the chinese new year feverrr.

i always love chinese new year! for the excuse of getting new clothes and receiving ang baos!
not forgetting, a break from skoool.

so to feel more CNY-ish, small face and i decided to go visit chinatown to squeeze with the rest of the smelly sweaty people - so it feels more like new year. and as expected, the place was packed like sardines.. and people smelt like sardines and felt like sardines ahas. but there was nothing much to see or buy laa, the stores were mostly repetitive.

they had pink doraemons for sale! since when was doraemon pink ahhas. i overheard someone commenting about those pink doraemons and i thought it was funny, "how come the doraemon ballons pink one ah? must be made in china." HAHAS then we saw the cast of little nonya on stage for some lame performance; joanne peh's body is HOTTT.

anyway, small face and i walked ALOT. town-with-alot-of-chinese-people got boring so we decided to walk to raffles place then to clifford pier to one fullerton to esplanade. it didn't seem like alot. but hell, we took three friggin hours just aimlessly roaming around. we were so shagged that i demanded to take cab home instead of NR. the bloody cab fare was 25 moolahs but the taxi driver was driving super fast. his record high was 140km/h. i think his average speed was at least a 110km/h. basket, he can be in TAXI 4 already la hahas

as for new year's eve!, i was trying my best to help mama out with the steamboat preparation lest she nags. mama wanted me to wash the veggies. BASKET I SAW ABOUT 4 WORMS on the greeens. i made pet take pictures of two lucky worms - the thin, black one and the fat, white one. hahas almost describing me and small face.

the spreadd!

a very happy pet waiting for the soup to boil.

a family picture while waiting for the soup to boil...

the soup didn't boil! there wasn't even teeny weeny boiling bubbles on the surface of the soup. all the steamboat machine did was produce weak steam. so you could imagine our whole dinner topic revolved around:

1. how the steamboat machine must be spoilt alr

2. how they need to buy a new steamboat machine

3. is the light on the steamboat machine on

4. is the heat on the steamboat machine set to the highest

sighh. mama ended up having to boil our food on the stove first then transfer it back to the steamboat machine so we can eat. super troublesome. and you know what was the best part? after about two hours, the machine started boiling! huge huge boiling bubbles started appearing only after we all decided to stop eating. BEST. our family must be damn lucky.

anyway, happy lunar new year alll!

while browsing through the pictures in my computer..

i realise i have albums after albums of my friends and small face but it is so hard to even find more than 2 family albums for each year. a point to note: i arrange my albums into years then months and each individual outing in one album each. Plus, i have all these albums dating from 2005. (GEEK!)

i was actually searching hard for decent family pictures or a decent pictures of my parents to send to my aunty so she could compile the tan family tree. but little did i know that i had actually so few pictures of them and with them. can you imagine these were the only few decent pictures i could find?!




it is quite sad actually, because they are my family - the most important people in my life and yet sighh. I suppose people i tend to take them for granted. even for my 21st birthday, i only had 2 family pictures! and i didn't even take a single picture with my mum and dad alone. sigh, i feel so bad now.


even finding pictures of me and pet were quite a toughie, there were too few nice pictures to choose from the very little number of pictures taken. and that makes me even sadder cos pet has, honestly, been the best sister ever - she listens to me, does what i say, buy me food when i'm hungry and never once dared to complain. sighh =((

i was just wondering.. isn't it ironic that when you were younger, about 75% of your pictures always had nice happy pictures of you, your parents and siblings but as you get older, pictures of your family tends to get lesser and you start having more and more albums of your friends and other half instead. I'm not saying that its wrong to have many albums of your friends/bf/gf. it's great, really. but i'm just saying we i should start taking more pictures with my family, for memories and what not - to treasure them as much as we can.

so if you're reading this post, maybe you can flip through your albums and see if you are satisfied with the number of pictures you have with your family. if you're not, maybe it is time we you do something about it.

no school tmr! (:

yes! tutorial balloting results just came out, and i got all my first choices (: no school on tuesday and tuts only on alternate weeks! yaynesss

anyway, my mum kept nagging for us (pet and i) to springclean our rooms for CNY. so yesterday, we each took the whole afternoon to clean our own rooms. and i feel so accomplished cos i cleaned the underneath of my bed, vacuumed my toys, cleared my cupboard, rearranged my display shelf. now my room is spanking clean!

but i paid a price though. my body is aching like shit now. my back is so achy, i can't even bend properly. both my back thighs hurt also. AND, my nose is stuffed with dustmites! both my nostrils are useless and i have to breathe through my mouth.. which sucks cos my tongue feels all dry afterwards. =(

pictures of my hard work

my small shirt bunny (:

WARNING: SUPER LONG POST. READ ONLY IF YOU HAVE TIME

i think i'm getting old, cos i can't really seem to rmb what i did last week. so i shall just blog stuff i can rmb..

thursdayy
jodi came to meet small face, weiwen and i at vivo to shop. that was when jodi decided to buy formal clothes for his work.. i think we spent a good hour plus at TANGS shopping for a shirt, pants and bag.

this was why we took so long:
1. every shirt he picked out would always end up maroon in colour
imagine jodi browsing through the wide selection of clothes - different designs, different colours.. and at every store, "EH. THIS IS NICEE." - and that shirt would always end up maroon in colour.


i made him pose with his favourite shirt colour.. since he likes it so much. bah. who am i to comment, i always pick out black and whites too ahahs but i'd like to believe that black and white are much nicer colours than *cough MAROON.

2. the shirts still look funny on him even after choosing a smaller/bigger size
i say this because we tried a smaller size and he couldn't button his uppermost button and his shoulder fats feel suffocated ahhas. we tried a bigger size and he looked sloppy cos the shirt was too long for him (short what) hahas

3. he needed small face's advice and help with his shirts

see what i mean! buttoning also need help.

small face figuring out why jodi's shirt just looks funny on him. and that's me! hiding behind the door cos i looked quite unsightly, with my specs and pimple =(

4. jodi not fated to wear straight cut pants

because his bottom half will end up looking chunky and his parts look alot more enhanced ahahs.. so while he was trying about more than 10 pairs of pants (both straight and not straight?), this was what we were doing for self amusement.. camwhoring!

and after an hour plus bothering the poor saleslady to help us take X no. of shirts and pants, jodi only ended up buying ONE shirt ahahs poor sales woman.

anyway, i would just like to say that the service at vivo is disgustingly bad. i mean other than the sales lady which was serving us of course. But omg the promoters at MAC and braun buffel! they were not helpful at all and the lady at MAC was even fierce and impatient. AND, even the sales staff at f21 were leaning on the clothes rack looking bored! aiyooo. this is why singapore's service standards is not top 10 in the world.

friday

i was complaining to small face and kelly about the biggest braggard of a lecturer i have ever met in my life. i had lecture from 2 - 4 that afternoon.

some background knowledge before i start complaining..

1. this is how my school system works. Usually, lecturers would normally give us a 10 min break after 1 hour of lecture. and usually, classes would end 10 to 15 mins before time so students have sufficient time to travel to their next class.

2. during introductory lectures in week 1, lecturers would usually give a little background info of themselves, that is, what they studied, where they worked, their achievements, blah

this was what happened during those two dreadful hours, i would just quote her in italics so its easier.

1. after showing us her long list of academic and work achievements, she points to one particular achievement on the screen, "researcher - China".

class, you see this? i was hired by the china authorities to work for them as a researcher for one of their xx institutes and i worked there for xx months -more unneccesary background info about her china job - .. oh you guys know that before china joined WTO, for a non-china chinese to be hired by the china government, it is a very prestigious and honourable achievement you know..

2. she goes on to brag about how highly wanted she is in the industry

a quantity surveyor can earn alot of money you know. if you reach my level, you can easily earn 10k in 4 hours!

alot of firms have been calling me to help work for them you know, but i refuse all because i like to teach. it has been my lifelong ambition, since i was thirteen! not become teacher you know, lecturer!

and when introducing the supposed two most prestigious and popular QS firms in singapore, she just needs to brag this.. next time if you guys work at these firms right, just mention my name.. about 80 percent of the people over there are my students!

and somehow in the midst of her lecture, she will still find time to brag about other stuff.. oh i'm a member of supposed prestigious organisation no.1, supposed prestigious club no.2, .. somemore clubs.. i later somemore got meeting with XX club at 8pm later!

and this has got to be the worst, sometimes i wonder ah, people pay me thousands of dollars just to hear me lecture about QS and you students sit here for free in my class but don't bother paying attention. why huh? oh and i'm having another such talk in singapore next month. also costs a few thousand dollars. you all wanna come also can.. but i don't think you all can afford.. so try to pay more attention in my class k. you all get to benefit for free

3. she made us buy 3 textbooks, 2 she wrote herself, 1 is a code of practice.

you all can request to buy my two books in a bundle from the bookshop. if you all buy from nus, can get 5% discount. it's so unfair you know, i write these books and i still have to pay retail price for them!

you all don't think i'm earning alot from the textbooks ok. i'm earning a little bit only. i think i can earn more working as a QS. but i slogged many months rushing out these textbooks so you students can have a proper QS learning guide.

4. and what pissed me off the most was that we had no toilet break (cos today's lecture only history lesson, nothing technical), and we ended at 4 sharp.

and 10 mins before class ended she was only at slide 28/46 so she skipped alot of the remaining slides ok, i think this slide can skip, you all should have learnt before. ok, skip, skip, skip! - she could have been able to finish her slides if she didn't spent more than 50% of the time bragging.

even when people from the next class were rushing her to clear the room and everyone else in class were packing up, she still squeezed sometime to brag about our school's studio!

i mean SERIOUSLY?! SERIOUSLY?!! WHO THE HELL TALKS LIKE THAT!

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT HOW SUCCESSFUL YOU ARE. SO SHUT IT AND TEACH US OUR STUFF.

ok, i think i shall just end here. tired already.

running against the wind is a bad idea

so school has officially started, i'm at semester 4 now though! fast fast (:


anyways, i think i'm not fated to get any new clothes for CNY.
i went shopping with nicole on friday at vivo.. NOTHING.
i went shopping with kel at bugis today.. NOTHING.
and i didn't even shop during the december holidays!
that's it, i guess i'm stuck with all my old clothes sighh
somemore all my old clothes look about the same!


no pictures today cos kel and i don't have the habit of camwhoring when its just the two of us hahas but we still had a picture-less fun day.. what with running for several green man men and spoilt umbrella.


there was this one time when we were chasing for the green man when this huge gust of wind came from the opposite direction. RUNNING AGAINST IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE. my slippers felt as if they were going to fly away anytime and i didn't even move forward, i think the wind might have even pushed us backwards. AND KEL! she started laughing and wasn't paying attention to the red man which just flashed. AIYOOO.


oh oh! and when walking to rex house to collect kel's pay, it started to rain. so kel offered to use her umbrella. but she forgot to mention her umbrella was a bit spoilt. so when this other huge gust of wind came in our direction, the umbrella overturned! and we screamed! and her umbrella overturned THREE times. so we had pple giving us weird stares cos of all our screaming ahas



these pictures were taken in november, when i decided to stuff small face with a big bao just to see if it could fit into his mouth hahas. see, thats what boyfriends are for.. to bully, abuse and amuse hehe

frying our FIRST cheezy sausage omelette!

he was hungry and i needed to satisfy my cheesy ham omelette craving (cos i saw jill eating it for supper). but mama had no ham or cheese at home so i had to walk out to buy and make do with sausages instead. so anyways, proof of our work!

firstly, preparing!

beating the egg

chopping the sausages into mini bits

slave at work

i let small face fry his omelette first..

picture of him putting the cheese onto the frying egg

his almost final product..

and then he made the big mistake of flipping the egg and pooof! huge mess! the cheese got stuck onto the pan and the omelette looked like shit ahhas. we were too traumatised by the hideousness of his omelette we forgot to take a picture of his masterpiece.

then it was the pro's (me!) turn to show him how its donee. that's me pouring the egg into the pan but somehow all the sausages were concentrated in the center.. don't know why..

then i added cheese! not as skillful as small face but oh well, it's the end product which matters!


and voila! my very beautiful work of art.

of course we had to clear up after that =(

but it was funn! next time, shepherd's pie!

guess who?

kel was away in jakarta for the december holidays and she got me pinkish-purplish strawberry boxers for xmas which looks really really cutee!

i tried wearing them a couple of days back but the new boxers felt a little uncomfortable so i swapped the new boxers for my old ones with sexy legs person in picture below.


don't you just wish you had that perky ass and long legs!

and no prizes if you get it right, person with sexy legs is no other than my small faceee! look how girrrly! he wasn't too willing to swap boxers but i managed to swap (by force) muahahas. and since he was so absorbed with watching friends, i took the opportunity to snap a few shots of him looking oh-so-cute in those strawberries!

and kelly, the boxers feel a lot more comfy now! (:

wore them twice alr ahahs

oops! i just realised they are cherries ahahas

when you put 3 girls in a party shop and the kids section at ikea..

this is what you get:

AT THE PARTY SHOP
1. ladybug girls! our mission is to eat as many leaves as possible to save ourselves!

left to right: satisfied with eating leaves, happy with eating leaves, sad with eating leaves (cos she's a carnivore)

2. aspiring superheroes!

left to right: pink ranger in blue, act cute sailormoon, confused yellow ranger

AT IKEA'S KIDS SECTION
3. flowerpot fashionistas

we believe its a new trend which would take the fashion world by storm!

4. reindeer puppeteers

left to right: happy puppeteer, big mouth puppeteer, sweet puppeteer


this was on monday when kel met me after work to go get party stuff for sam's birthday this coming saturday. we took 10 to concourse to try our luck at the party shops there but it was closed! apparently the shops have relocated to mini india.

so kel and i went to arab street to get some cloth. then we met emily at bugis mrt and the 3 of us walked to little india under the drizzling rain (romantic what). i think we spent about an hour at 2 party shops and thats when somewhere in the middle of all the party browsing we got restless and started playing with masks and what not. it was a lot of fun (: even though the shoplady was looking at us with displeasure.

by that time it was around 6+ and we were getting really hungry so we trained down to ikea queenstown to get our meatballs and chicken wings and more party stuff!

our whole excursion ended around 12+ cos we went to em's house to watch youtube vids and collect some stuff for sam's party again ahas.

but it was fun yooo! felt almost like secondary school days when we had nothing to do after school and just hang outside sun plaza? ahahs

how time flies.

why does it feel that with every year that passes, time seems to fly even faster?

i spent my last moments of 2008 at T3's Popeyes, and the first few minutes of 2009 running to catch the last bus back to yishun. (which explains the sad face in the picture).



anyhoos, i've been neglecting this space for tooo long!
therefore i, tan min min stefanie, promise to blog at least once a week (i hope) if not once a month so i would not neglect this poor space.

happy 2009 people! stay happy, stay funky! (: