No Ben & Jerry =(

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Thanks to Baby for forgetting the ntuc vouchers on Wednesday, we weren't able to get the Ben & Jerry ice creams at special promo price~..... Its like only 2 days difference, and the promotion by ntuc is over. So sad... I was craving for my favourite B&J ice cream and was firm to get 2 tubs home on Friday night, but the promotion was over. End up Baby suggested getting Sara Lee Cheese cake again. Alright, cheesecake was nice too, just that I was craving for ice cream and was dissappointed that I couldn't get it.

On our previous occasion to ntuc @ amk hub, we also got cheese cake from Sara Lee - strawberry cheese cake, because it was on promotion. It tasted great! sort of like ice cream too because it melts in your mouth instantly. This time round we tried the normal cheese cake flavour, and it turned out as wonderful. We got lots of groceries and tidbits as I wanted to utilise Baby's $40 cash voucher.. Wahahaha! Thats for making me miss my B&J promotion.

We headed home after getting our yummies... Well, finally both of us are not working on Saturday, so we can watch tv, play games, munch yummies, and slag all night... Heez~ We woke up at around 1.20pm on Saturday, as my stomach was growling with hunger... Baby went to get vggie beehoon, tip top curry puff, and bubble tea from Each A Cup for me... Heez I don't know why, but I just won't get sick of vege bee hoon with lots of crispy "vege-goose". Even if I'm eating it practically every week.

We slag at home all day, so much for a Saturday. But strangely, I wasn't keen to go out nowadays, probably because I wanted to prevent myself from shopping before my BKK trip. Need to save my money of cheaper goods there, wahahaha!

However, everyone I know who is aware that I'm going to bkk are telling me to cancel my trip, because of the constant protests in Bangkok, Phuket, Hua Hin and Krabi. It's all those political unrest that making my parents and friends worried. Hai.... why so suay, just when I want to go relax and shop, they are having political unrest there... I read the articles on the protests lately and it was told that Phuket's Airport was temporarily closed due to the protestors marching into the airport premises. Tourists were left stranded in Phuket, and flights were cancelled. So poor thing, imagine you go holiday and they won't allow you to come home, and your accomodation wasn't taken care of by the Thailand Goverment even though they were the cause of all these riots.

But for now, we can only wait and see if the unrest in Thailand is solved soon, since our trip is on the 25th of September, we still have about 3 weeks to decide whether to postpone our trip. I hope that the political riots will be solved soon, so that my parents won't be so worried. However, despite all these unrest, sadly to say, but true to fact, its actually the best time to exchange my SGD to THB because at their stocks are slidding downwards due to all the negative news they are having now. Maybe I'll just change about SGD$500 first, then toward closer to our travelling date then change the rest.... Hmm... we shall see how ba... Scarlee not going, then the THB will be useless~

YummiBites!

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Just some recap on the past few days.....

Baby and I went to Amk Hub on Wednesday night after work to have dinner and buy some groceries...

We went around the whole hub and wasn't sure what to eat.... Honestly. Amk Hub doesn't really have that much of choice in terms of dining and shopping... there are too many shops of similar concept and products, which leads you to the same stuff where ever you patronize... We ended up with Pin Si as we never tried it before....

Its a small Hong Kong cafe selling Yuen Yangs and milk teas, and top off with HK style delicacies... Both of us wanted to order Beef Kway Tiao... Very telepathic... but Baby changed to XO Spicy Seafood Fried Rice instead because he wanted to have more variety rather than just sticking to just one type so that in case I didn't like the kway tiao, I could eat his.... Heez... Baby is so sweet.....

We were looking at the Omnia Brochure again while eating... I liked it the first time Baby introduced it to me... and regretted that I bought the Sony Ericcson during Feburary... But no worries.. I can use my mom's line to upgrade to get this new phone soon... wahahaha!
Its the first time Baby and I liked the same model of phone... Yeh! We can get the same phone liao~

We went to basement towards NTUC when I realized Baby his vouchers in his office!.... Angry leh~ I already reminded him to bring it along yet he still left them in his office... I wanted to buy things to replenish my tidbits and food at home... And NTUC was having promotion for Ben & Jerry, just what I wanted!!!......

Sian, we have to wait till Friday to come back and get my yummies because Baby have to work OT on Thursday.... But luckily we managed to get something nice... We went to get YummiBites, the stall beside A1 curry puff, that sells Goreng Pisang. This stall is owned by Baby's friend's brother... And we heard that the reviews for this stall is very good. They were even featured on Channel 8's "Chao Zi Xiao Chi Zhan".... Its a programme featuring the some of the best stalls in Singapore selling special delicacies~

The Goreng Pisang was indeed nice, because it wasn't oily at all... Even after we ta bao home, it was still crunchy on the outside, and soft and juicy in the inside... and the paper bag carrying the pisang wasn't a least bit oily... They also had fried green bean, tapioca cake, yam, and some more which I couldn't remember~... I would say, its a must try!!! (Located on level B2 of AMK Hub -" Yummi Bites")

Yeh ! Olympics Finally Over !!

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Yeh!!... The Olympics 2008 is finally over... no more hours of game telecast no matter which channel you turn to..... My favourite serials are back in action!

Yesterday after work, Baby came to fetch me as usual, and we headed off to LTA Singapore next to KK Hospital. Strange right?... Going there for what?.... Actually Baby had a friendly Volleyball Match with the LTA's volleyball mans team, and its set at LTA's ClubHouse. Baby wasn't supposed to be playing as his left kneecap was injured. But you know, his stubborn character never fails him despite the fact that I got angry with him for playing with a injured kneecap and cough that haven't recovered don't know since when.

Okie, the match was kind of interesting... But everytime I see Baby jumping to defend or strike, I got worried for his injury... End up his right kneecap felt pain too after the match.... Hai... No more sports for Baby until all his injuries and sick recovers!!!!

We went to Bishan KPT Coffee Shop to have Kway Chup for our late dinner, and we also da bao Almond Jelly Longan and hot Qing Teng for our dessert. It was 10 plus, and I reminded Baby to go home straight away as I wanted to catch my favourite Tv serials CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) at 10.30pm, followed by Criminal Minds at 11.30pm, then Cold Case at 12.30am.
The stupid Olympics made me miss my favourite serials for a good 3 weeks ok!

Baby always jokes that I'm a psycho because I loved these serials.... Not ok!.... I like to watch this kind of crime cases and watch how they solve the cases, solve the mysteries and study the minds of criminals. Usually girls won't be interested in these kind of serials, but I don't know why, I just love them! Especially with the fact that I'm on half days on Wednesdays, I can enjoy my favourite dramas till late late and don't have to worry about waking up early the following day!

Life so unpredictable~

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It has been a rather busy and sicky week for me... Took mc on Fri and Sat... Sunday was off, so practically whole weekend not working... I shall not elaborate further details of my happenings for the past week as my memory is failing me....

Mama told me the doctors say grandma's cancer cells are spreading uncontrollably... and that grandma only had the most 3 more months to live... My heart soured as I found out, and grandma has been admitted to Tan Tock Seng again as her body was swollen a few days back, and she had fever.

We went to visit grandma yesterday and she was having fever again. The doctor had to bathe her to cool down the temperature in her body.. Then they had to take some blood from her to do some testing... the doctors took like about an hour before managing to eject blood from grandma.... When we saw her lying on the bed sub-conciously, our hearts all soured... Poor grandma..... so weak and thin liao they still have to eject blood from her....

When the doctors are finally done, we got to see grandma..... She was lying on the bed asleep.. then mama called out for her, and her eyes open and close and open.... she was sub-concious... when I spoke to grandma, I couldn't help but shed tears... because despite her weak condition, grandma still took the effort to smile to us and ask if we have eaten... now even typing out my feelings makes me want to cry again...

I can see that Mama has been very worried all these period, and she is constantly frightened by early morning or late night calls as she is afraid that the call would bring bad news. Mama is the type that holds back her feelings until she finally cannot take it. I know there were several occasions that she wanted to cry, but she held back. So I'm doing my part to cheer her up and not cry in front of her.

Its a torture to see your loved ones suffer in pain when theres nothing you could do to help ease it. We could only do our part by constantly showering care and concern to help them forget the pain for that very moment. We would really loved to spend more time by grandma's side but I know our presence would only cause her to be deprived from rest as she constantly have to open her eyes and look at us.. We are all very scared of what's going to happen every tomorrow, because we all know that anytime, grandma might just leave us.

I shall end my blog for today as the more I type, the more I cry........

Fat Siong's Birthday!

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Monday was my eldest brother, Keng Siong's birthday. Initially we all forgotton about it, luckily we have facebook... Heez.. Even mama, who usually is the one who reminds us, also forgotton clean that it was my brother's birthday. I think probably because she is getting old liao, so her memory tends to fail her....

As Siong siong is a shy and strange guy, he usually doesn't like parties... celebration.. So we usually only celevrate his birthday with just a cake, nothing else special... However, as his sister, I know what my brother likes... Heez... On Monday morning, I told mom not to prepare dinner for the whole family, as I'm ordering Sarpinos Pizza and KFC... I also sms Siong to come home at the same time as usual for pizza dinner... He seems happy about it.

Just before 7pm, I called and ordered everything, and left office as Baby is fetching me home. The weather wasn't really helping us, as it was about to rain... to prepare ourselves, Baby made me wear his raincoat. It was really hot to wear the fully covered raincoat when it wasn't even raining yet. As we set off for home, before entering the tunnel at Cairnhill exit, I realised that I'm wearing my rather new Charles & Keith Heels, and the expected heavy downpour would definately spoil my shoes. I told Baby about it, so he suggested stopping at the shoulder of the tunnel exit, then he can help me remove my heels and dump it into his bag.... The whole process was kind of funny, stopping by the road shoulder and removing my shoes with so many cars driving by, looking at what we are doing.... Heez... I told Baby, we are a funny couple.. Lolx..

I was rather shiok without my heels on while on the bike... Luckily throughout the whole journey, we only encountered heavy downpour when we were reaching my place.... We went home, and the Kfc arrived. Both Siongs were already at home waiting for dinner... I know they must be famished, because they usually have their dinner at about 6pm. The pizza haven't arrived as we expected, rainy days sure delay... So Baby and I went for our shower first. By the time I was out, pizza was here, and we all feast like hungry pigs~ Haha~

Actually it doesn't take a big party to enjoy on a day worth celebration. I like spending special days with my family... at home.. feasting, watch tv, play Wii together... I hope Siong enjoyed his dinner... Can see he was kind of touched...

A day to remember!

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Today is indeed a day of joy and celebration! Singapore has finally won its Olympic medal after its first since 48 years ago. Even though the ladies didn't manage to beat china in getting the Gold Medal and letting us have an extra public holiday, the Silver was already very impressive enough for this small country of ours.

Even for me, who usually wouldn't watch table tennis matches due to the several matches required for a game, was watching the match through out and having this strange anxiety for every point loss to China. During the Award Ceremony, the moment Singapore was handled the medals, it was really a touching moment. So much more compared to National Day itself.

However, many people who aren't supportive to this Olympic win are criticizing that it wasn't a true Spore win because all three players were originally PRC. I think this is just a naive and selfish way of thinking. In this very face paced and everything technology century, every country requires foreign talents. If Spore were to stick with our countryman alone, we wouldn't be Spore now. We would most probably still be very much like our neighbor, Malaysia. I wont want to explain any further details of my thoughts as 'Malay'sians, as in the 'Malays' there are very sensitive.

You see, nowadays people are migrating and declaring citizenship in other countries as they feel much more comfortable in their new living environment. Just like the ladies in our Spore team. If they were to stay on in China, would anyone still recognize them there? Would China spend money on nurturing ther abilities? ..... The answer is No....

We should put ourselves in other people's shoe and think from their point of view. One day if some company wants to pay you twice, triple or even ten times you current pay to scout you over to their corporation in some other country, provide accomodation, personal vehicle, and pay to allow your family to move over with you, and will make sure you get your citizenship there, won't you want to go? ................................

So much to think, so much to see, so much to do~

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It was indeed a lazing nua day for both Baby and I yesterday. Other than Baby going for 2 of his appointments in the morning, and going to Kovan to ta bao Laksa, ice jelly cocktail and buy mangos in the evening, we were both practically at home for the whole day watching tv, playing games, and taking naps.

I guess I was too tired after a week of hectic work and late night sleep. I thought by staying at home to rest, it would help me recuperate and have more energy for the new week ahead. However, I guess because I was watching tv for the whole day, my eyes were having this burning sensation. The kind of burning sensation I usually get when I don't get enough sleep or stare at the computer for too long during work. So I told myself I should get some sleep in the afternoon. It was like about 5pm when all of us at home (Fat Siong, Small Siong, Baby and me) were having our afternoon nappy time. I was really tired, the kind of tired that allows me to fall asleep like 10mins after lying down.

Yet, I just couldn't fall asleep at all, especially when Baby was sleeping so soundly and taking up like 3/4 of my bed. I couldn't bare to wake him up and ask him to shift so that I can sleep beside him, so I decided to go to my parents' room and occupy the queen sized bed all by myself. wahahaha!

Lying down on the bed, I shut my eyes tight and asked myself to relax, but my mind just couldn't rest. I always have this problem of letting my thoughts and imagination run wild. I guess its due to the fact that I'm a Pisces, and one main chracteristic of a typical Pisces is being imaginative. We usually run through our thoughts in our mind instead of penning down on a piece of paper or sharing with others. From a very simple situation, I can think of so many different types of outcome. Sometimes very practical, sometimes very irrational, and sometimes just totally out of our mind~ Although I have to admit, sometimes my great inspirations and ideas were derived from my daily "imagination session".

This characteristic has been accompanying me, or should I say pestering me since the age I was able to think, read, talk and write. But it went into a deeper space of infinity when I moved on into the adult stage of my life. Every night before sleeping, no matter how tired I am, my mind would still take a roller coaster ride before it manages to slow down and rest. Sometimes, or should I say often, it gets bad, just like yesterday, when my mind just couldn't stop thinking even though I'm so tired and just want to get some sleep. Thoughts just runs through and repeat itself over and over again, and I don't have the ability to stop my mind from thinking.

This is why I often get insomnia in the nights, and it gets so nerve wracking that I just hope that someone will hit me hard on the head and let me faint to sleep. But that is quite impossible, so I'll just struggle throughout the night, trying to close my eyes most of the time to let them rest because I knew I'll most probably be awake all night. Even if I manage to fall asleep, I will either have long running strange or stupid dreams throughout the night, or wake up to a really bad nightmare in the middle of the night, and sleeping again to only continue the unfinished nigtmare~

The situation was the same yesterday when I wanted to take my nap, and I ended up lying on my parents' bed awake, with my eyes closed for over 1 hour. When I "woke" up, my head was spinning and the burning sensation got slightly worst. There was nothing I could do at that moment, just to pray hard that hope that I'll sleep well in the night.

I really envy people who could just fall sleep in an instant, for example, my very own Baby. He falls asleep in less than 5 minutes, and sometimes even when I'm still talking to him. I realized after starting to work, one won't have that much time to rest because there is always "sian, tomorrow still have to work" kind of day ahead of us. I start to miss those good old days when I was still schooling and everyday after school, I can go home and have a great nap in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, one can only move on ahead, and not backwards. Sometimes I use some medication like relaxing pills or less addictive sleeping pills prescribed by my doctor to help me sleep. I know its not advisable, but I don't do that often.. Heez~

What to do.... I really need some sleep~

im freakinnnnnn tired~

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It has been a freaking tired week for me... now that my colleague is on leave for her wedding in Jakarta, I have to take care of my already so overloaded work, and also take care on some follow ups for my colleague.... Not to mention that there is so much events going on this week and for the upcoming week too~

Baby is sick, made me so worried for him for the whole evening.... he was late when he came to fetch me from work. Initially I was very angry as I have already reminded him not to be late, but when I saw his pale face, my heart ached..... I always blame Baby for not being caring enough towards me, but I realized that I haven't shown enough care and concern to him too...

I'm sorry Baby =( Get well soon ok?

Luckily he felt better after taking panedol extra when we reached home.... He doesn't have fever, but has sore throat and feels aching all over his body..... After which he even had slight flu too~ Poor Baby~.... He even insist on attending two appointments tomorrow morning even though I insist he should cancel it or ask his colleague to help him.... He is a workaholic...

I'm feeling a little sicky right now too... Started having flu too after I came out from my shower just 1 hour ago... I think I'll better take some flu medicine and feed Baby his medication, then we can both go sleep sleep le~

ZzZzZzZzZzz.......................

Its shopping time..!!...Again??

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Duh~.... Saturday at work turned out to be very extremely boring... My pc in office had crashed... so for the past few days I'm like using the so called public pc behind my desk~ Sian.. I can't serve the net or chat in msn or skype because its like any of my colleagues can come over and borrow the pc for some other usage... Basically I'm seriously doing work all day long, kind of straining to my eyes because I need to focus on editing photos and stuff like that...

Luckily on Saturday, it was national day, and there were only my boss, baya workers, and me in the office.... I managed to find a rather well reviewed car scratch remover in the internet called Quixx - Car scratch Repair System.

And why?..... Because some FU*KING BAST*RD SCRATCHED OUR CAR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!!!!!....... we found out only in the morning when Baby fetched me to work... I really don't understand why there are such FU*KERS, with nothing else better to do, some more our car is not some sports car with fierce spoiler or body kit... Its just a normal small red car with lots of my turtles inside~

Better don't let me find out who it is.... But its alright, god shall punish such people, they will never have a good life..... die also go 18th level hell~........Fu*ker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pardon me for my improper language~.... I'm a very straight forward person, who ever offense me and lets me find out, I will straight away confront that idiot and "chut" that person until they have nothing to say.... I have been like that since schooling years, that's why my friends always say I'm very ah lian.... Heez~ Its the environment that caused me to be like this~......

But anyway, Baby and I knew we didn't offend anyone we know in any way.... So its most probably some prank or some crazy fu*ker with nothing better to do~ I was pretty impressed with Baby's calm character. He wasn't angry actually, just thinking of ways to remove or cover the scratches immediately after we found out..... I didn't know whether he was hiding his anger or really not affected by this prank, because Baby really takes care of his car all the time..... But I was sure he would feel upset deep down in his heart, so I wanted to find the cheapest and most effective solution to get rid of the scratches~ I hope the Quixx works...

After work Baby came to fetch me and we decided to go some where near our home to have dinner because we wanted to be away from the crowds of the national day parade audience and on lookers of the fireworks.. So we went to J8 again, had Ding Tai Fung, then we went to walk walk... I bought sandals from Charles & Keith again and two more tops @ $9 each from Fox. Baby also bought 3 more tops from Fox.. and they cost more than mine okie?.... so who's the shopperholic?..... Baby ok~ =p

Sun Set Grill & BBQ @ Seletar Air Base

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Last night Baby came to fetch me after work, and he was in the holiday mood, so he suggested going to the Sun Set Grill & BBQ located within Seletar Air Base at the Republic of Singapore Youth Flying Club. This ulu malu place was recommended by Baby's colleague, saying that this place sells famous buffalo wings and you get to sit just next to the runway while enjoying your meal....

The previous attempt to find this place was unsuccessful, because I guess the direction given by his colleagues wasn't clear enough, so Baby and I ended up touring around seletar camp and exploring eerie and ulu spots for about 2 hours. But this time, I managed to find an article in the straits times featuring some ulu pubs/night spots for dine and wine in Singapore, and they provided detail direction to find this particular ulu pub.

Firstly, the address of this place is 140B Picadilly Road, East Camp. To actually find this place, you have to first drive in to seletar camp, head towards Picadilly Road, then Lembeth Walk, then Hamstead Gardens, then Western Avenue, then turn towards East Camp and just drive all the way in and you will find the previous OLD Youth Flying Club. By then you should be able to see a small pub at one corner with colourful lights....

The previous time we went to search this ulu pub, we went to the NEW Youth Flying Club, which is like at the direct opposite, located at West Camp. We couldn't find a single eating place there, only buildings and buildings of aviation company, and you can even see planes~ We even went all the way to the end till we reached a police guard house, and had no choice but to turn back....

On a whole, if you want to find this ulu place, be prepared to experience a ride that you'll never expect.... with black and white houses built in the colonnial years, to roads and turns so dark, you'll hope your car headlights were fixed with HID bulbs... The food was nice, and I like their Sautee Vegetables that comes with the steak or pork chop. The baffalo wings weren't that terrific, althought that was supposed to be their specialty... we ordered half a dozen, and I only ate one... Baby ate like two and a half and got sick of the taste... A couple beside us were trying their level 5 Baffalo Wings, I think they were like sweating away from the very first bite... Too bad I didn't took much photos because the place was like dimly lighted, and my camera flash seemed very disturbing to the other diners...

Baby said that their level is determined by the number of coats of chilli on the wings. Which means, with every increase of level, the chef dips the wings in chilli and deep fry again. Honestly, if you imagine that, its like how many coats of chilli and oil you are puting into your mouth, especially the higher the level you eat... Its quite disgusting to imagine that, and its extremely unhealthy... Nowander the menu describes the wings as lips burning and tonsil scorching~

The only unpleasant component there was that there were a couple of huge red ants crawling all over the tables and chairs... and it seems like they are the permanant residences there, so don't be shocked if you see red ants crawling over your plates~

My Leg Hurts!

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On Thursday, I was late for work as usual, so I was kind of rushing when I was about to reach my office. Whenever I entered the showroom, theres this steps with marble tiles which we have to take, due to the fact that the showroom is partially underground. Usually when I take these steps, I will tell myself to slow down because its kind of very smooth surface and can be very slippery if my shoes don't have very good friction. But I guess on this faithful day, probably because I walked alittle too fast, or maybe because I was wearing heels, I slipped and fell with the front of my legs hitting hard on the edge of the steps..... Ouch!

It was so painful, I couldn't stand up for about a minute. Luckily my colleagues didn't see me fall, only my boss was puzzled as he saw me sitting on the steps rubbing my legs when he came out from the pantry. He was like asking me in his funny iran accent " Huh?.... Why?.... What happened?"...

The pain went on for the whole day, and I could feel that my middle and forth toe having a joint fracture kind of pain, probably caused by my heels as it added on pressure to my toes during the fall....

Baby was rubbing the blue blacks for me in the night before sleeping, but it was so painful that I only let him rub for 5 minutes... Usually it really hurts when you hit hard on the bones... Ouch~.... Sobx...

Mahattan Fish Market

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Baby was so sweet yesterday, he came to fetch me at orchard after work and suggested to go somewhere new to have our dinner because he knew I wasn't in good mood lately..

Initially he suggested going "Giraffe", which was a new dine and wine restaurant located opposite Plaza Sing. But I didn't want him to spend too much money so I asked for more options. Then he suggested going Billy Bombers, because Baby have not tried the food there before. He drove to PS's carpark, and we intended to walk a distance to the BB at Picture House.

But end up, we were both kind of too tired to walk, so we decided to try Manhattan Fish Market located in PS. Both of us have not tried MFM before, there were several attempts by me to psycho Baby to try MFM. But there will always be a long queue outside the restaurant, and we usually wouldn't want to wait. Luckily yesterday the queue wasn't too long when we reached there.

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Heez, their table design nice right? But I took it up side down~

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We ordered the Seafood Platter for 2, together with their special Manhattan style Mud Pie. The serving for the platter was large, and we didn't managed to finish it. Hmm, honestly I still prefer Fish & Co. The fish from MFM was just like those flour coated fish than just fry, whereas for F&C, their fish was much more tasty and well seasoned. I also preferred the Mexican style rice from F&C, because they had some veggies, raisins and tomato sauce fried with the rice, which makes it more appetizing. MFM's rice was soggy, and more simple with a strong butter taste. It took me not more than 3 mouths before I got sick of the strong butter tasted rice.
But of cause portion of the platter still tasted quite nice, like the fried squid.

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Our Seafood Platter for 2~
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I also loved their dessert, which was very different from the standard chocolate mud pie. It was huge for the price we paid. It was chocolate ice cream mixed with chocolate pie, frozen under at least -25c, and then topped with chocolate fudge. It was yummy!.... and ice cream made it less filling compared to the normal mud pies, which was appropriate after a overstuffed meal.

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Baby commented that it really looked like mud.... Duh~
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After our extremely filled meal, we went to Carrefour to get some groceries again.... Heez~ I was craving for strawberries, and I have run out of tidbits at home... However, we didn't managed to get any mango because there wasn't any large nice mangoes there, we only found small mangos, the type from Thailand...

Well.... I enjoyed myself and thanks Baby, for trying to cheer me up. I really appreciate it, and probably we can do the same thing again next week, and the week after?... Heez~ Wallet bursting le mah?

Monday BaLuuuus~

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So sad.. Im like eating cup noodles alone at home again... We were supposed to be having our dinner somewhere outside... But his colleague is on MC today, so Baby had to cover her OT duties for today.. So much for a blue Monday~

I was like disappointed when Baby told me he had to work, and I was asking him why his colleague had to ask him to cover her duties instead of asking others... Actually in mind I already knew why his colleague asked him first... because Baby loves OTs... He always says that its easy money, especially during the weekends... It doesn't matter to him if his weekends or holidays are burned.. to him, earning money is a bigger deal.

In a way, I should be glad my Baby is so hard working.. but in another way, its quite disappointing with the fact that he rather work then accompany me during weekends... Especially when he knows that I only have 1 weekend off per week...

Well, I always tell myself I should look at the positive and rational side. Baby is working hard to earn more money so that he can pay off his parents housing loan and other minor debts, and on the other side, also save for our better future... If he were to be selfish, he would have ignored all his family burdens and focus on just himself and his future... So on my part, I should be supportive and give him encouragement instead of giving him more problems... what to do... my Baby is a very filial and responsible person, even if his family gives him problems and extra burdens, he will never abandon them... He will only work even harder to improve their lives...

This is the kind of morale values that we can't find in most of the young adults, or even older adults now... Because in this fast paced and improving century, everything is about MYSELF and only MYSELF. So what if you study so much, get yourself a degree or phd?.... If you are a self centered person who only cares about yourself and nobody else, at the end of the day, you will find that you are still not satisfied with what you have. Because the most important things like kinship and friendship is not there for you....

One should reflect on his or herself now and then, and not allowing the stressful fast paced environment change your character and change the way you think.....

Alright, too much of blogging about morale values for today.... Its time for me to go relax and enjoy some tv session for the day~

Charcoals..!!

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To carry on my happenings and unhappenings for the past week....

Work seems to be over loaded for the whole week. Though tiring and busy to the extent of not having time for lunch, time passes real fast, and usually without noticing, its 7pm.. Time to go home!!....

On Wednesday after work, Baby came to fetch me from my office, and he wanted to bring me to "Charcoals". Its actually located at the previous coffee shop where Botak Jones-AMK used to be.

This Malay owned grilled/bbq meats store actually provides tasty grilled chicken with fries or chips. The specialty they have is their wide range of salads to replace the fries and chips. When I say wide range of salads, its really wide range compared to those normal coleslaws you get from western food stores. They have avocado pasta salad, seafood cream salad, potato salad, egg salad and etc..

Baby mentioned until like the food is so wonderful. When we reached there, he immediately recommended me to get the quarter grilled chicken combo that comes with 3 salads of your choice. I didn't bother to look up at their menu thats printed on their signboard as I was too tired, and trusted Baby to have choosen the best combo for me.

Never did I know, the whole dish is like 3 types of salads and a quarter grilled chicken... Thats all... no fries no chips... Kind of not that surprising leh.... at least not the way Baby had discribed to me... There were too much salad for a combo liao.. Initially I thought the salads would taste very significantly different, thats why they came up with this 3 salads combo.... However, to my dissappointment, it all tasted sort of too creamy to me.. It took me less then half the meal to get sick of the salad taste... Then I looked at the menu again and realised that they have other combos that comes with fries, chips or corn... Hai... why did I let Baby order for me... I should have ordered myself... End up I swapped my meal with Baby's Hokkien Mee...

Baby was afraid that I would be upset about our dinner... especially when I'm already not in a very good mood... But I didn't really show any temper.. probably too tired.. But of cause I knew Baby meant well because he thought I would like something new like this...Anyway I still appreciate his effort to cheer me up. Heez~

Friay was the 1st day of the lunar 7th month... went straight to temple after work to pray.... Usually on this month of the year, I'll try not to be in the outdoors in the nights.. the most I'll only stay out till 11pm... I admit that I'm the "Bang Tang" type of person.. I don't go beach, don't go swimming, don't any talk or make comments, and walk very carefully not to step on any joss paper or offerings on the ground...

In this 21st century, very seldom can you find superstitous young adults like me... But I'm not ashamed of myself for being like this... who cares what other people feels or thinks of me.. there's a saying in chinese " better to believe then not to"... I think this phrase explains my feeling and mindset... Don't always wait till something bad happens than you regret....

Yesterday was a hot and sunny Saturday.. We both woke up like at about 10.30am, despite the fact that we didn't have to work... Baby and I were both tired but couldn't fall asleep again after we woke up...

Baby had a few volleyball tournaments in the afternoon between 1 - 5pm... Initially I promised to go watch Baby play.. but end up I was too tired and had some house chores to do, so I told Baby I will give him morale support instead... Heez.. sorry Baby.. don't feel dissappointed because I didn't go watch you play ok?.... Muacks!

Luckily Baby and his team won champion... Yeh!... Baby so "Li Hai"!.... But this tournament is only for his internal departments in HDB... He says that the tournaments with stat board and other goverment division is the difficult one... I will give you morale support de!... Jia You Baby!!

We went to kovan for our late dinner at around 8.30pm.. We both had laksa from the kovan market that I missed since I got transfered away from my HLM branch to Bugis last year during my occupation in Aspial...

The laksa was as spicy and as delicious as ever, and I only like the one from the Teo Chew Fish Ball Noodle store that was located at the back row of stores... Its just beside Selegie Bean Curd, and is always having long queues during peak hours... so isn't that hard to locate...

We then headed for Cup Walker to buy and Ta bao Bubble tea for my friends and myself.... The blury me only realised that I took 6 straws instead of 7 when we were back at our car... so Baby had to walk back to cup walker again just to help me take 1 more straw... Heez.. Baby is always my hero!.... How did I ever survive the days before I got to know him.... Heez~

Met up with my friends at temple and it was almost 10pm... time to head off for AMK Hub for our movie session with Mummy 3 - Tomb of The Dragon Emporer. Ah Dua and Ah Sui and their family were all supporters of Jet Li's movie... Me too... because his skill and wushu is genuine de... we all arrange to watch together since last month... I tink this is the first time I watch a movie with a group of 15 people... Lolx.. when my cousin Siew Siew went to buy the tickets on wednesday, the ticket officer was stunned when she wanted to purchase 15 tickets, and even asked her again "so its 15 tickets right?".... Haha..

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Catch "Mummy 3 - Tomb of The Dragon Emporer".. Screnes 31 July

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There was yet another coincidence as Adrain, Ah dua's bf, saw his sister and parents when we were waiting to sit in for our movie... and his sister, Audrey, came over to say hi. Then I saw Baby say hello to her too~ Haha... we all were confused at first, especially ah dua and me... because it was the first time Baby and I met Adrain's sister..

We then found out Audrey and Baby were secondary school mates... Lolx... the world is really so small.... But Baby really had alot of coincedence... like my cousin-in-law dephnie was Baby's poly classmate, and ah dua's cousin, Be Zhen was also Baby's secondary classmate.... are there going to be anymore coincedence?... we will see as time goes....

Thailand Trip is Set!!!!

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

Yipee!! My leave was approved when I returned to office on Tuesday, Myrna even placed my approved leave form on my desk so that I would see it the moment I walked to my desk... Heez...

I immediately logged on to Tiger Airways and Asia Room to book our tickets and hotel... The only pity fact was that I wasn't in time to book for the best promo priced tickets.. But it was still alright, because we only had to pay like 40 buck extra... We will be flying off early morning of 25th Sept, and returning early morning on the 30th Sept. We choose The Watergate Hotel because it was ideal for the location and pricing... only $165 for 5 nights... I also read the reviews of this hotel, and it was mainly positive feedbacks. The most important fact was that this hotel is still very new, so its still very clean..

I must do some homework and research about where we should visit and where best to shop... but already, many of my friends are telling us where we can go for shopping, and makan~ Heez! Im so excited!.... But its still a pity that we could not join debbie and her family in their trip to Taiwan... Haiz... I had always wanted to travel with them... especially when Debbie is so familar where to shop and where to get the best food!!

Haiz... hope next year we can go Hong Kong together....

What a hectic week for me...

*zHigUo + xiNhUi = kUkU & LaLa *

It has been a tremendously tiring week for me... I had intended to blog almost everyday, but end up being too busy or not having time to even sit down in front of my mac to just log in... I would say it has been a roller coaster ride for both Baby and me this week...

This week started off kind of relaxing... as we were both on leave on Monday to join my HLM family for their outing.. I woke up very early like 8.30am in the morning, having limited sleep throughout the night ... Its yet another struggling night for me, as I was very tired, and just couldn't fall asleep.

Baby woke up at about the same time as me, as he had to make a trip back to his office to settle some back ends and apply for some time offs as Monday was the cut off date... He came back at 10am, took a bathe, and we headed off for downtown east. We met up with the guys at Burger King, and was just in time to be the last customer to order their breakfast. I had their croissant ham sandwich, and Baby had the turkey bacon burger. I liked mine, as the croissant was soft and the ham was juicy. I didn't know burger king's croissant was so nice! This discovery will allow me to add one more option for a hearty breakfast~... Heez~

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Caught them eating! Hah! Look at Baby, smiling with food in his mouth again...
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After our hearty breakfast, it was 11.45am, and we headed off for the new Cathay Cinema located on level 4, erm... or was it level 3?.... Our show was 12pm, and we were watching Dark Night-Batman. Before watching this show, what I had in mind was that it would be something new, perhaps a sequel from the previous Batman movies. But after watching like for the first quarter of the show, I realized that this movie was actually reliving the original story of Batman... It was kind of sian, and I didn't really enjoy the movie... Felt alittle cheated, but I should had read up about this movie before watching....

After the movie, the guys headed off for Wild Wild Wet, but I didn't get to go =( Because it was the second day of the arrival of "Big Aunt".... But Baby was so sweet, he offered to accompany me while the rest went for their dip in the cooling water... We arrange to meet up 2 hours later, so Baby and I had 2 hours to kill.... We decided to go bowling, since there was nothing else to do anyway~ We enjoyed ourselves with 2 games... and it kind of felt like we were having our date instead of outing with the rest..

After 2 hours.. it was like almost 6 already and the guys were finished with their Wx3... we called Paradise on Earth to reserve 1 table for us, and all of us were like damn hungry... We all didn't had our lunch, and all of us felt like we could eat up a cow... Heez... Just the best time for a steamboat buffet!

I was glad that they all enjoyed the steamboat, as I was the one who recommended them to go there.... On a whole, we all enjoyed ourselves on this relaxing outing day~