Thank god it's wednesday

On Wednesday , I decided to give myself a break from all the tuitions and spent some quality time with my loved ones - friends and kunny ( who's abandoning me for Aussie in 2 weeks time ) 

brought him to my trusted brow salon , rupin's at holland village to get his eyebrows trimmed. 

he's been dying to try eyebrow threading for sometime, bugging me to bring him when we were in bangkok . the thing about my boyfriend is, he's very very "adventurous" and he always fazes me with his new idiosyncrasies.  bicycle stunts, body building , beer brewing (?!? most extreme) to name a few..

we managed to get tickets for monsters inc at shaw's lido after our fruitless hunt for winter jackets. 

please bring along a cardigan when you visit the movie theatres at lido because their aircon's on full blast and we were freezing throughout the movie . i had to hide my arms kun's bag to keep warm. 

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met up with the uniclique for dinner at timhowan. 

we had to queue for 1.5 hours, from 6:30pm all the way to 8pm. the queue was madness and it didn't help that sammi cheng and andy lau were at the foyer for some movie fan meeting. 

it's pretty hard for big groups to secure seats and they need everyone to be present before they allow you to have the seats. it's much easier if you were to go in pairs. 

then again , going in big groups all us to try a variety of dishes . we ordered almost everything on the menu and the total bill amounted to about 24 per person. there were a few hits and misses, but it was a satisfactory overall. i heard it's much cheaper and better in hongkong's original branch though . 

Peihao ordered this to satisfy his chinese porridge craving after months in Aussie. 

this was a miss . we ordered three portions and no one really liked it. 

love this two fried dishes too :) 

chee cheong fun in three different kinds of fillings - mushroom, shrimp and charsiew. 

i'm a fan of CCF so i wouldn't give this a miss but i thought the mushroom filling was a lil weird. 

one of the most popular dishes - osmanthus flower jelly . 

the super sharp fragrance put us off quite a bit. it's like you're consuming perfume. 

not really a fan of herbs so this is a miss for most of us. 

these two are my ultimate favourites - yam puree with sago and BBQ pork buns. 

i'm sure BBQ pork buns need no introduction and it's so popular that it's only limited to one portion per pax , regardless of dining in or takeaway. we ordered three portions for our dine in and were told we can only takeaway a maximum of 5 portions. the staff has kindly provided us with takeaway boxes and plastic bags to divide our takeaway share. i thought that was a thumbs up on CS side :) 

yam puree with sago was soooooo good. i'm not really a fan of yam or the popular or ni yam dessert but this is such a refreshing change from mango sago dessert. i'm deserting the later for the former for sure :) 

picture snapping time after a hearty meal 

headed off to marks and spencer to accompany our dearest rachel to stock up on some snacks for work. 

she has started on her first official job as an accounts executive last week and she's already so swarmed with work. she almost couldn't make it for dinner because she has a few projects on hand ( too pro! ) and i'm so proud of her and yet feel so sad that we won't be able to spend so much time together. we used to see each other everyday to mug and whine about all the revision and non existent social life. 

i.still.can't.believe.we.are.stepping.into.the.workforce.already. 

i would be joining the working crowd (hopefully) after i'm done with all my tuition assignments on hand this year. alot of my friends encouraged me to pursue full time tutoring and i've put much thoughts into it. after much deliberation, i've decided that i should not go into the private teaching field full time because teaching from 7pm-9pm ( the usual teaching slot ) would mean that i've to miss out on dinner gatherings etc. I also felt that if i were to go into teaching, i should go through the proper channels of NIE ;  i'm not sure if this is the route that I want to pursue,  having chose the Business Degree in the first place. 

life is all about making choices and sacrifices. 

i've plus one again :)

a little backdated but i will never forget how loved i feel on the day of my birthday 

thank you to my wonderful friends and loved ones for all the mini surprises and treats. 

i'm very touched from all your efforts despite me being over 21 already :)

massive beauty hauls over the festive week + my birthday :) 

love each and every single one of them !! massive strike offs from my to-get-list . 

esp the umbrella for the forgetful me who's lost so many in the past year... 

i'll be less forgetful this year i promise. with age comes wisdom and being less forgetful i hope?

sweet instagram dedications from my pals 

plus a lot of sweet personal text messages & well wishes on my facebook wall.
THANK YOU EVERYBODY XOXO.

birthday dinner at pasta fresca da salvatore which is located along bukit timah road . 

loved the tiramisu and how the girls surprised me with it when i first stepped in . 

it's a pity that my camera decided to play punk on me after a few pictures. 

anyway, i thought the food was pretty good since they had a lot of variety to offer . 

service was pretty ups too and the waiter was very patient with us ( the camwhores)

after dinner , we head over to the tea party for some taboo lovin' and chilling . 

great great day i couldn't ask for more . 

 

and the love of my life for close to six freaking years <3 nbsp="nbsp" p="p">

who whipped up a storm in the kitchen to celebrate my coming of age hahaha. 

my favourite steak , deviled eggs , potato salad and pasta . 

i do hope he's not expecting the same birthday treatment from me though :x 

& gra who's kindly took the trouble to book the function room for our clique's gathering + the thoughtful shepherd's pie from royal's kitchen for our study date :) 

" in everyone's life , at some time, our inner flame goes out. it is then burst into another flame by an encounter with another human being. we should be thankful for all these people who rekindle the spirits in all of us "  <3 nbsp="nbsp" p="p">

november updates.

went on a study date with jing at holland v's starbucks and i found myself highly motivated by her focus.  she was in the midst of her exams preparation while i decided that i should just get my revision start lest history repeats itself again. we were just chilling at one of the corner seats, sharing a cup of of hot green tea latte and catching up with each other before we proceeded with our revision. i actually managed to finish a few chapters and by the end of the day , i was beaming with great sense of achievement. you see, the people you hang out with have immense influence on you . hanging out with conscientious peeps can actually motivate you to study pretty well :)

been meaning to update this space but i was so preoccupied with my revision and other stuff. just as i was about to post an entry on our recent pjclique outing, blogger forbade me to upload anymore pictures unless i pay them a nominal monthly fee for data storage. it's so silly to pay for online data storage especially when i'm only blogging for fun. then one fine day (today) god reminded me of the existence of photobucket and here i'm blogging with pictures !!

met up with the bishan peeps on two separate occasions. the last time i saw grace was in january , on her birthday at regent hotel. i used to see her everyday when we were in PJC and it was so much more convenient to rant to her.  judging from the insane amount of workload that a SMU undergraduate gets , i'm in no position to rant or whatsoever. i should be fine and contented that i dont have to put up with sucky project mates and struggle with back to back datelines to meet. in fact, i'm really loving uni life even though i'm not immersing in any form of campus life. i guess i'm just happy to spend time with my friends during lectures ; be it paying attention / scribbling notes / checking out sneak previews of online boutiques. we could talk about shopping all day and that's what girls do :)

been going on many many movie dates with the boyfriend too . i've been thinking if i should give up my weekend tuition classes to spend more quality time with him. it's the kids vs le boyfriend. 

finally a rare TGIF dinner date with the pjclique :) dinner at yoshimaru , holland village. i'm not a big fan of ramen but i have to say that yoshimaru serves really good ramen. it was full house that night and we had to wait quite a while to be seated. prices are pretty reasonable with the 10% student discount.



headed off to island creamery where i bumped into my long lost friend sarah who's working there.  i can't get enough of their mudpie . it's my cheaper alternative to the mudpies at NYDC.  i'm so hooked on the ice cream flavour pingpong milo ever since nia made me try it a few months back. if only ice cream work like slimming pills or something, i would have this everyday. i don't have the habit of buying pints of ice cream back to feast on but i was really tempted to takeaway a pint of pingpong milo.
after 1 serving of mudpie and apple pie served with ice cream , we ordered another pint to share among ourselves. it was such a rare sinful indulgence and i was happy while it lasted until i got home. i was literally having war with my tummy.

& here's a picture of my outfit on tuesday . ah boys to men movie date with felimbo . 

skirt's from lovebonito.com and bag's from http://tgif-ashion.livejournal.com . 

we're down to the last month of 2012.  make it count !! 

shanghai day day 2 & 3

been two weeks since i'm back from shanghai and i'm missing it already. 

i don't miss the uncouth people and the street urchins who kept harassing me though. 

imagine them tapping on your shoulders and thrusting their hands right up to your face.

i encounter beggars every single day and some of them really ruin my day. 

back to my trip . the second day we head over to shanghai happy valley . 

we went to the happy valley in beijing 5 years back but it was winter and most of the rides ceased operations.  tickets are a bit pricey at 200RMB (~40SGD) but we had a good time. 

they had a lot of thrilling rides to offer and we barely had to queue for rides :)

when drunkard meets drunkard under the broad daylight.. 

It took us slightly less than 1.5 hours to head over from East Nanjing to Happy Valley. 

Take subway line 9 to Sheshan station , cross over the bridge and take the orange shuttle bus. 

When we were alighted at the station, there were alot of sellers trying to sell us plastic raincoats at 1RMB. (~$0.20) we didn't buy because it was so overwhelming with so many of them thrusting the packets of raincoats at us.  we ended up getting raincoats at Happy Valley at 5RMB which was still very cheap. i figured vannie would be like " you can save 4RMB leh" hahahaha. 

 left happy valley to meet yifang at east nanjing commercial street for steamboat :) 

shanghai has quite a few famous hotpot chains like haidilao and dollar shop . 

we decided to try dollar shop since it's near my hotel and look at the amount we ordered. 

all these for only 60SGD in total. did i mention that the service was impeccable ? 

totally wish i could send some food over to my babes in singapore!!

rachel my baby lion seriously needs to put on some weight so she won't fly away. 

after dinner we walked down to the bund area to enjoy the night view. 

it was rather hazy that night which explains the mediocre standard of the picture. 

headed over to starbucks which just down the street to catch up and chill over frappuccino. 

something that i've always wanted to do with lyla yang in singapore. 

shanghai third day 

first stop at shanghai science and technology museum . 

it was 100RMB per entrance and we thought it had a lot to offer :) 

& i really like how shanghai's attractions are located near one another so there's minimal travelling.

S&T museum is just right outside science and technology station exit 7/8 

 dramatic boyfriend. 

robot playing  the piano while a little boy was singing on the stage !

there were a lot of amazing robots. some can play chess / riversi with you and draw a portrait of you.

i totally need one robot to cook for me. 

then it was dinner with sucheng at the some chinese restaurant at east nanjing again !

love the pork ribs so much i wish i could go back for more. 

part of the reason why i feel so safe at shanghai is because of my friends who are there. 

thank you for the meal sucheng :> 

& that's it for day two and three. 

it's monday and mine started off on a good note with yoga. hope yours did too. ^^