Sleepover at zee's

It's been a good long weekend... thanks to vesak day. Slept over at Zee's and spend a night on Sentosa island the next day... very very tired. Bashed.

Shall let pictures do the talking...
Dinner at Ichi Ban boshi @ Esplanade.




Most of us have learnt to bring our own cameras... heeh heeh.


Sashimi!!!! Huiru intro a white fishy sashimi.. i forgot what it's called... i tried it and the texture is somewhat like a soft pear (the one below the lemon on the left).


Then drove back to zeee's place for more picture taking and eating!
Got Geylang's dou hua, dou jiang and you tiao!!


I had a lot of you tiao.....

More photos..we were using the self-timer and eileen kept missing the shots. Keke.










A group photo before cake-cutting....


And birthday girl makes her wish!!


and fiddles with her new polariod...



We had disney fairy tale frames.... :D



So... as the Vitamin C song goes... "as we grow old... we remember... all the times we... had together...
and as our lives change.. come whatever... we will still be friends forever... lalalala...."

well, true enough, as we grow older, the bonds of our friendship becomes stronger. We want to be there for each other, and share moments with one another. And we're also sleeping earlier (with Huiru as an exception). We used to be able to chit chat and talk about everything and anything under the stars... well, we tried... but we concussed before 3am.

BLEH


Sleep overs are always fun. We should have a pyjamas party or a facial party or whatever party again soon. :)))

The breakdown of our 4 year old washing machine almost caused a family crisis.

by that i mean the family falling apart. It is ridiculous. my mum seriously need to control her temper. Maybe I need to control mine too, but compared to hers, mine is really 'small house see big house'.

and i don't know what's up with my bro. trying to act cool and quiet.

BAH.

pls make tmr a better day.

Even THUNDER cannot wake him up!

The window panes in my office shook... making clanging sounds as the strong winds brushed past....

Lightning flashed. A few times.

I was anticipating the thunder.

Flash, flash, flash. Still no thunder.. back to work...

then... HONG LONG LONG LONG!! *very loud thunder la!!*

my colleague next to me jumped out of her seat. I quickly glanced round the office to see if the others had the same shock.... but... I got a bigger shock.

Dear mr. AT was SLEEPING!! dozing off, head propped by his left arm. monitor had screensaver turned on.

WAH LAO EH. what kind of person can sleep through thunderous thunder!?!
as if hearing my thoughts, the thunder god decided to prove his point and fired many many shots, a few seconds after one another. still, dear mr. AT did not budge.

me and mae couldn't stop giggling. AT must be sleeping for damn long la! He sleeps every afternoon lor! and it's even more frustrating cos he usually sleeps when my boss is not around... then 'pretends' to be so hard at work and laments to us that he is overloaded with work and can't seem to get used to the idea of managing a few projects concurrently. BUT he has time to doze off at work.

The other time I caught him dozing off (there were only two of us in the office then), I used my mobile to call his direct line. hurhur. very evil i know, but i really enjoyed the moment when he jerked awake....but guess what! he went back to sleep after that!! so i buay tahan, went over to his desk (by this time his eyes were open) and asked him if he's busy. and he GAN GAN say he is!! so i don't care, i delegated some data entry stuff for him to do, so what if he is a phd. simple data entry also cannot do correctly lor.. heng i got check his work.

I also feel tired at work sometimes la! but i just do some eye massaging and look far, look near and shut my eyes for a few minutes. when really buay tahan, eyelids damn heavy, I go to the toilet to steal some forty winks. at least i have the decency to go to the toilet and the max time i spent there is 10 min. wash my face and back to work.

I'm itching to ask dear mr AT what he does at night that makes him so tired in the day. And I'm hoping one day, my boss will call and look for dear mr AT and I can proudly say... oh, AT is busy sleeping at the moment, would you like to call back at a later time?

I like being mean. *GRIN*

I need you to trust me...

I need you to trust me...

That's what ethan hunt told his fiance in MI:3 (i really enjoyed the movie btw)
but back to the topic on trust....

how much can you trust a person? who should be the person you trust? and how would u know when you meet with one? Is it in human nature to generally 'distrust' other people? Do i even trust myself?

Trust is like a prized possession, so precious you'd want to keep it safely by your side, 24/7. and yet, it'll lose its worth unless you share it with someone else, someone whom you think it's worthy of it, to help guard and protect it, so that trust can grow into something else more beautiful.

Taking the first step to handing 'trust' over to someone else could be tough.
just like when Julia questions Ethan, "is this (love) for real?"
there's this split second when you have to learn to trust your own judgement, trust the other person, believe and stick with it.

easier said than done.

it's all looking good this month...

I have concluded that May will be a good month for me.

1) Firstly, it means that one-third of the year is gone, and very soon, there'll be the new year to look forward to. I always 'wow' at how fast time flies by... and I really wish this year will be a better year than the last one.

2) Two sweeties were born in this month, and there's gonna be so much birthday fun!
planning to back to Top of the M for drinks, and gonna have a dessert party at zee's!

3) 24th will mark my one year anniversary with the firm. We've just got awarded three new projects! I'll be working on two of them. One of it is market sizing for breast implants in, where else... Asian countries.... Average cup size for Asians are reported to be 34C. okay! Cheapest surgery here would cost you $2000 plus, most expensive would be around $10,000!! I'm gonna learn about all the different breast implants surgical methods and do some 'mystery shopping' with the cosmetic surgeons (meaning, i will have to pretend I REALLY want to have a boob job and go find out more from the surgeons)ha ha, if u see me around with bigger boobs, just keep the secret to yourself. Ha ha.

4) Great Singapore sale is around the corner!! I always congratulate myself for working in town, cos I can still get to the retail shops without taking day-offs! muahahaha....
and I've just sold my canon for 189, which effectively made my new casio exilim cost 59 bucks only!! *jumps around like a mad rabbit*

5) Boss will be gone to Germany whole of next week, and then come back for one week, and gone to europe again for the next. China man will be gone to beijing for one week. Yipee! Although i'd really love to travel for work, i guess it's good enough that people at work travel.

6) and mr goh's booked the sijori resort!! I'm like how excited.. even though it is only to sentosa.. ha ha. I've looked at the sentosa website, printed out all their F&B outlets, the new attractions/places to visit in Sentosa and the map of Sentosa!! Haha, feel like a damn suaku tourist. looking forward to visiting the underwater world, butterfly park and the new imbiah lookout place! okay...i keep exclaiming! so yep, I can't wait for the next long weekend! Yippee!! and.. mothers' day round the corner too... will make it a point to tell my mum that i'm really proud of her and all that she's done for the family. (would be better if she's a bit less naggy though.. hehe)

more updates later!

may day weekend...

So, I didn't meet my project deadline last Friday and boss didn't text me or anything over the weekend, which is good... cos I really needed to get away from my new colleagues, or from work totally for that matter. I don't remember the last time I had a really good time, holidaying. Overseas work assignment don't count, cos although it's fun to learn this new, independent side of you while you're travelling alone, meeting up with new people, it is really ultimately quite lonely at the end of the day.

Saturday was k lunch with mr. peh, finally...after countless pang sehs. I'm not sure how i should be feeling about the way things turned out btn him and a certain girl. i just pray she doesn't do anything funny again, because karma really exists. Just read my entry in may last year -do you believe in karma.......

Attended yun's baptism on sunday morning. Really happy to see her take a step forward and commit herself to something which she truly believes in. It'll be a whole new way of living life and viewing things around us. :) happy for you, angela!
Eileen, post the pictures soon! better still, send us to our gmail accounts!

Lunch at crystal jade HV was another round of bashing irritating people in our lives, some politicky discussions and travel plans (fun places for some-like taipei and far away and scary sounding places-like karzakstan, not even sure if it's spelt this way)

and then off to my complimentary skin analysis at Kanebo! They have this machine thingy which will magnify your pores many many times!!! It's quite scary looking. Anyway, my skin lacks moisture!! People who work in the office, pls moisturise!!
The beauty consultant was telling me how everything will go downhill after 25 years of age. yikes.

The MUMMY returns!


Mr Goh took the pics while I had the face mask thingy on. I was trying hard not to laugh and just wanted to relax my face.

The MUMMY returns yet again!


I'm supposed to do this face masky thing 2-3 times a month on my own...... reminds me of the saying that goes, there's no ugly women in this world but only lazy women! I mean, I already have trouble keeping up to the 3 step regime every day and night. Cleanse, tone and moisturise. Now the lady suggests i put a UV protector sheen on top as well! That'll be 15 min of my time in the morning, which means I'll have to wake up earlier to do all these. really takes some effort to do all these religiously.

but the effects were wonderful!!

Pink, glowy, dewy skin. Need to do something about my eye bags though.

So, all in all, i spent quite a bit on my mum's cosmetics and my own. and since there was some promotional thing at metro (min spend of 400) and you'd be able to get the casio exilim at 49% off. so.... I got that as well!!



Not an impulsive buy... i hope (me and mr goh went to courts to check out the camera first) 49% off leh! and comes with 256mb sd card and free leather case!! Haha, yah, very auntie to mention the freebies, i know. So, we decided it's quite a steal and it's time i get a new digicam too. twice the megapixel of the old canon and so much cheaper!!!! Technology and its way of creative destruction. I love gadgets!

PS cafe

The PS cafe at paragon is just another convenient coffee joint for shoppers to stop by, have coffee, sandwiches, salads and cakes and basically, to rest our tired legs after hours of shopping.

So I brought mr. goh to try out the roasted vegetables salad at PS cafe at paragon today. (I've been craving for it ever since the day I tried it with mich and eil.)

but I didn't know that mr goh is another person who doesn't like to eat brinjal, or anything 'ugly looking' (He loves sea cucumber by the way, and i thought THAT was ugly looking enough)

So, i didn't enjoy the roasted vegetables salad as much as i did last time since my recommendation was not exactly that fantastic. : l

an ice latte, hot earl grey and hours of magazine browsing was still good though. enough to satisfy two tired people on a lazy sunday afternoon.

unwinding weekend

started saturday with the thought of intensive blading from one end of ECP to the other and back, plus the weather was great! cloudy and windy, not humid and just the right amount of sunshine... but...

by the time we got to ECP, mr goh didn't feel like blading anymore and my legs were feeling very very tired! I have no idea why.. they felt so tired that I couldn't walk on my own anymore. I tried to convince mr goh to piggy back me, but obviously he wouldn't.

so we went for some ice cream waffles at gelare instead.



but this must be the most unappetising-looking ice cream waffle we ever had. It was banana walnut, whip cream, with chocolate sauce... : l

Luckily the drink was berry nice!



Nantocket Nectars-Kiwi Berry. Tastes a bit like ribena, but with a different punch. and it's like 8.90 for one bottle. : l



Spokesperson for kiwiberry drink!Heeh.

and mr. goh in deep thoughts:


These few days, I've been looking at my feet and thinking that they are looking more like my hands. So i compared my toes with mr goh's....



hah, what do you think?

but the feet is often a part of us which is highly neglected. SO...feel the presence of your toes, my friends. wriggle them everyday. It's good for blood circulation (or so I heard from the OSIM sales pp at taka square).

hmmm.. looking at the sea and listening to the sound of the waves definitely calm you down.... completely. :)



I'm dreaming of my white sands, palm trees, ocean waves holiday. Hopefully in the maldives. HeeeeeeH.

really a busy bee...

I have not been so busy at work for some time.

Working for three projects concurrently with tight schedules seem almost hard to complete. but I love it.

I love the feeling of accomplishment when at the end of the day, I finished what I planned to do in the morning.

When I can happily check the "things to do" boxes and plan what I want to achieve for the following day. I love feeling organised.

but I also yearn for the occasional "down time" when I don't have to work so hard.

Patiently waiting for the two long weekends in May to service my engine and keep on going the journey ahead....

the tissue paper lady...

I don't usually buy tissue paper from the tissue peddlars at hawker centres or along the roads because there are just too many elderly people doing that along the streets of orchard road and like most people, I just normally shake my head and say no.

However, I buy tissue packets from one particular elderly couple once in a while on my way to work in the morning. This couple is there every morning, rain or shine, right in front of the rolex building. The wife, I presume, will always cry out: "tissue paper one dollar, tissue paper one dollar" while her husband, stick thin, leans on a wooden crutch and stretches his frail arms in hope that some passer-by will approach him and buy his tissue packets. I must say I always feel my heart wrenching every day I see this old couple. On a few occassions, I wanted to find out what their story is...why do they do that every morning? Don't they have children? Why do they have to sell tissue papers every morning? Why..why..why.. but I never pluck up the courage to approach them and speak with them. Why?

This evening, met up Mr. Goh to have dinner at clementi. Both of us have tonnes of work-complaints. my china colleague is testing his limit with me EVERYDAY. I can just imagine spewing blood onto his face one of these days. Anyway...i digressed...
This really old lady... think maybe in her 70s.. came by our table with tissue packets and we bought the tissue packets from her. She was selling them 3 for $1 but we gave her $2 and she was kind enough to let us know again that it is just $1. Other tissue peddlers may have just taken the money and kept it, I don't know. Maybe cos she's an elderly lady, not man... maybe cos she looked kind and grand-motherly, maybe she doesn't give me the feeling that she's pushing us to buy the packets from her... maybe.. a lot of maybes which led me to want to buy it from her.

But the thing that really made me really upset was when I saw her going to the other table and upon seeing the leftover foods, took out a plastic bag from her bag and started to fill it with the leftover foods. Carefully, she used the chopsticks and filled up her plastic bag. I cannot imagine my grandmother, or anybody's grandmother, to be doing that every night. why? Where have her children gone? Or is she living alone? Is this the result of her not working hard enough when she was young? Or was she abandoned by her children cos she's too old and troublesome to take care of. lotsa questions ran through my head... One man's trash is another's treasure. Is this her fate?

Sigh, what a blue monday. and what a timely reminder for myself to count my blessings and cherish everyone, everything I have today.

Memory Toggle

#1: My primary school chinese teacher was called "bulldog" because he looked like one -dark short and fat- and he also had to run around the classroom chasing my boy classmates with the wooden metre ruler in his hands. There's supposedly a bulldog song created just for him.

#2: I have got two indian friends. One took over his father's business and became a money changer, the other, last remembered to have jumped down from the second level of our school building in order to prove his love for my best friend. Apparently, he twisted his ankle only.

#3: My favourite thing to do during recess is to play hopscotch and zero-point. I can jump over the "2-inch" level and we throw our wallets on the hopscotch drawing on the tarmac ground.

#4: My favourite food in the canteen was from the noodle stall. Occasionally, the cheese sandwich from the drinks stall, and the He Bao Dan from the fried rice stall.

#5: I used to play the organ when I was young and my best piece of music (apparently) is 爱相随 by 周华健. The music scores were bought from the big popular bookshop near school, and it is one of my favourite hangouts.

#6: I vaguely remember my winning chinese story telling competition piece to be about a girl who happily went out to buy dark soy sauce only to break the bottles and dare not return home. It was a story chosen by my teacher and she trained me every day in front of the class like how you'd train a parrot to speak. (of course, i'm grateful that she did what she did)

#7: I remember getting a love letter from a classmate.... and taking MC for the rest of that day.

#8: I had to stand in front of the entire school and sing the school song/national anthem and recite the national/school (sometimes over the PA system) every day. The bad thing about it is, I cannot be late... the good thing about it is... I get to people-watch. hm, is that a good thing?

A retro night with mum

Slipped on my 'happy dress', put on fancy dangling earrings and little tote and I'm all ready for Fong Fei Fei's concert Saturday evening with my mum.

I must say I looked and felt retro with the polka dotted 'happy' dress. I just lacked platform shoes and a polka dotted ribbon for my hair to complete the retro picture. Can still afford to throw in some bubble-gum shades for an extra dosage of fun.

Anyways, it was a really enjoyable evening. This lady, well-known for her various hats and powerful vocals, has been singing since the early 70s!! Her first song was in 1972 lor.... and it's amazing how there are still fanatic fans supporting her all these years!! FFF's probably in her late 50s but still look very pretty, like late 30s!

Stage and the supporters


The concert lasted for 3 hours or so and towards the end, I was sceptical that there will be an encore but at the same time, hoping that there will be people chanting the magic words for FFF to come out and sing again. And they did! So her most loyal fans were going, "Encore, encore, encore..." and we find ourselves shouting encore too. It was fun. Heeh. and the funny thing was, FFF came out after 5 min, and said, "Did I change fast enough? I was afraid you guys would leave!" That tickled my mum and up til today, she's still talking about it.

We were given free light sticks too! Sea of lights...

This is one of my favourite songs she sang that night.
<掌声响起>
孤独站在这舞台听到掌声响起来
我的心中有无限感慨
多少青春不在多少情怀已更改
我还拥有你的爱
好像初次的舞台听到第一声喝采
我的眼泪忍不住掉下来
经过多少失败经过多少等待
告诉自己要忍耐
掌声响起来我心更明白你的爱将与我同在
掌声响起来我心更明白歌声交会你我的爱

We could hear from her voice that she was trying to control her tears when she sang this. and honestly, I could feel tears rolling in my eyes too. She is really a superstar and her songs, the ways she emote, really gan dong dao wo. And my mum, I could see from her eyes that throughout the entire evening, she was transported back to the 70s and 80s, back when she was about my age, still a pretty young thing and reminiscing those times when she’d go for tea parties and song and dance. And that made me want to tear even more. I don’t know why, do I feel sorry for my mum that she’s lost her youth? Or do I feel happy for her that she’s finally able to ‘xiang fu’ now that all her children are grown up? Hmm...

Anyways, I love oldies. The songs from the past really have a different flavour and feel to it. I wonder if Stefanie sun’s songs will have the same effect on my children 30 years down the road...

the night at devils bar

It's true that some things happen for a reason, or are fated to happen in one way or another. When I got a call from my primary school friend this afternoon for some drinks tonight, I thought, well, why not? We haven't been in contact for 10 years! So, I decided to be spontaneous about it and agreed to meet up. (originally, my mum wanted to go shop for sofa set after i end work, but she called and said she's still at the hair salon. And being the planner that I am, I don't really like to be so spontaneous. hur.)

So yep, I rang up another primary school friend, who also happens to be my ex-neighbour, and best friend in primary school and asked her if she's available to meet up tonight. And so happens that she's going to devils. So that's when all the missing pieces of the puzzle starts to fall in place.

Pity leroy couldn't make it... cos it was actually birthday celebration thingy for jasmine! and it's like how qiao. I knew her birthday was around the corner.. but I didn't expect the timing of everything to be so accurate. So yeah, it's amazing how the chemistry among the few of us are still there, although i seriously think there is something wrong with my memory.

I can hardly remember things which happened during those primary school days... does that happen to you? I mean, they can really rememeber a lot of details! All I get are only 'screen shots' of events. like 'SNAP' boys throwing coins into our blouses, then 'SNAP', coke stains on school uniforms, 'SNAP' sitting in front of movie screen... what's wrong with my memory bank man.... how nice would it be if I could still remember exactly how I felt during those moments. By talking about childhood stuff with them definitely makes it easier to dig certain deep-seated memories from my brain and make those images start to appear again. Although we've not been there for one another for so many years, I'm sure there are times when we will think about one another and just wonder how they are doing now...

I'm glad we finally met up and on such a joyous occasion too. :)






And since I always feel very awake after i bathe, plus I've just drank some dang gui chicken soup thingy my mum prepared... I shall talk more about the night at devils.

The live band was not bad, vocals damn power. and there's always some fat, gay-ish looking guys bar-top dancing. Entertainment level for the night---high.

Drinks--- we had chivas. and I just found out that there is such a thing called chivas green tea. yeah, very suaku i know...but green tea was only popular a few years ago? and how i know any other drink also can be mixer. :P and jc broke the chivas bottle to get 3 crystal balls out and i took all of it! muahahaha.

and, it is proven that nokia handphones can take better pictures than the more expensive mini 02. ha ha ha ha. the flash from the 02 was BLINDING and pictures are still dark.

my heart is still beating at a faster-than-normal rate and my stomach feels HOT.
no cravings for green apple or dustbins or toilet bowl. no feeling constipated.
hair still stinks badly and ops, i think i didn't have dinner just now. (but the chicken wing they serve at devils is pretty good).

Need to detox my system tmr. now, need to get some beauty sleep.

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Lunch at the Balcony

I've got such a heavy lunch at the Balcony today that I totally forgot to have dinner when I got back home. I think it might have something to do with the 200ml of HL milk in the office at 6pm, or it might be the tonnes of work that kept my mind occupied until 7.45pm. So, it's almost 12 now and I am still FULL.

SO.....Let's take a look at the place I had lunch...


The chairs we were seated are rocking chairs! and of course, the swings behind us. I would have loved to sit on it if not for the company I'm with. :)


The bar at the end of the restaurant.


The drapes and nice cushions.

And now the food at the Balcony...

For starters...SOup of the day: Minestrone! my favourite!

This photo really doesn't do justice to the minestrone soup.


Spaghetti with Prawn and Tomato Basil Sauce.
Still pales in comparison with Bakerzin's seafood pasta.


This is the salad my colleague got... but i also have a mini salad which comes along with the pasta and set lunch comes with tea or coffee or me.. hur.kidding.

My male chinese colleague found an ant in his ice coffee when he was about 3/4 done with it and he asked the waiter over and said,"Just for your information, I happen to find this very CUTE little ant in my ice coffee." I was speechless, threw a glance at my close female colleague, m. When the waiter kindly offered to get him another drink, he said,"It's fine, I already lost all my appetite." What's up with that man. I mean, I didn't even kick up such a big fuss when I found a baby cockroach in my horfun (but I also hadn't started eating it).

Anyway, we decided to cut the dining experience short and head back to work.

I'll still go back to the Balcony again, but this time, i'm bringing someone else.

Mandarin and a whole day of shopping and feeling like a princess

It was a sweeties night on friday. Luckily I was able to get off work early 'cos my boss finally recognise that it is impossible to finish the interim report by sunday and submit to client on monday. and he just got a new hire, china masters prc girl. (more on my china colleagus another day)

so, as usual, everywhere was packed on a friday night (and for places that are not packed, there MUST definite be something wrong) We originally wanted to go to Marche for dinner before heading to the Balcony to chill out. But there's a long queue outside and they won't allow us in unless at least 80% of the pack is already here. so, conveniently, we just went upstairs for Nydc. not very crowded, which we will soon get to know why. Service was slow, food arrive very late (like 45 min later??)and we can't have "outside" cake and eat it. There's this quite "funny" guy who served us and told us that the most they can let us do is to blow the candles and cut the cake. how ridiculous. Ironically, they have this board that says service with a smile at the door.

so, the balcony was equally crowded...but i really want to go there sometime!! there's a jaccuzi in the middle of it lor! and I want to sit on the swings!
we then shifted to the mandarin hotel for some drinks instead. Service was so much better and the drinks were good too. I like my lychee martini which was served in some kinda jappish teapot with the dry ice effect. apart from sangria and baileys, i think this would be my next favourite drink. had a really long chat with the girls... so many things happening, so many changes... everyone's growing up in different directions. and towards the end of the night, i think i got a bit tipsy and flushed BUT i slept really well....

The lychee martini!!

so the next day was a princess treatment offered by the sweeties! (thanks very much for the pretty dress!) went shopping around with eileen and zee in the afternoon for a wedding dress... heh, basically, just a dress to wear for mr. goh's sis wedding in june. then had gelare waffle (comfort food) and did more shopping around at far east, when mich joined us. decided we may be a bit too young for far east, so headed to paragon's PS cafe. They have the BEST roasted vegetables salad!!! MUST TRY! and we had some flourless cake with an equally light ice-cream, and of course, coffee.

Before we left, went and got myself a gucci tote in a short span of 15min. *big grin* Should have spent more time in the boutique to make my money's worth... All in all, the weekend was fantastic. one of my best birthday celebrations. Thank you sweeties. :)

Sun with Moon

Went to Sun with Moon at wheelock for dinner on Thurs night and the food was superlicious!! The place is really pretty too! They've got the cafe section at one corner with big red armchairs that look really comfy. and then there's the main dining section with pretty blue lighting, a view of the busy orchard road, a teppanyaki bar place and a more personalised dining area for couples. We were seated at that area and it's so comfortable with the white cushions that we forgot about ordering our food!

So, turning to the menu, we decided to order some sake since it's a joyous occassion and had some salmon sashimi for starters.





FRESH, SUCCULENT salmon sashimi. Our favourite. and if you look closely at the pic, you'd realise it's served on top of crushed ice!

Being the beef-lover that mr.goh is, he had the Yakiniku hotpot.



I tell you...this must be the BEST Yakiniku hotpot I EVER tasted. The entire hotpot looks extremely mouth-watering!! I actually didn't want to try the beef cos of my braces and I was afraid that I won't be able to chew properly. But no.... the beef was cut into thin slices, looks a deep red when it arrived in the hotpot and melts in your mouth! YUM. Definitely a must-try at sun with moon.

I tried the Eel and clam Kamameshi. It's something like our chinese claypot. not fantastic, but the way it is presented makes the dining experience fun.



I got to play with the hourglass.



and the eel is really tasty, but rice can be a bit hard.



so in between eating and talking, we drank sake....the japanese way. I must say i am really not a very good drinker. so mr goh had to finish like 200ml of sake. I probably only drank 10ml. The remaining 30ml... unfinished. hurhur.

and lastly, we had the tofu cheesecake. It was presented in a bird cage! but the lady took the cage away before i could get a shot of it. Next to the cake, there's this bird origami which i'm sure all of us have learnt how to fold when we were young.



and there's this really nice couple next to us who offered us a 15% discount voucher cos he's got extra. so, thank you, whoever you are.

Overall, it was a good night. Yummy food, nice ambience, friendly waitering staff and good company. I'll definitely want to go back there again. Maybe visit their outlet at CHIJmes sometime.

明星脸!

I'm suitably amused by this website. See, what you do is choose a picture of yourself and it'll match your face to a celeb.

So FROM THIS (Feb 2003).....


TO ...


Note: Because of his plucked eyebrows (sacrifice made for the drama production), Mr.Goh does not have a match for a male celeb photo.
and that's not a very flattering picture of tata young.

FROM THIS (Aug 2003) TO....



Mr. Goh's teeth is such uncanny resemblance of bob's. HAHA. I like drew barrymore and loved her show-Never Been Kissed. She's got very kissable lips!

Moving on to 2004 (September), I've transformed into anna kournikova beside leslie cheung...


On my birthday 2005, Leslie and Jang Nara were spotted on the esplanade...



But when he puts on his specs (May 2005)...



the joker in him surfaces, while i look like miss zhang-the-soup-is-too-salty-ziyeeee! : l

Come NDP 2005, (this has got to be my second favourite of Mr. Goh, bob marley being 1st)...



So finally, what have we got for 2006??



Note to Mr. Goh, pls don't go tann yourself again. If you want to get in the sun, soak yourself in SPF (the largest number) sunscreen.

Go check out the website www.myheritage.com

I am not eligible....

for the PROGRESS BONUS!!!

$800!!!!! I can already imagine what I will do with that amount of money! But I can only imagine...

and i'm still waiting for my pink IC and citizenship certificate.

It's really no fun:
1) watching everybody else around me getting their big belated ang bao.
2) walking around with a blue ic that's punched with a hole. People look at me as if I'm from outer space.

So, clubs and movies that are not PG are out of the question for me. and someone should tell everyone that when there's a hole punched in your IC, it means it is your temporary ic until you get your pink one to save me from explaining myself to everybody.

It's going to be many crazy working weeks..

Yes, on a saturday afternoon, I am back in the office trying very hard to finish up some sections of the due-by-31st-March report. The task would have been simpler if my boss had typed out his interview transcripts but no... I will have to decipher what he wrote (or rather, in his words, scribbled). I should have gotten him the ACECAD memo pad (it's this folder like thing which allows you to write on it with paper on top and at the end of the day, you can copy the written data to PC and have the handwriting recognition programme to covert it to text)

And on top of this report, I've got another project hanging by my neck for a very long time (thank god client is not rushing us, maybe Thailand is too busy with street protests) and I REALLY hope i can finish conducting the phone interviews for this by end next week and not have to work late on 30th and 31st!! but i doubt, since boss will be gone to HK disneyland and won't be back on 30th and we'll have to submit report to client before monday of april.

So, there is also another deadline in end April, and two more projects which are yet awarded but will likely be and will fall on my shoulders and work will build up for these as well. (Unless we find someone to hire soon) I'm flipping through my calendar and i'm crossing my fingers and toes that I won't have to come back to work on Good friday, may day and vesak day.

good thing mr goh has started working too and his working hours are even crazier than mine. It offers cold comfort somehow.. hee hee.

now here's the fireworks on NYE

I think I made a very good friend upset lately....

I think I made a very good friend upset lately.

To him, I am the Pang seh queen (meaning: I always cancel/postpone my meetings with him and/or the gang), time again and again and again. I feel really sorry about those times too when something will just SUDDENLY pop up out of nowhere and plans made with him have to change. Personally, I'm someone who really loves things planned and hate last minute changes. I plan what to do for weekends before they even arrive, what to wear to work tmr before i fall to sleep, what lunch/dinner should I have, and I even plan to plan.

So I can perfectly understand why he is "cheng sim" and does not wish to arrange another meeting with me again. He says he is so tired of looking forward to meeting me, only to be subjected to more and more postponing. There is one thing which really upset me as well when he said that it seems that I can meet with anyone except him. On one hand, I'm really sorry that I'll have to postpone it (yes, again; for the 3rd or 4th time in a row)

But on the other hand, i was quite mad. I know honestly that I didn't arrange those meetings with him, just so I can postpone them and purposely make him feel so cheng sim. I didn't purposely set our meetings to be on days which I know I will have something planned for. And i seriously did not see those events popping up which had me do what I did. It takes two hands to clap; just one to slap. I don't know which one is happening now. On occasions when he can't make it, I can make it. On occasions when I can't make it, he is free. and on occasions when both of us can make it, something has to disrupt it. And for him to think I'd rather meet with anyone except him, I hope that's just said in a fit of anger because I hate to be accused of something I am not. It upsets me too that he can't see the effort I am making to meet up with him (however little effort he perceives) and I don't want to arrange for another meeting with him immediately knowing that I would have done it out of obligation instead of really wanting to meet with him.

Which brings me to think about the people who are the priorities in my life...

My mum is proudly on the top of the list since she's a real menance when I don't do what she wants me to do but such a great mother with all her sacrifices made to the family. and the rest of my family memebers (dad, brother, sis, and the boys)

Followed by mr. goh, who is possibly the closest person to me (and will hopefully remain so) and who's seen so much of my disgusting and petty side.

Followed by the sweeties; who never brings a smile to my heart whenever I think of them. They're the ones who've watched me grow since secondary school, the ones whom I've cried on their shoulders and laughed in one another's faces.

so what else follows?

perhaps making my own career for now. Perhaps earning enough for future plans. Finding time to do things which I would really love to do. Keeping up the friendship with friends whom I've not seen/spoken with for a long long while. And for him to believe I would rather make time for other people (not in my priority list) than him made me really mad. Yes, I think maybe I'm more mad than sorry. Being the petty person I am, I probably will hold off talking to him for some time (it's been a week) since he, and not some tom dick or harry, should have known me better.

wild, wild, and wet!

It has been a fun, wild and wet weekend, bringing the boys out to downtown east for some splashing good time. It's always so nice to see them again after some time, to notice that they have another tooth growing or changed their hairstyle or scarred their knees, whatever. It's the magic of being around kids. No matter how mad you are at them, you can't bring yourself to hate them. You just want to nurture them and shower them with love. I like bringing the boys out every few months just so that they won't forget us (my mum, my brother, myself, mr. goh) and I know how much it pleases my mum whenever the boys come to visit.

So before we jumped into the waters, we decided to have some ice milo at macs first. The weather was simply too HOT! And i was unpleasantly shocked to find out that one medium sized ice milo costs two dollars and fifty-five cents! sha ren fang huo.

Some shots at Macs:







Pity we didn't take pictures at WWW. Amos had a tattoo on his thigh and he believes that the "ink" has really gotten into his skin. So...we plunged into Yakult Professor's Playground first and the water was COLD. and off the boys went, up and down the stairs, bridges, ropes, splashing water non-stop. I must say I feel i'm losing stamina to be playing around so hard with the boys. We tried all the rides, almost (amos hasn't meet some of the height requirements). and lucky us, we found a fifty cent coin in the jacuzzi pool. hur hur. of which, became our play thing for the next 20 min or so. (someone will toss the coin in the air and it'll land in the pool and all the rest will dive for it) the boys love it.

The water theme park closes early, at 7pm. By then, we were very very hungry already. Hungry man is a angry (and quiet) man. We didn't talk until our stomachs were filled. hee hee. and then, we went to have icecream and took more pics..



can't wait for their next holiday..