Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - [productive days in SG C: ]
Quick post to update whoever about what I've been doing. Life in SG is really productive compared to life in Brisbane. Not sure if its just me but in Briz I love staying at home and being a couch potato and just doing stuff around the house.
In SG? nope. Go out every chance I get.
After my sleepover at DY's, the family went to East Coast Park C: one of my favourite places in SG. Just a big old beach with a long cycling and jogging path and great hawker food. Every time I come home we go there, and every time I'll write the same things about it.
Of course the beach isn't that empty, but the other stock photos look bad ):
This is a clearer depiction, so we dumped our stuff at the little hut pavillion thing and we played a terrible game of frisbee with a rubber frisbee. We hit some people, it flew to the water, into the trees... XD
Sister went to build a sandcastle with bro and I went cycling with my stepmom and dad (who cycled ahead) My stepmom is the epitome of thin yet extremely unfit people. She had difficulty cycling on a flat road after a couple minutes. I took the chance of our 2hour rental to cycle very slowly .. .. and talking to her about so much stuff C: was a good chat.
Oh yea, look the park is pretty big, that circle is about 20km, who wouldn't love cycling or skating down 20kms of flat road ~
While my sister had fun shifting lumps of sand, there were those who..
Next day!
I had meant to go meet Eeling my dearest old friend but we've rescheduled so I went out with DY again. My sole purpose of that day was to buy a Bikini String. Because I recently went to Surfer's Paradise before I came back to SG and after washing the Bikini, the string was separated though I swear upon every god ever I washed it and hung it to dry, it disappeared into the basket of dry clothes and never resurfaced.
Of course who would sell me a plain string without buying the set .. so I did not accomplish what I set out to do.
Instead I bought wonderfulicious
Green Tea Kit Kat!
Thank you for the exports Japan C:
Also bought a some Canvas and Painting set with DY, will not spoil the surprise until it's completed, but it's preeetttty cool
Before I forget here's a picture of us in DY's Salon C: can you spot her? (No she's not the one in white)
STEAMBOAT DINNER :333333
Don't worry we went to gather more plates of meat, this was just the appetizers :D
NEXT DAY MONDAY,
met up with Sinyean, Dinnie, DY and Jun at Playnation (a board game cafe!)
But before that, there's a Cat Cuddles Cafe right beside it
This is unlike the cafe I worked at, this one has xbox and wii setups too, so you can have the board game package or the video games one or both with free flow of soft drinks! This is a great city .. :')
30minutes after we arrived the whole cafe was packed :o we started off with party games
Got to play the famous Cards Against Humanity for the first time ~
oops.
My haul included killer heels, a blazer, lingerie, make-up .. a birthday cake and gift for my brother ..
This morning they've all disappeared so I can't take photos of anything ):
Here have my new suitcase wheel which fairies replaced for me while I was out :D
How in the world can he or she reuse a deactivated sim card and still have access to my contacts tho.
Look at the ferocious being ! All I could think of is ..
In SG? nope. Go out every chance I get.
After my sleepover at DY's, the family went to East Coast Park C: one of my favourite places in SG. Just a big old beach with a long cycling and jogging path and great hawker food. Every time I come home we go there, and every time I'll write the same things about it.
Of course the beach isn't that empty, but the other stock photos look bad ):
This is a clearer depiction, so we dumped our stuff at the little hut pavillion thing and we played a terrible game of frisbee with a rubber frisbee. We hit some people, it flew to the water, into the trees... XD
Sister went to build a sandcastle with bro and I went cycling with my stepmom and dad (who cycled ahead) My stepmom is the epitome of thin yet extremely unfit people. She had difficulty cycling on a flat road after a couple minutes. I took the chance of our 2hour rental to cycle very slowly .. .. and talking to her about so much stuff C: was a good chat.
Oh yea, look the park is pretty big, that circle is about 20km, who wouldn't love cycling or skating down 20kms of flat road ~
While my sister had fun shifting lumps of sand, there were those who..
Next day!
I had meant to go meet Eeling my dearest old friend but we've rescheduled so I went out with DY again. My sole purpose of that day was to buy a Bikini String. Because I recently went to Surfer's Paradise before I came back to SG and after washing the Bikini, the string was separated though I swear upon every god ever I washed it and hung it to dry, it disappeared into the basket of dry clothes and never resurfaced.
Of course who would sell me a plain string without buying the set .. so I did not accomplish what I set out to do.
Instead I bought wonderfulicious
Green Tea Kit Kat!
Thank you for the exports Japan C:
I know 90% of the Non-Asian readers will go EEEUUUGHHHGHGHGHGHHG, well too bad you weren't brought up with a multitude of flavours like we did. This is why Japan has the longest life expectancy, because they have so much to live for! Wonderful food and crazy inventions, ridiculously nice scenery, hot springs.. etc goddammit Japan.
And curiously, Singapore's ranked 2nd, although our suicide rate is really high too .
Before I forget here's a picture of us in DY's Salon C: can you spot her? (No she's not the one in white)
STEAMBOAT DINNER :333333
Don't worry we went to gather more plates of meat, this was just the appetizers :D
NEXT DAY MONDAY,
met up with Sinyean, Dinnie, DY and Jun at Playnation (a board game cafe!)
But before that, there's a Cat Cuddles Cafe right beside it
GAMMMMMEEESSSSS :3
This is unlike the cafe I worked at, this one has xbox and wii setups too, so you can have the board game package or the video games one or both with free flow of soft drinks! This is a great city .. :')
30minutes after we arrived the whole cafe was packed :o we started off with party games
Got to play the famous Cards Against Humanity for the first time ~
oops.
Moved on to the couches and we played Mario Party 9 which was a mega disappointment after playing Mario Party 2. WHAI NINTENDO WHAI U DO DIS. Repeated mini games, Bowser gave out coins instead of stealing, the map was probably only 20squares, was nothing NOTHING I TELL YOU, compared to Mario Party 2.
Friendships were not ruined, tho there was one mini game about launching a rocket, and well .. this is a wiimote (I think that's its name) and .. well .. you shake the controller up and down as hard and fast as you can for about 30seconds and see who's rocket flies the highest..
surprise
surprise
the girls' rockets fell off significantly earlier than the guys .. hmmm ... hmmm ..
Had dinner with Uncle Jafar after and family, will see him on Saturday morning 7am in London ~
Tuesday, was my brother's birthday, while he was at work I spent the day shopping with mom. Altho I bought a heap of stuff...
My haul included killer heels, a blazer, lingerie, make-up .. a birthday cake and gift for my brother ..
This morning they've all disappeared so I can't take photos of anything ):
Here have my new suitcase wheel which fairies replaced for me while I was out :D
The happy boy had received two cakes from his office, 1 from me and 1 more from our stepmom, happyboy89 loves cakes ! He's a quarter of a century old :3
Was a long day, was just about to sit and relax and then .. DUN DUN DUUUUUNNNN...
THIS mothafoooker, with the number 96301994 started using Line to text my friends using my name for god knows what reason.
PLEASE IGNORE. BLOCK. REPORT SPAM. whatever, it's not me. I don't use Line.
Told my dad there's an imposter using my old number to text my friends and I told him to call the number to threaten the person, because that's what dads are for right? :DD stupid coward didn't answer several calls. ALSO I just texted the number I would report him or her to the police and Singapore's a reaaaaal Fine country so yeah he or she probably got scared .
How in the world can he or she reuse a deactivated sim card and still have access to my contacts tho.
ANYWAY, here's pictures of a furry new friend to brighten your days! It's Wednesdayyyy the weekend is almost here for you non-holiday people.
Look at the ferocious being ! All I could think of is ..
Labels: 25, birthday, board games, Cafe, cards against humanity, cats, ecp, husky, imposter, kit kat, life expectancy, Line, play nation, shopping, steamboat, wii, xbox
bits of me revealed at ..
11:06 AM.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - [Family Weekend Times :D]
HEERRROOWWWW.. today's post is going to be very very long, so brace yourself *inserts Ned Stark meme* First of all I want to mention something silly. Recently, umm.. the past week and this week, people have suddenly been talking to me on Facebook. "Hey! Glad you update your blog so regularly!" "Hey! I read your posts" "Your blog is really cool! Do you spend alot of time on it?" etc etc. I'm very happy and flattered to have loyal readers.
AND THEN.
They ask "So where are you now?" "Are you Singapore now" "Do you have time to catch-up?" "What have you been doing recently?"
Okay not to be rude to my readers, but whuuuuut?? You say you read it, you like reading it, you notice I have been updating but you DON'T know that I'm home? you DON'T know what I've been up to recently despite all my posts about family? About missing Australia?
So I don't know if you're just using my blog as an excuse to start a conversation with me after not contacting me for years .. or you're acting dumb... or I don't know. Enlighten me? I really don't mean to be rude but you guys are confusing me.
NAO, we begin on Sateeeday. Was very excited because Daddy said we'd go to the park to skatee wooohooooo, I was so excited all day and then this happened . . .
): So we turned away from the park and went to drive down the new $4.3Billion Marina Coastal Expressway which goes under the sea ! I don't really know much about driving, but this is a 5-lane tunnel, Daddy who has been all over the world said he's never been in such a huge tunnel before. Must be fun to drive in (:
ZOOOOOOM. At least this one had speed limits put in. When the KPE tunnel opened there were no speed limits imposed yet and the police clocked up to 240km per hour ! WOOOOOO . Anyway, because it was a Saturday, my brother had his somersault classes and didn't want to miss them so he wasn't with us and we decided to head to Dempsey Hill for one of our family's favourite restaurants - Samy's Curry. Not to be biased as an Indian, but this is really really really really really really good Indian food, and it's a pricey location but the food isn't that pricey if you consider the other high-end restaurants around the area.
Firstly you eat on fresh Banana Leaves (: so fragrant! And also, Indians believe eating with their fingers is the yummiest way to go and the food tastes different. Speaking from experience, yes it does! It's also actually alot more enjoyable eating with your fingers than utensils ^-^ The waiters come with a large bowl of rice and two little bowls of potato curry and daal (some gravy thing I don't really like) to start.
This is usually quite spicy but I just love it too much I have to keep eating even if get a running nose and start sweating and tearing, I WILL STILL EAT IT ALL !!!! GRRRR
This is Chicken 65 I think, or Chicken Tikka, my stepmom was so silly and ordered Chicken 69 :P .. awkward.
There were some other dishes but these two are the main ones we always always order (:
We walked around after looking at expensive stuff .. sister bought a scoop of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and it was $6.90 . niiiiceeeee.... we went to the expensive Swiss Butcher ( but everything was labelled "Imported from Australia" HAH! ) and I saw this very pricey Nutella ): So you can imagine how pricey everything else is in there.
Continued walking to furniture stores, looking at Lambos and Aston Martins and other expensive toys and we came to the Parrots outside some Thai restaurant. I never knew that they could hold their own food in their little claws to eat. [ Fun Fact: If an animal can hold it's own food, it's haram, that means, Muslims can't eat them. Therefore Muslims cannot eat parrots or squirrels but can eat Chickens Cows etc ] Then you're gonna ask me why I can't eat Pork and I'm too lazy to write that out now
Here's some random pictures of my dad's car, because he wants a nice flashy sports car like every man ever, but I told him I really like his car because I love BMW headlights and his car is big and comfy and it has a huge boot which is so useful, after all we have about 3sets of Golf Clubs or like carrying my sister's bicycle to the park, or my millions of luggages whenever I travel. Even tho he smiled at what I said, I know in a couple years this car will be gone like every car we've had.
Oh my my, I'm done with Saturday ! Actually we did come home to play some Board Games but I have accidentally deleted the pictures from my phone and I'm far too lazy to open up the game and snap some pictures but the game is called UBONGO! So if any of you worked at a Board Game Cafe like I did or you went to one before you might know the game. It's really easy and sorta IQ-training kinda game (:
I'm am so sleepy right now, I'm going to speed through the rest X_X
Okay this is probably my favourite place in SG to eat so happy to come here after having excellent Fish-Head the day before :DD
Only ever in Singapore. I bet no where else in the world will have separate return points for Halal and Non-Halal food plates even in a decade's time.
So mega open-air hawker centre or food court with people waiting by each table for seats hehehe, you have to stand beside a group of people and make them feel awkward and uncomfortable and then they'll leave and you can take the table ahaha XD
I wasn't mega hungry so we didn't order the BBQ chicken wings which we usually do, look at the line!
I laugh everytime I see "MEGA FOODCOURT" in Brisbane. Oh Australia, you know nothing.
Sugarcane drink is a muuussssttttt, see they crush the canes in that rolling machine and put it through a sieve and viola !
Satay shop has upgraded and has these little buzzers now :D Apparently only this shop has business and the rest are all sad and ronery.
Everything I ate had Sambal in it. Sambal is a type of Malaysian Chilli, it's not super spicy and doesn't sting like the small red chilli, it has a really really nice taste. I'm sorry I can't really explain it to non-Asian readers ):
My favourite vegetable :D Sambal KangKong :DD I still can't cook it T_____T I need hallppp.
Stepmom ordered something called "Roti John" apparently some English man came to SG and ordered Bread with Eggs and got this and so this dish has been created! Kinda like French Toast I guess.
Had a nice stroll and icecream after dinner :D I went to buy the Atap Seed icecream. I again can't describe this taste, abit like coconut ? But it was really good, I had it that day I had to take my Oath and now again! It's yummmm (:
Atap Seed looks like this, sorta like Nata de Coco, which is the jelly you can put inside Bubble Tea, not the pearls but the Clear Jelly toppings if you've eaten them before. Wikipedia says this thing is called Nyca Fruticans, I really have no idea what fruit or thing this is but it tastes good in ice cream form (:
AND THEN.
They ask "So where are you now?" "Are you Singapore now" "Do you have time to catch-up?" "What have you been doing recently?"
Okay not to be rude to my readers, but whuuuuut?? You say you read it, you like reading it, you notice I have been updating but you DON'T know that I'm home? you DON'T know what I've been up to recently despite all my posts about family? About missing Australia?
So I don't know if you're just using my blog as an excuse to start a conversation with me after not contacting me for years .. or you're acting dumb... or I don't know. Enlighten me? I really don't mean to be rude but you guys are confusing me.
NAO, we begin on Sateeeday. Was very excited because Daddy said we'd go to the park to skatee wooohooooo, I was so excited all day and then this happened . . .
): So we turned away from the park and went to drive down the new $4.3Billion Marina Coastal Expressway which goes under the sea ! I don't really know much about driving, but this is a 5-lane tunnel, Daddy who has been all over the world said he's never been in such a huge tunnel before. Must be fun to drive in (:
ZOOOOOOM. At least this one had speed limits put in. When the KPE tunnel opened there were no speed limits imposed yet and the police clocked up to 240km per hour ! WOOOOOO . Anyway, because it was a Saturday, my brother had his somersault classes and didn't want to miss them so he wasn't with us and we decided to head to Dempsey Hill for one of our family's favourite restaurants - Samy's Curry. Not to be biased as an Indian, but this is really really really really really really good Indian food, and it's a pricey location but the food isn't that pricey if you consider the other high-end restaurants around the area.
Firstly you eat on fresh Banana Leaves (: so fragrant! And also, Indians believe eating with their fingers is the yummiest way to go and the food tastes different. Speaking from experience, yes it does! It's also actually alot more enjoyable eating with your fingers than utensils ^-^ The waiters come with a large bowl of rice and two little bowls of potato curry and daal (some gravy thing I don't really like) to start.
They also have another two bowls of starters which is usually mild chicken curry and cucumber salad. But I believe this has been taken off their menu but Daddy's so popular over here, they actually specially made the cucumber salad for us ! :DD yayyyy !
Although their menu is pretty big, my family only ever comes here because of the Fish-Head Curry, so this cost $20 and it was the most expensive thing we ordered. ( See, this place isn't a mega rip-off like all the other restaurants in Dempsey )
This is usually quite spicy but I just love it too much I have to keep eating even if get a running nose and start sweating and tearing, I WILL STILL EAT IT ALL !!!! GRRRR
This is Chicken 65 I think, or Chicken Tikka, my stepmom was so silly and ordered Chicken 69 :P .. awkward.
There were some other dishes but these two are the main ones we always always order (:
Fold your leaves in half when you're done (:
Some how .. I must be abit blind, the photos look clear on my phone. Im sorreh.
This clever fella could say Hello and Byebye! It was my first time hearing a bird talk. It was so magical .... XD
Here's some random pictures of my dad's car, because he wants a nice flashy sports car like every man ever, but I told him I really like his car because I love BMW headlights and his car is big and comfy and it has a huge boot which is so useful, after all we have about 3sets of Golf Clubs or like carrying my sister's bicycle to the park, or my millions of luggages whenever I travel. Even tho he smiled at what I said, I know in a couple years this car will be gone like every car we've had.
Oh my my, I'm done with Saturday ! Actually we did come home to play some Board Games but I have accidentally deleted the pictures from my phone and I'm far too lazy to open up the game and snap some pictures but the game is called UBONGO! So if any of you worked at a Board Game Cafe like I did or you went to one before you might know the game. It's really easy and sorta IQ-training kinda game (:
I'm am so sleepy right now, I'm going to speed through the rest X_X
Sunday! We had a great family dayyy, my stepmom was actually pretty nice to me this weekend but okay she's abit quiet and ignoring me again today. So anyways we had a little movie sesh in the afternoon. Barfi !
Okay firstly it's a Bollywood film, which my family likes, I do like Bollywood films (: I would not realllly recommend this show, unlike "3 Idiots" or "Delhi Belly" because this show progresses so much slower or maybe because I was feeling sleepy and it's a very quiet film. As in not much dialogue because the main character is deaf and a mute. The other main character is Autistic. So you can imagine how .. strange this movie is. I haven't finished it yet but I didn't really enjoy it as much as other Bollywood films. Now if you're really into Indian films, ask me! I know so many of them, and I know all the good ones (:
At 5pm, we decided to go out because the weather was so much more pleasant than the day before so YOLO time. Grabbed my skates and socks and off to East Coast Park we go ! It's been 2 years since I last wore them!
Here's some old pictures of me when I was very comfortable in skates :3
It did rain in the morning, so the ground as abit wet and sky was cloudy but it was nice and windy and coooling (:
This is like one-fifth of ECP, somehow Google doesn't have a full map. Ohwell. So it's about 20km of nice straight skating path. Maybe longer. I really don't know, Singapore is always expanding every thing. OH IT'S MIDNIGHT IN AUSTRALIA.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZAC !! :DDDDD !!! ♥
Back to ECP.
Went to the Jetty for some new cooling breeeeeze and to look at people fishing ~ ( The red part of the jetty is so uneven and wobbly to skate on D: )
I really want to try one of these cycle-carts but they go at an infuriatingly slow speed!
Skated back off the jetty and almost died getting through all these nuts on the ground. They just kept getting caught between the wheels and made me trip a gazziilliiionnnn times. UGH . My encouraging little sister said "Don't worry! Jiejie is brave! She won't fall!"
My first obstacle came, I know you can't tell but there's actually a slope here with those stupid speed controller things .. like this only on the descending side of the slop ._____.
It feels like nothing driving cycling or walking over but it makes a hell of a difference when you're in skates.
I survived!
and survived a second slope :DD "Jiejie take a deep breath and bend your knees!
You won't fall!"
Skated past the Outward Bound Campus :D Outward Bound is such a fun thing.
Everyone should do it once in their lives (:
And then... I was skating back after an hour and a half of rolling around. My sister was really tired from cycling so she got off and handed her bike to my dad to wheel and she wanted to hold my hand and walk while I slowly rolled beside her. So okay.. I skated as close as I could to the pedestrian side and I stopped to take a photo of the people doing stunts .
Remembering the day I actually tried to roll down this and fell and almost died XD
Unfortunately, as I took this photo, a little boy named Dalton or Delton decided to skate pretty fast with his head down and collided into me making me fall on my left arm. Seriously I felt like a bowling pin . Amazingly he didn't fall and managed to continue on and I think he didn't even notice he had knocked me over until his instructor yelled at him and forced him to apologize to me. He still looked very dazed after being scolded and skated in the wrong direction from his class of little skaters.
Well I wasn't in much pain from that fall but now ... now I really am. Jeezus, my left arm has been so weak and useless all day yesterday and today. T__T . 48hours of pain.
At least I was very near the car so I could remove my skates and get back into my comfy slippers and it's dinner time . YAYYYY ! ECP has this really big food court and it looks nice and clean and organized now!
Okay this is probably my favourite place in SG to eat so happy to come here after having excellent Fish-Head the day before :DD
Only ever in Singapore. I bet no where else in the world will have separate return points for Halal and Non-Halal food plates even in a decade's time.
So mega open-air hawker centre or food court with people waiting by each table for seats hehehe, you have to stand beside a group of people and make them feel awkward and uncomfortable and then they'll leave and you can take the table ahaha XD
I wasn't mega hungry so we didn't order the BBQ chicken wings which we usually do, look at the line!
ALL THE YUMMY FOOOOOODS
I laugh everytime I see "MEGA FOODCOURT" in Brisbane. Oh Australia, you know nothing.
Sugarcane drink is a muuussssttttt, see they crush the canes in that rolling machine and put it through a sieve and viola !
3 drinks for SGD$5.
It'll be AUD$5 each if I was back in Briz.
Satay shop has upgraded and has these little buzzers now :D Apparently only this shop has business and the rest are all sad and ronery.
Everything I ate had Sambal in it. Sambal is a type of Malaysian Chilli, it's not super spicy and doesn't sting like the small red chilli, it has a really really nice taste. I'm sorry I can't really explain it to non-Asian readers ):
My favourite vegetable :D Sambal KangKong :DD I still can't cook it T_____T I need hallppp.
BBQ Stingray in Sambal!
Sambal Sotongs! ( Squids )
For my loverleyy Australian friends, do not hate the Stingrays, they're really yummy and their meat comes in shreds, very soft and tasty, like fish.
CHILLI CHILLI ERRDAYYY
LOOOK AT THE SQUIDS HONEY :D ( ugh even though I'm feeling very bloated I want to eat them all again naooo )
Beef Satays!
Stepmom ordered something called "Roti John" apparently some English man came to SG and ordered Bread with Eggs and got this and so this dish has been created! Kinda like French Toast I guess.
Had a nice stroll and icecream after dinner :D I went to buy the Atap Seed icecream. I again can't describe this taste, abit like coconut ? But it was really good, I had it that day I had to take my Oath and now again! It's yummmm (:
Atap Seed looks like this, sorta like Nata de Coco, which is the jelly you can put inside Bubble Tea, not the pearls but the Clear Jelly toppings if you've eaten them before. Wikipedia says this thing is called Nyca Fruticans, I really have no idea what fruit or thing this is but it tastes good in ice cream form (:
Saw someone wake-boarding, but this person didn't fall off XD it's always funny watching teehee
OH GOODNESS I've reached the end. I'm about to collapse. I hope you had a great weekend like I did !~
Goodnight everybawddeeeee.
Labels: atap seed, barfi, cycling, ecp, family, half-pipe, ice cream, jetty, mce, sambal, skates, ubongo, underwater tunnel
bits of me revealed at ..
11:22 PM.
