haha it's been more than a week since i came back to this "hot sunny island of singapore". weather has been mega sian man! keep raining raining raining everyday.. anyway, here's wishing everyone a belated merry christmas! hope everyone had fun during this festive season.

this week since i came back had been, activity-packed i would say (which is good). that also means that it is a very costly week (which is badddddd. like really really baddddd). i'm getting horribly poor, with high expenditure and no income. omg lahhh. furthermore ill have to live with this for another month more before my internship starts. seriously need to watch my spending.

sat met up with ber nicholas justin foo bok jeremy to catch avatar at plaza sing. the graphics are really cool, the scenery is really nice, which more than make up for the storyline which seems slightly plain in comparison. overall i like it. sun, cos promised kevin le, so went to catch bodyguards and assassins with kevin ber grant yongbiao satan. hmm, the meaning behind the story is strong, i feel like i learnt something new abt the rise of democracy in china and stuff. the action also quite good la i should think, one of the better hk action films set in the early 1900s. the behind half did keep my attention centred on the show, so i guess i was captivated by the action once the main part of the story began. overall nt bad too! well i guess it was a gd time to catch up with some platoonmates and specs after ord =)

mon went out with samuel to celebrate my bdae. oh regarding that, would like to thank everyone who wished me happy bdae thru any means, from face-to-face to over-the-phone to sms to msn to facebook wall post. really appreciate it! feel blessed to have friends around haha. anyway, went to try out this place at mandarin gallery, wild honey. nice decor and friendly service, just that food is slightly on the ex side, louis vuitton handbags and no menus are available, have to order at the counter. got this cool itouch which has the photos for u to scroll thru though, which is quite a nice hi-tech touch to the otherwise rather quaint looking cafe/restaurant. btw, it's famous for its tagline: serving breakfasts from all over the world, all-day! which was why samuel chose to bring me there in the first place. sam had scandinavian, which consisted of grilled salmon (nice smokey taste), asparagus (i quite like this veg haha), on a bed of rosti (wad can ever go wrong with pan-fried potato =D). i picked the new york one, with tomatoes, scrambled eggs and sturgeon (yum!), as well as bagel with cream cheese (the bagel is SERIOUSLY fresh and good. i love it haha). oh yea, shared a fruit blend of raspberries, banana and mandarin orange juice with honey. guess i dont need to describe the taste, u prob can imagine how good it is lol.

played bishibashi and photohunt and jubeat and mariokart etcetc at plaza sing before deciding to stop by somewhere to have a chat. went to max brenner's over at esplanade. havent been there for a really long time! i had the whipped granite dark choc, which was wad we ordered b4, while sam took an italian hot choc, which turned out to be surprisingly good! seriously the choc is so rich that u can just finish the drink by dipping ur spoon it, taking it out and then just licking the spoon! lol. ok that sounded a bit gross >.< but basically it's just damn good yeah. went shopping for some clothes at marina square before i chose timbre for our dinner spot. cos kinda missed the roast duck pizza which i last had at timbre arts house with mortar guys. sam ordered some drink with graprefuit juice and 7-up, while i had something with orange and mint leaves. he didnt really like mint, but for someone who does (like me), i seriously like it! haha. i prob dont need to describe the pizza, tons of ppl have eaten it b4 to know how good it is lol. ok this is seriously turning out to be some food blog post, which i dont intend to make it sound liddat. but basically we just ate and drank the whole day through la (gained dunno how many kg rofl). had a chat on the bus ride back home and cut the cake my mum bought for me haha. yup that concludes my bdae le. by eating and drinking non-stop >.< lol. tue went top one ktv (2nd time this mth lol) with foo and his 2 friends. omg lahs. foo seriously has some imba friends. i wont say much, but basically it was an EYE-OPENER. kinda makes me think again whether i actually sound decent >.< really cool experience. hoping that foo will invite them again haha. learnt a lot too! so shall try out some changes next few times i go ktv... xmas eve went justin's house for yet another baking session! haha i always enjoy all the baking sessions, cos i find them really meaningful, u get to spend the day fruitfully, and have end products to bring home! also another great time to catch up with platoon guys =) anyway had justin (duh of cos lol), junhong, samuel, ber, bok, kevin, hanzong around. made pizzas for lunch and baked apple pies and chocolate cookies! had quite a bit of trouble with the seafood pizza, cos we happened to get live prawns, thinking that they'll probably be really fresh, before realising that we gotta be the ones who make them appear beheaded and de-shelled on the pizza dough >.< so it was a tough decision before we went ahead with the deed. urgh, still gimme the shivers thinking abt it. thankfully i was chopping up the capsicums, so i didnt get to handle the prawns. but the comments from ber and justin were bad enough, saying how the body continues to twitch after it has been beheaded and while they were trying to deshell it. euurrghh. but well, it was a fun day nevertheless! at night went over to qiquan's grandma's house for CO xmas bbq. though the turnout rate wasnt too good, but still got to see quite a no. of hcco peeps! havent seen them for really really long lahhhh. so it was a great time to catch up with them all haha. hoping will see them again next yr if there's any tuan yuan fan bah.. cos missed out on the chance to see a lot others who couldnt make it. had some fun smoking up the whole area with the sparklers hahaha. that seriously had to be the most air polluting box of sparklers i've ever seen lol. it was like PSI 1000 hahaha. xmas day itself, surprisingly, was quite stay-at-home-y. went out with the morning with kevin and bok to samuel's church over at admiralty to attend xmas service. cos samuel was like asking us when we were at justin's house. i had a horrible experience before, so i was quite apprehensive. but it turned out to be quite alright lah. the play they put up was really pretty good. good cast, decent props, thus there's not much need for a lot of lighting and sound effects, also can put up a really good play. i enjoyed watching it haha. after that went for lunch at northpoint b4 getting ingredients for my first baking experience at home, while they went to catch sherlock holmes. hmm decided to try out the cookies using the recipe justin followed on xmas eve at his place, cos choco cookies always taste good haha. uh the end results was >.< though. i dunno is cos the cookie too big, or never bake enough, but they turned out quite crumbly... to me they taste ok though, however thats prob just me trying to console myself =.= sadded. but still, shall not give up, im determined to incorporate more of these baking sessions to improve on it and pick it up as a hobby! cos i really enjoy the times i baked at justin's house, but the higher level stuff (like the blackforest cake omg), is really tough sia.. nvm shall aim to improve with prac. my family doesnt really support me though, i got a little pissed off when i was getting ingredients, cos i called home to ask if there's stuff i might not need to get, then they got irritated with me somehow. so in the end i got so pissed i went to buy something which i dont even think is a sift. waste my 9bucks. nvm at least later my dad did help me with the cookie baking, which was good, cos i prob wont know how to start the oven in the first place (yes i'm that noob!). so well, alls well ended well i guess. wait till i decide to bake again to get another earful from my parents ("you think this very fun is it? make a mess of the dining table and the kitchen, then still got so much stuff to clear up? why bother with all the trouble! why want to make ur own! just buy if u really want to give cookies to ur friends lah!"). seems like i dont have the most encouraging parents in the world eh? but nvm, ill persevere! (so pls say my cookies are nice if u all get to eat it! lol. just kidding la, be honest abt it.) hmm so today overslept for tuition >.< my alarm clock is dying on me la. dunno why never ring de loh zzz. anyway met dj and ruiyuan at somerset for gift shopping. bought some quite nice stuff that im hoping ill get it myself! lol. though the chances are like... low? lol. wah seriously shopped damn long lahhhh. took mrt from 313 somerset to orchard, then went ion to taka to paragon to john little to robinsons to plaza sing g2000. my feet took a serious toll man. lol. was so glad when i finally sat down for dinner la! anyway had my first meal at xing wang after becoming a member lolol. hmm the baked rice nt bad, wont mind ordering again lol. so in the end, on top of my gift, got another business shirt to add to my collection for next yr's use. sian lah, now need to like free up this space for all these kinda formal stuff liao, unless i wanna repeat the same few shirts and pants for the next 7 weeks.. urgh sian. that means more money flying awayyyyyyy. i think i dont really have to explain why im broke now yeah? seriously need to watch my expenditure liao. as in SERIOUSLYYYYYYYY. oh did i mention im going to spend a bomb on the new non-army phone im getting? so much for watching my expenditure >.<

argh lemme strike a windfall or something. $$ ka-ching issues suck.