Welcome to Singapore, Jo Mei!

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Ate. Nine!

7atenine is my current craze and after trying their dinner, how can I miss out the Lunch Unlimited since my foodie friends have been talking about it?

So I drag Andrew and Jo Mei for fine dining! woots!

Hope they enjoyed their lunch. There are some dishes that I can really rave about! :D




We have unlimited juices too!




Tommy joined us shortly after...




Finishing our dessert...




Fullerton and the merlion! I forgot to adjust the white balance, so it becomes bluey :(




Act Cool No. 1




Act Cool No. 2




Reflection!




I think both of them looks spastic -_-

Then we hop on to the FREE HIPPO TOUR (Thanks to Tommy) and we went on a heritage trail to Kampong Glam!



Haji Lane has alot of interesting shops...




Looks lok kok right, but there's hidden gem somewhere...




Supposed to be a ladies store, but the tired lady is sitting down entertaining herself while the rest browse around...




I LOVE THIS SMALL CORNER! Pastel colour, next time if I buy a house, I wana re-create this small lil corner. Just spend some time alone, reading books, drinking tea on a Sunday afternoon. How nice...

Then we headed to some 'LOUD' store. See below:



LAO DA! -_-




It's obvious that we lack unity. Look at all the different expressions...




Erm... trying to attract...???




Not comfy at all especially with the act-pro cameraman! :(




Blur!




I think this is cool, except for Tommy's too-tilted-head.




We wanted to take 3 mirror effect! But managed to catch two of them only. hehe




I am the model, Jo Mei is the camerawoman, Tommy is the extra, together with Andrew's irrelevant hand!




Just smile la~




We can be the shop's top model yea~




GOOD JOB ANDREW! :D




Jo Mei is totally not scared of posing. Haha




The guys.




Jo Mei wanted to get a set of SIA-alike uniform...




At Malay Heritage Centre...




The End!

Im sure there's gona be lots more interesting activities next week befor Jo Mei leaves. She is still as lovely as ever! :D

*****

这星期的我是一个快乐的小女人
不知道这种幸福是否是短暂的...

Randomness

ONE.

Singapore is densely populated with M'sians and PRCs and sometimes I really hate their way of doing things. Not that all of them are like that, but some really has detestable characters.

The town council in my area always put up notices regarding some updates of my neighbourhood, such as lift upgrading, mosquito breeding etc. And sometimes the notices are only written in English and pasted outside the lift doors.

Then after one day, you'll bound to see words written on the notices such as "what the f*** are you writing about?"..."Can write in Chinese anot?"..."shuo shen mo?"...
"wo bu ming bai, ke yi xie hua yu ma?" etc etc...

It's pretty obvious who are the ones who really don't understand the notice vs who are the ones who are just out there to 'vandalise' the notices. If the person who wrote "what the f*** are you writing about?" says he doesn't understand the notice, HA, I seriously don't believe loh since you can churn out such well-phrased sentence.

Oh well, for the rest, perhaps they really don't understand. But can't they just ask their neighbours instead of penning down their anger at town council for not putting the notice in bilingual format?

I saw a few PRCs writing some angry words on the notice yesterday on my way home and they were laughing at their own act while entering the lift. How irritating.


TWO.

Job hunting has been a slow and gradual process. I have been looking around, but not actively, for jobs that interest me. Of course I need some allowance and money to go into my near-zero bank account, and the need to return my school fees and all the loans, but somehow I am still loving my relaxed life as of now.

See, we are going to work for the whole life time, so why not spend some time now relaxing, doing things that I like, spending time with loved ones, enjoying the freedom etc etc.

Yah you may think that this is just coming from a pure lazy person, but well, I am sure once work starts, I may not have the time or energy to do anything anymore. And perhaps not even have the time to my friends since I will most probably be too drained and tired after work.

The jobs which I wanted didn't get back to me, while the job which I am not really interested got back to me in no time. Well Well, Miss Ow, you just have to be patient and Im sure there will be a perfect job out there waiting for me :D

As long as I don't spend on unneccessary stuffs such as online shopping (which I haven't been doing for a few months, sob sob), I should be able to survive awhile based on the minimal tuition fees I collect every month from scolding students.

跟自己相处时，才发现不认识自己，不知道该怎么跟自己相处。


THREE.

I seriously hate facial! Every month I have to drag my feet there. I don't know how these beautician enjoy squeezing each and single pores on ur face while the painful party is crying buckets.

And I am so amazed at how my beautician never fail to 'operate' on my face for 3 damn long hours, not like my face is super big or what.

And I hate the aftermath of the facial, those terrible few days because those red spots on my pretty white face always take forever to subside. And people always thought I kena infection or some infectious rashes. -_-

Okay consolation is, facial clears away the inner dirt collected in my face every month?

But still...


FOUR.

Jo Mei is in Singapore! -excited-
This girl is my secondary school friend and she has left for Canada during Sec 3. (Note: she is from Taiwan!) Now this friend of mine has finally graduated and is now in Singapore paying visit to all our old friends! Yippee!

We are going 7atenine Lunch Unlimited today! YAY!
(Lishan, I will take nice shots and show you what the chef prepared for us K! hehe)


FIVE.

我对爱情和婚姻一直保持着悲观的态度。

“长相厮守”在现代社会已经不流行了，每个人追求的变成是“曾经拥有”。决定厮定终生的人很多，但有几个真的是ready？几年后，传来的竟是离婚收场。那又何必呢？

女人的保存期有限。有些男人喜欢某女人因为她拥有的是青春。占有后，女人老了，男人就把她抛弃，给的理由就是“曾经拥有，但不能长相厮守”。其实很明显的，这个女人的保存期已经过了。

人，不会因为没有某人而不能生活。
如果你以为你在某人心中占有一点位置，因而对对方有所要求。往往结果是：失望落空。何苦呢？
或许他不曾把你放在他心里。

盲目的，叫爱情；
理性的，叫感情。

那处于盲目和理性之间的是什么呢？

HELLO EVELYN!

Hello Hello!
I am now at Evelyn's house, playing computer and accompanying her
while she is lying on bed and asking me to have a DURIAN for tattoo...

We just had teochew porridge for lunch.
And I had bak chor mee for breakfast 2 hours before that.
OMG

She has a damn SWEET bf who sends her damn SWEET sms-es.
But I think he is going to kill her if he knows that I read those mushy mushy sms-es. haha!

I am talking to myself now while evelyn is going to sleep soon.
And I just remembered I forgot to bring Evelyn's assessment books to herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

RAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

*edit: Evelyn is sleeping now. I am amazed that she can still sleep with all the drillings. But well, her air-con plus the hot weather is making my SLEEPY too.

That's all for now. Im going home to join my Grandaddy for dinner.
I have ate 3 eggs today, I think I will die from too much CHOLESTROL. grrr

*my dear evelyn, thank god that you are alive and able to sit down and eat lunch with me. Please take good care of your health. I don't want to lose someone so dearly*

MORNING SHOOT AT FORT CANNING PARK

It was a sunny morning and we are at Fort Canning Park at 10am in the morning for our morning practical shoot!

The water is very hard to take. SWEATS!

Trust me, the sun is very bright and sunny and I nearly go blind while taking this.

Do you have the autumn feel?

I LOVE THIS! The sun shines at a special angle...

If only I have a 50mm F1.8 lens... this will definitely look more pretty :(

Painting? No lah...

Lisa, my shooting partner! She is pretty!

And Nic...


We had FUN! :D

P/S Stephanie Sun is having concert 11 July!! Anyone wants to go? hehe

Siao liao lah

OH MISS OW,
YOU ARE SUCH A SMART ASS!

HOW CAN YOU LOSE THE THUMBDRIVE WHICH CONTAINS THE ONE AND ONLY FYP TRAILER CLIP
damnit

SHIT WORK

SHIT WORK
SHIT WORK
SHIT WORK
SHIT WORK
SHIT WORK

I'm lovin' it!

Birthday Celebrations

We share the same birthday, and how can we not celebrate together! Brad and I decided to try Big D Grill at Holland Drive. Eating a $28 Pork Chop in a normal non air con kopitiam is simply ridiculous. And I think only CRAZY people like us will go there.

Then walked around Holland Village before taking a bus to Ulu Pandan Road, a ulu place to eat Haato ice cream. Holland Village is really nice, too bad I live v far away and din have much chance to explore the place. Anyways, we walk really deep in to Haato, it's a shop near a condominium, pretty exclusive.

On the actual day, I went to attend Food Photography Lesson by Leslie (ieatishootipost) at Si Chuan Dou Hua (UOB Plaza 60th Level). This is my 1st time going up to 60th level, the view here is magnificent.

So we get to eat and learn some food shooting tips. This is the floating dim sum which I was experimenting.

After which, met my family to have dinner at Oasis in TPY. I celebrated my birthday there last year too. I think it is suitable for families and much healthier, since it's porridge. Unfortunately, this year, only grandaddy, mum and aunty were free to have dinner together. the rest of my family members were busy :(

And as usual, every year without fail:
MY GOODWOOD PARK DURIAN CAKE!

The next day, I met my fellow MFSS friends to have a picnic at Botanical Gardens. We wanted to do it at the beginning of the year but the plan failed. So we decided to try again.

The weather is hot, but it's sunny enough for picnic.

The guys were looking at the map, trying to locate a good spot for picnic.

The rest of us are playing with Andrew's dog named Pricey.

Nice weather right!

Big feast! Grandaddy cooked Bee Hoon for me! :D

"What's the design on the agar agar?"

And it's used as my birthday cake. LOL

Then we spend the rest of the time playing Citadel. V confusing at first, but after u get the hang of it, it's very fun!

Pricey! Sorry I still don't dare to carry her. LOL

Look, lan tian bai yun. Pretty sight.

All of us were too engrossed in the game. So when it's night time, we shifted to the pavillion to continue playing. This game can last for two hours.

Group Photos!

And the pressies...

DKNY WATCH! SO pretty!
Thank you Lishan, Jie Ying, Michelle, Meiling, Yue Yin, Xiaoling, Khin Khin, Jun Yue, Andrew, Tommy and William :)

And Thank You FUNGIE for the sunflower! Love love! :)

After that met Chris and Ah zhi for supper. Treated them to Melben crabs. Take it as a farewell since I wont be meeting them that often anymore? :)

Met Rj, Pebbles and Ade for dinenr at Lau Pat sat yesterday.

Went for Dim Sum ala carte buffet at Mariott Hotel with Brad, Catherine and Josephine today.

Oh mine. This is enough.
No more food for me till end of the month! -_-

For the last time

2004 年，我无理头地来到这里面试。
穿着我那唯一一件衬衫，讲话的声量大得差点让你变耳聋。。。
大忙人的我什么补习时间都很难和你配合，
最后你决定不要聘请我。

后来在机缘巧合下，我还是回到这里教书。
第一班就是小六华文。
那时候，这里还是半间店，地方很窄，人也很少。

就这样，5 年就过去了。

这 5 年，说长不长、说短不短。
中间发生了许多小段落
你的人生、我的人生、还有许多人的人生，
都一起围绕在这里。

本来以为离开后的我应该不会和这里有什么瓜葛，
没想到最后我还是回来这里帮你。

这里是我第二个家。
记得我们曾一起油漆到三更半夜，
记得我曾因为不想上钢琴课而哭着跑来找你，
记得我曾把自己关在办公室里努力苦读，
记得每次换个新发型我一定会特地跑来这里给你欣赏。。。

更记得我如何用搞笑的方式把学生骂得狗血淋头，
如何装专业让家长报名补习，
和你一楼一楼地分派传单等等。

在我每次需要勇气、安慰的时候，我都会来这里。
因为我知道，你会在。

身为朋友的我，
知道这段时期你也过得非常辛苦，
毕竟这是大家一起努力出来的成果。

虽然知道它可能没有未来，
可是你还是坚持了那么久，
我羡慕的你执著。

现在终于把烂摊子放下了，
重新面对新的人生，
我打从心底为你高兴，
也在生日的时候，为你许下了一个愿望，
希望你过得更好。

大家都看起来很潇洒、无所谓，
其实不舍肯定有，
毕竟这块坚固的避风港忽然消失，
让我这几周过的很迷茫。

当然，我还是可以去找你，
不过也应该不像以往那样，
每周碰两次面了吧。

请不要认为你是我的负担。
我喜欢教书，
也喜欢每星期到这里
吃着卤面，谈谈天，
日子比较容易过。

现在的你可能还在为一些琐碎的事而忙碌，
希望这些会快点结束。
所以这post是为你而写的。

永远的知己，
未来人生路一定要加油！
不常碰面，但要常相思。