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happie~~ (part 2)
Friday, March 31, 2006 @ 9:01 pm

See my latest addition?? Thanks to the babes (hoi, lili and geok) for the pink Astro Girl!! Luv it! :P

They also got me a big tub of Brazil Nut body cream from Body Shop. hOi said I'm those who always use this kind of stuff... hmm do I? :P but thanks anyway! :)

And this neat iPod Mini lanyard!!! Saw this at the Cine Apple iShop when I was out with the guys, but din think they wud buy it for me (coz i told them i dun wan prenset liao..) Thanks for the pressie!! Green is the new black!! :D:D

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sth meaningful...
Thursday, March 30, 2006 @ 6:18 pm



我喜欢四十五度地靠着你
不论在世界的任何角落
都要感到幸福
在即将九十度坠落前
请用一百八十度温柔地抱抱我


I enjoy lying against you,at an angle of 45 degrees.
I'll be happy anywhere in the world.
Before falling at right angles,
Do hold me tenderly at a straight angle.

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happiee~~
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 @ 2:55 pm


My birthday gift from Kor.... KON!!! :P



I jus got myself the green one!! Love it!! :P


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22
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 @ 10:13 pm

another few hours and I'm 22!!! What a number! But i guess i'm really loving each and every moment of my life now! Thank God for the wonderful times I have, thank Him for my family, MB and pals who have come into my life and are goin to be part of it for the rest of the journey.

Now to commemorate the 22 years that God has breathed life into me, I shall write about the 22 things that has or will make me happy!!! :)

Here goes:

1. Knowing that God is always watching over me and my loved ones

2. For being a healthy and able person

3. Being able to wake up every morning, feeling it's going to be another great day

4. Spending time with MB, cuddling up and be a baby in his arms

5. Get to eat all kinds of nice food at nice places

6. Appreciate the wonderful scenery whenever I'm out

7. Although I'm on the 'heavy' side, i'm still NOT THAT fat... *self-denial* :P

8. I was blessed to receive good education and know many good pals

9. Learnt scuba diving and had a wonderful experience of up close and personal with the exhilarating underwater scenery

10. Able to cycle and swim whenever I want to

11. Experience different kind of working experience since I start working.

12. Have nice and smooth hair and double eye-lids

13. Love to hang around with people and laugh to my heart's content

14. Born in 1984, where I was brought to this earth in Mt Elizabeth hospital; Mom has a private nurse and I have a nanny

15. Had my first relationship in JC; altho it wasn't a good one, it made me learnt life's most valuable lessons

16. Graduating with honours within 3 years in NTU Accountancy, and having a job after I graduate

17. Going for holiday after 4 years with my parents

18. Doing LASIK in June; I FINALLY will be able to wake up with perfect vision!

19. Wearing the convocation robe after yearning for so many years, and receiving that roll of paper after studying for 17 years

20. Going to convocation ball that I had a part in organising with some of my good Uni pals

21. Knowing that I will be able to earn my own's keep and in near future to come, bring my family on an all-expense paid holiday

22. I am ME :)

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Tripartite Merry-Making!!!
Sunday, March 26, 2006 @ 8:24 pm

haha I'm trying to sound cheem here... it jus means having loads of FUN with 3 groups of pals for 3 consecutive days!!! :P


Thursday: Essential Brew - Hoining, Me and Serene

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Met up with Serene and Hoi to celebrate our birthday together on Thurs evening at Essential Brew, Holland V. Hoi was still rushing her FYP so she only met up with us pretty late in the night. Nonetheless, I had a nice chat with Serene the babe and updating each other on our lives.

EB was quite crowded when we jus reached, loads of working ppl gathered there for dinner and chats. We ordered a fruit salad (which was really a small bowl), chicken wings and potato wedges and each of us a Coolers. I was practically bloating from all the carbo that I ate!! :D

When Hoi came, she was jus too hungry for words and ordered a main course to eat. We chatted abit too, talking about Serene the babe going overseas and stuff..

It was a great evening, albeit a short one. But it wasn't easy to get the 2 of them together (I'm very FREE now! :P). Thanks babes!!


Friday - KTV @ Cine, Zi Char @ Thomson

Well, I intially organised a B.R.E.S party for my bunch of guy pals and me to celebrate the completion of FYP, but end up only Ben, Ed, Bisheng and I could make it for the event.

We went to KTV to sing and Ben was nice enough to sit through it with us!! Thanks, I bet the entertainment was marvellous!! *haha* :P

let's rock
Let's ROCK!!!

sad ben
Poor Ben!!!

we sang this
Aerosmith didn't think his chart-hitting song actually has cherry blossoms MTV huh? :P

Oh, and we jus realised one thing: Bisheng aka Liu BiBi is actually the REAL voice behind JJ and Z-Chen!!! *jus kidding* I meant to say this guy has SUPERB vocals. We kept wondering why he din join the Superstar contest. Eh come to think of it, ppl like BiBi dun nid to join coz he's REAL good. REAL good ppl dun anyhow show off one... wahahahha ;P

the new ktv king
The new KTV KING has arrived!!! *applause*

We tot Sin could join us after KTV so we waited for awhile and played at the Arcade at Cine. It was donkey years ago since I step into a arcade sia, but for the fun of it, we jus decided to go. And boy, everyone had so much fun!! Esp the guys, coz they get to play their soccer games!!! :P

guys and soccer
GOAL!!!!

daytona kings

I got 3rd in the race. Prob that's the reason why I haven't pass my driving!! *bleah*

After which, we adjourned for food!!! Went to Upp Thomson area for good Zi Char food!!! Ordered dishes like, Hong Kong Style Steam fish, venison, hotplate tauhoo, prawn paste chicken and kailan!! YUMMY!! the food was really FINGER-LICKING!!!! Worth the trip down! :)

sumptuous spread
Yummy!!! Look at the spread!!

ben ate 2 bowls of rice
Ben was so hungry that he ate 2 bowls of rice!!! hahah :P

It was great outing with the guys!! Let's do this more often when we start working too!! :)


Saturday: Tea Chapter @ Tg Pagar, Thai Express @ Paragon

Today is celebration of Su Jun (23rd Mar) and My birthday (29th Mar) together with the girlfriends!!!

We met up in the afternoon to go this place Winne suggested called Tea Chapter beside Maxwell Food Market. This place is really neat and cosy. Sells all kinds of Chinese tea, lets you get a hand in brewing it (if you don't know, there's staff to teach you) and real nice herbal tea eggs, lotus leaf chicken glutinuous rice and biscuits!!!

teachap teaset teachap desserts
Look at the exquisite tea set and food!! Mus come here and try!! :)

teachap 2
The one Jiesi is holding is called 公道壶, which means after u brew the tea u pour it out before u serve onto the cups so everyone will have an 'equal' taste of the tea!

teachap 1
SMILE!!!

dongding oolong tea yumseng
The tall cup is the 闻香杯, tea is first poured here and you can smell the nice fragrant tea leaves before you pour into the shorter 品茗杯 to drink.

art of tea
The Art of Tea :)

yummy
YUMMY!!!!

kawaii shot
CHEEZE!!!!

After that, we went to Paragon and Sujun and Winne went to have their brows picked on the 5th floor and MB also joined us for dinner. As i had $15 birthday voucher and the Thai Express Orange card, the meal with 3 main course, 4 side dishes and 1 drink came up to only $35 for 5 people!!! Cheap cheap!!! :P

at thai express
Us babes! Winne and Jiesi will be leaving for China soon, so this could be the last dinner!! :/


Thank God for the really wonderful company I had for the past 3 days, the great food, great pals were really awesome!!! :):):)

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going insane...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 @ 5:04 pm




thisisexactlyhowifeltthewholeoftodaywheniwastryingtocompletethestupiddisgustingassignmentihave.


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V for Vendetta
Monday, March 20, 2006 @ 12:04 pm



Ok, I know you guys shud have watched this by now.. but I jus caught this with MB last evening.

The storyline is really good, considering it's adapted from a comic and directed by the Wachowski brothers (they created The Matrix trilogy).

I like V in the show, for his profound words and his ability to see through the evil doings of the govt and rise up to revolt. Felt that Natalie Portman wasn't really oustanding, cept for the part where she was kept in the jail cell.

The last scene was really awesome, with all the people awakened to the atrocities of the govt and have the courage to stand up to what they believe.

Sometimes, you just need 1 person to lead the rest.

Go catch it, it's really not bad. :)

P/S: Can't wait for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Da Vinci Code!!! :P

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check this out!!!
Sunday, March 19, 2006 @ 1:42 pm

UPDATE:

I seriously did not copy what Ben wrote, but somehow, we both chanced upon this website and posted the same entry!

And dear Ben-Oh, let me clarify again, I DON'T LOOK LIKE STEPHEN CHOW!!! *bleah!*



was blog-surfing when I chanced upon Mr. Miyagi's blog.. (no not the late Pat Morita :P)

This website, My Heritage, offers their service of tracing your family roots through analysis of your facial features. You can try their trial service (need to register a free account) and guess who do I look like???


hmm, i wonder if it's coz i'm tanned that's y they associated me with a Latino.... :P

anyway, I was eager to try which celeb MB looks like, so I tried with one of his IC photos...



*faints* (hmm, but Michelle Yeoh is abit manly herself... :)

I wonder how our children would look like next time.... *grinz*

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lazy saturday evening...
Saturday, March 18, 2006 @ 11:23 pm

hoho, it's another weekend that I nua-ed my day away... somehow, I jus didn't feel like doing anything..

was toying around with Photoshop CS with some of me and MB's pictures, and I discovered some very interesting stuff! :P

anw, we got to use the car this evening, so we went to the famous Blk 328 claypot rice opp Clementi mrt stn for dinner.

On our while there, I was quite bored sitting at the back seat, so I fiddled ard with my Dady's black Motorola V3...

Ok, as you can see, i'm really bored... :P

haha I din choose the sepia mode on the camera, jus happend that the car passed thru the CTE tunnel and I quickly took a 'moody' shot using the yellow lights.. :)

After dinner, my parents drove up to Mount Faber for an after-dinner stroll.. Wow, the place was really packed! Mount Faber is rather different from the last time i came (which was about 2 years ago I think). On top of the usual al fresco area of The Altivo, now the entire area was managed by an F&B company, and there were other places like, Glass Bar and Faber Rock. We also saw a small wedding reception going on at The Altivo, and Mum was saying that next time I should hold my wedding there.. :P

We found a place that overlooks the harbour and Sentosa, and settled down for coffee and tea. The place is really cooling and now there's even a bus 409 from Harborfront MRT that goes up there. So next time, you guys can go up there to chill too! (literally :P)

I kinda like the concept of the pubs and restaurant there coz the scenery is really splendid. There wasn't much need for air-conditioning coz the night breeze was really cooling. But one flaw could be the "you must spend if you wan to go up" after 5pm. Supposedly, anyone can go up there to admire the landscape before 5pm, but once after that, the resturants and pubs start their operations, you have to patronise one of the 3 places there, night scenery doesn't come free after 5pm... But guess it can't be helped, since they have their business up there.

Oh and I saw very nice condo on the way up to Mount Faber! Duno wad's the condo name, but the exterior was really breathtaking!!! All units have those windows that stretches from ceiling to floor, and nestled amongst the big trees, really gave it a very dreamy feel to the whole estate... I wanna stay there too!! :P

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random thoughts....
@ 11:36 am

random thoughts.....


I've been thinking alot of every little thing nowadays... crazy imagination, serious stuffs, sensitive issues also... I wonder if it's coz I'm not as busy as previous semesters..

Of future, career and money..

Been asking my parents regarding the repayment of my tuition loan... Was thinking it wud be good if they can help me pay full first, and I pay them back when I start work thru installments. I dun wan to get sucked in by the high interest rates the banks are charging..

My dad was supportive, as usual. But my mom think otherwise. Not saying she's not helpful or what, but I can understand her point of view. Her argument was that they're old already and have painstakingly saved some few Ks. Not saying that I won't pay her, but I guess when I'm q financially strapped, they also wouldn't press me for payment. This is sth I scared too.

So i can totally how she feels when I brought it up....

Well, I guess she's right some how.. I've gotta be responsible of myself from now on.. After all, they have also spent so much money on me since I was young to put me thru to University...

And, I'm still looking for other available alternatives altho I've confirmed a place in PwC.. It's always good to have some back up plans you noe... And I hope to save up more money when I'm young coz they're just so much things that I gotta think of, like furthering of studies, paying tuition loan, saving up for my first house etc...

Guess I really nid to start drawing up a list of liabilities and payable soon.. and the various plans I have in mind.. I'm really growing up already... RESPONSIBLE is the word. :/

Of love, relationship and marriage....

I'm blessed to have someone who really dotes on me.. Has no temper, and ever so humourous.. We have plans for the future like when to ROM, buy house, where should we stay, how many kids, who's in charge of paying for bills etc etc..

Yeah yeah, most of the above was thought by yours truly, of course contributions from my other half as well. :P Hmm, but I mean it's like so funny, I used to chat with my pals on which JC/Uni to go to, which faculty should we study, which job should we take etc.. and now, more often than not, our topics are mainly about future: marriage, kids and stuff.

and I start to notice newspaper ads on new condos that are sprouting out all over S'pore; HDB housing loan schemes; car prices and new models; GE Money; wedding conventions and the Ch U show 《选好就结婚》, which talks all about the wedding.... and it's actually ideal to start excercising 1.5 years before the actual wedding!!! MB said I need 2 years at LEAST... :S

Of family and friends...

as my MSN nick says: This is my BEST moments in life now, SAVOUR IT!!

yah, I'm really savouring every moment that I have now, especially goin to school and meeting up with my good pals. It's really a different kind of feeling, when you're not so pre-occupied with school work, and you just take a moment to appreciate all the people and things around you.

In the past, I always think about getting back home asap so that I can have more time to do my work and study; but now, I actually dun mind coming to school earlier, or even on days where I dun haf classes.

and it's ALWAYS so nice to see Hoi Ning, Li Li and Geok every Fridays during PE lecture... these pals of mine sine HC are my gems... really missed those times when we sat tog during Physics lectures, hOi drawing my name on my lecture notes, sms-ing, and bringing sweets and tidbits to class. I'm glad hOi will be starting work on the same day as me, and I heard that those who start work together will always be in the same batch for future training sessions.. :)

not forgetting my group of jie-meis from St. Nicks: Jie Si, Winne, Su Jun and Leng Lee (who's in Sweden for exchange). I have met up with Winne and Jie Si quite frequently for the past 1 month or so coz Winne and Jie Si are both going to China for internship/exchange soon... I'll only get to see them when they prob at the end of this year or sth... :/:/

Of my life....

Even though some of my friends have proclaimed that they'll not study again in the near future, I'm still contemplating if I should take a CPA or Masters in the next 5 years or so.. It's always good to have another degree, considering they're so much competition from foreign talents and our local homegrown graduates.

on the other hand, I have plans of starting my own business, in the F&B industry, prob a cafe/restaurant/pub or sth lidat... But this need lots of start up capital and unless I'm earning like 10K a month, I'll prob need to wait for almost 8-10 years before I can have a business of my own..

And where should I go after I graduate? I yearn to go overseas to work for a couple of years, to experience another diff kind of culture and working life, the people, the environment. I'm excited yet apprehensive at the thought of it. Most important issue is how am I goin to maintain a long-distance relationship with MB. I can be strong, but yet vulnerable.. This is one issue that I really need to work it out with him. I'm not sure if he'll be going to Aussie to take a Masters, but I personally am quite keen to go UK to work, or even Shanghai.

Haiz, I guess, I shall just leave everything in the hands of God... Pondering too much into the future ain't too good for my brains I guess.. ;)
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sinful friday!! :P
Friday, March 17, 2006 @ 9:45 pm

Met up with with best pal, Jie Si after school today to have lunch together, near her SMU campus.

Initially we wanted to go to this restaurant which serves Indian vegeterian food called, Analakshmi at Excelsior Hotel. This place doesn't have a price on its menu, so Jiesi and her group is doing a project on this restaurant for their module on Pricing.

But in the end we din go, coz she had to go back to sch to print out the questionnaire for me to do, as part of the project. We went to another face near NLB (Purvis Street), called Miss Clarity Cafe. (Er i duno why issit called this name lar.. :P)

You really can't miss it because its entrance is PINK in color.. (haha my fave!). It was about almost the end of lunch time when we reached, and the staff sat us down with their menu. There are 3 diff lunch set menus available, ranging from $8.80 to $15.80. Each set, comes with a soup/salad, dessert of the day and coffee/tea/barley/lime juice. There's no service charge, no GST, no CESS, NOTHING!!!! It's really pay what you see on the menu. :)

We decided to share a set lunch because we still wan to leave some room for dessert and other knick knacks later on. So we gotten ourselves a pan-fried dory fillet, and a chef's salad!

When the food came, I was bowled over. For $4, there was a big plate of salad! It could have been almost $10 at any other cafes around! Plus it's not those 'a bit of lettuce here, plus some dressing' you know, they have big red beans, soya bean, ham, cheese, carrot, purple cabbage, cucumber and thousand island dressing at the side!! I could have jus ordered the salad as a main dish all by itself! Really tasty! *thumbs up!*

Our dory was also nice.. It was laying on a large scoop of fried cabbage strips which was tasty too, plus baked potato, that was cut into a nice curly shaped and tossed with pepper and salt! Finger-licking good!

The meal only set us aside of $12.80 and we were really FULL when we left. You guys should check it out sia! Jus walk along Raffles Hotel and look for Purvis Street, you can't miss it! :)

After that, we ventured to Suntec to walk around and decided to go to Level 4 convention hall for the Food & Beverage Fair! Yah, I jus complained being very bloated from a very good lunch, but when you're with Jie Si, it's ALL ABOUT EATING!!! :D

WOW, the place was real crowded with parents and kids. It's almost the end of the 1-week holidays for them, so I guessed the parents brought them there to eat! Anyway, there were loads of aromatic food around, people rushing to snap up the food samples (pretend to be interested to buy) and loads of ppl carrying big plastic bags of their 'victory items' :P

We made one round, smelling, looking, hearing, and all the "wahhhh.. ooohhh...." :P Eventually, we got ourselves only Black Sesame Paste with Glutinuous Rice Balls... if only we had more stomach space!!! ;)

After carrying a very bloated stomach, we walked around trying to clear out the bloatiness... But I was getting sleepy after the hearty meal and my legs were quite tired from all the walking (I walked to SMU to find her, den went to the cafe near NLB, and to Suntec!)...

I suggested we find a nice place to sit down and rest... and I sudd thought of the new Ben & Jerry's ice-cream parlour near Carrefour!!! :D:D:D

So there we went! We gotten ourselves a Mix n Match combo, with 3 scoops of Irish Mudslide (Irish cream), Phishy Fish (choc w caramel and marshmallow) and Berry Sorbet on a waffle bowl!!!


Look at that!!! *salivate..*

it was a really SINFUL friday!!!! I'm really NOT losing any carbs at this rate I'm going... :P

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Awards Nite
Monday, March 13, 2006 @ 10:57 am

My kor was receiving an award at his company's annual Awards Nite ystd, for being able to sell some certain number of policies and total value exceeded some benchmark (which I'm not too sure).

Our whole family was invited (of which I attended reluctantly, coz I dun really like such functions unless I'm the one who's receiving it ;P), so everyone was dressed formally and arrived at DBS Auditorium at around 5.30pm.

Buffet had started already so we got ourselves some food. Like my mum said, the food wasn't fantastic, of which I agree totally. U noe those kind of buffet food, that you would only eat one round and before u even wipe out ur plate, u wan to throw it into the bin already. Yah it's act q bad :/ (but it's FREE lar, so bo bian also...)

Anyway, we were 'stoning' away at the recep area while my Kor 'pranced' around (literally) taking photos with all his colleagues. I suspect their over-enthusiasm and perhaps zealous behaviour was due to their working style (you noe how those financial advisers at roadshows have to constanly keep smiling and ask ppl if they're interested to get a policy?).

Ok i may sound disapproving towards my kor's job, but I'm not. I dun mind him doing anything as long as he enjoys it and is fulfiling for him. I'm jus commenting on the fact that, for people like ME, who altho loves to interact with people and stuff, am SO NOT cut out for such kind of job, let alone a career.

So we only start to enter the auditorium at around 7pm and I had thot they wud start with the award ceremony pretty soon. But to my utter dismay, they had loads of programmes or to quote Bisheng, 'fillers' in between, and there were actually 2 intermissions!!! The whole thing lasted till God-knows-when (we left at 1030pm during the 2nd intermission coz I was super pissed off at their severe lack of time management). Even a superstar concert doesn't last that LONG!!! *faints*

Secondly, I dun really like their corporate culture especially the leadership style of the boss, whom in my opinion, is using very drama-mama persuasion tactics to let his advisers believe that they MUST slog it out in order to provide for their parents. Ok, i agree that everyone shud work hard towards their goal and career, but NOT with the ultimate intention of providing for the family rite? I mean, it's not as if we're so POOR until we're in dire straits or wat, he don't really hafta say until to such extreme yah?

What's worse, he even played a section of the I Not Stupid movie, where the little boy's mum, Xiang Yun, passed away in hospital after hearing that her son got 2nd in an art competition, then he passed around the sheet of paper with the song in the movie, and asked those who brought their family, to stand up and look at them and sing the song!!! Btw, the song was called 内疚 or guilt. I think the boss can go and be Mediacorp producer liao!!!!

Alrite, I shan't say too many bad things about his company, after all, he's the one who enables my kor to earn big bucks next time... :P Perhaps I'm jus abit biased towards insurance companies, jus can't understand how they can be so over-enthu for such long hours and WHOLE career also? To me, everything abt it is jus a facade....

'Nuff said, we took some nice pics that nite too... Which, brought some redeeming factors to the whole nite spent (till my tail bone ached abit :S)

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Our whole family... Hmm, looked as if my Kor was getting married or sth..


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my Kor and I.. I had another photo of us in the same position during his OCS POP. I changed ALOT!!! :P

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tagged
Saturday, March 11, 2006 @ 1:32 pm

I'm tagged by my cous Tif, suppose to write "five of life's simple pleasures that you like most"....Let's see:

(a) Knowing that whatever, wherever, whenever, God is ALWAYS there for me :)

(b) Waking up every morning feeling blessed with loads of love from God, my family, MB and frens

(c) Cycling around the neighbourhood during evenings and just let my mind be drawn to the beautiful scenery and cool breeze

(d) Going to school and enjoy my frens' company

(e) Laugh, at almost anything :D

Hmm, seems like my life's simple pleasures ain't that simple actually.... ;)

Next 5 lucky winners to be tagged by yours truly:

1. Ben Oh
2. Edwin
3. Royston
4. Serene babe
5. Jiesi!

Guys do respond to the tag!! :) Haf a great weekend!

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TGIF
Friday, March 10, 2006 @ 11:41 pm

another GREAT Friday!!! :)

(WARNING: Awfully looooong post! )


I realised I've really been slacking and playing loads ever since handing in of 2nd draft and the FINAL one on Thurs... But luckily I still do my readings every week and did not have any backlog.. Thank God. :)

Anyway, met up with Ben today to get his digi cam from IT Show at Suntec. We met up q early and the show hasn't started so we decided to grab lunch first. I happened to saw that there was a footwear sale at one of the convention rooms in Level 3, so we went to take a look.. Shoe brands such as Renoma, Hush Puppies and Xodus were going at up to 70% sale!! Saw some nice slips but didn't have my BIG size :/ But they sure had some nice leather shoes that MB could buy for his networking session tom. (That man had to buy EVERYTHING from top to bottom!! :P)

Anyway, beside it was another sale of branded wear. We were curious and went to take a look. There were Diesel, Abercrombie *scream*, Roxy, Miss Sixty, Hollister, Pau Smith, A|X clothes there!!!! My goodness, me and Ben were almost GRABBING everything that we saw there!! They were real cheap! An Abercrombie top was selling at $24.90!! Anyway, end up we din get anything coz Ben was complaining that he shud save some money!! :P

the IT Show was packed when we were at Level 3 where most of the digi cams were selling.. There were alot of people, promoters, beautiful models. Kinda remind me of the days when I was a product promoter in Nov 2004 for Ranger. Gosh, those days were nightmarish and I have sworn NOT to be a promoter EVAR agen!! Horrible experience sia... :P

Ben kinda settled on either a Olympus FE150 or a Samsung one.. He was on low budget, so price was the priority. In the end, he decided to get the Olympus one, coz I personally think it's real good deal for a 5 megapixel camera, with a 2.5inch screen and nice, slim aesthetics. Plus they threw in a 521MB mem card, mini tripod (which look like toy) and a dry case for the camera. ALL these for only $399!! Whoa, since when a 5megapixel cam is selling so DIRT CHEAP?? urgh, I bot my Canon Powershot A80 for $650 1 year ago!! Prices are really dropping like crazy.....

Anyway, I saw the camera that I would like to buy!! :)

The LATEST Olympus SP-350!!! It's 8 megapixels and has a 2.5inch screen too!! It's a higher end of consumer cameras, but it's really sleek, can attach a separate flash too! What attracts me most is that it has underwater casing too!! Kor was complaining our camera now is too bulky and it's kinda 'OFF' to carry it around (which I agree totally)... Hmm, mebbe i shud sell away the current camera and get this!!! I q gian to get it becoz of its performance and design... Think can upgrade my underwater photography too!! :) But it cost $799 for the camera, and I haven ask abt the U/W housing... :S:S

Anyway, after getting his camera, there was still time. As I needed to get presents for MB's birthday and our anniversary, Ben suggester we find some nice branded t-shirts from him at the designer sale we went jus now.

We both eyed on this brown AF t-shirt that we liked and decided to get one each. Jus den this lady approach us to ask if we wan to share coz there was a Buy 3 Get 1 Free promo.. so we did our sums and felt that we could save q a bit and agreed!!! Tht t-shirt cost $24.90 initially but after we shared w the lady, it was only for $18.60!! CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP!! I even msged Bisheng to come down, but too bad he's still busy with FYP... Jiayou jiayou!!! :D

I was real happy for getting such a cheap bargain lar!! hahah typical woman! ;P

We later adjourned to Marina Sq to look for another present, and I decided to go to this shop that sells some diving equipment to get MB's long-awaited LED diving torch!!! Haha, he's been eyeing it for like 1 year already? But couldn't bear to buy it coz it's abt $50 for it... Lucky I have GOOD memory and could remember which was the one he liked... But I was still worried it might not be the one he eyed on. (Heng ar, later I showed him, he DAMN happy lar!!! :D:D:D)

It was still kinda early after we bot our stuff so we loitered around and eventually walked back to Raffles City... Browsed a few shops. We went into The Life Shop, which sells very lifetstylis and zen-like house furniture and ornaments!! I eyed on some to put in my future house liao!! *grinz* hope i have money in future!! :P

We decided to sit down somewhere to rest our feet (coz Ben was carrying a super huge box) so we found two nice looking seats outside the changing room of Robinson's changing department!!! So the two of us jus sat there and tok cok for almost 30 minutes before MB reach City Hall to meet me for dinner. It was a great chat man.. we talked abt our future plans and relationships stuff (agen) but I mus say, it was really nice talking w you Ben! :)

After Ben left for home, MB reached already and we went back to Suntec to buy his leather shoes. He bot a pair of Renoma black leather shoes at a decent price of $49 (about 70% off). And I realised guys' feet sizes are SO different from womens! For eg, a size 40 for ladies' shoe is like US 9? But size 40 for men's shoes is actually a 6! So confusing sia!! Why can't they standardize?? Zzzzz....

Dinner was Carl's Junior!! We ordered a Super Star, upsized with medium fries, plus 5pcs of chicken breast sticks! Ok, MB was REAL hungry, anyway he paid for it, so OF COURSE I eat lar... :D It was REALLY alot when the food came, but luckily he LURVES fast food, no problem for my man. :P

Oh coz I got MB such WONDERFUL gifts (He concurred :P), I 'requested' him to get me a present too!! Altho he act bot me a mickey mouse sling bag, sarong and shell necklace from Phuket, he was nice to agree!! :)

So we went to Fond Hugs at Suntec (Near adidas and Nike B.I.R.D shop, below Tower Records) and I immediately saw this nice white top!! It has brown embroidery below and flares out.. kinds like those Victorian corsets like that, and I look GREAT in it!! (paiseh, i SUPER THICK SKIN *wahahahah* :D)

So what can I say?? I had a great Friday! Thank God it's FRIDAY!!!! :)

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Grand Finale...
Thursday, March 09, 2006 @ 3:48 pm

7+ months of blood, swear, disgust and death of trillion brain cells culminated to 74 pages and almost 20,000 words of my FYP report.

I'm proud to say that I'm a HALF-graduate now. *hiphiphooray!!!*

Handed in 2 ring-bound copies to Prof Choo just now. Hmm, I actually can't bear to see the report leaving me... I mean after all, we have spent so much time and effort doing it and it's FINALLY coming to an end.

This just means that I'm really goin to graduate... in less than 2 months' time!!! *aargh*

I have planned loads of stuff to do during the long break:

  1. Taiwan + HK trip after final paper on 2nd May
  2. Diving trip (tentative)
  3. Lasik in June
  4. Temp job as exam invigilator (recommended by Edwin)
  5. Re-take driving practical (tentative)

Ok, so this just means that I'm goin to totally PLAY, PLAY and PLAY like mad before i start work on 4th Sept. :P:P

OH, another 20 days, I'll turn 22. :) Loads of March babies sia... got 4 pals on 4 consecutive days!! Edwin - 20th, Hoi - 21st, Serene - 22nd and Su Jun - 23rd!!!!

There's also Seafood + KTV outing w Bisheng, Ben, Ed and Sin!!! Wah i can't wait for this liao, so long nv KTV!! :)

How I wish I'll get the Growth Dividend now! Den i won't feel so poor whenever i reach into my Braun Buffel... :/

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Zenith - NBS Convocation Ball 2006
Wednesday, March 08, 2006 @ 12:01 am

[this is a post-dated entry. Scroll down for more. :)]

Hi people!!

You have probably heard from your frens, or even from yours truly. A bunch of people (including me :P) from the NBS Graduating Class of 2006, have come together to bring you the one and only

NBS CONVOCATION BALL 2006!!!!!


In order to commemorate 3 years of our undergraduate life at NTU, we have decided to organise a night that is TRULY YOURS!! 3 years of blood, sweat, numerous hair-splitting moments doing projects, presentations and assignments, it's time to celebrate THE MOMENT of your life.

Set in the spectacular Fullerton Hotel, which oversees the beautiful Singapore River and Victoria Concert Theatre, a neighbour of one of the most hip-ppening watering holes in town, NBS Convocation Ball 2006 is one event YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO MISS!

A night that is packed with good food, drinks and company of your pals, we assure you that it will be a night that is truly unforgettable.

so WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? Grab your pals and come to this party that is ALL ABOUT YOU!

Ticket sales start from 14th March, Tuesday near S4 Reading Room. What's more, there will be door gifts and lucky draw on the night itself! Hurry because the first 50 people to register for this event will have 10% discount!!!

zenith poster  copy
Visit our official blog at http://www.nbsconvo.blogspot.com for more updates!
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Date Night
Saturday, March 04, 2006 @ 1:04 pm

It was fun shopping with MB albeit my feet were rather sore from the new heels that I was wearing..

Shop

MB needed to get some business clothes for a networking session next Sat at Biopolis. And being Bio Sci students who dun need to presentations, he doesn't haf any formal attire cept prob his JC prom nite suit, which I think he has already outgrown it. :P

So we went around City Hall area, Suntec and Marina Square, looking for nice shirts and pants for him. MB was rather picky and din like some of the normal shirts (white base with stripes) that I asked him to try at G2000. I tot it was because he was not used to it, that's y he was reluctant to wear them. Got abit sian after that, when we went in to most of the shops but he jus din take a liking to ANY of the stuff displayed.

I was determined to get him the shirt before we take a break for dinner. Finally, found a nice blue base w stripes top at Topshop, and I used my gift card that Ben got me and the F3 discount card to pay. It was a sweet deal! $69 shirt become $42 only! hahah really saved alot! :P

He also got himself a pair of pants and matching tie to go with it. He was complaining that he spent a bomb, but i think it's a good investment for gd quality formal wear, so next time he dun nid to fret over wat to wear if he has more networking nites to come in his final year.

working man

OOH~!! My man is so handsome!! *cat calls and wolf whistle* :P


Eat

After getting the shirt, we went to this place called Curry Favor to haf early dinner.

Got to noe of this place from Mr Brown's blog because he brought his wife there to eat before. The place is at Stamford House, the building before u reach the now-defunct MPH bookstore at the non-existing ex-National Library. :P It's linked to another shop called Moon River, wher they sell western food and desserts as well.

Curry Favor's specialty is their Japanese Curry. It's thick and aromatic and we tried 2 chef's recommendation, Beef Stew Curry and Cheese Fried Fish. The serving was quite ok, altho me and MB had some trouble finishing it, which i think was due to the thick curry together with the rice. Prices are reasonable too. They have student promotions on weekdays from 1-5pm and it only cost $9.90 for a curry set, plus drink or ice-cream. Quite a good deal for students like us! :)

curry 1 curry 3


Drink

It was still early after dinner, so MB sugg we catch Underworld: Evolution at PS. But we forgot that Fri is usually super packed and crowded. Only front row seats were available when we reach and there weren't any other slots for other movies that we wanted too.

So we walked slowly to Orchard Road again and decided to stop over at Balcony on the 2nd floor of Heeren for drink and chilling.

It was my 2nd time there, but MB's virgin experience. We din wan to order their 1-for-1 beers coz I was still feeling rather full from the curry that we jus ate. So we ordered cocktails instead (MB prefers cocktails den beer becoz he said beer is fattening :P). He ordered a Peach Maguerita and i tried a new concoction, Lime Jellita, that mixes tequila, vodka and some jelly in it.


drinks close up


We din manage to get any couch seats and din wan to sit at the sides as well, so we sat in the centre with jigsaw puzzle shaped seats. Wasn't really comfortable, but it's good to rest my tired feet.

MB was goin all red after a few sips, but he's just like that, luckily he can take liquor q well (but not too much). I took some time to finish up my drink, which becamse somewhat diluted after that, which is good, coz i din wan to get myself tipsy. :P

Trigger happy!!~~~

drinks 1 drinks 2

drinks 3 drinks 4

drinks 5 drinks 7

the many facets of nadyne shu...


It was great date night with MB and i was saying we can treat it as an early celebration for our anniversary and birthdays (altho it's another 1 month or so). :)

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WOOHOO!!!
Friday, March 03, 2006 @ 11:15 pm

I'M SO HAPPY!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D

Got back first half of our FYP draft ystd, and I was so surprised to see that there were so few 'red marks' left by my prof!! *shocked*

I had imagined the worst, and was prepared to piah the final draft when this 2nd one come back in order to hand in by the deadline next Fri. But I guess, all that preparation wasn't needed after all!!

Most of the corrections were mainly grammar part, and some sentences that he needed us to elaborate further or rephrase into more layman terms. He was ok with the concepts that we had put across in the report, which I think was the most important of all!!!

and jus now Ben called after his Alumni dinner, wher our Prof was invited also, and got back the remaining half! Guess wat! The second half was almost as clean as a white slate!!! *yipppeeee!!~~***

Ben asked if he wans to meet up with us to discuss the points, and Prof said it wasn't necessary. As long as we corrected those minor flaws, the report is good for submission!!!

I really can't believe this man... I was detesting FYP when i got to know that I had to do it in order to fulfill my academic units to graduate. Was dreading it even until today! But all the months of research, discussion, drafting and compiling has finally paid off!!

The 76 pages, more than 15,000 words of FYP report, marks our 7 months of hardwork (esp from Dec onwards) as a team of three: Me, Ben and Edwin. I'm so glad that I'm doing FYP with them, becoz I've heard of so many unpleasant stories of free-ridership and other what nots with my frens or their frens as well.. Praise the Lord!! :P

As the deadline draws near, I can imagine how I'm goin to miss the days where we met up to discuss for FYP, fretting over the scope of our report, drafting, re-drafting, peer editing, researching and reading materials.

It's bitter-sweet memories.... I'm gonna miss it.

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