Me, Myself & I

The Birth of Realisation

2012-01-14T18:21:00.011+08:00

Back on my desk after taking a 5hours break from work which I had been stuck to since the start of the week. Before I forget, I thought I better pen down my thoughts I had during my train ride home after spending 3hours in an audit lecture which was followed by only 4hours of sleep.

Like any other birthdays I had, a typical celebration was planned with lotsa food, booze and fun. But it was "payback time". Emotions came all over me and I was really upset at everything else except me. I don't think I am at (entire) fault and it's my birthday so I should be priviledged to be excused - GenY mindset.

When I tweeted about my supposedly bad birthday weekend, a friend commented and I took the situation into a new light. She told me how lucky I was to have had celebrated my previous birthdays and missing one isn't that of a great deal!

I have just started the book titled Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki(would like to specially thank a friend who lent the book to me). In the first 2 chapters, his rich dad told him to "think using your emotions, not with your emotions." It got me confused about the usage of the word "use" and "with" until last night, when my emotions began to settle down. I told myself cool down, take a step back and look at the whole situation. And YES! It was my fault. Who else's could it be?

What's so meaningful celebrating a quarter of a century old like how i did when I was 16, 18 and 21? Eat, laugh, get tipsy and the following days after goes on as usual.

But today, on the 14th January 2012, I'd like to thank my procrastination skills(nothing to be proud of) which led me to this chunk I have to clear. And my mentor(she hates to be called boss) in mainly work but also teaches and talks to me about life, that woke me up this day. I feel reborn. I gained new meaning and realisation to my life and I want to leave the old me who mixes work and play behind.

During lecture this afternoon we learnt about

1. substance - what you actually are
2. appearance - what you are seen to look like
and
3. mind - what you think

And it reminded me about what my mentor told me about the congruent theory she uses to evaluate people - the way they speak, do and think.

People always say, "So long your conscience is clear, it's okay." BUT can you measure you own conscience? I think it is like how internal goodwill has no value on the financial statements!

In life you do not only need to be responsible to yourself, from the moment you were borned, you already owe your life to your parents! You did not came to this world by yourself! You were also delivered successfully partly to the doctor who did a good job, the nurses who assisted, the driver who sent your mommy to the hospital and the list goes on even to the mosquito that chose not to sting your mom while she had you.

....ok I should stop crapping so much but you get the idea don't you?

Bottom line is, do not take things for granted no matter how big or small a thing, I'm not saying you should be a saint lah! Just learn to appreciate life and in due time life will appreaciate you. A tree does not bear fruit until it's time.

It always hurt to have something when before you had all along to be taken away, but if it's due to the circumstances which you could have taken a better control of and made a better decision for, you can only learn from it and grow up. And this, is definitely making me grow.
*ding*ding*leveling up*ding*ding*

I should get back to work now I wanna enjoy my CNY next week!

Ciao!
the michelle with panda eyes

Mad World

2010-06-27T00:07:00.001+08:00

As a child, everything new was just fun, but sad to say as we grow older, the world around us seems to change into something scary, and with the power of the Internet there is abundance of information you can get whether is it's useful to you or not.

I joined dog forums since I was 14. Every thread read or post started was to gain more more knowledge about the upkeep of my dogs and to get some cheap buys from consolidated orders or second hand items.

Things started to get a lil scary when I did some good. Like fostering and rescuing dogs. It was an episode of home visits, vet visits, then bullets from forum and the last straw was verbal threats and to the police station.

Recently, a lie made to prevent a saga from happening was questioned. Told the whole truth and sorta drag another forumer into the 'mess' and now I'm being blamed, for telling the truth.

So is it better to tell the truth or not? I guess it's best not to even lie. None of accidental discovery or of harboured bad reputation/charater or blaming would result.

Another incident, because someone introdced me to this girl who WANTED DESPERATELY to have an offspring from her old aged male Pudding hamster, I agreed to let Humpty be bred to him IF she likes him. Another reason was that I wanted another hamster to accompany Humpty in the tank after Dumpty passed on.

We made an agreement to keep mum about this as well. You know, breeding and forums don't go hand in hand unless you have a breed of hamster with quality genes which can be traced. But this someone went to get advice about ME from another forumer who doesn't know ME!

So the "deal" was called off because I was labelled "what kind of person would put 2 hamsters together in a tank when advise not to?" I did not even had a single thought about selling off any of the pups!

I didn't felt angry or upset or even the least disappointed when the breeding did not happened. It did not matter to me. And why I'm kicking up such a fuss now it's because of the people hiding behind search engines and forums and speaking bad about other people when they do not even know the person.

C'mon lah, I was keeping both females and I wanted to see them cuddling and living cutely together. Crime? Unetical?

Give me quality hamsters from top bloodline anytime and I can tell you I WILL NOT BREED. I don't need to sell hamsters for a living and neither do I want to take my hamster hobby that far. For a lil fame and money, one could do better in the dog's world.

My pets are all females, I could had easily bred the dogs, or the rabbit as well, and sell the kids back to the petshop where I got her. But did I? Do I need to?

No doubt their expenditure is quite a large amount every month, but earning money via giving tuition and taking up ad hoc jobs is sufficient, especially when Chris contributes a fairly large amount.

I want specific pets because they appeal to me. Not because I can make bucks out of them.

I want them so as to keep me occupied and happy, to make me smile the first thing in the morning and at the end of an angry or tiring day. But I got judged and condemned by every action and statement made?

The world gets crazier as we grow and gets exposed to more things. Is that why there isn't a REAL person left on earth anymore?

Past week I was trying my luck to find a nice Syrian hamster, hoping for a quality one too as I did not want to get one from the local petstore which breeds rat faced Syrians. Neither do I want to get one from one of the "Unetical hamster breeders" they often talk about in the forum. I searched hard. Asked some labelled ethical breeders but there was no available Syrians.

I gave up hope. With the thought that some of these high and almighty ethical breeders, who will not even look me in the eye when we talked, would spare one of their super precious hamster to me. I then thought to myself where will people like me get good breeds of hamsters if such ethical breeders are reluctant to let go of theirs?

It's a cycle, a chain reaction, a demand and supply theory.

Since there's no way for me to adopt one that I liked, or to buy one from such ethical breeders with quality genes. There's only home breeder to go, and that's where I got Popcorn from earlier this evening.

How funny when people aims to create the most beautiful dog/cat/hamster and wants to deter people from getting from unethical breeders/petshops when they're so reluctant to sell their offspring to people who simply wants a PET. And when they do, they'll screen the person upside down, through and through as if it's an Xray going through to reveal your whole life.

Now I finally understand why some people I know sticks to buying pets instead of all the hassle of adopting and going through ethical breeders.

I just want a pet, FULLSTOP.

Nachos the Roborovski

2010-06-24T23:15:00.004+08:00

I'm back here with another addition!

Chris got me a white face Roborovski!! She is Darn cute!!

And really TINY! Prolly like 2 thumb's size! Humpty came to me bigger, about 3/4 palm size

I was trying to make her familarise with my scent earlier this evening and after an hour I guess she couldnt take it anymore and she decided to nip my finger while she was on my palm which she climbed on, on her own accord. =.="

We saw her on Monday evening when we were at Serangoon North to buy toilet sand for Humpty. I couldnt take my mind off her the whole night and so the next day, we went down to get her, and out of the 3 Robos in the tank, she was the only that I could carry.

This picture was taken this afternoon! Her facial expression like calling out for help while being trapped between my fingers!

I actually wanted a normal, easy to cean/wash cage. BUT! This boy here, loved the spaceship feel of the Habitrail Ovo Suite so much he paid almost double of what he could had paid for what I wanted.

Picture courtesy of Google

See how happy is he fixing it up. with the silly girl behind him kaypo-ing.

BUT! after 1 night in the OVO, realised Nachos wasn't tall enough to reach the bottle, and her legs weren't wide enough to climb the tunnel!

Shared it with a forumer, and she kindly offered me a Hampot for Nachos. Luckily I had spare food bowl, wheel and bottle that was bought for Dumpty the previous time. It was perfect for her!

Now the Ovo is being left in the storeroom. So to utilise it, we've decided to adopt a Syrian hamster soon! And she shall be named Popcorn!

And I hereby promise that Popcorn shall be the last pet I'm acquiring for the period!

2 dogs, 1 rabbit, 3 hamsters = full house!

Cya soon~

I'm back, with an addition

2010-04-17T01:54:00.003+08:00

Been so busy the last week with a new addition, and the previous weeks with school and tuition assignment.

I forced myself to take on another assignment due to the lack of spending powers! It's taking a toll on my studies. I hope things will smoothen out once the kids finishes their exams in early May.

About the new addition, it's Rocher the Black Labrador. She's somehow abandoned by her family and my heart got softened when I saw her. So I took her home to foster but who knows she seems to have a tiny place in my heart already.

She's really a sweetie who LOVES pats and food and water. Basically she'll be a contended dog with pats, food, water and sleep! And you should see the way she MANJA to us, HUGE dog but act like a baby. Don't know whether to cry or laugh. HAHA!

We're still comtemplating as to whether to keep her or not. The daily walks of 4-5 times per day, daily mopping of 3-4 times per day, daily washing of balcony is gonna drain me outta my juice sooner or later. I hope she gets totally housebroken in 2months time as I'm looking to work full time after June's exams.

Also I hope her yeast infection on her body and ears gets cleared away fast. Body no long stink as much, but still has minimum white specks of skin falling and ears are still a lil "off" smell and a lil timid. Scared of dogs bigger than her, scared of man walking with loud footsteps and also scared of toddlers who approaches. LOL. Other than this, she's a great dog who'll walk nicely on my right and sit's whenever I stop walking/waits for the lift.

'Nuff of talks, here are some pictures. More on facebook.

Shall update soon! Outing with the dogs and cousin tmr!

nitey
michelle

About CNY

2010-02-17T15:01:00.017+08:00

Whoo! It was a busy 4 days!

The night before Reunion Dinner, we went to River Ang Pao. Before that, we had NYNY for dinner.

Nothing much, snapped some pictures and off we went to Marina Square then back home.

Reunion Dinner as usual. Lotsa food and gambling till 5am! Hehehe, I lost a lil on both blackjack and mahjong.

My poor baby waited for us till we got home at about 6am! She could barely hold her eyelid when she finally laid in her bed.

After 3hours of sleep, we woke up and prepared to head to Chris' godparent's place, to collect the 'YuSheng' as well as to 'Pai Nian'.

Take 1 - OpS!

Take 2 - Better

Came back home to place the 'YuSheng' into the refridgerator before rushing out again. Naughty girl trying to make us play with her.

Can't bear to let us go out again

Let me introduce you my very cute nephew. Issac the Tiger!

As it's also Vday, after visiting my Uncle's place, the 4 of us headed down to town to catch Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thief, 'Kiap' a soft toy and had dinner @ Xin Wang HK Cafe.

Got home at about 1am and was dead tired.

On the second day of CNY, woke up around noon and head off from Sengkang to Bukit Batok to pay my God-family a visit. They were my doting babysitters since young till about 5years old.

Evening was spent at my Aunt's place. We Wii-ed and blackjack-ed and mahjong-ed. I was winning on mahjong during the first half, until my grandma kept winning 5 consecutive rounds just before the end of the game! I told myselft I had to at least get back my $$ and so I aim-ed for a 'Yi Se' (full colour) and I did it! With an extra flower! Muahahahaha! Got back mroe than what I asked for.

Thrid day of CNY, went over to Chris' parent's place for 'Lou Hei' and off we went to town! And look what I've got!

So busy that my laundry basket was over flowing, dust and fur and hair all over the floor. Glad I didn't agreed to start tuition today else I won't be able to do anything till thursday.

Huat ah!
michelle

Shoes and stuffs

2010-02-12T17:38:00.004+08:00

Who doesnt love shoes?

Hehe, lazing around in the afternoon with nothing to do, decided to take out my untouched camera and snap away. So, let me show you the 3 pairs of shoes we've gotten.

Yeap, you might have noticed I'm definitely not a heels lover. :P

Went to Far East the day before and I've gotten some really cheap accessories! So happy neh!

Here's little Humpty on her time out in her running ball! I was cleaning her tank and she was Kaypo-ing around until she found a corner to sleep. Haha

She's getting cuter and cuter lah! But still very shy, only come out to run the wheel in the middle of the night when no one can see her. LOL

Heart itching for another one, but the house got no more space. :(

Shop and shopped!

2010-02-07T23:11:00.005+08:00

Finally, I've bought all my stuffs for CNY after a trip to JB yesterday and to Marina this afternoon.

Let's see what we each got.

My list:

in JB,
1 Padini dress
1 Padini shirt
1 Everlast shoe
1 Etude House lip gloss
1 chapalang eye shadow
1 Nightie

Marina Square,
1 Puma shoe
1 Dorothy Perkin's belt
1 box of Liese hair dye
1 box of Fruity Lite drink

Chris' List:

JB,
3 pieces Etude House Face Mask
3 pairs of B.U.M socks
1 box of CNY Cashew Nut Cookie

Marina,
1 pair of Beetle Bug shoe (very nice!!)

Hehe, I never bully him hoh! He's got most of his new jeans and tops when he was in USA. He prolly need just another belt and he's good to go.

Humpty has got 3 packets of Vitakraft food and a see-saw toy. Brownie got 2 packets of her favourite Donut treats.

Sundae leh?! Wanted to buy the Yogi Nano Sliver pee tray but! PLC selling at $48++ !! Chop head loh!! Saw online a lot cheaper, prolly gonna get it within this week. :D No more stained paw paw and pee stained pawprints on the tiles.

School tomorrow, gotta sleep early cos I'm damn tired.

Nighty!
Michelle

CNY is approaching

2010-01-28T21:46:00.004+08:00

And guess what have I been up to?

No! Not shopping for new clothes BUT cleaning the freaking house!

Last week I changed the curtains and tidied up the kitchen with lotsa junk being thrown out.

Today, I hand-washed the cushion covers + 3 carpets cleaned out the whole blardy kitchen off it's dust, dirt and grease! And here she goes again, frying up some china type of dumplings.

The walls are gonna get greasy again, and not to mention, the stinking and suffocating smell of oil! It doesn't help when she only wash up the pots and pans, leaving the stove area unwiped!

I tried to be nice when she asked if I wanted to have a try at her culinary skills, and so I accepted a piece. Sundae, the ever hungry and greedy dog, knew I wouldn't give her food off the dining table, and she lingered around the tenant.

And the tenant so happily offered her the skin of the dumpling. Then! Without me looking, both of them went into the kitchen and as I turned around, she was giving Sundaae HALF a blardy dumpling.

The dumpling was coated more with oil than any other stuffs. I just hope Sundae doesn't have a tummy upset tonight.

Humpty's been feeling a lil moody from what I see. She wouldn't finish her normal serving of fresh veges and doesn't sweep up the dried mix from the food bowl. More often than not, I see her lying flatly on the bedding and stare into space or on the wheel.

Probably she just misses Dumpty, but we'll never know cos she can't speak! Hah!

But I can see that without Dumpty around her, she's seemed to be more relaxed and out-going. But she's still very timid and shy. i do hope when she becomes a Mommy, she has the means to take care of her litter.

Back to CNY, I have not found anything I liked to buy! BIG SIGH! AND I guess his new wife would not be keen to pass me money for shopping.

I've observed her, and she's made quite a big change. From the 'oh-so-generous' lady who 'oh-so-cared' for us had turned into 'oh-so-what-do-you-want-again-this-time' step mom.

I would not exactly say she's my step mom, afterall, she's not my main care giver. I don't see the need to address her as "Ah-yi", I call her by her name.

But I guess I'd not try to even ask Dad for the money. He might then give me a bigger red packet? Wishful thought!

I remembered whenever my elder step sister visited us at our home when I was younger, Dad would be so generous with his red packet. I think one record high was $500 for CNY.

I wondered, when were the times Dad actually splurged on me? only on my 21st birthday with the celebration expenses and the Gucci bag and when I topped the class and he finally gave into my pleas for an Sony MD player.

It's so obvious that Dad always favoured my younger sister more, and now that we've grown up, my younger brother is being favoured the most. You know what I mean, Dad and sons. I've always felt that I was the unwanted child. Hah, it's perfectly fine if I wasn't the most loved or favoured, but I think Dad sometimes has to and HAVE to carry himself as a 'normal' father instead of one who does/doesn't listen and one who definitely doesn't talk at all.

Why do I say that?

He talks only when he feels like it. Sometimes we would pass a sentence, awaiting for his comment, but nothing comes out. Or, we would asked him a simple/general question, he'd just look at you, then go back to whatever he's doing.

And if he had been listening? You can't tell for sure because he doesn't reply!!!!

This is what IRKS me the most.

Ok, I'm getting drifted away from my main topic. But my fingers can't stop. Can't stop thinking through what his wife said to me last weekend when I went over for dinner. Can't stop thinking why she left the apartment sneakily when me & sis weren't aware.

It's just weird isn't it? Sneaking out of the house without informing.

The fox's tail under the sheep's coat is soon gonna be exposed.

I hope by then I would have the courage to defend myself and my sister. Bro has nothing going against him as she favoured boys, and he was seldom home due to NS.

I've also noticed that before she was here, Dad and Sis often goes to the supermarket together and from what my sis told me, I felt that they had it good each time they went out to stock up the fridge, or to get stuffs to cook up a storm.

But it all changed. Once I asked my sister if she had been going out to the supermarket with Dad cos I noticed the fridge was quite empty. She replied me saying "why should I go? got her already and they only go to the wet market nowadays."

It's so saddening to hear this. It's like the only bonding activity between a father and daughter was robbed away by the wife.

I don't blame her entirely. She's young, too young, in my opinion.

Such a long post, I doubt anyone would read to the end.

There's more to write, but I'm a lil apprehensive to pen it down. It'll be more wise to leave it to a later date.

Meanwhile, I shall spend more good quality time with my sister, I certainly hope she does not change for the worst with all the broken pieces of our family slashing on her from all directions.

Anyways, on a consolation, Chris is coming back home soon and I'm sure we're gonna have a blast this CNY yet again and I'm surely looking forward to our Bangkok trip in April!

michelle

after the phonecall, I'm feeling worst than ever. It's not that I don't want to care, but it might be because I don't know how. And you can't blame me, I've already told you right from the start of the rs.

I'll miss you Dumpty

2010-01-17T19:05:00.006+08:00

Mama's sorry, so very sorry for what happened last night.

Dumpty, you've escaped twice from the tank.
Both times in the night when you were out of Sundae's reach.
You looked so cute with your half opened eyes looking up at me,
thinking what's going on as I scooped you up from behind the cabinet's door where you were hiding

Mama's sorry because she stayed out late after school.

Mama's sorry because the lids that she covered the tank with were insufficient to prevent you from escaping yet again.

Mama's sorry because mama didn't had the courage to go near you when you were lying there, motionless on the floor.

Mama's sorry because all she did was to cry, in sadness and in fear of what she saw.

She was horrified by the scene she had to face as you were covered in a bloody mess.

Mama's sorry because she belittled you.

If it wasn't Mama's fault, you wouldn't had passed away in such a way.

You could have been enjoying a good life for another year or so.
You could have been running wildly on your most beloved wheel.
You could have continued having a life most abandoned hamsters would want.
So loved by both Mama and Dada.

You were the cheeky little hamster. Each move of yours were so stunningly swift.
You loved snatching Humpty's food even when I gave the same portion to you both.

From a tiny hamster you were, you became a dominant female.

I had a sense of achievement when you were finally tamed and allowed us to hold you a little longer than usual.

I'll miss how you look at us with your big bright eyes
I'll miss how you get swung out of the wheel when you run too fast

Last but not least, I'll miss your cheeky self as you never fail to make me laugh with your silly antics.

Love,
Mama & Dada

Xmas' coming

2009-12-23T12:56:00.003+08:00

It's near the end of the year again, and soon in 3 weeks time, I'm gonna turn 23(oh my gosh! did I just typed 23?! yikes!). Looking back, this year went well and I have no regrets with which ever path I had chose to take.

Xmas is the time of giving and although I've already spent quite a substantial amount off my bank account getting his birthday present just a month ago, I sacrificed a bit more just for a lil surprise on the 25th.

We kinda agreed on smaller presents this Christmas because of the above, and that he had also bought me a phone 2weeks back, I can't bring myself asking for more. But of cos, I still hope for a tiny surprise this weekend.

Gonna head into JB on Boxing Day with Mom + Aunt & family + Chris & siblings, it's like a family outing! I'm feeling so excited already just thinking about it! Gonna get more Wii games and accessories and try to stock up on some cheap grocery over there. Not forgetting cheap and nice seafood to end the day.

I'm feeling kinda upset right now. I guess it's time to let go.

My Fujitsu laptop of almost 4years is REALLY dying. I tried upgrading the ram from 512 to 1gb a few months ago and it went well, but now it starts up and shuts down really slowly and when I try to load a web page, it would take forever before it's fully loaded. And the moment I click on a link, the webpage hangs!

I'm currently using Chris' netbook to blog and do my stuffs, but it just doesn't feel the same. Sigh. He mentioned about getting me a desktop, as CPU performs better than a laptop. I wonder if I should, cos I hate the monitor and CPU collecting dust, and not to mention, the messy wires and it'll be taking up more space than a laptop. Moreover, it ain't portable.

But if it's gonna be a iMac, then I wont mind lah. It's like a all-in-1 you know. It it looks minimalistic and it's just great!

*hint*hint*

heehee...

michelle

Got the Iphone!

2009-12-14T11:06:00.005+08:00

Cute? They love squishing during their sleep

Sometimes Dumpty likes being alone, but still, squished.

*laughs*

She sure likes to be in the weirdest sleeping position and unthnkable moves/stunts during play. Sundae and I am amused each time she's awake and active, but she doesn't like being handled, would siam and run super fast from our hands. Might be a marathon runner in the past. keke.

Humpty eats and sleeps all day, but she loves being handled by us. She tried grabbing and holding onto Chris' finger last night when hetried to stroke her. Then ended up carrying her, so fun!

Chris bought me the Iphone on Saturday. Queue isn't mad in Compass point, but I still had to wait for over 2hours before seeing the phone lah.

Got free X'mas mug from them, very nice loh, was tempted to ask them to give me another one, but decided I shouldn't, cos that'll make me look so Auntie! But the mug is really nice mah!

See...

They have the orange colour one too!

Went shopping for my Iphone's LEATHER FLIP CASING at Tampinese yesterday. Nubox damn expensive, so we just looked around. Headed to Tenchi, 1 @ $19.90, 2 @ $29.90.

Bought 2, cos Chris say standby for his Iphone which he might be getting 3 months later.

Luckily I tried the leather case outside the shop! The camera hole ain't aligned to the Iphone's camera! So I went back to change.

Opened one after another, tried one after another still the same! Sibei tulan and black face liao, especially those cover SCRATCHED my phone! WTH! I tried witholding my unhappiness after the sales girl cleaned them off with Zippo, but Chris said my face still looked very "chao tah".

The sales girl tried to psycho me to take the Silicon back casing, as the cam hole sure will be aligned on that. So BO PIAN, I chose a fake white Paul Frank silicon cover and walked out.

SUPER BO HUA LOH! Outside this type of silicon covers $10 only, max $12. Felt like I was cheated leh! And why didn't I asked for a refund? Idiot me!

And the best thing is? We went to Challenger after that AND! saw icoat (back cover + screen protector) at only $24 LAH!

Sian to the max! Totally no mood liao. Chris offered to buy me the icoat, but like waste double the money, so I tell him to get it when my white silicon case turns yellow.

Sigh!

Anyways, I'm having fun with the phone. But battery life is really damn short! I got it fully charged @ 11am yesterday, and by the time I slept @ 12midnight, it was 17%. And when I woke up this morning at 9plus, it was long gone!

Gotta get to the housework now, Chris applied had leave since thursday and housework had been neglected ever since then due to exams and shopping. :P

Tattaz!
michelle

Humpty Dumpty

2009-12-08T11:50:00.004+08:00

Meet Humpty & Dumpty Sundae's Pearl White Winter White hamsters!

Damn cute can! Humpty(timid and quieter one) will squeek and then put up both hands and then fake dead when Dumpty(super active and curious one) goes too near or step all over her. Haha!

Exceeded my budget for them lah! Why?!

Cos I went down to Yishun Interchange, thinking it's a neighbourhood, hammies shld be sold cheaper right? But I was so wrong, they're selling $20 for each pearl!

And so I headed down to Northpoint. They had 2 pearls, 3 normal and 1 sapphire winter whites. The normal and safyer fits my budget, $20 for a pair. But I didn't ultra like them. The sales guy very smart loh, he said "better buy something you like than something cheap but don't really like" which is very true lah.

Imagine if I bought the grey ones and don't feel shiok, even more waste of money. :P

And so I got a them @ $36 for a pair. Plus the food bowl and the cow head housing, total busted $47.

Total hamster damage almost hit $90. But it's damn cute to sit and watch them play.

Alright, I really needa stay away from this laptop, tmr is my 1st paper already

Tataz~

michelle

Sundae needs a pet!

2009-12-07T12:47:00.005+08:00

You didn't read me wrong.

When my cousins were here, they had a Syrian hamster in a cage placed on the TV console and Sundae's favourite past time was to stand and watch him. It made her less bored and tired her out in the late evenings as she gets so excited whenever the hamster start running on his wheel that she jumped and jumped non stop just to get a closer view.

Now that all of them are gone, Sundae is looking really bored. Other than when there's food or walks, most of the times she'd just lay around the house and sleep. We've decided to get her pet hamsters!

We decided on the winter white breed, pearl or sapphire is fine but I don't want the normal ones. They're just too normal. :P

So after visiting Chris' parents' place yesterday, we headed down to Serangoon North in search of the hammies and their necessities.

Sundae waiting patiently in her bag while we got ready.

Crossing the road towards the bus stop

We've gotten the basic stuffs ready, just short of a food bowl and the pair of hammies.

Ready :
Tank (2nd-hand) - $10
Silent wheel - $8.50
Toilet - $5
Toilet/Bathe sand - $8.90
Food - $4.90
Bottle - $4.90
CornCob bedding (not in pic) - $6.90
Sub-Total - $42.70 (after shop discount)

Need to get :
Food bowl (Daiso) - $2
Pair of Hamsters - $20
Sub-Total - $22

Total - $64.70

Wah! It's like damn expensive when they're all added up together. But on the brighter side, my aunt got the Syrian and all his stuffs at a whopping $130++.

Ta-daaa! This should be comfortable for a pair of dwarfs.

I'm still considering whether if we should adopt adults or purchase baby ones from shops, and also whether to get 1 or 2 hammies. What do you peeps think, lend me your inputs. Thanks. :)

Being home all day gives me time to try recipes. Hehe! This is Steamed Chicken in D.O.M Liquor and Fried French Bean with Eggs.

This is for sale. Anyone interested? All the way from the U.S.A. Chris bought the wrong size and Sundae ended looking like a tightly sealed sausage after putting this on. Super wasted can! We liked this so much. Going for SGD$25. Picture doesn't do it justice. Will fit dogs 4kg and below. :) It's about a pampet size 3.

Lunch, then to the books
michelle

It's Brownie's First!

2009-11-21T13:03:00.007+08:00

We brought Lil Missy Brown home around this time last year. When she was still so tiny and afraid of us, and when her ears were too long for her small frame.

A year past by so fast! Since we don't know her real birth date, her Papa decided it shuld be on the 20th November, and so he reminded me to celebrate her birthday.

I don't know if rabbits take real cakes, so I made something else that she'd definitely enjoy.

3-tier banana 'cake'! (the candle is a shred of carrot!)

She was really excited the moment I peeled the banana! Look how anxious she was! Couldn't even snap a proper picture!

Now's she's such a big girl already(I think she weighs at least 2+kg), and has become super "yang-orh" (manja) and readily asks for pats whenever we walk pass her cage. Sometimes I even caught her lowering her head for Sundae to lick. Sisterly love!

Not to mention, she's a true blue Holland Lop with an attitude!

brownie: who say this poop is mine?!

Her present will come when her Papa comes home from USA. :)

Happy 1st Birthday Brownie! We love you!
michelle

Let's Cook!

2009-11-18T14:53:00.005+08:00

Here's another dish I cooked by inprovising on a recipe via the net. Tasted really good!

You'll need:

1 potato, half a carrot and a garlic

Cube the tofu - plain or egg-ed is fine.

sliced the potato (cooks easier this way) cube the carrot. I added 2 strip of green pepper to flavour the dish

Now for the chicken(you can use pork if you like)
I used 2 breast fillets(the size of LJS chicken), marinated with
1/2 tablespoon of oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon of sesame oil
1/2 teaspoon of dark soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon of sugar (can put honey if you like)
a dash of salt and pepper

Mix well and let it sit for a minimum of 1hour

Stir fry these with enough oil.
Take it out once cooked

Add in garlic, when it starts to turn brown, add in chicken.
once the outsides are cooked, add back the potato+carrots

add about 1tablespoon of light soy sauce and 3/4cup of water

Let it come to a boil

Once it boils, turn the fire to low and add in tofu on top of the rest of the ingredients.

Cover it up. It'll be ready in 5mins.

I like my potatoes soft soft, so I simmered it double the recommended time.

Serves 2 person as a side dish. :)

love cooking, hate washing

michelle

Going Westernized

2009-11-12T18:22:00.005+08:00

Over the past 2 weeks, I've been trying to lose some fats and began exercising and paying attention to what I put into my mouth. I kinda got sick and tired of having oats for dinner almost everyday and so I decided to whip up something healthy, tasty and not 'oh-so-boring' meal for the day!

Here's what Sundae and I had for Dinner today!

It ain't unhealthy lah! The chicken breast fillet is being seasoned over an hour with:
-Lime
-Basil
-Parsley
-Thyme
-Rosemary
-Garlic
-Tiny(and i really mean tiny like tinier than the size of a tiny ant) amt of salt, onion & pepper
-half a teaspoon of Honey

Cubed carrot and potato stir-fried with margerine+garlic+parsley

Nothing really unhealthy right? :)

The side dish was good, sweet carrot and fragrant potato. But the chicken was kinda like hard and chewy. Don't know if it's the texture of chicken breast itself, or the lime was too acidic for the meat. Overall taste was average. But I bet my Dad would not eat this. Haha! As for Chris, he vowed to eat whatever I'd cook! Hehe!

Against any biasness, this is what I've prepared for Little Miss Brown.

Cool right? Like a bunny's idea of a buffet salad bar! She loves the shredded carrot and her all time favourite Xiao Bai Cai, but hated the green peppers and took only a lil of that parsley.

See what the naughty girl did @ the end of the day! Play with food! Mischevious!

Hehe, she was so happy that she binky-ed loads today. It was so amusing to be able to catch her jumping, or rather, prancing up and down the whole time. Joy of having pets.

Till next time, gotta head back to the books.
michelle

And so my first Coach-es

2009-11-04T22:24:00.003+08:00

Boyfriend told me I'll be getting a Coach sling & a wallet, they're so NOT from Factory Outlet hor. Keke. That got me happy, very happy.

I was asked what else I need. Watch? Shopping bag? Ipod? Can't think of any yet, but he better be sure he has more money for my new phone when he's back! Lalala~

Seems like things there are rather affordable. Just Imagine a pair of Levi's Jeans @ USD37!

Been studying on an average of 3hours-4hours daily for the past 1 week. Hope to stay this way until the exams are here. One big problem, is that, I'm afraid that I might not have enough questions to practice on. The lecturer insisted on giving out the extras only to students who are attending the Revision Course.

Going for it means a whopping $185 lesser in my pockets. I'm only left with not more than a four-digit bank balance to last me till exams are over. (thank god for boyfriend) So I hope whoever is reading this, and has extra Financial Accounting MCQ questionaires to share, please tell me!!

Really hope that I can pass, well! What motivates me is the prize winner's prize. Ace every module and the school's gonna pay me back whatever I paid to them! More than that, I WANT to succeed this time round.

Enough of all lengthy post, I promise I'll post pictures on the next update ya? It's been the uttermost boring 2 weeks of my life. But with him being away, I can really concentrate on studies and be independent all over again.

So I am proud to annouce, I've been eating healthy and exercising diligently throughout the week. Cycled to and fro nearby places when I need to get stuffs, jogged with Sundae on alternate days, skipped loads and "Wii-Fit"-ed in goal to gain back my beautiful waiste-line(which had since been non-existence 2years ago.)

current temptation - Long John Sliver get out of my sight!

till then,
michelle

A new phone, he says!

2009-10-23T12:54:00.003+08:00

Yippy!

Can't wait for baby to get back in late November! Not only I miss him so much, but he has also promised me a new phone when he's back.

The initial plan was to get a nokia e71, and probably a subsidised Apple Itouch as well cos my Ipod Nano is like half dead. M1 took me by surprised last week by announcing that they'll be bringing Iphone by the end of the year!

Double yayness!

Hope it'll not be too costly. :)

I wished time would fly, but then again, I wish I have enough time to study. My home's environment ain't very condusive for intese revision. Sigh.

michelle

Mad busy!

2009-10-04T22:03:00.002+08:00

I realised I kinda like disappeared the past few weeks. I've been really busy with school and especially with tuitions which takes up all of my free time during the weekdays, and on weekends, I'm usually obliged to return to Dad's place for early dinner.

Sometimes I feel suffocated with all the schedules I have to adhere to, which leaves me little time for R&R, let alone revision.

Now, I'm stuck between being glad & worried.

Reason? All my students will be having their exams at almost the same time! That leaves me income-less after next Wednesday! How can I not be worried when I only have that little to see me through till end of December?

On the other hand, this will free up more time for my studies. I NEED to pass my papers well. Being mediocre is not my thing anymore. Want to be something, be the best.

I always felt that my potentials are always being hindered by this thing call Arrogance, it is nothing but a bad trait as the proverbs says "Arrogance diminishes wisdom".

So, the plan is to dedicate every Monday, Tuesday & Friday at least 2hours for study. I'll start slow and steady with realistic goal. It'll be good if I can pass 3hour mark for easch session as this is how long I take on a usual twice a week study session.

There's class tomorrow, I'll come by again to update when I have the time. :)

michelle

Fulfilling Weekend

2009-08-15T00:59:00.004+08:00

Was too busy to post this up last week. heh. Baminton, kite flying and prawning!

This little pig was running around disturbing us with her frisbee! Bugging each and everyone one of us to make it fly for her!

Finally got her Daddy's attention but then she felt tired.

Preferred running around freely on the greens.

Her cartoon face!

@ Farmway LRT, where most of Sengkang-ians go to fly their huge kites

Our Humble and tiny kites could only fly short and low.

It was fun nonetheless!

More exciting weekends coming! Looking forward to tomorrow!

hoping for a good weather
michelle

Potato the Big Baby

2009-08-08T13:24:00.005+08:00

It initial planwas to bring him to the park nearby and let him swim in the sea. But! I was kinda afraid that he might be uncontrollable since it's my first time bringing him out, I decided to play it safe. A swim at the enclosed pool in Petgamart was a better choice.

The silly boy, did not know it was a pool, stepped into it clumsily and got the scare of his life!

Close up on his terrified look

Chris braved into the pool full of fur to keep Potato company, encouraging him to put all his 4 paws into the water

We gave up trying, perhaps he'll do better on a weekend with more dogs enticing him to the pool

He loved us!

Manja lil big boy

He's super 'yang orh' one leh!

You think showering big dogs easy? NO HOR! Within 5 mins, I was yelling for Chris to help me out! WHAHAHAHA. Showering Sundae and Jordan Or even Paris together also not as tiring as just showering Potato alone!

His super miserable face. Ahahahaha!

Can you resist him? Hee

He walks like a wild dog while on harness, took the liberty to buy him a half choke collar from Petgamart. He did was a lot better while on the way home, restraining him was a lot easier too!

Looking forward to meeting him again next week! He's such a lovely boy!

badminton & kite flying for today!
michelle

Silence is Golden

2009-08-04T23:27:00.006+08:00

Chocolate craze

Her Daddy shot this. Invading her privacy loh!

Every Little Thing

2009-07-14T13:42:00.004+08:00

The boyfriend bought me this softie when we happened to walk past the Mickey Mouse shop in Tampinese One. Sibei cute! The only softie that's placed beside my pillow. :P

Aunt bought this for my toilet. It's a toilet roll holder! Cute right!

Haha, was trying out some studio shots at home with my super empty and white wall as background.

More improvement needed.

start of my long week
michelle

School's Starting !!

2009-07-01T21:30:00.003+08:00

School's starting in exactly a week's time and I'm proud to say I am excited! My days will then be packed with lectures and tuitions and I'll no longer be too bored being stuck at home! Hah!

Eyed on a few phones recently but am still uncertain on which to get.

-Iphone: source

-BlackBerry Javeline [2G] : source

-BlackBerry Storm [3g] : source

-Nokia E71 : source

Any recommedations?

Attended Andrew's ROM dinner last Thursday at Brio's Cafe in Copthrone Waterfront Hotel. I must say the buffet is GOOD!

Super loved the:

-Clam Chowder,
-Cheese selection platter, especially the Port Salut!
-Salmon Sashimi, super fresh and tasty
-Fresh Oysters, the only oysters served that I did not puke out after swallowing!
-Steam Prawnss, very fresh ah!

Think I ate like about 30pieces of Salmon, 10crackers with lotsa sliced cheese and 6oysters!

I'm so going back there! And anyone in for to have a cheese+red wine party at my place?

tryingtoslimdown
michelle

House Warming

2009-06-26T13:40:00.005+08:00

I cannot remember when was the last time I've been to a house warming party! Might be 3years back? In Jurong when Chester and his family upgraded to a HDUC apartment.

Just last weekend, we attened a house warming party cum birthday celebration at my Aunt's place. I was all excited! Not because of the food or the type of house, but because I can finally see Potato!

Teehee. Potato is my Aunt's newly acquired Golden Retriever! If I'm not wrong, he should be at about 5months of age.

Adorable isn't he?

(okay, I kinda love my smile here, all the pain and $4.5K was worth it!)

Other animals in the house!

The mean female-detesting talking parrot.

2 large tortoise

And the pair of budgies.

She has another dog, a Papilion. Such a Dao-gei dog that I could not even capture a shot of him, let alone touch him. Haha!

Mahjong-ed after food and I lost like $70+ for the 1.5rounds of game! Biggest loss ever! Makan-ed at the nearby seafood place and it was yummilicious and thoughtful for the pockets!

We had:

- Cereal Prawns
- Marmi Chicken
- Sambal Kangkong
- Hotplate Tofu
- 5 bowls of white rice

all these for $47++ and it fills 5 persons tummy fully!

Drinks and beer were paid by the biggest winner! Haha, but still all thanks to me cos I was the biggest loser loh! BLEAH!

Dinner @ Grandpa's place later!

Ciao,
michelle

Excursion!

2009-06-17T22:12:00.004+08:00

When was the last time we actually went on a excursion? Many many months back I guess, and all these time, weekends were spent on shopping and on lotsa food which had made me heavier by the days. So being the recent health/weight conscious me, I suggested a trip to Ubin.

It was a gloomy Saturday morning, nevertheless, we headed out with much anticipation. And this was what my 'Haolian' man wore out that day.

Decided to settle down for lunch @ KFC, which was such an unhealthy way to start of a healthy day!

Bus-ed down to Changi from Sengkang, and it took about 20minutes I think. SK is becoming much acessible but still, I hate taking the LRT!
Nike Visor bought by Chris just because I wanted to wear a cap out that day, and he misplaced my Mizuno white cap which I lent it to him sometime back when he went blading.

At the Changi Jetty!

Haolian man in the boat.

Rented 2 bicycles for $14 until 630pm. I was quite a steal as the previous girl whom we asked, quoted us $20! And when I told Chris to look around first, the girl went "Here all the same one, standard price, sure cannot find anything cheaper." Cheh! I helped Chris saved $6 by walking 10more steps. Haha.

Ubin is a good place to get away from the Urban City. But I wished there were better amenities. Prolly the Village Head should market it better as a 'Singaporean Tourist' place of attraction.

Love this! Kinda candid.

Water point! Coconuts = must have!

After an hour or so, I was feeling super tired tired already!

And this was what happened. He had to push my bike. KaKaKa.

100plus! The life saver!

This is what Ubin looked like 5mins after we returned the bicycles.

I swear I could feel my bones defragmented the night after the trip. It hurt like hell when I tried getting out of bed heading to the toilet! Each step was like a torture! I'm so gonna start keeping fit! Hah!

Some cutsy pictures to end the post!

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lovingyoulovingme,
michelle

Picture post

2009-05-28T14:49:00.000+08:00

note:i have plentiful of pictures, but i shall spare myself and others some embarrassing moments. ugly ones will not be posted

teehee
michelee

Thought I lost camera!

2009-05-26T15:05:00.001+08:00

Stupid Boyfriend! Didn't update me that my Lumix [the smaller camera] was still in his bag! I was frantically searching for it as I had wanted to blog today about the happenings since last week!

I guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow then.

Meanwhile, here are some updates that my rusty brain can remember:

- paid school fees and am eagerly waiting for school to start in July!

- met up with the girls [leen & mel] in town and had superb catch up session @ Waraku & Starbucks

- attended 'Gugu's' [daddy's sister] wedding dinner at Laguna Country club, was fun especially the K-ing before and after Dinner! & did I mentioned the Red Wine that was served that night was superb too?

- got dragged by Boyfriend to go running, thighs aching since Sunday night!

- aunt came back from Ipoh and we had great time makaning @ Ichiban Boshi

- completed the Korean f4 drama!

That's about it. Pictures will only be up in the next post! Tataa!

Fab Weekends!

2009-05-14T16:48:00.001+08:00

Trained down one weekend afternoon to Vivocity. Caught the Movie Friday the 13th. Quite scary, but after a while, it wasn't that intense anymore as they've revealed the killer's face too often.

Marche again! Sorry only 2 shots as the stupid battery konked out before I could take more.

One fine afternoon, my Mom decided to disturb Sundae. Look at Sundae's sian face! WHAHAHAHA Priceless!

Grandma wants her to be super model, the dog who does catwalks!

Just last friday, I've got a call from an unknown caller. Upon hearing her first word, I immediately guilty!

She was my Godmom. She babysat me since I was born till the age of 8! And ever since my parents hored a maid from I was 6, my visits to their place in Bukit Batok became scarce! She doted me as if I was her own, and I think that's partly because she has 3 sons and no daughter. The other reason was obvious lah, how can anyone resist my cuteness right!

BLEAH! Anyways, had a short chat with her, and then decided that I should visit her the very next day as I do not want to procrastinate the visit anymore.

I felt so welcomed, and so loved there! My goduncle and godbro were there. And I gotten to know that since I told MAMA [tt's what I addressed her since young] I'll be coming, she's been announcing it to everyone that came in contact with her and to those who knew me since young.

It was like a scenario where I've been overseas for 5years and finally come home! Heee.. Even Chris thought so!

The whole afternoon, I was showered with food and phone calls! MAMA fried noodles and finger food for all of us and exclusively fed me a hard boiled egg! I suddenly felt so loved.

I promise I'll visit them again soon. I miss my Popo too! Remember how I used to tag along with her to work. Those memories will be etched to my mind forever.

We left Bukit Batok after 3hours+ then headed to Chris' place for KFC dinner. Hahaha. I don't know why I always feel out of place when I go there. :P Left quite early and went to pick Mom up from work at 10pm since we used her car for the whole day[I gave her 10bucks for cab okay!].

Sunday came and it was Mother's Day! We went Kbox Buffet at Leisure Park with Mom and my maternal side relatives. Was fun, but not worth it cos the time limit was 4 hours, from 6pm to 10pm, no matter how big a crowd you have. we had like 13 pax and the time is not enough for all of us to sing till we're satisfied!

So when the lady came to tell it's time for our last song, we said okay, but dragged and dragged till it was about 1115pm before we were actually being chased out. HAha! Price was approximately $28 per person. Sashimi wasn't nice, dim sum was so-so and dessrt was cheapo.

This weeked will most likely be spent at Dad's place. Heh, been trying my hands on some dessert soup and I want Dad to try it. On the way take $$ to pay school fees next week also lah. Kekeke.

More of Sundae baby's pictures! She's like a dead dog in the day! Only knows how to sleep sleep sleep!

cobwebbed
michelle

Happy to the Max!

2009-04-28T12:58:00.000+08:00

Who would thought that it'll be such a great weekend afterall!

We were all supposed to go to Er Yi's house for steamboat dinner, but due to whatever reasons, the plan was changed. Instead, we went to meet Daddy for dinner. Yeap, Mom + me + bf + siblings + Dad! Although no longer one happy family, it's great just to dine like this, with Mom and Dad on good talking terms.

We had good time catching up with one another, and the best thing was, while Dad nagged at Bro & Sis about studies and picking up useful skills, he suddenly turned to me!

DANG! Not working, not studying, just rotting away daily, he's not gonna be pleased. So I meekly asked him if so, would you let me go study accounts? He was like "Ok lah, you wanna study, $15,000 [maximised budget] is not a problem."

Wah, I was utterly surprised loh!

So Kaplan, get ready for ME! Muahahahahaa! Gonna register next week along with my cousin. Hope we'll motivate each other along. Kekeke.

So excited!

Then it was supposed to be a dinner gathering at my Ah-Ma's place. We slept till 1230pm andsaw many missed calls and messages from my bro saying that it had changed to lunch. A bit reluctant to head down to Eunos from Sengkang, but we still went ahead.

And to make the long story short, we had Abalone & Shark's fin for lunch. :D

a happy girl
michelle

A dream + Stuffs

2009-04-24T13:39:00.000+08:00

I dream that my Dad bought me a Dalmatian.

Guess I'm going crazy about having one in the near future. Ahah! My mom would prolly kill me to have such a big dog in her humble home when there's barely enough space for Sundae to have her Turbo Run.

It goes like this:

Dad + siblings + me + a friend of Dad was at some part of China for a holiday. As we were walking along a roadside, we saw a Lady beside her car filled with 3 beautiful Dalmatian parked alongside, as if waiting for someone.

Being Dalmatian crazy even in a dream, I went up to strike a convo with the Lady, and came to know she breeds her show Dalmatians, keep the show quality ones, and sells off the pet quality ones.

THEN, Dad asked her, how much for a puppy, and the Lady said AUD600, and puppy to be released upon 6months of age. Dad agreed and paid her the money!

And that's the end of the dream! It's so far from reality! But anyways, it was a nice dream to have. Hee!

Many days ago, this bf of mine made me so mad for 2 days. But with just a simple gift, I smiled again, it was something I always wanted to have on my workdesk(when I get a job lah! Haha!)

Yup, just a simple gift and it made my day. I'm not that expensive to have afterall!

Just wanna share this cute picture of Sundae that I happenedto take one fine afternoon. Cuteness to the MAX!

Ordered my Mario Kart Wheel online on the 14th of April, it took 10 days to arrive! I was telling myself if it doesn't come today, I'll write to the people at Playasia!

Super excited can!

So far I've got:

Wii Fit
Wii Sports
Mario Galaxy
Mario Kart
Raving Rabbids TV Party
Cooking Mama World Kitchen

Thinking of getting the Raving Rabbids 2 and Mario Party 8 as well, any suggestions to other games that one MUST HAVE??? I need more games!!!!

Bf is on half day leave! Gonna get ready for Movie & Marche Dinner! Yipppeee

love,
michelle

Randomness

2009-04-18T17:34:00.000+08:00

Here I am, on a bright and sunny Saturday, blogging and being all alone in the house except with the company of my chasing dog and scurrying rabbit.

Woke up at 4am with a really bad headach, tossed and turned about on the bed, woke the boyfiend up and he had since been out for some life firing exercise, till late.

Sundae loves to chase Brownie around the house especially when Brownie is up to know good. It always seems like Sundae is trying to tell Brownie who's da boss, and with Sundae looking back at me after telling Brownie off, it looks like siblings rivalry for Mommy.

Haha! It is really that dramatic! Sundae is the ultimate jealous dog ever lived! She just wants to be the one and only. You should see her expression and behaviour. Man! It's totally different when I give attention to Brownie and when my Mom gives attention to the rabbit! She doesn't give a hoot about her!

Acting real meek and cute and innocent! But you'll never know what goes on in the little mind of hers!

Cutie mouth-fy!

I guess she's contemplating whether or not to chew up some wires.

Bad picture, but rare shot!

brownie demands : LET ME OUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

Cute, aren't they?

Had my FIRST Gelare for Year 2009 @ CityLink last Tuesday, like an hour and a half before dinner at Ichiban Boshi @ Esplanade! Yummy for both!

Then we had steamboat @ home on Thursday! Busted about 50bucks for 2. Guess we bought too much meat! Had left over of 1kg of chicken, and 500gm of sliced pork. Greedy me! NExt time we'll just have steamboat outside! Haha

Baby girls got some too! Pork, beef, chicken, tofu, rice, veg!

After the steamboat meal, Sundae's pooping habits went haywire! Can anyone tell me should I bring her to the vet if she's like pooping only once every 2-3 days, and farting almost daily.

Gross shit!

Aunt Vivian was back last Monday. Met her a couple of times since. Treated her to Crab Noodles, we were treated to Jack's Place, then treated to Kbox, and treated to very nice Ban Mian dinner again last evening. Feeling so sinful lah!

I'm getting so bored and cooped up at home! Shall go shower and join my Aunt and Cousin for steamboat dinner at Bugis, bf's gonna be missing out on good food again! Hehe!

Tata!
Michelle

WiiFit, Army bro, Sundae's 6th Birthday!

2009-04-05T23:59:00.000+08:00

5th April 2009!

Alright now, we've been wanting to get a Wii console since eons ago and we finally purchased it today! All these for $560, modded and it also comes with 2 years shop warranty. Pray the shop doesn't closed down within this 2years. Hiak hiak.

I'm hoping to lose weight with the WiiFit. Muahahaha. I hope it'll at least help me burn out 3kg!

So, are you girls ready to gather at my place for some fun?! Hehe. Will be getting more games be the end of this week!

Another happy thing to be happy about is Sundae's 6th birthday! Her very nice Daddy cooked lunch for her! First time in the entire 1.2 years okay! I was having my shower, and I was kinda wondering what's all the noise in the kitchen about when my mom already had lunch outside. I came out after dressing and saw Sundae eagerly waiting and fixing her eyes on her food bowl which was placed on top of the kitchen counter.

Took a look and saw stir fried diced beef cubes and vegetables! Sundae of cos enjoyed every single piece of it. Blessed little girl!

Bought a Banana Muffin from Famous Amos as her cake, and she had half today, and another half for tomorrow's dinner.

Haven't seen my siblings after we shifted. That's like a month already! Man, time really really flies!

Had dinner near their place at the G7 place in Geylang, Mom's treat. :P Bro seems skinnier and got tanner too. Weird hairstlye lah! Botak, but not so botak. Not long not short, I think it kinda looks like porccupine.

Sent Sister home before sending bro to him camp all the way in changi/loyang area! It's damn far!

wii is tiring
michelle

Kuala Lumpur Day 3 & 4

2009-04-02T15:32:00.000+08:00

Day 3 was spent at One Utama. Took a bus there as the taxi tried to overcharge us! RM15 for a short distance. Bus ride was only RM2 per person, but the wait was long. Nothing much there, and we went over to Mid Valley Mega Mall during the 2nd half of the day.

Day 4 we were back at Times Square. It has to be the best shopping centre ever visited in KL. I suggest they have a pet store there too! Hehe.

Pictures!

Their Bus Interchange.

Got super bored after waiting 40mins for the bus to arrive

Our Lunch for the day! Yummy FLOAT!

Bring back memories! But it gum sucks, it was as hard as a RUBBER!

Beri Yummy! Better than Aunty Anne's cinnamon pretzel!

Humongous pet shop which sells practically all kinds of pets and pest!

Bubble tea time!

Wanton mee just round the corner of Chinatown. Not bad, char siew serving was huge! Popiah was nice thou.

Mini Sumsung showroom

This samsonite bad is too cute! Almost wanted to buy it!

Happy guy testing out his new toy

Our loot for the 2 days. I must say the reef slippers were really good buys! Both pairs going at 50% discount, and 20% off on top of it some more! Paid only about 100 ringgit for 2 pairs! One Natural dog treats was about 3bucks cheaper than in SG, bought 2 packets for Sundae, and a water bottle to replace Brownie's occasional leaking bottle.
bagpac My new only at 112.50 ringgit after discount! I tell you! The cashier at Tear Proof in TimeSquare very dishonest!

I was browsing around and asked a sales guy whether tis particular bag is on any offer, he told me there's 25% discount off the original price of RM150, and it'll be about RM112.50 after discount. So happily I wanted it. Checked through the zippers and there I went to the cashier to make payment.

The girl scanned the tag, and said "Yap pah mm sap" [one hundred fifty in cantonese].

A bit shocked, I asked "isn't there 25% off the price?"

She then, keyed in a few numbers and the discounted price came onto the payment screen. Chris was getting out some cash, and being helpful and the blur me, gave the girl one 50 dollar note and seven 10 dollar note and exact coins.

She counted the monies and put in into the cash box, gave us a receipt and went to her own business. Happily I walked out, andthen Chris suddenly asked me

"how much you gave her? I should have one more RM10 in my pocket"

I was like "I gave her exact loh, 50 + 70 equals.... equals.... OH MY GOD! I gave her the extra RM10!!"

So we went back to the shop like 1 min later, and i nicely told her "sorry miss, i think i gave extra RM10 to you just now."

Feeling irritated she was like "CORRECT MAH!" went to check my receipt that I was holding and continued saying "one 50dollar and seven 10dollars MAH!"

I was like, "ya, I should have given you six 10s instead of seven 10s."

Her face L-L and took the RM1o to return.

Attitude and dishonest leh! CMI.

And Chris helicopter. Quite fun lah, but I dare not touch it. Once I tried, even with his permission, also kena screamed at when the helicopter wasn't suppose to fly where i was controlling it to. >:(

On our way back home already! Having good time eating Hello Panda during the 1 hour ride to the Airport!

Back in SG now! Gotta start finding jobs all over again. There's a interview tomorrow morning, hope it'll be a good one!

lvoe you baby for being so ever doting, accomodating and loving
michelle

Kuala Lumpur Day2

2009-03-28T00:07:00.000+08:00

Woke up really late today and by the time we headed out, was about 1plus in the afternoon!

Headed down to Time Square and boy the place was HUGE! With 7-8 storeys for shopping and food. An indoor theme park there, which claimed to be the biggest inddor theme park around. But i think it ain't big at all. :P

Had Kenny Rogers for brunch and it was GOOD! RM45+ for 2 pax with 2 chickens + 2soups + 1drink :D

There were lotsa shops selling clothes, toys[remote controlled tanks/helicopters/planes/cutie stuffs], bags and a few that were catered to the cosplays.

After spending a good 4hours there, we headed down to Bingtang area for Sungei Wang, Lot 10, Pavilion and Starhill by their Monorail!

Nothing much there but a high class shoppers paradise! Not too long later it was dinner time and we had some seafood at a roadside seafood place we chanced upon while looking for Arab Square.

Total damage = RM65.10! About the same price if we were to eat in SG!

Tasted not bad though!

Decided to walk back to Chinatown from Bintang. It was an experience walking on pavements not meant for pedestrians, jay-walking right during busy hour and passing by different zones.

When we got back to Chinatown, we saw this

And so we gotten about 2.5kg of durians, and sneaked it back into our room! Very yummy for that price!

Last but not least, our loot for the day!

Goodnight and Tataz!
michelle

Live from Kuala Lumpur!

2009-03-26T11:41:00.000+08:00

Blogging here in the hotel, finally! after a 35mins flight, an hour's of coach ride, 10mins shuttle ride, and a 20minutes walk, we FINALLY got here!

Along the way, saw 2 petshops across the road. 1 selling dogs and stuffs, the other rabbits and bird. Kinda bad codition for the 2nd one cos the were keeping rabbits and other smaller animals along the pavement, under the sun!

Am going for lunch, and will check them out laters!

Stay tune!

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So, here's the end of Day1.

We've been to KL Suria @ KLCC, all the branded stuffs there lah, and the usualy Isetan & Supermarket.

Had Nando's[similar to kenny rogers] for lunchie and it was fantastic.

Had Sakae Suh=shi for tea! The sashimmi is super cheap loh! RM5.90 only!

Came back to the hotel at about 7pm, fell asleep while resting, and only had Bakuteh for dinner at about 9pm. Walkedaround CheeCheongKai and bought fake and cheap stuffs. LOL

Think we spent more on food than anything else. Anyways, here's our loot for the day.

Renoma briefs[beri cheap hor! RM23+ while sg selling at $16.90. Scented candles at RM1 each, fake oakley and a pair of adidas shorts.

The poor rabbits that were being placed by the roadside.

Others inside, but kept in a very cramped environment.

The cats too.

There were dogs as well. JRTS, English Bulldogs, a Husky which looked more like a Mongrel and Yorkshire terrier being sold at exhorbitant prices. No more pictures cos the man caught me taking some sneakily. The other one has better environment, a typical PetLoversCentre kinda shop, which also smelled lesser.

Got to go now. Really sleepy and tired by now. More tomorrow!

michelle

IT Show

2009-03-17T14:32:00.000+08:00

Woot!

Been really busy and tired man! Helped out my Aunt at the IT Show since Thursday as a cashier at the Sony Vaio booth along with Michelle & Peifen. My legs ached like mad after the first day and the moment I plonked onto my bed, I fell asleep within 5 seconds!

It was really packed and sales was really good! Talked about recession huh. People are buying notebooks costing up to $4199 !!! Out of all the buyers, most foreigners [China & Indo-Chinese] paid by cash, others buy nets/credit cards and quite a number by credit card instalments.

I've never liked the idea of purchasing items by CC instalments, by doing so, you're always in debts! Don't these people spend what is within their means?

Anyways! HoneyBee bought this [okay, I have a part too, paid extra $10, and carried all the way back home for him! hahahaha!]

Acer Aspire One Netbook

In Black.

Source

Well, Original price from retail store is $699, then the IT Show was offering it at $638 on the last second day. Since I know the supervisor there, he gave me a really good deal! $610 + upgrade to 2gb ram + mouse + 4gb thumbdrive!

What more could I ask for!

Good buy IMO! When I went down to the store at Funan to make the purchase[it was out of stock at the show] I was a PINK Lenovo Netbook! SO sweetly designed I think I want one! HoneyBee offered to buy me one, but I think I better get my room furniture settled an dwait till my Fuitsu konked out before getting it.

Unnecessary to spend so lavishly at this point of time.

Talking about the IT Show, I've met really some unreasonable people of a certain race. Crazily saying to me while walking by my booth "Sony sucks!" and walk off! Gutless you STINKY SUCKY little I*****!

And another couple, after going through all the hassle of keying in their order form, getting out the freebies, and doing all the paper work, when it was time to upgrde the ram, which will take baout 3mins, they said they can't wait, they have a flight to catch back to blangadesh! KNN!

And of cos this both incident reminds me of the stupid Sembawang Landlord, and my 2 other clients when I was doing Interior Design.

I will want to have no more dealing with them anymore!

GRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Joined Mom for a trip to Johor last weekend and boy things were really cheap!

Mini Dunkin Donuts originally priced at RM$10.60 for a box, I've got 2 boxes for the price of 1!! Yummy yummy!

"Shi Quan" Duck if buy from Dian Xiao Er will cost more than $30, is only RM42 for 1 big duck!

Made Duck Mee Pok the next day for LUNCH!

Saw the Salt Crystal Lamp by a Pakistan Stall Holder, and he's only selling them between RM$70-RM$85 per piece of 5-7kg! Whereas I gotten 1 locally for Mom which costed me $55 for a approximately 3kg one. Gotten 2 for Nicole.y

The Gui Ling Gao was cheap and yummy too! RM$5 for a big bowl, in Balestier, It's like SGD$6.

Manuka Honey is going at RM$72 while I bought 1 in SG costing $35.60 for a lower UMF.

Can't wait for the next trip man! When Chris go, I'll have bigger spending power! Muahaha!

Updates on Sundae, her new past time, sitting on the arm of the sofa, looking at the on going construction happening downstairs.

sushi tei dinner!
michelle

Busy like a bee!

2009-03-06T14:03:00.001+08:00

Well, I guess I had been quite busy since January till now, thus the absence. Why? Cuz I was holding onto a Temp Job during the period from then till last week. Kinda miss my colleagues already! Here some pictures for memories.

This is where I go to work.

My very cute and loveable colleagues!

They're the nicest colleagues I ever had! *hugs*

Try making a guess on what these 4 people are doing.

Ah HA! Caught in the ACT!! Greedy GLUTTONS!!!

Had J.Co Donuts for our Farewell tea time. Hehehe. It's yummiverilicious!

Groupie picture!

left to right, top to bottom:
Zaini, Shirley, Yeeling, Lyn, Fionn, Michelle, Michelle[me]
Eunice, Caiyun, Kaylee, Vanessa, Michelle

missing people: Shiying, Chuiteng, Janelle, June

It's like the first time having to call people with the same name as me! It definitely feels kinda weird.

Good luck girls, for your A levels Results!

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Some time ago, Dad wanted me to give away both Sundae and Brownie due to the reason that he doesn't want their fur to be lying and flying around the newly built condo which he had decided to shift into.

I started my search for a room to rent along with the pets. Some kind Indian lady staying with only her Mom, agreed to rent the master bedroom to the 4 of us at $550, and so we paid the deposit, got a written receipt from her, and agreed to move in on the 28th Feb 2009 and also to sign the agreement which will be prepared by her agent on that day itself too.

3weeks passed and 2 days before[26th feb] the intended move in date, I had the coutesy to text her to remind her that we're coming at a certain time. There was no reply for the day. The following day[27th feb] I received a reply from her that she'll confirm things with me later when she call. I told her I need definite time now as I have to allow the movers for preparations as well.

She then called me at 3pm, and here comes the BOMB!

She said

I can't let the room out to me anymore.
fuck why?

Cos my Mom's bladder condition had worsen and she'll need the master bedroom for convenience sake. dammit! you only tell me this today?

We had seen a couple of doctors and there was nothing they could do. for goodness sake, you had time to see doctors you didn't had time to give me a coutesy call to inform me at least 3 days before so that I could make other arrangements?

I tried asking around my friends and family whether they had rooms to let, but none of them wanted pets in the house. if you're uncomfotable with my pets, please tell me so. fucking waste my time travelling from AMK to Sembawang 3-4 times to view, pay deposit and prepare the room for my other furniture.

I'm so sorry about what happened, I can give you your deposit back right now since I'm outside. i don't fucking care about the money now!

She's such a irresponsible Landlord!

The first time I saw her advertisement on SG-House forum, she quoted $650 for the master bedroom, after know ing i got pets, she wanted to charge me $750. CRAZILY high for a Sembawang room IMO. She even had the guts to say it's 5 mins away from the MRT when we freaking took MINIMUM 15mins to walked there from her place.

She wanted immediate move in, but I could only move on the last day of feb. So she 'dropped' me, but I told her if by ext week she still hasn't got a tenant, do let me know.

So she called me the next week, I told her if she accepts $550 for monthly rental, I'll give her the deposit if the room is fine after viewing, and she agreed.

We paid her $550 and so, we left the place happily.

I highly suspect that she has gotten a tenant who could pay her more than what we could offer. I was even kind enough to offer her my AMK flat's large fridge and 8.5kg washer to share, and to be given to her when we leave. She was so paranoid and replied me as if we wanted to sell it to her or something.

Irresponsible Indian Woman!

She lives in Block 400+ Admiralty Drive, #03-**.

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Okay, enough of the uneventful day. I fianlly settled ourselves at Mom's place in Fernvale. Her tenant is a Malaysian who hasn't been back for 3 months, and he agreed to let us occupy the rom until he comes back to get his stuffs settled.

So here's Brownie and Sundae int heir new home.

Brownie's Area - Sudden reduction of space by HALF!

Huh, wassup?! Classic facial expression. Don't you just feel like pinching her nose?

S: What are you doing Brownie?
B: Drinking water lah!

S: Don't you wanna come out to play with me?

B: No, I wanna sleep with my little Polary Beary :P

S: Oh, I'll go sleep with my Orangey Snakey then.

Aren't they just adorable? :D

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Sundae spent last weekend over at her beloved sister's place. Look over at Alfie's blog for more!

need a job
michelle

Eventful

2009-02-19T20:35:00.000+08:00

Din't realised I haven't been blogging. Pictures!

Cousin's son

Happily messing up Mr Vainpot's hair

Nephew's cousin from China. Pretty rosey cheeks!

CAtherine, Chris' niece. Very diligent girl ok! Once I stopped guiding her work cos dinner was ready, she made me teach her somemore!

Looks like she's having hard time. Haha

We heart MARCHE! Very yummy! But very expensive!

Went chilling out at Fantasie after Marche. Not bad lah, crowd was so so and drinks were quite cheap.

We went Hard Rock Cafe on Vday. Nothing much, just a dinner and a walk around town. We got the souvenier mug thou.

Testing my camera. I'm loving it!

Jumbo ears rabbit!

michelle

Robbed Love

2009-02-05T13:19:00.001+08:00

even if it means I won't get to live life in luxury,
even if it means there will be no more BMW to drive,
even if it means I won't be staying in the condo,

let it be, let it be

you can't rob me of their love for me, and my love for them
cos they are the only ones who'll bring a smile on my face even on my worst days

and to them, i'm their only world

stop being cruel to them, and to me

Lunar New Year!

2009-01-28T12:15:00.000+08:00

I've got so many pictures I don't know how to start posting! All I can say is, food, ang baos, car rides, more food, more ang baos and more car rides! HAha!

ChuXi - We went out to Suntec before Dinner. Chris bought a polo and we tried Soup at this place, Chris said soup spoon is much better.

Tuna Cheese Melt and Superior Broth

SentChris down to his Granddad's place, then headed over to Hougang for Dinner! As usual, every year my Ah Gong will cook. We had

1. Steamboat
2. Salmon Sashimi
3. Buddha Jump Over the Wall
4. Sliced Abalone in Sweet and Sour dressing [a bit like kimchi taste]

Hehehe. Sounds delicious right?! :P

This is like only 20% of the food, meant for Chris while waiting for him to come over.

Mini Open Bar. See the unique bottle behind the red wines? Chivas Royal Salute, brought over by my Ah Gong.

About 1/2 the crowd int he house.

Tibet, the Tibetian Spaniel! Very hugable!!! Hehehehe.

After makan, we gambled. Heehee. BlackJack, and won about 5 bucks. Continued Mahjong session at Pasir Ris and won another $16plus. Muahahaha. Sent my cousin home, and slept only at 4plus after Chris got home.

ChuYi - Woke p like at 750am to get ready! Ferried and tagged along with Chris and his family around for their house visiting, and after their last stop at his Granddad's place, we went off to The Cathay to watch the FannWong+ChrisLee show, SUPER DUPER DRAGGY AND BORING HOR! Waste money. :P

Then we headed off to Suntec and busted $50 at the Big Sweet Land, we hit a Jackpot again upon reaching Level C. Won a medium sized Winnie the Pooh + 1kg+ worth of candies.

Down to my uncle's place at Tampinese. Had dinner and mingled and gambled. Lost $15.

Somehow I realised, the whole of last year, when using Chris $$ to gamble, 80% of the time we will win. But come this year, whenever it's Chris $$ we lost. So I used mine, and we won the following bets! Haha! Supertitious hor. :P

ChuEr - Gathered at Mom's place. And because it's at Mom's place, I could bring Sundae along! Yippeee. Cooked Fish + Omelette + Veges for her lunch then dressed her up looking all cute and girly and we're ready to go!

Picture with Mommy me!

Picture with Daddy Chris

Then the whole of the time, she was all around the house begging for food whenever someone eats.

Sibei Greedy ah!

Brought Sundae and my cousin down for breath taking, and see how the 3 big kids had fun at the playground.

Happy happy dog!

Wheeeeee...

Cutie pie!

She sneaked off somewhere far, to POOP! But I caught her in action! Muahahaha

She wanna play slide again!!

Lemme pose another one with her. Hiak hiak

Giant Monkey

Big Kid

Haha, wanna try the slide. If you realised, the slide fits only kids' butts and there are not side guards, so abit the scary ah!

The 3 Kids! Sundae baby looks so happy!

Back upstairs, we gambled, and Sundae was being carried by my cousin.

After she came back beside me, my cousin's son decided to sit himself near her, and sweet little on fell asleep on him. So sweet!

With my new cam, we decided to take a family picture, but with only about half of us left during the night.

Huat ah!
Michelle

New Camera!!

2009-01-24T12:50:00.000+08:00

Hees.

I know I haven't been blogging for sometime, but that's because my laptop's card reader can't read my new camera's SDHC card and I had to search for an external one which I bought it few days back.

Fujifilm Finepix S2000hd

Source : www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/9665.html

Had mini celebrations with my colleagues & Chris, dinner + chill out session with the girls and Mom still owes me a dinner. Dad was nice, when he was giving out allowances and new year clothes money to my siblings, I conveniently stretched out my hand towards him, he didn't wanted to give cos I'mnot supposed to take $$ after turning 21. But I told him it was my birthday, and so he gave me $200 too!

Yipppee.

As we were heading off for lunch after exiting the training room, some went to toilet[i thought] and some went back to their tables with me to grab our wallets. Minutes later, I saw them walking out with a mini cake, and sang a Birthday song for me.

Totally unexpected okay! Felt so touched, cos it's only been like 4 days of knowing them and they were so thoughtful already.

Mini Cake & a present from Eunice

After work, Chris met me in Bugis, we headed down to Orchard, making me decide where to eat by walking round and round orchard when he already had everything planned.

Yeap, we settled down at Borders Bistro & about 10mins later, I saw buskers setting up their instruments. So weird lah, never knew the were buskers outside borders and so I imediately knew it that it was planned! Sang 4 songs and went around telling the rest of the diners and waitresses it was my birthday. So shy can!

My Al Fungi. Very yummy!

Steak! Yummy too!

Ambience is not bad, but the constructionat the other side of the road not very scenic.

Present from my brother. HAha, actually he wanted to read it lah, gave it to me firt then afterwards, he can have it. =.="

Met the girls for Din Tai Feng dinner

Got a C&K $50 gift voucher from the 3 of them.

And was so hungry we ate so much, but I only managed to shoot 1 dish.

Char & Dina @ DTF

Eileen & Dina @ Le Baroque

Char & Mel @ Le Baroque

On the 20th, it was our 1st year anniversary. We went Puma Shoe hunting at Queensway, makaned @ the food stall and headed down to Vivocity for more shopping and Dinner.

Very nice weather when we headed out, so decide to shoot a scene. I'll miss it here in a few weeks' time.

Curry Chicken Rice. It's very nice!

Katong Laksa, so-so only lah.

Giant Lantern @ Vivocity

Wanted to have Modesto for dinner lah, went in, sat down, and then we LEFT!!

Why? Cos ah, the menu like nothing interesting and hor, so expensive eat nothing. So we went to ol' good MARCHE.

MY all time favourite, ham & cheese CREPE!!

FEAST TIME!

And a pretty delicious dessert.

Happy 1st Anniversary.

Love Marche!

Went shopping, I thought that this is nice, but he thinks otherwise, what say you?

With my new cam, how can I not take pictures of my pets right? Heres the 2 cutie for you!

Waiting for her treats

Hinting us to go to bed already

Sometimes I think Sundae got Identity Crisis. When I open up the rabbit's playpen, she would go in and sit herself comfortably on the rug. =.="

Dirty big foot.

Taking a rest after helping me dust the insides of the TV console.

Oh ya, saw this bakery at Suntec, their cakes all damn cute can! Hehehehe

Wishing all a Prosperous CNY!!
Michelle

Sofa Adventure

2009-01-08T22:02:00.000+08:00

Whheeeeee~~~

Wah very bright lei

Mom!! I said stop shooting already!! HURMPH

I think i better head back to my playpen!

nibblewibbles
Missy Brown

CNY Is Approaching

2009-01-05T17:30:00.000+08:00

CNY is approaching, and at many places, people are seting up stalls selling CNY goodies, sweets and whatsnots.

After dinner at a small Japanese eatout, on Friday night, Chris saw this and he looked at it so greedily. And so, I bought 1 to satisfy his cravings. He has a thing for muah chee + red bean combo. At $2.20 for a small little piece, a tad pricey, it sure is worth the value!

Sweet shopping at UMEYA. Cute little sweets. A small lil mix & match pack at $2.50.

Headed off to Chinatown for Desserts the next day. Yeap, it was a sunny Saturday.

Look at the Crowd!

At this particular stall, we stood by and curiously checked out what's interesting. Mix & Match going at $1.80 per 100gm for muah-chee & taiwan jelly. We were kinda scammed.

As we looked at the wide variety available, the uncle there kept opening the muah-chees for us to try. Tried about 3 pieces, we thought it'll be so bad not to buy anything. So we picked up a bag and started putting about ten over pieces of muah-chee in. While the uncles kept shouting "Free to try! Free to try!!" to the passerbys.

Here in this picture, Chris was trying the Taiwan Jellos.

What happened was, the cost of the Jellos were higher, from what the old man told the younger man who allowed Chris to try, so we picked about 6pcs into the bag, and asked the man to calculate how much should we be paying.

On the weighing scale, it showed about 600gm++ then the uncle was like "not enough lah, pick a few more, a few more Jellos will do." We were quite reluctant. So I picked up another 2 Jellos to about 800gm++ and asked the unclehow much.

He said "$18." Very scammed loh! Then he put in some extras like 6-8pcs more muah-chees and 2 more Jellos to make it more or less 1kg.

Felt so cheated can! Chris said UMEYA was selling the exact same Jellos at $6.90 for 12 pieces, in a nice box somemore! ARGHZ!

Anyways, after Chinatown, we went down to Junction8 to buy my CNY clothes. Saw this ROSEY dress at Purpur last weekend and finally bought it after much thoughts. Dress + belt + leggings combo at $59.80. Thanks Baby!

Happy me!

Not much places to visit as compared to when younger. CNY Eve Dinner be wearing last year's top [worn only twice] + a short. Then either the the dress or a white babydoll top + silver 3quarters for day 1 & 2. Will be wearing a casual slip in PUMA shoes. Comfy is the top priority for my feet now.

Needa shop for accessories now. Prolly just a pair of earrings and a simple necklace. Got $10 birthday Voucher from Moshi Moshi!! So many things to buy, gotta try my luck to get some cash from Dad. :P

He usedto give each of us about $300 to shop for our own stuffs for CNY. But being hit with the condo loan problem and maintenance problem, plus I'm not supposed to be asking $$ from him after turning 21, I hope he'll at least give me $100, and I'll happy.

22nd is approaching too. Time past damn freaking fast. I'm eyeing on a camera, Fujifilm S2000HD. I guess Chris's gonna buy it for me!! Yippeee...

On a sidenote, I need a job fast, by february to be exact [rule laid down by chris]! Temp job/part-time/whatever lah, so long it's office hours from mondays to fridays.

i heart him!
michelle

It's 2009 ALREADY??!!

2009-01-02T13:22:00.000+08:00

Unbelieveable right? The year 2008 flashed past just like that. I haven done much for the year, felt like I wasted the whole of it.

But here's few of the occasions/stuffs I wished to note down.

1. I got hitched! - hahaha
2. My girlies got hitched too! - hehehe
3. First time at HardRock Cafe - Our first date on the 14th Jan
4. I turned 21
5. First nights at Swissotel
6. Sundae turned 5
7. Travelled to Thailand[bkk] + Indonesia[batam] + Malaysia [genting] in a time span of 6 mths
8. The purchase of our little rabbit

Shall not post any unhappy stuffs. :P

It has not got into my head that today is the 2nd day of 2009. Like it 12 days, I'll be yet again, celebrating my birthday. I'm kinda like dreading it. I'm can no longer be "not a girl, not yet woman" .

Was telling my friends, I'll be putting 21 candles on my cake every year starting from this year. I don't wanna celebrate myself getting old, just wanna remember how it's like being independent, but yet a child.

Anyways, NYE was spent rotting at home for the first half of the day, grooming the rabbit, and then dinner at Swensen's in the night.

Then on New Year Day, we had cakes for breakfast! Yummy Yummy! Headed down to Pizza Hut for Lunch, then to town in search of the best price for my Bday present! Kakaka!

Pictures!

Untidy right pawpaw

Tidy left pawpaw

After chopping her paw fur [only managed to do her front paws], she started rubbing her face all over and then frozed in this 'Pai Pai' position. Getting ready for CNY I guess.

Free Cafe Cartel Cakes!

Pizza Lunchie!

Resolutions for 2009? Nah~!

have a great year ahead!
michelle

Pre X'mas + X'mas + Post X'mas

2008-12-28T15:06:00.000+08:00

I reckoned this will be the longest post I ever wrote. Heh heh. So don't get bored out okie?

Before the house party at Dina's place, Chris & I went town after his 1/2 day work. Shopped

around for some last minute gifts for ourselves and the cousins. Hehe.

Coin bank - All coins are to be deposited into this daily! Once it's full, we'll divide it by 4 to get

the dog, the bunny, the bf and myself little gifts! Hahaha. Right now it's like 5% full? :P

We were in Orchard since like 1230pm? And since then, we've been telling each other "we have

to find those little clipy Santa Hat!"

They are so cuteeeee.. makes everyone who wears them look like little elves! :P Head fitting

Santa Hats are not the 'IN' thing anymore. Haha

So we walked on and on, till we were so bored out by Orchard, we decided to head to Suntec

instead. And VOILA!! Standing in a corner of Coffee Bean at Paragon, the sales girl stood behind

a pillar chatting on her phone!!! So bad loh! Her boss should cut her pay!

It's like $5 for it, since it'll make me happy, Chris got us 1 each! Kakaka! Bt I abit heart pain, cos

so expensive lah! And only $1 goes to charity.

One more shot while in the lift of Cairnhill Place carpark.

This will be the most expensive parking fees Ive paid in my entire 2yrs+ of driving. Freaking

$16.50 for a mere 3hrs plus!!! At the ulu CairnHill Place somemore!!!And I thought it's suppose

to be the cheapest parking in Orchard??!!!

The 2nd most expensive parking was at Takashimaya S.C. for about 3hours also, was at $9++ if i

remembered correctly.

Over at Suntec & Marina we were the only 2s who had them on and pple kept asking us where

we got the little Santa Hats from. Hahaha. Funneh!

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Over at Dina's place!! While waiting for Pizza, Eileen & Melissa + BF

Host for the day.

Mini Candy Canes! Mini is the new 'IN'

Pizza Spread!

And my "niang niang" boyfriend

Games & forfeits! *Hiak*hiak*

I was innocently dragged by QingFang to do this folk dance with her!

Eileen went to a neighbour to spill some tongue twister! Hahaha!!

Melissa objecting kinda violently to what the card says!! Hahahaha.

But she still had to do it!

QF dancing again, got dragged by Dina! Whahaha

BF rolling around the room.

Name responding & sitting on lap.

Melissa2 running around the room like a Rhino!

Groupie Pictures!

Dina with her Paper Towel Boyfriend.

Gift Exchange!!!!!!!

TWISTER!!!!!! OMG I HEART this game! And if u look closely, some of them already cheating

by sitting down! Ahahahaha! And I always got the weirdest position EVER!!!

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No Log cake on X'mas Eve, so we got it on X'mas day! Hehheh! After Lunching & Movie with the

girls, we went walking around AMK Central.

Saw 717 Durian still selling Log cakes, we enquired on the price! $40, reduced to $20!! So we

bought the Durian Flavoured! Muahahahaha.

Delicious! But compared to the original durian cake, this has a lil lesser durian stuffings.

Li'l Santa!

The inner side of the cake.

Chris got me another gift, haha! Inexpensive, but I love it! Remind me of childhood lah! I'm a deprived kid okay!

Then on Boxing day, I made ROSTI for dinner! Yummy okie! Butter + Onions + Garlic + Bacon

+ Potato + Salt and you'll have a nice rosti! Had some Cheese Pasta as well.

See how Sundae's sparkling eyes lit up when there's food? This girl is too comical!

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Still in search of the BF's X'mas Gift we went branches to branches of LEVI's. From Queensway

to Suntec to Marina Square to Raffles City.

Laksa-ing @ Queensway. The standard went down loh. Not as nice anymore.

Finally bought what he wanted at the last branch we went. Bought a Shirt & a pair of Jeans.

Happy Man

Levi's Girl

Gucci Man

Uninterested with the food in Town, we headed down to Quayside for some Japanese Ramen!

Very nice! But a li'l on the salty side.

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And how can I forget Christmas with my Babies? Hehehe.. Here them wishing you peeps out

there a Belated Christmas, and a very Happy New Year 2009!!

another great week ahead!
michelle

IKEA again!!

2008-12-24T10:34:00.000+08:00

Haha! I think it's the second time in a week we've visited IKEA. First was a planned trip to get the necessities for Missy Brown, and the second was sorta "bo-pian" cos I had to bring the BMW to the service centre at Alexandra Road.

What a bad photographer he is

Gayish? :P

I'm like addicted to IKEA's food. It's so TASTY!!! Especially the meatballs, poach salmon and the chicken wings! Yummilicious! Chris ordered the Xmas Hot Plate as shown in the picture. $7, but nothing fantastic.

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It was 'Dong Zhi' on Sunday, Chris & I went back to his place for some 'Tang Yuan', didn't really like the way Auntie cooked it, so I ate only 1 piece from Chris' bowl. Then yesterday, I made them myself!

So happy lah, cos everyone liked it! Kakaka!!

Handmade with LOVE!

Pandan & Ginger + Brown Sugar to taste!

Voila! Daedae had some too! Teeheehee..

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See how this little girl sleeps! I think she's a dog hidden in a rabbit's body! She loves to make her carpeted area as cosy & as snuggly as possible. Haha

Her new carrot toy. Bought it as she kept grinding her teeth on the metal grills, but buy liao, she only chew it a few times, and continued to chew the metal grills during the night.

Bought a bigger and deeper potty for her too. Makes my cleaning easier too. Some forumers are asking how it looks like, so here goes!

You will need :
- Potty Box from Ikea - $4
- Small garbagefrom NTUC bag - $1plus
- BBQ Grills from BTUC - $3plus
- Old Newspaper
- A scoop of cat litter
- Rubber mat - $1 for 4pcs from provision stores

Bend the BBQ grill to suitable area and height.

Line the garbage bag over the potty box, and lay the newspaper over it, along with the cat litter at the corner which your rabbit likes to pee. [you can fill more cat litter if u intend not to change it daily.]

Place the grills in, and overlay it with the rubber mat, cos I find that the BBQ grills quite pain when I put pressure on it with my palm.

And WALAH! Potty just nice for a rabbit + food bowl + hay!

It lessen the cleaning and washing time cos pee and poo falls directly down. So when I clean, I'll just

1. shake off the poo + hay off the rubber mat and bbq grills
2. wrap up the junk
3. overlay with fresh bag + newspaper + litter
4. put the grills & mat back

and it's DONE! and only wash the mat + grills weekly, cuz they dun stink, and no poo get smashed on them.

I used to have to wash the other small potty daily cos Missy Brown would be stepping on poops when the litter box is only half a day old. Smashy poops on mats, and dirty little paws.

Kakaka.

I bought this VITAKRAFT grow-your-own-wheatgrass thingy from PLC. Watered it and nurtured it, all it came out was this!

These are green bean sprouts! The wheat grains didn't pop loh! The guy still tell me can have 2-3 harvest!! I feel so cheated can! $4.30!!! Was thinking if I should bring it back to PLC to have it change! Hahaha! I fed Missy Brown the leaves from the beansprouts, she loves it!

he loves his girls
michelle

Missy Brown's New Room!

2008-12-20T13:33:00.000+08:00

Chris is back!!! And like he promised, we went out on Friday and got me whatever I need! HEhehehe... He's been complaining about wallet being in pain since last night.

Waiting for cabby

Headed down to IKEA for shopping & super duper late Lunchie. *Yummy meatballs*

Got stuffs like :

-Mirrors
-Mini Tentage
-Rug
-2 Mini Soft Toys

And 6 pieces of super cheap playpens from the petshop nearby my house! Only at $45!!

All these things for who?!!

The Tiny girl lah! See her room so spacious now, compared to the little 3ft cage.

See the kay-poh dog at the side

Her little house and the elephant guard

Love her expression!! My bro told me she had a good time messing up the rug & chewing on the playpen the whole of last night. *NAughty Girl*

This is the space allocated to her when my dad is not around. :P So she can have more space to run about and climb on and off the shoe rack, in and out from behind the door! And she's loving it!

Just hope that she does chew on my dad's golf bag. :X

more to come
michelle

Delayed Flight

2008-12-17T21:47:00.000+08:00

oh y*Dish*

Chris was supposed to be back 3hours ago. 2 out of 3 airplane from the air force konk-ed out before they could fly to India to pick them up. So my poor baby belonged to the group which had to stay for another day.

Hopefully everything's good and he'll be home tomorrow evening, and that Daddy doesn't have anything on, so that I can drive the car and pick him up!!

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Did quite a lot of stuffs over the week. Some eventful ones:

- Makan at Dian Xiao Er and watched Quarantined with Dina. Regreted the choice over Bolt when we saw the film. Ultra GORY!!! *puke*

- Ate at Thai Express, again with Dina. The food not nice! And so expensive loh! 2 bowls of noodles, 2 drink and 2 side dishes cost us almost 60bucks! Ichiban for 2 also not so exp!

- Went on a secret mission for a surprise for the BF. After which I met up with Lynette whom I haven seen for 2yrs? haha! Headed down to petgamart and while on the walk out to the main road, blardy hell, got this WHITE MITSUBISHI LANCER OF LISENCE PLATE SJE 3161 D, knowing that road was bumpy with lotsa mud holes, still drive so fast and mud water came splashing upto my thighs. IDIOT! Luckily I was wearing a dark coloured short. HURMPH!!

- Met up with Eileen & Mel for din din! So fun lah, chat until forgot the time, and the BF called and nagged at me. :P Leen.... I want the picturesssssssss.....

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I realised my rabbit is a damn lazy girl! She can lie down and eat! Attitude & lazy. Her daddy say machiam mommy, but I don't think so! I think she's more like daddy, schemeing rabbit! Hurhur!

My papa going China again, don't know wanna bring in what stock this time. So thinking that means I got car to drive, I already planned out my itinery for the shopping trips to 1.petgamart, 2.Ikea, 3.Giant, 4.ECP and so many more things. BUT! Daddy ask me to send it to the Alexandra service centre the next day.

Grrrr...

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I did something not very nice today. Haha!

Went for Kuay Chap at Bishan with Bro & Dad, so naturally, I didn't bring my wallet lah. After makan, we tapao-ed Satay, Dad paased me some monies, asking me to wait for it, while he'll go get the car from the multi storey carpark.

He passed me one $5, one $2 and some coin amounting to $2+, so I stupidly (read on and u'll know why i said i was stupid) asked "Enough meh, give me more!"

Then he go ask uncle lah! Uncle say $7.50! Wahhhh.. my dad immediately ask for all the coins back loh! Stupid right? If i never ask, still got $$ to buy at least 2 cans of drink!

Told him I wanna buy drink, he still fight with me over the coins.. He like small kid leh sometimes! I think the hawkers there all laughing at the both of us as I gave him back coin by coin with my expression going "please lah....kelian me...i'm thirsty.." Then end up left me with $8.50 before leaving. Zzz...

Don't know why I so confidently and thick skinned-ly walked over to the drinks counter asked the auntie there "auntie, $1 can buy what drink?" [okay, i sounded stupid again]

Auntie said "don't have lah.."

Then I paused a while, getting ready to walk back to where my bro was waiting then the auntie said "Teh-o peng lah.."

Happy me got drink so i said ok!

While she was making the drink halfway, the cashier auntie reached out asking me to make payment, I passed her $1. She was like, "Xiao jie, it's $1.10." I sibei paiseh, then I swiftly took back the $1 which she was still holding out and said "ok auntie, I come back again!" and ran back towards my bro.

Brought my bro to the minimart to buy 2 cans of drinks with the dollar, and got him to collect the satay from the coffeeshop while I waited for hom elsewhere.

SIbei paiseh can! Don't know since when I become so Auntie!! And felt super bad about making the drink that was made. :P

Told my papa when we got back to the car, and he laughed like mad! Haha! Then! Just before we got home, he conveniently dropped by the petrol kiosk to buy 2 bottles of drink! Tell me mah! Make me so mah lu and paiseh at the coffeeshop just now!

But he got his retribution for being so mean to me! He bought 2 bottles of drink at $5.95! HAHAHAHAAHAH... KEna chopped by the 7-11 at the shell station!

filled
michelle

Disappointed

2008-12-15T20:23:00.000+08:00

I just don't know
whether it's you or me

each time I put my time and effort
with the intention of a surprise
I'll always end up with a reaction
that's totally the opposite of what I expect

I just don't know
don't know anymore

It happened on your birthday
It happened again today

is it you? or is it me?

Faces of a rabbit

2008-12-05T15:47:00.000+08:00

Who would thought that rabbits could have facial expressions? Take a closer look!

Sleepy head!

*falling into lalaland*

Startled Bunbun!

*huh!? who?! where?! what happened?!

Sulky face!

*cheh! mommy & the pointy thing! stop disturbing my sleep!*

Scardy cat!

*iiii..ii....i..dun want to cut my nails!!

F*ck off face!

*can't you see i'm cleaning myself here?*

And wonder what a rabbit's life is like?

Eat!

& sleep!

Super good life hor! Sometimes I think I really want to be someone's doted pet. Got shelter, got food, got toys, got companion, can sleep & eat & play as and when you like! Machiam no worries at all. Hehe.

'Nuff bout the wabbit. Met up with Dina & Wantong last night, to town for Ichiban dinner since I got a $30 voucher, decided to share with them.

Then walked to Takashimaya for some branded goods shopping. It was so crowded lah! Cos the big brands are going on sale and the queue is like looooooooonnnnnggggggg.....

Dina called & asked me to go bowling in the afternoon, till now no sound no shadow. :P I shall spend my day finishing up my cross stitching.

12moredays
michelle

Thought of the day

2008-12-02T15:41:00.000+08:00

Came across this in an online forum, and thought that it was really meaningful and thus, sharing with all my readers here.

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and the boy was the apple of their eyes. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.

When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words.

What do you think were the four words?

The husband just said "I Love You Darling"

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he have taken time to keep the bottle away, this will not have happened. No point in attaching blame. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or who to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. We miss out some warmth in human relationship in giving each other support. After all, shouldn't forgiving someone we love be the easiest thing in the world to do? Treasure what you have. Don't multiply pain, anguish and suffering by holding on to forgiveness.

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, there would be much fewer problems in the world.

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unwillingness to forgive, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think.

So, take a step back, and see how you can handle things a better way before jumping in for someone to take the blame.

Bunny Craze

2008-12-02T13:24:00.000+08:00

Totally smittened by this little girl.

*hide & seek*

Did some changes to her little homie. Added a hideout for her at the right, and a food holder outside her pee tray so that she has more space to pee & poo in comfort. Cuz previously she would sometimes pee over the edge ofthe pan, and pee will settle on the wall and floor outside the cage.

I DIY the food holder from a shoe box, haha! HAve a closer look!

A little high for her, she gotta climb up a lil, and put her 2 little front paw up to reach for the food, so cute! hope this cardboard thingy be able to last until her daddy's back to buy her a bigger pee pan and house. Gonna upgrade her to a 6pc playpen setting once her scabies are cleared.

2 more weeks
michelle

Lil Missy Brown

2008-11-27T15:51:00.000+08:00

Also known as Brownie, this little girl is just too cute! Some pictures to share. Teeheehee

little missy round headed

relaxing in a corner during her roam time

little missy grooming bun

smelling my bra, ops!

little missy double chin

Little missy in her little house

"Mama can you close the gate now?"

Brought her to the vet last night, got scabies and furmites, yucks! But the vet said it's pretty normal for rabbits to get it when in a petshop environment. Busted another $72.15 on her. Expensive rabbit.

20days to his coming home
michelle

Early X'mas Present + Darling's Birthday

2008-11-24T21:49:00.000+08:00

22nd November 2008, a lil more than a month away from Christmas, Chris bought me the cutest & sweetest present ever!

She was brought home the 2nd night after we set ours eyes on her. Looked through the number of rabbits for adoption online, but none other caught our eye. Cost a total of $226 for Brownie + 4.5kg food pellet + 1kg hay + 35Litres litter. :P

Such a sweet little cutie pie! & a smart one too! She learnt to pee & poo in the letter pan in just a day, and wasn't even scared of my dogs.

She's one inquisitive little girl, whenever I let her out of her cage, she'll explore around the kitchen non stop! Sibei curious and sibei cute lah!

Had Popeye at the Airport later in the night. Don't know whats the rave about, but I think overall it's too salty for consumption.

Celebrated Chris' birthday the very next day. Started off with a mini treasure hunt at home!

Look what he has found:

Jin expensive okay! *broke*

This guy so blessed loh! BOTH Oakley [glasses & shades] also no need he pay money!

Plan was to the Zoo, but before that, have to have lunch first right!

Liquid's cafe @ Sembawang.

Nice & affordable. $30bucks for 2 mains & a cup of flavoured soda!

After popping in and out of the few petshops across the road, we finally got to the Zoo!

Self proclaimed "shuai ge". *Cough*cough*

Went home, nuaed a bit, play with Bownie a bit, play with Sundae a bit, then it was time for Dinner!

Went to Premier Thai Restaurant @ Sembawang again. The place Dina once introduced me to. Dina ah, the shark's fin serving become smaller liao, but price is the same! ZzZZzzz..

Didn't take picture for the Crab Tang Hoon, too engross with eating. Kakaka!

Busted $140++ The ice cream is very nice! :D

While on the way home, poped by AMK hub to get a cake, saw 717 Durian stall there and bought the super yummilicious durian cake! 500gm for $20

No pictures for cake cutting and etc, cos the silly man says he doesnt wanna reveal his age. HAHA! Those who dunno his age, you wanna guess? No prize thou. :P

my birthday's nearing again *sigh*

michelle

Fun! & More Fun!!

2008-11-19T10:04:00.000+08:00

Started the week off with meeting up Pf, we haven't seen each other since like, what? 3months? That's a long.. long.. time.

Went to town for: Food & Shopping! Haha,like what can be new in town right? While waiting for our threading appointment, we sat down at DQ, she had some uice, & I had my all time FAV Brownie Temptation!

This guy who prepared the sundae, was so generous lah! Had more than enough brownie cubes & almond nuts! Hehehe, I was so happy when it seems like forever before the brownies were to be all eaten up by me.

Brought the 'kar-chengs' out on Sunday. First to Petgamart to pick up some pet supplies, then to Pasir Ris for Escape, entrance fee was freaking cheap can! 3 adults + 2 children only for $36!! Think they're having some kind of promotion for their anniversary.

We're up here....

& they're down there, opposite us...

Always have this 'ITCHY' feeling from my chest to my thigh area when I take these kinda rides. I love thrilling rides, it's fun screaming, but it's the 'itchiness' that I cannot tahan! Sometimes it feels like my soul is trying to 'fly' out of my body, hence the 'itchiness'! HAhaha! I'm laughing at myself now. :P But, none of you experience this meh? Or am I the only weird one?

Theme Park in SG ish cannot the make it can!!! Got so bored after like 3-4 rides before we left the park. Headed over to the beach area, we bought 2 kites and the 4 [me, aunt & her 2 kids] of us successfully flew a kite on our first time!

Fly! Baby fly!

Very fun I tell youuuuuu....... Wind was strong enough, and we wished we had longer strings to let the kite go higher!

That's my fun weekend!

Sundae had a eventful day as well, check her out at her blog, think I've neglected hers for too long! Hahaha.

my cutie pie!

michelle

Fun!

2008-11-04T12:31:00.000+08:00

Spent halloween with Dar, Dina, Melissa & bf. Fun with the Drinks, Uno Stacko and Twister game especially. HEhehe. Pictures up!

And the WINNER of the yucky Combination of Baileys + Red Wine + Coke ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Taa-Daa!!!!

Twister game next. First time playing and I was in the most awkard position I could be in my life!

Can you see me?

Dad finally brought me golfing! Quite fun lah, cos funny especially when someone noticed me when I missed the ball, or when the ball rolled down the range instead of fly off it. HAHAHAHA!

more lessons to come
michelle

Fun Sunday Out

2008-10-13T17:59:00.000+08:00

He's really at the wrong place at the wrong time man. So was said that there were numerous molest cases going around in Woodlands and my Darling happened to be of about the same height and was in about the similar attire[basketball attire] as this bastard when the policemen were patroling that day.

For nuts he got detained for 36hours. Sigh! The police better nab that freaking bastard soon.

He should have his hands and dick chopped off, or use a cheese grater to slowly grate them into tiny little pieces and let him scream in pain that no other men would even want to think of doing anything funny to girls.

Missing and worrying about him made me grow a few more pimples on my forehead, but 1 good thing, I lost some weight! But when he was back, it all came back again cos we kept going for good food like chomp chomp lah, sushi tei, BBQ etc. He said the food they serve in the lock up was worst than a dog could want.

Brought Sundae to Pasir Ris Park on Sunday. Her first time there and boy did she enjoy the trip! She swan, ran along with Chris on his blade, sat in the basket with me on the bicycle and had a great time running about in the park.

Before going to PasirRis Park. Were at the food centre in Balestier for some makan.

Daddy giving her some swimming lessons

Cutie pie!!

Showing off her swimming skills

Meanie daddy got sundae to chase me, and used sundae to pull him along the park. *bish*

Sitting happily in the basket. She wouldnt stop acting heroine lah! kept standing on her 2 hind legs, trying to get better view.

Faith's Mummy prepared this for the dogs as it was Faith's birthday. Very yummy okay! Even I ate some of it. Muahahaha.

Stupid girl got into a fight with Nono again. This time, her layer of her skin kena ripped off just like 2 cm above her eye. Not bleeding as of yesterday, but I could see the insides of her muscles. Yucky right! Right now it's drying up already, luckily it's not swollen.

Can I give Nono away?

Sigh
Michelle

be safe honey

2008-10-08T01:10:00.000+08:00

as i'm losing sleep over this
thinking about the "what-if"s

but in the depths of my heart
i'm praying that you'll be fine

and that this was just simply a routine check for them
that you're still my perfect boyfriend

your mom & dad is worried as well
for the training at wallaby which you're gonna miss

come home soon dear

just call my name, and i'll be there
your dearest

Call me! Sms me!

2008-10-06T08:15:00.000+08:00

Ooh-la-laa~~

Went Chinatown yesterday. How Aunty/Uncle can we get?

But hey! Things there are SUPER DUPER cheap and value for money okay! Except for some blacklisted vendors.

Mango-pomelo-ed at the dessert shop in chinatown, and in search of a water/camel bag, we headed to the old shopping centre[dunno what is it called :P].

First shop we popped into, only had 2 pieces left. Both branded Nalgene. One has a price tag of $147 [i think] and the other has no tagged on, it looked nicer too.

Picked that up, and we asked the uncle

"How much ah, this water bag?"

uncle 1 searched for price tag, unsuccessful, turned to uncle 2 who seems like the boss

"$79 I sell to you lah, very good deal, this one branded."

Chris still zipping the bag around, fiddling with the water pouch & sucktion mouthpiece

"Wah, so expensive ah. Beach road there sell cheaper leh uncle."

"Beach Road there selling how much? You quote uncle a price lah, if suitable then uncle sell it to you. I wanna clear this cos it's not sellable here in Chinatown."

Chris very daring loh! He likes to play negotiation games, and he did just that like what he did in BKK.

"$49 lah." [He dared quote $49 when his colleagues got theirs from Beach Road between $60odd to $70odd]

"Ok lah, sell to you. This is sure way below cost. Very good buy."

Chris still thinking. The bag seems to be on displayed since eons ago!

THEN! While zipping & pulling out stuffs from the pockets of the bag, Uncle2 seems to spot a price tag! Guess what it says?

Freaking $116 !!

BUT!

Uncle2 was very nice lah. He say since agreed to sell to us already, he'll still stick to his words. And yeap, so he paid $49 for a Nalgene water bag which was tagged at $116.

*Happy*

Me holding onto the "laoya" Z3 phone which was given to Chris which he handed it down to me when I lost my e65, and him holding onto the super basic LG mini toy lookalike phone which have problems receiving sms at times, we decided to shop around for phones!

Phones there also very cheap hoh! But non of the Nokia/Sumsung/SongEricsson caught our eyes, then chanced upon a shop selling some China made phones.

This uncle and XiaoMei very bad. Tried to carrot chop our heads. The phone looks nice, can watch TV, got FM, big screen, resolution also looks good, surround sound, able to play mp4 & whatsnot.

The best of all, the rest of the shops int he building doesn't carry it. So when asked, he quoted us $330 per handset without contract & without trade in as well.

He even offered us a more attractive price if we were to purchase 2 handsets.

Sounds pretty attractive huh. But we didn't buy. Cuz

number1 $330 for a handset is CHEAP, but for a China made, don't be too sure.

number2 haven researched enough for China made handsets

number3 the 2 people there looks so happy when we had interest in it, but face changed when we told them we'll walk around somemore.

Chris suddenly remembered there's a shop selling China Made phones at AMK Central. So we headed back just out of curiousity while on the way there to purchase some baking trays.

And you know what?!! The guy selling soley China made phones quoted us only $228 for the same handset! With free screen protector & a disney phone pouch!

Now, now, it's geting cheaper and more appealing to just buy it on the spot.

Bought our stuffs and went back to the shop. Asked for a better price since we're getting 2 handsets. Lowest price he coukd offer was $220 per handset. Still cheap lah, for a pretty, touch screen, TVmobile & unique phone.

Mine's the purple, his the black.

Aunty Vivian and her other niece got so tempted by the phone lah. Especially when it's dual sim. Good for them cos they have Malaysia Sim card also.

Gonna bring them down to buy later in the afternoon. I'll ask for a better deal! Hiakhiak!

Recently, gotten quite into baking.

So for starters, tried out pork cookies for the dogs. Basically, very simple lah, just mix everything in, cut the right shape with the right thickness, baked until done, and VOILA!

Chris did most of the cutting. Hee..

The 2 pigs at home loves it. But not good judges, cos they're so ever greedy. But when I brougt some over for Rio to try, he ate it without hesitations!

*having a great sense of achievement now*dance*dance*

Shall bake meatloaf for them the next time. Banana & chocolate muffins coming up!

happy baker
michelle

Sit the Cousins

2008-10-02T12:46:00.000+08:00

Babysat the cousins over the weekend cuz their mom went back to Msia to attend a wedding dinner.

So Chris & I became parent for the day.

Brought them to Kid's Kampong for fishing,

then to Pasir Ris Park for a 5mins Horse Riding which cost $10 per pax, blardy expensive hor!

followed by a 1.5hrs of cycling session, Chris bladed.

Have kids around, really no time to romantic. Gotta look out for them lah, remind them to drink water, ask them if they needed the toilet, if they were hungry, if they were tired, etc.

Was planning to bring them home for a shower then to Ding Tai Feng for dinner in the evening. But upon reaching home, they wanted to play Maplestory. So Ta-pao-ed some food for them, then Chris & I went on with our programs.

Ichiban Dinner! Yumyum

and caught 2 minis @ the arcade. So happy okay, spent about $11 for 2 of them. Greatest achievement so far! First time kena from the 'kiap-kiap' machines. :P

Caught the movie 'Mirrors'. Story ok ok only lah. I'll rate it like 6.5/10.

Was Children's Day cum Hari Raya yesterday. Where's best to go? East Coast Park! I finally persuaded Chris to dump his pair of old blades given by his ex, for a pariof freestyle blade.

The newly bought was nice and he loves it to the max. He paid himself lah. I'm not so rich to buy him a pair which cost like 200over bucks after the Oakley loh. Broke like shit now.

I learnt how to turn right, over a wide angle, but I can't do the same for left turns. So irritating lah! Grrrr....

I'm gonna practice every week. Who wanna join us on Saturday evenings? :D

michelle