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Usher in the Dragon Year! Me and Singing.

With all the blogs sprouting up, it's becoming more and more difficult to decide which blogs to read right? Since blogs are all about being personal and unique I shall share more things about myself.


I learnt piano when I was really young but I stopped after a while because I... don't remember. But what I do remember is that the teacher kept hitting my hands with a ruler and giving me kit kat everytime I placed my fingers right. I think I stopped because I the percentage that I got hit was many times more than receiving kitkats. Hahah.

And so I am officially grade-less, never sat for a piano exam, and have been regretting ever since. I have a piano at home and I play it occasionally, when I just want to hear my emotions being played (yes there is a difference), whether it's anger or sadness. When I'm happy I rarely play the piano. I... sing.


Which brings me to the next part! Singing. I was in the school choir in secondary school. Considered joining choir in college but I think I didn't go for the auditions. (After first 3 months, I went for the audition in my first college during first 3 months and got in, but never joined). Our choir participated in international competitions in Sydney and Hawaii. Through these trips I found my love for travelling too!

I've always wanted to train up my vocal techniques but didn't have the $ to. Last year, I saw that Yamaha had some $5 singing trial lesson so I decided to go for it. And the teacher was so nice! But still unaffordable.  Setting myself back $300 a month??? Considering property prices, I think I can just have a quiet wedding at a church or something, at this rate.

So... I started uploading SOME songs onto YouTube. But they aren't perfect or extremely good but at least I can listen to it and hear my crappy bits. And receive comments from others too!


And now I borrowed Jordan's microphone in the hope of recording more songs! When I was using a MacbookPro, using garageband was pretty easy to edit and add effects! But now I am back to a Windows, been less motivated. All I have is Audacity.

Since singing makes me happy I shall strive to make more videos in 2012!! :) And that's my new year's wish.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! It's the year of the dragon, the most powerful creature in the entire zodiac! And for references, I'm born in the year of the Snake. Ok now I can't hide my age anymore.

 So cute!! Saw this online :)

Don't forget to stay up as late as you can so that your parents can live long and prosper! #superstition

Endure, for the results are worth your while.

What I did this week! While I'm not working of course.

 Tried the XLB at Paradise Dynasty! I hate the Sze Chuan one it's spicy and it's horrible. I spat it out. I like the Foie Gras one the best. The Black Truffle was an interesting flavor. Took this photo above so you can look at the flavors. There's a certain arrangement you're supposed to eat it in... and I honestly don't think there's a difference so just eat whatever. You could barely taste the cheese in the cheesy one.
 Pretty signboard!
 :)
 Ok honestly this wasn't fantastic. I didn't finish my food. The egg was good though. 
Went to Zouk and decided to od a breath test. I'm Last Man Standing even though I had a few drinks woo! 
 Had weird flavor vodka!! Spiced coffee and almond flavoured! Tasted really awful with coke (IMO) but nicer with sprite. Took this at the BBQ dinner with bloggers!
 Changi Business Park photos! It's quite hip.
 DBS Building
 The queue for people to go to.. somewhere.
 An office building
 DBS Office building! Sleek!
 Have you been to ChangiCity Point yet? It's like a mall with quite a few shops and outlets. But I heard that even though it's an outlet mall their items are still expensive. Haiz.
 Since I've been working til about 11pm everyday I get to eat dinner out! This is Changi City Point at night. Quite nice huh!
 Another shot :)
There's an Ootoya restaurant at Changi City point and I had an equivalent of a Teriyaki Chicken. Was quite alright nothing spectacular, pretty ordinary. I want to try the blue fin tuna next.
There's also this Seafood Marinara type that I had which wasn't really good and I think the clams weren't entirely fresh, I had an upset stomach for a while. 

I did, however find an awesome ramen place called Keisuke! It's at Millenia walk, on the top floor of Parco Bugis. Try their crab stock pork ramen. The soup is quite shiok! Costs $15.80 or so and you get free bean sprouts hahah. 

Queue can be quite long as the area is small. Head there early! I have no pictures of the food because I gulped down everything really quickly. :) Wish the meat slices were bigger though, but isn't that the case everywhere? Hahah.

Have a great weekend everyone! 

Sneak Preview: Whisky Sour cocktail!

Made my first cocktail! Whisky Sour. Will be updating my blog about it soon! :)

Working til dark.

Gosh I've started working life for real. Working from like 8.30am til 10pm? This will probably happen until May. I already feel a bit poorly. Throat a little scratchy and nose a little wonky. Been taking vitamins, now I just have to spam more fruits.

Sorry blog I didn't mean to neglect you! Anyway last Saturday I was at Zouk for a bit to celebrate Brenda's birthday and there was this cute machine outside that measures how much alcohol is in your breath.

Before this picture was taken, I had evidently drank a little (look at pink face), about 2-4 shots of whisky+mixer? Not a lot. And...

I managed to get 'Last Man Standing'! Which means I am sober enough to drive myself home if I had driven. Hahaha pretty awesome right. Pink yet can drive.

I also won a Starbucks card! Not sure how much money is inside it but it's a prize nonetheless. Going to do some survey so that I can get a H&M Voucher too. Yes I am auntie that way.

I have too many vouchers seriously. Going to use my Ma Maison one this week :)

Unexpected spontaneity!

A day that started out to be a solitary one but ended up meeting many people :)


Left the house for an appointment at cineleisure (was a little late) and collected my bags that I sent for cleaning at The Bag Spa (Lucky Plaza) they stained the LV so after some small 'discussion' I allowed them to re-clean it again. Don't go to them man seriously not worth the money. All they did was polish. That's it. Headed over to Ion to meet my brother with his japanese friends for tea at Coffee Bean.

After that I took the train down to Outram to.. COLLECT MY NEW PHONE!! HTC Sensation XE!! White!! Omg I love it to bits already. Just got to get a handphone cover and it'll be my new baby!! <3. Thank you so much HTC!! 



Last minute met up with a friend for an ice chocolate at a hidden cafe called The Plain, located on 50 Craig Road (yes now memorized) which took me forever to find. Didn't help that I was in heels. Meh. Wish I could've stayed longer but I had to go to City Hall to collect my medical card from a colleague!


Decided to go to Peninsular Plaza to buy a birthday present, and then to Peninsular Shopping Centre across the mini road to check out Ukeleles. I actually have one but I lent it to a friend and to date I am still waiting to get it back. 80USD. But the strings weren't very good so... hmm. I liked the sound that the Maestro concerto, but it was $156!! The tenor was like $180 or something. What made it soo depressing was that there was a sale TWO WEEKS AGO. Emo. I left the store empty handed and with a heavy heart. I hope that my cousins will get bored of their ukeleles and I can thus borrow it.


As we were walking back to Raffles City Shopping Centre, a friend called my name and I turned around in surprise! We talked all the way to Suntec City, where I was recommended to a new Ramen place called Keisuke Tokyo.

Wah it's super yums. J had the crab stock pork ramen (ok that's not the official name, about $15) and I had the normal Tonkatsu ramen (about $13) and the stock was just yum!! I normally don't drink the soup because of it's unhealthy nature but I had about 4 spoonfuls!! The meat was tender but kind of small, the egg was really tasty but the stock was just... woah.



Didn't help that the beansprouts and the onions were on every table so you could take as much as you wanted!! 

Had the gyoza too but it wasn't anything extraordinary. 

Drove back home to see an accident somewhere near lentor, luckily no one was hurt. And I ran to charge my new phone. Going to download a thousand apps on it and start transferring contact numbers!! 

Goodbye Motorola!! :D



Super random.

Was playing around with the Samsung note and thought this looked cute. Can't wait for the new year!

Christmas 2011!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! It's been a tiring 3 weeks of work so I apologise for the lack of updates! May this Christmas season bring you joy, happiness, love and warmth!!

Miracles may just happen this Christmas (eg, for a friend her ex called her and they started talking) or that cousin that always says nasty things to you decided to be nice for once, or you get surprises under the Christmas tree!


If your family doesn't celebrate it, you could start the whole tradition up this year! Give without expecting to receive and watch your family's faces light up when they see your present that you took so much effort to pick for them :)

I received a philosophical book that I'm wondering HOW I'm going to start reading it (totally not my thing) but since Christine thinks it shall help in my worldly learning, I will attempt it soon hahah.

Felt like I was in Bali this Christmas, went to Shu's house and wish I swam! Perhaps next time. Heehee. Had a great time nonetheless and SOO touched Michelle came all the way down just to pass me a gift! Here's to friendship! Wooohooo!

First week of work, OVER!

Woah I couldn't remember when I last woke up at 645am, before the sky lit up. But I survived it! This is gonna be a quick entry to just sum up my week!

 Will also include pictures of pretty girls so I can bribe you to continue reading. Haha!

Meeting my colleagues has been great! They're all young and bubbly and interesting! Glad we all get along well. I do not like lugging the laptops around though. For they are so heavy! Even in my uni days I printed all my notes out to avoid this additional weight (that might stunt my growth).

Being careful and meticulous now becomes an essential trait. No room for error! Only space for professional judgment and thinking, to which I must master.

Received my staff pass today! It's official, I have become a part of the team!

Made new BFF and other new friends yay!! :)

 I also FINALLY managed to get a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It reminded me so much of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen! But far more depressing. I cried and laughed along with the persona, but didn't understand the french and skipped some of the biblical proses hahaha.


Will be blogging this week about Zoukout and about The Muppets! I caught it and it was really good! If you haven't caught it in theatres yet, you should! Haha.

Also watched New Year's Eve yesterday. I recommend watching it AFTER Christmas because now I don't feel like I have any Christmas spirit at all. I shall try to watch Arthur Christmas or something haha! I also didn't like the pairing of couples, was quite grossed out at some. Reminded me of Love Actually, though I find the latter WAYY better. If you get emotional in theatres, make sure you sit with someone who will wipe your tears for you ok!

Finally, I've been playing with the HTC Sensation XE the past week and it's SO MUCH BETTER than my phone please?? Can't wait to tell you all about it!

And the photos in this blog post were taken at Nuffnang's Rooftop Party! (Which wasn't rooftop in the end due to the drizzle) and I was late because I had something on before that + I also walked the wrong way at the train station (some dust from a construction site blinded me too) and these pretty girls are, Gen, Cheryl and Cher! :) GCube! If you get it.

Good night everyone I miss you all. Please take part in the giveaway below if you haven't already! :)


Doggystyle Cafe! @ Nex.

Met Cheryl at the Doggystyle Cafe last week! Took a few photos of the cute doggies. I love the doggystyle cafe because it's a great concept to meet other fellow dog owners and for the dogs to roam free to sniff other dogs! :)

So cute right!! Sigh hope to bring Megan (beagle) there one day. She'll go crazy though. Need to discipline her first.

Have a great week! Will be having more giveaways soon ;) Christmas is a wonderful season! Tis the season to be jolly~ AND TO GIVE!

Michelle Chong's Meet & Greet at Watsons!

So two days ago I was at Starbucks 313 with Michelle and I read Michelle Chong's tweet about her making an appearance at Watsons at Taka.

Since it was so near and I had nothing to do at 313 anyway, I decided to walk over!

 
Through this meeting, I found out that I am totally surprised by fans (THEY REALLY KNOW EVERYTHING, and I know NOTHING so basically I didn't win any gala tickets. Darn)
 
Michelle is nice and friendly! And both her english and mandarin are PRO. I need to be more like her. Hi Y and Z please practice more mandarin with me thanks.
 
They were asking really difficult questions (how am I to know when the fan autograph session is?? Or who cameo'd as himself or herself?? Sigh.

I was honestly just waiting for the moment when they'd ask "CAN ANYONE DO AN ACCENT FOR US? WILL GIVE YOU A PRIZE." And then it'll be my turn to shine.

November... and what it is supposed to bring.



UPdate on my life for my friends and everyone reading this! I graduated from uni in July and was supposed to start work in September but I changed it to December so that I could attend my family gathering in Germany. It wasn't a pure holiday!

So I have this November off to get myself in shape and tip top condition for the gruelling months to come. It's been pretty great so far (November), attending events and everything, haven't gotten much opportunities to catch up with my friends because they are working on weekends (?!?!)

Liking spontaneity is not exactly a good thing hahaha. Eg, "Eh are you in school? I'm in your school now." Or, "I'm at Raffles Place! Wanna lunch?" 10 minutes before lunch hour is not a good idea.

I know I'm always going on about, creating your own opportunities, that no one else can change your life except yourself. AND I STILL BELIEVE IN IT.

Nobody is going to offer you something you want FOR FREE. You have to work for it or at least open the door yourself.

So that's what I'm doing this November! And if it comes, it comes. Good karma comes to those who DESERVE it.

I'm wondering if I should do an interview segment on my blog where I interview senior women in their field. Would any one be interested in that apart from me? Hahaha.

Packed weekends are fun! But tiring.

A quick entry before I head off to bed! Had a reallyyyy long weekend so far.

Thursday I went for the opening of Delcie's dessert and cake, and after that I went for Elizaben Arden's cosy get together! It was a last minute thing so I wasn't dressed up in the correct colours. There's going to be a contest coming up so continue reading!! :) Plus I had flu so I was sniffly and my voice was all nasal and one ear was blocked. But I did have yummy beef noodles with Z and the other bloggers!

Can't wait to blog about all these events, I have sooo many pictures to upload aaah!! Hopefully I will get some done tomorrow!

And today was just fab. I actually WOKE UP EARLY for BRUNCH! This is actually my first official brunch. No, meeting your friends for McDonald's breakfast before another outing isn't counted as brunch! I'm really happy about it. Tried Spruce and the food is great! It's quite a distance from my place though but luckily Y drove. (Lol, Y & Z)

After that I visited MBS's sky deck! For $20 it was not really worth in the day IMO because as a Singaporean (who has also been to top of UOB or is it OUB, confused always) we've already seen most of the landmarks! Think tourists should check it out instead. Or just say you're going to Ku te Da and get a drink + free view. It all adds up to about the same anyway.

Also had my fill of Silver Moon tea at TWG! I love Silver Moon tea!! Try it. It's light and fragrant. I also had the raspberry... cake. Which was quite yums too.

Had to rush to Clarke Quay for Kirin Ichiban Beer Launch! The beer came in super cute cans and we were served sushi! Wish I could've stayed longer but my eye was all red and hurting (think some make up got into my eye, very unpleasant) and because of that I was late for the movie.

What movie?!?! Only like, one of the best Musicals IN THE WORLD. Phantom of the Opera was celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary by staging an AMAZING rendition of Phantom, and then filming it so that the rest of the world could enjoy.

I came out teary eyed and wanting to sing all the songs of phantom but my stupid flu was making my throat all phlegmy and my voice wasn't coming out right. Didn't want to risk it. URGHHHH.

When I get well I will sing ok. Whoever wants to hear please let me know, I will sing louder. LOL.

Came home and just watched the latest episode of Revenge. IT IS SO AWESOME. Yes, I know I owe pictures from the Singtel MioTV Launch but please go watch revenge I think it's creeping up to be one of the best drama's I've watched. Like ever.

So many questions that I want the scriptwriters to answer!!! It really keeps you on your toes!! :)

Eep it's already 2am. Wonder what Sunday and Monday has in store for me.

Autumn in Windsor!

FREAKING LOVE THIS SHOT!! I love autumn, the trees are sooo pretty. Wish Singapore had Autumn too. Perfect weather IMO.

Just HAD to post this up. Sorry for the lack of detailed updates, busy with work! But my November is free! Thinking of another trip. Maybe to... China? :)

Sneak Preview: Camel?

Where did I go this time? Stay tuned!

Picture credits to cousin Nicholas :) Who has an awesome dslr.

Home sweet home!

Guess who's back? ;)

munich

hi everyone i am in munich now heading to oktoberfest later AM SO EXCITED! its really exciting and woohoooo.

germany is so high tech and cool. many people in their traditional outfits are walking around!

perhaps i will borrow one to wear around too. hahah!

Pretty picture.

Had a great event on Sunday with my Tohoku friends! We went to Waseda's Festival in Singapore! Here's a nice picture that we took! Stay tuned for the flying zebra pictures! It made us lol a lot!

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