Holiday

The Last of 2023

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Time passed and it’s coming to the end of 2023.

What have I achieved so far?

I have changed my job last year and now I have been working in Singapore Institute of Management for almost 2 years (2 more months to 2 years). Life has been good to me. We went for a few holidays, Japan in May, Taiwai in August, Europe in November/December and ended my holidays by attending a wedding in Hanoi.

Let’s probably begin sharing from beginning of the year?

Home Improvement Program (HIP) took place in Mar/Apr’23 and we had to move our cats to our friends’ house because it’s gonna be dirty and dusty at home. And thank God for their help, we managed to get through the difficult part. Totally in love with the new kitchen!

New kitchen! 😍

We went to Japan for 10 days during the HIP. And it’s been awhile since we went for a holiday since COVID. We spent a good 10 days in Tokyo.

1) Went to have our Ichiran Ramen

2) Went to Hakone

3) Went to TeamLab Planets

4) Went to Monster Hunter Cafe

5) Went to Mipig Cafe

6) Went to Disneyland

And other many other places! And also we made a new friend in the homestay we were staying.

Work has been busy and I am in the Recreational Committee this year. And we planned for the SIM Family Day. This year we went to the new opened Bird Paradise!

Bird Paradise Waterfall

Maiden trip with Vivien to Taipei! This time is to catch Hebe Tien’s concert! So glad that we managed to get her concert ticket! We had truly enjoyed ourselves with the eating and shopping although it was a short trip.

Celebrated my birthday with my favourite people! 😘🥰

My ex-colleagues from NUS ISS and my lgg~

Then it’s our long awaited Europe trip! It’s filled with excitement, anxiety, fun and laughter! Seeing snow for the first time, and it became our nightmare when the train was disrupted, day trip to the Disney castle cancelled because of the road condition and we almost couldn’t make it to Salzburg due to train disruption.

Took Business Class for the first time! I couldn’t ask for more. It was the best experience I had (except when the yoghurt splashed onto my clothes and hair) and there is a hole in the luggage. Experienced snow for the first time and of course we gotta build a snowman!
There were many people at the train station waiting for the train to Salzburg. But sadly, the train was cancelled the whole day, and we have to make a last minute hotel reservation nearby the train station so we can rest for the night and make plan on the alternative route to Salzburg. Thank God! We managed to book a bus (but we have to split into 2 groups because of the limited number of bus tickets)
No photos in Salzburg because we were literally there for a night, and we moved on to St Anton the next day. We were in luck when we were told there will be a Devil’s Parade at St Anton. It was scary and funny that we were laughing and screaming at the same time when the devil came to us and whipping us. After that, we moved on to Luzern! And a passerby came and join in our group photo! How funny is that!
Then it’s time for the mountains! Went to Mt Titlis for some spectacular view. Explore the area around our hotel and we head to Interlaken. Paragliding was cancelled due to bad weather, so lgg improvised his own paragliding. And he also finally tried the cheese fondue.
Went to Lauter Brunnen and it was drizzling. So we just walk around, took some photos and head back for the day. Finally went to Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe! It’s freezing cold -14 degrees outside and the snow was like literally slapping our face and the fear of falling down the slope. But we truly enjoyed the magneficient view!
Time for another mountain! This time, it’s the Matterhorn! We almost thought we won’t be able to see the mountain because it was cloudy when we reached, and the train was disrupted due to strong wind. Lucky we had a long brunch, and by the time we wanted to leave, the train resumed again! The magneficient view of the mountain.
Moving on to Montreux and finally see the flying Santa LIVE! We went to Bern old town, it was beautiful. And we totally forgotten that bears hibernates in winter so we can only take photo with the bear figurines. And then we went to Zurich. Visited many Christmas Markets this trip. And I am loving it!

Everyone in Europe that we met are really nice! There was a guy who told me the entrance of the hotel while we were standing at the traffic light. There was a lady who offered to help us take a group photo. We are definitely very blessed. After our Europe trip, we went to Hanoi for my lovely friends’ wedding! I am so happy for them!

After touching down from Switzerland, we quickly head back home and re-pack our luggage for Hanoi. By the time we reached hotel was around 7ish pm, so we head out for dinner and a massage and then rest for the night. The next day was our friend’s wedding. And bumped into Jessie Hoo and Wankey! Stay blissful my friends! I love you guys! Thanks for having us!
Joined in the after wedding party. It was new experience (never clubbed in Vietnam before). It was always great to catch up with old friends and/or colleagues. We will probably be back in Hanoi since we spent most of the time sleeping (due to jetlag and shag-ness from the Europe trip). Then it’s back home to our cats!

Really thankful for colleagues who covered me during my long holidays. And I wish everyone best in health and wealth in the coming new year!

Lunar Holiday Day 3 發啊！

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Happy Family

Day 3 of lunar new year and last day of the long public holiday. Geez. Had a rather chillax day, waking up at 1pm (cause we slept at 6plus in the morning after a night of battle with mahjong 😀 ). Watched a couple of episodes of “Sex Education” on Netflix and headed out for super late lunch. After lunch, went back home to prepare for lunch, and guess what? I cooked bak kwa fried rice (includes leftover luncheon meat and caixin). I must say my friends and Laogong are very spontaneous, they finished the fried rice (although some of them have already had dinner before coming). 真的感动到… Played a few rounds of Ban Luck and then we had lohei!

bak kwa fried rice with luncheon meat + caixin

Then we continued our Ban Luck, and great! At least I won 30 cents at the end of the game. I guess, I am really not suitable for gambling. 😀

Needle Felting

And recently, I was quite into needle felting. Have been watching quite a bit of youtube video on this. And was so intrigued to try. So I went to Taobao and bought some needle felting kit. And I must say, it’s really cheap and good. So I bought this Line Friend – Lion Brown and try. Not too sure if I did a great job, and I think it looked a bit funny with the long body. So what do you think about my 1st needle felting work?

A day at Singapore Botanic Garden

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Alright alright! Time to update my blog! It’s been a while since I took some time to write my blog because I was feeling tired and always doze off.

Finally went to the Singapore Botanic Garden! After so long! It’s better late than never!

But my wish is still having a picnic at the Botanic Garden. How cool is it? I think that will be so fun! 🙂 Anyways, I went to Botanic Garden last Sunday with Suzy (Sze Tien) for some photo shoot! Yea, some real photo shoot! Need to really improve on my photography skills (and get to know how to operate my camera) and my editing skills. I shouldn’t be buying my New Love and put it in the dry box and collect dust. I bought it for quite some time, and I still have not master the technique. That’s quite sad huh. I will not say it’s pathetic, but rather I did not have companion who will accompany for photo shoot. So glad that Suzy shared the same passion as me! Perhaps the next time we can ask Edwin out too! Since he has passion for photography too. He’s the first person in our group to own a DSLR. Lol. Ahhh, so miss the days in Vietnam! The beef noodle and all.

Anyways, we arranged to meet up at 8am at Orchard. After breakfast at Shaw McDonald’s, I decided that we should walkto Botanic Garden. =] It wasn’t too hot then since it’s still early. While we are on foot, we took some pictures, saw some cute dogs and many joggers. And finally we are at Singapore Botanic Garden!

Seeing the entrance makes me excited! And walking into Botanic Garden, we ain’t the early bird. There are many people who are much more earlier than us! We see people having picnic (how wish I could join them), practice singing or vocal, feeding the fish and swans etc. It’s so fun!

And by the time we covered half of the Botanic Garden, we are thirsty and tired. The day was really good and perfect for such event! The next time we go, we shall bring our own water bottle! And it would be best to have a picnic there! Still thinking about it. We decide that we should come back again to cover the other half of the garden.

Below are some of my works!

These are some of work which I felt it’s not too bad. So, if you are reading  my blog, perhaps you can give me some pointers! I can’t do much editing because I don’t know how to use photoshop (I will learn to master it once I’m done with my studies), and I used the software that comes with the Canon camera. =] I hope Suzy can help me install the Adobe Lightroom soon. 🙂

I am so happy when Suzy say I’m getting better at taking photos! 😀 I think we will be going for a night shoot at MBS soon! After my exams that is.

And I really need to concentrate on my assignment and exams this month. So looking forward to the Taipei trip!! Since we couldn’t go to Japan anymore, we decided on Taipei. We are going on the 13th May – 19th May. Since my Taipei friend has helped me settled on the hotel (we are staying at Royal Seasons Hotel, Taipei) for the 6 nights. Which means what? A jacuzzi in our rooms!! Cool isn’t it?? Really can’t wait to go!

Really need to pray for the world. Japan just suffered another 7.4 magnitude earthquake, and I think Mexico too. Pray for them.

Japan

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Oh yeah baby! I am going to Japan on 13th May – 21st May.

Although I don’t quite like the arrangement, but looking on the brighter side.. at least I’m still going to Japan.

DISNEYLAND, I’M COMING FOR YOU!

And I know, this time it’s gonna be better. Whose going?

Uncle Jeremy

His wife

Shun Jie

Guan Kun

Quan Yi

One of their friends

The bf

and ME of course.

Yeah! Looking forward to it. I think I will take a lot of pictures until I go crazy!

 

And, I feel happy for my one of my secondary school girlfriends. She got engaged! Just saw from the facebook. And sometimes I wished, we haven’t drifted away from each other. Too many things happened that is straining our friendship. This upsets me a lot. How? What should I do? Actually this whole thing bothers me a lot. I want to talk to her, but I’m scared. Scare of what? I don’t know also. I missed the days we always talk and sometimes go out for shopping, dinner and what’s not. Things ain’t the same anymore. How? What should I do?

Chinese New Year 2011

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Happy happy Chinese New Year to everyone out there!

Chinese New Year isn’t CNY to me because………….

I fall sick. =[

I began to feel unwell on CNYE after the reunion dinner with Dearest and his family. And the worse part was, I have to back to my own house because we have not go thru the customary wedding, so in Chinese custom, we are not considered married even though we have ROM-ed in last September. This really FML. And so on my way back home (Dearest went to V4 with his friends and I didnt want to go), I told him I feel like vomiting. And so I rest early. Who knows……… I woke up in the morning next day feeling super unwell and I went to toilet just to vomit. And I can feel my heartbeat. So fast until I lost count. I almost thought I couldn’t make it out on the first day of CNY. You know that feeling totally sucks. Nevertheless, I feel better after sleeping and head out to Dearest‘s grandmother’s house for visiting. After that head back to Dearest’s house. Didnt managed to take any pictures during the first 2 days of CNY. =[

Met up with my Happy Family on Saturday for a CNY dinner. I was late because my sister called me last minute to tell me ah ma wants me home for a short while. She didnt tell me what happened, so I took a cab home. It turns out to be………… something really bo liao. -.-”’ Anyways, took some pictures at the River Ang Bao. Not those damn chio type. Still trying to know how to use my camera. =X

I think, that’s all for my CNY holidays. Damn sad about not able to have more fun. Lose in mahjong and ban luck. Really suay TTM. And I hope after this it will be better.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The new year is coming! How excited can one be? I am feeling really excited now! It’s such a good news to see from my FB that some of my friends are getting engaged! Yay~ Wedding bells are coming!

I had a fun time taking photos during the Christmas season with my Dearest. I will upload the pictures soon. When I got the time. =] Let’s hope that it will not take me so long. And I’m still learning how to use my Canon DSLR. So bear with me for my not so chio pictures.

I had a fun time being the  unofficial photographer at Celest‘s birthday party! Thanks for giving this chance to show off my amateur skills. LOL.

That’s all for now. And, I wish everyone a

HAPPY NEW YEAR

for the upcoming new year. Let’s HUAT AH!

Sick

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I am sick! And it’s not fun at all. Down with sore throat, blocked nose and what’s not?

Was given 2 days of MC, and I have to go back to work tomorrow. And, my loots for Christmas presents are here. It’s time to WRAP ALL of THEM. Yea.

Selamant Hari Raya Haji!

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Selamant Hari Raya Haji! It’s public holiday so we don’t have to work! Happy isn’t it? So I went to shop for my D&D dress. After walking half a day, I bought one dress at Valerie @ Parkway Parade Shopping Center. The dress is in silver and black color. I took the picture in changing room and the light is orange color, thus there is a little color distortion.

And I bought some nail polish from Etude House. Got some freebies from there as well. Got 2 mask, 2 free toner for whitening and a free pen.

And, I really don’t wanna go shopping with a guy! =[