TGIF

TGIF! TGIF! TGIF!

It's FRIDAY! Finally it's time for me to enjoy the weekend. Although it is a short week for work this week, I am still longing for Friday to arrive.

Today is quite a peaceful day for me as at least I was not running about in the office with my "red face" (my face turns red when I am getting stressful). Perhaps it was due to not many phone calls from customers therefore can use the time to finish up my work on time. Although I cannot finish all work within today but am satisfied with what I had completed.

Few of my colleagues were on leave today hence left with 3 of us having lunch together. Usually our lunch kakis comprises of at least 5 pax and can be as big group as 10 pax. Though only 3 of us, we enjoyed our lunch.

I've just watched movie "Inkheart" with 小珠. We enjoyed the movie and overall rated this as a good one. I ensured myself that I won't miss this movie as I am rather disappointed that I missed "City of Amber". Do not understand why GV Vivo did not have this movie and ultimately I missed it due to timing issue that I can't watch it at another theater. So bad hor...

Well, will now continue to watch J-drama "Team Batista no Eiko". Can't wait to know who is the murderer in the operating theater.


さようなら。　じゃね！

Movie again

Today, we are not planning for any visiting to our relative houses and will be "free n easy" at home. Woke up rather late today. Just one more day to relax before going back to work tomorrow.

My sister asked if I want to bring our parents to watch a movie since there is nothing to do at home. Hence we surfed the net and managed to book tickets for "The Wedding Game" at Downtown East Cathay Cineleisure for this evening show.

My parents seldom watch movies hence we try to bring them whenever there is any suitable ones for them. Need to be humorous and must be in Chinese. My dad liked to watch English action movies but my mum can't understand. Hence... too bad for my dad, we have to choose Chinese movies each time.

Its so fast... Have to start work again tomorrow. This week will be a busy week for me. However, I hope everything will go well and let's 加油!

じゃね! :)

Its Ox Year!

Finally its the Ox year! We had our reunion dinner at home on New Year eve and as usual, we are having steamboat. This year, we had told our mum not to prepare too much food as our stomach "ullage" cannot hold too much now. Not like when we are younger, we can eat and eat without stopping. Perhaps due to we are older now, we can't eat as much compared to few years ago.

First day of the lunar year, we went to our aunt house together with my sister family and my brother-in-law god sister family. Strange to hear my brother-in-law god sister family visiting my aunt? Well they know each other quite well during events like my niece's birthday or short trip to Malaysia etc.

We played blackjack with the kids and thought that we can't win their money too much as worried that they will cry if they lost. But.... it ended up the kids are the ultimate winner! With just 0.50 cents capital, they can win more than $30! My cousin won $58! Where did the money come from??? Its from my sister and brother in law. Guessed they lost around $100. My younger sister also lost around $40. Luck is with me this year. I won about $35. Hee hee...

However, we strongly emphasized to the kids that only once a year we can play blackjack and they can only play with us and not with their friends or outsiders.

Hope this year will be a smooth year for me. Cheers!

Its movie time again

One week passed. Its so fast and Chinese New Year is approaching. This year is too busy for me that I don't feel the sign of welcoming the new year. Hope the Ox year will give me the "push" to do whatever I did not fulfill in the Rat year and wish the coming year will be smooth and prosperous for me and my family. Most important is to have good health. :)

Yesterday went to watch "Bride Wars" with 小珠. Hee hee... this time round there is English subtitles. I like this movie as it is very humorous and touching on the friendship between the 2 good friends. Its so sad when both relationship turn sour. However, like fairy tales, it has a good ending. Watch it! Nice one!

It will be a long weekend + holiday as Monday and Tuesday are New Year holidays. Telling myself to control control and control. Not to eat too much goodies else disaster!

Ok Lah. じゃね

2 Movies in 1 day

Yesterday (Friday), I've watched 2 movies on the same day. Not because I am rich lah.

The 1st movie "Seven Pounds" was watched during lunch time with colleagues from our dept for celebrating good result for 4Q08. Its at Gold Class theater. We took the set lunch and were so full that we could not finish all our food. I ordered Thai fishcake as appetiser, pizza as main menu, brownie with ice-cream as dessert and ice-lemon tea. 小珠 ordered assorted dim-sum as appetiser, chicken wings as main menu, brownie with ice-cream as dessert and ice-lemon tea. We shared the appetisers and main menu as we were sitting next to each other.

The 2nd movie "Milk" was watched after work. It has become our routine to watch a movie after work on almost every Friday. To our surprise, this movie has no English or Chinese subtitles!!! Didn't do "homework" before watching... I ended up a bit blurred on some parts as I couldn't understand the contents. I better improve my listening comprehension. Ha ha...

The movie ended at around 11.30pm and we tried our luck by taking MRT home. Luckily this time round, we were still early by 1 train and need not rush for the last train/bus home.

Arrival of Magazines

Today is the 2nd day I went to office early. Usually I will be in office around 10 - 10.15am. Now I am trying to reach office before 9.30am. Rather tired for waking up 1 hour earlier but have to try to get use to it... 加油!!!

Not sure if age is really catching up. Today, I forgot to buy lunch for my colleague again. Already reminding myself not to forget but ultimately, still forget about it. Luckily 小珠 reminded me before I returned to office. I am so absent minded...

I ordered some magazines from Japan through 小珠 and the first batch arrived. It's Junon Feb 2009 and Cool-Up Jan 2009 issues. Wow wow....

Dad's Birthday + Parents Wedding Anniversary

Today is my dad's lunar birthday. It is also our parent's wedding anniversary. Since it is Sunday and everyone is not working, we decided to dine out for celebration.

We went to the newly open Crowne Plaza Changi Airport Hotel for buffet dinner. The hotel has very classy look and the restaurant, Azur, is offering international buffet. We had a very filling dinner there and all agreed that we are now too "old" and can no longer go for many rounds.

My niece was so happy there as she can eat her favourite spagatties and cold soba. They have great spread of desserts (cakes, fruits, puddings, biscuits, ice-cream etc) and what caught my eyes is the eat all you can haagen dazz ice-cream. Wow.... yummy yummy. But too bad, I was so full that I could not eat too much of it.

My dad was so contented and said that we can go there often. Ha ha...

小娘惹 fever

Today, my mum asked if we (my sis and me) want to go to East Coast Road to visit the stall that sells nonya kuahs and is the stall that "小娘惹" was filmed. We had no objections and took a bus there. Though the queue to buy the kuahs was not long, but you can see that "小娘惹" can really draw the crowds to buy nonya kuahs.

The name of the shop/restaurant is 金珠小厨 (Kim Choo's Kitchen Pte Ltd). They also have a gallary at the 2nd storey. We took our lunch there and was satisfied with the dishes and the prices are reasonable too.

It was a short trip there but my mum was happy with it. Perhaps we will make another trip there again when my mum has the crave again. Ha ha...

Its friday!

Yippy yippy. It's Friday! Finally weekend arrived. Was feeling so tired for the whole week and counting down to Friday so that I can rest on Saturday and Sunday with lots and lots of sleep. Ha ha.

As usual, went to watch movie with 小珠 today. We watched "The Duchess" at GV Vivo. This is the first time we watched at Cinema Europa. Before the show, we are wondering how does this theater looks like as the ticket price is more expensive. Now we know that this theater has bigger and more comfortable seats than normal theater.

Both of us are contented with the story of this movie and the ticket price is worth it. Kind of sympathise the duchess who has to sacrifice her whole life for her children sake.

After the movie, we went to have dinner at White Dog Cafe and we ordered similar dishes that we used to order. Loyalty uh... Food serves here is very nice but with rather big portion. Hence we usually share one main course with soup and a side dish. However... it is still very filling.

Ok lah, shall ends here today. じゃね

Cheeky Chicken ~ Chickadees

On my way back home today, I was craving for Chickadees again.... This snack is still one of my favourite after so many years.

When I was in Primary school, I used to buy a packet from "mama shop" near school and ate while walking back home. Another old time snack is "KaKa". May still see some shops still selling this. The one we can see now is in red packaging and I remembered during the old days, there was also another flavour with green packaging.

チカディスが　すきです。　おいしいね。

Mission accomplished

Finally... I have finished reading J.K. Rowling's 6th Harry Potter series book - Harry Potter And The Half-blood Prince. This book was published in 2005 and I just managed to borrow from my colleague to read it before the movie to be released this year. Have to rush completing this book before 9 Jan as my colleague will be leaving our company and I need to return to her on time.

The movie will be releasing on 16 Jul and I am looking forward for it. Just feel sad about Dumbledore's death...

I have bought the 7th book - Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, and will start reading it soon. Though I am a bit slow (where this book was published since 2007) but its ok for me. I take my own pace and its no hurry. ;)

Rather relaxing day for me today. My niece came to our house as usual and its fun to be with her today. Cheeky as usual and her new nickname is "Zero Zero" which sounds like "Ling Ling" (short name for Wei Ling). She used to call herself "小炜恐龙" as she is born in the year of dragon.

End of weekend and tomorrow has to go back to work...

じゃね

崖の上のポニョ, Gake no Ue no Ponyo

This evening, I went to watch "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" with 小珠. I really love this movie. Ponyo is so cute and lovely. Sōsuke is such a brave boy who can protect his mother. The story is so heart warming...

This is Hayao Miyazaki's [宮崎駿] ninth film for Ghibli. Hope he can make more films and am looking forward to his next film.

I like the theme song and searched the web and found the lyrics :

po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
aoi umi kara yattekita
po-nyo po-nyo ponyo fukuranda
manmaru onaka no onna no ko

pe-ta peta pyo-n pyon
ashitte iina kakechao !
ni-gi nigi bu-n bun
otete ha iina tsunaijao !

ano ko to haneru to kokoro mo odoruyo
pa-ku paku chuggyutsu ! paaku paku chuggyutsu !
ano ko ga daisuki makkakkano

po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
aoi umi kara yattekita
po-nyo po-nyo ponyo fukuranda
manmaru onaka no onna no ko

fuukufuku iinioi
onakagasuita tabechi yao !
you kuyoku mite miyou
ano ko mokitto mite iru

isshoni warau to hoppe gaatsuiyo
wa-ku waku chuggyutsu ! wa-ku waku chuggyutsu !
ano ko ga daisuki makkakkano

po-nyo po-nyo ponyo sakana no ko
gake no ueni yattekita
po-nyo po-nyo ponyo onna no ko
manmaruonakano genki na ko

Ponyo だいすきです