I am going to see many Miss Saigons tomorrow and I am truly excited albeit a lil sleepy because I was packing my luggage this morning till about 1.30am. It's really tiring to pack your luggage on a weekday after work and I was feeling alil lazy abt the packing.

Nonetheless with my tunics, tights, evening dresses, stockings and sandals packed in for the shopping, sightseeing and dinner parties, I am quite ready for Vietnam. Yes this marks the second (ex) communist state I am visiting apart from China and I hope to visit Cuba and Russia in the future.

Just some pictures of what I hope to capture with my senses when I am there.









Assortment of the Mekong delta, street life, mango trees and more. Gonna bring the superbly portable speakers my brother loan me over too. Haha... im gonna have a partee with Rihanna, Neyo, Fergie and more in my hotel room.

But first the sad news is I must wake up at 4ish in the morning later since Uncle Simon is coming to pick us up at 5.30am. I wonder if I can wake up since I no longer work the night shift in sg pools and may never readjust my body clock back to those graveyard shift days hehe.


Anw bubbyeee.. updates next weekkkk..

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Life's just been awesome for me. It's really been a year of pulling out dead weeds in my life and just planting and watering the lovely things that should remain.

I totally enjoyed church as well as the last lecture on Saturday. And no that does not mean I am free to meet anybody (I don't want to fellowship with).

Anw, Sunday night was awesome because I caught the Saw 5 preview and I totally loved it. Ahahaha.. young kids like Randy can't watch as it is R21. The gore wasn't so bountiful as I thought but the plot ingenous.

Daddy God has been totally awesome to me. I met up with beloveds yesterday for a round trip tour of ann siang, bugis and chinatown and just the quality time spent was so wonderful as everybody was so real and so lovely inside out.

I have some more testimonies to share. Just two quick ones.

1) I got a distinction again for my grades (Psychology or Behavioral Science)
2) I received a 3 figure US currency allowance from the company for my impending Vietnam trip.

It's nothing to do with me but everything to do with Daddy God.

Thank You for watching over me and I know of the greater things to come I've yet to experience.

It's all in Great hands.

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Usually fridays are the best days of the week for me apart from "sleeping in saturdays". However, today ain my favourite day because I still have a lecture going on tomorrow and a facial at 1030 in the morning before class. Hate quizzes, hate stats and do not like to do research. Quizzes have been draining since the words all look like they are from Mars.

Anw, I am excited for my trip since I will be leaving on the early morning flight on the 31st and returning on the 8pm flight (Ho Chi Minh City or HCMC) time on the 2nd Nov. I am of coz alil sad I won't be attending Arrow or Church but then I believe that this is really a blessing from God. It's a work come holiday trip for me and I'm excited to go because we are gonna have a great time planned out already at the local pubs and some local market shopping time complete with authentic Vietnamese food.

Always wanted to try their authentic pho (or rice glass noodles) and the only time I tried Vietnamese food which was solid was at Seah St where the Toy Museum is.

I'm looking forward to be re-united with SQ and to enjoy a hearty breakfast, watch a movie on my short 2 hr flight and take plenty of pictures.

Activities lined up prior to my trip :

1) 27th "Celebrate Deepavali with the Cows @ Bugis, Chinatown and Ann Siang
2) 28th "Lesson on Selecting the most Value for Money trolley luggage with the Kakak and Adik"
3) 29th "Group check in at SQ website, seat selection and hogging the website"
4) 30th "Sleepover @ Kakak's house"
5) 31st 5.30am "Date with Uncle Simon my favourite taxi driver to Airport"

This appears as if I do not need to work at all haha. But it's true. I am only gonna work 3 days next week. It suddenly just dawned on me. Yay!!

Bluetooth-ed my handphone pictures to my laptop and here goes a picture entry accumulated over the past 4 mths.


Sarabelle darling with her cute new hairband after church some weeks ago.

There are days in life when work gets too tiring and setting new records in Minesweeper is a sense of achievement.

Sarabelle teaches me tt even plastic toys need to queue up for their turn.

2 and a half mths ago my beautiful kakak Nana celebrated her 13th bday hehe. Cake from Hanis (halal version of Hans was orgasmic)

3 mths ago I said goodbye to Singapore Pools. N yes that was me when I was 20. I know so glorious nw.

Some days my daddy shows me very SUBTLE-LY tt he loves me.

The day I cleared my two wardrobes and packed away 3 huge bags of clothes. *yay to new clothes

1 and a half mths ago, it was Happy Birthday Devi- my dear colleague of whom I made this collage for

Fatty or sometimes Lazy (The fat lazy cat in the market tt Sarabelle always makes me hunt for with her. (Its a huge secret but when I can't find Fatty I will say Lazy is Fatty and vice versa) So nw I dunno who tt fat lazy cat in the picture is hehee...

And the rainbow tt God showed me in the bus on my way to work at 8am in the morning.
Beautiful covenant in the sky.


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I am going after all because of a miracle that just happened. SO YAY!!!!!!!! Ho Chi Minh City here I come.. weeee...

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I think today is one of the rare times I ever let my emotions and myself be feeling so upset and and heart ached.

I just received the wonderful news that my japanese boss is willing to sponsor HALF of a trip to Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam this coming 31st. The timing is so perfect since I will not have any lectures and there is really no JB trip or other appointments in the way.

However, I am so heartwrenched because I feel like a fool sometimes going to church day n and day out but yet when it comes to such good news all I can feel is mud thrown on my face. I can't go because I am already struggling to save up for my study trip. And yes I am the only one not able to.

Colleagues not understanding my situation has been cajoling me and being exasperated with my lack of enthusiasm or desire. But it is simply not true. Here I am sitting at my office desk with tears slightly welling up, I cannot help but question God why I am being made to go through all this. All of this just isn't fair and I am so sad that I can literally feel my heart ache.

I think I really can't see beyond what I am facing right now. And I wish for Daddy God to carry me through all this so I wun have to face such disappointments in life.

WASABI TEI

Yes, Grace the Foodie is finally back to blogging about glorious food.

On the spur of the moment yesterday, Anais and I ventured to queue up for the infamous Wasabi Tei located on the 5th floor of Far East Plaza. Let me clarify that Anais smsed me with her craving for jap food and I was tricked into suggesting to her to meet me for dinner teehee. Ok I admit it I was also craving for raw meat haha.

Anw, back to Wasabi Tei, here is a guide and advice for anyone who is interested to try the authentic, thick marbled textured sashimi and other main courses.

1) You must be willing to queue for at least 45 minutes (esp for dinner).
2) Payment is only by cash.
3) Order only ONCE or all at one shot because 2nd orders will entitle you to a penalty of 20% MORE for the food.
4) Once seated, do not monkey around or be a bitch because I guarantee you the chef will chase you out.

Other things to note :

1) There are only 16 chairs in this small eatery located near the lift. Hence the queue is definitely long. Anais and I arrived at 6.30pm and promptly queued till about 8pm. Because we were talking (actually I was), the time passed superbly fast.
2) Each seat cost $2.00 which entitles you to an ocha, cold drink or mineral water. Note that there is no service charge nor GST.
3) Each seat also means that you would have to order at least one dish.
4) The chef and his female helper's VERY bad temper is well known so once you finish eating GET OUT, and let others queuing outside have a chance to eat.
5) Be very prepared that the food you like to try is sold out as by around 8pm, there was only one set of the (fat, juicy slabs) of raw sushi and udon left when Anais and I ordered. Item no. 17
6) Do NOT place any belongings on the table.
7) Do NOT expect any form of service or hospitality
8) Do NOT bend their menu or they will tell u off
9) Do NOT go in a big grouo. Maximum 2 or 3s.
10) Crackpot Chef is generous and Sushi and sashimi are made
on the spot in full view of diners.

Anais and I ordered item no 11 and no 17 to try.

I ate the succulent codfish hotpot (which was so huge, I believe it was a gigantic claypot) and Anais ordered the sushi (made on the spot) and Udon set.

Shop front. The glaring blue light belongs to a massage parlour opp the shop. I can't help but chastise it for its blatant black and bold spelling on ear CANDING. What on earth is that? For the clueless, it's ear candLing. Using hot wax to remove the ear wax in one's ear. Forgive me, because I hate bad grammer. On a tangent, mass comm student occupational hazard, McDonalds hung this superbly huge banner on a shopping mall near Forum and it said "Craving it? McDeliverY it." Shouldn't it be McDeliver it? Don't like no crass engrish.

Front main course menu

side dishes

Infamous CRACK POT chef that is so generous but damn bad tempered.

Appetizer of which none present dared to ask what the black thing was. It was mixed with chicken and tasted as Anais said like really AWESOME DOG FOOD haha. It was great really.

My very pregnant codfish claypot of wholensome goodness and health. No MSG. Served with rice, very awesome chilli, light sauce and garlic that brings out the taste of the very fresh codfish when dipped into it. I had my claypot being slammed onto the table haha. What a grand entrance really. But each morsel of fish was eaten (devoured) very eagerly by two dainty ladies. Portions of vegetables, shitake mushrooms, straw mushrooms and japanese seaweed were in great ABUNDANCE.

Anais's marbled textured, sweet tasted sushi set

I wasn't lying to you when I said that his portions are GENEROUS rite? Look at that thick fat succulent slabs of salmon sashimi.

Chirashi set (S$20.00 the most ex of the set meals and a must try which sells out fast)


This place is definitely worth a good try especially since I have been waiting for the opportunity to try it for a good 3 months. Expect good food and gigantic generous portions BUT nothing more. Expect also to pay about S$17.00 per person. Set meals come with a serving of fruit as well. Well worth every cent I guarantee.

Anais and I left Wasabi-Tei feeling like a million bucks (in our stomachs) haha. Superbly satisfied and full. I'm definitely going back to try Chirashi as well as Unagi sets and the very famous Chawanmushi which cost S$5 and with the prawn tail sticking out prominently from the bowl. All this food blogging is making me damn hungry nw.

*pic credits to Google images. I wouldn't dare bring my camera in for fear of being chased out would I? haha.

Research methodology lectures begin today. Not looking forward to stats but at least I rewarded myself with a orgasmic sensory satisfying pleasurable pulsating no-regretting good time yesterday evening.
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Labels: Glorious Food

Had a meeting today where my boss mentioned a recession and what nots, he suggested that our office move towards cushioning the recession. As much as I dislike negativity, I felt that our boss was nt one to be living in delusions of grandeur. He had two steps and as he is a Japanese boss I find his method somewhat unorthodox but refreshing.

1. The offices in Asia will be using Skype for correspondence since it is free. So we are having an internal cost reduction as well.

2. To 'feel' the recession, the aircon in our office will be increased by 2 degrees so we will get out literally from our comfort zone to feel that recession is not at all a comfortable period for businesses.

I appreciate my boss because I do very much think he is a wise man for the things that he says and advises to me as well.

Anw.. this is such a glorious day. I had a long 20 min chat with Sammi yesterday evening and I'm feeling so so happy. I do miss that woman very much. I think when she is in sg I miss her too haha because she is just so very real and sincere to me. Nv one to mince her words nor sugarcoat it.

We spoke abt my impending USA trip and just hearing that she has a car now (secretly damn happy but I will not wash it for her) and that she can drive me to malls and pick me up after her skool is just great. She has also so warmly welcomed Anais so I'm damn happy or not shopping alone in LA it will be super boring.

I'm glad that I will chances to cook, do laundry, change bedsheets (love the smell of new bedsheets) go drinking, shopping, travelling and live as housemates with my girlies for a week or so.

I will end this post with just some of my favourite things. . .

I have always wanted a bold big RAINBOW umbrella so if anyone knows where to get it please tell me!!! Or christmas is just around the corner you know. . . *hinthint hahaha

I love rainbows and anything superbly bright because it just brightens up a sombre mood, that's why I also possess a rainbow striped dress. LOVVVVEEEE it.

I love anything starry, including clothes, skirts, jewellery of which the 3D star of david cross from Israel by Cheryl bestie is a prized possession and even shoes or bags (thinking Agnes B)

And what a great combination of two of my favourite things.... My mood is just like these rainbows and stars now. Happy, bright and cheery.


*photos from Deviantart

I can't resist but to say I am gonna indulge in some jappity jap in 6 hours. *YUM

Am just having the laziest of moods these past few weeks. Lectures for research methodologies is just around the corner on this thursday.

I am also glad that the other half of the Tan family is coming to stay with us for a period of time as I can now see my darling niece more often.

In addition, I am also very very excited abt 27th Oct and 8th Nov as they are auspicious days to do very exciting things.

I am going on my JB pilgrimage again and I am very very excited.

Also, I visited the dentist twice in a space of one week. Last Saturday I went again to Toa Payoh Polyclinic this time. I was blessed to have managed to squeeze in on a cancelled appointment since polyclinics have a waiting time of 6 mths usually for appointments haha. Wee.

Anw the first dentist did not discover that I had very bad gum inflammation caused by food possibly stuck in the wisdom tooth area as well as molar. She first used this ultra long needle like maybe 5 15cm rulers combined to numb my right lower jaw and proceeded to clean my gums.

The blood just overflowed and gagged me for a moment I couldn't breathe as my throat was stuck with it. And bleeding as mentioned by my sweet lady dentist is due to very bad inflammation. I was given mouthwash to kill the bacteria and I was also numb on my right side for a good 2 hours.

2 hours was a long time as my right side drooped ok like I had a stroke or something and when I gurgled, the water spewed out like merlion at the corner since I had no control. Wahaha. My beef noodles and soy bean was waiting for me but I simply could not open my mouth properly. Tak glam to the max. But for all that pain and cleanup, it only cost me $12.50 for scaling and another $12.50 for consultation. Way better than the $75.00 I paid to Accent Dental Surgery. Please do not EVER GO there haha.. There is one in amk and the other that I went to in Tiong Bahru.

Polyclinics are the way to go. And having regular checkups are good because teeth beautify your smile. I am sure no one wants to be bo gei or toothless in pictures. It really helps to clean coffee stains, smoke stains, food stains, food lodged in between as well as food lodged in gums. So visiting dentist is good for you. I learnt my lesson well so I have already made my nx appointment in May. Weeee....

Some pics from last Tues. Visted Ade darling and baby Ethan and I swear he is gonna be a lady killer when he grows up.

The Handsome Star

Relaxxxxx, take it easssyyyy.

Baby Ethan and me (yes I cut my hair but nothing worth mentioning about though I love it to bits, thank you John for bringing me to Susan)

When Ethan and I had an electricity moment gazing into each other's huge eyes hahahaha

Ethan : "Her bosom feels just like my pillow."

Cooing Anais maternal instincts kicks in

Baby Ethan and Hawt Mummy Adeline

The double As I so love

Augustine's (lecturer) Angels


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If you really knew me, you would know that ________________________.

Yes, if you really knew me what would you really know about me?

I was watching Oprah a couple of weeks back and this children were just made to face themselves. Their inner selves and fears and who they really are. At first they said superficial things like they love ice cream but as the conversation wore on, they opened up to complete stranger schoolmates and said things like having an inferiority complex or being gay.

I guess everyone has a nemesis. I am really no exception. I shall not name the unmentionables in my life that a small group really know. But what I really wanna talk abt is that these couple of weeks, I have been getting increasingly impatient and agitated with negativity. I cannot stand negative vibes which includes

1) negative comments about self
2) extra over the top bitching
3) too much negativity from beginning to end of conversation
4) ultra depressing conversations


I dunno, I guess everyone has the impression I'm the "always look on the bright side of life" kinda of person. But I am also seriously way pass tt stage of feeling self pity for myself. If there's so much to bitch about and feel sorry for I guess I have much more to say than these people. And if I have the time to bitch about life, I'd rather use it for God's glory and for more productive things.

1. mummy in heaven, mummy best friend departed (check)
2. pay school fees by self (check)
3. working to support self (check)
4. not as slim as the average girl (check)
5. complexion not smooth (check)
6. need money for overseas study trip (check)

But these are all bt superficial. Really. I've come to a point of possessing an inward strength that I draw not from self or man but from God. There's a whole bigger life out there waiting for me. Some day I will be someone's wife and someone's mother and grandmother and I'm just loving each and every day of my life. No human on earth will love me as much as I can love and treasure myself.

Instead of pining for affections I have so much more things to do. I'm precious and my life is precious. With every breath I take, it's a gift and while I'm on this earth, I just want to make the most of it.

What with worrying, crying, anger and anxiety can I ever accomplish? I'd rather just leave it at the throne of grace. I cannot fathom how the priorities in life can be so perverted into looking for relationships to satisfy some kind of void instead of establishing and treasuring the ones already given, or lament about superficial things? Can their upbringing in life be so inferior that their eyes have become myopic?

Singlehood is like the shortest period of (most) of everyone's life. So while I am at it, I'd rather make the most of that solo time be it with family, friends or Daddy God.

I feel so good writing this entry because I can let it out that these people disgust me totally.

For all who see me and think they know me, I'm deeper than whatever u perceive.

As for the If you really knew me, you would know that

1. Family no matter WHAT will be no.1
2. I'd rather stay at home than to meet people who dun really care about me just for some
lets catch up and for good old times
3. I do not care for your unnecessary comments about me
4. I am definitely not a pessimist, inferior nor shy person
5. I hate people to lie to me

Yup so this entry is quite for those assholes who have been a pain in the precise ass.

Just let me see the world through Your eyes. And I will desire nothing more.

I thank God for inventing private blogs haha

Been a little lazy to blog recently, and I also do not want to blog nonsense and random rubbish.

Anw, the month of October has been so awesome burbosome to me for many reasons.

1) I wanted to spread the love I felt by Daddy God to some of my beloveds and I did.
2) Tecman gave me a free membership for a year
3) I've had awesome sessions of felloship with the cg
4) God has enlarged my heart and capacity to see beyond my bank account and to just sow.
5) I've had awesome outings with friends and loved ones
6) And I spent quality time with Sarabelle just playing and talking and teaching her new things.

It's just the first week of October and I'm anticipating meeting Ade and baby Ethan (not Ruan Jing Tian) haha. caregroup, a good facial my lectures later this month and Saw V coming uppppp. Isn't it just awesome?

Meanwhile I'm watching alot of SHIOK dramas so I shall be generous and share a few

1) Miss No Good (starring Wilbur Pan Wei Bo, Rainie Yang)
Recommended by Cline. Oh so farnie I cannot stop laughing

2) Invincible Shan Bao Bei (starring Zhang Dong Liang aka Kim Jae Won's lookalike and Roy Qiu who at MANY angles looks like Mike He) Btw Ethan Ruan makes a guest starring role with Joe showing them after they give birth as a short continuation to Fated to Love You. Uber funny. Cun Xi.... Xin Yi...

3) And just to make Anais so freaking happy. The lead stars from It Started with a Kiss 1 and 2 Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin are starring in a new drama called Love or Bread. It's still showing in Taiwan so it should be out (on ppfilm, mysoju or crunchyroll) very soon. Weeeee

Too many good shows. I'm too busy to be upset nor lament about other things in life.

October is proving to be auch a blessed sweet month.

What a glorious morning this is. I took the bus this morning to work and had some quiet time to myself. For the first time in a long while, I did not sleep on the bus. Just took my time to take in the sights during my bus journey.

Yesterday felt like one of the best days of my life. I was blessed with awesome company. Christline and Sean are just such great shopping and outing partners. I love their fashion sense, I love our conversations and how they all have such awesome fingers with taking photos. We camwhored as usual and took about 107 pictures. I was spoilt for choice between birthday parties and celebrations but decided that I needed to spend some quality time with the two of them.

We met up early, 11ish and had a delightful time at FASHBASH held at the the Singapore Arts Museum. Then headed for Peninsula Plaza (Granny's Day Out) and shopping at Far East. It was a wonderful time because we got alot of bargains from this vintage shopping day. Cline got two vintage dresses (stepford wives style), a pair of shoes from my fav shop in Haji Lane Bianca who set up shop at FASHBASH, some belts, a vintage Harajuku style red flower bomber styled jacket and a pretty cat print knitted top. Sean moo had great bargains too, with a corduroy rectangular light brown made in india vintage slingbag, white suspenders and patent black skinny belt.

The point is, we had loads of favour and great bargains and spent time looking over vintage stuff which I so love. Bumped into Krystal, Ivan and John and it was just nice to see great friends and not those undesirable ones on such an awesome day.

I thank God for the love and great company. I cannot wait for the Haji Lane, Bugis Village, Chinatown and Ann Siang Hill travels complete with JB in November.

And what bargains did I get?



My vintage awesome purplish-black stripes brown sling bag which is authentic vintage coz I googled it. And my oversized cardi. Each at a bargain of $23. Granny's Day Out was having a last day sale of 40 percent off storewide.

So loved. Some day I will walk the streets of Camden and other flea markets worldwide in search of untold beauties.

October is proving to be such a blessed month to just love myself, family and dear friends.

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