W&J's big day

listening to pin guan's 'Bi Xiang Xiang Geng Xiang Ni'...
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Another one of my fave gals ties the knot!
Happiness is when you see your friends in bliss.
Congrats dearest W and J!

(Pretending to look) bright and chirpy at 6am:


A fleet of Rushes rushed over:


So pretty, so deadly.
Jess and her mom stayed up the entire night using syringes to inject hot sauce into sweet peppers. Imagine the guys' looks when they bit into the innocent looking vege.

(fr left to right): lime and lemon medley, bitter grass drink with bitter gourd cubes, condensed milk and syrup suspension topped with whipped cream and marashino cherry:


You hold the key to the maiden's room. Mr Watermelon, please guard it well:


The gorgeous couple with the bride's parents:


Signage made by our resident artist, XW:


Many many balloons! Yay!


So proud of ourselves for setting up everything in two hours. Note to the rest of the gals, no more garden weddings in Singapore allowed. My purple dress became deep purple coz of the perspiration. Yes. Eww...:


W looking radiant and pretty in the magical wedding kua：


福禄寿. Domino effect:


Happy birthday to W&J! The only pic that passed the Censorship Board:

Finally. After too many years.

The postman came on Thursday to deliver the piece of news.

My heart almost leaped out of my mouth from palpitating too fast.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

I hereby declare myself, 王医师.

Finally. I'm a certified TCM physician!!!

YIPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Poor bear bear!

listening to sky wu's 'Ni Shi Chun Feng Wo Shi Yu'...
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Poor little bear! We were laughing at you so hard during our shift today.
I hope you recover from this childhood trauma.

In Memory of Stephen Gately...

listening to boyzone tracks on repeat mode...
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For those who still don't know, Boyzone member Stephen Gately, 33, died on Saturday in Marjorca while on holiday. I am sad becoz I like Boyzone. They were from my time, and they were one of the rare boybands who had members who could sing really well. Even sadder coz Stephen Gately was my fave Boyzone dude.

Here are some clips of the boys when they appeared on the Taiwan version of 'Don't Forget the Lyrics'. RIP Stephen Gately! :(

EZ-link card replacement. Have you done it?

listening to joey yeung's 'Chi Di Zhi Lian'...
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When I heard the vox pop gathered by our News Team, I seethed with anger over the ridiculous interviews given by my fellow country men.
Singaporeans, you are a disappointing lot!

The ez-link card replacement exercise had begun in January and will end on 30 Sept. Nine months have passed, and suddenly you realize today is the last day. You hurry to the card counter, only to find out that the rest of the population shares your sentiments.

So what do you do now?

You complain. You 'kau-pey'.
About how long the queues are, how inefficient the counter staff are, how EZ-link office should extend the time... It's always easy to point fingers at others. Maybe it's time you grow up and do some self-reflection.

If you know of anyone who bitches about the long waiting time at the ez-link card counters these two days, please give him/ her a slap on my behalf and say this: WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT EARLIER? OBIGOOD.

**update: Just found out from my coworker that those holding on to their Giro ez-link cards were unable to change their cards until they receive a letter from EZ-link office. However, the letter which arrived only recently, instructed them to exchange the old giro ones for the new normal ones, then apply for Giro feature in future. WHAT??? That is the stupidest instruction I've ever heard!

To those affected commuters whom I had insulted earlier, without knowing the complete truth, I sincerely apologize. I shall now turn my wrath towards EZ-Link (formed by LTA) for its foolishness.

Hen Party Shenanigans

When you reach a certain age, your liver functions start going down.

You feel ill after a night of partying.

We learnt it the hard way after L's hen party.

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Everything started pretty tame and proper. We gals went for our beauty regime at Aramsa Spa, followed by dinner at Les Bouchons at Club Street.

Dinner was delish:

After dinner, we went to check out the dodgy lil night club recommended by our friends. Did I say dodgy? I meant DODGY. The lady in charge (ahem!) told us to use the other door to enter the club. This was what it looked like:

It was the weirdest experience ever. Doubt any of us would do it again. Eye-opener? More like eye-sore. For drinks, we ordered this. We couldn't wait to polish it off and run away:

Last stop. Pump Room. For some proper dancing and partying:

At least we had a crazy good time there. The band was pretty funny. We sang along to songs and boogied to the music. Of course, alcohol helped and we had a roaring good time. In fact, so good we all ended up with hangovers and massive headaches the next day. But for our good friend, it's all worth it:

I am the queen becoz:

Wen Bie (rock version) during F1 concert

I heart Jacky Cheung before.

Now I heart him more.

F1 Rocks (some called it F1 Rot)

I struggled for five minutes and eventually decided to give up on my revision, for the chance to catch A*mei and Jacky Cheung on the same stage.

Thank you YL for the F1 Rocks concert pass!

VIP lounge with free booze, food and most importantly, AIR-CON!

A*mei's performance was a lil lackluster. Her voice didn't carry through. Later I found out it was the sound system's problem.

What a let-down!

Jacky Cheung Hok Yau!!!

After a long 40min break, Jacky Cheung finally came onstage. The God of Songs also apologized for the long wait, even though it was 100% the organizers' fault. Then he went ahead and laughed at his own crazy rocker image. The crowd was tickled by his sense of humor and everything he said was witty and funny.

I may not know most of the canto tunes he sang, but I had a good time bobbing my head to the music. He was awesome! That's why Jacky Cheung is the God of Songs!!! Wheet!!!

Conclusion: The organizers may have rotted, but the Asian performers rocked.

Lucky

listening to shanice's 'Don't Break My Heart'...

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Not the duet by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat.
I am. I was VERY lucky yesterday.

We were all sitting in our own cars at the road junction. Most of us also noticed the minor accident across the road. I was wondering if the police car in front of me was dispatched to settle the dispute. The car beside me inched forward. Everyone was just waiting for the lights to change.

Suddenly an SUV from the opposite side of the road lost control and rammed into landed on top of the road divider. Its bonnet also hit the car next to mine. The broken parts, including the bumper strip, flew into the air and landed on surrounding cars. My eyes followed the trajectory of these flying pieces and I couldn't stop gaping. Everything happened so fast but I felt like I was watching an action movie played back in slow motion.

The policemen and the affected drivers alighted to inspect the damages. When I left, the SUV driver was still revving his engine desperately, trying to get his car off the divider and the other car.

I'm just glad Zappy was spared.

The scenario:

Checked out the aftermath on my way home.

The railing has been replaced with two cones and some plastic cordons:

Letter to my blog

listening to fang datong's 'You Are The Sunshine of My Life'...

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Hello my neglected blog,

How's it going?

Sorry I've been too busy and lazy to post updates. Writing a proper entry takes time and like how it is with money, I never have enough. Oh, you can blame it on Twitter too. It's way easier to come up with 140 letters of inane babble than a coherent blog post.

I was planning to change the header picture. Had already chosen some photos that I'm satisfied with, but arranging the layout takes too much effort. It doesn't make sense to spend an additional five minutes to come up with something people don't really pay attention to. Yes I'll complete it. Definitely before 2012. (that's supposed to be Doomsday. We'll see how it goes.)

Anyway, please don't think that I'm blogging now out of guilt. I'm only doing this because I just finished my run and I needed to cool down before I jump into the showers. Which is about now.

See you when I've more time on hand, or when my life gets more exciting, or depressing, or something. There're a few weddings coming up as well. Maybe I could write a few paras about them too. We shall go with the flow k?

Au Revoir!

Luv,

me

When Man's best friend turns on him

listening to rong zu'er's 'Hen Mang'...

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This is the first sight that greeted me when I stepped into the Okinawan customs:

How reassuring.

Is she representing us in Miss World? NOOOooo!!!

listening to chen weilian's 'Fen Shou De Qing Shu'...
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OH.MY.GOD.
I cringed for the entire three plus minute.
I don't mean to humiliate the poor girl, but she is really really bad. And if she's ready to take part in a public contest, she should have already braced herself for criticisms.

Watch out for 00:27 when she ransacked her mind to recall what she's majoring in.
In my cohost's words, 'it's like a horrible accident which you can't take your eyes off'.
Lady, Speak Good English Movement is back.
You HAVE TO click here and watch it, then die a slow and painful death with me.

I ♥ Taipei - part 3

Whoa. Look who's on a blog roll.

Once per day for three days in a row.

*smirk*

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Even the Taipei friends praised us for our discerning choice in restaurants when they heard we were planning to visit Tripodking.

Apparently you have to book at least two weeks in advance if you want a table on the weekends. We were super duper lucky to get seats coz we only called the night before. Well, guess nobody really goes for lunch at 2pm on Thursdays.

Price list for the hot pot ingredients:

Wahhhh!!! Free flow of guess-what's-this! *quiz time again*:

Old skool dessert shop at Ximending:

N.Y Bagels near the 24hr bookstore:

That concludes my food trail in Taipei. Coming up: Okinawa.

Refresh this page, y'all.

I ♥ Taipei - part 2

Basically we were in Taipei to stuff our faces.

And I'm proud to say, we did it amazingly well.

Lunch at Shin Yeh.

Btw, they have a local branch at Liang Court.

I've always liked sweet potato porridge.

Now I like it even better.

Braised meat (欣葉卤肉):

Pan fried pig's liver (煎猪肝):

Pickled radish omelette (菜脯蛋):

***Ohhhh... this is fun. Guess what's this:

Dinner at Korean restaurant with RZ and his gf: