Not lucky at all

~ i decided to mosaic every single detail which might remotely suggest my location, my identity and to prevent being stalked by my crazy colleague furla.~

Received a huge package of goodies from HDB which I would be so darn excited if it was in normal situation. I would rather not have balloted in the first place if I knew that I'm so near to getting it and now I gotta give it up just like that.

I have this weird stubbornness that keeps mumbling to me... You are one of those few who got a queue number in your first try! like 1000 + pple balloted for 500 units and you got a number to select a flat. That's first timer luck that you should never let go. My ototo tried like more than 5 times and recently only managed to get a new BTO. And mine was under sale of balance flats = the flats are gonna be ready real soon. What's more, isn't it gonna be dam cool to be neighbours with putri and babu?? Grab the chance!

I hate this feeling. Life is as such. The more perfect it seemed, the less perfect the ending would be.

Yep. Accept it mochi. Get over it and move on.

sky's detoxing

The rain got heavier through the night and it's still going strong. It's gloomy but I love how the air smells exceptionally fresh. The only thing that's ruining the serene ambience is the dong dong ciang CNY songs my otosan is blasting away. I think he's trying to prove that his stereo can outshine the sound of the rain. I HATE CNY songs.

With that, actually one of my 2011 resolutions is to cultivate more tolerance of my family members. It's not enough coz like my ototsan's annual cny songs craze still irritates me year after year. But I'll tell myself to breathe in and ren3 coz these are the little irks of life which you'll miss someday. Ironical life.

Anyways, just got off my lazy bum to clean the windows yesterday and now the sky decided to make them 'cleaner'. Great.

Well, I'm supposed to be attending ES's friend's nephews' (they are triplets!) bday celebration @ holland V and as everyone knows... Holland V is FAR for a HGian.

Was feeling all reluctant to get out and kiss the rain. At this moment of dilemma, ES saved me from the deadly kiss. He called and asked if I still felt like going and told me it's ok if I don't go. My answer was... YES. Can I? Okay, then I won't go ah. It's really okay right? Ya...the rain is so heavy and holland is so far. Ya lor.. your friend's nephews somemore, it's okay la. I thought you mind but if you don't then yay! BYE honey! Enjoy yourself.~!

ES replied confidently that he knew that I would gladly accept his invitation for me to stay home. I asked why.

"4 years... of coz I know la!" he said. Yep... he has probably had a taste of all the stunts I've pulled. E.g. I adopt qualities of a 宅女 pretty easily, with changes in mood and weather.

So here I am, back to my lazy chair with blogger. Been really addicted to America's next top model..and britain's NTM series... really crap but sometimes I need these junk to comfort my brain which is suffering from an overdose of MS office applications.

Good habits

I would not have been attracted to him if I met him now.... A friend told me.

Arent those school time relationships the most beautiful? While you still innocently held romance in high esteem, doing the sweetest stuff for each other... Having that incredible adaptability to get used to and love his ways, that immense patience to explore the new stranger whom you ticked with in that first simple greetings you exchanged. You change your behaviour in subtle ways, unknowingly to accommodate him. .

We had all the time in the world then.

Frankly, I don't think I would go thru all this if I were to get into a relationship now. I'm like that... Mochi in your face attitude.. Take it or leave it. I've lived fine like that and you just have to get used to me. Gomen Ne.

Then came another discussion about whether we are together just coz we are too comfy with each other that it becomes a habit where sparks have flown down right down into the drain. Then I asked again. How often in life would I be able to make another person a habit in my life? Chances are slim with low birth rates n the large number of nice guys who turned gays.

My resolution for 2011... Learn the art of compromise.

Mad for Garlic @ Suntec Level 1

22 Jan - gathering with Chean, Les and gang. It was fun night of good food and games late into the night. Les was raving about how good mad for garlic is and we decided to try it for ourselves.

Results was unanimous. Food was tasty, ambience and service was great as well. What more can one ask for right.

~ happy SK who FINALLY cut his hair and enjoying his lobster n fish roe pasta in cream sauce.~

~ my cream sauce scallop n mushroom pasta.~

~ ES's bacon arriabatta.Spicy though..ooo~

~ tiramisu for dessert. We concluded that it was coz of this garlic motif that caused our long wait for the dessert to be served.!~

~ ambience was nice and it's a nice chillout for any occasion.~

Realised I've been eating quite alot recently from the number of reviews I've written! dam. But I only blog about places I feel is worth blogging about. and with IP4, it's really more fun to take pictures as the quality is more pleasing to the eye than my previous e63 grainy cam.

ootoya 大戸や @ Orchard Central Level 8

Sharon san recommended that the food here is not bad. Thought of trying it coz my dear ES brought me to a place for dinner which apparently has closed down in 313. WTH. So we hopped over to orchard central for dinner choices.

This place is popular judging from the queue but it's not for me since I'm more a noodle person and I like variety when it comes to jap food. This place serves mainly rice with their famous charcoal-grilled chicken or pork. There's no sushi, nabe or handrolls. :( The food is alright in my opinion and let's just say I will not trust sharon san again. Give me ichiban boshi anytime.


~ my charcoal grilled oyako don. which was alright only.~

~ ES's healthy salad which cost $8. The pic was taken before ES ate it. With that few pcs of vege and 2 pathetic sized chicken, I think I can do better.~

on the first day of 2011

How I spent it. With a bunch of crazy peeps and the oh all mighty Wii. Thanks Ah Seng for the invite and the wonderful start to 2011, loads of laughter with friends that matter.

~ cheers furla.... to more crazy times ahead.~

~ sorry, my iphone cam not wide enough. attendance taken! click.~
~ looks like bali? lucky hermits..~

~ sarpino's n sparkling grape juice. cheers!~

~Lucky hermit~
Sidetrack abit... dug this pic out when clearing my phone camera roll.

It's as if my desk is not messy enough. My very friendly buddy colleagues conspired to spray confetti (using MY cans of confetti leftover from chean's hen's party.) all over my desk while I was away.

Totally merciless to shock diarrhea mochi on the last day of 2010 and amidst the 200 emails to clear, have to make time to clear the sticky shits.

The good out of this bad is that I feel loved n remembered. They must have missed me while I was in ZJJ. muacks.

Abit dated this pic but that's coz I just had time over the past weekend to clear up pics from my phone n categorise them proper.

The CNY songs are driving me crazy.

mochi in 1 year's time

On my way home from my jog, I passed by some project site barricaded and spotted a signage put up by PUB to inform that the project will be completed on 27 Dec 2011.

27 Dec 2011, I repeated this in my head and I could almost immediately feel goosebumps popping. It seemed so far but I know it isn't.

Been melancholic recently. Maybe it's just the... oh.. it's the new year again.. mood where I'll feel that life is but another year passed.

Mochi will become muah chee soon.

JB day trip - 9 Jan 2011

1st overseas trip in 2011 to our friendly neighbour JB. Didn't buy much but had a good lunch at Arashi @ Tebrau City. The shabu shabu soup was really good as I wiped the pot clean, till the last drop.

The highlight of the day had to be our kena-ka3 cab fare from tebrau to citysquare. There was a whole row of cabs lining up just outside tebrau and we wanted to get onto the usual red cab. The cab driver waved to us and gestured for us to get onto the blue cab instead. We should have questioned but guess we were too tired to play investigators here. We hopped on and as he drove off, we noticed that the starting fare was 6RM instead of the usual 3RM. The cabby then said his was an executive cab so more ex. Thinking that it applies only to the starting fare, we thought the increase was still acceptable. As we were nearing citysquare, we glanced and the fare had ballooned to 28RM!!! That's like double of what we paid to tebrau which was only 15RM. The uncle promised a discount later. When we reached, the fare was 33.20RM. We asked for a discount and he replied..."okay la... 33RM. " "what discount is this uncle?" we lazily asked as we were abit resigned to our fate at that time already. He was insistent and we told him we'll pay him 30RM, that's it and that was the deal.

Andrea was mad whenever reminded of this stupid episode. So dun remind her. I was too tired to remember to get angry. Just wanted to warn you of these dangerous blue executive cabs.

~ salmon shabu ramen~

~ Bob and camera!~

~ Eric and Ivy..standard stuff they do~

~ Andrea wasn't feeling well and we both felt super sleepy after my hair cut n color. Dozing off at Nandos.~

Out of the Pan @ Raffles City Basement

Met up with chean for lunch at raffles city - out of the pan. This restaurant occupies a huge floor area and is strategically situated beside the fountain. But I have never tried it till chean recommended for lunch. I was surprised that they are mainly known for crepes and guess what! I LOVE crepes!!! crepes with anything, as long as the crepe itself is nice, anything goes!

Mine was sze chuan chicken and chean ordered the peking duck. I like. Might be a little pricey though, about $15 for a crepe but it was really quite good.

Another choice of crepe-like carbo would be Senor Burrito also at the basement of raffles city which you can get takeaway burritos for $8.50. Totally worth the burp after the meal.

暂别了。。but we'll be back!

12 Jan 2011. Farewells are never my forte. Before I can utter words like take care, keep in touch, I would have choked up and it's actually quite embarrassing. Already half a feet into the big "3" and I'm still shocked at how incompetent I am at controlling my emotions. Emo is me and so are my SMAB kakis.

Probably the strongest would be B who would usually be able to control till she see others cry. M, Ahmad and myself are comparable. I cry listening to a sad song, watching dramas, thinking about my grandma, life in general, how lucky I am, just merely thinking about saying goodbyes, thinking how my parents will look when they grow old, how much I'll miss them...

Frankly, with FB, MSN, emails, skype... it's kinda impossible to lose contact. Muri yo. I'm like msn chatting with A this very moment. So that illustrates my point.

We wish you all the best in your career A! In the meantime, our short term goal would be to plan a totally screaming Sex and the City trip to NY to visit you! Fingers crossed.

so yep... 4 months more. Till then, I shall embrace the ton of work ahead with gusto and courage.

2011 is here.

so much to do, so little time.

It's 2011. When I was 18, I felt like 21 years old was a long way. Upon hitting 21, I felt that life was fast forwarded without my permission. Like harlo. Please, it's my life, how come never get my approval? And yes, time is the probably the only thing that's zooming by, regardless whether you like it or not, how you live that second, and there's really no such thing as turning back time. So for 2011, my resolution is to live better and hopefully with no regrets. Less of .... "i should haves.. " and more of "Yes, this is how I want my life to be."

You can replay though, looking back at how you have lived your life. This I do religiously through my love for photography. Our memory does not keep up with time and we need pictures to help us relive that one time in our lives.

I can feel age catching up. My knees seem to be getting cranky now and I'm afraid to do jogging. I get aches and cramps here now and then. My digestive system seems to occasionally hold mini demonstrations as well.

Naturally, another 2011 resolution - to take better care of myself and reduce that stress on my knees before they bust. Now I know what old people mean by saying... dun think you are young you can do anything... the effects will come as you age.

Looking back... the highlights and ups and downs of 2010:

1) first backpacking trip in my life to vietnam with ES.

2) ES proposed on my bday and I accepted it like so desperately. haha. I demand for another makeup proposal.

3) ES's mum suffered a stroke putting our emotions on a rollercoaster ride. The adaptation after definitely wasn't an easy situation to get used to. But she's on a long but stable recovery process. :)

4) Spent my first white christmas in Zhang Jia Jie

5) May Day Concert in April!

6) My work portfolio underwent a major overhaul and the months of adaptation was 'memorable.'

7) Had the first BBQ with SMAB in 17 years of our friendship. That's really a feat.

Hmm. that's all I can recall and yes, should be the highlights since these are the memories which sprung up immediately.

2011 will be better. I will make sure it happens!