the staycation!

awesome room, with an awesome view of Gardens By The Bay, from the spacious balcony.

although is a brotherhood staycation, but i still brought my significant other to check in with me. hahahaha. 

highlights of the staycation are:

1) having a dip in the infinity pool, admiring the breathtaking scenery of singapore's city landscape

2) going to the gym, and having a dip in the hot pool, where the water is at a temperature of 40 degree celsius. reminds me of the hot spring days in japan. 

3) going to gardens by the bay for a jog at 7 am this morning. i woke up at 6 am! 

4) chilling out with darling, the brotherhood and wonderful nuscd friends (only three came hahahahaha and one of them came with his mum), eating potato chips, watching tv, drinking beer and chit chatting

went to the food court to da bao dim sum for supper! remind me of the days when i go da bao breakfast for the brotherhood in taipei, when we stayed at east dragon hotel and i went down to 永和豆浆 to do the da bao-ing. 

staycation concluded with a wonderful lunch at tcc. too bad hw was not able to join us for lunch. :(

(never take photos of the main courses and the shroom bites. haha.)

now i am fully recharged! looking forward to work in the coming week! 

weekend staycation with the brotherhood!

its been so long since we last travelled together...

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this is where we will have our staycation tonight!

looking forward to the sausage party! *evil grin*

braces treatment

i am putting on braces on my upper teeth later in the afternoon.

to be honest, i am scared... :(

champions!!!

20th title for manchester united! hurray!

darling, robin van persie scored 3 goals just now. haha.

nicer pics of bistro soori

the below pics are kapoh-ed from lady iron chef. :)

if you want to see how they prepare the food you can sit at the bar counter. :)

the very nice restaurant layout. 

the lamb rack that i ordered!

the slow roasted pork belly!

the awesome pandan souffle that needs 20 min to prepare! 

梦幻晚餐 @ Bistro Soori

this is a belated birthday treat for darling. 

previously we went to this peranakan restaurant at vivocity for her birthday dinner, but the food there was totally crap. not delicious, and comes in miserly portions. we tasted much nicer peranakan food before such as 金珠 at katong, Guan Hoe Soon at joo chiat and Aunty Lee at malacca. therefore no way am i going to eat at that peranakan restaurant anymore!

so i decided to bring darling to Bistro Soori for a much better birthday treat. :)

thank goodness the food did not disappoint. the menu was really comprehensive. we are spoilt for choice! you can check out their menu at their website. 

waiting for food to be served!

you can invite the chefs to your house to cook fine dining cuisine! i am sure it will cost a bomb. 

starter #1: pan fried foie gras with poached pear

starter #2: slow roasted pork belly

main course #1: seabass (it is actually codfish! not seabass!)

main course #2: lamb rack

dessert: pandan souffle

the very happy couple satisfied with the wonderful 梦幻 dining experience! 

we definitely dun mind going there again to try the other food items on the menu! anyone want to join us? :)

syf 2013

so far the workplace has achieved commendable results in the syf.

band got distinction. dance dynamics got distinction. english drama got achievement. 

malay dance performed on wednesday, will only know the result tomorrow.

chinese dance performed today, will also know the result tomorrow. 

i went to kallang theatre to watch chinese dance. the only syf that i went to watch. did not go for the previous ones because i was stuck in sungei gedong camp for reservist. 

happy to see DLS and ZLS, and some of the nuscd juniors! dun need to be too happy to see xuehong, because i see him quite regularly. hahahahahaha. 

the beautiful ladies. they really put in their best and in my opinion it was their best performance compared to the previous rehearsals that i had seen. but still i think they lack the cutting edge to up their performance by another level. 

after their item, BLS told me:"她们缺少你在台上表演的激情和精力!!!"

felt super happy to hear this from him. :)

the president! she cried very hard yesterday after practise because she was too stressed and too worried. spent a long time talking to her and comforting her. 

the president in 2011! glad to have alumni like her who still come back and help with making up and other miscellanous stuff. 

the performers from my CNY item. only missing the 3 wushu boys.

once again, well done ladies! let's hope for the best! 

QOTD (Quotes Of The Day)

more pics from speech day performance

i love the costumes + make-up! my instructor personally did the make-up for all the students! kudos to her. :)

reservist finished! :)

proud to achieve another milestone in my life: ATEC!

we got overall redcon 2A. i think only the guys who went through NS can understand all these so i shall spend a bit of time explaining what does redcon 2A mean to the female readers. 

the redcon is divided into these levels: redcon 1, redcon 2A, redcon 2B, redcon 3 and redcon 4. 

units that are awarded redcon 1 means they are fully operational ready. 

units awarded redcon 2A and redcon 2B are assessed to be operational ready as well, except that they are graded lower due to a varying number of shortcomings. 

this three weeks in camp was really mentally tiring, because of my role in the company, and i have to coordinate and oversee so many things. thank goodness my superior and fellow army mates recognise my hard work, and i got an "A" for this ICT, and even received a letter of commendation, and a $100.00 voucher. :)

yes, every servicemen is graded for each ICT. if you receive a "E" grade, you will be deemed to fail this ICT and it will be voided and you have to do a make-up. (that's pretty cruel)

now to get ready for school! :)

friday post

obtained permission to go out of camp to watch my show choir perform for speech day. 

they performed 'At The End of The Day' from les miserables.

my female lead from b2b. she came back to sch to receive a cca award. congrats!

after the speech day went to wawawa bistro at bedok reservoir with my pe dept. feels really good to be back with my colleagues!

tomorrow is the last day of reservist. we will get our result for atec tomorrow. let's hope we will do well!

feeling jittery...

meeting my scout PC in half an hour's time.

right now i am feeling very apprehensive, having lots of butterflies in my stomach. simply said i just dun feel good.

the coming week is the final week of the reservist, and also the highlight, which is our ATEC. we have to go for a 3D2N mission in the jungle and we are evaluated by umpires. 

i just hope that we will get good results, everything is smooth sailing, and most importantly everyone must be safe, and all of us will outpro together on saturday in one piece, feeling a sense of happiness and achievement. 

and i am prepared that alot of people will report sick tomorrow. haha. already heard that someone got 2 days MC because of rashes. zzz. 

all the best to everyone in the unit!!! 

weekend post

hope this serious face doesn't scare you. haha. 

book out of sungei gedong camp on saturday at around 3 pm. thank goodness that my scout PC stays at simei and he offered to fetch me home, and later tonight he will also fetch me to camp! thankful to nice people like him, because it is the nice people who make the shitty ICT more bearable. :)

the following pics illustrate what i did for this short weekend:

watched this with darling on saturday night! all the actors can act, except for 吴尊. and it is super ironic that he got the role of 杨六郎, the most famous son of the 杨家七子. zzz. 

woke up at 7 am this morning to go PRIVE @ keppel bay to eat breakfast with darling. reach there at 830 am and to our dismay it only opens at 930 am! so we frantically use our smartphones to search for other breakfast places and i found 'Forty Hands' on ladyironchef. 

beautiful coffee art! :)

even darling who is not a coffee lover also cannot resist taking a sip.

our big breakfast! one person definitely cannot finish. need to share! 

after that i went to the tampines neighbourhood to buy more stuff required for my 3D2N chalet at the jungle, that will take place from tuesday to thursday. haiz...

seeing this also warms my heart:

touched that students miss my presence. i will be back soon! 

礼 photos

thanks to the photographer from SQ, i have some 曝光率.

crooked leg. yucks. bin gege spoil market.

this one is nicer! haha.

focused expression. :)

quote from DLS: 女孩子真的是齐到不得了。