Merry belated Christmas

Christmas 2012 was the most heartwarming one ever. First time in my life did I receive a table-ful of gifts! I've heard about the culture and was quite taken aback at the extensive list of people we ought to give present due to formality at first. Anyhow, I prepared coloured popcorns in little bags for everyone! Colorful crafts, fit my philosophy eh;)

Xmas at work

The colourful popcorns!

Handmade cards for the lovely colleagues =)

Such a cutesy little cupcake from muscleman Alvin!

The amount of gifts on the desk! more prezzies poured in after this photo 

Thanks pricing team for the lovely macaroons! though i am not a fan of sweeties ahhaha 

For those who are closer to me got to receive the handmade pegs that shout 'you've got mail' and as they press the end, a short slip of paper that writes my wishes or opinion of them will appear!

Xmas with Thats It

Prior to that, That's It had a celebration at Studio M and Sui was with us! through my lappy's peephole ;P

So we had a list of games going on according to the theme "Geeky Gamblers". With 沉默的羔羊 as bgm, we flew the cards in the air and grab whatever we can to determine our points. 

The geeky 大小games, fortunate (not) blackjack and not so artistic guess-what-I'm-moulding game lead up to the secret santa treasure hunt was a blasting good time! Winners got to sleep on a comfortable (but dirty at the end of the day) bed and enjoy breakfast (not so delicious). Most improtantly, we celebrated full strength in a way! All in all, I think we were fantastic to think of such celebration:)

Xmas with tbf :)

Celebration with JJ was spent at Hotel Re! where we slept most of my half day away (my company had a half day on eve but i was too tired to go party around in town so head back hotel to snore)

After dinner (Room Service), we were finally sober enough to head out! Clarke quay was happening! I caught Ginger bread man and snap a picture with him, with a caption from JJ "Ginger snatching my fiancee!"

We went to Iguana to have favourite frozen margarita:) 

Some pretty colourful fixtures in the hotel, it was a colourful themed venue as well. Suit the Xmas!

Xmas with Mr and Mrs Tan, JW

Last celebration took place on new year's eve where JJ and I got invited to Jowie's place for humble yet tasty dinner. We got hold of the Lava cakes recipe and started working on them! Felt quite good to have the cakes done yummily, aspiring housewife symptom 1. hehe!

 We came to realize that lava cakes go well with vanilla ice cream. Anyway, the following pictures made the ice cream look kinda.. not appealing, but the lava cakes were good we swear!

So that was my Xmas 2012:)

Wedding bells for Fel!

And so i am back to blogging!

Apologies for taking such a long break, but yup back with lotsa backlogs!

So what's new in town now? let's see... Candy Crush, Ah Huat white coffee, Ah boys to men 2... and a new MRS!

Fel was my year 1 classmate cum groupmate and we have maintained a steady contact over the years after graduation. It came as a surprise when i was invited to be one of the Jie Meis, little grumbles here and there at first but eventually all turn out nice and sweet! A generous bride i must say, our bridesmaid dresses cost $169 each which she absorbed the $69 for each of us. On top of that, she threw in evening gowns for all jie meis and got a tip off that it costs $100 per pc! We appreciate her generosity like how she appreciate our efforts=)

So the second time being a Jie Mei (first experience dedicated to Mingli), I have a better idea of what to and what not. Our air stewardess bride has gotten an array of disgusting insects-related-food from London to prepare for the gate crashing part. i am so glad i was the jie mei instead of xiong di!

 In order to save some time, we had all the suan tian ku la (sour, sweet, bitter and spicy) to be included into one sandwich so that we have more time to get ang pow LOL!
(Traditionally, groom has to taste the 4 flavours of life before fetching the bride on their wedding day, depicting the endurance and determination to stay together throughout different tastes of life from then onwards)

The auspicious Long Feng candles (Dragon and Phoenix candles) that light up the morning

Yes! That's the bride! After finishing her make-ups, shang tou (little joke: the mum woke up late and only remember to shang tou when she had done the make up and all. hehe no sweat! still completed the proces!)

With all the hoo haa, the groom finally fetched his wife in their little cutesy Volkswagen!!! 

Tiring day for the bride, she smiled to a default expression after few hours! gosh i can so imagine how i will look when it's my turn in December

so the tea ceremony went on and we headed straight to the hotel to freshen up. I went home to get some stuff instead and before we knew it, we've got to start decorating the recept area with the sweet little crafts that Fel had bought/made. Forgot to snap a picture of the area but i swear they look good:)

The lollipop cakes that i recommended Fel! (did an event prior to her wedding and we got customized pops for the show, thought they were quite cute)

Me and Swee Kee, my first friend in HTM, met at TCC (Temasek Convention Centre) 

The Bedok campers

Happy Three Friends!

Hello pal! long time no see:)

The girls power! Sheryl and Jean

Lastly, the group photo of HTMers.  It was nice to catch up with these batchmates and exchange the updates of each other. Proud of you guys who have done HTM proud=) To end off, HTM OEI!!

Dive with a LOB

LOB=Live on Board

Meaning, we eat, sleep, dive on the big ship. Saving travelling time from resort to dive spots, and have ample time to bathe and rest before boarding the land transport back to Singapore.

It was yet a fulfilling trip, meeting a handful more new diving friends who bring living to a whole new standard. They believe in what they do, and do what they love, and live the way they like. Jumping out of the frames that often restrain people to their dreams, they inspire and motivate by not thinking too much and lead a Nike's spirit of "Just do it". True blue live life, love life. With courage.

That's one of the best thing you get while diving. Meeting a whole lot of people you won't meet in office, and i still enjoy the balance friends i have on land and at sea:)

A short weekend getaway to Aur and Tioman via LOB, and also my first trip with an UW camera with the courtesy of my long lost buddy :) not fantastic photos but they show what i have been up to underwater at Malaysia=)

Finally, i'm travelling with my gears. No rental no more! Except for reg.

Where we stayed for 3D2N

First UW snapshot

Yellow Tail Barracudas

Hugeass bumphead

Hermit

Hermit crab upclose

Nudi Brance

Nudi Branch

Sea cucumber, i think

Maze look alike coral

Nudi Branch

Nudi Branch

Nudi Branch

Clownfish aka NEMO ahaa

Sarfish

Nudi

Muray Eel

Nudi

Blue Spotted Stingray

Hugeass Muray

Star Cushion

Nudi

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Enjoying life's every moment now, do join me to live life, love life. Last but not least, welcome my no.1 blogfan to Pledge against Shark's Fins society! "tong gor yat cai ah 同我一起啊"