Wednesday, December 31, 2008
last day of 2008! and i went to the zoo with my maternal relatives. my uncles, aunt, cousins and my 2nd eldest sis! 7 of us. haha. had lots of fun there though the weather was quite hot initially and started raining for a while after that. yeah. photos will be up soon. cos i dun have all yet. haha. anyway, we saw crocodiles, giraffes, zebras, hippos, polar bears, sun bears, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, the primates, etc.. and not forgeting the SQUIRRELS! esp the african ones. they are super cute lor. keep scurrying around. then some keep eating. and some dun move at all. lol. guess those were sleeping. haha. then we watched the splash safari show. yeah. and the sea lion kept splashing water at us. well.. it was part of the show! haha. quite fun lah. hehe. i think we went to almost every part of the zoo. 95%? ate chicken rice for lunch. chicken rice from jurong east. haha. cos we din want to lunch at the zoo F&B outlets. the food damn ex. maybe except for the fastfood restaurants lah. then b4 leaving, we ate KFC and went home. my feet are aching a bit now cos of the walking. haha. alright, photos will be up soon!!
GOODBYE 2008! HELLO 2009!
hold me now at 12/31/2008 06:48:00 PM
30 December 2008
went to science centre with mon, sarah, denise and izzah! met denise and izzah at amk, then sarah and mon at yck and yishun respectively. boarded the train to jurong east and walked to science centre from there. haha. btw i dun have the photos yet. cos they are with sarah. haha. we ate lunch at macs 1st, then we went for the various exhibitions. there was the video conferencing thing. genome. optical illusion stuff. the magic exhibition, which i dun find really interesting. then there was the magic show and some science show, which includes some pH indicators (e.g. phenolphthalein). we went to the waterworks too! haha. stayed there for 4 to 5 hours. haha! it's very fun lor! oh yes! and we met mdm tey and her children there. and she said mrs poh told the teachers o level 2008 results may be out on 15 jan. quite a good date. won't clash with 2/2 chalet. yay! hopefully on that date lah. then went for dinner at chomp chomp. i din noe chomp chomp is the name of a hawker centre at 1st. i thought it was some slang. LOL. first time there. hehe. we had to order the hokkien mee cos we needed to borrow 2 stools from the stall auntie selling hokkien mee. cos we came too late and there were not enough seats. then we ordered stingray, kang kong, oyster omelette and satay. sugarcane juice too! super big mug! haha. then for dessert, we had the bandung touhua and chocolate douhua, and the super big $6.80 ice kacang. i have a pic of that. btw that's denise's hands. haha. reached home at around 9.50pm plus. was super tired and din watch iljimae. haha. zoo the next day!
hold me now at 12/31/2008 06:14:00 PM
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
went to malaysia from 24 dec to 28 dec. went to penang, then KL. the things there (food, clothes, shoes, etc.) are damn cheap and of good quality too!!!!!!!!!
24 DECEMBER 2008went to AMK bus interchange to board the bus to golden mile complex. saw denise there too! haha. anyway, we board the bus and the bus was very crowded. then we reached there and met my paternal relatives there. 12 of us. after a while, we boarded a grassland coach. the super VIP one. haha. the size of the seat was comparable to that of a commercial plane business class! haha. and they provided mineral water and this cake. not too bad uh? haha. then watched 江山美人. quite a nice show. then slept a while until the next toilet break.
25 DECEMBER 2008CHRISTMAS DAY PLUS MUM'S BIRTHDAY! haha. COOL RIGHT? we reached penang sungei nibong bus station at around 7am. had to board another coach to sunway hotel. and guess wad? it wasn't a coach. but a small van to take the 12 of us. and the driver was actually our tour guide too. haha. gunas. and i think he speaks really good english. i preferred a van actually. faster. haha. then reached sunway hotel at around 8 plus. cos the rooms weren't ready yet. so had to wait a while. went for breakfast 1st. ate fried mee sua. then walked walked a bit. then went back to hotel to get our rooms. dad and mum's room and my sisters and my room are connecting rooms! yay! so fun! haha. then went to take a nap cos didn't sleep much on the grassland coach. after that went for lunch. ate asam laksa. quite nice. and cheap too! around S$1 plus. haha. went to shop at the bata there. wanted to get this pair of track shoes, but dun have my size. :( and it's very cheap and pretty lor. S$20 plus only. then went to new world park. it's a shopping mall that looks like bugis junction.
haha.
me with a pink elephant!
hello ms astronaut! haha!
then went to eat at the food court. bought ice
kacang, kueh petee and some other stuff, but i can't rmb. then went to shop at new world park!! i din get anything, but my eldest sis and mum got a pair of shoes each. both are heels and they cost like only S$20 plus? wow right? haha. then went back to the hotel to wait for gunas, our tour guide, to bring us for dinner. went for dinner at this restaurant called east hokkaido restaurant. haha. it's a sea food restaurant actually. and the food there was very nice. haha.
after dinner was sightseeing with our tour guide. he brought us around in that same van lor. haha. went to a night market at batu ferringhi. a place there was once hit by the 2004 indian ocean tsunami. but the houses there are very ex. all those penthouses and all that. and a lot 5-star hotels. shangri-la, holiday inn, etc. bought some stuff there. then went back to hotel. watched a bit of tv then went to sleep.
26 DECEMBER 2008
woke up at 6.30pm and went to bathe. then went down to the hotel's cafe for breakfast. and the food wasn't very nice. :( after breakfast, took some photos at the hotel lobby. 
then met gunas and went for day tour! went to taman negara national park 1st. but we din go in. lol. we just stayed outside to take photos near the fishing village.
drove past this dam. but i forgot its name. lol.
went to the tropical fruit farm next! fruits! bought some fruit juice there too. got guava and starfruit.
nutmeg plant
spot the largest watermelon! haha. :)
mum and dad posing with nutmegs. lol.
PART II COMING UP SOON!
hold me now at 12/30/2008 07:57:00 AM
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
finally finished the book. and all 4 books by dan brown. digital fortress, angels and demons, and deception point. unless dan brown wrote other books that i don't noe. anyway dan brown's a genius! :) oh yes! and i haven got the last book of harry potter yet. haha. shall get it soon. :)
hold me now at 12/17/2008 05:58:00 PM
Monday, December 15, 2008
my mum, dad, 2nd eldest sis and i went for the HSBC treetop walk last saturday! we started at 9am and ended at around 12pm. woah! haha. and trekked around 10km at macritchie reservoir park! :O haha. din bring a camera so din take any photos. haha.
this's the actual map!
the light brown line is the route we took to go to the entrance of the treetop walk. around 5 km. then the treetop walk is 250m. then the yellow line is the route we took to leave the park. it's around 4.8km. haha.
yeah. then we took a bus outside the park and went to lunch at this hawker centre at AMK. and we bought my mum's favourite ice kacang! and now it has become favourite dessert too! haha. :) and we ate chicken rice too. haha. yeah. was super tired even b4 the trip cos of badminton last thursday. and my butt hurt too. haha. but i still managed to finish the whole thing! yay!
hold me now at 12/15/2008 05:18:00 PM
Friday, December 12, 2008
9 DECEMBER
2/2 OUTING!! haha. at sentosa. although only 9 ppl turned up. haha. waited for yu xiang at habourfront for around 1 hour. kept looking out for him when a train arrived. a lot of yu xiang look-alikes. haha. then went off to take the monorail at around 12pm. and i rmb my sun block this time. haha. so i din get sunburnt. went to the toilet with sarah and when we came back, we saw siti's ball in the water! omg. but hanping got it back in the end. it was quite far away from shore leh. then we ate a bit and played monkey soccer after that. haha. then we went into the water and played. and we lost skippy! (skippy is a ball) i think it would have drifted to indonesia now. haha. then went to eat at palawan with hanping, mon, sarah and siti cos siti needed to find halal food. mon, sarah and siti were on the tram while hanping and i were on the bike. haha. ate ice kacang at koufu then quickly cycled back cos the bike needed to be return by 3.30pm. then we played truth or dare after that. haha. then me and hanping had to go cos he got swimming. yeah. and we went off. yah. that's all i guess. was damn tired when i reached home. haha.
10 DECEMBER
i was at home the whole day and i did nothing much. haha. anyway i finished deception point. haha. :) yay!
11 DECEMBER
went to hougang sports hall to play badminton with min hui, anissa, yi ying, jing wen, han ping, han ping's bro, melvic, jing kai, welson, joshua, ivan, bobby and wen zhen. met jing wen and anissa at nanyang poly and we reached there damn early. haha. actually only 15 min b4 the time the courts were booked. we walked around for a while then went to the courts. played for 3 hours there although min hui only booked the courts for 2 hours. LOL. went for lunch at hougang mall at around 2pm. then went to blk 467 to play table tennis. i think i sucked at this game lah. but i think i got better after that. haha. another 2 to 3 hours at table tennis. then went home at 6 plus. reached home at around 7pm. haha. and i'm aching all over now. haha. my butt hurts. LOL. but it was fun anyway. :) oh yes! and i got an apple coaster set from anissa as birthday present. i think it's super cute. haha. thank u anissa! and this pink plushie from hanping's bro cos he went to japan and this musical box from hanping. hanping went to china mah. woohoo! presents! haha. :) thank you!
alright. that's all. :)
hold me now at 12/12/2008 09:15:00 AM
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
made an apple butter cake ytd for today's 2/2 outing. haha. i'm so sad that it's a butter cake. cos i dun really like butter cake. but when i taste it, it seems fine. haha.
i cut it in half before i took a photo of it. haha. :p
hold me now at 12/09/2008 08:26:00 AM
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Swensen's at suntec city today! cos my sis has the voucher and the redemption for 2 ice-creams. so we went that for lunch! :)
Omelette Kids - eldest sis!
Breaded Chicken Meuniere - mum!
Fish Baked Rice - 2nd sis!
Mac 'N' Cheese - me!
(btw it's macaroni.)
Curry Chicken Baked Rice - dad!
(this is nice!)
and here comes the free ice-cream!!!! :) :)
SWENSEN'S BANANA SPLIT
and..
FIREHOUSE HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
too much whipped cream uh? haha.
and we asked from 3 flower balloons from the ppl there. haha. 2 petals have "popped" from my sis's. haha. ok. shopping after that. yeah. and i'm tired from all the walking now. haha. :) swimming tmr! :)
hold me now at 12/06/2008 05:03:00 PM
haha.
nutmeg plant
Omelette Kids - eldest sis!
