Last Friday night, Johor Sultan Iskandar Ismail passed away at the age of 77. at 7.15pm at the Puteri Specialist Hospital due to an illness.  He is survived by his wife, the Sultanah of Johor Sultanah Zanariah and 10 children.  The Sultan is honoured by improving ties between Malaysia and Singapore.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the Regent will be backing this up.
His eldest son, 51-year-old Tunku Ibrahim Ismail aka Jack’s neighbour, was appointed the Regent of Johor on Friday.
Everybody in Johor have to wear a black band (minmum of 3 inches) for 7 days to mourn his passing.  Last weekend during me and Jun’s many cruising around the streets see policemen stopping drivers on the road if they do not wear this black band.  Rumours go around saying that a fine of RM300 will be imposed on non-obliging Johorians.  No entertainment is allowed for 3 days, those caught will be fined about RM2,000.
Was SO bored the whole weekend.  BBQ on Friday night.  Boring wedding dinner on Saturday night. Followed by a lazy day of cruising the streets on Sunday and lots of DVDs to spend the day.
Best food of the night – Chicken wings!
Mickey bit Alan Pang that night. Was so worried.
Out for a drive around town! (sobs – check out my pimple.. its hurts)

my fave wanton noodles in JB has a website!! hahah

http://yitfoh.com/default.aspx

Our tribute to the late Sultan

Wedding dinner!

The dinner was not that good because of the emcee of the night who is so tactless, so crude, so humiliating.

Anyway – a rare sight.  Eden’s darkness during the best clubbing hours. (though i couldn’t care less. clubs can close for all they want)

discovered the magic of hunting crabs!

Had really nice prawn mee. (keep on eating….. lol!!)

cat around Sersing’s house

went to eat again! Strawberry cheese cake.  I took one mouth and asked Jack to share with me. LOL.

Tom Yam.  Unfortunately for me and Jack who have ordered this. :( Really horrible!! The fish was probably ‘expired’ and it wasn’t that good.  We were sick after eating it. ANGRY! won’t go to Cheelicious again!

OH. i made Jun happy 3 times last weekend. :P

Love him lots.

x


Resolutions

20Jan10

Sigh. Every year i write out my resolutions and every year they are almost the same.  Resolutions are so hard to keep, even when you so enthusiastically commit to listing them out at the beginning of each year.  Like what i say every time i write resolutions, i am SO going to try my best to keep up this year round…… fingers crossed!

The List

1.  Be the best girlfriend ever

Under this, a few things must be done.

  • learning how to cook! (this is also for me than for being a good girlfriend because i can’t be fixing maggi mee for dinner everytime my parents are out of town!!! Plus, i’ll love to have a hot meal for Jun when he’s hungry.. you know??)
  • Bake.
  • Be less messy (cause he gets irritated looking at my mess. :(  although i don’t find it ‘messy’, oh wells… at people’s house, better be clean anyway)
  • learn how to do domestic chores (something that i’ve always shunned from, but its not like i’ll always be able to depend on mum for life eh. shucks)
  • be happy (don’t be irritated easily…..)
  • avoid quarrels (when possible)
  • be willing to give and happy to take each time he asks for ………….
  • be loving and forgiving, just like that.

2.  Next on the list, its all about ME ME and ME!

  • don’t forget that i’m 21 and supposed to be having the most fun time of my life right now.
  • LOSE THE FATS!!!!!!!!!!!!! damn it..
  • put time aside to satisfy my vanity (including trying to fight the allergy against the false eye lashes, have a good beauty regime)
  • revamp the room (now, when will i ever get around to doing this and deleting this off the resolution listsss?
  • spanking new wardrobe! (sell the old ones, and bring in the new clothes)
  • Exercise more! Walk to the MRT Station every morning! (unless it rains/bus comes just when i reach the bus stop.. heheheh)

3. Travel

Places i hope to go this year

  • KL (before Jun leaves for Syd)
  • Sydney (April/August)
  • America (Nov/Dec)
  • Bangkok (Nov/Dec)

4.  School!!! Aim for the best!!

5.  Erm.. save $$. Put aside $800 every month!

6.  Meet up more with the friends and loved ones!

7.  Set up the shopping blog with Estie

8.  Career

9.  Be kind to people.

10.  Get married (i wish)


Had a great countdown but for many people i know (including me) its good to forget the aftermath of the countdown.

This year Jun brought me to Roost Bistro, a bistro which just opened this year in Eden.  It was fun while it lasted – going home was so disastrous.  Looking around the club you can see people falling over each other, being carried out by their friend/some stranger unconscious, fightings, pukes and mess everywhere.  I can’t count how many nipple slips and butt cracks i saw that night.. lol.  Such a disgrace yea? How can you let your bits and pieces hang out for the world to see??!! Sigh.. am i the only sober one on the first day of 2010? :P

Sersing drove the car from the carpark and took 2 hours plus to reach us cause of the crazy jam and we got home at about 4am.  Then Jun had to sent a very drunk GUY back home and by the time Jun got home, i was totally knocked out.  The next morning, i didn’t even realise he went off to work! I only knew when he came back at 2+ and he also knocked out on the bed.

Saturday he was so cute too.  The alarm rang at 7.30 and he told me that its time for him to go to work and i was like.. its SATURDAY!!!

Oh wells. Pictures of the sober part of the night!

with the cousins

First kiss of 2010. Fireworks all around.. :)

Picture of the girls

another kiss to end off the night!

Gosh. Crazy 2010!!


2009

07Jan10

As we leave 2009 behind, here’s to a better year ahead!

What happened in 2009 stays in 2009

1) Started my degree in Psychology & Marketing (Murdoch University – Kaplan)

2) Had a pretty fun but quiet CNY and spent some days at Jun’s house + my house

3) Spent my 21st birthday in Bangkok with Jun, Wenzy & Niko which is my first time going to Bangkok with my friends. Can’t get enough of the shopping, massage and food paradise!

4) Our third V-day together where we went to Manhatten Fish Market for lunch and i was so sick.  Plus night time at De Bali

i just love you so much baby..

5) Tried lukluk for the first time! Quite like it except for the prices…

6) developed a sudden allergy to my false eyelashes (i’m working to overcome this in my new year reso!)

7) Jun moved into his new house and we adopted Mickey!

8) Got baptised.

9) Went to KL and got type A influenza and was down for one week and daddy’s job got affected by economy.

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My top 9 fave food!

1) CRABS!! Everybody who knows me know how i am obsessed with crabs.. Pepper Crabs, Chilli Crabs, Butter Crabs, Crabs everything!

2) Drunken prawns.. The tops are from Jumbo Seafood Restaurant, No Signboard Restaurant and Mellban.

3) Tom Yam. (1) by mum, (2) in BKK, (3) StoneGrill, (4) Yummy Steamboat

4) Kimchi (maggi mee & kimchi fried rice from Galbi, & kimchi soup from Kobayashi)

5) Tonkatsu from Tonkichi.. BEST pork cutlets EVER!

6) Sashimi (best i ever had in Fullerton)

7) Lobster (lobster bisque & lobster sashimi)

8) Modanyaki (Kobayashi)

9) Fish & Chips from Fish&Co

10) Beef!

11) Wanton Mee (the one that Jun and me always go to) and the one from Pontian!

12) Dried Beehoon with Soup full of seafood.. super nice during supper time!

13) Kimdo’s BBQ! Love the fake abalone, chicken wings, sotong, long beans!! Wooot!

14) Pho Hoa’s fabulous vietnamese beef noodles!


I had a great Christmas! Spent 4 days with my love (although I only reached Malaysia at about 7pm which was much later than expected due to a very very bad human jam for 2.5 hours), i still made it for Christmas Eve Dinner!

I had absolutely no appetite by the time we reached JCSC for dinner, but the indian food was SO GOOD! love the curry which was not too heavy yet with just the right amount of spiciness and fragrance so i ended up eating 2 plates.  Really yummy!

Here’s me with my christmas-eve dress No. 2, a really pretty dress sought by a very chirpy and bright sales person who i absolutely adore.

with his parents

After dinner me and Jun met up with some of his friends and we went over to De Cottage’s opening in Mount Austin.  Here’s some of my fave pictures of the night!

love our new toys of the night

countdown to Christmas at La Primeur

And its Christmas!  Fake snowflakes complete the christmas-y spirit

It was so fun that night.. Learned how to play dices and tze phern was so entertaining because he keeps drinking cause of the games! lol.  Love kissing the boyfriend at Christmas sharp exactly.. So happy! The next day was Christmas lunch in my kulai house with the parents.  We invited Jun and his parents over so we drove over early afternoon and had turkey, prawn fritters, ham, beef and cakes.  Lots of alcohol in the house and we ended up spending the whole day over chatting and hanging out.  Left my house around 6+ and had pizza for dinner because we were all way too full. Night was another night partying in La Primeur (which wasn’t crowded like the night before)

eating (AGAIN). love lukluks!

some pictures of Christmas

behold SUPPER after La Primeur (yes, eating again) and lunch (cause we wake up so late!) on Saturday where me and Jun spent the day lounging in the house and watched Mulan and the Bastards (Anti-Nazi show).  Mulan was so good! Made me cry though.. the Bastards is just way too damn funny and me and Jun went through our favourite parts right after the show ended.

Dinner (another really good one) was at Yummy Steamboat, i think is one of my fave steamboat places in JB just because of its convenient layout (although quite ex) and the chilli!  Breakfast Sunday morning was nasi otah which is quite good though the smell will stick with you for a good time after eating there.

helped to clean the house a little after breakfast and was exhausted after that.  Jun found a little frog in the garden and it was such a lazyyy frog! it doesn’t really care about us and move one step only when prodded with a stick.  Wonder if its injured or just sleepy.. eheh.  Had bak ku teh for lunch.  Didn’t really like it as it was too light and clear.. Prefer the one Jun always brought me to.. But i was hungryyyyy after all that cleaning up..

Some of the presents!

and what’s christmas without the decorations and lights along Orchard Road!

beautifully decorated rocher christmas tree, carolling and spreading the herald of Christ

This aunty is way toooo cute!

walking along the crowded streets of town.

shopping for presents for each other. LOL. this part is so funny.

edible christmas tree made of mocassins and tooth-ache guaranteed snowman!

i love Christmassss! <3


21

10Dec09

Thanks for the birthday loves

http://nontoxicrayons.blogspot.com/2009/12/xoxo.html

http://enxin.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/happy-bday-nc/#respond

and everybody who made the effort. NO. i really don’t wish to turn 21. :(

Here’s me getting drunk.. happy after the last of the two main assignments!!  (no luck of that though cause jun kept stealing my drink) hoping that i won’t be sad when the clock ticks 12… :(

Oh yea. birthday luck! i win so many times!!! hahahahhaha. poor jack. about 3 games i got all the trump cards.. while jun and alex played pool and neglected me.

omg check out the eyebags – that’s what assignments do to you. :( more makeup please!

lol. mickey wishing me happy birthday. i think i look like a panda in this picture! love it!

Kung Fu Panda

BBQ at Jun’s house

the friends

the families

(yes wenzy is now my NEW SISTER)

Lots of love to aunty and Jun for preparing the party

Thanks for the presents (JUN WHERE’S MY PRESENT?)

no more excuses to credit card hawkers and other touter  (Sorry i’m not 21 yet ya?)

i’m getting OLD. how sad is this?

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am still due to celebrate with Iswan and Bren and my classmates after my exam!

yeaa the keyword is after.

i should really stop shopping and focus on studying….. grrrr.

Wait let me do something childish! I loved doing these type of surveys when i was younger.. so now its Moon’s era. i stole this from her blog.

57 Girl Confessions

1. Is it cute when guys kiss you on your forehead? depends on the guy really. if the guy isn’t cute, no way it’ll be cute.
2. A big poofy dress or a short party dress? a big poofy short party dress!

3. What would you do if you received a long love letter? again this is subjective…. *hint hint* Jun?

4. Group dates or single dates? single dates and double dates are fine but not group dates.

5. Do you hate it when guys act different around their friends? don’t we all do this?

6. Are diamonds a girl’s best friend? i prefer dog.

7. Is your hair up or down today? down, messy. ;(

8. Do you straighten your hair? nope.. should i?

9. Favorite mascara? false eyelashes anytime

10. Do you get your nails done? no

11. Small or large purses? big enough to fit all my cards (yeaa i’m a cards collector)

12. In your purse, what do you have? cards from almost every shop i go to which have cards/loyalty programs, cash, the usual cards like ID, bank cards, EZ-link, picture of me and Jun.

13. Jeans or sweats? don’t wear jeans nor sweats

14. Do you wear clothes/shoes/jewelry no i honestly go around naked, without footwear. the only jewelry i wear is the necklace jun gave me.

that’s uncomfortable? uncomfortable attracting all that stares and photoshoots!
15. Do you text message a lot? not as much as before.

16. What would you do if you got pregnant? that will NOT happen.

17. What’s your favorite color? | | | | alot alot!

18. Heels or flats? flats for the moment

19. Did you ever cry during a romantic movie? erm. depends. i cry easily during movies.

20. Would you ever leave the house without make-up on? yeaaah! (GETTING OLD RIGHT? SHIT)

21. Walmart or Target? Walmart

22. Do you wear collared shirts? when i have to go to court ;(

23. Do you like preppy boys? i guess.

24. Do you think lip gloss is the best? not when you get allergic reactions from them.

25. Do you own any big sunglasses? Yep!

26. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning? 25 minutes.. well usually its longer, but i cut down alot of things so that i can snooze longer…. sighh. beauty sleep = no time for wearing contact lens, conditioning hair, moisturise body, putting sunblock, makeup etc….

27. Do you like to wear band-aids? ehh no! but there’s a period of time i pasted bandaids to decorate my hands and fingers.. even the face. YES IT WAS COOL ONE UPON A TIME.

28. Do you like skater boys? no. but i like watching stunts!

29. Do you often wish there was something you could change? of course!!

30. Gold or silver? gold

31. Do you like to receive flowers? yes i love flowers! the most frilly, impractical and expensive things which makes a girl happy.

32. Do you like surfer boys? no. i don’t know how to surf. so i probably won’t get along with a tanned beach type of guy although they do look tasty. reminds me of douglas’s strawberry chocolate palms

33. Do you dress up for the holidays? yeaa! no point dressing up for work. :(

34. Do you like to wear dresses? yup. wear them almost everyday.

35. On a scale of 1-10 how much do guys confuse you? i don’t know. 3?

36. In the last 48 hours have you hung out with a guy? nope. hung out with my books.

37. Would you date a guy shorter than you? no

38. Do you like to hold hands? i prefer hooking arms

39. What is the youngest you would date? same age as me.

40. What is the oldest you would date? younger than my dad.

41. What do you notice when you first meet a guy? of course how the way he looks. that’s what really matters. his facial features, body, hair, clothes, the works.

42. Is it hott when guys sweat? MMMM. i love it when Jun sweats ALOT. ;)

43. What is the best feature in a guy? deep manly voice, muscular body and eyes

44. Do you like making eye contact? yes

46. Would you kill for chocolate? yes

47. Did you ever spend all day/night getting pretty for a guy? no

48. On a scale from 1-10 how fun is shopping? 7

49. Do you freak out if you miss your  favorite show? NO

50. Do you yell a lot? no

51. Do you wear sweatpants/pajamas to school/work?

52. Have you ever dressed unlike yourself to impress a guy? yes.

53. Do you write a lot of mushy love poems? No. but i like it when guys write them for me.

54. What makeup could you not live w/out? i used to think its false eyelashes. now that i’m forced to live without them, i can’t live without eyeliner, and my bb cream.

55. Do you fall in love easily? with items, yes.
56. Do you have cramps? urrgh. stupid horrible cramps.

57. Do you think you have the bestest boyfriend ever? yes!


November was a really hectic month.  Up in my eyeballs in an endless stream of work, assignments, and there was no time to do much exam preparation or birthday preparations.  However, i am so amazed at myself for managing to squeeze in a short trip to BKK to celebrate my birthday.  i simply love BKK alot for their food and shopping. i love the colourful taxis, the tuktuks and the cheap massages. My BKK mates this time is Jun, Wenzy & Nikolai.

After waking up at an unearthy hour of 5am, we met up at the airport at about 5.30am.  There was a few mishaps along the way… in my attempt to flag down a cab to get to the airport, i enthusiastically flagged down a police car which stopped and talked to us. :(

i hate flying on airplanes, especially the taking off and landing. i usually hate the food they serve too. but this time apparently there won’t be any food served on Tiger Airways. not that i care. Haha. didn’t get to sit with Jun on the plane but i played cards with wen-ko (wenzy + niko).

its a big difference with travelling with my family and friends!!!! my daddy will only bring us to siam paragon and other ’singapore-like’ shopping centres.  and with friends we have to save $$ on hotels, food and travel (no chauffeur already)… and with friends we get the chance to explore wierd places that our parents will never bring us to.

we stayed at Petchburi CentrePoint. plenty of asians, unenthusiastic receptionists :( still, quite a homely room! :) Location is also friendly with some major wholesale shopping centres and a great massage parlour.

first thing we did was to dump our luggage at the hotel reception and went out in search of thai food! we got to try street food which i never even think of trying before. lol. wenzy recommended nice fried chicken along the roadside while we walk to some place to get lunch.

i’m quite fascinated with the monopoly money they use at food courts! hehe.

thai food! <3

we went to shop afterthat.. bought a lot of clothes and then start to feel tired for waking up way too early  so we had no choice but to rest before continuing!

i love wholesale shopping! u have to get about 3 pieces to get the wholesale price.. and more often than not i save alot of money by only liking 1 thing in the entire shop, but didn’t want to pay the higher price so i moved on. :P checked in at the hotel around noon time.

random but Jun kept playing with my hoodie. so cute.

we finally got to check into our rooms. bathed and rest for awhile before heading out for dinner.

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plus a huge bed! i can’t resist taking a picture of our loots!

i was feeling sick so i went to take a nap after a nice long hot bath while jun went to buy some food and drinks. he got these meat and fish balls and sausages (only 10BHT each!). i didn’t really like them though, so i went back to sleep.

i love my new jacket!

our hotelroom overlooks the BKK scenery which is great at night but opening that balcony once allowed mosquitoes in and they kept biting me. :(

headed out to suan lam for dinner.

Us getting the much needed massage before going back to sleeep.

Day 2

Everybody’s grumpy in the morning except Jun after he discovered the butter.

he even made wenzy laugh.

I was still sick and sneezing so we decided to sun ourselves. LOL! (without avail since i was still SICK)

the obligatory swing picture! wenzy jumped on it and the whole swing went crazy and shocked me.

on the cab for more shopping!

then afterthat we met up with wenzy and niko to go for lunch

my tomyam goong! the best tomyam i tasted this trip.

thai massage which was really ticklish and i dozed off halfway.

after having dinner we tried to watch tiger show at patpong. TRIED cause wenzy chickened out. :P :P :P :P and i kept going to toilet so we risked our lives alot of times when we have to cross the road. :(

i simply love naraya!! want to get ALL their bags!! so sad i don’t have alot of $$ so…. :( can never catch up to wenzy now.

@Siam Paragon

this thai crepe must be one of my favorite food in thailand!

shopping in MBK…

lol. totally agree.

my fave slogan plus my fave thai dessert – homemade coconut icecream in baby coconut!

-end of trip-


5!

10Nov09

yipes! doing a countdown til Jun’s back. So excited.

Been totally bogged out this week from work and assignments. birthday? What birthday. PFFFFT.

- Rant Start -

Sat like zombie in front of the computer at home  for most of the past weekend, and i forsee similar circumstances this weekend. :(

I still think we do get to learn a lot from our assignments, although it’ll be great if we have more time to do it.

Am seriously getting over-stressed out.

By the way, i hate my phone. It is absolutely unreliable and i am sick of it. Now nobody can contact me and i’m really pissed off.

i don’t need such trivial things to aggravate my situation now right?

Shall go back to work my brains out. Hello sleep depravity and eye-bags.

- End Rant -

Back to work.

I love Jun.


i’m old

28Oct09

Last weekend, my assignments are over! Yay!

And after last weekend, my freedom is over too. Time to get started on the new assignments. Never ending stream of assignments. :(

What i want to do is to curl up in bed until a great time, preferably after 12pm. Go to the country club to get my increasingly sluggish body working in the gym, fall asleep by the pool, and then steam myself out in the sauna.. Head to my fave steamboat place after that for dinner or to some japanese restaurant for some premium sashimi before going home to watch naruto or the Tudors until its time to sleep and begin a new day.

Now, my club membership is expiring soon, i don’t go to the pool any more, and the steamboat place has closed down.

What i can look forward to, is a nice holiday retreat to celebrate my birthday and to go to Malaysia during weekends with Jun. I also look forward to Halloween and Christmas. I don’t think i will get to celebrate Halloween this year, BUT i will at least cozy up at home with some scary movies and then spend the next day studying.

The other day Enxin told me that i wasn’t as fun anymore. The life i had, had been sucked up by the mundane working life, those which I thought will never happen to me when i was younger and spending my days lounging by the pool with my best friends, and putting chips into plastic containers so that they’ll float on the water.. talking about the future and everything under the sun, going to town afterwards, planning on what to buy, changing manicures every other day, or every single day for that matter.. and eating all that food and the words ‘fat’ and ‘ugly’ are never in our vocabulary.

Then it was life working in Night Safari, my first proper job which i have difficulty going to on time, punctuality doesn’t hold anything to me at that time. I do as i wish and i never had to care about time outside of school and movie theaters. All those late night suppers after work, driving to Changi Village just for the heck of it, Ala-meen, random mamak stores or spending the night out at East Coast Park, prawning and seletar. And then i love the food and the friendly staffs working there as well and having fun with the tribal dancers, watching the animal shows and walking to East Lodge in the dark, scared of ghosts and snakes. I love looking at the animals all night long, jumping on the tram whenever and to help people have a wonderful experience there.

After graduation, i should have went to have more fun before settling down into the mundanes of the working life. I wish i have more time to really enjoy my life, to spend every day with Jun and my family and close friends and to volunteer at ASD. I don’t know why people actually look forward to working, is the money really such a big deal? I guess it is.

18 more days til Jun come back!


TENG JUN HAO.

i’m sure you will be very surprised when you see this.

guess what i found on the dining table two days ago! my mum was like. oh enci do you want this? and i was like OMGGGG!

that was us with our first couple t-shirt from Levis. I was quite shocked that you actually bought it for us, since we weren’t really together yet at that time. when i said i wanted matching t-shirts. i love it though. let’s wear it again when you’re back?


and check out my hairstyle. :( love your hairstyle though.

we did love taking neocards at that time eh. and and, it reminds me of the time where you’ll come over to meet me at cwp and we’ll go for movies and dinner and then you’ll go back to JB. such fun dating times.. makes me feel almost young again. :P we should totally do it more.

don’t you think so?