Merry Christmas Everybody!!

Yay for the long weekend! I've had quite a happening week, gbtb on wednesday, party on saturday night, and going out for hot pot later.

Went with a group of friends to the christmas wonderland at gbtb on wednesday. We bought the package for the Savour village, $27 for entry, some priority pass and $20 of food vouchers. It was a long walk from the main entrance and when we reached the food area, we were famished! I was initially disappointed at the pricey food and small serving, each person could only get 2 food items. Luckily there were 5 of us and we pooled our food. I ended the night feeling quite full and the food was really really good!

My first buy was the lobster balls with bonito flakes. Cant go wrong with this lah, it was good. I asked for more bonito flakes cos they gave very little at first. Wouldn't have insisted if they didn't include bonito flakes in item title hehe.

My second buy was the turkey burger which I thought wasn't quite worth $12. There was too much bun vs the burger ingredients. The patty was fine but otherwise quite plain. The store offered some interesting sauces to go with their fries though. On the right was some flat bread with smoked meat and salad. I only had 1 mouth of it so not much impression. The risotto though!!! It was so yummy and the cheese chips were special and tasty.

My friends came back with a beef don (right) which they claimed was too dry. The pork belly was served with some yummy black paste and the cheese chips. It was good!! The main protein for that night came from the half spring chicken and roasted potatoes. 

We had $20+ to spend and used it on a dessert, a sorbet(not in photo) and another bowl of the awesome risotto. It was a daily special and instead of risotto rice, they used some kind of pasta which had a wonderful texture. The whole bowl was cheesy and flavourful. I would want to eat it again..... some day...... Wonder how much the full serving would cost loll

  

Chii enjoyed herself that night! Btw that's my friend's Chii... I totally forgot to bring her out that night. I will bring mine out later since the bf wants to take the street lights at orchard. Chii will be a good model XD

I was looking for a flat comb+mirror set and found a really cheap and cute one on Lazada. It was shipped from hk but I received it earlier than expected. Look at how cute it is.

Received some really cute xmas gifts wwe should have these all year round XD

Chance to gain weight

It’s the most buffetful time of the year~~

Work has been quite slow as my colleagues were unwell and not around. (Haven’t felt this carefree at work in a long time) it’s a good break! Hope the new week brings new ideas and progress!

Started on my next cosplay project which is due in January.. making a pet dragon in chibi form. It looks like an angry grey ball. I purchased these materials and it has been slow because I’m lacking the felt and fur.. probably can make it rounder. Also no idea how to make use of the shiny cloth. The dragon’s supposed to have a gradient but I can’t find a suitable sock so nvm lah.

 

Attended a friend’s bday party at dte on Saturday and shun bian went for another chalet at the area. Wahaha so happening. There’s also comic fiesta at kl this weekend but the bf didn’t want to go as he has no leave yet and a weekend trip would be too rushed. I would have loved to go though.. abit jealous looking at all my friends’ photos there. But I also have no more leave to clear so nvm lah. 

This is big chi which belongs to my friend. She has a smaller one and also gave me one for my bday last year.. I should bring my chi out more... the next overseas trip she shall come along! Anyways big chi looks abit dirty here and I was also warned not to smell her hahahaha XD

Fulfilling week

Carried out the first out of Office event on Friday and it was ultimate saikang.. from logistics to cleaning up lol the regulation was that rubbish had to be disposed off site so my colleagues and I lugged the garbage bag across the road to a rather filthy rubbish collection area. So tired after that we took a moment to rest in the car. So thankful my colleague has a car. What will happen if she transfers department ahh I can’t and don’t want to imagine. We had a coffee appreciation segment and this is my first latte pour. The teacher just took my hand holding the milk and did the pouring hahaha still counted lah 

The left atrium abit weak LOL

Met the yyyys after that for dinner and listened to yz’s story and witnessed the test of true love . Hope to see the ring next time. 

Met Mel for lunch on Saturday at atas Gordon rams@y restaurant and we went to EOY after that. Some photos of the food

 

 

The apple black berry crumble was yums and I would want to eat it again!

As I had missed afa, I was inclined to spend more and specially withdrew more cash the previous day. The merchandise didn’t disappoint! These are my loots and half of them went to the bf. Xmas present for him considered settled hahaha

The hxh standee is of course mine. Gonna display it in office like an award XD

Attended a cosplay couple’s wedding today, the bf and I know both bride and groom. Infact it was the bride who asked me to join my first ever cosplay group back in nus as ccs bubbles (the one where I was the mermaid) and subsequently the fairy tail team (long green hair girl with a hat wearing black tube). The bf was in both teams but we didn’t talk much until later on. So in a way she did match make us? Took a lot of photos at the photo booth. Haha we went to gai gai at orchard after that and watched the animation fireworks movie. Verdict is don’t bother watching bah.. 

here’s a selfie.. I looked better in this 3rd attempt though the bf also captured the whole aisle and everyone there -_-

Anyways this wraps up the week and it was a good one!

Long absence

Bleh the blogger app no longer worked and I deleted it.. seldom on my laptop to blog properly and it’s too hard to use safari from my phone. Finally got down to search for another blogger app. Hope this will work well! Long post ahead

So my birthday came and went, had less cake than last year and didn’t manage to claim my birthday half day off as it was crazy busy in the new dept. The bf got me a bracelet! It’s hard to wear though.. quite an ordeal in the morning when rushing 

Update for my game— got the other new ssr but not much luck after that.. it seems the point of this game has boiled down to collection of ssrs.. sad

The company had a carnival to celebrate an award during the 2nd week of Nov and there were plenty of activities and food to collect....... including a multi coloured cotton candy! Super pretty 

On that same day, my onlinepurchase arrived and it’s this beautiful cushion foundation which was so attractive and cheap. Very happy with the purchase I could stare at the sparkly stars all day 

A few days later, I went on leave and flew to Bangkok with my family to meet up with the Msia relatives. First time in Bangkok and I didn't do much research as trips with my Msia relatives are usually just following and shopping sprees. I could have gotten more out of the trip but my relatives couldn’t walk that much.. it’s ok!! I’ll definitely be back and explore more of the place. We didn’t eat much Thai food nor visited the famous night markets or temples. Here’s a photo of the atas macaroons my cousin bought. The strawberry candy one tasted to good with a marshmallow center and remained crunchy even after a few days, cos of the sugar. Def my fave out of all of them.

    

Didn’t buy much clothes but my best buy was a new bag for work. The smaller bag was given by my aunt after we went back Penang XD she bought it together with me in bk but was so nice to give it to me Cos I was looking for another smaller one. I needed an image upgrade including my clothes and thus my bag. The prev kitty backpack was alright but abit kiddish to pair with some clothes.. also influenced by my colleagues who are dressed so elegantly. Don’t want to look like an ugly duck beside them.. eg I only realised both sides of my shoes were torn when I went to an external venue to meet a facilitator.. never felt more lousy -_- I guess making the effort to dress better would also help in my confidence level since I’m facing the directors straight now.

Anyways it rained a few days during my bk trip so it wasn’t too hot overall. The rain puddles made my pants dirty though x_x some breakfasts were also settled at the roadside stalls with seating area.. one of them was really filthy I lost my appetite whenever I caught sight of the floor hahaha just keep looking up.

Shopping was much more comfortable in Malaysia and I managed to get abit more clothes there. Just see the photos hor..

We made Bao, my masterpieces very obvious XD

Zaizai is good! He anyhow peed again and got caned. Also it appears that dog filters won’t work on dogs haha

New babies in the Tan family!! They are sooooo adorable and the younger one (right) has such smooth and fair skin, my hand looked super haggard petting him cos of the colour diff lol

Awesome food everywhere, both bought and Home cooked. My aunt cooks amazingly

Flew back to sg on Wednesday and watched justice league with the bf that night. Yesterday night after work he jioed me to gardens by the bay with his Mum and sis to view the winter wonderland lights and see the xmas deco in the flower dome. Very nice! But year after year I think there’s no longer the surprise element. Would not pay for this again next year unless got something completely new.

Just now we went to miffy cafe at bugis! Food was average and the cafe was small =X not unexpected

  

  

XD they look alike!!! With the spot on the face

End October

This was from last last week where I went with the bf to search for cloth at Bug1s and Chinat0wn. Super sunny day I probably became darker. We've been trying our hand at the kino shounen jump gacha, I was aiming for Gon, Jotaro and Yusuke (out of respect to Togashi) Tried a total of 3 times over 2 days and Not bad sia.. we got Yusuke and Jotaro! and Gin san which the bf took. Decided to stop short of my Gon inc case we got the niku guy which nobody wants haha

From last saturday where the bf dragged me to s3ngkang for the gundam fair. He bought these for me cos they were so cute, can display during CNY. Very easy to fix! 

Jap@n food fair with the bf and friends yesterday. Walked so much again and had so much alcohol samples. Legs were aching and in the middle of the afternoon I ran out of stamina, we chilled at the foodcourt where I took a short nap. Must be the alcohol also.

Anyways I've been transiting more to the new department the past week and gone are my go home at 530pm days. The colleagues at the new dept come to work and leave later, sometimes got to match with the director's timings and they definitely dont end work so early. I've taken to waking up 20mins later and mentally convincing myself that my end work time is after 6. No bitterness at all, other than the 2 days where I left at 7+. It's damn depressing to come to work at 8 and leave so late where the sky is dark and feel so hungry, with this amount of pay. But more importantly, I was irrirated those 2 times due to the kind of thing I was staying back for, literally sitting beside my colleague to look through her slides together again and again, and crafting the email containing the slides for directors to clear, it's not even an actual submission. omg just typing about it makes me start to boil. This kind of peanuts also spend so much time, productiveness can definitely be improved.

That aside, everything is going well for now and I know how to protect myself. I'm willing to put in the time and effort but they should be spent on meaningful things and not be overly OCD over the smaller stuff. 

Feels good

I will officially start to double hat at the new department tomorrow, though unofficially I’ve staryed attending their meetings and doing some simple tasks since last month. Things will get busy!! But it will be fulfilling! Must remain positive :))) Moving to level 6 in nov

G@me st@rt this weekend and I did a simple cos with the bf wheee my first cos in a long while and also my 2nd cos this year (probably last?)

One of the few male characters I can pull off properly, cos of the jacket. But no one recognizes him unless i'm paired with the bf's character. Overall satisfied with my make up yesterday which stayed up pretty well.

This SSR draw dates back to a few days after my previous post wahahah I saw a lot of SSRs being drawn in my channel and I tried my luck,drew about 5 tickets one by one before this came! So glad it's her and not a repeat. My chance of getting a repeat is much higher now since I have collected more SSRs. This is also the SSR that the bf was eyeing :X XD

She's really strong! But I don't have the best amour for her.. what a pity.

Saved as draft again

Hihi guys long time no post again, just gonna compile all my accumulated photos

Bought myself this new toy which took about 2 weeks to ship from japan and it has brought me alot of joy. Send me your song requests! I can play them badly. Also finished stardust crusaders and laughed so much. I still found the front part disgusting but it gets much better.

After walking past the physical item countless times, I finally saw a sale online and  bought these ice cream tints. No regrets. Went to JB 2 weeks ago with the bf and his friend cos the bf wanted to buy moon cakes. As usual we had good food and went singing too. 

I fell sick!!! (now recover le) but was down with sore throat, fever and flu, so bad that I had to take MC. Still coughing a little even after a week.

Met up with the YYYs including Janice and Proctor. Hahaha we forgot to take a group photo though.. when will be the next chance.,...... hope proctor had a good dinner that night.

I probably should mention, I downloaded mystic messenger and completed the V route. It was a tough time cos I was so busy with work and fell sick, I was quite out of the game for the whole 11 days. The route was also not as engaging as expected... perhaps I'm not that interested in V to begin with but I did try to fall for him! Thought I would have a bad end, since the party was cancelled -__- I must have achieved too low a completion rate for too many days.. Surprised that I got the good end still, though since the party was cancelled, I couldn't get the hour glass from the guest invites. Will leave that for next time....... if I still bother. (saeran route, I'm sure will come) 

That aside, just the past friday, I deleted mystic messenger to make space for YYS again. Cannot resist lah.. it's the anniversary event and they're increasing the SSR drop rate to 3%, until you draw max 3 SSRs. My friend was still diligently helping the bf and I farm tickets after we stopped playing-- that's about a month! imagine juggling her many accounts including ours T___T I'm so touched. Cos of this event, I met with her on friday and used her device to log into my account to draw. The first draw got me the SSR I wanted-- the over-powered one: 

There was a hype when she was first released and I have also experienced her poison before. She is a beauty and so strong! And she came in my first round of 10 draws before starting dinner. Hahaha the increased drop rate is real. I subsequently drew 2 more SSRs after dinner but those were repeats. Lucky for me, there's another anniversary event to exchange SSRs, can select from a list of 6. This brings me to the next SSR I was after and managed to obtain on friday:

A handsome support class SSR with a lovely voice. I was interested in him but never really tried for him until the new skin came out which matches my huang (see top row left most) so well. Match made in heaven sia and they both have dragons! Wahaha the game sure knows how to stir emotions and create ships. So yeaaa I was super happy that day and decided to download the game again and at least train up my new babies. 

Over dinner, the friend and I also logged into the bf's account to help him draw. He didn't get the latest SSR which he was aiming for nor the beautiful overpowered one which I drew. But he did trade a repeat and got another SSR he was interested in and drew a new SSR which he was quite interested in. Today I saw that he downloaded the game le. Hahaha we are all back playing.  

Ytd the bf came over and fixed up this little dresser which I ordered from tb. Cost bout $11 in all and came in planks and screws which I had to assemble myself. It would have taken me a whole lot longer and head scratching without his help. The package even comes with a screw driver,l i'm so impressed. Not so impressed initially cos they sent the wrong order though.. I wanted the design with no mirror and wider drawers. Instead they sent the design which includes a mirror which is utterly useless cos I already have a huge mirror behind. It all turned out well though I just removed the mirror portion and made use of the empty space to put more stuff, which might not have fit in the drawers if I had gotten my actual order. I love the end product :D the wood is smooth, well cut and seems quite sturdy, i'm extremely happy with the buy :)) The size is just right too, and can hold all my existing stuff with room to spare. My mirror area is much neater and spacious now.