The Mingles

Moved!

2009-05-26T03:51:00.002+08:00

No more blogging here!

End of this phase!

Moved to:

http://misschua.blogspot.com

The key to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person, it's learning to love the person you found.

2009-05-13T03:23:00.004+08:00

EVERY relationship has a cycle. In the beginning, you fell in love with your spouse / partner . You anticipated their call, wanted their touch, and liked their idiosyncrasies (unconventional behavior/habit).

Falling in love with your spouse wasn't hard. In fact, it was a completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn't have to DO anything. That's why it's called "falling" in love... Because it's happening TO YOU .

People in love sometimes say, "I was swept of my feet." Think about the imagery of that __expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something came along and happened TO YOU.

Falling in love is easy It's a passive and spontaneous experience. But after a few years of marriage, the euphoria(excitement) of love fades. It's the natural cycle of EVERY relationship Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse's idiosyncrasies , instead of being cute, drive you nuts.

The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship, but if you think about your marriage, you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.

At this point, you and/or your spouse might start asking, "Did I marry the right person?" And as you and your spouse reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when marriages breakdown People blame their spouse for their unhappiness and look outside their marriage for fulfillment.

Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity is the most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your marriage. It lies within it. I'm not saying that you couldn't fall in love with someone else. You could.

And TEMPORARILY you'd feel better. But you'd be in the same situation a few years later. Because (listen carefully to this):

THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON; IT'S LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND.

SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. It'll NEVER just happen to you. You can't "find" LASTING love.. You have to "make" it day in and day out. That's why we have the __expression "the labor of love." Because it takes time, effort, and energy And most importantly, it takes WISDOM . You have to know WHAT TO DO to make your marriage work.

Make no mistake about it. Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your spouse) to succeed with your marriage. Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships.

Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in your relationship WILL make your marriage stronger. It's a direct cause and effect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable... you can "make" love.

A day of Fishball Girl

2009-05-06T00:38:00.004+08:00

Just came back from Joey's wedding chalet from Pasir Ris, the place is kind of "ulu" to me as it's quite deep inside Elias Road, actually any place that don't belong to the north sounds "ulu" to me, haha. I am a mountain tortoise from Yishun and I am proud of it, hoho! She is actually one of my staff and the thing I want to mention is that she's 24, which is also my age! Seriously, I still cant imagine me getting married at this stage of my life, it feels so weird for me to think that I am someone's wife. Scary!!

But for my dear friends, you all can get married soon ya, cause I can't wait to attend my buddies' wedding! Haha!

Back to something more demoralising, work is ... ... once again speechless.

D'julz at Zouk

2009-05-02T22:53:00.015+08:00

Was at Zouk last night to celebrate Wilfred's 30th birthday and also to catch D'julz as well. As usual it was mingster's recommendation as mingster is very into tech house and D'julz has been a DJ/producer he's been into since the early days of his DJ-ing. He plays quite alot of D'julz's productions. But yesterday night Zouk was pretty empty, we were guessing probably it's due to the opening of Butterfactory + the many other parties going on last nite, haha.

Back to my rantings, recently I've got so much shits to complain to my friends and just bitching non-stop. But I just couldn't help it, it's like the actions of those people are just intolerable and disgusting and gross and yucks and shitty and ...... (it really can goes on and on).

I am freaking tired and feeling shitty cause I lost my two precious off day (Yesterday's a PH + Sat's my off day) due to some reason which is not supposed to be my problem, but end up somehow it became my problem.

Ok, actually I am not sure whether you guys understand what I have written, I can't/ won't/ don't want to describe it in details but one thing for sure is it's freaking irritating.

Cam-whore pics from Zouk :

Plain fucking mood

2009-05-01T10:34:00.002+08:00

I am out to suffer.

Back for suffering too.

Paris Hilton's My New BFF

2009-04-28T00:49:00.003+08:00

Peeps!

If you all like bimbo, no brainer tv show like I do, such as America next top model or Project Runway etc, I've got a new ( not exactly very new) one to recommend you guys!

Paris Hilton's My New BFF! I would rate this the most bimbotic and lame among the ones I have watched, but still it's not a bad choice for passing time. By the way, I spent a full whole sunday to watch it, non-stop marathon, haha. I know I am hopeless.

That's why I told you I am getting dumber.

"TTYN" (After watching it, you will know what it means, haha)

The link to watch it online:

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/parisbff/videos-full-episodes.jhtml

It's not as easy as it seems, so shut your mouth.

2009-04-28T00:30:00.006+08:00

Work has been.. what should I say.. speechless.

Looking/ playing with him makes me happy, my cutest sai boi.

I think I'm going insane, starting to talk to non-living things.

I'm getting dumber.

My face is rotting. Real bad.

2009-04-26T18:29:00.005+08:00

My complexion is so damn jialat, scars all over, it's like never ending pimples popping out. Ahhhhhhhh...!! Rotting rotting rotting.. Super demoralised.

Trimmed my hair.

Bought Katjes Jellies.

Bought Coco Chex and HL milk.

New notebook for the year.

Above photo by mingster.

Just another rotting day with a ROTTEN face of mine!!!

The weather is killing me!

2009-04-25T18:03:00.008+08:00

Why is the weather so hot??!? For the past whole week, the weather is so hot and humid and suffocating! It's like the air blowing out from the fan is warm and even after your shower, within 5 mins you will start feeling sticky again. ARGH!!

What has the world become to? Is this like some sort of global warming?

Save the earth. Save the earth.

Some of the few munchies I'm addicted to recently:

Katjes fruit Jellies! This is a new flavour that's brought in to Singapore. So far after trying so many flavours, I still prefer the raspberry hearts flavour! My all time favourite!

Japanese yeast bread that I bought from a mini mart at my house downstairs. It was surprisingly soft and yummy! The texture is indescribable, you really have to taste it to know what I am talking about.

A cadbury chocolate egg. Mingster bought it from the airport for me, he likes to buy new chocos for me to try out. =) So, the size of it is about an actual egg and I didn't know that there's fillings inside and it tastes like condensed milk, but what I want to say is that it's freaking sweet! Way too sweet! It felt as though after eating it, you are gonna have diabetes soon, haha.

Canon Ixus 100 IS

2009-04-25T15:13:00.003+08:00

OMG! This is so damn nice! I love the matt black and the red! Saw the black one in real, it's super gorgeous and the price is very reasonable as well, cost $469. I want one of these!! But it's so hard to catch up with IT products man, it's like never ending and will always have nicer and more powerful stuffs coming up, argh.

Anybody interested in my Canon Ixus 70? Haha..

Newly added

2009-04-22T22:55:00.005+08:00

Happy Earth Day people!

Hope you guys did something "green" today to show your love to our Earth.

Ok, back to my life.

A new card given to me by mingster! Basically, he will always make it a point to make me a new card on different occasions and I love handmade cards loads. But I looked so ugly in this card, argh! Cause he says I am always irritated when he spins and complaining he's disturbing my TV session. Whatever.

But I still love the card, it's exactly like my room!

My newly added DW-6900! It belongs to a series called Men in Black aka matt black Red Eye Pack, which is military special forces inspired and supposed to be a Japanese exclusive, I'm surprised the series came to Singapore! Somehow it reminds me of Batman, haha but still it's darn nice!

As usual, we bought the new Stussy magazine and the freebie this time was good! A notebook with a leather stussy cover, so nice.

Lastly, it's an eco-friendly reusable shopping bag we bought at Metro. It's from this brand called Envirosax that produces environmentally friendly bags with designer prints on it. It's made of waterproof lightweight polyester so that you can bring it around without adding to the weight of your bag and the best part is that it can be rolled up and packed away!

Stop using plastic bags and bring your own shopping bag. Anyway it costs $12.90.

Visit http://www.envirosax.com/ if you all are interested to see what designs they have. The kids series are all so cute! Love it!

I miss having off days on weekdays

2009-04-22T00:19:00.010+08:00

Took leave today and spent the whole day with mingster walking around town. I miss those days where my off days are on a weekday cause I really hate crowds and squeezing with people.

Nike x Hideout Air Woven Footscape vs Air Max 90 V-Day 2008 edition

Late lunch at Fish & Co.

As usual we ordered food that's more than 2 persons portion, a seafood platter for 2 + a fish and chips. Hellava Full!

Close up shots to let you guys how yummy it was, hoho. Shit, I am hungry again.

We tried our best to finish up all the seafood and leave the rice and chips behind.

It's Paragon time.

Surprisingly, there was this Gucci tote bag that I think was not too bad and the pricing is also quite reasonable for the brand. It's $680. I mean I was never a label person ( I love streetwear!), but $680 for a Gucci bag should be kinda cheap right. * worth considering!

Banana pudding from Muji. It sucks, tastes like cough syrup to me. Waste my $2.30!!

Acting tourists and taking shots with the Courtesy Lion! Haha.

Mingster likes this window display of Hermes at Galleria, particularly this weird USB thumb-drive freak with handphone charging cables as hands. Looks kind of dumb but yet creative to me, haha.

And over at Galleria, I saw this Marc Jacobs bag that I like too! Should I or should I not?

An artsy shot from mingster. Guess what is this?

Answer: A macro shot of a straw.

Home sweet home.

Fishball Family's Birthday!

2009-04-20T19:50:00.008+08:00

Blk Fish Building
Fishy Street 2004
Singapore 200407

Date: 200409

Hi Fishball Boy!

Happy 2nd Anniversary!

Though at times you are irritating and constantly pissing me off (haha..), I still truly appreciate the nice and sweet things you did for me. =)

Lub you!

The one and only,
Fishball Girl

Another clip of the day

2009-04-18T17:36:00.004+08:00

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Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent.

Seems like right now she's the hottest search on Youtube. She's a 47 year old Scottish who looked unattractive and so ordinary that the judges and the audience were so skeptic that she won't have a good vocal. But she proved them wrong! Her vocal performance amazed the crowd and instantly she gained her fame by singing " I Dreamed a Dream" (though I dont know how to appreciate this kind of song genre, haha).

Still, I was kinda moved at the end of the clip when I can almost feel the joy from her expressions. Nice.

Lindsay Lohan makes fun of herself.

2009-04-18T16:32:00.011+08:00

Lindsay Lohan's eHarmony Profile from Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan.

One of my favourite Hollywood celebrities despite all her crazy actions, being a hardcore clubber, alcholic bla bla bla, I still love her style and is always clinged to all her news.

This is an eHarmony ad she did for Funny or Die which she practically makes fun of herself, feeling kinda pathetic for her that she has to be in such a state, but still..

Kudos Lindsay!

Still Irritating Shit.

2009-04-16T22:47:00.006+08:00

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Hate it! Hate it! Hate it!

Shitass people are always non appreciative and constantly asking for more without giving any form of encouragement. You just talk without using your shitty brain and taking everything that has been done for granted. I would never want to be like you for being such evil and treating your surrounding people like trash.

Bloody %$@%^&!*$%!!

I want to believe that all human beings are kind in nature.

I want to believe that when you treat someone good, he will be good to you too.

I want to believe that when someone is good to you, he's not being hypocritical.

Just be simple people, don't complicate yourself.

Irritating shit.

2009-04-14T23:30:00.011+08:00

I can't describe in words just how irritated and pissed off I am due to some sort of reasons. No matter how much bitching I do is still not enough to rant out all my "pek chek-ness".

Pain in my ass you shitty people.

Holiday. Holiday. When will my next one be? Planning planning.

Shall I go Taipei? or Japan? or nearby places like KL? I want a break!

Anyway shall pop by Tampines soon, it seems like Uniqlo is so hyped up now, but that time when I went to HK's Uniqlo outlet, I was not able to find a single item to buy. But Serene! I was amazed by how much you spent at Uniqlo man, hahaha!

My last weekend at City Hall with mingster before heading to Pauline's birthday party.

Just love the colour accent function of my Canon camera.

The new Canon Ixus 100IS is so damn nice! Especially the red and black ones! Why can't we trade in old cameras? They should make it like how handphone trade-in works, it will be so much better for alot of pple! Haha.

Late late lunch over at Northpoint. The mee pok is kinda nice, it has a strong vinegar taste which me and mingster like!

Splash of red.

Desigual.

One of the shops we saw at Marina Square. Was attracted to their tees, it's not that I like the designs or what, it's the tees' prints and colours were too eye catching. But the tees are crazily expensive, like $150 for a tee, wth.

Mama's Chilli Crab

2009-04-12T20:00:00.018+08:00

My dearest mummy cooked chilli crab for me! But I had a hard time buying the crabs from NTUC, I think I spent almost 20mins picking the crabs and getting it into the plastic bags, it's scary!
Here's a last look of the two crabs that will be part of my soon to be shit. *smile*

Ta dah! Yummy! And the best part is it only costs us $7 for 2 crabs!

Sometimes the sight of his shoes is killing me!! My room looks like a warehouse! Argh..

Clips of how the crabs are slashed by my mum! Haha ok, I know it might seems cruel but it's just that we are not used to see how food was prepared before it was being served. So, it's a norm.

Harper's Island tonight!

2009-04-12T14:26:00.005+08:00

Finally! Harper's Island!

The trailer on tv looks awesome! Each week there will be a victim killed by the killer among them. Can't wait to watch the first episode tonight, hope it's a good one!

Re-cap on Science centre!

2009-04-10T16:53:00.014+08:00

It's Good Friday! Which means it's a public holiday! Love being at home so much.

Anyway finally has the time to write on my visit to the Science Centre with mingster last month. It's really a great and fun place to visit, a highly recommended place for my friends who might want a different place to go to during the weekends other than the boring shit Orchard Road.

Deciding whether to watch "Sea Monsters" or " The Alps".

In the end due to the time constraint, we had to watch "Sea Monsters" instead of "The Alps".

Can you all see there's actually two faces talking to each other?

Mini Tornado.

We love our Planet Earth.

Camwhore with mirror reflection.

I felt so stupid doing this thing! Haha, it's like you got to look into the mirror and by looking at the reflection you have to try to draw out the outline of the different shapes and I couldn't do it when mingster can! I am such a stupid ass! Haha!

The tail looks creepy, haha.

A nice collage I did with our poses in nice rainbow colours of our shadows.

My fatty palm.

Life size soft toy.

I love the following photos, we looked like the characters inside a fairytale storybook, haha.

mingster = Germs. Haha..

This thing is amazing! Can you see what's on the reflection in the pillar? Cool.

On our way to the Omni-theatre!

"Sea Monsters" was great! It made me feel like I was in the deep ocean with those creatures although it was just an animation. But I think that "The Alps" will definitely be even better cause it's a real life documentary and the scenery will surely blow me away.

I will be back Omni-theatre! Yeap!

I want a Vespa!

2009-04-07T23:46:00.008+08:00

Why is modern vespa so expensive? I thought bikes are like cheap deals one right? From my research, for a brand new LX 150 OTR price is about $7500 and GTS125 will be $10000. Hmm, not as cheap as I thought, kinda sian by the pricing. Argh! But for vintage vespa is like super damn cheap la, I think should be able to find it for 1k and plus some painting/ repair job probably around 2-3k. But I still prefer modern vespa, it's safer I guess.

GTS 125, so nice right! But it just don't sound too right for me to use that amount of money to buy a scooter. But I still love it.

This is another alternative, which is more affordable. But I find that it's a bit slimmer compare to the GTS, we shall see then, anyway I haven't even got my licence yet. Wahaha, I am daydreaming.

Mr President

2009-04-05T00:39:00.001+08:00

An interesting clip I took previously at Science Centre.

KTV Session @ Partyworld

2009-04-04T22:21:00.007+08:00

Met up with the girls last night! Ate my late dinner at Cineleisure with Serene while waiting for Wingkei and the pasta at Cine foodcourt was surprisingly good! Yum! Anyway we loitered for awhile before heading to the Partyworld beside Lido, not sure what the building name is. We kinda like this Partyworld as it's much more cleaner and everything seems newer and even the air smells fresher, Haha! I just love singing!

La la la la...

Yummy pasta!

Loads of cam whore pics! Snap snap!

Good good loving your green green world.

2009-04-02T23:59:00.013+08:00

Let it be green..

and yellow, purple, blue ......

L E S L E Y . C H U A

2009-04-01T23:40:00.003+08:00

I need a freaking break!

Sick of everyday.

Restless. Lethargic.

I gotta find things that will perk me up!

Bloody daga tiga bada shiat.

Just blabbling away. Ignore me.

Trip to Science Centre's Omni Theatre!

2009-03-29T17:29:00.007+08:00

Mingster and I went to Science Centre and also watched an IMAX movie at the Omni theatre! It was so much fun! We wanted to watch "The Alps" initially but due to the time constraint we watched "Sea Monsters" instead, but still I simply love watching movies in the Omni theatre, so it doesn't really matter. Will update again after I upload the photos to my com!

After that, we went to IMM to settle our dinner at Pepper Lunch and I got to eat my meat! Haha, I simply love beef! Anyway I think IMM has changed so much since the last time I was there, I think there's like a new extension to the mall and it looks so much modern now compared to last time.

Anyway, did you switch off your lights yesterday night? Hope you did. Since we were out, so we didn't get to switch off watever lights but we experienced Earth Hour out on the streets! We are glad that restaurants like Fish & Co., McDonald's, and Long John Silver's made an effort in switching off unnecessary lights, Yeah!! But other eateries such as Mos Burger, Ajisen (seems like Japanese and local companies don't give a fuck over such things), etc and so many more were ignoring this campaign.

Ok! Out for dinner!

Let's Support Earth Hour!

2009-03-26T23:15:00.007+08:00

Hi peeps! A gentle reminder to all my friends and anyone out there reading this blog, this Saturday, 28 March 2009, kindly switch off all lights from 8.30pm- 9.30pm to support the Earth Hour! Let's play our parts and make a difference together and be kind to our planetary home for at least an hour to show that we do care and love for the world we are living in. Cheers!

Back to me. I have been thinking of picking some foreign languages recently and I think I am kinda interested in French! Haha, I find it such a beautiful language and from some French movies that I've watched, France seems to be a stunning place. Ahh.. let's hope I am able to find some cheap deal packages that provide French classes, hoho.

Other than this, I am also planning to learn ....... well, I shall not disclose it yet, haha. Wait till I really put in the effort to start making all the necessary arrangements before letting I reveal it to you guys, wahaha!

Sunday.

2009-03-22T17:05:00.010+08:00

Just finished watching my 4 hours non-stop Hong Kong drama, it's those typical love story but still got addicted to it, haha. My munchy for the day is a white choc with macadamia nuts cake from Secret Recipe that mingster bought for me. *ching*

Dug out some old pics. It's the curry fishballs that I bought from HK's 7-Eleven! Bought two bowls back to Singapore. I miss HK food!!!

*Drum rolls*

My new friend!

We call him "Sai Boi" aka shit boy! Haha, he's so damn cute la and he totally represents me as I believe all my friends should know that I love shit! Wahaha, shit/poop was always part of my lecture notes, it's just all over them. And one of my favourite phrase is," Go eat shit!" Haha.

FBF photo session:

(Yishun)

BluJaz + Zouk

2009-03-21T23:48:00.012+08:00

Went to BluJaz to support mingster last night and his set was good! But I guess not all of my friends know how to appreciate minimal and tech house, haha. But still I like it! I feel that mingster's stuffs sounded much better than the other forms of house music I heard. Well, just my taste and opinion...

Here are a few pics taken at BluJaz: (will upload pics taken from Zouk soon)

Later on in the night, we headed down to Zouk and it was fun staying at Winebar having a camwhore session, haha. And it was rare for me to stay in Phuture until 4am! I have to mention here that I started off liking R&B music when I was young but as I get older, I find that those "grinding" moves are getting too out my league, haha! I still prefer the music policy of Zouk main room, kudos!

Stayed at Zouk till 5am plus and by the time I reached home plus all the washing up etc, its already almost 7am! So, I slept like a log until 230pm and I felt that my off day is so wasted cause almost half of the day was gone!! And the worst part is I fell asleep just now at 7pm! Haha, woke up at 10pm which was not too long ago! So, to simplify my day, I did nothing but just eat and sleep like a freaking pig, haha.

Ming Knackle at BluJaz Tomorrow!

2009-03-20T00:49:00.013+08:00

Yoz people! Mingster will be spinning at BluJaz tomorrow which is a Friday at 10pm, so come down if you guys are free ya! It's located at Bali Lane which is just next to Haji Lane.

Okay, back to me. Im super freaking tired, this week is a long long week, I need my two weekends off!! Yesterday was a super long day, had meeting at 9am and all the way until 8pm. And as usual, I will fell asleep on the sofa unknowingly and in the middle of the night I will wake up to bathe and wash up. I know I am a dirty ass. But I am really super tired and my face has rotted all due to my laziness of not removing my make up before I sleep!! Argh!

Something that makes me happy recently:

Subway has opened an outlet at Northpoint! Hooray!

Mingster posing with a huge Playmobil police man, haha. Note they had similar colour outfits!

My Fingercroxx x Ricky Powell tee that I bought in Hong Kong previously, nicey.

It's bathing time.

Fishball Family loves G-shock!

2009-03-16T22:29:00.010+08:00

Introducing our new G-shock member! A navy blue Mudman that we bought a few days back! It's a cheap deal by the way, hoho.

Here's my Mudman family.

(From left: Special edition Multi-band 5 Mudman, new-kid-on-the-block navy blue Mudman, special edition Toyota Racing Team x Casio G-shock Mudman, army green Mudman.)

These two DW-6900s shown below are the ones we bought in Hong Kong. They are not cheap man, especially the blue one which is a limited edition, crossover collaboration between LRG (Lifted Research Group) and G-shock. But both colours are so damn nice! Totally love it!

These are my DW-6900s. =)

(From left: Precious Hearts Collection black dial, Precious Hearts Collection white dial, commemorative yellow DW-6900 re-issue, limited edition LRG x Casio G-shock DW-6900, black/neon green DW-6900, liver red DW-6900.)

My box where my G-shock family resides in! If you're interested in the box, it's from Ikea. This is only part of our G-shock collection though, there are some others which you can see in the box which I have not officially done any writeups about, like mingster's Frogmans, and my DW-5600s. Anyways, I want to have a proper showcase next time for my G-shocks and also mingster's Nike shoe collection.

I wish. I wish. I wish...

Recap of Mingster's Birthday.

2009-03-15T16:15:00.012+08:00

Okay, finally got the mood to write about mingster's birthday celebration. Basically I took a half day leave intending to go cycle with him at east coast park and have our dinner there. But everything on that day was out of the plan! Because of the bloody rain, we were not able to cycle and worst still the restaurant (it's Mingles!) that I wanted to bring him to eat is closed down! How "lucky" can it be, shitasses.

Mingster came to my workplace at Kallang to meet me.

The underpass that is link to East Coast Park.

This underpass gives me a creepy feeling, hoho.

Haiz, rainy weather. Due to the weather, we were not able to cycle and we gotta walk for about 30mins to reach Playground@ Big Splash! So bloody long!!

So, we took lots of photos on our way walking there. Haha.

Ya right, this is Mingles and why is it not opened?!?!?! #!%$&*@@!!

Due to not much selection in that area, mingster chose Carl's Junior and not Sushi Tei?! I guess he didnt want me to spend so much on the meal. Stupid boy, haha.

Beef cheese fries!

Posing with the super huge onion ring.

This is not camera angle, the burger is really damn huge! It's just right beside my face and it's the same size as my face!

Stupid mingster went to try one of these hot chilli pepper and he totally regretted it! Haha, he had to drink half of his peppermint smoothie to overcome the hotness!

Our bill. For a fastfood, $30 is quite expensive right?

We took part in a lucky draw and also wrote a feedback form, haha. We were too free as we were not able to cycle!! I want to cycle~

Nice view.

Stupid pose of me that looked like a thief.

Ming's Hut! Haha, it's actually a portion of a standee outside one of a restaurant.

Later in the night, we went to Parkway Parade. Ok, I have to say that I am never a east person, places like Siglap, Marine Parade, Joo Chiat, Katong sounds very alien to me, haha I am so loser lo. But it's really so inaccessible for people like me that lives in Yishun!

I love yoghurt! The topping is pomegranate, one of mingster's favourtie fruit juice choice.

Back home.

Mingster was so tired that he dozed off on the sofa and I got to wake him up at 12am to cut his cake, haha. Oh ya, anyway the celebration was one day before his actual birthday.

A mini birthday card that I have made.

Present present! The black wrapper is so cool!

Ta dah! Sennheiser HD25-13 II headphone! It's not an ordinary headphone that you can find at shops like HMV or some electrical shops k, I got to go all the way to Farrer Park to buy it and it costs quite a bomb. Haha, I shall not say the actual price.

Mingster, let's go cycle soon!

FUCK YOU Te Ya!!

2009-03-14T18:49:00.004+08:00

The monster company is here to haunt me AGAIN! Argh, it's really so fucking irritating to explain the whole situation to them everytime and I guess they dont give shit too, cause all people that wanted to terminate and not paying the fees are more or less giving the same reason, which is being conned/ misled by them! And that's what they are famous for! SCAMS! Assholes!!!

It's been almost 3 years and they are still so persistent in demanding back the fees. Fucking shit! Went online to search for abit of info and it seems that even CASE are not able to do anything to help the consumers.

AHHHHHH!! Freaking PISSED!

Mingster!

2009-03-10T11:46:00.003+08:00

Yoz!

Happy Birthday Mingster!!

Hope you like your present ya!

Though the Carl's Junior and the rain were not part of the plan. Argh. Haha.

Coming Soon.

2009-03-08T14:25:00.002+08:00

On my way out to watch the latest Thai horror movie," Coming soon"! Super excited over this movie, hopefully it won't disappoint me, hoho.

Hong Kong Trip Day 3 and last day

2009-03-08T11:52:00.023+08:00

Day 3. Once again, it's shopping time!

Stupid boy. Haha.

Finally, we went to the Japanese restaurant that's always ridiculously having a long queue to have our lunch. Anyway we now know the reason why this restaurant is so famous! After coming back to Singapore, we happened to saw this HK drama on cable tv that's about food which was filmed at this restaurant and has a storyline revolving around some characters in the drama working in this restaurant! So coincidental! Guess it's god's will to answer our query, haha. We guess that should be the reason why this restaurant was always so packed and had a consistent queue outside when the food was only so-so.

Mama: Unagi Don

Once again as always, mingster made the wrong choice when it comes to ordering his food, haha! This curry tasted like those House brand instant Japanese curry where you can buy from supermarkets and cook it yourself at home.

Mine: Beef Ramen (I still prefer the one at Cuppage!)

On our way to search for a streetwear/sneaker joint - Exit by doublepark. It was so fucking hard to locate! All thanks to the misleading map that we had! It actually has the shop location marked on the wrong street!! OMG! $@#!$%&%^#!!!

Checking and double-checking the two maps/shopping guide we had on hand looking for the elusive Exit by doublepark store.

FINALLY!!!! The freaking "underground" place. (It's literally underground! haha!). This shop was very reminiscent of the Surrender store at Far East Plaza last time. A minimalistic, dimly lit corridor with artwork by Futura and other street artists greeted us as we reached the bottom of the flight of stairs leading down into the basement. The store's interiors were very similar to our own Surrender store as well - tees and other apparels hung on lighted racks along the walls, while small bookcase-like shelves stood in the middle of the spacious minimalist shop space. Mngster's initial enthusiasm and anticipation slowly dissipated as we walked through the shop. He was basically there to check out the range of limited edition footwear they have as it was supposedly a place that retails limited edition shoes. His disappointment was utter at the very end of our visit. There was nothing that caught his eyes. Personally, I also think that our very own Leftfoot and LE stores have a much better range of shoes.

But amidst all the disappointment, how could we spare a chance for our infamous FBF photo whore session? Haha. We began to act emo, act cool, etc, hohoho. No la, we simply love photography! Well, Mama and I still managed to find a Fingercroxx tee each which we like and bought!

Im super proud of this pic! Don't you think the lighting is freaking darn nice?! Hoho.

Another nice pic that I took, looks like a wallpaper.

Forgot what shop this is, but we were attracted to the human size Kaws figurine.

It's dessert time at 许留山again! The names of the desserts are cute, especially the 多芒亮晶晶, haha.

This is 亮晶晶!

mingster's 黑糯米。

mama's steamed egg.

This Milan Station signboard conned mingster into believing that it was a real exit of a MTR station! Haha, it's actually a shop that sells 2nd hand designer bags.

Harbour City.

The ferry ticket price is so cheap! Only SG$0.30!!

The "tickets", which were basically tokens.

On board!

Nice scenic views from the ferry ride. Too bad we didn't have a chance to take the ride at night, the sceneries will be even nicer during the night.

On our way to the destination, 牛腩面 here we come!

Yaya, we gotta climb the super steep slope again to eat the 牛腩面, you can see from the pic above that my mummy (white tee with sling bag in the background behind mingster) was struggling to climb up the slope, she was super tired out lo.

Ta dah! Remember the 牛腩面 shop mentioned in an ealier entry that's closed on our first visit there? This is it! Anyway, though the food was superb, the service there sux! There was a very smug man sitting by its cashier counter by the entrance with a very "haolian" expression on his face at all time. Well, popularity and fame breed arrogance at times I suppose.

The food is seriously yummy, I miss the FOOD!!!!

This machine is dumb to the max! Why must they limit only one note per transaction?!?! We were stuck at the machine for quite some time thinking how come the machine just wouldn't accept the notes we put in until we saw the notice above the note slot! OMG! This machine is so not tourist friendly!

Supper for me! 鱼蛋 from 7-Eleven.

A photo of some of the things that we bought!

My new wallet! I've been using my previous Porter wallet for almost 6 years, it's time to change!

End of Day 3.

Logically speaking, though we were there for four days three nights, we had no Day 4. It's because our return flight to Singapore was at 11am! Thus we had to wake up at 730am to eat our breakfast and then check on out and go straight to the airport immediately after that. So sad. The cons of getting a cheap Jetstar deal.

Our final day's hotel breakfast spread.

Mama liked this 水煮蛋 (hard boiled egg)。

This is Hong Kong airport's new terminal, kinda felt and looked like our Terminal 3.

Mingster's suspicious looking yet shouting-out-loud red Nike bag.

Quite a cool shot Mingster took of me, making use of the slight reflection in the glass of the bus we were on.

Passing by some landfall, making a nice photo.

Back in Singapore! A thunderstorm greeted us.

Anyway Im planning for our next trip, should be going Taipei again, hopefully can be sometime this year end, woohoo!

Get a life!

2009-03-02T22:49:00.007+08:00

I can't stand typical Singaporeans.

Why are we brought up in a system that only lawyer, doctors, engineers or teachers are jobs that's respected by others and whereas sales associate, waitress or anything that's in the service line are jobs that are think lowly and also paid lowly? Musician, photographer, artist will always be an unrealistic dream in Singapore.

No one has the right to judge others, so long u enjoy what you are doing! It is so much better than those asses thinking that as though the extra few k that they are earning, they are more superior/mighty/clever/highly than the others.

Lead a life of your own.

Hong Kong Day 2

2009-02-26T22:25:00.019+08:00

A view of our hotel room. Getting ready to go out!

My signature pose with mingster's ugly Stash x Nike Air Max 95, haha.

Our hotel location: Yau Ma Tei

The 3 Musketeers

On the way to Sheung Wan to eat the super famous Wanton Mee!

Here we are!

The menu. Actually the pricing are not that cheap for such a small portion of mee, but after tasting it, we find that it's so worth it! It's really very yummy, the wanton is so crunchy and the soup is so sweet and tasty.

超级无敌好吃的云吞!

也是超好吃的水饺!

Mingster was so happy that he found a paint stain on the streets that's in the exact same shade of blue as his Stash Air Max 95, crazy ass.

These are small stalls that will be opened during the night.

H&M. Basically to me it's just another Topshop. The pricing is not really that cheap, but the people there were crazily shopping and putting so many items into their baskets as though the items were 3 for $10.

Spent like almost 45mins in deciding whether to buy this blazer that im wearing in the above pic! I like the cut and fit alot but it cost SG$80 and I'm afraid that I might just wear it like a few times and then dump it in my cupboard, so after some careful thoughts I decided not to get it. But it really looks kinda nice hor, haha.

Photos. Photos. Photos!

On our way climbing up the steep slope of Gough Street to search for the 九记牛腩面 (Kau Kee Beef Brisket Noodles). The slope is 1:70! But mingster says it's no match with the one in San Francisco.

We found it! But guess what, the bloody shop is closed on Sundays!! Wat the hell~

So, we have to come back again the next day.

Next stop, Stussy HK Chapter store!

Stopped for desserts 龟苓膏 + mingster's favourite 杏仁糊 (almond paste). (It's gross for me!)

Mingster and I learnt something new from our stop by this dessert store! 龟苓膏 is actually made from grilling the tortoises' shells and then grinding them into ashes! So we are actually killing poor tortoises by wanting their shells! Mingster is so traumatised by this fact which was the reason why he didn't order one for himself. Being an animal lover, he also swore never to eat 龟苓膏 again.

大发现! The famous 烧腊店that's recommended by the well known 美食家(forgot his name, haha) and many celebrities as well. We simply stumbled across this shop! Lucky us!

烧味双拼 = 烧鸭 + 烧肉

Though it looks kinda oily, but it's so tender and juicy! It's not very salty and with the mustard dip provided, it's OMG! I miss it so damn much!

We bought a pair of Converse shoes for mummy! She hearts it.

Ta-dah! Our ultimate destination :- Stussy Hong Kong Chapter store! Mingster was so happy to be visiting an actual Stussy Chapter store for the first time! And all the stuffs inside thrilled him. His biggest excitement :- the Stussy x Neighbourhood x Nike "Boneyards" Terminator was still available for sale there! He had been wanting to get the all black version, and it was right there! The all black Terminator is really nice and the price is such a steal! Retail price with a 20% discount! Mingster simply grinned from ear to ear, haha. We also browsed around for tees, and managed to find a few we liked. We learnt from the 2 salespersons that the 20% discount applied storewide, and we got so happy. I bought two tees, one of which was a super nice Stussy x Delta collaboration piece, and Mingster bought a past season's limited edition Stussy x record store Turntable Labs piece which he missed out that time and he simply couldn't let it go once again. There were quite a few pieces which Mingster wanted to get actually, but he decided to get only the shoe and one tee in order not to overspend, haha.

Btw, the 2 sales guys working there were super funny, they are probably around 16, 17 yrs old and they just anyhow gave us discounts, haha. All togther they gave us a discount totalling SG$120+! That's like damn alot lo!

The super old 重庆森林大厦 (Chungking Mansions), the location where the film "Chungking Express" was filmed at.

Mingster taking a shot at the entrance to DFS Galleria HK.

Silvercord. A youth mall, sort of like our very own Far East Plaza, where lotsa streetwear brands have their shops. We were amazed to see Food Republic there, and so is Breadtalk and Toast Box! Haha, it certainly felt like Singapore for a moment. It feels kinda weird to see such local stuffs we are used to seeing back home in a foreign place. At Silvercord, we came across a rugged wear shop which carries Gregory brand bags. We actually had plans to head over to Harbour City which was a gigantic mall just across the street from Silvercord to hunt for the Gregory bag store which I visited the last time I was in HK, but luckily we didn't decide to stop by Harbour City first coz this shop at Silvercord is exactly the very same shop which we were intending to search for at Harbour City. They have moved over to Silvercord! Phew!!

Bought this red Xlarge cap for myself!

Buying tickets to Fa Yuen Street to visit the shoe stores there again.

Ate our dinner at this restaurant near Fa Yuen Street which is famous for its claypot rice.

Don't get shocked by the look of this dish, haha. If you are not a intestines/glizzards lover, you will definitely think this is super gross, but don't be deceived by it's ugly appearance, it tastes good! From my experience, so long the intestines are cleaned thoroughly, it won't have any weird smell or taste. So, an advice for anyone heading to HK and wanting to try this dish -- don't buy from street stalls, go to a proper restaurant to have a taste of it.

Oh ya! Anyway these is 牛杂，a mixture of a cow's intestines and other innards, a local delicacy. Hoho.

Here's a super good example of how never to judge anything by its appearance :- At first, Mingster thought that this 牛肚 looked very gross, but after coaxing him to try a little, he actually found it super tasty, and he's now a fan! Haha!

Mingster's order : 田鸡砂煲饭

Mine : 海鲜砂煲饭

After dinner, we walked around Fa Yuen Street, but didn't get to buy any shoes. Mingster actually saw a couple he's interested in, but they were not in stock for his size. So, extra money saved and back to hotel.

Mingster's Stussy x NBHD "Boneyards" Terminator!

Postcards that the 2 boys from Stussy gave us. We spent so much there, of course they have to give us some souvenirs la, haha. Typical Singaporeans we are! Just joking. We actually asked them whether we could have some postcards after we saw some being displayed at the cashier counter inside the Stussy store, and the generous boys gave us a whole stack to choose from! Woohoo!!

Some yummy kuehs for dessert before sleeping. It's holiday time, so weight gain time! Haha.

Hong Kong Trip Day 1

2009-02-25T14:04:00.016+08:00

Luckily I took an extra day to rest at home, freaking tired and slept till 11plus. Has it been raining for the past few days? But it's super shiok to stay at home when it's raining, haha. Okok, recap of my Hong Kong trip!

Cam-whore session on the plane.

Nice sunrise shot that mingster took on the plane

Burger King in Chinese: 汉堡王

So cute! Cabs are in different colours representing the different areas of Hong Kong that they drive around. We're headed for Yau Ma Tei, so it's the red cab!

Mingster feeling thrilled in a cab, haha. Everything along the way looked so familiar, it felt like we were part of some Hong Kong TV serial. The last time I went to Hong Kong I didn't get to take a cab, so the cab ride was a brand new experience! Btw, the cab fare was super expensive! The journey from the airport to our hotel was about SG$60! Gosh!

Our Hotel/Lodge: Caritas Bianchi Lodge. It's actually quite clean though the building looks quite old, and the location is good too! A good choice if you don't want to spend too much on lodging.

Mannings?? Isn't that Guardian? Yep, Guardian for SG, Mannings for Hong Kong.

Went to a restaurant (皇冠粥面餐厅) near our hotel to settle our lunch and it was a treat from mama.

A very nice drink that mingster ordered: 西洋菜蜜

Mama's dish: 牛腩面

Mingster's dish: 黑胡椒牛肉饭

Mine is some sort of fish baked rice. They all tasted pretty good! Good start! Haha..

Following are somemore of FBF's photography cam-whore session =)

On the train to our next destination. Basically for our first day, we went around exploring parts like Causeway Bay and the Mongkok area. We didn't buy anything during the first day as we were just browsing around and keeping in mind the items we like and we planned to buy them all in one shot the following day, more shiok! Haha..

Rihanna's news on the MTR. Omg, gossip updates on a public transport!

Following are some of the shops that we went to. It was quite disappointing on the first day cause we couldn't find anything that we like, even if we did, the pricings kept me from buying them. For example, we came upon a Beams store and there was this Beam's checked flannel shirt that's quite nice, but it cost SG$200! What the hell, fucking expensive lo! But expected lah, Japanese labels are like that.

Next came one of the biggest disappointment of the entire trip! The Kura Chika shop that sells Porter Tokyo products in the area is closed! We were looking for it like crazy, referring to a map we brought along from home. We were very very sure we nailed the right location, but the shop just was nowhere in sight! We finally gave up and started asking store assistants working in surrounding shops but no one seemed to know where or what this shop is about, so we guessed it must have closed down for quite some time. Ugh! Fortunately, the Kura Chika counter boutique inside the Sogo departmental store nearby was still around, so we managed to have a look around at the current available Porter Tokyo range.

Edison Chen's shop: Juice (Warning : Sales staff there sux, rude young asses!)

Was stopped by a sales girl from the shop when I took this photo at the entrance of Juice.

Michael Lau's character for his collaboration with Xlarge at the Xlarge corner inside the Doublepark I.T. store.

The Beams tee store mentioned earlier.

The super famous 老婆饼store in Hong Kong.

This mushroom burger was SO expensive! We ordered the set meal and it cost us SG$15.20! OMG!

咖哩鱼丸 + 肠子

Famous sports goods street. An entire stretch of street that sells shoes and other sporting goods. Mingster had been anticipating a visit to this place, but he was super disappointed with the selection of shoes found here. He was expecting to find/see rare shoes in Hong Kong as the sneaker/streetwear culture in HK is very strong, but to his surprise, it's sorta worse than Singapore. Probably all good sneakers were all snatched up clean once they were released, leaving the not-so-good stuffs to remain on the racks.

臭豆腐( really very smelly, like stagnant drain water, but hey, did not taste anything like how it smells!)

Dinner time! Stopping by a random restaurant on our way back.

Hey! Yishun?! Haha, it's a dessert store that sells steamed egg and steamed milk.

This is a Japanese restaurant that's right outside our hotel and we were super amazed by the queue outside the restaurant. Regardless of what time it is, whether it's 11am in the morning or 11pm at night, the seats inside were always fully packed and there would be a long queue outside! So we planned to try it out on our 3rd day. Well, after trying, it's nothing fantastic, dunno what the whoo haa was about. Maybe it's one of the better Japanese food available in HK? *shrugs*

End of Day 1.

Back from Hong Kong!

2009-02-24T18:36:00.013+08:00

Yoohoo! Just came back from Hong Kong! Super tired now, really don't feel like unpacking my luggage. Gotta "nua" at my super comfy sofa first, haha. Anyway, the trip was good! We ate tonnes of yummy food which I didn't get to eat the previous time, cause this time round I really made an effort in searching for all the famous eating places, such as the wanton mee, beef noodle etc. And it's really so so yummy! All of us love it! Will upload the photos soon! *We took loads of photos btw, hoho.*

The shopping was good too, and we sort of spent less than what we intended to. As usual, we bought a couple of Stussy tees and mingster bought a super duper dope item! The Neighbourhood x Stussy "Boneyard" Nike Terminator! And we got it at quite a good price too, think it's around $220 after discount.

Most importantly, *Drum rolls.....* I managed to find the LRG x G-shock DW-6900!!! Hoho, but it's quite pricey to me, it's about $300. But still, we still went back to the store to buy the watch, together with another yellow DW-6900 that mingster likes.

Okok, gotta go pack up abit and will upload pics when I'm free!

I feel lousy.

2009-02-20T22:05:00.003+08:00

I am at home now. And why am I still at home when mingster is spinning at BluJaz now! All because of the stupid mingster! Argghhh.... misunderstanding and always pissing me off with unnecessary comments. I feel like a lousy girlfriend! Bloody shit!

Anyway I shall sleep early and try not to affect my holiday mood tomorrow. Gotta wake up at 4am and I think by then he will be back from BluJaz. Damn sian by the currency rate now, right now I think the exchange rate is $1.00 to HK$5.04 and I haven't change my remainding $500. Previously I've already changed $1000 and the rate is so much better! $1 to HK$5.15! It's all due to my "auntyness", hoping that it might raise but apparently it's not!

Hell Ass!

Three more days!

2009-02-18T22:50:00.004+08:00

A busy busy week for mingster, suppose to have exams today but luckily it's being postpone to next week. He still gotta prepare for his gig this friday night and his Traktor is giving him problems! The program is just not able to detect the vinyl and not able to figure it our what's the deal. Sucks.

Took a half day leave on friday, gonna pack my luggage and I haven't really finalized what will I be wearing in Hongkong! Haha, I'm a vainpot! And so is mingster! Praying hard that it won't rain as it will be so damn hard for us to travel around and mingster will have a hard time walking without staining his shoes. And it's such a painass listening to him whining, haha.

Back to American Idol!

Sunday Blues

2009-02-15T17:35:00.009+08:00

Yawnz, a boring day again cause mingster is working till 1030pm. Went to search for more chick flick movies online so that I can upload to my iphone and can watch it on my way to work. Fnished quite a couple of movies in one shot recently, such as "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", "The Women", "My Best Friend's Girl", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "The Wedding Date" and a lot more.

In love with this 2 G-shock at the moment, the Matte Black Red Eye Pack and LRG x G-shock 6900. So nice!! Hopefully I can find it in hongkong, but I doubt I can find the black matte 6900 cause it's a Japanese release.

Random shits

2009-02-15T01:12:00.007+08:00

Have been staring at the computer for more than 8 hours. Mingster is still not back from work, it's already 130am! I think he will only reach home at about 2 plus, while waiting for him, I shall eat my rocher. Haha.

My DS is spoilt, although I have not been playing it for quite some time, I still have to go and fix it. But I don't even know which is the part that is spoilt, irritating shit.

One of my staffs bought something interesting, it's a extra lens that's able to stick on to the camera's lens and gives you a different effect. I think this is quite cool and they say there's a one which can has the effect like the fisheye camera. Super cool right! And it's only $6 plus from Action City.

Flip to the first page

2009-02-14T16:04:00.012+08:00

It's a brand new site! Not going to use Multiply to blog anymore but will still upload photos through there. It's Valentine's day today! Hmm, I bought a Nike water bottle for mingster! Haha, it's in grey and it totally matches his gregory bag + his laptop case! He bought me Rocher, my favourite of course!

Exactly one more week and I will be in Hongkong! Can't wait to shop and eat non-stop, hopefully by the time we are there, the weather will still be cool and nice. But mingster is gonna be busy busy this week, exams and gig just before the trip. Come down to Blujaz this friday night if you all are free ya. A nice chill out place I suppose. Anyway I don't know how is he going to manage to stay awake when he reaches hongkong as he's gonna stay at BluJaz till 3am and our flight is 7am! Super bad timing for this gig.