It's Boxing Day!

HAPPY BOXING DAY! It's just a day after Christmas day. Hope that everyone had fun & joy and had plentiful of presents! This year's X'mas eve was spent at a wedding banquet. It was an interesting one as it is a military wedding procession. Haha...I think the previous military wedding I attended was my cousin's which happened >10 years ago. For this wedding ceremony, the newly-weds have to undergo "obstacles" or you can just call it sabotage. Haha.... I think the groom is always the target for sabotage in every wedding. So poor thing. Having to go through all these to marry a wife. But then they should go through all these. Being a man to protect their wife, rite? Hee hee....

Anyway, back to X'mas, I was home just in time when the clock struck 12am. MERRY X'MAS!!! I was eager to receive my second X'mas present (I didn't even open up my 1st present until x'mas day although I've received it much earlier. Haha....) but I was told that I need to wait till X'Mas day.

Woke up early on X'mas day to prepare for a housewarming-cum-potluck-cum-x'mas party. We prepared konnyaku jellies, agar agar & potato salad. Improvements: Jellies were not sweet enough (be health conscious mah) while the potatoes were not soft enough. The party @ Pearlina's house was fun. Haha...especially when we have planned for a surprise segment. Wahahaha..... The day was ended with a movie, Warlords.

Today is Boxing day, & finally back to work after a 6-day rest. Yawn yawn.... Thank goodness that boss is still not back from Germany yet. So we created a havoc. Long long lunch from 11.30am to 3pm! Wahaha....all the way to Excelsior @ Cityhall for dim sum. After that was gift exchange & I got a cute mug & a couple keychain, with the chinese character, 'Happiness', on it. Thanks to Wai Ling then. =)

Tired day! Next PH is just a week away! I'm in NO MOOD to work!!!

My first Prawn Fishing Trip!

Ho ho ho..... My so-called x'mas break started on Thursday & it will last all the way to Tuesday. Yah, I took leave yesterday & on x'mas eve so that I can enjoy a long long weekend! Yeah!!

I was tasked to organise the activities for yesterday. Haha...so after some thoughts & research, I decided to plan for a prawn fishing trip. Given some advice from my "advisor", we decided to head for the prawning place @ Sin Ming instead of the one at the Bottle Tree Park. Situated just beside the Golf course @ Sin Ming, there's in fact 4 ponds from which you can fish the prawns! Interestingly, the bait used is actually small cubes of pig's liver. Yes, place the bait on the hook & you are ready for your catch!

One of the ponds

The Bait

After a good 2.5 hours of fishing, we finall caught.... 10 PRAWNS!!!! Wahaha....Compared to others it's not really a fruitful catch, but it was really fun & we both enjoyed it!

Our 10 LIVE prawns!!

With the 10 live prawns pcked in a plactic bag, we were clueless as to how to deal with them. Hmm....steam them? Grill them? Fry then?? But...first & foremost, how to kill them??? Best solution: Freeze them in the freezer!!!

A day later, I'm sure that they were definitely frozen to death (seems so ruthless hor?) & so I cooked them with margarine, garlic & black pepper. Yummy!! Here they are! From live to cooked! Poor prawns, but that's the fact of life!

My cooked prawns. Nice??

X'Mas Shopping!

My favourite festival of the year is here. Yes! It's Christmas!! Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle all the way. La la la....

It's also time to get lots of presents, both for my good friends and for x'mas gift exchange. This year I got 5 exchanges! Oh manz..... broke broke..... December is my favourite month yet it's also my "brokest" month. Sigh....

Anyway, I finally managed to complete all my x'mas shopping! Haha...bought alot of cute little stuff for the exchanges as well as gifts which I hope my friends will like. Heez.... In the end, I also spent quite some time wrapping up all the presents on my own. Here they are!


Yah, all wrapped up in Taka wrapper but it doesn't mean that they are purchased from there, ok? Just that I have tonnes of that wrapper. Oppz...

I'm so looking forward to x'mas!! I want presents too!!

I'm now 25 years old already! :'(

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MEeee! Another year older already. OMG!!

This year's birthday just come & passed, or in fact every year it did, rite? Oh yah... Well, this year's celebration started off with a spa treat @ The Rainforest Spa. Hmm...very special experience, relaxing. It's my 1st time doing it! Haha.... Ya, too stressed by work lately so someone knows that I need to destress & brought me there. We started off with jacuzzi & steam bath followed by a scrub then massage. To destress mah, so both my scrub & massage I picked the lavender fragrance one. Heez... After that was dinner at Halia Restaurant @ Botanical Garden. Nice ambience with soothing jazz music played by a trio. Just realised that the last time I went to Botanical Garden was when I was in sec sch! Haha....I'm so mountain tortise lor.

I was on leave today despite my busy work schedule. But then Bday more important than work mah, only once a year & to be 25 year old exactly it only happens once in a lifetime. Haha...so took a day off & watched The Golden Compass at GV Gold Class. The theatre was so classy & the seat was cozy. You can adjust the seat's height & inclination according to your preference. Haha... so comfortable that I fell asleep for a moment (yes, just for a moment coz I was being "barked at" for sleeping. haha). Dinner was then a nice home-prepared steamboat. Yes! I love steamboat!! This was already my 3rd steamboat in 3 weeks' time. Haha.....

I was happy with the celebration, all thanks for YOUR effort! Although I was looking for more (presents presents!!wahahaa). Yet somehow I also felt a little depressed & sad. Hmm....am I moaning over my always-increasing age (mid-20 now!)? Or I'm expecting too much? Or I'm just don't want to face reality to go back to work to solve the unsolved issues? Well, somehow just feel sian & I'm still feeling it now. Just no mood for anything, no excitement or what over my Bday. No feeling, numbed, feeling of emptiness. Dunno why also.

I just want a good break, can be a very relaxed one or an adventurous one. Adventure? Now I'm thinking of the reverse G-max bungy @ Clarke Quay. Anyone game for it???

Pirates Ah Hoi!

Pirates Ah Hoi! That's our annual D&D theme for this year which took place @ Hilton Hotel last nite. We were released from work 2hrs earlier yesterday so that we got time to dress up for the event. But instead, the bunch of us went Orchard to shop shop. Well, all gals so what else do you expect? We ended up buying a 'Little Miss' t-shirt each. Haha.... I'm now Little Miss Bad / Stubborn! Hee hee....

After shopping, we headed to Hilton for our dinner! But being lazy/boring/no mood/$0 budget, most of the colleagues (including me) from my unit did not dress up for the event. But we did some last min props (parang!) using cardboards (see picture). So damn cool, rite? Haha....

But we later saw more powerful "weapons" others have brought. Some brought "guns" (or rather toy guns). Haha....Anyway, it was an interesting piirates' gathering with most of us wearing the bandana. Although some looked like milk ladies instead. Ahaha...

Food wasn't very nice so didn't eat much. We played a couple of games & luckily or unluckily, I was picked to play a relay game. All I have to do was to burst a balloon & there I received a $10 Coffee Bean voucher. Wahaha.... However, I got no luck in the lucky draw this year. Hmm...it seemed like an alternate year winning for me. Won 3 years ago & last year. But anyway, we each got a $50 Takashimaya voucher as the door gift this year & on top of it my $100 voucher from last year is still unspent. So now $150 worth of Taka voucher! Who wanna go shopping with me??

Bombs? RED Bombs.

Lately I've received quite a number of red bombs pre-warnings. Oh mine! Friends of my age are getting married already! Congrats to Alni, Qing & Peiyee. Heez... Yah, that also reminds me that I'm not young already, will be turning 25 years old in a few days' time!

Sometimes I wonder what will make one feel that he/she is ready for marriage? Being in a relationship for many years already? Wanting to live with and see your loved one everyday? Reaching marriageable age? Sick & tired of present single life & want to have a change? Want to have kids? Want someone to wash & iron clothes for u?

If you asked me if I'm ready for marriage now, my answer is no. I think that there's still many things I wanna do and achieve before I will settle down. Furthermore, I still think that I'm a kid at heart leh, so how am I going to take care of another person?

Spinning Class!

I've finally tried out the spin class at PF today. Yes, finally I did it after procrastinating since I joined PF a year ago. All thanks to Grace for encouraging me to join her for the class. Heez....

Well well, I would say that it's a painful experience! Similar to cycling, I actually hate the triangular bicycle seats which always make my butt so painful. Maybe coz I got big butt?! :(

Other than that still ok lah, a little tiring during the class but felt quite ok after that. Heez.... But then, probably I've been too tired from work lately, I didn't have much motivation to cycle. The instructor is quite helpful and motivating and we simply have to follow the tempo of the music and the instructor's commands to cycle "uphill" or "downhill". I was too tired to visualise any "hills" then, so just cycle at my own pace. Ahaha.....

Probably I should try the class agian some day when I'm less tired & more motivated. Keke....

Suddenly I got this desire to go blading @ ECP. Wanna be in the sun, accelerate in my blades & let the wind slap on my face. SHIOK! I miss it!!

10km - Accomplished!

Hohoho!!! I've completed my 10km run & I'm still in one piece. Glad to say that I've clocked a timing of 1hr 17min & have been ranked in the top 38% runners. Keke.... Proud of myself!

For the remaining of the day after my 10km run was spent doing "sinful stuff". Wahaha!! After the run, we went over to Suntec for our roti prata breakfast (or should say 2nd round of breakfast for me). But I skipped lunch as I was too tired by afternoon & really need a good nap before meeting up with my JC bunch. Well, lack of sleep the previous night. Was a little excited plus I've been woke up by people who were more excited over the run. Poor me hor? My run started at 8am but I was already awakened at 5am!

In the evening, I've met up with the gals to celebrate Cat's belated birthday. Haha... Had fun eating mala steamboat and half-way through the dinner there was a blackout. But still, we had an enjoyable evening chatting & of course make plans for our coming X'mas celebration!


Yeah, it's now December! X'mas!!! PRESENTS!!!!

Tomorrow is the Marathon day!

Counting down to 08 00hr tomorrow morning. Just another 9hr 48mins more to that. Yes yes, I should be sleeping by now. But I'm getting a little excited and still gotta load my MP3 with songs to prepare for tomorrow. Yes yes. I'll be doing the Standard Chartered Marathon tomorrow. Just 10km I'm already getting excited. Haha... So what will happen if we proceed with the plan of 21km next year and a full marathon of 42km year after next? Hmm... No time to think so far now. Let me come back in one piece tomorrow 1st. Ahaha.... I'm sure we will! :)

Time to do some breathing exercise! Keke...

Gd nite!