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Let the pictures talk
I’m starting to write a journal. Yep. But you know what handwritten journals can’t do? They can’t give you the visual aspects to my life (unless I print the pictures all out!). So here it is. The past few months of my life.
Hello, balance sheet, we meet again.
the Monday-thought-was-Tuesday gelare ice-cream waffle
a nice book with a sucky ending.
Tidied up my desk! But it’s all messy now. heh!
first time hushing the toddlers to nap. there’s something very peaceful about it all.
cute sleeping baby’s cute sleeping feet. cuuuuuuuuuute!
10,000 rice dumplings for charity!
behind the scenes of it all.
A morning walk with the divaaaaaaaaa!
And then I spotted a rainbow on my doorstep(:
Ice-cream burger thing from Bakerzin on Shuhui’s birthday! ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
And baskin robbins with Fiza and Yana on the last day of our elearning break! i meant week! ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
Mom’s new recipe: mini tofu patties! ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
And the fire drill. where I got to try on the most awesome baby carrier ever! lots of baby cuddling and swaying and being in the centre of attraction during evacuation for this event!
And then this tomato soup. SO. DAMN. DELICIOUS. ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
And of course how could we forget a cake for Xinying’s birthday! Bakerzin’s warm chocolate cake. reminded me of DA OOZE from TCC! ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
And to sum the evening off. Best one I’ve had in a while!
Went to the National Skin Centre with aunt, and got the Starbucks breakfast! NYUM NYUM NYUMNOMNOM ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
and then we got some veggie sushi rolls;D ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***
And now here I am, hoping for more gatherings with old friends, more time with my babies, more ***FOODPORNFOODPORNFOODPORN***, more travelling around Singapore and hopefully OUT of Singapore… and less assignments.
4 more to go, to be completed within slightly less than a week’s time. Can I do it? HOPEFULLY! Then it’s HELLOOOOOOO to the holidays!
What I’ve been doing
Hello, blog! It’s been such a long time, I know. I’ve been soooo busy since school started and blogging isn’t really one of my priorities then. But I’m back! So much has happened in these months I reckon I need to start blogging before forgetting.
Well before I transport myself back to the past, HAPPY 2012! I’m not actually proud of myself for not achieving my resolution for donating blood in 2011. I NEED MORE COURAGE. And less selfish. HMPH. More about resolutions later.
I’ve been thinking of doing a catch-up blog post; of interesting things I have been doing and everything worth mentioning that this blog had missed out on. Being away for so long and coming back now, I suddenly feel I’m at this phase where this blog appearance no longer suits.
TIME FOR A BLOG RE-MAKEOVER YAWWWW! okay let’s not.
Haha, time flies, it’s been one year since I’ve moved from Blogger and made here the home of my thoughts, feelings, rantings and what-nots.
Okay back to catching up. There are endless things I want to/can talk about the trip to Perth. No amount of pictures and words can express how much fun I had there and how I missed going back to that place again. I left a part of me there, Perth, and I’m gonna come back again.
My laptop and external hard disk was infected with a virus and it’s been a hell of a few weeks. Only yesterday I had decided to sort out pictures that are carelessly strewn all over the place within my hard disk in my fervor attempt to save every bits and pieces of memories over the last few years. It’s an awesome feeling to look at videos and pictures that are years before and reminisce – something that I can’t afford to do/didn’t think about doing during my free time. So here I am again.
School started in mid-october, being one of the major reasons for my hiatus here. It’s been tough – school, I mean. But I’m glad I survived half of this semester already. 6 more weeks of lectures, tutorials, assignments and group projects and I’ll sit for my 2 paper and free I will be. I wonder what I’ll be doing for the 2 months of vacations.
Positive things about school, well I reunited with my homies Mawar and Yana, and I’ve also grown more and more attached to the attachment centre and the children. Sadly, no pictures are allowed to be posted. AWWWWWWWW too bad!
9 OCT 2011
We went to the Asian Civilisation Musuem to look at the exhibition on the Terracota Warriors. Did I ever mention just how much I enjoy museums?!
Skip to the month of November, we had the ECH Celebration Fiesta! It’s been such a long time since I’ve immersed myself in school activities and such! We had a game booth that day too and Ms Mona bought wacky wigs for us too!
Oh and we went to Singapore Discovery Centre as part of our assignment thing thing which I forgot. But I did remember the silly dance moves and crazy things we did there!
And then in my religious community we organised a chalet. The night before the teens gathered with some seniors and had steamboat for dinner, played poker and plasticine and stacked apples. Next late morning, we biked a whole 32km from changi all the way to East Coast Park and back. SHIIIIOK! Fun times all around!
Then it’s the New Year’s Eve karaoke cum sleepover with my lovely ladies! Not forgetting the sparkling juice, early-morning mahjong session and before-sleep facial masks session we had!
k bye!
Perth: Food
Well, Perth has been kind. To my stomach, but not my pocket, sadly. Initially we were actually worried about getting our vegetarian needs met in Perth, but we settled in and the people were kind enough to make special arrangements for us.
Apparently McDonald’s wasn’t the top-selling burgers in Australia, according to my Hongkong guide. It was this name-that-just-slipped-off-my-mind-and-i-can’t-remember-it-suddenly. And a pack of underpacked large macdonald’s fries actually cost me AUS$3! That’s S$3++! But believe me, it’s 100 times crispier and tastier compared to fries in Singapore, I SWEAR.
I love the atmostphere and the people working in the restaurants and eateries there. There’s once we were walking for already more than 30 minutes to find somewhere which sells vegetarian food and we stopped by to ask a waiter if there’s any food suitable for vegetarians and I absolutely love his response; “No, we don’t have that in the menu but I suppose I can do a little magic in the kitchens just for you!” And there you go, dinner supper settled. It turns out that the one running that Italian restaurant married someone who’s a Singaporean and upon knowing that we were tourists from Singapore, he even came up and took our orders himself, gave us complementary dishes and extra large servings! And the food was DELISH I tell you!
Some highlights:
*Note: This is not the fries from MacDonald's I mentioned;)
My 1st plate of yummy Gnocchi
Dinner and then some.
Dinner tonight, specially prepared by yours truly.
I love to cook, hehehe! It’s a way for me to not think about things and just focus and have fun.
Oh yeah, I’m addicted to Kris Allen’s new song. On replay since FOREVER!
Aaaaaand that’s all for now!
Spaceballs!
Glimpse of the past.
A week ago I went to walk on the KTM railway tracks that will be dismantled and returned back to Malaysia. It’s kinda a bittersweet thing seeing my grandpa walking along the tracks and looking at little little things around, deep in thought. Well and of course I did take pictures. This should be one of the things that have stayed on and accompanied Singapore as it grew and flourshed and changed. The Padang stadium is gonna be gone soon(or has it already been destroyed?), and now this place that is history rich will also have to make way for further advancements of Singapore.
I wonder who is the one who decides which things to keep, and which to ‘sacrifice’. How do they make decisions like these? What are the things they consider before making a final decision? I would really like to know about it, to be honest. I just feel they are taking away and destroying parts of Singapore’s history. It’s kind of sad, thinking that the next generation would not be able to see these historical monuments(?) and places of Singapore just because it is too small and if they don’t make way there will be no land for more skyscapers and development.
But I really do hope they keep at least a small portion of the tracks… just like the Berlin Wall in Germany? They actually did keep a part of it right? If it carries so much meaning to the folks and the developing country, wouldn’t it be an awesome sight to still see something significant from the past as the country grow?
Oh my, I think I should just carry on with the pictures. I don’t think I know what I’m saying either. Sometimes I feel I suck at expressing my feelings. Ugh.
And here’s to national day related things trending on twitter WORLDWIDE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE I LOVE YOU NO MATTER WHAT! (even if you really removed ALL the tracks.)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sky
Sky. Skies. One of my favourite subjects to shoot and these are my favourites!
‘horns’ at the back of my head.
Tying messy baby hair on a hot and sunny day?
Chicken feet! Try saying “don’t move or you won’t be pretty.” and “look in front and feed your hungry kungfu panda.”
So glad I could enjoy my short 2 week term break at ahma’s! Jovianne’s getting cheekier and cheekier each day,never failing to crack me up with weird but cute antics of her. And my aunt said she had that cheeky garfield smirk and the posture of liang po po when she grooves to hi5??
Well this also means I’m trying to put the upcoming assignments and lesson plans out of my head. Gotta make up my mind on which to focus on when and when to focus on which so that I won’t spend my play time worrying about school stuff and wasting time distracted to play when it’s time to do school work.
Those who couldn’t understand put your hands up.
Or maybe I should just prop my legs up and enjoy my much awaited break instead? HMMS.
Don’t you dare take that away from me.
“Oh, I’m just a Squid/octopus, swimming and swimming across the blue, blue sky.”
Hehehehe, I just had a SUPER AWESOME YOUTH GATHERING with my religious mates, guess what we did?
new love
Sorry, Nikon I know I cheated your feelings when I decided to spend hundreds of dollars on this brand new Canon Ixus 220 HS .
Tough decision to make on the purchase, to be honest. I thought about the cost, my savings, pros and cons and whatsoever, til one fine day I decide it’s gonna be worth it to have a handy-dandy pocket sized camera with me all the time, I bought it with no qualms or other thoughts.
Then that night I struggled if I had made the right decision. Luckily Mom seemed pretty calm after I came clear with her, but other than my aunt who accompanied me and Hafiza, I told no one else about it. 18 years of living in good ol’ Earth and I’m so proud to tell you this is the first time I’ve ever bought something WITHOUT Mom’s acknowledgement or consent first. That clearly explains moments of regrets and chiding I did to myself the night after I bought it.
But all’s well and I finally got to spend some time with my new love yesterday when school ended at 1. Oh my, the more I played with it, the deeper I fall in love with it. Is this normal? Hehehehe!
So I’m just gonna share some things that I like and don’t like about the new camera!!! It’s like confessing your love BUT.
What I like about my new Canon (oh yeah!):
- The size! Almost as thick as my iPhone, and a little bigger than the size of my ID. Absolutely LOVE the fact that I can bring this little guy ANTWHERE and EVERYWHERE!
- The super fast shutter speed in lighted areas! That’s one of Mawar’s favourite and shocking findings just now too!
- Full 1080p HD video recording WITH ZOOM! This is one of the many reasons why I wanted this camera, it fills the hole in my heart, since my D5000 wasn’t able to take FULL HD videos.
- BLACK. haven’t you heard black is the new gold? Cool colour for a cool camera!
- The matt surface, available only in black. Although it feels a little too rough, at least scratches and fingerprints and gross oily surfaces won’t be visible EVER AGAIN!
- Super slow-mo videos that can do WONDERS in 240fps(or something like that)!
- Individual ‘record’ button for fast recording! Just one touch of the button and you’re off recording videos in 1080p.
- NEWEST THING IN TOWN! A 4-second video before taking a picture! Cool or what!?
BUT on the other hand…
- This little guy should do better in focusing. It takes quite a while for the camera to focus, especially when it’s recording.
- The placement of the flash! Sometimes the flash gets blocked out my the lens and what happens are those dark corners surfacing in pictures.:(
- Quite literally, NOTHING ELSE.
Well, here’s my impromptu and roughly thought out review of the new Ixus 220 HS. Which, thanks to Google, is also known as the Canon Powershot Elph 300 HS in the States. And maybe other parts of the world as well. Why not call it a Powershot here in Singapore as well? Why Ixus? Weird. They should have the same names INTERNATIONALLY, you know. Cos’ who knows what a Canon Rebel T2i is when it’s called the Canon 550D in their area?! Haven’t you studied the LAw of Standardisation?! Okay, maybe there isn’t one law like this out yet, BUT STILL!!!
Okay, enough of rants and what-nots. Here’s some sample pictures I took yesterday, and Mawar today:
That’s it for now, TOOTLES!!!
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