Merry X'mas world!

my favourite day of the year came and was over so fast that i barely registered it.
was feeling kinda down for the past 2 weeks. i've started 2006 on a depressed note.
i really dont wish to end 2006 or start the new year on the same note too.
but it seems like that's the direction im heading *sigh*
hubbi has been very encouraging and supportive in trying to draw me out from my owndark private world but at the end of the day, i still need to do it myself.
the fact the i know that im depressed (though it helps since the first step to get out of depression is to RECOGNIZE the fact that you are in one) still doesnt do much for me.
still, i managed to nab some fun here n there with my dear hubbi, fantastic family & wonderful friends.
so alternating between cheeriness from the festive season & blues from every other thing else, x'mas went past in a blur.

shall try to focus on the positive. life is really too short to mull over issues.
Vita Brevis, everybody!

holiday for moi started from friday (22nd dec):
had a mini x'mas celebration with my colleagues in late noon. not really enjoyable as my boss joined and everyone knows how much i dislike her, ya?
it was off to meet hubbi in town to catch the "curse of the golden flower". gong li & chow yun fatt were superd in their acting. especially him, who really brought life to his character.

23rd dec:
spent early noon playing xbox RPG game with hubbi. heh, was catching on the game bug from him. and i think im quite good with my elfen character.
accumulating cash to shop for weapons/armour/potions is the best part of the game.
no wonder the hubbi said my virtual character is just like me. :)

went to catch "night at the museum" in late noon at orchard (again..). show is funny but not as funny as what i would expect.
more of family humor when im expecting "zoolander"-esqe humour. hmm...

met up with my mum,dad & brother for dinner at crystal jade palace at taka. my treat since its my dad bday. food is so-so & a 'lil over-priced. should have brought them to chef chan instead.
learnt that brother has passed his "N" levels. really happy about that! hope he will do so for his "O" level in coming year!

cant resist shopping for accessories again and bought 2 necklaces again! one from topshop & the other from aldo.

nice?

24th dec
spent a quiet day with hubbi at home doing some housework chores. we left the house around 5+ for some spot shopping at raffles city before heading to menotti for our dinner reservation.
the food was so-so only (*bleh*) and choices were pretty much limited as they served set menu for x'mas eve. the only good thing is pricing is reasonable at around $50 per pax since we've 20% disc for UOB card. :)

then it's off to meet the gang for x'mas eve party at a KTV in chinatown! :))
though its only a short period from 10pm-3am, we managed to have a blast of fun! singing KTV was really fun and we took all kind of silly photos!
gift exchange was nice and simple too and i got myself a set of nice towels from esprit. thanks, ser!

25th dec:
went walk walk around raffles city & marina square with hubbi. was trying to shop in topshop/selfridge/zara with all the sale going on. but alas, sale items are all either out of size or really horrendous design. i didnt manage to get anything at all for myself!

in the end, the hubbi got himself a novel & i got myself something which i wanted for a very long time (again, a very long time here is around few months.heh.).
taking advantage of the 20% xmas sale, i got myself this FINALLY!

*yay* now i can read up on everything about my favourite band! *sweet*

okie, i hope i can keep up the good spirits till my bday which is in a week time! :)
i really hope i can start 2007 in a positive/upbeat note. wish me luck! :)

好心情!

今天心情大好特好. 很奇怪. 昨晚才刚觉得自己似乎又要陷回低潮与沮丧. 人真的很奇怪.
说说开心的事吧! 为何好心情? 好多原因!
1)早上去了mariott hotel 上课程. 还能在它餐厅用餐! 真棒!
2)公司刚给我们一人＄２００　的NTUC vouchers! 虽然这么说很安娣，但我很开心能用这些vouchers去购买东西！
３）薪金将会在这星期五汇进户口,好让我过个开心的圣诞节!
4)最后，今天老板不在．我要早早收工回家！

请让我开心到明天！不想又低沉下去了．．．．．．．．．．．

im very much in love with my new baby! yes, im talking about the new watch i just got for myself with hubbi's help! :)

what a gorgeous beauty it is! i love the mother of pearl dial especially!

*grinz*

anyway, just came back from vivo city. yes, my 2nd time there for this week. im in love with that place! i've been going there non-stop ever since it opened. heh.

it has all (well, almost all) shops that i want!

was at my colleague's housewarming before there. quite a nice gathering and the son of one of my other colleague was absolutely cute! i totally adore him! :)

went to vivo for a quick dinner and caught "eragon" with hubbi. the show kinda sucks. i have no wish to catch the sequel at all. i guess LOTR just sorta kill all other kind of fantasy/adventure shows. except for harry potter maybe

anyway, am into buying accessories nowadays. look what i bought for myself in the last 2 weeks! :)

nice??!

im in such a shopping mood but im still decidedly broke. so shopping just gotta wait till jan i guess. still, i cant resist buying 2 bras from wacoal yesterday! hehe.

everyone pls visit isetan scotts for wacoal lingerie (up to 70% off!). nice!

and i bought a topman polo tee for hubbi yesterday too. poor as i am, i still think he deserve that as xmas gift. luckily it fits him well and he likes the top!

been down with a flu since friday. now getting drowsy from medication.

okie, bedtime for moi.

ba bee boo blabbers!

golden nugget of the day
a very tired me stumbled out of bed to bath this morning. after which,hubbi made a bizarre request from me to take a photo of him for his passport renewal.
so before long, he was decked in his best pink shirt, posed infront of our off-white wall. me, trying my best to take the photo without blocking the sunlight on his face. is this a normal thing to do on a wednesday morning? if so, why am i feeling so bemused?
anyway, was at the bus stop when i received a sms from hubbi: "i love you, piggy."
dont know where that comes from but it sure perks up my morning that little bit. :)

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friends
attended GS's wedding yesternight at intercon. the decor is really really nice.
gave the wedding a fairylike & grand ambience. kinda different from my own one which is cosier i feeL?
food was nice & i had fun catching up with my friends there!

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we!
hubbi and me went shopping during the weekend and we bought the watch that i wanted for very long (is 3 months considered long? :P)!
but he seems to be much more excited over it than me, ha.
though its supposed to be a bday gift for me, im starting to wear it already. heh.

our cruise has been confirmed as well! yes, we are sailing off in mid jan'07! *yay* been a good 9 years since i last went for a cruise! and this will be the first time for hubbi!
im sure we will enjoy our time on board! :)

x'mas eve dinner reservations have been made too! was thinking to myself that just one year ago, we were too poor to make any proper reservations, and dinner was eaten at just NYDC (if i didnt rememeber wrongly). hmm, wedding can really be a costly affair!
now that its over, we can finally reward ourselves properly for important days.....

i bought ah long his bday prezzie during the weekend too! its a ray-ban shades and i think we got it at quite a good price. anyone interested in getting shades can consider lucky plaza?
the shope there have some good discounts going on.
and he's worse than me. he started wearing them when he goes to work now, DESPITE its only a short walking journey for him to work.....

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me
i want to go shop shop shop! but i really did over-spend for last mth n this mth.
now that wedding is over, i suddenly feel very cash-rich (its definitely just an illusion) & i've been spending on stuff like there is no tomorrow. *madness*
though im very tempted to spend my AWS to the very last cent, i've decided not to.
its really time to start saving for myself. apart from our common savings, i've peanuts for my own savings.
really peanuts. this has to STOP! whoever heard of having 3-digit savings for a 25 year old!
*ashamed :(*
but weekend strolling along orchard proves to be much fatal than i thought. *grr*

okie. no shopping for this mth till jan. a girl got to shop for CNY, no? :)

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work
i know this is an exceedingly long post but i always feel the need to be chatty during my month (yes, its my birthday month now!), so bear with me.
just want to say my dreadful presentation and meeting are over!
though i made a couple of boo-boos during the presentation, it went relatively smooth. *wee*
now only left with the appraisal session & monthly meeting session. i can do it!
2007, quick come!

expensive garibaldi.. *pui*

hubbi got back to me that garibaldi's set dinner menu for x'mas eve costs around $160+++ per pax.
im heartbroken.
we are not going anymore. *sobbie*

now getting him to check out menotti. i hope we are able to make reservations for our x'mas eve dinner soon!

开心的一个post!

太好了! 我终于等到我的coach wristlet了!

很好看,是不是?

虚荣心又作祟了, 但购买喜爱的包包真的让我很亢奋!

好开心哦!

最好能买完所有美丽的包包!:))

和老公昨天去了vivocity一趟.

店小二的十全鸭真有够好吃耶. 在配上莲藕汤, 真的是让人吃得好幸福.

那里好大好大, 至今仍去不到第三楼. 呵呵....

下班后能吃一顿好的,能和他拉扯着一些没完没了,也蛮不错的.

希望这样的生活模式可以蔓延下去!

十二月,大家记得对自己好一点喔!

DECEMBER - busy month ahead!
so many things happening in this month. both good & bad though the good definitely outweigh the bad! :>
lets talk about the bad and get it out of system fast. i've a presentation coming monday and i so dread it!
apart from the fact that this is the first time i'll be presenting on the topic and to a particular group of management, my slides are only just done 30 mins ago!
now awaiting review from my 魔头. i really hope monday will come & go fast!
after the presentation, our department will still be having the monthly dreadful meeting with , yes, 魔头 again! meeting has been scheduled to be 3 hours long. madness!
AND, we've another meeting to discuss on next year's projects! i DREAD to know what projects i'll be assigned to. *blah*

hubbi got a job offer which pays better than his current one! :) and he's getting some sort of bonus this month too!
and what's in it for me from all this? hehe... hubbi is gonna treat his parents and me to a cruise in Jan! he's gonna make the purchase of a watch that i really really love possible by subsidising the purchase. *yay* that counts as my bday pressie. :) have thought of asking him to just buy the watch for me but think that'll kill him. lolz~
and im making him to treat me to a nice restaurant for x'mas eve. how is garibaldi? anyone tried there before? i'm thinking of that but he's not too keen on italian food. bleh.

talking about x'mas eve, i'll be joining the gang for KTV session after dinner with hubbi! i've booked the choco log-cake from coffee bean and it sure look nice!
we'll have tons of fun on the 24th, that im sure of! *grinz*
there;s a housewarming cum x'mas celebration session at my colleague's house next sat & another one at our house for his friends next sun. :) it'll be fun too im sure!
& DnD @ york hotel in this month too. not exactly fantastic, but spending the evening with colleagues cant be THAT bad right?
oh, and how can i forget, GS's wedding @ intercon coming tuesday! fun fun fun! :))

what can i say? december=busy month!
hope i survive with minimal hangover & no burnt holes in pockets!

weekend feels pretty short to me. friday night was a relaxed one with suling popping over to my place to see some photos and getting excited over U2 music all over again. *heh*
it's really nice to have friends who share the same mad passion with you on the same thing. i guess she is the only one i can mull over U2 lyrics, exclaim over the strings & discuss on bono's personality.
oh, and i really cant get enough on "sometimes u cant make it on your own"! its fantastic! :))

hubbi and i just spent the night chatting away after she left. as i said, it has been a relaxing friday night. but i fell asleep soon after 12 despite a relatively "做没" week. why that happens is still a mystery to me. maybe im just getting old.

saturday is a mad rush for me! i woke up at 10am, saw the dentist at 11am, reached home by noon for lunchie with hubbi, then its out to the dermatologist appointment at orchard at 245pm, then meet ah long at far east to collect my coach bag from the cleaning shop at 4pm, then its back to tiong bahru for haircut for me. by the time my haircut was over, its already 630pm! and i've to rush back to my house to have dinner with hubbi & my in-laws!
by then, i was totally pooped! and i only managed to sneak a glance & barely touch my new dining set delivered to our house at late noon before we headed out for dinner.

after dinner, i just want to head home after our grocery shopping and rot the night away. and head home we did & i've a relaxing night again. just sitting around, reading comics & chatting with hubbi. and i fell asleep before 1 again. my weekend can be so short nowadays! :{

sunday was nice, though kinda packed again. woke up at 10+ and get out of house soon after for lunchie at my parents' house. very happy to see my mum after like 3 weeks? (im such an infilial brat,huh?) & chit-a-chatty to her non-stop about my honeymoon (we brought the photos for her to see). sunday noon is really good to lounge around doing nothing but reading magazines at mum's place. :))

hubbi accompanied me to tampines to walk walk before i met up with the gang in late noon. we both feel like going back to those "拍拖" days when we normally spent our sundays at TM then he'll sent me home before heading to his gombak home himself. i realised i really miss just window shopping with him at such heartlands areas. :))

yesterday meeting with the gang was full of "冷场"s. perhaps as per what grace said, our tolerance level for one another is at all-time low currently. hmm.
let's hope x'mas eve will still be a bash regardless!

weekend is here again!

been a rollercoaster week for me.
happy note
my boss is not around for a good part of the week. imagine my joy! and my productiviy for work has been an all-time low. heh.
met up with 2 of my favourite guys in my life on wed for a nice dim sum dinner at geylang. been so long since i just sit down with the 2 of them, talking about everything under the sun and just laughing till our tummies ache. *warm fuzzy feeling* *smile*
i still stand by the theory that everyone changes, no matter what they choose to believe otherwise. but so long we are changing in the same direction or making the effort to adapt to each other's changes, relationships can still be sustained.
i hope this applies to my friendships. :)
my dining table is finally set to be delivered to our house tomorrow!

sad note
i can foresee a real busy week next week. no one to blame but my own laziness. whatever not completed this week will need to be done by next week. simple logic but really scary!!
had an argument with ah long during mid-week. :( sigh. his and my bad tempers are really bad for any kinda arguments. hopefully, going forward, we can both curb our tempers (me,especially!).
due to our fight and lack of sleep, i got migraine this week too. i hate it when i started seeing stars. and it was so bad till i went to puke. but as usual nothing came out which made me feel all the more worse. *grr*

happy note again
weekend is finally here again! lotsa errands for me to run this weekend. but i need the break from work! 530 quick quick come!

i think im self-centred

Adj.1.self-centred - limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

yes, i think i fit the above description. either that or im just plain lazy.
just realised that my blog rarely speaks about anything else, other than (you got it!) MYSELF.
if you look carefully at the sidebar, you will see a note from me proclaiming that this blog belongs to ah long and me.
that's a false fact (if such an oxymoron phrase existed) which most of you should know by now.
any traces of ah long in my blog are from me. which means, the chance of distortion of who he truly is IS very high.

so in short, he can be better or very very very much worse than what i mentioned here. *hiaks*
i really hope he wont see this entry.

but today, i want to talk about something other than myself.
i want to talk about my friend (M) who is currently going through a very rough patch in life. i hate it when im at a loss when it come to comforting/encouraging others. and believe me when i say that i suck at such things.
still, i really hope M can find the strength to pick Mself up.
if you happen to read this post and you know who you are, remember you are not alone. you still have us who really care for you! :)
so pull through this difficult period fast and have faith that your life can only be better from now since this is already the rock bottom (?)!

im sorry but i just got to update something about myself. (i'm self-centred, remember?!)
x'mas is fast approaching and i still cant feel the joyous vibes yet. why? :(
and as broke as i can be, im troubled over what i should buy this coming december. i need to reward myself with something for x'mas/my bday/what-so-ever!
the question of the year is: "should i get a watch or a wallet?"
hmmm......

p/s: some justification for the purchase
1) watch: i've only ONE watch currently. a DKNY which is a gift from my closest friends for my 21st bday. anyone who knows my age will know that by this dec, this watch would have been with me for X years. after 3 changes of battery for it, i think its time to get a NEW one for myself. seriously, im getting bored of its very-scratched strap.
2) wallet: i've a really nice bag which i would love to use every single day of my life. problem is, it's small and my current long wallet CANT fit into it. i need a new wallet to go with the bag. yup, just this frivolous reason. :)

some photos from my actual day! :)

i lost my touch with MJ! its used to be me winning all the wayyyyyyy last time.
but goodness, i actually 是大输家 yesterday！*meg hair*
where has all my luck go? yes, i insist its more of a game of luck than anything else. blehhhhh!

anyway, despite losing $$, i had fun with grace, zm, ser & gb. night was spent having intimate chat with them.
gb, hear this here! i really love to 掏心掏肺！ lol!
we should have more of such sessions in the future! though i got an earful from hubbi from reaching home late. :P


been spending $$ like nobody's business. if i've to resort to eating bread during the joyous season of x'mas, its no one's fault but myself.
i can't believe i buy n buy! arg! like i earn $10k or what per mth when the truth couldnt be any further. i must be mad!

it must be the bling at orchard and the x'mas music getting to me. *pui*
so after a furla cardholder, a clutch bag AND shoes (yet another pair) from tangs, shu uemura make up remover, 3 mths supply of contacts n solution, cleaning fees for my coach bag, an order for a coach wristlet (yes, yet another coach) from my colleague whos going to the states, im totally broke.
and on top of all these nonsense, i've to lose $$ at the MJ table! why, oh why!?


the only thing(s) keeping me happy nowadays are the fact that x'mas is really coming, 2006 is finally coming to an end & i'm getting my AD photos soon!
yes, after so long. *heh*
i cant wait to see the AD coffee table album especially!

*happy* ladida

1) hubbi and i selected photos from our honeymoon trips (HK/Turkey/Greece) and sent them to be developed on saturday. *happy*
2) i managed to see my fav. peanut baby on saturday. AND he remembered me despite not seeing me for a month! *happy*
3) rewarded myself (for nothing) with a furla cardholder on sunday. it's brown and pink and very nice. *happy*
4) had a belly nice dinner with hubbi, mum & relatives on sunday. *happy*
5) received chocolates & nice tiffany & co. x'mas cards from hubbi's german colleague yesterday. *happy*
6) bought a photo album just now during lunch. going to collect photos later in the evening. looking forward to sorting out photos at night with hubbi. *happy*

its such small little things in life that make my days beautiful. :)

everyone should go and listen to this song. i find it so awfully sweet...............!!!

梁静茹 - 我是幸福的
黄昏过后 暖暖的晚风中
在小公园里头 眼眶红了
看老公公和老婆婆在散步着
把手牢牢握着星星亮了
我觉得幸福就是这样的

几十年后 你也变老公公
我当你的柺杖 扶着你走眼睛花了
你老花眼镜就是我
把时间忘了 慢慢走美丽风景
我为你转播不让你错过

能和你牵手 我是幸福的
你就像温柔又顽固的石头
用心盖了座 最美的城堡叫永久 圈住我
不管过再久也会幸福的
我们都走过了动摇的时候
爱已变成树 就算是有风会平息的

被懂我的人爱着 我是幸福的
连沉默都能是交流
你总是能给我比我想的还要多 我爱你

不做你的公主 我要做你的快乐

why the onslaught of songs? why, my ipod nano is back in business!

sucker for U2's songs

"What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow"

"with or without you" has the best climax to a song ever.
i totally DIG bono's voice! *woohoo*
it's still the best song of my life!

been feeling a nagging sense of loss from the rather lack of direction in life these few days.
maybe its near the end of the year.
feel like there's not much to look forward to and that troubles me.
another month plus to x'mas but i'm not feeling any of the "ho ho ho" spirits yet.
damn.

whatever. it's a beautiful day. today at least.

photos!

here's some photos from my recent trip!
just a summary of most of the places i've been to.

for those who want to see more photos, u just have to pop by my place for that. :P

Hajia Sophia Museum at Istanbul - church turned to mosque

Trojan Horse at Troia

Acropilis at Pergamon

Library of Ephesus City (wonder of ancient world)

Cotton castle at Pamukkale

Fairy chimneys at Cappadocia

Hippodrome Sq at Istanbul

Blue Mosque or SultanAhmet Mosque at Istanbul

Underground city at Cappadocia

open air Goreme museum at Cappadocia

Ataturk museum at Ankara

Topkapi Palace at Istanbul

Acropolis at Athens

Little Venice at Mykonos Island

Dormant volcano at Santorini Island

Red beach at Santorini Island

restless

blogspot doesnt allow me to upload photos so i guess those have to wait.
meanwhile, im just feeling damn restless at work.
unable to concentrate on tasks on hand (nothing new by the way).

all i want to do later is to dash for home straight after work.
to arm myself with my favourite pack of jack n jill salsa chilli chips, my good o' First mag, a cup of heaven n earth green tea and retreat to a secluded corner of my sofa for some quality "me" time.
i really need this.

6.30pm, fast fast come!

i'm back but totally pooped.
jet-lagged feeling can be so blah!

more photos later.
meantime, just wanna say that my fear for flying has taken a definite turn for the worse after this trip.
i was a bundle of nerves for each of my 6 flights for this trip.

especially the last 10hours plus flight back to singapore.
i even had a nightmare of our plane plunging to the sea.
on the flight itself.
imagine jerking up from one of your worst nightmare only to realise you have another 6 hours to go on air.
damn that.

oh, and the fear for terroism too.
i was suspicious of almost everyone on board with me.
we seems to be the only singaporeans on board.
and i just cant understand why the hell would so many turkish want to come to singapore?!
arg! its a bad journey back.

such an irony for someone who proclaims that travel is her life to develope a phobia for flying.
*gag*

yay! me just received my actual wedding day photos from my AD photographer yesterday!
all 3.6GB of them :).
had fun viewing all the photos (1600+) with hubbi last night till late.
luckily 90% of the photos turn out fine, even for those with us caught in candid moments.

no time to make selection on what should be printed out.
jetting off to istanbul this evening! *weeeeeeeeee* cant wait.

is it only me?
but honeymoon to me is just another excuse to travel! *heh*
no romantic undertones what-so-ever. bleh.

life's good. till i come back to work...:P

update:
heard from ser that athens & greek islands have zara outlets which are noteably cheaper than SG ones.
*grinz* i want to shop. i want to shop. :D

vivocity!

i can really really start to like vivocity, albeit the throngs of people!
most of the brands there appeal to me!
can see myself going mad there whenever payday is here.

but that got to wait. my cash flow will only be healthy by dec.
bleh, with the honeymoon, banquet balance, dining table to be bought and what-nots.

still, this doesnt stop me from getting myself a zara top yesterday. :)
life is sweet!

random pixs & somemore...

im so into colored contacts recently. :)

my favourite babies! so cute!

anyway weekend has been pretty busy for me. went to settle some outstanding admin:
-sent my studio/outdoor wedding negatives to be scanned to CD-rom finally. collecting this coming tuesday.
-met up with my friends to watch my wedding video yesterday. had a blast just goofing around with them and talking nonsense.
-come round to packing up for our honeymoon (upcoming this wednesday! *sweeT*) today finally.
-back-up tons of photos (3 cd-roms no less) from wayyy back.

on my way to vivocity later once again. hope there's food for us this time round. :)

lomo-ing away

man, i just remember i have a lomo camera!
its a shame to say that i owe it for like 4 years yet never use it before?
it's time to start using it!

so stay tuned, folks!

thursday! *curse*

im working overtime again. like for the 4th time in my company.
and all 4 times fall on a thursday!
what luck!?

i dont care. im gonna dash off at 8!

.....

我真的不知该如何是好.
真的不知要怎么跟他沟通.
我是不是不够关心他了?
我想我多少也得负点责任.

可我觉的我能做的也只有这么多.
他必须知道他的人生由他自己决定.

好难过.

updates
disclaimer: ah long wanted to say the above is not about him. :P
事情似乎有转机.
可能真的是阴差阳错吧.
我也说不上来.

只希望他说的都是真的.
人,真的要学会爱惜自己.

sorry

sorry.
that's what hubbi told me twice yesterday. once via sms and the other time in the study room.
he has been kinda busy for these 2 weeks since we came back from HK.
he had conference calls last thurs, yest & tonight.
these calls normally lasted from 10pm to near midnight, leaving me to entertain myself with the tube, supper (bad) & sleeping before he's done (thats what happened yesternight).
is that what the sorry for?

sorry.
other than this, he mentioned that we will have our time come next week. :)

sorry.
from me to him. i didnt really realise he's that busy. *oops*
dont over-tire yourself.

pixs from my wedding night (courtesy of frances)

just gotten some photos from frances camera from my wedding night! :)
shall share some with you guys here!

me with my dow girls!

@ their table with them! i was sitting there for most of the night after the table-to-table photography session. *hiaks*
think they will appear in tons of my wedding photos! lolz~

we love to make the scrunched up lips look!

even my ex-mgr did it! (the one with the pink tie)

thanks peeps, i really had fun on that night with you guys!

our first weekend together!

hubbi and i just had our first weekend together :).
technically, the weekend at HK WAS supposed to be our first after the wedding but being overseas doesnt really count, no?
anyway, i just want to mention here that dear dear and me discovered a new way to waste our time together!

the answer is........ PLAY!
as in the play stations that are located all over singapore and allow you to borrow the latest/old Dvds at very affordable costs!
never mind that i actually applied the card like last year (?), but it finally made sense for us to use it for this weekend!
so we borrowed 2 dvds - C.R.A.Z.Y & hoodwinked- for only $9!
what a blast. the only drawback is we have to return the discs by the next day.
not too much of a problem since we can use our dvd recorder to save whichever movie that we cant finish in time.
what a great way to waste your weekend away!
haha i said "waste" cos the 2 shows aint that nice after all. lolz~

so go get yourself a PLAY card todaY!

travel!! - love of my life :)

yippee yay! chanbrothers has finally gotten back with confirmation to my extension request!
So GREECE, here i come!
so looking forward to the greek islands, istanbul & capadoccia! though weather maybe a tad too cold for me over there, im sure i 'll fun anyway! *weeeeeee*

talking about travel, hubbi and i had just came back from HK!
its been a good 4 years since we last went there.
and boy, did i really shop this time round! :) not exactly alot alot per se. but i really enjoyed my 4D3N there.

day1:

someone should really tell SQ to upgrade their blanket design. *bleh*

our yummy brunch! flight food can be quite nice at times. esp when you are absolutely famished.
we had a quick bath upon reaching our hotel and hit the streets asap! though it was already 3+ by then, we still went ahead to grab a bite. hk food fare is good anytime, anywhere!

mongkok is absolutely fantastic to shop at. my second fav place to shop in HK, other than causeway bay!

my purchases for the 1st day!

Day 2:
Disneyland!!!! yup, i must admit that HK disneyland is really v v small compared to paris one. in fact, i read somewhere that paris is 4 times the size of HK one!
but still, being small (and v v new!) has its advantages. very manageable.
we managed to see all the shows and took (almost) all the rides there. :) and my fav is the 3D mickey show! very realistic! and having donald duck as the lead doesnt hurt one bit. donald duck is my fav!

halloween @ disneyland! :)

ah long and his fav buzz lightyear.

me & my fav donald duck!

my shopping!! i cant resist disneyland stuff, albeit super commercialised!

disneyland over there closes at 7pm (can you believe that?! crap.). so we went for some supper after that. HK desserts is really a hit-n-miss thing for me.
its a miss for this dessert - almond mixed with egg. urg..can you imagine its taste?
and its warm! yucky thing tastes worse if its warm. *bleh*


Day 3:

grabbed a yummy true-blue HK style breakfast before heading out!
very tiring day for us. first half of the day was spent shopping at causeway bay. despite the hot weather, and both of us feeling a bit under the weather, we pushed ourselves to shop, shop, shop!

and i discovered a great dessert! steamed milk! no kidding. it tasted so much better than how it looks like. *yummy*

in the evening, we went up the peak! nice view and cool up there!
and after that, we rushed back to Tsim Sha Tsui to watch the laser show at 8pm sharp. by then, my poor feet were like jelly. i didnt even have strength for supper that night. we just grabbed some snacks and headed back hotel to rot away.

my purchases for the day!
i love the bag!! :) and i cant stop buying shoes from HK! they are to-die-for! all in all i got 6 pairs from there! *yay*

Day 4:
what's HK without its dim sum! we had the most delicious dim sum brunch at this restaurant at London plaza. 7-8 plates only set us back a mere S$13!
yesh! u read me right. THIRTEEN BUCKS!!
crystal jade is a sham! lolz~


more last minute shopping for me despite checked out of hotel & luggage packed. *hiaks*
finally its back to HK airport for our flight to SG.

all in all its been a really good trip! hubbi & me thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
everyone should go HK!!

i hope my upcoming turkey+greece trip will be as satisfying too! :)