a date with ma bestie

had a lovely day with cheryl.. now that it's holiday, i would have more time to meet up with her. so dated her today after her work and went window shopping at TM before catching Dance of the Dragon. i was expecting some superb dancing from either fann or the korean guy. but oh my!! it was not only boring but the movie had minimal dancing. i thought this movie is supposed to be a dance film. how disappointing. felt so cheated.

dinner at ding tai feng.

to digress a lil.. my tulips sprang big time! it grew out of the wrappers by at least 10cm! didn't know that tulips have such immense growing power. haha so cute.

this was at day 1

..day 2

sweet 2nd year

this special day marks our second year together.. truly blessed to have met you, fall in love with you and to be with you. aplenty of sweet memories u've given me and i'll cherish them for life.

pretty tulips this time

u're just as swt as them my larling

watched the forbidden kingdom.. it's quite a lame show but the fighting scenes are exciting as usual. with jet and jackie, they make a good combi actually. and surprisingly they can speak quite good english, i mean jet, liu yi fei and li bing bing.


dinner was at sun with moon. lovely ambience but it'd be more romantic with nicer views.

in the compound area of chijmes

stairway to sun with moon

their sashimi is one of the best few where you can really taste the freshness of the sea

beef sukiyaki - the meat is really tender!

tofu cheesecake for dessert

it was indeed a great day coupled with a satisfying dinner

happy 2nd year larling!

sluurrps

first 206 clique outing

I think this is the first time where we meet outside not because of proj discussions, but really for an outing. we wouldn't have the time to do this during school time. a no-stress outing, how nice. everyone was on smiles. =)

Swensens ice-cream for dessert!

the smoke machine craving for a puff

let's have more of such non-project-discussion-outings okies =))

before meeting the guys, larling helped me to move out of hall. thks ma darling.. appreciate it lots!! muacks.

not alot of stuff right. haha

looking shagged

La la la la

this is it. my last battle in ntu has just ended, but it was bloody. the freaking 206 paper was quite a stunner can.. the first question already traumatised me badly and when prof KK walked past, he was like taking extra glances at my paper, perhaps he's thinking:"what the hell is she doing". omg. sighs.. i really hope that this paper won't be the failure of my life.

alrights.. life stil have to move on.. and now i'm at the start of my super long holiday!! quite a lot of things i wanna do but don't know how to start and where to start. and just now during lunch we were alr planning what to do tml, and we tried to squeeze everthing in one day! spencer wants to go blading, but samuel wants to play pool/mahjong. but i'm moving out of hall tml morning, so can't join spencer. in the end we'll meet for pool. haha.

speaking of lunch, after our paper we decide to give Palette a try. at first i thought is those kind of high-class restaurant where waiters will serve you, but the concept is just like quad lor. quite disappointing because the aglio olio i ordered was tasted damn awful!!! it's tasteless and dry - there's not even enough olive oil, not enough garlic, how can u call it a aglio olio!! Euukess.. wasted my $4.30. but i tink their other dishes should be alright cos i din hear any complains coming from them. just don't try the aglio olio!!

back to hall.. have to pack my stuff so can move out swiftly tml!! took a few photos of my room for remembrance sake.. oooh i'll miss this room but i definitely dun wanna come back. haha. imagine 1 year of stay in this lonesome room.. my level of endurance is really amazing.

My neat table. haha.

this is post war-time when it's slightly neater..

my lovely bed..

my bears are my greatest companion when i slp..

my penthouse view.

can even see some radar sticking out from the forest if u look closely..

=)

mugger wannabe

Ooo.. time really has powerful wings, cos currently i'm left with one last paper!! somehow this sem cooping in hall to mug doesn't seem as torturous as last few sems.. perhaps its due to my last few days of stay in hall.. and i'm already starting to feel nostalgic about the past memorable hall days. though my third year of stay wasn't enjoyable and fun at all, where all my crappy neighbours and hall friends and ex-roomie XJ all moved out, i'll still miss my hall overall. and of course my penthouse-like room with superb view of the jungle, where the army guys in there would always have those grenade-training (or whatever training that lets out a big 'BOOOM' sound) and scare the hell out of me. but the view from my corridor is really damn chio - in the early morning you'll see the misty greenery and breathe in the wonderful fresh air, and come sundown, this is what u'll see..

pretty rights.. i'm so gonna miss it. i'll take more pics of my lovely room (-_-) and the breathtaking scenery from my 'penthouse' after exams. yah penthouse like what larling described it.

haha. enough of digressing.. shall go back to mugging status.

(anyway, ah nai if u're reading this.. so sorry, just realised you left me a word of mystery. haha. meet up soon okies =)

happy birthday cynthia!!

attended larling's sis 21st birthday celebration at his house's function hall. the party wasn't very elaborate (just like mine) but nevertheless it's the people and the atmosphere that's most impt. the buffet was nice and the setting looked damn atas. the caterer was from kriston and of course better stuff comes with steeper price.

with the birthday girl.. she's always full of energy, very bouncy, very cheerful and outgoing.. very much unlike his bro. dunno why also. muahaha.

siblings power.

all three of them just look so un-alike.

personalities are dissimilar too.

but i stil love all of them. =))

Cousins power.

there's a few absentees if not it'll be even more.

Cynthia's 4kg cake from Awfully Chocolate.

touted as one of the few best cakes.

larling and i went to collect the cake, and their store concept is really those kind of no frills damn simple kind of design. i don't think there's even any design in it, at first i thought it's some unrenovated store that's open for business.

even their cake design is simple too.

but their ice-cream and cake is really good..

rich dark chocolate that isnt too swt and the cake is not moussy or creamy.

sluuurps

larling and his lovely family

coussies power again
the happiest thing on earth is to have your family, friends and all your loved ones by your side. i believe cynthia is the most blissful person today, having aplenty of blessings and wishes from her loved ones. and certainly not only today, she'll be blessed with happiness forever.

finally done with the last proj of my entire uni life..

met on sat at Geek's Terminal again to discuss cesim's final presentation.

all in a sudden, felt so empty and lost.

no more projs.. left my last round of exams.

now's the period of mugging and isolation.

dreadful yet wishing that all these won't come to an end.

that's human nature, always contradicting.

Grad trip finally settled

This Good Friday hol and weekend was spent on confirming our grad trip. in the end, xj and stella can't join us, so both of us just have to go ahead ourselves. fri we went down to chan brothers' head office to enquire more about their free n easy packages as that was what we planned initially. but after stella confirmed that she can't join us, larling and i changed our minds to tour packages. so today we decided to check out the CTC, Dynasty Travel and Chan Bros travel fairs at suntec. after much calculation and consideration, we found a good deal with contiki tours and finally made our choice.
y contiki? firstly, their land tour prices are in USD. so hopefully on the day of payment, the exchange rate will drop to like 1.3??? secondly, there's 10% discount on all contiki packages. thirdly, even though it's like a guided tour, it's highly flexible with loads of free time in between. and most importantly, its itineraries cover many more destinations than the normal tour packages at only a slightly higher price. and as they pledged:" we don't just offer a destination, we deliver an experience!" haha. to wat extent it's true, wait til we experience it for ourselves and we'll update more on it.
Ooooh.. i'm all so excited to fly again!!

Laughin ol' me

School life has been so hectic over the past two wks and it'll probably continue all the way til end of exams. though very shag but i'll try to love every moment of it, for it's my last chance in uni life. furthermore i simply LOVE my proj members this sem.. they are always so funny!! fri's lunch @ thomson with them really made me roar with laugher can.. esp that samuel's hurling of long strings of hokkien abuse, then stella's there scolding all the ang moh vulgarities. LOL. so after having great pratas n great entertainment, larling and i went to meet our all-time traveling partners xj n jeff.. both of them are another bunch of jokers. what a laughing day on fri. anyway too bad that jeff can't join us on our US trip this time.. but if stella can join us, it'll be as fun too! really looking forward to US trip.. though it'll be a large cash outflow, but now is definitely the best time to go.. esp after we've start working, it'll be difficult to take long leave that's coordinated with the rest. i think at most we can go is short getaway trips to bangkok or hk or taiwan again. but taiwan is indeed a nice place.. i miss the food there esp at their night markets.. oooh it's making me hungry now.. it's supper time! haha

nites everyone~

A day with ma bestie

Met Cheryl for dinner yest to pass her her belated bday pressie, as well as to have a short catch up with her. it's always every 4-6months when we'll meet once.. besties since pri 4 and still counting. aubrey and larling tagged along too and it was a great gathering.. guys get along well easily and NS life is always their main topic.. LOL

had dinner at tony roma's - famous for ribs and absolutely the best i've ever eaten. new york new york's ribs are not bad too but still far from tony roma's.

after which we caught a movie - the waterhorse, legend of the deep.. there wasn't any other available movie at that time slot, so we just watched this. it's about a lil boy raising a waterhorse, the fabled loch ness monster, from an egg. initially it was so cute, looked and behaved like a seal, but after it grew humongously, it became like a sea dinosaur. nothing fancy about this show.. just about the legend animal and the setting in WWII.

my all-time fav.. Original baby back ribs

St. Louis ribs with carolina honeys sauce..

Taken using two different cams.. nokia vs sony ericsson.. hmm

Aubrey and Cheryl..

Besties for life..

i'm totally addicted to you.. i meant the cuppa coffee in your hand. lol

Look forward to more gatherings with cheryl.. anyway happy belated bday to u! =)