It's a dirty free for all

Sunday, January 29, 2012
Chinaland!

Cannot be bothered to switch my Macbook Pro on to upload photos to blogger, so I shall just get the lower quality photos from Facebook! The sequence of photos are all messed up so it's going to be very random!

BEANIES! We were on our way to a restaurant near my dad's condo when we saw this man selling beanies, rabbits and guinea pigs! We asked the price and I can't exactly remember how much they were but it was definitely much lower than in Singapore!

This is what my dad calls a "panda-rabbit". HAHA. They purposely bred the rabbits to have black markings around their nose, eyes and on their ears! LIKE A PANDA, hence the name "panda-rabbit". SUPER CUTE.

Rabbits at the sides, guinea pigs in the middle column!

This was at Luohu. It's a place where there are a million tailor and cloth shops. The bottom of my mummy's boots dropped off just as we reach here and luckily we managed to find two cobblers! They are not Han Chinese but belong to some minority group (obviously I don't know which one!). Their skills were really superb and they repaired the stuff so fast!

The main reason for going to Luohu was to tailor stuff! Made a Cheongsam (for CNY), two tweed jackets and a pair of black pants for internships/work! It's really much cheaper making clothes here than if you had made them in Singapore/etc.

After consulting with the tailor and taking measurements, the tailor will bring you to this super huge place with more than 40 stalls all selling all kinds of cloths/buttons/lace/etc! This is a stall selling rabbit and fox fur!

Stall selling silk!

This is roughly the size of one stall!

My mummy on an electric bicycle! They hang around places with high foot traffic and offer short-distance rides for 3yuan (5yuan = S$1). I always take them to and from the MRT station and the condo!

My brother!

Took this picture to illustrate how CHEAP the food is in Shenzhen. 12yuan for 15 guotie dumplings! PLUS THEY EVEN HAVE MORE THAN FIVE TYPES OF GUOTIE! Means that each dumpling is less than 20cents! In Singapore, one dumpling at my favourite stall in Chinatown costs 50cents each!

Opposite my dad's condo is this long street where the not so rich people live, it's something like a huge kampong style of living. The people who have shops there or who sets up temporary stalls also live along that street! We kind of refer to that street as the "village". It's quite safe because I did walk through that street alone quite a few times at night! Around 8pm every night, this guy will set up his BBQ Chicken stall (he's bbqs the chicken on the spot). My brother is a fan of this stall and one whole bbq chicken only costs 25yuan (S$5)!

Camwhoring in the lift!

While I was still alone in Shenzhen, I went to eat at this Japanese restaurant with this egg-looking thing! From whatever I can gather from the instructions, you're supposed to put in a 1yuan coin and your fortune will come out in the form of a token (I think) thought the mouth of the egg!

The MRT station nearest to my dad's condo!

I bought Dunkin' Donuts every two days for my supper and breakfast!

Family portrait from super long ago!

Bought angry birds bedroom slippers because the floors were ice-cold when the heaters were not on! SUPER CUTE. They just look so angry all the time!

This was one of the dishes during a business dinner. A WHOLE BOWL FILLED WITH CHOPPED CHILLIES. There's sliced fish in it but seriously, the sheer amount of chilli in the bowl is WOW.

The restaurant had some show every night at 730pm! Some tea-pouring stunts and traditional Chinese face-swopping item!

This is my fluffy hand-warmer (replaces the need for gloves!) which my mummy bought from her last trip to Lijiang! Inspired by all the concubine-fighting-chinese-emperor-shows! Just put your hands through each end of the hand-warmer!

My bedroom! Super heart the bed-frame!

My last minute BK breakfast at Changi Airport before I flew off to Shenzhen!

Uploaded this picture to show my tweed jacket!

Purposely made the whole family go to Hong Kong for two days just to go to Wong Tai Sin temple. I was really really stressed out about training contract and I just had to get an answer. (I was really worried that I wouldn't even be able to get a job) I'm not really a superstitious/religious person but I have heard stories of how accurate the predictions from this temple are. Plus my mummy also got a super scarily accurate reading from here many years ago! And if you are curious, yes, the prediction that I got REALLY CAME TRUE.

We went to a theme park (OCT East Theme Park) for a day and it was super tiring. The park was huge and was situated from the foot of a mountain all the way to the peak! A REAL MOUNTAIN OKAY, NOT THE BUKIT TIMAH HILL KIND. A whole field of sunflowers! Each "flower" is as big as your face!

Rows and rows of more flowers.

This is at the peak of the mountain! They made this glass pathway which hung over the side of the mountain! If the glass breaks, you actually fall all the way down the mountain into a lot of trees = die. I refused to step onto the glass path in case I fall and die.

This is the top of a mountain. If you fly off, there's only one outcome --> DIE. I was nervous just walking across the red bridge on the left of the picture. IMAGINE THE PEOPLE ON THE RIDE. It turns 360degrees and flips you upside-down!

Cable cars that will bring you halfway down the mountain!

To get all the way down, you need to take a cable tram thing from the cable car station! THAT IS HOW HIGH THE MOUNTAIN IS.

My brother making funny faces -_-

3D glasses for some epic-ly BORING 3D show.

Had to take a picture of these caps! They have battery powered fans! Everyone needs one of these!

This is my brother eating some Chinese version of satay! He ate four or five sticks in that one hour.

LOG FLUME! Super do not like this ride because when I was young, my parents tricked me into taking the log flume ride in Ocean Park (HK) and told me that it was just a rocky boat ride. I was so traumatized after the whole ride that I apparently couldn't talk for the next half hour. BAD MEMORIES.

My brother and I at a man-made waterfall at the entrance of the park!

After looking through all my photos, I realized that I don't even have a picture of my rabbit fur coat =( Super sad! Off to have steamboat at Tifen's house!! EXCITED!

xx Loved At 3:58 pm
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Another morning starting at 830am.

Today, I signed up for something thinking that it was something else. HAHA. I was super shocked but oh well, haha, LIFE GOES ON! =) I can't believe that I have 830am lessons tomorrow (TODAY), if it's not bad enough, there is a quiz and a mini-presentation to be done during the lesson. Hope I do well for the quiz, cross my fingers!

Anyway, Valentine's day is coming! This year, I think I want to do something for my friends! (I was a very bad friend last year when everyone got stuff for me and I didn't do/get anything!) Haven't exactly decided what though! SUPER HEART ALL MY LOVELY FRIENDS. If it weren't for all of you, I would have so much less joy in my life! =D

PS. I have half a mind to change the picture collage at the top of my blog. Those pictures don't really reflect my life anymore! HAHA. Must try to remember what program I used to make it!

xx Loved At 12:27 am
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Happy CNY!

It's Chinese New Year, but I haven't eaten any goodies because (1) I have a really bad sore throat to the point that I am on the verge of losing my voice (2) I don't exactly eat CNY goodies besides love letters/bak kua/kueh lapis. PLUS I HATE ORANGES. Bleah. Anyway, I won $50 playing ban luck at my house yesterday!! MUAHAHA. Super happy plus the "fortune teller" in the CNY show on channel 8 said that for this year, those who are born in the year of the snake have five out of five stars in the luck department. MAY I WIN TOTO AGAIN =D But to win toto, you first need to go and BUY the toto ticket (which I forgot to). Haha. Super wasted because I heard that the first prizes winners won more than $1million each!! If I suddenly got $1million, I'll fly to Europe immediately, buy five bags, give some money to each of my immediate family members and use the rest to invest! AHAH. I can only dream!

I think I'm quite anti-social when I'm tired. I definitely don't talk/shout/jump around as much as usual and I just feel like sleeping. SO BLEAH. I think I need to get into some kind of light exercise regime to keep healthy and to stop feeling so sleepy all the time. I actually feel asleep in the car while on the way home from work yesterday! (I wasn't driving luh!) I have so much readings to be done by Thursday morning but I'm so sleepy right now! Shall not go into an emotional mood over undone readings. Hate the times when I get so stressed and dejected over school work that I cry because I can't finish/understand. THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS.

xx Loved At 9:32 pm
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

I don't know what to say.

xx Loved At 2:13 pm
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Nightmare

I think my tweet very much sums it all up.

"Bawled my eyes out last night because I thought my dog ate soyabeanie and his body was no where to be found. Thank god that my brother found Soyabeanie in the toilet at 4am! I <3 my smart beanie. So happy to have him back, but my eyes are now soo swollen."

xx Loved At 2:27 pm
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
=)

Today, I signed off 6 months of my life.
At least now things are more or less settled.
I'm happy with the choice I made =)

I also bought myself a pair of Steve Madden shoes that set me back by a bomb even though they were on discount! The maximum I ever spent on a pair of shoes (before this pair) is $70 I think? Steve Madden on discount is more than double of that! BUT, it's my birthday present to myself, plus it's a pair of wedges in leopard prints! The moment I tried them on, I couldn't take them off =) Also, it was the last pair of my size in the whole of Singapore! The next nearest size was size 9!!! Shall wear to work on Friday! Super excited!

Celebrated my birthday with 7 hours worth of lessons! Haha. Then it was a movie and dinner at Lawry's! LOVE LOVE LOVE LAWRY'S. From my memory, it seems like I only get to eat Lawry's once a year, on my birthday. BUT, the BF informed me that in the past one year, I have eaten at Lawry's at least thrice. HHAHA OOPS.

Have not gotten down to buying/deciding my next bag. Too many things cropped up which were much more important and worrisome. I have also decided that I'm super fickle-minded =( Two months ago, I was deciding between a Bal City or Bal First. One month ago, it was either a Bal First, Mulberry Alexa or a Prada Galleria that is one size smaller than the one I have. Right now, I'm leaning towards one of these, Mulberry Small Heritage Bayswater in Nightshade Blue Pebble or Mulberry Alexa in Pastel Pink. WHY AM I SO FICKLE. OMG. THE EURO IS DAMN LOW NOW. CRAPS.

xx Loved At 1:01 am
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
21 minutes left.

Haha, I FEEL SO OLD.

If anyone asks, I'm still going to say that I'm 21. I DON'T CARE.

FOREVER21! HAAHAH.

xx Loved At 11:39 pm
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Another year!

Last Saturday started out like any other Saturday night. I went to work at 830pm, I set-up the stuff at velvet. THEN, OMG. Sofian (our front office manager) kept telling everyone that it was my birthday! (That is not true!) Shortly after midnight, one of the regulars came out with a flaming. After that, I was really really high and I remember running to the phuture counter to hide after another tray of sour plum shots appeared at velvet. Ahahah. And I went home at 230am (I normally end work at 4am) because I was no longer functioning and I was soooo high. Hahaha. And it didn't help that the velvet guestlist for that night was like printed in font 4 or something! Super embarrassing night =( Lucky that night wasn't exactly incredibly packed plus I managed to dodge the whole tray of shooters. Haha.

This is why I do not like drinking alcohol. Haha. Non-functioning after a flaming. Okay, to the people who kept coming out to laugh at me, I hope you had a fun time! Hahaha. I will take revenge on you all next week!! Hahaha.

Okay, I bet this post sounds slightly incoherent. HAHA. I'm really sleepy right now but I'm trying to read conflicts readings #notworking

xx Loved At 10:10 pm
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
A happy place.

Tonight was a good night =)

Shall read BGS Chapter 3 then it's off to bed!!

xx Loved At 5:07 am
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Till next time!

Wanted to do a blogpost about my Chinaland trip but blogger is refusing to cooperate with me!!

Anyway, today I finally finished building my IKEA table all by myself!! SUPER PROUD. I now have a mini study table in my room so I'll have no more excuses not to study when I'm at home! I also built my dog's new IKEA bed by myself too! =D He absolutely loves his new bed to the death of it!! Pictures of both soon!

Was sick today and went to the doctors just now. The bad part was that the antibiotics meds that he prescribed totally made me feel like puking. ARGH. I feel terrible now.

xx Loved At 11:56 pm
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Monday, January 09, 2012
Dread.

First day of school was uneventful. BUT, uneventful is good. I wish for less drama and more happy times. LONG DAY tomorrow. Three hours of equity followed immediately with three hours of conflicts. Super not looking forward to 11 hours later!

Posting up these two photos because I was wearing the same dress (in different colours) for those two nights at work! Haha. First picture was with Elton who played chubby bunny by himself! Haha! The second is with Pat when one of the regulars asked us to wear the 2012 glasses on NYE!

xx Loved At 9:38 pm
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Sunday, January 08, 2012
And here we go again, for the 6th time

School starts TOMORROW. I still have hundreds of pages of unfinished readings. WHY.

xx Loved At 3:20 pm
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Thoughts.

Sometimes I think that I'm so lucky to turn out to be a mentally-strong person. If other people had to live my life, I wonder if they could still function normally.

xx Loved At 4:06 pm
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Zoukout 2011!

ZOUKOUT - 10th December 2011

This was since almost a month ago!! Worked for my 2nd ZOUKOUT. I vaguely remember saying that I'll never ever work another one again after the first, but oh man, after a year, I'm still here! But luckily, this time, there was slightly less party-goers than the previous crazy year! We even went to the hip-hop/r&b arena at 6+am to soak up some of the atmosphere and wow at the super powerful sound system that was in place!

The day started out a bit shitty because we were supposed meet at Zouk at 2pm and we (Rick, DJ and I) were late! At 2pm we were still between Tanah Merah and Marine Parade! So we had to meet at Sentosa straight! LUCKILY boss was not pissed with us. Then the three of us girls went to settle down and chill while the poor guys had to help security carry loads of barriers!

Super cam-whore session X 3 cameras

Took a picture of what I was wearing while waiting for Rick to come!

A few days before ZOUKOUT, Gwen had gotten lip tattoos for us to put on, but in the end, we totally forgot about them! HAHA.

Chilling with our Starbucks (DJ helped to get them for us) while the guys do the hard labour!

THE MASS ARRAY OF FOOD CONTRIBUTED BY SHERRY AND I. Hahah. It's enough to have a mega-picnic, I know.

Boon and Bing Wei acting crazy!

Huge piles of lanyards! Super love the other lanyard by Singtel! Too bad my new Bold 9900 does not have anywhere to attach a lanyard. I think it's damn stupid. All phones should have a place to attach a lanyard.

Gwen, motherbitch Red, Bing Lin!

In the toilets changing and making up!

Almost all of Front-office!

All of Front-office!!

EASTIES! I must say, I super love my Easties!! Ya, if you haven't guessed, we all live in the east! We normally go home after work together (either one of us drives or we take a cab!) and if I'm the one who drove, I always make them follow me to grab MACS drive-through! HAHAH. We even have a stupid Easties cheer =D

Pamela! Got her to work for ZOUKOUT because we need extra manpower during such events! The 20 or so of us in Front-office is simply not enough to cover the whole entrance for ZOUKOUT!

Let me introduce the CHINALAND-FAN! Haha. I asked Sherry to bring fans because it was going to be really hot in the day and hey hey, the two fans ended up becoming some hot commodities!

Couldn't resist not posting this picture up. Super OM NOM NOMS. Adam with his mouth full and holding a container full of biscuits while Kevin actually having a super huge biscuit in his mouth! HAHA.

Haha Gwen!

CARINA CHAN. Haha. She has no facebook account. Also got her to work ZOUKOUT! I think owe that woman her 21st birthday dinner! (since November 2011)

This is a very unglamorous picture of me, I get it. But hey! I was very tired/I had just worked for 18 hours straight on 4 hours of sleep.

Bing Wei trying to pretend to be a Carpark Auntie!

*I fine your car then you know!*

Still in my cardboard armchair and feeling much more awake!

Going through some unhappy stuff right now. Please don't ask me about it, if I wanted to tell you about it, I would. Thank you!

On to other thoughts, SCHOOL STARTS IN FIVE DAYS. OMFG.

xx Loved At 1:31 am
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