visit to the singapore zoo!!!

whee!! what a perfect chance to relive childhood, but to visit places which i was last there back in primary school.. so how long was it?? say almost coming to 20 years??

anyway, this visit was done after so many years with my dearest chickadees!! *muackz*.. eunice, who has been to the zoo 4 times since the year began.. we were wondering if she should have become a friend of the zoo.. huiran, my other twin.. suren & samuel, whom we had to convince to go late for pottery class, so they could come along too.. =)

we started the whole trip by running to the giraffe enclosure, so that we could catch the feeding session.. gosh!! the giraffe's tongue is really long.. and looked really slimy too.. the zebras shifted house, coz their old home was closed for renovation.. the king of the jungle looked so relaxed in its original position, it actually resembled a stone.. opps!! did i just say that too loudly?? =P

and then there was the splash show, whereby the sealions, penguins and manatees were swimming around and showing off their nature.. we were really appalled at the behaviour of the pelican, which was sticking its head into the water and biting at the passing manatee!!! horrid behaviour!!

the komodo dragons moved house as well.. and we never found out where they disappeared to.. however, we found ourselves looking at giant tortoises, which were lumbering along.. wait, correction.. inching along from one point to another.. we were wondering, what if one ended up on us, would we be crushed instead..

suren & samuel left early, while the 3 of us decided to make our money worth every cent, we performed an 'amazing race' session round the zoo, that left us tired and sweaty..

we went for the elephant show and even got around feeding the elephants.. not for free, of course, but 5 bucks for 4 baby bananas & 1 carrot.. talk about expensive!! we visited the polar bear enclosure and saw it biting on a huge piece of ice!!! oh, we watched the entire splash show again!! and we figured that the zoo helpers kind of pick more foreigners as volunteers for the show than locals.. well, what can we say to free publicity??

finaly stop was the fragile forest, which reminded me so much of the tropical enclosure in mainau, konstanz.. humid, with butterflies fluttering around.. however, in this one that we visited, the butterflies somehow all went into hiding.. oh, the grossest thing of all, was this particular glass enclosure which we went passed.. hissing cockroaches from madagascar!!! i didn't even dare to go near the enclosure.. but a distant look to it appeared to me that the entire enclosure was fillled up!! enough said that.. i'm grossed out enough..

oh, and we did a really cheapo thing.. instead of purchasing the photos which were taken by the zoo photographers for an exorbitant prices, we went back and posed in front of the same setting and took our own photo!! =P



thank you girls for coming with me and making this trip all the different for me as well!! muackz!! anyway, apparently the cheetah enclosure is closed for renovations as well, and we said that we will return to the zoo next june, when the enclosure is done.. so till then!! =)

rhys's wedding!!

anyway, just a quick post to say all my thanks a brilliant group of ppl out there..

to ben, szemin, cherie, koksoon, andrew, lloyd, shanli, michelle wong & all the folks who helped out.. thanks for putting up with all my nonsense and all the bossing around on sunday afternoon.. thanks for all the help that you all put in to help made the whole location and event as it had been..

to emily, aunty swee khim, eunice, aunty jean... thanks for all the inputs of the ideas and for helping me with all the packing of the decor stuff.. i hope i didn't destroy any of the stuff borrowed.. =P

to fanny, denise, sharon, michelle lin, boquan, jeffrey... thanks for letting me whine, complain and vomit my guts out.. figuratively and literally..

on a side-note: i'm gonna go attend a make-up class conducted by chanel!!! let me update you all on its content at the end of the session.. oh, i succumbed to facebook.. crap..

hmm, to make the story more complete.. i shall explain the purpose of this post.. well, rhys is married!! woohoo!! erm, ain't sure if we'll even fulfill that part of the deal but that aside, rhys is happily married!!


here's all of us with the happy man himself.. and there's the best man too i.e. ben.. our in-house fashion designer i.e. szemin.. and unfortunately, the coolie party as well.. of which, i'm the bossy fellow in it..

well, you must be wondering why i was 'complaining' so much abt the whole situation.. but honestly, i have never learnt or tried doing decorations for a chalet wedding.. really.. so it was actually a pretty stressful outing for me.. perhaps, it's all to do with my obsession with perfection.. but without it, there won't be achievement on my end.. and i'm a procrastinator.. i work with a sudden rush of adrenaline.. so i put off work till the last minute, which places a limit on producing quality work..

then there's also the element of uncertainty involved on the actual situation as well.. the inability to control the situation drove me nuts.. delays in schedule.. people attacking the buffet spread before the start of the ceremony.. food cleared even way before we were done eating.. sudden drizzles and downpours, which were not that detrimental and devastating as they were made out to be.. etc. etc. etc.. oh wells, i can only say that i wasn't that prepared for all these to happen..

so yeah.. as i said, i bossed everyone around.. so i'm not sure how confident i am to be able to do another decor for any other wedding... no connection but just a random thought..


and here's to girlfriends.. thanks loads!!

and rhys & ping ping, CONGRATULATIONS!!

my mountain-turtle visit to MY HUMBLE HOUSE!!

i've heard so much about this place, prior to my visit just this very evening... almost all reviews seem to read, totally un-humble and totally expensive.. well, either coz my parents went for relatively cheap and normal dishes from the a la carte menu, or just that we ain't big fans of devouring food, which are delicacies but scarily priced..

so this is MY HUMBLE HOUSE!! i can always remember that 'walk', which i took with cherie many years ago, just to have a look at the place and having no intentions of eating in there..





here are the interiors of the restaurant.. which had those really tall chairs, which i thought was lining the entire restaurant, but rather they were used only for tables, catering for long massive groups, i.e. company/ family get-togethers..

i really wanted the table by the waterfront, but it was apparently reserved.. unfortunately for a table for 2, though it had 4 seats.. and my family had to settle for a weird table for 3.. but anyway, i really enjoyed the experience..

it was kind of a 1st time experience for my parents into fine dining, so i was a little worried that they are not used to the fact, that perhaps food doesn't fill up that easily.. but the slightly long wait between dishes did the trick.. and everything settled in nicely.. but i always welcome more food.. =)

on a side-note, i am 'hanging' out more at hungrygowhere.com nowadays, rather than my own blog.. it's a really cool website, where all foodie nutties congregate together.. well, i do not deny that i'm part of the circle too.. if you want reviews about my humble house, check me out at hungrygowhere.com.. there are other reviews which i did too.. and go check out the website in general, for eating advices!!

on a side-note no. 2, here's a look of what i wore on my foot today!! it's bronze but it has this really cute red ribbon on it.. a little too cutsie for me but i love it loads!!


they just kind of remind me of the silver shoes, which dorothy owns in the wizard of oz.. but of course, they are not silver... but i just love them too.. can't wait to buy a truly red pair of shoes..

okay, i'll keep my pockets and here goes to shopping on 29th sept!! meanwhile, control is very much required..

amore women's workout day 2007..

it all started with a temptation over the wonderful goodies within the goodie bag.. such as a plain white gym bag, mph vouchers, kimage vouchers, wallet shop vouchers etc.. and then it became a session of convincing friends to go along and go have fun.. and viola!! huiran went, so did jiating too!!

it was hilarous!! at least for me, coz you are talking someone who has yet to lift a finger to exercise since leaving the school grounds of acjc.. go figure how many years that has been..

and so, dragging myself up at an unearthly hour, eventually having to make 2 trips home coz i forgot my number tag.. so i was late.. but that was besides the point.. i made it!! i was in time!! but then, the fun began..

and all the muscle-aching sessions began!!! oh my gosh!! i could feel the tense muscles being flexed after eons and soon, i was getting all sweaty and tired.. goodness gracious!! i have never sweated that much for so long!! even through crazy orientation camps, i've never ever sweated that much!!! it was simply insane..

well, as you can gauge how wonderful my physical level is, i picked the session, which was the shortest and most beginner of all... experience fitness, which was a 1-hour mini-aerobics challenge cum a free bellyblitz® trial.. and i almost died at the mini-aerobics session!! you can now see how UNFIT i have been and still am... =) but i kind of enjoyed the bellyblitz® session better, coz it just reminded me of how those crazy, insane mass dance days... more of back in acjc than in nus, coz we just kept dancing non-stop to master the steps.. teaching each other.. helping each other improve and get better etc.. or just to simply have crazy fun.. and i could remember losing weight over mass dances..

jiating and me hung around and caught snippets of the next session i.e. aerobics challenge, which was a 3-hour marathon!!!! jiating was suggesting that we should come back next year for this session, since we have already braved through the beginners' session... well, for that to be possible, i need to spend the next 1 year training up, otherwise, there is no way, whereby i can survive serious kickboxing cum all those activities, that require me to be on the balls of my feet the whole time!!!

oh sheesh, inspiring and motivational but i lack the pushing factor for anything to be done.. crazily lazy ain't i?? but for the meanwhile, i am pretty interested in learning some sort of workout dance.. jiating and me, or rather me, decided to embark on adopting some workout session after work in the very near future.. well, i'll update everyone on the status of my attempt, if it ever materialises!!

now, back to aching muscles.. i'm doomed!!