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Family outing - 12 May 07

It has been a long time since i last went our with my family, thus i asked Law to get his Company's privilege card so that we can have some free entries to certain attractions in Singapore. We went to sit Cable Car, Caslberg Tower (at sentosa) and finally to the DHL Balloon.

@ Cable Car:
Dad + Mum
My Po Po
We took the Cable from from HF --> Mount Faber --> Sentosa --> Back to HF. We stopped over at Sentosa so that they can get a ride on the caslberg tower. It would have cost about $20 per person per ride, but they got in free. As the card only allow free entries for 3 pax, i did not join them and was waiting downstairs.
Taken at Caslberg Tower (while waiting to get on the ride)
After that, we proceed to Bugis Junction for dinner and for the DHL Balloon ride.











Heehee...so windy
The whole ride lasted for abt 10 mins and if we were to pay, each person would cost $23!! So its practically $2/min...haha...

Next, we went to the Dessert Shop that was recommended by Bro Y and XH; Qi De Chi (Remember to eat). It such a small world, the owner of the shop is actually staying in the same condo as us and she recognise my popo...haha in the end, we got discount and the desserts were served to us super fast (even thought the shop was packed to the max!)








My popo's Shuang Bi Nai









My mango + Grape fruit ice blend








My parent's Almond and Walnut paste

It has been a great night out. Hoped that they have enjoyed themselves!

Chen Su Lan Methodist Children's Home - 6 May 07

This is the 2nd charity event of the year for me. But this time round, its for a childrens' home. Children in the home comes from broken family whereby their parents do not have the ability to take care of them.

Actaully i find that planning an event for a children home is more difficult as compared to the old folks as there are different age grps of kids ranging from 4 - 16 years old. We did customise some "goodies bag" for the kids with different items for gals and boys and for different age group too.

Packing was done on that day under hot sun!! Maybe this is a good idea, as everyone was super fast in packing...just to get out of the sun..lol


These colour bags are for the boys whereby we have put standard items such as towel, shampoo, pencil, crayons, stickers, mini games into each bags and tagged it with the child's name. The gals got their goodies in draw string pouches.

We reached the home at ard 3+ in the afternoon and the children are super friendly! At first we are still afraid that they would be shy and it would be hard to get them warm up. But i guess all these worries are for nothing. These kids basically likes attention and would hug / click on to you. The guys were assigned to play ball games with the older kids and us gals were assigned to play with the younger kids. And i tell you, the younger kids were damn hyper!! Its quite hard to keep them sitting still to listen to you. We played games like catching, dog and bone.

After dinner, we gave out the goodies bag to them and you can see the smiles on their faces. It really melts my heart. I am glad that we are able to bring some happiness to them in the midst of their lives.

Finally, a group photo

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Sorry for the lack of blog entries. But very busy lately and have quite some entries to update too. Will do so soon!!

Guys.....

Some guys are just completely hopeless....

Old folks lunch charity event

After much preparation, we finally got to the lunch event day! Its on Sun, 29 Apr at the Lion Befriender center and AMK. Only after we reached there did i realised that i have forgotten to bring the Ang Baos and Law shot me that killing look !!!!!!!!!!! :( In the end, i took a cab back home to take the ang baos.


Briefing session before the start of the event

When i got back to the center, they have already finished the first game and is playing the second game alr. It was quite a short and sweet event, with 2 games and a buffet lunch.

The old folks

Playing Bingo!

Yum Yum...

Time to go home: collecting the door gift

Haa..me holding the Ang Baos

Would like to thanks the following ppl:

1)Xuehui, Jiahui, Jacq, Huiping and law's mom for helping out in the event

2)June, Huiting, Jiesheng and Rasida for helping out in the event and also helping us to sweep and mob the floor!! These youngsters are damn nice, to "auto" sweep and mob floor without being asked to!! Thanks!

3) Claudia + bf + her sis + her sis's bf, for helping to run the event and to make it such a successful one!

And lastly all those donors!!!!! Thanks for ur generous donations!

For more pics, pls go to Pics

Haa..guess i looked more like Japanese?

Pre-Charity Event

As most of you would know that Law and i have been arranging for a charity lunch event for some 40 old folks. The event was on 29 Apr and finally over! Haa..it has been a tiring 2-3 weeks for us. I didnt realise that so much work would be involved to organise such a simple lunch event.

First we have to raise funds and from there, to decide what to buy for the old folks, what games to play, what prices to give and what food to provide. From sourcing of suitable caterer to the stores that sells the cheapest provisions. We have spent almost every night for the past week or two to go from shops to shops to compare prices.
Thanks to all the generous soul out there, we have raised a total of $1,814, our of which, $1,019 was used to buy provision for 40 old folks and $601.50 goes to the cater food + rental of venue + rental of bus. The rest goes to the prizes for the games played.

Law and i with the help of Bernard bought all the provisions and packed it at my place.
The various food items


The various provision items


The standard provision that goes into 1 pack



The standard food items that goes into 1 pack


The standard 1 pack - 1 pack of cream crackers, 1 pack of Lee Marie biscuits, 2 tins of condense milk, 1 tin of milo, 1 tin of Quakers Oats, 2 Tiger brand joint pain plasters, 1 tub of counterpain, 1 tub of toothpaste, 1 bottle of medicated oil, 1 bottle of snake powder and 1 tiger balm.


Took a pic of law packing the goodies while i take a break :P (Hey, i also did help to pack okie..)



Lastly, got to stack it nicely so that no one would trip over them.

Would update my blog on the actual event itself after Law upload the pics onto the internet.

PS: Thanks Xuehui for helping us in sourcing some of the goodies too.

BaBy eSteLla

I am officially being promoted to a higher rank a month ago. I am now the aunt of baby Estella...sounded so old... went to her full month celebration today. She is ssssoooo cute!! Weighing at 3.8kg at birth, baby Estella is not as soft as i tot she would be. Luckily for that, i can hold her better. Was so scare that i might dropped her or hold her in a wrong manner.

So cute right!


Me with baby Estella


Group pic


Dad + Mom + Baby Estella

More pics

What is happening....

At my age, shouldn't i be experiencing more wedding dinners, house warming, baby full month instead of "death", especially of ppl of my age? Twice in less than a month is really too much. Received yet another shocking new last night from Cindy telling me that Xiaowei's husband passes away on Fri night. He was the chinese police coast guard who died in action, in the high speed chase ard Tuas area. It was in the straitstimes on Sunday. As i didnt read the papers on sun, i didnt get to know it until last night and its too late. He was cremented yesterday.

Xiaowei is my poly classmate who i went to uni with. Her wedding (in 2004) was the first among my frens. She is a soft spoken girl and love her hubby alot... They have a 11 mths old daughter. Felt so sad for her. She is only 28 and life ahead of her is a long and unimaginable one...

Life is so unexpected....No warnings, no signs....and it just happens....how are we to take it in stride.....
Dear Bro Y,

It has been 2 weeks since u left us. But it only seems like yesterday that we are still swimming together. Even though the number of times that i have met up with you could be counted with both hands, but our friendship was built mainly on msn isnt? I missed the regular pop up of your nick showing that you have log on and the "Yoz whats up" line... i missed our complaining sessions and advice giving sessions too.

Its true what BooBoo said, that its amazing how you could still affect us in a positive way even with your passing on. We start to treasure ppl around us and be more tolerance with each other. More effort and attentions are given to let them know that we love them.

Ans to her call if u hear her and help her pass over this terrible period. Find peace at where ever you are and peace will flow to her.

@~ Bags ~@

Bernard and Guo Guang would be opening an online shopping sites whereby they would sell bags that they have gotten overseas. Thus yesterday, Law and i went over to help them take pics of ALL the bags to be put up in their site. Seriously speaking, their bags are quite good and they are very professional. They even went to buy valvet cloth to use as backdrop.


Bernard trying to make the handle of the bags to stand.


Our photographer


Bernard with the black backdrop

Cant resist the temptation after going thru the 80+ bags and in the end i got myself 1.




It took us about 5 hrs+ to finish all the bags! After the whole photo taking episode, everyone was hungry and tired, thus we went to the ever famous hawker store near his place to eat chicken wings. The store was closed the previous few times that we went there. But luckily it was open yesterday and we dun need to find alternative source of food.

After dinner, Law fetched me to Boat Quay, afterwhich he went back to join Bernard and gang for a round of chit chatting. As it was Serene's bday, they held a mini celebration for her at Mini Pub. Haa, remind me next time if its my bday, never agree to celebrate it in a pub/disco or what-so-ever...cos your fren would never miss the chance of getting you drunk. Luckily for me, i have told them before hand that i couldnt drink much, thus most of my "forfeit" drinks are being deal with by serene and her colleagues (thanks guys for helping me drink) But of cos i am not the "zu jiao" here thus they are still willing to help me drink :P For the whole night, they are playing a game called 350, whereby you are suppose to shake 7 dices at 1 go. In each tries, if there is a 1 or 5, you are suppose to take the dices out and to reshake the rest. Dice with a pt of 1 = 100 and 5 = 50. The aim of the game is to get at least 350 pts before you can pass the dice to the next player. At the beginning of the game, a drink would be mixed by the first player. Thus him/her could decide how much chivas or green tea or ice to put into the cup. In the even that after you have "shake" a round of dices and no 1 or 5 came up, that means you loose and have to drink. And when u get 500 pts in your round of shaking, you can further add alcohol into the drink. They have set a new rule last night that in the event 7 5s shown up in the "shake", all suppose to drink 1 cup each!!! It sounds hard to achieve right, but this scenario has turned up quite a few times last night! Thus before long, Serene got real drunk and went to puke, leaving me with her colleagues. Luckily her colleagues are a fun bunch and they are not boring at all. :)

The "lucky" 7 of 5s

Law came to pick me up at ard 2am. Bernard and him had decided to go to Loyang to pray pray, thus i decided to tag along. This is my second time there. The first time was with Law's sec school frens. But can see Bernard knows more of such staffs than Law's sec school frens as he is able to tell us the sequence of praying the various gods in the template. Reached home ard 4am+....dead tired....

Oh ya, and in the afternoon, on our way to Bernard, we saw this motorist with a "weird" box attached to his end of motor.

If you click on the pic and look at the box, u can see there are altogether 7 dinosaurs attached to the box together with 2 yellow duckies in the middle and a few trees to decorate the surrounding!!! *faints*

A poem for my dear fren

To say goodbye's impossible forever,

And yet we must too soon exchange goodbyes.

No magnitude of love when someone dies

Can manage the immensity of never.

Yet even death cannot our friendship sever

Though you may rest somewhere beyond our sighs

And all the talk of afterlife be lies.

Eternity is our brief glimpse of ever.

Even as each breeze must alter time

And each unruly rock reshape the sea,

So love lasts beyond our consciousness.

Each pulse of life's a piece of the sublime,

A breath so full of grace it cannot be,

A wave that ripples endlessly through darkness.

You would always be in our heart

The past few days have been a blur for me. So many things have happened within such a short period of time. With my colleague leaving and me taking over some of his duties, it has added to my already very packed workload. I must finished the audit and finalising of 4 companies' accounts by 30 Jun!! But at least i manage to get 1 account out last friday. Other than work, something devastating has also happened. A dear fren of mine has left us forever on 28 Mar...

Its really very amazing how life works out...at one point of time we were swimming and having supper, discussing and joking about how we are going to decorate our houses in the future, but then just in a matter of half an hr or so after we parted, he is gone..forever...

It has been a hard period for his family, gf and frens during the past few days. I was at his wake everyday and you can judge from the no. of ppl turning up at his wake, what kind of person he is.

Its really sad and furious to see some mindless ppl giving bad comments in the forum over the accident. They didnt know anything about the accident and they also dunno him, so how could they made such hurtful remarks. For these mindless ppl out there, hoped that what they have commented wont happen to them in their life and thanks for all those who sent their well wishes. Lets just hope that this is the end of it and everyone can move on.

To bro Y, no matter where you are now, please bless your family, gf and buddies and hope that they would get over it soon.

Cafe Delmar

Went in to Sentosa with Serene today. Our main aim is to go explore Delmar. Heard that its quite a cool place to chill out. Its a beach pub unlike the rest. They have the usual beach chairs, but in additional to that, they have "beds" on the beach. When i say beds, i really mean beds. Its like a four poster bed with "curtains". They also have large cushion seats, swimming pool and jacuzzis.

What we didnt expect is that, its so packed even at 2pm on a sunday afternoon!! All their beach chairs and beds were fully booked. Cant believe that ppl actually called to reserve the beach chairs for sun tanning....tot only tables at resturants required bookings...duhz...so we ended up indoor.




The outside , The bar counter



The beds corner (inside). Those cushion seats on the outside required a min spending of $200 then u r allowed to seat there...Cant imagine how much it would cost to seat on these beds.

Since we were already in Sentosa, we settle inside the cafe and ordered some food. The food is quite expensive. Just a plate of nachos cost abt $8. Haa, even though we didnt get to sun tan, but we still manage to stay indoors and laze ard for abt 3hrs! Its a bliss too, to stay in the air con whereby its burning outside!!


Nachos and our drinks


Me and Serene


When to look for Law for dinner at ard 7pm. The last time i waited for him at TOS (Taste of Singapore), i sat outside and i was bitten by some super posionous mosquitos. The bite swell up and it itch like hell! Even after 2 weeks, the marks are still there! So this time round, i went inside and sat by the side. After half an hr of waiting, was starting to feel bored, thus started taking pics :P




The shop; Spice of Life, which is opposite TOS. Basically it sells local flavour paste such as satay sauces, curry paste, prawn crackers, "cha ye tan".



Me!



After an hr of waiting......



Can see Law in the background...


In the end, waited for like 1hr+. Haa Law seeing that i was so angry, brought me to Sky bar for a glass of Sky Cooler (on the house, ie. treated by Fendi lah...)

KDF

Guess what...today, i was "given" the honour of taking over a "very good" job from my colleague who would be leaving the company by end of Mar. Its a charity organisation called Kidney Dialysis Foundation. The company is a little like NKF but of a smaller scale. This arrow was shot so last min, i felt like telling my manager off! The APM (audit planning meeting) is tomorrow at 930am and the agenda for the meeting was not even drawn up yet. Furthermore i have to attend another meeting today so that leaves me with very little time to understand the company and to come up with the agenda...hai...really poor management skill....even if they wanna shoot arrow, should have done it earlier so that we have time to prepare for it.

Anyway, luckily my meeting didnt last as long as the previous one (which took us more than half a day!) , thus i still manage to work out the agenda by today. After going through last year's files, found that this could be quite an interesting job. The audit approach would be quite different from the audits that i have done before. Am looking forward to it :) However the timeline crashes with 3 of my other jobs which would be running concurrently. So i hope that i wont drown in another series of peak period in Apr~May....wish me luck!

My hobbies

One of my hobby, other than msning, blogging, shopping, gossiping etc, is reading. I like to read books and i am even suprise with myself for saying that...lol...cos when i was in school, my langauges sucks and my english for O'level is almost a gone case. Never would i ever think of or even admit to myself that i like to read. It has became a routine in my life to read before i sleep. Guess the need to read has intensified during my peak period. It simply gave me a little window to escape from the stressful real world and to be transported to where the author is going to bring me.

I like to read Reader Digest and non-fiction stories, such as the life of a real character. My love for non-fiction stories came about after i read the life story of this Japanese Evil Cult leader when i was in secondary school. He was very famous at that time whereby he created a huge stir in Japan. Cant remember his name, but it really left a very deep impression in me. Other titles which i have read and liked includes, Wild Swan, Memory of a Geishan, The Rape of Nanking and Father of Cambodia, which talked about the life of a youngl girl during war time in Cambodia and how she managed to pull through.

I used to only read horror stories when i was younger and they includes series from Fear Street, Goosebums and the Vampire series by Anne Rice. But as i grew older, i also begins to like to read fiction stories. My recent favourite authors include Leasly Pearse and Jodi Picoult, whereby i am also collecting their series.

The newest addition to my Leasly Pearse collection is Hope. Just got it over the weekend and cant wait to start on it. :)


Daphne gave me an interesting book called The Train Man recently. The story was being written in an online forum style, whereby storyline goes with the posting from the author. Its just like reading an internet forum. A very innovative way of writing and looks very interesting. Would let you guys know abt it after i have finished reading it.