After a year of Singapore nightlife drought, I finally stepped foot into Clarke Quay again tonight.

Surprisingly though, no high heels, no ID checks and no dancing.

But yes, alcohol was involved. And I had a good time.

I had dinner with JW at the really yummy Ramen place at Liang Court, then we headed over to Cafe Iguana to have their ‘Macho Margarita’ which was friggin MASSIVE. I swear I did not think it was going to be that big. But it was good. And somehow managed to finish it between the two of us (i think I had more than half of it!) Vi and Ed came and joined us at around 10ish. We had to leave around 11ish because we all had to take the MRT back and my last train is about 11:40 at city hall. (Actually, I don’t really know exactly what time the last train is for a saturday night, but the last time i checked it was 11:40pm from City Hall… Oh well. I managed to get home. Although my time with the girls and Edmund was cut short )

I was singing to myself ‘Love like this’ on the mrt back but then I don’t really know how to sing it and i wanted to try and stop my obsession, So i listened to Taylor Swift instead. Didn’t quite work though. As soon as I turned off Taylor, another SS501 song started playing in my head.

I’m still looking forward to Taylor Swift’s concert on the 12th of February though. *yay*!

So yea… I think I’m growing out of the whole clubbing thing. I mean, I love dancing in clubs still, but I don’t miss it as much as I used to I guess… It’s a bit like, I don’t care if I go or don’t go. If I go then it’s all good and I have fun, but if I don’t have the chance to go, I’m not that bummed about it.

I’d rather spend my day out shopping. Haha! I went to Bugis with mum today. Bought myself a really pretty blouse (i think its pretty!) on super discount which always makes me happy. Bought a new bag yesterday too at half price to replace my white one which is ripping on the inside

But yah. Discounts and sales and getting things half the original price makes me happy.  :)

Oh, and shoe shopping. Shoe shopping makes me happy too. Not that I buy lots of shoes, but I just like going around looking for something nice~

Hi all I’m back in singapore

The cough I developed when I went to Europe seems to have come back to haunt me and my family. So now every night I’m coughing like a smoker and I wake up with a painfully sore throat which lasts through the day and as soon as it doesn’t feel too bad anymore (it usually gets better after eating… o.O) i start coughing again and the vicious cycle continues. I’ve been sneezing and being kinda flu-ey the past couple of days too. But no signs of that today as of yet… so hopefully that’s gone.

This is so frustrating. I hate feeling tired all the time.

Maybe I’m tired because I haven’t been doing anything…? You know how people say you feel a lot more energetic after doing some exercise and being active…

But if you’re not feeling well the best remedy is rest, rest, and more rest. Right??

So what should I do??

Complaining aside…

For about 3-4 days I was stuck watching the Korean drama Boys Over Flowers. If you’re a girl, and you have some free time (around 25 hours) I suggest you watch it. All episodes can be found online. If you need a link, ask me But that show would put anyone in gaga land… So be careful. haha.

I also met Ritz again, this time for drinks at New Asia Bar. It’s located on the 70th floor of the um… raffles hotel building or something. The view was amazing. We also saw a really low cloud outside the window. That was a little strange. But I really like that place. So thanks Ritz for bringing me there!

Came the weekend… we drove up to Kuantan for my Grandfather’s 81st birthday celebration or was it the 82nd… I’m not too sure :S the reason for the strange age for celebration is that when he turned 80 it was just a little while after my grandmother passed away, so we didn’t want to have a celebration then. So my uncles organised a dinner this year. 5 tables, a little private dining area in some restaurant in Kuantan. Good food, and good company i guess. I finally get to meet my cousins. I couldn’t really recognise one of them because well… they’re at that age where they suddenly Grow and you come back a couple of years later and they’re not the same people anymore… So i thought he was his older brother when he’s not. ><

It was nice for me cuz I won’t be there for Chinese New Year again this year. So yah. Mini reunion. Just like the wedding dinner we had in Penang.

I got to walk down the beach and check out the new E.C. Mall in Kuantan (well, not so new anymore its about 2 years old but i haven’t seen it) and it was a nice big place with another cinema and all…  Then I spent sunday night with my primary school bestie and we had so much to talk about there wasn’t enough time because the kopitiam closed and we couldn’t stay out so late anyway…

And by monday night we’re back in Singapore.

And I’m like a slug. Sleeping in the car almost the whole way back (or trying to sleep… cars arent very comfortable~) and sleeping at home and staying home being all sluggish…

not sure how much sense im making now…. heheh.

Anyway… time to get off the computer. I’ve been youtube-ing quite a lot… guess since in Adelaide I’m restricted with the amount of internet usage I have~

time to play some tunes on the piano. Or should i say, make some noise?

1) Stayed up all night and took the first MRT on the 1st of Jan 2009 to get home from the New Year celebrations.

2) Worked in a laboratory with bacteria and DNA, visited a chicken abattoir, and hand-picked chicken poo… and got paid for it.

3) Spent Chinese New Year with my best friend’s boyfriend and his friends. Also won $5 from playing poker with them (pretty good for someone who’s never played poker before) haha!

4) Survived the hottest day in Adelaide- 45.7C, and two 40+ heatwaves.

5) Went crabbing. Caught nothing but one baby crab.

6) Found a place in a new group of friends from work.

7) Officially became the president of the Malaysian Students Association for the year, and successfully ran the club and handed over a still-functional club to the next successor. Yay!

8 ) Had a crazy crush. Became friends with his best friend…

9) Got a new piercing.

10) Turned 21. With lots of love

11) Finished my 200 hours of Pharmacy work-experience.

12) Learnt how to dance (ballroom) and got medals to prove it.

13) Made a wrong friend that turned out to be the biggest problem of the year, and (thankfully) resolved it.

14) Visited a doctor in Adelaide for the first time.

15) Went to Sydney, walked for an hour in new high heeled boots, and still managed to dance and walk back to the hotel.

16) Visited Dom and Mjelva (when in Sydney). Had coffee at the harbour and went to the opera house at 2am.

17) Ate a teaspoon of chopped raw garlic.

18) Watched Phantom of the Opera.

19) Walked along the Torrens River with pretty lanterns to celebrate the Moon Lantern Festival (or the Mooncake festival)

20) Went to the Flinders Ranges, and saw the most beautiful night sky. Also saw lots of road-killed kangaroos…

21) Carried a Koala!

22) Cycled to the south parks of Adelaide with a friend I hardly knew.

23) Went on a Buddhist camp, learnt a lot. Went vegetarian for a few days, ate blindfolded, learnt meditation. Was probably one of the best getaways I’ve been on.

24) Campaigned and ran for student representative, got elected, and then resigned.

25) Played lots of Bejeweled.

26) Cried in uni.

27) Drank lots of coffee. (I think caffeine is starting to have less effect on me…)

28) Made lots of new friends. From Adelaide uni, from Work, and from Pharmacy too. I don’t know why it took me so long to get to know some of them…

29) Celebrated Deepavali with yummy muruku!

30) Attended a gazillion surprise birthday parties… ok not a gazillion. but quite a lot. Surprise parties seem to be the ‘in’ thing for the year.

31) Finished a can of Mother and discovered the miracles of energy drinks.

32) Bought an epilator.

33) Went to the swimming pool, and played badminton in Adelaide for the first time.

34) Got racially abused at work by stupid customers.

35) Came home from uni one morning when the sun had started to rise…

36) Started work before the sun started to rise, saw the city wake up.

37) Finished an exam at 10:30pm.

38) Finally tried North Adelaide’s famous AB.

39) Sat through the longest flight in my life (to get to europe)

40) Went to Europe!

41) Watched a live Opera at the Vienna State Opera

42) Lost quite a bit of weight in the beginning, then gained it all back again. ><

43) Went to a fancy hair saloon, got a drink, a hairwash, and cut… for $10.

44) Hiked (down and) up Mt. Lofty.

45) Passed AP 300 and AP301

46) Got in a car accident (stupid motorcycle…)

47) Visited Conie in KB, drove to Terengganu! Just across the border…

48) Probably broke my record for number of towns/cities I stepped foot in, in one month. December: Adelaide, Singapore, Prague, Ceske Budejovice, Vienna, Budapest, Penang, Kota Bharu (If you want to include stop overs like meeting people for lunch and dinner or just chilling- Terengganu, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur (or PJ…?) lol…

49) Attended a wedding. My family reunion… since I wont be back for CNY again…

50) Made this list.

ONE hour left to 2009. Hope you had a wonderful year and I wish you an enjoyable and safe 2010.

So here’s where I’ve been…

starting from the 1st of December…

Adelaide to Singapore.

Singapore to Amsterdam by plane to transfer to Prague, then train to Ceske budejovice and Cesky Krumlov for the day, Vienna and Budapest.

Back on the plane to Amsterdam airport to transfer back to Singapore.

Hop into my dad’s car, and drove to Petaling Jaya to drop my sis, to Ipoh for dinner with a family friend, arriving in Penang after midnight.

From Penang, took a 8 hour bus ride to Kota Bharu. Took a ride in the car to visit beaches and arrived in Terengganu for a little while… 2 days later, went back to Penang on another 8 hour bus ride.

Return to Singapore 2 days later by car, stopping by in PJ for lunch with my sis and her bf.

So, Back in Singapore, and here to stay… for the next 2 weeks. Before we’re off to Kuantan…

OK so it’s kinda boxing day today… not quite christmas day itself, but there’s 12 days of christmas… right? o.O

I’m currently back in Singapore after a long week in Penang and KB.

It was an eight hour bus ride from PP to KB but was worth it.

KB was awesome. Short trip but C and her family are pros at having 1 day visitors. Tried everything there was to be tried (in terms of the local food) and even drove out to see the beaches thanks to C’s brother. They not only successfully fattened me up, they also paid for a bunch of stuff for me to buy back for my family… paiseh nye…

thanks Wee family very much!! I really enjoyed my stay there. Especially with the company of your two little fluff balls.

So after all that driving, we’re now back in Singapore.

My family was supposed to be back 4 days ago but due to a little accident, (motorcyclist decided to ride his bike directly into the side of our car. You’d think a Bright YELLOW Honda Jazz driving at 20km/hr would be visible enough in the daylight of Penang, but No… he decided it looked like a good target to ram into…) We had to fix our car, hence had to stay back for a few more days.

Don’t worry we’re all alive and safe and back home.

Hope you all had a good christmas and are enjoying the end of year break.

Wherever you are, Stay safe and watch for stypid motorcyclists!

xoxo

I love weddings!!

Was at a wedding dinner last night. 65 tables at the gurney hotel. Today was the actual wedding ceremony. the whole- groom goes to the bride’s house, has to go through several roadblocks and give out lots of ang pows before getting to the bride, then the tea giving ceremony and all that…

A bit ‘terbalik’ really… the dinner should come AFTER the wedding, but i guess they didnt hav emuch choice cuz of timing and bookings and all that.

Updates on the food i’ve had…
too much to name all. hahaha!! but i’ve had my penang laksa, ice kacang, char kuay teow etc etc…

ok lah. im gona go now and stop being so antisocial.

HI dear readers, I’m now in Penang.

Had hokkien mee for breakfast/lunch this afternoon.

still looking forward to the char kuay teow and chendol and penang laksa… I just hope I’ve got enough time. haha!

Anyway, planning my trip to KB turns out to be a bigger night mare than I ever expected. Do I travel by Bus? by train? Do i stop by Kuantan? Do i go straight to Singapore?how long should I stay at any of these places?

So silly…

I wish I could just do what I want (if i could plan it all by myself, I would stop by kuantan for a couple of days before heading home. KB and Spore is a long bus/train ride away!!)

Anyway. Write more when I’ve eaten more and put on more weight.

Oh, I’ve got new glasses. They’re plastic, dark brown and electric green. I almost went for something more shocking in colour. I tried on these really nice green/aqua blue ones but I thought of placements next year… I wouldn’t want to be wearing shocking glasses to do my placements next year… would i? =S

So my glasses look like my glasses… You’ll see them soon enough.

happy holidays.

Leaving to penang tomorrow morning.

Then to KB then back to Singapore.

I could have gone to Genting but then my sis said something about having to pretend to be an intern or something like that because she’s there on a work trip and me ‘following’ would make the other people there not too happy… So i said I won’t go because knowing me I’ll be a horrible ‘pretender’.

i had also planned to drop by Kuantan after KB but then I think my dad wants me home for christmas I’m not too sure why (because we don’t even celebrate it…) so plans to go to Kuantan is scrapped.

Anyway. Just thought I should keep you guys updated.

Oh and I bought a new pair of shoes again today. I wanted to buy an ‘expensive’ pair of shoes just because i keep on getting cheap shoes, but then i looked around so much and i couldn’t find something i like. then i found this pair i really like!! and it was dead cheap. =.=” OK i shouldn’t be complaining…

Thanks to cheryl for welcoming me to Penang.

Tour my ass. You can’t really call our trip a tour. That so-called tour guide was lousy as.

Anyway, changing the title now to - Summary of the holiday.

Travelled from Singapore to Prague, with a 3 hour transfer in Amsterdam (which I always thought was in Germany until I actually landed there and found out it’s not. A little embarrassing.)

Arrived in Prague and missed our city tour (thanks to our ‘tour guide’) so we ended up just roaming the city, shopping at the christmas market and going to Bata. Which supposedly originated from Czech Republic. Not Malaysia or Indonesia (so ends the long debate regarding its origins…)

Went on the city tour of Prague the next day and wasted more time by not knowing what we’re doing and then before we knew it, it was night. We watched a black light performance that night. Black light theatre is supposed to be a Prague thing. I thought it was very creative.

Boarded a Train to Ceske Budejovice the next day. After dropping off our luggage, went on the train again to Cesky Krumlov to visit the Castle and the little town. Really nice place. Returned to the city at night and had the worst dinner ever… arranged by our wonderful tour guide again.

Next morning boarded the train Again,and headed to Vienna, Austria. Stayed Schloss Wilhenminenberg (which i am finally able to pronounce) which is an old palace. Beautiful place on a hill, but lousy weather means a lousy view… We watched the Opera at the state opera house which was really good. Loved it. Then we had coffee at Mozart Cafe. Vienna hsa the largest range of coffees… and all so good! (All of this though, wasn’t actually on the tour itenary)

Next day, moved to a city hotel and went on a city tour of Vienna where they explained the monuments etc etc. and had a tour of the palace. Had food from the christmas market for dinner, and then spent the night roaming the city, found a really big Swarovsky crystal outlet and went shopping for a while. Then ended the day with more coffee! this time at Cafe Central, which was a beaautiful place and supposed to be where lots of famous people went for coffee over the years~ (Google it. I was told something different to what it really was so I’m not so sure what the real story is hence i wont blog it.)

Boarded the train again the next morning to Budapest, Hungary. Budapest is so… grey. Everything seems to be covered in a layer of soot or something. Lots of buldings aren’t really That old, but it was designed to look really old. A little bit of a strange city in that way

Went on the city tour again~ Then spent the night roaming around by ourselves again… Had one of the best meals throughout the trip (and it was Not organised by the tour again~) We actually walked around until we almost gave up, so we went into a hotel to ask for advice on where we should have dinner and they directed us to a restaurant called Cat in a Bag (of course, it had a really long hungarian name which I don’t know…) And they really had Good food.

Final day, we went to the parliament house for a tour, and the city Market where we finalyl managed to pick up Some sort of souvenir~

In the afternoon, we were back at the hotel to check out, head to the airport, flew to Amsterdam, and transferred again. And now I’m back in Singapore.

Unfortunately, It was cold and rainy the entire trip. When it was nice and sunny, we were travelling on the train. Its supposed to snow THIS week, so we kinda missed the snow…

So that’s the summary of our interesting, but rather disappointing holiday.

Sorry for the lack of pictures or descriptions but I’m not really a writer and this is really just for my reference.

If pictures weren’t so difficult to upload onto my blog, i would definitely include some… but not today. Plus, the pics are actually in my mum’s camera which makes it more difficult to transfer pictures~

Over and out!