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2011 at a glance…
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
I do this every year and this year will not be an exception. 
- Started off as a Blackberry user, had upgraded from the BB 9700 to the BB Torch and at the end of this year? Swopped over to the iPhone gang. -_-”.
- The craze of Staycations continued. Quincy Hotel, Grand Park City Hall Hotel, Five Stones Hostel and Oasia Hotel.
- Changed jobs. Had a good time at Pepperconn, really missed the folks and offizcat! Am back at Asiasoft
- Turned 27. Had an early surprise birthday celebration with the girls. ChingChongBoy wowed me on the day itself.
- Changed hair colour drasticallllllly! Decorated the ugliest cake ever.
- Started doing tutorials: Newspaper nails, Salmon nails, Polka dot nails, Removing glitter nail polish,
- Was a Whisper Ambassador. Had a lovely pampering session for my readers.
- Attended my first rally. Spoofed Tin Pei Ling again and again. Voted for the first time ever!
- Traveled to Batam, KL with BFF, Star Virgo to Ho Chi Minh and Redang,
- Celebrated ChingChongBoy’s bday.
- Flewwwwwww at iFly! Took up dance lessons at Mosaic Dance.
- Ran my first half marathon. Attended NAPBAS.
- ChingChongBoy proposed! Shocked! Am now engaged. hurhur.
It’s been a great 2011 so far! Hope 2012 will be a better year! 
I can’t call chingchongboy my boyfriend anymore…
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Looks like I’ll have to call him my fiancé!
Coincidence much?
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Wow. I changed my blog title ages ago to reflect the various topics I write about. Was advised to do so early this year by Wen. Most bloggers have the same title, it’s all about simple seo. So I changed it, indicated the topics and also added in a silly topic: “Life and Fun!” . Imagine my surprise when I saw another blog also indicating life & fun (a simple search showed a cached of “Life and Fun!” previously used) as one of the topics. Life as a topic is pretty common. But Life and Fun? Hmmmm. Coincidence much?
4 days of celebration – Surprise party at St James
Monday, October 18th, 2010Please refer to these posts before reading this. (else you no head no tail wor!).
4 days of celebration – The pre-celebration
4 days of celebration – Kidnapped to Wanderlust
4 days of celebration – Wagyu Steak at Pan Pac
While some of you faithful readers may know, I was going to the Johnnie Walker Jet Black party. I had told the boy I had to attend the party because my previous company (I used to work for Grayling) was organising the party and I was there to support. I had also held the contest and I would need to go meet the reader who had won my contest. (Who I didn’t meet. Bruce! Where were you?!)
What the bf didn’t know was that I had secured a guestlist and had invited his friends so as to spring a surprise for him.
While we were at dinner, I was bbming his best friend details and all. Stefan had told me to stall and arrive later as there was a delay. I had to make a lot of excuses! Somemore, when we were at Wanderlust surfing on my netbook. We had my Facebook page open and he accidentally saw my message to his friend Sharon asking if she was heading to Powerhouse!
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I really thought the surprise was screwed. He asked me suspiciously what was that about and I stammered and stuttered and came up with some lame excuse that I had an extra invite and thought to invite her since “girls mah, closer!”.
It was really a lame excuse cause he would usually call Stefan first and I was really not close to his friends to have invited them without asking him to do so instead.
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Crazy loads of pictures taken that day.
Much love to the awesome Kenny Yap who is also the person who referred me the job at Grayling!
The boy’s friends were inside waiting at our table and I hurriedly walked infront so that he couldn’t see them first. Kenny said to him “Oh there isn’t much tables left so you’ll have to share with some guys.”
So when ching chong boy saw some people at the table, he didn’t think too much about it.
Picture by Isaac.
Surprise! The boy was really really surprised! Even more surprised than with Wanderlust and he couldn’t stop grinning ear to ear.
YAY! Surprise party PASSED!
Bumped into Crystal and Corde there!
Honestly it was a bit weird introducing Corde to the bf. Reason being.. Corde is actually Tiger’s blood sis. She felt weird too. I dunno how to explain the feeling but all’s good!
Loads more pics!
Yen took this picture of us dancing. Not the most flattering for me but I love it. Thanks babe!
With Eileen and Mus, my fave clubbing kakis!
Stefan (the one on the left), my partner in crime for the surprise birthday party. Thanks bro!
My favourite group shot of the night!
The party was great fun and the free flow of Johnnie Walker totally hit the spot. We partied till like 4am and the rest wanted to head to Nana to continue the party but the boy and I decided to call it a night.
It was great fun and I’m happy that the party went well. Thanks Grayling and Kenny!
Pictures were taken with the G11.
4 days of celebration: Kidnapped to Wanderlust!
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010Please refer to these posts before reading this. (else you no head no tail wor!).
4 days of celebration – The pre-celebration
I had originally told the bf that we were going to stay over at my place as my parents were not in Singapore. That was the only way to get him to pack his barangs barangs over without being suspicious!
I had told him I would be going to AMK to collect some spree items and that I will fetch him at his place and we would head to my place.
Got a cab and fetched him. I had conspired with the taxi driver earlier and told him to not mention the venue or say anything till the bf has worn the headphones and blindfolds. hurhur.
Kidnapped!
Pardon the makeupless face.
You know what?! The boy knew we weren’t headed to my place because he could feel the taxi turning a different direction than how it would have gone if it were heading to my place.
WTF.
Soon we arrived at Dickson Road. As ching chong boy have never heard of Wanderlust Hotel before, he thought we were there for either food. He gave me a suspicious look as there was a Hotel81 opposite Wanderlust.
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Later when I told him we were going to Wanderlust for a staycation, he was so shocked. Heh. Yay. Success!
Pictures of Wanderlust here:
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Love the decor!
We were hungry and decided to go to the nearby coffee shop. First time trying chicken rice balls. Damn shiokkers!
After lunch, we were given a tour of the other rooms. So chio! Wonder when am I able to stay in the other rooms!
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Pity the boy didn’t bring his swimming trunks else we could have tried the outdoor jacuzzi!
Finally went to our room!
The room was fantastic! Some pictures of the room. Thanks Michelle for helping with the reservation! Much love! <3
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The room comes with free drinks! Awesome!
Even comes with a Nespresso machine. The bf was in heaven.
He would happily sip his nespresso every now and then. I don’t drink coffee at all so I really couldn’t understand his utter delight.
That shiok ah?
We got ready and dressed up for dinner!
methinks i need a new hair colour.
Can you spot someone in the background doing his hair? :p the bf isn’t too happy with his haircut.
Outfit of the day: Black toga from $28 shop in Citylink, leggings and black heels.
with the birthday boy!
Heh. The silly boy wanted to climb the stairs!
Outfit of the day pic outside the hotel.
And we were off for dinner! Check out the next post for updates! All pictures were taken with the G11!
My first 10km run!
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010I first decided to challenge myself to run 10km last year. and so I did after seeking some advise from friends like Josephine…
I signed up with her for the GE 10km run and while I had many grand plans to start training months in advance etc and all, truth to be told, I only managed to run one round of Bedok Reservoir Park weeks before the run.
Ching chong boy kindly fetched me before the run and waited throughout while I went for my run. So sweet of him! <3
I met up with Jo and we camwhored before going for the run…
Looking at our numbers, you can see that I signed up way later than Jo did! Quite happy that I could put “nadnut” on my bib!
Please pardon the makeupless face!
Truth to be told, I did not expect the crowd at all. There were many instances where I was rudely shoved and nearly fell but I guess it should be expected with the number of people there.
We had wanted to run together but in the end, we split up. The first few kms were easy but nearing the end, my muscles were shouting in protest and I really had to push myself to finish the run.
I was pretty satisfied with my race timing considering the fact that this lazy piece of lard did not exercise at all. I finished a few seconds shy of 1 hour and 30 mins!
Some super unglam pictures of sweaty old me.
Hooray!
I later pushed myself to go for another run in the later part of the year with the mothership!
This time it was the Stanchart run. Mum had signed up for her first 10km and I was a bit worried about her.
We ran together and whenever she stopped, I encouraged her to continue and even ran the last 5km hand in hand. I even had to half drag her for the last km! LOL! I’m so proud of her! 53 years old and she finished a 10km run! I want to do another run with her hand in hand. It was a great mother-daughter bonding session for both of us.
Reason why I’m writing this post is to remind myself that the (what seems) impossible for me can be achieved!
This year, I’ve signed up for the Shape Run (10km) and sadly none of my friends will be going with me. Anyone else going? Shall we encourage each other?
For the Stanchart run later this year, I’ll be going with Ching Chong Boy! I’ve also signed up for the Ge10k this year, anyone else going too? I hope to be able to stop procrastinating and start training and hopefully in a few years time, I’ll be able to complete my first half marathon!
And if you do see me at the Shape Run this year, please do say hi! (and ignore the ugly makeupless face!)
Please do share your stories of your accomplishments or training methods! If you have a running schedule, do share!
Now lie back and open wide.
Friday, July 9th, 2010As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to sign up for a pap smear and my HPV vaccine and I did!
Here’s my account of the pap smear that I did.
I have never had a regular gynae before or even seen a gynae before so this experience was a bit of an eye-opener for me.
I went to a family clinic which was near my driving centre. (been walking past it so much that the clinic was the first I remembered after deciding to go for a pap smear.)
When I first found out that the doctor was a male, I was a bit concerned. Afterall in my opinion, if there is going to be a doc poking around my bits, shouldn’t it be a female?
I however did not want to search for any other clinics and quickly asked my girlfriends about their thoughts on a male doc and almost all came back positive! That made me feel better and I decided to go through it.
Basically I was asked to lie down on the table and to remove my underwear. A female nurse was there with me throughout. I was asked to lie back and be in the “giving birth” position and well… basically open wide. The doctor was very professional and “matter of fact” like which made it really less embarrassing.
A speculum after being applied with liberal amounts of KY Jelly (to ease insertion) was inserted into me. Truth to be told, it was a bit painful for me. I guess I was pretty tensed up. The nurse kept asking me to breathe in and to relax. There was a slight discomfort but the speculum had to be inserted deep to allow the doctor to obtain samples from the cervix.
After the speculum is inserted properly, a spatula (which reminds me of a plastic ice cream stick) and a brush (which reminded me of a mascara brush) was used to obtain samples. Gathering of samples did not hurt at all in this case. After everything was done, I noticed that there was blood on the brush. Weirdly there wasn’t any pain.
I did have a bit of light spotting after the whole pap smear but there was no discomfort after that. In fact, the whole pap smear happened so fast and the slight pain was really nothing at all.
The pap smear plus consultation costs about $40ish for me and I think it’s money well spent. All you need to do is go for a pap smear once every three years. If you ask me if I would do it again, I would. Why not?
If you can’t prevent (by going for a HPV vaccination), at least be aware. Going for regular pap smears can help reduce your risk of developing cervical cancer.
Do it! I’ll be going for my HPV Vaccination soon. (despite being super duper afraid of injections).
Feel free to ask questions here! Or share stories about your pap smears or hpv vaccinations. I would love to hear more from you guys!
Dear familiar stranger,
Monday, July 5th, 2010Dear familiar stranger,
It’s been a while since we last spoke. How have you been? I see that you’ve had some changes in your life. I had a few too… but you probably already know that from my blog/facebook.
Sometimes I regret the decisions I made, the words not spoken, things that help escalate the problems between us. I really do miss you.
I miss the times we spent together. I miss having you around. You were like my best friend, my soul mate, my confidante. I really doubt things will change between us.
It feels like its so hard to even be friends. I guess things happen for a reason. I hope we’ll be friends though.
Ah well. Hope things change and if not, I’ll always remember the good times. You take care now.
Love,
Me
