Broken Love

Lay day of 2011...

2011-12-31T22:38:00.003+08:00

Wow... Here we are, already on the last day of 2011. I must say, this has been a really eventful year for me.

Let me start first with my job, I got my first full time job this year, as a customer support engineer. It was challenging, my degree after all was in Psychology, and everything that I had to do was so technical, and not everyone of my clients was exactly pleasant. I admit that many times I wanted to quit, but without another job on hand, I endured for the sake of financial security.

It was also about the middle of the year when my relationship took a turn for the worst. At this juncture I wouldn't point fingers and say whose fault was it. I guess at the end of the day putting 2 people together at the end of a hard day at work/school led to tensions and much arguments. There were many good memories and for that I am thankful, but in reflection perhaps we weren't exactly all that perfect for one another.

The breakup led me to another phase in my life for which I am thankful, which was to pursue photography fully. All the while I have been shooting with compacts, mostly my SE Satio which was a handphone with a rather nifty camera I might add. But I decided to invest in my first DSLR, a Canon 600D. With a DSLR, I came to realize it is not just about pointing the camera at something nice and snapping away. There are many different parameters to consider and adjust, which I mostly got used to by shooting more. Initially, I was shooting alone till Terry introduced me to SPIN. I eventually joined an outing and pretty soon I been participating actively in their outings and meeting the wonderful people there. I really learned a lot from them and that has helped me grow as a photographer.

Salsa... After some persuading from Shu Wei, I eventually decied to join back Salsa. And I was pleasantly surprised to see that Gary was still the instructor. Initially, I felt strange and out of place, after all, they were from the same batch and I suddenly came upon their midst. But through more lessons and more social, I got to know them better and they are all great people to hang out with.

I guess that pretty much sums up the major happenings for my 2011. I would like to thank all the people who made a difference in my life for this past year.

First to Sharon, who made me grew through our relationship together, to better prepare me for the next one.

Secondly, to the members of SPIN, who make photography so much enjoyable through the many outings and allowing to hone my skill as a photographer.

Thirdly, to the people at SIM Salsa En Soul, to whom rekindled my spark for Salsa and dancing once more.

Lastly and also most importantly, to my dear friends and family who has stuck by me through all the ups and downs in this year. I am thankful to have all of you through my journey in 2011.

New year resolutions, how can we end a year without them right? XD
1) Take my photography to greater heights - Key areas ( Portraits, Food)
2) Improve my social dancing for Salsa
3) Get a Psychology Related Job

Thats all, and I will like to end this year with some of my best works from 2011, enjoy :)

National Day

Lemur

Abstract

Canon Photomarathon Entry 2 - Circles

Happy - Japanese Spritz

Foodies Outing with Spin - Soft Shell Crab Maki

Coffee Club - Chunky Monkey Cake

Hebe Autograph Session

Unión De Ritmos - Salsa Performance

Changi Beach - Light And Darkness

Lunar Eclipse

2011-12-20T01:11:00.000+08:00

I should take more photos of people/portraits/events.

It makes me feel all warm and happy and sitting in my chair with a silly grin as people comment,share laughter and having a good time despite that the event has past.

Makes editing and sorting through the photo totally worth it.

*Note to self: Go take more shots of people and improve in that area*

2011-12-15T10:52:00.000+08:00

I know it has been quite a while since I last updated my blog. Been really busy recently, but one thing that I'm very happy about is that... I HAVE UPGRADED MY CAMERA GEAR! Sold off my 600D with 18-55mm kit lens and changed them to...

Yup! A Canon 7D with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 Wide Angle Lens!

Broke in my new camera with a Ubin trip the next day, the sunrise on this day was really spectacular!

Really love my new camera and the fps I can get on it. 15 continuous shots in under 2 sec before there is any delay! But it was during the Lunar Eclipse that I realized my old tripod had to go, it couldn't support the weight of my new camera and kept shifting. I ended up with double images even on the tripod, so I guess that will be the next thing I will be getting. But I still managed this shot of the Lunar Eclipse. Shot using my heavily under utilized 55-250mm.

And Salsa training is currently stopped at the moment, but I tried social again and I must say that it is quite intimidating. Looking at everyone around doing fanciful spins and moves while I kept just doing basic turns and a little more with my partner. However, the girls I danced with saying that my moves and strength is all there, just that I need more confidence. Well, I will worked on that and try to social more. :)

And I have to be more tightfisted over the next 2 months, dipped into my rainy day fund to get the lens on top of my new camera, not to mentioned with now being the Christmas season and there will be parties I need to attend, the gifts and misc costs wont come cheap. Thats all for now! Till next time!

2011-11-21T01:00:00.000+08:00

Quick update!

My life now couldn't be better. Actively involved in Photography and Salsa. Met many new and wonderful friends who share the same interest. Been going out a lot more, and taking more photos than I have time to edit. But as compared to a few months back where everything was looking so grim, I must say that things are starting to look up again! =)

Only thing that could make it perfect now is getting a job that is related to Psychology...

2011-11-09T12:01:00.002+08:00

I really made the most out of my Hari Raya Haji holiday.

I was up at 5am and traveled all the way to Punggol to try and photograph the sunrise.
Met up with fellow spinners and chatted till our lao da Wilson came. 4 of us, 4 cars,convoy all the way from our meeting place from Punggol MRT to Punggol Point End. The light rain stopped at the point of time when we arrived, so the air was fresh and the view is spectacular.

I was still in a daze from the lack of sleep from the previous night so I just set up my gear and waited, didn't really think much about the composition (other people who went for the sunrise shoot had much nicer composition T_T). Here are my humble shots of the sunrise.

Those who went for the sunrise shoot minus Wilson, since he was the one who took this photo. And also the one whom I kope this photo from :P

We went for breakfast at Jalan Kayu, long time didn't eat that. Prata galore before I headed home to get a quick nap. 30km from Jurong to Punggol and 30km back @_@

Didn't really sleep but I did managed to get a little rest before it was time to head off to Punggol again for the Buffalo Wings Outing with the Spin Foodies. It was my first time trying out Buffalo Wings! ^.^ We ordered wings from level 0 to 4. I tried level 3 and I was thinking, hmmm... not too spicy what. So I tried level 4, ended up tearing as I was eating the wing. And when the kick came in, my mouth =O Some photos of the outing, credits to Wilson for the photos again :P

After a while, luckily my mouth felt back to normal and it was soon time to meet the other Spin members for the sunset shoot. There was a lot more people this time round, and I really had a hard time getting a good composition for the shot, since there were people to my left and right.

So this is what I got in the end :)

What more can I say, a day of nice photography, good food and great people. This is how public holiday should be spent :P Anyway, looking forward to more outing with SPIN peeps ^.^

2011-11-04T17:27:00.000+08:00

Those who know me personally should know that I personally enjoy taking photos of food I eat. Yesterday I went to a food photography/eating session at KOME Japanese Dining @ Keppel Club.

The food were good and I managed to get in some nice shots as well. Enjoy! Don't drool too much =P

P

2011-10-21T14:03:00.001+08:00

Pretty much sums up how I'm feeling for today =P

2011-10-18T16:52:00.000+08:00

Photography is not a cheap hobby, recently I have just spent another 1k on a 100mm L Macro Lens. But since macro photography is always something I want to try, this lens should last me for a long while.

Took some photo last weekend, I really wanted to take some really nice insects but they seem to be hiding from me. Aside from a Moth, I ended up taking Macro shots of flowers instead. Here are some of the better shots of what I took during the weekend session at my house area.

What I love about Marco photography is that as we go about our daily happenings, we tend to miss this small objects, so through my photos, I hope to show the grace and beauty that these objects possess.

While I eventually figure out how to work this lens to its full potential, please bear with my sub par photos XD

2011-10-05T15:08:00.000+08:00

I wonder if you still have feelings for me, if only we can start over again, this time I will not let you go...

Even after all these years... You are still special to me...

A million love songs

2011-09-27T16:02:00.001+08:00

Looking to the future now
This is what I see
A million chances pass me by
A million chances to hold you
Take me back, take me back
To where I used to be
To hide away from all my truth
Through the light I see

A million love songs later
And here I am trying to tell you that I care
A million love songs later
And here I am

2011-09-25T02:16:00.003+08:00

Was taking a walk down memory lane by chancing upon some really old photos in my hard drive.
I realized back then, I had it all, but I chose to give it up...
What a fool I have been...

2011-09-13T14:57:00.002+08:00

Took part in my first every Canon photomarathon on Saturday. Went there with flipside 200 packed with Body with 35mm f/2 attached, 18~55mm, 55~250mm, 580 EX II with other accessories like remotes/batteries/cleaning kit. Had my tripod attached to my bag as well. Ended up using almost everything I packed, so at least I can't say that I have been lugging all that heavy stuff around for nothing.

Theme 1 "Eat"

Personal Thoughts: Background is distracting, tried to blurred it by using a large aperture of f/2. Composition had to be tight since no post processing were allowed including cropping. Challenge for this shot was to move in close since I was using a fixed focal length lens while not scaring the subject to stop what she was doing. Happy with the way the shot turned out.

Theme 2 "Circle"

Personal Thoughts: I wanted to use props for this shot, so I checked out an art supplies shop. I found the designs of the clocks very interesting so I decided to bring my circles around the concept of time. I used a few other accessories to create the composition for this piece. Shot against the background of the grass because I felt it gave a nice contrast to the subjects. My only issue is that I should have used a smaller aperture so that the month of September could be seen as well. But I needed to have some blur on that part of the image since it wasn't a real circle and I have to achieved that by keeping it blurred. Lastly, applied in-camera processing of "Toy Camera" effect before submission.

Theme 3 "Imagine"

Personal Thoughts: Although this was the composition I wanted for the shot, my idea was to have a subject looking from the outside of the store at the manikins. The idea is to blur everyone else that is walking past, but keeping only the subject and the storefront in focus. Because I did not dare to approach random strangers to ask them to pose for me. This was the best I could do when I lady conveniently stopped by the side of the store. I personally enjoy taking shots with long exposure and this is one field which I am sure to try out more in future.

Final Thoughts: With consideration that this is my first photomarathon. I think my submissions were decent. In comparison which the winners, I could see that I still have a long way to go. The winners shots were creative, had excellent composition and their lightning was perfect. It is very interesting to see how people can interpret the same theme so differently. I have learned a lot from this event, and after seeing the work of others, it only pushed me on to work even harder than before.

Hopefully, in a few years time, my shots will be good enough to bag at least one of the prizes. I shall be working towards that... =)

2011-09-05T01:42:00.001+08:00

This song is really meaningful, its about how the mistakes, pains and suffering from our past relationships actually prepares us for the one that truly matters. The one which will come at the right time if we patiently wait for it...

"要走完每個曲折路口我們才懂愛是什麼...
我們就耐心漂流... 愛會來的在對的時候"

2011-09-02T13:04:00.004+08:00

Hebe is releasing her new album soon. I was listening to a couple of her songs, and this one especially stood out to me.

When I was listening to this song, I just thought of my ex, memories of all the times and moments we spent together just came floating back to me. Although it has been a while, I'm still sad that we had ended our relationship just like that...

可是...我真的很希望你还是要幸福...

2011-08-31T10:34:00.000+08:00

Truthfully, I already suspected it. I told myself to move on, I know that I'm fighting for nothing, that I'm wasting my time holding on to something that will never be mine. And I really thought I DID moved on...

But somehow when I saw the news, it was like a knife stabbing my heart repeatedly again and again. I don't know why I was this badly affected as well, after all, I kind of expected it before this. I just realize, the truth hurts, I didn't get over her as I have claim but instead, avoiding the whole issue and just hoping that things would get better...

Ended up drinking heavily and doing something I know I will regret in future...
But at that point in time I didn't care, just wanted to numb the pain.

First time in my life that I felt so devastated, even worst than after a breakup...

But you know what... You've always been special to me, even if life takes us in different directions, that will never change.

"Sometimes everything needs to fall apart before they can fit together right"

All I can say that, things can only get better...

2011-08-29T15:45:00.002+08:00

Always be careful when changing your photographic equipment on site...
I dropped my ND filter into the sea =(

My mood was killed then, but I still tried to continue with my shots.
Here is one of them...

Anyway, had an awesome day out with my buddy, many jokes, laughter and fun as we are working on our individual shots. Next on my agenda is to work on my portraits...

Volunteers anyone? :P

2011-08-21T23:46:00.004+08:00

Enough with the distractions, back to photography! ^^

Today went to pick up some photography supplies, got myself a CPL filter for my prime and I wanted some backgrounds for some abstract shots. I was sure that the shop I had in mind will have what I needed, unfortunately they didn't. But still, I managed to get some interesting backgrounds for a few ideas I have. Will try to put it on film once I get everything together =)

I wanted to do some street photography, but I damn paisei, dare not to shoot at random passerby, so I end up shoot tree instead -_-" Will try to overcome this problem soon and hopefully produce some nice shots.

Lastly, I shall end my post with this abstract photo.

Am I really there to you?

2011-08-17T23:36:00.001+08:00

Maybe it was all just a dream...

Dreams

2011-08-17T09:38:00.002+08:00

How true are dreams a reflection of reality?

Last night's dream showed me a very clear meaning.

If this dream is true, then it will be certain of what my next step should be.

Lately, I have been feeling lost and not knowing what I actually want.

For a while, I found some comfort and the feeling it brought was truly wonderful and made me believe again.
But that was short lived and brought me crashing to the ground harder than before.

I should go back to the things that really mattered to me; those that has never left my side despite my wavering spirit.

2011-08-17T01:11:00.001+08:00

I wish life would stop throwing me curve balls...

And it's not like I have a shortage of friends either, but somehow...

I don't recall when I ever felt this lonely...

Back after a long abscence

2011-08-07T17:13:00.001+08:00

It's been ages since I last updated my blog. Since then, so many things have changed. After my last relationship fell apart, I decided to pursue my passion for photography. Picked up a Canon 600D with a kit lens, as well as a 55-250mm lens to start me off. Frankly speaking, compared to my last POS camera, there are not so many things to consider and after so many weeks of shooting, I'm still not really sure what ISO/shutter speed/aperture to use. But I'm slowly improving my skills and hopefully it shows in my photos as well. A few of my personal picks can be found in my online album (link on the left) and I hope you will enjoy them. =)

On another note, I'm sure my close friends heard me saying this to them a couple of time; that I will do want want to get into another relationship so soon because I wish to concentrate on my photography. I also jokingly added that the only way that I will do otherwise is if the right girl comes along, and that may even take years!

However, lately I been spending time with a certain someone, somehow it just feels so right when I'm with her. I really enjoy her company and many of her actions never fail to bring a smile to my face. After what happened with my previous relationship, I lost hope in relationship and really feel that they were overrated. This special someone brought back that hope and spark to me again. I really feel that this could be different. But, I don't wanna rush this and mess up everything we have going so far.

This song from Lady Antebellum really basically sums up what I'm feeling now...

Anyway to end this update, I will be heading down early to the Marina Bay area on National Day to get a good spot to set up my equipment for some firework shots. If anyone happen to be in the area, feel free to drop by and say hi! Also I hope that my shots will turn out good this time =)

2010-10-26T00:57:00.001+08:00

Today I have a random thought, one should not leave any unresolved disagreements or arguments with another person. What if that person is no longer around or end up in a state that is even worst than death? I guess this feeling would probably be one of the worst feeling in the world. The feeling of wanting to make amends and being helpless to do so.

There is why I never liked to drag any arguments for too long, until the matter is resolved, I will feel really terrible.

I really really hope that such a situation will never happen to me or any of my love ones...

2010-06-25T04:02:00.001+08:00

Can I have this dance?

Take my hand, take a breath
Pull me close and take one step
Keep your eyes locked on mine,
And let the music be your guide.

Won't you promise me (now won't you promise me, that you'll never forget)
We'll keep dancing (to keep dancing) wherever we go next

It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you
It's one in a million, the chances of feeling the way we do
And with every step together, we just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance (can I have this dance)
Can I have this dance

Take my hand, I'll take the lead
And every turn will be safe with me
Don't be afraid, afraid to fall
You know I'll catch you threw it all

And you can't keep us apart (even a thousand miles, can't keep us apart)
'Cause my heart is (cause my heart is) wherever you are

It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you
It's one in a million, the chances of feeling the way we do
And with every step together, we just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance (can I have this dance)
Can I have this dance

Oh no mountains too high enough, oceans too wide
'Cause together or not, our dance won't stop
Let it rain, let it pour
What we have is worth fighting for
You know I believe, that we were meant to be

It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you (like you)
It's one in a million, the chances of feeling the way we do (way we do)
And with every step together, we just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance (can I have this dance)
Can I have this dance

Can I have this dance
Can I have this dance

2010-05-08T18:50:00.002+08:00

Its been a very long time since my last update and I thought it would be proper to have one now.

I have survived this semester and I must say that it wasn't easy. I worked harder than I ever did and I even took distractions to a minimum, I stop logging onto maple and settled with passive games on facebook. I work harder on projects than I ever did before in my entire time at UB. Although I ended up doing most of the work due to team members who didn't really care, there were also those whom I can count on as well. I'm especially thankful to the wonderful team members from my MGM classes who despite being in their first year could rise to the occasion and together we achieved an A for our report and A- for our presentation. It was a pleasure to be able to work with you guys. I wish the same could be said for my other project members who despite being in their senior year produced work of such quality that I believe even a high school student can deliver. And so after striving hard for this whole semester, I must say that I'm quite pleased with the overall results. A little disappointed that an A unobtainable and I miss an A by 2 MCQ questions, but we have to learn to thankful with what with have. For that, I am grateful to the wonderful cast of lecturers who made learning this semester so much more enjoyable!

As for my Japanese lessons, I have completed my 2nd semester clearing the final exam with a score of 84%. Although it isn't as well as I hope to get but I must say that my Japanese has really improved tremendously since I first started. Currently, I already quite ok with my Hiragana and I can even remember some of the more commonly used Kanji by heart. Hopefully by the end of this semester I can do the same for my Katakana =)

あの時、私は　ほんと　に　愛してる。。。どうして　いま　私たちは　たにんあつかいに　なりました。。。

And I still an avid S.H.E fan as always. Took a recent photo of my collection and I was actually quite surprised with the amount of stuff I had hoarded over the years.

Sad to say, by the time I decided to go for their concert, I couldn't get the tickets anymore. But in the end at least I still went for the autograph session. It was at Plaza Singapura and I spent a good 9 hours with Alex, Wei Rong, Ming Hong there and although it was exhausting, it was very fun! I even bought a lanyard xD

And I got to see my idol in person, Hebe!! ♥ My heart melted when she smiled at me as I shook her hand. Hebe forever! =D

And after all those long hours, we finally gotten our autographs! This year they signed on cards especially given out to us fans. To protect the autographs, all of us went to get ours laminated xD A very satisfied autograph session indeed!

As for games, I'm sticking to passive games at the moment. Games like Ghost Trapper, Mouse Hunt, Fish Wrangler and my most recent addiction, Cafe World! Last time I had dreams of opening my own Cafe before, and this game sort allow me to live my fantasy a little. The fun part of course is decorating your Cafe, I have made mine to resolved around sweets. Welcome to the Sweet Surrender! ^.^

Lastly, I shall end with this poem I read about recently. Its very nicely written and its something I'm all of us can relate to.

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim

Because it was grassy and wanted wear,

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I marked the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

In life, there are always choices to make and have you ever wondered how life might be different if you took the other path back then? Its been more than half a year now and even now, sometimes, I will think back on how things might be different now should I choose to walk the other road. Alas, in life great journey, the path we walk are often irreversible and come with their own obstacles. And after choosing a path, we have no choice but to stick to it and face whatever that lies before us. Treasure the past but look to the future.

On one last ending note, tomorrow I shall be heading to Taipei with Charlene, Xavier and Aixia. Its a trip that I have long been anticipating and I hope that everything will goes smoothly for us. Shall enjoy myself as much as I can since when we get back, its off to my final semester of UB. Cya in a week! =D

2010-04-06T21:58:00.002+08:00

I just feel that something is missing from my life.

As of late, been busy working on assignments, presentations, reports.

What exactly do I really want?

Grades may be important but still there is something missing.

Something that will motivate me to press on day by day, something to look forward to.

Something that make me feel alive again.

Where can I find it? :(

Burberry

2010-03-18T00:29:00.004+08:00

With the midterms finally behind, I am glad to say a hectic part of the semester is over. Although I can get a breather now but it won't be much considering all the project stuff that is upcoming. Also I didn't do as well on some of the midterm as I hope for. Its discouraging especially I really wanted to pull up my GPA this sem. Just hope that I can do well for the finals =)

Anyway was looking through the Burberry collection and I must say that some items really caught my eye. Shall be saving up my money for sure and at least something from the list. Anyway who have side jobs to recommend is greatly appreciated. =D

Anyway the items that caught my eye are...

STONEWASHED CANVAS CARPENTER BAG

BRIT CHECK ID WALLET

THREE LEATHER STRAND BRACELET

BARBED WIRE AND LEATHER BRACELET

The BARBED WIRE AND LEATHER BRACELET and STONEWASHED CANVAS CARPENTER BAG are oh so yummy. Probably the first items on the list I would get should I even get any. The price tag is nothing to sneeze at too. Oh well, time to start job hunting =P

2010-03-08T12:24:00.002+08:00

Been missing for a long time and decided to spare a quick update.

As for now, I have taken a temporary break for maple. The time spent on there could been better utilized in improving my GPA. However I do miss my friends from there, and I will try to stop by from time to time.

Studying in school really helps, there are just too much distractions at home. I would have done better for my COM 225 midterm but on that day, I woke up the same time as the start of the paper. So I do not have the luxury of doing it at my pace, however I must be thankful that I can still complete it on time and got a decent grade. But my aim for that course is an A, hopefully I can make it.

For MGM 301 midterm, I think I did pretty ok, but what irks me was that the guys around me were blatantly cheating. I really hate people who do not work for their grade, and totally taking advantage of the lecturer's good nature.

2 more midterms coming up, and although the lecturer is very nice to us, but we are yet to see if his midterms will be as lenient as him.

My Japanese is getting better, and I must say that I enjoy the lessons very much. I will be sure to continue the next semester after this one ends and I hope by than my reading of katakana is better =X

Gaming wise, I have stopped all active games and went for passive games on facebook, which includes Ghost Trappers, Mouse Hunt, Fish Wrangler and Myth Monger. And an occasional auditionsea which I promise some friends that I would join them.

And with weekly mahjong sessions and some outings here and there, I must say that my life at the moment is pretty nice. I do wish I have more friends so that should I want to go out at any time, there will always be someone there whom I can ask to accompany me.

Thats all for now, free feel to add me to facebook if you play any of the above games :)

2010-01-12T01:04:00.002+08:00

Saw this pretty rainbow outside my house window just the other day =) Anyway, school has officially started. And I am missing my hols, badly. There is so many things that I said I wanted to do during the hols that I end up not doing. =(

So far, the first day back in school wasn't that bad. Initially I thought I was going to be along this semester since Vanessa and Amarit took different mods from me. But I found out that in COM125, Im in the same class with Timny and Eugene for CSE111. So I just it won't be that bad after all. And the lecturer for both these modules is damn nice.

Yet to see how the other two classes are like. So hopefully everything will turn out ok. =P

For this semester Im taking

COM125 - Introduction to the Internet

COM225 - Interpersonal Communication

CSE111 - Computer Science

MGM301 - Principles of Marketing

And my finalized timetable is

Monday 12-1.30

Tuesday 8.30-10 , 12-1.30 , 3.30-5.30

Wednesday 12-1.30

Thursday 8.30-10 , 12-2

Friday 8.30-10

Apart from tuesday and the fact that classes start too darn early. I think my timetable is pretty decent this semester =D Hopefully I can cope with the workload and bring up my GPA this sem! ^.^

2010-01-05T02:34:00.000+08:00

Went to meet Van, Nat, Skye , Ian at Citylink New York New York for dinner. Been a long time since I last saw them. And Nat won't even be joining us when sch starts since she graduated already. Skye and changed school, so we won't be seeing her as well. As for Van, I did not take any similar modules as her this sem so won't be seeing her much as well.

It was very fun, just a chat among friends, enjoying the good but expensive food. Pity the other couldn't make it. Or else it would be even better. I was really stuffed after that. I blame Van, she make me share everything with her =P

And found this photo way back from long long ago. Thanks Anne and Yu Han for the chocolates! And I remember them coming all the way down from Tampines to Jurong just to pass it to me. It was so sweet of them, I was rather shocked when they turned up at my doorstep. But we had a good time playing left for dead 2 after that. Good times xD And the chocs really helped when I was studying for the clinical psych finals =D

2010-01-03T03:50:00.000+08:00

Went for a new year cruise. Was suppose to go together with my ex as we book long time ago. But since we broke up, so I went instead with my parents. I had my own room tho, the feeling was bitter since I thought of the past times which I went on cruises with my ex.

Nonetheless, we all had to move on and leave the past behind us. So I tried to enjoy the cruise, and actually, I was able to do just that. Gotta say I still love watching the disney channel, I'm still a young kid at heart =P Plenty of nice movies during the new year period on disney channel too, watched HSM 2 , 3 and even Wall-E.

Other than that, was in the casino playing dices. It was very fun, even tho I lost 100 in total. But I lost 300 in the first night, and won 200 in the 2nd night. So I did recover a bit of my money xD And u meet many interesting people in the casino, the couple beside me actually place 1000 dollars on a single bet O.o Scary! LOL!

The cruise stopped at two places this time, port Klang and Langkawi. Shopped a little at both places and bought some chocs and goodies. The chocs at Langkawi were duty free, so I went rampant and bought those I usually wont bear to buy xD

The new year party on board the cruise was quite entertaining, and they even gave out champagne to everyone. This year my new years resolution is simple...

1. To put the past behind me and move on.

2. To study harder this time round, be it school work or my Jap.

And many unpleasant things happened at the end of last year, hopefully this new year marks a fresh start with many new beginnings and good things to come ^.^

Cruise photos are below =P

2009-12-18T04:47:00.001+08:00

I miss the feeling of being loved. =(

2009-12-14T23:25:00.004+08:00

So many things have happen lately. I really wonder where should I start... also its has been too long since I last updated my blog hence there is much to update.

Well I guess I should start with school first then. I am officially on break now, till mid jan! I am so going to enjoy this hols! However, there is still the matter of what grades I will be getting this semester hanging so till they are released, I doubt I can really enjoy my break. However, I do know what I'll be getting for Clinical Psychology, if my calculations are correct, I should end up with an overall B+! Much better than what I had expected, considering I screw up my first three exams. I do have to thank my finals for it which I got 41/45. Definitely made my day when I heard the results. Although I wished that my Journalism finals was as smooth, the questions were hard and the editing section was hell. Furthermore, my last essay wasn't up to scratch as well. The teacher actually wrote, "Interesting but simply unbelievable. Seems fictionalized, like a Hallmark special." Damn, she actually saw through my fake story, and to fake a story in journalism is asking for death. LOL. Oh well, shall pray that I do all right for that course. Speaking of courses, in my next semester, for once I am taking courses that neither Vanessa nor Amarit is taking. Since the first sem, I don't recall taking anything without them. Oh well, hopefully I can see some familiar faces so that classes won't be hell to go through.

Japanese class? Although I promise myself to brush up on my Hiragana and Katakana, I am still having trouble with them. Reading Hiragana is fine, writing it from memory is the hard part. As for Katakana, it doesn't like me and I don't like him too I'm afraid. With the first semester of Jap class drawing to a close and an impending exam, I really hope I can get my act together by then. I seriously hope so =X

Mahjong? My luck has been down lately, I so far I keep losing money whenever I play. When I open my hand, all the tiles are so loose and spread out I can barely see any connection. The tiles are bullying me as well, with almost ever draw amounting to something I don't need. This has never happen to me till this state before =X Lai, mahjong tiles guai, daddy sayang you. Let me recover my losses this weekend xD

As for games, currently I decided to play back maplesea as requested by Nini. Guild reunion =P But its as been a good three years or so since I quit and there are many new things which I did not get to experience last time. So I might say that its rather interesting for me. And I'm playing an Aran now, really fun char to play xD Though after some time of grinding you hand will hurt. xD And its fun to maple back again with the old gang, Rana, nini, Prince, Crabbe and also our new friends as well =P

As for meeting up with old friends. Met up with Meng Hui, Sim Yee, Tiong Po , Farui and Ming Zhong after their exams and had a mini outing. It was fun to catch up with everyone again and I am really glad that our class is actually quite close despite it being only a secondary school class. I guess this is almost 10 years since we have being classmates and its good to know that we are still in touch. On top of that, looking forward to the class BBQ happening at the end of the month. And looking forward to see everyone who are otherwise normally too busy to meet up ^.^

Also met up with Rie whom I didn't really spoke to much for like three whole years. Guess we were each too busy with our own stuff. Glad that I could get to meet up with her again and catch up on the old times. Despite not seeing each other for so long, I guess deep down inside we are still the same person =P And where else can I find a fellow Aries whom I can get along so well with xD

And as one would say, you can never have too many friends. Thats all for now, hopefully I didn't miss out anything. Btw, had to change the song playing in my blog background to video instead due to some stupid youtube policy. I guess it couldn't be helped. Hope it doesn't distract you too much =P

2009-12-01T21:57:00.006+08:00

Bought a new game for my Wii~ Harvest Moon Animal Parade! I've always been a fan of the series and this latest promises more features which its previous counterparts were lacking of. Tried it out and so fast I'm loving the graphics and game play. Story line seem decent so far but yet to plunder deep into its depths yet so I shall see =P One thing though, the alignment of the crops are slanted which make farming a little challenging. But I guess this is something that should go away as I get use to the system. xD

New Game~ ♥

And had my last class of the semester yesterday! UGC211! Sure gonna me Dr. Selena, she made what I thought is going to be a boring module so much enjoyable. She was a good teacher who gave us much leeway so we can learn and yet still enjoy the process. She will be one of those teachers that I will miss after graduation. xD

After UGC, went to vivo with Eugene, Rajwin, Xuan, Anne, Han and Tiffany. Had lunch at Asian Kitchen and I tried this awesome dish. Soft Shell Crab Chili Noodles. Was really good, totally satisfied my craving for crabs xD

Soft Shell Crab Chili Noodles~! ♥

After lunch, went to catch Case 39. I was like totally cheated, I thought was a thriller, but it turned how to be a horror flick. Storyline was pretty decent, though it didn't scared me as bad as paranormal activity. Guess it the matter of how likely will you be in such situations. But it just made me decided something for my graduate studies. I'm not gonna deal with children, neither will I be a social worker. xD

Had Jap class after that, went straight from Vivo. Had to pass throu

gh 3 ERP, the parking at Vivo drained my cashcard completely. Had enough only for 1 of the 3 ERP. Wonder how much will the fines amount to, hopefully it won't be a lot. Savings depleting fast, speaking of which, gonna go find work again after my finals. There are so many things I wanna buy, so hopefully can get a good job =P Any lobang must recommend ar xD

Shall end with some very cute pichas of Fione pets. Damn it Fione, I love your babies. One of this days go your house steal them away ;) Muahahah xD

2009-11-28T20:58:00.002+08:00

S.H.E - 你最近还好吗

挑一张耶诞卡写上满满祝福的话

地址写的是心底

你能不能收到它

天有点冷风有点大

城市宁静而喧哗

这一个冬天我得一个人走回家

问自己习惯了吗

没有你每到夜里回声变得好大

有没有什么好方法

让寂寞更听话

你最近还好吗

是不是也在思念里挣扎

你说会记得我还记得吗

你最近还好吗

忙碌吗累吗心还会痛吗

如果真不得已忘了我

快向快乐出发

有再多的牵挂都已没有权利表达

旧情人给的问候
比陌生人还尴尬

昨天远了明天还长

回忆模糊但巨大

这样的深夜眼泪要怎样不流下

问自己习惯了吗

没有你每到夜里回声变得好大

有没有什么好方法

让寂寞更听话

你最近还好吗

是不是也在思念里挣扎

你说会记得我还记得吗

你最近还好吗

忙碌吗累吗心还会痛吗

如果真不得已忘了我

快向快乐出发

Went to my god-daughter birthday party on friday. Didn't know anyone else there but her and my ex. Seeing her again was... awkward. Talking to her again was painful, memories came flooding back and all the things that I've done. I was tearing on the spot as I talked to her, just couldn't helped it.

It was sort of my fault that we became till this state, destroyed an almost 2 years like that. Saying that I moved on since the breakup was a lie. I've been wandering on trying to pick up the pieces of my shattered life. My school work was horribly affected and I was a total mess.

But my friends were there for me and I'm thankful for that. Various things to help me numb the pain, weekly mahjong session with Charlene, Xavier and Kian Soon; learning Japanese ; supper with Han, Anne, Tiff and many others who helped me get past the pain. I do admit I'm much better now that two months has lapsed since our breakup.

But seeing Sheryl again has released a flood of emotions all at once. After all, I didn't see her for two months, nor did I talk to her again since that day. If you're reading this, I want to say thank you for walking down this 2 years of life's journey with me. Accompanying me as we experienced various ups and downs. The sweet memories we shared, I will keep them. I'm sorry things have to end up like this, but this is something that we can never return to and I guess you know it as well. You deserved someone much better and please take care of yourself.

We can keep the memories, but its time to move on. Take care... my dear.

2009-11-27T13:03:00.002+08:00

Had a weird dream last night, I dream I was getting married. Bride wasn't local, so my whole family including my aunt and uncles flew down. My grand-father was there too, but he already passed away a couple of years back, so it was strange. =X

But the place was beautiful, it was at some beach side area, the place is practically a mansion and there is even a elevator inside the building. HUGE! And the bride was pretty, not anyone I know of though. She has 3 or 4 brothers I think, only girl in the family. So the wedding ceremony was a huge affair, but it is like kept to family kind of thing. There wasn't any friends who came along... I think ._. But there were many small rituals that had to be performed as per custom and it was cool.

Anyway the dream was a very weird one, tho I have to say its quite pleasant. I wonder if the dream is telling the future or something. Guess it something I will have to wait and see =P But yea, it was a sweet dream ^.^

2009-11-26T20:20:00.000+08:00

Sometimes fate work in rather mysterious ways. When I was bidding for course for this semester. I overslept and miss the bidding time. Was suppose to get the same tutorial group as Vanessa and Amarit, but end up having no slots by the time I went into the system. As in the end I chose a tutorial group which I know no one at all.

I remember sitting alone during my first tutorial session. Than Li Bing started talking with me. And eventually when we need to form groups for project. Li Bing invited me to join her , Eugene and Xuan. And than final project came along and we needed a bigger group, w

e were joined by Anne , Han and Tiffany. People whom I have seen in the same class through various psych modules but never talked to before. From complete strangers at the start of this semester, to movies/suppers kakis. Though three presentations, we have grown closer and the fun we had were endless.

And now with this semester drawing to a close, I'm so glad that I didn't managed to get the slot I wanted after all.

Dun you think fate work in rather mysterious ways...?

Long Update after a year hiatus

2009-11-21T23:55:00.014+08:00

Some random photos before I get into the entry proper =P

Got my New Phone~ SE Satio~ Full wide touch screen, 12.1 megapixel camera. Light weight. Love it!

Sleepy Rhino~ ♥

Went to Japanese cousin with Min Zhong and my dear cousin. Only end up feeding the mosquito and seeing no signs of the meteor shower xD

Energy Boost while doing my Jap Homework =P

And some goodies from Candy Empire ^.^

I really love the TimTam Biscuits... just cant get enuff of it xD

Tried Something new... Willy Wonka Nerd Rope... Taste Surprisingly Good xD

Fizzy Sweets~ Cant stop popping them xD

After breaking up, feel like something been missing from my life. Never felt so alone before. I guess after being used to having someone by your side most of the time, suddenly the feeling of being alone has been overwhelming.

But Im glad to say that Im finally moving on. Thanks to friends who were at my side who supported me and make me feel that Im not alone. Suddenly my life has become more meaningful instead of being at home all the time. My supper kakis Han, Anne, Tiffany. Mahjong Kakis Charlene, Xavier , Anson. And fang for all the fun times =P

Last week went to Changi Airport with fang to study. But I think we end up eating more instead. A bit overkill with what we ordered. I finished most of it,, but the food is very nice. Nice but pricey =P

Hearty Clam Soup

Beef Mozza-Tofu

Chicken & Turkey BaconLasagne

Curry Beef Spaghetti

Although spent a few hours there, didnt get much done. Oh well... at least the environment was nice xD After that on the way home, decided to stop by marina barrage. Even though never been there before, thanks to Fang's direction, we managed to find the place. Got to love her acute sense of direction. lol.

Singaporu Flyru~

Mesmerizing Fountain

Must say it was a fun day indeed. But than again, its always fun hanging out with her. xD

Also been playing a lot of mahjong lately. Been playing overnight MJ over the past weeks. Even played twice in the last week. Once with ying xiang and Mag and her mum. Other times with Charlene, her bro, Anson and at times Xavier. At the moment I am still winning some cash overall but by not much. Need more luck but gotta keep some for exams too =P

But I have not been studying much lately. And even doing assignments just before the datelines. Sort of lost my drive and still yet to get it back. But I better do it soon with the final exams around the corner. =X

Current goals for now is to get past this semester with a decent GPA and to brush up on my Jap. Mainly to learn how to write and read Hiragana since as the lesson progresses, we are dealing with more and more complex stuff. And I need to get my particles sorted out... RAWR~!

2008-08-10T22:04:00.004+08:00

I have taken a many month hiatus from blogging. Guess balancing school work, a relationship and still having some time for leisure sure is hard to juggle. Anyway at my dear dear request, I have decided to blog another entry. In terms of academic wise, I think this semester went pretty well with the exception of Biopsychology. I really feel I will not get the required grade to pass this module which is a B-. Lets just pray and see how it goes when the result is out ba =X Anyway I get to enjoy a 2 week break in the mean time.

Just after my exam finish, Hairi asked me to play a maple private server he is on, and I think it has been quite a while since I played it so I decided to join him. And tadaa, just after a short time playing, I have a very awesome looking lvl 122 Night Lord =P

Dun mind the dragon, he is just sore I can breathe fire better than him XD

Also I have been making good progress in Neopets with the addition of many new trophy. In addition, I have started and completed a Spyder Gallery in my side account which is another accomplishment in Neopets =)

Lucky I dun have to polish them all =X

And when I played mahjong in Viwawa today, this is like one of the biggest hand I ever won with. But I guess the luckiest of all is my dear dear which actually won 13 Terminals self draw with 2 animals and 1 flower which is a total of 17 tiles. Unbelievable =X
Anyway, I cant believe how fast time flies. I have been together with my dear dear for 8 whole months already and we are approaching our 9th this coming 25th. Over this long time, we have gone through many happy moments, rain and storm and despite it all we are still a lovely dovey couple. I hope that during this 2 weeks break, I will get the chance to go on another holiday with my dear dear. Let see how things goes ba =)

I love you dear!

2008-05-06T15:32:00.003+08:00

I guess it has been quite some time since my last entry. So decided to blog again today. By the way I started school again, I only had 1 week plus of holiday in between my last semester and my current one :( Hopefully I get a longer holiday after this semester XD For this semester, I will be taking Music, Microeconomics, Biopsychology and advance writing and reading. Not exactly the kind of subjects I like but at least I got a decent time table.

Anyway, since the last time I post, I managed to complete a few NDS games during this short break and also bought myself Mario Kart for Wii. Seriously the steering system work better than I expected and I thought that it is a pretty good game :)

Mario Kart Wii

Mario Kart 50cc Grand Pix Completed

Bomberman Touch! Completed

Advance War Dual Strike Completed

And as you all guess, my post is never complete without food items. So here are some of the thing I ate recently =P For dinner on Friday we had curry fish head plus some other side dish. I always love eating the curry fish head here XD

Lime Juice

Rojak

Kang Kong

Fried Oyster Omelette

And the main dish of course! Delicious Curry Fish Head!

After dinner, went back home and we play a little of 3 person majong. And for the first time in my Majong history did I win with such a big tai.

Three Lesser Scholars (3 Tai) + Mixed One Suit (2 tai) + East Win (1 Tai) + 3 Animal (3 Tai)
= Total 9 Tai!

On Sunday, went to Lot 1 Food Junction for dinner with my parents and my girlfriend. Everyone had some kind of asian food! Or rather, only I had Japanese food while everyone else had Korean food. XD

Stone Bowl Bibimbab!

Normal Bibimbab!

Katsudon!

I like eating this snack a lot. And my girlfriend pointed out is that because the main ingredient is corn and since I love eating corn a lot so that explains why. Anyway, it is really cheap, just $1 per bag =D

And let me end this post with something random. I really like small and cute animals a lot. I like hamsters especially! But it is rather sad that they have such a short lifespan of just 2-3 years =( I always drop by the pet shop at Lot 1 whenever I am there and look at these cute furries XD Maybe I will decide to get 1 for myself again in the future =)

Arn't They Adorable? XD

2008-04-29T20:43:00.002+08:00

I guess I put off this long enough. I had a very enjoyable time going on cruise again over the weekend. This time was even more special for me. First, it was me and my girlfriend 5 months anniversary. Second, both of us were sharing a room. So it really felt like a honeymoon for me ^^ But as usual, the amount of photos are too overwhelming so instead of blogging every single thing that happen, I will just have captions with the photos! =P

All Packed And Ready To Go! (Both of us shared a bag so it would be more convenient)

Haha, at the Habourfront Cruise Centre waiting to board the ship!

The ship that we are going on. Superstar Aquarius! Yes, the one that is is the background!

And the first meal on board the ship... DINNER!

Appetizers! Clams and Prawn!

Lotus Root Soup!

Oysters Sauce Veggies With Real Oysters In It

Braised Duck

Sweet and Sour Fish!

Seasonal Veggies With Prawn And Scallop

And of course... Dessert!

Done with dinner... Scary? Actually we shared a table with my parents and their friends which explain the many dishes. LOL!

We had a great view of the pool during dinner time, but it was so open I doubt we would swim there... XD

After dinner we explore the ship and went to the top deck basketball court. Here is me attempting a slam dunk without any basketball. XD

Late at night, we went for... SUPPER!

Seriously, the food is nothing spectacular, I find that superstar Virgo has a much nicer buffet spread for supper...

The table we sat at for supper

Mediterranean Restaurant... where we had a supper!

We were both tired so we slept in and miss breakfast but at least we were in time for lunch!

Our table number and the time we went into the restauraunt

Eating Utensils complete with Chinese Tea!

A preview of the desserts...

Nice ambience they have in the Dynasty restauraunt!

Without furthur ado... LUNCH!

Closeup! Noodles and pork ribs!

Beancurd and Sweet & Sour Chicken!

Spicy Fish?cakes XD

Traditional Dessert... Bobo-ChaCha!

And of course... everyone favourite meal... Dessert!

After lunch we walk around and saw the arcade. There was a nice cache of soft toys waiting to be caught but I resist the temptation to try. lol!

In the middle of the sea! =O

And soon... DINNER!

Just looking at this photo is making me hungry again XD

Appetizer! Octopus, crab meat with ham on the side!

Veggie with fake abalone XD

Garlic Prawn

Sweet and Sour Chicken Again... Don't tell me they recycle from yesterday? O_o

Me peeling the prawn for my girlfriend, I don't do this for anyone else XD

TADA! My handiwork!

Haha, what remains of our dinner XD

I bet you thought I had forgotten about dessert right. Sorry to prove you wrong! =P

After dinner, we were just in time to catch the beautiful sunset. How I wish I had a much better camera than this to capture this moment...

Moments just before the sun sink into the horizon...

And than... DINNER PART 2

Buffet On The Top Deck!

The corns and giant sausages were simply delicious!

And of course... more food yet again... Supper!

Seriously... nothing special...

And the last meal... before we return to singapore. Breakfast at Dynasty Restauraunt!

I wonder why so many people is looking at me take a photo of the sign @@

We were given a nice window seat table

The view out of the window as we were waiting for our food...

And finally... breakfast has arrived! Dimsum...

And an eggy meal! XD

Finishing it off with some light dessert...

Our last chance of being in our room for the past few days... My dear cant bear to leave XD

But alas... we have reached the port =(

Awwww... really wish that this trip can last longer =X

Leaving the ship...

The starcruise penguin seeing us off...

And the long queue waiting to clear the immigration...

Let me end this post we some pictures we took together during this lovely trip...

2008-04-28T16:06:00.004+08:00

My COM 101 Blog!

http://tannertan.wordpress.com

I just realised that I did not even mention the marks I have gotten for my COM 101 blog. I thought I did pretty well for it considering I just lost out on one of the component. Anyway the whole blog is worth 20% of the course grade and I got 72/100 for it. With the breakdown as follows:

1. Effective applications of concepts and theories: 9
2. Evidence of a personal response to the issues identified in the entries: 8
3. Evidence of critical and independent thinking and a respect for diversity in opinions: 9
4. Sources: Relevance, currency, variety and creativity: 8
5. Language, format and organisation of blog: 8
6. Success in engaging online audience participation (comments): 1

Each component is upon 10 and the weightage is different for all of them towards the blog grade. Addition comments by lecturer:

1.Some interesting entries. Well analyzed.
2.Good work. Could benefit from greater personal response to issue/concept raised
3.One Comment? :(

Yes the unhappy emoticon was in the marking report that she gave me. I guess I should have spam everyone on my msn list to give me comments for my blog. And I would have gotten a fantastic blog grade. Oh well, what done is done, hopefully I have done ok for the finals. Now waiting for the lectureres to released the grades for the courses we took this semester.

By the way, currently still sorting through the photos from the cruise trip I had over the weekend. Would proberly get them uploaded and update my blog soon again! ^^

2008-04-24T14:31:00.005+08:00

Finally, after being absent for so long, decided to update my blog again. Well I been really busy since the last time over my finals. Yes, time really do fly, doesn't it? Just like that one semester has gone by. Anyway I hope I can do well for my exams, anxiously awaiting for the results to be released now while I enjoy a short break of just barely over a week. I know, it sucks doesn't it. I wonder who is the *ahem* person who just planned a one week break after a semester. -_-

Anyway, for my communication paper, I think I answered the open ended question quite reasonably, provided the lecturer doesn't deem them as going out of point I should be fine. For the MCQ, I just I not really too sure on a couple of those.

For Psychology, it is a pure MCQ paper and I think I did get many question wrong. Well the pharsing of the question was really weird for some of them so I changed my answers in the end. I was expecting an A grade for this module, but after the finals, I think I will have to settle for a B =(

For GEO, haha, I really hope that my smoke bombs will activate. It was a pure essay paper with 5 essay question. I wrote 24 pages in total =X And I did not really concentrade on globalisation and on other industries. In the end there was 2 question on globalisation and 1 question on another industry regarding the role of the state and technology. So I basically released my entire supply of smoke bombs, just hope that the lecturer think my answers are ok. On a lighter note, I doubt I be wasting any more of my free electives taking business modules XD

And now for the real updates! As you all know, I lost my phone a while back ago. And up to today there is still no news about it. The person who take it, I hope you are enjoying either the use of my phone or getting money for selling it, because I do believe in retribution. Seriously, enjoy it well you can :D So I have to replace my phone, in the end I bought a sony ericsson K770i. The worst part of it was I think I overpaid for it, it cost me $428 for the phone and a 1 GB memory card. I feel really heartpain spending this kind of money. It took me a really long time to save up to this amount :( But I really wan a camera phone so I can start blogging again. One thing is that I feel that the camera on this phone is not as good as my old one, because the flash is really just like a torchlight which is a joke to me. But I guess I should have look up reviews before buying the phone, but at least the photos that it takes is quite decent.

K770i

And some random photos that I have taken with the new phone XD And yes, its my favourite kind of photos... FOOD!

Had this for breakfast a few days ago. Really surprise that my mum actually made this, since she don't make breakfast often XD

The Next Random Topic is Jellybeans!

This brand of jellybeans have a very nice variety of flavours, unfortunately, I am unable to stomach some of the more unique ones! LOL!

I find that Meiji jellybeans have a very nice taste to them, too bad it just comes in 4 flavours. My girlfriend got it for me on her way over to my house. Love you dear! *Muacks*

Recently been playing some games on Viwawa as well, I actually like Mahjong, but for some reason I always lose in Mahjong there. So I prefer playing bridge. Just look at this almost winning hand... really a pity, I counted that if I had won, it would have been 10 tais man =X

And if you notice the red circle, I would have actually won this round, but because I was distracted earlier, I did not realised it was my turn and the computer threw out a random tile for me =( And my tiles are so nice to, all wan zi, all pong and in acending order...

Anyway, been playing a little of NDS every night before I sleep as well, and I can finally say, I completed Mario and Luigi: Partners In Time! YAY! The final boss battle is really very irritating, took more than 30 mins just to defeat her. Never want to go through that again.

And lastly before I end my post, I would like to say I managed to get myself more trophies for Neopets! I really enjoy collecting things. The last time I took a photo of the trophies was april 7. Within this half a month period, I managed to get some new additions!

Before....

After!

Notice the few new trophies. *Polishes shiny trophies* =D Currently I working on 2 trophies, one is the Neoquest one while the other is the plushie tycoon. With some luck, I should be able to get both of them by the end of this month.

Lastly, before I end this post, I am looking forward to this friday. Going cruise again with my girlfriend and this time on board it would also coincide with our 5 months anniversary. So when I get back I gonna update with tonnes of photos! Cya!

2008-04-13T13:32:00.012+08:00

11th April, 2008 - 21st Birthday!!!

Even though its my birthday, I still had to return to school for a debate. Don't get me wrong, I am just an audience. Nonetheless, it was still quite entertaining. Team, you have done our class proud =)

After school, went to Lot 1 to meet dear dear for lunch. Had Mee Hoon Kway again at the food court. Some how I seem more addicted to that than Bian Mian recently XD And until I actually get my handphone replace, I guess I wont be blogging any more photos of food. It would be very strange to whip out a digital camera in the middle of a food court and start snapping photos of dishes.

Anyway, after lunch, we walk around the place a while before heading over to dear dear place for her to get ready. In the meanwhile, I had a very enjoyable nap =) Apprantly, we slept quite late the night before. lol.

Soon, we went back to my place to start decorating. Xiwen came along to accompany my dear dear, must thank her a lot sia =)

The Place Where The Party Is Held (So embrassing, friends arrived and I am still decorating!)

And busy more guess could arrive, we continue to decorate! Somethings tell me I should have bought a balloon pump XD

Balloons Waiting To Be Blown =X

Even though its my birthday, I guess I still have to do it myself XD

And when we were almost done decorating, the caterers arrived!

A Very Nice Spread Of Food Indeed! Buffet for 60 pax! Cost me a little fotune XD

I basically spent the whole day catching up with my old friends and its good to see that everyone is well. Many thanks to those who took the trouble to come down to my place specially those who stay all the way at the east side. And really sorry to those who left early and did not get witness the cake cutting ceremony. I was trying my best to accomodate to as many people timings as possible hence, it started quite late.

Anyway, its birthday wishes time!!!

Birthday Cake! Whee!!! Finally 21 years of Age!

Happy Birthday To Me!!~

Making A Wish!

Blowing Out The Candles!

Taking Family Photo With My Wonderful Dear Dear Beside Me!

Cake Cutting!!!

Many thanks to those people who came once again. And of course to Jia Hao and Bing Hong who stayed with me till the very end of the party and help me cleaned up the mess. Also to Jun Wei who came after most people have left but I still appreciate it =) And these are some other photo taken during the party ^^

My wonderful and supportive girlfriend =)

My Secondary 2/5 Classmates!!! We were in secondary 2 back in 2001! Hard to imagine we are still so united as a class for so many years!

Heh, Cheeky Girls... *tsk tsk*

Thanks everyone for the wonderful night! And now the best part of every birthday...
PRESENTS!!!

Those were an overview of the presents I got!

Birthday Banner Made By My Dear Dear~

I love this little bouquet that she made in the top left hand corner!

And she bought me a nice new bag from Zinc for me to use in school =) Like it very much!

Thanks Hairi For This Great Game!

Thanks Bing For The Boxset Of The Drama Show I always Wanted!

Thanks to my friends who chip in for this lovely jacket and to Chin Lam and James For Buying It!

Thanks to my cousin Jessie for this nice shirt =)

Someone else gave me a shirt, but I cant remember who it was. Btw Thanks!

Thanks to my cousin Jasmine for this nice looking wallet!

Thanks to the respective people who chip in for these vouchers!

Thanks Jia Hao and Jun Wei! Nice set of swords to collect =)

Thanks Chong For the Jay's World Tour DVD =)

Thanks JJ and Shi Ming for this accessory, hopefully it will improve my luck in Mahjong? XD

Thanks for the photo frame!

Thanks Loy Han!!!

Thanks Paul and Ming Hong! =)

Thanks for the jellybean!

Thanks for the birthday card too! ^^

Thanks Laura and Brian!

Thanks Boon Kiat and Ming Zhong!

Thanks Terry!

Not sure who gave me this, but thanks a lot too! ^^

And lastly a big thanks to my wonderful friends in AAA from Neopets who gave me a huge cache of items for my gallery!!!

Thanks everyone for the lovely presents and for making my 21st birthday extra memorable! I feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends around me! ^^

Let me end this post with some misc stuff. I am still looking for a new handphone to replace my lost phone. A new phone for the exact same model cost around $400. I plan to find cheaper places to get a phone whose function is around the same to K800i =X

And also I been playing mahjong on Viwawa lately with my dear dear. And I must say its quite addictive. And it also has many other great games like bridge for instance. Definately a very nice gaming website =)

Playing Mahjong with dear dear!

My winning hand!

2008-04-13T13:25:00.001+08:00

Would like to thank everyone for making my 21st birthday such an enjoyable one. Really appreciate those who made the effort to come down especially those who stayed in the east area! I know I may not be a good host that night but please excuse me since I had to entertain across a different groups of friends. Hope you understand =)

Anyway I am still organising my birthday photos and as soon as I am done would create another post for my 21st birthday. Cya till than ^^

2008-04-07T20:40:00.003+08:00

Something unfortunate happen to me today. I carelessly dropped my handphone in school. I was already at home when I realised that and I rushed back to school. But as you all know, a handphone will not be lying around for more than 5 mins. I search the places where I have been but to no avail. I know I still have it with me after the last class of the day. But somehow I dropped it before I left for home.

Made a report at security, I seriously doubt anyone will return the phone to me. This phone really means a lot to me since, it has all the messages that I had with my dear dear even before we got together. So there is like 4 months plus worth of messages! Plus I have this cute little turtle handphone strap that dear bought for me when I first started school. =( And it has 2 of our neoprints on it which I like very much. In addition, it also has a Jigglypuff sticker with my name on it pasted onto the phone. Not to mention an entire memory card full of songs,pictures,etc.

I really like my phone a lot, and with it lost now, I will not be able to take any photos for my blog. I really hope the person who took it would be so kind as to return the phone to lost and found. It really means a lot to me... *sob* T_T

Even though I was awarded a trophy in neopets today, it still couldn't help to bring my mood up. I love my dear dear since she really tried very hard today to cheer me up, and I must say that she has done a very good job. And before dinner today went to obtain a new simcard at westmall. Currently using a old Nokia non colour phone at the moment. I miss my camera!!! =(

Anyway this are all my hard earned trophies in Neopets, with the lastest 3 won being at the end. Still have a trophy score pending for review, so I might get another one to add to the list. Anyway if you see my mood being down for the next couple of days, you know why...

2008-04-03T21:11:00.004+08:00

Some updates, I actually quite upset over my Communication grade because I felt as a group we put in a lot of effort and sacriface a lot of time on it including our weekends. In the end we got a score of 68 which is below the class average of 73. And I tally my score for the module, it seems that even though I get 70% for the finals 65% for the COM blog and 8% for class participation, it would still add up to just a B-. Seriously upset over that, and my GEO grade don't look promising as well =(

Anyway back to the updates for the past week...

1st April, 2008

Dear and I decided to go ice skating because we never gone together before and its a nice change from everything we have been doing. We arrived at around 12 plus but since they are going to resurface the ice at1. We decided to grab a bite before heading back.

JEC Ice Skating Ring =)

Taking Photo While Waiting For Them To Resurface The Ice

Anyway it was kind of fun except that your legs do feel pain from the tightness of the shoes. Even it was pain at first, but slowly the pain became numbed and I did not feel anything. Dear dear said her leg was very painful and had to stop from time to time. But other than that it was quite fun. In the end we left eariler than the time because dear said her leg was too painful to continue. I skated a last few rounds without dear before we left XD

Ice Skating!

And I had a haircut at Aunty Jenny's place before we head home. Nearly kena summon but luckily my dear dear was there to look after the car. I love eu! *Muacks* I thought my hair look not bad now but dear dear said I look cuter in my old mushroom hair @@

2nd April, 2008

Went to dear dear house to finish up my assignment for the next day. Had project meeting earlier and I did not know what time it would end so I ended up telling my mother not to cook my dinner.

Well, I was supposed to be doing homework, but I guess dear dear caught me there XD

And my dear dear gave me a late anniversary present but I still like it a lot anyway. Guess what it is...

Pokemon Stickers With My Name On Them!

Wonder what the lecturer would say if I submit my assignments in and pasting these stickers in the name colum XD. Would be fun to see their reactions I guess. LOL!

And when I reached home, this was waiting for me...

My Notebook is finally fixed and back from the repair shop!!! So happy =)

3rd April, 2008

After our class today, I went Nee Ann poly Alumni Pines again with Chen and Chua and tried out a new dish.

Chicken Baked Rice!

And there was a lot of jokes going around cause chen also tried a new dish, Kongpow chicken! LOL. And we had a really good time playing bridge and just chilling out. Oh well better get started on my assignments. And especially on Psych project which is due on Monday.

Lastly, my dear dear school holiday is finally drawing to an end. She has to go back to school on 7th April and I hope that even though we are busy, we can still make time for each other =X Dear! I love you! *Muacks*

2008-03-29T12:41:00.007+08:00

25th March, 2008

Today was me and dear dear anniversary for being together for 4 months. However even though its only 4 months, I feel as though we been together for a long time already. Anyway I love you lots lots dear. Muacks!

Today met up with dear dear after finishing practising for COM 101 presentation the next day. Took much longer than expected and sorry to my dear dear who waited for me. We decided to go vivocity and at the same time can pick up my GV card there.

We just walked around vivocity for a while and grab an early dinner at pastamania.

But seriously I found the food very ordinary and not as spectacular from what I heard from other people. In short not really worth the prize. I ordered a garlic bread, alfredo, and unagi pasta for us.

Garlic Bread

Alfredo Pasta

Unagi Pasta

After dinner we went over to the starbucks downstairs to wash the food down with some coffee. Managed to find ourselves a very nice seat in the house =P

Sofa Seats!

Me and dear dear shared a venti (large) cup of Mocha Frappacino with Whipped Cream.

Mocha Frappacino!

Before we head back, we bought 2 bags of cookies from candy empire. Looks nice but as for the taste I guess we have to find out XD

After that we went back to my place where we placed our NDS together. And guess what I finally completed Pokemon Pearl and also my Pokedex of 150 pokemon. But now I unlocked national dex and many new pokemon. And it gonna take a while more to continue on with the game. I like how pokemon game always have so much depth XD

Pokemon Pearl Completed!

Before I end this part on our anniversary. Look at what my dear dear got for me. Dear got for me grow in the dark stars and she even pasted them on my wall herself in a heart shape. And it grows with a nice blue colour at night. I like it very much! Unfortunately my camera is not good enuff to capture the nice blue glow =X I love you to bits my dear *muacks*

27th March, 2008

Went to play mahjong with Ben and Ben again. We ta pao after our class and went over to my place. We played from around 11am all the way till 2.30pm which Ben Chen had to go back to school.

So I went downstairs to play table tennis with Ben for a while, my dear dear decided to remain at home to play her NDS. Anyway, Chen took longer than expected so we ended up having dinner near SIM in order to save time. Went to Nee Ann Poly Alumni pines restauraunt. =P

Nice Ambience Right? =P

Anyway since Ben Chua won at Mahjong, he kindly treated us to dinner =) Me and dear dear shared a cup of lemonade and as for the main course. She had teriyaki bento set while I had chicken chops for dinner.

Lemonade

Teriyaki Chicken Bento

Chicken Chop

After dinner went back to my place to wrapped up our mahjong session. Its been a long filled mahjong day. I did not count how much I lost exactly but I guess it was somewhere around 20 dollars for the both of us. *sigh* lately I have not been having much luck in mahjong. My dear dear said that love life and gambling is directly opposite from one another. That means if you have a sweet love life, you wont do well in gambling XD

Before I end this post, for my friends who reads my blog.

I am throwing my 21st Birthday Party at my condo's function room (opposite chinese garden mrt) The party would start from 6.30pm onwards. Do let me know asap so I can plan for the food if you are coming. Can leave me a comment here or msn/sms me. You know my contacts =P

2008-03-23T15:36:00.008+08:00

Its been over a week since my last update. Wow! Cant believe that man, but I have been really busy with school juggling projects, assignments and not to mention finding time to spend with my lovely dear dear.

Anyway some updates for acadamic work, my midterm result is out for COM 101 and GEO 333 and I fare 76/100 and 45/100 respectively for them. The COMs results was unexpected because I was basically smoking throughout the exam, thanks god the essay helped me with a 19/20. And as for GEO 333, I kinda expected it since I have no idea how to go about studying for the exam. But I was comtemplating to resign from the subject and lose my school fees if I failed badly, but with just a botherline fail I think I shall try to strive on =X

But one thing that I am really proud of is that, I finally completed my COM 101 blog in time before the deadline. I feel that I put in quite a bit of effort for it and I hope the teacher could give me a good grade. Anyway comments are appreciated from anyone, doesn't matter if you take communication studies or not =P

http://tannertan.wordpress.com/

And now for the meat of this entry, lets have a whirlwind history of what happened for the past week or so.

7th March, 2008

Went to Jurong West to have dinner with my family and dear dear came along as well. Had a delicious meal as usual with durians as desserts. But no durians for me, dislike the taste, just help dear dear to peel open the shell =P Anyway here is what we had for dinner!

Tofu

Chicken

Seasonal Veggie

Frog Legs

Cereal Prawn

13th March, 2008

Had school for only 1 and a half hours today and after our class, went to Nee Ann Poly alumni restauraunt for lunch. We choose that place because it is the only place that doesn't care about us playing poker cards so we could play our bridge in peace.

Had laksa for lunch, taste not bad but the prawn seems funny XD

Laksa! Yummy!

Than after lunch decided to play mahjong at Ben's house. Four of us include Ben Chen, Ben Chua, me and dear dear. Send both Bens over to his house first while I went to pick up dear dear. Ben's house is only like less than 1km from my dear dear place.

And I encoutered this stubborn bird which refused to move away from behind my car. And it even tried to bite me when I shooed it away =(

Looks like a stubborn old bird (but not idea how to tell age for birds XD)

See, it tried to bite me, lucky for fast reflexes *tsk tsk*

Anyway after playing mahjong for a few hours, me and dear dear lost a grand total of $15. Chua was lucky and self touch 2 times with max tiles. There adds up to winning $9.60 from the 3 of us per round. But at least he treated us to Macdonals nuggets. Looking forward to play more mahjong again =P

14th March, 2008

As usual, friday night dinner with my parents and of course my dear dear came along =) Had dinner at Cafe Cartel, had yummy seafood macoroni. But the more you eat, the less tasty it gets, I guess its cause of an overload of cheese XD But nonetheless, I still find it very nice!!

Seafood Marcoroni!

After dinner went to walk around Bukit Panjang Plaza. Than I saw this at the NTUC there and I simply must buy it!!!

Jellybeans!!!

I simply adore jellybeans! And when I saw that this actually has 30 flavours I was like wow!!!

A list of all the flavours!

TA-DA! My jellybeans! Muahahaha!

Actually some of the flavours do taste very nice, while other just taste plain weird. Reminds me of Bertie Botts every flavours beans from Harry Potter! LOL!!! Sure had fun eating them =P

18th March, 2008

Went to IMM and ate Pepper Lunch for Lunch. Frankly speaking, it was my 2nd time eating at pepper lunch and I always found the concept interesting of cooking yur own meat even after they have served it to you. I had steak while dear dear had chicken =P

Steak!

Teriyaki Chicken!!

Seriously, we been to IMM so many times that seriously there nothing much to walk around. We just go there because parking is free for the first three hours XD

20th March, 2008

Went to Nee Ann Poly Alumni again for lunch. This time I had soft shell butter crabs. And I must say that it is very delicious. Come as a bento meal for just $7.50, its a must try!!!

Soft Shell Butter Crabs! Must Try!!

And it rushing COM 101 Project for the weekend. Yay! =(

22nd March, 2008

Went to Lot 1 for dinner with dear dear and we had korean food at the food court. Been wanting to try this for quite some time but keep having second thoughts. Well this time decided to try it for once.

Kimchi Soup!! Wahaha!

Seriously taste not bad la. But I still prefer things which has more flavour in it like the Ban Mian or the Kway Chap there XD Well as for my dear she had her favourite Bibibap!

Bibibap!

And lastly for some misc stuff. You know those big sweet land things at the arcade. Me and dear dear went to play it the other day since we saw that there is just bars before it hit the jacpot so we thought there is a high chance. But who knows, the checker is rather faulty and unless some heavy sweets fall on it, it wont activate, and it doesn't help that most of the sweet is mentos. But finally after $25 dollars, we bag this lil cutie home. (We didn't want to give up halfway thus the amount of money spent =( )

Am I Cute? I cost $25!!! MEEEP!

And as for neopets, I managed to get myself a new trophy at the game The Castle of Eliv Trade. Took me around 2 hours to get it but I was afraid I would game over before I actually broke the high score. The game works like this, you have to solve analgrams of words for 10 points each. Each time you guess a word wrongly, you lost a life, lose all 3 lives and it is game over. As my score got higher and I was down to my last life, I was really nervous. Thankfully I managed a 2nd place trophy in the end =)

TA-DA Made it to the high score table for 2nd place trophy =)

And I also managed to aquire a few other trophies to add to my collection. Does my user lookup looks nice now? =P

Hard Earned Trophies!!

And than, there was a neopets plot going on about sloth invasion over neopia happening in the space station. After spending countless hours on it, I am glad that I qualify for a 2nd best rank trophy for the plot. Hated the decoding part of the plot the most where you have to decode messages made from 20 different modifiers and you had to arrange 3 of them in a order to decode the message. 20 messages and countless combinatons to try, took me many hours of my time. But my hard work is paid off for this plot. Resistance Commander! =)

2008-03-10T19:50:00.005+08:00

Really is hard to get back to studying after stopping for 2 years. I seem to be lagging behind in my work a lot. For COM 101 I need to do a total of 7 blog entries, only done 3 so far. Dateline is this Friday. =( Than for GEO 333 I am supposed to submit chapter reviews from time to time with a final of 4 reviews. Done none so far.

And I don't really like COM 101 at all, the teacher always test our understanding in very confusing manner. My first 2 COM test results is just 60%. And unless I am mistaken, I am going to fail the one I took today. Mid term results is not out yet and I am not hopful of the result at all, I am think somewhere along the border or a pass/fail.

As for GEO 333, the teacher teaches the subject, but relate it back very little to the textbook. We are expected to make the link ourselves. For a business student it is ok, because after learning about the concepts so long, the link becomes very obvious. But I have no background in business at all. I think can expect to flunk this module. Comtemplating to drop this module now. =(

And for ESL 407, despite my best efforts in churning out essays and journal entries for the teacher. I am always rewarded with C+ to a B+ grade for them. And I only scored 69/100 for my midterm examinations. My problem is grammar. Just hoping for a B grade for this module. Sigh.

One little bright thing though, I am so glad that I decided to major in Psychology. I find the things we are learning interesting which makes me more subceptable to new infomation. So far my results for Psychology is very promising. The first 2 tests I had, I have gotten 90% and 80% respectively for them. And for the midterms examination I managed to get 37/40. I only had made 3 mistakes in the mutiple choices out of 30 questions. As for the short answer questions, I got 10/10! So I have already decided to channel most of my effort towards the PSY projects and exams. =)

2008-03-07T15:56:00.005+08:00

Sorry for the lack of updates. Still being rather busy, somehow uni life isn't as slack as what people made it out to be. Upcoming for me I have...

Monday - COM 101 Test

Tuesday - GEO 333 Mid-term

Wednesday - PSY 101 Test

I foresee a wonderful weekend ahead of me. Oh joy!

Anyway, recently managed to get some new addition for me Wii.

As mentioned the other time, I finally managed to download Pokemon Snap but I unable to play because I do not have the classic control.

Pokemon Snap!

Well I finally bought the Wii classic control at $30 each which is considered relatively cheap compare to most places which sell it at $39.90 each.

TA-DA! Wii Classic Controllers!!!

Other than Pokemon Snap, I also downloaded another classic N64 game, Mario Kart!!! However the controls is not as smooth compared to the NDS one and I am not getting used to it. Oh well, maybe just need a little time adjusting =)

Mario Kart 64!!!

In addition to this, I also managed to pick up a 2nd hand copy of Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party Bundle inclusive of the dancing mat for just $80!!! A brand new one would cost me around $110-$125 so I think I got myself a very good deal. Been enjoying getting a good workout while playing this classic arcade game =)

Than on Friday I went over to Ben's house. His house dam nice la, I look the swimming pool a lot, got mini waterfall one. See see!

But the carpack staircase is very scary. Translucant one, can see all the waty to the bottom, give one a sense that you are going to fall. LOL!

Anyway, went to his place to borrow his Pokemon XD for gamecube from him. But I guess only will have time to play it after the exams next week. Oh well, many games to look forward to after I am free =) Pokemon Snap, Mario Kart 64, DDR hottest party, Pokemon XD!!! Wahahahaha. Shall update again soon ^^

2008-03-01T13:27:00.005+08:00

Its been a long time since my last update but I have been really busy for the past week. Up to my neck by projects, research papers, studying for exams. But the good news is now I have 1 less module to take! Finished my GEO 334 final exam last thursday =) So now every tuesday and thursday I will have class up till 10.30am only! Provided the teacher don't extend the lesson of course.

However I am very behind in some other modules. Like I need way more entries for my communication blog, I think I need at least 4 more to be on par with the current needed entries. And I have not submitted any research paper yet for GEO 333 and I need 4 for the whole semester. Better start on these soon =X

Anyway some updates before I get to work again, gonna backdate way back this time XD

19th Feb , 2008

Today is my mother birthday. Went out to westmall's Swensen for dinner. Dear dear came along of course, she can be considered part of the family =) Due to the birthday special, when we get 4 meals, 1 will be free. And on top of that we get a free firehouse icecream for the birthday person.

This is what we ordered!!!

My mother with the Birthday Icecream

And family photo! I just realised that I don't actually take much photo with my family =X

My mother blowing the birthday cake that me and dear dear bought for her =)

Happy Birthday To My Wonderful Mother ^^

23rd Feb, 2008

Went to take neoprints with dear dear at lot 1 again. I really like a few of the one we taken, but dear dear don't really think they are nice. Anyway finally got some to paste on my handphone so I am quite happy!

24th Feb, 2008

Today at night went to some BWC concert thingy because the highlight of the show is that JJ Lin Jun Jie 林俊杰 will be performing. But end up we waited so long with no news of him at all. We just sat down there for 2 hours listening to stupid things about the company which we had no interest in at all.

So after 2 hours we decided to go for our dinner first. Went to KFC to eat and after that went to Carrefour to buy some sushi. Than we went back to see the concert thingy. We went back around 10.15pm and 林俊杰 finally appeared at 10.45 pm. It was a good thing we didn't sit there since 7pm waiting for him to appear sia. Although we already wasted 2 hours doing so =(

At least we get to see 林俊杰 live in person performing some songs. Some of the songs he sang was 曹操, 豆浆油条, 一千年以后, 西街, 杀手,木乃伊,down and much more!! In total the whole thing lasted for around 1 hour, so went home quite satified =)

My camera was too lousy to take any nice photos =X

On the way home, I stop on the expressway for my dear dear to take some photos of the ferris wheel. Lucky at that timing there was not much cars XD

Nice hor, hope can have the chance to ride on it with dear dear ^^

25th Feb, 2008

Today was me and dear dear's 3 months anniversary. Times really files doesn't it, I am glad to find someone who can complete me. And despite the small argruments we have here and there, I hope we can last forever ^^

I bought dear dear a tofu purse and some glittery pens for her present =)

Had a dinner at the food court at lot 1 before we went to watch L: Change the world.

It was a very nice show, but the thing is too bad there isn't anything more about the death note. Just on how save the world from a viral outbreak. Nonetheless it was still a very good movie =)

28th Feb, 2008

Today is my father birthday, met up with dear dear for lunch after my GEO 334 final exam. After lunch we went shopping for a suitable present. In the end settle to get my father shoes from Bata for him to wear casually. The one at lot 1 din have the size so we ended up buying a pair from IMM bata.

Also went to pick up a coffee cake from westmall. Along the way dear dear had a lot of time to play pokemon. Ever since her supercard is spoiled, I have pass my R4 to her so she can play pokemon which she is super addicted with.

Finally she has helped me complete the game ^^

We celebrated my father's birthday at home with a portable bbq. Quite a good spread of food thanks to my mother and it tasted quite good as well. =)

My father with the coffee cake that me and dear dear bought for him =)

Happy Birthday To My Wonderful Father!!

29th Feb, 2008

Play mahjong together with Ben chen and ben chua and my dear dear today at my house. Was very fun but too bad we started late. When Ben had to go for his dinner, we could not even finish one round. =X

After both of them left, me and dear dear was lazy to go out for dinner and I dug around the house and came across discount coupons for pizza hut. So we decided to call for pizza hut delivery.

Had 1 personal Hawaiian Pizza, 1 Ocean Catch Pizza, 6 Drumlets and 2 Garlic Bread for just $20.30!! Quite resonable in my opinion.

I always enjoy eating pizza, but learn not to eat it during the festive period as the standard will drop when they are busy =X

Lastly for misc updates, I downloaded Pokemon Snap for my Wii for US$10.

I always wanted to play this game. But after downloading it, I still need to get the Classic control for wii to play it, went to seow choon just to realised that they sold out on it and have no idea when the next stock gonna come in. Other places were selling the classic control for $39.90 which is insane. If anyone know where I could get a Nintendo Wii Classic Control for less than $35 please let me know. Thanks!

As for neopets, by some luck the labray has zapped my Korbot to Island colour. I usually use the lab ray to try and raise XxEeshaxX stats which it has been doing so for the past few months. But this time it actually zapped her to a rare colour. If I were to buy the paintbrush and paint her island, it would cost me more than 4million dollar. So for now, I shall stop using the lap ray on her and thus XxMeshaxX is borned! She will be next in line to be the subject for the lab ray. Don't worry, no neopets were harmed by the usage of this labray =P

A picture of XxEeshaxX after being zapped to Island colour!

2008-02-25T01:15:00.003+08:00

HAPPY 3 MONTHS ANNIVERSARY DEAR DEAR!!!

This 3 months is filled with many ups and downs and I am glad that despite everything we been through, we are still remaining very loving. Although there are a few disagreements here and there but which couple don't go through this pharse. Anyway I just want to say that I love you very much dear dear and I am so blessed to have you by my side =) Looking forward to our date later in the day, sorry I have to do project first before meeting eu. I make it up to eu by treating eu to the movie okies? ^^

And now its already past 1am and I still have tonnes to study for my psychology mid term. I hope I can do well in it since I am majoring in Psy. Wish me luck guys, gonna go study now =X

2008-02-23T14:53:00.005+08:00

Rushing against time... whoever that said uni was much easier than JC must not actuall been to one.

So sorry for the lack of updates, no time to do so. I think I shall only update after my "hell week" is over.

Monday - PSY 101 , ESL 407 Midterm Exams
Tuesday - GEO 333 Industry Paper Due , GEO 334 Presentation
Wednesday - COM 101 Midterm Exams
Thursday - GEO 334 Final Exams

Currently rushing through projects while trying to find time to study for my midterms. 2 projects on GEO 333 and 334 with very tight deadlines. Hopefully I can be able to pull everything off. =X Wish me luck guys...

2008-02-18T18:21:00.006+08:00

14th Feb

Even though its Valentines day, I still have school. Worst of all had lesson all the way up till 3.30pm. So no choice, only can meet up with dear dear after that. Picked up dear dear and Jurong East mrt station. Surprised her with a bouquet of bears =P

By the way my god-daughter Eunice joined us for Valentine day dinner. Although it should be a special dinner for 2 person but for some reason her boyfriend did not meet her on this day. Don't ask me how could a guy actually leave his gf alone on Valentine day. So we as her friends could not bear to leave her to be alone this Valentine so she came along with us. Went for IMM for early dinner at Cafe Cartel as we do not want to squeezed with the crowd later on.

As usual, my deardear wanted her Hawaiian Pork Chops =P

While a order a Jumbo Seafood platter meant for 3 person for all of us to share.

Trust me this platter is really huge and filling. Cant believe we managed to finished this among ourselves. Wahahaha first time eating the oyster at Cafe Cartel. Tasted quite good =)

And when you thought that was all, we still ordered dessert! Peach an Banana Waffle! And this is my dear dear creative way of taking the photo ^^

After dinner Eunice went back and me and dear spent some time together at my place. Although this Valentine day may not seem special or romantic enough but the most important thing is just being together with your loved one. So dear dear, I love you lots lots and may we have forever love =)

A hp strap that my dear dear gave me, I kept the blue half ^^

Did not take any photos this valentine day, I wonder why? hmmm.... Anyway this photo was taken the day before when we went to watch Ah Long Pte Ltd at Vivocity. I found the show to be very entertaining and funny although there was excessive used of violence in certain scences. But overall its a good show =)

15th Feb,2008

Went to IMM for dinner today. Actually wanted to go LOT 1 one, but dunno what I was dreaming about than ended up driving to PIE towards changi =.= Sp bo pian went IMM for dinner even though we went there for lunch earlier ><>

Than in popular I actually found 2 books which I have been looking for for quite some time. The Warcraft Sunwell Trilogy. Both books costed me around $23 but if I were to get them for Kinokuniya it would cost me around $36 instead. So I been searching local book stores for the book to no avail except for today which I managed to find at IMM popular. Wahahah so happy =)

TA-DA~ Full Set Of Warcraft Sunwell Trilogy

16th Feb,2008

My condo had a chinese new year celebration by the management and me and dear dear went for it. Wasnt really interested in the program but at least there was food and lucky draw. The food was good considering how much they have to get to catered to all the residents.

The food was served in a buffet style however the food was restricted in case there wasn't enuff to go around. So there were servers who gave you portion of the food instead of you taking it yourself. Nonetheless, it was very filling for me ^^

Than when the lucky draw segment came, we waited along with Bing Hong. As the prizes started going down towards 1st, we were losing hope. Than guess what, Bing Hong actually won the 1st prize! Which was a microwave oven. To think moments before we were saying things like stay here for 12 years yet never win anything. lolx.

At night went to downtown east for Terry's 21st Birthday party. Not a lot of people from SIM came even though most of them had promised in school. Anyway the food was quite good and even tried something new. Button mushroom in cheese. ^^ Hopefully my friends would be more sporting when it comes to my 21st birthday party.

Spent most of the night watching TV at the chalet, under the Tuscan sun. Very interesting show I must agree. Feel dam bad sia, come birthday party den end up watching tv instead, but I guess Terry have many friends to entertain, so it is understandable. Anyway...

Happy 21st Birthday Terry!!!

Lastly before I end this post, managed to get a new game for my Wii. Ghost squard. I really enjoyed playing this game in the past last time at the arcade. To save ur character data you actually need to buy a $5 card and each game cost around $1.50-$2 depending on where you are playing it. And I think I must have spent more than a $100 on this game in the past. Cant really blame me, I find that it is a super fun game XD Anyway managed to pick up a second hand copy of this game for just $36. Although aiming is much harder as compared to the arcade due to the motion sensing nature of the Wii mote, it is still very fun to play. Going to relive fun moments as I play through this classic game again!

2008-02-12T08:21:00.000+08:00

6th Feb, 2008

Today went on board superstar virgo again. Only this time I did not have my dear along with me, so it was more boring than usual. Just basically spent my time eating, watching disney channel and in the casino. So I just going to have more pictures instead of words.

My room this time round

1st Dinner On Board

Chinese New Year Countdown Fun Pack

Things In The Fun Pack

My winnings from the casino =)

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

KL Starcruise Port

Balcony View

~~End Of Cruise~~

8th Feb, 2008

Yummy Yummy Dinner =)

10th Feb, 2008

Played Mahjong for a few hours today with my father and dear dear. And we played all the way till our dinner came which was pizza. Watch spiderman on tv while eating =P Other than that, a very normal day XD

11th Feb,2008

Went to JEC for dinner today. There was some kind of bookfair going on and I managed to get 3 books from the wheel of time series for just $10. Normally even 2nd hand each book would go for $10-$12 each. So I thought I managed to get a pretty good deal. Was very tempted to get books from the Animorphs series which were going for $2 each since I really enjoyed reading the series last time when I was young XD

Ended Wth A Chocolate Sundae At The Food Court =)

2008-02-06T18:41:00.000+08:00

4th Feb, 2008

Had advance reunion dinner since I will be overseas this new year on yet another cruise. Only this time my dear isnt with me. =( I will sure miss her a lot de this few days. Dear you must take care of urself these few days ok. I wan to see you in 1 well fed piece =P Dear I love you lots lots ^^

Anyway for this year reunion dinner, my dear dear join in as well. My mother cook up a few dishes herself and we had a traditional Yu Sheng =)

My Mum's Dishes

Yu Sheng Before Mixing

Yu Sheng After Mixing =)

Anyway, it was quite a delicious reunion dinner. I expect there will be another spread of good food as a makeup reunion dinner when we get back from cruise? Well I duno, every year its like traditional for my family to go overseas during the festive period XD

5th Feb, 2008

Today went to bugis and meet up with Stephanie and Melody for our GEO 333 project. We held our project discussion at TCC. I always find the coffee at TCC quite nice but the price tag attached to it is not worth it in my opinion. Just gimme good old coffee bean anyday =P

Mint Choc Frappe

Anyway wasnt much for discussion and end up side tracking on topics like our gf/bf and driving matters ><" But at least the discussion ended fast. The girls went off for their shopping while I went back to pick my dear dear up. And for the first time, I actually managed to find my way back in the shortest possible route. Normally I would get go a lot of detour before getting back to the road home.

But there was a huge traffic jam at Bukit Timah road that took me 20 mins. I saw the accident vehicles and the situation look very terrible. I must remind myself that speeding really kills and I should not travel too fast. After all I did get a warning letter for speeding before. So mental note to self *Do not speed on the road, cherish your own life* =)

At night went out with my parents and dear dear to westmall for dinner. Had our dinner at Mayim. The food is good but the service standard seem to have drop. We actually waited more than 15 mins for the last dish and even thought we reminded the waiter several times, they made no effort to find out what its taking them so long. My mother was not happy with the service whereas I was thinking why should we pay service charge for this kind of serivce. But one thing, at the the food is good.

Eating At Mayim

Not sure what rice this it but it taste good

My dear had some chicken noodle
(tasted bad) Besides the lamian i would not reconmend trying any other noodles at mayim

Fried Brinjor(Ai ya i duno how to spell =.=) Anyway it taste yummy =)

Fried Dumpling

Xiao Long Bao
(The one at Mayim is super yummy) The juice inside the bao is really beyond words =P

After dinner me and dear dear walk around westmall. And we found some interesting things inside a gift shop. It actually has the car signs that you can put up. I am very tempted to buy one that says "Pampered Princess on board" since my dear dear is the princess in my heart =P But end up we did not buy that and instead bought ourselves a couple keychain.

Cute ma? Its magnetic too so that when you put them close together they will be kissing in this posture. And the price is ok too, $10.90 per set! There was many designs to choose from but we decided on this particular set since it was cute ^^

Than before going home we bought some sweets and cookies =) I enjoy shopping with my dear dear =P But we always end up buying so many things when we go out such like this. Got to watch our spending since I no longer have my ns pay to depend on XD

My dear insisted on making sure my baby photo is in the picture when she took these =.= She keep saying how cute I look when I was a baby. XD Anyway I got to get ready for the cruise now. Many homeworks and projects awaiting me when I get back =(

DEAR DEAR MUST TAKE CARE OF URSELF AR! *MUACKS*

2008-02-04T23:38:00.000+08:00

2nd Feb, 2008

After leaving my Wii to collect dust in a corner for so long, me and dear actually hook it up and play some games on it. Unfortunately, since I did not expect myself to be playing the Wii with someone else, I did not get myself any new 2 player games or another control for that matter. Anyway dear was having so much fun playing tennis and bowling on Wii sports that I thought why not we get another control so we could have more fun together.

So we made our way to Seow Choon and bought us this...

The whole set put me back by around $100. For some reason, the prices for Wii acessories din really drop much at all since the launch. I would have gotten a discounted price but I forgotten to bring my VIP membership card along =.=" Must not be so careless in future if not can save a few dollars.

So....

TADA NEW WII MOTE!!!

Played some tennis and bowling with dear dear together. I could win her at tennis, but for some reason I cant bowl straight at all when it comes to bowling. But my curve balls are really something else, even dear agrees with me. In the end I still can never win her at bowling =(

This is the results of one of our games

Trust me she have improved so much that her best score was actually 200++ and even achieve pro status. I was like wth, I am bowling around 100++ average and no where near pro status at all. I want that special bowling ball! *roarrr*

Anyway since my Wii has been collecting dust for quite some time. I actually missed out on many great games. Games I been itching to get for some time include, Guitar Hero 3, Dance Dance Revolution Greatest Party and Ghost squard. Unfortunately I dun think any of these game might appeal much to my dear dear. So the next game I proberly get is something fun for 2 person to enjoy and compete against. Anyone has any good reconmendations? =P

And in neopets, managed to get myself a few new avatars and most importantly a new trophy!!! Since the score for all the games were reset on 1st of Feb, been trying for quite some time to break a few records to get myself some trophies but to no avail. Other people are way too pro and my score is no where near them at all. However some consolation is that I got a trophy in a game of luck called double or nothing =P

Thats my name highlighted in red *Managed to bag a 3rd place trophy for this game* =)

So now my current trophies collection is as follows...

With my newest trophy hightlighted in red =P

And as for avatar matters, I also managed to get a few. However my attempt for a trophy in volcano run II failed by just a little. I needed a score of 1560 to get a trophy however I only score 1509. At least I was rewarded by an avatar for my effort. But how I wish it was a shiny new trophy instead XD

Another new avatar that I got was from fishing up a gigantic squid XD

Lastly I shall end my post with some yummies.

This fried rice is from a store at Jurong East. I always enjoy eating the fried rice from this store even though it beens quite some years already. But if the food is good I was always continue to eat from the same store =)

And I also shared a conetto royale with my dear dear after dinner yesterday. I find the conetto royale series actually is much richer in taste that the normal conetto ice creams. Maybe next time I shall try the rest of the favours =)

That it for now, more updates to come ^^

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

1st Feb, 2008

Woohoo~ Its the start of a new month, which also means I been to school for 3 weeks aleady. Dam, time sure flies fast now a days. Just an update, I think I did badly for my GEO 334 2nd test. The first test was relatively easy since it was an open book test and the questions were actually listed in order of the content in the book. And it was mutiple choice too. This time however, there were 4 essay questions and tonnes of multiple choices who took the bulk of my time. Worst of all, this time the question were jumbled up so that you have to keep jumping from chapter to chapter. Please let me get a 75% for this test! *prays*

Another thing is, I have 4 projects to do this semester. Oh joy! This reminds me NEVER take a full sem ever again. I barely started on any of them =(

Anyway back to today, had to go to school today just for English tenses workshop and coms consultation. Which is just like 2 hours max. But the workshop was fun trying to create a paragraph using the stuff we learn featuring Si ru and how she eats her hamster. Maurice laugh so much till he broke he spec @@ Well the rest of all was laughing non stop hearing all the interesting version on how she ate her hamster XD

Dear came to find me after she finished school today. And she even brough me a present. lolx, it glows in the dark =P Her teacher gave out some light sticks to the class today. Cool teacher sia haha.

We had lunch at SIM's food court. And its my first time trying the Ban Mian at school. Frankly speaking I thought that the Ban Mian is only average and not as good as what everyone claim it to be. The one at Lot 1 taste much much better! But I kenot deny that the fried dumplings is very yummy! And they are really valued for money sia. $3 for 8 whereas normally it would cost around $4.50 at any other place.

After that, me and dear went back to my place where we slept all the way until dinner time. I think we rocks la, from lunch time sleep till dinner time XD Than went out with my parents to IMM for dinner. Had La Mian and some dian Xin at a mini restaurant at level one.

ShangHai Fried Noodle!

Spicy Raman

Pork Ribs

Phonix Claw

Siew Mai

Crystal Pau

Char Siew Pau

The food tasted pretty good and it was very resonably priced. We had all that and a stew beef raman for just $30. I din take any photo of the ramen because I was too hungry =P The rest of the photo was snapped by my dear before we hungry people devour them XD

After dinner, my dear follow my mama shopping, while me and my dad went to pick up a new toy at giant. The whole set actually costs only $40! So happy now that I got this thanks to my dad =) Anyone interested to play? =P

Actually we had a hard time transporting the table back home. For some reason it was too big to go into my dad boot. So have to put it in the back seat and me and poor dear was so squashed up in the back. But it did gave us some privacy *evil grin*

After going home, my dad show me and dear how to play 3 person Mahjong. Basically everything stays the same except we have to take out one suit, in this case we took out Bamboo. But even with 3 person it was equally fun! The game became very fast pace ^^ And being new right, the tiles are super smooth and the feel is great. But one problem, being too smooth meant I cant stack the tiles the way I used to =( Well I guess its just a matter of getting used to them XD I won 8 tai during 1 round =P hahaha I love playing Mahjong!

Anyway on thursday, when I went to pick my dear up she bought she banana chocolate thingy from her school bookshop for me. The blend of chocolate and banana gummy sweet is a very interesting blend and the taste is quite pleasant. Thanks Dear! *muacks*

Than at night, my god-daughter brought some gifts for us from her workplace.She is working at Swatch now ma, than when you spent a certain amount of money than will have these free gifts one. But she managed to kope some back for us. Gave us some angpao paper and a very lovely design lock =) We also had fun chatting for a while which ended up with her missing a few of her trains. lolx. Anyway thanks girl girl for the gifts! =P

Swatch Lock (Supposingly Free with Minimum of $80 Spent)

2008-01-30T22:32:00.000+08:00

Gonna post some updates before I post random stuff. I gotten back 2 of my quiz results. Each quiz actually worth a few % of my overall grade so they are quite important. Unfortunately I did not do so well for my communication quiz, I only managed to get 60%. However the class average was like 57% so I am above average? XD But this kind of results is definately not ideal if you are aiming for a high GPA. Well at least I passed =P

On the other hand, I did relatively well for my Psychology quiz. 90%!!! So glad that I could score so high especially on a new subject I am taking. Thank god I am majoring in psychology and not communications =P I just wanna maintain this kind of grades for this subject. =X Hope I can do it...

And now for the random stuff...

My dear dear brought me something yesterday since she knows I enjoy eating jelly beans. So sweet of her lor, it is quite yummy ^^ Before eu know it, I finish the whole thing =X Dear dear I always appreciate all these small little things eu do for me. Such as buying waffles from ur sch from time to time. I love you lots lots and I am so blessed to have you by my side ❤ =)

And another random thing, my mother bought me this chips from the last holiday she had. I really like eating this chips due to the nice smell and unique taste! Yummy!

And last random thing for this post. After throwing countless coconuts at the stupid store in the deserted fairground in neopets, I finally managed to know my first coconut down. Kinda makes me think that the owner of the coconut shy actually nailed those dam coconuts to the stand. Anyway back to topic, I was rewarded with a special coconut and a lovely avatar for my efforts. Now I can stop throwing those bloody coconuts. *Excuse my language, but I spent a lot of neopoints on that stupid store just to get this avatar* XD

I am not easy to get! (Boo!)

2008-01-29T23:20:00.000+08:00

Never thought I would upload this many photos in a single post, but everything look so nice that I couldn't bear to leave anything out. Anyway, the post you all have been waiting for. My cruise trip with my dear dear on board Superstar Virgo.

My greatest worry pior to the cruise is actually what will happen when my parents meet up with dear dear's parents. Thankfully everything went quite smoothly, with luck next time can go cruise with dear dear without her parents tagging along. XD

Anyway back to the cruise trip, met up with dear dear at Habourfront cruise centre at 5 plus and we checked in to the ship.

Lobby

Corridoor To Our Rooms

Tada~ My Room 5587!

After we got our rooms, settle down a bit before dear dear went dinner with me and my parents. Was a little unhappy lor, because it was our 2nd month anniversary and I wanted to have a private dinner with dear dear. Anyway while waiting for the food to arrive, dear took some photos...

Can you see where is it?

Is it clearer now? It is actually vivocity rooftop!

How many times have we been standing over there and looking over at the cruise thinking how nice it is if we could actually be on it. Well finally can say it was a dream come true. wahahaha. Soon the food came and frankly speaking, it wasn't all that great. It was better the previous time I came.

Seafood Salad (Appetizer)

Chicken Soup A.K.A MSG Soup

Seafood Kabab Rice (Main Course)

My dear dear had this, Duck with Greens on The Side

Blueberry Cheese Cake (Dessert - Not Bad)

Ice Cream (Dessert - Plain)

Even thought we have eaten a full course meal at the restaurant but we were still feeling quite hungry. So we went up to have buffet as round 2 =P

I just love eating the corn and olives XD

Wash it down with some sour and spicy soup

After dinner, both of us went to the top deck of the ship and we could see vivocity well lit rooftop. So glad that this time we are actually looking over at vivocity and not at vivo looking over at the cruise =PThan as an evening entertainment programme, me and dear dear went to the lido to watch a performance called 'Street Life'.

Walking Into The Lido

The comfy Seats!

The Stage!

We took some photos before the performance actually started

The show quite interesting to watch and both of us enjoyed it. It was about dancing and acrobats. Very entertaining. But unfortunately cant take any photos due to duno what copyright law thingy. lolx. After the show we took many photos all around the ship in some interesting places =P

Operator~ Connect Me To My Dear~ =)

Toshiba!

I wan ang pao money!

Fooling Around On The Mid Deck =P

And how can we end the day without having any SUPPER!!!

The Porridge On The Cruise Is Always So Yummy La!

And Ending With Some Desserts!!~

Before we turn in for the night, we took a couple more of photos together~

I like the effect in this photo, we used the reflection in the glass~

Day 2

Of Course we have to start the day with food =PSpent the rest of the morning exploring some parts of the cruise before it is time for MORE FOOD!Afternoon, dear accompany me to watch transformer. Unfortunately it was full house so we had to sit on the floor. But still it was quite comfortable cuddling with dear while watching the movie.

The lifts actually have nice lighting for taking photos~

Taken from the elevator

And yet again, more food! Dinner!

After dinner, me and dear rest a while before we went for a dip in the Jacuzzi! Wahaha, we been planning for this trip down to the Jacuzzi from the very start of the day XD

Taking the lifts up to the Jacuzzi!

Presenting a cosy and relaxing Jacuzzi!

Spent around 30 mins in the Jacuzzi with a little break in between, left feeling so refreshed. Had a quick shower and than supper once again! lolx, I can get used to this kind of lifestyle man XD

Our Table

And of course not forgetting the yummy desserts!

And this draws the end to another day. Time really does seem to pass very fast when you are having fun.

Day 3

I went to wake dear up super early today because I wanted to watch the sunrise with her together. Unfortunately, we woke up early for nothing because the sun was blocked by the clouds =(

So we ended up eating a very early breakfast =X But had to wait till they finished setting up since we really went there super early due to the sun rise.

Finally after breakfast, we went back and packed our stuff. Trying to enjoy the very last moments of us being together on this cruise. How I wish that the cruise can last longer, I find that the time really fly while we were on board. Looking forward to more of such trips in future. Had a super enjoyable time this time due to my wonderful dear dear =)

Back To Singapore =(

2008-01-28T00:31:00.000+08:00

Back from cruise, so freaking tired. Who freaking idea was it to want to watch the sunrise early in the morning. Oh all right, its my freaking idea, but end up the sun kena blocked by clouds =.= Sorry dear dear, dragged you up so early in the morning to see nothing =X

Will update again when I can find the time, taken too many photos and its gonna be a while before I get everything organise. But I must admit it has been a wonderful 3 days, pity the cruise did not last longer.

Gonna go to sleep now, so tired from churning out a last minute essay for my ESL class the next day. Hey wait, it is actually the next day! Din expect it took me so long just to write an essay, guess I took too long a break from writing XD Anyway will update again soon, nite...

2008-01-25T15:01:00.000+08:00

So excited, going to cruise later together with my dear dear. Of course our family will be coming along as well. It would be great if it was just the 2 of us =X Anyway, what is making this so special is that it is also our 2nd Month Anniversary together!!

HAPPY 2nd MONTH ANNIVERSARY DEAR!!!~!

Despite our small disagreements occasionally, we are still a very loving couple. Dear, I love eu always and looking forward to many more 1 months to come! I feel so blessed having eu by my side and you mean everything to me. So must always take good care of yourself. =)

Anyway, yesterday had my GEO 334 test, the test quite ok la, since it was a 77 question mcq open book test. But the problem is that he also gave us another 2 questions as 10% extra credit for our grade @@ The first question I could answer with more or less the same, hopefully he accepts it. But what stumps me was the other question. What is Sim Core Values? I was like wth!? They din even told us that during orientation. =( Oh well, at least it was just for extra credit, but how I hope I would be able to get that A for this module =X What past is past, now need to focused on my other subjects =) Hopefully I can get a good gpa for this sem ^^

And lastly before I go, managed to get myself a new avatar for neopets. Duno why today can so easily get it when normally I tried so hard and end up with nothing. I guess sometimes, the harder you try for something the tendency for sucess goes down? Today it only took me one try and I wasn't planning on playing that game. But I thought its been some time since I last play it so why not give it a try. And viola!

Whereas games I played everyday trying to get the avatar still produce no results. Guess I gonna be more layback with these kind of games from now on =P

Got to go now! *Cruise here I come!!!*

2008-01-23T15:47:00.000+08:00

Updates!!~!

Taken my first 2 quiz/tests in SIM already! Each quiz is actually worth like 5% of your overall grade so every marks conts. But I think I screwed up my COM 101 quiz. Half of the ans is like wrong and I know I just did badly for it.

But as for my PSY 101 quiz, I managed to do most of the questions with a little uncertainties. So I think it should not be too bad. Thank god my major is in Psychology and not Communications XD Still, I find it quite hard to memorise facts, maybe its cos of my long absence from studying. Hopefully I can get into the pace of things and settle down in school life well =/

Anyway here are some random things!~

That day went to Jurong West for dinner with deardear and my parents. They have some sort of pasar malam going on due to the chinese new year. And I always love eating 2 kind of things at this kind of fair. One is the steam peanuts and the nuts are always so so juicy!

And the other is of course, cup corn!!! I always enjoy eating corns be it whatever form it is in =) But must not deny that cup corn is one of my most favourite kind of corn!

See See! Omg la, so juicy!

Than me and deardear also went to giant recently and bought a lot of honey sticks. Want to know how many we buy? Look at the empty cup there, we bought every single stick of that flavour.

Yup Yupz! We bought 50 sticks!!!

And lastly, I love my dear dear very much and appreciate all the small things she always do for me. Like this time how she help me set the colour for my msn nick. I just told her I like purple den she play around with msn till she help me get the colour. So happy! *muacks* Doesn't our nick look nice together? =)

2008-01-22T11:00:00.000+08:00

Hahaha, I just type out an entry for my COM 101 class. Need to analazye some form of media text so I choose to do an entry on the Mocca Body Builder advertisement. Feel free to discuss about that topic at my COM 101 blog if it interest you.

My COM 101 Blog

Not sure if you need an account to leave comments but if you have some time to queue, feel free to leave some comments for me. Sugguestions for improvement are highly welcome =) Can also help me to pull my COM 101 grade up =P

Will update with another post soon, but the school's connection is killing me so I guess I will update again when a get home =(

2008-01-20T13:27:00.000+08:00

Got to quit this bad habit of bad-dating posts. Seriously. But I guess its a hard habit to break XD

Well anyway...

17th January, 2008

After my school ended today. Drove down to pick dear dear up at RP. I always like how convenient it is to get back from SIM since just down the road is PIE-tuas. But I always hate how jammed it gets in the morning to SIM =X

Anyway, dear dear bought me this yummy honey waffle from her school. She always seem to bring me yummy tibits from her school from time to time. I love eu dear! =) *Muacks*

Than since we didn't want to go back so early yet. Went over to IMM, really like going there since the parking is free for the first 3 hours. So everytime if got some time to kill, IMM is a great place to be, plus giant always offer very good prices on certain things. ^^ Today we bought honey sticks. I introduce them to dear dear one and now she also like them a lot. Had fun picking out a few new favours =P

Dear said this photo is taken very artistically =P I got talent. Wahahaha!

Also bought myself a bar of picnic. Been very long since I last had this especially with all the new brands and varities of chocolate that have been coming out. But this old classic is still nice nonetheless =)

Haha, eu have to excuse me of taking photos of such mudane things but I guess I am just a photo-holic =P

18th January, 2008
Today I did not have school! Well for this semester I wont be having any lesson on friday! YAY!~ Which means every week I will get to enjoy a long weekend =) So met dear dear early this morning for MCD breakfast.

Even after so long, I still enjoy the big breakfast at MCD. While dear was busy with her NDS, I was trying to find lobang for 2nd hand textbooks online. Well post a few ads with hope of getting some reply. After all, new textbook are very expensive and my savings could not support this kind of lifestyle for long. Bloody government, giving such cheapskate NS allowance considering the shit we have to do for the country. Well if I cant manage to get 2nd hand textbook by monday I guess have to buy new ones =(

Cam whore a bit with dear dear using her notebook camera before we headed to JEC for our K-session. Somehow today lunch wasnt as good as the last time we came. I mean the meat was so hard that it broke my fork when I tried to poke it @@ But still we had an enjoyable time even though the aircon was a little cold.

After our K-box, we went to the arcade and played this drumming game. It is super fun la, but my hand was painful after playing 6 songs in a row. LOL. I think I sld just stick on the portable one in NDS =P

After that, we could not decide on a good play to go so we decided to go giant and get more honeysticks. Also we could walk around. But seriously, there is really nothing much to walk around in shopping centre when you are broke =(

Than we went over to Seow Choon to take a look at the new Wii games. Been a really long time since I last bought a game and I was thinking of getting one. But the price of cooking mama for Wii is super scary. $79 for the game O.o I think I just pick this off 2nd hand, hopefully someone will be selling it XD

Last time been buying games just for myself but now I think I can start thinking of getting games so that both me and dear can enjoy =)

19th January, 2008
Was supposed to meet Brandon they all for steamboat lunch today but we were too tired and overslept a lil. So we told them we meet them after lunch. So me and dear had a quick bite at MCD near my house first.

The new beef posperity burger taste not bad sia but I still think the curly fries could not beat the A & W one. Too bad there is no more outlets left in SG.

So after our lunch, called Li Ting to find out where they were. They said they were at Bugis so I told them to wait for us while we go over.

But when we arrived at Bugis they said they were at Selegie eating Touhua. So I said nvm I go over now, than when I just about to reach, they said they were going to leave soon to Mount Faber Safra to play Mahjong.

I was a bit dulan seriously, because if the final destination was supposed to be Mt Faber than why waste my time and petrol coming to town in the first place. I could just drive there straight. I mean petrol is already super expensive now and if you are paying it yourself you can really feel the pinch. Anyway just hope that this miscomunication will not happen again.

I reached there much earlier than them, so me and dear walked around looking at all the interesting stores that they set up at the lobby. Me and dear pick up many great bargains at one of the store. I managed to get Meteor Garden 2 VCD boxset in exerllent condition for just $2!

Than when they finally arrived, we went to book the Mahjong room. Very expensive in my opinion. $10.70 per hour @@ And they tabao some TouHua and tarts for us. Thanks =) The place is expensive because it is a private room. Anyway me and dear played together. And I super no luck lor. Keep losing a lot =( And I need to hone my mahjong skill up more. I think I still very bad at it. We play for like 3 and a half hours. Brandon is the super big winner since one round he actually won $9.60. That is a lot considering we were playing $0.10 per tai.

It was already late than and me and dear deciding to go Bukit Timah for prata. Asked if they wanted to join us and then I followed Seamus car all the way since he got Mary. Omg la, that device I dam useful sia, I din know that there is actually such a short route to Bukit Timah considering where we were at. I plan to buy one soon, after all I can save a lot on petrol by taking the shortest route everytime XD

But when we reach the place, they said they did not want to eat prata so dear dear and me ate by ourself. But I think I was too overboard with the ordering. Look at it for yourself XD

Bundung Dinosaur

Roti John

Roti Plaster Prata X 2

Egg Onion Prata

Chicken Muttabak

Hahaha, well it too much for 2 person, duno why I am so crazy to order this much. But I must say that the food is quite reasonably price. Well next time I will watch what I order =P
PS: Chicken Muttabak is yummy! And it was nice meeting up with old friends.

2008-01-17T10:57:00.000+08:00

Guess where I am blogging from? Hahah, just finish my lesson on GEO 333. Wonder if I can cope with the school work after taking a break from the books for 2 years. And it was a shocker for me when I found out GEO 333, 334 that I signed up for is taken by Business Ad student in their 3rd year @@ Wonder will I be able to understand the topics that are going through during class. Well I guess I have to see how it goes, textbooks are so expensive and it like complusory for every course =( My NS saving is dwindling down every single day.

Anyway, one thing to look forward to. I am going to cruise next friday with my girlfriend! From 25-27th of Jan. And you know what is so special about it? It would be our 2nd month Anniversary together! How romantic to be able to spend it on the cruise. ❤

Anyway nothing much for now, just been busy with school and adjusting to the new workload. Gonna make use of the holiday next week and enjoy myself to the max! Will also take many many many photos too =P

2008-01-15T11:58:00.000+08:00

Wow, sorry for the super long absence. Guess been really busy with a couple of stuff lately. Ok.
Update 1, I started school.

Update 2, I misinterpreted my timetable. I actually only have this modules this sem. Which means my timetable only needs me to go to school on 2 days Monday and Wednesday from 9am to 2.15pm. Due to my A levels, I am exempted from MTH 115 and NTR 108!

Update 3, I just really really just recieve a call from SIM told me that I can add 2 more modules this semester so now my final timetable is as such.

Monday: 9am - 2.15pm

Tuesday: 9am - 3.30pm

Wednesday: 9am - 2.15pm

Thursday: 9am - 3.30pm

Friday: Off

So basically for this whole semester I will be taking the following modules ^^

COM 101 : Principles Of Communication

ESL 407 : Advance Written English & Reading I

PSY 101 : Introductory Psychology

GEO 333 : Dynamics Of World Commerce

GEO 334 : International Environments And Commerical Problems

Anyway backtracking time XD

11 January, 2008

Today is the first day of school for me. Which means it orientation time. Although I am studying at SIM, but I am actually consider to be in the BAP program at University Buffalo , the state university of new york.

Din know the traffice at Bukit Timah was so bad in the morning. Nearly late for orientation @@ But even if I miss also nothing much la. The whole darn morning is filled with talks, I try listening but the words seem to be going in from one ear and going out from the next.

See! I look so bored =X

After all the talks were done, we were to start our orientation program in full swing. So changed into the shirt they gave up and went to deposit our bags. At the same time, they brought us around the school for a tour.

Let me Introduce to You, Lift @ SIM XD

After the tour was done, we went outside the great hall to eat our lunch. Actually not bad la, but heard from our OGL that it was supposed to be a buffet or something, thats why they came today. lol.

Lunch!

Next, we had some ice breaker games to play. But first, let me introduce my orientation group XD

For the first game, we play the tangle arms game and have to untangle all of us to form a circle. Duno why but it seems that every single orientation have to play this game one sia =.= Anyway, due to Golden Hair switching our hands, it seems impossible to untangle. Which we completed by secreting letting go. Oops =P

Next game we play was that all of us has to stand in a row. And we have to act out something to the person in front of us till it reaches the front person. Than the front person has to guess what the object is. Cant believe how much the acting can distort sia by the time it reach the front. Anyway we had to act out, Mocca Advert, Tyoko Drift and Spider Pig. @@ Well we managed to get 2 out of 3 right anyway.

Unglam moment of me acting out Tyoko Drift *hide face behind wall*

Following that, we play a scavenger hunt where we both had to collect items as well as to take photos. Well I was ask to take photos of 2 animals in SIM. I settled for the Koi fish and the turtle. lolx XD We managed to complete this event first! By the way I forget to mentioned. The losing team had to drink a cocktail conocted by the winning team, and believe me it does not look good from the ingredients.

And the last event but not least, the SOC as how we guys like to call it. Basically we had to complete 10 obstacles back to back for the last event. And we were all tied up for the start of the SOC.

See All Tied Up, guess the OGL were into BDSM? XD

It was a very tiring race but the thought of drinking the cocktail made me serious into competing.

Me getting through the web XD

One Funny Moment, After me and that guy spin around in a circle, we collaspe at the same time!

Anyway after the race, I was like super dirty and tired. Covered in flour and water, not to mention that my mouth stings a little from eating the wasabi sandwiches. But at least we managed to come out first!!!

Well we won some snacks as part of the prize. And the other part is making the cocktail for the other team. Looks kinda evil so I had no hand in helping them make it =P But after the prize presentation, our orientation is finally ended.

UB Spring Intake 2008!

Even though I am so dirty, met up with dear dear for dinner. Haha, not only she did not mind about my apperance. She still gave me a great big hug! I love eu a lot a lot a lot my dear ^^ Went to lot 1 for dinner with our usual mean of Ban Mian again. But I said, next time we must try something different like maybe the korean food or the pepper lunch XD

Following dinner, me and dear dear went to mini toons to buy accessory for our phone. She got herself this little piggies thingy while I got myself a turtle. We also bought some gummies for our tummies!

12 January, 2008
Early morning, accompany dear go Aunty Jenny Saloon to reborn her hair. But dam kuku sia me, say wan to try new way of getting there than end up getting lost. We had a little joke of the day due to my sillyness. For details refer to my dear's blog =P

Anyway spend super long time at the Saloon, close to 4 hours. Was passing the time reading Lao Fu Zi, a very old chinese comic that was at the saloon. And playing my NDS. Could tell that dear was completely bored out of her wits too. After the reborning was done, dear din really like her hair. But I thought it look pretty nice. And I know my dear is very particular about apperance one. Just hope she will like it better over time =) And I will always love eu more and more, never less, so no need worry hair not nice or what. But let me tell eu very seriously la, your hair really look nice ma. =) Look as nice as last time, if not even nicer ^^ Serious!

Than went back to my house where we spent the rest of the day in each other company. ❤

13 January, 2008
Both of us went out for dinner together with my parents. Had long John Silvers at JEC. Because of the mass order, I actually forgotten that dear always have to change her drink de. So sorry dear =( Next time must must rmb to change for you. *muacks*

Than after dinner, me and dear dear went to the arcade to play the drumming game. Very fun la the actual version. But it was kinda expensive, $1 just for 2 songs =X Still, next time if we pass by, must play again! Wahahaha. Note: Tomorrow will officially be starting school. Feeling a little depressing consider that I have been enjoying my holidays for super long.

14 Jaunary, 2008
Started school today. Miss my dear terribly, but due to the nature of the classes. It seems I could only msn or sms dear during my COM 101 classes. Because other teachers forbid the use of laptops or handphones =( The ESL 407 teacher is kind of ok imo and the PSY 101 teacher seems kind of strict. But I guess on the whole, all my teachers seems to be good.

However my first day was kinda remote, I never ever like mixing around with new people. And I may pass off to be quiet and reserved. I will only truely open up to people after I get to know them. So I spend most of my first day hiding in one corner. I guess things will start getting better once we were given groups for projects =X

Extra Update On Gaming
Got a new trophy for neopets over the weekend! I got it from feeding a Kadoatie at the The Kadoatery. Its not easy to feed one since at certain time interval, all the kitties will start asking for food to be fed. And eu have to buy the food and feed them asap, if not someone else would do it. So eu only have seconds after a kitty ask for food to sucessfully feed it. But currently I am working towards feeding 75 kitties which would earn me a gold trophy and a cool new avatar =P

Sucess At Long Last! Shiny New Trophy!

And my first feed, a contented well fed kitty =P

2008-01-11T00:46:00.000+08:00

Today went to pick up dear dear after her UT. We decided to go K-boxing today, so head over to Jurong East since it is the only one near our house for now. We arrived just time time for K-lunch. =)

And you know what, today they gave us a big room even though it is just the 2 of us. That time went for Eunice birthday party got 7 ppl and yet the room is so much smaller. See see how big the room is, ignore that guy sitting in the middle XD

Anyway guess what is on the menu for today lunch? The food is dam nice lor! Look below and see what it is~!

Wahahah just kidding, keep scrolling down to see what the food really is =P

Dear Dear had fish for her meal~!

While mine was chicken!~

The food taste super nice la. Love how tender the chicken is and the rice is a little different from the nomal one. Makes it great for accompanying the dishes plus the scallop is so yummy la XD If you don't believe how yummy it is, take a look below =P

Heheheh! Believe me now? =P

Anyway had wonderful time singing with dear dear today. And I find today is so much more enjoyable than K-ster. I guess its the environment ba XD But still I wish can sing longer sia. Got so many songs want to sing but cant finish in time. But today consider quite cheap ba, just $13 per person. I rather come K-box in future, going K-ster is super high risk of getting summon =( Dear, next time must go sing sing again okies? =) But maybe not so soon, fist tight tight XD

Anyway I guess better go sleep now, today got to go orientation at SIM. Got to reach by 8.30 somemore super sian. Cant believe that my holiday just whizzed pass me like that. Of course I rather spend the day with dear but I guess I need to know the place a little if not Monday lesson will be super blur. Will update again soon =)

Let me end my post with this photo =P

2008-01-10T01:23:00.000+08:00

9th January, 2008

Today went to pick dear up after her lesson has ended. Been very long time since I last pick her up from school. She always has to carry her bag plus her super heavy lappy, and to come all the way from RP to my house. I know its very tiring for her so today I wanted her to relax.

We did not want to go over to my place so early so decided to go IMM to walk around. We found this lovely notebook at Popular and bought them for each other. I find what is written on the cover meaningful and the design is lovely too =) And the pages are coloured too!

Notebook! Nice? =P

As we walked, the various food around us looks so tempting that we just have to eat something even though dinner is not too far away. Bought Taiwanese Chicken and I must really thank dear for reconmending it to me in the first place. It is super yummy la. Though I think the one in Far East taste a little nicer =P

While eating the chicken, I was looking at the tarts this store was selling. And it was tempting me as well. Since I did not try it before, I thought maybe now would be a good time to do so. In the end I decided to buy some for dessert later. So I bought 4 of different flavours for each one of us.

Strawberry,Blueberry,Apple,Chicken!

We bought some donuts for supper later before heading home. And guess what, even though it was just a while. We spent more than $20. So far we have been calculating, everytime we go out, we would spend around $20 at least. Cant afford to spend too much like this or my NS savings would soon be gone. Everything in Singapore is so expensive =( Prices keep going up everyday but my allowance still remain the same. How I miss my NS pay XD

For dinner, my mother made us dumpling. My mum gave me and dear this whole plate to share! Wahahaha, I love dumplings la. And the one my mum make taste quite good actually. Though its not as good as they restauraunts but its good enuff for me ^^ Ate till I am so full today =X Think my IPPT can really forget about passing if I don't do something soon XD

Dumplings! Yummy!

After dinner I was feeling so tired that I just fell asleep. And dear was busy doing something lovely for me all the while I was sleeping. When I woke up I was so surprise la, so touched. Dear, I am so blessed to have you as my gf. I really love you lots lots lots! *MUACKS!* So nice of my dear to do this for me. I really like it a lot! Now will definately treat this notebook with care ^^

Thanks Dear! I like this a lot! =)

But thats not all, this was only the cover page. It has also done a page for every first page for each different colour. I want to do the same thing for dear but my art and handicraft isn't that good. But just for her I am going to try my best. Hope she will like it as well =)

Gonna go Sing K with my dear later. Whee~! I have a wonderful dear! =P
Tanner is feeling so loved. =)

2008-01-09T13:54:00.000+08:00

8th January, 2008

Today supposed to meet dear early for breakfast. But duno why I set the alarm to wake up at 8.30. But ended up I wake up at 9am @@ I duno why I will like that sia, last time I set the alarm sure can wake up one. Is it holiday for too long le den become not used to it =( Scared cannot adjust to the timing when school reopen for me. Well I hope uni timetable is more flexible XD

Sorry dear that I was late =X Went to the market near my house for our breakfast since I do not have my car. I had mee rebus while dear had lor mee. But hor, the lor mee chili actually had a tiny worm on it. So creepy sia, sometimes this kind of things makes you wonder about the hygiene of outside food.

After breakfast, my father call and told me that the car can collect le. I was surprised because when I send the car down to the workshop. They said might take until the day after than can collect. So dear accompany me and we took the mrt down to Paya Lebar. We played our NDS on the train and even though the journey is far but it just seems like a while.

Once we reach, suddenly had a stomach ache sia. Must be the food I had for breakfast. Thought of the worm on chili and omg la. Wonder what was inside mine. Never like using public toliets especially mrt one because they are dirty. =( But in emergency cannot be choosy.

Anyway after that, my dad pick up me and dear and help to send us over to the workshop. But it was raining super heavily over there so we wait for quite a long time in the car. Dear took this chance to catch a short nap. However the rain did not look like it is going to stop any time soon so no choice when the rain is smaller we went to collect the car.

So I said bye to my dad and me and dear drove all the way back home. I was a little afraid since it just out of the workshop and I did not want anything to happen to the car XD Thankfully managed to reach home in one piece.

They have done a good job considering the cheap price $200. And they even touch up on other area aisde from the main accident area. Want to see the difference?

Before

After

TA-DA! As good as new!

Than in the afternoon went swimming with dear. I always dun like the starting part of going down to the water since it is so so so cold. But once you warm up its actually very nice and refreshing. And I find the water is good for my skin too. So a wonderful time swimming with my dear. And I thought can use the steamroom and sauna but turn out eu need to sign them out and I din bring my resident pass down. So I guess have to wait till next time. Dear promise next time let you try =)

Lastly shall end with something totally random. I started writing stories again. I used to like writing stories in the past but I guess I got lazy. This time I am writing again in hopes to win the story telling competition on neopets. Well although I hope can win but still it is fun to write stories =D Wish me luck guys ^^

2008-01-07T23:59:00.000+08:00

Sent my car to the workshop for repair early this morning. Was a little afraid since the last time I tried to go there, I got lost and along the way I met with an accident. So I guess the phobia does sticks with eu even though it has been quite some time ago.

Anyway the thing is that I managed to get there safe and sound thanks to my father directing me via the phone. Now just hope the job will be done soon so it could save a lot of trouble for me and my gf. Today she had to leave earlier than usual since I do not have a car and I wan to send her back as well. Sorry dear, just bear with me this couple of days till it gets done =X

Anyway this entry got back dated again =(

6th January. 2008

Today dear come extra early to see me, which was really a surprise. Cause normally she wish to sleep in later when there is no school. Feel so touched, since to do this she has to wake up WAY earlier than me.

Anyway today my gf kena kidnapped by my mother again. Wonder how long my mother been waiting to have another lady in the family. *tsk tsk* Well at least thanks to my mother, dear dear has many new clothes and shoes to last her a while. =) Can tell my dear is happy. Well, at least they are getting along very well.

At night went to 500 plus for steamboat dinner. I find the boss really know how to do business sia. Find the right moment complient eu, than after that reconmmend some dishes than still got follow up one. lolx. Must learn some tatics from him ^^

Anyway this is well me had.

Steamboat!

Althought its looks like all vege, but there is actually delicious fish in it =)

Prawn With Cream Served With Apples (YUMMY!)

Not sure what this is. Sotong Balls? But one thing can say, they taste HEAVENLY!

For dessert my parents and dear shared a durian. As for my I dun like eating it. I guess its something to do with the texture. I love the smell of durian and enjoy eating durians crackers and such. But jus dislike the taste of the actual durian.

Durian =X

Tonight is the last night dear has before she starts school. I know during this holidays we spend a lot of time together and she cant bear have the feeling of going to school. I guess I will feel the same way when my school starts too. Only thing is that I hope for a flexible timetable so I can spend more time with dear. I knows she is scared either one of us will be too busy with dear and neglect the other. But I will never let that happen. =) Dear, this is my promise to you. So promise me eu will study hard as well kays? =P

2008-01-06T16:41:00.000+08:00

5th Jan, 2008

Today I had my lunch at home le. But dear dear said she had not eat yet so I accompany her go to Lot 1 eat. Its seems that everytime we dine at the food court, we would either eat at the kway chap store or the ban mian store.

But seriously la, I think these 2 store must serve one of the most yummy food compared to the rest. So today we had 'Zhu Mo Tang' I see the food look so tempting so I decided to have something and share with dear also. So we ordered an extra 'Mei Chai' and a rice for me. So yummy la~ Cant believe I finished that on top of my lunch as well =X

After lunch, we decided to go take neoprints again. I starting to enjoy taking neoprints a lot XD Turn out the machine we usually go to had 2 dollar credit in it. Apparantly, someone else had a change of heart? So it only cost $5 for our neoprints. Dear dear thinks she doesn't look nice in the photo but I thought it was pretty ok. She still my very sweet and lovely dear~ ❤

Here is us decorating the photos after we taken. Normally if no one is taking neoprints, the decorating timing can be super long. =X Today we finished up faster than usual but still it look rather nice.

Decorating the Photos =)

Waiting For The Photos To Be Printed

Photo Taken While Waiting For Our Photos =P

Than while waiting for our photos to be printed. I say something that is super embrassing sia. My dear finds it very funny whereas I feel how come I can be so noob XD But since really pai sei sia I duwan to say out what it is. After eu all also laugh at me =X

After that went back to my house. I was feeling tired so I took a nap, dear was playing on my computer. Lucky this time she did not take any photo of me when I am sleeping. If not next time shall use blanket and cover my face. Ngek Ngek =P

Than my mother jio my dear dear to pei her go IMM shopping. So what choice did I haf? Sent them both to IMM. My mother bought a lot of clothes from the store Cat-ivating. She also bought a shirt for my dear dear. I think she been waiting very long to find someone that can pei her go shopping. No wonder she is so happy. While poor me stand around in the store doing nothing while they look at clothes. Think we must have spent 2 hrs in the shop, why didn't I bring my NDS =X

So we had a super later dinner at this restauraunt. I did really take notice of what the shop name is but this is on the pillar just behind us XD

We ordered quite a lot of food sia. The rice and noodles taste quite nice and the 'Dian Xin' wasnt too bad too =)

Yan Chong Fried Rice

Signiture Dish Fried Seafood Noodles

Xiu Mai

Dumplings

Cha Shao Pao

Wash it down with some Yuan Yang Coffee

After our late late dinner, we went home. Well at least my mother seem to be hitting it off very well with my gf. So I have nothing to worries about at my side. Hope her mother will like me as much as how much my mother like her ^^ Before I end this post, post some pictures of some cute furries =P

Saw this photo at my friend blog, thought it was cute so I 'stole' it XD

Awww, how sweet =P

Cutie!

2008-01-06T03:33:00.001+08:00

Been Real Busy For The Time Being. But 1 thing is undeniable. I love my gf a lot a lot a lot. School is going to start for both of us soon. But no matter what, my love for you will only grow and never fade. Time will never be a obstacle for us =)

Anyway will update 5th Jan Post real soon. Super tired now after editing my template and setting up a thread for selling 2nd hand items. All can be view from the sidebar on the left hand side ^^

2008-01-05T13:14:00.000+08:00

Yesterday went out for dinner with dear dear and my parents. Well I guess my parents accepted her pretty well now, I am so glad ^^

Went to Jurong West for curry fish head, but somehow today's one is rather small and plus there is 4 of us. Either the price of fish gone up or the fish now a days are becoming picky =P But nonetheless it was still delicious ^^

Curry Fish Head!

Besides that we also had fried oyster and chicken wing along with a side vegetable. Quite a filling meal I must say. However, for a neighbourhood coffee shop I find their price of drinks realli cmi =.= $1.50 for a can of Qoo and $1.20 for normal soft drinks. I think their prices is simply outragous. That price can match shopping centre kopi tiam sia. But no choice since being the only drink stall there. Haiz. Anyway back to food~

Chicken Wings~ (Taste Is Rather Avg IMO)

Fried Oyster~ *This dish has standard and taste rather good =) *

After dinner juz walk around the area and bought some tibits. I bought this for myself since its been quite a while since I last eaten jelly beans. Very nice ^^

Went back home to my place after that and played more NDS with dear till it become quite late again. I think this has become our regular habit. And than we went for supper at 7-11 for instant noodles. Yes another regular habit now =P Our favourite brand was sold out so we settle for another one. This brand tasted rather bland and the taste is pretty plain.

Anyway, I used to like cats a lot in the past because I thought they are very cute. But when I sent dear home, saw something about cats that made my change my mind completely. We saw 2 cats underneath her block that look like were going to fight, So we observed them for a while. When suddenly one the cats let out a chilling cry that sound nothing like a cat's meow at all. And the other cat let out an equally chilling cry. I could feel my hairs standing on end upon hearing those sound. Dear was feeling the same way so we hurriedly went up to her house. Even as I was driving off later, I still had that creeped out feeling. So I guess after this little incident, my likeness for cats are no more =X

Well on the way home, met with a police road block. Seldom meet these especially near our house area. Anyway our conversation is like...
Police Officer: Good Morning, where are you going?
Me: Home
Police Officer: Where you came from?
Me: GF house.
Police Officer: And that is?
Me: CCK?
Police Officer: Ok, drive safely, bye.

First time I kena road block officers ask these question sia. Normally I kena those road block is check for alcohol all that one. I guess got case or something around the area. Since the officer was looking around the inside of my car as we were talking. lolx. Anyway that was super off topic sia.

Before I end my post, recently heard this song from a friend blog and I found it very nice. Really can fit it how I feel about my lovely dear ^.^

❤ You Dear~
爱可以点亮整个世界