Black Friday

Keep seeing Black Friday stuff pop up in my timeline.
It's quite dumb, coz in Singapore, nobody really practice the tradition of Thanksgiving, and the idea of introducing BLACK FRIDAY in Singapore (it's really kinda lost)  because the culture is only happening in the USA, and it's somewhat a backlash event, What has it gotta do with Singapore?!

Next - the sale items most online shops have, are merely attempting to do clearance.
All looks boring.
50% off also uninspired to buy.

In other news, I met Valda for dinner at Itacho...and had desserts at Shodoku..
On my way home, I was busy texting and I missed my stop!
Ended up walking 3 bus stops to get home.
I decided that my food was fully digested at bustop #2.

I reached home, took off my shoes and warmed up a can of Chicken Alphabets.
I even threw in an egg for good measure, but Alas! The egg yolk broke.
When hungry, one can't be picky.
I slurped it all up anyway!

Laid in bed to catch up on Tweets and FB and in less than an hour,
I'm now eating my kokocrunch immersed in a bowlful of milk.
Nope not the ricebowl size...it's the big soup bowl size okay.

I swear my stomach's like a blackhole.

The bestie's back from Indon tomorrow.
So glad that my appetite is in tip top condition for our nom-ing escapade tomorrow.

Sadly, *No one really stuff themselves silly with me anymore.
Everyone else seems to be on a diet of sorts for random reasons.    :(
Even the bestie. I swear he starves himself in Indo, and gobbles up only when he's in Singapore.

*ok not exactly no one.
The family is still eating alot - but it hardly counts - as we hardly have time to eat together.
With Da #forever busy, and daddy #foreverinchina..
That's just mom, the brother and me.

Dislike.

The way life is..

Way of life #1

Just crawled out of bed to make payments to the girls.
This is their favourite part of their job, and for me - the part that makes me smile most; for it gives me satisfaction to visualize their faces + the smile that lights up their pretty face(s) whenever they receive my text to them that their PAY IS IN.

lol
that's when I get the most love for the day - Yeah, wise men says money can't buy you love, but that's really besides the point.
Tsk.

Way of life #2
I cant run very far away from Adobe Photoshop.
There's self narcism to fulfill
Then there was the pursuit of aesthetic pleasing pictures
Next there was Bowtique
and now there's composite cards.

I love Photoshop lots! Even if the commercial aspect of it usually requires no brainer edits, and the lack of creativity outputs

Way of life #3
As I get older, I get lazier - and I eventually stop posting pictures of myself

Way of life #4
Everytime I tell myself that I will post up pictures of my daily outfits, I'd realize that I am the one who gets bored of my own ideas faster than anything else - then ditch the project.
Same goes for my nails diaries - The intention was to take pictures of my nail designs for the whole of this year - but I guess the idea became meh to me.

Whaa :(
Its seriously bad news when I get bored of myself this easily.

Way of life #5
Online shopping is ♥
But I get really annoyed at inefficient online shops.
Like the recent cardigan + furry bag + underwear that I bought from a local site
They oversell/over promise themselves, and under perform max.

Totally disgusting!
I've got stuff pending on their end, thou shall only badmouth - when I RECEIVE all my items.

Gotta run!
Gotta leave home in 10mins, and i'm still in my jammies + stinky morning breath.
LOL

Good morning!

Just finished fixing my nails and thinking about food at 5am in the morning...
I figure I should just sleep that hunger off, coz rummaging for food = paint job gone down the drain, so just blog while the paint job dries...

Fixing my nails is probably another person's version of jogging, or pilates or yoga or whatever hobby you have in mind.
It helps me to take my mind off things, and so it's been a pet peeve since like I set foot into Poly. Every week new color and design + since I'm like 85% ambidextrous..
it's a gift that I should not put to waste.
Hahahaha.

Took me a loooong time to decide on color, and finally settled for the glittery olive.
Then spent the next 30mins persuading myself to keep the nail simple with just a single tone...but I couldn't bring my self to do so, and hence the tiniest, skinniest gold glitter french tip just to look like a margarita rimmed glass
(Deep down, no one really gives a shit about my nails but as long as keeps me happy, everyone's happy.)

Spent almost the entire day sleeping and kinda forget all about food until I left home for work.
Met Claudia for dinner, and as I start eating.....
in her exasperated tone:  "you either dont eat the entire day, or end up eating all your meals in one sitting."
It sounded rather funny to me ~ the way the facts was presented, and my mom agrees!

Well, there IS some truth to that!

Dinner consist of:

Seafood Phad Thai and Green Curry with rice at Mart Boulevard (they serve pretty awesome Thai food at affordable price. Our Bill came up to $16-ish in total?) - as usual, she ate whatever she could, and I finished up the remaining portion like a starving african kid.

I guess i'm never quite done with the puberty eating. #Lol

Post dinner, we settled for NYDCs at Hor-land vee-lage,  and again the lady ate half portion of her brownies, and I ate up double portions. :)

She had NYDC's brownie with icecream..
I had my favourite Goldmine cheese cake and an additional scoop of macadamia icecream. Yums!
I swear we're totally Yin yang when it comes to dessert.
I'll eat up everything fatty, creamy, sinful but non chocolately, and Claud totally digs the chocolate-ty stuff.

Super love the way she works the camera with her 20,000 expressions.
My personaly favourite - hungry face!
The waiter kept serving her my desserts - coz of her hungry expressions :D

Her "all mine!" shot

and lastly the "I haz dessert" shot (we secretly call it something else)

Makes me happy to see these pictures, so I should post it here to share, and read through when I'm bored. Bet it'll cheer me up.
And make me hungrier.

As for me, I'm quite pathetic.
Only capable of smile and dont smile - epic fail. :(

Helpless

Heading home, I listened to her story.
I understood her distress, and as much as I wanted to comfort her,  I was pretty much stuck in the same situation with nothing to offer, for I am none wiser.

Everything she said sounded like the exact words that I've said repeatedly/

I feel her angst.
I feel her sorrow.
I know her dejection and disappointment.
I understand her inner struggles within.

We sat on the short journey, I was mostly quiet and helpless.

Helpess because I do not know how to comfort her, and neither do I have any advise to offer.
For I too, am stuck in the same obstacles as she is facing.

Only longer.

I questioned why do we have to go through this again and again?
Dont we deserve better?

Deep down I am thankful that despite the pathetic day I endured on 11.11.11 - I know for sure that I am being taken care of.
All the cock ups combined today could have possibly been worst, if it was not for the help that UPSTRs gave me.

In fact, now that I've got time to space out and filter out today's event...
the 2 most precious words that I often mutter to people around me came back to me through the mouth of a customer.

He said to me:

:)

Faith is like a warm cup of milk on a chilly rainy day, and I made it through anyway.
Keep smiling.
At least I usually try to.

My one true love... person of leisure

For the past few months, boring Sundays like today, are rare to come by!

I woke up without the alarm or beeping from whatsapp or text messages asking me about deployments, emergencies to attend to and so on... So happy!

Spent another 2 hours bumming around, taking my own slow slow sweet time dress up...and even had time to masque my eyes - Im totally loving those gel pads that X replenished for me while he was in Korea...

stoned around more, played SIMs Social

repack my undies drawer according to their color, before heading out.

Headed out to hunt for stuff, had Koi caramel milk tea (even tho my new obsession would be Ah Gan's Taro milk tea...), bought my sparkling crackly candy pops + those coke jellies we used to have from the Bugis gift store before heading off for some hot Ramen for dinner, shopped abit at somerset...

My happy loots taken in the car..

I bought more than just that.

Took them out for illustration purposes..

and I'm wearing my new lace rimmed whitewash denim shorts! 

Woo hoo..

They look alot like diaper in this picture...but whatever la!

I'm happy with my new loots!  (Yah... I know i'm such a kid still)

Came home early, got bored and junked on tibits mommy just bought. (she just came back from malaysia like hours ago..)

Junking on food like nonstop.

I bought new stuff online #guilty, played more SIMS Social... stoned again

Gossip on BBM and Whatsapp..

Blogged!

THAT WAS HOW I USED TO LIVE MY LIFE.

Oh I somewhat missed that bumming life, not that life now isn't good.

We're all entitled to reminisce, aren't we?

*on hindsight, I could have used all that spare time to do some work for bowtique right?

Poor Bowtique has been neglected for the longest time! Argghh.

I feel so bad now.

X

My special Aunty!

Received pictures from the Sister's camera taken during Kenny's wedding.
Of all the pictures, I think im happiest to see pictures of Aunty and me!

She's probably the only person in the world who'll love me unconditionally even when I am not blood related to her!

This special lady took care of me when mom and dad could not afford a maid back when I was a baby, and were bunking at Grandpa's place. :)       She practically semi-raised me up from infant til age 2 year old, and super duper dotes on me. (actually her entire family does).

According to mommy, I'll spent monday to friday over at Aunty's and mommy would pop by every night after dinner/work to play and spend time with me.
I'll only be brought home for the weekends.

My daily routine over at aunty's goes alot like this (so they tell me)
Breakfast, lunch and dinner - she cooks really yummy stuff!
Play time and nap.
Evening - mobile ice-cream man with the umbrella + motorbike will sound his bell, and I'll head down with Aunty's husband for my daily icecream session, and also take a walk round the estate and sit on as many kiddie rides as I fancy (omg, writing this, I sound like a dog on my daily walk..)

The kiddy ride machines look somewhat like this and other variety to boot...

Mom reckons that looking after me was a loss/lose type of business for her, coz they had to invest so much money in daily icecream and countless kiddy rides.

She also claims that the #spoiltbrat part started from Aunty's place, coz whenever she brings me home for the weekend (just right across the street), the lift home had a couple of kiddy rides guarding the lift entrance as if they were chinese lion statues guarding the left and right of entrances.

It is impossible to avoid the kiddy ride, and I'll like refuse to budge until mom pays the "toll fee" for my ride before we could set foot into the lift landing.
I guess it was a *rolls eyes* and mutters "Again?!" +  fhl encounter every week.
 *laughs*
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Legend has it that when Mommy and Daddy finally could afford to get a place of their own + the maid, Aunty cried alot while she was packing my stuff up.  :(((

I guess it was because I was the first kiddo she took care of, and so we both are somewhat emotionally attached to each other...

Good thing was, Gramp's house is just a street away right?
I still get to visit her weekly whenever we head over to grandpa's place for dinner and stuff.
That's like how I know she cooks really yummy stuff.

I even had my own set of kids cutlery reserved and kept in the cupboard - mini chopsticks (I could chopstick my food at age 2plus/3 years old ok!), fork, spoon, my own kiddo plate, cups, toys and even stayed over a couple of time.

Every festive season = special home made food.
Like tins and tins of  homemade loveletter crackers for Chinese new year to bring home.
and a whole bundle of rice dumplings made from scratch during dumpling festival, and it was truly Aunty's influence that I really liked to eat the plain rice dumplings (no one at home really fancies it), and I get a whole bunch of it for myself *beams*
I'll dunk it with brown sugar, or home-made kaya that she makes for me
and the meaty dumpling ones was to be shared with the entire family.

Aunty's prawn fritters and pophiahs are also to die for. :)

With age catching up, Aunty rarely cooks up a storm in the kitchen now.
All the yummy food requires too much work. : /
Oh well.

Without fail, I'll visit Auntie every chinese new year, and she attends every birthday party that my parents planned for me, and even my 21st birthday!

its funny how she's like a grandma to me... nags at me whenever she see me.
Tells me annually how I'm too skinny, Have to eat more, why are my hands feel so clammy - am I unwell, when I took pictures with her at Kenny's wedding.
Says it's ok to rot at home, when I left my job last year - good to take a break.
Nags about when am I going to get married, that my future husband to be has to be a good guy - and that I'll have to bring him to her place for a look see for approval and stuff like that.

I wanted her to attend my convocation when I graduated. But SIM gave me limited seatings, so I made do and gave her a picture of me in my graduation gown.

I love her to bits.
Today writing this post, I'm thankful that she loves me as if i'm her own.
I really am blessed to be loved and doted.
Thank you X love