Mid Autumn's Festival @ The Apartment

I'm back with an update~!

I know it's been some time and I apologise to all those of you anticipating an update everytime you come by this small space. Haha.

It was Mid Autumn's Festival yesterday! The family had a planned gathering at Gordon's apartment, and we had a great time!

The food. The fun. The fellowship. Great stuff I tell you~~

gabriel~~!!!

Ahh~~!! Super duper cute boy don't you agree? And very photogenic too! He never fails to bring a smile to my face.

rahrahx

Best sister in the whole wide world! I can never imagine life without her. Thanks for being such a wonderful sibling in my life rahrahx~~!!

gloria teo

Whoa~~!! I haven't played lanterns and bubbles in at least 5 years man. Call me deprived. I haven't celebrated a decent Mid Autumn's for such a long time man.

flame on~!!

Nice nice nice?!?!

I think the effects came out great on camera~~!! Haha. I love sparklers, haven't played them in a super duper long time too.

united we stand

I'm ashamed to say we snatched most of the sparklers from the kids who were supposed to have them all.

Well, what to do? I guess we still have a kid in all of us. Heh~

perfect match

Yes, I know a lot of people have stated before how compatible we look together. Little do most people know we're siblings who have been blessed with the best relationship we could ever ask for.

one more~~!!

Haha, I love my Mom's camera. Gordon took tons of photos with his new camera, and I can't wait to take a look at the quality of those.

Currently baking 2 orders of Mango Cheesecake in my kitchen. They're looking really good, and the house smells heavenly~~!!

Wahahahahaha~~

Yummy Cookies~~

the chef is back!

Hey everybody! I am currently testing out the recipes that will be used for the fund raising for the DREAM trip. This is my second batch of cookies and they came out 10x better than the previous lot! Hooray~!!

peanut butter cookies

granola and raisin cookies

chocolate chip and walnut cookies

I'm so so happy~~!! The cookies all came out so beautiful! The orders that are coming in are huge too! Thanks to everybody who's supporting!

For all those who are interested in buying these delectable little treats, just give me a call alright? I'll be more than happy to do them for you!

With love of course~ Heh.

Dunamis Rock

Yay!~~

I'm back into photo-blogging and loving it! Though I will have to say I wished I had a new camera, I'm still satisfied I have one. Lolx.

Youth was really cool today. We did some stupid stuff. Really really stupid stuff. My small group had to make a pyramid. Too bad I don't have pictures of it. It was really painful. Tsk tsk.

does this look like a sphinx?!?!

Ok, not bad at all. At least the group put in the effort to make something out of nothing. I found the most impressive one still to be *ahem*

THE PYRAMID~~!!

Ok, I'm just bored. Haha. Here's some photos of the youths. Notice how much not blogging about them in almost 9 months had resulted in these changes. Good ones of course.

eq~~!!

ben~~!!!

jerome and I

Also, I got a photo of an uber cute boy~~!!!

justus~~~~

He's super duper cute. He enjoys people playing with him and chasing him around. (I'm so envious with his energy, wished I had more sometimes. Lolx.)

jeslin, christine, belle, emily

The 4 fantastic gals. I'm so glad they were so willing to take photos. It seems so tough to get people to take photos sometimes. *cough cough*

Alright, here's to a great new week ahead~~

God Bless~!!

Happy 19th Birthday Rahrahz~~!!!

To the best sister in the world, here's wishing you a God-blessed year ahead! As you enter your 19th year of existence, I wish you all the best in the things that the Lord has set you out to do. I pray for wisdom and maturity to fall upon the precious gem that God has placed in my life. I would never trade anything, or anyone for that matter, for a wonderful sister like you!

So, we went to Carousel @ Royal Plaza on Scotts for a family lunch today! It was really good to be able to commune together once again as a whole family. Having all the adults and children together on this special made me realize that I was always right when family is one of my top values in life.

So we started off with a great salad, slowing moving down the path of gastronomy. I took my time with the food, which were really good. I was particularly impressed with the salads, and the fact that this restaurant was halal.

Yes. No pork. I tell you no pork.

the beautiful table setting

gabriel

Super photogenic boy! He loves taking photographs and playing around with my camera. A future great photographer he might turn out to be!

his eldest sis, gloria

Looking prettier as every year passes! All the children have taken all the good genes from their parents it seems. Haha. Well, I rather put it as God's blessing upon our lives.

japanese offerings

shellfish delights

Here are some photos of all the 4 sisters on my maternal side. It's good to see how close they are even though they're busy with their own lives. I believe seeing their commitment to keeping this strong bond has led me to acknowledging the power of family love.

gordon (giving a silly face) and mom

jeremy and aunt hong

uncle kian heng and aunt kath

aunt em and uncle sze cheng

Lovely photos! It's been so long since I've got back into blogging so much. I realize why I enjoy it so much! Being able to pen down my thoughts with photos as memories just makes a perfect way to record down all the happenings in my life.

cold meats

crayfish!

When these came, our table were so quick to grab them that we left none for others. Talk about Singaporean mentality. Heh. The only disappointing thing was that the crayfish had a really fishy taste. =/

cheeses~~ my absolute favourite!

asian offerings

stuffed squid and crispy fish

So, after eating so much, I was finally ready for my desserts! They actually had a chocolate fondue section that the kids just went crazy about~~!

I heart chocolate~~!!!

Whoa, I love chocolate. Love love love love love!!

other desserts worthy of mention

That was the late plate of the many I took. Dieting the whole week (and the next too), helps me feel less guilty I ate this much. Like what I always say - Eat and enjoy food, but also remember to work it off!

I have other random pics too!

ahh~~ praise is soooooo pretty!!

She's was so happy to see me and Sarah when we came. Always bubbly, and always bringing smiles to our faces!

the birthday girl~~!!!

Roses seem to be her favourite flowers, like most girls too. I must go ask the gals around me why exactly roses appeal so much to them.

After lunch, I went to meet a friend from another church. Alan is a super interesting guy man. He's someone who would crap with you, and can actually make you dumbfounded even when I want to go on. Gragh.

with alan @ coffee bean

I met my sis again for dinner, and she decided to give me a birthday treat!

THANK YOU RAHRAHZ CHEW~~!!!

Lolx. She's so dear to my heart~~

I like her necklace~~

and her sunflower too~~!!

Haha. She's a super happy girl today. Having lunch with the family, followed by the proclaimed-to-be-great movie Ratatouille, and finally a lovely meal at Swensen's. I'm just glad to have a wonderful sister like her~!

Alright, I'm off to bed after another long post now. I want to catch Ratatouille!!

It's Time For A Huge Update!

Hello everybody~~!!!

I know I know. It's been a long time since I updated a post with loads of photos. My camera's been having some problems. =/ ( It's 5 years old you know, but still good enough to take these photos) Haha. All thanks to Picasa, I'm able to make these photos look so much better. Heh.

Alright. People say pictures speak a thousand words. So by the time you see the last picture, I would have spoken well over 42,000 words. Lolx.

So! It was a tiring night. I spent it baking the 3 different kinds of cookies that I might be using for the upcoming fund raising for the DREAM Trip. I figured if I tested it first, then there's no chance of failure. Wahahahaha~~

So I spent time from 9.30pm till 4am just baking cookies. The taste was great, but the texture wasn't too good. I left some dough overnight and baked it just now. They came out so much better! So, you see, sometimes we need to have patience when it comes to baking. Heh.

Family Day @ Chinese Gardens

I slept at 7am, and woke up at 11.30am. =.=''' I didn't have camp today! It was the Family Carnival at Chinese Gardens. The whole Transport Formation went for it, and it was cool to bump into many friends who went through the driving course with me 4 months ago.

the crowd

Yes, it was packed! Not only did the people consist of us, we had foreign tourists too. Yes, it was pretty cool to see everyone in civilian and not in our usual uniforms. Haha.

loch ness monster they call it?

It sounds familiar, as if I've heard about it before. Darren told me about it but I can't quite remember where I've heard about the loch ness monster before. Hmm..

cute dolphins!

chief clerk

It's super cool to have him around man. He could beat the queue waiting to collect the goodie bags, so we didn't need to queue at all. And yes, he went berserk today. =.='''

masaru, silas, yitian

These are the ones who helped everyone get their goodie bags. I think about 30 people from our branch came for this event.

wei'an

What's with that look man? I can't really put my finger on whether this is a good or bad photo. Lolx. Maybe the seaweed was really as spicy as Ming De had said?

from left to right:
ming de, raymond, haoyi,
alex, ming hoe, darren

Fabulous group of friends from S1 branch. They never fail to perk me up during mundane office hours sometimes. Heh.

And after just a little while upon collecting our goodie bags, everyone found something good bad in their bags. Sprays. Yes, those irritating things used during New Year's. Gragh~~! And so, the war begun.

first it was simon

li yong got it worst

yi tian wasn't spared either

Through all this chaos, I was actually spared the torture of being messed up. Thank goodness. If I got messed up, you guys won't be able to see all these photos. Hah.

cool dudes yo~~!

eye of randomness

Yea, didn't know why I took that either. Took quite a lot of useless photos today. But there were all good nonetheless. Haha, I mean more photos never hurt right?

And there's this amazing attraction between Nat's sunglasses and the people around him. Oakley's reign supreme forever!

ming de (he tried them first) and xie zhen

then it was my turn! wee~~!

I heart Oakley's!! They're super nice!!

And remember Simon was bombarded with those evil sprays? Well, he didn't retaliate with the sprays.

he had his water bottle

On other news.

There was this pagoda that I went up to. It was 3 levels high, and the view from above was not bad at all.

colour my world

the frog waiting to turn into a prince

I forgot to tell all of you how hot the weather was. It was a killer~~

But even though it was a sauna walking through the Chinese Gardens, I still found animals that aren't supposed to be surviving here.

happy feet

Cute right? Whoa, I love penguins. I wish I could own one. Nah, I'm kidding. I'll never want to clean up after it. Lolx.

darren foo

Personal Assistant to the Big Boss in our branch. Don't mess around with him, he's more than able to mess you up more than you could. Nah, he's Mr. Nice Guy. He'll never bully people. Right Darren?

that assures me a safe time in S1 for the next few months. phew.

winson (did I spell it correctly?)

He's part of the people at the counter giving out the goodie bags and making sure everything is going well. A salute to these people who gave of their time to work more than enjoying the day.

bo zhuang as well

So, after walking around a bit and having loads of fun seeing people chase each other with those HORRIBLE sprays, it was time for lunch! *drools*

yummy food~~

Pizza, wedges, and chicken wings. Not the healthiest of my choice of lunch, but I still really enjoyed it though. At least I know I don't eat like this everyday. But I'm telling you, the food was goooooooooood.

anthony

Whoa, someone acting cute~ Haha, kidding kidding. He joined us on this day. Quite cool to have him around. He's a really nice person to talk to.

jew yueh and ming hoe

The whole event ended around 5pm. Anthony gave me and Ming De a ride to Lakeside MRT, where we took a train back to Ang Mo Kio.

It was a really nice day with great company. I had loads of fun, and I'm sure everyone else did too. We should have more things like these. S1 branch chalet coming up on 4th October! Wee~!!

Pastor's Birthday Celebration

Pastor had his birthday 2 weeks ago. (Yes I know I'm uber slow on this post. I'll try not to accumulate backlog anymore alright?)

birthday boy with his cake

the yummy cake~~!!

The cake was fantastic I tell you. I can't really remember who bought it. If I am not wrong, it should have been Andy and Charlene. It was not as rich as most chocolate fudge cakes, but it was definitely one of the best I've tasted. Yumm~~

eq was forced to do this

I meant to make it look as if the cake was so good you want to coat your whole mouth with it. Ad failed miserably.

random photo of jerome and me

random photo of ben and jerald

Hmm, why does it seem Jerald's so interested in the keyboard? Maybe, like me, he wants to play the Canon in D? Lolx.

group photo~~!!!

Yep Jeslin! I finally did the photos up so you can put it on DR's blog. Haha. Hope you've enjoyed looking at the pics!

Glady's & Gabriel's Birthday Party

It was great coming together as a family to celebrate the birthdays of both my cousins! I had fun chatting with the adults and just staring in awe at the amount of energy children possess. Haha. No, I'm not getting old.

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the pretty birthday gal

the handsome birthday dude

the cheeky brother of jerome, janan

the good food that was laid for us

jerome and the cardigan his mom got for him

the people who graced the occasion

ACJC's The Reunion

I was invited by Kent 3 weeks ago (Yes, yes, I know the backlog is horrible..) for a performance by his JC. I had 2 tickets and decided to bring Gabriel along for the event!

Not seeing Gabriel for almost 4 months made me realize how much I've neglected the good friendships I've forged during BMT. It was a great night as we enjoyed the performance, had a meal after that, and just chat about what's been going on in our lives.

gabriel and I

This was after the performance, and I decided to say hi to my other friends from my branch.

kent, ming hoe, and gary

Great bunch of people in the branch. Really glad I've known them. Heh.

ming hoe and gary

Oh, did I mention before that my shifu in the Rubik's Cube is none other than Gabriel? He's the one who got me addicted and determined to solve the Rubik's Cube. Lolx.

he got himself a 5x5 cube

Did I mention he's crazy when it comes to the cube? He could just go for hours on end just trying to come up with new formulas. People find it so difficult solving the 3x3, and here he is trying for the 5x5. Goodness.

With that, I'm ending this VERY LONG post to go bathe and sleep thereafter. There's still a long day ahead, and I can't wait for Sunday to arrive. Haha.

See all of you this Sunday!

God Bless~~!!