Land of Smiles: Bangkok Day 1

Sawadee!!! Took a break to Bangkok from 10-13 July with the lovely girls! Girls trip are always so fun cause we do silly things together. This round, as always, I'm the "mother"... chasing them to wake up and bathe. haha... Spent time trying on clothes and buying Macdonalds happy meals just for the minions!!! Here's a full recap of what we did!!! DAY 1 Flew tigerair and reach bangkok around 3pm... Checked into a new boutique hotel called Glow Pratunam located just opposite Platinum Mall! So convenient! All thanks to Sylvia who's sorta a resident there cause she knows the place SO WELL!!! And she's good at finding good deals, and the hotel didn't disappoint me! The room is big that they even had a nice arm chair by the side, swimming pool and a small gym! My favourite! :D What's best, it's connecting room! :)

By the time we are done with checking in, it was neither here nor there.. so we decided to go Chinatown to have early dinner! Went to the popular T&K restaurant to eat. I always go there even though I don't remember the name. I always say the green colour stall cause opposite stall is red colour. haha.. We were all hungry and we ordered 7dishes! This is the start of our food galore! Our meals for the whole trip were always 6-7 dishes even when we say we not hungry, eat abit only.... -.-!!!!!!!! Back to our dinner, I love the claypot bee hoon and the fried rice. My favourite and the best!!!! Both carbo but impossible for me to resist when i'm there. Oyster is also the next "appetizer" I have. Cause it's cheap!!!!! 50Baht each???!!! And it's fresh!! The whole dinner came up to around 1,000 Baht which is reasonable because alot of seafood .. all prawns in most dishes. We decided to walk around Chinatown and toured around the place to digest before we went for our dessert.....

and.... our dessert... The "everyone knows must go" place. Bird nest & shark fins for dessert. CHEAP!!!! Forced Yuez to take a tourist shot as well cause after all it's her first time to Thailand... How can don't take!!! hehehe...

Our plan was to go Vertigo & Moon Bar at Banyan Tree but because it was drizzling (bar is open concept), we postponed it. Went back hotel and....... bought Macdonalds 5 sets of happy meals .. for MINIONS!!!! I wasn't collecting but I bought 2 for my friends.... Had lots of "retakes" of videos and photos until I think we spent like an hour doing it before actually eating the meal. It turned cold. haha... It was kinda silly to me cause I don't do such thing in Singapore... But it was fun!!! :):):) Shall upload the minions tomorrow cause I need to sleep now. waking up at 5.30am for wakeboarding! Day 2 & 3 coming up real soon!!!!

New found sight: Punggol

Went cycling at a new place - Punggol! Haven been there before cause seems ulu to me. However, it was actually a very nice place to check out! We went past Lorong Halus, which is just a 10min cycle to Pasir Ris Farmway!!! That near from punggol to Pasir ris!!! My ex-boss toured us around cause she always cycled with her hubby. And she said you can cycle from Punggol to Pasir ris then to Changi Village very easily!!

Gonna check out more places around Singapore! First time seeing the bicycle symbol as the traffic light!! :) Counting down to BKK!!!!!

Hazy doings

Hot topic of the week - HAZE. PSI. NEA.

Singapore has hit a record high of PSI 400.
Lots of woo-ha... mac & pizza hut cancelled their delivery service, we had an option of working from home, and given free mask to bring home.

Despite this weather, some of us just heck care and continue going out!
Met up with the girls at Bugis + for dinner on Wednesday which I accidentally forgot to jot it down. Luckily, I was free.. otherwise... I would have kanna up down left right. *phew*

Ended up as usual, I was EARLY! hahaha. Next was yuez, then the other two girls who wasn't working, ended up later than the working girls!

We tried the Coco Curry house at Bugis +
Basically.. All curry with different type of dish in it.

A photo while waiting for the ladies.

The thing about Coco house is the curry can be adjusted to your spice level.
It has Mild (for children), Lvl 0 - 5.
Yuez and I took the 3 for starters because we didn't know how hot it was.
Level 3 is ok. I think it's hot because of the peppery taste. not those chilli hot.
So to me, I think 3 is good enough already. Even level 1 or 2 is a good option because japanese curry original taste (non-spicy) is tasty enough!
I ordered the pork shabu curry rice... which.. you can't really see the pork la. It's hidden in the curry.
Worth to go back and eat again. :)

Weekend was just about food and camping at my brother's place cause got aircon. hee...
Friday went to Tuas South for work. Freaking far....
Had to go back office after 5.30pm to do some work again. First time took cab that cost me $50!!!
I was so hungry... Went to ichiban boshi, new outlet in Vivocity Basement 1.
Love their sushi! Sometimes I prefer Ichiban because their sushi are quite unique and interesting.
Not those standard sushi you see in all restaurant. But it's slightly ex la. Once in a while, I think it's worth to go.
Two of us had 7 plates of sushi, 1 sashimi, 1 pot of salmon soup and chawamushi
Didn't take photos cause I ate immediately when the food came.

Sunday because he had to work, we went for Brunch at wild honey at Mandarin Gallery!
Their food is niceeee....
But portion is big. So do sharing ya. I couldn't finish mine, and he struggled to finish his as well.
The price is also more expensive.
The english breakfast - $24. Tunisian - $19. Had orange juice that cost $9!!!!!! Got a bit of shock...

Tea break was a Delifrance which is newly opened in our building at Level 2!
My favourite fruit tart! :)
Delifrance gonna be my new favourite hangout for OT dinner. :)

Hopefully the haze won't come back soon....
Take care of your health!
And I better not get sick because I'm leaving for hols in 2 weeks time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Staycation: Qool Quincy

Happy weekend is gone so fast!
Went to Quincy Hotel located along Mount Elizabeth Road for a weekend stay!
Well, the highlight is actually baking cupcakes, not the stay .. lol.. but the stay was good.
The Qool Weekend package comes with dinner, breakfast and lunch all inclusive plus free flow of mini bar stuff plus a bottle of red wine! Basically, you check in and you didn't have to spend a single cent for meals thereafter. :)

The package came with a cupcake baking session plus a movie night by the pool. It was showing Pitch Perfect so we gave it a miss because I watched it before already.

 The cupcake baking session! The place is quite small so if you plan to go there, better book the session first. Max 12 i think.

 Sweet aprons!! Been a long time since i wore one .... Sec 2? Lol....

Making cupcakes seem simple because we just had to mix the sugar, butter, flour and vanilla essence with the blueberries in and mix all of them together! Seem just so simple! After that, just bake them in 15-20 min and you have blueberry cupcakes!

 So while the oven is piping, we had a little game of fun - icing decorations! We had ready made chocolate cupcakes and were given some colours to play around with.

After 15 minutes, viola! Our nice blueberry cupcakes! Though I'm not a fan of blueberry, it was good!



After that, we toured around the hotel which had an infinity pool (sorry, no pictures.. forgot!) then rest before heading down for dinner. Dinner was selection of one main course. We managed to sit by the window and the view was nice. Just patches of grass but i liked it.

Our night was spent window shopping at Orchard and bought a dress for new born baby of Celyn's.

The next day's breakfast was a spread of standard international food. I would say their food standard is good. Quite nice, especially they free flow of ice cream 24 hours. :):):)

We spent our afternoon being a tourist! Guess where we went....

SINGAPORE BOTANIC GARDENS!!!

And we walked from our hotel all the way there! Hot scorching sun but we went ahead.

Never been there before except the wedding photo taking of my bro.

Quite a nice place because you can sit there and picnic!

So, here's our typical "must have" tourist photo... The main gate! lol.

 His standard routine - Take map photo. :)

 My favourite photo. :)

The above look so special. like lotus...

Had a great weekend. Though the botanic walk was tiring, but enjoyed it maybe because I love walking. Lol.

The stay at Quincy was good - Service was fab! The toiletries was Molten Brown (hehe) and most importantly, Had a good time doing something together for the first time. Baking. :)

Looking forward to the next staycation!

xoxo.

Mr Jay :)

This semester is finally over!!! I might have screwed up both papers... got sad over it, and angry because we weren't taught of those that came out, but it's OVER!!!!
I was super hyper the day I finished, and the next day... and.. I'm kinda still hyper even though I have tons of work to do. Yes, backlog after 2 weeks of hospitalisation and 4 days of leave for exams.
And here, I'm slogging away desperately trying to close FY2012 financial statements.

Erm, taking a break now la. =)
After my first exam on 6th June, I went for JAY CHOU concert!!!! WOO-HOO~~~
I was pretty near to the stage (that cost me $241 by the way) and could see him quite clearly!
A friend's boyfriend was so sweet to queue from 12midnight till morning 9am just to get the nearest seat to the stage. He was angry he couldn't get what he wanted which was first 5 rows, because of SISTIC's slow webby. But nonetheless, I think it was good! (Thanks Jeff!)

Didn't take alot of photos because I was in daze just listening to his songs and seeing him so near. haha....
But sadly he didn't dance as much as I was expecting.
Kinda emo after that because.... ok, shall drop it.

I so wanna go KTV !!!! Been ages!!!!

I think Jay like PINK alot.. The light sticks were pink in colour, his mic + mic stand also in pink!
But it was pretty when the lights dimmed, and our sticks were lit up. :)

Totally enjoyed myself! :)

Now I'm still having this hyper mood because I temporary do not need to memorise notes and practising them so nowadays when I'm travelling, I watch dance clips and day dream!!!
What am I thinking? HOLIDAYS!!!!! And a birthday to plan.... :) yea, it's still long way but need time to plan.... haha

My first half of 2013

Before you know it, zoom! first half of 2013 is gone. What have you been doing?

For me, none of my goals in work has even started. All hanging there because of too many major projects going.
Very soon, next quarter will be implementation stage or lots of liasing with outside vendors.
I can say, projects may be tough and taking lots of time, but it's a damn good experience to be involved.
Adds intangible asset to your resume.

This half year ... hasn't been all good for me. Especially quarter 2.
Had many heart to heart talks with Mr. Global while I was on hospitalization.
Colleagues thought I went on long leave for my study... while some suspect something is going on.
He asked me why I don't say.
To be honest, I'm afraid. I don't know what they will think. And I don't want people to treat me differently.
But, I feel bad lying esp. to those I'm close with. Anyway, I'm recovering well, just abit slow in doing things. Results was not what I expected and hope for, but well. Life.

So... he did a long talk with me. And I should be facing the truth bravely, and even live better no matter what happens in future.
And, it's a good chance to let people know that health checks are important.
And because of such things, people learn to treasure things that money cannot buy.

It's not gonna be easy, but I have decided not to hide. If in future, it goes on to a worse level, I will be brave by then to handle what comes. Of course, I'll continue to pray that nothing will happen, and pray I'll live longer.

I don't know if it will ever happen, but I hope 2H will be back together as one. Because, I treasure all of you. Many unfortunate events happened even though I wasn't been told directly. But I still feel for it. Because I still care. I believe some of us do care as well. I'm listening to this song while typing away...

周杰倫【世界未末日 官方完整MV】Jay Chou "Not The End Of The World" MV 

Listen. And imagine what if the situation happens... What would you do? Share your thoughts here.

xo.

Rollercoaster

My emotions, thoughts are recently like a rollercoaster.
Seriously I hope I wont go into depression. no, i wont.

Now I think I'm not that strong with my mind.

Damn looking forward to meeting up with loved ones.

Recovering ....

This is it.

In 12 hours time, I'll be on G.A and sleeping my way through.
I hope everything will turn out fine and no more surprises.
it's been growing, so i'm just hoping for the best.

No matter how advance medical can be, there will still be a slight worry whenever you enter the hospital.
So yes, i'm afraid. Afraid of the results. Even though it looks a little bright, but still, i'm worried.

Will be staying in tentatively 1 night until the doc says okay.

Still haven figure out how I should put my out-of-office.
Or whether i should even put. haha...
Cause if I put, people sure will start asking around.
hmm...

Am eating my "dinner" now at 00:05am. Cause i can't eat from 6am already. Not even water... challenging.

Now, the only bright thing i look forward is... lying on a private hospital bed. hahaha.
It better be good man. Hated the TTSH and SGH beds when I was small.

Oh well.... All I can do is pray.

Out for 2 weeks. Take care people. Will be emo-ing for these 2 weeks to recovery.