Senki

Ohaiyo! ^^ 

It's reading week now and 2 more days to start of finals, but I can't possibly do away with a post on food, and more food! So here's an obligatory post on our Senki trip, Japanese Sushi buffet at Killiney Rd :D 

Self-shot at Orchard Central: I will forever cut off R's head in the photos I take, he must be too tall ~ hahaha

There was a big polar bear for people to take pictures with, so here's us with it :D

the security guard saw us taking pictures, and he offered to help us snap a shot! Rlly kind of him :)

R's awkward photo with the mother goose - I will forever make him take awkward touristy shots too hahaha, fun.

After all that fooling around, it's time for lunch! Senki, here we come :D

Started off with Chanwanmushi! (And we ended with another Chanwanmushi - so good :D)

Highlight of the meal: Sashimi!!! Looking at these fat pieces of fresh salmon makes me drool already, bestest sashimi I've ever tried, why so delicious!!! *blissful* 

Soft-shell crab (Spider) maki, and Mango California maki! Loves.

Shitake Mushroom! Wasn't a fan of it, too salty for me. R liked it though! Mushroom fragrance.

Baby Octopus oh myyyy blow kisses. 

Handrolls! :) 

Agedashi Tofu love love love, SO GOOD.

Enoki mushroom wrapped with pork slices - the first piece I had was perfect! The rest after that was plain sweet, too sweet for my liking

Yakitori (too dry for me) 

Eggplant and Capsicum - Delish! But the portion was slightly large for us both.

Cha Soba :D Always love. 

More Salmon sashimi please thank you, I can't get over how good they tasted *meltsss*

Pardon the bad photography skills, these are glazed chicken wings! Thumbs up :)

Nigiri Sushi on this special clog-like plate, accompanied with leafy wasabi and rose ginger. SO PRETTY. So actually for buffets they do not display their sushi in such a manner, but because the awesome sushi chef saw that we kept taking photos of our food, he decided to prepare our sushi in the ala-carte presentation for us to take nicer photos, awwh he's too sweet :*) Really really cute chef too ^^ 

Finally left Senki restaurant after 3 hours of eating, and non-stop eating! Happy beyond happy hahaha :) Stomach was so satisfied! 

And because it's reading week, we got to do some studying too! Headed to Centrepoint's starbucks and studied there till dinner time ^^ Wandered around trying to find somewhere for dinner. Circled around Taka basement and couldn't make up my mind what to have for dinner! Then I was craving for soup - so we headed to Soup Spoon at Ion! 

Nom nom nom. 

Forever eating :D Forever happy :D

Peeks

Wheee, time to inject some pictures into this space:

Monday dinner @ eat at taipei, in Jcube! 

R's beef brisket noodles! He said it tasted just like those at Taipei :) can't wait to head to TW in less than a month's time, eat all the food :D

Favourite boy :)

Was craving for noodles in soup, hence this! :)

Walked around Jcube after dinner! Nothing much to explore there though, so we left and decided to find a place for ice cream, haha so silly we went to CWP for marble slab therapy when there's also marble slab at Jcube :b but a change of environment makes things more exciting yep ^^ 

R looking real greedy staring at our two huge balls of ice cream hehee cute. :D 

and some photos of us! :D fringe has grown out a little, but i've just cut it AGAIN. I seem as though I'm addicted to haircuts - twice in a month. But nahhhh, I can't wait for my hair to grow back to its previous lengthhh :/ 

cheeky boy is cheeky.

On Friday we went to Great World City and caught Skyfall! Possibly not my type of movie, I was bored at many many occasions hehehe 143 minutes of the show drained my energy I kept yawning non stop on the way back with the boy hehe oops. 

So the semester has come to an end! 

As usual, each semester is filled with some kind of dramatic change in my life of some sorts haha what's wrong with me. I'm just glad that I'm enjoying my core modules this sem, sociology is really interesting, loves :) on the other hand, french killed me terribly this semester, I'm just crossing fingers that I can at least scrap a pass so I can get a S grade instead of a U. hm, pray hard. Can't wait for exams to end! I'm actually looking forward to the exams (even though revision is barely underway) - just can't wait for the holiday that comes after exams! 

Charged with excitement!! :D

Love

Let me take a little time and attempt to put what I'm feeling into words,

yesterday during the chat with Pauline I felt this immense sense of magical-lity of love. It is almost going to sound disgusting, but love has the power to make you feel so so different

and when do we know when's the 'right' one for you?

I'm quite certain there isn't a proper definition for it but you can definitely feel it in you when the right one comes along. There are love of so many sorts, there may be many occasions when you thought you've found the right one, but maybe.. not just yet. And I wholeheartedly agree with tumblr quotes that reminds us again and again that none of the past relationships were mistakes, they are lessons that can teach you how to love better, and how to find who's really the one for you. Admittedly, my past experiences have taught me a lot.

I've always kept to the notion that love is all accepting - when you love someone, you accept everything about him. But then again, when there are differences (in character, attitudes, values in life, beliefs) that are difficult to reconcile, it is inevitable that the relationship would be strained in the process. I remember how much I've loved a man who didn't treat me rightly. The mixture of happiness and unhappiness in that relationship lapses me into emotional turbulence ever so frequently because it was so hard to cope with. When I was clearing my cupboards recently, I came across the many letters that the man I used to love gave - and I realized how much I've really loved him. Considering that he was my "first love", my heart was fully devoted and I dare say I've loved him to the extent that I have forgotten to love myself. It was heartbreaking to recall how much unhappy tears he had caused. Yes, I loved him so much. Yes, he loved me too. But the way of loving was all wrong. It was a selfish type of love. A love that cannot be said to be based on the foundational trust that all relationships ought to have.

And then there was another type of love. I loved a man who loved me deeply, and sincerely. One of the nicest guys I have ever known. He taught me that it was important to love myself - and he taught me how. He picked me up when I was at my lowest, and I was blessed with his unconditional love. Yet, I frequently find myself inadequate. And then I realised that I've always felt this disequilibrium in our relationship. We were actually so characterical-ly different even though our love was real. I could never feel completely me-self and there were many guesses along the way. I think the unpredictability of it created this sense of distance that I could never manage to overcome - and the numerous mood swings into unhappiness is largely caused by the inability to fully understand the person that I used to love.

Then I found out one of the most important thing in a relationship - balance. It may appear immature for me to say this given that this is only the 1 month plus into my current relationship, but I won't hesitate to say that I have found this balance. Remember that duration is not a major consideration in measuring love! The intricate workings behind a social relationship with any person must have been so mysterious. Never had I felt so strongly about someone. So certain of love. We have so much similarities in ways of thinking, attitudes in life, how often do you find this kind of 'perfect matching' characters? Obviously we do have differences as well, but the magical thing is, when these differences fully complement each other and you feel like everything is so in place. Just the right amount of everything and I feel fully comfortable and adjusted to this boy from the day 1 we got together (once again, time is not a gauge for the degree of love) and this feels so so amazing. To be honest, I have always believed that you'll love less with every relationship because the heart gets weakened and armored after every try. I am utterly wrong in this perspective, every love teaches you to love more, to be braver and stronger. The reassurances that R provides give me the confidence that my heart is in the safest and warmest hands I could ever find. I know now that loving someone can be this extraordinary, and of this much happiness. Poverty of vocabulary prevents me from expressing well enough what I am feeling deep down inside

but feeling special to someone whom you know loves you, every single day - feels incredible.

I think I know now,
Love is You.

Week's worth

Bonjour tout le monde!

Feeling extremely happy today ^^ First contest that received such overwhelming responses :'') and the contest is about reasons why you like NUStyle, really touched reading all the comments and the response was so immediate, like couple of minutes after I posted up the contest poster people started to express enormous love for NUStyle,

Here's the poster that I haphazardly pieced out before heading to nainai's house today evening :D moment worth remembering! Really makes me so happy to see that the student population really enjoyed the discounts and privileges available for them :') ahh really happy to know.

Anyway, good to be back here at this space!

Was so busy rushing out assignments and meeting deadlines the past week so I didn't had the time to update. Have been spending a lot of time with the boyfriend recently (not complaining)! I shall be systematic and go in chronological orderrr: Let's go back to last fri!

02.11.12 Friday
Met R after his class on friday at Plaza Sing! We wanted to satisfy our cravings for soup spoon but the restaurant was simply too crowded and they didn't have a proper queue line so it was really hard for us to get seats. Circled a few rounds at P.S, indecisive on what to have for dinner and we were getting really hungry. Oh by the way the Plaza Sing extension is opened and it looks huge now! :)) Loads more restaurants etc over that side too ;D Oh and after walking around P.S for some time we decided to go to Swensen's! Hehehe and as usual we over-ordered. Two mains + a clam chowder soup bread oh gosh we ought to receive double warnings for that.

Came up with a November resolution: we shall share a meal instead next time! (Right now I'm still not sure if it's gonna work because we havent been sharing meals, forever hungry enough to finish up one meal by ourselves woops) LOVE MAKES YOU FAT. but happy kind of fat :D

OH AND TERRIBLE THING: I went for a haircut on Friday afternoon T.T it was terrible terrible. My hair got chopped off by 3-inches at the back :( and the fringe is hideously bangs-cut. :'( DISLIKE.

Here's a photo of us, the only photo we have this week because I refused to have more shots with my disgusting hair D: such a pity, want to have more pictures! My family can't stop telling me how bad my hair is, ughhh :/ R was being so nice, keep telling me that it's still alright :') xie xie ni de zhi chi. Now (10th Nov) my fringe has grown out a bit more after a week, phew hehe, just need it to grow more! 

05.11.12 Monday

Went to school together with R! :D happy doody to be able to see him at the start of the week! Emotions lecture was surprisingly good this week, because she has sore throat (?) so she only talked about main points and it wasnt the droning kind of lecture that we had for the past 11 weeks, woohoo! Lunch with pauline at Technoedge, my favourite canteen this semester, the food is so awesome! :D Deck has disappointed me so much this sem I wonder if I can fully devote to it anymore :/ 

Spontaneously decided to meet R for dinner as well so the awesome boyfriend waited for my class to end! Travelled to TPY for dinner :)) walked to the new Safra too and it looks beautiful! Bought some cool tauhuey thingy before heading home ^^ 

06.11.12 Tuesday

Hooray my last long Tuesday of the sem, finally finally over :D can't express how thankful I was to have made it through the arduous 120 hours. I really need to have some proper timetable planning next sem. 

But R fell sick! :( it's his turn to get the fever bug. :( really poor thing and I couldn't do much for him. So the next day I decided to do some grocery shopping and prepare a welfare pack for him since he always doesnt have much food to snack on at home :p teehee met R on wednesday before my class and spent some time together ^^ always awesome.

08.11.12 Thursday

After Thursday it felt like partial liberation. Good riddance to 2218 review essay oh my only managed to catch 3 hours of sleep because of the silly essay that tangled my brains. Followed by yet another french test, died badly for it as usual le sigh. And then after school a creative/communications meeting, sigh loving my freshies :)) even though we havent had much concrete work done out, they are still a lovely bunch of people that I wish to know better, hopefully this holiday we can work something out and know each other better :D

R came over after his project meeting and it was just nice, we ended around the same time :D HEHE, so we meet (again)! And we were starvinggg so we decided to settle our dinner over at star vista! Been there 3 times now and I still find novelty in that mall, think I quite like it :D hehe. Had awesome lotus root boiled soup for dinner, ah so satisfying on a cold rainy day! 

09.11.12 Friday

Free day so I spent the morning working on my report. Tidied my cupboards a little in the afternoon, threw away quite a bit of stuff and managed to clean my fan! :)) Went back to school in the late afternoon and submitted my final assignment of the sem woohoo! also queued for 45 minutes to get my 2101 essay back ._. time waster meow.  

But after that it was time to meet the boyfriend (yes again)!! Hahahaha :D went to AMK and had our dinner at Pepper lunch yum tum tum. :D delicious matcha soft ice cream to end the meal, blissful ;) And then the highlight of the night.... PITCH PERFECT! aiyo it was such a great movie I enjoyed every single moment of it!!! So hilarious too, loving fat amy xxx. :D By the time the movie ended it was already 11 plus so time to head home! But really such a happy happy day out with the boy, as always!

10.11.12 Saturday
OKAY FINALLY REACHED TODAY. I think I've spent an hour blogging about the past week, so sleepy already hehe. Today was an awesome day! (refer to above) hehehe. Most importantly, I had my first breakfast meal with the boyfriend today! We met for mcbreakfast at J8 in the morning :)) HOTCAKES ftw ^^ And then went to school together for the NUSSU committees networking session at 10am! The session ended up being flooded by bizcom members :b hehe. Quite a huge turn out! Also celebrated Poh Gek's birthday :) and the fruit ninja session was pretty exciting ^^


Okay I'm done hehe slipshod updates because I'm getting tired teehee and it's already pretty lengthy. So tata tooddles yall hugs hugs

Cubes

Whee, speedy recovery!

On Wednesday I decided to visit UHC before my class at 12noon and I was embarrassing myself repeatedly at the registration counter because I have no idea what my drug allergy is ._. then R came over to accompany me after his class teehee. Was telling him not to, and when I finally agreed to have him come over, he appeared like almost immediately. I know he had already intended to accompany me to the doctor's, so sweet :) Stormed so heavily outside after seeing the doc! R walked me back to arts together and I attended my class like a good student :)

Ystd (thurs) was our lunch date at deck! HAHA but we ended up seeing each other before class, during break, and after class: yessah! :D Reached school early and met R to buy breakfast together hehe. During the lunch break we had ytf together at deck yum tums. Headed to the library after that to do work, but we spent a little while fooling around with photo booth:

After school I stayed back to complete my wiki contribution due by 5pm so sian, okay but at least it's over :D boarded the shuttle bus and R texted to say that he could go back already, no meeting! hehe so we decided to meet and go for dinner together, love such spontaneity!!

Had nowhere in mind to go, ended up going to Nex at Serangoon and guess what! We ate at Din Tai Fung. I can't believe I'm saying this but I think it was really the first time that I'm visiting DTF, I don't even knw if I'm a Singaporean, how come I've never eaten at DTF even though I've heard so much about their XLBs?? Hahahaha, but it's okay ^^ I have officially eaten at DTF now. Ordered XLB, a bowl of noodles w shrimps wanton, and fried rice to share :) We took so long to finish our meal because we talked so much and I guess all the air went into our stomachs I was so full!

But won't ever give up on the temptation of ice cream :) walked from Nex to Serangoon gardens and had ice cream over at Ice^3! Green tea and Choconanas scoop, slurps :9 when I entered and saw the choconanas flavour I was so intrigued by it :3 and R asked for a sampling of it wooah and we eventually chose it, together with my favourite green tea flavoured ice cream. They serve really good ice cream! :D and they had halloween decors all over, how thoughtful :))

Had a lovely lovely thursday with the sweetheart! :D