MERRY X'MAS!!!

Ho ... Ho ... Ho ...

"Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way ... Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way ... Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh ..."

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Today is Christmas eve and its a FRIDAY!!! Guess what present I gave myself for Christmas???

A relaxing session with my faithful manicurist!!!!!

And since it is Chrismas ... see what she drew on my toes ...


Cute right ... lol!!!

"You better watch out... You better not cry ... Better not pout, I'm telling you why ... Santa Claus is coming to town ..."

Oh ... also check out my nails!!!


So pretty right ... all these nail art really set me up for the right mood for Christmas!!!

"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas ... Just like the ones I used to know ... Where the treetops glisten, and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow ..."

X'Mas Cookies ^_^

After a whole day of baking and a few nights of decorating ... I am finally done with my Christmas cookies ... made a cookie for every guest that will be coming for the Christmas Party on Christmas Day.

Let's give a warm welcome to our very own cookie family ...

All I want for X'mas is to ...

BAKE BAKE BAKE!!!!

LOL ... this year I am going crazy over cookies. ^_^

After attended the cookie decoration class with Perle, it had inspired me and I'd decided to make everyone a cookie for X'mas so that I can play with ICING ... wahahaha.

20 Dec 2010, Monday. In order to present perfect cookies on our X'mas gathering on the 25th, I've decided to start practice early. I've gather all ingredients required and started making my cookie dough. As I was baking my cookies, I'd also started to gather friends to come join in the fun. After the whole afternoon of baking and the whole night of cookie decoration ... 3 girls (me, Perle and Lishan) ended the session with pride ...

** Cookie design by Lishan **

** Cookie design by Perle **

** Lastly, my creations ^_^ **

21 Dec 2010, Tuesday. Not wanting to waste the remaining icing ... I've decided to bake once more. This time trying out something different ...


COOKIE LOLLIES!!! Cute right ... called the girls again to see if they still wana come play. Only Lishan manage to make it ... we took out time to think and decorate and seriously, I am more pleased with today's result ...

** Lishan's babies ... **

** These are mine ^_^ **

Today, though there's still icing left ... but I am giving myself a break. I'm not done with my cookies yet so ... there'll be more to come!!! Hmm ... maybe tomorrow ... :p

Drama - IRIS

This is an action pack drama. The 1st action pack korean drama I've watched. There were many talks about this show on Arirang (Starhub CH 146) and hence it really sparks off my interest.



The plot revolves around two friends from the 707th Special Mission Battalion recruited into a secret South Korean black ops agency known as the National Security Service. Of the pair, recruit Kim Hyun-jun begins to uncover evidence that his foggy past may not be so irrelevant to his joining of the secret organization after all. As the two friends find their loyalties tested and forge new, unlikely alliances, the journey takes them from their home country to Hungary, Japan, and China where they find themselves at the center of an international conspiracy.


For a change from romance drama, I highly recommend this!!!

Xmas Cookie Art Workshop

Today get to go attend class with Perle again. We'd sign up for a Xmas Cookie Art Workshop with Sugar Inc. It had been a while since we last went for class together ... so excited.

At the workshop, we were given a cookie recipe to follow and make our own cookie. After that, the rest of the time is spend decorating up the cookies. That is also the main attraction for us to attend this workshop.

Really had great fun today ... check out our creativity!!!

** Left: Irene, Right: Perle **

K-Pop - 2AM (Like Crazy)

With nice voice and good 'acting skills', this group brings out the sorrows in the song. Unlike most K-Pop groups who enhance the music with dance move or their talent with musical instrument. This group sole touches you with their voice ... style very similar to Bohemian. But I find their voice more manly compared to Bohemian whose voice is so angelic.

Enjoy the music ^_^

Check out their LIVE performance.

*Blink* ... *Blink*

Went for an express medicure just now "_"

Kenny Rogers @ United Square

Headed off to United Square for dinner tonight. Walked around and decided to land ourselves at Kenny Rongers. It had been a long while since I last went to a Kenny Rogers.


How's the food??? Seriously, I did not enjoy it. Other than their signature Corn Muffin and the clear chicken soup, the rest is nothing much. Even their popular mac and cheese did not taste as nice. A total disappointment I say ...

My pressies from USA!!!

** YAWNZ **

I am so zonk now. Woke up at 5:00am to go pick JM up from the airport but I only fell asleep at about 2:00am. Finally JM is home from his simulator trip to Florida.

But see what he got for me ^_^


All these should sum up for all my pressies for 2010!!!

P/S: Pls note is 2010 ... not 2011!!! LOL.

Day 9 of JM's Simulator Trip - Florida

Finally can start counting down to JM's arrival. He is scheduled to arrive in SIN at 6:00am tomorrow. That is about 6.5 hours from now. YIPPIE!!!

Got to go sleep soon if not later cannot wake up to go airport. Good night ... 晚安.

P/S: I've just gotten myself a TWITTER account. Everyone seems to be on it so decided to go check it out. Still trying to understand how it works :p Hmm ... anyone on twitter too? Not too sure if I'm gona keep the account for long but meanwhile do add me if you are on twitter too. Search for me using my email address :p

Day 8 of JM's Simulator Trip - Florida

ARGH ... drank tea while play boardgames with Zhen Yang n Perle at De Coder's Cafe a few hours back and now I am still wide awake. Effect of caffeine!!!

Oh well ... its ok ... I got my Korean music to keep me company ^_^.

Want to share a new song with everyone. It is U-KISS newest release. Frankly I did not know who the hell is U-KISS till I started watching Pops In Seoul. 3 of the members (Alexandra, Kevin, n Eli), host in Pops in Seoul and from there then I get to know that they are part of the 7 member group U-KISS.

Presenting U-KISS - SHUT UP

Check out their LIVE performance too. Another nice song I came across comes from Se7en - I'm Going Crazy. The girl inthe MV is his actual girlfriend, Park Han-byul.

Drama - 哦!我的愛人 (Oh My Lady!)

Just finish watching this drama. The ending really left me with a lot of 感触.

As per most drama, the lead actor and actress got together ultimately. But just before the leads gave each other a hug and end the drama, confession were being made. Both leads apologise for all hurt they had brought upon each other and had thank each other for being in their life.

This scene really touched me. I believe many of us would have taken people around us for granted many a times. We often forgot about saying sorry or thank you to people who are always around us thinking that they will understand. How sad ... but is so true!!!

Anyway, back to the drama. I say this is only a passable drama but from it, you will learn quite a bit. To me, through this drama, I understand that communication is a very important in any relationship. Never leave anything unsaid espeially to those that you love and care about. If you are watching it, hope you enjoy it as much as I do.



A spunky 35-year-old housewife, Yoon Gae Hwa (Chae Rim), takes on the job of house cleaner to prickly top star Sung Min Woo (Choi Si Won) in order to earn enough money to regain custody of her child from her ex-husband. Romantic hijinks and hilarity ensues when they find themselves in an awkward living situation as Min Woo pays Gae Hwa to take care of his illegitimate daughter, Ye Eun.

Day 5 of JM's Simulator Trip - Florida

Walked out to the living room early this morning and saw this ...


Looking at it, I know it was Oswald's masterpiece.

When I asked him, he said, he made a seat for his chipmunks and they are watching a race at the racing track. LOL ... so cute right. He had even placed them according to height.

Drama - 施公奇案II (A Pillow Case Of Mystery II)

After a radical change in life, SZE SAI-LUN (Au Yeung Chun Wah) becomes dispirited with the political world and spends most of his time travelling around in search of fun. Along the way, he meets a spirit medium, NG KWAN-YAU (Hsuan Jessica Hester), who somehow gets caught up in a mysterious murder case.

It is not LUN’s intention to intervene at first, but with the fortuitous assistance from the pillow spirit NGAU TAI-LIK (Lee Sze Chit), he can finally crack the case and prove YAU’s innocence. LUN has his confidence back and pledges to continue his fight for justice. As time progresses, LUN and YAU get to know each other better and gradually fall in love. LUN finally decides to get over the past and marry the girl. He enjoys his married life so much but gets frustrated at work sometimes - LIK’s power turns out not to be as strong as expected, which ends up with a lot of misleading clues being given.

Amidst the various challenges of his new life, LUN realizes that YAU seems to have something to hide and that there is a malicious plot behind their marriage. Knowing that the couple have fallen out, LUN’s mother has found him a new wife, LUK SIU-TIP (Leila Tong). Out of the blue, TIP has also come with ill intentions. LUN is plunged into a complex web of intrigue and things seem to be getting on top of him…

Drama - 女人最痛 (Beauty Knows No Pain)

WONG HOI KING (Michelle Yim) is successful in both career and love life. However, she accidentally discovers that her husband CHIN KWONG LUNG (Lam Ka Wah) is committing adultery. In order to maintain the relationship, KING is willing to take the risk of getting pregnant despite her high age. Pregnancy has imposed great pressure on her daily life as well as her career. Her aggressive subordinate SA YUEN KEI (Cheung Ho Yee) therefore seizes the chance to take up her duties. KEI is a bold and decisive person at work but she is caught in a quadrangular relationship by falling in love with the married man KO CHI LIK (Ma Tak Chung).

Discouraged by the relationship failures of her bosses, secretary YU MAN YAU (Tang Lai Ming) further loses her confidence. YAU always has a sense of inferiority because of her “outstanding” body shape. Encouraged by her colleague CHI NAM (Chan Kwok Bong), YAU decides to boost her self-esteem by getting plastic surgery. She immediately becomes the sexiest goddess on the Internet and the hottest brand spokesperson in town. After getting famous and rich, YAU suddenly realizes that this is not what she really wants…

Day 2 of JM's Simulator Trip - Florida

Though I had the whole night alone, but I bearly could drag myself up this morning. I'd promise my FIL to bring him down to Marina Bay Sands (MBS) for round 2 of family gathering. Got to get dressed up for the event and reach his place by 11:00am.

To make matter worse, my GPS is not update with MBS's coordinates!!! Got to study the route to MBS online and keep it stored in my mind.

12:00pm - Arrival at MBS ... safe and sound. But only upon arrival then I knew there is no public parking at MBS hotel itself. Hotel parking is all via Valet. If wana park myself, got to park at the shopping centre section and walk over. To save trouble, I'd decided to valet the car but only to realise that valet charges as follows:-

1) Hotel Guest - $12/day
2) Non Hotel Guest - $12 for 1st hour. $1 per subsequent 1/2 hour up to max $26 per day.

I almost fainted when I heard it but no choice ... committed liao.

When asked for directions to head to the hotel room, we were told that we had to either register our names at the counter before heading up to the room or get the guest to come down to get us. For this, of cos we rang up the guest and got them to come get us. After all, relatives right ... no need to 客气 with them.

JM's cousin and her hubby stayed at the Chairman Suite at MBS ... located at the 54th level. Private lift up to the level and quite a spectacular view from up there. Lunch was served right in the suite and after that we were escorted to the Sky Park for a 'tour'.

Very good service right ... but you can't expect less if you are paying $7000 plus for a night's stay in that room I say ... LOL

Check out the view that we had HERE!!!
[P/S:- gotta be a FB user to see the pics ^_^]

Day 1 of JM's Simulator Trip - Florida

Still into Day 1 of JM's departure ...

After a few hours of rest, got to drag myself out from bed liao. Gotta bring lunch down to West Coast for the kids. MIL will be out for her medical check up and hence I got to settle the boys' lunch since they had spent a night at her place while mummy is at the airport with daddy :p

After feeding the boys lunch, I headed back to CCK to get get my nails touched up. The colors on my hands are peeling off already and there's a chip on my toe because clusmy me kicked on something and chipped of the polish on my toes.

Since it is Halloween today ... I'd decided to go for a dark color tone for my nails and have something different drawn on my toes ^_^


Nails ... DONE. Next, buy birthday cake for grandma, head home change, pick up in-laws n kids at West Coast ... lastly, head to CHIJMES for dinner at Lei Gardens.

Base on past experience, food there is really really good. I had stuffed myself to the max with all the yummy food. As the day comes to an end, I am almost drained out. Luckily my PIL offered to take care of the boys for the night but on a condition that I go pick them up to head to MBS for lunch the next day.

DUH ... I had long planned to give that family gathering a miss actually but the fact that I can rest in peace after such a long day is very tempting. In the end, my tiredness had taken charge of my plans. I gave in to their request so that I can have a good rest when I head home ...

P/S: Did I mentioned that we had dinner in Lei Garden's private room? We had 2 tables of 8 pax and very comfortably fitted into the room.

Day 1 of JM's Simulator Trip - Florida

*YAWNZ*

Just gotten back from the airport not too long ago. Taken a warm bath and now waiting for the sleep bug to kick in.

HUBBY IS AWAY AGAIN!!!!

This time, he is flying off to Florida for simulator. Florida ... sounds good right ... but too bad, I don't get to go *sigh*

Hubby is gona be away for 10 days ...

I wander what's gona happen during these 10 days that he's away.

*Thinking* Hmm ...

French Medicure ^_^

Hmm ... within 2 weeks, this is my 2nd medicure session. What to do ... blame it on the wedding dinners that came one after another LOL. Last night got to attend another friend's wedding.

Nail polish never last long on my fingers because of my constant contact with water. Plus the last session at PINC, wasn't really that satisfactory because they never cut the dead skin away nicely. That gave me another reason to get my hands 'fixed'

Choose to do french medicure this time round. It had been awhile since I last did it. Very very pleased with the end result.


Attended this wedding with Perle and Zhen Yang ... how exciting ... 1st time ever we attended such a formal event together ^_^

Food - KOI Bubble Tea

Hmmm ... is the bubble tea craze back again?

My SIL was bragging about KOI bubble tea and how she and her collegues rotate shift to Q for almost 1 hour to get their drinks. The way she describe it make me wana go get a cup myself.

Oh well ... I finally got my own cup today!!! :p


Verdict - I think is so-so only lah ... or maybe is just the drink I'd ordered. I ordered Milk Tea with Pearl, 1/2 sugar strength. But my SIL said I should try the flavoured drinks not the normal milk tea.

Oh well, the only thing I like about it is you get to choose how sweet you want your drink. And somehow, I think their pearl size is slight smaller that the usual ones you buy elsewhere. Makes chewing easier. Maybe one day I should give the other flavours a try to give it a fair verdict :p

Drama - 综合医院 2 (General Hospital 2)

A young woman passed the bar examination so that she could become a lawyer who helps patients in malpractice cases decides to join a residency after she completes her internship. Then there is the passionate man who is dedicated to saving lives even though he graduated at the bottom of his class in medical school. This drama revolves around the lives of these two people who are 3rd year interns at the same hospital as they mature in their careers.

The drama will show the camaraderie among fellow doctors and the tensions and relationships that develop in their lives as they work hard to cure patients. Their personal challenges and down-to-earth qualities will warm the hearts of viewers.

K-Pop updates!!!

Hmm ... haven been talking much about K-Pop recently but that does not mean that I am not listening to it anymore ... hahaha

I guess the main reason is because there's not much that caught my attention recently. Other than the following songs ...

Hmm ... ok you ask who is Seven ... if you are a K-drama craze like me, you probably had came across this drama titled 宮S. If you remember this drama, then you will remember the handsome prince in the show and yes ... that's him. He is back in the music scene with Better Together as his comeback song. Enjoy the music ^_^ Heard this following song via one of the k-pop programme I watched and like the song almost immediately. It has a very lovely and catchy tune paired with beautiful voice of the singers. I do hope you like this song as much as I do. ** Bohemian - Love Letter LIVE version ** The next song would require some time to like it. The song grows on you ... I din really like it the 1st time I hear it but the catchy tune kinda got stuck in my head after the 1st time. That lead me to pay more attention to the song whenever it was featured on TV. As time pass, I really did start to like the song :p The lead singer, Lee Hongki, played the role as Jeremy in a recently k-drama titled 原来是美男 (He's Beautiful).

ZY n Perle wedding

"Wedding bells are ringing ... wedding bells are ringing ... Ding Dong Bells ... Ding Dong Bells."

Today is the BIG DAY for our dearest friends Zhen Yang n Perle!!!

CONGRATS!!!!!

As buddies ... both JM n myself are at their service on this big day.

Events for the day officially started at 8:00am at The Sentosa Spa and Resort. The usual gate crashing events, solemnisation and dinner banquet are all happening right here.

After the morning set of events, gate crashing and lunch, I head out to Vivo City with one other 姐妹 to get out hair set and make up done :p


美美 right ^_^ ... lol hold your puke ok ... please ...

2nd set of events sparks off at 5:30pm ... solemnisation followed by the dinner banquet.


Check out the 'ang bao box' that Perle's friend made. Pretty and nice right.


And here's the nervous bride waiting for solemnisation to start.

Did not have much chance to take pictures as the event proceeds on. Had quite a bit on hand to take care of and to help around. By the end of the day, both JM n myself were as tired out as the bride and groom ... LOL.

It is also very nice of them to invite us to take up the spare room in the villa that they had. Driving home after everything would be quite a task for either one of us.

Nails ... Nails ... Nails ...

Yippie ... another occassion to find excuse to 扮美美 ^_^

Meet our Bride-To-Be, Perle, at IMM to get our nails done at PINC. It is always more fun to do nails with another girl friend because we can gossip while we get our nails done ^_^.

Drama - 談情說案 (The Mysteries of Love)

It had been awhile since I last recommended a TVB drama ... not that I'd stopped watching it but seriously, there's none that is really worth recommending.



This is a love story between a professor and a policewoman. Their dating experience is enhanced with sense and sensibility through the application of interesting physics theories on the investigation of various crime cases.

KING POK (Raymond Lam) is regarded as the youngest genius in physics and he is appointed as an associate professor in a Hong Kong university. Invited by his good friend LO TIN-HANG (Kenneth Ma), Senior Inspector of Police at Regional Crime Unit, POK assists in cracking many mysterious crime cases and he also meets the policewoman CHUI SIU-LAI (Tavia Yeung) during the process. The rational POK evaluates that he has fallen in love with LAI because of a love hormone called “phenylalanine”. However, owing to the huge difference in their family background and life value, POK fails to tackle their ever-changing relationship problems with formulas.

On the other hand, the romantic and uninhibited HANG has been maintaining a sex only relationship with the journalist LING MAN-KA (Bernice Liu) HANG doesn’t believe in eternity and he is only looking for sensual pleasure in a woman. However, his belief is suddenly shattered when he learns that MAN is going to get married.


Another plus point - Theme song of the song is sang by Raymond Lam himself. Titled: 直到你不找我. A very nice song indeed which enhance his strong vocals.

Aston Specialities @ Changi Airport T1

Sunday night dinner is always a headache espcially when I am not in the mood to cook.

Got to find a place with not much crowd, a restuarant with no queue etc ... Sunday leh ... how possible ... I say, it is almost impossible at shopping malls near me.

What to do??? Think of a place further loh ... furthest away from home ... CHANGI AIRPORT!!! LOL ... somemore the terminal we choose is the longest standing one which we guess probably got the least crowd.

What's there to eat??? To our surprise, we found out that ASTONS SPECIALITIES got a brunch there ... mai tu liao ... off we went to try out this new outlet.

True enough ... there ain't much people around at T1 and best of all, there's no queue at Astons. P/S: A queue outside the restaurant would be a common sight at more commonly visited places.

Take a look at their menu and see what interest you ^_^


We had ordered 3 sets ... 1 for myself, 1 for hubby and 1 for the kids to share ...

** New York Strip **

** Prime Sirloin **

** Chicken (Crispy Fried) & Sausage Combo **

Dinner @ Kuishin-bo

Someone's buying dinner and we are having FREE DINNER!!! ^_^

THANKS Billy n Lishan :p

Dinner treat is at Kuishin-bo (Great World City) - Authentic Japanese Buffet Restaurant.


It had been a long while since I last went to a buffet meal. Mainly because I am quite a small eater and hence damn bo hua for me :p But, it is the person who is buying dinner gets to decide where to eat ^_^

Check out the yummy food spread ...