Happy Valentine’s Day 2012

I counted and this is our 5th Valentine’s day together. =O

Received a bouquet in my office. Surprised, because he didn’t ask me whats the office address. Later he told me, he just googled my company website. >D Then he spelt valentine’s wrongly for them to print on the card. hahaha! Valetine. Later he said how come they don’t spell check for me?! >:(

12 RED roses. <3 First time he’s sending me that many on V day it self :D hehehe.

I made him a card, which of course i will not put it here, later people laugh jealous. =]

His brother left for Dallas for awhile, so we had the car during the weekend.
Headed to Pietrasanta at Wessex Estate/Village.
LINK: http://www.ristorante-pietrasanta.com/

They serve Italian like pasta and pizza. I wasn’t really in the mood for pizza, but pasta ok!
They have outdoor and indoor, tables and chairs are all wood, so it looks very english?

Complimentary bread/buns (4 buns), it was REALLY GOOD. Trust me, WAYYYYY better then the one that Modesto’s serve.
Oh, sorry the picture shows an empty basket. HAHAHA. BECAUSE SOMEONE GREEDY AND HUNGRY! Didn’t wait till i took a picture before gobbling up everything! Even the Tacco sauce they served (see the small orange glass), YUMS! went really well with the bun.

We ordered a pasta and a pizza.

Pizza – Prosciutto e Funghi (Italian Mozzarella, Cooked Ham and Button Mushrooms in Tomato Sauce)

We took a random pizza, all pizzas there are thin crusted, so it was easy to bite and eat it without having to chew and chew and chew on the crust (like pizza hut). The lady recommended salami pizza but i’m not into that. Cooked ham was nicely done, and they were very generous with the mushrooms.

Pasta – Tagliatelle con Salsiccia e Tartufo (Home-made Tuscan Spaghetti with Sausage and Truffle)

The lady recommended the pasta so we took it, we didn’t have anything in mind and the menu was incomprehensible anyway.
Its slightly creamy, and tasted not too heavy. Although i know the picture looks kind of yucky and mushy, its doesn’t taste like it looks.
Its better to share this, although i’m sure that we could have finished it by ourselves. The portion ain’t very large, i would say medium. It won’t leave you too full and neither too hungry. In this case, they did portioned it well enough for 1 person. (non greedy person). Oh yes and the spaghetti is made by them, its really nice, i don’t know how to describe it but it was good texture and you just want to put more into your mouth. both of us sharing one was quite a fight.

Water- Sparkling.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH . LIKE $7 per bottle. Tasted like sweet and mountainous!
Seriously?! Just ask for normal ice water even if they ask you “Sparkling or still?”  I know many people go “huh?” Just ask for normal ice water, tap water whatever it is. and pay $0 for your water. Be clever! Duh we went for $0 normal ice water. They just use the green bottles (sparkling bottles) to store them.

Random shot of the table under two hanging pictures.

Saturday happy brunch

headed to Antoinette at Scarlet hotel. Mel had their breakfast and I have smoked salmon (after yoges ate that time, im sold)

boy drove me to greenwood to get Lana cake :> and donated clothes to salvation army. yay for lesser things in my boxes now.

other random things

mom wrote a cheque for $4.14 to pay some credit card bill and ended up writing four hundred instead. Don’t ask what she bought with a credit card for $4.14. she’s cool like that. I did think she wrote the number wrongly instead of but words but nope!

and dad made me drink grass juice. Ugh

Valentine day gift 2012 for girlfriend

 

OK IM SELLING KATE SPADE IPHONE COVER AND WALLET.

ITS GREAT FOR YOUR GF FOR VALENTINE DAY GIFT THIS YEAR IF YOU HAVEN’T FOUND ANYTHING!
JUST COMMENT/DROP ME A SMS IF YOU WANT!

BRAND NEW KATE SPADE WELLESLEY NEDA ZIP AROUND WALLET RED $220

 

boarskin embossed cowhide with natural cowhide trim
large zip around wallet
14-karat light gold plated hardware
designed for kate spade new york shops
custom woven rainspot lining
ksny blind embossed signature on license plate
12 credit card slots, 3 billfolds, and zipper change pocket; exterior slide pocket

BRAND NEW Kate Spade iphone 4/4S Cover $60

Black White Newspaper Classifieds Print

Casing is hard plastic cover (protects your phone well)
off white, black and red colours
fits Iphone 4 and 4s.
in Kate Spade original box and packaging

A generation which cannot sit still

Yup, we are a generation which cannot sit still, and do nothing. We complain that we are bored, need to be entertained. We always have to be entertained. We always have to do something, listen to ipod, play games on iphone, etc etc. I realized that after getting my iphone, i literally cannot live without the 3G/internet. I constantly have to check emails, twitter, facebook (because i get bored). Its super uncomfortable to sit at the bus stop and DO NOTHING, just waiting for the bus. And the first thing i wake up in the morning, i check my phone (also because the alarm rings). Also, constantly whatsapping, smsing. Some days my head feels like its going to burst and i want to just leave my phone at home, but i know half way through the day, i’ll be at a total lost. Don’t we all feel that way now?

I’m starting to find that it is important to just sit still and do nothing, in a way, it brings peace and restfulness in my mind and heart. But for that, i realized that i have to stop looking at my phone, i have to just leave my phone in the bag and stop checking it every split second. Another thing i found, that we are constantly connected, we must always pick up the phone when someone calls, we must always reply a text message – its like a sub-conscious thing we do, that we are no longer aware that in actual fact being slaves to our phones. Well, phone aside there is the ipod/music players. We can’t just sit there and not listen to anything, not hear something. Its like silence is so deafening, or our minds cannot quieten down for a moment. I don’t think that it has anything to do with age, but probably with age, I have come to appreciate calmness and stillness. Awhile ago, my parents sold the car and i remembered before that I was driving the car with my sister. And she would say can you on some music, im bored. And I wouldn’t really want to because i wanted it just to be quiet. It could be that in the quietness, you get to think, or get to just relax your mind. No wonder we get stressed out and strung up, because we constantly need to be doing something. Lets not go into the PSP and portable gaming devices. I think i have long outgrown them (my last was the gameboy colour), but we can see that kids as young as they have not even started Pri1, are glued to the whatever, walking and jabbing away, sitting at the table to eat yet pressing endlessly.

I do also come to realize that i actually do it out of habit (checking my phone). HABIT. YES. Like, i’m sitting here with mel (with something to do) , BUT/AND i start pressing my phone. I get annoyed with myself for doing that, bceause its really a sub-conscious habit. i know I need to re-assess how i use my phone. Stop using my phone so much, and just sit. I don’t have to be constantly connected. I would like to have  a phone free day every month, but i doubt i can actually do that. >D maybe SAT or SUN. I’m sure it will feel good to be disconnected from the world a little while. Maybe you should try it too.

Maybe I should start a Phone-less Day campaign, I think we will all be laying on the floor bored to tears. What are your thoughts?

a life worth living

was packing my stuff randomly n saw the book lying there on my shelf, its been 1 year since i last read it. funny how He shows the way.

the past week hasn’t been really good.. as usual, like always people are never satisfied with what we get. (think year end bonus/etcetc) Even in Alvin’s company with bonus LIKE THAT (google Keppel Fels bonus n knock yourselves out) he told me that there are some people who complain not enough! Omg then what about other companies like mine?! becoming a monkey cuz being fed peanuts.

Company lunch at Mandarin Oriental MELT, but I ended up feeling so sick before the lunch. I think it was the dinner I had the evening before, korean food – must have been too spicy. I vomited and diahoreea, went home half way through the lunch dizzy but managed to drag myself to see the doctor. he wrote “uero” or “Oreo” on the diagnosis. whatever. doctors -_-: it’s food poisoning / allergy I had. he said gd thing not so bad. So it’s “Gerd”. very sad that I didn’t enjoy my CNY lunch . last year I missed it cuz I was posted to HK for work for two months during the
CNY period back to back. this year I didn’t get to eat although im physically here in Sg.

so can’t eat much since Friday breakfast and had a cancelled potential sat night dinner with family . cancelled Sunday night dinner with uni friends (because most of them have reunion dinner with family or other stuff, funny because we planned this more then 1 month in advance. then again it’s CNY- family reunions are more impt). no potential Monday Tuesday after work drinks with Mel/yoges, & colleagues/ex. and Tuesday survey in the wee morning/evening at cck- dreaded because it’s so ULU, I might pyke in the taxi:,(

went shopping myself on Saturday because alvin had class/work n slept the entire day away after. ended up buying books which I did not intend to because page one with 50% off is a warzone and I can’t find anything I want! shopped at Zara , topshop. tempted myself. not a lot YET. perhaps a dress next wk from Zara.

ahhh yea . see. the only gd thing was having some time spent with my sister at Vivo, church with alvin . and mom’s home cooked food .

next wk will be better.

Sometimes its tiring to be positive.

Sometimes its tiring to be positive. I think its easier to be depressed and emo. Some days its just easier to have a bleak view of my world. Everyone looks at someone elses life and envies the person, everyone has someone that she/he envies. Someone would come along and say well you have a pretty good life you know, why are you complaining? I think like this about some people, funny how i don’t want people to think like that about me – that is probably why i don’t complain much.

truth is, im not enjoying my life right now. I’m restricted by my movements. I can’t travel, i can’t walk very far, i can’t do things i want to do. i’m getting fat, i can’t go jogging/exercise. I think my morale’s really low these days. It doesn’t help when people actually tell me that I PUT ON WEIGHT AND I LOOK FAT. SERIOUSLY? people can be sooooo insensitive. you think i want to be fat? you think i don’t wanna go put on my jogging shoes and go have a run? Even on depressed days, exercise gives endorphines for me to feel better, and i don’t even have that now.

I didn’t know i’m so big on travelling until now. I feel like i’m stuck in a cage, where i can’t do anything. I have no hobbies, i’m not passionate about anything. Is this what happens to you when you get older? Is there why people just get married and have kids because they feel a purpose in life? Thats something definitely not to be settled for. I would love to go for some Habitat for Humanity volunteery work, but see again? I can’t move that much with my legs. >:( Maybe i should start a online business. Like i have always wanted to run my own business. Any suggestions?

 

happy birthday to me

quarter century old now. and the standing question of — what have I achieved in life? ( doesnt it just stresses you out? haha)
it’s quite nice to feel special once a year. thank u mommy for having me <3

with my family , a yummy cupcake.

(my dad actually remembered my bday.)

with best friends (although mel wasn’t there, hahaha) with Yoges, at Antoinette. yum food! the all day breakfast and cakes and crepes were realllly gd.

with boyfriend at forlino’s. the mains was surprisingly nice, because we didn’t know how to appreciate the blue fin Tuna appetizer. He had lobster pasta and I had almond crusted lamb.

CNY 2o12

happy Chinese new year!

although it doesn’t feel much like a new year this year, just a continuation from the last. perhaps just feeling slightly jaded?

had dinner on eve at Grand corp hotel. very good spread, was quite impressed with the variety of food they had!

my uncle got back from Antarctica (yes Antarctica) with gorgeous pictures of cute penguins up close

and eyeing a new pair of shoes from
Ted baker . soooo pretty.

I also went to Page one, bought 4 books,its really been a long time since I
actually read anything. I forgot how obsessed I can get, I CANNOT put it down once I stop, I need to finish reading the book. that’s why I feel like its a waste for me to buy books because I read very fast (1-2 days) and I only read my books once. an alternative would be getting kindle/iPad or something where I can buy books cheaper. but eyes hurt if u stare at a screen way too long. old sch paper backs are still the best.

& also obsessed with the new KOI drink, yakult green tea. it’s more ex then the usual macchiato I always drink, why rotten/fermented stuff like yakult cost so much?!

first fart

 

I can’t wait until you see my cry face. It’s super ugly. Crying for the first time in a new relationship is a milestone because it means you care enough about them to let things get bad for a second. I see crying as a positive thing. I don’t trust relationships that are good 24/7 because it usually means they lack a certain level of depth or passion. I don’t love you until you make me cry, until you see me vomit, until I fart in your face and refuse to feel weird about it. To me, love doesn’t come with the first “I love you.” It comes with the first fart so can we just fast forward a few months and just be there already? Thanks.

 

Why It’s Good To Let Yourself Go In Front Of Your Significant Other 
By Ryan O’Connell

lil update

had dinner on a Friday night, appreciate that he asked if I wanted to because I mentioned some time ago that I miss having to dine on Friday nights with my boyfriend. I forgot that I even said that but he remembered & made an extra effort to rush n leave work right on time so we can have a dinner on a Friday night after so long.

dinner dessert with my Indian sister one of the days last week. I must admit this is really good. Shaved ice mango something at Chinatown.

Finally wrap up the painting that i bought in Paris in 2007, when mel & I spent our supposedly a *damn good expensive dinner* money on a bloody painting each which we still talk about it ALL the time. i forgot how much but it was ard 150 euros? the rate was 2.5 or 2.8 then. I think it was one of the craziest thing we did, we always joke about how dumb we were but I think we never regretted it because it reminded us of our first time in Paris, n the memories we had there. young & stupid & enjoyed it. :> we would have thought 100 times over if we were there now at this age.

Crazy person in office , standing on chair to stretch n dance as soon as boss left. hahaha