NYE dinner and drinks... :)

Had a good team lunch at Cafe Cartel in Marina Square. By the time I went there, it was already past 2pm! Hahaha! as usual, I wasn't able to finish work in time.

Anyway, by the time we finished lunch, it is already 430pm! And I am meeting Kitty at 530pm for drinks and dinner!!! Hahah! I was still very full! But it has been a long time since I met her, so I am kinda looking forward to it. Anyway, I'm bleeding!!! This is a super freak thing! (rather not say it..)

Anyway, we decided to go somewhere quiet cos we expected everywhere to be super crowded! So we met at Greenwood Ave... I haven't been to this place in fact... But this was a nice small hang out place. So we met and had a few wines and chatted for a while.

We spotted a lion-dog!!! See!!! It is soooooooooooo CUTE!!!

The owner must be damn rich.. anyway this is the place for rich expats... cute dog!!!

Anyway, we decided to grab a bite. It was already 8 pm! So well, guess I should just eat a little. At first we wanted to go Dempsey but then, we were slightly tired and lazy. So we walked along the shops and saw a nice Italian restaurant. So we settled there.

We ordered a bottle of wine (cos the waiter said that we could bring back home if we cannot finish), but after 2 glasses (I already had 3 glasses before that), I felt sudden super headache! Then I remembered that I was having freak bleeding.. Oh dear! Shouldn't have drank so much! Wat a waste cos both of us were not able to finish the wine and we realised that the wine is corked, not those "screw-cap" wine, so that mean that we cannot bring the wine back home. :(  Got bluffed by that Italian waiter!!! huh!!! Anyways, I had to pop panadols to sleep that night... sigh... And I had to wake up for the next day's JB trip!!! Oh dear!!!

Apart from the headache saga, this was a nice NYE day for me... :) Very enjoyable!

Xmas 2011!~ KTV-ing and Pasta-ing!

Went Pasta at Cuppage Terrace and later made our way to Partyworld Liang Court... :)

*I am trying hard to act demure*

My photo of Mic taking his pasta...

Mic's photo of me taking my pasta!!! HAHAHAHA!!!

KTV time at Partyworld!!!

Mic was trying to learn the dance steps of Jay Chou's 水手怕水... I had some funny video of him trying to do the dance!!

After that, I pulled Mic to check out an outlet called Shuffle... I heard about this place but I was not able to join my colleagues that night cos I had too much work to do... :(

Really love my Umeshu!!!! :)

I stick to my Umeshu the whole night while Mic had a few drinks though... First, his sake wasn't up to his standard... then he ordered Japanese whiskey... And it sucks!!! So finally he ordered a normal beer...

Of cos after that, the next morning he had headache ar!!! HAhahah!!! :p

Anyway, it was a good night out! We reached home around 330am!

Xmas eve! Church and drinking w good frens! :)

Yes! It's another xmas again! :) I remembered I was still chionging for my assignment at YMCA on Xmas day itself!!! And it has been a year already! Woooo.... And I already gotten my MBA cert! Yeshhh!!! It was real hard work! For a while, I thought I really cannot make it... And finally I did! Yeah!!!! :)  You can see my 2010 Xmas post by clicking here! :)
Anyway, as usual, my bro will perform at Xmas eve in church and as usual, my mummy will make me go church with them on this day... Ok lah.. go support my bro lor! :)

He is not acting as he gets really nervous on stage, thus he had chosen to do singing instead.. sigh... still thought that I could have a bro that can act on stage... :p

See him?? among the old men?? lolol! :p

Hahahaha!!! All the men in the singing team are OLD men!!! except my bro... :) guess he liked to mix with old men bah...

Anyway, after the church activities, I met my friends, Mic and Brenda to go for a drink and to sing songs. We went to Prinsep street first and was surprised that the pubs along that street was all fully booked. And for those pubs that has space for walk-ins, there are minimum spent for each of the table! Like a big table will be S$200, a round one will be $100 and a super small one at a corner will be S$80 spent! Wau Lau eh!!! We only got 3 of us, how to drink $100 worth of drink! and they have increased their beer jug price too, each jug cost S$30-38 each! And other pubs will increase the price by 10% on overall bill for that night. Sigh...

So the 3 of us decided to try other place and went back to Circular road - White Bar...

And good enough, we have table! And it is the exact same table that we were previously! :) We were early, so the place not crowded yet... so we sat and ordered our beer and played some dice game... :)

Duh! This guy always giving me the same photo pose... So I asked him to give me another one...

Tadah!!!

hmmmm..... hahahahaha!!

We had a good time till 3am and we went for prata supper after that...

A small 插曲 : I suddenly realised that I had left my Mango jacket at White Bar... But since it was so late and I think Brenda was tired already, I thought might as well forget it... but Mic and Brenda was OK to go back to take it... So after supper and sending Brenda back, me and Mic went over to White Bar again to take it... I thought it might be gone by then, but luckily the waitress kept it for me. :)

By the time I reached home, it was already 330am I think... It was a good night out, although we could have sang more songs but the place was too crowded! We have to wait for at least an hour before we get to sing 2 songs... hmmm... next time we should go to KTV and sang our hearts out!! :)

Bye Xmas! And welcome New Year!!!!

Gelato-ing with Nan

I grew fatter cos Im taking the pills to regulate my skin... So I had to change my wardrobe. sigh... So that weekend, I went out with Nan to go shopping for xmas gifts and bigger sized clothes (sobs)...

I didn't know there was a gelato store at Marina Square! Apparently this was newly opened... So me and Nan decided to go try out...

The gelato was nice. I had the green tea gelato while Nan had the chocolate almond I think. But it was too sweet for me so eventually I had to order a cuppucino and didn't finish my gelato... This was a huge portion for a "small" size!!! :)

It was a good Sat afternoon with Nan and was happy that both of us got our xmas presents settled! :)

Grew fatter... Sobs

It is a fact that I had grew fatter and will continue to put on weight! But its a good sacrifice for good skin, so I have decided to continue for a few months before I stopped.

Anyway, I needed to buy new bigger sized dress since most of my dresses are too small now...

This dress is nice right?? Totally love this dress from BeBe.. But then... this dress is too OTT... so not practical to buy and it is expensive too. Cost more than S$300!!! Wah!!! So too bad. I decided to take a photo and not buy it! hahahah!!! Cheapskate!!!

Underwent a terrible assessment test in KL

I was picked to go for a "assessment" test in KL, organized by my company...

I have no idea what this whole thing is about... But before we went there, we were asked to complete 2 online tests first. One test was personality test, and this was quite easy. But the other one was "numerical" test, where it was quite similar to "GMAT" format. It was soooo difficult and we have to complete 25 questions within 18 min! It was totally impossible! I basically "hantam" the answers for at least 6 of the questions! Sigh... I guess i sure fail this test!

And when we reached KL, we were shocked to realize that there were 4 tests awaiting us!

Test 1: Behavioural Event Interview
A tester will ask me a series of questions pertaining to some events and I have to answer based on personal experiences. This is to test our capability to handle certain situations and also to identify which situations that we have been through, so that they can determine our level of expertise and area of capability.

Test 2: Case study and have to present to a panel of Board Directors
This is the worst among all the tests! I was given a case study and I was supposed to be the MD of the company in the case. I was supposed to use the flipchart to do a presentation to a panel of 2 Board Directors to address "my company" situations and how to save the business. I was only given 90mins to do all this! Sigh... And the "board directors" were given instructions to "grill" us and be very mean. This is to test my ability to handle difficult questions and situations.

I nearly died! I was sooo pissed off with one the directors cos she is making things very difficult for me! I knew my presentation was not good, but this is cos I have no knowledge of the airline industry and was too tired that day.

Test 3: Market Visit to a designated location and do a presentation to the management.
I went for a market visit with a Malaysian colleague and I had to study the executions and the market there. I was lucky. The guy brought me to Bukit Bintang, which is the Tourism place in KL. And after that, I had to work on the presentation deck till 1 am in the morning!!! sigh....

Test 4: Role play on a Direct report appraisal
A tester will pose as my direct report and I had to conduct the appraisal with him. Of cos he will be very difficult to handle. But I think i did well cos since it is role play, I might as well fake a few scenes myself so that the tester had no choice but to play along with me! HAhahahaha! I was lucky to have a rather nice tester for this round. :)


So that is the 4 gruelling tests that I had to go through from 930am to 330pm.... It was very tiring... And all the while I was supposed to stay within a room, which they had re-decorated to be like a interview room.

This room was sooo scary! I was so nervous in the room while waiting for the testers to arrive for each of the test... Sigh....

Luckily I survived!!! YEAH!!! :)

Prive at Keppel Marina

When Prive was opened in 2007, this place used to be the "to-be-seen" place and it received a lot of attention... I always wanted to go take a look but I didn't find the time nor friends to go with me...

This evening, I decided to check out the place with Mic... And both of us google the place and drove there despite the rain... :)

It didn't occur to me that Prive was inside Keppel Marina... Anyway it was a bit disappointing cos the place look very normal and just another small cafe... No big deal.. But perhaps cos it was raining and it was already 9pm and dark when we reached.. and that there was a portion of the place being blocked by someone's 40th birthday, so maybe we could not see the best of the place.

I ordered BBQ Chicken open sandwich while Mic ordered the Chilli Crab linguine... Both dishes were OKOK, but the price were quite high...

Anyway, the atmosphere was good and I think I might like to go there again maybe during breakfast time or evening time when it was not so dark and I can enjoy the sea view with nice yachts. :)

Shopping for TOYS in Toy'srus!

It is so difficult to buy children toys... All toys look the same to me!! hahaha... Every time my niece and nephew came to visit, my parents will be searching for new toys so as to pamper the kids...

Anyway, I just remembered that we have not been to Toysrus, the largest toy store in Singapore! So today I brought my Mummy to go take a look....

We went to United Square branch (actually wanted to go Vivo branch, but it started to rain heavily and there were just too many cars on the road)... The selection at this store was OK and there were many people too!

We bought a few toys after walking around... Kids were just so clever nowadays! There were many kids who were so good with toys! While we were staring at some toys, wondering what is the toys, there was a young kid who explained to us how the toy worked! hahaha! :)

Anyway, we settled for "Captain America" for Roy and a nice Barbie for Valerie!

After buying the toys, me and mummy went to look for food! It has been quite a while since I had lunch with mummy... :)

Know what? Actually when I was young, I totally loved Barbie, but i was poor, so my mummy cannot afford to buy me one. So she used to make me rag dolls and buy those cheap dolls which I don't like...

And when I grew up and can afford it, it never occur to me to touch Barbie again.... And today, after I bought it, I just cannot resist the temptation to play with it first! hahahaha!!!!  Her shoes were sooo difficult to wear!! :) But Barbie really has very good figure... hmmm... how I wish to be like her!! :(

Anyway, I have also bought 3 more sets of clothes for her and think that it would be rude for me to open that... So I will wait for Valerie to come and play together! :)

yak yak yak!!!!

2011 Xmas lightings & new Wine Bros

Time flies so fast!!! I still remembered posting the pictures of 2010's xmas lightings along Orchard road, which they looked like Spermies!!! Remember??? :)

This year is better of cos... But I think they looked quite simple... Well, i guess it is better not to spend too much money on such decor since the economy is not looking good...

To end the night, we decided to go search for wine and Mic recalled that there was a new Wine Bros somewhere in S'goon! Strange cos I lived there and I never heard nor see any Wine bros here lor... Anyway, while we were searching for the new place, we saw a van with a cute "My Melody" sticker! So funny! Such a macho car and then got this cute sticker at the back!!! :)

Anyway, we finally found our wine place! And guess what??? It was just opposite my house!!!! It was sooooo strange! That stretch was all private residential and it was very quiet! How would anyone want to set up a wine shop there!?

And true enough, the place was empty, except for 2 customers. hahahah... Anyway, just nice for us since both of us were not fans of noise...

The wine was good, as usual. :)

Good tat I found such a place near my house so that next time if I'm bored, I can drop by to have a drink!!! :)