Dear all, I will be moving to a new blog with effect from 1 December 2010.

Please FB me if you wish to know the new blog as I will be keeping the blog as private as possible.

Thanks for your many years of support.

Cheers,
Nadyne

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for so long, i've been telling myself I want to do this and that but somehow I never got around doing it.

Yes i've finally gotten a driving licence and on my way to complete my CA qualification, but something is still missing.

I miss being sporty. I miss playing badminton, tennis, swimming, jogging, cycling and blading..

and I kept telling myself I want to join a marathon and triathlon but those were just words.

I'm really inspired by Andrea for her determination to jog, cycle and gym every week and that tough girl has signed up for 7 marathons/aquathlon/duathlon each month next year!!! *sweats*

it's time I do something....

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to be jolly!!! Falalalalala~~~ :D

Realised I haven't been blogging since I return from SG.

Work has been light but slowly picking up as we gear towards the end of the year and my favourite holiday Christmas! I've attended 3 networking functions so far, my highest record ever since I worked here. (i think i'm beginning to get used to chatting up with strangers, sometimes they just want to know what you have been doing outside of work instead of talking about work. Hmm...)

I met a Singaporean girl who has been studying here and just joined the department next to ours. Invited her over to bake pandan cake since we volunteered to bring a Singapore specialty to our firm's cultural diversity morning tea next week.

It's good to see more Singaporeans at work and it makes me feel more comfortable at work after almost 2.5years.

I also took part in a volunteer work as part of our firm's programme and had the opportunity to socialise with seniors at a newly established retirement village. I must say my impression of retirement villages changed significantly after yesterday because I always thought retirement village is, in the bad sense, is waiting to pass on. But the place we visited called Tall Trees was a pleasantly constructed compound, with plenty of facilities and amenities for the seniors to enjoy a very happy and fulfilling retirement.

I thought about the concept of old folks home back in SG and I think we should take reference from the retirement villages in Brissy. Putting your aged parents in the village is not that you don't care for them. On the contrary, you are trying to provide them with the best care from the experienced nurses, caretakers and having people of the same age to hang around with you to give more positive outlook to the remaining years.

I guess if I were to do that to my parents, people will say that I'm unfillial. But in reality, i'd rather have my folks spending time with people of the same age, having games and chit chatting while we as children visiting them as often as we can. Hmmm...

on another note, i passed my Management Accounting CA module!! i'm so close to the finishing line on this long journey of full-time working/part-time studying and now i'm finally left with the final module and i will be a Chartered Accountant next April!! woohoo!!

I'm counting down to Christmas and our year-end road trip up to Cairns! It will be the most adventurous and longest drive ever for the both of us but I'm sure it'll be heaps of fun! We're going with the "whereever the roads may lead us" mindset and stopping by towns as we like it and check in to motels if we are tired. I'll definitely take lots of pictures and blog on this amazing road trip! stay tune!

have a happy fantastic weekend!

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2 weeks of holidays flew past just like this. I know I was very thankful everyday for the love I received from family and friends and the quality spent with every one.

As Eug said the only thing I do is "MSN, Facebook, upload photos and blog" :D I shall write up something of my awesome 2 week back home.

First, it was meant to be a surprise for my family. It was intended to be for my mum-in-law too but things took a slight turn so she was kept in the loop of my return :P

and so you would've read in my previous post that the surprise was a huge success! I can genuinely feel my parents really happy that I'm home.

I met up with my close group of friends (which i realised there are alot! thank God for all these great pals :))) and spent alot of time with both of my family. It really made me appreciate all the things they have done (taking their time off to bring me around to eat and giving me real gourmet treats!) and I'm really very very blessed! :D

The highlights of my trip:

1. I love my family!!!


Part of my surprise worked beautifully was because I skyped with mum and dad every week and I managed to find out what they had planned to do during the 2 weeks I'm back!

So knowing that Mum took leave for her birthday, I planned my time to go shopping with her (which I know she misses), booked a nice birthday dinner at Shangri-La (thanks to bestie!) and a weekend stayover at Marina Bay Sands (thanks to Chewie!).

I went to Sunday service with mum-in-law and kevin & ser (can I say Ps Prince is awesome??!) and knowing that I missed durians so much, they bought me Mao Shan Wang to satiate my taste buds! I literally gulped down the flesh and almost wanted to swallow the seeds! HAHA

Had yum-cha twice with MIL too and I know she enjoys my company and dotes on me alot. I am veryv blessed to have such a generous and loving MIL :)))

I love my family!!

2. I love my SN Sistas!


What can I say? They're the bunch of girlfriends that I knew the longest and despite some of us being away overseas at different points in our lives, we always make an effort to catch up with one another. These are really the friends for life :)))))

3. I love my pals!


During my 2 weeks stay, I, :
- Met up with XP for PS Cafe truffle fries before she flew off to China for work
- Met up with hOi and B and had dinner with Andrea (Mellben crabs!)
- Juice and baby talk with Huimin at Starbucks
- Attended Yvonne's wedding and caught up with the Pw gang
- 4-hour chat/drink session with Eug's bestman, Shawn
- All day food hunting with Sin and dinner with NTU gang
- Had lunch with Geok at her work place
- Breakfast with cousin Tiffy

WOOHOO! i'm so happy I get to meet everyone! But there's still a couple I didn't get to meet due to their work schedule. but I'm more than thankful already :)))))

4. 20th Friendship anniversary with Bestie!

it's the 20th year since we knew each other (back in prep sch when were 6 yrs old!) so we decided to set a date to commemorate this special event in our lives and 20.10.2010 is the most apt! (lots of couples get married this day too :P)

so we had a sleepover at bestie's place, and transformed to 16 years old students the next day and went out to Orchard like some students playing truant! HAH! oops :P nobody caught us but we did get occasional stares from 'fellow students' but who cares! :P

We had brunch at Wild Honey (most ex brunch ever! but nice :P) and went to take silly photos at Kinokuniya (acting studious) and met our sec school chinese teacher! What are the odds to find someone from St. Nicks that day? Heh :P

and I suggested to take neoprints too! We can't even remember where to find those machines and had to call up for help! Turns out the ones at Heeren were closed and we managed to find it at Cineleisure for $12! Geez! But we had great fun!! it was so stressful trying to decorate our neoprints within the set time but it was really hilarious! :P


I still salivate when i see the pictures of these food!!

From top left: Truffle Fries from PS Cafe @ Palais Renaissance, Coffee @Papa Palheta, (3 pics from top row) Tonkotsu ramen & side dishes from Ippudo @ Mandarin Gallery, Mixed berries pancakes @ Food For Thought Queen St, Mao Shan Wang ice cream @ Udders Bt Timah, Cheese steak sliders @ Over Easy One Fullerton

From bottom left: Tunisian breakfast @ Wild Honey, Sweet desserts @ Honeymoon Dessert 313 Somerset, Mao Shan Wang durian @ random stall at Clementi and Baked eggs @ Hatched Evans Lodge

of course, there are the normal hawker food I missed so much such as chwee kway, chee cheong fun, prata, mee chiang kueh, goreng pisang, tau huey, vegeterian beehoon and many more!!!

6. my furry friends!
Can i just say she's the most adorable baby ever!!! (ok my future kids will be the CUTEST :P hahaha!)

I'm so proud of Hoi for delivering B in 1hour and really inspired me to be a great mum next time. She breastfeeds her up to 6 times a day, bathe her, cuddles her, changes her diapers and did this with very little help.

and i'm sure she's very proud of herself too, for carrying B in her womb for 10months and finally holding a little baby in her arms. I can really feel all the bliss and happiness as a new mum. Jiayou hoi!!! muacks!


I'm really thankful for this trip home which God made it possible in every way: promo SQ airtix, all the love from family and friends, spending below budget even thought I bought 15 pieces of clothing (!!) and being able to sleep for almost 4 hours because there were empty seats beside me. Praise God! :)))))))

now it's less than 2 months to end of 2010 and Christmas, my favourite holiday :))))

Good luck everyone and let's make the remaining 2010 a fantastic one!

Cheers! ;)

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i have a sister-in-law!!! :))))))

Gor and Pam joined the rest of the 829 couples in Singapore to register their marriage on 10 October 2010.

I love to see the blissful grin on my brother's face and i'm very happy that he's found someone so endearing as my sis-in-law. Can't wait for their wedding reception next June :)))

Here's some pictures taken during the day (was distracted with Kenji *hehe*)

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