KL trip

*waves* I'm alive!
It has been a really long time since i last bummed around at home for the entire day without setting 1 foot out of home!
It's stifling boring for me to do NOTHING at all, and for that i cried buckets - because boredom drove me to watch the telly, and it had to be the channel with that donation charity thingie to raise funds for the SzeChuan earthquake fund relief. Oh My God, so much unnecessary suffering on their part, and tears on mine.
The poor kids, and all that raised hopes, praying hard that it wouldnt be their child/parent(s)/relative etc dead. Sigh.... it brought out the emo side of me. *sniff*
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Emo telly programs aside, i have been really busy with work work work and work, and haven't really had much time to enjoy my holiday, and except for a little short imprompt trip to Kuala Lumpur with Quacks. We were both bored, and next thing you know, we were making our way to KL! Woots! From an elated fries chewing, cheeseburger munching Daphne.... to a bored and sleepy Daphne.
We had such a hard time locating our Hotel when we got to KL, because the GPS and road maps reflected a different road direction from the traffic. After several rounds of circling round the town area, we finally arrived at the Ritz Carlton!
The hotel made me a happy girl, because i love their eye for details! There's the ipod console for me to plug my Nano into, the pretty shower bottles, and on day 2, i was greeted with little cakes after i was done with shopping, and .. i think i should stop rattling on about the minute stuff.. *smiles*
Quacks was impressed with their dustbin - he seriously thought that they employed someone to draw their dustbin -_-" , of which it sparked a little joke from me which goes along the lines of - "Hi, my name is Daphne, and i am a dustbin designer. i draw lions on dustbins all day long! " Hahahhhaha
No offence, Quacks!
We headed over to Pavillion, situated near the Ritz for a short look see, and settled for Tony Romas for dinner. We were ravenous and decided to order salad to share, soup, combo set of ribs and a choice of another meat each.
When the salad arrived......

I was shocked at the portion, and i think the salad alone was huge enough to be called a main course! Salad consisted of grilled chicken breast, ham, egg, a whole garden of vegetables, cheddar cheese and topped with blue cheese dressing! So sinful! How to finish?!
But we attacked the salad fervently anyway, and i think we did quite a good job eating it.

The soup of the day was wonderful, some clear beef broth, and i ordered ribs with steak, and Quacks ribs with chicken i think, and i played quite abit with their different sauces.
Too hungry to take pictures, and its not like there isnt a Tony Romas in Singapore right?

Day2 Was all prepped up for some real shoppping in KL, but after scouring Times square and Sungei Wang, it was a fruitless attempt, my loot amounted to a pair of socks, and a bag. So much for all that exclaimation of KL being a shopping haven. Cheat my feelings man!
All that i spent shopping is barely 1/8 of my average shopping trip in Singapore! How bad can is THAT?
We then ventured into the Amusement park, and for something as promising as its shopping, the roller coaster was about all the excitement that they have to offer. The rest of the rides were just sick - twirling you round and round up and down is not my definition of thrilling, neither is hanging you upside down tilting left to right. It's just creating funny blood flow and stiff neck, not Adrenaline. Gah! i want a refund of RM60! That's us before that rollercoaster ride! The screams that we heard were prerecorded -_-"
Kinda funny to see one lonely burly man sitting on the ride, and the entire ride was filled with girlie screams - it is highly impossible for the burly man to be screaming like a girl, and also highly unlikely for the screams to always be sounding the same right? It is kinda spooky, if u ask me! *shudders when imagination gets carried away*
Our sad attempts in "budget" dinner landed us in the Chicken Rice Shop!
The grilled butter chicken combo meal is nice! I enjoyed the Kuay Pie Tee, the butter chicken and the mango salad! Yums! The soy sauce chicken not so good though..
Day 3
We packed up and cam whored alittle before we bade the Ritz Goodbye, and did some last minute venture over to the KLCC, LOT 10 and Pavillion, before heading back to Singapore.
We had a go at the LRT/MRT in KL, and went over to Kuala Lumpur Convention Center for a look see. The journey back from KLCC to the Ritz to get the car was alittle tedious, after the novelty of taking the LRT and MRT wore off. Because of my JB incident, and Zoe's version of her KL experience, i swore off cabbing in KL for my safety. Just call me paranoid if you have to.
I said hello to Juicy Couture at Pavillion!
Did i ever mention that the name Starhill is pretty? We pass by the entire Starhill area whenever we leave/go back to the hotel. Yays!
Jackie Chan's cafe in Lot 10 - love the comfy looking sofas with the funky attached table! If i have a big house, my living room would look just like it!
(Err, at least until i get bored of it, then i'll renovate again!
I figure that if i were to be able to afford such swanky amount of space in my home, i should be able to afford a frequent renovation everytime i get bored of my furnitures... and that would also includes owning an additional weekend getaway house - for me to escape the noise that renovations usually generates! I bet my "neighbours" would hate me in future if i were ever THAT RICH!) Hahahhaa
Apparently while i was asleep on the journey home, the speedometer maxed out. Gah!
End of entry! Ciao!

The great Zouk Tee Dance!

I Finally got hold of the pictures of Zouk's anniversary - The Great Tee Dance! ( pun intended). *Big Smile*
Pictures taken from all the random sites, and i think it looks pretty decent! Hee!
I took the chance to wear the corset top that i sewed myself, and after a night of partying, there is a few area that i would need to rectify, to make it a better top! :)
But still, i am proud of my handiwork!

The event was pretty cute, when we arrived, there was cute finger food served, such as donuts, rainbow jelly, star biscuits, brownies and i cant remember what,
and the later part of the event also featured the Zouk Anniversay Tee fashion show, where all the different local designers would showcase their creativity - using the same universal Zouk Tee, to slash and cut them into off shoulder tops, skirts, dress, tubes and many others! And now, for all the picture that we've taken for the night! We took lots of pictures, on the digital camera, and also the old school disposable ones that Zouk was giving out! For obvious reasons, i am just going to post up the digital pictures, because i have no idea where that disposable camera went to. * if you ask me, the disposable ones contained too much unspeakable pictures of Crix and Roger fooling around. *sigh*
Here you go, pictures of Daphne and friends ...Sober.
Daphne - Wasted, and evidence of her stupid friends (i.e Crix), fooling around, having fun at her expense. *sigh again* poor Daphne...
Oh well, being anniversary and all, I guess Zouk was being generous, the 4 of us had like 6jugs of booze to finish ( i cannot believe at how everyone was complaining about the measely amount of alcohol ration that we were given at the start of the event....) as towards the end, we were really just working keenly on giving away our booze... paying special attention to that funky jug that the bartender concocted at Roger's request of " you decide on the last one la" - Gingerale whisky i think *gags*
While i was wasted, the guys got me those highly coveted eye-balls that i was whining about right from the start of the event..Woots!
There you go, my newly found eye-balls! They are cute right? Tee hee hee!
Hahah! Ah yee and i had fun eye-balling for the camera!
Here we go, Little miss alien from Mars, and wide eyed Daphne! Woots!

Now that we're almost done with all the pictures, I guess it's best to conclude that I should stick to my usual Ribena in a bottle! It's purple, tastes pretty, and gives me Vitamins! I guess i'm still a little kid after all! ( Yes that is a good excuse for the alcohol intolerant Daphne) :X

Good night!

I want!

Now that exams are over! I'm having a whale of time doing all the nonsense ever!

I went mad after my papers, and i went shopping with Adi!
We went to get stuff for our secret project for a friend's birthday, and i bought present for another friend, and i bought myself a present, and i had a good sumptous dinner! Yay to freedom at last!

Anyway, i've found a few new cute gadgets to add to my wishlist! They are pretty, cute and EXPENSIVE!

Meet the mini cotton candy machine!
It requires no conventional sugar syrup...you could throw in a mentos and it'll churn out mentos flavoured cotton candy! So cute!
It's called an Ame De Wataame Custom Cotton Candy Maker! Retailed at USD 159 -_-"
So expensive just for a random sugar rush kick - and the only reason why i'll want it, is because i want to look at how a mentos, or fox candy or skittle or whatever hard sweet you can think of, will turn into a cotton candy. So fun!
Next would be something that I heart even more than the candy maker! It's a collaboration between Phillips and Swarovski and it's a heartshape pendant 1 gig USB flash drive! Soooo pretty!! Comes in 2 designs for the heart pendant, and i like the crystal one better than the fragmented embedded crystals design. I think it cost about 180USD. There is a few other designs such as a ring, lockets and many more...but i think the heart's the nicest! Meeehh!
The crystal comes in a few colors like silver as shown in the picture, and a light pink glazed crystal. Gahhh :D~






Now, why did i chance upon stuff like this, only after my birthday?
*sulks* But in anycase, i think it's insane to spend that amount of money on something so frivolously pretty.
Alright, wishlist aside, whooppee! I can sleep all i want now!

I am NOT a weakling

There are just days when even the toughest of the lot would crumble.
I'm not exactly a toughie, but i'm definitely no weakling, I am merely human afterall.
Forging on ahead solitarily seem so weary, as i ponder about the bleakness that i have to face.

I would very much like to burst into tears, wail out loud and snuggle in bed doing nothing at all but just sleep away, with no worries in the world to dwell and fret upon.
But shit, paper number 3/4 awaits me, as i race against time, a failing memory, and retarded brain.

Perhaps again, it's customary to breakdown every exams, just particularly laggy this time round.
What doesnt kill will only make me stronger.

As I sit around moping over a container of sweet potato dessert that mommy made.
Laced with salty tears, it's wweet, but alittle hazardous to ingest, comparable to ingesting a hard boiled egg yolk with no sauce or dressing.

I need Monday to scoot over a little quicker lest I collaspe.

Donut, Pnut and Walnut.

Being so busy, i totally forget to announce the arrival of the baby hams!
I'm officially adopting another 2 baby hamsters on 13April 2008.
The 4 babies arrived 2 sundays ago with their mommy in a pink little cage.
They barely opened their eyes hours before reaching my place, as their owner randomly left them in my care before she went on a holiday.
They were sooooo small. About the size of my thumbs.
During her absence, i was to decide on which 2 babies i'll like to keep forever, and to return her 1 mommy ham and her 2 baby ham.
Pictures of the hams!

We have the mommy eating at the corner in the green bowl and her babies.

The exhausted hamster mommy sleeping, while her babies helped themselves to milk...
hahahha!

The baby hamsters grow up really quickly, and as of thursday night, Da and i had a hard time picking out the 2 babies that we've agreed on - and the conclusion was to pick the 2 runt of the litter.
They are officially Peanut the explorer, and Walnut the non explorer.
Their other 2 siblings tt we will be returning are flash the squawky, and the biting baby.
The weird names were based on the predominant characters of each baby we've decided on exactly which 2 to pick..

The explorer came about because it is always alone exploring the nook and cranny of the cage, and rarely runs to its mommy for feeding (which is why it is soooo small). Explorer is also the bravest of the lot, and it never once panic when we held it in our hands.

While Non explorer on the other hand is always sedate and not very hyper (i detest hyper hamsters, mainly because its tiring to catch up with their speed).
That's exactly how Da and i concluded on the selection of the 2 hammies.

Squawky, which is also known as flash, on the other hand is panicky, zooms about really fast and hates/is scared of the human hand (It's the first one that got eliminated). While the biting one - for obvious reasons is out as well, because of its tendency to nibble (just like its mom)
My fingers were quite well chewed on during their 2 week stay, and i had to fling the mommy hard to get my fingers back! Stupid!

Alright, enough of the new additions, here's updates on Donut- she's VERY fat now, exactly like how her name suggest, and she's nice and squishy to hold onto.
She bites/nibbles occasionally, and is no longer hyper or squawky.
Tremendous improvements compared to her initial arrival. Hahahha.
i managed to sneak a picture of Donut sleeping flat on her back, you can now see how fat she actually is.
We are now wondering if we should let Big donut meet tiny pnut and walnut to play on neutral grounds.... but only worried that the big sister would bully the 2 young ones....
Hmmmm should we, or should we not?

Bailamos and PAYM performance

Helloo! It's been a long time, and I am finally taking/enjoying my official break week, before starting on my "gruelling' study schedule. So while I am at it, i've managed to sort of clean up my room, rearrange my make up stuff, accessories, clean up my precious bags, and chuck out unwanted make up, bags and accessories, and stashed aside stuff that I might want to sell at my next flea market attempt.

I did promise pictures of the Bailamos event, and most of it can be found here, because the BenQ crashed on me, and my hard disk is currently slate clean.

*sulks*

So that's about ALL the pictures I have for the Bailamos event. (Adi has finally managed to get hold of the official video footage, and I might load it up here, once I get it! Our amateur attempt at performance! Hurhurhurhur!) I had such a horrible time surviving through my crazy project period, with my laptop crashing on me, and rebooting every time I blink my eyes.

Gah!

I shudder to think about how i managed through everything, with so much crappy stuff happening to me!

What's a good picture without the girls?!
left to right, Charmaine, Cherri, Audrey, Chen Mun, and Meeeee!

Mr Dance partner Aditya Deng xing xing! Hahahahha!

I killed him! Woots!

Group shot With Caroline and Patricia!
Group shot with Gary!
our rubbish pose
With Gary
What's my first official performance like without the sister?
Presenting to you DALENA! I received a nice pot of flower that she bought from ikea (as all the other florist were already closed by the time she remembered), and i'm glad she did not heed the cheapo advise that mommy gave - that is to grab a random stuffed toy from my bed to present to me after my performance -_-". Thank you for the countless support and pointers that you've given to me! Tee heehee

Apart from Bailamos, SIM En Sync also performed the improved chereo of Sambia for the PAYM (People's Association Youth Movement) Dinner and Dance, and we had a costume change! Woots! We earned ourselves a measely $50 bucks each, of which half of our "pay" went to club funds, and the remaining went to our celebratory dinner! Hahahaha

More pictures of the PAYM event can be found here.

This time round, we're all dressed up, as compared to our casual street wear!
The gentlemen
Our pseudo act cool pose - Adi and I
Ricky and I in some random pose - Might be tango or bachata inspired? *shrugs*
Our usual nonsense, Muahahhaha!

That's about all for now. I particularly enjoyed the PAYM chereo, and I do hope that we will be able to land ourselves the official footage of our performance. I would say that it's waay better than what we did for Bailamos!

That's all, i reckon that i should go back to my room packing.
*waves*

I dont think any living thing deserves this..

I was looking clearing through my emails, and stumbled upon this.



Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org

I could not stop crying, while watching the video and typing this, and I think that all animal lovers would understand exactly how I would feel about this.
Fur might be pretty, but i'd think that it looks best on the animal, rather than humans, and definitely not at the EXPENSE of a life! I believe that all animals have their rights and this IS a violation to all living things - and i really cannot think of anything more inhumane than this.
Everyone should just ponder for a moment and think about how consumerism has led to such destructions, and for ANYONE to resort to ROBBING an animal of its skin just for money and beauty?!

Let's reverse roles alittle here, and imagine that you're the racoon dog watching yourself being MURDERED alive helpless, how would you like that?
MURDERED for the fact that you're PRETTY is NEVER a good reason, and so what if you have the money to pay for it, it just isnt fair.
We should really do something about this, thinking about these poor animals in china is making me heart broken.

25 - a quarter of a century old

Oh yes, I have officially turned 25, and like how everyone else would like to remind me, I haev been hanging around earth, mainly Singapore for a quarter of a century.

That does sound ancient!

Somehow, celebrating my 25th birthday, nothing seems to change much, I didnt feel any older than I was the day before turning 24, so I reckon that it is No Big Deal at all, being OLD. Hahhaha (Well at least not now, i'll fret about age when i hit the BIG 30!)

Thank you for all the wishes, presents and cakes that i've received this year, for I am thankful to be remembered. *Big teary smile*

Cake number 1 was cut at Studio, after our weekly sunday training. I Shared the cake with Jug, whose birthday was just days before mine, and the cake caught me by surprise, because i was not expecting one! Being new in EnMotions, it was just erm, surprising?

Meet Chocolate cake number 2. Pretty isn't it?

Posing with mommy at home, the night before! (Pardon the home wear)
My attempt in taking mommy as hostage! Yikes!
Siblings! My brother is finally catching on with the height, and he is now as tall as i am! Good work, we hope to see you waaay taller than i am, on my next birthday ya?
Posing pretty with cake2!

Now meet Cake number 3, the very Chocolatey Birthday cake that i had on my actual birthday itself. *Big Grin* I was stuck at DXO doing a rehersal for the Bailamos event, and It was really sweet of them all to remember, and to get me a cake AND a very cute charm bracelet (from Audrey and John)!
The birthday girl with Audrey and charmaine (Adi was the camera man, and John was out taking a puff) - the rest couldnt make it for the rehersals - due to test, assignments and exams!
Goodbye cake! That's the last of cake that we would see, as it lay peacefully in our tummies. Yippee!

I'm missing of a good conclusion picture, which would be a consolidated picture of all the presents that i've received.
I'll try to post them up another day, when i find the time to put them all together for a grand picture!
However, i reckon that it might require some effort to get a good shot though... granted that most of the presents are pretty photogenic and doesnt move, with the exception of Donut, who isn't quite camera friendly (She's quite hyper and non cooperative when it comes to pictures).

Oh well, we will see!
I had a very happy 25th birthday. Yay!