Thursday, June 28, 2007
random ramblings (read only if u're very free)
10:20 PM

went shopping with mommy today & treated her to soup spoon =) love slack days like this with absolutely no plans no rushing no nothing to achieve. love spending time with mommy =) - minus the nagging of coz

miffu's wedding.. excited for her but juz realized tt i have to go get my own foundation & cosmetics stuff coz
(1) nobody who's a lady goes for her sis's wedding WITHOUT make up. BUT
(2) i have absolutely NO idea how to put on make up & therefore dun possess any of those colourful powdery artificial beautification pdts.
so now how??! and i need to wear heels! bleah. heels??? argh. even a mere pitiful 1-inch thick heel's enough to be life threatening to me. sigh. and i canNOT NOT wear heels. WHY?? coz i'm sadly the shortest in my family of tallies. taLLIES.yeah. seems like i need to go for some how-to-be-more-ladylike-class & learn to walk gracefully in heels without looking like a penguin. =(

ramblings aside, i concocted my own healthy oatmeal cookie!! it's relireli healthy k. and it tastes heavenly as well! heh. goes to show juz how free i am.. and SMART too. =)
note (for the ignorant): those dark brown ones are NOT charred. they're called dark chocolate cookies =P

i'm having a sore throat :( this means NO chocolate NO chocolate cookies NO chocolate brownies NO chocolate cakes NO everything chocolate! argh. bummer.


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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
hao's birthday celebration
11:32 PM

treated hao to carousel buffet lunch @ royal plaza on scotts today. fantastic place!! nice decor, ambience, great service + great food!! =)
the restaurant's interior..

seafood spread..look at the LOBSTER!! (but it's small lobster la.. we mistook it for crayfish)


the pasta grill counter where the chef whips up a pasta of ur own creation on the spot!

dessert galore!! check out the chocolate fondue.. and the fruits (on skewers) tt go with it!


yup.. great food!! there's sashimi, seafood, jap, thai, western, italian, chinese & malay dishes. & how can i forget the oh-so-heavenly chocolate fondue & dessert counters!! there're THREE dessert counters mind u. THREE k. talk abt drowning in chocolate & everything sweet. oooooooohhh.. ultimate bliss. =)

birthday guy holding chumchum, reading his specially handmade birthday card!

tada! the birthday card..still got velcro one ok.. i noe it's nice! heh. dun bother complimenting. =P


watched "eye in the sky" after tt.. i dun haf a habit of catching chinese shows in the cinema but this's an exception coz mr hao was dying to watch it. since he's the birthday guy, he's king for the day. so watch lor. but i muz say it's reli gd. clever plot. nicely scripted. exciting enough to keep 2 very full and sleepy ppl awake throughout!

then it was dinner with his family at The Japanese Restaurant @ far east. wat a name rite.. "The Japanese Restaurant". how very innovative.
the food again was yummilicious! but lunch was still in the process of being digested so cldn't eat much. (thankfully.. else think i'll reli burst my stomach)

woah.. yet another super-feasting day.
diet always comes tmr.. never today =)


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Monday, June 25, 2007
4:51 PM

as of today, i'm jobless again! yay! told michael tt i dun wanna work already.. orders from my mom. actually i'm reli glad to quit this job. freedom again.. finally!! =) yippee!
specially went to amoy food centre to try out the sgkueh today. heh. yeh.. ultimate gluttony i noe.. but everyone was raving abt it all over the newspapers!! so i muz go try. =P


from left to right.. the tapioca kuehs, tau suan kueh, durian crepe & orh nee. it's ALL super gd!! other than the tau suan kueh...quite tasteless actually. then went bugis street to eat my sesame/walnut paste.

yummilicious!! hehe. had ondeh ondeh as well. today's reli a chapalang dessert day. eat some more i'll die of kueh-overdose. anyway.. i might as well eat lahs. my mom kept saying tt my blood pressure too low.. too unhealthy. but seriously.. low BP better than high BP rite.. at least i wont get fat-clogged arteries and suffer from a heart attack or sth..not yet anyway =P (but at this rate i'm eating.. think my BP wont stay low for long..)


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Sunday, June 24, 2007
11:39 PM

oh.. on a lighter note.. i saw two huge komodo dragons & a bright green snake today at mac ritchie!
identify the green snake..

now spot the green snake amongst the leaves! great camouflage huh. (if u can't see it.. click on the picture below..)

no snapshot of komodo dragonS coz as u all noe i'm no big fan of lizards. house lizards.small lizards. BIG komodo dragons. all the same. equally terrifying.


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10:35 PM

went mac ritchie for a 14km walk with my parents this afternoon. i completed the walk first so was waiting for them at the carpark.. but heat rash suddenly broke out all over my body.. even my face.. so much so tt i looked seriously diseased. anyway tt's not the point. tried gg to the toilet but i blacked out and ended up sprawled on someone's car and fainted. this kind couple called the ambulance who ltr arrived and sent me to tan tock seng A&E.

so the series of tests followed.. low blood pressure + low heart rate (as usual) yeh.. then i was diagnosed with heat stroke & had to stay in hosp for observation.

some ordeal. my dad was juz commenting tt i love giving him surprises like this tt he's becoming quite used to it. heh.

anyway, it's times like this tt u realize who reli care for u. my mom was with me the entire time, dad kept saying tt i'm getting old & weak - but i noe he cares =) miffu drove down specially to bring us home, even oint - who's doin some reli late minute rush for her hw had time to ask me wat happened and if i was ok.

yet all she cared abt were the hamsters' babies.
not even a sign of acknowledgement.
felt reli disappointed.
makes me wonder.. if sth real bad happened to me, will she ever regret not asking.. not caring.. not bothering..


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Saturday, June 23, 2007
11:15 PM

today is another fat fat day. heh. oooohh.. i love days like this. do nothing but slack and feast!!! not hungry still eat. absolute gluttony. =P
ate loads of stuff but this is the most unique!!

see how huge the pao is?? can't tell?

look!!!!! it's almost as big as my face lahs. heh.. lalala.. makes u feel reli blissful eating it.. it's machiam exploding with all tt massive MASS of chicken inside. but it's not for the faint hearted or the small-stomachs. haha. only those who've black holes as stomachs need apply.


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1:09 AM

gave myself an off-day today!! relireli super happy abt it & not the least bit guilty!! heh. (think u can imagine how much i dread working) yeh.. anyway.. yest's visit to the sinseh (yet again) left me spectaculary bandaged up from the knees to the hips so i shldnt be roaming ard eeky industrial estates upgrading UOB terminals anyway. yep. so today was spent pigging out and lazing ard at home =)

oh.. think i fell madly in love with black sesame!! had such a strong craving for black sesame today that i made haoz go down to bugis with me specially to eat this!

my beloved yuan yang.. =) black sesame paste + almond paste from ah chew's dessert. so yummilicious! and then there's black sesame ice cream, black sesame bread.. u name it, i've tried it!! u noe.. if i get to eat ALL the black sesame paste i want.. i'll probably die of nose bleed or sesame-clogged intestines.

we tried this as well.. yam sago with tang yuan. orh nee tastes much better la. this is reli fake orh nee.

went hao's sis's apartment for her farewell bbq today. all her colleagues were there. ALL meaning cleaning auntie included. ahhh. nice big office family. anyway... reli hate bbq. it stinks ur clothes so bad tt u'll smell like a walking piece of chicken wing urself. and the slow burning charcoal! hmmm let's juz say i'm reli thankful for the gas stove.

miff's getting married in abt 2 wks time!! and i'm assigned to be her personal assistant and head bridesmaid.. sounds exciting =)


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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
11:06 PM

since taking up this job and travelling (read: walking) all ard singapore..
i realized that:

1) singapore is reli HUGE when u gotta walk everywhere.
2) walking under the hot sun with laptop in tow is extremely torturous
3) jeans adhere superbly to sweaty legs after hrs of walking, juz like super glue.
4) dehydration occurs in singapore, not juz in Sahara desert.
5) i shld reli juz quit this job since i ALWAYS end up getting all the shittiest, most ulu industrial areas while everyone else get orchard shopping complexes.

sigh sigH siGH sIGH SIGH........
arghhhhhhh... and u say, " quit the job lahs"
i juz might. soon. so freaking tempted. everytime i see the stupid list of kaki bukit and ubi and jalan sth street and (fill in ur own) industrial park.. i juz wanna faint. give it one more wk. then that's it!!


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Saturday, June 16, 2007
SHIN KUSHIYA!!!!!!!!!
11:23 PM

wheee!!! relireli happy today =) went vivocity with haoz for dinner.. and the dinner turned out to be oh-so-fantastic!! we ate at shin kushiya, a jap restaurant. i reli dun wanna sound like a food lunatic obsessed with food but EVERY single thing tt we ordered and ate there was so delicious right down to the carrots & cabbage!! haha. i am so not exaggerating.. u shld reli go try.


we had butter-seared grilled salmon + mash potato, charcoal grilled eggplant and shitake mushrooms, salmon sashimi don, pumpkin croquette & sticky matcha ice cream. each of them tasted so heavenly tt we devoured them mins after their arrival =) and if i were loaded i wld haf carried on ordering every dish on that menu!! yeh. the food's reli that great. i can't stop raving abt it. it's not cheap lahs. but worth every cent!! i declare myself a BIG fan of shin kushiya!! it's reli the BEST restaurant i have ever been to k.. service, atmosphere and food-wise. u simply have to go try!!!!!!! (but remember to bring enough $moolah$..very impt)

two full and very very very contented and happy ppl =)
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both my legs have been swamped by COLONIES of bruises after yest's visit to the sinseh. they look painfully abused. =P i hinted to my mom that i dun reli feel like visiting the sinseh again next wk and she kind of reacted violently.. yeh. i hate trips to sinsehs =( pay them to plant bruise-colonies on my battered legs. oooooohh. i can't wait.


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Friday, June 15, 2007
10:25 PM

rite.. if there ever were a checklist for human bodily self-inflicted injury, this is how mine would look like:
bandaged knee ---- checked
bandaged ankle --- checked
bandaged wrist --- checked
bandaged elbow --- checked

but now...
bandaged knee AND ankle??

hmmm.. oh well.. that's a first.. and when i left the clinic EVERYONE were staring at my magnificently wrapped up pair of legs. oooooohh. how exciting. yeh. so anyway, juz in case u're wondering wat happened.. nope, i (thankfully) didn't fall into some massive drain or roll down bukit timah hill. it's juz a very very complicated case of "old-injuries-ATTACK!!" =P

my mom wanted the doc to fix my on-the-verge-of-dislocating hips as well but i told her it cld wait till my next appointment else i'll reli end up mummy-fied.
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saw a FULL complete rainbow today!! it reli brightened up my otherwise horrendously lousy day @ work..

u hafto squint reli hard to see it.. coz the rainbow's too beautiful to be captured on camera. heh. not my camera lousy k.

learnt tt it's such little things in life that makes me relireli happy. =)


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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
11:17 PM

alrite.. i wasnt planning on blogging coz my oh-so-fun job of a temp service technician is sapping all the energy out of me.. but yeh.. here are some updateS!! (specially for yuanman.. heh)

rite.. work is juz.. work. think i'm getting to know singapore streets quite well. been travelling to WEIRD places like tiong poh rd, sengpoh st, jln jintan and blah blah blah.. do u noe that jln jintan is in the middle of orchard road??? bet u didnt even noe it existed. yeh. my poor feet's suffering. walked from redhill to bk merah to tiongbahru. juz imagine how far tt is!! under the hot singapore sun somemore.. with my laptop in tow! bleah. but oh well.. money talks la. so for the sake of moolah$$.. i shall persevere on..

anyway.. this job aint all that bad!! it's kind of Own-Time-Own-Target.. meaning i get to rest and break for lunch whenever i want!! plus i decide wat time i start and end work. haha. rite.. so yest was reli horrendous. agnes had reli difficult auntie-nurses to deal with.. and EVERY shop i went somehow happened to be closed down or shifted or simply, closed for the day. wth. so agnes and i resumed our tai-tai identities and treated ourselves to Foret Noir @ bakerzin. look at how THICK and fat the cake is!!

it's not bad lahs. yuan man u can go try =)

met up with vivien, anqi and agnes today. #23-04 gathering!! =) but the room 3 ppl werent ard. we had alot of fun catching up, gossiping and stuffing our faces with food though. it's kind of like back to shanghai days but under a different setting.

anyway do u noe that chem engineers in the US earn ard 8000bucks USD per mth??!! how come chem engineers dun get paid tt much in singapore!! bleah. i shld reli go US and be a chem engineer. 8000USD!!!!!! seems so out-of-reach.


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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
first day of work
11:12 PM

so agnes and i are now full fletched temp service TECHNICIANS. yeh. go ard singapore upgrading UOB Visa/Mastarcard terminals. bah. with our laptops in tow somemore! plus my laptop is so tempremental can! keep gg mad and HANGING at the MOST crucial period. argh. this job is so freaking tiring!! a whole day on my feet and now my legs feel like.. like... wait.. i dun think i can even feel my feet anymore! sigh. work is so very NOT fun. but i shan't complain la. i badly needed a job.. and at least this job pays well.. if u dun slack of coz. yeh. so on account of all that moolah (and all tt nice nice food tt i'll be able to feast on once i get my pay), i shall grit my teeth and WALK on! yeh.. hope i live thru this. heh. spoken like a true survivor. yeah.


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Monday, June 4, 2007
12:42 AM

here's the outcome of a super BORING sunday...... i was so tired of rotting at home that i almost went MAD! yeh. boredom kills. i never knew. now i do.
since i had sooooooo much time (and i cldnt go out coz of the sweltering heat & lack of company).. i made this!! ==> soft potato scones! it's like the popeye's biscuit kind. salted. not sweet. coz i was feeling bitter and angry and upset. bored to the brink of insanity. so yeh. disturbed ppl don't make sweet stuff..


on a happier note.. my parents+ sisters are finally back from their silk road trip!!!!!! yippee!! u can't imagine juz how very very glad and relieved i am. NO MORE housemaid duties!! haha.. lalala.. i.am.so.immensely.relieved. plus sisters ard to disturb and irritate. ahhhhh. nice. the past 9 LONG days of lack-of-ppl at home have made me realized tt i can never be a hermit. i'll drive myself crazy first. =P


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ME~
23 yr old fresh grad from NTU (beginning to go stale)... stuck in the mad world of elites. perpetually tanned w/o even trying; nonsensical; prone to mood swings; yet highly lovable when asleep.

AgaPe
♥ I adore FOOD!!=)
♥ love adventure sports, travelling ard the world, experiencing the unexperienced.
♥ my beloved family & chumchum.
♥ dreams to be a doctor.. or a food critic!!

I have ZERO tolerance for:
(1) disgusting house lizards!,
(2) fishball noodles,
(3) cycling up monstrous slopes (this will stay here for the next 16mths of my stay in UK)

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