Monday, June 30; 6/30/2008 06:18:00 PM
job hunting is a bother...
having to dress up n go for interviews
the jitters tt u get everytime u go for an interview
the sinking feeling tt u get when u noe it in ur gut tt tt the job won't be offered to u..
u juz keep consoling urself
"it's ok..this is juz a practice interview session...when ur dream job comes along u'll den be able to perform fantastically"
den another part of urself tells u logically
"what if u perform juz as badly at ur dream job's interview?"
ppl asking u all the time how's ur job hunt...
*sighz*
how nice if my dream job juz falls into my lap..
ok..enuff abt tt bothersome topic..
let's juz enjoy life while we can..
treat it as a long break..
i think the next time i'll get this kind of relaxing break is when i retire or when i bcum a housewife(which i haf absolutely no intention of becoming)
the other day when i was in amk running errands for my mum
i pass by Blue Max, a dvd shop
they were selling korean drama dvd box sets at really dirt cheap prices
like some were like $10/box but those shows were really old..
like
秋天的童话,冬季恋歌 and stuff
den in another section the dvd box sets were gg for 3 for $39
got newer shows but nv hear of de...
i bought 3 shows frm this section..
hello!
小姐,饼干老师星星糖 and
春天华尔兹bought the shows at the recommendation of the shop assistant
hello!
小姐 and
饼干老师星星糖 were supposed to be funny while
春天华尔兹 is supposed to be haf very beautiful scenery coz it's filmed in austria..
n all haf good endings
haha
so far i've watched hello!
小姐 and
饼干老师星星糖hello!
小姐 is nice..
funny n not too draggy
the female lead is the ger frm My Girl..
饼干老师星星糖 is not too bad too
but coz the story is abt
姐弟恋/师生恋 which i dun really go for so it's not as nice as hello!小姐
this show has 孔侑 u noe..the guy from coffee prince..
den as for
春天华尔兹 i haven't watch yet
i hope it's not too draggy
i shall watch n let u all noe..
it's frm the director of
冬季恋歌,秋天的童话,夏日香气u noe
春夏秋冬。。。
haha all of which r very draggy..
i also went into jb wif my mum..
she wanted to buy the herbs for herbal soup
it's really much cheaper in jb..
considering the fact tt jb is only slightly more than half an hr away frm my hse..
wow! tt's even faster than me gg to orchard..
haha
woo~ saw really cheap clothes and shoes..
i think my shoes for the convo ball got 着落le
i hope it'll still be there when and if i decide to go again
haha
but we had limited cash..
ya..
so we din buy clothes..
haha
but we ate at a hk cafe called kim gary
i think out of the few hk cafes tt i've tried it's really not too bad
but there's only 1 outlet in sg n it's at vivocity which is nt very near me..haha
n the price in jb is slightly cheaper than in sg
first tried it in KL when my paternal aunty recommended it to us..
den my maternal aunts absolutely went crazy over it..
we had to haf it the day b4 we came back to sg..haha
den i also went into skinfood
bought an eyeliner for RM 14.50
n the nail polish is really cheaper there
RM8.80 only..
well i guess it's ex by local stds, but for our std it's really qt cheap
i think it cost like 4.50 in sg or is it 5.50?
n the skinfood bb cream..
in sg it's like totally oos..
but wow there's plenty over there
haha
n it's cheaper than in sg too
it's like RM54.90 in sg i think it costs abt 30+?? i also not too sure..
act we also wanted to get the cheesecake frm secret recipe
act is i want to get..
but we really din haf enuff money..
so we made do wif 2 tubs of ice cream..
haha
the secret recipe there is really cheap
the price is like the same as in sg but in ringgit..
so effectively it's less than half the price in sg..
now i noe how it feels to be a stay at home mum
whole day other than housework(which i dun even do) i got nth much to do
so juz rot n watch shows ntil my eyes pop out, go out once in a while...
siao i'll be surprised if my brains dun go rusty frm disuse...
i think there's alr dust collecting my brains now..
haha
Monday, June 23; 6/23/2008 01:46:00 PM
took a short trip to malaysia over the weekend
mus thank maureen for this free trip
wahaha
first we went nilai for a food tasting session at restoran loong sing
it specialises in buddha jump over the wall
their chefs won a lot of awards over the years
it's now in their 3rd generation


we got a privtae room..woo~
below are the pix of the food tt we ate for tt 1 meal alone..not including some, like the shark's mouth and the mango pudding and a soup tt we had..i'm so sorry i dun rmbr some of the names of the food..haha


this is a vegetarian dish..not bad..the gravy is made with saffron..

taiji yam paste..this yam paste is nice because it's not too sweet and not too heavy like the usual yam paste tt we eat..it's rather light so even if u r very very full u'll still be able to finish this..
this is so pretty isn't it? it's fried prawn balls..den the sauce below is mayonnaise, strawberry n kiwi sauce
dong po meat forgot the actual name..haha the panda is cute isn't it!
buddha jump over the wall..will make u jump over the wall after finishing it..hahahaha

xiong mao(panda) dong po meat...it's a diff variation frm the earlier one n it's blacker..haha
a family of pandas which nobody beared to eat..haha

one of the chef-owners demonstrating how to make the panda and other creatures such as a porcupine and piggy..
tadaa! a family!
after the food tasting session we drove up to KL went to this place called sri bintang where there's a chinese medical centre called Nourish-Tech Chinese Medical Centre..they provide services tt are quite holistic.. it's spilt into 3 centres 养正,生活雅方,and 红曲管.
养正 is where u can see the chinese physician for your various ailments and they can do accupunture for you..their accupunture tecnique is really qt unique..unlike a normal accupunture where'll they'll ask u wad's wrong with you before deciding which accupoint to place the needle and the needle has to be place there for a while..with their technique they juz move a pendulum made of a speical kind of material (i dunno wad material coz i dunno the chinese word..haha) over your body..by right the pendulum shud be swinging without anybody moving it..but if it stops moving over a certain area or accupoint it would mean tt the 气 is not 顺 there meaning tt sth is wrong with the body part associated with tt accupoint..den u place a needle at tt accupoint..u muz see it to believe it.. this 养正 is is a family business helmed by the father and mother...
生活雅方 is helmed by the daughter-in-law in the family and focuses on 静心疗法(Naprapathy Meditation). Services provided include 推拿,静心舞蹈,静心香醺,and 静心沐浴。
红曲管is where there's 药膳。。it's basically juz normal food but cooked in such a way tt helps to 调理our body..they probably used some herbs in their food as well..there isn't any seasoning added to the food..very delicious...the son is in charge of this place..
only managed to take pix of a dish..the salad..they used olive oil,lemon juice and i can't rmbr wad in the dressing...

after dinner we went up a mountain..i dunno wad mountain..but the place where we went to is somewhere near genting......wah...very nice! we stayed in a bungalow tt belongs to the family who opened the medical centre..i think they have this service called
森林疗法。。。according to the physician she bought tt place there coz of it's
磁场..a place with good 磁场 has therapeutic n healing properties... den when we settled in, we learnt some basic healing techniques like using sound waves tt we produce to heal our 5 main organs (
五音对五藏) the liver, spleen heart, lungs n kidneys..tt one i dun catch..haha prob coz i wasn't doing it correctly..but others felt warmer after doing it..the second one i dunnoe it's name..but it's sth like massaging the areas accupoints of the 5 different organs accompanied with the correct breathing technique..it's also to heal the different organs.. the last one tt we learned was meditation..this one i can do..haha i think its some sort of autogenic relaxation technique coz at the beginning the lady led us in the relaxation by telling us to relax our head, our neck, hands blah blah to lead us into a relaxed state..after tt u juz concentrate on ur own breathing n clear ur mind of other thoughts..very comfy..
i forgot to take a pix of the exterior of the house when we went in n before we left... but here r some pix from the interior of the house.. it's called 森林疗法 for a good reason..the house is very close to nature apparently the monkeys will even climb into the house if u r not careful to keep your windows n doors closed..haha
can u see..the trees r so close to the house...

this is the view frm my room..nice hor..

balcony of the house..so nice..air is fresh n u get natural aircon..not as commercialised as genting or cameron highlands..this house costs RM800 to rent per night..but it can house 15 pple..so if u go in 1 big group of 15 pple it act costs less than S$30/person...u dun even get this kind of accomodation at hotel 81 for this kind of price sia..
this is not the hse tt we stayed..but another hse tt we visited..it's bigger n more expensive(RM3000) to rent but it can house up to 30pple, so each person pays only abt S$45 still cheaper than Hotel81 ma...
coz the owner of the hse was still aslp, so we went to walk ard the compounds ourselves..beautiful place!

can u see the fog rolling in??

a natural swimming pool..the light green part..the water frm the pool comes from the mountains..do u see the little waterfall in the background? i suppose they filter it n stuff to clean it..but why pple wan to swim there is a mystery to me..it's so cold there...hmm maybe it gets warmer in the afternoons coz i nv experience the temp in the afternoons before..

this pond has the spa fishes inside..so it's a natural spa..

the dog is called 小黄,it's very 乖。。it didn't bark when we were there even tho all of us were strangers..he only came to sniff at us curiously n wag it's tail at us...den when we came out of the house to walk ard the place it was leading us... see it even let me touch n pet it..

at a roadside stall with a lot of smelly beans (臭豆) apparently they make your breath stink for 2 days after eating it.. hahaha
Wednesday, June 18; 6/18/2008 02:46:00 PM
hmmm ever since my last update wad did i do..
haha slack ard...
oh ya went cafe domus wif geri last last fri
it's a damn cool cafe la!
deco n ambience is really nice
good for gatherings
but it's a bit ulu tho
act was waiting for pix frm geri b4 blogging abt it..
but then.....
wahahahahaha
domus stands for Directly Opposite Mustafa
the food's really not bad n it's homemade...
n i absolutely LOVE the brownie there
n i'm not really a big fan of brownies coz a lot of times it's very dry..
theirs is moist n chewy..yummy.. let's go there again!!
den last wed
went for a farm trip wif the kids frm the tuition ctr...
i woke up late
was horrified when i saw the time to be 915am
i was supposed to reach the tuition ctr at 9am
n is i set the time de
so i quickly rushed down
so we went to the farms...
slightly diff places frm where i went wif lamu tho
we were in time to see the milking of the goats
so cute la..
the goats actually knows wad's gg on n will line up accordingly
haha

AAaatteeention!

looking at the milking..

at lunch at bollywood veggies..the food there is really not bad n it's all organic..at least the veges coz they grow them themselves..the lil' one there is lynn's daughter..i still cant figure out her name...xuan? sue ann? coz nobody spell out for me..haha anw she's ultra adorable!!!

the frog farm..act there's nth much there n the frogs there were no fun to feed..coz they couldn't be bothered to eat the food we threw them.. but the kids all wanted to buy tadpoles..

bull frogs ready to be sold to the market..
after tt we all went over to qianhu...
i got to try the fish spa for free! one of the parents paid for me...
woo~~
feels really good i dun mind doing again
it's even more shiok if the fishes r bigger...
while i was doing my fish spa
the kids were all happily catching longkang fishes
n some really caught a LOT!
haha

fishes fishes come eat away my dead skin..
wah these fishes like qt good hor..
dun haf to feed them n yet can earn money frm them
haha
can i buy n put at home?
"lishan fish spa"
does haf a certain ring to it rite?
haha

tadpoles that they bought..
according to jerlyn hers died the next day..haha

joey n xuan/sueann..

the source of entertainment for the kids..the ubiquitous PSP...
den last sat went for the famine camp...
act i was supposed to be the facilitator
but..
they had too little participants
so they din need so many facilitators so they asked be to be the game master instead..
den turned out most of the volunteers or rather station masters were frm JC doing CIP
so i ended up being one of the oldest..
so there was a grp of us who had nth to do..haha
being gamemasters we had a choice of whether to stay for the duration of the camp
but i decided not to..
anw all tt i haf to say is...
i cannot believe how childish 18 yr old guys can be...
so me n another volunteer frm ntu agreed on sth..
army really does make guys more mature..

balloons frm the game i was in charge of...pretty pretty~~
we had plenty of free time to slack n rot...haha
btw ACS Barker is really humongous n it's really nice...like a resort...
the next day...went to the PC show... coz it was the last day.. a lot of things were dirt cheap
a sony lappie was act gg for $1199
n the specs weren't too bad..qt standard in fact...
if i had the money i would haf bought it...
but then...since i had no money..
i could lnot help but leave the exhibition feeling wad a waste it is..
haha
yesterday went for an interview...waited for half an hr..
so of coz i was super nervous
so...to make myself less nervous i started taking pix
*hopefully there weren't any cameras in the room except for mine..hehe*


and after i finished my interview..while waiting for the lift to go down i saw 2 other ntu pple coming for the same interview...haix competition is keen...
den after the interview
it being qt early n not yet time for me to go for tuition yet...i went to walk ard..
found this shop called odette
the clothes there r really nice...
n it's all in house design
with limited stock
each size only has 2 pcs
of coz it's also not cheap...
found this really nice office skirt so i bought it..
i bought it also coz the shop assistant was really nice..
i tried like soo many items which i had absolutely no intention of buying...
but she was still so friendly..
haha
n she gave me a free clutch (only for tt day)
den after tt i was still too early, so i went to golden shoe hoping to find my cheng teng stall still there
oh my n it's really still there!
i like it coz it's cheap n it comes wif a lot of ingredients
but i think it used to haf mre ingredients last time n it was nicer last time..
but nvm it's still not too bad...
yesterday's portion came with a lot a lot a lot of longan..like no need money like tt
haha
all for $1.50



whew this is like a really long post...
took up most of my afternoon
haha
Saturday, June 7; 6/07/2008 06:33:00 PM
Tuesday, June 3; 6/03/2008 03:38:00 PM
sunday went to celebrate maureen's birthday at blue ginger
she specially got a new hairdo on her bdae
haha
got a durian cake from jane's cake station
yummy!
i muz try their chocolate cake another time..
haha
it's the first time tt we got a full cake for her..
coz we dun haf enuff pple to finish it..
n it was true..
even b4 a very scrumptious meal i doubt we can still finish it..
wahaha

happy birthday!!

the very nice waiter volunteered to help us take a group pix...
prezzies time!
jy n my present - a levis voucher

michelle's present- a LOT of masks frm faceshop wahaha
let's go back to blue ginger again...
food's good
ambience's good
service's good
price is reasonable..
act was rather surprised when we saw the bill
we expected it to be more i guess
n guess wad!
seeing that we were celebrating maureen's bdae, they gave us ALL (not juz the bdae ger n it
wasn't even her bdae on tt day..wahaha) a complimentary dessertblue ginger rawks!
haha