Nostalgic memorays

I was transferring my photos from my old and frailing lappie to the new com, so that I can look at some of the photos that could be used for the photo montage (growing up section). The photos in my lappie range from 5 yrs ago till last year. As I was enjoying the photos, many lovely memories start to stream into my head.. These are wonderful people that have walked with me and brought joy to my life..

Starting with 15 years of friendship..

My best bud and sista, Cheryl.

We knew each other since primary 4. I used to go over to her house after school to play, eat ice cream, ride bicycle, and do other crazy stuff.

My sec school buds..

13 years of friendship. My bitching and laughing gals..

I love catching-up sessions with them cos they'll make me go hohohoho non-stop!

Shiwei's wedding is coming up! Super excited and honoured to be her bridesmaid!

My JC classmates!

As my class was a double-math and science class, it was dominated by guys with only 7 girls.

These guys are all damn smart..

I've never seen them studying/mugging yet they are still able to produce nice results.

My two years in JC was most stressful ever, but they added in fun and laughter

What I least expected was getting exceptional good grades for A-levels. Even my form tutor was shocked that I could actually pass with such results. She was quite biased towards the brighter students, but can't really blame her cos my results in common tests and prelims were barely encouraging.

I was glad that I managed to prove myself.

That was the proudest result I got in my life.

So with that I was able to get into my desired course in NTU..

First year freshie..

So tanned- and fresh-looking.

In fact I prefer the tanned-me, but the tan-ness fades very quickly unless I maintain a very disclipined once-a-wk regime to sentosa.

In order to get that tan, I went through 2wks of FOC - Business and Hall camp.

Immediately after Hall Camp.. I was red like lobster.. My skin was peeling and awful.

I was silly to not apply sunblock cos now my freckles are all so obvious and ugly.

Looking back, those camps were fun but quite traumatising actually. The games that they carried out were like suppose to 'te-kan' the freshies and it was quite a suffering if you didn't enjoy the games. For me, back then I think it was ok. But now if you ask me whether I'd want to join the camps again, I would have my reservations.

My beloved roomie.. XJ!

Many guys always like to visit our room during our first year when XJ was still unattached.

She literally attracts guys like flowers attracting bees.

In our cosy nice room..

But in Year 3 she moved out and I was all alone in my single room. My neighbours were all the foreign students who kept their doors shut most of the time. It's quite freaky actually.. You wont't know when will rapist or molesters appear at your doorstep.

I nearly went mad facing the four walls all by myself for 5days in a wk, missing my family.

My meals were taken alone, bathed alone, studied alone

But I tell myself I had to give my best for the last leg in Uni..... And soon it will be over.

My best project mates in Uni life..

3S: Samuel Stella Spencer

Any my wonderful bf who's also my best project bud.

Never have to fear presentations and projects with them around.

They have really superb presentation skills.. it's truly my honour to be their project mates

And then..

We graduated!!!

We thank the heavens for everything

haha.. who the hell initiated this shot

Thanks to Samuel's friends who helped to take prweety pics of our graduation!

Fun-loving bunch of guys

End of studies..

Time to bring the money home.

Working is never easy, esp at the start.

I had a good start and experience as an auditor but then

Auditors' life are cheap, always under the knives of clients and managers. But in the world of shit, my lovely Deloittees gave me a bow of rainbow..

I think it was our first trip overseas?

Genting wasn't that cold becos I have the warmth from you guys

Our first year in DT and first Family Day event at the zoo..

I think that's how we derived POKPOKPOKPOKPOK as Angeline's nick!

If I didn't rem wrongly, we introduced our team as Kungfu Panda and we each represented a character from Kungfu Panda casting.. There was the Panda, mantis, tiger and monkey.

Super cute and fun.

LOL!!

Love love

Cheers to our forever youthfulness!!

Happy POKPOK day

It's amazing that my DT lovelies are still surviving well in DT!! Apart from lack of sleep and complaints, what I can see in them is perseverance. No matter how tmd the clients are and how late they usually stay in office till, they are still hanging in there strongly. That's something I really admire about them. Keep on going guys! Look forward to Aug! :)

Happy Birthday POKPOKPOKPOKPOK!

May you and *ahem be an item soon

Pok had cravings for sausages so we had dinner at 313 Somerset's Brotzeit.

Our $88 platter which consists of a humongous pork knuckle, sausages and side dishes

Their sausages are yummay!

My Best Lovelies Forever

:D
It's always so hard to take a proper shot of them.




Then we moved on to dessert.
Pok wanted sticky chewy chocolate so we walked to Ion's Swensens.. but they were closing by the time we reached. So we walked back to Cineleisure, but there were no seats. We could only settle for Xin Wang since not many choices left

They dont seem to like peanut butter on their toasts

I remembered writing these in my farewell email to my colleagues and managers:

It's my pleasure to be able to work with you guys and thanks for being such wonderful teammates, going through the hard times and late nights together. Though it was tough, with unlimted complaints and curses, it is through these hardships that true friendships are forged. I don't see you all as colleagues, but rather as friends whom I can rely on when I'm at the lowest point.

There weren't any back-stabbing and politics going on back then. How I missed you guys..

A walk down Club St and Clarke Quay

Again, we went out sourcing for some inspirations for our photoshoot locations. But we're still unable to find that right feeling. Those places don't mean anything to us cos we seldom frequent those places. Our wkends are normally spent in Orchard and town areas.. Can't expect us to choose those places? The crowd is perpetually there, how to have a shoot there?

Anyway, our wedding date is tentatively fixed on 10 March 2012 at Shangri-La. We've yet to view the ballroom and discuss details, but we are quite decided on Shang. Initially I didn't want to choose Shang due to the high price tag but after much considerations, Shang gives the best ambience and I feel good with them.

We started drawing uo our budget and we were stunned that it came up to a whopping $80k!!
Getting married is definitely a costly affair if you want to have a decent grand wedding.
Oh well, like what larling said, it's once in a lifetime.......

Had a cup of Teh Halia at Mr Teh Tarik's before heading down to Club Street.

A nolstagic place.. used to come when I was still with DT, now it's too far for me.

Larling's new bag.. touted as the LV of camerabags..

erm what's the brand again?

Hadley pro?

This is the main reason for coming to Club St..

We thought there'd be a Agnes b cafe but end up it's their main office and they are undergoing some renovation works

Club St has many rustic vintage shophouses.. Very pretty but doesn't have any traces of our memories..

On a random note,

Z4 as our wedding car seems a little squeezy..

Moved on to Central for dinner..

Central has lots of Jap restaurants.. since larling had cravings for shabu shabu, we headed to Tampopo's steamboat branch..

While waiting for the soup to boil

Shabu shabu in the super tasty pork bone soup

Look at the mountain of foooood

Our platter of black pig and veggies.

Tampopo's black pig is really reknown for its fragrance and tenderness.

The steamboat can be used to cook ramen!

It's quite fun doing up our own ramen.
The ingredients are even included:

Tadaah.. Our self-cooked ramen

Their highly recommended dessert..

Light chiffon cake

Took a stroll down Clarke Quay after dinner..

I think this is our first or second time strolling along that river?

Clarke Quay is having the Sch Hols bazaar and I got this at $15:

No it's not a cushion..

It's a balloon-stool-chair

After pumping the balloon manually for 15mins, it finally inflate into shape

Cute isn't it?