Our home

Finally we will get to have a place of our own.... Hooray!!!

Being a lazy pig and crowd lover, i still like to stay with my in-laws but the thought of having our own little space, leaving aside the household chores and monthly expenses, makes me excited....

Gymnast of the Year

Went to my auntie place one day and discovered the little talent in my niece who is 9 mths old... She is super flexible and did that all by herself while drinking milk.. super cute!!!

世上只有妈妈好

Have you ever wonder why we can be so rude or inpatient to our parents especially our dear mother even though we know that they are so dear to us and they are really doing things for our own good?

-------> Coz we are taking them for granted

I always know that i have a very good, patient, no temper mama but she is just a little blur blur and silly. Given her virtues, we tend to bully her as we know that she will not scold us back or be angry but she will definitely be hurt and sad as she is a 容易受伤的女人 just like me. She will keep her anger and sadness to herself and maybe weep when no one is around. Sometimes i really feel rather remorseful seeing her like that..... Anyway this hardly happens nowadays as i know that being a mother is not easy and I tend to treasure her more. Plus the fact that I dont stay with them anymore, I love and miss her more.

For all the wednesday dinners she is preparing for us, i know that she is a perfect mama always put others before her - thinking of what to cook for me and BE so as to ensure that it suits our taste and we will have enough food. Our meal will always come with at least 3 main dishes with a soup and desserts or snacks after meal.

Recently i was complaining to her of the washing for baby clothes and she asked me to bring all over for her to wash which i find the statement super sweet and touching. How will i bear to see her doing all these chores for me when it shld be my turn to take it up?

I also chat with Junie abt it and she has the same sentiments as well.... Guess all mamas are rather poor thing....

Bottomline - we must learn to treasure them before we regret.

Ren Ri - Happy Birthday!

CNY Chu Seven is also known as Ren Ri, symbolising everyone's birthday. Here comes the annual CNY dinner at Suntec City organised by Fo Ya Shi, holding about near to 400 tables. Reaching there around the same time with MP Ma and took the same elevator as him which makes me and BE looks as if we are part of his entourage and be in a little of the limelight. The event started off with singing National Anthem and the Buddhism song, followed by saying prayers by many monks.

All the devotees will hold on to their fa gao which costs $2888 to take a pic with the Reverend, monks and MPs on stage.

Thereafter the show started with having 8 lions and 2 dragons on stage as the first performance before our vegetarian dinner starts. We had vege yu sheng together at the same time with other tables, the emcees shout out the blessings which comes with fire works each time they finish their lucky phrase.

Here comes the star of the year - Mr Mouse holding the banner indicating "feng yi zu shi"...... FIL and his business partner bid at an enormous amount, which makes my jaw drop when the emcees count to three.

Gong Hei Fatt Choy!!!!!!!

Happy New Year to everybody...

Got this funny message early in the morning of chu yi and was thinking who is Mr Teo whom i will be expecting at my house. Haha it is actually Teo 4D, Teo Big Sweep, Teo Toto.... =)

First year giving ang bao felt so excited and confused at the same time as different red packet covers have different denominations so have to mark down correctly so as to avoid giving the wrong one out. Now it is finally my turn to wish people "kuai gao zhang da", "xue ye jing bu"..... As it is my first year, we still manage to get quite a number of red packets in return... Yuppie!

The Not-to-missed annual family portrait taken during chu yi with new members... Everyone has big smiles on their face as we all were saying tomato ("fan chie") in chinese while taking the picture. Why??? my aunt says the picture will turn out nicer when u say these words during photo taking.... Haha try this out on urself and see if it works

Sumptuous Hokkaido Meal.... Oiishi

Christmas is coming soon and it is time to shop for pressies... Got a free ride from bro's friend, i call him jimmy curtain coz he is the one who did our curtains =), to orchard with okasan and bro and met TT there... Okasan wanted to check out the Mongolian buffet at Park Mall but we decide to go Sushi Tei instead as it is nearer.

Having my bro who is a food gourmet around, here's what we had ordered - Phoenix Roll, Sashimi platter, Hokkaido crab, lobster sashimi, sweet potato and the lobster miso soup...


This is the first time i had lobster sashimi, it makes me so sinful as the lobster will still move its feelers while we are enjoying the yummy and succulent flesh. eeeeee......

After meal, we went on separate ways as okasan wanted to take some christmas pics and she kept on reiterating that when we were young, they will always bring us to orchard and take christmas pics so now it is our turn to repay her haha

My new creation - ring pillow

I am proud to present my Me-to-You Ring pillow creation with some help from mama to sew up the pillow.

Me-to-You bear is chosen as the ambassador coz this is the first bear BE bot for me abt 6 years ago to keep my mouth shut when he was driving as he finds me distracting. Haha

Di came over to my house to stay over yesterday as we need to catch Vball finals today - her last overnight stay with the single-status me =) Didnt manage to wake up on time as i had a dream and felt that i need more sleep so i laze in bed for another 30 mins.... The female finals was really exciting as both T.N.T and The Red Team are both super good with their spikes. Like Di, my hands felt itchy after watching...

Then, i head to C&C's housewarming... nice gathering as it consists both ops and sales team. Went to mit mama after that and shop at People Park Complex and OG thereafter, felt so tired....

My busy Saturday.........Out with second pig, banquet florist, prawning

Shopping with bro

I didnt i didnt mention but my BRO is back and will be in Singapore for good... yuppie so happy to see him around. The three little pigs woke up rather early for no reason so we decided to send big pig to the ferry terminal as he needs to go Batam/ Bintan.... Then i pester second pig to Ikea as i need to buy some stuffs for my new room. Thereafter we went to TM to search for pressies as we have so many birthday celebrations to attend - cousin's 21st, niece's birthday, new nephew's 1st month.... We spent the whole morning and reached home abt 3 just nice for me to take a half hour nap before we go out again...Second pig sent me to meet BE then to his friend's birthday party.

Florist shopping with BE
BE and I went to visit the in-house florist for our wedding banquet at Verdun Road near Mustafa Centre. The place was nice with alot of glasswares and lights for us to chose from. Initially we wanted chandelier lights but he showed us another one which is the latest and bigger which has a greater impact as compared and this costs more...... =( We had the discussion for 1.5 hours and this is what we had finalised.... It will be a big hole in our pocket as we didnt factor this to our budget... haizz

For the Grand Ballroom - ivory, lime green and white with Burgundy stage backdrop

• Huge and long lights with ivory seashells, the person is so nice to import another 2 more for our wedding. We had to pay for rental, electrician to fix the lights and additional to cover the original gold stage backdrop to Burgundy.
• Assymentric floral arrangement for all our guest tables. If we were to add hydrangea, our favourite, to each table, this will cost us abt $30 each.... which adds up to be $1800.... ouch!!!
• Tier floral arrangement with candles in the middle of our 20 seater donut table
• 12 pedestrals along the aisle and on the stage, florist has decided to put in hydragea free yuppie.....
  

For the Grand Gallery - burgundy and white

• 9 martini glass with candles at different heights
• side cocktail table with crystal floral arrangement
• red petals on the aisle as we walk in for our solemnisation
• Burgundy floral arrangement near the walkway to the recept.

Prawning with BE, DAR and his sis
After dinner, we went prawning.. it has been the longest time since we prawn hehe. Quite disappointed as we only manage to catch total of 6 prawns in 2 hours but the prawny is much bigger hehe....

BE is away.........

Have been working late hours recently and didnt really have the chance to meet or chat with BE. Felt so tired, sian, irritated and demoralised so he decided to buy me something to cheer me up before he flew off to Shenzhen. Miss him =/

Departure can never be happy =(

Second bro is away again... this time round is slightly different from the past, he is going China to venture into food business. All the best!!!! I hope it will work well so that all his efforts will pay off. Dont really know what to get for him as his present before he left as he has almost everything he needs, so i bot him a Vietnamese recipe book..... wrapped nicely before passing to him. As expected, he is unappreciative on the front but i bet he is touched??? Haha

Just to make sure that he will wake me up before he left at about 4am, i slept in his room near the door way. In the end, mama woke me instead coz bro decided not to disturb my sleep as i need to work the next day. After sending him to the door, i tear while getting to sleep : _ _ _(

Miss the noise he makes when he is at home

Miss the way he makes fun of me

Miss him..............

Auspicious Date 070707

This date is so popular tt makes 777 couples tie their knot on this special day. My cousin is not one of them as he got solemnise in May but decided to chose this day to hold his wedding dinner. He assigned me to be his camera man using my not so pro new camera. After all those portfolio viewing for my wedding, I acquire a little bit of skills and use those techniques while taking pics for them - slightly tilt the door to take a glimpse of the bride who is having her make up in the room and also use those mirror effect to take dual images. Haha Although the end product still needs a little tuning, the effect is there. =)

For the dinner, i was assigned the recep role... This is the first time i had difficulties assigning the table number as the list is in Chinese. It took me a long time before i can find their names. Worse still, my auntie actually name them as Mr Chen and wife.... which i have no idea if the Mr Chen she is referring to is the same Mr Chen who is standing in front of me waiting for me to give him his table number. Also, there are many people who brought along their kids when my aunt only invite the husband and wife, they dont even bother to inform in advance. In the end, we have to be seated with strangers as those ppl took our seats.

So impressed with this dish as all the tables will be served with a relatively big suckling pig each. Yummy but so sinful......

Before
After

Our Life Cycle......

Just got to know that this friend of mine, Jan, who got married in March is 6 weeks pregnant - made in taiwan. Feel so happy for her as she is my first close friend who got pregnant officially hehe... Expected to be due in Feb. CONGRATULATIONS BABE!

Our Life Cycle

When you are young, parents will take care of you....

When you are an adult, you have to take care of parents.... (did we???)

When you are old, your kids will have to take care of you.....

No one can understand the hardship parents went thru till you become one. Do we use the same effort or time taking care of our parents now as compared to how they spend time nurturing us when we were young? Till now, i must admit that i still behave like a small kid in my family and wont need to worry about household chores, meals etc as it is all taken care of my beloved parents. They will faithfully call and ask if i need dinner and make sure that my dinner is heated up when i eat it, help me with the washing, tidy my messy room, empty my overflow rubbish bin.....

After knowing that i am getting married soon, my parents behave weirdly at times. Recently i called to ask if they will like to have supper. They werent hungry at all but decided to have it as they know that there will be lesser opportunites for me to buy supper for them in future as i wont be staying with them. Another incident is my dad actually told my mama that he wants to celebrate my birthday for me this year, it is quite rare for him to initiate. They are really dear to me as much as i dont express it to them openly. Will definitely miss them and hope i wont tear as much during my wedding day.

Whatsup with the queue @ Zouk???

Happy Vesak Day and Happy Birthday ML!!!

Met the Irritants for dinner @ MOF yesterday, so happy to see them as it has been a long time since we last had an outing. As usual, blur queen will perform for us throughout our meal while we will try to ignore totally. She is so abnormal, who on earth will bring makeup cleanser to club with the intention of redoing it again? Anyway the girls went clubbing @ Zouk after dinner. Reached there at abt 9+ and the queue was damn bl**dy long, it went all the way up till the bridge and took us two hours to be somewhr near Wine Bar. Then we saw the sign - FULL HOUSE. To add on to our irritation, we had to bear with the irksome guy behind us who crack stupid jokes and the group who tried to cut queue and still denied the accusation. Argh so frustrating.....

In the end, we went to Butter Factory @ Robertson Quay (Hei pronounced this as chicken in hokkien hahaha) and got in slightly after midnight. Had a fun time there despite the earlier episode. Home sweet home @ 4am....

Woke early today as there is a family chalet - went to check in, buy groceries, marinate the food...... Downtown East really change alot with the increase in no of eateries and fun recreational areas. Pray hard that i dont need to work late tml so that i can go BBQ early. =)

Sakuraya and 高记 @ Parkway

Traveled all the way to Parkway with Mama and Fifth Aunt with the intention of looking at dresses for my wedding, however their attention diverts the moment we stepped there. They spent most of their time looking at ladies' favourite friend instead - DIAMONDS..... I totally agree with my colleague who quoted this during meeting - Men are from Mars and Women from Venus. Men will focus in getting what they have in mind whereas Women will tend to get distracted during their shopping trip and end up purchasing things that are not in their shopping list. I totally agree with this statement as I am someone like that and will always get reminded by BE to stay focus while shopping with him!

Prior having dinner at 高记, i brought them to Sakuraya - the japanese fish mart at Parkway B1-83D. I ordered Mama and my fav's salmon sashimi - thickly sliced for us to savour its flavour and freshness. It is simply irresistible... Highly recommended.....
As Fifth Aunt doesnt take raw food, so we went to 高记 near the food court for proper dinner. The waitress served us their 咸菜 appetiser, i like it as it has a sour and sweet taste. We ordered a couple of dishes which includes 三杯鸡, 排骨拉面, 锅贴 and 小龙包 to share. Dont really know whats the ingredients for making 三杯鸡 but this dish is definitely something you can try.
As for the 小龙包, i prefer this to Din Tai Fung as the skin is not as thick and dry, the taste is a combination of the skin, meat and most imptly the gravy. It should be best eaten with some vinegar and ginger.

As usual, Mama will always looking around for food instead of concentrating at the delicacies on her table... I think this habit applies to the whole Liow family as Fifth aunt is also like that haha. They are like gourmet expert who will hunt for all the good food in the restaurant and will definitely wont give a miss to those popular dishes served. They saw our next table eating 银鱼, so they also wanted a plate for themselves as well. It is a giant 银鱼, same length as the inner circle of the plate, as compared to those in Nasi Lemak. Delicious but a little bit expensive for the small serving.

Jay Chou makes me cry.......

Listen to the music on my blog which i just learnt from Zozo on how to create, this is the song which makes me tear each time i listen to it.

Another 4.5 months....

I will definitely miss my family especially Mama!

Back to my normal self

Finally i am back to my normal self - no troubles and worries, able to do things i like, spend time with those whom i love, sleep as i wish as I am no longer alone. Thanks to those who were there for me =)

Had a long weekend - Good Friday and Easter Day. Ate Easter Rabbit biscuit specially bought by taya from Marks and Spencer on Thurs, it is so yummy - taste like digestive biscuits with vanilla cream.

Together with others, we went 爱丽斯's house for a visit after work on Thurs. Had a sumptuous meal at the coffeeshop near her place and were treated with three different desserts at her house - Hashima with ginseng, chempedak cake and brownie. We were trying real hard to find out whats hashima made of... some of us guess it is frog's spe*m and others tot it is their saliva.. Finally got to know the answer from mama that it is actually frog's intestine. Didnt manage to eat the last dessert as BE had arrived to pick me up to go cycling.....

I sat on his bike and he cycled me to Dar's place, felt so sweet and romantic along the way although my b*tt hurts after some time. Then, we cycled to East Coast jetty to fish. Had problems casting the line as it will get "junk-co" (some fishing term indicating that the line got stuck to the sea bed) most of the time. Fell asleep while fishing as we caught nothing after 3 hours. It was fun even though we got nothing in the end as this is the thing which we missed out doing during our courtship days.

On Fri, we went for Easter high tea @ Merchant Court with mama. Nicer spread as compared to the lunch but too bad, they only serve durian puffs instead of the yummy durian puree during high tea. To ease my craving, i scrape out the filling and leave the puff untouched. =) At night, we went Sembawang/ Khatib intending to try prawn fishing at this new and beautiful place Bottletree.... but it was closed. So sad.... Will check it out again another time.