i hope i will bring up my (future, as yet unborn) children up properly. with good manners, and good character. hopefully they will have the correct values, and know to respect their elders.

hopefully i will always have their respect and their love, by being to always explain to them what is right and wrong, and why so. if they can be imbued with virtues such as compassion and patience, that's an extra plus.

why do i say this? cause i realise parenting is not easy, more of a try-and-hope-for-the-best kinda thing. and sometimes, the child may not be moulded the way you want. and then becomes a terror.

perhaps i've been too hard on my parents, who i believe did their best to love and teach me.

had 3 reunion dinners over the last 3 days, one more coming up tomorrow..

below is my family's steamboat at home.


happy chinese 牛 year people!

did something ubelievably stupid (dumb? silly? blur?) yesterday. went out to buy lunch, and realised that i didn't bring mykeys only upon hearing the lock click. =( was stranded outside the house for about 2 hours, waiting for my rescue team to come. so sad!!!

and then, i wonder if i had some suay superpower, the driver's side car lock on freddie's car was jammed. so today we'll have to go repair it.

bad day yesterday. hopefully year of the ox won't be this bad. =p

p.s. can't believe i forgot to bring keys!

as the date draws near, i hope i get the feeling back. that feeling of old. otherwise, i may one day look back and regret. sigh

some of the haji lane shops' deco. all of them had their shops upstairs, so we did quite a bit of climbing. i want such cute drawings on my house walls too!


clockwise from top right: the saizeriya restaurant at liang court 2nd floor, singapore river, and the colourful menu


anti-clockwise from top left: clam chowder, chicken wings (which turned out to be drumlets) and foccacia bread, hamburg steak with mushroom sauce (mine), doria with shrimps (his). and that's him enjoying the food.=) the foccacia's nice, crispy and freshly baked.

kind of lazy to do anything, not researching nor spring cleaning. must overcome this lethargy.

went haji lane yesterday in the afternoon, and after spending about 2 hours there, we didn't buy a single thing. but the deco of all the shops were pretty cool. i took like 3 photos, cause I was humji will get kicked out or something. haha post another day, lazy la.

after that was a simple dinner and a nice long chat with evan. nothing spectacular, just a heart-to-heart chat. but it made me realise how much i missed talking to her. =)

no school today, yay! and i managed to survive and understand 5 episodes of moonlight resonance without subtitles! thank god it wasn't as tough as i thought. haha but some parts i still needed translation..

dinner was at liang court some japanese italian restaurant, the name of which i cant remember now. but i'll post the photos up later. food wasn't wow, but the price was quite cheap, worth a try.

and now i must sleep, in order to wake for facial at 9am tomorrow. nights people, take care!

rushed to finish my 'queen of the game' serial. haha koreans do romance best.

now i only have to mop the floor, bathe and pack my bag to leave the house before 3.30pm for school. gosh

lab tomorrow, but i want to check out haji lane.

no school on friday! yay!

你说 秋天早上的日光
一吋能许一个愿望
希望我爱的人健康
个性很善良
大大手掌能包容我小小的倔强
你的浪漫只有我懂欣赏
能让眼泪长出翅膀
飞离我脸庞
还想每天用咖啡香不让你赖床
周末傍晚踩着单车逛黄昏市场
我的浪漫只有你懂欣赏
就让每个台风晚上 不恐慌紧张

一人一支闪闪仙女棒
好像我们之间有星光
安躺 可是很灿烂很漂亮
一点点光捧在手上像太阳
等到世界末日你才讲
那个愿望 一起握紧不放

we really must start gym next week. procrastinating is really not good. haha

there is nothing to be bought at far east, oh gosh. in fact the whole of orchard has nothing much that is cheap and good. hmm but at least some brands had sale, so we each came away with one purchase. ONE! a bit pathetic. we shall try again.

finally my blog skin is back up! and its about time to start doing work, with three chants at the back of my mind.

last sem last sem last sem!
get a job! get a job!
short getaway! anywhere will do =p

irritated with my blogskin, and the process of changing it unsuccessfully.

end of the first school week, and already that design 2 project sounds scarily daunting.

quite a slack start to the school term. but there seems to be a lot of things to settle, since its the LAST semester. fyp, finding a job. big time concerns weighing on my heart.

but i still managed to find some cheer=) bought some new year clothes on monday at bugis, and i still want to buy more haha. was bloated on monday night, with a very full lunch of nasi briyani, and also a nice dinner at raffles food place.

didn't get photos of the briyani, but here are the tempura dinner photos.

the rice was such a big bowl!!

trying to show you the soft shell crab, and asparagus(!)


continued our shopping spree today, but only managed two tee-shirts. let's try harder to buy more! haha

had a busy week spanning over the end of 2008 and the start of 2009.

met up with the drama girls for the belated celebration of the december babies. had waraku dinner at marina square. half price was really very cheap! too bad it was the first and last time i made use of that promotion. haha

then it was 2b dinner plus gift exchange at jianwei's house. according to hong, the gift exchange was very hilarious, but i left early so i don't know. go over to her blog to find out more if you want.

new year's day was dinner with dayana, doreen and gen. breeks @ marina square, second time i go there in a week! quite long since we last met, but it was nice catching up and reminiscing about the old tpjc days. haha maybe we can meet up more often..

in between these events, darling was sad, and i felt bad that i didn't seem to understand him well enough to console him. but finally, the storm blew over, and so we went bowling and pator yesterday! caught transporter 3, but frank martin was no longer the same transporter. haha

dinner was at the japanese town restaurant, my hamburger and cheese soup curry, which was nice!

met up with gen and gil today for pool and dinner at a vietnamese cafe, and thus ends my last week of holidays. have to sleep early and pack my table, and prepare for the start of school. again. for the last time though. sigh

no resolutions, just want to stay happy and healthy. and may the rest of you be safe and happy too!