BATAM ’12

It’s been a while since I last went on a trip. Thankful for BFF who planned us a trip for a little getaway to an island just 45 mins away by ferry. She did all the bookings and all I did was… follow. A major hiccup for the entire trip… a massive jam from Tuas to Harborfront. It was majorly congested that day, Poppy was late to meet a client, and I was VERY late to meet my dearest BFF! But thankfully still made in time for the ferry and even had time to drop by DFS to get a bottle of ICE WINE.

Of course, I knew that our trip was gonna be no where close to productive, but I was completely fine with that, and was in the mood to chill and just relax, in our terms… N U A. We refused to join the city tour, and insisted we get off at the hotel. We checked in way before check-in time, and NUA-ed & napped while waiting for J, BFF’s friend. J and mum came to fetch us and off we went to Mega Mall at Batam Centre, first meal… A&W. Was horribly disappointed cos the machine was down and they couldn’t serve us ROOTBEER and we had no stomach-space for Waffles… We went shopping, yes shopping at the hypermart, bought a whole lot of crap :\. Then we drove to the kampung for seafood. SERIOUSLY f r e s h. O M G yummy. We even had the time to drop by J’s place to look-see-look-see, chat and whatnots, before they drove us back to our resort where we had ice wine.

Next morning saw us up earlier than expected, watched 500 days of summer, had breakfast, watched spiderman, went for a massage, watched a good life, before checking out. Went for some yummy pizza, a chat with J and mum before they drove us to the Terminal.

It was all good.

Looks forward to more travels…

we had joy ; we had fun

1 week break
> ink attempt 2, phailed, AGN!
> back to school celebration
> a&f; 输人不输阵
> x’mas shopping, almost done
> new year clothes shopping, in progress
> booked; almost ready to go, 105 days?
> peppermint mocha 1-for-1 overload
> “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” –Mark Twain
> headed to 2am dessert bar, assuming they close at 2am.
> barracks for dinner with kellockians reminds me never to look at things only from 1 point of view, and never ever pass judgment too early. moreover, never shld i judge a book by it’s cover.
> bridal/christmassy nails, i actually like that place i went to. will be back.
> kfc/maccas/pizza delivery. you name it i had it.
> planning for christmas dinner can be sucha chore… >.<
> 4 presents, half an hour. Efficiency to the max.
> heartstrings ♥
> haven’t woke up feeling so physically drained in quite a while… :\
> dim sum w/ the aunt, followed by a major shopping trip. We went home with both hands full of shopping bags. We conquered them all, LV, Tiffany & co, Pandora, Mont Blanc, Tods, Kate Spade, Takashimaya’s Christmas bazaar… 1 mall solves it all. What a joy that place is. YAY!!!
> super “C” juice
> Exchange gifts w/ the girls
> Chillaxed in a KOPITIAM, awwwwwww, back to our roots much?
> paid off disgusting credit card bills
> been feeling awfully lazy to do ANYTHING, ARGH!
> the pay came in EARLY, flew out EARLY too… BLEAH.
> kinda excited to go on a trip to Batam w/ the girls :\ so near yet so far
> office politics woes
> KIV worries MAX
> “life as a house”
> dusty room, sensitive eyes = bloodshot
> falling carebear, soooooooo adorable. I feel like getting myself a yellow carebear toy.

10 min massage on a food menu? *thumbs up*, 1metre long sausage woo, dont tell your boyfriend you ate that / largest hersheys kisses ive eaten / christmas nails / 2nd christmas dinner thus far

thx for d reminder.

Back to work agn, after my 1 day rest day. Spent the day meeting awesome people and contributing my little effort to the household. And down for another after-work event tomorrow. Looking forward to meeting my fellow trainees, and the dance segment. After going back to work on Wednesday, I finally recalled how much I didn’t like work. How much I didn’t really enjoy working with some people, and how I don’t quite like doing what I’m doing. I love them all dear for how playful, loud, and fun they are. But sometimes, when it comes to work, things get a little different. For now, I’m just gonna bear with it and chiong my way through. So apparently I ain’t that keen on climbing the corporate ladder just as yet. And yes, go on assuming that I don’t have to work, cos I do hafta and I am working. PROVE-THEM-WRONG.

Everyday at work is some kinda battle. Let’s embrace it.

PS I’m turning into a junkie soins de la peau! BLEAH. But finally, I’m setting my skincare direction and brands straight. Sticking to just a couple of brands, instead of different brands for different products. Yippie, am so excited to use my products I suppose I’m gonna be really DILIGENT every morning and night.

BACK TO THE LAST EPISODE OF DDD S3, and then heading to bed. End of another day.

After-hours

Work isn’t going as smoothly as before. Or let’s juz say expectations are raised and Im still climbing my way. Don’t be too harsh on me for I don’t know how much I can take. I don’t wanna be a quit-er but I really don’t know how much more I can handle.

I’m pretty sure I’m lucky enough to have the time/mood to hangout and have fun after work & on off days. Retail therapy is great. Impulsive buying is therapeutic! Hanging out with the parents in the airport till mid-night is comforting, and movie dates always delightful.

Y’day’s movie date didn’t turn out too well coz we were held back in the office due to unforeseen incidences… We ended up leaving the office at 9.30PM, which is also the time the movie starts. Had to cab over and have yucky hotdog bread for dinner. Well, the movie was, otherwise, great!

Had my colleague to accompany me for dinner while i wait ard for BFF! I’m glad I agreed to meet BFF for the F21 event albeit the boringness. Spontaneously, BFF, friends and I decided to cab to kudeta for more drinks and of coz soak in the awesome atmosphere and mind-blowing scenery! such fun we had! Free drinks ftw! Am so glad I managed to forget abt work for that few hours at least.

All the redbull we had is keeping me wide awake, but I gotta be up by 8 tomorrow morning! Good night, world!

✿ Samedi

WOW, I had a very fulfilling Saturday. I crashed the night before, halfway through my drop dead diva marathon. And that being said, I woke up earlier than usual for a Saturday morning. & in a span of 18 hours, I…
1. I managed to catch the replays of tv dramas and some cooking programmes.
2. I cooked ai xin porridge for my aunt who isn’t feeling too well.
3. I cooked dinner for the entire family.
4. I finished the last bits of drop dead diva 2.
5. Went for for GC and then dinner at EwF. & shopping too.
6. Met Priscilla, who was also in town, for desserts. (ALERT: TOO MUCH FOOD)
7. Came home to a last minute invitation to join my brother and his friends for some drinks.
8. CRASHED.

✗o✗o

✿ a u j o u r d ‘ h u i

- Quelque chose est venu dans le courrier aujourd’hui. The joy of opening mailboxes early in the morning- totally made my day cos j’aime receiving packages (online shopping packages) in the mail.
- Aujourd’hui, I brought TODAY and shared it with tout le monde. Presque étrangers totally adore TODAY newspaper. But, I didn’t manage to finish reading it cos I had something to do half way through it.
- Collected my Victoria Secrets items!
- Collected something I ordered on Sunday.
- Dîné à la Astons récemment ouvert. Thank goodness I wasn’t the one queuing to get in, heh.
- Totalement accro à Cookie Dozer that I ended up watching the cookies drop while I was in the lift going from the 2nd to 3rd level, -.- much?
- Eu une discussion avec presque étrangers , and came to much realizations
- Reconnaissants à la technologie! I managed to catch up with quite a number of friends through whatsapp, text messages, facebook and email!
- Countdown to the weekend starts tomorrow. J’adore vendredi soir, samedi, et un peu de dimanche.
- J’ai entendu un d’excellentes informations qui pourraient éventuellement marquer une super 2011. <3

Have a good weekend y'all.
Cassie says:
Study hard, study smart, Qianny, Ade and Jia.
Live life, love life.

Ain’t gonna work for life when we know we can dance on

I almost forgot how it feels like to spend time with my BFF until we started hanging out way more than before! After JC up till now, we spent most of our time apart, she was down under while I was here and when she came back, I was away. NOW finally, both of us are in the same country and the best part, meeting up so often doing totally random things but I like <3 And those emails we exchange every weekday, too awesome. Totally brightens up my day.

I spent the whole of last weekend rotting at home, apart from the hour I spent traveling to and fro the doctor’s, cos I was unwell and I finally decided that I’ve been coughing for way too long to ignore. SO, I gave in, made no plans but to stay home and rest, and made a trip to the doctor’s only to be told that I am mostly well. Not that I’m complaining by still, by then, I’ve already spent most of the weekend home. So I’m so thankful to those who asked me out this week cos I really needed it, and managing to meet up with friends whom I’ve not met in more than 2 years, definitely a bonus.

My feet so sore!!! Too much walking done today. They deserve a good massage because there's more walking to be done tomorrow.

I should spend some time this weekend packing my room and make it look like how it was when I first moved in. Okay no, with the amount of stuff I have, rather impossible. ):

TGIF, baby! Have a good one y’all.