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Prawn Mee

Today's lunch was special cos my mom decided to make her homecooked prawn noodles!
What a feast we had! The last time my mom made her special-recipe homecooked prawn noodles was literally 10 years ago! when i was still a small kid !! Wow then, i thought how delicious those noodles tasted, and how wonderful the prawns crunched in my mouth, and how fragrant the rich prawn soup was!

Today was no different- it was a huge family affair and everyone of us just helped out in little ways..cooking the noodles or arranging the ingredients nicely on big bowls etc.. its amazing how a simple meal bonds a family together.

Prawns- main ingredient

Chili! YUM YUM

my 2nd acupuncture

This time round, the experience was better.. it wasnt so scary anymore.. but i stil dun dare to look at the needles on myself!

I brought along my gameboy so i dint look at others' needles.. but there're the regulars as most of us go at almost the same timing.. There's the old lady who has trouble walking, the old man in the corner who has stroke (he always has needles on his head, and leg, and arm), this new chatty old lady who told us she's been receiving treatment from this acupuncturist for 5 years!! (for her back and legs), and this middle aged, quite gd looking man who has needles stuck on his legs and arms, and this old lady who has problems walking too!! They're the regulars whom i've met for 2 consecutive weeks already!

Playing gameboy really relieves the stress on my mind.. Im so afraid of needles, but its not that painful at all.. It's just the way it looks! Looks really freaky to haf needles sticking outta your own body.. im not really scared of the pain cos its just a tiny prick on the skin.. Onli thing is, when its stuck on ur arms or legs, you cant move! only when its just on ur head, you can walk around or run around also no problem!!

heee hope u guys wont be scared of needles as much as I am! Still, its not that bad.. i figure i'll be a regular at the place.. since it seems quite reliable and the treatment is quite effective! I better wait for a few weeks before i say it really works :)

My model

This is my model of the day! He's Arul. I dressed him up in my white woolly cap and dark blue shawl made to look like his neck tie! Do give ur comments on whether this model looks good k ! Criticism is much appreciated =D haha

Just gonna say i had much fun dressing him up and he looks miserable and agonised, which was exactly how he felt! LOL

Fuzzy! my soft toy

This is Fuzzy! My soft toy :) He has a cute personality and is somewhat blur blur .. HE has small beady eyes and smooth ear fur .. He likes to squeak and fly around as if he's an aeroplane! He loves pretending he's a tiger or a lion too! But he's actually a very kind animal and he loves humans~ HE has many friends, including a Duck called Ah Quack, another baby duck called Ji Cha, and a big bear called Da Xiong Xiong :) Shall feature them later ...


These are his playmates, the 2 ducks! They occasionally go swimming in the nearby pool or play catching and ducky games downstairs at the game station! Their favourite games include finding Ah Cha's lost eye (which includes alot of crazy searching from anything like berries that closely resemble the small beady black eye, to rummaging in the rubbish for any black beady things! Yuck) Their ducky games also includes silly contests like singing, rather quacking competitions for their own leisure.. They also enjoy laughing at Fuzzy and his silly quirks! ^.^ Well, that's all for now.. do tune in for another series of Fuzzy! my soft toy next week :)

fireworks courtesy of Matchy

Finally I'm free to upload these 2 videos of fireworks on youtube :) exclusively for my limited readers! they're different fireworks and are very beautiful! I got them from Matchy :) Hope you guys love them!!

enjoy them? give comments k!!

new sweets!!

Meiji Chocolate-Strawberry flavoured

This package is cuter cos of the little rabbits at the top!! there's another package that's boring! so i bought this one! Cant bear to open it cos its so Cute!! kawaii!!

Finally opened the box! there's a fragrant strawberry chocolatey smell coming from it! Yummy



This is a Morinaga's Matcha caramel sweet i bought from an all exclusive Japanese food store in Orchard Central! it looks really traditional! sweets nowadays dun look so exquisite anymore~

MC

im on MC today and that's why im bloggin more today :)

sighs 1 day of MC means no pay!!

1 more day of MC and i feel like slacking at home already..

slacking is really fun! i can do wad i like to do.. and what i need to do!! YAY

flowers

For those reading my post about 24th being a disaster, i'd like to post some pictures of flowers that were given to me on 24th!

Im sorry that the daisies look abit squashed! in fact, they were a bit squashed! poor daisies :)

overall quite a nice bouquet, dun u agree? i love daisies!!

bf shirt

HE realised its NOT a gal's shirt.. Dot Dot Dot

stoopid guy on bus

This morning i was late for work as usual.. and there was this guy sitting opposite me.. he was with his gf and they were chatting loudly.. they weren't that happy when i sat down cos they had to put down their legs from the comfy bump below the seats..

for some reason, this guy started to shake his legs.. and his legs were long, so there's onli a small gap between mine and his.. When he starts to shake his legs sideways, his jeans will touch my knees.. and its super uncomfortable... I was actually sick this morning so i was slightly grouchy and irritable.. So i tried my best to shift my legs first.. Since if i were to tell him off, it might haf been a bad scene..

so throughout the journey, i whipped out my gameboy and keep killing the orcs!! and giving stares.. but to no avail! haha.. wished i knew some kung fu or had a better speech or fiercer look!! grr

anws.. these few days work is so boring and i keep falling sick to skin allergies.. which are super disgustingly horribly ITCHY! and it is so ugly and just ugly.. sighs.. life is abit depressing and gloomy.. so sian..

and my colleague's farewell ktv session is tmr night but i dun even haf the mood to attend! and my frens asked me out to ktv next monday.. and i also no mood to go..

Ktv is one of my favourites! but seems like recently really no mood to go .. plus its so expensive! haiz :((

pissed

i Am so pissed.. so pissed!!

today is 24th and im so pissed!

took a day off from work to celebrate our anniversary. Supposed to go off at 9am, and we kinda had a day planned. but turned out he slept til 12 noon! I shld haf just worked half day today.. I was kinda expecting it might turn out like that.. working half day is better than slacking at home rite? STUPID ME! this is just turning out so expected and i just dun wana waste my time, plus waste my money.. I m like so Short of cash alr.. wad with needing it for my trip to tibet next yr.. I m not even having any savings!! SHUCKS this sux like shit.. and now half my day is wasted! its not as if im earning big bucks in the job but every dollar counts wad.. stupid.. now im so super pissed.. it is entirely horrible!

now i've this bad feeling that later, things will just turn out badly, cos now im in sucha terribly pissed-off mood.. sure wont turn out well at all! see, even my grammar is all wrong already! means im really pissed! GRRR im in the mood to just murder him off!

well, why am i so stupid? shldn've just taken half day off! GRRRRR

even if i din take half day off, i shld've slept til later.. so i could recoup my loss of sleep.. getting real bad dark eye rings and eye bags that're so super ugly! GRR! or had a haircut! i've been wanting to get a haircut! but stupid me, was waiting for him all morning to wake up! SO super reminiscent of past experiences ... SIGHS this is my life..

i've a million things i wished i were doing right now.. like eating right food, exercising in the gym, or swimmming in nus pool... or doing yoga like some master!! or meditation! but NO, i've to endure today and try to calm down and not be pissed off like some idiot! That's an added bonus for the anniversary!

those reading this post, pls sympathise with me! plsss cries in estranged manner* pull hair** scream loudly!! ARHHHHHH

My First Acupuncuture experience

When I went into the clinic, everything seemed ok.. It was a normal clinic with patients.. duh.. Anws.. onli when my parents started receiving treatment when I realised there were many patients with long needles sticking from their body parts.. Notice I say body parts cos it looked as if the body parts were separate and dun form 1 whole body.. and the needles were LONG and poking out of those body parts.. be they arms, legs, feet, hands, ears or head.. Yes Head! I was So freakted out and totally didn't expect it to look like that.. I mean, I M scared of needles.. I was , am , and will ever be.. It was sO scary.. my legs felt wobbly... my hands felt chilly and had cold sweat.. my whole body was kinda shivering and i couldn't swallow properly..

What a terrible exposure and scare.. Haizz

I cant go on about it anymore.. the thought of it just freaks me out..

Elgin Bridge

This is the part of Kallang River where people could walk from one bank of the river to the next. Elgin bridge is a historical side of Singapore.. It was built 3 years after Raffles landed in Singapore.. guess which year? 1822!! cool rite? it has a history of 185 years!! WOW

This is the current standing bridge at nite ..

Check out the cool lamps on each 'bone' of the bridge

Many cars use this bridge every day and night :) Beautiful structure, aint it? Why don't designers in Singapore build such bridges anymore?

chern lian shan

Hey nanyang girls!! This is Chern Lian Shan, the artist who carved a bronze look-alike of Madam Ling Siew Mei.

Indeed, the man on the left is Mr Ong Teng Cheong, the 1st directly-elected President of Singapore.

Chern Lian Shan is a very accomplished artist.
This is just 1 of the many awards he won.

I happened to pass by this interesting looking shop when I was out exploring town.. It is situated in level 2 of The Riverwalk near Clarke Quay .. There're more interesting shops in there.. seems to be a very artistic place.. I'll post them somewhere else since this post is titled Chern Lian Shan :)

delicious stingray

I'd recommend all foods with barbeque sambal, reasonable price and serving size too!
Do try it :)

Location: somewhere beside The Riverwalk

Price range: S$3 to S$7.50 for rice meals

Caution: The hot sambal bbq stingray might be too hot/spicy for ur palate!!

eventful day

Well I realised that workplace people aren't that nice, especially ur bosses and especially when you do something they dont like.. They can just fire you without warning you about what you did that they don't like.. Leaving you feeling like crap or feeling like you wana put fire to the building or puncturing their tyres..

It happened to one of my friends, whom I introduced to the job.. Happened that he told me his side of the story, and i heard the other side of the story when i contacted one of the colleagues.. Sighs.. wished things could've happened differently, else i could be colleagues with my friend now.. Sianz.. So anws.. I wont reveal what exactly happened, but i just wana get the message across that IF you wana slack during work, dun let ur boss see u doing it :)

cheers

tuition kids

recently i gave my tuition kids stories to write... and coincidentally both kids (one 13, other 15) decided to write on the same topic... Hot topic among kids nowadays. Yep U guessed right! Maple Story!!

Well, i had fun reading the 2 stories - They were simply So different! and real cool to read..

13 year old kid wrote a game manual, telling me his favorite computer game, how to sign up, dl, what's there to play, characters and stuffs.. Its interesting how he thinks, why he wrote a manual for the title "My favorite computer game".

15 year old kid wrote about him actually entering Maple Story world as a character he plays, and how he met his classmate n competitor of MS.. How they fought off enemies and tried to escape out of MS back in the real world..

What an entirely different perspectives!!

My favorite song

Went KTV with JW on monday..
We sang alot of songs!! Chinese, English, old, new.. etc..

I realised my current favorite song is (omg how do i write Chinese characters?) tian tian ye ye by F.I.R.

here's the link to youtube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=qz8QeHIbdqI

trying to get it singing on the page but i duno how..

shirt for bf

Turns out the shirt is a girl's shirt cos its buttons are on the other side!
BIG CRIES
Why dint the salesman tell me its not guy shirt?
Weird thing is, all the shirts on sale were guyish rite?

Lollypops!!

Zijia bought us Lollypops from Disneyland! Mickey mouse lollypops ! hehe
I got the red one cos I couldn't decide and yellow and green was chosen by Tina and Janet =D

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Went out watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix...
Not a very good show .. little action, predictable plot, little highlights..

For me, quidditch was the highlight of Harry Potter series.. and Since this movie had no quidditch, it was really a boring show.. Also, Richard Harris (who acted as Dumbledore in the Chamber of Secrets, and the Sorcerer's Stone) was much suited for the role of Dumbledore than the current actor Michael Gambon (who has signed to act in the REST OF the Harry Potter films). That's ONE good reason not to watch any more.. :((

Well, i guess i've grown out of Harry Potter.. Its more suitable for kids probably.. My other friends who were watching also found the movie boring :(

I'd give the movie 2 stars out of 5. overall not recommended to watch.

Slacking

There's this beautiful place with grassy fields, trees and its not too brightly lit at night... Simply lying on the grass with your loved one, looking at stars in the cloudless night sky is heavenly! Lovely place to pig out too! hehe

Fiery Ginger Beer made from Jamaica Ginger!!

Crunchy salty breadsticks & Extra crunchy Jalepeno Chips

nataliedee.com comics

I came across this website that has interesting and nice comics :) I like them cos they're simple and smart and funny all at the same time. Must be a genius who designed them .. hee
http://www.nataliedee.com/

here's one comic from the site, hopefully can interest u guys enough to check it out HAHA


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I like this one here..


nataliedee.com

Sonic the hedgehog GBA

Does anyone know if Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis) for GameBoy Advance is good to play??Heard from reviews its not that good.. Anyone who's selling or perhaps have played the game please comment... would really appreciate also if anyone could recommend a good Sonic the Hedgehog game! Been itching to play for very long cos I used to play it when young and my Game Gear has since spoilt..

East Coast Park

Today I went to East Coast Park for a relaxing afternoon. The usuals... Makan, bike rentals for 2 hours, dashing through trees to breakwaters for some wind and sand, slow bus rides..

There wasn't much sun today for some reason, and the weather was really perfect for slacking.

Look at how windy the beach was today! The beautiful sturdy trees along the coast make for perfect picnic shade!

All in all, a very awesome afternoon well spent!

Transformers ROCK

Wow! Transformers is such a cool show. The actual transforming of old steel cars to cool dudes, the fighting and the sheer metal-to-metal punching and flying around is really awesome!

Believe me, I was not one to be persuaded easily. I thought it wasn't that cool a show when I saw the posters. I even heard from one of my good buddies that the cars in the show are cool and that's why the show rocked. Well, I would really have missed out this show if not for my cool bf who really wanted to watch the show.. I thought I'd do something sweet for him and watch it with him tonight :)

Turns out it was lucky for me that we went to watch it!

So as not to disappoint all those reading this post, I shall not divulge any thing from the show!

My favorite character from the show is Bumblebee, as seen below :)



images taken from http://cyberstore.decepticon-matrix.com/images/transformers-movie-teaser-poster.jpg
http://www.epicheroes.com/shop/images/transformers/transformers_classics_bumblebee.jpg respectively

a new perspective part II

this post is dedicated to my dear sis

I realised after reading my younger sister's blog that she's recently been under alot of stress.

Well, stress is a negative energy that radiates from oneself (something my bf has been telling me lately).

A levels seem so long ago.. and yet seas of students need to sit for it each year.. A levels is like a trial .. Only those who can take the stress and amount of studying can find relief at the end of it all..

Well sister, if ur reading this post, be comforted that it'll be over soon and your relief at the end of all this studying will come real soon! you'll even miss the times you spent in the company of your study mates.. and also snacking during studying and bitching about teachers.. etc.. :)

so try to cheer up! and i definitely hope u can eat Seoul garden with yours truly! :) HUGSS

a new perspective

Once you start looking around you properly, things start going into perspective. And i mean, one either regresses into the past, which means you don't really 'see' things in a new perspective, or really look at things in a different light. Recently, many such new perspectives about people, things, events have struck me.

For instance, why do people nag? 2 theories: Are they self-obsessed or perfectionistic?

Theory 1: Self-obsession leads to nagging because they only care about themselves, and when things dont go according to what they themselves want, or are capable of construing, they nag at others or themselves about it.
Theory 2: Perfectionistic people nag because they cant stand things to be wrong. A single small minor error will cause them to nag (mostly in the form of nagging mental thoughts running around in their heads telling them what a big failure they're).

Which of the theories seem better?