I feel this uncanny urge to buy a 2008 schedule book. NOW. I don't know why but I feel that my schedule is spilling beyond this year and beyond December and I need to put it all down.
The year is soon coming to a close but not soon enough for the shops to start selling 2008 organizers. I feel like I'm done with this year. I want to live next year now. I think this is the consequence of planning too far ahead. All the stuff to do in December - exams, church musical, hang out with all the overseas friends, youth camp, holiday - feels done. November already feels over even though it's just starting on Thursday.
So I now need January and February when Sheng leaves and when I go for my annual pilgrimage to Bangkok and when exchange results come out. And when I start a whole new life. Time passes by so quickly.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Happy Birthday Mom!
Mom's birthday was last Friday. And her trickle of celebrations started off with a surprise birthday cake at her cell group! In the morning I asked her if her cell was going to celebrate her birthday for her. I thought, surely they must since she's their cell leader and her birthday was that day itself. But nooo... she said she didn't think so because she was the one usually organizing the birthday celebrations so when it comes to her birthday, she doubted if anyone would celebrate for her! OH no! So tragic! What kind of useless cell group is this! So I decided to do something about it and surprise her with a cake!
The most tragic thing is that when I was standing outside the house with the cake, everyone inside could see me and I was standing there like a clown, singing Happy Birthday so loudly and NOBODY came to open the gate for me. Everyone just stared like I was some extra-terrestial being! WTH!
Anyway, the flowers in mom's hand were delivered by my dad. Made her doubly happy.
Awfully chocolate cake. Thank God there's an outlet so near school. Made my life a lot easier. Except for the fact that I had no car and had to take a BUS from school to church in peak hour conditions with a CAKE. But I'm mighty proud of myself for saving money and not taking a cab. Cos on the bus, this kind Indian lady offered to hold on to my cake for me cos she was sitting down.
Mom - very pleasantly surprised.
Mom cutting her cake.
Mom cutting and serving her own cake (!!)
The cell group that -made it all happen-.
Well-eaten cake.
Then on Saturday, we surprised mom with a cupcake tier! I now think it's quite a retarded thing to do but it looked nice and was something different, for a change. I ordered it from thebakerwhocooks. 4 large nutella swirly cupcakes and 8 lemoney zest cupcakes for my 48 year old mother.
The tier before the cupcakes. It was supposed to be "english themed" but the only English thing I saw about it was the black lace details. The rest of it looked rather, Malay. Haha. But it was nice nonetheless.
The lemon cupcakes! With the ribbon tags "Happy Birthday Mom". The lemon cupcakes were damn amazing. The lemon curd inside is damn zesty and yummy! I loved it.
The nutella swirley cupcakes. the nutella... really the diabetes inducer. But Reuben loved it cos his staple food is nutella, not rice.
The lace detail.
Parents. Ok I realize how everything is yellow and green including the table cloth and this is really starting to look very Malay. NO offence! Just the colour theme. But, it's also quite apt because yellow, white and green were my parents' wedding colour theme! Haha.
And last night, we went for dinner at Hotel Rendezvous. With this, I think we have exhausted all the hotel buffets in Singapore. The food was so-so. I think I ate more dessert than food.
The general place. My camera takes really sucky dim-lighting photos.
Reuben
More Reuben.
My parents laughing at the cards we wrote for mom.
Laughing some More.
My dad is so retarded. When he realized I was snapping impromptu shots, he immediately said, "eh? you're taking pictures? eh quick take one for both of us". haha. There you goo..
The only dish worth taking a picture of - the durian mousse! I like durian. And this one was really good! And it had weird durian dollops lining the top! How ugly and weird!
And when we came home, she opened more presents. This is Sheng's present. He's also retarded. he asked me the night before if it's ok if he wrapped her present with NEWSPAPERS. I said, "you mean you don't have wrapping paper?" Sheng said, "yah i dont have". So I hesitatingly said, ok, you can wrap her present with freaking newspapers.
But it turned out to be pretty nice! He chose some garlic bread and model woman picture. But underneath, there were sooo many layers of ugly newspaper wrapping. Haha.
And in all his bookish-ness, he had to get her, a BOOK. Apt for her work.
Most of mom's gifts in total!
Happy birthday mom. I have the bestest mom ever.
The most tragic thing is that when I was standing outside the house with the cake, everyone inside could see me and I was standing there like a clown, singing Happy Birthday so loudly and NOBODY came to open the gate for me. Everyone just stared like I was some extra-terrestial being! WTH!
Anyway, the flowers in mom's hand were delivered by my dad. Made her doubly happy.
Awfully chocolate cake. Thank God there's an outlet so near school. Made my life a lot easier. Except for the fact that I had no car and had to take a BUS from school to church in peak hour conditions with a CAKE. But I'm mighty proud of myself for saving money and not taking a cab. Cos on the bus, this kind Indian lady offered to hold on to my cake for me cos she was sitting down.
Mom - very pleasantly surprised.
Mom cutting her cake.
Mom cutting and serving her own cake (!!)
The cell group that -made it all happen-.
Well-eaten cake.
Then on Saturday, we surprised mom with a cupcake tier! I now think it's quite a retarded thing to do but it looked nice and was something different, for a change. I ordered it from thebakerwhocooks. 4 large nutella swirly cupcakes and 8 lemoney zest cupcakes for my 48 year old mother.
The tier before the cupcakes. It was supposed to be "english themed" but the only English thing I saw about it was the black lace details. The rest of it looked rather, Malay. Haha. But it was nice nonetheless.
The lemon cupcakes! With the ribbon tags "Happy Birthday Mom". The lemon cupcakes were damn amazing. The lemon curd inside is damn zesty and yummy! I loved it.
The nutella swirley cupcakes. the nutella... really the diabetes inducer. But Reuben loved it cos his staple food is nutella, not rice.
The lace detail.
Parents. Ok I realize how everything is yellow and green including the table cloth and this is really starting to look very Malay. NO offence! Just the colour theme. But, it's also quite apt because yellow, white and green were my parents' wedding colour theme! Haha.
And last night, we went for dinner at Hotel Rendezvous. With this, I think we have exhausted all the hotel buffets in Singapore. The food was so-so. I think I ate more dessert than food.
The general place. My camera takes really sucky dim-lighting photos.
Reuben
More Reuben.
My parents laughing at the cards we wrote for mom.
Laughing some More.
My dad is so retarded. When he realized I was snapping impromptu shots, he immediately said, "eh? you're taking pictures? eh quick take one for both of us". haha. There you goo..
The only dish worth taking a picture of - the durian mousse! I like durian. And this one was really good! And it had weird durian dollops lining the top! How ugly and weird!
And when we came home, she opened more presents. This is Sheng's present. He's also retarded. he asked me the night before if it's ok if he wrapped her present with NEWSPAPERS. I said, "you mean you don't have wrapping paper?" Sheng said, "yah i dont have". So I hesitatingly said, ok, you can wrap her present with freaking newspapers.
But it turned out to be pretty nice! He chose some garlic bread and model woman picture. But underneath, there were sooo many layers of ugly newspaper wrapping. Haha.
And in all his bookish-ness, he had to get her, a BOOK. Apt for her work.
Most of mom's gifts in total!
Happy birthday mom. I have the bestest mom ever.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Scruffy, scruffy, scruffy, scruffy scruffy
My life is reaching a point of insane busyness. There are:
mock trials
finding a witness for a mock trial
worrying that my dad will not catch his flight in time if he's my witness
church
CHURCH (church politics is really a BITCH. it is so draining and it is wasting all my time)
xmas musical at victoria theatre rehearsals and prep
cell group
cell Members (and their load of teenage angsty problems. I hate the teen years)
worship ministry
youth ministry
clt exam ?!
the rest of my exams maybe?
other little obligations for school
oh my mom's birthday which is Today
getting her cake
booking her restaurant
collecting the cupcake tier from freaking bedok
gary bell's tea which I am probably not going for
other relational stresses
shit there's just too many things to think about and do. Under each of those headings, little tiny contributory streams of subheadings flow. I wake up every morning with a start and my heart starts beating with all the things I have to do for the day. All the people I have to consider all the schedules I have to shift around. DAMN! I better pray more and talk less.
mock trials
finding a witness for a mock trial
worrying that my dad will not catch his flight in time if he's my witness
church
CHURCH (church politics is really a BITCH. it is so draining and it is wasting all my time)
xmas musical at victoria theatre rehearsals and prep
cell group
cell Members (and their load of teenage angsty problems. I hate the teen years)
worship ministry
youth ministry
clt exam ?!
the rest of my exams maybe?
other little obligations for school
oh my mom's birthday which is Today
getting her cake
booking her restaurant
collecting the cupcake tier from freaking bedok
gary bell's tea which I am probably not going for
other relational stresses
shit there's just too many things to think about and do. Under each of those headings, little tiny contributory streams of subheadings flow. I wake up every morning with a start and my heart starts beating with all the things I have to do for the day. All the people I have to consider all the schedules I have to shift around. DAMN! I better pray more and talk less.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
My dad blogs
I just realised that when you save a post as a draft and post it the next day, the posting date is the date when you first made the draft. I just posted the flamingo wedding and the date said Tuesday, 9th October. Then I was so happy for a moment cos I thought, oh today only Tuesday? Then no need to do property tutorial. Then I realised, shit no, it's Wednesday. tuh.
Anyway, my dad recently put up a post that was quite in line with what I was talking about a few posts ago.
read it
Good reminder for me, maybe you too.
Anyway, my dad recently put up a post that was quite in line with what I was talking about a few posts ago.
read it
Good reminder for me, maybe you too.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Wedding in a Park
Over the weekend, I attended a wedding, at the Jurong Birdpark! Shit mann I don't think I've even been there before in my life. And it's situated at some mega ulu part of Singapore, like near Jurong Island where they conduct all the petrochemical jazz? wertt.
Anyway! Pictures!
Jurong Birdpark.
Mom and the flamingoes. She was dressed like one too.
The entire swamp of flamingoes that kindly formed the backdrop to the wedding.
Me and mom. I'm trying to emulate flamingo body language. Cool huh.
The flamingoes close up. Did you know that flamingoes' knees bend backwards when they walk? How cool is that? I spent such a long time observing them cos the wedding was so boring. They're quite fascinating, in that they're sooo damn skinny. Their ability to compress their necks and legs and everything is damn amazing.
Just some pictures of the interior
The wedding was set against a glass wall with the flamingoes in the immediate background.
I couldn't see the kiddies walking in cos everyone was standing so I decided to take a picture of the screen. Haha.
The flower girls
More of them.
My dad marrying them off.
Signing the legal stuff.
Anyway, weddings are really boring, especially when you don't really know the couple. So let's turn our attention to the food!
Look at the wedding cake!! Omg. This is the first wedding I've been to that allows you to eat the wedding cake. And it's BRIGHT ORANGE. Cool! It's like an orange chiffon cake with a chocolate centre. I ate 3 enormous pieces. Yum!
Laksa! I seem to be eating a lot of laksa these days. But this one was really good. Oh the wedding dinner was buffet style which is excellent cos you can eat all you want and you get to home home early. Compare this to sitting stiff-necked amid a bunch of people you don't even know, eating polite, docile portions of gross abalone or gigantore mushrooms with some gross spinach. eek!
The chocolates! Haha. Reuben and I hijacked all the chocolates cos we made it a point to try allll the different assortments. We took so many chocolates that all the kids were deprived of theirs! I kept hearing whiffs of complaints from kids about there not being any more chocolates. Haha. too bad, sorry! anyway you're a kid. all your teeth will fall out.
Till the next food post!
Anyway! Pictures!
Jurong Birdpark.
Mom and the flamingoes. She was dressed like one too.
The entire swamp of flamingoes that kindly formed the backdrop to the wedding.
Me and mom. I'm trying to emulate flamingo body language. Cool huh.
The flamingoes close up. Did you know that flamingoes' knees bend backwards when they walk? How cool is that? I spent such a long time observing them cos the wedding was so boring. They're quite fascinating, in that they're sooo damn skinny. Their ability to compress their necks and legs and everything is damn amazing.
Just some pictures of the interior
The wedding was set against a glass wall with the flamingoes in the immediate background.
I couldn't see the kiddies walking in cos everyone was standing so I decided to take a picture of the screen. Haha.
The flower girls
More of them.
My dad marrying them off.
Signing the legal stuff.
Anyway, weddings are really boring, especially when you don't really know the couple. So let's turn our attention to the food!
Look at the wedding cake!! Omg. This is the first wedding I've been to that allows you to eat the wedding cake. And it's BRIGHT ORANGE. Cool! It's like an orange chiffon cake with a chocolate centre. I ate 3 enormous pieces. Yum!
Laksa! I seem to be eating a lot of laksa these days. But this one was really good. Oh the wedding dinner was buffet style which is excellent cos you can eat all you want and you get to home home early. Compare this to sitting stiff-necked amid a bunch of people you don't even know, eating polite, docile portions of gross abalone or gigantore mushrooms with some gross spinach. eek!
The chocolates! Haha. Reuben and I hijacked all the chocolates cos we made it a point to try allll the different assortments. We took so many chocolates that all the kids were deprived of theirs! I kept hearing whiffs of complaints from kids about there not being any more chocolates. Haha. too bad, sorry! anyway you're a kid. all your teeth will fall out.
Till the next food post!
Sunday, October 7, 2007
MORE Food!
Lunch at Vittles! Vittles is a relatively new restaurant along Sembawang Rd.
They have a popcorn corner. You can help yourself to free popcorn. Though I don't see the purpose of serving free popcorn when they don't screen movies. Maybe it has a psychological effect on customers, like oh this place got free things, ok next time I come and eat more. Haha.
But the popcorn wasn't very nice, quite lao hong (sp?) and yah, just lao hong.
But the tomato soup was really good! Yum!
And the nachos too! They come with cheese and beef salsa dips. The cheese was nice and thick and didn't taste like melted Cheesedale cheese of kraft or whatever. haha. I like!
Parmesan Coated Dory. A nice change from the usual battered or grilled dory fillets. Very nice!
Sirloin steak. The most unflattering photo of food I've ever seen in my life. Obviously I didn't take it.
Florida's Natural Juice strings!!!
Juice in a string! It's like drinking vitamins on the go! Omg, how much more ingenious can you get!
Pull the string...
And clip it out! haha. my most favourite snack of all time!
Lunch at Golden Mile Food centre.
This is the all-famous Belgian Chocolate desserts etc etc shop. Owned by a Belgian himself, the shop is the most high tech and posh hawker centre shop I have seen in my life. The store is wooden paneled, with mouth-watering pictures of dripping chocolate and chocolate encased fruit on the walls. You are given a recepit and a points card (which is electronically registered and not chopped like those normal ones you get from coffee bean or whatever) and they even have a facebook group. WTH!
But the fondue is rly good. Now you can have fondue whenever you want! No need to go eat Fullerton Chocolate buffet or any other hotel buffet for that matter, just for the fondue! The chocolate is imported straight from Belgium and it's just melted and served straight out like that, no milk, no sugar, no nothing. We ordered the Royal Fondue set.
It came with a whole plate of fruits; strawberries, honeydew, grapes and banana, marshmallows.
Two waffles.
The chocolate of course. And two scoops of gelato ice-cream.
YUM!
They have a popcorn corner. You can help yourself to free popcorn. Though I don't see the purpose of serving free popcorn when they don't screen movies. Maybe it has a psychological effect on customers, like oh this place got free things, ok next time I come and eat more. Haha.
But the popcorn wasn't very nice, quite lao hong (sp?) and yah, just lao hong.
But the tomato soup was really good! Yum!
And the nachos too! They come with cheese and beef salsa dips. The cheese was nice and thick and didn't taste like melted Cheesedale cheese of kraft or whatever. haha. I like!
Parmesan Coated Dory. A nice change from the usual battered or grilled dory fillets. Very nice!
Sirloin steak. The most unflattering photo of food I've ever seen in my life. Obviously I didn't take it.
Florida's Natural Juice strings!!!
Juice in a string! It's like drinking vitamins on the go! Omg, how much more ingenious can you get!
Pull the string...
And clip it out! haha. my most favourite snack of all time!
Lunch at Golden Mile Food centre.
This is the all-famous Belgian Chocolate desserts etc etc shop. Owned by a Belgian himself, the shop is the most high tech and posh hawker centre shop I have seen in my life. The store is wooden paneled, with mouth-watering pictures of dripping chocolate and chocolate encased fruit on the walls. You are given a recepit and a points card (which is electronically registered and not chopped like those normal ones you get from coffee bean or whatever) and they even have a facebook group. WTH!
But the fondue is rly good. Now you can have fondue whenever you want! No need to go eat Fullerton Chocolate buffet or any other hotel buffet for that matter, just for the fondue! The chocolate is imported straight from Belgium and it's just melted and served straight out like that, no milk, no sugar, no nothing. We ordered the Royal Fondue set.
It came with a whole plate of fruits; strawberries, honeydew, grapes and banana, marshmallows.
Two waffles.
The chocolate of course. And two scoops of gelato ice-cream.
YUM!
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