night out w COT

Went to Sofra, A Turkish restaurant at Shaw Tower with COT for xmas + COT 1st anniversary celebration. Famous for it's Kebabs and Grilled food. Tried the Jumbo set with dear, and Kk, HC, edwin, all tried different dishes. Prices for it range from $13.90 to $35.90 for a jumbo set for two. If you do like Grilled food kebabs, this is a good place to try out, plus the ambience of it, its nice for ppl to hang ard.

Actually, the setting of it was very similar to what we have in India One year ago, at the Restaurant in Bangalore, and it's just nice 1yr Anniversary for the formation of the COT. Woohoo.. To think I've already known the COT group for 1yr le.. And it's being one yr since I went to India.. What a memorable experience it was.. =)


The Jumbo Kebab set.. $35.90

Grilled Dory with Cheese and beautiful Tomato cravings.

Chef's platter, $17.90..


Though our COT this time rd was not full family. But it was still an enjoyable dining out..



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Wishlist to Santa

MY WISHLIST To Santa,

1. To hav the accompaniment of all my friends and family this xmas and forever..

2. Any misunderstandings accumulated this year will be resolved

3. Good friendships will stay strong

4. To be happy each day

5. To be constantly reminded of how blessed i am

6. To have all my unhappy encounters just keep to this year that is going to end


Thank you Santa.. love ya.

today at my fyp place, i saw tms noodle stall auntie n uncle.. first was a glimpse.. took a double look to confirm its them.. coz my fyp place is not a happy place to be found in.. then i went after them... found them after a while.. intro myself to auntie n say hi to her... she was touched.. i could see that in her eyes. For a moment, i felt the warm, fuzzy feeling too.. She was surprised that i care to acknowledge her. Had a small chat w her. And i feel the sincerity. If again, i would still do the same. I think among all the vendors, somehow onli towards this couple i will bah. Thanks for all their good food during those sec sch days and my fav 50cents fried fishcake..

Simple things in life that make me happy
Simple things in life that i guess will make others feel appreciated too
Auntie n uncle, jiayou!

my life is on a roller coaster operated by ac. every other day want to talk to ac just to get a little more info to make my life less complicated n simpler. yet sometimes after talking to ac, life gets more complicated too.. tts explains how he can control my happiness n depression. actually not onli my happiness is in his hands, he holds the happiness of 9 others.. so i m onli getting 1/10 of his many hundredths impt appointments..

but today, he made 4/10 of our lifes clearer... so today is a happy day.

Life's simple pleasures....

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! i COMPLETED my first 10km today!!!!! ok it's irritating to hav to many !!

but so happy mah. didnt realli train. ran twice after my exams onli. and before that the last time i ran was prob more than a month ago.. My aim today was jus to complete it without walking... i think crash course mayb got use.. but max 10km la.. further than tt realli need to train liao.. timing was 1hr 27min but we started late.. haha. but compared to kat n hx, i m significantly slower la.. i admit.. they can run de lo. was with them onli for the first stretch.. then jiu bye bye they got further n further away le.. k k they shall be my new aim?? maybe i shall aim to close in the gap next time... to catch up all one go maybe too far-fetched for now la..

now my knees r aching.. n its the sides.. screw loose there i tink.. staircase is a big challenge..

As things get more n more complicated in life, you would have realise u r getting older.. To the right is a hurdle, thinking you can turn to the left for an escapade, then u see a barrier... To the front is a no entry sign, to the back are 4 fierce dogs growling.... When in life the sweetness is being diluted, one would hav to slowly learn to take less sugar. To try adding back the sugar, would b an option, but the spoon may be in someone else's hand...

Learn life ya

快乐 悲伤 只在一线
幸福 空虚 只在一线
拥有 失去 只在一线

为何，‘拥有’不能写成‘永有’，这太自私吗？
是任何好的，自己曾拥有过的东西都该分享吗？
万一，分了就是分了，他确定不在回头，那怎么办？？
你曾任定他一直都会在，但原来，好景不长在。
时光会令我们改变。
也许，内心深处，我还在，可是你已经绝定把我掩埋，自己走向更美好的为来。


好眼泪坏眼泪 我都曾为你流
感动和悲伤都是理由


只在一线

i sort of find it scary.. i think we are all been prep since young to get use to the exam climate... (although it's realli something that never enough practice will calm ur nerves)

you remember playing video games?? i remember myself playing mario and sonic. I shudder when i spotted some similarities with exams..

there is always a time factor. And within this time, u r mario, or u r sonic... trying to go through all the trials and tribulations that have been so meticulously set up for you so that u can fall into their every little single trap.. U jump past a hole, u shoot a menancing looking creature, you collect the coins along the way. Always hoping to get as many points as possible... at the end u fight the BOSS... Fighting BOSS is tough, u need enough power, stamina and strategy.. if you manage to kill BOSS, u proceed and they total up ur score.. ( i can hear the coins trickling as it is been counted)...

isnt it like exams... u r always against time... u need precision and accuracy as u read the qns and be sure not to fall into any of the traps set for u to fall into... as u answer a qns correctly, u pick up that coin... at the end of it, usually Section C is where u will meet BOSS.. by then u r tired, lack stamina and BOSS is actually 'innocently' waiting there for u for a long time.. u try to fight it... there is a time limit too... so u decide to use all that every bit of energy left in u and fight it all out.. at teh end of it, they will tabulate your score...

got negative marking, even more apt... u touch the monster creature accidentally, u can actually see coins dropping out of ur pockets.... rolling rolling away... ya just like the points we pain-stakingly build up rolling away...

sigh... now i finally understand the true purpose behind these 'educational' games.... just that now, we play them at a different scale... same rules apply.

went to watch Avenue Q yesterday night at the Esplanade.. first time watching a musical there.. The musical was nice! the songs were funny and the storyline was refreshing.... thanks shaun for ur recommendation.. i tink i noe why u like it so much and keep asking mi to watch liao.. haha. Coz the puppets are so funny.. hmm. entertaining 2 1/2 hrs. hmm shld b studying at this period now la.. but the show choose to be in town now, wat to do.. lol. k fun's over for now.. serious work first... tata..

Enjoy


This is wickedly evil!!! Schandenfreude (a German word- happiness in the misfortune of others)



hahaha... these are some of the songs... jus by the songs, maybe u guys cant enjoy as much. go watch it!! u'll enjoy more!1

update

long time no blog le.. i tink my 3 minute hotness is showing again.. this time it lasted a bit longer than 3 minute i think.. hahah..
hectic sem that passes so fast.. felt as though i haven done anything much but i m always busy... test after test every week keep me so occupied... whenever i m at home, i ll b in the room chained to my study table... POW.. sad.. long time no go NCC le.. hope can finish data collection on time.. tml dry run for P1 presentation for fyp.. i'm scared... almost never gave a presentation in my entire uni life... now bo bian.. hopefully tml n the real thing next mon will not b so harsh on me.. oh well, my sup for one is 不好搞 alreadi... i wish myself luck..

k back to my 25 drugs...

i sound so angry the previous post. oh my... still brooding over the test... not my hair.. fang bu kai... dumb dumb.

jus after a test. unhappy todae so tot go cut hair. end up its worse...
the idiotic auntie cut my hair so short.... stupid woman.
i m so sad now....

heart pain, head pain....

stupid woman. service so bad somemore.......never go to those cheap cheap ones i tell you.

Bday Part 2

ok.. part 2 of my bdae.. on actual day, went to Marina Mandarin for a sumptuous buffet dinner with dear. Aquamarine, found online, highly recommended by many foodies.. plus that day coz of impending F1, they had an extra theme, so it was international + french.. food was nice, exquisite.. like their desserts.. so pretty, all of them.. their seafood was good too.. but the french part, don quite like.. tried the smoked duck, which is like half cooked kind, eeks, i can still rmb the lingering taste.. tot it would b nice.. but still, a piece of smoked duch didnt dampen the fun nite!

PS. coz of F1, we had complementary racing cars on our dinner table... businessmen.. realli able to commericialize everything to their benefit.. haha.. n we leh?? dumb dumb consumers... willing to get chop.. oh well, happy jiu hao. isnt it?

my bday had long past.. haven blog on it yet. let me intro by parts first... last sun, had steamboat with 13yao.. to mass celebrate angie, sing n my bdae.. as our usual practice, presents were made known (in fact we chose it ourselves), the bdae cards were hand-made n signed by all of us.. i received a veri creatve bdae card made by sing... chim lor.. small small but a lot of tot put into it.. thanks gal! =p

had steamboat at bugis that ChongQing mala shop.. we din hav their mala but their other soup bases were veri nice.. i like the herbal n tomyam de.. the salted veg one taste weird though... a lot of variety there... i love their lala, veri big n juicy... oh n also the fuzhou fishball... bursting w juice, there was one where i bit into it n the juice shot out at marcus.. oops.. veri no yi tai... paiseh leh.. lucky is marcus.. i don care.. haa had a lot of fun!!

then went tcc to 'sing song cut cake open present'. in " " coz our usual practice when we r veri full, the cake is single sliced kind (no need to cut), present we noe wat it is (just open to 'confirm'). oh it was also the last 13 yao gathering before shaun left on wed..

sent him off at the airport on wed nite... he'll b back onli one yr later.. awh... hopefully he doesnt change much again.. it was veri funny.. after we sent him in, he still keep walking up n down, machiam wan us to notice him n wave to him more.. (hhaha, joking la k, hope u didnt realli meant it tt way).. =p but mr teo, give u another yr, muz still rmb us k... muz keep in contact hor.. tata..

half-time of the semester

tonight- a bit of fast shopping at orchard, a good bowl of noodles from bugis, a glass of chilling, yummy nougaut milk shake from tcc, a casual meeting up w angie, sing, shaun and a glimpse of kat..

4/1 rulez

last week my happiest day... i show u... i love the times spent with 4/1... i miss those times in 4/1 where things are simple. when there is not so many distractions along the way... we stay the way we are, we laugh at the same jokes........ miss those days... i realli do... tms 4/1. lucky to get the chance to go back tms after 6yrs... overnight somemore... lucky me.. lucky us..

吃力不讨好

and

吃粒葡萄好

see how good ur mandarin is bah!!! =)

went to Synergy Dance Reflections yest at UCC... very artistic.. a bit too chim for mi to understand... liked onli a few pieces of the dance. went there with dear, to support a friend of his.. so met a few of his other friends. interesting ppl.

after that dance, poor thing, it was raining so heavily outside... for supper, we called cab (after a hard time trying to get 2cabs to fit 7 of us), we headed to Holland V.. ended up at crystal jade. initially thinking of a light supper, in the end, the guys opted for steamboat. imagine steamboat for supper.. haha we went along.. first time heard crystal jade hav steamboat.. actually its quite nice. apart from its steamboat, which is the yuan yang kind, we had unlimited orders of xiao long bao and steam dumplings... for dessert they still hav tow huay. omg.. it was nice. but heavy for supper.. the place opened till 1am somemore. omg.. mayb they made a vow, vow to make sporeans fat.. haha. maybe if hav chance can go there w other friends... i shld say its better than many steamboats out there...

did a bit of cooking recently. polishing some of my old receipe as well as trying new ones.

i tink 2 weeks ago, i did a roast chicken with dear... success. yum! sis also say its veri nice..

then just, we had our dinner. tonight's menu, seafood rice aka my version of paella, with homemade french fries, fried calamari, oven-baked spiced mussels and prawns.... did dinner tog with huisan n dear...everything was done from scratch. huisan found the secret to crispy fries by chance n it was realli good. 2 hours of work, a wonderful dinner. even mummy say its nice, then shld b nice.. hahaha... more hope for my cafe le... wondering when i can realli own a cafe or whether there realli would b such a day..

ok test coming, hav to study... boo

homeostasis is a balance in the body. It is important. The body can function only if it is in its homeostatic state. As long as the body is healthy, even if the balance is slightly threatened, the body will cleverly release horomones and substances to put it in sync once again. In many alternative medicine and their treatment therapies, they strongly believe in treating their patient hoslistically to once again achieve that balance in them.

Why all that above??

coz, i m now feeling not in my homestatic state. Its not internal, its external. which means, no hormones or substances can b naturally release to repair my tipped scales.. whoever ever heard of a libra with damaged scales...
i can only imagine myself as a whole full system and trying hard to convince my mind that everything is alright, forcing my body to perphaps release some of its endorphins.. maybe its time to re-fill..