of a present, airport and burger shop!

hellos world! how are you today? :)

went present hunting with uxin and bala today for mdm boh's 52nd birthday! we've decided to buy her a new wallet after her obvious hint on how old and tattered her wallet is. hahaha. and to my surprise we only took like less than an hour to decide on what to buy (since we're restricted to only choose from within robinsons because of the $80 vouchers. but the vouchers came just in time! saved us $80 haha). bought her a nice and classy white braun buffel leather wallet! :)












that's all i can show at the moment since its all packed up. anyways then we decided to shop around raffles city since we're already there. and then! *drumrolls* i found the dress for this CNY at topshop. haha! Chinese New Year, the perfect excuse to allow new entrants to my wardrobe. heehee.

after shopping, we went to the airport to welcome maxim home from KL, and then we had dinner together at Killiney Kopitiam. we (bala and i, uxin is too cool for these nonsenses haha) almost didnt shock the hell out of him with our enthusiatic and warm handwave on the other side of the panel plus the 'welcome home' cheer.

"WELCOME! *clap clap clap* WELCOME! *clap clap clap* WE WELCOME YOU HOME!"

we're just short of a banner to the ideal welcome home party. haha so thoughtful right. after a day of hard work at KL, he got to receive such a warm welcome home present. :)











and then he shared with us some interview skills which bala and i nodded vigorously to like some students in class listening to the teacher. haha. omg im so worried for my future job interviews. they sound so scary! sighs really do not want to work at all.

anyways uxin introduced me to this very fun game called burger shop 2! haha! its super fun lah! make burgers (chicken, beef, cheese), fries, onion rings, curly fries, waffles, icecream and so on. okay this may sound lame and brainless, but, FINE its lame and brainless. so what?! huh?! haha i so guilty for what. okay i shall go and play now. teeheehee.

the last weekend

i duno what got into me recently, im actually enjoying blogging more and more (irregardless of whether anyone is reading, i just feel like blogging haha), at this point in time when the wave of blogging had died down. but anyways, keep this up yumin! rainbow-lifex you rock. for letting me share my little boring life and allow for the occasional rantings and insignificant thoughts. :)

here's a post on the last weekend that just passed.

went for our usual weekend mahjong game at xiu's place on saturday, possibly our last game this hols since CNY's approaching and with xiuhui's sister's homecoming. i will miss you junior. you are the cutest dog i've ever laid my hands on (haha). and possibly the laziest too. why are you always sleeping? and i will miss playing mahjong with all of you! jason, xiuhui and ziyi. best mahjong partnars (since we've played together since what, end of J1?) to improve and upgrade my skills with. :) but beware, i'll continue honing my skills in all departments, with special focus on the winning and building department. haha.












sunday was well spent with the control freak uhu glue (jjjust kidding uhu, haha. i can almost hear your 'excuse me?!'), wanying and kelsey who joined us in the evening. had the superlicious prata again at The Prata House for brunch, before heading to a Charity Fair at Pasir Ris.

it was totally out of the plan, that Charity Fair. but madam boh has got a hundred dollars worth of vouchers for that fair, so we just went to check out what we can exchange the vouchers for. and luckily we went, the fair turned out to be quite interesting and highly organised for a charity fair. oh and did i mention? the weather was extremely warm that day, we almost self combusted. crazy afternoon it was. we exchanged the vouchers for many CNY goodies and snacks.












the volunteers tending the booths and helping out were really nice and kind. i think they're all from the Tzu Chi Foundation that organised this fair. and i cant help but feel people who are very devoted to a religion all tend to be really nice and kind. like they are always so willing to help and volunteer their time and money for a good cause, be it buddhists, taoists, christians or catholics.

but the best part of this fair is still on their stall names. hahaha so cute lah. can see they really put in some effort on their stalls.















热情 laksa? 我的热情 (hey!) 好像一把火! anyways we exchanged the vouchers for a whole lot of goodies. so much that we cant squeeze everything into the already overfilled grocery bag.












and we got pineapple tarts too. but to our surprise and amuse, the pineapple tarts came with it teachings on the cover of the bottle! haha. check it out.











oh my this post is taking forever. especially with all these photos.

anyways then we went prawning for an hour and only caught TWO prawns! yes TWO. really. no more prawning, EVER (haha pissed off). decided to go home and play mahjong. so called kelsey if she wanted to play but we ended up cooking dinner together.

minced meat pasta with brocolli's on the menu that night, and wanying brought her chocolate fondue equipment over, so we had chocolate fondue for dessert. it was awesome! to prepare your own fruits and chocolate at your own likings. heehee. everything's nice except the thai mango. really, can it get any more sour that mango? jinjia! its more sour than sourbelt!















when madam boh came to check on us. haha. it was a long day, but fun one. hope everyone had as much fun as i did! :)

the kite runner

'Theft, the one unforgivable sin, the common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal a right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing.'

The Kite Runner, a powerful novel that lives up to all its review - haunting, moving, unexpected, unforgettable, evocative, genuine, extraordinary, astonishing...

i am one third through this novel, and already im terribly moved and haunted by it. great style and a very special plot it has got. luckily i've read it this hols. if not, i might just have missed reading this intriguing book for good.

chomp chilli chomp II

since the previous post didnt quite go the direction i wanted it to, here'a a part two to it on a happier note. :)

since the opening of part of the circle line, i've never been anywhere near it. serangoon can be considered the nearest experience i've ever had with the circle line (i took purple line that day). and its kinda weird to see directional signs in train stations to have orange colour in it. looking forward to the opening of the rest of circle line next year, it'll be so much more convenient in future for dinners at holland v and more picnics at the botanic garden. met may and huishan at serangoon to share a cab to chomp chomp.




it was a beautiful night. the moon was so round and bright i wanted to capture that night of beauty, but the moon's one thing you can never capture on a camera. tested and failed many times. it'll always turn out blur or not sharp enough. renee and audrey went to get stocks for their online blogshop, zigzagzey.livejournal.com (do visit if you like to shop online!), so the rest of us went ahead to order first. we got 40 satays, stingray, vege, carrot cakes, hokkien mee, sugarcane and soya milk. what a feast it was, we were all super full after the meal.














and here's some unglam candid shots that im still considering if i should upload onto fb or not. haha. but for you my privileged blog viewers, enjoy these while they last. haha.












given the greedy nature in us, we went on for dessert, frozen yoghurt at Frolicks even though we were full to the throat. ferlin and huishan have got free voucher for toppings, how can we miss it! oreo with frozen yoghurt is the best combi ever. the sour yoghurt with a tinge of sweetness from the oreo toppings, just about the right taste! heehee.










and as always our meetup is always that enjoyable and comfortable with endless topics and laughters. love you girls! but the night ended sort of abruptly cause ferlin needed to be home early (okay it wasnt really early then). looking forward to our next meetup to continue with the unfinished conversation. oh and almost forgot, thanks ferlin and huishan for the handy souvenirs from HK and the US. thanks for remembering us even when you are having fun overseas! :)

chomp chilli chomp

"chop chilli chop, chop chilli chop,
chomp chilli chomp chilli chomp chilli chomp!"

haha! super lame. met up with the humdingers last friday night and what a night full of obstacles it was. from Holland V's xlb buffet to Essential Brew to Chomp Chomp, changed the venue several times but as short as the meetup feels, luckily we still managed to meet, to catch up. the meeting place was never an issue to me, what's more important is the effort from everyone, to still want to keep in touch and still stay interested in everyone else's life. and that's the least we can do isn't it? with lesser and lesser common experience and identities to bond us together, the least we can do is try make time out of our busy lives for each other. and dun say 'go ahead without me', for what's the point of meeting anymore without you. we can always work something out can't we. furthermore given our friendship, there is no need to worry about 'troubling everyone else or scared the meetup will be cancelled because of you etc'. and even if that's the case, i'd love to be troubled by you.

if the heart is willing, it will found a thousand ways.

i know this is inevitable, and will probably be worst in future when we start working. but this is pro-ly one of the best reason why people at the age of 20plus 30, find themselves losing all their friends - busy, tired, don't feel like. amidst all the important, major things you have to attend to at the moment, i hope our friendship, our meetup, is among one of those important things in your priority list. please, don't let our friendship die off. it always start like this.


ps. i'm not arrowing, not blaming, just a reminder to my temporarily distracted friends. i know they care big time about our friendship. i know they love us as much as i do.

and to those who are temporarily too carried away with their busy lives, take a break, turn around and take a look at the friends you left behind. it's not too late, yet.

its all in the heart

if the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways. if the heart is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.

sometimes it is so hard, to be the one who care so much.

2010

this might be a little late, suppose to be posted on 1st Jan 2010 or sth. but, better late than never.

only one wish for 2010.

i wish for all my loved ones (and myself),
happiness,
good health,
and the ability to appreciate.

the swing

today, i swang myself successfully into the sky on a swing, for the first time in my life.

i can swing independently now!


ps. this should so be on twitter instead, haa.

masterchef yishun

been using the phone alot today, and suddenly i noticed something about our house phone. can you see? try spotting the difference! (haha my favourite fb game)



number 7, 8 and 0 are apparently the least popular numbers in our phonebooks since their buttons are still intact. the protective plastic layer for the other numbers have sort of been scratched already! heehee.

called crystal jade at holland v today to make reservations for their xlb buffet, but guess what, we really need to book that one week in advance! :S actually qihui told me before that their xlb buffet has to be booked one week in advance. but i thought one week's abit too much and didnt, so in the end... :( really couldn't get seats for friday's 8.30pm slot! super sians, like we've all been so looking forward to the buffet!

prepared dinner for my family tonight with my sis since her bf's coming over for a meal. and i haven touched the stove for some 2 months or so? it feels so different to cook here because i duno what ingredients are available and where those condiments are placed.

she was screaming away when i took this photo, hahaha. okay and actually my mum helped when she reached home cause i think she cannot stand our speed, she say we too slow. :(




my favourite dish below on the left. it's super shiok!

of pratas, mr bean, and a haircut

'RAH-RAH-AH-AH-AH
ROMA, ROMA-MA
GAGA, OOH LA LA
want your bad romance~~'

okay totally a random start, but this song kept making its way into my mind for the whole of today, very addictive (rah rah ah ah ah roma roma ma~) hahaha.

i've been seeing so much of kelsey these days that my blog can serve as the evidence. and our meetups are totally random and uncalled for. always a spontaneous call and we're out somewhere having a meal or something. met up with her last saturday, a day with an oven-like weather, to have prata. and the reason i say oven-like is because once i step out into the sun, its like i've just stepped into an oven preparing to be roasted or baked! horrible weather. but still, it didn't roast my enthusiasm for the day away, because... 我的热情 (hey!) 好像一把火!

went to The Prata Place near my old house at Sembawang Road to have pratas (note here kelsey, its sembawang road not upper thomson road haha) because i think their pratas are really one of the best that i've eaten so far. Casuarina's, Upper Thomson's and Jalan Kayu's all cannot fight The Prata Place's ones! *slurps* especially their plain prata, its one nice chewy dough they've got! ordered plain, egg and cheese. niceee! :)














and we continued sitting there for another 2 hours after eating, talking about stuff. as always, we unintentionally talked about solemn issues, actually i should say its some thought-intriguing stuff, just that we delivered them in a solemn and serious way. and we make it sound like its some depressing and serious issue. haha. still, nice to have a serious exchange of ideas and thoughts! fruitful. :)

and then she came over to my house with the intention to reformat her lappie, but note the keyword, intend. haha she didnt in the end cause both of us duno how to reformat! horrible IT stuff. we ended up planning for her 21st instead, which is coming up in less than 2 months! and a big sad that i can't be at her 21st party! :( its gonna be so much fun (hmm fun cannot confirm, but at least there'll be good food?) sighs nvm. i'll get use to this soon.

and out of boredom and cheekiness, i gave in to the temptations her moles on her arm are giving me. i went ahead and joined the dots while she's working on her guest list. hahaha. she still thought im writing or drawing on her arm. hmm... yea technically can consider it as drawing lah. teeheehee.




and then we finally decided to go for dinner at 9pm with my sis, the Starbucks' spokesperson (can i have a tall vanilla latte please). after much discussion we decided on Hans since it's the only decent place that's still open at that hour other than fastfood outlets. the food's not bad, reasonable taste, reasonable price. should be back to dine again in future. :)





and i finally went for a haircut today, the lion mane needs some tending to. because kel needs to run some errand at town today, we decided to meet up and go together. i shall skip the details and just show the end product, the new neat human-like hair. :) and because im with kel, the one person whom i know who likes to walk so much, we walked from bugis to suntec for dinner. along the way we passed by a Mr Bean shop and once again i couldnt resist the temptation to get my favourite Mr Bean soya milk (as you can tell by now how good i am at resisting temptations). so there, my newly trimmed hair with the tempting soya milk. :)



the day, erms night ended off on a good note. after dinner, we walked from suntec to clark quay (remember who i'm with) to take bus number 851 home. sang many songs while walking along kel's favourite route. and we tried to harmonise some songs too haha. okay im tireds. that's about it i guess. shall turn in now. oyasumi!

'RAH-RAH-AH-AH-AH
ROMA, ROMA-MA
GAGA, OOH LA LA
want your bad romance~~'