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Thursday, September 9, 2010

In Loving memories of Snoopy (25 Feb 1997 - 4 Sep 2010)

Snoopy has left peacefully to another world at 4 Sep 2010 0545hrs at Mount Pleasant Hospital (Whitley). He was weight at 6.05kg.

He has been with us for 13 years and in this 13 years, he has brought us happiness, jitterness, gan cheongness, comfortness, sadness... Though the cause is not very clear but what we know it has to do with the brain. He was cremated and place in The Pet Hotel Columbarium #3102. He has neighbours surrounding him and is at the 1st level with his favourite snack, food, leash and his handsome photo with him.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Honeymoon - Kao Hsiung to Taipei- 6 Mar 10

Our bus took the expressway back to Taipei, along the way we saw Sakuras!! who say only Japan have... And they are beautiful too!!

Reached Taipei at around 1plus already too hungry!! ate Dan dan noodle. nothing much... like zha jiang mian.. We had to stay at 台北故宫博物院 for 2 hours... went walking for a while then went to the cafe for tea and had Haagan Das. ZW say its cheaper in TW then in SG. The toilet signs are so cute! they feature those 公公 and 宫女 hahhaa.

It began to get colder as we are into  middle of the day... we went to the Taipei 101 for window shopping. Went to the 小南门传统豆花 as recommended by 小杨. the beancurd is very smooth and the red bean is nice!!! We went into DKNY shop and saw 1 bag which seems nice!! but its around SGD 600!! expensive... hahaha.. 不舍得买. i can go for another holiday with this 600 ... u know!! hahaha.. Went to Coach to help eileen to see her wristlet. but we didn't buy cos its about 100. so we have to try our luck in HK.

小杨brought us to the tibit shop, vigor kobo, to buy souvenirs. its quite high class and cater to mostly tourist. so we didn't buy much.. think outside is cheaper. Last thing in our tour schedule is 士林观光夜市. And we begin our MAKAN venture again!! wanted to go to the mutton soup that 小杨 recommend but too many ppl so we skip that and went to the BBQ stall!! SOTONG!!! NICE!! 微笑碳烤 everything $11 only sotong is more expensive. Next nice one is 家乐鱿鱼大王。。 walking through the shops everywhere seems to sell almost same same things. We went to one of the souvenir shops to buy those confectionary items and sepnt almost $100 SGD!! 恐怖!!

中源大饭店 http://www.nc-hotel.com.tw/pricelist.php  Our Hotel seems nice and just beside it is 24 hours supermart le. So convenient and nearby also have 宁夏夜市. The room is quite new but we are given 2 single beds... but its already full le so ew just have to stick to it...

Honeymoon - Tainan to Kao Hsiung- 5 Mar 10

Woke up quite early for breakfast. Its only when boarding the bus then we know that there are caravans around too. :) next is travelling again ... along the way stopped at fruit store for toilet and buying of fruits. the fruits there seems very fresh.. but didn't get a chance to eat lychee though... Next we reached 美浓民俗村 for hakka tradition. Didn't do much there as there is nothing much!!

佛光山 is the next place we went, makan there as well. We just went to one of the temple then the tour guide told us if wan to wait at the entrance can proceed to walk on our own and meet up then. We directly went to the wishing well and try our luck. I did hit one of the bell!! then we went down to the meeting area to see see look look around.

The final city that we went is 高雄. the day before it had a earthquake of 6 plus but when we are there everything seems normal. We had to go to the 'so-call' must go places for tourist!! 台湾水产试验所!What place is this?? a place where they sell all those pearls and powders!! 小杨says that the govt actually make it a must for tourists to visit these type of place.. hai.. waste of time. Next is 莲池谭. basically its just 1 tiger and 1 dragon in a small lake... and nothing much le... heard form one of the tour mates that the clouds can actually alert the people whether would there be earthquakes coming.. Earthquake cloud!!  Next is shopping!! 梦时代. We went for their ferries wheel, Hello Kitty & Sanrio Friends 摩天轮, and my section is Sanrio!! they even have plush figurines of them in the car itself.  It was only 6 plus where its also quite dark le... nothing much to shop at 梦时代. heard from one of the waitress that they are having lantern festival at 爱河 and have FIREWORKS!!

Luckily we managed to get there on time and saw the fireworks. after that we took the 爱之船 to tour around 爱河. Thanks to the lantern festival that we actually saw the decorated 爱河. We had to walk back to our coach as the road are block already. 高雄信宗大飯店 is our hotel in Kao Hsiung. We were so tired that we didn't went out to explore...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Honeymoon - Hualien to Tainan - 4 Mar 10

Earthquake early in the morning!!! I felt when we were having our breakfast but zw didn't feel it. Nervous, kan cheong, watching out for signs of running... i held on to our bags in case we need to run!!After a while, it just stop. then the waitresses came out to have a look... We also carry on eating our makan. In the bus, we told 小杨 that there was a earthquake and he didin't feel it too. Then i was just thinking am i the only one who felt this?? but some of our group mates also say they felt it... luckily i'm not the only one. then we went to Taroko National Park 太鲁阁国家公园。 Recently there is a case of a falling rock hitting a tourist causing his death hence we were not allowed to roam far... but the mountains were very very nice, scenic. We do see the devastation of the 8 Aug Flood that had made to the environment as well. The coach went passed a small expressway (东西横贯公路) the statues of the lions were place along the road and were very cute, each of them have different expression. Next is makan then a visit to the local jade/granite factory 石之屋. We were shown how granite and jade surfaced and also talks on their jade.

鹿野溪游季温泉 is our next destination! we were travelling along the road where greenery of their rice plants welcome us. It really amazing to see a whole patch of land with plants planted in a well-organized manner. We stopped at a traffic light when i felt it again. 小杨 rush up to tell us that its shaking again. We could see the lamp post are shaking.. then he told us that 高雄 and 台南 area hit by 6 magnitude earthquake and the destruction is unknown... the one that we had experience is about 3 magnitude... so scary... cos we would be heading to 台南 shortly. When we reached the hotspring its already almost 6 le. We quickly go for the individual rooms to have a dip. To me, hot bath is not my kind, so i needed cold water as well. The place is quite run down which is why there isn't alot of ppl there.

小熊渡假村is the main highlights of the tour. We are the ONLY group in that resort. Makan again but the rice is very very very nice. This is the best rice that we had taken in our trip. hahaha... then we were told of our rooms. We share the cottage with a "mother & son" but in the end we had to change room as the ground level room was full of ANTS!!!! so suay... We were change to another cottage of 3 rooms but we only utilise the ground level room. Then we out for their so call "welcome party". Played few rounds of BINGO then some games then they had display of fireworks and launching of 天灯. We wrote "早生贵子, 天天开心, 身体健康, 发大财!!"

After that is own time own target, so we went to buy 2 rounds of firework to play with. This is the second time that we release firework on our own but i still dun dare to fire it. hahaha... so zw have to do it and i just stand there and film it!! hahaha... and its not expensive at all, only S$20+. Played basketball machine, arcade games, then bed is the next thing we head to... these few days the travelling had drain a lot of our energy, i didn't travel tour group before, so its quite taxing on me...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Aircon

Mitsubishi Electric Inverter System 4 @ $4000 @ Best Tech IMM
(10, 10, 10, 18)
1/2 inch insulation
16mm pipe
5yr extended warranty
$200 servicing voucher
$50 lighting voucher

Confirm on 19 Apr. Installing on 29 May.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Honeymoon - Taipei to Hualien - 3 Mar 10

Met our tour guide 小楊 at 740am then went around fetching the rest of the group. 忠烈祠 is the first place to go. It is a memorial for those soldiers who died during the revolutions and the only attracting point is the shift changing parade. Next is 野柳地質之園, where one of the stones look like queen's head. lunch is at 九份古之街. the beef noodles, 舊道口牛肉麵, were nice. Before that it was a gold mine. We tried the 五味綜合魚魚丸湯 but i didn't like the fishball in taiwan, it wasn't bouncy. We went past 蘇澳 to go to 馬祖廟。that was the last stop before we embark on 3 hours of journey without any resting point. The journey was tough and our bus are travelling around the mountain hence throughout the journey we were tossing around. and it seems very dangerous. when i looked down we were like inches to the end of the mountain. BUT the scenary is the best. its facing the pacific ocean hence it seems like no boundaries.

Its around 6pm when we reach the aborgines showcase, 南島文化劇場. it was a series of dance and at the end of it they pull audiences down to take photo with them and they charge 400NT!! hahaha... after that is makan at 花蓮 then we checked into 麗格hotel. At first when we are see the room, we went down to change cos its twin bedded. I wasn't able to sleep if i were to sleep alone in a unfamiliar place. the receptionist wasn't able to change, lucky my tour guide talked to the manager, they upgraded our room to a very big room and in the room there is SPA facilities!! We went out to find ZW's cousin shop. We tried calling her but the phone number is wrong. we went into her branch, Fragrance, (which was just outside our hotel) and saw her sis in law. ZW communicated with her and managed to find cousin. I think its fate that we saw her sis in law cos she wouldn't be in this shop for long as she have to go around delivering buns. But luckily that shop's pump was spoilt so she came over to repair. At first she didn't recognised zw, she thought we are cousin's tenant. In the end her sis in law send us over to another shop, a cafe, to wait for her. When cousin and her husband came, we chatted for a while then we went over to her house to visit her mum in law. Her mum in law is blind but she is very healthy and alert. She is full of smiles when she felt zw and me. then after that we went over to cousin house which is just above her mum in law. I showed our wedding photos to cousin and we took photo as well. Her dog is very cute very active. After that we went to their night market, it is between 和平路 and 自強路, but its already quite late so a lot of things are closed. 來來鹹酥雞and 第一家烤肉串are closed. We ate the 法式官財板 and 阿川大腸蚵仔麵線臭豆腐專賣店. The 鴨血湯 and the 黑胡椒牛肉官財板 are very very nice!! I even had 2 serving of the soup!!! my craving at least has been fulfilled!!

After that they sent us back to hotel and its already 1am, we tried operating the spa facilities but dunno how. it took us some time before we get it working properly. We slept around 2am and the next morning have to get up at 6.30!!

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Honeymoon - Singapore to Taiwan - 2 Mar 10

Packed bag till 2am and woke up around 5 to prepare. By 5.50am we are in the cab to Airport!! the cab was speeding at 120-130km/hr!! and the display that they had actually indicated "Please slow down", "please drive carefully". Reached airport to check in with our luggage at 18.6kg and ate at the airport canteen. went through the internet and saw that there will be a drop in temperature in TW on Saturday onwards - we would just have to wait and see. In plane to HK, they have fish porridge & tomato omelette and transit at HK. Then took plane to TW and they served pork bun (nice!!).
When reached the driver drove us to our hotel - Unite Hotel (統一大飯店). Room have 2 queen bed and bath room as well. We went out to search for makan!! it is not so close to the main area. Hence we had to walk to mrt, we were only wearing shorts but the temperature is quite low - trembling... Along the way, we ate goose meat and mee sua, chong you jian bing, muah chee. we took the mrt (Houshanpi) to wufenpu to buy my clothes and ate the chicken cutlet and bbq sotong. It is quite close to rou he night market - ate lamp soup and lu rou fan and green bean soup. Then took cab back to hotel.

Summary of HM

We are back... didn't really gotten use of the weather back here.

We experienced the earthquake and the sudden drop of temperature in this trip.. what an experience!!

Overall its very tiring... and we have to work the very next day!!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Honeymoon!! 2-11 Mar 10. Taiwan + HK

Went to NATAs on 27 Feb and confirm our trip for 2 Mar.

Departing from SG to TW : 2 Mar
Departing from TW to HK : 8 Mar
Departing from HK to SG : 11 Mar

TW : 6D5N tour + 1 night extension
HK : 4D3N Free & Easy!!

We didn't even plan... so just take it when it comes!!

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Starting on a new PROJECT!! HOME!!


Now looking for ideas on how to renovate our house!! it seem to have very very weird layout!! Stupid columns!! anyone have idea do let me know!!


AD Video and Photos

Have gotten my AD video (1 Feb 10) and photo (24 Jan 10)!!! going to see it tonight!!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

HONEYMOON!! - Phuket - 15-20 Dec 2009

Travel!! my favorite. We chose Phuket cos that time we did not even relax, just taking photos. Of course massage is in our menu all days!!

15 Dec - We checked out of Parkroyal and rush back to pack our luggage for the trip. Makan at burger king before entering the airport area. This is the first time that I'm taking not a budget airline. Dinner and drinks was served and of course the service cannot be compared with budget!! We reached Phuket, took taxi over to Mercure. When we enter the room, we were 'wow', its quite nice despite the price that we paid. We went for makan!! and also hotel room searching!! Went to holiday inn, marroit, merlin and so forth.. but the pricing is quite steep though the hotel is nice.

16 Dec - hotel searching again!! stumble upon a local hotel Bliss hotel - suite + double jaccuzzi for 270!! quite nice room. we booked online for 1 night and deevana - 2 night. Went walking around and saw PAT!! was going to call him but luckily he saw us! Ate at a small cafe opp mercure - the red wine roast chicken is nice!!

17 Dec - dragged our luggage to the Bliss hotel and spent the rest of the day in the hotel. Woo hoo!! jaccuzzi for 2 pax!! then makan at merlin - buffet. ZW treat the performer each 1 bottle of beer. Went to the beach to put 'kong ming' lantern and also FIREWORKS!! shoik!! 200 baht for 9 rounds of firework!! ZW do the honour and i film down!! hahaha

18 Dec - Check out from Bliss and Pat drive us to Deevana put things liao then go play!! We went for mountain biking!! Tired but fun!! but half way through i almost drove down the slope!! was scared so i let the driver drive down a bit and i walked down haha... then we wanted to go jetski but Pat told us they will charge very high price if crash. so next we went to the warehouse - wholesale centre. shopped for almost 3-4 hours then went to the cashew nut factory to buy the local products. We had our very nice makan at a small restaurant. then back to hotel. then we went shop around again.

19 Dec - took shuttle bus to Junceylon for shopping. Spent hours there from 11am - 8pm... and took cab back with our victory - lots of clothes and a big luggage bag!! we went for our

20 Dec - Pat drove us to airport at 7 using his brother pickup!! Eddy came to pick us up and went to east coast for makan.

in total we almost spent 2K!! but its enjoyable!!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Big Big Day!!! - Evening

5pm, ZW and coordinators went for briefing and i am upstairs waiting for Ophelia and my mum. Ophelia came in around 5.15pm. Told my mum to reach at 3.45 in the end she came in around 520pm with her morning makeup still put on. The 2nd MUA have to wait for her to wash up before continuing. It was quite hectic, as ppl kept calling, asking when the items are placed, pushing us to go down, can't find ppl, AND WE ARE LATE FOR OUR SOLEMISATION!!

Our JP reached at around 630pm and i wasn't ready yet. they waited almost 20-25 mintues. Luckily, he didn't have another appt later otherwise i be left with no JP!! Finally aroun 6.50pm we ran down for ROM. The JP is still smiling, waiting for us to march in. He briefed us the importance of marriage. We choose the shortest one. hahaha... When saying, ZW kept on looking at the paper. then when my turn, i wanted to make the situation not too solemn, i have to gao siao abit. hahaha

After exchanging vows, we took photos, then we realised that the recept are full of ppl. Ophelia had to touch up my makeup and i forgotten to take money. So ask SZ and PX to go up take.

During reception, we ran around talking to ppl and taking photos/polariods for my scrape book. though we used almost 200 pcs, we only have around 40 pcs paste on my scrape book.

830pm, our first march in - I can love you like that.

after 2nd dish went up to change. then had my makeup touch up at the ROM room cos my hotel is too HOT!!

Morning highlights then 2nd march in -Zuo Ni De Gong Zhu with my surprise, though ZW didn't catch much. Mingyong and Laoda done it for me smooth smooth!!

Champange Pouring - I Swear then Yam Seng then Speech from us. then phototaking session.

Kena tekan by Brothers. then went out to send off guest around 1030pm. After everything is over, sister tekan, i drink a bit and his brother bottoms up!! Sisters helped to bring up everything

We settle the bill at the room and we ended the day by eating scissors curry rice!!

BIG BIG DAY!! - morning

had done my mani/pedicure till 11pm then reached home paste the Xi sticker. Without Ah Hee's help, i think all is not done well!! Slept at 2am. Woke up at 4am to prepare. Winnie reached at 4.30am. i realised her breakfast is very delicious. Maybe i'm hungry.. hahaha..
Ophelia reached around 4.45 with her helper. Then started to makeup. She told me she will be putting on flowers for me. i feel her helper wasn't too good. Kena scolded by Ophelia so many times and put on a sulky face. Its a good lesson for Winnie as well, she learned as Ophelia do the makeup for me... then slowly, Jiemeis started to stream in - Esther, PX, SZ, Alda.

They started to make preparations for the tekan!!

Ophelia went off without putting on the veil for me!! then my sis in law helped me with the veil. So frustrating!! my mum kept on telling must give ang bao to "her"!! So fed up, she didn't do anything my mum still want me to give $20 to her. I nearly blow up!! even my ting ting get lesser then her and she didn't do anything!! i told her if she want to pack, she pack for her.

Ah Di went to fetch grandparent and came back with lots of dian xin. hahaha... had a few pcs of siew mai cut into pcs for me!! nice!! Esther fed me with the maggi mee that they prepare (without martini)

ZW party came early. around 615am reached liao. But my jiemei still haven't done yet. so have to wait.

When they are ready, they went down. I could hear my mum said wah the number of cars are alot and very qi pai!!

They had their 2 games downstairs then the rest upstairs.
1st - to form a heart shape at the car park
2nd - ZW to hang grapes, celery at his vital parts and for the XDs to bite
3rd - Eat curry maggi mee with martini
4th - to pass pieces of heart around and paste it
5th - search for key at my mum's flower pot
6th - Read out loud contract

Ang Baos given to my Jiemei are mixtures of lots of $1 gold coins, $2s, $100 bill as well

The pig was brought in for my dad to chop. then nearly forgotten about the whole family photo.

After that we rushed to basketball court for some shootings. luckily the weather is good and not much ppl. Dribbled some balls and thrown flower then back to ZW house. Luckily in time for 9am. Thanks to my time keepers!!

At ZW house, took photos with the tang yuan and the lightings then tea ceremony. Changed to Kua.

Back at WL house, tea ceremony, released Louis and all.

Only Zhicong came with us to the hotel. labeled the tea ceremony angbao then I took a nap, ZW is still stressful on the seating arrangement with some more coming.

Last 2 weeks before the Big day

Trying to recall back what happened during that 2 weeks....

Had our Guo Da Li on 5th Dec at 4pm.
ZW side give
2 dian jin
Dowry
Oranges
Cakes + tarts
Martell
Lao Ma Gao
1 Angbao to represent all other items that is not there.

WL side return
Partial of dowry, oranges, cakes

Had our surprise on 6th Dec!! $$$

Met Kai on 7th Dec for our briefing

Had my jiemei final meeting on 8 Dec at my house.

AV testing at hotel on 9 Dec and collecting our ROM cert
10 Dec - whitening teeth
11 Dec - packing up
12 Dec - pick up Bridal car, do mani/pedicure, wash hair, facial, gave briefing to MY for the surprise.

WL - Wish list

  • Be more caring
  • Do not laze around
  • excersize at least once a week
  • Massage for 3 hours
  • Stay in Villa with pool
  • To be able to setup my online shop
  • To be more motivated in work
  • Travel - Hongkong for Sammi's concert
  • Travel - Mauritius
  • Travel - Switzerland
  • Travel - Taiwan
  • Travel twice a year

Items which are sponsored / FOC

  • Braun Coffee Maker - ZW colleague (Ah Boy)
  • Electolux handheld vacumn - Guanqi
  • Hitachi cordless iron - CSI-58EX - Fridge FOC
  • Hitachi rice cooker RZ-PM18Y - WL parent
  • Iona Sandwich Toaster LD9002K - WL parent
  • PerfectAire Revitalisor - WL parent
  • Sony Bluray player - ME office

Items for our new HOME! Brought by US

  • House - Lenovo Thinkpad X200- TP - $1699
  • House - Mitsubishi Electric Inverter System 4 - Best Tech - $4K
  • House - Whole house KDK wall fan - Yes Electrical JB - RM786 + S$5.05
  • House - whole house light - Fancy Lightings JB - RM1400
  • Irobot Roomba 550 - Ebay - $720
  • Kitchen - Crizto Sink CKS-1014-SV + tap + basket- Uhome - $427
  • Kitchen - EF hoods CK-Premio - Uhome - $350
  • Kitchen - Gazz Induction Cooker - Giant - $35.90
  • Kitchen - Hitachi Fridge E-W690FMSX-GS - HN - $1299
  • Kitchen - Rhoyxon hob - 388 with ignition - Rhoyxon - $430
  • Kitchen - Stylux Blender - Gain City - $8
  • Kitchen - Tefal pasta pot - Harvey Norman - $39.90
  • Kitchen - Thermos - 7 piece stainless steel pots - Thermos warehouse - $80
  • Kitchen - Thermos - Magic cooker - Thermos warehouse - $148
  • Kitchen - Thermos - Pump pot with 4 insulation cup - Thermos warehouse - $35
  • Kitchen - Zojirushi Electric Thermal Flask 3L - Hong Kong - HK399
  • Living Room - Mirror - HN - $28 (UP : $808)
  • Living Room - Onkyo HTS6200B - HN - $1199
  • Living Room - Recliner 3 seater sofa - Casa Culture - $1288
  • Living Room - Shoe Rack - Hommage
  • Master Bedroom - Dunlopilo Elizabeth King sized + Storage bed frame - Casa Culture - $2688
  • Service Yard - Electrolux Washer EWF1074 - HN - $799
  • WIW - Mirror - Home Life - RM159