myth: all wakeboard instructors are hot. not busted! hahaha. they are. i like shane. he's so smiley :) but he makes you fall. not on purpose of course. he drives well. and he teaches well :) so wakeboard #2 was mission accomplished! crossing the wake. and falling right after. hahaha. we did longer sets this time. and yeah, it's really true. once you master standing up, it comes naturally. i thought i'd be starting from scratch again this time but nah uh. more time up than down. yay!
and hello jumbo. daddy does make it a point to celebrate my birthday. :) i do appreciate. and yeah. ray came along. meet the parents. hahaha. daddy talked lots! haha it was very strange. but it was a nice dinner. glad i settled your seafood cravings. :)

my sunday was nonstop exciting. and dead tiring. holland v for dessert with the ac ppl at nydc. well they eat. i just drank. i was fulll man. but wasn't aching. not till today. when my neck, arms, back and thighs are achybreaky. thanks for bringing me home ben. :) and marv for being the sweetest girlfriend sending me a cheery sunrise in the morning and homemade stickydate pudding at midnight before she left for taipei today. i'll be strong :)

lesson #2! the attempt to cross the wake.

sunshine! :)

aside from the miserable day they call birthday, my dinner was with a bunch of random people. the 7 people at jumbo couldn't be more bizarre. but i had yx and marv with me and that made things a whole lot better. :) birthday dinners at jumbo are becoming quite the norm for me. thank goodness we didn't have it at ecp. some things are better left alone. ray's been the best ever. even if he gives me nonsense presents. but bless his heart. i know he tried :) whoever sits around on their birthday making tonnes of calls to make reservations for seafood not because she wants to eat them but b/c someone else has been having pregnant cravings for them. no cake. no nothing. it's just another ordinary day. i was brave enough to be suicidal. things aren't better. but i guess they are okay. supper at bedok 85 for bcm, orh luak and carrot cake with lots of egg and radish. the boys i hang out with are monsters. but hey, you'll never know that you made my night. getting home at 4am and going to bed happy. it's been a while :)

today was din tai fung with the girls. it's been a while since i've had xlbs. and we had lots of them today. fried wantons, steamed yam buns, steam gu cai buns, xlbs, special braised beef noodles. i'm glad i ate. it's not a chore to eat when you enjoy the company. :)thanks for letting me be quiet. i just needed that sometimes. marina square, millenia walk, it's been a while since i've been there. and well, some places just remind me of you. yay tcc. tummy was a little funny so i opted out. but mmm. azuki freeze was nice! :) ex-gf and zek, i was moody. but moody tired. i wasn't thinking much if at all. but yeah, thanks for hearing me out. the questions that cry for answers are best left unanswered. i don't need a solution, i doubt there'd be one. except to wait upon the Lord. :) i know He has a good plan for all of us. each and every single one of us. 5 years down the road? we'll see.

rush rush rush back to city hall. sisters and steph. :) it meant a lot for all you girls to hang out. it's nearly impossible to be meeting up like that. and yes, i know it's an exception. thank you! :) the merlionster was not very exciting. but yeah, even an hour and a half and getting yelled at by mummy for getting home late was worth it. for good girlfriends who care. steph, even if we havent met since november, you're the best for making the effort. :)

i'm counting my blessings, the sufferings, trials, happy times, miracles. i'm counting them all. and i'm keeping the faith. i trust you. :)

dim sum lunch anyone? so then there were 2 boys and a girl. ray did the ordering. then came ben. and the order? xiao jie, everything times 2 please. hahaha. with normal people? this would've never happened. i've spent enough time out with the boy to feel less embarrassed at chinese restaurants. :)
to my girls, thanks for bothering about my birthday. i know it took some trouble arranging to hang out for lunch. everyone's schedule is crazy. and i appreciate you both waiting patiently for us. :) thanks for the lovely presents. today it seems, i've lost the excitement in tearing open presents. well, since christmas actually. maybe it's just because i know none of the wrappers are gonna have what i really want. but hey, from the bottom of my heart, thanks :) growing old's not easy alone. thank God i have you all to make it a little more bearable. i can't stop the day from coming. more than conquerors! :)

my christmas present :) means a lot to me.
and this is what love looks like :)

hoe nam river south prawn noodles :) the soup stock? mmmm.

of course the yellow noodles don't belong to me :) a rainy christmas with warm prawn noodles and a mad robinsons sale. hello happy holidays!

nursing a nasty cold and achy-breaky body is no fun on xmas eve. but a 930 show and supper at geylang made it all better. :) it's not a movie i would've chosen. and not one that i am gonna rave about. having said that, there's just smth about it that i liked. it's a silly show. bordering near ridiculous. but it tugs at your emotional heartstrings. and mine are a lil too sensitive for my liking, especially of late. thanks for never asking about my tears. and just letting me be. :) and because we were hungry, we had supper at geylang. hello wan tou sek for the 3rd time in a month. hahaha. we got there just as it struck midnight. xmas is pretty surreal in geylang. it just felt like any other normal day save for the random yell outs of merry xmas and one lady in a santa hat. i liked my scallop porridge. and it's the first time i've driven someone else/ someone else's car. and even though i got yelled at the whole way back, i know you trust me enough to put your life in my hands. :) i like christmas. and a very merry christmas to everyone :) bless,

sometimes you don't need snapshots to keep the beautiful memories. the boy is home. with mummy's bathandbodyworks sprays. that's my birthday present. :) i dunno what i'd do without him. he leaves jan 16th. and it'd be a long time before i see him for summer. but yeah. making do with what we can now. 3 hours of mad rain at starbucks. and getting my disgusting virus. i'm really sorry for making you ill. mum and dad wanted him at dinner. that's not a bad thing. i thought they'd never ever want to see anyone at dinner ever again. any boy anyway. it's tough getting sick when you get on in years. it just gets to be unbearable. i slept negligible amounts last night. kept waking up to blow my nose. i wake up with a huge pile of tissues next to me. v random post. just one of the days i liked.

the boy whom i loathed. -ed being the operative tense. 1 till 9pm. shopping date part 2. town was mad. as usual. a lil less mad than sunday but honestly bad enough. surviving mad girls in cotton on for close to an hour, we were so close to yelling at anyone and everyone. i had my lips painted various shades of lip gloss to settle presents for 2 girls. i modelled clothes for the soon-to-be-gf's presents. a polo tee that didn't fit. a black devil for xmas? he picks crap presents. and they are promised to be exponentially improved upon over the years. as if i'd believe. lunch at kuriya and dinner at dan ryan's. he feeds me well. :) and because of the crap weather here i am sitting in front of the laptop with a burgeoning pile of tissue wads. i'm not complaining about my life. i'm happy to know you're home. :)

what it means to be away in thailand for 7 days. i fly by sq biz class feeling like a traitor. but loving the departure lounge. esp since i had to be by myself for the 1.5h before departure. and mummy posing prettily with her breakfast at pathumwan. :) then there's the dinner cruise on grand pearl. those people stole my scarf :( i was majorly unhappy for a bit. sigh. i wonder if it's a sign. only time'll tell. traffic conditions are unpredictable in bangkok. so we were there a whole hour earlier. watching the world pass by on the waters.

nigel and i being silly. we were in the upper airconditioned deck. food was decent. not stellar. and i did NOT get my sashimi. i was disturbed. it was a one off serving and i missed it. sigh.

i had fun dancing. so did josh. oooh. my brother's pretty good and bobbing along to the music. heh. my night cap consisting of a glass of cold milk at the club lounge before bed :)
stopping by the palace on our way to huahin. the silly monkey that scratched josh and made off with 4 sour mentos it stuffed inside it's mouth. and you wonder what monkeys have for their diet?

lunch near huahin. CRAB fried rice. do you see crab? i see lots of crab. hahaha. it was good. i've never eaten so much fried rice before. and uncle ek has never ordered so much fried rice before either. haha. sigh. us monsters.

and because i missed you. and i wanted to kick myself for losing things.

more seafood. the taugay monster which is me. and a nigel waking up with beckham hair. v cute :) hermit crabs make silly patterns playing with sand bits.

hello huahin and hello hyatt resort. you want idyllic? you'd love this. i liked it.

so near the beach yet not many want to go. their loss. :) nice roast duck noodles. not a fan of duck blood at all.

mmm my first spa retreat. it was a retreat alright. 120 mins. and i fell asleep during my body scrub. hahaha. oops. my fat happy face.

more seafood. and lazy days. i love the life.

dessert at swensens. that;s NINE scoops of ice cream in a fondue set and a millionaire chocolate sundae. mmmmmm. that's between the 3 of us. oh my.

bye bye huahin and it's back to more pathumwan princess days. upgrades on rooms. grandma and i had a living room and mum and dad has parquet flooring, microwave oven, living room and everything. it was mad. hahaha. we missed the laundry shop closing hours on the last night. mum almost had a cardiac arrest. the medical shop lady was the sweetest. she's a lil crazy. and all the more why we love her for it. her hubby sent us to big c on a bike! yeah. me on a motorbike. i loved it. :) wind in your hair. going in and out of traffic. humans. well. in a nutshell. that was 7 days in thailand.

what happens when i go down the slippery slide :)

the people whom i started my day at 9ish with :) hello punggol marina and hello waketime :) i can wakeboard! and use muscles that i never even knew existed. hahaha. the world's really small. who'd have thought ys was scott's air rifle capt :)

n from punggol it's down to pine grove at 3pm. bible study was gd :) i really appreciate the time we have together. but i'm terribly sorry i made my girls wait :/ i thought i'd get off at 430 but i only ended abt 530pm. well but we had a good dinner anyways n ice creammm of course. no horrible scooper could ruin our night out. :p

and just because we look very happy :)

then it's off to geylang with the boys. and pam. and home sweet home at 1130pm. i'm tired. but this kind of life? i like. i like it very much.

waking up to rainy skies wasn't so bad on thurs when it meant brunch at wantousek. it was a pleasant surprise being a place on my to-go list but not actually having gone there yet. but there you have it. yammm cake :) grandma had her bone density check up and then a nice n lazy nap before my very exciting dinner. when it means dragging myself out at 7ish. it definitely means it's gonna be good. waraku @ central :) i liked the view. not tt we looked at it much. i loved the people. the people there, the people w me. 'm definitely going back. even if it closes at 11. i think we'll do xmas eve there :) n because yx n i aren't too much into drinks, the boys hung out with us at hk cafe. 2am ish at cine was a first for me. CINEleisure not simei like scott heard. hahaha. a fish horfun with less than cooked fish, a black sesame dessert they warmed up by adding hot water. hahaha. even w a girl who lived near you n too many familiar canto songs, i missed you but i didn't miss out on good times :) a carwash at 330 am with lots of taxi uncles wasn't even tiring. my morning call regarded as an alarm at 9am was hilarious. n more of this tmrw night at geylang. lovely. :)

have you seen the sharity dance? :) samson is the best. ;) sorry gotta tilt your head to watch this. i was sitting down filming this. heh.

red bean pancake! :) my busy days. briana says i'm a trooper. i feel like it :) it's amazing how i've managed to go thru so many days of these things. well. since i'm not gonna sit around to be a charity case, i really ought to help when i can. :) and it was good. i haven't been to an old folks' home for a long time. initially i was pretty apprehensive. but there were these ah mas that were just so nice! like they were sociable, and really smiling so genuinely. you can't help but be touched. i liked the feeling. spreading love and warmth really makes a difference. lil cards that we made for the residents. those heart shaped ones are my group's creation. and i made those bows :) pretty pretty when they're all put together.

and the dreadful kids that tortured me to no end. say hello to the pink group. hahaha. i did not choose the color. nor the number of boys in my group. it was terrible being with them. well. sometimes anyways. i got criticised for my sitting posture, eating habits. you name it. they commented on it. sigh.

and even if they were dreadful, they looked like angels while singing at the home. when they were bringing joy to the residents :) well. circumstancial i guess. i hope they liked the camp. it's the last one for a long time yet. :/

dinner :) daddy went out tonight with uncle ek. he was in town to get a thousand dollar stroller for his unborn baby. ahhaha. he's gonna make such a cute dad. and so i went grocery shopping at thomson plaza today after church. two dishes and a soup. :)
dish #1: stir fried snow peas with chicken. :)
dish #2/ #3: sauteed garlic mushroom medley in oyster mushroom sauce/ yong tau foo soup.
deliberate atas-ness with the names. hahaha. it's just a simple dinner. the brother did a photolog. he made a comment about documenting food and never the cook. aww. :) he was a big help. want the recipes? ask and i'll share. it was pretty easy cooking and cleaning up tonight. :)

daddy bought dessert home. red bean pancakes. :) those sinfully fried guo bings. wok biscuits. but nah. the skin was toooo thick. i need some lavender food centre red bean pancakes. :)

what's been keeping me busy? my favourite little girl and sweet boy. yeah so i'm biased. i'm gonna be crap as a teacher next time. :/so sue me. a 3 day camp which by God's grace went amazingly well. everything was -just- nice. the weather was good. the games were good. the food was err. edible. the kids were bearable. haha. the centre had aircon comfort. the calendar making was well received. the kids loved the camp theme song. it couldn't have been any better. :) i say this on hindsight. i'd be lying if i said that at no point in time did it become trying. the hours were sometimes too long. the energy levels weren't on a permanent high. but that's my own fault not eating properly. working on that. :) i had a good dinner out with the gfs on wed. and my eng class outing last night. even if the conversation revolved about english and pedagogical principles. hahaha. thanks for sending me home :)

that was some power packed three days. and you thought saturday was rest day? nooo. i had to crawl up at 620 this morning to make it to ac in time for the SATs. something i hadn't done in close to a year. more than actually. it wasn't so bad. my energy store was completely depleted at auntie wan yee's place. i nodded off more than once. sigh. and does my day end there? nahuh. dinner was at jumbo east coast. bad move. my bad. it took us an hour to get there and half an hour past our original reservations. of course we had no seat. but people relations are impt w the jumbo staff. look a tad hassled. have a logical argument. and you get a seat in 15 mins. you can try bribery too. if you're with blonde hair and blue eyes. that's what my lil bro saw but let's keep that hush hush. hahaha. sigh. what it takes to get dinner at jumbo. it's been a crazy week. peeling prawns. always gonna be on my mind. :)