CNY Day 1

LOL this entry is like 3 weeks delayed hahah but better late than never yeah?! (:

Jie and I came home early to wish the parents happy CNY. No tricia chong this year.. the house so quiet.

Daddy & I

Family photo!

Then it was off to my granduncle's house for lunch.

yummy beef stew!

we found an old photo taken more than 20years ago...

My parents with my 5 year old cousin Yan Ting

Isn't she just the cutest?! She's awfully shy though..

Dad with the 4 year old cousin Chloe. (she was awake the whole time but too afraid to wake up)

Dad's sister + husband.

us in our matching LB wear. (=

The parents..

My Grand aunt and her son.

Here's mum at another granduncle's house

Mum + cousins

I managed to squeeze in a visit to J's house! I missed Sandy!!

Then after that was off to dad's friend - Uncle Leslie's house.

Dad at the karaoke with Uncle Leslie.

With nothing better to do.. We Zipaiiii!

So that was 6 houses on Day1. Wowee I didn't realise it was so many..

(haha what a chop chop entry I did it in 5mins.)

Getting off on the wrong side of the bed

Well... Technically my bed has only one side, but today felt like a really bad day. :(

I couldn't sleep last night.. I guess it was probably due to the fact I only got up in the afternoon yesterday. I kept having those thoughts that you normally have when u feel so lost you just don't really know what you're doing with your life.. Where you doubt everything that you've ever known before and wonder what your sorry existence is for. Many emo thoughts.. I haven't been having them that often but when they do happen it really feels like the end of the world. =/

So I think I finally fell asleep at 4am. Come 5am, there is this incessant ringing and ringing and ringing. ohmygod my head felt like it was going to burst! Of course i knew who it was.. My 2 german friends (actually my sister's friends but they become mine too haha) who are staying with us for 2 days. They got the wrong key from my mum so they couldn't open the door!

I silently willed my sister to go open the door. I was so tired..

But the ringing just wouldn't stop and I finally became concious enough to remember my sister sleeps like the dead. The ringing wouldn't affect her at all.

So I dragged myself out of bed to open the door for them then scramble back into bed. Unfortunately sleep seemed out of reach for me again..

Then next thing I knew, I jolted awake with that feeling that something was wrong. the time was 10.20am. I was horrified! Barely 6 weeks of work and i'm like 1hr 30mins late!!!

Gosh everything from there just kinda went downhill and I was kind of in a state of depression/stress/worry.

I'm so glad to finally be home in the comfort of my room. Going to wash up and crash after this..

I really hope tmr will be a better day. (:

Omg cool I'm blogging from the iPhone!

It's almost 7 & I'm still up. I wonder if I can make it for tea tmr. Even worse, I won't sleep early and be completely stoned at work.

Hooked on Glee!

CNY Reunion Lunch

LOL I know I posted an entry on Reunion Dinner some time back, but I have SO MANY photos to upload. I don't have time to blog about them as I wait impatiently for the photos to upload. Hugs backlog of entries lol.

For 4 days. I was an only child.

Never have I missed my sisters more before.. Suddenly all my parents' attention was focused on me. Shan't say more.. Needless to say, it was a very painful four days for me. Jie if you see this, I sincerely hope/pray you don't fly anywhere anytime soon until mei gets back. LOL

Anyway, Reunion Lunch with mum's side of the family has always been a big affair.. Sort of. All the uncles and aunties and the little cousins (not so little anymore) would gather and we would catch up on all sort of random things. It's also a time where I see all my cousins wear the things I picked out for them last christmas heehee. So glad they like it..

This year it was held at Peramakan Restaurant at Keppel Club. In my opinion, I think the food was awful and I have no idea why mum loves that place so much. =/

Peektures!

The signboard. (yes Peramakan I did not make a typo! =P)

zipai with Dana and Cass

hahah they're so unprepared for the shot. lol

Lo Hei time!

the adult table... (i was seated at the kiddy table haha)

food. The 2nd dish is quite popular tho I have no idea with it is..

Cass, Amanda and Dana. 3 of them are probably the closest coz of their age difference. 

Underage drinking! haha. 

Me with the older cousins, Vernette, Dion and Annette

Mum with her 2nd sister plus bf, and 1st brother. (haha the labels sound weird)

this time mum with 1st brother, 3rd brother + wife & popo!

2nd sister, 3rd sister + husband, 2nd brother + gf

The Tohs. =)

Me and mum

Probably only nice things there were the desserts! =)

XLB buffet with Eric!

I had a really sian day today.

I had double the normal amt of trades for scanning today. Means double the posting, double the emails, double everything. That on top of my daily work, there's not enough time to make it on time to my dinner. So I was in a perpetual state of stress all day. Kept telling myself hurrr hurry hurry!!

As I was leaving the office, Eric kept calling me. First, he said xlb buffet only starts at 10. I said that's not possible. They told me there are 3 timings! There should be one at 7-ish. Then he called me back, he said yeah got buffet but it's steamboat only. And i'm like.. No I'm pretty sure that there's xlb, check again. Third time, (he got it right this time) yes it's both steamboat and xlb, but it's fully booked.

SIAN TTM.

I had been looking forward to eating my favourite Crystal Jade xlbs all week!! Plus this was a meal I felt I owed Eric. He's like one of my awesomest friends for the past year and like he gave me a treat when he first started working too.

So anw the third time he called me back, he said that it's fully booked, but we can wait until the 10mins after it has started to see if anyone cancelled their reservation. Since he alr got us on the waiting list, I said ok.

So first I was sian coz of the huge volume of work today (and probably my low efficiency). Then now I find out our buffet that we have been looking forward to may be cancelled.

As if i was not sian enough alr, this stupid auntie tried to cut my queue at the mrt gantry. I was in no mood to be bullied, so I didn't let her. And then she went "oh god!" with a very self righteous aggreived tone.. As though I was the one at fault! That really pissed me off.. I mean she's the moron who wants to cut my queue then acts like i'm the bad guy.

Before I can finish fuming about this woman, I receive and sms from dad. He said "Which one of you got a parking fine @ 12.13am 5th feb @ (...) tiong bahru"

My first reaction was to break out in cold sweat and my heart filled with dread. I'm like shit shit shit was it me? How come i don't know about it? What was I doing on the 4th? How come I was in Tiong Bahru area? And then it hit me.. I'm 24 this year! What do I have to be scared of??? Why is my first reaction fear when I see an sms like this? I know in the past it meant caning.. But now I need to wake up and realise I don't need to fear my parents meting out punishments to me. Acknowledge it (if it's mine) and then move on...

It wasn't me btw.

So one sian thing after another. It would have been the icing on the cake if they told me that they were full and they couldn't slot 2 of us for the buffet.

BUT THEY LET US IN!!! YAY! =)

Peektures!

yours truly

Lamb and Beef (they look the same)

Eric's appetizers

Each patron gets 3 prawns LOL.

XLBS!!!

Slabs of meat. Think they're all pork - normal meat, belly, liver, dumpling and luncheon meat.

My Favourites are the beef and pork!

See eric happily cooking his food. Machiam doing project like that. Must cook to perfection.. =P

Happy people

And bad day over!! Tummy full of xlbs now lalaladedahh~ =D

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao
241/241A Holland Avenue
Tel: 6463 0968
Buffet timings: 5-7pm, 7.30pm-9.45pm, 10pm-12am

I AM SICK

AGAIN.

Yes dammit. Sick again. Ugh my throat feels clawed out and raw.. My cough can only described as body-wracking... hahah i made that up lol. But it's really quite uncomfortable coz my whole body clenches.. and a couple of times, my stomach decided to go along and clench, mimicking that of vomiting (thank god my stomach was empty) and each time that happened I had stupid tears leaking out of my eyes.

That would show me NOT to wait 5 frigging days before going to the doc. -.-'' Still wanna act strong.. like my body can take it. My body is weak =/

I had to take MC today sighhh. I couldn't not do it coz i knew the cough was too severe already. It would scare all my colleagues lol. I sound like I'm on my deathbed.. Not to mention the fake vomiting. =/ So one precious day of my 3 days of leave gone. It's only the 2nd month I've started working.. I hope this doesn't happen anytime soon. =X

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I got my first payslip last week. The feeling that I'm finally earning some income instead of leeching off my parents is pretty awesome. =D

That said... It's only half a month's pay. Minus away CPF and it's really not much. =/

I've planned it out already. The month of Feb would be dedicated to bringing my friends out to eat. =) friends who have been there for me and supported me when I was down and out. Be it financially or emotionally.. I am so thankful to have such friends in my life.. Even tho I know I sometimes have a shoddy way of showing appreciation. =/

Feb's pay would go to taking these such friends out for meals.. And then March and April's will go to getting a new laptop. I've borrowed Tom's one for eonssss and he has been so nice to lend me his for such a long time. Only after that would I start consistently putting money aside to save up.

I went for an extravagant zi char dinner last night. $24 per pax... super ouch i tell you.. I mean normal zichar is like ~$15. Max also about ~$17. Super heart pain. And I commented next time can we don't eat so extravagantly? and they were like huhhh this got extravagant meh? I don't get it.. Both of them have allowances $500 and less per month. How does a dinner of $24 not qualify as extravagant?

Have I really changed so much? I guess the lack of money really changes you. It teaches you to be frugal and every cent is hard earned. I know I spend money on clothes.. Seemingly frivolously. But I still keep within certain limits and cut back on other things like eating $2 cai fan for lunch in Golden shoe (heehee) and taking the train/bus instead of cab no matter how tired I am.

$24 could buy me 12 lunches at Golden shoe! It would feed me for 2 weeks! I just cannot get over that fact - that I spent $24 for a meal that was ok-not-bad.. that would have made me equally happy with my $2 meal from golden shoe. =/