Monday, December 30, 2013

CHRISTMAS 2013!

Heheh hello there! How was your christmas celebration??? :D I had 3 consecutive days worth of fun this year! 

Starting off with the mini christmas celebration with my jc clique! :) 
Missing 2 of my clique members cause they are still overseas.

Delivery from dominos, though we ordered the share for like 3-4 pax, we were quite full from the food, haha not bad. Furthermore, since the delivery man was late, we were given extra food and vouchers as compensation due to their 30 mins delivery policy, keke! Not bad, I like!

We just hang around, gossiped, played some card & board games and ofc gifts exchange!!! Wheeeeee the gifts we got for one another were somewhat funny lah but still decent given that our budget was $10 LOL!!! *dont laugh* And after that we went home around 9pm plus cause one of my friend got evil curfew! Still, love them and that day <3 hope we'll meet up more often as one whole full clique soon!!

2nd was the celebration with my big family for the countdown!! So for all the countdowns like christmas and new year countdowns, I'll spent it with my big family!! <3 so to whoever who asked me out to party on these 2 days, SORRY :(
At the later part of the night, the whole floor is like filled with presents, hehe it's always the case every year :P

The early birds :P all clad in either green or red!



My family <3





Le family's current cutie pie!!!! Everybody was so attracted and engrossed in watching and playing with her!! haha she's sucha sweetie man! She's so small!!!!! not forgetting that she's so photogenic, like when ppl are taking pictures of her, she will somehow look into the camera and smile or pose, ahaha so adorbz!! :D oopsy that all the other nephews were neglected haha she's my only niece so far~ 


Waited for everybody to be present and then start our dance by one of my nephew and the big lucky draw game!! This year we had a short celebration unlike the past years where we performed dances, skits, and games~ perhaps we are getting too old for dances and skits.....

Oh yes, this is how big and crowded the house will get whenever we have family gatherings hahaha! Love it! :D Blessed to have them <3



Some snapshots of the game !!! Keke, see ppl of all generations will get to play excluding my grandparents who are the ones picking out the names of ppl to play and excluding those young kids!! :P

The lucky draws sponsored by my grandfather!! Hahahaha our game was inspired by the ShengSiong show, HAHA! :P

These are the prizes that we got by selected the number on the big board! We the organisers bought those household products so that anybody can use them, and also cash and vouchers to be won! :P
My sis got salt and msg haha!

I got the legendary yummy duck maggie mee!!

Mom got 2 bottles of drinks! wahaha no need buy yay!

Sis got coffee! good for them lo, i dont drink coffee....

And yay dad got the cash prize, hahah he picked the x3 so he got $6 haha!! 

After that we waited for the countdown and off for gifts ceremony!! Every year my big cousin will give out the presents, like she will read out the name on the present and we will go forward to receive it hahaha!! cool right! :D and ofc guessed our secret santa present, so funny! :P Too bad my cousin didnt take any pictures of the present ceremony cause too busy collecting presents ahaha! :D So yesh, that's our usual gathering, fun, love and laughters! <3

Nothing can ever replace them and surpass the love and warmth that they ever give to the whole big family <3 One and only!

The last but not least celebration was with my beloved boy and sec sch clique!! <3
Yay finally had a proper sweet date with my dearest! I dont know what's with him that day cause he was so sweet the entire day, hehe! <3 we went to check out West Gate that day and wow really many shops and food places that were previously only in town areas and now brought nearer to us!! Like this Skinny Pizza! So we went to taste it haha! Ordered the famous squid ink pizza and truffle fries! Idk why so many ppl raving about truffle fries.... hmm... but yup the squid ink pizza was nice :)

Chatted over nice food and tea! Like quite atas ahhhh hahah! Idk what we talked about also, but we always seem to have alot of things to talk about, hahaha!

And us chilling away before our movie, Police! Wanted to try the ultima or idk what seats at the Westmall cinema which were really cool!!!! but it was sold out alrdy sobs so we had to take couple seats. Hehe nvm next time we gonna try the ultima seats and the Gold class seats!! :P

And then we had gifts exchange in the cinema before the show starts! Haha we were both shy to let each other see what we have gotten for each other so we had to do it in the dark hahah! Yep, I got his a reversible black and brown belt cause it was cold and I think his current belt is quite worn out alrdy. And he got me my first Prada!! Tadahhhh!! It is a make up pouch! LOL he confirm anyhow buy lo, I also dont really use makeup, box him!! But nvm, I can try to use it as a clutch or a travelling pouch? haha!! Luckily this Prada isnt very expensive due to year end sales if not I will killll him! 

Hehe blissful short day before heading for sec sch clique celebration! Blessed to have him always by my side and can maintain the sweet part of the relationship even after 2 years +++! Times may be hard sometimes and yes we do have our own rubbish tiffs over nothing but at the end of the day we will still be ok. Love relationship is harder to maintain as compared to friendship but everything will be worthwhile if we try, contribute and make it happen. Love him too much, xo!

Surprisingly, I was the last to reach Jayne's house and was welcomed by this pretty photobooth place and goodie bag!!! :D thanks for the effort jaynie ^^

Then we had steamboat!!!!! YUMMY FULL FULL!!!!!!!!! :D Managed to clear most of the food ahhaa!

Then as usual, spending tons of time on phototaking!!! hahahaha this time with backdrop and props, wheeee :P

Loving my girls as always! 6 (for some) or 4 (for some) years of friendship and counting on!!! To many more christmas celebrations tgt! <3 Always loving group shots, it just pictures the smiles on our faces and us cuddling tgt, much warmth and love.




Hahaha the props came in really handy!!!! Had such a long and fun time posing and changing props! Thanks to jayne's mom for her patience in helping us take tons of pictures haha!!

Then we had gifts exchange!!! It was sucha scary moment to guess who gives to each of us. and whoever got both guesses wrong had to do a forfeit but apparently we had no time for the forfeit hahha. some of us had a hard time acting!! WAHAHA

& here's Nicole with me as her secret santa! Her box full of japanese snacks and chocolates!!!

& My secret santa! Thanks for the prezzies!!! muacks I know you are feeling rich so you wont mind splurging on me right? THANKS SO MUCH, am using both the brush and lotion daily :P

Heheh always cherishing and loving meetups with my girls, regardless of the duration. But ofc I wished we could have meet up for a longer time everytime.... but yea different schedules/curfews here and there.. Still, good company, good time, good ambience! <3 They are a bunch of awesome great friends that I cant possibly find elsewhere, like no one can ever click so well with me, know me well enough, see the ugliest sides of me, make me feel so comfortable with! Even if in the future we may not have time to meet up often, I know that the friendship would not fade, it's the type of friendship where you need not much effort to purposely maintain cause you know they will always be there no matter what. Xoxo!

Oh yes actually I have another celebration with my crazy jc class but I've got work that day and the lazy bum me was too tired to travel all the way there to celebrate.... :( Sorry guys, we'll meet up real soon with more people present!! <3

So how's your christmas for 2013? :D Hope it was filled with joy and love too. And yea 2013 is coming to an end.... it has been a rather rocky year for most of us where alot of bad  and unlucky things  happened. I can say it was one of the lousiest year ever....but still thankful for some of the opportunities I had like travelling, best 18th bday party, exploring food places, visiting singapore new places and many more!!! shan't elaborate, it would take one whole lengthy post ... but yea, MAY 2014 BE BETTER AND BETTER AND BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3

Hong Kong Day 4, 5! byeeeeeeeeee

{ Day 4 }

Woke up kinda early everyday to prepare and set off! When you are overseas, you wouldn't want to waste any time on the bed though you would be damn exhausted right? :P 

These are all candid shots, 100% no preparation and I didn't even know my sister snapped all these while I was managing my hair from the strong wind that was blowing in my direction, tsk!

Yep first station for today, MongKok! :) Something that is amazing about hongkong is that once you reached a certain mrt station, there are tons of exits to go to, you can spend one whole freaking day in just one station generally but going to and fro to different exits! and each exit brings you to more and more places, just so amazing and crazy~~~ :O


So yep, for today, actually the last 2 days of hk trip, me and sister joined my sister's friends for food and shopping tour by them while my 3 friends go on their own cause we live at different place and it was quite hard to meet up beforehand cause ahem... my friends were always late! 



So yea, Ferny, my sis's friend, brought us to try the famous PO LO BUN!!! It was really very nice!!! I'm craving for it now! :( So sweet and crispy and like not plain at all! This was our breakfast and one bun could really make our stomachs full and satisfied! :D Lovin this!!! omgggggggggggg :(

Second stop, after some shopping done, we went to meet with more of my sister's friends who are in hk for exchange programme to eat some famous dimsum!! :D You must try!!! It's called DIM DIM SUM! There's wifi there also, keke!

This is the must eat food in their menu! This chee cheong fan is very special and the yummiest?! Gosh, Idk what goodness they put inside but it's like crispy and soft and heavenly! I like it!!!! :D Everybody gobbled this up with the 'mmmmm' sound, hahah ^^

This po lo bun was okok, I still prefer the previous big one!




This is their custard bun, so cute right? HEHE! Yes the custard will flow out immediately after you open it! YUMZ! 

All the dimsums there are really tasty, it left me a good impression for hk food at least cause for the past few days I wasn't really liking hk food cause I think that my home cooked food are even nicer... haha but this dimsum shop made me really jovial that day :D

Next, for some exercises to help digest our bloated tummy, we went for shopping!!! WOOHOO the best place to go shopping I guess!!! It's at Mongkok Shopping Centre! It's like Sg's Bugis!!! GOSH! HEAVEN! :D



This is a bottoms paradise with high waist shorts, jeans, tights, normal cut shorts, jeans, tights, everything! We spent quite some time there and we bought quite a few pretty and comfy bottoms! Loving all the shorts and pants especially that we bought there, for cheap prices too!! <3

All the apparels are cheaper than singapore's but but but the bags and shoes are somewhat more expensive? Unless you can haggle the price real well, haha! And it was quite wasted cause since we went during december period, ALL the clothes sold are long sleeves and winter kind, totally not very suitable to wear in singapore. So that's why we didnt buy must tops, but stocked up on my bottoms! :D Must really go hongkong during summer/spring period man, then u will really be visiting heaven when you go mongkok centre! EXCITED ALRDY?!?! You should really be!

Hehe the cute traditional icecream van! Yay sis's friend treated us to this vanilla icecream :P Plus, our hands were really sore from carrying so many heavy bags of loots!! Really dying and superrrrr tired.. :'(

Then more shopping! Monki is one of the famous brand in Hongkong I suppose and I've heard many ppl raving about this so ofc we had to check it out. I'm not sure whether singapore has this brand but I heard there's one in fareast? Not sure whether it's true haha.

The shop is rather affordable so it was a joy shopping there, plus there are many discounts ongoing hehe! Somemore the monsters are so cute and the design and prints are kinda unique!


After a lonnnggggggggggggg shopping day, it was time for dinner!!!! YESSAH we went to Star Cafe!! It was also on my list of "to visit" before I went hk, so I was really looking forward to tasting it! :)


It was a really small, old, secluded area and I think it will be quite hard to locate it if you dont have anyone to guide you. Luckily my sis's friend knew the way so it was a breeze for us :P I quite like the whole old, traditional hk style cafe, really nice :)

And this bowl of vomit looking noodles came.... not really nice in appearance but the taste is SUPER YUMMY!!!!!!!! You can choose the type of noodle you want but we chose the maggie type of noodle cause I think it will be more suitable haha. Mine was beef tomato noodles, the whole soup base is with tomato cubes and you cannot imagine the taste, it was like WOW when I first took a sip. Totally not what I expecting upon looking at it. I was soooooooo glad I came to try this out!!! :D DEFINITELY A MUST TRY WHEN YOU VISIT HK!!!!!!!!!!! <3 

Streets of honkong, always bustling with ppl, I think it's like more crowded as compared to sg.

We then went for desserts hahaha! *FOOD MONSTERS MODE ON* 



Mango shaved ice, yumz!! I think hongkong ppl love mangoes cause there are alot of mango desserts in most of the dessert shop, like very prominent kind! So ofc we had to try, and yes the mango is really aromatic and fresh and yumz!! Hehe.

This was fried mango? I forgot oopsy! Sth special and nice also.


This is the steamed beancurd in crispy chocolate skin, I forgot the name of this too haha. Yes, this is the hot dessert that we ordered, sth special too!

AND HOTEL SWEET HOTEL (home sweet home) haha!! so tireddddddd by that time it was alrdy 11pm plus.. YAWNS

These were our loots for the whole trip, very few!!!!!! but idk why it was a chore to carry them, super heavy lah! Gosh thinking of it i wanna cry alrdy, haha! Oh yes there are ofc snacks, yummy eggtarts that we bought but arent in the picture :P most of the loots are for ppl, and like me and sis got mostly bottoms and a few tops for ourselves. haha oh yah we share our clothings so sorta saving up this way? HEHE

So excited when I saw these socks, I immediately bought them! hahaha how cute can they be?? How i wish there are more designs of other princesses then i can buy for my cousins too, oh man! TOO CUTE <3



Camwhored for awhile, bathed and CRASHED!!! x.x 

Day 4 was the best day of my whole hongkong trip cause it was filled with alot of delicious food and cheap shopping!! MEMORABLE! :)

{ Day 5 } - last day
It was the last day, so fast!! :( Half happy half sad.... haha yes we are clad in shorts cause we were heading back to singapore and since it wasnt really very cold in hk and we only could stay for a few hours before checking in at the airport so.... simple and thin outfit!


Hongkong's MTR! yes not mrt. A really efficient transport! The frequency of the train is like very high without much waiting time and it takes quite a short period to travel from one station to another, good good :)


Last destination for good food!! ANOTHER MUST GO!

This is 连香! must go okay! A whole new hk experience :D

It was morning and you can see how crowded it is alrdy! It was quite hard finding seats for the 4 of us and the cool thing is that when you find seats, just sit!! you will be sharing the table with other ppl most of the time but it's normal! It's cool like this :D

Whenever the auntie pushed out the cart filled with goodies, a lot of ppl will rush and crowd around her to order the food cause everything will be cleared in like few seconds or a minute!! it's that fast :O haha sometimes the auntie would get so fedup and shout! oops!

We also got to wash our utensils using hot water like those traditional cafes we see in hk shows. Oh yah this dimsum place has like alot of years of history and no doubt their food is really TASTY! *thumbs up*

TEA!!

I just cannot..... missing all these food alrdy :(




This would be my favourite though the others are also very very delicious and ok my fav dimsum shop!!! :D This dimsum above is so succulent and juicy and so soft and ahhhhhh my mouth!!!! FILLED WITH GOODNESS <3 I can fly to hk to eat this man !!!!! there's fish maw or pig skin idk which inside, so it makes everything so yummy, like juicy soft thingy that you wouldnt even know what yummy thing you are eating! I only know what is it when my sis's friend told us haha! 


And last minute shopping!!!!! This street is mostly about branded goods, so just window shopping for us haha!


And it was time to take the airport express back to airport to catch our flight home!! Luckily we did an in-town check in in the morning so we did not have to lug our luggages around with us in the day! PHEW :) Really thankful for this trip and enjoyed myself alot! I love the last 2 days especially cause they were filled with yummy foody, hoped that my friends were able to join us but they had their own destinations to go so thats why we parted ways. But at least they enjoyed their trip also :D Also, thanks to sis's friends who made my last 2 days so fun and filling kekek!! :D 

Ok oopsy me and my friends ALMOST miss our flight back home......... scary!
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Hehehe home sweet home and reunited! Sis and my flight was different by half an hour or so, so my family welcomed me and then waited for her. Hahaha cooly, then we went to have our dinner!! YUMYUM! :D

That's all for my 5 days HongKong trip!! If you guys ever gonna travel there, rmb to jot down the must go places that I recommended in my posts okay!! Confirm no regrets :D hahaha! I'm also happy that I got to travel to further places in 2013 like Japan and Hongkong!! Cause these places are once a faraway place that I thought I would never visit until I'm a mother or so~ haha! but yea thanks dad and mom for letting me go on these trips to see the WORLD!!! :D <3