New Year's Eve

The routine for this year's Chinese New Year's eve was pretty much the same as last year's.

But these are the simple pleasures that I enjoy the most. It has been pretty much accustomed for us to visit the nurseries at Kovan. The scent of the flowers, shouts from the vendors that goes something like this "Five dollars, five dollars, five dollars", or "ten dollars, ten dollars, ten dollars", make up the CNY atmosphere.

Seriously, I enjoy soaking up the CNY atmosphere this way..

After our flowers appreciation session, we decided to have our reunion supper. Hahahaa..

Pretty much the same again, we had it at Hong Kong Cafe.

Polo bun, Hk Milk tea, Prawn paste chicken, Mango sago paste. Hmmm.. yummy....!!!

I hope we can do this all over again!.. Hahahaha..

Steph's birthday

Karen wanted to celebrate Steph's birthday in a hotel this year and decided that Crown plaza hotel near T3 would be a good option. As usual, expenditures like this never ever seems to please our parents. "The money could be used for eating a good meal", my dad grumbled.
Despite of all the objections, karen got her way, afterall, its her money.

Being supportive siblings and children, Steph and I decided to go with the flow; which simply means who ever wins the arguement, we'll follow.....

The toilet wall is made out of glass and gives u a direct glimpse of what's going on in the toilet.

NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way.............................

This time round I wouldn't succumb to it and I objected to it in a violent way. ...............

......till... I realized that there's a screen which you could actually let down. Phew!! Thank God!

To give you an idea of how the toilet wall is like...
Here's a shot on Karen and Stephanie fooling around with the toilet wall. Hehehehe..

Steph's friends gave her a surprise visit at the hotel as we plotted for them to hide in my parent's room, while stalling for time in our room.

They brought along a cake for her too.. It was a delicious tiramisu cake.. OOoooo..




The family photo...Pretty neat shot isn't it!!!

Even before the clock could struck 12, my "Cinderella" dad complained that he couldn't sleep and wanted to return to his cosy-cuddly bed. Not bearing to see my dad return home alone, my mum decided that she will tag along too.

The siblings having a shot at the lobby.

I've just returned from a very special place, a special holiday and perhaps the best one I had for the year so far (Hehehe). Stephanie and I made our way to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on the 3rd of January 09'. We were picked up from KK's airport by Joanne's family; the father, mother, 2 brothers and herself.

Joanne's family decided to show us to their favourite beach and childhood playground. It was interesting to hear her parents talk about their favourite playground during childhood days.

Stephanie and I posing at KK's tallest building.

Knowing that I major in Aquaculture, Joanne's dad brought us to the aquarium in the University of Sabah.

A coral reef tank

Stephanie posing with green back sea turtle.

We had our dinner at KK's famous seafood restaurant.

Now you see them (in the tank), now you don't (in the stomach).

Gayang Seafood restaurant

A tank view of the mantis shrimp

White prawn, vannamei prawn, Litopenaeus vannamei

Rock Lobster

Mantis shrimp (Ever wonder why they were kept in bottles?)

We were brought to the peak of KK to have a bird's eye view of the city.

During our 2nd day, Joanne's dad brought us to Mt Kinabalu. On our way, we managed to catch a glimpse of the many beautiful scenery of Sabah.

The river that is filled with full of sea life.

One of the town near Mt Kinabalu.

Wet market beaming with full of vegetables, meat and all.

A village school found near the valley of Mt Kinabalu. Interestingly, most of the villages were catholic in faith.

Gushing water flowing down the village's river; perhaps their source of water supply.

A rustic looking hut.

"God helps those who help themselves"; a note written on the wall of the school.

A pretty good reminder to all of us. !!! :)

On our way up to Mt Kinabalu, we chanced upon some villagers clearing a landslide. Whew!! Thank God for keeping us safe!!!

A tree with interesting bark found at Mt Kinabalu (Dedicated to Weisheng)

A shiny green beetle

An interesting notice!!!

An accommodation site for the trekkers.

Morning glory shot dedicated to Clayton

Some unid. Vanda orchid.

An unid. banana plant

An unid. butterfly. (Photo taken on purpose for u know who)

A view of Mt Kinabalu.

Er Li in Town

It was great having Er Li around during Christmas time.

Though the weather was bad (raining), and many plans had to be changed (Er Li wasn't in the mood to eat). Nevertheless, I managed to stuffed him with lots of food. Hehehee..

Er Li having his favourite Chicken Pesto pasta at Spaghettis.

Christmas eve at Orchard. I didn't managed to show him much of the christmas decorations too. It was raining!!! Sigh...

Something doesn't change doesn't it.. *Hint: Pose

hehehee...

Er Li posing infront of a christmas tree made out of bears at Takashimaya.

Within the short span of time, my mum grew to become a fan of Er Li. She requested to take a photo with him and was considering him as a son in-law (no prize for guessing to which sister).

After the Christmas lunch at Roland Restaurant, we proceeded to Nurainee's wedding, followed by the Esplanade. There were plenty of food served at the wedding, however, both of us were pretty stuffed up with the food at Roland and could no longer contain anymore. (I realized that Er Li's appetitte had grown smaller by alot).

A shot at esplanade's river front with Lester, Karen, Jowena, Myself and Er Li.

We had a drink at Max Brener's cafe. My iced chocolate drink was AWESOME!!

There were these "white floating wish balls" whereby you could write your wishes on it. I prompted Er Li to write his wishes for Singapore on behalf of Malaysia and guess what he wrote???

"Malaysia wishes Singapore".

......

I was like .. Errr.. anymore? ...on??

Hahaha.. Cute Er Li..

We sent him off at Harbour front the next day and was teasing him that if my sister and I would visit KL, would he give up his bed to us, just like we do??Hahahaa. and he said yes... Awww.. Missing Er Li liao..

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Spice forever

The long awaited get together after 2.5 years finally took place. These are the people that added the most spice into my secondary school life. They are not any Tom, Dick and Harry, but are my secondary school best friends.

I am so glad that there are still the same... Clayton, Wei Sheng and Jiahao. Not forgetting our favourite teacher, Mrs Voo. We decided that we will pay a visit to her on this special occasion.

Clayton still look so good, and Weisheng with his poise. Hao forever look so sexy, be it thin or fat..

The happiest thing is to see Mrs Voo feeling so much better and being able to spent the night with us. Though I was struck with flu that evening and could barely enjoyed myself. Nevertheless, the right company of people made it special.

Weisheng wanted to take a photo for both us with this beautiful backdrop that was found under the void deck of hao's house.


We have decided that we will organized another get together; this time round with Mrs Lee and Mrs Voo along, followed by "Dawning" at Clay's new place.