Ah yes, the hollywood glamour party our dear sharene managed to grab invites for. i rushed down like a mad chicken from work, carrying my big heavy bag of clothes to meet gillian so we could go down to sharene's office at Shangri La to change. i had ended work really late because my boss (he's french) did so many last minute trades, and we had a team of american investors from Goldman Sachs in the office so i couldn't do any work while they were around. Hence we were almost more than an hour late for the party. Anyway, the event was more of a media party, so there were alot of professionals from the media industry. chen hanwei, huang biren, were a few of the stars that were at the party last night. there were a whole lot of good looking men (and ladies of course), dressed up to the nines. but girls i'm telling you, i have never seen so many good lookin' well dressed men all gathered at one event. sharene aka ms "i-am-a-very-visual-person", must have felt like she was in heaven la. hahaha. i felt like i was in one of those cocktail parties from 'sex and the city'. there were heaps of oysters, prawns, lobsters, sashimi sushi, crab meat stuffed sushi blah blah.. all the things i don't eat! oh but the desserts were simply deeevine. there were tables on displayed with a variety of cakes, fruits, fondue, chocolate mousse cocktails decorated with ladybug chocolate pieces, etc etc. some of them even looked too pretty to be edible.

on a side note, i'm back to work once again! ok i'm too tired to talk about my job right now, so i'll just leave that for another post... or not. hahaa.

The weekend came and left like a gust of wind. on friday night, a group of us headed down to villa bali near alexandar road. i didn't manage to capture photos of the place because i left my camera in aaron's car (mel used her camera instead), but you HAVE to check this place out. Okay, despite the heat and mosquitoes, its a really nice place to chill out at night. the wooden decor, soft yellow lights, miniature water fountains together with the rustic charm of the place actually sets you in the mood. As the name suggest, you are to feel as though you are in bali. we got to sit in a little cosy wooden hut while the waitresses served us our food and drinks.

saturday was the day. why u ask? because i finally got my 14'inch macbook! Yippeee!!! and yes, as bimbo as it sounds, i got the white one to match the altec lansing speakers some of you guys got me. i've been wanting to get it for the longest time now. i took full advantage of the IT fair to sell the idea of 'getting their precious daughter a new laptop'. and with that, many thanks mummy&daddy. u've made me one happy lil' girl. hehhee. It was mum&dad's silver wedding anniversary on sat, 10/3. And to celebrate, my family headed out for dinner. great stuff.

hey fellow blog surfers, its me once again. i know, i'm really inconsistent with the whole blogging thing, and so here i am apologising again and again for the disappearing acts. anyway, back to the updates. Life's been pretty peachy since i ended my internship at EY. Since then, i've been bumming around the house, watching dvds, meeting up with friends, cooking for the family, playing with the dogs, etc etc.. well pretty much doing the things i couldn't do while i was working for the past 2.5 months.

i kinda miss working though! ironic huh, just a few weeks ago i was complaining about the long hours and how tired i was, and now when i've got so much time on my hands, i'm bored about being too free. i've been getting alot of 'when are you coming back to EY?'-type of questions from my manager and seniors, well.... i'm using this time off to really consider if i want to persue a career in the audit field for the next few years. yikes. its scary thinking about how fast we are all growing up, and how we've to start making such big career decisions! i'm starting to feel older and older everyday. i've also been spending a significant amount of time with my 2 dearest and closest friends for many years... gillian and sharene. they have been complaining that ever since i got back, they've been spending more money on shopping, taxi fares and are getting fatter from all the suppers and after dinner desserts i dragged them to. so much for the love eh. i just got word that sharene managed to get hold of tickets from her office, to an old hollywood glamour party next friday night at the Asian Civilizations Museum! Cool stuff girl. I'm just looking forward to the MAC door gifts! Can't wait!!!! *stamps feet in excitment*Just before Andrew left back for perth, he made a trip down to my place to visit...not me... but my dog, Bo! And although andrew was slobbered mercilessly by bo, that smelly slime ball of mine loved andrew!

With time on my hands, i've been occupying myself with trying to master the art of baking. I reckon that baking is harder to master than cooking a meal. Maybe its also because i am way more particular with cakes and desserts than i am with my meals. There are so many elements to consider in baking, such as getting the perfect temperature setting, the right texture, the amount of moisture, blah blah. I had the sudden urge to bake blueberry muffins one morning, and i did! My youngest brother liked it, but it wasn't soft and moist enough for me. So i'm going to try an attempt baking it for the second time round.

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Happy feet

you could say that shoes are my ultimate weakness. i lurrve shoes... they just make me happy! I must confess, i've purchased 8 pairs of shoes in an approximate span of 4 weeks. Okay, i know thats nothing to be proud of. My dad complains endlessly about how everyone else in the family doesn't have space for their own shoes because of me. Anyhoos, lookie at what i stumbled upon.. Eleanor Gosch Keds (above). The bold colours and simple animal graphic designs are just so appealing. Aren't they just darling. Just looking at them makes me feel happy already.

Gong Hei Fatt Choy!

Dong dong dong chiaaang!! its the lunar new year once again, arrriving with a resounding big bang. what does this mean?! Long public holidays! Yippee! okay, i'm sure we all know that chinese new year is not just all about the red money packets, the delicious food and the numerous parties and celebrations. its about the family. for someone who has been hardly around,given the fact that i've been away from home for the past 3 years, its been such a blessing to spend proper dedicated time with everyone at home. I hardly get to see my family during the week because everyone is either at work, or at school, or spending his entire week at camp (poor shaun boy). although my family has spent a significant proportion of our lunar new year on doing massive chores around the house, it has been an insightful experience. i've come to realise that my family has matured not only in our love for one another, but we've all grown to be more patient and accomodating to each other's needs and preferences. my relationship with my brothers has improved tremendously. i'm so proud of both of them, and its such a joy to see them transforming daily from little rascals, into the God fearing man.

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Now, onto the chinese new year celebrations. Well, my family spent our morning and afternoon doing the customary visiting routine. and then it was back home for more left over steamboat for dinner! haha.. don't you reckon steamboat always taste much better after its left overnight? After dinner, there was a gathering at Lizzie's place for desserts and coffee/tea. Oh and WAH i must sound this out. Our dearest Eugene teo was suppose to drive to my place n pick me up at about 9pm, but i ended up waiting for him for more than 45mins, and we were super late for the gathering which was suppose to start at 8. i was even falling asleep on the couch, watching fantastic four on cable while waiting for him. it didnt help when we got lost on our way to serangoon gardens, and to think i even printed a map from streetdirectory.com.sg, knowing how eugene is really bad with directions. okok i better stop rambling before he finds out. haha. After lizzie's place...yang, euges and myself headed down to the Cannery at Clarke Quay. As we were talking and catching up on good times, i realised how badly i miss perth. sighs. i want to go back. :( sobs.

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it's been a hard day's night, and i've been working like a dog.

mmhmm.. back to the blog i come! yes, update i shall. a long time, it has been. Awfully much has happened, i don't even know where to begin. ok for one, i feel like i've been travelling all over singapore in just the past 3 months at EY. right now i'm being posted to 2 companies all the way at Jurong East and Toh Tuck Link. Now that is mad far from where i live. Every morning i take the train from simei all the way to jurong east, and yes, i actually counted the number of stops too.. 20 to be exact. sit until backside pain, and that only happens if i'm 'lucky' enough to even get a seat in the midst of the morning rush hour. another thing, i'm so broke from spending so much money on taxi fares because of all the running around from one company to another... and whats worse we can only claim all additional expenses at the end of the month. I'm mad broke. :(

its so funny how i had been complaining and whinning to my colleagues about my posting when i first found out about it. but right now, looking back, it wasn't that bad. i kinda enjoyed myself this week, well except for the long working hours lah. i got to learn alot.. although much of it was done under pressure because my manager had assigned me to one of the client's subsidiaries all by myself. whats worse i had an extremely tight deadline...where i had to submit an entire file for review in less than a week! thank goodness, my senior was really patient and she helped me out a great deal with the more complicated sections. phew.

lunch time. i guess you could say that was the most enjoyable part of the day, other than going home to my comfy bed after a long day's work. Coincidentally, i met Grace one day on my way to lunch and we started meeting up for lunch for a couple of times this week. she just started work at Accenture, and her client's place was in the same international business park area as the company i was auditing for. oh i'm telling you, i had the best yong tau foo at one of the foodcourts there. I even ate the same thing 2 days in a row. Shiokers. hahaha.

oh gosh, i've been blabbering all about work. i guess thats the only thing worth talking about now because thats the only thing i do. work. :( depressing. I'm really looking forward to the weekend. i'm having dinner with my colleagues tomorrow at city hall and then i guess there's the after dinnner activities as always. my friday night was already burnt out at work, stayed back till 11pm!! sheesh. i'd to work 2 late nights in a row. :( alright, im off to bed. really tired and i'm having a headache.

Goodnight world.

long overdue.

I've been waiting all week to say this..... the weekend is finally here!! whooot whoot. Thank u andrew for the erm.. very 'loud' reminder. Hahaa.. boy am i proud to say that i'm finally blogging once again. Unlike andrew who still manages to find the time to blog constantly despite his busy schedule at work, i on the other hand find it difficult to do so. Creating colourful picture collages, uploading photos, thinking of politically correct things to blog about on the web (cannot anyhow blog about what you r feeling ya know) etc, arghhh such a handful already. Haha, okay, i do realise im making a super simple thing like blogging sound hard eh.

life's been pretty much alright. work is getting heavier and heavier though. i've been working till about 8pm almost every night... all thanks to it being the audit peak period. And it'll peak even more in feb. whoopeedo. But i must say, i am really pretty happy with the great friends and colleagues i've made at the work place. truly an awesome bunch. its a pity we keep changing audit teams after ever engagement, so i don't usually get to work with the same bunch of people all the time.
I don't understand how some people can maintain an exciting social life after work. I am really really exhausted after work everyday... how do they do it? I mean, i look horrible after work, hair messy ah, face oily la, i look sooo tired&weary... how to meet up with people like that?! Weekends are really short too, and i spend most of my time resting at home. sighh. so the only time i manage to have abit of fun is during long public holidays(how often does that happen)! My girlfriends and i are thinking of taking up exciting activities like dancing and french lessons, etc. i wonder how long that'll last though.

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These pictures have been long overdue. Finally finished up the collages just this morning. :) Here's a look of what happened a few weeks ago.

1. 29 December 06. Fashion Bar with uru,hans&fabian.

2. 31 Dec 06. New year's celebration at Sumin's place.3. 1 Jan o7. Weihao&Serene's gorgeous wedding.
4. 6 Jan 07. Catching up over dinner.