What makes you happy

Bananatine from Miss Clarity Cafe made my day.

Caramelized bananas with Vanilla Ice Cream & French nougatine. Now who can resist that ? Simple as it is, the sweetness of the bananas blended in nicely with the creamy vanilla. Light crunchy nougatine adds the perfect finishing touch to the dessert.

Now i can’t show you the picture cos it’s not with me, so i described it. haha. I’m such a dessert person. Looking forward to dessert when i’m only halfway through my main course. Or maybe i’m just in a dessert mood. Sticky chewy chocolate and apple crumble made my day on mon too.

Desserts make me a happy (albeit fat) girl.

Oh and i made oatmeal lace cookies yesterday ! Sprinkled some almond slices in them cos they looked too plain on their own. They came out thicker than expected but still tasted good. You just can’t go wrong with oats. Especially love the warm and crunchy texture when they’re just out of the oven. Unfortunately they sorta softened up when i leave them to cool =( So in the refrigerator they go !

This is so random. but i like talking about food sometimes.

Happy 21st, mh. =) Like sh wrote, we’re all in the forever 21 club now haha.

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now

Lots of birthday up recently. All the october babies. Two more this week.

Li’s 21st ! Glad it went well for her. Except for the smoke, ah-hem some photos and the attempted BREAK IN by a crazy guy. Called up the security and all but luckily nothing happened.

Bad things aside, ‘was quite nice to have icy cold red wine with chocolate cake on the bed in the aircon room. Talk about enjoyment, heh. Chatted, youtube-ed, and finally drifted off to sleep at 5am in the morning in the filthy room.

Was pretty tired after getting home the next day so i FELL ASLP again. Tsk. woke up to chongqing steamboat with my parents ! Yumyum. First time i’m not eating with the girls haha.

I travelled the FURTHEST i have ever for a project meeting. BB to PUNGGOL. craziness. Spent a whole day at friend’s house alternating between photoshop and illustrator. Gah. Sweet torture. Fun but stress.

Met H for dinner after and chilled out over swensens. Was a great gossip session lols. Ok and some serious talk. Can’t help but feel young and naive when we talk sometimes. I think he thought i was emo-ing on the way back becos the topic of The Ex came up. But i was just switching off, as usual.

So he drove, and i stared into space, talking occasionally. I wonder if we’ll still chill out like that after he graduate.

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?

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The best you never had

Finally, a post with photos, nice to see some splashes of colour for a change huh.

By the riverside

Love lei’s camera ! Almost look like there’s a rainbow strip behind me heh.

We’re at TCC at Clark quay btw. Nice riverside view.

Lei

 Still sober. for now. hehe. 

Peek-a-boo

My expression is funny but this makes me look like i have a small waist HAHAHA. And you can catch a glimpse of my new bling bling watch.

We need to have more nights like this.

What a night

Alright, i have NOT done anything productive over the weekend. A whole day out on saturday was spent on shopping and “chilling out”. Ok we didn’t end up chilling out, so i’ll talk about what we did instead.

Our first destination was actually Dempsey but after exploring the place for a while we kindda found it too quiet, too peaceful, too POSH. haha, poor students like us can’t even afford to step in. There was a live singer at Ben & Jerry’s but we cldn’t even get a seat cos it was full house ! Conclusion: Good place for dates, not good for having fun.

So we ended up heading towards Clark quay. Stopped by Tcc to grab a bite first cos we were both HUNGRY. Looks like skipping dinner didn’t work out cos i had a sandwich there at 12am. AND the stupid waitress tried to trick us into paying more for iced water. All i did was ask for iced water and she asked whether we prefer mineral or sparkling water. So i was like huh, since when do we have a choice of iced water, aren’t they just tap water with a few piece of lemon inside ?

Note that i did ask her whether we have to pay for the iced water and she didn’t answer my question. All she did say was they have two choices of water for their customers, mineral or sparkling. So fine we chose sparkling, with much doubt. Then when the water was served, they came in glass bottle and glasses with a piece of lemon wedge. So i was thinking, this is damm weird. All the customers ard were having the normal iced water with no frills and there we were having such premium water for free ?? So i didn’t touch it and we checked with the waitress again. Once again she was giving irrelevant comments and all i wanted to know was do we need to PAY for them. And finally she said YES. so i asked her to take it back.

stupid woman.

Not to mention there were two girls beside us who took the longest time to decide (ok one of them) her drink. That’s ok you say. But she actually got the waiter to explain the different drinks to her and said brainless things like “i don’t want the drink to keep me awake…” or whatever shit. It went on for quite a while, with different waiter coming to take order and she kept putting it off. *rolls eyes* Why are there such irritating people ard ?

Anyway, on a more positive note, all these didn’t spoil our mood for the night ahead. heh heh. So, our chilling out end up with us clubbing at chinaone. Haha…but the music is so good you can club without drinks lols. They have a fabulous live band which absolutely drives the crowd wild. And no cover ! How perfect. The only thing was that the dancefloor was small and we had to keep guarding our bags.

OH to digress a little, i didn’t now MOS is closed now ! Wonder what happened to the club. But i don’t really care. so forget it lols.

This guy at Chinaone totally made us laugh our heads off. He dances like he’s high on drugs and his movements are just super hilarious. I can’t even describe it in words. There were many expats around too and some went really crazy. Waving/throwing slippers in the air, carrying people up and all. Kindda reminds me of the mexicans back at CUHK. The wild, wild scene at the bus stop late at night. I guess it’s in their culture.

There was mr old expat who tried to hit on lei. There was mr nice who helped us take a photo and kept a look out for our bags. There was mr friendly who asked if he could join us for a while. There was mr sneaky who tried to touch me but i swipe his dirty hand away. Mr friendly later offered to get his friend to drive us back. And by then, lei’s aldry seh. Of course that invitation was turned down with a smile. There’s always the trusty cab.

What a night. Chinaone’s a place worth going back to though. With more people, that is.

Sunday, was simply spent slacking and slacking away. family dinner and went to walk ard a bit at bukit panjang plaza. Bro’s leaving for China tml, for one and a half months. Reminds me of HK summer sch, just that they don’t have as much freedom haha. Think i’ll miss his noisy banter though.

Alrite, i’m off now ! Two 21st coming up soon, and both are my dear friends. Hope the parties would turn out good. Been pmsy of late and every little thing seems to irritate me arrgh. Well, blame the hormones. =P Ok more updates later…

So be it

Maybe it’s the frustration of not being able to churn out much after spending a whole day conceptualising. Maybe it’s pms ?

People who have a tendency to feel sorry for themselves makes me want to retch in disgust. What is this “I’m so alone I’m so sad” shit all about ? I never thought that guys are weaker than girls when it comes to matters of the heart. But people ard me are proving me wrong.

Can’t you just get a life and be happy by yourself for the moment ? Seriously people like that makes me go wtf sometimes. I listen, i empathise, i encourage, i care, but if you’re not going to pick yourself up eventually, so be it. You don’t deserve my time.

Losers.

Just for a while

Tonight, i think i can finally choose to sleep early. After spending the last 2 nights fervently designing for my assignments, i realised how nothing seems to work out when you don’t have a clear idea in mind. But when you do, everything automatically falls in place. And this, can take ONE whole freaking day.

Don’t get me wrong, i’m not complaining. It’s just that although i love the work, it torments me to no end sometimes. Love-hate relationship, but — mostly love i think. Although my design pieces are far from perfect, although they are amateurish/common/conventional, i take pride in them.

It’s especially hard when you spend so much time and effort on a design, just to have people react negatively to it. Either they don’t understand it/don’t like it or just think it’s weird. Well, i mean who doesn’t wish to receive affirmation for their art piece ? But then of course, negative comments are more often than not, the more useful ones. Cos they push you to improve, and better your design.

I appreciate all comments because that means people actually take time to look at your work, evaluate it and give you their take on it. Comments are valuable and i don’t think you’ll get them much in the working world. I guess nobody will have time for anybody and it’s either used or discarded like trash in the bin.

Aaahh before i go further (and it is getting rather monotonous), i shall move on to something more interesting.

There were celebration of two 21st last week ! One of E’s at this chinese restaurant which serves quite yummy “home-cooked” food on wed. It was quite a simple affair and well i guess it didn’t help that there are always people who agrees AND THEN choose to pangseh at the last minute becos of funny(read: crap) reasons. Seriously, why agree in the first place then ? If this is too insignificant to fit into your busy schedule then just forget it. I don’t like this, not a bit. But we did have a good laugh over dinner, mainly due to my ever-cheerful and animated dar dar haha.

Liqi’s birthday party on sat…was like a mini HK ppl gathering. Her hair was done really beautifully that day, love those bouncy curls ! And as usual, the host was busy entertaining different group of friends so we pretty much entertained ourselves. Had to fly off to meet J for House Bunny after the birthday girl blew out the candles on the cake and took group photos. J better appreciate it haha. What can i say about the movie ? Very typical dumb blonde stereotype lar, but some parts are really funny. So it was not bad on the overall.

Anyway, 8am class tomorrow ! And i gotta make up for lost sleep, so it’s off to bed now. Tata !

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Sweets for my sweet

I don’t know what the hell i’m doing here at 4.33am. Aimlessly surfing the net, searching for design ideas and getting distracted along the way. Cld have went out with S for supper lols but i missed his call. haha li, i think you’re right when you say that i’m like very free. 明明 got work still wanna keep going out. Tml going for liqi’s 21st. The walas plan after doesn’t seem probable. When will i get to watch the Unexpected ?

I want to bake pretty cupcakes. and crunchy buttery cookies with cream sandwiched in between.

I want to do impactful design with style.

But how to when i’m not utilising my time properly ?

Maybe i should go to slp. and stop wasting whatever time i have left. It’s ALDRY week 8 for goodness sake.

Wake up your idea girl.

This is the one on My Virgin Experience

…at putting on fake lashes, of course. what else ?

Points taken:

1. Do not attempt to start putting lashes on at 7am in the morning, when you have an 8am class. AND ESPECIALLY NOT when it’s your first time doing it.

You WILL BE LATE.

2. Do not be persistent when you don’t succeed. that means having the lashes stick out at odd angles. and having to restick it, over and over and over x infinite times again until you get it right. If you don’t give up,

You WILL BE LATE.

So late i am. But i like the effect =) And no i won’t even get that length even if i apply mascara a thousand time over. Have been receiving positive comments so far, so i guess it does look pretty ! One of those random perks of being a girl. Dolling up is always fun heh.

Will be leaving for far east in about 2 hours’ time to have korean bbq for ej’s bdae celeb. My wallet’s protesting. Ok i need to get back to flower therapy now. Till later !