Gennie in Town - Part 1

Gennie (with her bf) was here over the weekends. Received her email a few weeks back, and have been looking forward to her visit ever since.

we last met each other in Taipei in June, and now... she's FINALLY here!!!

over the email, i told her Spore's rather cold (to me at least), been raining lately, so bring long sleeved shirt n jacket. when she touched down, she called me and said, "Mei, it's so hot in Spore. Long sleeved shirt n jacket???!!!" Hahaha, oops. =X

Above pic shows them enjoying the local cuisine of Hainanese Chicken Rice, Zui Quay, Wanton noodles and Sweet n sour tao gua (sounds thai, haha).

but do you know what's Gennie's favourite food among all? Not the ever popular chicken rice, but teh tarik, to-say and nann, and i think nasi brayani too! yes, she LOVES the indian food. She'll go... "mei, the indian food here is so nice!!!" go franchise lar... that's my reply.

next stop.... is the Bird Park (my 2nd trip, since i was 5)

She's coming

Gennie is coming to Spore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Weet!!! =D


p/s: to JL who still reads my blog, is that you? the one who left comment on the earlier post. hahaha, y i rant in chinese? Cos i like? =P and well, not many understands chinese. who is good. or HATES to read, which is good too.

start blogging!

it's 8.14pm now and i'm feeling very sleepy.

and i know, i haven't blogged for a while.

one word - lazy.

haha

and i know, i haven't finished posting up my taiwan photos, and i'm heading out of S'pore again tmr. Weet! =D

it's a place i haven't been for the past 5 years. looking forward to it? Hmmm... a little, cos i'm heading out with 9 others. HAHAH how cool is that?

i haven't finished packing.

i haven't figured how to use the camera.

i haven't figured what's the temperature at the other city.

but i'm cool~ weet!

sidetrack a little, i'm going to talk about a person next. Someone.... whom i haven't talked about for sometime or mentioned over here.

saw him at the station just now, saw his backview, and i knew it was him. how's he doing? i wondered to myself. it's been a few years since we last talked, and sometimes i would think of those days where he was around. yup, flashbacks in my mind on my way home too.

fantastic guy, probably a little boring but yet, steady and goody goody guy. haha

my frens said “你们就是有缘无份”

probably.

老实说，过了那么多年，不知道你还会看我这边的东西。

如果，你认为我说的人是你，那么就是你。

人生中，来来往往的人很多，而你，在我影响中真的很深刻。

谢谢你对我的好。我永远都会记得。

我有句话很想对你说，这次就在这边说，因为如果当面对你说，可能真的会很尴尬。

嗯。

谢谢你，对不起。

and back to my holidays! photos?

one of the little pleasures in life... is enjoying the beautiful things God has created. :)

擁抱

今天給了一群人擁抱.

擁抱是一種愛的表現.

給予你鼓勵, 支持和勇氣.

也能溫暖一個人的心.

你給你身邊的人一個擁抱了嗎?

知足長樂, 這個道理你懂嗎?

playing: what should we do - jisun

今天跟X小姐聊天, 她的朋友問她10年後, 她要到達生活裡的哪個地位.

她說, 快樂就好, 不想那麼多.

她朋友就說她胸無大志.


請問, 如果是你, 你的答案會是什麼?

要當上公司的高層?
要擁有很多的錢?
要有房子, 要有名車?
要風得風, 要雨得雨?

你是這樣想的嗎?

你問我, 3年後, 我會做什麼, 我老實跟你說, 我不知道.

我也不想知道到時候的我會是怎樣.

可是我希望, 無論是3年後的我
5年後的我
10年後的我
20, 30, 40 年後的我

還會是個 happy being.

人生這個旅程有多長, 沒人知道. 可能下一分鐘, 你就會在上帝的身邊, who knows?

要追求這些生外物, 能帶給你什麼快樂? 什麼滿足感? 可能你可是告訴我.

至少, 我知道, 我現在滿足我的現狀.

有個愛我的家

有群陪我哭, 陪我笑, 陪我出國的好朋友

偶爾有錢就買自己喜歡的東西, 出個國

偶爾有個時間, 就去跑跑步, 逛逛街

人生裡的一切, 真的要計較那麼多?

什麼理財, 什麼保養, 什麼有的沒的

什麼你的錢賺多少, 你的衣服包包是名牌嗎, 什麼你有幾個信用卡

這些.. 真的是狗屁.

知足長樂...

也許.. 你會比較...

快樂.

Gennie

I met up with Gennie twice during my 9 days stay in Taiwan. Had trouble meeting her up for dinner during our first meeting, cos... i was lost in taipei city. haha

Alright, my chinese isn't fantastic (getting worse in fact), so when she told me to go to 府州 （fu zhou) station, i took a cab and i ended up at 复兴（fu xing) station. I almost didn't want to meet her up, cos i was too tired and hungry by then, but then i went ahead. hahaha...

went to a pasta restaurant. The portion of food was huge, and I realised, taiwanese restaurants like to have set meals for their customers. So you'll have salad, soup, main, desert and of course a free drink. And it all costs less than 15 sing. Ah... what a good deal! and of course... their food isn't too bad. Will intro the food next round, let me blog about my meet up with Gennie.

Talked for a while with Gennie and her friends, met up with Tricia too (she's a eng-chi translator) so her eng is superb!!

On the train, Gennie asked, " Mei, how long have we known each other?"

I thought for a while... then she said, " don't you think it's about 7 years now?"

I counted, and yes... we've known each other for 7 years already. It's something not easy, because, she's based in Taiwan and i'm in Singapore. It's msn and emails and phone calls once in a while.

she's a fantastic lady, someone who's got her own set of thoughts about many things. Voices out when things don't go the right way. Stubborn in certain ways.

But i like her for who she is. :)

and she told me she'll be marrying next year, and will relocate to Gaoxiong, and i was like..

"why Gaoxiong? then when i'm in taipei, i can't meet up with you. and gaoxiong has got

nothing..." *shows a displeased look*

“haha.. then i'll come down to taipei, then you can meet me up." *face brightens up*

we've made a pact, she said she'll bring me to some islands off Taiwan when i visit next year.

And Tricia was the witness to the whole pact. hahaha

就一言为定咯！明年见！

oh i told her to have her wedding to be held on a Saturday, so i can fly over to attend. She said, for me, she'll do that. hahaha *beaming*

ah... i love this woman. =D

taiwan part 2

I have no idea how many parts there gonna be. Cos.. i was away for 9 days. It might be many parts. hahaha you have no idea how many GB worth of photos i've got... -_-

My 2nd time to Taiwan, and first time to the renowned Ding Tai Fung along 永康街 (yong kang street). Taxi drivers normally will know where it is located. From what i know, there isn't any train station nearby, therefore, it's better you take a cab down.

Many of the customers are Japanese, so the waitresses/ waiters know how to speak Japanese. And the service is pretty swift and good. Food wise, i'm satisfied. Esp the dumplings. Yummy!!!

Us at 永康公园，i have no idea what we were doing there. hahaha

Next up, I'm going to introduce you a shop located at 永康街 too. It sells french pastries. I tired some, and it was aweseome.....

sidetrack a little, come visit my boutique when you're in taipei, it's along 永康街 as well. :)

okay, why i like the black piece so much, it's called 可丽露 by the way. It's hard on the outside, but real soft inside. I'm not sure if it's sugar coated on the outside (prob not), but when you bite it, it tasted real different because it's hard and soft at the same time. And the inside tasted like some banana kueh we have in Singapore. Try it!

when the 7 of us went into the shop, within just a few mins, the shop was packed with people. Crowds attract crowds ya? If you noticed, the whole shop is white, but yet, i thought it was really tastefully done. That really drew us in and ended up buying lotsa pastries. -_- But, no regrets, it's delicious. Price wise, not that cheap. But how often do you really get nice looking, fanastically delicious french pastries?

If you're interested to visit the shop:

台北市金華街223號

02-3322-2833

http://www.ladouceur.com.tw/ (think it's under maintenance)

okay, i'm tired already. Night people. =D

taiwan part 1

Heyo people, i'm back for a few days already. And i lobb the place a thousand times!! i didn't want to come back... haha, alright, i'm kidding. Spore's still my home. Photos, are up but not in order. hahaha.

More photos right up!

just let me....

playing: some song from boys over flowers OST

swoon over this show for this time round.

In case you haven't heard of this show (where in the world have you been?), it's the f4 show, korean version, aka Boys over Flowers.

Miss X was the first to tell me about this show, i think earlier this year. Caught some episodes online then stopped and now i'm done watching it. and im watching it again.

I thought how the koreans do their show, works very well with people like me. I'll tell my friends... i wanna go Korea or Macau (cos in the show, they shot Macau beautifully. heh). hahaha. see, korean dramas are very successful in promoting their tourism.

Just like the picture below. It's a ice skating rink in Grand Hyatt, Seoul. Where the leads skated during their date. oh... so romantic. hahaha. beautiful isn't it? Just for that, i'll go korea man. hahaa
I think the Korea tourism board pushes their tourism through dramas, the taiwanese does that too (i think). Korea tourism website AH.. just take a look at the site itself.

Back to the show, i haven't watched the japanese version, and I don't intend to. If you ask me, the taiwan version and the korea version, which would be the better one? Hmm.. i'll choose the Korean version.

At least Lee Min Ho is a better actor than Jerry Yan.

see... so good looking right? hahaha. awww.. i like his smiles. (okay, i should stop going gaga now) but he's really quite good looking mah... lol

night people! :)

Night out with the girls

Night at the museum 2 wasn't fantastic, maybe it was a predictable story. oh well... anyways, went out with the girls for movie, and headed to Level 9 at cine to play wii. i think we changed too many games that the lady at the counter got fed up with Sam. hahah

Headed to the youth park for some Botak Jones cos Miss X complained she was hungry. and yes, even thought Botak Jones is available in Clementi, I haven't tried it yet. And i think... it's really quite good, the food of cos. For someone like me, the mini version of the Botak Jones burger is really sufficient. I think the massive, is really massive. haha

Nice!

I think she lost the game. Oops

Out of so many games, we actually liked the tennis. ha

a very random post

playing: you raise me up - josh groban

R: I'm sick of life, my work and my friends

Me: haha, you tell me, which of us are happy with our life, our work and our friends?

=========

X: life is such a torture

Me: 人生有起也有落的时候。 我们‘起’的时候就享受当下，不会想到‘落’。
可是，当我们到‘落’的时候，就会忘记‘起’。

you know that cliche question which you'll see in the papers? If you could change something in your life, what would it be? And some people (those mimi-mama kind) will go "oh, i love every portion of it. I wouldn't want to change."

i used to think that way too.

but today, i've got a different set of thoughts.

i'll go, " I would change the portion of my life where the playing was too much, and the working hard was too little."

I told Hui, back then, i didn't realised i am a Singaporean and living in Singapore.

I am a Singaporean, and living in Singapore, I realised it probably only today.

Ha!

Random photos~~~

Popped over to granny's place, and had this small bowl

of porridge which she cooked for herself.

i told her it reminded me of my childhood days, when she

looked after me.

it is still yummy-licious after 18 years. *love*

the evening sky at ulu pandan

blading routine starts again after 1 yr odd.
i really didn't dare go fast.
haha

Boss working really hard

the xiao mei from operations (she's a designer btw)

with Kelly at Dian Xiao Er

with Yen and Xiao Tian at some Korean restaurant

i LOVE korean steamboat

but the best has got to be the one i ate in Melbourne

freaking delicious

meet my boy.

he's at NP some engineering course i think.

when he was still in primary sch, he was shorter than me

and now!! i think he's 18 now, and so MUCH taller

*angry*

i know im supposed to continue with the previous blog. But eh.... let me go think further before i blog.

People enjoy life! Cos life is meant to be enjoyed! :)

A entry

playing: 天灰 - SHE

be warned. This is gonna be a long entry. wahahaha

let me start with me... being a really blessed kid. :)

i think, i really am.

i heard from somewhere that your luck will run out someday, when you're really lucky during your younger days, bad times will come during the later part of your life.

i'm sorry. But i don't believe in luck. I don't believe getting lucky, even. Or rather you'll never hear me say, good luck etc. cos, there's no such thing as luck (at least to me）

我的这一生，走的平平顺顺，没什么大风大浪。虽然会有辛苦的时候，但也都熬过去了。

my BU head said, when your life is too smooth, that's when you can get dissatisfied.

which i think is absolutely true. that's what i'm feeling, and 我就是犯贱，怎样？哈哈

I finally did something, which i did at the wrongest time of the year. 我就是犯贱，怎样？哈哈

人的一生当中，会有不满意的的时候。 我觉得我。。。 好像真的很不喜欢我这样的生活。
我是那种，你不用给我很多钱， 让我在有个海边的地方，做个小小的侍应生我也愿意。
偶尔， 坐下来看个书， 听音乐，到处走走看看。 难道这样的生活就不好吗？

很多人会说我笨，说我不切实际。我就是犯贱，怎样？

如果我可以，我会不顾一切去做这些， 可是我也知道我不会， 因为。。。在新加坡的我有责任，有些义务。我可能。。。真的在找一个平衡点。

你呢？你想做的到底是什么？

那一天我就跟Ms X说，做几年工，去念个硕士回来，再做几年工，然后30多岁的时候做个教授。30尾的时候，能在台湾建我梦寐以求的民宿。

人因梦想而伟大，不是吗？

我就问她，你呢？

她就说。。。 做工阿，让后投资在你的民宿里。

哈哈

我有合伙人了。:)

人因梦想而伟大，不是吗？你的梦想又是什么？

*to be continued

life

Have been thinking lately. How to move from now on, where to go from now on.

Have you ever been really lost, and not sure what you want to do with your life? You're at a crossroad. You wanna head left (that's what you've always wanted to), but the natural Singapore steps expects you to head right. So... do you go with what you want to turn left or follow with the steps of social world and turn right?

PSLE, N'Levels, O'Levels, ITE/Poly/A'Levels, Uni, Workforce, and work till you're no longer youself. then all the bills come in, pay your sch fees through loans or CPF, pay all your insurance, endowment, housing, car loans etc.

what else have i missed out? Oh yar.. look after your parents, look after your kids, your dogs/cats/ fish/birds (whatever you have), continue to slog your life out. Go out and have some fun over the weekends, or ladies night on Wed, continue to slog.

Kids grow up, you continue to pay for your parents, your housing, your insurance, your endowment, your car, now your kids' education, and kid's insurance, kid's endowment, and continue to slog.

Kids get married. You retire? Probably got to dream on, you're sick, but you still continue to slog, pay for their wedding, buy stuff for their kids, pay for their housing, pay for their loans, and finally your cpf is yours, then you pay some more... and probably slog some more.

and finally... you die, you probably got to pay for the funeral as well as the coffin. And finally, you probably need not slog.

haha

don't know.

i really don't know how life should head now.

Shall continue to look up, and see where He's leading me. :)

Healing plus some random photos

playing: 烂漫手机 - 周杰伦

i know you guys have been missing me. *winks*

haha

I've been good. How bout you?

First up, Healing. yup yup. Woke up yesterday (Sunday morning) with a really bad backpain. It's like... i can't turn left, right, and i can't bend down. It's really THAT bad.

I woke up ard 6 plus, run some errands, met up with my frens. By the time the whole runnng errands/ meeting frens ra-ra ended, it was nearly 4pm and my back was still hurting and i was really really sleep and tired. I erm... contemplated if i should go to church for the 5pm service.

i thought... i should go lar. Seek first the kingdom of God, and all other things will be added unto you. :)

So i went, and queued. yes.... i havent queue for almost a yr, cos i normally just head to the overflow room. Btw, the pain WAS STILL there. There were no seats, so i just settled myself on the floor, and worship started. Pain was still there. so i just soaked myself in the presence of God and had my hand on my back, and asked God to take away the pain. then i heard a loud 'CLARK' . it's like.... oh my word!!! like really LOUD!

okay... so it was the loosening of the whatever you call that. i really really felt so much better, the pain was not that intense anymore. So i went home... slept, the pain was still there but slight. then prayed again... and today! ta-dah!!! no more pain!!! *jumps ard beaming*

see.. prayer works, and who says God don't heal? I'm one living example. :)

though, yes mine is a small case, but those big big cases etc.. God heals too ya? to God those are small case. Trust and have faith. amen and amen! =)

Alrighty... 我现在把我的未来放在上帝的手里。。。 他要把我放在那里，我就到哪里。 :)

okay... photos are up... really random ones, and the nicer can see kind of photos. hahaaha

Alright, this is just a act-cute for a few min kind of hair. i looked so much younger!!!

and i think i've grown rounder -__-"

out with the girls for seafood dinner
*loves*

me with my auntie, and she went "how come ur face turning away from me?"

and i went, "you asked me to face that way what!!"

then she laughed

-_-"

ah yes, i particularly love the photos i took with my ah ma

quick guess how old she is!!!

she is so pretty right right right? (i meant my ah ma, not me)

*beams*

okay, narcissist

i don't know what the guys are taking photo of

the girls?

these days... cell phones are just a part of our lives

*sigh*

eh.. this is cny dinner at ah ma's hse

with my cousins and tons of good food!

hahah... yes yes.. i love taking photos

:)

in office with... the chilli padi manager

look at the new iphone! yah, right!

this is the lady.. who err... had the SHE MyStamp launched

ppl... you got to thank her for the product you're having

hahaha

will miss you all *love*

Joyce is very happy...

because i'll be away for 9 days... not now.. but soon..

Yippie!!!! :)

the ONE

i copied this from someone's blog, which i think it really does make sense!

We love our partners not because they are perfect, but because they are perfect just for us!

p/s: i think i'm lacking sleep -_-

做人就是要。。。

happy new yr!

playing: 越来越爱 - 飞轮海

okay... 我今天自然醒！真爽！爽毕了！（i think the bi is wrong bi, hmmm)

and the very random me, has decided to pop by IMM to get a dvd player for my tv. a very cheapo one. =) i made this decision just 10 min ago. haha

ppl, happy new yr!!! collect more ang baos, and love your folks and frens ya... :)

选择

playing: 心跳 - 王力宏

somebody said before, i blog randomly. as and when i like.

yeah. i think i'm like that. the posts can come in consecutively for a few days, then again after a few weeks.

and if you're a faithful reader of my blog, hahah... yes yes, i know jin lun is one of them. thanks ar..uncle! for being a faithful reader leaving no comments! :) and i just met up with Lin and JL for dinner! we had loads of fun, didn't we?

btw, as i was saying... if you're a faithful reader of my blog, and if you don't know me personally, by now you should have gotten the rough idea of what i'm like. It's actually quite easy to know what i like, and what i don't.

Eg. i like bananas and i don't like....

如果。。 有选择，我会。。。 放下一切，到我想到的地方，做我想做的事。好吧，我还是我想往那种生活，虽然一些人会说我不切实际。 那么你所谓的不切实际是用什么来衡量的？我用不着在乎你对我的看法，因为我就是我。

晚安

I am young ...

so i should do something crazy... =)

Mayday - taiwan's best band?

sunday was superb.... tiring. it was fun...tiring.

i woke up early, went church, met up my poly mates for lunch, went over to kallang for a free concert by Mayday.

Thanks to my colleage, who had lobang and we managed to watch mayday's concert though we didn't buy the album or queue 2 weeks before the actual for the concert tix. anyways, i bought the album outside the concert area.

for the very first time, i think it was the high-est concert i've ever attended. it's like woah.. everyone (almost) had light sticks. The guys on stage had everyone pumped up, strumming on the guitars, jamming on the drums, belting out familiar songs after songs. eh, even i sang along. hahaah

it was really good, and i thoroughly enjoyed myself. I took some pictures, but i'm really lazy to transfer it over to my laptop. heh

and ans to my title? i think they are.

笑忘歌 - 五月天

笑忘歌歌词屋顶的天空是我们的
放学后夕阳也都会是我们的
不会再....更多了
唱一首属于我们的歌
让我们的伤都慢慢慢的愈合
明天我又会是全新的
OH~HO
青春是手牵手坐上了
都不回头的火车
总有一天我们都老了
不会遗憾就OK了
伤心的都忘记了
只记得这首笑忘歌
那一片天空很高风很清澈
从头到脚趾都快乐
我和你都约好了
要再唱这首笑忘歌
这一生只愿只要平凡快乐
谁说这样不伟大呢
自己和自己打一架了
想都想不通反正就是这样了
不会再流泪更多了
有多少错误重蹈覆辙
有多少苦痛还不是都过来了
想起来甚至还会笑呢
OH~HO
青春是人生的实验课
错也错得很值得
就算某天唱起这首歌
眼眶会有一点湿了

i lobb this song, and another one, and another one. and i'm recently into their hokkien songs. hahaah

大家，希望2009年会是更好的一年！
2008年，好的坏的， 都让你成长
让你变得更勇敢！更坚强！
好的回忆。。。藏在内心的最深处
偶尔翻出来，会是个美丽的记忆

2009年，有什么愿望？
希望。。 我会健康
会更快乐，更幸福

感恩上帝一直都在
不离不弃

2009~~加油！

very random

i'm down with fever and a bad flu, i'm supposed to be in bed NOW but i've decided to stay online to blog. haha

I couldn't sleep last night, or rather, i couldn't fall asleep last night.

bad.

i'm contemplating of getting a music album by mayday. I heard their latest album is really good. maybe i should pop by the music stores, and take a look at it.

I read it from someone's blog, about the lead singer from mayday on his thoughts about beauty.

"美，是对抗世界不停蹦毁的自然定律、是费尽心思挽留定格感动的无尽追求。美，是心思被触动的渺小一瞬、是人类脱离兽性的痛苦过程。"

真情告白

我刚刚在跟Miss X 聊天。

我：怎样，谈恋爱了哦？

Miss X：哈哈，对阿

我：那个跟你暧昧很久的男生？

Miss X：嗯，对阿

我：那么。。 现在幸福吗？

Miss X：嗯，在热恋当中

我：幸福就好，幸福就好。

哈哈哈
我看到她的答案，都觉得好害羞哦。

Miss X 是一个很可爱的女生，是傻傻的那种。所以我说，傻人有傻福。

傻人是会有傻福