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what ticks me?

2012-01-19T11:51:00.002+08:00

when people i care about makes me feel that i am unimportant to them.
e.g. not listening when i talk, not caring when i share, not telling when things happen..

i always believed in "dont do unto others what you dont want others to do unto you.." and recently it has turned into "do unto others what they have done unto you".

At times like this...

2010-12-12T23:11:00.002+08:00

... i wonder what i've been doing.

Chronicles of Narnia yesterday sparked a few thoughts in me and had me reflecting on my current situation. Am I chasing after unimportant things in life so much so that I actually sacrifice the real me? I've neglected my relationship with God for so long, and its been bugging me for ages. The same old stuff -- The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak -- i think that's just an excuse to get away from the real problem. I really want to get back onto the railway track once more. Watching Narnia and seeing Aslan, i actually felt God's presence, and I was really taken aback.

I missed You.
I've been taking too much advantage of Your grace, knowingly..
Your promises to me really stands so firm.
Though I've forgotten You, but yet You still have not forgotten me..
I will be back once more just like the Prodigal son.
Wait for me :)

神様、待ってください。
すぐにきますよ。

I'm off again!!

2010-04-22T22:01:00.002+08:00

YEAY!

I'm flying in less than an hour's time! @ T2 now currently with my flying partners -- Yuling, Eunice, Ching and Cindi! We ran from Gate F50 to E24 just to see Jang Geun Suk! How lucky are we! To think that our departure date is the same arrival date as him! We took photos and videos! he is sooooooooooo friendly!

i think i sound more excited about seeing him than flying to korea!

omo!

Back in sg soons!

Japan 2009 Day 5 [150509: Friday]

2009-11-25T23:27:00.001+08:00

This is so typical of me. I always start doing things whenever I'm supposed to study.
I need discipline! No wait! I have God's grace! I can SCORE for JLPT! AMEN!
And i know... sorry!! Day 5!

It’s Friday… and we decided to have Macdonald’s for breakfast! Japan’s Macs Breakfast is no different from Singapore’s – hotcakes, mcmuffins, mcgriddles. The only difference is the butter for the hotcake I suppose. Its weird, and I honestly prefer the butter in Singapore! 10:1! Japan still wins. Haha! Ohh. But their egg Mcmuffin is yummy cos of their half-cooked egg! 11:1!

Our daily morning ritual... Zzz

i love how Ninja provides such small little details everywhere!

our macs breakie!

yums!

Little children loves drinking milk! *slurps*

I actually ordered a mcgriddle! -_-

I love how Japanese cook their eggs!

... and so we were bored and decided to play around...!

.. and they are really excited about it! haha!

m m m m m m m

they said "wooo its cold! if only we could hug and walk at the same time!"... and that's what they did!

went into a shop that sells japanese dolls.... very pretty..... scary!

cin's transforming to be one of them!

Happy Us !

*points points*

ooo?!?!

Today, Asakusa is on our plan! I finally got to see the famous huge hanging lantern but I was a tad disappointed because it was half closed! Nevertheless, the weather was great and it was fun shopping for souvenirs there and I bought a purse for my mom which she loves a lot! So glad I bought it!

Greeted by lanterns once we came out of the train station!

Photos are definitely a must!

Trishaw pullers! ...dressed sexily somemore!

See! Its half squashed! Btw, a guy from Hk approached us to take a photo for him and in return, he offered to take a photo for us. haha! Tourists helps one another!

Ice-cream! honestly.. i can't remember the taste of it, so i guess it was ok. haha!

Resting while eating ice-cream...

... and that's because we can only eat the ice-cream behind the shop and we cant walk around eating it.

Sexy puddings! No photos allowed! *oops

The whole place was so crowded with tourist and Japanese as well as Japanese students! Many many many students! We saw a group of them taking photos and I took a photo of them and “EH!” I spotted someone familiar amidst the student crowd!

Students!!!

Extras!!!!!!!

We went into the temple, and played with the divination lots and we got a variety, ranging from Best Fortune, Regular Fortune and Bad Fortune. For those who received the bad fortune, they were supposed to tie it on this pole so that the bad fortune will go away. Thank God such things were already paid for us on the Cross! :)

Drawing lots!

You could tell immediately who got the good lots and who didn't! :)

Our lots! some of it~

We had a short rest, talked about our itinerary, took a toilet break, took more crazy photos…

:)

Resting!

And we are so blessed! We were pleasantly surprised when we saw everyone crowding around an area and from what I understood; Asakusa had an event on that day! The ceremony was quite freaky because of their dressing and the “ha ha ha” voice in the background which I couldn’t really understand. We enjoyed the whole ceremony, looking at the different dressings and just simply absorbing a different culture.

The event begins!

Some were plain freaky......... like this red haired guy..

Some were quite interesting! .. like the geishas! Check out the one on the left! An ang mor! And on the right -- she reminds me of Quan Yi Feng! haha!

..and even more freaky... they totally didn't smile at all....

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*ahems*

Next, it was lunch!... and more crazy photos! Mad la these people I tell you…

kailin even started self-directing a "movie" when she saw this group of people who ate something that looked really delicious (i cant remember what it was? mashed potatos?) and she acted a whole scene of she approaching them and asking them if it was delicious till the point that they let her have a taste of it, and how she pretended that she couldn't decide if it was delicious or not, so she kept tasting it till she finished the food! It was a very lame act but definitely 100% entertaining! should have video-ed it down!

More shopping and sightseeing! Oh and we saw this thing that looks like the tabernacle!

:)))

2 geishas back!

the boy on the left so cute la! he took plastic bags for us when we bought stuffs! the girl on the right is involved in the event and she's acting some kinda expression~

.... and we saw big doggy!

Next on our list is our last trip to Ichiran Ramen! Back to Ueno especially for our ramen… sadness but delicious as usual! This time round, we had to sit separately; cin and lin ordered extra noodles and 2 eggs to commemorate their last Ichiran Ramen meal!

Asakusa station!

Lazy pig la!

Q-ing at ichiran!!

Waiting for our noodles!!!

...and it arrives!!

It's here!!! Heaven's food!

YUMS!! Look at the egg!!!

Days of walking has taken a toil on us and we decided to head back to the hostel earlier to rest and sleep early and wake up early for the next day, but alas! We decided to play and dye our hair! Resulting in another late night session *yawns*

our innovative "shower cap" -- plastic bags!

OOO...!

we had left overs so juli had a go too!!

Hairrr color!

my bed that turns to "table" with loadsa stuff at the side!

Messsy room and us bidding u goodbyee.....

till my next entry!
*which i got no idea when!*

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Random

2009-11-15T17:35:00.002+08:00

is my blog even alive? haha
last entry was Japan Day 4, and Year 2009 is ending, and I'm already back from my trip to Taiwan. How slow am i? Very slow indeed.. Procrastinator!

But is anyone even reading this boring blog?

this is a very random entry. waiting for time to pass before some errands.

1. i had a haircut! not sure if i like it though..
2. JLPT on 6th December but i've not officially started studying except reading notes here and there whenever I feel like it. i am so "alive". OK. I promise to start tomorrow onwards!
3. Kailin's room is a very sleep-conducive room! Best to cure insomia!
4. I just baked Fine Butter Cake, but it turned out too dry.
5. Its. 5.39PM now.
6. Jeff Chang has a new song! Nice! 张信哲 - 肩膀
7. If only i could travel everyday...
8. Feeling emo today.
9. Caught 3D Coraline the other day and it was good!
10. Caught the korean movie "my girlfriend is a secret agent" and it was surprisingly good and I had a good and great laugh!

utter randoms.

Japan 2009 Day 4 [140509: Thursday]

2009-09-02T00:36:00.001+08:00

Thursday! The day where we were prepared to have a sumptuous lunch! We got to wake up later so we would feel more refreshed! We were all donned in black especially for the occasion! :D Gonpachi is the name of the restaurant we were going. It was really difficult to look for and we had to change different trains but thankfully, we found it! It was amazing, the place was really nice and the food, absolute yums! I love the grilled fish! The rice and noodles was amazing as well but the fish! *yums*! They have free flow of miso soup and drinks which you can take from the counter. If there’s a chance, do drop by Gonpachi! (http://www.gonpachi.jp/en/casual/home/index)

Happily taking photos like a tourist! Spotted a Sumo! It was during a festival that has got to do with sumo wrestler! We kept looking at him and i think he noticed! I was tempted to go and ask him if we could get a photo together with him but i was too intimidated so i didnt! Regrets*

Finding our way to Gopachi! Its a longgg way from the train station!

Finally we found it and we were impressed!

Greatly impressed!

*smiles!* The menu comes in english and the service is superb!

We had the set lunch and this codfish is awesome! Very expensive though..

How yummy! The egg was half cooked!

Katsu was really fresh! btw, the soba is handmade! Totally yums!

Oozing yolk! My favourite! Ubber delicious when mixed with the rice!

Friendly staff! :)

Leaving Gopachi and on to the next destination...
Next destination, Shimokitazawa! On the way there, we saw Romance Car (the train we took to hakone) and straight away, we felt so nostalgic! To think we were only there yesterday! Shimokitazawa... filled to the brink with shops! shopping ~ ~ ~

Was asking the stationmaster on getting to Shimokitazawa and he is really helpful and walks really silently! Was asking him questions behind the counter, and before i knew it, he appeared right behind me! Real silently too! I gave a yelp of surprise! But thumbs up to their services!

Finally @ Shimo and posing with a jap phone! How i wish i could own one!

MisterDonut! YUMS! Spot us inside buying donuts! HAHA

KARIN BEER! Kidding! It's Kirin! I added the A inside~ In case you didn't know, kailin's english name is Karin. :)

Who's cuter? Obviously the baby! Genuine Innocence! haha!

The tired feet that walked Tokyo!

Cutie doggie and cute jap girl in kimono! The doggie owner was really friendly and made small chat with us when we took photo with her doggie~ the kimono girl is just as friendly too! She willingly obliged when we went in to take photo with her without buying any things! Kimono is wayy too expensive for us to purchase!
Next! More shopping! Shibuya! Went Shibuya 109 to show them the pretty magazine cover girls and as expected, they are still as pretty as ever. And next, the much anticipated dinner! At the Lock Up! These girls are so excited for it they practically screamed their heads off when we reached there! Lock Up was exactly how I remembered it to be. Dark and freaky inside, as we were led in. This time round, lin and ju was handcuffed and led us to our dining room (which I suspect was exactly the same as the one that nikki and me went to the previous time!). Enough of words, and let the crazy pictures do the talking!

Shibuya 109! Look at all our tired faces.

So we bought ice-cream to refresh and cheer ourselves up! We needed some cheering after seeing so many pretty jap there. Low morale !

Finally the much anticipated... "The Lockup"! These 3 girls were screaming like mad when we finally found the place!

See the excited faces? No longer tired!

Getting scared before the dinner

Action lah lin!! See Juli so happy to be handcuffed!
Gei Gei ah!

Reading the menu and taking photos! Many many photos!

Appetisers and drinks in beakers

See, juli is damn excited to be locked up! SM la she! haha!

Cheers!

Arrival of some food! DIG IN! yumms!

Btw, when the show came on, it wasn’t as freaky as before though I kept screaming. Not adding to the atmosphere but because I was truly scared. And this time round, about 3 monsters came into our room! I even took a photo of one of them, which was the scream face! Lin, as usual is the crazy one, she did a peace sign to the monster and he came “roaring” in her face and made her scream. Haha!

Crazy! I managed to capture a pic of the "Scream"! That totally freaked me out! One of the "ghost" died outside our door even!

Lin went crazy right after the "scare"! And scared us instead with her crazy hairstyles! HAHA!
After dinner, the weather was pretty cold, we passed by a Karaoke building and there was a level where the guys stripped off their tops and were dancing. They saw us looking and danced even harder and waved to us! Crazy people! :D Next, back to Ninja for our rest!

Happy with the day and food!

Crazy KTV guys!

Lounging and looking at photos *only for a while*. Too tired~
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Extraordinary Pantene Commercial

2009-08-28T09:17:00.000+08:00

Only the Thais~ Remarkable creativity and innovation for ads!

KLPT?

2009-08-12T09:04:00.002+08:00

How could a mere mention of buying nail polish lead to an impromptu decision to sign up immediately for korean classes?

Nobody nobody but "Triple Sss". *shakes head*
Classes starts this Saturday!

Japan 2009 Day 5 [150509: Friday]

2009-08-10T21:37:00.003+08:00

This is so typical of me. I always start doing things whenever I'm supposed to study.
I need discipline! No wait! I need God's grace! I can SCORE for JLPT! AMEN!
And i know... sorry!! Day 5!

It’s Friday… and we decided to have Macdonald’s for breakfast! Japan’s Macs Breakfast is no different from Singapore’s – hotcakes, mcmuffins, mcgriddles. The only difference is the butter for the hotcake I suppose. Its weird, and I honestly prefer the butter in Singapore! 10:1! Japan still wins. Haha! Ohh. But their egg Mcmuffin is yummy cos of their half-cooked egg! 11:1!

Our daily morning ritual... Zzz

i love how Ninja provides such small little details everywhere!

our macs breakie!

yums!

Little children loves drinking milk! *slurps*

I actually ordered a mcgriddle! -_-

I love how Japanese cook their eggs!

... and so we were bored and decided to play around...!

.. and they are really excited about it! haha!

m m m m m m m

they said "wooo its cold! if only we could hug and walk at the same time!"... and that's what they did!

went into a shop that sells japanese dolls.... very pretty..... scary!

cin's transforming to be one of them!

Happy Us !

*points points*

ooo?!?!

Today, Asakusa is on our plan! I finally got to see the famous huge hanging lantern but I was a tad disappointed because it was half closed! Nevertheless, the weather was great and it was fun shopping for souvenirs there and I bought a purse for my mom which she loves a lot! So glad I bought it!

Greeted by lanterns once we came out of the train station!

Photos are definitely a must!

Trishaw pullers! ...dressed sexily somemore!

See! Its half squashed! Btw, a guy from Hk approached us to take a photo for him and in return, he offered to take a photo for us. haha! Tourists helps one another!

Ice-cream! honestly.. i can't remember the taste of it, so i guess it was ok. haha!

Resting while eating ice-cream...

... and that's because we can only eat the ice-cream behind the shop and we cant walk around eating it.

Sexy puddings! No photos allowed! *oops

The whole place was so crowded with tourist and Japanese as well as Japanese students! Many many many students! We saw a group of them taking photos and I took a photo of them and “EH!” I spotted someone familiar amidst the student crowd!

Students!!!

Extras!!!!!!!

We went into the temple, and played with the divination lots and we got a variety, ranging from Best Fortune, Regular Fortune and Bad Fortune. For those who received the bad fortune, they were supposed to tie it on this pole so that the bad fortune will go away. Thank God such things were already paid for us on the Cross! :)

Drawing lots!

You could tell immediately who got the good lots and who didn't! :)

Our lots! some of it~

We had a short rest, talked about our itinerary, took a toilet break, took more crazy photos…

:)

Resting!

And we are so blessed! We were pleasantly surprised when we saw everyone crowding around an area and from what I understood; Asakusa had an event on that day! The ceremony was quite freaky because of their dressing and the “ha ha ha” voice in the background which I couldn’t really understand. We enjoyed the whole ceremony, looking at the different dressings and just simply absorbing a different culture.

The event begins!

Some were plain freaky......... like this red haired guy..

Some were quite interesting! .. like the geishas! Check out the one on the left! An ang mor! And on the right -- she reminds me of Quan Yi Feng! haha!

..and even more freaky... they totally didn't smile at all....

... and some were just plain............

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Japan 2009 Day 3 [130509: Wednesday]

2009-08-10T20:39:00.005+08:00

As usual, Lin woke up the earliest! This time, I was the 3rd? The futon was way tooooo comfortable that I really can’t seem to pluck myself out of the bed. Zzz … and off we went to enjoy our last day at Hakone.

Tourists Must-do! Take a photo outside your hotel!
We left our barangs in the locker at the train station first before heading out to Hakone Machi to see the Hakone Checkpoint. We bought some expensive but yummy bread before embarking on the 45mins-1hr ride. Once we reached, we were excited when we saw the pirate ship that we were going to embark later and immediately took some photos!

Ship! Ahoy!

Finally we found our way to the Checkpoint! Hakone Checkpoint is a replica of an old checkpoint (currently known as Immigration) that links Tokyo to . They showed the life of the soldiers who lived there, their living quarters, toilets, kitchen, study area, training area, horse stables etc etc. There we met a guy who asked us where we are from. We told him and it so happens that he is one of the engineers that helped in the research for our Singapore’s NEL (North East Line). We were awed and heaped praises upon him and made him a very happy man! Haha! We chatted a little about Singapore and about our time in Japan and he wished us a fun and safe trip. So sweet! :)

Hakone Checkpoint!

This place is where they housed convicts!

The kitchen!

Cooking yummy food!
We proceeded to climb this long and steep stony flight of stairs to the Lookout Point and it was breathtaking but tiring! The climb back down was scary and I felt like an old lady looking out for her every step in case she starts tumbling down like Jill without her pail of water. :p bad joke.

Height Phobia!
As we walked, we passed by this tea shop that sells souvenirs and food so we had a short rest before going to the museum (which none of us really knew how to appreciate and everything was in Japanese and photos weren’t allowed to be taken.) and back to the port to take our pirate ship ride (5-10minutes) to Moto-Hakone where Hakone Shrine is situated. As we walked there, we were tempted to take a private boat ride/Cycling Swan thingie but yet we decided against it. $$$ So we took a photo with it instead~

i like the umbrella ella ella eh eh eh ella hor suah!

Captain!

Aye ayee~

Finding solace~
The road that led us to the shrine was lined with tall cypress trees (according to websites, these trees are 800 years old!) and it was so beautiful. The air felt really cool and fresh. The weather felt so perfect! When we reached the foot of the shrine, we were delighted! It was our first time in a shrine and there were things which we were unsure of, and what we should do. According to this video (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2228570/learn_japanese_culture_how_to_visit_a_shrine_in_japan/) we had to purify ourselves with the water, by holding the ladle in our right hand and was our left hand and vice versa. Then, gather some water in our left hand and wash our mouth (we didn’t do this step though!) They even have a step to wash the wrist! There was a cartoon there that taught us too (excluding the wrist part)! We had a rest before climbing a flight of stairs (again! Japan is full of staircases!) to the shrine. Took some pictures, bought some stuffs, played around and headed towards to torii located at Lake Ashi. The water at Lake Ashi was freezing cold, if it wasn’t that cold, I’ll be tempted to jump into the water!

Climbing steps up to Hakone Shrine

The shrine!

At the shrine!

The stairs that we had to climb to reach the shrine.

We had a short rest and chat by beautiful Lake Ashino. Some how, (correct me if I remembered wrongly) Juli started saying about how she missed seeing Mount Faber. We started laughing like crazy because she mixed up Mt. Faber with Mt. Fuji! Cin laughed the loudest and we started making fun of what Juli said, when suddenly Cin asked, “where is Mt. Faber? America ah?” We really laughed the loudest at that point! HAHA!

Along the way back from Hakone Shrine, we saw a group of grandmamas and grandpapas having a picnic and enjoying the view of Lake Ashino! I thought it was so cool so I approached them and asked if we could take a picture together with them. They were shocked and happily obliged and these 2 photos are the most precious photo in our entire Japan Photos Collection! The chatted happily with us despite our language barrier, but miraculously, we understood a little! In turn, the grandpapas wanted to take a photo with us using their own camera and he was excited just like a small boy, and he tripped! Our hearts dropped. We were so afraid, but he picked himself up and despite a look of pain that flashed across his face, he said he is alright and wanted to take a picture with us. We were worried, and so was the grandmama. *frowns* I really do hope he is alright… But sadly, their camera didn’t have any battery and couldn’t take a photo. We offered to send a photo to them instead but grandmamma insisted not to because it is too troublesome. :( Before we left, the grandmamas had wrapped fresh onigiris for us! We were surprised and refused it at first but accepted later on. They were the yummiest onigiris ever! We thanked them profusely and waved our byes many times.. Took a group photo with us eating onigiris and created a crying session. Not exactly sure what came over us but all of us started crying badly and stood far away from each other (as if we just had a huge quarrel!) we kept crying non-stop and it was really hard to stop the tears from coming. I felt it was a touch from the Holy Spirit, telling us that our trip will be very much blessed and we’ll meet great people along the way. It was just a really indescribable feeling…

I love them!

So sweet and dreamy~

The yummiest onigiris

After that bawling session, we rested, took some Polaroid shots and took a bus to head back to the train station. We didn’t have much time left and so we had to skip Gora Park from our itinerary. When we reached the train station, we decided to look for lunch and met the Englanders from our previous night’s karaoke session! We shared on places we’ve went and they asked, “karaoke tonight?” Sadly, we couldn’t cos’ we were going back to Tokyo. Alas, thus ended our trip in beautiful Hakone.

The Romance Car that will bring us back to Tokyo.

In the comfort of the train!

(R) Introducing u to the toilet~

Once we reached Shinjuku, we went in search of Tokyu Hands – a shopping area located inside Takashimaya and has a lot of creative and innovative stuffs which comes with a price! Levels and levels of different stuffs! Ju and I stopped by HMV because she wanted to check some stuffs, and obviously I went to check out some other stuffs too! And eune-chan! This was where I bought your birthday present! ^^ Ureshikatta! Zenbu SS CD o kaitai!

Tokyu Hands (Shinjuku Branch)

View from HMV!

OOOO!!!!

Wiggys!

What the! You guys same as shinlang!!

Chocolates?! Puzzle chocolates!

Specs keychain! suki~
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Yokomura Sensei Farewell

2009-08-05T01:10:00.002+08:00

Yokomura Sensei isn't my actual japanese teacher but i happened to chance upon her class a few times when i skipped class on sundays. :p My first impression of her was that, "She must be from Tokyo!" because she speaks really fast and the pace she teach is really fast too! I couldn't get used to her before but by the 2nd/3rd time i went, I quite like the way she teach because it forces me to memorise! Sadly but fortunately, when I went for make up class last week, I was told that next week (which was today) is going to be her last lesson as she would be going back to Japan. Pretty sad I must say.. So the week before, her classmates asked me to join in their farewell, and so i did!

We'll miss you Yokomura Sensei :)

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Japan 2009 [Day 2]: Part 2

2009-07-04T10:28:00.008+08:00

Yunessun Hot Spring (http://www.yunessun.com/english/ or http://www.yunessun.com/)

Our next stop is Yunessun Hot Spring Theme Park! Everyone’s excited for it! We took the Ropeway back to Sounzan, changed back to the Cable Car to Gora Station and took the Hakone Tozan Bus bounded for Yunnessun.

Waiting for the slow ropeway.

Finally its here!

At the bottom, going off to catch the bus!

(L) This handsome guy is very shy, he refuses to look at my camera!
(R) The children so cute!

Waiting for bus!
Yunessun was like a large palace and they had super many types of Hot Spring! Lin and Cin went for this Hot Spring slide called “Rodeo Mountain” which they kept raving about and even went on it a second time! Lin even said the slide was quite slow so it will be fine. One of my resolutions for this trip was to try new things, so I decided to heck it and go on the slide with them on their second time. Trust me, it was a wrong move for me. The slide did start off slow at the beginning for 3 seconds before it went really fast like crazy and I SCREAMED all the way down (Resonance of “SOB! I DON’T WANT ALREADY! I DON’T WANT ALREADY!!”) till my voice turned hoarse, and I swear my tears were flowing as I smacked into the water! I sputtered and coughed my way up and I felt cheated. The slide was a killer for me! Definitely not fun for the un-adventurous and weak hearted.

Have we reached? Seems like it!

whoaaa~ Palace! Almost Paradiseeee....!

Yep Yep! Quick lets go already!

Cute chairs and a cute girl :)

Entrance Fee! Actually, it could have been cheaper but i forgot to print the coupon! Dang! They have alot of promotional coupons in their Japan website. Do check it out if you are going!

Changed and armed with the map! Ready to explore!

Whoa "blue skies"! bad camera~

In our first hot spring! you'll see plastic in these few photos cos we wrapped the camera in it. haha.

The FREAKY slide! Grrr..

The next we tried was this floating bath which had us floating once we turned our backs! I couldn’t control where I was floating to though!

Floating!

Next, we tried the Coffee Bath! The color and smell looks like coffee, and it was warm! How good is coffee for the skin? Maybe it helps in awakening our skin~

Next, normal hot spring!

The small boy so cute!

Next, Red Wine Hot Spring! This doesn’t look like nor smell like red wine though. The color was pink and smelt quite icky. We were just in time for the guy to pour real red wine for us to put on our body! What a waste! I almost wanted to drink it if the guy didn’t say that its not for drinking. :(

Wah big bottle of red wine!

Guy pouring red wine for everyone!

After a luxurious red wine bath, we ran all the way back to the main hall as it was time for the fish spa! You know those we see in Singapore where we dip our feet into the water and the fishes will nibble at your dead skin? Yeah! That’s the one! We Q-ed up and listen to the guide blared off in really fast and cheem Japanese which I don’t understand a single bit. The other 3 looked at me and waited for translation and I told them, “Monkey See, Monkey Do!” So that’s what we did! We followed whatever the Japanese did! Soon after, all I remembered was "eeks! aarghhh! eeeeee! so itchyyyy!!!!* and grabbing of each others hands really hard! It was ticklish! We took a photo and paid 1000Yen for it.

Timing for the fish spa! See the people in the background enjoying it!

Monkey See Monkey Do! I have totally no idea what he was saying!

Fishes!!! Tickles!

Happy ~

Next up, more coffee boiling, Hot Sake, Warm Green Tea, Charcoal Bath, Waterfall bath and Marbled floor! I love the marbled floor! It feels shiok! The weather is cooling but the floor is miraculously warm and it just feels so soothing and comfortable that I could drift in to a deep sleep. Zzzz... Ju & Cin started taking some nonsensical photos where they called out different "themes" and they were supposed to act it out. -_-

Boiling coffee pool!

Enjoying and intoxicated! This Sake is the shiokest~

Green Teaaa~

Smiles! Notice there is no more plastic thing! haha~ I couldn't take it any longer! I want a waterproof camera!

Charcoal bath with real charcoal (duh!)

(L) Floating Corpses(R) Enjoyed & Satisfied!

The Charcoal House from another view!

Walking Bath! Crazily pain can! Its foot reflexology at its best and my feet smarts like crazy!

Marble Floor! Best! I love it! Acting as the korean ahjumas. haha!

Time's drawing near and theme park's closing, so we headed back to the main hall with the main pool with jacuzzi and it was so cool! We entered into a thunderstorm! The whole hall had "lightning", accompanied by sounds of thunder and even with water spraying from the ceiling! If i'm not wrong, there was bubbles even :) cool!

Pose! Enjoy and relax~~ Lin does a mean foot reflexology! Very shiok ah!

Ramen Sweet Drops! So tempted to buy! But I didn't. Wonder how it tastes like..

840 yen for 3 types. They have curry flavour too!

Very satisfied and relaxed !

So cute! 3D neoprint!
Thus, ends our wonderful Hot Spring theme park experience and back to our hotel! Wonderfully recharged, and slightly hungry, we checked in and 'complained' about the number of stairs we had to climb. (Thankfully, they gave us a room on the 2nd level!) Oh! And they were so nice! They already put our luggage in the room so we didn't have to lug it up 2 levels :) *melts*

When we opened the door, we were pleasantly surprised! The room is huge! Not exactly really enormous but compared to our small hostel room, we had plenty a place to walk and hop! We even had a tatami floor with a very comfy futon bed that we melted right into! Immediately the bed people (lin and cin) started fighting for it with the floor people (me and ju) and even suggested that all 4 of us squeeze and sleep on the floor! HAHA *crazy people* After a short discussion, we changed into our yukata and took some pics. Who was to know, these set of pictures will be our last set in the hotel… why? Read on!

Sitting area which in turns become our sleeping area with futon beds.

"Clogs"

Hahaha Action.
With grumbling tum tums, we headed to the hotel’s café and ordered a few dishes. They gave us Oolong Tea, on the house they said! Yeay~ The café was quiet and only had a man with a lady in kimono. We didn’t hold high expectations of the food thus, we were pleasantly surprised at how yummy it was! We decided to order Sake too and it was yummy as well! The staffs were friendly but slightly reserved and who was to know, that night would turn wild, fun and so memorable!

Don't Mess with Us!

4 bananas? 4 corn? Nah... 4 yellow wet towels!

Happy, where's the food!

Sake arrives first! yums!

Spaghetti! Looks plain and normal but its super yummy!

Fried Rice which was surprisingly nice too!

This is so singapore taste but nevertheless, yums!

Role Acting !

Happyyy

Pizza! Wah nice!

i think she's intoxicated. haha!
We had a very full and satisfied dinner, when one of the staff came and plonked this book on our table and said “Karaoke, on the house!” We were shocked and happy (cos’ we are all karaoke people!), especially when the menu wrote “Karaoke 300Yen”. But, it was on the house too! From then on, things got wild! We sang songs, got to know the man and the lady in kimono and the staff who’s English is really good! Soon, an angmor couple came along and joined in karaoke-ing! We blended really well and had the time of our lives! The lady in kimono asked where we came from, and once I said Singapore, she said “Yakun Kaya Toast! Oishii desu ne! Suki desu!” She loves Yakun! So sweet! We entertained them with chinese songs, in turn, they entertained us with Japanese songs ( I even asked her to sing Namie Amuro’s “Can You Celebrate”! And she has a really good voice!), and the angmor couple also entertained us with English songs! We had a fun time laughing, clapping, chatting … memories! The staff even handed us Sparkles and lighted the Sparkles for us! So cute!! I Love Them ALL! One of the most hilarious part was when the angmors (whom we chatted and got to know them as England-ers! They were friendly and doesn’t karaoke often!) sang the song “We are the world”. omg.. it was hilarious! The song kept repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating and repeating AND REPEATING and repeating and repeating and REPEATING and repeating and repeating and repeatingggg… You get the idea!! Till the guy sang “We are the world, we are STILL the children…….” Absolutely hilarious! :D

The Karaoke book with many many songs! Pretty cool huh

Enjoying!

The 'geisha'! She wanted to take the photo!

Chinese songs with japanese subtitles! haha~

Us all! Enjoyinggggg

Our turn!

Claps and claps and claps!

The England-ers!

Happy! she's a Gay-sha!

Sparkles! Even our eyes are sparkling from the happiness!

This photo look weird but I wanted to show u one of the friendly staff! He has a good command of english and is sooo helpful!

The guy who offered us drinks on the house~

Our 2nd glass of sake!

They got high! In their own ways! A scene that i will only see in mangas or anime!
Lin video-ed and took photos throughout and that’s when the bomb dropped on us. Both cameras were on low battery and we just realised that we left the camera charger in Tokyo and only brought 1 extra battery along, which is also on low batt… And we are thrown into despair as we still had one full day in Hakone with many places planned out. Our only plan was to go back to our room and check through our bags and hope for a miracle. We even asked the staff, *the one that i say the picture looks weird* if they happened to have a charger, but he didn't, but he took the liberty to go find those travel adapters for us, thinking that we might need it! He is so kind and i was very overwhelmed and touched. Thank you so much! :)

Nevertheless, this still marks our wonderful one night in Hakone with meeting the best people! Eth & Qara! I still remembered how down and worried I felt about our dinner in Hakone cos’ it was known that Hakone sleeps early, and we won’t be able to find dinner after 7pm. God’s Good! No, He is Greater than Great! :D

When we went back to our room, we were dead tired, but Ju started rummaging the bags for a miracle. Nothing turned up, we started thinking of alternatives and changing of itinerary… And we prayed! Took our anointing oil and prayed over our batteries and cameras that it will give it supernatural strength! :D But most importantly, we decided to get disposable cameras the next day. We then took turns cleaning up, and soon after, we were asleep.

More photos here and here!

Japan 2009 [Day 2] Part 1

2009-06-30T23:18:00.005+08:00

[Sidenote: i broke my promise! I said it would be up by end of the month but i'm late. Grrr.. upset with myself. Because of this, i will speed up and put more up real soon!]

Day 2 [120509: Tuesday]

We were dead tired and couldn’t sleep as well as we would have liked but we were excited as we were travelling to go Hakone today! We left the hostel almost half an hour late. We were supposed to leave the hostel at 5.45 but ended up leaving at 6.10am, and as I was afraid that we couldn’t be in time to catch the 7am train, I made the stupidest decision ever, plus I got cheated by the policeman. He told be the trip by cab will be about 10 to 15minutes but it took us almost 25minutes and the cab fare was horrendously expensive. My heart jumped simultaneously with the meter. I tried to get my mind of the fare by making small talk with the cab driver but it only helped to levitate my heart attack.

The Taxi Driver Details! In case he cheat our $! haha

Total bill! Grrrr! 100yen = SGD$1.50.. Calculate yourself!
Once we reached Shinjuku, we scrambled and asked around before we found the correct train station with Oedo Line heading for Hakone! It was quite confusing and I panicked slightly but it was such a relief when we finally found the place but only to panic once again because we didn’t know how to buy the tickets for the Romance Car Limited Train. Finally, we managed to find a lady who helped us to ask around and guided us! Thank God for her! We thanked her profusely and I felt happy that DaddyGod sent someone nice and friendly to help us! Once again, we RAN for our train because it was due to move off in 5minutes! Rush rush rush! (*sings: It came over me in a rush, When I realise that…! Eunechan! haha)

The train ride took about an hour plus and it was cool that we could reserve and choose the seats we want, but the observatory deck (front) was taken up, so we had to take the observatory deck (rear). There are a variety of romance car trains, and this is the 2nd newest one. The newest train will be taken on our way back to Tokyo. In the train, I was tired, wary and very excited! It’s my first time in Japan where I’m travelling with my 1/12th knowledge of their language, and travelling to a place outside of Tokyo! I did a lot of research of Hakone and its one place that I’m really looking forward to and excited to go to! Hakone seems beautiful in the pictures and sounds wonderful but I wasn’t sure if it was really so but I just had a feeling that we all will and true enough, we love Hakone with all our hearts!

Happy to have caught the 7am train! (Singapore Time 6am!) Right on schedule!

:D

Our breakfast! its very very very yummy like mad!

I was acting as a decoy for Kiyoko to take the photo of the "squeezed sardines"!

(L) I printed a menu of this place we're gonna eat at, and wrote the SGD price next to it! :D
(R) Lin was taking a self potrait of herself (with a guy sleeping behind her)... and...

...then she asked cindi to take her own self potrait but somehow, cin started being shy and started laughing non-stop! haha! So we weren't supposed to look at her when she takes her photo!

The front of the train! No difference from the back actually! Now the question is, WHERE'S THE TRAIN MASTER?? Who's driving the train?

Yeay! We reached! The train that served us well!

Pretty Train! and Pretty us! :D
Hakone is a quaint little Hot Spring town, dotted with many mountains, green trees and flowing streams. We followed the map given to us by the information counter and found our hotel, Senkei Plaza, after 10-15mins walk. It is really pretty and seems comfortable! They were really nice! I actually found this hotel online and they just require a web reservation. When we arrived, they didn’t even ask us to pay upfront. We only paid after we finished our stay! That’s trust! :)

Shops we see along the way, later on, we'll buy something from this shop!

ume! sour plum! i don't really like these but it looks pretty!

How beautiful and clear the streams are!! We were practically screaming already!

Can't resist getting a picture eh!

Awed by the sights we were seeing!

Its just a small little town~

So so so pretty!!

More Streams!

Road leading to our hotel! not hostel! Finally a hotel! Cheap one too! $90+ a night!

More clear water streams!

Finally! Senkei Plaza !

Put our big luggage and off we are to our next destination! Lin's carrying the bag containing our stuffs for hot spring later on!

Go go go!
Owakudani Valley
After some rest, we walked back to Hakone Yumoto Station to catch the train which will take us to Gora Station, where we will change to the cablecar to Sounzan, and then to the ropeway to Owakudani Valley! Just Travelling to Owakudani Valley gave us the opportunity to take 3 different types of transportation: Train, CableCar and Ropeway. I wasn’t really looking forward to the ropeway actually because of my fear of heights. (Btw, their cable car is more like a tram and ropeway is actually cable car. )

In the train, we spotted a camera crew video-ing a couple, who looks pretty plain. Didn’t pay much attention to them after we realised they weren’t some hotshots. Haha! And we started imagining how cool it would be if we saw Shinlang & Hwang Buin! (some show that all of us watched!) Lin was hilarious! She started saying how Shinlang will be attracted to her cos she have the same bright hair as he used to have! HAHA!

Egg like thing, who's name is Hakone no ogetsu sama!

A variation, but more expensive by 100 yen! We bought both!

trying the taste...

... and honestly it tastes like 'huat kueh'. not very fantastic.. haha~

the camera crew behind! curious!

uhh.. who?

yeay~ the train started! Sunny!

All geared up with our sunnies! To hide our dark eye rings!

The sights we see.. way too pretty!

The train ride was a little draggy and we were all starting to feel the sleepy monster coming upon us, and just as I think I was about to doze off, a group of grandmas and grandpas boarded the train! So we let up our seats for them and they seemed shocked and declined. We insisted and they finally sat. It’s weird how shocked they were when we let up our seats to them. Finally we reached Gora Station, and all of us clambered into the small cablecar, which traveled at a snail’s speed.

Transferred to the ropeway, and boy.... was it crowded! Filled with Japanese tourist!

Very slowly... very very veryyyy slowly..zzzz....

At last! Sounzan stop! We practically ran up the steps so we could be a little faster than the group of grandmas and grandpas who seemed much more healthier and genki as compared to us! We got into the ropeway and the ‘stationmaster’ was really friendly and kept smiling at us and gave us the whole cabin to ourselves! We waved bye to him but he seemed shy and did a quick and low wave to us! ^^

MORE STAIRS!

The friendly but shy station master! Blurred though!
In the cabin, I freaked out a little but I forced myself to open my eyes really big and take in the scenery. Cin kept telling me “don’t look infront, ok, now don’t look behind!” haha! But eventually, I even forced myself to stand up and walk around to take a few pictures! And I’m proud that I did so! Actually, the ropeway wasn’t as scary as I thought it could be because it wasn’t shaky till it reached the top and when the wind blew. I totally freaked out when the wind blew that all I did was squat there and pray for it to stop!

Testing waters...

oo.. its going up!

ok, not so scary! Better take some pics!
On this ropeway, we experienced God’s love! On our way to Hakone, I was telling them that I was afraid we couldn’t see Mount Fuji because all the reports wrote that Mt. Fuji could only be seen when the skies are clear and best viewed in Winter. Other than that, its near impossible that we could see Mt. Fuji at all. Ju was adamant and said that we will see Mt. Fuji because DaddyGod gave us this trip! How sweet is that :) And just like that, we saw Fuji San! Honestly! What are the chances that we could see Mt.Fuji? The 4 of us screamed like crazy and laughed like crazy! We really did scream and scream and scream and SCREAM! Such is how we expressed our excitedness! We thanked DaddyGod immediately and continued screaming! Mt. Fuji was sooooo magnificent! But our DaddyGod is so much more magnificent because He created it and let us see it! :D :D :D We almost wanted to break out into a small Praise and Worship session then and there in the small ropeway cabin!

*SCREAMS* Mt Fuji!! *SCREAMS*

See! So happy to see Fuji San! Fuji san! Hajimemashite! :)
When we reached the station, we screamed when we saw Mt. Fuji again, went out and saw some stationmaster’s uniforms on the rack so we took some photos, and even with the stationmasters who were friendly and sporting!

Station masters for that minute!

salutes*

With the real station master!

Yes, How may we help you? :D
Once we went out of the station, the wind was really strong and we shivered! The weather sure is colder at the top! We took photos of Mt. Fuji, took photos with Mt. Fuji, helped people take photos of them with Mt. Fuji.. Everyone was just so awed by Mt. Fuji! But Mount Fuji is too magnificient and grand to take a picture of! The sun was at its brightest, and it was really hard to capture the real magnificent Fuji with a compact camera. I want a DSLR!

Quick take our pictures already! stop fidgiting with the camera!

SMILES!

Awww..such a serene Fuji.

Did i mention how big the crows in Japan are? I have absolutely no idea what they eat but they are like twice the size of the ones in Singapore! Its Freaky! Same big size as those we saw at chiba that time with nikki!

More Fuji! Btw, i didn't see Fuji Apples there though.... hmmm... :p

The sun was wayy too bright that we had to see the photos in the camera by hiding it in my jacket!
After staying and wowing at Mt. Fuji, we went for lunch and it was sumptuous!
Oishii! There i was worrying about food in Hakone when i was planning in Singapore, and here I was in Hakone enjoying super good food!! Beyond blessed-ness!

We saw a handsome guy! Yeah right, we were ordering food!

Presenting our lunch! Udon Soup! Slurps!

Cold Soba which is super delicious like crazy with side dish of yummy crispy tempura!

Black Curry Rice! Unique! and it really tastes like curry!

This is a MUST TRY! The Katsu is really KATSU KATSU! very firm and nice like siao!
After a fulfilling lunch, we started climbing Owakudani Valley and we decided to change out of our boots to our comfy slippers so we could climb better. (Vain Singaporeans!) At the valley, we were too filled but we wanted to try the famous black eggs! The eggshell actually turns black after being cooked in the hot boiling water! But buying 5 eggs were too much.. but Thank God, again! We actually met a man who was alone, and he bought 5 eggs and offered the remaining 4 to us! How cool is that!! So I made small talk with him in my very broken Japanese language and found out that he is actually Korean (Double S!) who is in Japan for business trip alone and he works for Panasonic.

We are "A"!!

Resting while we *ahems* change our shoes.

Beginning our climb!

The basket that transports the black eggs down to the 'shopping area' after its cooked in the spring up at the Owakudani.

Tired but satisfied! Take a pic to show that we are here!

*shashin!* Here's the pic!

Hot hot valley!

Egg selling area! 5 for 5ooyen? can't remember!

Black Eggs!!! Salt Provided!

The Panasonic guy! Guess he must be feeling sleepyyy!

Invaded by Students!!

Owakudani Valley 1050M!

More pics!

Mikki, Kiyoko, Aiko, Jyuri
We went down the valley and bought some foodies back home from a shop. After spending about 20minutes inside, we came out of the shop with our mouths opened! I kept repeating myself “What happened! What happened!” The whole valley was filled with fog and wind was really strong and we couldn’t see past 100m! The whole area was fogged and cold and we were excited! It was like a reconfirmation from DaddyGod! It’s as if He was telling us, “I made that special Mt. Fuji moment just for you girls!”

*Sings: So blessed! I can’t contain it! So much I gotta give it a way! Your love, taught me to live now! You are more than enough for me!* claps happily!

Yaki Soba wrapped in bread?? Only in Japan!

Going down the treacherous stairs!

Stop irritating me! Or i'll bite uuuuu!!!!!!

GROWLS! ME TOO!
haha! we were actually doing the 阳光男孩 *zzzhar!* thing by the Taiwan guy Nono. It's alright if you don't know, its a lame thing. haha!

FOGGY like crazy! the area behind was our eating place and where we saw Fuji San earlier on!

We better hurry!

Students squatting while listening to their teachers brief. When the teachers ask a question and its a yes, the students will stand up, teachers count, and they squat back down again. So tiring... and the teachers ask alot of questions!

Back down... ok im worried cos its shaky!
Overall, Owakudani Valley was beautiful and one of nature’s wonders! I Love such sightseeing! Mt.Fuji was definitely an added bonus! It was like the cherry on top of a very yummy cake! Like the egg that comes together with Ichiran Ramen! Yummy and Lovely!

More coming up!!

Photos Here and Here!

Sarangingeochyo: It's not love

2009-06-29T17:19:00.004+08:00

Just a song that I'm very into right now.
Definitely an EMO song.

Sarangingeochyo
Written & Sung By Young Saeng

Credits to: Xaizhun

Sarangingeochyo
Love of my life, ch'eom mannahatteon nal gudaeui barkun misorul baottchyo
Love is my life, utteon gudaenun nawa eonusae gakaweo jinkeochyo

urin hangsang manhun shigandurul hamkke hamyeonseo seorul aegi hasseottchyo
ije seoya gieokun malhaeyo gudaewa hatteon shigandul naegen haengbok irago

Can you feel my love for you, sarangingeochyo imi gudaen saranghal su eobnun
bogo ship'eoyo soksagidul wichyeo bochiman eodi ittchyo gudaenun

nan gudaeman boyeoyo nega ireohke aeweonhako ittnundae
Oh~ gudaenun eodi bunayo gyeotteon naega ittchyo
ijenun saranghandago malhal sudo eobgettchyo

Can you feel my love for you, sarangingeochyo
imi gudaen saranghal su eobnun
bogo ship'eoyo soksagidul wichyeo bochiman eodi ittchyo gudaenun

bogo ship'tago saranghandago
gip'un mamsoke gudaega isseoya
gureon sarangwanun tarul tto tarul sarangboda gip'un
gudae saengage maumi ap'ayo
tu sol moayo gudaega bogop'ul ttaen

It's not love
Love of my life, when we first met I saw your bright smile
Love is my life, you're so close to me
baby, we were always with each other
now I'm left with memories of the times we spent in happiness

Can you feel my love for you, it's not love, no this love cannot beI miss you,
I want to be where you are
I beg you, you're the only one I can see
Oh~ I see where you've gone
now you say, I do not love you

Can you feel my love for you, it's not love, no this love cannot be
I miss you, I want to be where you are
I miss you, I love you so deeply in my heart
yet you're in love with someone else just as deeply
And it's hurting my soul to see the two of you

Japan Day 1

2009-06-21T22:21:00.003+08:00

Sidenote: I know i'm taking ages, but I'm so far ready till Day 4! Out of 7 days a week, I'm only free in the evenings and weekends, which aren't as free either! I could no longer have the time I used to have in office but that is a good and normal thing right?

Day 1 [110509: Monday]

We were all really excited and raring up to go!

We even gave each of us a Japanese name! (Besides myself, as Yukki already named me eons ago) Presenting, Aiko (Cindi), Kiyoko (Kailin), Jyuri (Juli) and Mikki (Me la).

4 Japan Trip Happy, Excited, Nervous and sleepy Troopers!

Juli came over my house around 10pm so that we could try and catch some winks before waking up at 3am to catch a cab together with cin and lin. Obviously, catching a wink was hard because we were obviously excited :D

We’ve been waiting ages for this day to come and now that it was finally here, all of us felt very surreal and unreal. We took the same cab together to the airport and couldn’t help chattering in the cab! As we walked to the counter to check in our luggage, I felt as if everyone of us had a skip in our step as we walked excitedly and happily to the counters and got “interrogated” by friendly CISCO guards who questioned us on some security (terrorist-proof) questions.

Once inside the customs, we headed to the MAC booth and played around, took some photos on a borrowed polaroid camera (from dot :D) and decided to go look for some water as we all felt super thirsty. Who was to know that a bottle of plain water comes up to be above SGD$2! In the end, we decided to settle for a drink by the good ol’ water fountain.

Excited but really Sleepy!

Took our First Polaroid Picture!

Thirsty for water and getting assasinated for it!

Blogging!

We took more shots, blogged our last blog entry and headed towards our gate! *Excitedness*

Pose! Btw, the travellator wasn't working!

Happyyyyyy~~

GOF: Girls over Flowers! haha! 花痴

BOARDING!! Towards Tokyo Narita! :D

*smileys*

Waiting for our turn to board after all the VIPs bpard first~

Let's GO!

In the plane, the first thing the 4 of us all did was dabbed a little anointing oil on each of our hands, held hands and prayed! Cin led the prayer and we amen-ed all the way :) We prayed against the Swine Flu, sicknesses and prayed for favour and grace! It was such a wonderful feeling to know that all 4 of us are God’s child and it was a confirmation that this trip was planned to and given as a present to all of us by DaddyGod! A warm and bubbly feeling filled me, and I felt as if DaddyGod told me, “ Friends who prays together, Stays together!” Because of that, I believe our trip had a special reason for each individual one of us, and somehow, an invisible bond was created among all 4 of us! :)

Anyways, we took some nonsensical shots, ate our breakfast and snack, watched a couple of movie (I watched Hotel for Dogs and a little of Magadascar 2, watched 5minutes of Slum Dog millionaire but shut if off because it looked disgusting. Btw, I hate electricity.) and slept throughout. The plane was freezing cold and cin seems to have caught a cold then cos she kept sneezing and had running nose after.

Yeah there we were all raring to go and the Sleeping Beast Fell Asleep!

All ready with our eye mask, ear plugs, jackets, blankets...

... SLEEPING TIME! And that is how the Sleeping Beast Sleeps. *shhh.. don't wake the Beast lest you experience the Wrath of the Beast! It is scaryyy~

Wakey Wakey. Breakfast time! Western Style!

Singaporean Style: Mee Goreng! Qt nice despite its look.

Our Snack a few hours later after our breakfast.

Finally, its time we touched down! Saw our first Japanese Airport Staff! Went to toilet to wash up and poo, bought our direct train tickets, ran for our train at 3.15 when its leaving at 3.20, finally got into the train, struggled with our luggage, enjoyed the scenery, chatted about our itinerary, took even more nonsensical shots and slept a little.

The Plane that served us pretty well, except the seats were a little cramped for long flights.

Yokoso Japan! GO GO GO!

Went through the Thermal Scan as well as H1NI Interview.

Bought our Tickets and rushed for the train!

The Price of our ticket. We took the more expensive one but was more convenient without any changing of trains.

Excited with the sceneries! We ARE finally hereee !

Enjoying and Unwilling to lift my eyes away from the sights...

Kiyoko-chan checking out the Map of Japan. So what do you see?

Our Train, Normal Train~

Went throught the itinerary and discussing about directions.

Buin (with alternate different nail color) vs. Shinlang (Bright Golden Hair)
Only those who watched WGM will know. OMO! Otoke!

Stop Snapping, People tired!

Polaroid shots! Nice? I thought of it! *show offs*

"Are we there yet??"

80minutes later, we reached our station. Bakurocho! … Only to be greeted by a flight of stairs! And EVEN more flights of stairs. What a muscle building session we had, lugging our luggages up!

Finally! Something we've been looking forward to see for a long time!

The horrible stairs.

There's some chops located at various stations, so Choppity Chop!

It Reads, Bakurocho. haha!

So Old School! But I likey!

Me asking for the train timings to go back on our last day.

Aargh, another flight of stairs. How healthy!
Aiko is still struggling with her luggage.

Without much difficulty, we found our hostel – Khao San Ninja! It looked exactly like the photos we saw! Pretty, small and clean! We were bushed and tempted to lie on our beds but there wasn’t time to lose and I JUST HAD to eat Ichiran Ramen! I’ve been missing it for 2 years! So off we go to Ueno!

Khao San Ninja Hostel! So pretty! Just as we see it on the internet!

*Pose!* Quick Let's Take a Shot!

*Smiles!* Let's Go in!

Checking-in! The staff is very friendly and speaks good english! No worries!

Aiko's tired!

Right: The Calendar that updates travellers on the activities that are going on everyday in Japan during that period. Apparently it was Sumo Festival.
Left: The stair case that leads to the common room and kitchen, walls all filled with photos of happy travellers!

Leave your shoes here before coming in! Cleanliness #1! Thankfully the area wasn't really stinko!

Our small & Cosy Room! I couldnt take it and immediately plonked myself on the bed!

Off we go from Asakusabashi Station towards Ueno Station -- The place where Ichiran Lies Silently for me!

Finding the correct amount.*headache*

Machine *plonk plonk* -- sound of coins going in. haha

AHHH ~~ The train Station! I missed it! *ding dong*Abunai desu kara.* haha!

Tickets! Unknowingly, it was in the shape of a cross! Just goes to show how much DaddyGod's blessings will shower all over us in our trip!

Ichiran Ramen was still situated where I remembered it to be. The shops there all remained the same and I felt so nostalgic! I felt as if I was home! I could still imagine me and nikki walking along there, shopping at the drug stores, walking to Hard Rock Café to meet Masuo… Ueno sure held a lot of memories! Anyways, I half walked and half ran to Ichiran and I almost screamed when I saw Ichiran! It felt like an old friend! I finally understood how Yukki feels about Qiu Lian Ban Mian. How she always HAVE to eat it whenever she comes Singapore, and how I had to pack it to Taiwan for her whenever I go over. I totally understand how you feel now Yukki. If only Ichiran could be packed back to Singapore! I bet I would receive a lot of request to pack it back, and even if I sell it at $20, people would still be willing to pay for it! As for me, I’m willing to pay $30 for it!! I’m sooo missing Ichiran now. Everyone enjoyed their ramen and the eggs! YUMS! What a satisfying and fulfilling dinner!

Ueno Station! Just as I Rembered it to be! The "hometown" of me & nikki 2 years ago! Oak Hotel! I excitedly pointed towards Hard Rock Cafe and told them how 2 years ago, Matsuo met us there in his red plasticky puff jacket and brought us to Chiba! Memoriesss!

As you can tell, I was rushing (almost running) towards Ichiran! Remembering the route still!

And here we are!!!!!!!!!!

OMG! Ramen Heaven!

The Machine where we chose the infamous Ramen & Egg!

Asked for an english order form and chose the condiments and how we liked our ramen!!

OK! Quick Press the button and send our orders!

The booth seats opposite us!

Waiting impatiently and expectantly for the ramen to come our from the kitchen! Hurry up already!!!

And so the eggs arrive first!

Just as we were peeling our eggs, The Ramen came! OMG I could faint and cry tears of joy!

You all have no idea how happy I was! Look! No teeth! Only Gums showing from my smile!
Ok, obviously I was kidding, please don't go scrutinising my smile. :p

I finished all the soup! How Power am I?

VERY POWER! DA DA DA!

We walked around Ueno, bought collagen drink, some cosmetics (girls!), drinks from vending machine, shared the yummy and cheap Takopaochi and took somemore shots :) I planned for the girls to drop by Watami for supper but we were t0o filled! So we headed back to the hostel to rest early as we had to wake up at 4am the next day to catch our train!

Their Arcade is so big and grand, unlike our puny little ones.

Their umbrellas are so pretty but a tad too expensive!

Stopped by for Takopaochi! Its good to travel in group cos no matter how filled our tummies are, we can share food easily! Did I mention that we appointed Jyuri as our banker? We gave her money everyday and she pays for the food and drinks that we share. How ingenious is that idea! Saves us a lot of trouble dividing! haha!

The Big Octopus inside! And this takopaochi is definitely way nicer and cheaper as compared to Singapore's 3 for $2.50. For that price, we got 6!

Back at the hostel, after washing up, we were tired but reluctant to let our night end just like that, and our mouths were feeling a little itch for a snack so we decided to walk around and go by the 24hours convenience store for some snacks. The night was pretty quiet and we made a little noise while taking photos outside the hostel and the staff came our to tell us we have to be quiet. Shhhhh... We walked by some construction at the road and I was awed at how polite they are. They practically stopped working as we walked on by and continued after we passed them! And, was it our imagination? They seemed to looked at us funnily and smiled silently! Maybe coming out in our PJ's wasn't the brightest idea, but heck it! Its Japan! Finally located the 24hrs store, bought snacks, walked further up and located another convenient store and bought somemore! Somehow or other, we ended up as beggars on the street, went crazy at the hostel before konking out for the night~

Bathed and Refreshed!

Snacks!

*Begs for food & money*

Back to the hostel and Transformed into Ninjas! Crap, is that slippers that i'm holding? Err.. no, that's an illusion! Its actually this special Weapon that I use as a Ninja!

And with that I bid you goodnight!
Day 2 coming Up!
[More Day 1 Photos Here...]

Silent Japanese Gameshow in the Library

2009-06-21T02:35:00.003+08:00

This is sooo stupid!
but quite funny, and some of their english words are outrageous!
This is one video where u will understand without the need to have knowledge of Japanese

The gameshows that Japanese plays!

Off with the old & On with the new

2009-06-16T23:08:00.004+08:00

I had a new haircut!

I cut off my long limp locks and in place, a short boppity bop that goes haywire at times. Parting with my old locks this time held some significance to me. Its a new beginning for me in many different areas that I'm trying to come to terms with.

Also, the weather is absolutely crazy! *sizzles*

P.S(Yes I know, Japan Day 2! SOON! I PROMISE! Before this month ends. haha!)

A bear, a lion and a pig meet...

2009-06-10T12:28:00.000+08:00

When a bear, a lion and a pig meet ...

Bear says: "if I roar in the forest, the entire forest is shivering with fear."

Lion says: "if I roar in the jungle, the entire jungle is afraid of me."

Pig says: "big deal.... I only have to cough, and the entire planet lives
in fear.

My Rest :)

2009-06-02T09:26:00.002+08:00

I came across this blog (http://cheee.wordpress.com/about/) while searching for the song "My Rest". Parts of the song just kept playing in my mind but I just couldn't remember the lyrics except "..on pastures green..", so i googled for it! And, I happened to see the title "My Encounter with New Creation Church". Seems interesting enough, so i decided to just go ahead and take a look at it.. and wow. I felt as if I stumbled upon a blog entry that I could have written! The stuffs he wrote was exactly how I felt and thought. Especially about the "Two Layers of the Gospel" -- it was exactly how I felt and what someone I know is going through right at this moment.

I once ask her, "why is it that your church is preaching to you all about the devil and things that ought to be done? Exactly like how my previous church were?" and she told me, "its like that one. you just joined church, slowly, when got bible study, they will teach you all these things. Its more in depth. Beginning, in normal service, church will preach about God's love to draw people in, then during bible studies, then will teach you more in depth." Though those may not be her exact words, it was the gist of it. I was taken aback, and though at that point of time, I was a new NCC-ian, I told her that my church no matter what won't preach on such things cos only God's love and Jesus's sacrifice conquers everything. She gave me a look of disbelief.

Years later, which is now, chancing upon this blog just re-afirms what I told her and what I believe in God. He is just so magnificient, eternally wonderful, glorious :) No one believes me when I say that unless you have experienced His love yourself. So, have you experienced His Love yet? Cos I did!

My rest
My soul finds rest, in You my Jesus
My hiding place amid the storm
In pastures green, You lead me down to lie
By waters still, I shall abide.

I shall not fear, in times uncertain
I shall not look to my own strength
Into Your hands, I place my hopes and plans
My trust is in the blood of the Lamb

A crown of thorns, pierced through Your temple
The blood that flowed, took all my cares
What price You paid, what sacrifice You made
My life is Yours, Jesus my rest

Just Photos Only [Japan Day 1]

2009-06-02T00:35:00.002+08:00

http://danlyne.multiply.com/photos/album/75/Japan_2009_First_Day

Yesss I've been procrastinating but I've been reallyyy busy. *no kidding!*So here's Day 1 first! As for the rest, I honestly will try my best to put it up! Blog entries will come later after all the pics are up! I've got no choice but to resort to this. Jikan ga arimasen kara...Anyways, my 2nd trip to Japan and I'm loving it! Missing it loads.. I've got loads to write and loads to say about it! Grrr... why is the day only 24hrs?

I'm back...

2009-05-23T11:31:00.002+08:00

... and suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

so much so that i rather stay at home and not go out!

The trip was such a long awaited one and it flew by us in just a blink of an eye. It felt as if I was just sitting in the cab on the way to the airport, sleeping in the plane, sitting there eating the delicious ichiran ramen, getting on the subway trains, the excitedness of reaching Hakone, seeing God's miracles, eating black egg, hot springs, walking along the streets of shibuya... the memories...

Updates Soon!

I'm off!

2009-05-11T04:43:00.003+08:00

As usual, my ritual whenever I'm in the airport waiting for my flight!
A blog entry :)

I've not officially announced yet (in my blog), but practically everybody knows, I'm off to Japan! Woohoo! How cool is that? All thanks to Lin and of course DaddyGod :) We planned to go Japan this year but we called it off because the Jap Yen was really high at 1.55 and up, compared to the previous time I went when it was super cheap at 1.3! But DaddyGod is just too wonderful! He gave Lin a travel promotion where the air tickets for a round trip is only... SGD$315! How cool is that? :D Excitedness!

Anyways, I'm in T1 now waiting for our flight!
I pray that our trip will be super duper blessed, the swine flu or whatever flu there are in this world will not touch us or harm us or interfere with our trip! We'll have super alot of favour and grace in this trip and all 4 of us will have a very very enjoyable time there and meet great people, buy cheap and good stuffs :D Amen!!

All of you agree with me right? :)

Ciaos and (I don't wish to) see you guys again 1 week later!

P.S(btw, Lin just asked us "What is the national flower of Japan? All of us answered Sakura. But the answer is......................................... Chyrsanthemum <-- Ju actually had to google to find the correct spelling for me! -_-)

What is Favour?

2009-04-29T10:25:00.000+08:00

Favour is turning Impossible to Possible!
:)

My New Beginnings

2009-04-25T00:54:00.004+08:00

The day finally came!

On this last day, I seem happy. Yes, I'm truly happy but sad as well on how we won't see each other as often -- 5 days a week! As I went to work this morning in the bus, I almost teared and was on the verge of bawling but I didn't. :)

5 and coming to 6 years of working in the same department is almost more than i can bear. If not for that certain *****, i think i could have continued on in the department for another 10 years or maybe even forever. But the emotional rollercoaster that I was put on during my time there was the deciding factor for me to send out my application for another department. Let's talk about the bad first. Time in my current, or should i say previous department, has its joys and laughters but whenever a storm is brewing and "tsunami" hits, I would be totally in the pits -- cried countless times, prayed many a times, analysed and thought about it everytime, talked it out a couple of times, shared about God's grace and favour a couple of times, shouted once even.. But it seems to be totally in vain. It came to an end when all I could do was just pray for God's favour and grace to be known and felt greatly! All my close friends and colleagues, ex-colleagues, all know and even felt for themselves how terrible and emotionally draining the whole ordeal was. Finally all these emotional draining events has passed and I'm looking forward to the remaining of the Dektos Year I have ahead of me!

I had really great colleagues and we could talk and converse easily without much trouble. God really poured His favour and drenched me totally in it! So much so that I had really many many good days with my fellow colleagues as compared the evil days! Dektos! :) I love them all very much despite the evil days cos I know truly that they are real and the emotional rollercoaster rides aren't from them. Its a regret that i wasn't able to take a few photos with them on my last day, but considering that I'm still in the building, photo-taking wouldn't be a problem at all. :)

I had really wonderful ex-colleagues as well! You know who you are! I'm so glad we are all still keeping in touch through simple things like going to church together at times, attending your princesses birthday parties, having dinner at your house, reading your blogs for updates, leaving occassional notes, calling each other up at times, going out for a drive and coffee, chatting online... Its really great! DaddyGod sure has poured His favour all over us such that we could still be in contact! And I pray that we will continue to do so! :)

Out of my colleagues, I have a friend. Someone whom i knew from poly and i'm sorry that I brought her into this messed up place and put her in the midst of the emotional rollercoaster as well. (You know who you are! Stop crying as you read my this entry! :D ) I must say we've been through the rollercoaster rides together, braving it together, countless rantings together, encouraging each other, discouraging each other even! I want to say I'm sorry I left you there to pick up the mess and also, I'm sure DaddyGod will fulfil His promise of Dektos year to you! Trust and hold fast to His promises :)

Life will only go better for you now because you are a new creation~

How lovable are all my colleagues and ex-colleagues that came into my life. I think we have upgraded from colleagues to friends. To be able to go out for dinner and joke and laugh together after work is a great feeling! To be able to KTV together was stupendous! Though it wasn't the whole group, missing 1 more person, but i had fun and you guys left a wonderful memory of my time there. Its a Perfect ending and a Perfect beginning for my next chapter.

Great company~

Great Time~

And a Perfectly Wondrous Ending~

Thank You so much DaddyGod. You've been so wonderful to me this year that I just can't express how grateful I am! You are such a perfect Dad who looks over me, this vulnerable child of Yours, just showering me with your Perfect blessings. Cos of Your Perfect offering, Jesus Christ, that I am so highly favoured, greatly blessed and deeply loved. I'm looking forward to my new beginning which I'm sure I will be even much more favoured and filled brimly with blessings! I'm bursting! :)

In Memory.

2009-04-03T16:13:00.006+08:00

Much has happened.

I had a dream last year and it wasn't a good dream. I reluctantly told my mom about the dream and she took it quite well despite that the dream was about the passing away of a relative. My mom then "consoled" me saying that reality is usually the opposite of the dream. Well, who was to know that the dream became reality in just a few months? My uncle (Mom's brother) passed on about 2 weeks ago. It was really sudden and it shocked and hurt everyone. My uncle, or should I say my "Gu Gu", always looked pretty much healthy and always with a kind face. He is a man of few words but he loves children alot. I remembered times of how he would always press his palm on my head to "sayang" me. How he advised me on driving when I first got my car and drove him and my Kim Kim (his wife) around. How his eyes light up and crinkled at the sides whenever he smiled. How dirty his fingernails were due to the nature of his work. It hurts alot, even now as i type all these.

Mom received a call at 3am in the morning and woke me up and said in a really calm voice, "Gu Gu passed away". My mind was in a whirl and head heavy from the sleep and it just couldn't register. Everything happened in a blur as I drove us to CGH. My mom said everyone's at A&E and I had a glimmer of hope that the doctor's were trying to save him. But when i stepped into the room, the faces of everyone and the body lying on the bed told me that it was already too late..

Mom was really brave throughout, she didn't shed a tear throughout the 5 days event and tried to be around Kim Kim whenever she could. She kept telling Kim Kim not to cry as Gu Gu will feel sad and not in peace. My heart just tore when Kim Kim said she isn't crying when her eyes were red with tears flowing down her cheeks. Kim Kim and Gu Gu is the most loving ever couple in their 60s - 70s I've seen. They were practically inseparable and Kim Kim relies alot on Gu Gu. I always remembered the time when I first drove my car to their factory and Kim Kim kept on whining to Gu Gu to take some time off work so that they could go for a ride in my new car! I was so amused at the whole scene as how Gu Gu is persuaded by her whining..

As I saw Gu Gu for the last time, seeing how the dirt was still in his fingernails, it seemed surreal. I felt as if Gu Gu is just sleeping and he would wake up and go to work the next day as usual. My cousins - Gu Gu's children, who are all grown up with their own families, cried and tried to be strong everyday. I could see how they always tried to stop their tears from flowing but the tears just kept flowing non stop. It was a traditional Taoist Teochew funeral where they had to go through alot of ceremonies, chants and even wearing the traditional mourning costumes. Seeing how their lips quivered everytime a raw spot is touched, my heart hurt as well. I didn't know how to show my cares as I didn't want to seem pretentious so all i could do was to offer my help wherever it was needed. I wanted to tell them to just let it all out and cry...

Ecclesiastes 3
Everything Has Its Time

1 To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
2 A time to be born, And a time to die;
A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
3 A time to kill, And a time to heal;
A time to break down, And a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to gain, And a time to lose;
A time to keep, And a time to throw away;
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
8 A time to love, And a time to hate;
A time of war, And a time of peace.

On the last day, seeing Kim Kim sending her husband, her soul mate, her partner, her dearest.. off from the world was heart wrenching. She just sat at the coffin, touching the wood and cried without a sound. I thought of how she stayed by Gu Gu's body at the hospital, lying on his chest, as if hoping to hear his heartbeat once again.. Just simply wanting to lie close to his heart.

Everything does have it's time.. At a time such as this, I know that no words could comfort anyone but only DaddyGod's love could. I could only pray that DaddyGod's bountiful grace will flow into everyone in my family and touch every single one of their hearts, just like how Jesus touched mine. Daddy Daddy Daddy... how do I overcome the fear of death of family members? I'm so afraid. Jesus has already conquered the death for me and I pray and I know one day, ALL my family members would be too.. Amen..

Gu Gu, memories of you will always be etched in our hearts.

I miss you..

Sunset at Jordan River
(Taken from: Ivan Makarov's Flickr)

i wanna travel to many many places!

2009-03-17T09:51:00.003+08:00

I'm jealous & envious!

Everyone seems to be travelling this year! And most seems to be going Taiwan.
Yanling went taiwan.
My Colleague is in taiwan now.
Nikki is in taiwan now.
Cindi's going Chiangmai now.
Eunice is going Shanghai this saturday.

Me... stuck in office.

I want to travel toooooo..

I am a spoilt brat.

2009-03-03T23:57:00.002+08:00

My 2nd FINALLY POST
Say hi to my new dashboard :)
Its a 3 eyed monster!

Presenting my honda jazz!

Banhong, being held captive!

Its a 3 year old baby that i bought from my dad's friend who's a car dealer. Its such a miracle that I got this car! Right after I gave for Miracle Sunday! I've been believing DaddyGod for blessing me with a car and He did! It wasnt easy getting this car, had a lot of disputes with my parents and the answer was "no" to having a car. The next weekend right after Miracle Sunday, my mom suddenly woke me up and said, "I thought you say want to go see car! Still dont wake up!" (Btw, it was only 10am in the morn ok!) I didn't bother with what she said and wanted to drift back to sleep but somehow i couldn't, so i woke up and went to my parent's room to laze. And that's when it started! My mom started calling the car dealer and passed the phone to me and in 2 hours, we were on our way to the car place, and in an hour, we paid deposit for the car! When I saw the car, it was Love at First Sight! I loved it so much that whatever other cars they threw my way, i wasnt paying much attention! Till the point that the guy who was showing us around said to my mom, "She is very focused! she already know what she wants. she already kena "sot" (electrocuted) by the car!" haha~ how true! And guess that the uncle said! He said, "if u came 1 or 2 weeks earlier, this car wouldn't even be here!" I was like, "whoa! Thank You DaddyGod!" Its really a matter of right place and right time and free favours! Eth, Qara and Dektos all rolled into One!

I am so happy and I feel so blessed!

Now all i need to do is really practice driving! I'm still not really good at it, so if u see me on the roads, pls dun horn at me! I'm just a small little new learning P-Plater! Cut me some slack alright? :D

Presenting my Shifu(s)

2009-02-25T19:24:00.000+08:00

I've alot of Shifu's!

I've a processing shifu from office, whom has already left office a long time ago, and I don't have a picture of her but she was really good at wrapping books, have a very neat handwriting and does her work pretty well. She's a little fierce but she can be pretty friendly as well. I remember her sharing her marie biscuits with me :)

I've a lame shifu from poly. He is so lame that i reigned him as my lame shifu! Honestly, i can't remember how it came about and now i calls him shifu and im his tudi. He keeps chasing me for my school fees which I havent been paying for quite some time but it ain't my fault either! He hasn't been giving much lessons too!Just Recently, I even had to go online and research on plant respiratory system for him because he had a "debate" with a friend while they were having their night jog! See, shifu, i no need pay u any fees, u still have to pay me $ for doing that research work for u!

my "lame" (literally not physically) shifu

I've also got a photoshop shifu! He's the master! I first knew him when i was on attachment program and he was a trainer for macromedia and adobe softwares there. During our final year project, we needed to use some softwares and decided to approach him for help and surprisingly, he agreed! He's very friendly and super helpful, without him, i think our project could have been a disaster! He was our major support throughout our project and beyond! He gave us alot of resources and alot of ideas, teaching us how to use the programs without any strings attached! He really is the best~ Recently last year, i met him on the streets and we exchanged numbers and he taught me how to use another software again! How cool is that! I feel guilty at times as I only look for him whenever i need help :( So here's my tribute to him as well! :)

my photoshop shifu :) See the CD he's writing on? He burned an extra copy of some resources for me! :)

That's presenting all my shifus!
This post is sooo random.

P.S (I realise that I should have posted this entry on 1st September's Teacher's Day instead.)

Finally!

2009-02-22T17:12:00.003+08:00

Finally!

don't ask about my sour face, i was seriously trying to smile with my mouth close but it didn't came out right. Now, awaiting for my next... "Finally!!!" post. :)

Ask and it shall be added unto me! AMEN!
A Honda Jazz pleaseeee.

AMEN & AMEN!
Dektos Dektos Dektos!

The result of the last post

2009-02-21T19:16:00.003+08:00

hilarious :)
no worries, i still love u!

Irritated.

2009-01-29T17:45:00.002+08:00

I have to say this and get it off my chest.

Why do people not reply SMS?
Why do they reply so slow?

Answer: Busy. Forgot. Handphone spoil. Forgot to bring handphone. Never receive message. In meeting cannot reply message. Blah Blah Blah and Blahs.

Honestly. If it happens once or twice, its fine. Thrice? i'm ok too. But everytime?
Its really time you guys change your handphones!
or I guess i'm just not part of your priorities.

I will now only sms those who i know that I am at least in their first few priorities and they will care to spend a minute to sms back.

*grumbles*

He's such a sweet boy

2009-01-20T11:09:00.003+08:00

Banhong came to stay at my house for a few weeks during his school holiday in december last year. During his stay, i tried to bring him out and have some fun! Like Christmas count down, christmas service at indoor, cycling at east coast park etc. I didn't get to say bye bye to him when he went home cos i was out. But he is such a sweet boy! He actually wrote and left a note for me on my whiteboard! I was pleasantly surprised and touched by his action. His note left me happy and i'm really glad that i took the time to bring him out~ :D

Sean & Nikki [Lunch]

2009-01-16T08:40:00.007+08:00

I have to get this up! If not it will be too late and i will continue to procrastinate!

It was a busy busy morn!
Soon after we reached CHIJMES, nik's okaasan and otosan arrived! I've heard so much about them and seen their pictures, and it was my first time meeting them and they are both so cute! Okaasan wore traditional kimono and i felt as if i was transported back to Japan!

Welcome welcome~

CHIJMES! The weather's super good on the 13th December despite the #13!

The bridal Mercs Car! Beautifully decorated!

Arrival of the bride & groom. Somehow, they look abit perplexed!

Okaasan called~~

one of the blog entries that me and mom made the night before!

Arrival of Okaasan and Otosan! Btw, the bouquet that nik's carrying is handmade -- petals by petals by Okaasan! So pretty and unbelievable!

A shot of 2 pretty ladies in Obi with their men in black and white!

We then proceeded to the makeup room behind the stage to get ready and all. CHIJMES really have the whole package -- everything looks so class!

Everyone getting ready~

The makeup room~

okaasan, nik and the pretty bouquet!

All Nikki's: nik's sis, nik's mom, nik, nik's okasaan, nik's otosan!

Nik's flower girl! Isn't she pretty! :)

Chatting and laughing! See Sean behind getting his hair ready~

Soon! It was time to do her first walk-in! As i took my place at the table, waiting for her walk-in, i thought i would have alot of emo thoughts but instead, I was worrying whether the "door-openers" will open the door at the exact magical and Cheegaboom (Amanda's words!) moment! I was really excited and nervous and i was wondering if I should take photos or take videos (cos i was under pressure from yukki to take alot of pictures and vids for her to see cos she couldn't come). In the end, i took more videos than pictures! And the video files are huge! I will post them soon! Anyways, the walk-in was super!! The "doormen" opened the doors at the exact moment and the sunlight shone through, bathing nikki and her dad in the light! It was all so pretty! I LOVE THE WALK-IN! I was so choked up I was afraid I would bawl! Nik was touched as well, I could see it on her face! She was trying really hard not to bawl too~ In the end, she still did~~ The songs at Praise & Worship was great, Pastor Daniel was great, the musicians were great, everyone was great! And DaddyGod is the greatest! He made the wedding all so beautiful, sweet and perfect! (Despite nik getting her glove stuck to her eyelash later! and that i forgot to get nik to bring her bouquet during her walk-in!) *slaps forehead*

Getting Ready! Fat bunny making his first appearance as the ring bearer!Fat bunny was so excited over so many things that he just couldn't stay still!

Nik's dad handing her over to Sean.. Aww..

:)

Holy Communion

There's not much photos now as most of them are vids. So I will just have a short run through of all the program if i remembered correctly! (ok, i cheated. I'm looking at the wedding timetable document as i write this :p) After the Holy Matrimony, when nik and sean was marched in again as Mrs and Mrs Goh, nik had a little trip (I caught it on vid! Sorry!) but she still looked pretty! (making ammendments! :D) During that short break where the first dish was served, we ate a little and i took the opportunity to grab some shots with the girls while nik mingled with the guests ~

:D

:D

I know, really little photos~ haha! I was trying my best to keep time and usher nik and sean to get them on schedule. but nik being nik, was on the roll of mingling with the guests that we were a little behind schedule but everything still turned out beautifully! As the "Meet the father" video was playing (the video actually features sean's sis's school project where sean and nik were playing the main roles! Its a very funny video!) i accompanied nik and sean back to the make up room to change into her 2nd gown, nik announced to sean "hey baby! we are married!" Sean said "Yes baby, we are married." Sounds as if they get married every other day! Anyways, i love her 2nd gown as well! Did i mention that all her gowns are designed in a way by nik herself? She got plain white gowns and she added the obi and black ribbons bits!

As we walked out from the makeup room, she was hijacked by a few of her friends who were taking photos outside CHIJMES. Alot of wolf-whistles~ The 2nd walk-in was rock style as they rocked their way in and had stops in between for everyone to take photos! It was hilarious! Definitely a twist to the traditional wedding!

Sean's mom had an item and sang a song and my oh my! Her voice was great! (姜还是老的辣jiang hai shi lao de la!) There was even a standing ovation when she finished singing! Her item was soon followed with sean's sister and friend. They sang "一眼瞬间" and i was impressed as well! A family of singers! And at this time, i was shaking in my seat. The best man was pacing up and and down, holding on to his cue cards as well! Because we are both going to give our Best man and 'best woman' speech! He was to go up first so he was pacing up and down as i ate my chicken. Once he was up, it was my turn soon and i started wringing my hands as yuling tried to calm me down. Yes and she took video of the speech but I'm not going to put it up. I was practically shaking on the stage and my hands shook so hard that I couldnt read my notes properly and there was a point where i paused really long. My mind was in a blank but i know my emo partner, nik must be really touched cos i told her whole life story :D But in all honesty, Nik is a real life testament of God and I could really see God's work in her life so much that I'm so touched as well.

I saw her nik was in the lowest point in her life. She was literally like a walking corpse on earth, dragging herself through her daily routines and crying so much practically every other day. Her hurt was so strong that I didn't know how to help but just try to be there for her. But DaddyGod is just so faithful. Nik started to attend church regularly and I saw how she picked up the pieces of her life slowly, fell into the pit and started picking it up again. She went through alot in that year but look now! She's so blessed and grew from glory to glory! okok, I forgot that i'm supposed to be blogging her wedding and not her life story~ but stilll... u r great nik! *hugs*

Back to the WEDDING!

Nik in her 2nd gown~

:D

Soon after the 2nd gown, she had to change to her 3rd gown and they had their 3rd walk-in :) This time its the final items. Both Mr and Mrs sang 2 duets (Lucky and 今生注定) and Mr did a special seret surprise item! Mrs was so shocked that she teared on stage as Mr sang the song that he wrote specially for her! :DDD Mr and Mrs then presented their speech to everyone and Mrs did a great job presenting her speech in jap to her okaasan and otosan. Soon, it was the traditional Yum Seng time! Yuuuummmmm Sennnnnnggggg!~ *the champagne is so yummy that i left a little to let yuling taste! haha!*

Speechh~

Yum yum yum seng! *babuseng*

And thus marks the end of the wonderful wedding :)

A Happy and Blessed Dektos (not ur decked toes) Marriage you Both Shall Have!

Amen! :)

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Dektos Year!

2009-01-12T15:12:00.002+08:00

Dektos (Greek)
In Thayer's Lexicon, denotes the most blessed time when salvation and the free favours of God profusely abound!

Radzon (Hebrew)
Delight, Favour, Acceptance!

I'm sure that 2009 is the Acceptable Year of the Lord! (*sings: I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toesss..*) I will see many good dayS despite the evil day that i might get but surely my good dayS will prevail that evil day! Free favours from DaddyGod has already started! I passed my driving so i'm finally a P-Plater now! All you experienced driver out there, stop giving P-Platers a hard time alright! You STUCKUP BUNCH! *grumbles*machaim u all never be P PLATE before! hmph! Anyways, I know I'm going to love 2009! It will definitely surpass 2008!

AMEN!

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Sean & Nikki [Morning]

2008-12-31T09:36:00.004+08:00

What a morning!

The sisters were prepared but the brothers were even more prepared! They were all donned in MIB (Man-in-black) attire, complete with sunglasses and even a ... grasscutter? And there were so many of them that the sisters called me to go down and help them out! (i was supposed to be in the room with nikki to provide her emotional support! haha~) What a sight to behold when the brothers came and honestly, i was a little freaked out and overwhelmed! But the brothers were really great! Very sporting! and i was trying really hard not to laugh out loud cos i was told that we have to be fierce! (which is very hard!)

The "tortures" began and the first task the brothers had to do was slap on some red lipsticks and kiss the white mahjong paper and form the words "Sean loves nikki"... and they cheated! They used their fingers to write the words (supposingly to outline the words) and did a few kisses on the paper~ the sisters didn't let them off that easily so they planted a few more kisses on the papers!

The sight that greeted me when i first arrived at her house -- the ravishing bride! :)

Her daddy's whispering ~~ shhh... secret!

the sisters :)

Putting on some color~

hahaha :D :D :D

The white horse prince (白马王子) -- The Groom!
Note the grasscutter man behind -.-

sean's thinking, "how should i do this"!

"waiiitt! Let me do this first"

"huh u really want us to kiss!"

aiyoo

i like this shot cos i think the flower brother and the grasscutter brother looks ironic standing next to each other! :D

First Kiss!

The flower brother adds the bouquet to finish the work!

tadahs!*

nope, the sisters and the bride isn't satisfied with the work!

The brothers dropped to the ground and added in more kisses!

blocked! what are they doing? drawing lip kisses with their fingers? ...only they know!

grasscutter bro is one hilarious dude!

And so the sisters finally let them off and went to the next "torture". They had to wear diapers and sing and coordinate a dance according to the song! There was a lot of hoo-has when they were trying to wear the diapers. and i really meant "trying"! They helped each other to wear and one of the brothers started saying that the sisters should demo and show how the diapers should be worn! And one of the sisters (i cant mention who!) took the diapers and went "OPEN YOUR LEGS!" *laughs!*

After all the tryings and laughters, they came up with "Old macdonald had a farm" with some quirky movements! They sang pretty loud and im sure most of the people in the surrounding blocks were looking out of the window and laughing! Pictures can't do justice! You have to watch the video! (not much photos cos i was video-ing)

"what is this!!"

"how do i wear this thing?!"

where should i put my leg?

horse stance!

"aiya *puts the diaper over his head* come i help u la"

"see, just stick here..."

"adjust adjust"

the groom with his diapers!

During this point, joanna asked me to go up to the house with her first to prepare for the next few items (thank God i did!) cos the 2 out of the 3 remaining sisters were held hostage outside the gate!

see the 2 sisters being held hostage outside and how hiong the brothers are!

The brothers started rattling the gates and demanded us to let them in! Sean started laughing and said "i've got the keys! I can open the gate!" but one of the sisters said "don't believe him!" and so we all went to the kitchen to prepare the food and the guiness stout with raw egg! And before we knew it, we heard the voices of the brothers really loud and noticed that 2 or 3 of them has sneaked into the house! (the sisters did check with nikki beforehand whether sean holds the key and nik said "no" but her mom gave sean the key just a few days before the wedding!) The sisters were hysterical and started pulling and dragging and pushing them out! The brothers were tough but the sisters were tough as well! One of them (the same one that asked the brother to OPEN his legs) pulled one of the brothers till his shirt almost tore! haha! Finally the brothers went out and we locked the gate once more and sean promised not to use the key again!

I'm not sure what the next few sabo items were cos i went into nikki's room and told her the situation outside! We chatted a little about how she's feeling and how i am feeling~ :)

The bride~

...waiting for the groom who is going to vroom vroom in!

before we knew it, we heard the brothers being let in! So noisy! *tsk* They were then made to sing a song and nik just said "the fire song!" (i think!)and sean launched into a rendition of Backstreet Boys "I want it that way!" with the brothers as his backup singers, complete with banging on the doors!! The banging was freaky and i thought her door was going to give way but me and nikki were in fits!

Sean & Brothers *singing": (Tell me why) Ain't nothin' but a heartache

Nik: Why u sing heartache!! I don't want!

haha! Watch the video too!!

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Sean & Nikki's Solemnization

2008-12-29T23:05:00.005+08:00

Solemn-Aiseh-Sean!
Happened a day before the actual wedding!

As what Pastor Gabriel says in his low serious joking tone, its a very solemn event that's why its called a solemnization.
Well... Solemn it is not! :)

Yes i know its eons late -- that i'm only posting the pictures of the solemnization when their actual wedding has already passed and their already into the 2nd week of their honeymoon in Japan! oh well! Anyways, i can't believe you are married! ok, more into the happy emo laters! Here are the pictures and Pastor Gabriel is a real humourous man in his "serious" ways and sean and nikki... oh well! They are still Sean and Nikki! There was the part of the ceremony where they had to sign on the dotted line and Pst. Gab went "Think carefully before you sign". And Sean really "thought" very hard before he signed with nikki !

very "solemn"

The new families!

The married couple!

nik snorts and goes "im married"!

View the video here!

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Yes, i know! the wedding photos will be up!!

Edwin & Janice Wedding! [Part 2 - Night]

2008-12-02T20:36:00.003+08:00

After a short rest, (time seems to fly by really very fast!), we started another round of getting ready and rushing about! What with a bathing schedule, putting on contact lens, trying to figure out a nice eyeshadow color, putting on falsies, curling of hair etc... Busy! Girls! As usual, i was the last! I literally just dumped everything i see lying around that belongs to be into my bag -- not bothering to pack it nicely, as long as it can fit in! Ling's dad sent us out to the main road to catch a cab and we just dumped all our barangs into the boot and finally! we were on our way!

In the cab!

The view from jan's suite! 64th storey high!

... i totally freaked out and these 2 people took photos happily when i went to hide...!

and why did i hide? cos they started jumping at the balcony together!!
That's an ultimate for someone who has fear of heights k! Naughty girls!

Us at the suite while the bride was busy with her makeup~

Went down to indiana room to get ready for her solemnization and met Yvonne! yeay!
and yes, that's her hubby marjuky in the background drinking water!

Catch a group shot before the event starts!

Jan and her dad doing the rehersal~

pompy gown! looks so soft and cuddly but looks absolutely great on jan!

Finally the actual celebration!

and there goes a Mr and Mrs in the eyes of God! :)

A few of us didn't get to stay throughout the whole event but we managed to catch their exchanging of vows before we reluctantly left to man the reception counter! And goodness! we wanted to go to the washroom first but we saw quite a few people already crowding around the counter so we rushed there immediately and started "work"! Busy Busy Busy~ i didn't have much time to catch a shot! Thankfully maria was there to take some photos and send to us! :)

Jan & Ed's photo shots~

us being busy!

Sign sign!

Finally our business ended and its time for us to enjoy ourselves too! We had a super duper great time meeting up with one another! It was like a great KC gathering where we chatted non stop and marjuky was great as well! He fitted in just right with us as if he is a kc girl as well! hehe! As KC girls, its abnormal that we would be quiet so we were so rowdy that we captured a few glances from a few tables! We were laughing way too loud and enjoying ourselves so much, screaming and welcoming the couple as they did their walk-ins! It has been a long time since we had such a great kc gathering! Oh and amy helmiaty was there too and she shared so many hilarious stories and accompanied by marjuky's entertaining words, they had us in tears of laughter and in stitches! I know eunice laughed till like siao also! hehe! There was even a segment where they showed the video of the morning's sabo and our table went empty cos everyone scurried to some place where we can see the video properly! :D

Table setting - waiting for the celebration to begin~

Welcoming of the couple!

2nd welcoming of the couple! YAMSENG!

Group shot!

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These girls stayed behind and got a photo shot with the bride and groom!
What a waste that we were too tired and left soon cos i had work the next day.

It was an enjoyable night and had loadsa fun catching up with you girls! Guess our next catch up will be on one of you girl's wedding! love all of u :D

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Edwin & Janice Wedding! [Part 1 - Morning]

2008-11-28T02:24:00.004+08:00

I've been procrastinating this update cos i was hoping to upload more photos but the photos still aren't in yet so i guess, have to make do with whatever i have! And if i don't do this now, i doubt i will have any more time in the next few weeks to do it! Well, sadly, I didn't take much photos on the day cos i was busy and there was already alot of cameras around! But...

Yes! The day has finally arrived and gone!

台上5分钟，台下10年功！How apt! :)

Emails, SMSes, phone calls all flying around during the last few days! All the touching up for the photo montage, rehersals, briefings, sabo items.. finally! Everything went on pretty well and smoothly! The entourage met up on on Friday for Hen Night for Jan @ktv with a special present for her! She was excited and extra *ahem*, lets just say crazy! Should the photos be up? Well maybe for next time! :D Saturday was the final briefing and touching up of sabo items! Tiring cos me and eunice had to lug our luggages around Bedok as we bought the stuffs!

Anyways! Edwin & Janice's wedding was a blast!

We slept late, around 1 or isit 2am? Busy doing last minute preparation for the sabo items -- me: designing and writing out the instruction cards, eunice: forming the instructions to nice words, yuling: searching online for the videos that are needed for the sabos.. All of us: Experimenting with our morning makeup colors etc *girls!* and laughing and giggling before we finally fell asleep!

The morning started at 4am plus for eunice cos our original plan was to wake up early to 'pretty-fie' ourselves but... cos there were 2 pigs, (mainly me and yuling la) who refused to wake up and eunice being the nice girl, was reluctant to wake us up! After her bath, poor eunice sat in the dark all the way till 5am when my alarm rang! And that leeyuling still refuses to wake up so i had to be the 2nd one who went and had a COLD shower! Yes la, duno why her heater not working or we did not know how to switch it on! Brrrr* cold shower @ 5am.. Anyway, the morning was a rush and we were supposed to reach Jan's at 6.30 but we were a little late, so we reached about 6.45 and once we reached, me being the IC (its great being IC cos i get to boss around a little! wahahaha! power!), gave eunice the task of getting everyone to help out with the remaining preparation tasks for the sabo! As for me? I didn't just hang around and relax ok! I was busy briefing the remaining entourage of our plans! Eunice is super efficient la! She rounded up dot and ling and the 3 of them finished the tasks really fast! Teamwork! :)

The cards i painstakingly wrote and eunice and yuling brain-wreckingly formed!

BBP! -- Bride Beautifying in Progress!

Eunice deeply concentrating on the work of art.

Tadah! Presenting our Sabo table!

Our Spicy dish -- fine dining style! Oo lala~

Bride almost Done!

Lets get a shot!

The whole girl's entourage!

I got a little stressed when Rick, the wedding coordinator called and asked if everything was ready cos they were about to leave Edwin's house. But everything went fine and pretty smoothly! Thank God for that because i'm so inexperienced at all these! The entourage got really hyped out once the bridal car arrived and honked their way in! We were sooooo excited! Screaming and getting very hyped up! And when the ring boy finally went down and came up, auntie -- jan's mom, got excited too and quickly ushered the small boy and his parents in and quickly locked the gate! haha! so cute!

Honking their way in!

Ring boy getting ready to go down!

Finally the groom arrived and the sabos began! I can't explain all in words because i couldn't really see much of the action but all in all, the "Proposal! Refusal?" segment was hilarious! Once Edwin gain access to the house, alas! He didn't know that he had a last segment to go through! He has to kneel on one knee and do a proper proposal to Jan, who will then be the final factor of whether she should open the door!

Arrival of the groom! Sabos begin!

The $ we got in nice and pretty little packets!

Ed eager to open the door and lamented that he should have brought his set of keys!

Proposal! Refusal?!

*Edwin knelt down with BOTH knees on the floor*
Everyone: Alamak! on ONE knee la!! Not both! You think you what!!

Ed: ohh! *changed to one knee and mutters some stuffs*

Ed: Dear, will you marry me?

*silence*

Ed: Dear, will you marry me? *in a louder tone*

*silence*

Jan: LOUDER!!

Ed: Dear! Will you marry me? *in a real deep and much louder tone!*

*silence*

Jan: I'll CONSIDER!

Everyone uproars with laughter!!

Ed: Dear! We already went through so much and organised all these and so many stuffs already and now you tell me you want to consider? Cannot la! Dear! please open the door! DEAR! WILL YOU MARRY ME!!

*Silence... Doors open!*

WAH! drama-mama~ And there we see a pretty Janice sitting there in her pretty white gown with pink roses in her hair :)

Finally Ed got his pretty bride!

Happiness! *and a sign of relief.* haha!

And thus, began the norm where Jan have to go ed's house for the tea ceremony and back to her own house for tea ceremony~ The weather was really great that day! The only qualms i have of it is that it is too sunny and hot! But super good for photo taking! Loving the Sun!

A shot by their bridal car -- Mercs benz! *stupid. i got a dislike for mercs after my driving test.*

Us again -- everyone showed up pretty in blue~

happy bride who's day is just beginning!

Ed, "you guys going my house right? See you guys there!"

Ling drove us there! couldnt get her in the pic cos she was qt stressed trying to follow the cars in front who were going quite fast! Except the P plate one who slowed down! SEE!!! P-PLATErs are good ok! Stop putting them down!! And i'm still a L! *growls and mutters and grumbles* stupid mercs.

The pretty corsage that jan ordered for all of us! itchy at the beginning and numb to it by the end! :)

The Tea ceremony begins and we all rested~

ah! Ling managed to drive up nxt to the bridal car! And guess what! Both the groom and bride were napping! poor things..

But still they winded down their window and took a few shots! :D

us resting back at janice's place before going back to ling's place to get ready for the night! and that is to be continued in the 2nd part cos i am very tired now! toodles!

Operating Theater 2 [Pt2]

2008-11-22T19:08:00.002+08:00

... After the diagnosis, i was dazed as i went through the procedures to admit myself into the hospital. I wasn't paying attention to where i was going, except just following instructions to go to whichever counter i was supposed to go. When asked to choose which ward i wanted, i just chose to 6 bedder. Throughout the process, my mind was in a blank and all i wanted to do was sleep and when the nurse finally came with a wheelchair to wheel me to the ward, i almost wanted to stop her and say "i can still walk." but, i didn't have the guts to. I just followed whatever they wanted me to do. When i reached my ward, i got scared and i wanted to change ward immediately! I felt scared and lost and alone in a room whose patients are all of a certain age. I really felt fear and uncomfortable and i decided to change to a 4 bedder ward. Call me a princess or whatever you like -- i just can't sleep in a room where things can happen any time. I'm afraid of death.

I was only transferred to the next ward an hour later and met my doctor in charge. She's a very nice lady who has a very kind smile and reassuring words. i Thank God once again for her! She explained everything to me very nicely. Another doctor came and took my blood and put me on drip again. i absolutely hate needles. I was reminded once again that i can't have food and drinks all the way till the operation -- i started regretting not eating in the morning. Actually, i wasn't even as hungry as i thought i should be. The evening went on after my mom and cousin left, i was left alone and i watched a little tv and chatted on the phone. I was finally too tired and slept at 9plus.

At 12.30, the nurse came and woke me up and said the operating theater called for me. I got up groggily and sat on the wheelchair as she wheeled me to the OT. Everything went by in a blur, partially cos i couldn't see without my lenses and also i willed myself not to think about the events that is to unfold. After "transporting" myself from the wheelchair to the bed, i started singing "You are my strength when I am weak, You are the treasure that I seek, You are my all in all..." in my heart. I've got no idea why, but whenever I'm scared, this is the one and only song that will come to me. Its DaddyGod's way of reassuring me that everything will be o.k~

Admist silent singing, i heard the nurses saying that they cant wheel me in to the OT cos my doctor hasn't signed the consent and i have to be wheeled in soon. They were pretty efficient and settled things quite fast and soon, i found myself at the room outside the OT. There, i was introduced to my anesthetist. He was pretty nice also but what he said prepared me for what i will experience when i awake from the anesthetist.

"...you will experience nausea, giddiness, sorethroat but all these will wear off in about 2 to 3 days."

Nurses started crowding around me, taking my BP, asking me for my full name and IC, look at the swell.. and i was wheeled into the OT. The OT was just like those OT you see on TV except it wasn't as dark. I waited for about 10 minutes inside as i overheard the nurses saying that the surgeon is still doing the operation for another patient. I lay there in almost nothingness and felt cold all over but the OT bed is so cool! They acutally have a heater beneath it! The room was so cold that even the anesthetist asked the nurse for a jacket. Soon, i heard the nurses say the surgeon is coming soon. Everyone seems to be on alert, they started sticking stuffs all over my body, which i suppose is linked up to the machine which tells my heart rate and all sorts of stuffs. My BP was constantly taken, and they put this rubber thimble thing on my right hand's index finger and put the oxygen mask over my nose.

".. you are breathing oxygen now. Breath normally...", the nurse said.

"i..can't..breath"

Anesthetist, "..you will feel a pain on your right arm..."

"Pain...p.a..i..n.."

and just like that, i slept...

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*URGHH*

*nurse came and removed the pipes from my mouth and throat*
"..the operation is over.."

"huh... i..cant..breath.. throat.....pain.."

I can't believe i actually slept through it all! I have no inkling what has happened except that my head was woozy, i couldn't breath properly and my throat hurt like crazy. Its definitely not so cool to go through the anesthetist. Till now, 5 days after the operation, i still experience difficulty breathing at certain times of the day. Having to go to the doctor daily to change dressing is definitely not fun either -- cos it hurts. And i get scared whenever i look at the hole. But nevertheless, the doctor said the hole is closing up, though very slowly but surely. I Thank God so much that He was there throughout and I knew it was because of Him that i was given the courage to go through every thing.

By His finished work on the cross, I'm already healed~ :)
iloveYou!

Operating Theater 2 [Pt1]

2008-11-21T03:56:00.002+08:00

... that was where i was wheeled into on Tuesday, 12.30am.

yeah so sudden! After all the hoo-ha's, screaming, phototakings, laughings, red wine-ing during Edwin & Janice's wedding on sunday (yes! I'm uploading soon!), i was admitted to the hospital on monday. I went to work in the morning to clear some stuffs but there was a swell under my right arm since Sunday. After clearing all those that needs clearing, went to see my company doc who straight away say i had to go A&E immediately. The doctors there will do a small cut to let out the discharge and i'll be out in a day. His words didn't comfort me, instead, it scared me and i felt a little emotionally unstable.

"A&E again? why does such stuffs always happen to me?"
(Note: was admitted once in 2004 cos of dengue. --)

that sentence just kept running through my mind. As the doctor wrote the letter and put it into a white crisp envelope, i asked him again "You mean, I've to go to A&E now??" He gave a small laugh and looked at me weirdly and said "Yes now, if not it will be fatal".

Now... doctors always exaggerate. Don't they?

But nevertheless, i was totally freaked out by him and all i wanted to do was cry. After confirming with my mom her whereabouts, we met to take a MRT to Changi GH. Yes.. CGH again. On the way over to the mrt, i asked God, "why is this happening again? its going to hurt alot! a cut leh..." I called my other emo partner, nikki, as i walked .. but i was quite unstable and i was afraid of bawling right in front of everyone, so the converation went pretty short. I was quite convinced everything would be alright and i was looking forward to a 2 days MC!

The Q at A&E was just as i remembered it 4years ago. Long and with alot of people who doesn't look quite as sick as i thought they should. Everyone looked fine, including me. I sat there alone as my mom had to accompany my cousin delia outside. (children weren't allowed inside) I sat there feeling hungry cos all i had for breakfast was hot chocolate and it was past 2pm. My mom was so sweet, she bought me a packet of magnolia milk and i drank it all up despite feeling choked up with emotions. It was the yummiest milk i drank!

After going through the nurse diagnosis to get a Q number, it was finally my turn to see the doctor. When i opened the door, i thank DaddyGod immediately it was a female doctor! She looked at the swell, went to get another female doctor for a second opinion. She too was also very kind and spoke words of comfort to me as she told me the news.

"i'm sorry dear. i think you have to be admitted to hospital. We will try to arrange an operation for you tonight. Don't worry ok? we'll just cut away the infected area and it will leave a hole, but we won't be sewing it up. Dear, it will be fine~ you'll be put to sleep and when you wake up the operation will be over..."

[tobecontinued...]

1 down and 1 more to go!

2008-11-14T00:05:00.003+08:00

Yes! Finally i've finished the jan's wedding slideshow!
Counting down 3 days to her newlywed days!

The entourage (us) = counting down to the sabo Edwin's gonna get and red wine at night! :D

Jan, hope u will like the slideshow!
Here's the cd cover i created specially for you guys:)

Old Casettes!

2008-10-24T10:06:00.003+08:00

GUESS WHAT I FOUND!
*excited!*

Some old casettes from the past!
Back in Secondary School, me and nikki usually hang out at her house and do some recordings!
Some were labelled with "SC" and some labelled "CY"!

I can't wait to listen to it!

and miraculously, it still works!
oh my! *rubs hands gleefully*

Cakebaking session!

2008-10-22T12:21:00.002+08:00

This session came about because i baked a cake for cindi's birthday in September! (oh yeah! i didn't blog about it..!) Anyways, ling asked if i could like coach her on baking a cake cos she wanted to bake one for her Met's b'day! So sweet! I didn't coach her much, just provided her my oven, some ingredients and the recipe. She's a natural baker! :)

This was a similar cake i baked for cin's bday. The starshape cake!

Pose Pose! Hardwork! i look so dishevelled!

We pose some more while...

... ling was hard at work with her cake!

Yeay Half Accomplished!

Finished! Ling decorated it all herself! Power rite!

Pose with her hardwork!

Putting the cake gently into the box...

Yeay! Mission Accomplished!!

Her bf is so blessed~ :)

Baby Avriel

2008-10-14T23:12:00.003+08:00

this is ages and im as slow as a snail :p

Congrats to Crepin for giving birth to Avriel on 27th August!

Ju and I rushed down during our 1 hour lunch break to see baby Avriel. Cos our office is kinda "messy" *roll eyes*, we could only have a quick look at baby, take a few pics and rush back to office again, in case... blah blah blah.

baby mousy (her nick given by crepin before her name Avriel was given), is really super duper cute! Even Crepin looks cute! Hehe! She looks so radiant, happy and glowing with the proudness of 2 beautiful princesses!

us and the pretty mommy who just gave birth!
she's glowing man!

baby mousy calling out for mommy!

She's a healthy baby! Thank God for her! :)

i like this picture cos its like advertisement! hehe

Family of 3 + Adriel who was at home at that point of time!

our hamper~ with baby minnie clothes leh!

Ju and sleepy avriel

my turn!

Weelll.. time sure passes really fast so within that one month, i finished the remaining knit stitches for the saartje baby booties for baby mousy! i had alot of difficulties with the stupid straps but with some help from knittinghelp.com, i managed to do a not so neat and correct strap but heck! It looks fine so im not caring! The colors are just wayy too sweet! i love it so much that i was reluctant to give it away but oh well, photos of it for memories sake will be suffice! anyways, we went for baby avriel's 1st month celebration at aranda country club~

so cute rite!

I packed it up myself! Packaging is veryyy important. hehe!

me and cin met up first to go have a new haircut!

i was pretty ok with mine but cin is very upset.

on the verge of tears.. aiyo.. u look good in the cut!

i loan her my sunglasses to hide her face. doesn't she look like jam tsiao? haha!

baby avriel! Ain't she the cutest?

she wearing my saartje bootie!! *excitedness*

~~Baby~~ Avriel! Grown up and running about now!

me and cin went cycling during that time too (no photos cos i was too busy enjoying the feeling of being able to cycle!) and i went back and ventured the stupid slope that made me experience the feeling of "flying" and scarred my right elbow! Heck! The slope wasnt as steep as i thought it was! I went down it without any qualms or problems! Totally enjoyed the breeze! *smirks proudly* :D i've mastered cycling!!!!

now i just gotta master how to turn properly and cycle without one hand.

hehe!

[More photos here!]

Addiction to Ramen

2008-09-23T17:43:00.005+08:00

I declare. I'm officially addicted to ramen!

I've eaten ramen for 3 days last week and I'm still craving for it still!
What's wrong with me? I can go broke if I continue this way!
But I can't blame them cos the ramen is wayy to yummy.

Every morning, i wake up to the imaginery taste of the ramen shio soup in my mouth.
Ramen is just so addictive to me now, I don't think I will ever get sick of it!
Especially the ni-tamago that comes with itt.. *slurps

I'm so addicted that I've become quite a master in creating ni-tamagos!

Actually, I think I'm very addicted to Japanese food.
The only Japanese food that i don't like is.... nothing!
nah.. i'm sure there's something i dislike but i just cant think of it at the mo.

Anyways, this is a very random post.
I just wanna rave about ramen..

RAMEN! RAMEN!! RAMEN!!! RAMEN!!!!!

I can be the spokesperson for ramen and get to eat ramen everyday!

yes. i super love ramen!

and for your info, i'm going to have ramen later! *i hope!*
No, actually in a few hourssss!

YES! *smiles*

i'm so sick. *bleahs*

最长的电影

2008-09-15T09:58:00.002+08:00

went ktv on sat with yen and lin. yen kept complaining about how long it was since she last sang K and said she didn't have any new songs to sing. ended up, i was the one who didn't have any new songs to sing and i don't even know most of the new songs they sang! now, who's backdated?

anyway, there was this song by jay and i think the mv is so nice! i probably might not like the mv in the future, but for now, i love the mv! so typical~~ fairytaleee~
and lin shared about how the girl in the mv is jay's current girlfriend but from what i read in the comments, it seems to be a rumour. aiya, all these taiwan entertainment news alot of rumour one. zz.. but mv is nice and thats all that matters now :D

Night Festival

2008-08-12T14:23:00.007+08:00

I'm on a blogging roll!

Just the other day.. err.. 25th July to be exact -- cin, yen & me went for this Night Festival @ the National Museum. We knew about this event from the hanging advertisements on the bus. Our initial plan was to go for this night festival, probably stay over cin's place and head out to sentosa for tanning session the next day. But yen had to work (i think).

Anyway, stupid yen was asleep in the evening so cin and me met up first for dinner while waiting for yen to get her ass over! We decided to go and makan something good so we decided to go try Tea Cosy @ Eclectic Attic Level 5, right next to Spotlight. Eclectic Attic is a vintage looking store which sells many different interesting and unique stuffs. Tea Cosy is a cafe located inside it and i must say, we weren't disappointed! :)

cool leh!

cin feeling cosy cosy

moi, getting the feel of how a tai-tai feels.

us, waiting for the food!

We decided to just splurge and ordered 1 set meal (mushroom soup, chicken skewer with rice, mango pudding), an ala-carte steak, their signature chocolate dessert (can't remember the name of it) and..... Foie Gras!

So exciting!

i'm a suaku cos its my first time having foie gras (pronounced as Fwah Grah not For-Ee Grass). Cin kept raving about how yummy foie gras is cos she had her first at Fullerton Hotel can! So xing fu... As we were waiting for the food to arrive, we saw another seat that looks interesting so we changed tables! And we regretted big time cos the seat was pretty uncomfortable.

Nice leh! the chair looks so fun and comfy but the table doesnt go with it though -- very uncomfortable.

FOIE GRAS!!

Getting ready to bite into the succulent foie gras!and i tell uuuu....! ITS VERY THE GOOD AH!VERY THE YUMMY! DIE DIE MUST TRY!AKU LOVE IT ALOT!ok, enough.

mushroom soup, creamy and thick! Very yummy and homemade feel!

me & my steak! added mushrooms! the whole platter is very yummy! Down to the salad! Everything is very very very yummy! the sauteed potato is damn good!

Cin's chicken skewer with rice! NICE too! Right down to the broccoli! Very yummy! *raves*

mango pudding -- this one abit disappointed.

their signature dessert -- VERY GOOD!!
All i can say is, overall, the food is good! 8/10!

3/4 way through our meal, cin had to go downstairs to meet yen cos she didn't know where PS carpark was, despite us telling her that its just going up the slope! Poor cin had to go down and up again and after finishing our dessert, we went to meet yen together at PS Carpark cos that charbor duno how to park her bike cos all the lots were taken. So we were there for quite sometime, analysing how should she park her bike so that the cars won't bang into her bike when they drove out.

Yen analysing where to park her bike. End up, people still pushed her bike one side. haha!

us cam-whoring while waiting for yen to decide where to park.

Finally! after an hour or so! we headed down to the national museum and the event was already underway! It was a refreshing sight to see the museum clad under different "clothes". Very pretty! Oh, and entrance to the museums that night was free! yahhoo! So we actually went in and got a little arty-farty!

PRETTY

:D

changed color!

us again~

cin very excited and yen very chee-ko-pek.

yen and her longlost family

Acting very melancholic. i think i cant make it. haha~ We even used eye-mo to fake tears.

yen very hungry cos she didnt eat dinner

She's protesting against us for not giving her dinner!bah. action.

haha, duno what to say

This is an exhibit where u move this 'mouse' and it goes over the whole of singapore and the sound changes cos it captures different sounds found in different parts of singapore. Eg. at chinatown, you'll be able to hear noisy hawkers and chinese opera. pretty interesting!

This weird contraption is actually those kinda needle things we played with when we were younger, able to imprint the shape of our palm! This is human size -- so we can imprint our body!
yen looks like she's very tortured. haha!

us imprinting ourselves! haha

Another weird contraption where u wave ur hands and the sensor detects your movements and the musical instruments starts to play!

hahaha! Funny Head Gear which had us laughing like really siao char bors! We were laughing so hard that when this angmor came to ask us "what are you guys experiencing?", we couldn't answer him and just kept laughing till our tears were free-flowing! Anyway, this head gear comes with a handphone where both of them can actually hear the surroundings of each other. Very amusing when we realise that the hearing device is due to this disc attached to the back of their heads, and i was screaming into each of it so that each of them can go deaf. haha~

old traditional satays~

smelling device~

TomYam Koong recipe! duh..

Leave u guys with this photo of the national museum! love this color the best~

We finally left the place at around 1am. My mom kept calling me home. zzz

the whole festival only ends at 2am! And there were still tons of pple still roaming around~

Overall, it was quite a fun and unique experience~ Healthy!!

[More Photos Here!]

Project Y 2008

2008-08-11T22:40:00.002+08:00

THIS IS SUPER DUPER BELATED!
like 1month plus late! Zzz..

We named this Project Y 2008!
It was a surprise gathering to celebrate ling's 25th birthday! yes, 25th! not 6th or 7th ok!

Act cute.

haha!

Anyway, me and eunice had a very big headache planning this! Ling first asked if we all wanted to go cycling and since her bday was nearing (her bday is 1st july and the day of the gathering was 21 June), we decided to celebrate her bday as well! Anyway, our initial plan was that eunice, her and i will go cycling in the noon and go lagoon for dinner after that with dot and janice. And while we are having dinner, we will pretend to bump into denise and elaine, who will drop by parkway before that to get the birthday cake! Anyway, the plan went that way and janice's 2 friends and edwin joined us too, and so did gerald. The pretending part was really hilarious and we really acted very well! :p but still, ling started getting suspicious when dot kept 'forcing' her to go toilet and she said it felt funny. haha~ alamak lah i tell u!

Anyway, the cycling was fun and butt-hurting!

We stopped by KC and took a few shots with the school -- the place where we were strangers .. to acquaintances and then to friends. :)

Now... old friends.

On our way~ weather's great!

stop for our 100plus, yummy & refreshing! Best!

our rented bicycles $4/hr - $6/hr. Got difference one ok! $6 one more comfortable, butt not so pain!

hair-tying time! haha!

ling decided to stop by and smell the flowers

i got angry cos she never ask me to smell the flowers too!

but what to do? we are old friends! and i am veryyy forgiving. *smirks

oh! NDP Rehersal. mari kita ra ya singapura... sama sama menuju. bahagiaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@ the 2nd jetty~ take pretty pretty photo with eunechan!

ling jealous so she decides to eat me!
i'm so horrified! Petrified! Stupefied! some more got wad 'fied'?

looks like a normal shot rite? haha! me and eunechan were pretending to see some funny videos (i think), but in actual fact, i was trying to get denise's phone number from her to arrange the surprise (i think).

finally we met up with the rest! FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

arrival of the pretentious -- den & el!

look, gei gei one lor. they know whats going on.

haha~ action! happy birthday to yewwww

quick! blow the candle before the strong wind blow it again.

the cake look abit like char siew rice. haha!

Girl's pic!

Group pic! We all look like ling's & gerald's children. haha!

see la, she forever jealous i take photo, den must spoil my photo.

ok la, *hugs*! Hope u liked the surprise and present we got for u!

Happy belated 25th birthday!
yes, must announce ur age to the whole world.

[More Photos Here!]

Singapore Flyer

2008-08-11T21:52:00.002+08:00

I went on the Singapore Flyer!

After the walk to HortPark, we went back to work till 4pm before heading back home and towards the flyer! It was part of the Company's Anniversary, so i bought the tickets at only $10, includes dinner and the ride. The dinner was horrible! But i guess the view at the flyer made up for it!

After everyone arrived, we went straight for the ride!

Our Programme Highlights

Getting Ready for...?

Look at the camera! *shashin!*

Here's the outcome! Superimposed! haha~

me&my daddy

mymommy&i -- forcing her to smile

oooh! its our turn... super nervous.

in the capsule!

family shot as the capsule moves upwards and my legs turned jelly

moving.. moving.. slowly...

1/4 way up! my mom's leg turned jelly too! haha! Turns out she got phobia of heights too!
Now i know where my phobia come from!

my turn! i backed really slowly and i was damn scared. my dad looks like popeye. haha!

the Lan Family~ :)

2 scared woman. hahaha! holding on for dear life.

Reaching the tip!

our turn next!

:)

at the tip! Its very freaky cos u aren't able to see any capsules in front or behind u!

me & juli's mom -- she very cute leh!

there~~~ *points*

haha forced smile again!! i asked my mom to stand up and take photo but she was too afraid!

the view is superb!

mans.. Adriel is one brave girl! Seeing her like that made me damn scared.

Adriel & my dad!

[More Photos here!]

Tired & Stinking

2008-08-07T11:36:00.002+08:00

I've got alot of things to blog about but i've been procrastinating like crazy cos i'm lazy.
im supposed to work now but...

zzz.

Anyways.

Just came back from office National Day Observance ceremony. We reached office at 8am and slowly made our way to the Observance cermony but we were late, so we missed the pledge and anthem but was in time for the mass workout which we didn't do. haha! We didn't want to go for the walk actually but we ended up walking. It took us about an hour to walk to HortPark -- and i got a bit freaked out in the beginning when we were at the bridge. No photos cos no cameras allowed in office. zzz. The bridge is pretty cool! we saw squirrels. good view~ but scary.

Photos all searched and taken from different users in flickr.com

All these winding paths!

SEE! Its high one lor!

Finally!

Look! The arch changes color at night! i wanna go again and take photos! After reaching HortPark, it was like a big garden. Somehow, it looks like a more sparse and subdued version of Singapore Garden Festival. Seems like a very cool place for picnic-ing! too bad we can't cycle on the arch.

Yes! Finally@HortPark!

"Recycled" Garden

See, they have such canopy's for u to picnic in!

me and ju crossed this bridge! haha!

There's scarecrows there too!

i saw this pavillion and i love it!

pretty leh.
There's way more photos but don't have the ones i wanna show u guys.
i must go back and take more photos again!

On a sidenote, do u all bloggers out there read blogger's blog?
They are so cute! and the way they wrote it, made me feel so honoured and loved by them!

Spam Fridays
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Ni-tamago oishii!

2008-07-25T13:07:00.004+08:00

I've been experimenting how to cook those kinda hard on the outside yet soft on the inside eggs! Missing those ramen tamago i ate at Japan! The only place i know in singapore that serves such eggs is MaruTama Ramen@ Central. Well, finally! I've found a recipe online here! Despite what the recipe says, it takes some experimenting though! For me, i chilled the eggs in just pure ice+water for about an hour to 2. And I don't peel it immediately -- i wait for it to turn to room temperature before peeling them, cos i realise that the whites sticks to the shell!

But nevertheless, my mom is happy with it!
She loves it! So do i! yummy oishii!

ooo~ looks yummy!

Look at the yummy yolk!

Tada~ atashi no ni tamago!
:)

I see Grace!

2008-07-18T16:30:00.001+08:00

Nik shared this video of the "future worship leader of NCC".
He is so cute and i had goosebumps all over!
Amazing the way he could sing to the song "I see Grace" with his hands lifted up!

Very cute!
I see Grace too! :)

He says, "I Am Who I Am",

2008-07-09T00:35:00.003+08:00

‘I Am Who I Am’
	Exodus 3:14 14And God said to Moses, “I am who I am.”…

Whatever your challenge is today, whether it is physical, emotional, financial or marital, the great I Am declares to you: “I am to you what you need Me to be.”

Do you need healing? He says, “I am the Lord who heals you. (Exodus 15:26) And as you believe Me, you will see your healing manifest thirty-fold, sixty-fold and a hundredfold.”

Are you groping in the dark, not knowing what to do? He says, “I am the light of the world. (John 8:12) When you walk in Me, you will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Are you looking for a way out of a bad situation? He says, “I am your deliverer. I will reach down from on high, take hold of you and draw you out of the deep waters.” (Psalm 18:2,16)

Are you wondering if there is more to life than merely existing from day to day? He says, “I am the resurrection and the life. (John 11:25) I came to give you life. And where there is life, there cannot be death. You will have life and life more abundantly.” (John 10:10)

Are you fearful of what is ahead of you? He says, “I am the good shepherd (John 10:11), who leads you to pastures of tender, green grass and waters of rest. You will not suffer lack.” (Psalm 23:1–3)

Are you confused by the opinions and reports of man? He says, “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. (Revelation 1:11) I have the final word in your life. The doctors do not have the final word. The experts do not have the final word. I have the first word and the last word in your situation.”

My friend, do not be fearful of the problems you face. The great I Am declares to you, “Fear not! For I am to you what you need Me to be!”

This is an extract from today's daily devotion and i guess it came in a very timely manner. Its 12.40am now and i intended to study throughout the night for my advance theory but singaporetests.com showed "Service Unavailable" straight after i tried out the 50qns and it showed i passed! Would it be His message to me? -- I hope! Anyhow, cos of the website being down, i went and to church website and read the daily devotion..

I Believe Year 2008 is the year of manifested blessings in my life.
Its the year when I've been from one roller coaster ride to another.
Its only the middle of the year and somehow I'm bursting to write my thoughts for the end of 2008! I can't say I'm happy or unhappy -- my mind's still in a whirl and i refuse to think anything but just sleep, rest and relax.

Yes, DaddyGod, you are the light of the world and will deliver me from all fears and false accusations. You are so unbelievable-ly good and You just keep pouring undeserved favor upon me. Your grace is so bountiful that I am so overwhelmed but i know that what you have given me now is not going to stop here. Its going to flow even much more! You showed me how it was like to be in the pits and wallow in depression and yet when my faith was little and I was angry at everything, You started to bless me again and showered me with Your great love. All because of the finished work that Jesus paid for at the cross, I became Your righteousness -- i threw tantrums, spouted vulgarities, being stubborn -- just being very human -- but all these are transformed because I am the righteousness of You!

I am the Child of the Lord most high!
NOW, who can be against me?

Nobody! You hear me! Daddy's on my side!
Hmph!

Janice & Us @ T3

2008-06-27T16:45:00.003+08:00

Sidenote: I’m so sian. I actually wrote like ¾ of the entry earlier on in Microsoft Words and I accidentally closed it without saving. I’m soooo clever. Now I’ve to rewrite everything!

We met up with Janice after her bridal photoshoot on one Thursday (12th July to be exact! Cos I marked it down on my calendar!) and she looked really really nice! It’s a rare chance that we get to see jan in her full makeup gear! – mascara, eyeliner, falsies~ whoa! Totally transformed! (to me at least! I think she looks different and really nice! J ) I was staring at her till a point that she said "can u stop staring at me? I feel weird!" haha! Sorry! And she was being her usual bitchy self but somehow, I never really associated her as a bitch *though she used to go around and call people bitches during the movie (The Ring)* till now! With her make up and all! She’s a total bitch!! HAHA! I then turned and told eunice that "wah! Now janice really looks like a true blue KC girl!" Obviously jan heard and said "what? Bitchy right!" haha~ so clever! Yes, on that day, you are a bitch and beautiful! On your wedding day, you’ll be a beautiful bitch. Hahaha! I’m so sorry! This post turns out to be so ‘bitchee’.

Anyways, back to the topic, we met at T3 for some photo taking for her wedding slideshow (yes, which will be done by yours truly – me!) and her cousins came along too! -- Jeslin (not sure if that’s’ how her name spelt) and edwin. So, we’ve got 2 edwin’s in our midst that day! So, me, ling and eune-chan had dinner @ Popeyes at T3 and the mashed potato was so yummy that it left me craving for it for days! Popeyes is definitely a healthier choice as compared to KFC. They should fry their chicken in olive oil, I confirm go back for more! (Olive oil is super beneficial to our body! Honest! Read here! http://www.whatsfordinner.net/article-olive-oil.html)

Anyway, enough talk, here are some of the photos!

[More Photos Here!]

L-R: Jeslin, Janice, Edwin and Edwin.

This 183cm tall edwin was thinking up poses~ He has really alot of ideas!

And this is the outcome! Haha!

nice~

i love this shot!

We made edwin smile widely~ haha

ooo.. very submissive wife and domineering husband!

Stares into space

thinking of future?

"OH! Did that person just stripped?"

Jumping shots~

:D

the whole groupie~

活该！ yuling wanted to spoil a shot that me and eunice was taking and she didn't expect me to just shoot! haha! see my "heh heh" face at the back. haha! She was "blinded" by the flash!

Finally~ a nice shot of us~ :D

Redang Island [Part 4]

2008-06-27T10:03:00.005+08:00

After Marine Park, we went back to the beach in front of our resort and decided to do some serious sun tanning! (obviously, it wasn't serious enough for me cos no one could detect my tan when i came back. saddd! Lin was the only one who encouraged me by saying i was a little tan. haha~) Oh, as there was another free snorkeling trip in the afternoon, we decided not to go and just hang around the beach to suntan and snorkel near our resort. Its finally time to really relax~~ We've been rushing from place to place the whole time we were there! And this time as we snorkeled near the resort, we remembered to bring the bread! And as we snorkeled this time, we saw clams! Stingray! and alot of other funny fishes~~~ [no photos though. sad!]

Suntanning time!!

whats this auntie gonna do with a blue towel...?

Transformed herself to a.......

TERRORIST FROM TALIBAN!!
See... she's one stupid terrorist. Announce to the whole world that she's one!Sure kena caught sooner or later one.

Our snorkeling area~

i absolutely love the sea~

People going scuba diving! Maybe should try it the next round!

i love love love love Redang!

A 自恋 picture is in order here! I'll never know when i'll be back!
And i look as if i got permed hair! Makes me look like my mom!

More More More Photos~~

Soon it was dinner time! We didn't take any photos during lunch cos we were abit late for lunch and not much food was left~ sad but true. Lesson to you guys, don't go for lunch too late! All the good food will be gone! Anywaysss, our last dinner @ the resort. Sad~~ and instead of rushing, we had a relaxing and leisure dinner where we just ate slowly and chatted~ we started sharing ghostly encounters and the verdicit? Lin's house is like super haunted la!! Freaky~~ You all should hear the story from her~~ brrrrrr *goosebumpy!* Till when one waiter came and asked if he could clear the plates, i actually jumped and gave a small scream! The waiter looked so apologetic! Hahaha! Did i mention before the staff at the resorts are all pretty friendly (except the concierge!) and this waiter just chatted with us~ and he's a spot on at age guessing! He guessed all our age correctly! Sadddd.. do i look old? :(

Out of all the dishes, the best food was the baked potatoes, corn and satay! YUM!

And so, its gai-gai time again~

We decided to go get some last night shots of More More Tea, do a little shopping and walkaround~ and decided to try out luck again at the ktv lounge. Sad to say, we still couldn't get a room, and we bumped out at singing at the hall again cos the group that was there last night.. was there again! And we only could sing like 1 or 2 songs again. saddd. And it was 'disco' (so retro.) again. And obviously, no one was on the dance floor.... but! This guy (probably in poly years or something) came out and tried to teach this young boy some breakdancing. He was pretty entertaining~ And soon, this guy from the resort came out and they seem to have a small breakdance challenge! But the guy from the resort backed away cos the poly guy was pretty strong~ Entertaining~~

Yen with a ~~oily face~~ healthy glow.

lin and me with an icecream. yum!

we're on top of the house looking~ down on creation and the only explaination we can find..is that yen is so short and she has bad photography skills. haha~

duno wads with her pose. doesn't seem very lovely.

wooo lovely! Heart Heart!

Poser

Hearty

:D

i dun care! I'm richie ren with 6 packs! HAHA

Sing Sing!

:D

Look @ yen's face! That's how she's like when she sings in ktv!

Us: last nite@ ktv

Since there's no more ktv, and no one's dancing, we decided to go back to our room and watch the "More More Tea" show right from the start till the end! Boring huh! haha~ not exactly, cos we didn't really watch the show cos we were busy taking photos and laughing!

Crazy People @ the untidy bed.

*grrr!*

r u done yet?

lin says yen looks as if she just got rape! HAHAHAHAHA!

huh?

yen's super untidy bed

spastic shot 1

spastic shot 2

Haha! This photo is of 2 of them jumping from the bed towards each other! Damn hilarious!

and lin kinda fell down cos she didn't wanna end up "kissing" yen. hahaha!!

And so, after a crazy last night @ our resort room, we fell asleep and woke up to another bright and sunny day @ Redang (it never seems to rain!) and we checked-out from our room and headed for breakfast cos our boat leaves at 9.30am. or was it 10am?

Our breakfast~ looks yummy rite? i love the cereal~ cheapo! haha~

Look @ yen face! hahaha~ the sun was too bright~

The Recreation Centre - place where we book our snorkeling equipments, bought our photos and people playing cards and mahjong~

Waiting for the boat

Sadness

And this charbor fell asleep. Sleeping beast.

i like this shot, not cos of the object but cos of the sun ray!

And that, ends our Redang Trip with another 12hours ride back home to Singapore.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[MORE PHOTOS HERE!]

Redang Island [Part 3]

2008-06-23T11:33:00.003+08:00

The weather was really great! I've this picture to vouch for it!

Blue sky, Blue clear sea, white sands, sunny sun ~ what more can i ask for?

After the short snorkeling trip we had, i felt it was way too short and i wanted more! The uncle offered to bring us out snorkeling later where he said we can see more sharks! woooo~ scary and exciting! He told us to meet him out front at the More More Tea Inn. And that's what we did, but we waited for close to 30mins and we couldn't take it any longer and the 3 of us just plunged into the sea first. Obviously we didn't go too far cos the area was barricaded for our safety and as beginners, we kept to the boundaries. The uncle came soon after and he brought another 2 friends along! Ok, it was a mixture of feelings, like wow, he's so kind but is there another ulterior motive? I sent up a quick prayer to DaddyGod and all these thoughts vanished and i had a great time snorkeling! Cos i saw 2 sharks and a sea turtle! I was so excited when i saw the turtle and the way it swam .. so gracefully.. i was totally mesmerized by its actions!

Taken from Flickr.com

We snorkeled for a really long time out into the sea and made a round to the jetty. Think it took us probably more than an hour. The sea water was pretty cold at certain parts and you could see how the color of the sea changed from light blue to dark blue as we went further. By then, i was having a slight headache which developed into a full fledged throbbing headache with a very horrible nausea sensation. All these developed cos of the choppy waves in the sea and cos we were snorkeling and the amount of sea salt in the air we breathed in through our mouth was very high, i couldn't help feeling a dry and salty taste in my mouth and it made me feel very horrible. And it doesn't help when i had some mouthfuls of the sea water in my mouth when i dipped by head too deep into the water, trying to see some of the fishes, and the water just went straight into my 'pipe' and i swallowed it.

All in all, i was sea sick.

The feeling was horrible and i tried to 'tahan' till a point when i can 'tahan' no longer and i made a request to the uncle that i wanted to go back cos i feel like puking. He then said we were reaching and i felt so relieved! He was really kind and told me that i need not paddle and he'll just pull me throughout cos he have flippers. And finally, when we reached the jetty, and we were sitting at the boat to rest, we started comparing!

Me, "I saw 2 sharks! Did u see the turtle?"
Yen, "I saw 3 sharks!"
Uncle, shaking his head at me, "we saw 3."
Me, "oh."

As we walked back to the resort, my head throbbed like crazy and i really felt horrible. I developed a very very very serious case of snorkeling phobia that night. When i looked out into the sea, it was pretty but i can't help feeling really sick and i can't imagine snorkeling again the next day. The 3 of us were complaining how we overdid it and all had headaches.

We had dinner soon after we washed up and rested a little. Dinner was served at 7pm all the way till 9pm i think? or was it 10pm? Food was the normal spread and i was sad that they didn't have beef rendang.

The night was still young so we went around walking and taking photos! The whole place was swarmed with humans! And so we decided to go for KTV but the rooms were fully booked and only the hall was available and there was already people singing. And boy.. those people really chose a lot of songs that we only got to sing 2 songs. -_-

More More Tea@ Night

The lighted bridge that leads us to another resort.
It's really pretty~

Someone brought firecrackers there to play and so we had a short fireworks viewing session!

One of the 'discos' that was empty and had children dancing.Very family entertaining~

At the KTV hall. We were pooped!
That.. is the finale of my Day1 Night1 @ Redang!

Next day, we woke up refreshed and at 7am plus in the morning to have breakfast at 8plus before changing to our snorkeling gear and head to the jetty again for snorkeling at 9am. It wasn't easy to get out of bed cos i felt very tired, but i was really glad that the headache was gone and so was my phobia! I was raring to go snorkeling again! Especially after lin said that the place we were going to snorkel -- Marine Park -- is very beautiful!

Breakfast was normal and im thankful they had cereals and pancakes! I'm not a huge fan of porridge but lin said it was pretty yummy. And so, we were in full gear and ready for another round of snorkeling! This time, i decided to risk it and brought my camera along! Now i'm a happy girl cos i can snap! snap! snap!

After breakfast and outside our room door, waiting for yen to open cos she's pooping inside!

Yen putting on her snorkeling gear..

.. and is transformed into a terrorist!

I like the goggles cos it really helps me to see well underwater!And we had to spit inside the goggles though to prevent it from fogging. eeew.

Bon Voyage~~ Snorkeling desu!

Waiting for the briefing.

On the boat ~

Everyone's ready!

Off we go!

As we were on our way and i was marvelling at DaddyGod's creation and how beautiful every is, a thought dawned on me. The crystal clear sea water i was seeing now robbed many lives during the tsunami that hit various areas years ago. Causing lots of bloated bodies floating around, saddness to many families and all the nations. How could something so pretty be so deadly? And that was when I saw a faint rainbow among the white splashes! It seemed as if DaddyGod was reminding me of the Noah's Ark where such curses will not befall us -- the new creation! We are made righteous in God because of Jesus' finished work at the cross! ^^

And so.. we've reached the marine park!

As there was only one small jetty, our boat had to wait in line before we could disembark and embark on our snorkeling! I was so excited that i was contemplating if we could just jump off the boat and snorkel! Haha~

Our 3rd round of snorkeling!

LET'S GO!

Beautiful~

Getting Ready to Go!

Guess who! Auntie yennn

Lin & Yen~ go go go!

Whilst snorkeling, we suddenly remembered that we forgot to bring the bread to feed the fishes!!!! DANG! It was so irritating when we see everyone happily feeding the fishes and the fishes eating straight out of their hands! And as i snorkeled, i realised that there were some bread floating around, going un-noticed by those fishes, so i just quickly grabbed them and shared it with lin and yen and we fed the fishes! It was pretty scary at first when all the fishes came and nibbled on the bread and as i reached out to touch them, they all swam away! But i did get to touch a few~ The feeling? Err.. feels like fish lor .. those you see in the wet market. So.. i've learnt, i tried lingering around those people feeding the fish and grabbed whatever bread they fed the fish and use the bread the hand-feed the fish. haha!

Marine Park is a very good place to snorkel cos i didn't have any of those sea-sick symptoms cos the waves weren't strong. And there were loads of fishes! Yen even saw a puffer fish! sad, i couldn't see it but i saw a really bright pink fish! Pretty~ Once again, i was sad that i didn't have underwater camera casing. So we went to the area the guide told us if we wanted to take photos underwater.. obviously, at a price! So we went and took some! It was pretty funny cos we had to Q and when they say, "1, 2, 3! ", they'll push our whole body underwater for the shot! We couldn't dive in cos we were wearing life-jackets and we didn't really thought of taking it out. Hmm.. So here are our paid underwater shots! Very funny! You can view more of it at my multiply album which will be out soon~

That's me~

YEN! hahaha! I can't help but laugh till my tummy aches!
Her mouth is exactly that of the fish!

WAHAHAHAHA!
Yen again! So pretty la u, still must act as flower!
*sidenote: all the poses in the photos are actually asked for by the photographer*

lin~ smile~~

us being pushed once again~
yen looks as if she's going, "noooooooo!"

Up from the water at last~

TObCONTINUED!

Redang Island [Part 2]

2008-06-18T12:22:00.006+08:00

Finally we saw the jetty and we quickly went back in to the cabin to collect our stuffs and prepare to disembark! The time was 10am and the weather was superb! The first thing we saw when we disembarked was a bunch of people wearing the life jacket and each was armed with their snorkeling equipment. They were having a briefing session by the guy in charge and he was explaining some stuffs about not wearing flippers and stepping on the corals -- and he made the "phish! Phish! Phish!" sound. I was amused as i stared at them and we were ushered onto this tram which was quite cramped. We were then greeted by this lady and guy who welcomed us to Paradise! (i thought i was dead or something. The word paradise is no longer the same as i grow older. haha!) I stood up and tried to take a photo of her and she was really cute and posed for me! Laguna Redang is really blessed to have her as the welcome party -- she's really good at her job! Friendly, warm, welcoming -- overall, i had a very good first impression of the resort!

Selamat Datang! Yes~ I'm here!

Look at the horde of people going snorkeling!

Our friendly Welcoming Party

Us in the tram -- going towards our Paradise!

And so... we've reached! And we were further welcomed with a welcome drink! The Laguna people is really doing their best at 'welcoming' us! haha~ As lin checked in, i was bowled over by the beautiful sea~ totally and absolutely mesmerised. We had to wait to get our key to our room cos' its not done up yet and they said that it will probably be ready latest around 2pm. They said we could probably enjoy the beach, get a little suntan before going for our lunch at 12pm and sooo.. we decided to go to the beach and take photos and enjoy everything!

The first glimpse i had of the famous "More More Tea Inn" from the tram.
It was apparently right smack next to our resort.

The guy armed with a trayload of welcome drinks.
Lime + Sour plum!

Our itinerary! Pretty much the same as what is written there!

Welcome Welcome! :D

Finally as i stepped my first step onto the sand, i was marvelled at how soft it felt! Sentosa's sand is wayyy to coarse, only those at Palawan Beach (?), the one that was imported was similar to how the sand feels at Redang! Our first destination was to go to the More More Inn -- which is now transformed to a shop that sells necessities to get our sun tan lotion! Photos weren't allowed inside but i managed to quietly and quickly grab a shot of lin in the big hat!

Fine, soft and beautiful! I meant the sand, not my leg. haha~

More More Tea Inn doesn't sell tea, so i guess should be called No More Tea Inn!

Walk walk walk~ shop shop shop!

Apparently, almost all of the shops there have this "shoes off please" sign.
Think they do not want people to track sand into the shop.

*smile* can see yen laughing behind. haha~ cos she kept saying lin look like chen liping!

And so we stepped out from the shop and into... Paradise!!

This series of photos starting from here is super duper pretty! The color you see here is exactly what you will see in Redang! Don't believe me? Sit the 12 hours ride to Redang and you'll know it!

Are you ready?

Steps leading to a bridge that will lead us to another resort~

Look how clear the water is! Its like a humongous swimming pool!

Splish! Splash!

Our Laguna Redang Resort! How cool it is to walk out of the resort and onto the beach yea!

I'm excited, happy and glad!

A seashell i spotted on the sand. Kinda resembles some part of the human body. oops.

3 big foot on soft and wet sand.

Occasional waves~

Gazing out into nothingness

Paradise!

Deck Chairs

The swimming pool

As it was still early, we sat at the deck chairs and rested before we went for our lunch at 12pm. We were the first one to Q and hopefully we weren't the one who started the Q! Cos soon after we hanged around the restaurant, a bunch of people started Q-ing behind us. oops. Anyway, the tables was given in quite an orderly manner. We were assigned to a table number so there wasn't any need to book a place~ So the first place we chiong to was the buffet spread! It was a pretty sumptuous spread considering how hungry we were, especially yen cos she didn't have breakfast. We were like hungry ghost roving around the buffet!

They had Pasta, Fried Noodles, Roast Beef, Asam Laksa, Salad Bar etc etc. The Beef Rendang was damn good! After such a filling lunch, some photos taking, we headed to the lobby again to ask if our room was ready. Time was around 12.45. They said it wasn't ready yet and told to check back later. To cut the long story short, we got really frustrated and pissed as we asked countless times for our room and we see people going to their rooms happily and we were still stuck at the lobby! We slept and we woke up and ask, and we slept again and we woke up. It was a horrible wait and i was really very pissed off by then. By the time our room was ready, it was already 2.20pm! -_-"" But i tried not to let it spoil my mood, afterall im on a holiday man! And so we rushed to our rooms, had a quick change to our snorkeling gear cos we had to be at the jetty 10mins earlier for the briefing and that is 2.50pm! Sad to say, no photos were taken during our 1st trip cos i was afraid that my camera would be stolen or something. It was sad~ And off we went for our snorkeling trip and i immediately regretted not bringing my camera when i saw almost everyone armed with a camera -- be it underwater or non-underwater!! DANG! and you know what? We met that uncle again and sat his boat out to snorkel! If i brought my camera, i could have put it in his cabin! Enough! I've decided to bring my camera out the next snorkeling trip!

We took a 10 - 15mins ride to an area to snorkel and all the boats had to be tied together before we can go into the sea. I was shaking on the inside -- from nervousness and excitement! As we climbed from boat to boat, everyone started jumping in and soon, lin and yen were in! I hesitated for a moment, checked to ensure all my equipments are ready before slipping myself gently and slowly into the sea! And *POOF*! I was engulfed by the water and my nose was stinging from the sea water that shot up my nose! I started coughing like crazy and ultimately, i was shocked! The sea water was apparently VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY SALTISH! Its HORRIBLE! I just kept coughing nonstop and the boat uncle who also jumped in was laughing at me! hmph.. I got used to it pretty soon and when i looked in to the sea.. i was overwhelmed and scared! There were alot of FISHES! I'm not exactly a fan of fishes and i was afraid they will 'attack' me or something but frankly, the fishes were more afraid of me! Haha~ The boat uncle than approached us and brought us snorkeling around. Snorkeling is really fun! We saw many different types of fishes -- flat, long, short, fat, long nose, big mouth, small eyes~ all kinds! Most of the corals there are dead so it was quite sad.. and the uncle dived in and brought this disgusting black thing known as the sea cucumber! We had a touch of it and held that thing in our hands and it was really disgusting! Ohohoh!! And we managed to catch a glimpse of a BABY SHARK!!!!!!

These photos are taken from a search i did in flickr cos i didn't have an underwater camera to take them. And these are really pictures of those we see underwater! Just as it it!

Look~ This was the first sight i was greeted was when i dunked my head underwater!

They call this the "christmas Tree worm". I wonder why it is a worm! But when u actually touch them, they just close up! Kinda like mimosa! And it comes in quite a few colors like red and blue too~

The shark! This was exactly how it looked like! But i think the one i saw was smaller.

Long mouth fish! We saw another one that had a sharp mouth!

I don't care! I'm going to get an underwater camera after seeing all these photos! I want i want i want! My birthday is like..ermm... 4 months away.. so.. you guys know la.. my camera is Canon Ixus 860IS. Thank you so much!! :D *btw, i'm serious about this!*

TO BE CONTINUED!

Redang Island [Part I]

2008-06-09T17:33:00.008+08:00

Redang: Re - dang. Not Rendang, beef rendang, mutton rendang... -_-

This must be the most pre-action packed trip i've ever gone on!
But finally, we still went for the trip though without cin.
Sad but i guess not much choices was given to us..

but hey cin, nxt time if there's a chance, we'll go again together k~ =)

The day started off at 9am plus for me cos i had to go for my cousin's Tea Ceremony/Wedding and goodness gracious, i only reached home around 6pm and i slept till 8pm! our bus is at 1030pm and i've not packed my bags yet. But packing was done fairly quickly cos we were only going for a few days. And so the journey began~~

@Konsortium, getting our tickets and all.

Waiting to take our bus -- Ready to sleep faces.

Our sleeping abode for the night.

Stopover @ Yong Peng for supper.

The Yong Tau Foo noodles.

Crapping & Waiting to go up to coach.

Changed to specs -- sleeping time!
dan roars, "SLEEP now!" lin,"okok".
Finally... lights out! I brought along this novel i bought recently by Alexandra Potter "Be careful what you wish for" and i wanted to read it in the bus but there wasn't any light available so i had no choice but to just try and sleep. And i really slept! By the time i woke up, it was dawn!

Dawn

Half awake and half asleep. Look at my eyebags and blotchy face. =_=
After 9 hours of bus ride, we finally reached the long awaited Merang Jetty -- tired and excited. Lin did the check-in for us and we ate the bao we bought at yong peng for breakfast. We sat there zombie-fied and i swopped my specs to contact lens again -- cos its time to play once we step foot in Redang!

Who's this sleepy auntie-looking figure?

Small shopping area at the Jetty.

Our resort's Jetty

One of the other jetty, seems quite flimsy~ So scary!

Us and our breakfast bao!

So finally, its time for boarding!! So exciting~ And there was this uncle who seemed quite nice and friendly, (i'll elaborate more about him later) who told us to wait and let the people board the boat first because he wanted to let us sit at the "VIP" area! And boy were we excited! Like a bunch of small kids, we were practically hopping inside and taking photos and playing with the steering wheel! The uncle came up and after some initial introductions.. Finally, we were off~~

Mimicking yen's smile -- think lin did the best imitation!

Whilst waiting for the rest to board the boat.

Excited~ haven't even learn driving, can now learn to steer the boat!

Is the boat moving? is it? is it??

Finally, after the excitement of steering the boat wore off, we started to settle down and i took out my novel to read -- the uncle suddenly asked if we would like to go out and enjoy the ride! He then opened this small door near the steering and we were so excited like small kids! Kept laughing and smiling and going "wow cool"! The breeze outside was great and the sun was awesome! It was the life~ looking out at the sea, smelling the slight salty sea breeze, occassionally seeing a few small islands and enjoying the comfortable heat emiting from the sun~ I was drinking in the sight and feel as much as I could!

Excited beyond words!

Yes, as you can see, yen is very excited!

Happy @ how blessed we are~

Yen is damn hungry cos she didn't eat the bao for breakfast.

i'm glad i brought my sunglasses along!

one of the small islands.
The uncle came out and joined us after awhile when one of the other crew member took over. He started doing a series of actions and we tried it out too~ think it was supposed to help us enjoy the breeze or something better?! Well, we started chatting and comparing our skin tone and it made me realise how white i am! I can actually act as a reflector! -_-

Me doing one of the pose that the uncle taught.

one word. WHITE.

yeah yeah we know u are very strong and full of muscles yen.

cool~~ seeing all these made me really even more excited!

Look! The color of the sea started changing to a lighter blue!
Finally, after about an hour's of boat ride, we finally reached Redang!
To be continued!

All I need is Your love

2008-06-06T12:55:00.002+08:00

DaddyGod is really good!

Its really amazing the way He makes use of situations around me to help me realise certain stuffs and to count my blessings and Thank Him for it!

I must say, every sunday, I've always heard of how Pastor Prince's message is blessing alot of people, even those angmor's who are overseas. I know I am blessed too but you know, its more of the word "blessed" instead of really "feeling blessed". As I get through the week, i always take Daddy's blessings for granted, just like how i take Pastor Prince's message for granted -- sometimes listening.. and sometimes not. *oops* But sometimes when i see how some christians struggle to be righteous and please God by giving, fasting, religiously reading the bible everyday etc, i really feel a sense of irritation. Not because they are trying to please God and i'm not, so i won't get God's favour. No! I feel irritated cos it reminded me of the past when i go all the way out to wanting to do right so that God will bless me. I've never thought of how Jesus had already paid for everything on the cross and that i'm already made righteous in God because of Jesus! I feel this is a very important message to know -- the importance and what has already been done on the cross. And obviously, that doesn't go to show that because we are already made righteous, we have to right to go and sin! Don't be like those pharisees. Its when we know of and feel God's love, our mind is automatically renewed and we will change to be christ-like because of DaddyGod's grace!

I remember how suppressed and pressured i was in the past when i was told that i have to do this, i have to do that because its righteously correct. When God created Adam, He asked him to eat from the tree of life and not the tree with the knowledge of good and evil. Right and wrong is very subjective and many a times, it is a grey area. During those times, i often lamented on how difficult it is to walk with God because there are many restrictions and things that i have to do. That is all before i came ncc (wah. machiam like advertisement.) which is true! I feel so loved here, because Pastor often preach all about Jesus and how much He love us and the song "So blessed! I can't contain it! So much I gotta give it away!" just comes to my mind.

Well, all in all, i must say, i love the message i'm listening to now.
I'm so glad I'm no longer bounded!
And the walk with Daddy is so much more full of faith and love!

Because all i need is DaddyGod's Love! :)

Cousin Cindy's Wedding

2008-06-04T14:45:00.005+08:00

Woke up reluctantly at 9am to get ready to go for Cousin Cindy's Tea Ceremony in the early noon. She arrived around 11.30 and i was pretty stunned to see her in a long flowy white dress -- she looked so pretty and demure that day! She is usually donned in t-shirt and shorts with a sporty and glowy tan. I'm not particularly close to her but she's one of the nicest cousin from my dad's side. I remember the time when i had dengue and had to stay in the hospital -- feeling miserable and all.. and she dropped by for a visit! -- with a yellow ducky foam toy (for me to cuddle when i feel lonely at night -- she says!), some reader digests and the sweetest prayer! She's really a sweet cousin who stayed and talked to me and i was really touched by her gesture. Seeing her getting married that day was a really unspeakable feeling. When she walked into the house and how my aunt hugged her with tears of joy, it made me feel like tearing too.

Aunt hugging Cindy -- the picture says it all.

2 cousins~ both are DaddyGod's dearest daughters too!

My dad was crapping again as usual. can tell my aunt wanna roll eyes. haha!

The flower bouquet with pearls. Prettyy

T-Ceremony

Part of the family. Seeee~ i'm as tall as my dad! That's cos i was tiptoeing and my dad was supporting me from behind. haha!

Cousin Cindy even looked around the house and smiled at everyone. She looked so happy in her wedding dress (...25minutes too late. choy!) Almost every shot i had of her had a big smile plastered all over her face. Uncle John came too -- he is this really cute uncle who married an Australian and stays there. He usually flies to Singapore during chinese new year. Heard from my dad that this time, cindy paid his airtickets to get him to come specially for her wedding. He still uses the old film camera~~ and brought along his wedding photos from the past! so cute!

Uncle John acting as a lion and aunt taking photo of him with his "antique" camera. haha!

I went into Cindy's room and noticed this wall scrapbook thing -- upon closer look, it featured small notes about them -- cindy and her timothy. It was really sweet and have a romantic feel to it so i took photo shots of it! So swweettt!

The wall in her room filled with the photos of their journey.

So sweett.

I like the captions!

:)

The pretty bride.

After the tea ceremony, we went to this church along Siglap for the church wedding. Books and tv always says how romantic and soppy a church wedding can be -- i've always thought it was all bull shit and must be some kinda angmor thing. BUT, seriously, i teared like really alot of times throughout the whole ceremony that i was so afraid my eyeliner will run and i'll look like the panda specially flown to beijing for the olympics. *bleahs* Anyway, back to topic, the wedding was really romantic, and it started withpraise and worship and one of the songs sang was "牵我的手" in hokkien "Kang gua eh qiu" -- hold my hand. My mom was more excited than me when they played that song cos she knows how to sing a little! During the chorus part, her voice was pretty loud! haha~ and miraculously, i heard my dad singing it too! I sent up a silent thank you to Jesus once again to be able to worship Him together with my parents :)

The 'gong zai' they made of themselves.

Her this evening gown is sooo pretty!

I like this the besttt!

The grand entrance of the bride and her dad -- my uncle/my dad's eldest bro.

Pretty

Praise and Worship Session.

The pastor then started sharing a little about this couple, then a slideshow of how they met -- oh so cute! little details like when they held hands and all -- and he continued on to share abit about the gospel etc etc. The vows were exchanged with the famous "I do" and the pastor says "I now pronounce you Husband and Wife" and Timothy gave a "yes!" sign. :D

"Yes I do", says the bride.

Touched and Cindy teared. Timothy assured us everything is fine. hehe.

And so.. it came to the part that everyone was waiting for -- says the Pastor. "... you may lift the veil and kiss the bride"! And that's what Timothy did :)

Lift the veil...

... Looks to ensure it is the real bride...

.. kiss the bride! ...

Smiles Happily ever After!

It reminded me a little of Proposal Daisakusen (Japanese Drama) when they sat there watching the slideshow and how there were muffles of laughter errupting at some of the photo captions. :)

ProDai setting, except not much flowers~

"I Pronounce you Mr and Mrs Timothy Tan (?)!" says the Pastor.

Welcome back! :)

When the couple started saying their thank you's to their parents, though cliche but heart warming and touching. It was such a tear jerker that i think everyone was tearing. Especially when it came to cindy, she couldn't talk for a long time because she was trying to hold back her tears. Her speech on how her dad moulded her to be what she is today and all was so sweet -- you just have to be there to experience it. As we walked out and down, my dad put his hands over my shoulder and asked, 'did you cry?'. I said "yeah. you?". He said "yeah of course. i've carried cindy ever since she was young.." It was a sentimental moment.

Finally it was celebration and food time! They had a small band playing classical music, a balloon sculpting corner, a photo taking corner, even events like salsa dancing and beat boxing by their friends. So sweet~ Timothy said that usually weddings are just dinner and byebye but he wanted it to be a celebration like in those areas where the whole village comes together and celebrate the whole day. A very sweet notion by him and i guess this is one unforgettable wedding! They have a wedding dinner the next night but i wasn't able to attend cos i was going to Redang. (The pictures of beautiful Redang will be up soon!)

Before i left, i said my congrats and goodbyes to cindy and she thanked me for coming with her super sunny smile and asked me to treasure my dad. :) yes i will !

[More Photos Here...]

Lin's Bday

2008-05-28T11:31:00.003+08:00

Told you its a birthday month!
Hehe! Before i go into anything...

Happy Birthday! ^^

Out of all the birthdays, i must say this is one of the most stressed and highly-anticipated birthday cos the birthday girl expects a surprise! *why does it sound so familiar?* And as most surprises, it didn't fall through as smoothly as we liked but hey -- it was the effort and sweat that we had which made kailin touched! i know she is touched. u are touched rite? haha!

This is a super long story but to cut it real short, all i can say is we had a tough time buying present despite knowing what to buy. Lin have already been hinting -- or should i say -- telling! us what to buy (a wallet) and when to celebrate her birthday(24th May, Saturday) and even what cake she wants (Chocz Chocolate Cake)! So me and cin met up on friday and walked the whole of Orchard and we couldn't find any decent looking wallets around! And by the time we found one at CK Tang, it was already 9pm plus and it was the last piece. The SA then told us we could try other outlets such as Isetan or Paragon Metro to see if they have stock, so me and cin ran all the way to Paragon -- Alas! Metro has closed. So we rushed all the way to Isetan@Wisma and it was also closed. And throughout the whole present searching process, cin was having a sms discussion with everybody involved! rong, ling and big guy and even lin herself. yen is practically non-existent -- always not involved, just apppear only! hmph. Anyway, we decided to meet up again the next day to go Bugis and see if they have the wallet and sadly, the next day, we couldn't find it in Bugis, not even OG! And we had to take a bus back to Orchard again! and took wrong bus somemore! yanling lorrr.. bus 64.. haha! At Orchard, we tried DFS --> Shaw Isetan --> and back to CK Tang! Walau.. and that's when the senior assistant told us that she thinks other outlets doesn't carry this model anymore cos even for Tangs, only 2 pieces came in! Hohoho... Merry-Go-Round and round and round and round!

Finally, we were late for the meet up and lin suspected but we finally went through the whole celebration at 2 places. Shokudo for dinner and celebration @ Stadium Cove. Before yen arrived, i told lin that yen is going to join us for dinner only cos she's meeting her friend later (its a lie but though lin was suspecting, she believed it cos yen is forever abandoning us and meeting her bad friends.) and i also told her i've to go home early cos my dad won't be home and he asked me to do so. (which is half-truth, except that it was for the past 2 days and i usually won't heed my dad's advice.. hah!)

H.O.S.T posing with the Shokudo card. Machiam like advertisment like that!

Come Come! Last EAT! 来来！吃了啊！

yen still hungry. wanna eat people's fingers. CANNIBAL

Yummilicious waffles! i love it!

"No! Cin! Don't take my waffle!!"

yen, lin and ling -- satiated!

Wah cin so sweet ah! Gei Gei. haha!

SEE. Auntie in ACTION

All of us~

Anyway, the food at shokudo was pretty yummy i think, cos all i had was my pasta and salmon and a little of lirong's rosti. That was all my teeth could handle. Oh and how can i forget the waffles? Its so yummy! i think i fell in love with it! Waffle+maple syrup+butter w/o ice-cream = $2.80. With ice-cream= $5.80. YUMMY la!

Attitude faces -- machiam pple owe u 'Jik bah Pan" with one smiley ling behind!

So who looks more attitude?

Toilet also must take photo.

So our plan started around 8plus where me and yen "left" and rushed to Stadium to meet big guy -- he went there earlier first to get the chocz cake -- and we proceeded to the area near the bridge.

We met Weilun and we started preparing the cake when we saw them approaching!

The Chocz cake. Pretty eh! Got chocolate balls somemore!

Soon, the rest with lin managed to get her to go to Kallang Leisure Park on the context of singing ktv cos they have special opening promotion there (which is also a lie.) and that's when lin highly suspected that me and yen was preparing a surprise for her at the ktv, but little did she know that it was actually at the bridge! She was trying to hurry them to the ktv cos she can't wait for the surprise she thought we would throw her!

Finally they arrived!

Happy lin!

Happy Birthday to Youuuuu! *blows*

Afraid of the sparkles and poppers we kept popping!

Lin and Weilun -- happy!

CLASSIC PHOTO! Seeee~~ So Auntie. haha!

So, our surprise is half 成功！additional 15% of the success goes to the poppers and sparklers we bought! ^^

It sure was a fun night!
And finally, we could relax! ^^

More Photos Here!

Rushed Wednesday & Eunechan's Bday

2008-05-27T10:15:00.005+08:00

Birthdays Birthdays and more Birthdays!
Whoa~ The month of May sure is a Birthday month!

This time, we had a small surprise birthday dinner for eune-chan! She was unsuspecting so the surprise was carried out easily~ She thought it would be just a normal and simple dinner on her birthday so it was really fun and happy to see her shocked expression and her ongoing "you guys are so sneakkkyyy!!" The story goes like this!

Date: Wednesday, 21st May 2008
Time: 1500 hrs
Weather: Hot

*machiam like writing report. haha.* Anyways...
It was a real busy day for me! I have to lament it all here right from the beginning. I had dental appointment at 3pm that day and u-know-who-in-office asked me to do some last minute edits so i only managed to leave office around 2.50pm. I rushed down in cab and was stuck in an un-expected stupid jam along CTE. The weather was so hot and sunny and i felt so lethargic that after awhile of sms with eunice, i fell asleep in the cab. The cab fare ran up to about $15+. *groans* I only managed to reach the clinic around 3.30 and i started to panic cos i've got my advanced theory e-trial test at 4.15! Yes yes, i was being ambitious and planned everything so close to each other. Anyway, Dr Ang was quite chatty that day and 'taught' me on how tar-tar is formed by drawing mind maps -_-". But he said my brushing improved! *little did he know that i actually bought this mini brush from Daiso and tried to brush away most of the built-up tar tar before going for this dental appointment. haha* So, after commenting on how me being a 'youngster' -- who seem so tired and can't cycle properly (cos he saw the wound on my elbow), he proceeded to tighten my braces, this time, he used this rubbery thing first before putting the wire back in. He call the rubbery thing -- "power chain". Sounds so powerful la! I was making alot of noise cos it felt very tight and he said this will be really tight because he wants to close up all the gaps in my teeth first. *groans* super tight like crazy.

Anyway, straight after that, i paid S$500 out of my own pocket (sad, cos my mom didn't go with me. usually she pays for it.) and rush to take a cab down for my e-trial test cos it was already 4pm. Chiong like mad la.. and the taxi driver also chiong-ed like crazy, duno why. But when we reached, he was really kind, he said "祝你好运!" (Wish you good luck!), i was like "Thanks!" and suddenly i felt that i was going to pass my etrial! *sigh* but passing etrial doesn't mean anything. And to cut the long story short, true enough, i passed my etrial! I was elated but yet very 'dui' cos its not the real test. After the test results, i kinda accidentally pressed something on the screen which caused the test window to minimise and restart and when i tried entering my password again, i was able to go in and have another go! So happy~~ i 赚到！haha~

I happily rushed all the way home again, had a bath and rushed out again to meet Janice at City hall. I was late because i was up to no good -- nah! I was just finishing up the stitches to a handphone pouch that i was knitting for eunice! After meeting jan, we rushed to get eunice her present, a small cake and rush all the way to cathay to meet the rest-- mainly eunice, yuling and dot. Before we reached, we had dot to direct eunice away to go get food while we sneak in with the cake and pass it to the waitress!

And boy, just in time! Cos they came back soon and they sure ordered a real variety of food! Ranging from tempura, oyster, sushi, asparagus and bacon *yum* and of course SALMON BELLY SOUP! And sadly, cos of my teeth, i could only eat the soup which they all kindly served me with loads of it -- and also takopaochi. yum!

Cheers! Kan-Pai! Jan and her traditional bowl of tea!

Yes Eunice, i know u wanna grow taller! kidding!

Jan in her cheena mood with her cheena bowl of tea!

After a fulfilling dinner, and when we were sitting there discussing what to do, and drinking teas out from cups -- jan drank hers traditionally -- outta a bowl! Dot started to sms me and ask what's the plan, so we had a short discussion before dot ask eunice to go to the toilet with her while the rest of us started to clean up the table and get the cake ready! hehe! And all these while, eunice was unsuspecting! And yuling started to panic when eunice and dot was nearing our table and she still hasn't finish lighting all the candles!

"No eunice, we can't put only 1 candle! Cos you are already 25!"

Dot the voluntary kisser!

Our Present to Eunice! The handphone pouch nice boh? I knit one leh!

The Attendees and Partners-in-crime!

haha~ alas, eunice came with a wide smile and started going "you are sooo sneakkyyy"! The look and joy on her face was priceless! ^^

Hope you had fun that day eune-chan!
And im so glad u liked the present! And die die must use the handphone pouch k!
And keep it till it yellows like the pager pouch i crochet for you.
Now its knitted! :)

More Photos Here!

End of Report.

陪着爸妈上班去 Daddy Mummy Be My Boss

2008-05-24T11:10:00.003+08:00

Caught this on Channel 8 and managed to record it down with my lousy mp4 --which finally came in handy after all! This is joelle's 3rd try in her "acting school". She's so cute!

More on the video story here.. under "Acting School.. Yes again"

Interesting call!

2008-05-15T14:25:00.002+08:00

I received a very interesting call in office just a few days ago -- on monday.
It went like this:

Me: Hello.
Person: Hi! Is this the information Resource Centre?
Me: Uh..Yes?
Person: I would like to check with you, do you know what is your address? I could only find the 1 Depot Rd, but I'm not sure about the Singapore postal code all that.
Me: oh ok, please hold on. (Aside to ju: eh. help me check whats our address leh.) By the way, may i know who's on the line?
Person: oh, i am actually sending a gift to a personal friend who is working in IRC, its meant to be a surprise gift!
Me: ohhh.. may i know who's ur friend?
Person: May i know who's on the line?
Me: Danlin.
Person: oh. Danlin. (Pregnant pause.) ---
Me: ah! Denise ah?
Person: yah la!
(Both engulfs in laughter!)

hahaha~ So funny, we were like talking to each other for so long but we didn't realise its each other :) Received the present on Wednesday, its a gift from Japan -- Snacks! Thanks so much den! u r so sweet~