My childish bf

My bf just put his piping hot chicken pie in e freezer!!!! Sigh. Save me!


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Lao le...

Went to e clinic to get some cream for e rash arnd my lips n also to lighten e scars on my legs.

Guess who's e doc? My sec sch senior. It was weird man.

Turning 25 soon. Just feels damn weird man. Feel lk we've all really grown up. Sigh.

Tinking if I shd hav some kind of cele anot. Hmm...


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2 kids at heart

On e left max playing w e whistling sparklers. On e right, ah koh playing w his version of sparklers - ps move.

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Dark skies

It's been a long time since I see dark skies when I step out of e office :)

Not tt there's less work but I've been making a conscious effort to not over stretch myself.

I feel better overall :)

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Poop

Going to watch tis play in which ah koh's sis is acting. Hope it won't b too depressing.




Yayness e week is OVER! N I love e preview shots from our photoshoot. Hope all e pics turn out nice :)





Love love love my hair in this. My mum asked what did they do to make my face so round. Boo!

Wake up call to exercise!! These days even if I suck in, there's still a bulge at e tummy. It's that bad. Sigh!

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Raarr!

Only realised I left my laptop at home when I reach raffles place!! Boo!

My brain hates work so much it is trying all ways to delay it.

Boo. Tough wk ahead. Gd luck to me!


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My routine

These are my routine apps tt keep me occupied to and fro work.

1) FML


This is one app tt has been able to sustain my interest right from e beginning. It nv fails to crack me up or pick my spirits up aft a bad day at work.

It works lk a forum where pple post stuff tt happens to them. U can respond by clicking 'i agree ur life sucks' or 'u totally deserve it' or u can even comment.

It's funny how pple can gain happiness fr another's pain.

2) facebook



Need I say more? Tis keeps me connected w friends n know wat's happening in everyone's life.

3) channelnewsasia



As we live in a real world, it's impt to b updated on wat is happening arnd. I mostly read e 'latest' & 'entertainment' section. But tis app takes time to load n it doesn't work if I'm underground.

4) watever game I'm into, at e moment, it's finger physics



Tis is super fun. Totally challenges my brain. Been playing for a wk now n still not bored.

So there. These r wat accompany me to and fro work everyday.

Now time to start work!!


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Recent happenings

Debs w lucs at some playground in Bedok



Cravings satisfied at pasta fresca. Been dreaming abt risotto whole wk. Really miss e one on nikkoi island! Tis is still a far cry fr tat.




Went to e new udders tat opened (beside pasta fresca) tis outlet is huge! Compared to e others. Debs did a stupid ting there as usual. Haha. He spilled marker ink all over our Mao Shan Wang ice cream! U know those pens tat they leave lying around for pple write on e walls. It came apart in his hands n e ink got all over e ice cream! Lk a topping. Anw e peeps there were nice n replaced for us.

Going Hanoi soon. Can't wait!

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Life these days

Dinner fr cold storage. Cheap. Fresh. Healthy!

E key now is to eat healthy! So tat don't need too much effort to get in shape after.

I've been watching SATC from season 1 all over again! N guess wat? Ah koh has been watching w me. Hurhur.

Debs has started work. So excites for him!

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Nikoi Island - A slice of paradise

I love this hol!! it was such a chillax trip. it was really all we did. chill and relax.

Ok lil background abt this island. It's privately owned by some expats in Spore (heard they r developing another island, but tink it's more atas than this). They r v eco-friendly and emphasise on leaving as small a footprint on e island at possible. the design of the houses are amazing. it's v open, alot of natural light, e seabreeze just blows into e house all the time, everyting is crafted and built to perfection! i felt v liberated stepping into the hse.

You have to tk a ferry from tanah merah ferry terminal to bintan. afterwhich you will b driven (1-hr car ride) to the private ferry terminal, where u take another ferry (half hr) to e island. So in totally takes abt 2 and a half hrs to reach there.

From observation, only couples and families w young kids visit this place. the accom is $330 per night, e food is $80++ per day and the transfers to e island from bintan ferry terminal $70++. All the activities on e island is free. you can snorkel, windsurf, kayak, everyting is free (except diving).

So once we reach there, we explored e hse a lil, went on e beach took some pics, snorkeled a lil den went for lunch. all these while i only had sunblock on my face. stupid me :(


e food i tell u, is delicious lk hell! i polished everyting they serve me! im lk in love w e food there. some of e nicest dishes are not above coz i didnt manage to snap any pics before i gobbled them up. my fav dish e whole trip would have to b e risotto! it felt lk e whole sea was swimming in my mouth. i loved loved loved it!

ok. anw so aft eating so much (lunch r usually 3 course n dinner 4 course), we went kayaking arnd e island. and guess wat? we saw schools of flying fish! and while kayaking we kept hearing thunder. lk constant thunder! but everywhere looked bright and sunny, until we were abt 2/3 through, we could see e rain clouds approaching, and tt was when both of us started to panick and hurry back to shore (we were doing 1 whole round abt the island rem?) e last 1/3 of the journey was e toughest as we had to go against current most of e time. sososo happy when we finally made it back to shore before it poured lk crazy. so from abt 4pm to e nxt morn it rained. but it was really exciting! e wind was so strong e whole hse was shaking at nite!! hahaa.

e 2nd day was spent doing pretty much e same tings. eat.slp.read.snorkel.drink.eat.slp.kayak.eat.drink.slp.

haha. one of e exciting tings we did was to stop at tis bunch of rocks at sea while kayaking. it was just a crazy idea lor. had to struggle to tie e kayak to some rocks so tat it wont float away while we explore e rocks. lets just say i wont try it in e near future.

the staff on e island outnumbers e no. of guest, can u imagine that? there's only 16 houses on e island. the staff r all extremely friendly. had alot of fun chatting with them at e bar, which was our fav haunt on e island.

anw, i strongly recommend anyone who wants to go for a real short hol. although this might b a lil pricey but it's definitely worth it!

My old bf

Look at wat happen to e cake!?!!! It was melted beyond recognition! Got it from Caramel aft e dance class I missed.




Anw debs is really old! His actual bday is 10 may but he'll b in Thailand (hope he comes back safe) so I decided to have a last min mini cele for him :)

Ok I'll b a free soul for e nxt couple of days!

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15 minutes lunch

Went 15 minutes for lunch. It's a really cool place in lasselle.







Wanted to try e duck pizza but they ran out. The pasta was gd though. E feel of e place was v relaxed. Most patrons were students of e school but there were also pple lk us.

After lunch went exploring arnd for a while. E vibe of e place is so artsy fatsy. I mean duh it's an arts school. But it's really an unfamiliar world to me.

Aft that meet e iGoldies (all of us have iphone!!) for dinner at sunset grill. Ordered too much haha.

Den later some of us joined e hillstreet guys to hangout. It's tis place at prinsep street. N it's a board game place w wii n xbox consoles. Super fun lor. Nv knew such a place exists.

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On e way to work alone

Today's debs' first day of freedom. I'm happy for him but at e same time sad and sorry for myself- who still need to squeeze on mrt n lug my lazy ass to work :(


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Can u believe that's a wallet??!?

Tis world nv stops to amaze me.

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Slping time

Goodnite world!

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Weird

Tot this was quite funny n spooky at e same time



Btw, e highest flr in debs blk is 11. Haha.

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Feeling weak

Physically. Just finished 3 games of badminton w debs. So so so exhausted!










Debs say we shd do tis more often. I'm not so sure....

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My latest craze

tis has been my latest craze! It's been keeping me bz during my travelling time hence no time to blog.

Anw parents in Beijing tis wk. If I didn't have so much work to do it would have been a fun fun work. Sigh.

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Fun w kids

E boys came over on Sunday. Played w them for awhile n got real tired!




Stacking hamburger!




More stacking



Just can't stop moving




Finally!



Guess wat finally made them sit still - iPhone!!

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Virgin LAN experience

Started w dota. I used enchantress as usual coz she nit only has a nice name n also a v cool special power where there's a swarm of butterflies arnd her to heal her.

Den moved on to left for dead. Quite fun. At least everyone's on e same side against e comp.

Feeling giddy now. Better get some rest n do quality work tml!

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How to slp better

Been feeling tired these days. E amt of stress I face on a daily basis is equal to maybe my entire O & A level stress combined! Sigh. Nv felt so stress during sch days.

I feel tat work shd b separated from personal life. N our life shd nv revolve arnd work. Somehow these days I've not been able to stick to tis principle much. There's just too much expectations and pple I don't want to disappoint.

Anw, I dl tis rainmaker app to try help me slp better (hence less tired, enhance work performance, concentration etc.) seem to work. At least I felt quite good waking up today. And tis morn was relatively productive (before all e shit came pouring in)

Shall try continue tis regime n see if it really works (n not my cranky brain imagining stuff)

Going home to watch e pupil! N American idol tonight! Tis season's guys r so cute!!!




Here's Alexa and Russy! Russ is really notti these days. I tink it's true abt e terrible 2s man.

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Quarter century old

Nope not me. Yet. Ms px below :)



Happy bday babe!

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I promise it's for ur own good

Tat's wat my boss told me when he gave me my homework for tis wkend. *bleah*

On happier tots, meeting e nursings for px's bday!

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Mid wk wed

On e way to work w debs.




Pls let today pass w/o hiccups!

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Where is it?

My last post tat I just wrote disappeared! Boo! Goodnite!


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Killing time on my way home

Cool! I just randomly had a passing tot to blog and did a search in AppStore and here I m! Amazing! Technology really nv fails to amaze me.

So excited one of e goldies is going to b off e shelf! N have even tot of having baby e yr after. Looking forward to e bridal gown fitting :)

Work has been demanding and not too motivating. Mainly fr e overly heavy workload! Don't foresee it getting any better.










Oh gosh! So easy to upload pics!! Haha. Btw my debs look damn seh playing pool. Too used to his goofy side tat kinda forgot he had this charming side to him.

We just went to le bistrot for our blated vday cele. Food was fantastic. But e portions way too huge. Tink we're cows or wat. Haha.











Ok reaching home! Bye!









That's lucs' nasty face. So cute rt!!

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home alone

parent's out of town
bf's out w frens
im home all alone :(
wat a way to spend sat nite. sigh.

at least had great dinner w bf's fam b4 bf went out for his guys nite out.
yay to hilton hotel's jap buffet.
great tat everyone turned up tho' it's just a no function, last min, v normal dinner.
love seeing e kids! they say e funniest tings!

its great tat i have v encouraging n caring colleagues.
makes working late n on sat (2wkends tis yr alr!!) feel tat much better.

The adventure continues - Happy land

[wrote e following some time back but didnt complete hence didn't post but since i've alr done up e pics.. might as well.. may i just add tis is my best trip so far :)]

Amsterdam aka Happy Land is debs' fav city for our trip for obvious reasons. In comparison to Stockholm and Copenhagen, Amsterdam was much cheaper (tho' it's still expensive compared to Spore). Also lotsa bikes arnd, but we didnt bike this time. We stayed in our first bed and breakfast. The rm was beautiful, huge and clean. There was a lounge area w sofa and we had our own sink and a dining area, all in the rm. The toilet and shower was shared with tis other tenant which we nv saw. The hosts were super friendly and accomodating. They had lk maps of the area arnd their place marked with eateries/shops they recommend etc. We could also help ourselves to anyting in the fully equiped kitchen. They also left a bottle of Jenever (Holland gin) in e rm for us to enjoy. I've nv heard of this before but it taste really gd! v sweet for liquor. and keeps us warm. It was really cheap too. only 50eur per nite. They have hired help to clean our rooms daily too.


From our b&b, we had to walk thru Vondelpark to get to the 'action zone'. So tat's wat we did. It was a really nice walk thru e park. I love the silhouettes of wilted trees. I find them really beautiful. and they were all arnd e park. There were also alot of good looking pple jogging, walking their dogs etc. I wonder y they dun need to work man. or was it a wkend? i cant rem. Anw i got a shock when a HUGE dog came jumping on me. the funniest ting was, ah koh was walking in front of me and when the dog came charging, he siam to the side haha. so the dog jumped on me! luckily i didnt fall back. the owner was really apologetic. hahas.

The city is really pretty. I find houses at the sides of canel a beautiful sight. esp w the wilted trees. On our first nite in amsterdam we also witness a bridge being raised so tat a vessel can pass thru the canel. That was really interesting for us. hahas. tried to tk photo but was really dark didnt capture anyting nice.

had lotsa beer, and tried their local cuisine and of coz 'ahem'..

ok.. from here on it'll just b short captions..


back in stockholm. we went ice skating. at a real ice-skating ring! open air style. way cool man.

walked arnd museum. weather was fantastic.

went to e old town - gamla stan. place where i experience falling snow for e first time in my entire life. gonna rem tis place :)


our anni dinner.
skansen. v cool musuem where everything is lk olden days. pple working there role play (sort of). there's also a zoo in there. but tis was a really cold day. met my bro n jaime to explore.

on our way to finland!

on board e cruise ship. it's v much lk star cruise. less entertainment tho. they have a HUGE duty free shop (tink alcohol.. real cheap)


finland.. snow everywhere. had a snow fight 2 v 2. nearly died there. hahas.
snacking at e xmas market.

back in stockholm. bunked at bro's hostel. looked so diff fr e first nite we bunked there.

kiruna!! my fav part of e trip. us at ice hotel. e overall suit that they loaned us really saved me. if not i would not have returned alive. for sure. how can we not have a drink at e all famous absolute bar. but e drink was really nice. coz there's no need to add ice to e drink.. hence it's not diluted at all. drinking out of e ice glass is really nice experience :) e bartender was kinda cute too :)

every rm had a diff theme. was amazing wat these pple can make out of ice/snow.

there was still a wing under construction (thru e tunnel in e centre pic).

tis was e airport (sorry e sequence is not right but too lazy to arrange)

us on snow mobile. on e night tat i v nearly froze to death. -25 degrees? cant quite rem exactly. just imagine e coldest ever ever ever! n imagine we were on e snow mobile.. e wind was brutal! our eyelashes were all frosted!! n to make tings worse. our guides were lost!! we were in e middle of Thorne river waiting while 1 of e guides went out to look for our cabin. to keep ourselves warm, we jogged arnd. it was really cool actually, we were just cruising on e frozen river. could really drive pretty fast since there is nothin arnd.

our v friendly n interesting guides cooking us dinner. how i envy their lifestyle. btw, tat meal was god damn gd.


outside of our cabin. we were opted for a wilderness package. so it was really just us n noone else. our cabin was stocked w lotsa food n drinks. we were v kiasu.. we actually brought lk 6packs of instant noodle n 6packs of beer.. hahas... tinkin there's nothin to buy arnd.. n we were not sure wat they'll feed us (i dont tink i can eat reindeer meat every meal). turned out.. we left all those there for e nxt occupants. they gave us beer/wine/chips/pre-mixed food (which we basically only need to heat n they taste YUM)
activities we did there. it was so freaking cold out there. we couldnt last more than half hr outside everytime.

food tat we cooked ourselves. really enjoyed e 3 relaxing days we had at e cabin. we tot there'll b no electricity in e cabin hence we didnt bring any gadgets. so we were really cut off for 3 days. BLISS i tell u. but anything more we'll prob b bored. but i really loved cooking n napping n lazing by e fire n goin out for walks.

us making snow angels. bottom left is tis ting tat freaked me. haha. it was outside our bedrm window. hahas. looks lk a skeleton crawling out of e snow rt!!

arnd e hse.

look at all e gear we had to put on everytime we went out. loved e fireplace!

different parts of e hse. it was huge for e 2 of us though. 3 bedrms. we slpt in e same rm all e 3 nites. we saw northern lights all 3 nites. we were lucky lucky! but to tell e truth. i was more blown away by e starry stars. i mean it really just left me speechless n breathless. it was tat beautiful. we would just lay on e snow n look up in e sky. it's just so dark arnd. e stars r so near i felt lk they were within my reach!! e only star constellation i know is e orian belt. n it was not directly up, it was abt 45 degrees n it was so near!! LOVED it. really. best part of e trip!

back in stockholm stayed at a different b&b tis time. we stayed in e sodermalm area. it was a more artsy area. v interesting

end of trip! all in all, we reallly had a great time. didnt buy anyting for ourselves coz it was really not worth it. but i wouldnt say tat we scrimped on e trip lar in terms of food. we drank alot when we were there too. oks. i dont tink i'll b back. at least not soon. (mayb norway tho) loved e vibe there. n everyone speaks real gd eng. n they all damn gd looking! oks. everyone shd go! gogogo!