Oh so important

Friends come and go. Some of them left beautiful traces down the path where two of you walked, while others merely come passing through without leaving a print.

No matter how far I walk, I will never want to move alone. But I know, as we proceed on to the next phase of our lives, there bound to be times when we have other priorities and responsibilities tagging with us as we grow. Even if I’m moving on alone, I will never want to let go of the memories we had together.

Hey, you are important in my life. 🙂

原本的我们

是的，这一切有点拖了太久，是时候甩掉了。

在原地踏步，如何能看到更好的美景，更蓝的天空？倘若固执的我能改一改，这一天，我们将会是开心的画下美丽的纪念日。现在这里的好景不在了，我应该踏步前往下一道彩虹。我知道这辈子，有可能再也看不到彩虹，触碰不到感动。但只要注意雨后的天空，晴朗的未来会等着我去欣赏。

敏丽加油，咬紧牙关闯过这一年！

记忆

总会有些挥之不去的记忆 在脑海里不停盘旋 哪怕时间如何的冲刷 它依旧根深蒂固 想拔也拔不掉
做过的东西 说过的话语 我都记忆如新
仿佛昨日碰得到 昨晚感受着 心里患时差的那时刻 …

甩不掉

Take it away

I am and I will put bad feelings behind and let bygones be bygones.

I’ve heard that the fastest way to forget someone that you love is to hate, while the others mentioned about cutting all ties. Yes, I’ve tried and its been four months, but my wound is yet to heal like how fast people normally should experience.

I cried so hard and swore countless times wanting to salvage it, but all I got was cold and heartless replies. It have reached the extend whereby friends and families can see the sadness in me once our eyes crossed. I couldn’t eat or sleep well. I, too have become so tired of those sorrows and pain that won’t go away. It is impossible not to remember about us whenever I see your face. There was never one day that I could live on with a smile.

Finally, I’ve decided to cut off all ties like how you stop and instantly remove all connections with me since the day we parted. I am no longer a follower of yours, not someone that would appear on your friend list, and even forced myself to remove your contact numbers. Determined to stay out of your life and stop disturbing you and your new love.

Life starts to go back to normal and my wound gradually stopped bleeding. One day, a friendly message alert was flashed on my phone and that shook me. It may just seem to be a normal, harmless greeting in everyone’s eyes, but it impacted me. Just like you are stabbing my wound and tempting to let my blood flow again. From then on, I got affected, such a wrong timing when exams are just around the corner.

Questions started flowing in about the suddenness which left my mind occupied, instead of my exam module notes. Yes, I do know that you are friendly, but don’t you know me well enough that little things like this can actually cause me distress? (I would be speechless if this trigger was intended.)

Does the truth really matters anymore now? You are happy and I am starting to let myself free from sadness. Why not let everything settle down and remain as it is. Let me be that same old same old as u say, and let you be pictured as that bad painting that I assumed.

Our past is the past, as much as I want to relive it, you’ve made your choice. I guess both you and your love should live and create new memories together. Never look back and review what others have done. That’s what you’ve taught me, don’t look at life of the others and start to compare. It will only hurt the relationship.

I guess this wound of mine will eventually heal as time washes through, though its going to be a long process. Never thought that to stop loving would be so difficult. It is not as easy for me to forget someone that I loved so dearly before, not at your speed. So, please show some empathy, I wouldn’t want to interfere and disrupt you and your life anymore, even the tiniest bit.

May the Lord bless you and people around you. 🙂

Geláre and Sembawang White beehoon

It’s Tuesday!
On every Tuesday, Geláre will be having this half price promotion on their famous waffle ice cream. Always attracted to cheap food and a coincidence that it an off day for Sock Teng and Wan Xian, we gathered at Geláre’s new outlet in AMK hub for food! 🙂

We have ordered a waffle with three scoops of ice cream (chocolate overload, cookies & cream and honey malt crunch), topped with strawberries and peaches. Luckily the flavours went well together, we were so happy and contented! I couldn’t imagine a life without ice cream, I am definately a super sad and depressed girl. The total bill after taxes was $15.50. Cheap! This ice cream goes well with the soft waffle. The consistency, the flavours, the combination, it just taste so right~ One of the reason I love Geláre’s ice cream is the stickiness. There is this ‘pulling effect’ (I don’t know if this is the right description, sorry for my lousy english. :S) which I very much like it. Imagine the ice cream is like the cheese on pizza, you can see this effect on the cheese when pulling a piece of pizza out.

Afterwhich, Sock Teng brought me to a place for dinner!

We saw this beautiful shine from the sun in the evening. Couldn’t take a good one but the sunset was definitely nicer than it was in the picture! Haha

She told me that this was the famous Sembawang white beehoon store with queue everytime. We were there early around 6 plus, so the queue was short, we got our seats within 5 minutes.

We ordered a dish and a drink, seafood white beehoon ($4.50 for a small one) and ai-yu bing ($2.20 for one).

The ai-yu bing was served first while we waited for our beehoon to arrive. Not the best ai-yu bing that I’ve tasted, Sock Teng told me that the drink is not that good today. It tasted bland, like the ai-yu jelly, effecting the overall taste. What ai-yu drink I’ve pictured was the drink being tasted a little heavy, accompanied by the minimum taste of ai-yu jelly, to bring a right balance.

The famous seafood white beehoon came within 10 minutes. At the first glance, I would think that it is just a normal plate of hot white beehoon you would see at any other Zi Char store, not much smell and the presentation doesn’t look appealing. After a snap, I feed on a mouthful of beehoon, it totally changes by perception about the outlook of this dish! It is the wet kind of beehoon that I like, and I guess they use their made-from-scratch soup broth to cook their beehoon. Every bite was easy, you wouldn’t have to spend time dividing long strands of beehoon, it was soft (was handled well, not to the extend that the wet beehoon would look melted, every strand of beehoon is visible) and I can simply just let the beehoon slide down my throat without chewing. ( My grandma would love it! But too bad she is at Malaysia:[ )

Thumbs up for the bee hoon and I can’t wait to bring all of us there sometime to dine in together!

*life is just so good to have friends whom you can chat with all day long, just felt that I’m so blessed. :)*

A gathering at Newton Circus

A dinner catch-up with our Hong Kong friend Maggie! It’s been a very long time since we (or me?) meet up with Maggie. The last time I was with her was in China to help out in a leprosy Village for Habitat for Humanity. In a blink of our eyes, 6 years have passed and we are gathered now, in Singapore.

They have decided to choose Newton Circus as our dinner place for the night. Daniel brought her wife along! How sweet~ The six of us settled down at an empty table and we did our ordering. If I’ve not remembered wrongly, this was probably my first time there. I did a little read up for the food to try in Newton Circus, a couple of food bloggers seems to talk about this particular Bee Heng Popiah that was selling in Newton since 1930s.

Determined to try this dish that was deemed famous, I queued for a short 15 minutes. The hawker who mend the store is an uncle, at the same store, it sells satay too. ($0.50 for a stick of satay, with a minimum order of 10 sticks). While I was queuing patiently, this uncle wore a frustrated face when orders of a lady was not communicated properly. That made me tell myself not to mess up with my orders to avoid greetings with a ‘black face’. I ordered two pieces, one w chilli and one without. ($2 each, with a minimum order of 2.

Frankly speaking, I find it normal. If I could recommend, the popiah that I had recently, introduced by Gladys, was better than this. I love my popiah to be juicy, not forgetting about the crunchy bits wrapped inside. I realised that Newton Circus is really a place for tourist, prices of food are really high. I will not pay $2 for a serving of popiah, never! (As such, $3 for a plate of chicken rice, with just a few pieces of chicken served, not worth. :S)

Company was good, food was a norm.

Tim Ho Wan in Singapore!

Dim Sum here at Tim Ho Wan is a little pricey compared to the other restaurants that I’ve went to like 126 and Swee Choon. I guess is because it is located inside a mall and rental & expenses in Singapore is not cheap! But the standard is definitely up there! (It’s a one Michelin star restaurant back in Hong Kong!)

Four of us have tried a couple of dishes yesterday and I’m going to rank those dim sum based on my preference. I don’t know if the original branch at Homg Kong produces dim sum of the same taste, but I will definitely spare some time to queue for the original one at Mong Kok during my trip there!!

#1 Their signature char siew bun and it is best if consumed hot. I did takeaway for this dish and tried to eat it when it’s cold, you can no longer feel the crisp on the crust, but i can still taste the char siew inside with a little bit of juice. XDXD ( by the way, I don’t think they do provide proper takeaway yet, but they do offer you paper bags and plastic bags if u want to order their food home.) $4.50 for three pieces.

#2 I just felt that this glutinous rice so nice, probably I would need to eat it again to describe the taste clearly. $5 for one.

#3 This cold dessert is just so presentable and pretty! The osmanthus’ refreshing smell lingers around when you chew on this cake. $3.50 for 3 pieces.

#4 Soft and fluffy, you can totally tell the difference from the ones that my mum always buy from the market. Best steam egg cake that I’ve tasted! $3.80 for one.

#5 The first time I’ve tasted this unique dish, a combination of vermicelli roll and pig’s liver. Pig’s liver is so soft and bouncy ( is this even the right discription?! Haha! ), and I think it goes well with the vermicelli roll that I’m forever in love with! But I guess i would give this dish a level up if there a bit more flavour in it. $5.50 for 3 rolls.

#6 Har Gao will never be the first dish I will go for when I go for Dim Sum, but I definitely love the crunchiness of the prawn wrapped inside by a thin layer of almost-transparent skin. $5.50 for 4 pieces.

#7 Hot, juicy and flavourful. I like! $5.50 for 3 pieces.

#8 Char siew goes so well with the vermicelli roll. The amount of char siew is just right, spreaded evenly that I can taste the bits in every bite. Can I have more, please? $5.50 for 3 rolls.

#9 I always love my siew mai to dance up and down with my teeth inside my mouth, and it did it! XDXD $5.50 for 4 pieces.

#10 This Yam puree with sago doesn’t have this ‘wow’ factor for me to order it again for my next meal there. Probably because of the bland taste. The consistency is alight, just the lack of favour that I thought it should have. $3.50 for one.

#11 My first time having seaweed mixed with beef. But sad to say, I’ve only tasted the seaweed, and only seaweed. Did they forgot to put in the beef? $4.20 for 3 pieces.

Will I visit again? YES, provided that the queue is not that long! I went there around 2.30pm and I was given a queue number 425 and they were serving 216 at that moment. 0.0 TOTALLY A SCARY LONG QUEUE. It is because its just the second day they opened in Singapore? But we (or me?! XDXD) decided to wait because the four of us met up just for that!

Caught a movie named Saving General Yang at The Cathay while we waited. Got totally stuck to WuZun’s nice body in the first part of it, as well as his perseverance to send his father’s body back home! I love his brothers too, in the end his father’s body and the weapons’ of his brothers finally returned home with WuZun (sixth son). 😢 Never expect that only the sixth son made it instead of 6 sons.

莫名的酸

难怪这首歌曲 听了 有不明的感触

因为我们 在一起的第899天后。。

 

走不回 那就让第900天 在回忆里完整

15 days of CNY(part 2)

CNY day 4, my sisters and I stayed at home the whole day for our sisters-get-together-and-gamble session, playing Dai Di and blackjack. I tried to paint my sister and mom’s nails, it is my first time painting someone’s nails and after so long since I paint nails (the last time I painted my nails was for that friend’s birthday chalet :S). It was not that bad and I’m proud of my improvement! 🙂

CNY day 5, a very special day for couples and good friends, I spent my evening with my beloved bestinction members jogging at Karthib stadium and a decent dinner after that. I am so happy and blessed to have friends who are there by my side after a heavy storm. 😀

Day 6, a CNY for the UNI mates! Everybody gathered for a series of house visiting where there’s maximum joy and laughter!

Day 7, I went for Elvis’s 1st month celebration at Yiling’s new home!! Having a happy family is just what every women long for, they are definitely my role models that I will always look upon. 🙂

Day 8, church day! It is my first church day with YiYuan for the new year. We felt sad that we missed the one on the first day of CNY, but thank God that we were able to catch a part of their performance. 😀

Day 9, first day back in school after a long break, we took our 4 hours of our break for a fulfilling lunch at Shin Tokyo! Sushi for the win!!

Thereafter, we tried on the new store that opened recently at Clementi, Black Ball. I went to this dessert store in Malaysia previously, but the taste was a little different. But I guess it’s the different way of handling the ice. Plain shaved ice is serve with gula melaka separately at Malaysia, while shaved ice is already flavoured for there dessert back in Singapore. The taste may not be standardise , but I guess Black Ball adjusted their recipe well to suit the different masses.

Day 14, a night out with Christopher, Sheron, Darren and Heng Yong. Heng Yong introduced this place called Social Haus in Yong Siak Street near Tiong Bahru, it is a perfect chill out place to go with a couple of good friends. And I will never forget their super nice dish: stew ox tail and truffle fries!!!

Day 15, which was somehow consider the last day of CNY celebration, we went church together. After that, we would hunt for a place for lunch like we always do, companied by endless jokes and uncontrollable laughter. XDXD What a nice way to end our CNY 2013, I thank God .

15 days of CNY (part1)

I’ve ended my part time job in Supernature few days ago before Chinese New Year. We had a mini celebration in the store. My first Lo Hei for CNY! I’m thankful for what I have, a great job that I can earn a little cash to support myself for a little longer(I sincerely hope it can last ~.~ though its totally impossible :S) , a great company who is willing to work with me despite her busy schedule, and a bunch of super colleagues whom made my working experience special and fun. 🙂

Eve before CNY, I went out with my besties for last minute shopping! Happy and glad that everyone is back home with at least one set of new clothing for the new year~

After shopping, everybody went home for reunion dinner. My family and I had steamboat for dinner and its the first time we were all seated together for food on reunion dinner. 🙂

After dinner, we did something unique. I did some hair dying for my mum, dad and sister! The whole process was a little messy, but we did it! Though the colour wasn’t obvious until you OBSERVE it clearly, we had a unique first experience. 🙂

First day of CNY, we went to visit our Grandma like every other year. My grandma grow old, and now it is even harder for her to walk around already. I guess we will be like that when we turn old, but before that our parents will experience it first, I swear I will definitely take care of my parents like how they take care of their parents when they are old. 😀 There was a new couple in our family, my cousin and his wife. It’s been so long since my cousin visit the family members on CNY. Thank God for having him back with us.

CNY day 2, the whole family went out for a movie, Journey to the West. We choose a chinese language movie for the whole family for the ease of our mum and dad. 🙂

We went NTUC Fairprice for shopping, spend quite a bomb on that day’s purchase(partly because of my new mattress XDXD) and we bought crayfish home to cook!

CNY day 3 is Bestinction visiting day! Every single member in the group were gathered for CNY. We went for a CNY movie at AMK hub, a Hong Kong movie called Hotel Deluxe and then proceeded to 3 houses for visiting. The schedule was Johnson’s home first, followed by my cozy little nest and lastly, Yuan’s house for a big gathering. Besides Bestinction, Grace and Yuan’s family are with us too! 🙂