style ought not be to defined by what the mass think is 'in'

not too sure when we were instructed to keep a journal.. on what u like and wanna wear? frankly.. I am not that keen in doing that.. and seriously, I think I know how to dress and dun like to be confined to the 'latest-trend' (i don't fancy being dressed identically with others) - Since i was foto-graphed twice out of the past 5 weeks (for the 'contest').. i think i dress-well right?? *pretty flattered leh, consider I usually just open the wardrobe and grab what I feel I wanna wear for the day.. so random..* but I guessed I've alright taste bah. (and I know what clothes my physique can take.. !)

Strangely, both times were when I was in my boots & donned in black.. haha i think it's the power calves that makes the boots look good. and black is always slimming...

the first outfit that earned me the honor of being foto-graphed.. (okie I took it in the wc)

the mng dress which i almost didn't buy.. ;)

and i didn't take what I wore last sun when i was foto-ed again :) *very flattered*.. but it was juz an m:phosis racerback with lacey sides, one-yr old river island-checkered mini with the bright blue skinny wollen scraf from m:phosis which I grabbed randomly to add color to the otherwise uber 'or-lu-lu' outfit.. oh yeah, and the boots..

oh well.. my creativity flows from uber-randomness.. *which explains why I dun buy my card supplies knowing what I wanna make.. I buy what caught my eye.. then when it’s time to create.. I just see what I have & create.. *

oh yeah.. very 'C' rite.. hahahaha,

Okie la, I will be politically right and do the journal. (when my peak period is over.. March 2010?)

bye bye my only pair of bejewelled jeans!

Due to the severe shrinking of my buns.. I can literally pull off all of my pairs old jeans without unbuckling/ unzipping... And there was this one pair of denims that I adored which I only wore twice! bought it from SKIN three years back and it was slightly loose but it was the smallest size left and I <3 the bejewelled-adorned back pockets... was not the true-religion ones like (too man for me...) a british brand -monarchy. think it was between $150 - $200 after disc when I bought it.. And I only wore it twice cuz it was already loose then.. And since after I started running (on a more regular and intensive basis) the buns & thighs shrank.. so... the used-to-be loose pair became ultra loose (it was already hipster-cut.. so.. its kinda ugly to have extra flaps of material hanging loose)!

so.. I gave it away to corinth.. I think it will fit her la.. since her frame is bigger than mine despite her losing some pounds too..

heart-pained but I think it will deserved to be worn rather than stashed in cupboard and I have no intention of growing fat to fit into them!
I believe in sowing and reaping! YAY!

Smiley Cute Food

Had the kids' menu @ secret receipe on wed when I met Corinth for dinner.. (her beeday (much) belated.. and mine..) Cuz we wanna have a slice of cake later..

And the food is cute!

mini fish & chip (I <3 the hashbrowns in shapes of smiley sun, moon and star!)

mini chicken burgers with cutesy hashbrowns

Happy food makes me happy!! :)

Dainty Tea time!

Met up with ivory on Monday for dinner..

After much deliberation, we settled @ fish & co . Great since it was the third day after my birthday, we are still entitled to 10% bee-day discount! (I opted not to have the rap from the fish & co crew and glad I did. Cuz there were a couple of celebration there and it was rowdy!!)

HUGE seafood platter for two!

The giant KING prawns were good!!

We managed to reach TWG (which we didn’t the last we went) before closing hours, but still didn’t managed to taste the Singapore Surprise that Ivory highly recommended.. Still the macha waffle pastry was yummy and I like the tea brew we chose – Princess Tea!  And somehow, I like the short FAT teaspoon in the sugar pot.. it was so whimscal.. haha..

It's TEA time!!

we can see ourselves in the shiny $400 tea pot!!!

i <3 the round FAT short spoon!!

I wanna try the Singapore surprise the next time.. and... breakfast menu too... :)

happy birthday!!

Officially I'd a very fruitful birthday this year.. oh yeah.. i'm 25, and yes going on to 25 always.. *figure that no doubt 21 is a younger age but... @21, i would still be in uni... and i think i can & will still look 25 for a few more years to come.. i'm like benjamin buttons... growing younger day by day!

Frankly.. the biggest surprise was the unexpected opportunity to avail my 'C' nature to a greater extent. A wish come true? Nah, my dream is not to be a PA though many friends think I'm good @ admin matters..  and to a certain extent, admin is never a hassle to me.. haha not that I'm an uber organised person, but I like to think that my room is in an organised-chaos.. only I can locate stuff admist the heaps of stuff lingering around.. haha) I received an sms from my zone-leader offering a role to assist him in admin matters - aka 'zone-sec' or if I'd prefer to be more involved in area of pnw... took me a while to reply.. *haha.. a matter of comfort zone issue . It will sure be easier to do pnw cuz at least, I need not face certain goliaths.. * but I didn't wanna stay @ the nua-zone.. so.. ahha.. yeah.. replied postively to the former..

Headstart my 25th birthday @ the gym.. oh yeah, e has 'tricked' me sorta to change the training from Fri to Sat. *okie, it was not really a sabo attempt but it turned out whatever reason he changed the timing no longer stands.. so.. to me still a sabo..* And he seemed impressed that i was so 'committed' to train even on my birthday.. :) his gift to me - an hour more to the weekly 2 hr run.. HE IS CRAZY! *but I supposed he knows his stuff and haha saw the potential in my two power calves.. So i ran a 10km under 60min that morning after the weights session - and haha that's faster than the GE timing - I guessed I performed better under pressure.

Did my french-two-tone mani @ OPI after gym  and i love it!!

Following that.. my crabcrab session with ziv & jac.. @ no signboard resturant @ vivocity. the white-peppered crabs tasted good.. I like the greens (not too sure what veg that was - looked like spring onions but not.. ) that were stirred fried together with the crabs..  the chilli crab was alright, the sauce had a tinge of dried shrimps taste which I don't really fancy.. - I prefer the JUMBO ones.. ;p still it was a yummy crab dinner!!

Yummy white-peppered crabs!

the crab-carcass!!

And they arranged for a surprise for me - heading out to 'winterwonderland' @ jewel box - i.e. their annual snow & light display.. the jewel Christmas!

Realised that there are at least another 4 to 5 groups celebrating bee-day there..  the band was good! And I got a birthday song played for me too... :)

Played with the detergent-based snow to get a fake feel of snow.. ;p  Some of the nicer pics in jac's camera so.. haha maybe i will upload them later!

the 61m tall -world tallest 'christmas tree'! (used to be a telecom tower!)

So it was happy birthday for mione.. or hermes or yee (i wanna a hermes birkin bag - one day).

Pink french!

In view of è unused credit left 4 my package with opi -gasp expiring nxt mth- decided to do a 2tone french manicure with glitter. Love è princessy look. My manicurist commented that not many can carry off this pink n pink combi and i think she was pleased with è end creation.

Luv the sweet combinatiön, glam-up by the silver glitter.

And pink is definitely my colour. (:

Looking forward to crabbing with my crab buddies tonite!

Nt è least guilty cuz i'd a good training early tis am. :) e's present was 1 more hour to è 2hr wkend run. So special n sweet of him rite? Lol

Part 2 of pinkie pressie

 
My lovely mom decided to buy me è berrypink vaio-w! ;D
God is good!

But need to buy ms office suite, else when the 60days trial period is up and no or ltd access to ms office.

Cons of è netbk- i need a ext optical disk drive. Else can't rip file to my ipod./ Shuffle.

Still, heart my vaio-w!

Part 1 of pinkie pressie

Went to the robinson sale @ expo earlier with my mom and bought tis tee from newurbanmale. My bee-day pressie 4 myself. - sad that my size for è predro heels i fancied were sold out.
Sigh so busy with work, else would b able to head dwn last wk and get better deals. ;)

Meanie..

Received a text message not long ago calling for contributions for love offering for this young lass in choir.  (who happen to join choir not too long ago..) Okie, call me a spoilt brat but I was  like " so...  " when I read the cause for the love gift -  cuz this sat is her birthday. As I've said - call me a spoilt brat but hey it just happen so that she's not the only person born on that day in choir, why the special treatment?? As far as i know, the pretty mom claire was born on that day oo and so was the recipient of this message...  (just that pretty mom & I were born a few more years earlier than her.. ) so why the double standard ?

Oh well.. i feel so loved when i read the message.  oh yeah, in a meanie mood. pms. post menstral syndrome.  oh well,  since I don't even know her personally and neither she and i have sowed into each other's life, I should say, so i definitely do not feel obliged to ...

November is here!

If I am not in my current job, I would love this time of the year... CUZ it's the month of November.. Year End.. Festive Season.. And my Birthday is coming!!

BUT sadly, my current job depicts - November 30 - DEADline for all tax returns to reach Moses. (not the biblical character..)  aka.. Overtime opportunities abounds .. (hence the lack of posts for a really long time..)

In summary, November kicked start with the last 10km run for the year - the GE run which sad to say, I didn't manage a good timing cuz I was on the verge of flu outbreak.. Oh well.. 61:51 min was better than the SHAPE run's timing. At least I was in the 637th out of the 5359 women who completed the 10km. Not to shabby rite. Sigh.. but sigh, it was not my personal best though, which was 59+. Oh well.. And apparently, excuses is not good enough why the timing has deterioriated and my dear (evil) trainer decided to threaten me with a under 2h 30min for the half mara next month - or ... make me to something silly that will sure make his day (which I am definitely NOT gonna do it.. *bleh*)

and I fell sick on the 2nd.. and still OT-ed on 3rd and finally MC-ed and miss choir prac! :o Slept /rest/ watch dvd on the 4th. And managed to have some voice to lead praise for cg on thurs (which i reckon wasn't that bad still... ) And.. back to training on Fri. And evil e still wants me to lose a few more pounds.. so that will aid in improving the speed..  i think he is evil... sigh.. but his evil plans work though.. @ least now I can't fit into most of my workpants now.. hence i mostly in dresses/skirts nowadays.. cuz hanging pants = ugly.

Caught up with long time JC-friend on sat.. my 1st bee-day makan.. @ Aoba Ramen.. Like my bowl of shoyu corn ramen.. Perhaps I was rather famished by dinner time cuz that was the second meal of the day.. *didn't snap any pix though.. * ooo and bumped into kel @ ion .. :)

refreshed on sunday. happy that I did managed to squeeze in a run after service. :) * less than a month to the half mara... !*


Turned down a friend's treat this evening cuz of work. sobs.. cuz OT-ed till 930-ish... At least I have only 3 more cases left now.. but sad to say, they aren't the easy ones.. oh well.. Hopefully, they be out to client's by this friday...

Yay.. I'm turning another year younger this Sat. Oh well.. i guess i am like benjamin button.. I look younger compared to..eh..the past?. haha. @ least that's why eileen tan said when I bumped into her a couple of weeks back... ooo hallelujah cream works!