Sunday, July 31, 2011

Bro birthday celebration

This morning we went to attend my uncle's funeral and went to Orchard for shopping before meeting up with my elder sister's family for dinner at Triple Three - Mandarin Orchard.

We reached Orchard at around 4.30pm and had coffee first before going to Takashimaya for shopping. We just bought some plates and bread for tomorrow's breakfast.

Our dinner was at 6.30pm and the spread at Triple Three was good. The oysters were very fresh and ate 9 of them. The sashimi was ok but I still prefer those that Greenhouse. The desserts spread was good too. Just that my stomach was so full that I didn't had chance to eat the fruits (photo taken from my mum's portion) and cakes. We left quite early at 8.30pm to rush to Singtel shop to buy iphone for my brother.

He longing for one but dared not tell us. We shared the cost and gave that as his birthday present. Hence, he is the only one in our family that own iphone 4. How come I don't have lei???









Saturday, July 30, 2011

Trip to Raffles City

This morning, woke up and did nothing but watched TV programs. I asked my sister if we need to buy a cake for my brother's birthday tomorrow. She said ok and we planned to buy cake from Awfully Chocolate. There was a branch at East Coast but we decided to go to the Raffles City branch. It will take us more time if we take a bus to East Coast. Faster to take feeder bus and MRT train to Cityhall station. In addition, we can shop there too.

We just spent some time walking one round at the basement. In the end, we bought the cake, some titbits from Market Place, Macaroons and bread home. A way we spent to make ourselves happy. :P

My mum cooked fried rice tonight. It was so yummy. We went to my uncle's wake at Teban Garden after my dad came home from work. Stayed there till almost 11pm. Tomorrow morning, we have to make a trip there again to bid farewell to my uncle. Cremation will be at 2.15pm and we have to reach there before 1pm.

After that, we will be going to Triple 3 at Meritus Mandarin hotel to celebrate my brother's birthday. We do not allow my brother to attend the funeral as tomorrow is both his chinese and english birthday.

We will be asking him to blow the candle after midnight so that he can enjoy the cake when we are not at home tomorrow. Usually he will wake up quite late and by that time, we will be out. Hence shall celebrate for him first.

Friday, July 29, 2011

No movie tonight

Yeh Yeh... Friday Friday!

Today is a usual Friday with not much surprise. Work and work till end of the day. No movie tonight as no good movie for us to watch. My earlier plan was to go to my uncle's wake but due to last minute change, I went for dinner with 小珠 instead.

We shared hokkien mee and cha kway tiao at a foodcourt near to Commonwealth MRT station. It was more convenient for us to take trains home after dinner.

I purposely missed 2 trains so that I could get a seat for my long journey. However, when the train approached Outram Park station, announcement for all passengers to leave the train was made. The train was not for passengers' service due to technical fault. Ai yoh... in the end, I missed another 3 trains just to get a seat again. The station was crowded with people and I must have a seat for the long journey home. Played Iphone's Patient shuffle game throughout.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Tired

Tired Tired Tired.

Too tired to continue writing.

Mata Ashita!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ikea Restaurant & Cafe @ Alexandra

This morning, received sms from my cousin that her dad passed away this morning. My fifth uncle (my dad's sister's husband) was in poor health for quite some time. Was hospitalized for a month and situation deteriorated recently. Could not fight and passed away. His 3 daughters must be very very sad. He was a caring father.

My colleague was craving for Ikea Restaurant & Cafe's chicken wings. Therefore, we decided to have lunch there. When we reached there, it was already 1.30pm hence there were emptied seats. Usually the cafe was so crowded that I did not even dare to think about dining there.

Most of us ordered the set lunch. The price was reasonable with one main course, soup, bread and soft drink. We ordered Swedish meatballs and chicken wings for sharing. Yummy yummy. Shall go there again. :P



Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Worked late again

Another day to leave office late. My colleague is on leave for 2 days and I am helping out to clear some of her work. Therefore, prefers to clear all her work timely for these 2 days and handover to her nicely.

Back home late and I am going to do a very sinful act. My mum cooked black pepper crabs and I am going to eat them now (at this late hour ~ midnight). So sinnnnnnfulllll uh! I could not resit them uh!

Tomorrow I will need to be back home on time for teleconference at 9pm. Have to leave office slightly before 7.30pm as it will take me 1hr 45mins to reach home.

Shall now enjoy my crabs crabs while watching J dramas.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Appraisal

It's the time of the year which we need to submit appraisal. Most of my colleagues hate this appraisal. For me, I am not good in putting up a very beautiful appraisal. Therefore, usually it will be only few points updated in the form.

I started to do some updating of the form at around 8pm. Took me so long to just fill up a few sentences. Why do we need to do appraisal lei???

Received a text mss from my ex colleague. She is getting married next year on 20 May 2012. Initially, we thought her wedding is in this year but ultimately it will be in next year. So fast...

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Holiday fixed

This afternoon, we went to ASA travel fair at Suntec. When we reached there, we took some time to decide on which destination. Taiwan or Korea??? Finally my father said Taiwan lah. Then we proceeded to the counter serving Taiwan packages.

The lady was very nice to recommend us the package she think it was good. Finally we decided on the 8 days tour package and fixed the date at 22 Oct. Departure is on Saturday and back on the following Saturday. We only need to take 4 days leave as one of the day falls on Deepavali holiday.

We got 2 trolley luggage bags by paying via Citibank credit cards. Able to split to 2 payments to enjoy 2 free bags. Also got a free watch too. All these to be redeemed once we made full payment on 2 weeks before departure date.

As I have some redeemed vouchers for Haagen Dazz, we went for desserts. Enjoyed the ice-cream and made my day happy. :)



Saturday, July 23, 2011

Lazy at home

It's Saturday finally!

This morning, 小珠 sms me that she was at the ASA travel fair and booked her holiday package. I told my sis but due to she need to go out with her friend, we could not go to the fair today. We decided to go tomorrow. So far, we still yet to fix the location. We let our parents decide but... till now, no decision made yet. Shall see which location is suitable when we get to the fair.

Stayed at home for whole day. Spent hours watching TV programs today and did nothing else. Was rather tired and laid on sofa most of the time.

I was so lazy to go out for dinner hence my parents went to pack back. I mentally wanted to go with them but physically could not do it. :P

Felt that I had wasted one whole Saturday doing nothing. How to change myself huh???

Friday, July 22, 2011

Yummy food

This afternoon, we went to Suntec for lunch. Reason being we wanted to take a look at the branded bag sale. Had lunch at the food court and we enjoyed the claypot rice. Yummy.



Not busy today hence had some spare time to walk here and there. Able to leave office without in a rush as we were not seeing movie tonight. Did not have good movie hence changed to dinner instead.

We went to Watami for dinner. Ah Cheng joined us too as her husband did not want to go out hence got approval to eat dinner with us. As usual, we chit chat plus gossiping. Ha ha...

The food was nice and we enjoyed it. Had vouchers hence we saved $25. So happy that today, I had yummy food for both lunch and dinner. :)








Thursday, July 21, 2011

Dessert

Today, we went for lunch at the foodcourt near our office. Very lonely lunch as there was only 3 of us. The rest went out for lunch appointment.

Had fish soup noodle today. Yummy yummy. Quite some time did not eat from this store liao. Drank almost all the soup and started to become very warm. Decided to buy dessert back to office. Enjoyed it in office lei. :P

Left office rather late tonight. Had a chat with my colleagues. During day time, we have no time to chit chat so some time when there is a chance, we will chit chat after work.

Looking forward to tomorrow. Although no movie (as no good one) to watch but intend to have dinner.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Another 2

So fast that it's Wednesday already. Half week passed. Left 2 more days to go and it's my favourite Friday.

Left office at abt 8.20pm today and reached home at slightly before 10pm. Managed to have more time to watch j dramas.

Will watch 2 new ones. In fact, one of them was aired in 2010.


IS~男でも女でもない性~ official website



















熱海の捜査官 official website

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Coffee Club1 for 1

Met up with Tulip at Harbourfront Coffee Club for lunch today. There is a 1 for 1 promotion for pasta, sandwiches and bake rice. Too bad, they have changed the menu and I no longer be able to eat the fish fillet with herb sauce. Sad lei...

We had muddy mud pie after main dish. It was so nice to have something sweet and cold after the 4 plates of pastas. Total 4 of us and we ordered different dishes and share. Good to have more varieties. :)

Business still bad today and need to think of a way liao. Otherwise, cannot meet target set for the year. So stressful uh.

Hope tomorrow will have more chance to get deals done. :)

Monday, July 18, 2011

Early

This evening, I managed to leave office early before 8pm. Did not close deals hence no paperwork. In addition, I was rather tired and since both myself and 小珠 had finished those important tasks, we decided to go home earlier. This was the first time we went home before 8pm (excluding movie day) after so many months.

Our intention was to go home to watch PPS. There are so many new drama episodes to watch. Tonight, I started to watch another new one. Very funny story and I kind of like Matsuda Shota in this drama.


Don Quixote ドン★キホーテ official website

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Continuation

Started another few new J dramas. So many uh...

I quite like Zenkai Girl. The story so funny. The rest of the new J dramas are good too. Shall continue my chasing. :)

Zenkai Girl 全開ガー official website




















Team Batista 3 チームバチスタ3 official website













特殊犯罪潜入捜査 official website

Saturday, July 16, 2011

High Tea

It has been a long time since I went for High Tea. Initially, I managed to book a table on 13 Aug at Tea Lounge @ The Regent hotel but I was lucky that someone gave up the table that allowed me to have the table today since I was on the waiting list.

Booked time at 1 pm but we only reached there at 1.15pm. There was a traffic jam. Luckily we managed to reach by 1.15pm as the holding period was only 15mins.

I was so surprised that the set up was so cosy and so "English" that made me thought that I was in overseas. The spread was good and everything looked so tasty. Tried many dishes and although there were still few others which I did not get to try (either I dare not eat or too full to eat), I was very satisfied with the spread. It was not cheap (3 pax $170+) but the quality and atmosphere made you willing to pay for next visit.

The food was always topped up and there was no need for one to "snatch" food. Unlike other buffet where you may have to wait or be fast to get popular dishes, you can eat slowly and in peace here. My mum and sister were happy with the food too. We will go again. Definitely. Will tempt my dad and ask him to take leave on Saturday to enjoy this super nice high tea buffet. No regrets definitely.

We ate slowly and stayed til 4.40pm. Walked slowly to Orchard and bought some goodies from Takashimaya basement. Also bought some utensils ~ so aunty hor...

A very good afternoon for me to relax. I think I need such relaxing time once in a while. :)










Friday, July 15, 2011

Missing U

Friday. A day I looking forward every week. Tonight, we watched "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2".

We were still feeling very full after the heavy lunch that we had at Clementi. It was a farewell lunch for one of our ops guy at Different Taste restaurant. Therefore, we decided to have light dinner instead. I craved for ice kacang hence we proceed to Food Republic. Bought ice kacang and one roll of popiah as dinner. They were good and we were satisfied.




We were just on time for the show. Tonight, we got our favourite seats again. The lonely 2 seats at last row corner. Hee hee...

I will miss Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sirius Black, Hagrid and Dumbledore. Oh yah, till the end, I did admire Snape. I hate Snape in the beginning but it ended up with him as a hero at the end of the story. Bad guy in disguise. My favourite character is not Harry but Sirius Black. Just sad that he died so early. So sad that there will be no more chasing of Harry Potter movie. It has been 10 years. So fast.

Well, I am sure there will be more good movies coming up next. Shall move on to others and looking forward to better and nicer ones. :)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Food

This afternoon, we had lunch at C-Jade Express at MBC. Initially we planned to go to the food court for lunch but my colleague asked if we were interested to have lunch at C-Jade Express. I craved for the steam rice hence no objection.

4 of us ordered the same dish. Steam rice with chicken and mushroom. It was so yummy. Shall go there again.

Slept only a few hours yesterday as was woken by phone calls during midnight. I was so tired for the whole day with a lot of problems to settle.

Must pray hard no more problems uh.

My lunch :

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

J dramas

This evening, I was so excited as to get to GV website to book tickets for Harry Potter movie on coming Friday night. Wanted to get the best seats and lucky enough, we got our favourite seats. Just that we are unable to watch the digital version as the timing is no good. Looking forward to the movie.

Was out for customer visits in both morning and afternoon. Came back to office and need to clear work. Therefore, left office late again. Hopefully, I can go home earlier tomorrow. Pray hard...

Watched quite a few J dramas these 2 days. There are more new ones to come...

Bull Doctor ブルドクター official website



Piece Vote 投票のカケラ official website

華和家の四姉妹 official website

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

New season

New season starts and it's another busy time for me after 1 week break.

Many of the summer season j-dramas start to air and currently, I have 4 to watch as at today. More to come uh. Below is my list. Very long hor...

Zenkai Girl 全開ガール
IS~男でも女でもない性~
Piece Vote-投票のカケラ
絶対零度 2
Team Batista 3
胡桃の部屋
荒川アンダーザ ブリッジ
Bull Doctor 江角マキコ
最後の晩餐
美男ですね
ジウ 警視庁特殊犯捜査係
桜蘭高校ホスト部
Tempest
華和家の四姉妹

Shall watch slowly to complete till up to date. Need to spend more time at home now. :)

Monday, July 11, 2011

Tired Monday

Woke up unwillingly this morning. Dragging myself out of the bed. How I wish today is still Saturday or Sunday. Daydreaming again...

Today, I did not plan for any customer visit. My intention was to do paperwork in the office. I had quite a few reports yet to do and need to give calls to customers to get those info.

In the end, could not finish all and have to continue tomorrow. Stay in office still cannot finish. Luckily did not go out uh.

Nothing special happened today. An usual Monday indeed.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Good girl

Today, my niece was behaving very well. In order not to make her mum angry again and got scolding and beating, we asked her to quickly finish her homework before playing.

She took a little while to "warm up" doing her homework and managed to get a scolding free day. After finishing her homework, my younger sis and I accompanied her to do some colouring. It had been quite some time that she did not bring out her red school bag that we keep all her books and stationeries.

My parents bought "flower" crabs today. Cooked with chillies that my niece liked them. She did not know how to eat them and was waiting for her mum to get the meat for her. Her mum usually don't eat this type of crab as you need patience and skill to eat them. In the end, left with my younger sis and me to feed her with the meat.

She enjoyed the food that my mum cooked today. She even finished the vegetables and prawns that she did not like to eat. I asked my elder sis why didn't she give her daughter prawns and she said she don't eat them. I said no and passed some to my niece. She finished them. See... just because she said don't like does not mean she don't eat. I think I can upgrade to be nanny role liao. Haha...

So fast that tomorrow is Monday. Back to reality....

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Fully booked

This afternoon, my sister asked if to go out for lunch. I suddenly had craving for high tea buffet and we tried calling a few hotels. In the end, most of them were fully booked. My sister said where got people last minute then make reservation.

In the end, we did not go ahead with high tea buffet today. However, I made a reservation at The Regent Tea Lounge for table for 3 pax on 13 Aug. Imagine... this is the earliest booking I can make. Good reviews for this place so we decided to try. A bit ex but hope it can be compensated by good quality food. I did put ourselves in waiting list for coming Saturday. If there is luck, we can enjoy it next week.

We went to Chinatown's Yum Cha restaurant for dim sum instead. The restaurant was so crowded when we reached. After eating, we went to People's Park and collect brochures. We plan to have a family trip but still yet to decide on the location. Therefore, get some idea first. Went to ASA, Five Stars and Chan Brothers. Wow.. in the end we carried such heavy brochures back.

After Chinatown, we proceeded to Tampines. I went to Hair Mechanics to have my fringe trimmed. Too long and so uncomfortable. Shall go for haircut next month hence trim the fringe first. There was Hokkaido fair in Tampines Mall. We walked around and bought the famous pancakes. Usually there was a long queue but surprisingly we saw no queue. Therefore we bought 10 pcs of redbean pancakes and to our surprise, when we walked back to the same store 15mins later, there was queue liao. Perhaps we bought at the right time when people yet to finish their dinner. Lucky lucky. I also bought 2 pcs of Hakodate's delicacies. It's rice stuffed squids. They were delicious even when we ate it when it was cold at home.

We packed back dinner from Qiji. The mee siam was so good. Next time, shall buy again.

That ends the day. So fast uh...

Friday, July 8, 2011

A good ending

Friday Friday Friday.

The day arrives after waiting for 5 days. :)

This was the very first time where I was ready to leave office earlier to catch a movie. Usually, I would be rushing for work and caused delays in leaving office which resulted in no time to have dinner or to be super late for the movie. Our colleague gave us a lift to VivoCity and that saved us some time.

We had dinner at Food Republic and was on time to get to the theater at 8.25pm. For past movies, the show started with 10mins of commercial advertisements and trailers. We were worried that we missed the beginning part of the movie hence ensure we got in on time. However, today the advertisements and trailers took 20mins. We were so afraid that it will drag and cause us to miss our last train. Luckily the movie ended early at 11.15pm.

"Transformers : Dark of the Moon" should be the last movie for the series. The ending was good that wrapped up the story. We had good seats tonight and enjoyed it. Although we found some scenes were quite funny and not logical. But... it's just a movie lah... :)

Great night and I don't want to sleep so early.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

IPhone

I slept at 3.30am and was so tired today. Played with my iphone and caused me to have lessor hours of sleep.

Whole day feeling tired and did not feel like working. So fast weekend mood liao. Eager to continue playing with my iphone apps at night.

So fast uh... tomorrow it's Friday. Movie time again. :)

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Booked tickets

Today is Wednesday and we quickly logged in to GV website to book our tickets for this Friday. We are watching Transformers 3. Intention is to watch the digital version but due to the show times are not suitable for us, we proceeded with normal one. Bought tickets for 8.25pm show.

Need to do some work on my iphone tonight hence can only watch one epi of the j-drama.

Wishing tomorrow will be a good day... :)

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Belated birthday lunch with Tulip

This afternoon, we gave Tulip a treat to celebrate her birthday. We went to Akashi Japanese restaurant at VivoCity. Took quite some time to decide on the dishes and we enjoyed the food while chit chatting.

We were discussing possibilities to take leave to go to Tokyo. Can't take long one hence planning for 3 days short trip. However, we faced some problem as both 小珠 and myself cannot take long leaves and also worried that our request will be rejected by boss. Therefore, we need to get clearance before making any booking.

One of our colleague's request was rejected when she wanted to take 2 days leave. Not sure which day she intended to take but due to she already taken twice within these 2 months and with her new role, boss don't allow her to take leave which will disrupt her work.

Guess we have to wait till our boss is in super good mood before we can ask for permission to take leaves together. Tulip has to wait for us liao,

Monday, July 4, 2011

Final stage of crowning

This morning, I went for my dental appointment at 11am. However, the doctor was ready only at 11.25am. The nurse called me while I was on my way there that the doctor needed additional 30mins to complete treatment for her current patient and apologised for the delay.

It took just 15mins for the doctor to remove the temporary crowning and put the ready made crown onto my tooth. Great part was that it fitted nicely.

When I was back in office, I was joking with 小珠 that if there was a big magnet, will it "attracted" me as I have a metal crowning. Ha ha... She said I was so lame...

Back home and I decided to discontinue J-drama "Bartender" and switched to "絶対零度". It is about detective case solving story. Watched epi 1 and I shall continue epi 2 later. It's second season will be airing in July.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Crying

This afternoon, my niece was scolded and beaten by my sister again. She kept giving excuse to get out of the room and not touching her homework.

After few times of her dragging, my sister could not stand anymore and beaten her. She cried non stop and kept complaining to us that her mum did not hear what she had explained and just slapped her or pulled her ear. Her bag and books were thrown near our dustbin and she was not allowed to collect it back. She was so "obedient" that she dared not pick up her stuff. I picked up for her to let her continue her work.

She cried non stop and we told her to go and have shower to cool down. Also explained to her that she kept giving excuse to delay her homework and that caused her mum to be angry. After shower, she finally did her homework and her mum agreed to let her go to White Sands mall with us.

Very dramatic but some time, her stubborn behaviour really caused her to be reprimanded by her parent. My mum complained why my sis kept scolding her on homework matter and whether she is like that at home. She is afraid that my niece will develop negative behaviour against my sis. I told my mum better don't involve since she did not know usually what happened. Let my sis take whatever corrective actions towards her kid.

So difficult to bring up kid nowadays. Too soft, they will climb up to your head. Too hard, they will go against you.


Saturday, July 2, 2011

The list get shorter

It's Saturday and my favourite day to sleep longer. However, I had to wake up early as I was following up with an enquiry which I need to liaise with my USA colleague and customer.

Before I woke up to get feedback from my customer, my mobile phone range at 9.15am. I thought it was my customer but it turned out to be from dental clinic reminding me of my appointment on Monday morning. Ai yah... need to call me so early meh....

In the end, I did not close the deal as it was postponed. I went back to bed but did not sleep lah. Just lazed for another 2 hours and finally got out of the bed at 11pm. That was my usual time to wake up on Saturday. Haha...

Watched quite a few J-dramas today and all were the last episodes. The spring season dramas came to an end and from next week onwards, new dramas will start to air. Looking forward to another round of J-dramas craze. Spring list gets shorter and the Summer list is so long. I have 14 of them uh. Must ensure I can get out of office early daily in order to be able to catch up. Maybe this is the drive for me to go home earlier. ;P

I've watched the Spring 2011 special drama "最後の晩餐 〜刑事・遠野一行と7人の容疑者〜" and was so happy to see my idol who will be one of the cast in the drama airing soon. Haruma is the only one that I can see in the new drama for this season. The other 4 idols have nothing.

Hmmm... I am missing Japan again. When will be my next trip there lei?