Lectures and tutorials are such a bore, but company around me is still great :) Better than I expected school to be. Looks like I'd still prefer schooling to work.

This evening Boyfriend Chua and I went to Sab's house again to take pictures of real diamond jewellery. While I was detaching a bracelet, I thought I'd almost had it break into half! Whew, just when I flipped the price tag over, $$$CHING CHING CHING$$$, I could have been forced to pay up $9,000 over! Sheesh, what expensive babies we were entrusted to to handle. Chua's taking really really nice pictures of these diamonds, getting very professional. So proud of his *ahem**cough* talent. Hope Sab's happy with them. Worth every cent. Good money. Hahahaha.

(Will post a picture of his work once I get em'!)

I think one of the best times I enjoy being with my family would be when we open durian shells in front of the television, and savour the yellow flesh of the seeded fruit...mmmmm.. finger licking good! And my dad taught me an ingenious method to get rid of the durian smell off your hands, without using any soap! Wash your hands with running water through the thorns of the durian shell. Try it! It really works somehow!

LIBERATED! I can now quit complaining, and I am damn thankful for being away from some two-faced monster. Just be mindful of who you'd decide to stick with. Being back in Singapore just feels soooooooooooooooooo good mun, where I'd be back in action for some bitching sessions and gossip girl rants. Wheeeeeee! Buttttttt, two and a half months in Hong Kong already breezed passed just like that, I'm already missing Hong Kong many many, and some of the friends I've made there!

Just a few weeks after being back from Hong Kong, I'd be flying again to Sweden! Damn, I feel high and mightyly rich able to travel so frequently, but the fact is, I'm not that wealthy! Will be going to Sweden with Dad and Weijie for 2 weeks, to visit dear Sis, Dan, the in-laws, and of course my baby nephew Caelan! Aside to the Bergen trip (Norway) that we had incorporated into our itinery, we'll be travelling up to Stockholm and back to Uppsala during our stay there. AWESOME WEATHER AWESOME SCENERY AWESOME HERITAGE and maybe AWESOME SHOPPING, HERE I COME! Can't wait, and am aniticipating for this trip to quickly move forward! Just 3 more days! HEEHEEHEE :D

In just a snap of time, we are back on this sunny island.

Hong Kong will always remain as my second home, with memories close to my heart.

OMG I'm super amused by this video of two Korean girls. HILARIOUS MAN! Check out their dance moves man!

As the saying goes, " There's no free lunch in this world".

ARE YOU SURE?

Sun Hung Kai Property's Headquarters provides lunch for all staff in a Ting Kat manner!

Typhoon signal no. 8 hoisted! Strong winds and heavy downpour, wanna experience it!

I woke up at 1 pm today! So we spent the Sunday just walking around the neighbourhood. Our initial plan was to watch movies, but..Movies here costs a bomb! Just to sit in the cinema theatre and watch a bigger screen costs you HKD 95, that is near SGD 20 per ticket! Oh man! We walked around Times Square, and we are soooo waiting for the 70% sale at ZARA! I super love the City!Super department where they have all the nice and interesting stuff. Their supermarket = Thumbs Up + Expensive! They have everything from many countries, and things you can't find in Singapore! The prices are definitely higher as it caters for the upper class citizens, and it was funny to see Calbee Potato chips more expensive than Kettle's Potato chips! We ended up buying Chestnut Cream as spread, and so that I could try making my own Fromage Blanc (French dessert) after getting plain yoghurt from somewhere cheaper.

Food here in Hong Kong is so expensive, I really miss eating in Singapore, and I think I will stop complaining about things being expensive when I get back.

We walked down to the streets behind SOGO, and had a very fulfilling set dinner at a ca can ting.

I think we have already combed the entire Causeway Bay, and are pretty familiar with our way around.

We are already planning for our next few weekends, or more likely, Sundays.
Places we've still yet to visit:

• The Peak
• Art Museum
• Tung Chung; CityGate Outlet Mall, Space Outlet, Lantau Island Po Lin Monastry
• Happy Valley for horse racing!
• Southern District: Repulse Bay, Stanley Beach and Market
• Shenzhen, China
• Macau

We went exploring Tsim Sa Tsui after work today! We walked over to Harbour City, and I think it is a joint development together with 2 other buildings. So the shopping mall is massive!

Using credit cards in H & M, each time exceeding $500 in a single receipt. Dad is so gonna kill me! This is only my third week, and the sales everywhere is driving me crazy.

We decided to go to Mongkok by foot! Three stations down in a reasonable half an hour walk down Nathan Road.

Don't be stupid like me. Never apply the liquid base face mask on your eye brows, or you will regret it.

So this is the beginning of our trip! We thought plans for this hiking trip had been cancelled, because of the continuous pourings over the past few days due to typhoon season. However, Idy gave us a call when we were still in bed at 1030am, and told us that the hike is still on! Weather was reasonably good, with slight drizzles. We were quick on our toes, to get all the necessities ready for our adventure! Wheeeeee!

We were late in meeting Idy at Cai Hong MTR station, but she seemed okay with it! We were introduced to her friend, whom she met on another hiking trip, Paul. Excited and enthusiastic, off we gooooooo! Boarded a mini bus (and it was our virgin time on a mini bus) to Sai Kung. Ever wondered why they have a speed-o-meter facing the passengers? The scenery was fabulous, very countryside and not so urbanized.

We met a bigger group of people at Sai Kung checkpoint, and interestingly, they are just friends of friends of friends that come together almost every week! We had breakfast at Macdonald's, and I actually had fattening 4 piece McWings even before attempting to lose some fats. I have sinned greatly,so much oil that I needed to drain out on those hills! We all took a cab, having either 4 or 5 people on each cab. We noticed that in the city, the cabs are in red, whilst the cabs in the outskirts are green! Green cabs are generally much cheaper, but we had no idea why we were instructed to hop on a red one.

It was about a 20-minute ride into the not-so-accessible hills, and ta-dah! We alighted at a pavillion, our starting point! It was raining; pitter-patter-pitter-patter, but it wasn't going to dampen our moods, it was a "Let's Get Wet" attitude! Lam Fung is so INSPIRATIONAL. Idy was so sweet, she brought raincoats for Sharon & I, for she knew we would definitely meet with rain! Idy was holding onto a G10 (my dream camera!), and we both hid our cameras under our raincoats. So our first checkpoint - Sai Wai Village.

We walked and talked, getting to know each other better, with lots of picturetaking. The terrain was breathtakingly spectacular! Blue-ish clear waters in between green top hills, the setting looks fake, but come on, it is all natural's beauty!

Upon arrival at Sai Wan village, we met wild cows next to us along the pathways, and piles of cow dung on the steps and pathways. The villagers were selling beancurd that is made using well water. Cool! But didn't get to try because they say it is unclean. The 'kampong' looked like the ones in Pulau Ubin, but some of the houses looks better developed.

Settled down at some sheltered pavillion by the beach, to quench our thirst and hunger pangs for those whose stomach digests food really quickly. I was still full from my McWings, but had Bubble Tea and shared luncheon meat with egg in instant noodles with Idy and Sharon. Tried snapping shots of divers resting on the rocks with my PowerShot. This was the time I realised that one of my camera's function is spoilt! Damn, I'm not going to send it for repair again.

On Hong Kong's very own beach! The guys played many "Dare" games, and Paul the loser had to jump into this disposed tyre that contained a pool of seawater. Splash, he went in. We walked further down, and

A group photo! We love HIKING!

Look like we are having fun? Yes we are!

More fun shots with fun peeps! Everyone loves to cam-whore yo!

Hey girl, I wanna catch your wave!
Wanna be Hong Kong's next top model?

A game I played with Jason, who can throw the slipper the furthest. Surprisingly, I WON! See those things flying in the air, cool beans! Totally. Jason now owes me Haagen Dazs!

Heyyyy! TO ALL RAYMOND, LAM FUNG FANS OUT THERE! This is something that you guys will be interested to know. Lam Fung owns a huge Husky named Mimi.

And their maid is also their Driver. WHAT THE?!

Came down with a sore throat today, and the feeling simply sucks. Coughing and jerking each time I cough, destroys my enthusiasm at everything and just makes me lethargic.

It was wondrous seeing Miss Cynthia Heng here at Causeway Bay, so near and convenient for us. She was with her boyfriend, and she will be around Hong Kong for a few days. We chatted about our ongoing events, and what had happened so far. Nicely ended the day off, despite the fact that my throat was irritating me the whole day.

Work was great today, despite the fact that we had to go to work on a Sunday. We did some administrative work for the club royal house, had lunch with Jerry our boss-of-the-day and Mathrew (I have already confirmed the correct spelling); who both were so child-like and funny in their own way. We had Tom with us on Saturday.

Fact of the day!
In Hong Kong's cafe (Ca Can Ting), the Tea that they serve is not for drinking, but it is for washing of your cutleries! I almost drank the tea, until they dumped the forks, knives, and spoons in!

Sharon and I were soooo looking forward to 6 p.m., so that we could rush down to Mongkok to do some hardcore shopping!

We met Raymond Lam Fung (林峰) at the lift lobby yesterday, who just finished his concert in Hong Kong.

And today, we met the biggest shot of Hong Kong's biggest property developer; our company Sun Hung Kai Properties, Chairman Kwong Siu-Hing!

Anyway, it's a Saturday, and we still had to report for work for a full day, as well as tomorrow, Sunday. Just when we were just about to look forward to a nice relaxing weekend, and when everyone else will be enjoying their sundays out. But fret not, we are having off-days in the coming week. Yayyy, shopping with lesser crowds.

Been to the same H&M outlet in Central for three consecutive days, and my bill totalled up to a really scary figure because of the multiplied rate of HongKong dollars as compared to Singapore's. Stuff were on SALE, SALE, SALEEEEE! How could you not resist buying? Because I didn't bring enough money, I had to swipe my credit card to pay. DAMN! Dad would just kill me.

What a joke. My heels broke today at the office while I was resting on one leg after cutting cake for a colleague, Carmen. One of them nicely lent me a pair of slippers, which I had to walk in, around Central, in search for H&M to buy a new pair of shoes. I came out of the shop with 3 pairs instead, with only one pair being on sale!

The night was well-spent with chatting with friends, and I was web-caming and learning cantonese from Johnathan.

We are so ugly right!

I think Hong Kong has too many rich people already. Whenever you walk on the street, you would often see Mercedes (They call it Benz) and BMWs everywhere on the road. It is like Singapore's Toyota and Honda! Sheesh.

My work place is even better. Since all the residents are so rich, I see a lot of Porshe, Rolls Royce blah blah. And come on, I actually stood next to the latest Rolls Royce Model! It's a classic in the making, and it's spaciously HUGE.

It's so sad, I can only depend on my two kars (legs) to transport myself from one place to another.

First Day of WORK! Reported at Sun Hung Kai building, at Kaishing Properties. Eager, and just slightly nervous about what we were going to do at the site that we were going to be posted to. We were going to be posted to various properties in every two weeks, regardless of residential, commercial or retail. The first place we were posted to was a relatively prestigious Residential Apartment called Dynasty Court. We had to cab down to the Old Peak Road, and we went straight to the Management Office to be introduced. Given an orientation around the place, we were wow-ed over by the poshness and amazing facilities that were available for their use. The entire concept was similar to Singapore's Carribean, of a luxurious apartment, but Sun Hung Kai wins. Man, after hearing out the prices for rental of signature homes, I was astonished at the extreme cost. I cannot even afford to stay a day, and can only dream.

Bosco gave me a call today, and let me know that we could actually shift into our new home! Sharon and I was so excited, that we happily went back to our storeroom size apartment to pack up. We were way crazy, laughing and jumping at each other. Sharon was damn freaking retarded. She tried to dry the pillow case with the ventilation fan!

We dragged our luggage down to the first floor from our duper miniature room, to the narrow corridor and handlesome lift. Managed to hail a cab, to transport us and our luggage to just a street down, of 5 minutes away. We had to lug our luggage all the way up to the house again, and wah-lah, we have arrived! We were told that there may be a probability of us needing to shift house again. SIGH... oh well.
We met our room mates, Seth and John!

Fun, Crazy, Two! They so funky and cool I wanna be cool like them. Hahahahahaha.

Our 2nd Day in Hong Kong !!!

Breakfast Hong Kong style!
Left to Right: Rice Roll, salty bean curd (xian dou jiang), sweet beancurd

I felt much better after sleeping for an extensive period of many hours, since my lack of sleep the day before left me really lethargic. Got up, freshened up, and went down to the streetside to buy wholesome genuine Hong Kong style breakfast. We bought a rice roll, that consists of you tiao, pork floss and preserved szechuan vegetables wrapped in glutinous rice. We also bought salty beancurd, and the normal sugared beancurd. It tastes really different from what we get from Singapore. We brought the food up to our under-sized apartment, and miserably sat on our bed to eat while we watched City Harvest's online service, all just because of Sharon Tan.

Later, we made our way down to Jordan MTR to meet Auntie Jing! I was so happy to see her in person after such a long time. The first thing she said to me when she saw me was, "Oh my gosh, E-lis! YOu are so fat now!" OH Well! Got used to it already lah, nothing new. We were to meet our prospective landlord to take a look at the house. An Indian man in an all-white robe came to fetch us, to bring us to his cozy home. We followed him to a very rundown building, ad his house looked like it had gone through the war times. There was a lady which I presumed is his wife, sweeping the soiled floor, and a man who looked like Osama Bin Laden with his beard and moustache sitting on the double decker bed stoning. Oh gosh. You would have to kill me to live in such a state of a terrorist look-a-like house, so scary. We rejected the offer, and went to look for another place.

Auntie Jingggggg!!!!! Missed her a lot worxzxzxzzzzz!

We lunched at Yoshinoya, and their Beef Bowl somehow tastes better than Singapore's pathetic serving. Auntie Jing's auntie and cousin came to join us in our scout for apartments, and they were extremely helpful, greatly appreciated their enthusiasm in helping us. :)
Next, we headed to Mongkok to check out the Astronaut Hotel that was advertised in the newspapers. Auntie Jing's auntie tried to be funny, and she entered the hotel saying, "So where are all the astronauts?" Haha. The Hotel was just a single level with about 6-8 rooms for rental. We managed to haggle the price down, however, considering the facilities that were also unavailable, it was equivalent to our current apartment, just that the room was way bigger. We weren't very satisfied with the price, so we left our number with them, just in case Bosco's new offer did not meet our expectations.

We headed back to Causeway Bay, and showed Auntie Jing our apartment. She was unintentionally sniggering at the size of the house. Soon after, we walked over to our arranged destination with Bosco, and waited for him to arrive. Expecting an old or middle-aged man wearing pink, a young man in pink Abercrombie shirt appeared in front of us. He's unexpectedly young for a boss, and we found out he took over the family business. He showed us the house, and we immediately fell in love with the apartment and we decided to take it without hesitation. They had Cable TV, bigger room space, proper kitchen, bigger toilet, a washing machine and a clothes dryer. SWEET! Another plus point was that, it was really accessible from all directions!

After having sacrificed all the shopping craves and temptations for almost 4 months, the day to go to the shopping haven has finally arrived! Will be going to HongKong for attachment for 2.5 months, cool beans!

So many things I had to leave behind; family, food, friends, boyfriend, and my close colleagues.

Weijie came over to my place late in the night, of course with the permission from both parents and with family around. Hahaha. He helped me to clear my room while I packed my luggage, and I am super grateful to you dearest! If I was the one packing my room, it would take around minimum 1 week, or even forever. But with his magic hands, he managed to help me clear up in few hours! Power man! We didn't even get a wink of sleep, because by then it was already time for me to leave for the airport. Cabbed down with the four of us; Weijie, Daddy, Auntie Waileng and myself.

Changi Airport Terminal 1 at 5am sucks lo. So many cafes and food kiosks are undergoing renovations, which only leaves us the corner with killiney, jollibean and Pacific Coffee company. I had wanted to order fishball noodles from killiney, but they told us it wasn't available. Once I bought the sandwiches from Pacific Coffee Co. and sat down, they prepared the fishball noodles when ordered. What??!!! A difference of just a few minutes. The sandwiches tasted weird, and the cost was extavagant for a lousy sandwich like it.

Daddy, Auntie Waileng, Boyfriend Chua, and Samuel seeing us off at Changi Airport.

Sharon arrived with Samuel soon after, and we went to the counter check-in. When heading for the departure hall, I cried like a cry baby on daddy's flabby breasts, but I really couldn't help it. Gave everyone a hug, and I guess this shows that I really miss them in time to come. Sharon and I checked in and got onto the plane; here we come, Hong Kong!

Hong Kong, here we come!

Having heard all the commotion about JetStar being uncomfortable and all, it had actually lowered my expectations of JetStar to a level of being.. shitty. But I kinda liked the ride there, because I thought it beats the SilkAir flight I took last year to Hong Kong. Value for money what, what more could we expect from a $250 ticket? Sharon took the window seat and I was next to her, followed by this other lady. The lady kept coughing and sniffing, which made me suspect she was having H1N1. When the plane was about to take off, she looked like she wanted to vomit, and that really scared the heck out of me; I mean like, what if her vomit lands on me? So GROSS! I decided to be Little Miss Nice, and offer her some help, by asking what she need. And then she looked like she really couldn't take it, and I started to panic. We asked around for plastic bags, and the people were really nice. They offered not only a plastic bag, they even passed us vomit bags, mint, and wet tissue paper. So I passed to the lady and she immediately vomitted. Oh man. Offered her a mint after having one myself, and I guess she felt fine after the puke. The lady was just suffering from motion sickness.

We alighted from the plane and boarded a shuttle bus that would fetch us to the Airport Terminal. Above are the pictures we took at Ajisen!

4 hours later, we finally touched down at HongKong International Airport. We were to walk out of the plane through this stairway down, and there was a bus which came to fetch us to the airport. First thing we did, was to go to the tourism board counter to take all the pamphlets and brochures on Hong Kong. I took one each from the entire rack and people can definitely identify me as a kiasu Singaporean. Collected luggage, and decided to go get the HongKong Airport Express Train card, Octopus card for public transport, and the pre-paid card for phone calls. We met a really nice and patient staff who served us at 7 eleven when we were purchasing the pre-paid card. We happily went to look for food, and decided to lunch at Ajisen, which has an open air concept. We tugged our luggage all the way into the restaurant, happiily sat down, and happily browsed the menu for noodles. We were stumped initially, thinking why there were only desserts on the menu. We looked at our surroundings, and realised that we entered the wrong restaurant. So embarrassing! We tugged our luggage next door to Ajisen and settled down. Their service is crap. Sharon had some problems with understanding the chim cantonese, and we had just requested for a waiter to help us translate what the service provider was saying. Another waiter told him in cantonese, "Let them go and read themselves". No help was given for something not related to our order! We went back to the 7-eleven to look for the same guy to help us.

Airport Express Train, nice and comfy!

Took the express train and the seats sure looked posh and felt comfortable! We inter-changed at HongKong station, to go to Causeway Bay. Their MTR station is very similar to our MRT, but the only difference is between the handles and seats. We alighted at Causeway Bay station, and it is definitely complicating for first-timers like us! We lugged our luggage out of the train, and looked for the exit where we were going to meet this guy called Billy, who was gonna bring us to our new home! Yayyyy :)

Billy brought us to a very ulu place just a street away from the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong's "Orchard Road". We arrived at this alley with laundry shops and automobile repair shops. In between, there were metal gates with numeric code passes for security reasons. We had a hard time dragging our luggage up the stairs to the lift. And I tell you, the lift is ancient! The door, the grilles, the light bulbs, and the buttons. Cool beans! And then we entered our room, and tah-dah, double cool beans! An apartment that is half the size of my own room in Singapore! The flat so small, how fat girl stay there, no space to sit! The toilet was the best, the showerhead was just above the toilet bowl, that's how small the place is! I actually did big business in the toilet bowl, because I just had the feel. I went ahead to push the flush button, holy shit, no water came out, and my shit was still floating around. I tried all means and ways to wash the shit down, but none of it work. I closed the lid, thank god that Billy came back, and he helped us solved the problem by just opening the cover and pushing the internal button.

Welcome to our HUMBLE HOME!

• A 5-step staircase to an ancient lift, that uses a swing door and a sliding door grille as a partition. The lift has no ventilation fan, and it uses 2 incandescent bulbs without any casing as lights.
• Our "studio room" is one of the rooms behind the gate, and has really narrow corridor that cannot even fit half of me besides myself on the isle.
• The entrance is so narrow that we had to go in and come out one at a time.
• The washroom is amazing! You can either shower above the toilet bowl or in front of the sink
• The room is "GIGANTIC"! The picture is taken just a metre away from the door entrance.
  We were really unhappy with all the arrangements, as there were neither any washing machine, nor were there any kitchen facility.

So we talked to the big boss Bosco, and he was willing to rent another place to us, but at a higher cost. We were still in consideration of looking at the flats that Auntie Jing had searched for us, so we decided to put it on hold. We would be viewing all the different flats the next day.

CAUSEWAY BAY HONGKONG, our neighbourhood!

After settling down, we decided to walk around Causeway Bay. It is hugeeee man. We had a really hard time finding our way back home. Many times we lost our way around, and kept walking around. We saw aunties and uncles queuing up outside of SOGO, and realised that there was a brand apparel bazaar going on in SOGO's ballroom, so Sharon and I went be part of this queue. We walked out of the bazaar with a Ralph Lauren top each, and a Ben Sherman T-shirt for Chua Weijie.

Two most popular snack stalls among teenagers! Ireland Potato's Cheesy Fries with Minced Meat, and Pearl Milk Tea from One More Cup.

Billy looked us up for Dinner, and we headed down to Prince Edward Station for some delicious Double-boiled milk! It is like beancurd, but tastes like sweet milk. Oh, and Sharon can't differentiate between a cow and a goat! We had some smelly tofu, which stunk bad on the street, but it tastes good in the mouth! It didn't taste like cheese, like what other people say, it's just smelly nice!

Something that Singapore does NOT have, Double Boiled Milk! It like beancurd, but maybe better! Hou Hou Sek ah!

Fermented Tofu! It STINKS, but the shiok-ness come from the smelliness somehow. Heehee. Smell Tofu one of my Favourites.

We walked over to Mongkok from Prince Edward street, and there we were at H&M! The store that both of us had been waiting to enter! Billy left for home, while we spent our time there looking around, hoping to find really good deal. What a tiring day, it was time to go back home! We had to walk the same route from the MTR station that Billy guided us for the first time. Fortunately, we didn't get lost again, and alas HOME SWEET HOME!!!

This is a great quote from Amanda Chan the almighty vulgarity spiller.

"a penny for your thoughts session

I'm sure most of us have come across a person like ST

here is how ST is like

scenario 1

Random girl1 in clique: hey, u guys ever tried eating shit b4?

Random girl2 in clique: OMG! NO! I WANNA TRY!!! how isit? i heard its nice.

Random girl3 in clique: I TRIED B4!!! DAMM NICE LA!! OMG!

ST purses lips in disgust and frowns: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! SHIT WHR GT NICE! SO SMELLY LA! EEEEEEE!

Random girl1 in clique: HUH... but i tink quite nice leh, like unique flavour macham like durian.

Random girl 2 in clique: yeah! i tink not bad la!

Other few random girls in clique unanimously agrees: yeah! i /we wanna try!after everyone in the clique tried shit, all but ST likes it.

Random girl1 in clique: omg! today no lecture, shall we go toilet eat shit?

Random girl 2, 3 and 4: OMG OKAY!! I DUN MIND!! damm nice la!

ST: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! shit whr got nice!!

after few months of shit-eating outings, shit became the new favs of the girls

random girl3 in clique: HEY! tmr wanna go eat shit?

All other random girls in clique: okay! i want!

ST: haha, okay i dun mind!

random girl1 in clique: eh, i tod u say u dun like shit keep saying eeee so smelly whr gt nice. how come now u like

ST: haha, erm actually shit quite nice la *smiles bashfully**

actually ST DOES NOT like eating shit, she just said not bad cox she wans to fit in*

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm doesnt this sound familar?

don't u just hate those lil fuckers like ST? like fuck.
just be ur fucking self la, we would hate u more if u just try to like blend in.
these lil fuckers are potentially dangerous and would anytym without hesitation stabb u in the back when they've found a better click to cling onto.

sigh. parasite(s).

Oh my! Amanda, You make me chuckle and giggle! I miss you bitch!

I hung out with Sharon on this very Saturday, with all her amiable church cell group mates. During introduction, Sharon actually introduced her cell group leader, Rouxin, to me as her pastor. I actually shook her hand and said, "Wow, you are really young!" Rouxin got a shock, and Sharon was actually pointing to the man beside her. Hahaha.

Went for the service at City Harvest, and had a blast just listening to the sermon. The pastor was like a really good comedian, which really tickled me to the bone. I kept laughing and definitely gave him my full attention, unlike the sermons I attended few years back, where I will open the bible, put it on my lap and pretend to be reading it; I was actually sleeping. Bad girl.

Dinner with Sharon's cell group at JurongPoint, and then went over to Starbucks to chill out. Almost half of them went off, before settling down at Starbucks. We just sat there and talk and talk. I was so glad to meet gossipgirl fan, Sarah, and I totally loved her blazer. I couldn't help laughing at Rouxin! These guys are so fun and funny, I had a whale of a time man! Can't wait to meet them in HongKong during Sharon's birthday period!

Once again, TGIF! I definitely had a wondrous Friday, out with most of the Zi High family at Turf City's Hokkaido ala-carte buffet dinner. Though after work was tiresome, but somehow my heels felt like its flying instead of feeling heavy! Why? Because I was excited to see them! Sheesh. Work has made me cherish these friends even more. Aaron Chua was with us that night, and there was some good cake-smashing action from Danny as present to Aaron Chua, and hilarious moments watching Eames and Aaron Chua Bee Hock fooling around with the child-like cakes with toy cars and planes on top. Tried camwhoring with jumpshots but I gave up halfway with my killer heels, I almost died trying to soar, hitting the floor hard with a loud thud each time.

I'm at work now, and I am not doing work. Instead, I'm chatting and browsing blogs.
I'm sure to get slaughtered and get a C for attachment, if I get found out. Hahahaha.

Sis is in labour! Her water bag broke but no baby on the way YET. We are all so excited now. Wondering will it be a girl or boy, would it resemble the Mom or Dad, and most importantly, that both mother and kiddo will be healthy and fine. :)

I was just reading Kar Sweed's blog, and mostly on her 2008's posts, because most of it was about her attachment in Hong Kong! More on play than work, but it gets me so excited and high! I guess I'm going to do what she did, blog about every single event, and that's gonna make my blog alive and kicking again! Await wordy posts with slightly more pictures than usual, not so much of my pretty face but on gorgeous food. Hahahahaa. I know some people must be puking at my description on my face.

I'm gonna make a list of what Sharon and I has planned to do and where to go during our trip there. Just a month more! ONE MONTH. And I'm off flying there like a free bird.

I'm sure Sharon and I will rock Hong Kong! HAHAHAAHA.

I'm absolutely sure my dad is having PMS - Petty Man Syndrome.

I'm not exactly sure why he is always GL-ing me, but it is annoying me quite a bit recently.

Example 1:
Minutes ago, while we were watching American Idol, Adam Lambert was singing U2's One, AND, we started to comment on his looks and voice.

Dad: He has a very good voice, but I don't like him because of his looks.
Me: Why? He damn handsome lah. You just don't like him because he pierced his ears right?
Dad: No. He looks so dull. But he's very popular hor.
Me: Huh, where got dull. He's just handsome. Like mix blood like that.
Dad: Look at his eyes. Tsk.
Me: He's just damn handsome lah. Come on lah, he beats every guy in Singapore, if he not handsome all the guys in Singapore CMI lor.
Dad: Can you stop diverting away from the topic. We are not talking about Singaporean guys...
Me: But I am just making a comparison, and am still making references towards him what!

Complete silence......

This is my dad, he is always right.

Example 2.
Just wanted to spark a conversation with Daddy after that irritated convers.

Me: Daddy, so what is that e-cell thing? (Pointing to the device on his leg)
Dad: *Paused for a while* This is to regenerate cells.
Me: Huh, but how? Like how does this pebble-like do it?
Dad: How would I know until I've tried it?

Waliao. Why would he buy it if he didn't know how'd it worked? Lazy Daddy.

If all you do is rot,
I'm sorry I do not want to fall in your category.

We met up at my place after his match, and made a trip down to Marina Keppel Bay. Decided not to waste the $20 tickets, and just gave it a go. Looked for Wennie in the exhibition, and tah-dah! There was Belle Belle, just woke up from snooze mode. Did some introductories, and we were granted access to a few yachts. Nice to have one, how I wish, that they were mine. Hahahaha. Got into the Audi Q5 showroom, totally stylish, would be awesome to own it too, on part of a wish. Played around with Weijie's DSLR, took loads of pictures of Belle Belle, and she loves being in the pictures. I found out her little secret, and what her favourite song is! So she probably stole the limelight from Wennie, but that's what kids always do! All in all, the Boat Asia wasn't that fantastic, but maybe an eye-opener on the luxury that rich, wealthy and famous people get to enjoy.

We parted ways at HarbourFront, Weijie and I had french cuisine for dinner at Fren(s)h@Vivo! Finally tried my Foie Gras, and authentic burnt caramel top Creme Brulee. Weijie had Duck Rilette, and I absolutely love it! French food made our day a better one, light too!

Dinner with Kimberley at my place after work.

Thanks Kimberley for letting me realise how bad my English has become. HAHAHA. And we will go and try the stingray at your place alright??

I had a fantastico, awesomely magnificent Nineteenth Burpday!

Thanks to all those who sent me birthday messages!
Celebrated this birthday over 4 days with friends and family, and with unexpected surprises!

















I was anticipating towards the end of the day, leave workplace and meet my dearest friends for dinner at Timbre. As usual, Amanda and I were late. We arranged to meet on the same bus, and thank god for lady luck, I managed to get on the same bus as her when her battery was flat and there were two same buses. TE-LE-PA-THY!!! Chatted and of course there were gossips and dirty talks! Hahahaha. Everyone was waiting for us, so that I could bring them there from City Hall; Eames, Fione, Shuling, Jon. Lee, Jon. Yeo, Huiqi, Amanda, myself. The best part was... I've never been to Timbre before! Rushed as much as we could, to get there on time before our reservation is withdrawn.

Seated at our table, managed to jump queue if there were any. Food was good! We ordered fries, calamari, pasta, 4 different pizzas, and heneiken beer. The duck meat pizza was peculiar, as recommended :) Took pictures, ate, chatted about our attachment, blah blah. Received handmade cards from Jon. Yeo and the Lee couple, plus the shared present by all of them. Thanks guys! We waited for the band to start playing, and it was ___ . Saw Mr Ezal on the keyboard! Called Weijie to double-confirm if it was him. The songs were great!!! But right after the fourth song, all of them want to go off already. But in any way, thanks guys for spending an early birthday with me!

It's Good Friday! No work, shiok! Spent the day with my closer budds, day time with Goh HuiShi, night with Nicole Ye, yeah!

Huishi and I were going to Taman Jurong to Prawnnnnnn! I suggested it because I wanted to try something different with her, instead of spending time in shopping malls. I've never been prawning before, and it was definitely a first rate experience in an almost third class setting. Hahaha.

The place looked run-down but acceptable for prawning. We paid $30 for a rod, and were given chicken's heart as the bait. There were 4 ponds, and only 2 were occupied. We settled down on 1 corner. Sat there for about 5 minutes or so, Huishi started to rant about how low the catch rate was, because based on her past experience, it took her less than 5 minutes to catch one! Once she said that, we caught ONE! Happy as we could be, an uncle helped us with our first catch.

Few minutes later, there came a 2nd prawn, and this was bigger with the blue pincer! It was scary man, and that scaredy-cat Goh Huishi so 'hamji' that she didn't dare to even touch it, despite the previous times she went. I tried to be the brave soul to unhook the bait from the fidgeting prawn, but it took me some time because I was also afraid it would bite me! There was this couple who just came, saw me hesitating, the girl shouted across, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST USE YOUR HANDS." I replied, "But I don't dare!" I finally plucked courage and just quickly unhooked it, and threw it into the net. From then on, I had something against that girl.

It began to drizzle after we managed to caught a few, so we headed indoors under shelter, and we decided to try out the other two people-less ponds. Sat there, and within few minutes we caught one! I bet the others were in awe of us, because our catch rate seemed more than theirs. It must be because I had beginner's luck, including the thing about female attraction. Hahahahaha. The same uncle who helped us earlier, came to us and told us that there are no prawns in that pond. Just as he said that, we caught another, this time it was HUGE. I think it's the biggest of our total catch so far. At that point, the other people started to come over and prawn in the same pond, but nonetheless, they had no idea there were no prawns in there. Yeaa, and we stayed there for the rest of our time during the rain, no catch AT ALL. Everyone there at our pond must have been disappointed.

Once the rain stopped, we shifted to another pond. We sat there and waited slowly for the stupid prawns to get hooked. I always caught the smaller ones, and Huishi always got the bigger ones. But putting on the bait and unhooking the prawn from the bait, it seemed like a routine. I saw the same couple catching a prawn, and she is like a pot calling the kettle black... no that's not right, I don't know how to put it. But she's like worse off than us. Her boyfriend managed to catch one, and she borrowed a pair of scissors from her neighbour. OMG guess what, she didn't even dare use her hands, she was so terrified even by using the scissors. She freaked out and jumped each time she tried to cut the prawn's pincers. LOSER LOR! I think she jealous that we were so lucky.

It was getting late, and it started to pour as we wanted to leave. What bad timing! Initially wanted to barbeque our prawns there, but because of the rain, we decided to go to her place and cook them! The staff there super nice! They actually offered us to use their umbrella and brought us to the bus stop. Back at Boon Lay, we had to run to Huishi's house, and we were all drench by the time we got to her door step. I cooked the prawns with butter and garlic, while Huishi was taking a bath. The prawns so big, so meaty, eat also shiok! What a day!

Nearer to sunset, I met Nicole at Jurong East platform, and I was elated to see her after such a long time! Had so much to fill her in with and vice versa. She can practically laugh at my stupid and not-so-funny jokes, and not make me feel like a fool. We went to Chilli Padi at Bugis for Nonya buffet dinner, and sat there till we were the last to leave. Thanks for the treat love! I still expect the written card or hand-drawn wishes you promised me ahhhhhhhh! We took 66 back home together, but alighted because the bus stank badly because of *ahem*, and took 157. I then realised that the bus doesn't go to her place! She wanted to walk home, so I walked her to at least a third of her distance. On my way back home, I chatted with boyfriend Chua on the phone because it struck 12 already and he wanted to wish me. He was telling me to be careful and be wary of banglahs around, later they rape me. Up till the lift, he cut the line, but I wasn't the least surprised because it always happens. Along the corridor, after a turn, I was caught by surprise and shock, because I thought there was a banglah standing there, waiting to rape me. Little did I know, it was Boyfriend Chua standing there with sunflower! He was in cahoots with Nicole, to coordinate the time to surprise me. Thanks again double love :))
























It's my actual birthday and I was perked with joy juice! Weijie had things planned out for me, for the entire day till the night. In the morning, we went to East Coast Park with the initial plan to roller-blade, which was something I had always wanted Weijie to do, because he's someone who doesn't like to try new things, and of course, for me to laugh at. HAHAHAHA. However, change of plans because we wanted to try lobstering. The place was better furnished than the one at Taman Jurong, and there were two types of fishing available. Freshwater Prawning, and Seawater fishing- which had Tiger prawns, lobsters, and fishes. Since I've already tried the freshwater prawning with Huishi, I wanted to try the seawater one although it costs more at $45 for 3 hours. For the first 5 minutes, we made friends with a few uncles who tried to catch tiger prawns with their hands for us. They were experienced at fishing, and knew when was the time to do so. We also made friends with another guy who was about our age, and he too fishes as a hobby. He's damn good, he managed to catch 6 big fishes during his time period there. Since we were already friends, he insisted on giving us his own catch, and kept helping us hand-grab tiger prawns. In total we managed to catch 26 tiger prawns with our bare hands! We left our rod and prawns with our new friend, and went ahead for lunch at the Korean BBQ Restaurant. We had the unlimited BBQ meat buffet, and i swear we ate until we almost died of bloatedness. Boyfriend Chua went to get the prawns from New Friend, and off we went home to get changed and dressed up for dinner. We were too late for our initial plan, which was to watch movie and sit GMax at Clarke Quay.

We each parted at Jurong to go back home, and met back an hour later. Weijie gave me a bouquet of roses, which totalled up to 19 roses, each rose representing my age. Took the bus down, and rushed down to Modesto's to make it in time for the reservation. At the entrance, the railings were decorated with balloons and a happy birthday banner. So i muttered to Weijie, "Is this for me? Hahaha." Of course jokingly, I still had no idea. Then when we walked in, i saw Lissa. I thought to myself, maybe coincidentally they were celebrating for Jacq too. Weijie was tugging me aside, as if he was trying to "protect" me, in the sense that I may feel sad that it wasn't for me.

However, we walked in that direction, and Ta-dah! It was for me! I was too shocked to say anything, all I could do was throw hugs at everyone. All I knew I was very very happy, that all these were done for me :) Thank you Kim, Natalie, Charmaine, Fenny, Clement, Joshua, Evan, Lissa, Jane, and not forgetting Boyfriend Chua. I never expected him to throw me this surprise, because I always thought he was lousy at planning such stuff, but he proved me wrong :) I had no clue at all.

Shared pizza, Spinach baked pasta, al funghi penne. My birthday cake from chocolate truffle cake from Cedele was heavenly sinful. They actually used relighting candles, so I had to blow out and blow and blow and blow. Hahahaha. I guess it took me at least 1 minute to extinguish the candles. Chatted with them, took pictures, and it was time to meet Fel and the rest to club! GG got me this really huge Princess castle balloon, which could totally block off my half upper body when I put it in front. It really got me wondering how hard my time was going to be at the club. Distributed the other helium balloons to everyone, to "lighten" my load. Was late in meeting the others, and I was grabbing loads of attention with the big bouquet, cards, and balloons.

We went out to get drinks, and the most I had was only a bottle of Hoegarden, wouldn't want to have vomit in my mouth at the end of the whole thing again. Thank god, for being conscious in such a crowd, I totally didn't enjoy myself, besides the fact that I was not "high", the word crowded is not even close to what we experienced, it was packed like tuna, not even sardines. Space-less to dance, moving through the crowd was as good as grinding everyone. Queuing to re-enter the place killed our mood to dance. We stayed all the way till next morning 5am, believe it or not! Now it was time to think of getting out of St. James with those balloons. Tugged it out with many people wishing me happy birthday and passing remarks and comments about the balloons. I tried my very best to not whack people with it.

So my final say is that, St. James totally sucked, boo boo thumbs down. But because of the company, my night was better :)

Took a cab down with Amanda to Johnathan's birthday chalet. When we reached, everyone was already sleeping except for Jon, Jingyi and Alicia! They hadn't slept! I spent $50 on cab to and fro, by just saying hi, sleeping there for a few hours, then turn back home. I was so tired that I konked out once I reached home.

I read this on Gary's blog and I think it is utterly hilarious!
"Went out to celebrate Elis birthday. Firstly, happy birthday to Elis, one year older already, so grown up and don't like a children still carry balloon to clubbing haha. Anyway, sorry for not joining you all at the power house. It super crowded like siao, not suitable for us la, and thanks Felicia for signing us in for free :)"

Since you say Sabai so fun, we shall go Sabai the next time alright!
Although your review sounded like it's for the older generation, "So we change to Sabai, and to our utterly dismay, we found that entry to Sabai for ladies is 18 year old. So Elis they all should have came here initially, that will definately made her birthday a remarkable enjoyable. Cos I don't think power house is anywhere near fun cause they have been going outside to walk quite a few time.Sabai was cosy and big. Live band very standard. They sing in English, Chinese, Cantonese and Hokkienese. Good mix of song. Alternate 1 hour, DJ will stream very nice R&B and English Pop so if you wanna work so fats, that is the time. Alternatively, you can also drink and enjoy music they sing. Still got dancer somemore. Very pro like that."
Sorry Gary, I can't help it, you are too cute that's why I'm posting funny paragraphs from your blog.






















Had a treat from Dad at Swensens, and it was time to meet up with Threesome!

We arranged to meet at Botanical Gardens, no one reached at the supposed timing, but each was later than the other. By the time we reached, it was near evening time already. I went there empty handed initially, and both of them came with their 'barang barang'. It was all our picnic food. I felt so loved! They prepared lots of food for me us to eat! Huiqi made her specialty - homemade pizza bread, and banana pancake (thanks to Huinan too!) which has become my new favourite! Amanda wanted to make her specialty - Luncheon meat Sushi! But she overslept, but still, she bought lots of food that we definitely could not finish.

We found a spot on the big plot of grass, and laid out the picnic mat Huiqi brought, and like aunties, used all the remaining plastic bags as our seats. We had so much to eat and talk, that we chatted all the way into the night, there was no way to execute their initial plan on bringing me to Haji Lane! It was getting dark, so we moved our position to just below the lamppost. If not we cannot see what we eating, and the next thing we would know is eating ants! It was 9 pm already, by the time we left!

Love you guys loads! Thanks for all the planning and the food made with love! Hahaha. I definitely enjoyed my day with you, threesome!

Tan E-lis. Correct Pronunciation: \ˈē-ləs\ eee-lis 11th April 1990. Bitch with me at tan_elis@hotmail.com Seventh Day Adventist Kindergarten, Fairfield Methodist, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Diploma in Facilities Management for Business.


I ♥ cycling, rock-climbing, water-sports. I ♥ the beach. I ♥ chocolates.
I ♥ sleeping. I ♥ FOOD. I ♥ music. I ♥ shopping. I ♥ Camwhoring with friends.

STILL EXISTING TARGET: Canon DSLR Canon ixus: 100 (RED)

weight-loss of 10kg
travel around Europe!!!
snorkel/ scuba-dive
decorate interiors of my very own house
Get a corporate American Express card
get a debit card
GET INTO A GOOD UNIVERSITY
trip to Langkawi
GO KOREA
Hike to Hong Kong's Ngong Ping
Get my driving license
Explore Batam
Have a 21st birthday BASH
THAILAND BANGKOK SHOPPING
Go Fishing
Go Barcelona for Tomatina!
Go Sailing
sky-diving yo!
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