Birthday Celebrations 2008

29th May 2008:

What a WONDERFUL weekend I had! Full of birthday celebrations, good food, good company and pretty presents!


The enjoyment started of on the eve of my Birthday, where Chris whipped up Curry Chicken and Oat Tofu (because she said prawns are too expensive -_-) for all of us! It was YUMMYLICIOUS, I think the main reason is because I am hungry.

Anyway, I thought it was a planned birthday dinner, but it wasn’t. The good friend didn’t realize that 30th May was the day after. -_-

30th may 2008:

Woke up in the morning and saw this pretty UOB Debit Card on my table. A pretty card and a good one to start my day. WOW, now they have more offers and dining privileges!

Then went to the kitchen, sadly to find no food. Because Grandaddy thought I would sleep till 12pm and wake up in time for lunch. But I automatically woke up at 8am and he was not at home already. But, I found this!


Red eggs are our tradition for every birthday! No, the birthday person don’t have mee sua, but many many red eggs! Hohohoho!

Then FINALLY, rush down to Angel’s salon for my long waited hair cut! Still felt apologetic over the forgot-to-put-credit matter, but she was more meticulous than before, and very professional. I showed her the latest S.H.E lyrics book and told her I loved Hebe’s hairstyle. Perhaps due to the hot weather that I am starting to love v short hair.

So here it is:


Then went to Oasis @ TPY for a nice teochew porridge for dinner with my family. IT IS REALLY GOOD! Mush better than the one at Wah! Nooge Noodle House.


Then went home to cut my birthday cake. As usual, Goodwood Durian cake 


I wish…

I blow…

I cut…

And 2 Aunty, 3 Aunty and Tony Uncle got me a portable hardisk! Muacks! Love them all.
I thought it was a wallet or something cuz it was a Goldlion paper bag…
But it turns out to be this!

On my way home, Chris asked me where am I, and I smelt something amiss…Nothing happened till 11.30am that night, she messaged me the following:

“I dun wan to be the first but the last to wish you, hey cha bor…Happy Birthday! Please take note on the following sentence, you have ½ hour to solve it: A special day, a special surprise, you are surrounded with surprise within 100th steps, a pathway filled with ‘scents’ to home is where your surprise lies. Don’t look upon surprise, cuz surprise are always low profile. Find your surprise now and you will be blessed with eternal surprise and wishes!”

OMG!

The first thing I did, was to change clothes, coz I was in my Hello Kitty pyjamas! Then I rush to the kitchen to find a box, so that I can give her a durian birthday cake! But in the end, I couldn’t find a box.

Then I msg her: “WTH! I am in pyjamas!”

The good friend replied: “No need to change, you will be running out of time.”

My 1st instinct was RUBBISH CHUTE! Cus she put ‘scents’ but bloody hell, there are 3 rubbish chutes around my house! And my walking steps are so BIG that even the one near Peirce Secondary can be reached within 100 steps.

But it was 1145pm at night and there wasn’t a single soul at the void deck. It is really eerie!

So I went to the rubbish area near AMK Secondary…See No One
Then I ran to the rubbish chute neat Peirce Secondary…Not a single human!
In the end, I rush back to the Food Centre near my house cuz I thought they will be there to wait for me for supper. In the end, I only saw ah-bu-neh-neh drinking beers. -_-

It was already 1150pm. She then msg me to ask me read the msg carefully…

Pathway…Scents…

I am like a siao cha bor running in the streets…

Then ran back to home and started finding flower pots for all the houses! By then, my granddaddy has woken up and while he grumbled, he was looking for it too.

Then in order not to let him spoil the fun, I coax him to sleep. Sneak out and find again.

IN THE END..

TADEH! AT 11.58PM! I FOUND THIS!



What a lovely surprise to end my birthday…hahaha…Thanks for the effort!

31th May:
Was supposed to have tuition with barnabas today at 10am. But when I msg him the night before to confirm the tuition, he said he will try to wake up. Then I ask him what if he cant? And he replied dunno….5 mins later, he msg and ask if I can postpone the tuition cuz he haven’t finish my homework. I got quite pissed, cuz the last time I went for his tuition was 2 weeks ago, and up till now he hasn’t complete any. 5 mins later, he msged me again and ask me what’s the homework cuz he cant recall.

A student who has no heart in learning is not worth the time. So I msg his mother, told her that I want to stop this tuition. Feeling really pissed. It is his O LEVELS this year. God Bless Him.

So I spent my morning practicing my piano, and left house in the afternoon to meet the MFSS gang. OH MINE! Such a huge group! Had lunch in bugis, then headed to partyworld in somerset. After 15 mins or so, the whole Partyworld system broke down and we waited for like ages to get it fix. In the end, we decided not to waste time and walk off without paying anything, and after drinking and eating their snacks! Hohoho!

So here are the photos:




It’s a $70 Top Shop Card and a cute t-shirt. Thank you Weibo, Jun Yue, Tommy, Fucai, William, Xiaoling, Khin Khin, Yue Yin and Fungie for this present! Cheers!

Left for Pop Piano and then waited for Fungie to end her Keyboard lesson too. Shopping continues after a nice dinner at MOF. Both of us are so hungry and tired.

And we took neoprints! That’s our common place when we meet every time.






Hope this machine last till we grow old. Haha

The night ended off with me trying to download Maple patch but failed -_-

1 June 2008:
Went for tuition on Sunday from 930am to 230pm. I was having a very bad and serious cold. Chris told me her horror dream and it send goosebumps to my nerves. Haha.

Khin is back from Myanmar and she got me a nice decoration pic with a packet of red pens! Their red pens at Myanmar are really nice to write! I need that desperately man! Went home after that. Ate panadol and took a nap, damnit, SICK LIAO. -_-

Woke up unwillingly, shower and left for my last celebration for the week. HAHA! Was initially on time, but decided to make a detour to visit the YAC friends who are performing in the evening. Unfortunately, I am unable to watch the concert. But I am sure they had fun yea?


Then rushed down to Blue Ginger for dinner! Must thank Lishan for coordinating and making all the arrangements and traveling down to Jalan Kayu to collect the durian birthday cake. And also coordinating with the other groups to get me a IPOD Nano, although the plan failed. Haha



The yummy durian cake from Jane’s cake station! It is so nice that even Michelle, who doesn’t eat durian, loves it. haha

Thought of watching Sex and the City, but we were all too full and 2 of us are still having internship today and the heartland cinemas has no more time slots, so we decided to give it a miss.

So Jie Ying and Lishan got me a Levis voucher!

And Michelle got me different facial masks from FACESHOP in Korea! Gosh, she is having so much fun in kOrea that makes me so tempted to go back there!

Thank you all sweeties! 

Happy Birthday

生日快乐，我对自己说:)

Tired of Waiting

This totally sums it up all. I was supposed to be in the Singapore Food Expo the whole day yesterday. But my editor last minute said she needed me to go back to the office to help her. And I will make my way there in the afternoon. And another colleague is also busy doing work, so she asked me to wait for her to finish so that we can go together. So from 9am morning, I waited, waited, waited and waited. Ate lunch, continue waiting, waiting, waiting and waiting.

After a LONG WAIT, It was already 6pm. I don't know how i survived these long hours, don't ask me. And by then, I already don't feel like going anymore, and I want to knock off at 6.30pm and go home.

Seriously, I want to go there to help to sell the magazines but if I were to go there at 7pm when the thing ends at 10pm, I think it is really pointless. And they said they need helpers to clear the pack the stuff since it is the last day.

But excuse me, there are 9 people in the stall, excluding me. And it is only a small lil' stall, I don't understand why do i have to make a trip down.

In the end, I told my colleague is it ok if i go home. And she said she is ending work soon and we are going expo soon, so don't like that la....(note: 6.05pm).

What to do, sit and wait till the sky drops lor. And by the time I reach Expo, it was already 730pm. I didn't sell a single magazine. All i did was to buy dinner using my pathetic $5 and ate. They decided to pack up early at 8.30pm so after dinner we pack up. WTF right?

And we waited till 10 plus for the delivery man to come.

Perhaps I made many people wait in my whole life and now that I got my retribution of waiting for others from 9am to 7pm - 10 HOURS! And I wasn't happy coz I brought money there to grab the last day sales but in the end, the money was given to somebody else when she didn't inform me that she wanted the money coz she doesn't want to withdraw anymore money. Left with $3.02 in my account, and a pathetic sum in my wallet, I didn't have enough to pay for the cab fare which I AM SUPPOSED TO cuz i can claim...So another person lend me money again for that. But the taxi uncle has no change for big notes, in the end, i used up whatever that is left in my wallet (remaining $12) and borrowed $5 from her to buy dinner.

In short, I BROUGHT $64, GAVE SOMEBODY $50, USED $3 FOR LUNCH, PAID $12 FOR TAXI, OWED PEOPLE MONEY AND LEFT WITH NO MONEY FOR DINNER AND SHOPPING

Sometimes I really hate it when I felt like I am being 'used'. As in, how they want me to share a cab together so that I can pay for the cab fare to claim company for the transport fee. My transport fees always total up to $200 plus dollars, which is enough to pay for my pop piano lessons.

It's alright, everything is ending soon.

have a good break!

FINALLY I FINISH WRITING ALL MY ARTICLES, COMPLETED MY ASSIGNMENT AND HANDED IN THE PI REPORT!

终于解脱了！

I was damn drained, sat in front of the computer for almost 24 hours, no time to dress nicely, to time to meet friends, no time to go out, no tome to sleep, and even no time to shit! All I did, was to sit in front of the computer, type type type.

This explains, I have never vomited so many words in my life.

Well, now that everything is over, I can slow down my pace, walk slower, think slower, do slower.

Have been busy helping Singapore Food Expo for the past weekend. I didn’t feel tired during the exhibition, but when I reach home at 11 plus every night, all I wanted to do is sleep. And every morning, I can’t wake up. Then I realized I am tired. Haha.

The smell of food really makes me puke. I didn’t have the chance to walk around to visit the stalls. And you know how I think my clothes stinked by all the smoke and food smell that I didn’t want to eat anything.

I am going for full day tml too! Tml is last day liao! Faster come and eat and grab the last day deals! Haha

After going to expo, I realized I am very AUNTY! Coz some aunty can just stand at the booth talk and talk and talk to me machiam like we belong to the same generation. Haha. They will try to bargain to get more cheap deals from me and I will talk back in some aunty tone to tell them we sell magazine, not durians… They will share with me where got good lobang, and I will behave like an aunty to join in the craze.

GOSH!

*I must be more demure and gracious la!*

Was treated to a YUMMY dinner last Thursday. *thank-you* And it was my first time trying the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream! Yes, call me SHUA-GU! Felt bad coz his legs were painful after eating my nutty muffins.

Have been working for company’s events for these few weekends. So I decided to give myself a break and apply for a day’s OFF this coming Friday. No special plans, but I am going Angel’s place for a haircut. And my whole family is going for a nice dinner. Hopefully Daddy is a nice on that day.

I just need my usual durian cake. 

We are having a mini company trip to Malaysia this coming weekend. I am so tempted to go! But if I were to cancel my plans for weekends, I think the world is going to kill me? HAHA

Oh I just a bought an IPSA foundation at Robinsons Warehouse sale @ expo yesterday. So that is out of my list too! HAHA, sorry girls.

I saw a course which I want to attend. But should i…-ponders-

有時候我只是想獨自享受下雨的感覺......

80 years LOVE

你的愛情能有到80年?

希望你们也能够做到也能够拥有这样一份相伴到老的爱情, 我想这样的人生真的也算很完美吧 , 不求不平凡但求真真实实 \ 认认真真, 放在手心里珍惜着 ,这也来自于你的一份责任感 , 真诚的祝福大家.

5岁的时候，我说我爱你。你歪着脑袋，
眨着水晶般的大眼睛，疑惑地问我："什么意思呀？ "


15 岁的时候，我说:" 我爱你". 你的脸红得像火烧云，
头深深地低着，摆弄著衣襟，你好像在笑。


20岁的时候，我说我爱你，你把头靠在我的肩上，紧紧地挽住我的手臂，像是下一秒我就要消失一样。


25岁的时候，我说我爱你，你把早餐放在桌上，跑过来刮了一下我的鼻子说： "知道了 !懒虫，该起床了！


30岁的时候，我说我爱你，你笑着说："你呀！要是真的爱我，就别下了班到处跑，还有，别再忘了我叫你买的菜！"


40岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你边收拾碗筷边无表情的嘟囔着：
"行了，行了，快去帮孩子复习功课去吧！"


50 岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你打着毛线头也不抬："真的？
你心里是不是巴不得我早点儿死掉。 "
然后就咯咯咯地笑个不停。


60 岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你笑着捶了我一?shy;：
"死老头子 ! 孙子都这么大了，还贫嘴！


70岁的时候，我们坐在摇椅上，戴着老花镜，
欣赏着 50年前我给你的情书，我们已?shy;布满皱纹的手又握在了一起，
那时侯我说我爱你， 你深情地望着我，
你那已 ?shy;皱纹满面的脸仍是那么美丽?shy;?shy;
炉子上的开水咕嘟咕嘟地冒烟 , 温馨的暖意充满了整个屋子 ......


80岁的时候，你说你爱我。
我什么也没说，因为我流泪了，
但是那是我人生最最快乐的日子，
因为你终于说出了那句 "我--爱 --你 "。

bother

Didn't intend to write this down in the first place. But since Miss Best Friend mentioned about this, I shall say something too.

A group of friends sms-ed me 1 week ago:

A: Momo, your birthday is coming. Are you free on 24 May, let's meet and celebrate?
ME!: OK

Awhile later...
A: Momo, are you free on 25 May instead cuz 24 May B is not free.
ME!: OK

Two days later...
A: Momo, can you make it on 1 June? cuz C cannot make it on 25th May.
ME!: Sorry, booked.

One day later...
C: Maureen, when are you free to meet up?
ME!: WAHLOU, BUSY ONE NOT ME LOR. WHEN ARE U ALL FREE??

On the same day...
Miss Best Friend asked me when im free for meetup.

有苦难言啊。。。

A group of friends, used to be so close so close. But everyone has become so busy with their own commitments. Birthdays seem to be the only time they meet each other and catch up with each other.

But sadly, now it seems like burden and troublesome affair. As simple as fixing a timing is becoming a bother that i really just feel like saying: "hey, if we cant meet, it's totally fine. dont have to die die meet and celebrate ok!"

And to buying presents, it is left to one pitiful person buying it. It used to be a group choosing together. But now buying present also becomes a bother.

Perhaps coz we seldom meet and no longer understand what the person needs. Perhaps everyone is so busy that no one really takes time to think about this.

I really pity the organisers and the present buying person. And both happens to be the same person, i really thank her.

Frankly, i no longer see the point of meeting for the sake of doing it. Not that I am greedy and die die need you guys to meet and celebrate birthday. Most importantly, tt was meant to be a get together session.

seriously, i dont need gifts. i just want a happy lunch / dinner together, talking and laughing and shopping and taking photos.

没有诚意的庆祝会变得很没有意义。

But still, i thank you Miss Best Friend for all her sacrifices, for taking trouble to liase, gather information and buy present. for making me feels so special every year. for keeping the flame going even though u have been busy and tired lately.

Here's a big big KISS for u to let u noe that i thanku for everything.
*HUGS*

Mushroom Pot - Birthday Treat from Sugar Daddy Nick

Sugar Daddy Nick brought me to Mushroom Pot for my birthday treat! How nice! I still suggested that he should treat me to durian buffet. Haha, his jaws nearly dropped! Anyway, it was a nice dining area and the food is not bad. Will blog about it soon.

The carnival in Civil Service Club on Saturday. Hot weather.

I painted my nails again! But I like the previous one better.



Hope no one has brought me slippers yet. On my way to hospital to visit uncle, I pass by Urban New Man in Novena Square! They are having a PROMOTION! Cuz I wana get the brazilian limited series so much, and I can get them for $10 with any purchase! (U.P. $49.90). So I bought myself 2 pairs of Haviannas! HOHOHO! I declare myself broke!

So girls, please do not get me anymore slippers. HAHA.