~*angie's lil reverie*~

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Thanks to Weipeng, we had a gathering at his place for "Lou Hei" today. Jordan and Huiling came to give me a ride to his place and we were the "early birds" at his place. Though many of our friends can't make it, we are happy to have Limin back to join us! =p

After our Lou Hei, we started our Blackjack! Baba is so lucky today! As for me, my luck is just normal. I guess Baba probably is a big winner. Then, I played mahjong for a while before Alan came to fetch me back home to prepare steamboat.

My dearest friends!

My favourite yu sheng from Sakae Sushi

And this is our happy steamboat!

I had a great dinner at home! Hehe!

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Emo week

It had been quite a bad week at work for me. I was feeling down and emo for no reason. To make things worse, I made quite a serious mistake at work on Friday. :( I was feeling very upset. Luckily, I have a great bf who has been very understanding (despite me behaving so PMS) and he brightened up my blue friday by coming to my office to fetch me from work and surprised me with my favourite KOI and My Melody's bookmark! Hehe. He's simply the best.

We went to Brewerkz for our favourite wings and beer. It was a great dinner! After that, we went to The Cathay to watch The Viral Factor, a movie by Jay Chou! Hehe. It was quite a good movie though the ending could be a bit better though I must admit I had expected the ending from the start of the show. Good acting by Jay and Nicholas! =p

As for Saturday, it was a fruitful Saturday. Alan, sis and I went to City Plaza to eat our favourite Mee Hoon Kuay, but you know what? It was closed! We were so disappointed. Many of the coffeeshops were still closed, so in the end, we ended up eating the famous Western food at Hougang Plaza. It was quite a satisfying lunch before we went to the new NTUC to shop for our steamboat. And I finally managed to find my favourite Brown Brothers' Moscato! Hehe.

After shopping, I went to PS to meet Jianhui. We had no idea where to go. In the end, we decided to look at some renovation before going Changi Airport. We managed to look at aeroplanes and had dinner at Popeyes. I also found a nice fragrance mist from Victoria's Secret!

And then, we went to a pub, Boulevard to watch soccer match, Liverpool - Man Utd. It had been a long time since we last watched a soccer match together at a pub. :) However, it was a disappointing match as Man Utd lost the match. :(

It's a busy and happy Saturday.

Lastly, Happy Birthday to everybody! It's 'ren ri" today!

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Welcome to the Year of Dragon

Chinese New Year has always been my favourite festival. The time for family bonding and feasting. =p And for that, I really admire my mummy who is the main (or rather only) chef for our Reunion Lunch on Chinese New Year eve and Vegetarian Reunion Lunch on the first day of Chinese New Year. I can't help much, except that for this year, I had at least helped to cut some of the Vegetarian stuff. Haha.

As usual, we had our vegetarian reunion lunch with my father's side relatives. I enjoy eating vegetarian lunch every year for Chinese New Year. Jianhui had joined us for reunion lunch this year too. After a satisfying lunch, we went to popo's house to bai nian. Ah Yi was still around and so we chatted a while before she went out. Popo is happy that we're getting married and she told us that she would definitely attend our wedding. I'm so happy to receive blessing from my beloved popo.

Thereafter, Alan and sis came to fetch us to give us a ride to Teck Whye Lane to go to JH's house to bai nai to his parents. His mother cooked a lot of food for us to eat. I'm so full after eating so much for the whole day.

Mr Fitness and Ms Cheongsam

After dinner, we went to town and it's so empty. I kinda miss this kind of Singapore. Haha. We drank our favourite bubble tea from Artease then we went to H&M to take a look. There isn't much to shop, so we decided to go back home.

For the second day of CNY, my parents and I went to popo's house in the morning to help out. As per every year, mum stayed to help out with the cooking. I seriously think that CNY is a busy period for mum as she has to cook every meal almost everyday. As for me, I went back home to have some rest and to accompany ah nei at home.

In the evening, Alan they all came to fetch us to popo's house for dinner. We met Justin and Melach and we had a good chat about wedding stuff. =p He brought his wedding video too, so we watched it at popo's house.

Then, it's dinner time! There's a lot of my favourite food like glutinous rice, hakka shuang pan zi and cheese cake! :) I had a great dinner at my popo's house. Thanks to my favourite Auntie for hosting us and prepared so much food for us!

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Happy Chinese New Year

It's time for reunion lunch again! As my brother and sister in law has gone to Genting on Saturday, we had our "reunion dinner" on Friday. As all of us were staying under one roof, we could start our reunion lunch on time. My mum is amazing to prepare all the food herself. (For that, I feel kinda guilty that I did not contribute anything.)

Every year, my mum would hide one golden coin inside one of the dumplings that she had made. We all hope to get the golden coin as it symbolizes Good Luck. And you know what? I got the golden coin this year! I'm so happy! I got a feeling that Dragon year is going to be a good year for me! Hehe.

My golden coin!

May all of you have a happy and prosperous Chinese New Year! Feast all you want, but remember not to over-eat!

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Finally, we had found the Bridal Boutique we both like!

On Wednesday, Jianhui and I took leave for bridal shopping. To our disappointment, Labelle was closed for packing! And so, we went to Di Gio instead as it was highly recommended by many of our friends. I tried a few gowns and I must say the gowns are Di Gio are really beautiful! I love it! :) When we started to look at the package, we realized Di Gio has the same photographers as Rico-A-Mona. In the end, we did not sign with Di Gio. We were kinda disappointed as we were quite determined to sign package on that day.

Thereafter, we went Harbourfront to get some new notes from my colleague before we took Circle Line to Holland V. It's my 3rd time going Holland V? We had afternoon beer at Tango before we went to Bukit Timah for happy dinner! As usual, dinner at Bukit Timah is good. =p

As we really wish to settle on a bridal boutique before CNY, we decided to fix appointment with Labelle on Thursday. Both Lucas and Candy remembered that they met me at Celene's wedding. Lucas helped to choose some gown for me to choose before Candy discussed about the package with us. Though we didn't say it out, we both know that we like the gowns and the photos. We're sure that we are just going to sign with Labelle. At the end of the day, we were so happy to sign with Labelle, just hope that it won't disappoint us.

Now that we had settled our Bridal Boutique, what's next will be our wedding band! We're going to shop for wedding band after CNY! Yeah!

I finally have the feeling that I am really getting married! =p

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Another busy weekend

Last Saturday, Jianhui and I met early in the morning to go cycling at our favourite place ECP! It's indeed the happiest place in Singapore! It was a happy morning, cycling to our favourite breakwater to relax.

After that, we went to Maxwell Food centre for lunch before we started our bridal shopping again! We went to Sophia's wedding and spent quite a lot of time there. We were so tired after the sales talk. Then, we walked over to Labelle Coutour but nobody was free to serve us... In the end, we decided to go to Yvonne's Creation. They gave us quite a good package, but we were just too tired to make decision.

Then, we went to Sushi Tei for dinner! I simply love Sushi Tei's food, but it's getting quite expensive. After dinner, we went to meet Teck Loon for drinks before I was so tired that I got to go home to rest.

As for Sunday, it's Spring Cleaning Day! My sis and I spent the whole afternoon doing spring cleaning. Then, we went for a good run in the evening. I had a good dinner at home and then it is Oppa's time (=Watching Secret Garden). It was a sad episode that I cried until my eyes were swollen. Lucky, we ended off the night with some happy scenes. =p

It was a fruitful weekend for sure!

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Monday, January 09, 2012

For the first weekend of 2012, it was a busy but fun one for me! And I can expect my weekends to be very busy until the year of 2012.

Last Saturday, I went to shopping for bridal shops (finally!) for the first time and it was fun trying the gowns! Our first bridal shop is Rico-A-Mona. The gowns are beautiful, just that the photos aren't that nice. When I first tried the gown, I fell in love with it instantly. The design is exactly what I want and I simply love it! I also got to try a few more gowns. It's really fun as you will get an idea of what kind of gown you want as you try more gowns. And you also know what kind of gowns is just not your type. I would have signed the package on the spot if not for Jianhui who can always be so logical. :)

After that, I took a cab to Andre's house for BBQ! Thanks to him, we can have our JC's class BBQ. He even ordered the food online for us! The food was quite nice, except for the very dry beehoon. Nowadays, with the BBQ wholesale, it is so much easier to hold a BBQ. The turn out was quite good - Andre, KC, Mervin, Qader, Adeline, Andrea, Yuanmei, Amara, Sherlyn, Bing Ying, Alfred and me! After BBQ, we went to Andre's house to relax. We also celebrated Yuanmei's birthday with Ben & Jerry's ice cream just like what we did many years also. Then we played Saboteur. KC tried to explain Saboteur 2 to us, but it's just too complicated. In the end, we decided to play Saboteur 1 instead. Haha. We played one round before Qader, Andrea and I made a move while the rest stayed on. It was a great gathering. I am looking forward to our CNY's gathering!

Us without Amara and Bingying

As for Sunday, a few of us (Ailing, Ivy, Shelly, Chay Yoon, Sharon, Sylvia and I) volunteered for the Garden Party at Istana. We met at Peninsula there to meet the family we were supposed to take care. My family is a mother with 2 sons. The sons are cute and energetic! Then, we took the bus to Istana. However, there was a bad jam. By the time we reached Istana, it was already 5 plus. It was my first time to Istana. Unfortunately, we don't have the time to walk around the place and I didn't manage to meet the President. I helped to take food, fruits and drinks for my family. Around 7+, we had to wait for a long time to take the bus back to City Hall. At around 8, we finally reached City Hall. I'm so happy to go home to take a rest.

The volunteers

All in all, it was a fun and meaningful weekend! =p

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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Happy New Year 2012!

It's my first day at work in 2012 and I was feeling kinda lost. Somehow, after resting for too many days, I had almost forgotten "how" to work. Probably I would need a few days to get back the momentum to work. :)

On the last day of 2011, I'm happy to spend time with Jianhui at our new house. 2011 is the year in which we had gotten our house and we would like to remember it.

On the last day of 2011

Thereafter, we went to Weipeng's house for BBQ. Thanks to Weipeng and Aili for "volunteering" their rooftop for us to BBQ. I'm very happy to be able to welcome the New Year with my dearest Secondary School friends. 16 years of friendship and I am very thankful to have friends like them. And I am sure we will stay in contact till we have our kids and then our gathering will gradually become more "family-orientated". Probably less alcohol and more sweets. Haha. And it is quite a successful gathering given that we have 21 of us. =p Even Jinghui (baba) brought his gf, Jessica to the gathering!

With compliments from Yuxiu's FB.

As for the first day of 2012, I met up with Jianhui for dinner at Aston and we went to watch a wonderful movie, We bought a Zoo. As what Jianhui had expected, it's definitely my kind of movie. I simply love the quote from Matt Damon, it take 20 seconds of courage for something amazing thing to happen. In life, 20 seconds is all that you need to change your life at times. And sometimes, we just need more courage to pursue what we believe in.

Then on 2nd of January, I met up with my JC friends. As usual, we had lots of laughter and fun. And most importantly, we had Andre and Andrea who came back to Singapore to join us too. It's also our first time trying vegetarian jap food. I had ordered Mixed Fried set and it was yummy.

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