperor will look at the dish he'd like to eat, the eunuch standing next to him will pick it up using the chopsticks and stuff it into his mouth. Each dish a maximum of 3 mouthfuls.

Btw, just to side track, Empress Dowager Ci Xi uses a tub of breast milk and 100 towels to bathe and thrown away each time (without reusing), because she believes that milk bath is good for the skin.
Any servant caught in contact with her skin (unintentionally/intentionally) will be executed.

Milk bath (spa) has thousands years of history eh?

We got to try Emperor's dishes, in those days.

They had Ge Ges (Princesses) to serve us!

Next stop: Temple of Heaven

Temple of Heaven was first constructed in AD1420 as a venue for Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties to pray to Heaven for good harvests.

This is fun!
Stand at one corner of this wall, and another person at the other end, and you can talk to each other as on the phone!

In all, we've walked almost 10km.

Next stop: Underground City.

No photos were allowed, it was basically an underground city, with schools and hospitals, where people hid during the Civil War.

Next stop: Dong Hua Men Food street

A whole stretch of dazzling array of mouth watering snacks from all over China.
Xiao Zhang forbid us from eating these road side stalls because even he, a native, ever had diarrhea after eating it, let alone foreigners.

Xiao Zhang had us all drool past the food street and brought us to Wang Fu Jing street, which is some sort like Singapore's Orchard Road.

Tired like crap!

21st Dec 2006. Singapore ->- Hong Kong ->- Beijing

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Set off to Hong Kong first!
Woke up at 7am for flight at 11am! :(

3hrs 25 mins.
It's been long since (Japan - 5 hrs) I took a long haul flight!

** Other than its horribly unstable take-off and landing, Cathay Pacific serves Haagen Daz ice cream which made my day!

Airplane food still sucked though.

But I had my fill of Thai songs on board. yay*!

Transit at Hong Kong International Airport, before setting off to Beijing again for another 3 hours.
Gawd! It was hell for my butt.
I'd always wanted to see Hong Kong's airport ever since I watched the HK drama - Solar Airways last year.
Now I get to see it myself, I was delighted!

Santa was giving out prezzies!
Oma (Grandma) received twice! From two different Santas.

I like their X'mas tree!

After a 30 mins break, off to Beijing!

Sunset!

Finally at Beijing on DragonAir (another HK airline)

DragonAir's pilots are so much better at take off and landing.
I really felt like as if I was gonna die in Cathay's.

A whole day spent on the plane.

Back!

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Photos up very soon!