Graduating.... Finally!

After 1 year and 4 months, I'm finally finished my degree conversion and is going to graduate with Bachelor of  Occupational Therapy on 30th Jan 2010. This piece of paper surely drained my bank account and my next 2 years of life with my organization if they decided to sponsor me $5000 (still waiting for outcome).

Life has been really challenging to juggle between work and studies. Weekends were usually burnt for assignments and more assignments. None the less. the effort put in seems to have shown some results. 2 core modules and 4 elective modules with 4Bs and 2Cs. Though it could be better, but I am quite satisfied. Thank god for one of my core module with has 45 credits, I scored a B, which helps to pull up my overall average marks to 73.75, which is a B.

I am so waiting for my pay adjustment/raise. I am going to reward myself with a wallet. My current 2.5 year wallet is in super ultra bad condition. I was so embarrassed to take out my wallet when I went to buy a wallet for Alvin for xmas present. I took out my card and quickly put my wallet back into my bag. lolx. My this ultra bad condition wallet was bought using my 1st diploma pay. Been procrastinating to buy myself a wallet for more than 6 months. My next wallet is going to be from my degree pay! =)

To someone special: 

I know you read will read this one day. Thus, I want to let you know that, believe in yourself. Believe that you can do well in your higher credits module in the future, which I suppose is your ICT. It will and can help to pull up your other modules. Been there, done that. Tried and proven, not once but twice. 只要你愿意，我会一直陪你走下去。 You know I will always be there to support you in terms of good and bad times in whatever I can. Jiayou!

You will have your graduation too. You can graduate too. I never doubt that. As you said, you may not attend your own graduation. But I do and can see you graduate with your 1st Class, if not 2nd upper Honours Degree. Jiayou!

Watch this Space for entry with regards to my Super Glue Sister's wedding on Boxing Day.

Babies and toddler day

25th December 2009 was a busy day. It was a babies and toddler day. I visited Mark's place as his Yannis was 1 month old! Hurray. There was a celebration and we were invited!

Let us meet little Mark..... OOppsss..... I meant Yannis:

99% Gorgeous, 1% trouble

 

A closed-up of Yannis

Teacher Juat carrying Yannis:

Good Yannis, didn't cry. =P

Mark and his helper cooked some food for the guests:

And...... Vodka!!!!! I almost wanted to take the bottle home...... (Vodka always reminds me of YOU.)

And of course, my face and body will turn RED as always..... I think I can diagnose myself as having alcohol allergy w/o itch. lolx. And I looked horrible with my dark eye rings and eye bags which are more obvious at night.

It was already late when I left Mark's place. My brother had smsed me, wondering what time I will arrived at their place as my little Jayr was going to fall asleep waiting for me! lolx....

I had no choice and also for convenience's sake, I cabbed down to his place, dropping of Juat at Hougang first.

This was the first time I went to my brother place. Simple but nice.

I wondered if Jayr remembers me. It has been around 4 months since they moved out. Before going to Mark's place, I went to Tampines 1 to buy some baby clothes for Chace and Thomas the Train toy for Jayr as Christmas Present.

Jayr was so cute when I passed him the present. He wanted to take but don't dare to take. Keep on looking at my brother. lolx. And finally, he took the present from me and smile:

Look how happy he was!

And he started playing the toy and ignored his old one:

As I was drinking packet drink and he wanted to drink, he was trying all ways and means trying to get me to let him drink.... making use of his "cuteness" and charm.

How can I forget the younger one:

 

姑姑 carrying Chace

I think it was already late and time for the 2 young ones and the mummy to sleep. Brother was "hinting" me to leave. lolx.

He and Jayr send me down to take a cab and before I left, managed to "grab" Jayr to take a photo with me:

Haha..... maybe will pop by soon.......

Watch this space for updates on Avatar movie with buddies.

Xmas Eve

On 24th Dec, I went to Raffles city to look for a gift for Alvin. Through earlier conversation with him, I realized he haven't gotten a new wallet since he lost his 1-2 month ago. Thus I thought it might be a practical gift for him.

It was the most expensive gift I ever bought for anyone in my this entire life. And I'm surprised I took less than 20 minutes to consider the price and even took the higher price one instead of the other one.

Anyhow, hope you like the gift. Have a blessed X'mas!

Merry Xmas with love!

If you think your life sucks... ...

bear in mind that there is at least 1 person in the world who is willing to exchange their positions with you.

Have a blessed and merry Christmas! 

与你聊不完的曾经, 而我已经分不清你是友情, 还是错过的爱情

我不是你想象那麼勇敢

我不是你想像那麽勇敢

多想让你保护能流泪一场

让我放下武装 像个孩子一样

单纯的把爱情放在你心上

I got you - Leona Lewis

Thanks Alvin for sharing with me last week.

A place to crash
I got you
No need to ask
I got you
Just get on the phone
I got you
Come and pick you up if I have to
What’s weird about it
Is we’re right at the end
And mad about it
Just figured it out in my head
I’m proud to say
I got you

Go ahead and say goodbye
I’ll be alright
Go ahead and make me cry
I’ll be alright
And when you need a place to run to
For better for worse
I got you
I got you

Ain’t falling a part, or bitter
Let’s be bigger than that and remember
The cooling outdoor when you’re all alone
We’ll go on surviving
No drama, no need for a show
Just wanna say
I got you

Go ahead and say goodbye
I’ll be alright
Go ahead and make me cry
I’ll be alright
And when you need a place to run to
For better for worse
I got you
Go ahead and say goodbye (go ahead)
I’ll be alright (say goodbye)
Go ahead and make me cry
I’ll be alright
And when you need a place to run to
For better for worse
I got you

‘Cause this is love and life
And nothing we can both control
And if it don’t feel right
You’re not losing me by letting me know

Go ahead and say goodbye (say goodbye)
I’ll be alright
Go ahead and make me cry
I’ll be alright
And when you need a place to run to
For better for worse
I got you
Go ahead and say goodbye (go ahead)
I’ll be alright (say goodbye)
Go ahead and make me cry
I’ll be alright
And when you need a place to run to
For better for worse
I got you

A place to crash
I got you
No need to ask
I got you

New Permed Hair

Did you guys(and gals) know that I permed my hair last Tuesday? But I'm glad that many people say it looks nice!!! At least the money is well spent and look good! =D Initially, I am still quite "afraid" of perming because I didn't know how it will turn out to be and after perming, it looks alittle weird. Maybe because I didn't perm before. If you wonder how long I took, it took me around 6 hours!!! I did some scalp treatment too BTW. =X

This is how I looked like now:

 Me and zJ

And I'm LOVING my hair now!!!! But it takes a little more time than usual to maintain and manage it. But well, the time is getting shorter as compared to the first time I washed my hair!

If you are wondering, I did my hair at Jean Yip (Tampines one) as I had a package with them since beginning of this year. Well, I am willing to pay alittle more, so long the effect is good and doesn't really spoil my hair. =)

I must be able to treat myself well before I can treat others well right? Of course that doesn't mean I'm not treating people well when I treat myself well.

P.S: I intend to go and colour my hair in January next year..... I think it will make the perm nicer. Check out for more of my hair in January! Till then, take care!

25th Birthday Celebration

My 25th Birthday, 10 December had just past. Thanks to all my friends who had sent me birthday wishes via Facebook and sms-es. Really appreciates it. To those who haven't send, I know you are busy or didn't want to send on purpose. Either way, you are forgiven. See how gracious I am? LOLX....

Anyway, I was on leave on that day. Don't like the idea of working on my birthday and it has been like that since I started working.

As usual, mom didn't know that it was my birthday if it wasn't me who told her the night before not to wake me up in the early morning. Anyway, my family don't have habit of celebrating birthdays. Sigh. As I missed my facial the month before as I went to Kluang, I decided to have a facial done on this special day. Wanted to do my Spa too but the masseur is off on Thursday. Thus, I only did my facial. My appointment was at around 2pm and my facial ended at around 4.20pm.

After which, I took train down to City Hall to wait for Sunita after her course. We didn't really arrange a place yet as we only said Central. If you had known me, usually if I have time to spend, I would usually stepped into bookstores like MPH and you can find me in areas that has self-help, horoscope or zodiac books.

Sunita messaged me after she finished her course and we arranged to meet at Orchard first and then headed to Demsey Hill.

After meeting up, we walked around Ion for a while, which I also did while waiting for her. This was my first time to actually walked around Ion. Most of the other time, I was just pasting by or headed elsewhere.

We then took a cab to Demsey Hill. This was the first time I actually dined and drink in Demsey. We stopped over at House Camp Barracks for dinner and wine. We arrived there quite early - around 6.30pm, alittle too early for dinner though. The place was quite cool as we sat outside and we could see the view of the nature aka forest. The interior of the restaurant, I must say it is quite interesting and I think they try to keep some of the features of the old barracks like the floor. As a lady that likes to take photos, how can I miss the chance of taking some photos right? So here they are:

Me and Sunita

The area outside the barracks

A wider look

The wine menu with the tea light candle lamp

The Barracks Menu

(Looks interesting isn't it?)

Me with the Menu

(which looks like a newspaper)

Click here for the menu.

Let us take a look at their toilet:

Hand Tissue under the lamp

Chairs in the toilet

And I found a medal in the toilet!!!

(but guess where the medal was found?)

Hanging somewhere?

No.....

It was on the mirror!

 

And here's our food!!! We ordered some appetizers, salad and soup first, with 2 glasses of wine (it's 1-for-1 promotion for the wine and house pour)

Truffle Fries

The truffle fries has some "gassy" taste.... you know the smell or taste of GAS? Ya... those gas stove smell? Apparently Sunita said it is the taste of Truffle. Truffle is a type of fungi and she said it can cost thousands and even million of dollars for the Truffle. I wondered why people like to eat "gas". Puzzled. lolx.

The other dish is Baked Brie with bread:

The baked brie is actually Cheese. The cheese actually looks like a piece of chicken until you tasted it. And the bread comes in different type: Walnut, raising and butter I think.

And I ordered a soup for myself!

Sweet corn crab soup

I loved this soup. Because I loved sweet corn soup and I loved crab. Putting 2 of my favourites together. It is just fantastic!

One of the other dishes that I like is the Macamadia crusted pumpkin salad:

I loved this because it is SWEET!!!

How would I forget about the red wine:

Sunita ordered a glass of wine for each of us as it was one-for-one. =)

Well, we had a long chat on people we like. The type of guy that we like seemed to fall in the same category. It has been a long long time since I shared the story. I guess only Hui Hui and aZ knew about the story as I don't really like to share relationship stuff unless it is something that is quite stable.

Hmm, we had a cocktail too. Because we mistaken that one-for-one is applicable for wine and cocktail. It is actually but only wine-for-wine and cocktail-for-cocktail. This is the cocktail:

It was 9 plus when we were about to leave the place to our next destination - DESSERTS!!!!! Before we left the place, how could I take photo of the signboard?

House Camp Barracks

Looks quite dark here

As we were walking along and towards our destination - PS Cafe, I took a photo of this:

Dempsey Hill Sign

We wanted to go to PS Cafe but it was closed for private event. Nonetheless, we managed to catch a glimpse of the event.

Grass field full of paper bags with tea light candles

Like this!

Since PS cafe is not available, we headed to Oosh......

Posing again......

Then we headed to the second level for dessert!!!!

Haha.... Sunita must have told them that it was my birthday that at least 5 staff bought over the desserts and sang birthday song. =)

What was my wish?

(My wish is.... I hope I will be......

I am not gonna tell you.... shhhs....)

Me with the birthday dessert:

Smiling!

A photo together:

Thanks gal for spending my birthday with me! I don't need to have many people to celebrate birthday with me. I am happy with just people who are important and close to my heart to celebrate my birthday. This is more than enough.

So, if you think you are important to me and close to my heart and didn't celebrate my birthday this year..... you better celebrate my 26th birthday with me next year!!! =)

Standard Chartered Run 2009

I went for the Standard Chartered 10km Run on the 6 December 2009. Last year I didn't run my 21km because my heath wasn't in a very good state to run 21km and I got an assignment to rush before I headed to BKK with Alvin last year.

As I was walking to our starting point from Raffles City shopping centre, it reminded me that Cafe Cartel is no longer there. Realised it about 1 month ago when I went for the Great Eastern Run. A little pity though, because this place was the place where I met Alvin for the first time and I remembered that he was so sweet to accompany me for dinner while he just ordered a drink for himself.

Anyway, these are some of the photos taken by Juat and myself. In fact, this time round, I didn't take alot of photos. Even Juat realised that. Maybe it was because the pouch that I was carrying was so good for my phone that it made it a little difficult to take my phone out. We met at 5-10 mins past 8. The run was at 8.30am. We were glad that we were blessed with good weather.

These are some of the photos taken on that day:

The crowd

More crowd

Crowd

Us among the crowd?

Yeah. Now u can see the crowd

Getting ready. Saw the girl in front with her tattoo?

And soon..... Off we ran. We were cutting crowds as many as we can. Or rather as many as I can. As I know I cannot go fast after perhaps 7-8km, I usually make up for the speed in from of the run, which actually shouldn't be the case. Anyway, we stopped over at 4km for some drink and we saw the sign:

Asking me to slow down?

(with drink still in my mouth)

Some photos of Singapore Flyer:

 

My Backview

Finally, the 5km mark:

*Pose*

There was this interesting runner in front, which I cannot resist not to take photo. Maybe I should rephrase myself. It wasn't her that I cannot resist. It was the "thing" that she was carrying behind her back. It's the ELMO!!!!!! And the ELMO made some noise as she ran. Cute!

Then Juat asked me to stop over to take photo with a volunteer or supporter because they had interesting "hand".

After 8km, I asked Juat to go ahead with the run, to speed up as I did not want to slow her down. Already appreciated her for running with me for the first 8km. Thanks gal.

Finally, we were back at the end point with some "carnival".

A super HUGE "thing" caught my attention and it is:

These HUGE New Balance Shoes

Let me help you to tie shoes lace

Juat

ME!

Nature Valley for you Sir?

The following would be lotsa of photos with Standard Chartered background. Please bear with me for a while:

 

 

 

 

And I saw the kid dash... and decided to take photos with it too!

Why the dash never end.....

Time to turn around

Yeah!

I know I'm lame. =X

Some kids game:

I like the effect of this photo:

 

ME!

Me again.

Me and Juat

We went to Raffles City's Toilet for a little clean up and answering the nature call before we proceed for our breakfast. And I saw this car and went in to take photo:

Then after that, we went to our usual breakfast place and I decided to settle my lunch there too:

I know it is alot but only for that day. Because I was really hungry after the run.Btw 1 of the cup of coffee and the plate of bread belongs to Juat. =X