Lunch today was 2 hours, so I took mum and Melissa to China Treasures at the Sime Darby Convention Centre to have some Peking Duck for lunch. And we also decided to have the buffet dimsum ~ which was pretty good!

The food...



The company...




Lunch was nice. So full after that. Tonight another round of eating binge and karaoke session! Will post photos if I have photos...

My first birthday present this year! (Dopod not counted...)





Thank you Ema & Syami ~ Will open the pressie after work!

Muaks!


Updated after office hours...

Opened the pressie!



2 bottles of rum (aka shower gel) and a mini basketball! - which is actually a bath fizzer! Never had this before ler... I will now need to go more often to hotels to borrow their bathtubs. Hehehe...

Again, THANKS Ema & Syami!

It's 28 of September 2007 today.

I'm 28 today.

Wonder if I can get "28" in the following year?

"28" in Chinese is "Yee Fatt" = Easy Rich.

So how rich am I gonna be the coming year? Hehehe... Do I see a BIG bonus in the future?

Cute cartoon from Stickgal.

You Are 9: The Peacemaker



You are emotionally stable and willing to find common ground with others.
Your friends and family often look to you to be the mediator when there is conflict.

You are easy going and accepting. You take things as they come.

Avoiding conflict at all costs, you're content when things are calm.

At Your Best
You feel connected, trusting, and fulfilled. You feel at peace with your place in the world.

At Your Worst
You compromise your values to make sure peace is maintained. You give in to bullies.

Your Fixation
Harmony

Your Primary Fear
Causing conflict

Your Primary Desire
To preserve things as they are

Other Number 9's
Marge Simpson, Ronald Reagan, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Seinfeld, and Abraham Lincoln.

What Number Are You?

The punishment for blog-hopping! Terkena Ms. Reny's meme which I simply must do - Hehehe...

5 Things In My Handbag
1. Purse
2. Baby Dopody
3. Notebook
4. Portable hard drive
5. Spectacle case
5 Things In My Purse
1. Money
2. Credit Cards
3. Receipt (which is always thicker than money in my purse)
4. Loyalty cards (Jusco Card, Metrojaya Card, MPH Card, Aussino Card, Real Rewards Card, Leo's Card, Bonuslink Card, etc.)
5. Syillings

5 Things In My Favourite Room
1. My bed
2. My nonsense collections
3. My pillow
4. My books
5. My stuffs (all the other miscellaneous stuffs too many to mention here...)

5 Things You're Wearing Now
1. Undergarments (duh!)
2. Blue uniform blouse (Monday mah!)
3. Black pants
4. Black sandals
5. BUM watch
5 Things I Would Like/Love To Do
1. Go for a holiday
2. Always have money for shopping ~ then can always buy pressies for family and friends
3. Do nothing at all
4. Work on crafts projects
5. Decide what to do with my life
5 Things I'm Currently Doing
1. Doing this meme (double duh!)
2. Listening to Anuar Zain's Teman Terulung (addicted to it ledi ~ check previous post)
3. Facebook-ing
4. Reading The Star Online
5. Erm... working?

5 Friends I'm Tagging (if they come around to reading this la...)
1. Adik
2. Azim
3. She Ling
4. Kak Chik
5. Yin

Good morning! It's Monday! Again!

On Mondays, I wear my blue uniform - to commemorate Monday's Blues!

Well, decided to be more positive today ~ so sharing some stuffs I like. A must-see everyday to make my day happy... even though I cannot buy them directly... sigh...

One website I simply MUST visit everyday to take the blues away...

Cuteables
This website collects all the cute stuffs (hence the name), ranging from bags to clothes, accessories, home deco. You name it! Like this picture below, isn't is darn cute?!?


Lauren Alane’s needle felted birds

A recent post by this fella I stumbled online for a good dose of local entertainment news ~ he's Ning Baizura's and Nikki's manager. His latest post was on Anuar Zain's song TEMAN TERULUNG ~ which I am hooked! Will contemplate buying this album! Behold! The power of blogs!

Enjoy! Song is at the top of the page.

Bila bertaut senyuman
Mata berlirikan
Memancarkan keluhuran
Cerah kesederhanaanmu
Seindah kejujuranmu

Detik seia sejiwa
Terungkap setia
Tiada upaya sepi
Mekar kudup penantianku
Hadirnya teman sejati

Melangkah kita menjejak mimpi
Bahagia berdiri dengan mu disisi
Harapan kita meniti hari
Sentiasa seiring

Paling agung teman terulung
Tenunan emas sayap hidupku
Tak inginku undur bertamu
Bertakhta teguh
Ke akhir waktu.

Song : Teman Terulung /Anuar Zain
Composer / Lyrics : Azalea

Have a happy Monday!

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It's our last day here in Singapore. After checking out from the hotel, our hosts, Uncle Sai Hong, Aunty Jillian and Cheh2 Suzanna took us to lunch at --- omigosh! I dunno where la. Just know that the food was soooooo yummy! During lunch, took a lot of photos of my nephew, Ari Xuen. Cute or not?



Occassionally snapped a few on the others lor.



Food also got camwhoring share.



Good food! Good weekend! Good time!

Will be back --- pretty sooner than you may think. Hehehe...

Note. Many thanks again to Jess (who was having a headache) and KW for picking us up in KL when we arrived. Ole-ole will be given when I see you again. Really appreciate your help.

This is the very main reason why we were all down in Singapore for the weekend. Our dearest cousin Ling Fung was getting married! And dinner was held at The Fullerton Hotel. It was an elegant affair. Check out the photo collage.







The night was IMHO a success! The setting was classy and elegant (like the bride!) and the whole gang was there! We all don't look that bad either... Hehehe... Seen me in a dress before? Haha!

We started out from KL with the 10.45 bus on Thursday night. Many bunches of thanks to Jess and KW for being so nice, sending us to Berjaya Times Square to catch the bus. So here's us on the bus just when the ride started, and then shots of us at the Golden Mile Complex, Beach Road, Singapore where we waited for Diana and Leo, her hubby to pick us up. We were bunking at their place at Pasir Ris for a night.



The next day Diana took us to Vivo City (which is near Sentosa Island) for some walkie-walk and a lil' bit of window shopping (yeah right!). We wandered around most of the outdoor garden/park/splash pool at the rooftop of the building, camwhoring of course with Tin Tin the Snowman and Gambi lookalike characters which were ALL Diana's favourites. Diana was my coursemate when we were studying in uni and she's now happily married to a great fellar and residing in Singapore. I have not seen her for more than 2 years so we had lots of catching up to do.



After all that walking and camwhoring, naturally we became hungry-er and went off looking for food. Luckily, there's a food court just next to the park (sheer stroke of luck I tell you - haha!) and so we went to Food Republic for dunch (dinner + lunch). Check out the food court interior. It's like you're dining at a Shanghai higher class joint and not at one of the most expensive interior decorated food court in Singapore (fun fact by Diana).



We had Singapore's version of Hokkien Mee (yummy!), Herbal chicken, dimsum (which we could order from push carts wandering around the food court, same with drink carts), Pai Tee, Lotus Root Soup and mum of course went for porkies innerparts (euw!).

Oh, forgot to take pics of 2 very interesting drinks we can find here. It's called...

WHATEVER
and
ANYTHING

I actually read about this drink in Boss Stewie's blog and only on this trip do I get to finally try these drinks. Honestly, nothing very great la. Just the novelty of having such interesting names. So peeps, be careful what you order for drinks while you're in Singapore yah!

After tummies are all filled up, more camwhoring at the park! ...since it's like, just next door - duh!



The orange 'seat' is actually an orange 'Gambi' character we were sitting on. Slippery surface as we tried to kept our composure - with success! Yay!

Note. The characters were named Gambi by Diana as they look so alike the Gambi character we use to have on teevee. There... the plasticine animated character which can change to many different things. The character was grey but we are so happy to see many colourful Gambi lookalikes at the park!

Then we went to Daisho! It's a 2 Dollar shop in Singapore. It's the same concept as Hinode we find back here in Malaysia but I tell you, the stuff there are way way way better. I spent SGD86 there! Which means it's 43 items. Time spent? Close to almost 3 hours. Phew!



Then we chilled out at Starbucks for a while before leaving Vivo City to the next planned plan. Supposed to take a drive around Clarke Quay and near Fullerton Hotel, but last minute change of plans when Uncle Leong called mum to let her know he's at the airport and so... guess where we headed off to then? Guessed right! We were at Changi Airport in a jiffy!

The next day, Diana and Leo took us to Tampines Mall to have Siu Long Pau for lunch. Yummy! Siu Long Pau are dimsums looking like mini paus but inside it's filled with delicious soup and porkie meat (and crabmeat in some)... I had wantan noodles and mum had duck noodles. Diana had what looks like fishball noodles and I honestly did not notice what Leo had! Hehehe... Sorry. Too busy eating and camfoodwhoring.



Melissa was not with us as she was with her friend Gwen for some hanging out time. Too bad!



So, name of the restaurant is Din Tai Fung and it's on the 2nd floor of Tampines Mall. How to get there? Go look up a map. I simply have no clue! Hehehe... But then, it's Singapore. Just hop onto a MRT and you can somehow end up where you wanna be.



After lunch, Diana and Leo kindly sent us to our hotel booked for that night's stay courtesy of cousin Ling Fung, whose wedding dinner we will be attending that night. Thanks so much Di and Leo for your hospitality during our time with you. Will return the favour when both of you are down in KL next month. Let me see... KFC, Vietnam Kitchen, Marche etc. All planned out for you ledi wan. Hehehe...

Before I end this post, check out the hotel room we stayed for the night! We were booked into Holiday Inn Park View at Havelock Road. It's just a stone throw away from Orchard Road.



Note. After penning all of these down only did I realise that the travelogue is not complete. There are some photos I failed to take at that point of time! Aisehman. Will be improving on that.

I will be writing about my Singapore trip last weekend once office hours is over. Too time-consuming to be done now.

Watch this space.

Woke up (late but earlier than usual - nothing unusual there).

Drove to work (like... duh?).

Reached office.
Punched in.
Sat down at my cubicle.
Switched on my monitor.
Went to the pantry to make green tea.
Sat down at my cubicle.
Check e-mails/blogs/news.
Got called to usher the media for press conference. (Very fat-burning exercise coz have to go up and down, up and down between 2 floors to usher.)
Had some macaroni, spaghetti, sandwich, coffee.
Usher media up and down, up and down.
Press conference.

Lunch time. Accompanied Ezan to do her nails. Then at Kopitiam Taipan for lunch. Had Nanyang Kopi-O Iced and Ipoh Hor Fun. Ok-lah.

Bought an adapter for Mel's hair straightener. Will experiment tonight.

Back to the office. Prepare car for YKH. Work. Lepak. Work. Goreng pisang panas for tea. Ate some. Work sommore. Toilet. Lepak. Work.

No time to catch up with today's news online and blogs. Technically office was over like 1 hour 20 minutes ago. Here I am writing this before packing up for the day.

Hope tomorrow's as productive as today.

Hah!

Yeah right!

Lot's of things to do tomorrow.

It has been a heck of a month! Last month I mean...

This is how much I'm earning online...



Like dem sad can! Hahaha! Come on people! Keep the flow coming...

Right, since I have nothing much to talk about my ordinary life, for now, let me just list down what I'm doing - or trying to do...

I'm reading this book (see below)



and also this book...



I'm switching between 2 reads, depending on when and where I'm reading. As a habit, I must read before going to sleep at night, so I take the lighter read (pun so very the intended). If I were to hold the Harry Potter book, my fingers will be super numb holding the 3-inch thick book!



What else? Oh yes. I'm heading to Singapore middle of this month to attend cuzzie's wedding at Fullerton Hotel. Bus tickets - check! Hotel accommodation - check! Return tickets - check! Currency - Nochet! Transportation to bus station - nochet!

Where I will be staying? Well, 1st night I'm bunking with a good friend, Diana at her new place at Pasir Ris. Lots of catching up to do.

Next day we will be checking into Holiday Inn Park View Singapore for a night, paid for generously by cuzzie Ling Fung, the bride!

I could be sleeping in here...



Or here...



Or here...



Well, I'll take a photo of MY room when I get there la... Current photos taken from Holiday Inn's website for previewing purposes only.

Gonna be spending loads or money this month. I have spent a lot liao, buying clothes and shoes and accessories for the wedding, and I have not changed my money into Singapore currency yet! Wahliau! I will be broke when I get back so will then eat bread for the rest of the month.

Yippi!

Sigh...