Revisit

It's been a truly long time since I've been back at this blog! A few weeks ago I re-discovered the existence of my older blogs and shared them with R. It was quite a fascinating experience going back to read all the nonsense things I used to talk about - of course, I'm still talking about the most random things at this point. Nevertheless, I'm glad I've returned here to just drop a post before the year ends. 2015 came and left. Ever since I turned 18, every year has been speeding past like bullet trains. This is such a common reality to almost everyone. 2015 had been quite a meaningful year, for Singapore as a nation (SG 50 celebrations ALL YEAR LONG), and for myself (graduated from NUS & started working & feeling like a real adult). Must have been quite a fruitful year I must say.

Oh yes, also, I'm typing this blog post from my new Macbook ;) A decision which I have contemplated for quite a bit, because going into USB-C seemed a bit too adventurous and unconventional. But the slim-cut design caught my heart and of course I have convinced myself that what I truly want is this space grey piece of gadget. So Hi there, from my new Macbook! :D I just bought a heather pink laptop sleeve from Crumpler today afternoon w R! Now I'm all ready to bring this new baby out hehe.

Can't believe it's December already. I wonder how's my neopets is doing this year. Haven't been visiting it at all this year for Advent Calendar yet - one of the strange things that I only do in Dec is to play neopets. Hahaha! Speaking of games, I have been so bored lately. Just downloaded the Japanese Cat game (Neko Atsume) & started my cat collection. In the meantime, I've also borrowed a book on Chinese Dynasties to understand more about China history.. And R had recently gotten me an adult colouring book "Enchanted Forest", which takes up a great deal of time. :p Just wanted to record down how I've been occupying myself these days.

Green line meetups

Finally met up with the girls the other day, had dinner at Nam Nam! :) Nam nam is like my current obsession, I have it at least twice a month, woah. Had a great time catching up with them, as always. Even though we don't meet very frequently, but when we meet we have so much to talk about. The current topic revolves around our future a lot. Well, we're all in our penultimate year of school and it gets a little worrying to know that we'll have to find jobs soon, can time slow down please?! 

Well, I'm sure we can all embrace the future and hopefully we'll all be really successful in our own ways together :) Kind of really miss schooling days in Crescent, literally worry-free. Just having loads of fun, learning, making friends and doing silly things together. Although we're still schooling now, it all feels different at university level. You constantly have to worry about every little assignment or lecture attendance for fear that you'll lag behind and most worrying of all is the inability to find a job that you'll like in future. Seriously hope that I can get an internship this summer but things ain't looking too positive, *sighs* crossing my fingers! 

Ramen Champion! Also managed to meet up with Wuyi over the recess week :') after so so long, everyone is so busy with our own stuff that it gets so difficult to meet friends regularly nowadays. Because the concept of ramen champion is like Marche, except that they are ALL ramen, I had a really hard time deciding which stall to choose from. But this guy from one particular stall kept promoting his ramen, so then I caved in and tried it. It has HEAPS of beansprouts over it, and the soup base is super buttery. The ramen is like lor-mee consistency. The ramen tasted good at the first few mouths, but then it got really jelat after that oops so I struggled to finish it.

Wuyi tried from another stall! :) My best working partner ever ^^ Miss our bizcom days, time does flies 

Walked around after dinner, before settling for dessert at Blackball! :D 

Yummy yummy. Had a great catching up session together :) Hopefully our MC can get a chance to meet up together soon! 

Toy Party

Haven't been blogging here for the longest time, and it's time to revive it for a little! Just attended my last 21st party of the year! Ms Toy's birthday :) Friends for the longest time, and friends forever always :') The week before her birthday, R and I went around Singapore to shop and see what's suitable for her!! Shortlisted so many things and had quite a rough time before finally deciding what to get for her, glad she liked the present! :) I also handmade her a card (and I feel that it's one of the nicest cards I've ever made lah hahaha so I decided to post it here for future references LOL plus to also show off my artwork) :p

bff badge for her!! :D

And this wrapping paper is the cutest ever!!! :D So many animals gathered together on this special day to wish her a happiest birthday heehe

Then it's the day of the party! Mans, so jealous of R's dimple here! :( 

She had a pastel themed party (the birthday girl, however, decided to not follow the theme and did not wear pastel (!!)) But the both of us followed according to the theme and wore pastel. :D

Finally reached her house that's situated at a really ulu location :p 

Beautiful decorations and the tea table looks amazing, everything looks so cute! ^^ Nobody really bear to start eating anything coz it all looks too picture perfect to be ruined hahaha!

Lots of effort went into decorating the table! I particularly like those 'Eat Me' signs, like okay!! I'll eat you all :D 

Took advantage of the beautiful setting and snapped a picture together as well hehe 

Pretty lights!!! And the sweet host prepared handmade cookies as party favors, has our names on it! :D

Another shot of what's on the table, love the colors :D And the cool concoction drink that they made keke. 

Crescent will always be in our hearts! :')

Birthday girl with her huge cake! :*) Finally twenty-one hehehe

Fooled around while we were getting bored hehe

And one last shot with shijia :)

Had lots of fun laughing and playing random games HEHE the festive spirit is really here, felt like it was post xmas pre CNY gathering keke and the birthday girl planned some really tough mind-draining games, like solving puzzles omg. HAHA. Stayed till almost 10pm (that's like a whole 7 hours hahaha) before we all headed home :) Had a really fun day with all the people I love but was extremely tired by the time I got home *crashes in bed*

Counting Stars

Am currently super addicted to the song 'counting stars'! It's really catchy and I love the beats of the song. On constant replay for this week!

Finally went to snip off my hair last week, and also did a deep conditioning treatment at Chapter 2. After the treatment my hair was blew dry and looked really straight, as though I've rebonded it!

Before and After! 

R was being really sweet and accompanied me to the hair salon and waited for me to get my hair done, hehe thanks for waiting patiently! :)

After getting my hair done, we decided to head to the Sushi Bar at Queens St since it was a Monday, and salmon sashimi costs $3 on Mondays and Thursdays! We got there slightly before the restaurant opened and there was already a long queue forming. Thankfully we were they slightly early and managed to be the first batch of customer for that night!

We ordered 3 portions of sashimi that night to share :) It's really cheap and a good deal for $3 sashimi! 

We also ordered the prawn roll sushi! the size of it their sushi was perfectly suited for my mouth. However the taste of it wasn't as impressive as the dragon roll from Sushi Tei. 

Nevertheless, we had a great dinner together! After walking around a bit more over at the Cathay, we went to eat Rochor tauhuey for dessert hehee

Yummy food-filled day, typical of our dates :) 

We're in the midst of study week now because finals is approaching (in less than a week for me) and I don't feel particularly motivated as of now. Feeling defeated because whenever I try to look at my stats notes my eyes and mind just go @.@ all the formula and equations and symbols give me a headache. So I'm sort of in an escapist mood right now hoping that I'll buck up the next morning I open my eyes ._. shall not despair. stuffing myself with lots of snacks as well because my darling boyfriend got me loads of goodies for welfare keke so blessed :D 

Turning 21

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! :) Finally turned twenty-one on 7 October and my birthday was spent with all the people closest to my heart this year, extremely blessed and thankful for everyone of them. Thank you everyone who have wished me in any ways, I really appreciate them! :D

Had my first birthday celebration with my extended family over at nainai's house on our usual saturday gathering! :)

Daki got me a three-tiered mixed fruits pancake stack and it tasted wonderful! :)

The next day, Mr Ang popped over at my house with 5 huge balloons! So surprised that he got me balloons teehee, and it was these plain balloons that I've always wanted. Love the combination of the colours too (exactly the colours of my room, evident even from my room door HAHA)

After that, my parents went with us to collect my birthday cake which R specially ordered from Mysisterbakes for me! :') :')

One of my other wish for my birthday is to have a 'personalized' cake, just so I can feel a little extra special because no one else can easily purchase the same cake as me! :p R made my wish come true :D :D :D  by spending a fortune on a white rosette cake for me :'o but i love it so much!!  

It's so beautiful :'D Love the rosette design so so much!! And there's a 'Happy 21st Vivien' tagline just for me teehee feeling so much like a princess! 

After dropping the cake back home, we went for zichar dinner for my birthday! :D heheehe it was good having dinner with my family and I love zichar! Had wanted to eat pumpkin prawns initially, but the zichar place we went to didn't have that. After dinner, we went back home for cake cutting session!

Fooling around hehehe happy smiles and my huge mouth, with my balloons! :D

MY GORGEOUS CAKE AND LOVELY BALLOONS. teehee, I love how they match so well!

Eeeyer so blur I don't know who took this :P hahaha! 

Family love! :D :D :D the people who have tolerated me for 21 whole years. knowing me the best. reading my mind the best. :D 

With the boy whose birthday is just two days after mine! :)) hehhehe. my greatest love who made my birthday such a wonderful wonderful one.

The next day, my actual birthday!!!! 

I had school. 

:b 

After school, R and I headed to Vivo to waste some time (went to St Marc for some coffee), walked around the mall, just to wait for our dinner reservation time to come! We had plans to go to Blisshouse for dinner hehe I chose it ^^ but on that day I was slightly lazy and kept suggesting to just eat at Vivo since we were already there! HAHA. But well, eventually we stuck to our initial plans of going to Blisshouse (The Central @ Clarke Quay) and no regrets! One of the best service I've ever received in a restaurant teehee and the food was great too!

Love the ambience in Blisshouse. I love how everything is white (my fav colour!!) and flowery, so gorgeous :D 

My handsome date for the night! :*)

Hehehe, had a great dinner with my favourite boy. And ended off our dinner with a complimentary dessert with birthday message for me! :) Me loves this kind of sweet personalised thing that has my name on it HAHAHA just makes me feel so special :D 

Us! Hehehe *blows kisses*

After dinner, R suggested going for a walk by the Singapore River LOL and he got my closest friends to surprise me, with staggered timings and all HAHA. I don't even know what to say man.

Earlier on in the day, R passed me this scrapbook that says "It's My Birthday!" and I read it during lunch, cried like a baby because I was so uncontrollably touched that this boyfriend of mine contacted all my closest friends and got them to write birthday messages for me, weaved together with chains of photo memories, and strung together like a time-series. Walao this boy just entirely captured a 'life-course perspective' and helped me document my peer relations or something. It's pure insane dedication and love for me lah *mega touched* love you so much Roy Ang Kar Hoe!! 

So yes, back to the surprise along Singapore River, totally unexpected since I thought I've a scrapbook with all the handwritten messages and wishes (which was honestly more than enough for me) already. Did not expect my friends to pop out IN REAL LIFE lolol I was not only surprised, but also shocked because don't know how to react HAHAHA not within my plan. was also worrying and fretting about awkwardness in trying to create a common topic for all my friends HAHA but beneath that surface layer of uneasiness (from the randomness of people who kept popping out), I was truly immensely touched :'D Appreciate how each and everyone showered me with so much comforting friendship love throughout all these years. Friends for life, everyone. *fist bumps on chest* 

From all the lovely ones who surprised me on my birthday night :') and manz, I really love letters/cards/notes and my friends know it best. :D Kind of got two portions of messages because they have already written in the scrapbook, but goes on to write me more messages on separate letters/cards hehehe. loves. 

I had a really beautiful day :)

p/s especially especially grateful to my dearest boyfee who made all these possible and always treating me like a princess :') you know I love you. hehe xx.  

Seppy

Hello there, September! 

(Starting the post with a massive collage of R's sexy pouty lips/sian mehh faces/sleepy look/surprise/weird/awkward expressions, featuring his new soft toy - a sea lion named Merkee! HAHA.) Pretty evidently, this boy sends me a lot of his selfies, usually to cheer me up when I'm moody, or when we are just simply bored = exchange selfies hahahaha me thinks it's pretty amusing when you collage them all. 

Anyway, it has been almost a month since I've last posted, terribly bad at consistency. Decided to play catch up with my life for a bit and hence this attempt to 'recap' what I've been doing (or eating) for these few weeks, using all my iPhone photos to serve as reminder as I blog:

Al Amaan! Sinful indulgence after my handball training (hahaha failed attempt in joining the IFG this year) but R has been a majorly sweet boyfriend who waited for me to end training all those time I went, ending around 9pm and sometimes later :') Then we will go eat supper/have some sweet treats before he sends me back! Yessss, we do have to cut down on overeating - just made a new pact with him and let's hope it will realise. 

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On a slightly drizzling Wednesday evening, I met Pauline for dinner at GRUB to have a belated celebration for her birthday!

She tried the fish burger which looks awesome, and tasted awesome (stole a mouth from her burger hehe)

And I tried their cheeseburger, which was lovely!! Look at those melted cheese :) Love their fries too. Ordered a cup of honey lemon to fight the grease and oil from burger and fries. Very relaxing evening spent at Grub, love the atmosphere there and of course the company, and great chats on life (and sociology). 

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Here's R looking rather lethargic after his straight 7 hours classes on a Friday, :( But yay TGIF and time to reward ourselves and our tummies. Guess where we went!

Hoshino Coffee! :3 And R being vain checking himself out in the mirror. Boy, this place is so popular we queued for around 40 minutes for a table, probably because it's Friday dinner.

Here's what we ordered: Their signature coffee (which I did not appreciate), French toast with cream and sugar frosting in the background (so so good!), and Fuwa Fuwa (a fluffy soufflé with baked rice beneath, while it was interesting to try out, it's pretty jelat to me). Would love to try other things on the menu, given that there isn't any queue! 

Spent the rest of our night immersing ourselves in the Singapore Night Festival scene 

Got free glow-in-the-dark bangles! :D And an owl fan to beat the humidity~

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One of those days, when we feel like being retarded :B

So one day I was showing off to R that I have Rittersport chocolate to snack on, and sent him the photo of me on the left. And he replied me with HIS MOUTH FILLED WITH SWEET AND SOUR PORK. Okay, I think we are pretty weird.

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Pontian, one of my favoritest food everrrrrr. :D *blows a million kisses* 

Craving for pontian now :(

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On our monthsary we decided to head to Clarke Quay for lunch after my morning class :D I suggested Song Fa because I craved for hot soup and Bak Ku Teh sounds like an awesome idea, indeed it is :) yummy yummy. 

After lunch we headed to the fabulous baker boy, second time there! Wanted to head to a cafe to have some coffee and chill in the late afternoon, intended to head to Toby's initially but the sudden rain + road constructions prevented us from reaching our destination. Went to TFBB for cakes and some drinks in the end, turned out to be a lovely afternoon still! Love this cake, the hummingbird they have there :) Must try!!

Ordered my usual flat white and well, I never really loved their coffee actually. 

After the rain stopped, we walked back to The Central and got us some Azabu Sabo matcha ice-cream!!! Loves. No idea why we eat so much sometimes but yes, all that in one afternoon - we're pretty much huge gluttons :O 

A box of lovely gifts from R heehehe :)) 

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Leyi's birthday celebration at Holland V! with a princessy balloon that Sam and I specially picked out for her :p 

Had our dinner at EWF that night, and the service utterly sucked. Food standards also dropped to an all time low, I've no idea why??? Thank goodness the fries still taste good. But the fries were pretty much the only good thing for our experience at EWF that night.

Hehe sang song and cut cake after! :) Was still a great night out with the girls, catching up and all! 

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Finally visited Reedz in MRB at school the other day! 

Ordered a smoked duck aglio olio, very yummy!

 R's Fish and chips took forever to arrive, but it tasted super heavenly!!! :D Concluded that Reedz serve very reasonably priced western food, but their mocha was pretty mediocre that day :b Wanna go back for their fish and chips again!

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Went to Vivo on one of the evenings, and had our dinner at Seah Imm (regrettably awful though, we went too late and the good food stalls were closed.)

But this AWESOME egglets made up for the bad dinner. I super super love this :) especially if it's crispy outside, yet dense on the inside. Had the best egglets while I was in Taiwan, :)) But this is a pretty good alternative too!

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Nainai's birthday dinner!

My paternal family :)

Went back to nainai's house after dinner to cut cake! Hahaha, kueh lapis cake :D Happy birthday nainai , we love you! :D

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Yummy Pho from Nam Nam! R and I finally tried it after so long and it was a great experience!! :D 

R tried one of their dry dishes and it was very flavourful and delicious! 

Walked to Suntec after that, and got pretty amazed by how well the new convention area is done up now. Impressive and very professional-looking! so we attempt to snap a photo with the starry lit-up long escalators as backdrop. Hahaha... :3

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After school dates, Blackball @ Starvista!

They have risen their prices, so pricey currently that I think it's not exactly worth it to pay for that amount anymore. But well, I do think that it still tastes very awesome, especially with their new wintermelon shaved ice (instead of grass jelly shaved ice)!! 

R with his flat hair because he's all ready for a new haircut!

At the hair salon! HEHEHE just one of those shops below my house. :)

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Here's R working his new haircut, I really like it! :) And we're at graffiti cafe - pontian! - for my late dinner ^^ R specially came over to Jurong East to find me after my movie date with Jialing hehe, we watched Percy Jackson and I really loved how humorous it is! :D 

Then the sweet boy sends me home as usual :)) 

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