Thinking of you

My facebook status read,"Be with someone who brings out the best in you!"

A message I wanted to send to my friends in relationship woes. I finally realised what others meant when they say being single isn't a bad thing. Two of my friends were tearing over their men. I wanted to console them but I felt so helpless. That quote just came to me when I was in the shower and I thought I would share it.

Everyone of us is imperfect. But there is that someone who will still love us for who we are, accomodate us, compromise together and tries to bring out the best in us. Right? Well, I believe so.

In my past, I had been with guys whom brought out the worst in me. I guess probably I was also younger then, more inexperienced and somehow naive. I could recall my impatient nature, jealousy and insecurity surfacing when I was with R (names are protected for privacy issue). While A constantly put me down, and with him I was never good enough. I even thought it was okay to be treated bad when you really liked the other person. How foolish! One fine day, H came along, I realised that someone does exist. He encouraged me, he listened, I never felt the need to be insecure, jealous or even impatient. Yet, we aren't together. Somebody said loving someone is not owning them, is that true?

Well if there was one, there will be others. But now I do know that's the one I'm searching for. I believe he's also looking for me now ;)

In search of happiness

Friends have left... to seek that true happiness that was lacking in their lives.


Joy has gone back to America, I feel happy for her to be reunited with the husband. They will move to Canada soon. I guess there's a possibility I might be able to visit ;)

The time Joy was here, we learnt a lot about each other. Even though we were part of FAB 4, but we never really spent time together. I did with the other two separately. But it's funny how God played a trick on us. I was in UK, then she was in USA. Finally, we reunited again in Singapore. We discovered our hobby of painting nails and we are actually quite talented ;) She introduced a sketch group to me where I once again picked up my love for drawing. We swam. We celebrated occasions, ate and drank. We travelled. We talked a lot, from the past to the future, from deep sensitive issues to the larger things in life. She made me feel at ease being myself, she also made me think deeper. She made me see a different side of being human.

Thank you, Joy!


Stephanie, a temp staff from my past job, is leaving for Japan. She's going to be an English teacher, and she's only 24. Half Japanese and half Chinese, she's going back to her roots and hopefully brush up her Japanese language. That's an exciting phase and I'm glad she has the courage to do it!

Gambatte Stephanie!

YAY older & happier

It has been more than a week since I turned another year older. My celebrations started as early as end of September. I have been going out 4 consecutive nights last week and 5 this week. As age catches up with me, my stamina is also rapidly deteriorating. Oh boy!

I usually don't count my Facebook blessings, but one friend just mentioned she did. SHUCKS! I got influenced! LOL. Of course, I'm not measuring them but it's fun to know more than 20% of my friends (in my friend list) made an effort to send a virtual greeting. Others came in the form of SMS, whatsapp or even a card.

Thank you all!

One man's trash is another man's treasure

I like this idea of recycling. In the nice name of donating, we are also getting rid of things we do not want anymore.

I was chatting with an intern in my company about perfume yesterday. I mentioned about my "over 10" bottles at home, while she said she's running low on 2! I decided to bring one I didn't use or fancy anymore to see if she would like it. Not only can she save some money but she also have a bottle of "new" perfume. To my surprise, she likes it! It just didn't grow on me after a while, the smell was horrendous on me.

I also recall one time, Angela and me had a perfume swap. We both didn't like a particular bottle we bought, and it would be a waste to leave it untouched or chuck it in the bin. We were both happy with the exchange :) That's also a reason why I do like swapping. Besides that, we are going GREEN. We should do this more among friends!

In the past, I attended a swap event for clothes even. Though not my favourite activity, sometimes I would just prefer to donate them to the event.

Melaka makan trip III (part 2)

The next morning, all of us managed to wake up fresh, ready and hungry for more foodie adventures.

Shortly past 10 in the morning, we were already queueing up for the chicken rice balls. I am glad we did because the queue at noon turned out to be even worse. Chicken rice for breakfast! To be honest, the rice balls are just a novelty, they just taste like the normal rice. The chicken was good though, tender and yummy.

After that, we headed for Jonker 88 for chendol and ice kachang. Joy managed to squeeze in a slot for mango juice between all that! I know, it was just irresistable. Ice kachang is BAD, not at all special. But as I'm getting used to the chendol, I don't find it extraordinary anymore, though their brown sugar syrup is still the main ingredient that makes it outstanding! I just had chendol at the hawker near my office recently, as my memory of the Jonker 88's chendol started to fade, I actually enjoy the local one too.

Thereafter it was souvenir shopping time. We stocked up stuff from tau sar piah, pineapple tarts, plum lime syrup, mee sua, bei teh sor to chicken biscuits. We then checked out and headed to the malls.

It was amazing how much food stops we had scheduled for that day. Next, A&W root beer float and curly fries are on the list. 5 of us ended up sharing 2 mugs and a large curly fries, it was a very small portion for each of us, but inorder to save room for dessert, it was a sacrifice we had to make. Our initial cake stop was Secret Recipe but WK suggested an even better place. Since we do have Secret Recipe in Singapore, we decided to go to the new cake stop and try it out before Secret Recipe. In the end, we skipped the later, because Nadeje Patisserie proved to be just too good! The mille crêpe were fabulous, even right now, I am drooling just thinking about it! We had the original, chocolate strawberry and mango yogurt. I saw many more, the next time I am back, I will do chocolate banana and green tea!! OMG, they were so light and fluffy... and you would just keep wanting more and more. Of course, they went really well with the TOKYO coffee we had.

After the cakes, we decided we were done with food. The guys still managed to down a KFC meal (of course, they shared). Poor WK got a parking ticket due to the wrong state coupon (he put the JB's instead of Melaka's). Oh dear! Then it was time to head back down to Singapore. It started to pour really heavily after we drove out of Melaka. The rest of the journey back to JB I couldn't recall because I was dozing off half the time! LOL. The girls managed some sleep while the poor boys got to keep awake on the road.

We finally reached JB around 6pm. Finally, I could use the toilet after hours in the car!!! We had the nasi lemak WK recommended, accompanied with honey glazed satay. That marked the end of our makan trip - very fruitful indeed. Thanks to Joy and her colleagues for being such great company; special thanks to WK for being on the wheels and showing us around.