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    HAI ELICIA LIM HERE. :-)

    new year eve

    Saturday, 31 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    Went to Great World City in the morning for our brunch at ichiban sushi, wanted to have dim sum at imperial treasure but have to wait till 1.45pm and we had no time. After that, went to Zara, this time round, I did not buy any clothes, mummy bought one shirt that I wanted too so we can actually share and I also like the boots that she buy so we can share again. Also, I saw Boo's book at the bookstore. It's sort of like a photobook and its very expansive, $17 so didn't buy. Its cheaper online, onky $9.90.

    Walked through the whole queensway to find my water bottle. What makes it worse is that I cannot walk fast in that shoes which cause my feet to hurt. I wanted the Nike green bottle, but there is no green so I bought red in the end. I think red is the new colour.      
    Went back home to prepare for our Christmas cum new year party, papa cooked  bee hoon, fried rice, curry chicken,  steam fish head, nuggets, fish fillet and chicken cocktails. Ah yi also bought a chicken. After the dinner, we had some sparkling juice, cake, games, bingo, we won 2 price, a hello kitty pouch and special hershly chocolates, but its did not taste as good as expected. Exchange presents, red jewelry box from mummy, icy blue candylicious teddy bear from lee hua ah yi and iphone cover from elaine ah yi. Qiqi said that it may look childish if I bring it to school so I asked her why she choose that design. If not I use during Chinese new year since I don't have any new phone cover for cny.
    Watched the count down show, the three off us started criticising the fireworks from the start of the fireworks till the end, comparing it with the Australia and disneyland one, saying Singapore's is lousy, no pattern and they even recycle the music.
    Also, I lend lee hua ah yi my favourite show, no regrets, she is someone that don't like 古装 drama, so I hope that this show can change her mindset and hope that she would fall in love with this show too!

    Shopping day with mummy

    Thursday, 29 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    Went to redhill, for roti prata, my favourite roti prata in Singapore. Yummy. Then, we went to Winnie's hair salon to cut my fringe. I often go to that hair salon with mummy when I was young but I never go there for quite some years. Went to baochun's instead, but recently, her skills is getting lousier and lousier so I decided to go somewhere else for my hair cut. Then, I went to take the mrt from redhill to ion. Bought 2 pens from kikki and 2 highlighters from muji. Shop around and waited for mummy. After mummy came, we went to Zara, each bought a t-shirt, actually, we thought we could find many nice clothes at Zara, but in the end, all the clothes seem ugly and aunty, didnt even buy winter clothes for our new zealand trip. Went to poypes for lunch (miss the whipped potato), bought a long sleeve shirt at Forever 21. Then went to far east's C.O.L cause the other time, we went there and realise that the clothes thry are selling are very nice. The boss has a really good memory, he remembered when we came, what we said and what we bought and I bought a very cute skirt there. Looks like those that japan or korea girls always wear. Then, I bought a black shorts for new year at last. Its the first time I bought 4 clothes in a day.

    T-shirt: $29.90
    Long sleeve shirt: $29.70
    Skirt: $40
    Black shorts: $31.90

    2nd day

    Wednesday, 28 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    Went to railway mall's EAT for minced meat noodle for breakfast with papa, mummy and qiqi. Super spicy and not very nice. After that, went home. Qiqi wanted to go for swimming but I was very tired and the weather wasn't very good so we didn't go in the end. Laze around at home, watch 怒火街头, called ting ting to ask if she wanted to go out, let her listen to another Cantonese recording. At night, we cook a new year dinner. Minestrone soup, aglio oilo and chocolate chip cupcake. The minestrone soup is nice, at first, the colour is not there and the tomato taste is not enough so we added pasta sauce. The aglio oilo is okay, just that there is no bacon or anything so its not salty enough, the chocolate cupcake taste quite nice, cause I made it. Haha :D But I was too busy with the soup and pasta and forgot to take the cupcake out of the oven so it looks a bit crumpled.

    Hebe forever

    Tuesday, 27 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    I remembered that when I was young, I used like SHE. Bought 2 of their album and concert DVD. Then, I forgot about them for some time, until 2010, I started noticing hebe when she went solo due to the song 寂寞寂寞就好, and I fall in love with her, her voice, and her songs. Got her first solo album, To Hebe on Christmas day, but not the original, so it includes SHE songs too which are nice, but I am sort of regretting not getting the original. Then, this year, I got her 2nd album My love. Listen to her songs over and over again every time I was in the shower. I think she is super pretty and she has a very nice voice and sings well. Envy. Oh and her personality, she is a very quiet person, doesn't speak much, they say she used to be talkative  when she just entered the entertainment. But she said that she was a quiet and reserved person since young, will not socialise and talk with people she don't know well, yet can be talkative when she is with people she know well,which I think resembles me a lot. And somehow I feel that she tried to talk and socialise but couldn't, and that's why she wrote that song, what can I say, yaoshuosheme. And I have been telling myself that I cannot be that shy and quiet and reserve anymore next year.
     



    qiqi's stayover at my house

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    Qiqi actually plan to come to my house for swimming but we didn't go in the end because I somehow felt lazy. Then, I decided to go to qiqi's house to bake rainbow cupcakes. Before going, we made 2 sort of prank call. We played 2 recordings once she pick up the phone, one was ellie konichiwa and then in english, another one was in Cantonese. And then we made another one to papa, but every time he hung up before the recording end. And then he called mummy to say he actually plan to call to tell me about a dog adoption but every time, I played the recording and now, he said what cannot get the dog already but actually its he fault because he never communicate properly with the uncle. Then, we went to qiqi's house to make rainbow cupcake but we cannot find the machine and glove so we had to mix using hand and take out the baking tray using tongs. Thought that would make the cupcake fail but it still taste okay, however, we poured too much mixed into the cup so when baking, the cake rise and and spilled into the oven, so we spend a lot of time cleaning up. The colour of the cupcake is very nice though.
    Also, we took some pictures. Imitating the professional style.

    At night, qiqi decided to stay at my house. Ah yi also lend me a hongkong drama 怒火街头. Lawyer show, very nice. We ate orange and mangosteen, then used the computer and chit chat till 4 plus. We even talked about having children or not, and she said I have mummy look and said I would have 3 children, 2 boy and 1 girl, she would have 2 and ting ting would have no children. Haha hope that its not true, cause I don't want any. Its not those teenage saying that they don't want children because they are not mature but its because I know what I want in the future. Some people including my idol, hebe, said that having children will make a woman's life complete and make one understand what is love and how to love someone. Is this true? I don't really think so. Maybe a few percent.
    We also plan to wake up at 8 to go swimming the next day, so I recorded a recording "陈庆文，起身了，起身了" in Cantonese and make it as the alarm to wake daddy up. But in the end, he woke up at 10 so we didn't go in the end.

    I love pomeranian dogs! All I want for Christmas is Boo :D

    Monday, 26 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    My first encounter with Pomeranian dogs was when I went to send Christmas buffet with papa and mummy to aunty adeline's sister's terrace. There was this very cute dog so I went down and took some pictures of him. He's called Nicky, a 7 year old dog, very tame and timid. I didn't know there was this kind of dog till that day, after asking the owner. Just some time ago, I was still crazy about toy poodle, partly because my idol hebe has one too! When I went to Taiwan 2 years ago, we saw a lot selling at cheap prices, but in Singapore, one pedigree toy poodle cost $3500. Haha but now, I change my mind. Pomeranian is cuter, but the fur is very thick, very hard to take care, have to cut them off, like Nicky. And after that day, I went to search about Pomeranian dogs and found out about Boo, known as the world's cutest dog. All I want for Christmas is Boo! I think Boo stays in America and went onto BBC news too! OMG he as 1 million likes on facebook, and has his calendar, book and soft toy! But I think still not selling. I'm surely going to buy if they are selling in Singapore or online.Oh and he's cute because of his hairstyle and he looks like a toy! Super cute :D Here's some picture of Boo, the world's cutest dog.



    my favourite show 巾帼枭雄and巾帼枭雄之义海豪情

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    This is a very special entry because its about my favourite show and its in chinese.
    巾帼枭雄和他的第二部，义海豪情，是两部我最喜欢的电视连续剧。义海豪情排第一，因为剧情的起伏不必第一部精彩。这两部电视剧也让男女主角，黎耀祥和邓萃雯连续两年拿到视帝视后。他们两人的演技真是好得没活说，因此邓萃雯，虽然已老了，但却成了我最喜爱的女演员。看了她的一些访问，也发觉她非常的敬业及专业，真不因该那么迟，45岁成为视后，听说她早因该以金枝欲孽拿下视后。

    巾帼枭雄
    巾帼枭雄的意思是女英雄，也就是指康宝奇。康宝奇曾因父亲开仓赈灾而成了朝廷侵犯，后来成了将家四奶奶。将家也拥有全无锡最大的米店庆丰年。四奶奶是个聪明，敢做敢当，有见地，善良，又有大爱的女子，在将家，庆丰年及无锡都有不少贡献。她让无锡人人有饭吃，并多次奋不顾身的帮助挚友，柴九。而柴九也一直从旁协助四奶奶，最后也因为救她而牺牲了。
    在看第24集时，我差一点就哭了，是第二部让我感动的戏，第一部是家好月圆。
    一些深入民心的对白
    1.四奶奶“你身上的伤疤都和我们将家有关，而你这一个人又爱计较，如果有一天你要和我计较，我真不知该怎么还给你”
    柴九“我和你不需要计较”
    2. 三奶奶“四妹，如果我死了，你一定会问我为何怎么傻？为何要冒这个险。但其实当你为我儿子带上那顶官帽时，我也在问你为何怎么傻？为何要冒这一个险？这样吧我们别在问来问去了，也别再感到内疚，好不好？”
    3. 柴九" 我柴九生平佩服的人没有几个,女人就跟加少，但四奶奶就是其中一个。庆丰年除了四奶奶，其余的都是笨驴”
    4. 四奶奶“如果柴九有些三长两短，我四奶奶便会结束庆丰年，设么都不作，指专心做一件事，就是找出那个凶手”

    This Christmas 2011

    Sunday, 25 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    This is the first Christmas that doesn't feel like Christmas at all. We would usually gather together to have a party, exchange presents to celebrate Christmas on Christmas eve. However, this years party was postpone to new year eve as we have to be present at a wake on Christmas eve. As for Christmas day? Stay home the whole day except going to plaza to print some photos. Saw people preparing for their party and grew envy. Yesterday night, I even say one family getting home with 5 big bags of presents!! But mummy say if I never buy the sony nex C3 camera, she can also use the one thousand dollars to buy me 5 bags of present or more that they have to help carry. Haha :D Maybe this Christmas should be called lonely and special Christmas? With belated party and presents and a Christmas eve spend at a wake. Oh and its quite special, the wake. Its a bit of Japanese style, never see before.

    Sentosa 2D1N. 17-18 dec 2011

    Sunday, 18 December 2011, Add comment? [0]


    On 17 dec, its our hotel stay in had rock hotel. Its the 3rd time. We waited for ahyi at the lobby for around 1 to 2 hours as we don't have the keys with us. Unlike the previous 2 times, we are getting 2 rooms so we don't have to squeeze. However, we can't swim cos its quite late and its been raining for the whole day. Went for early dinner at Imperial Treasure, again its disappointing. The food is not up to standard, unlike the food at the Great world, Takashimaya and Marina branch.  Wanted to but ice cream at Candylicious but realise that there will be a buy 1 get 1 free offer after 8 so we sat there and waited till 8. Ah gong, Ah ma, and laogu,laogim also joined us there. We took some photos in front of the colour changing Christmas tree. But I had been wanting to go back to the room quickly at first as I did not want to miss the last episode of my favourite show 巾帼枭雄. I had watched episode 24 online and it touched me and I almost cried, or did I? Well I mean tears did welled up in my eyes. Thats why I say its a good show! I am going to have an entry about the show. Haha :D But anyway, I did record and was planning to buy the disc, maybe next time. But there is a lot of people and lots of noise so I could not really get engross into the show, but after I went home, I watched it 3 times over and over again.

    The 2nd day, we woke up at 8 plus to swim. It would be a pity if there is a big and beautiful swimming pool and we don't even get to swim. Usually, we swim on the 1st day, but this time round, we swam on the 2nd day's morning and I enjoyed it. Luckily it didn't rain. Swam till 10 plus and had breakfast at coffee bean. My favourite egg bens.

    Woohoo then its the $38 dollars tour bought at Groupon. A 2 way cable car ride, butterfly park, segway fun ride, maritime museum and high tea. We took the cable car from Mount Faber and discovered the iconic toilet there. The toilet is really nice and the view from there is beautiful, went there 3 times. I think I the last and only time I took the cable car was when I was very young, so I sort of enjoy the ride except that its stuffy inside the cable car.

    Then, its the segway fun ride, spend some time putting on gears, and when its finally our turn, it started raining, 6 of us still manage to go. Its quite fun, though the luge is more fun, it tends to make my hand hurts. But I can't speed cos qiqi is in front of me and she isn't speeding. Halfway through, rain started pouring down. But I did not really mind because its been a long time since I got under the rain, in fact, I never play in the rain. And that's when I decided to call the album Fun in the rain. Oh and the person gave us a complimentary tickets of 2 rounds. One free round!

    Thought that we could go to the butterfly park since its indoors but the staff said that the butterflies will hide themselves under the rain so no choice, we have to go on some other day. But we had our high tea there. At first, I thought it would be some cheapskate high tea like milk or tea or coffee with biscuit or bread. But turns our to be pizza with fries and can drink.

    I sort of like the Maritime museum though there isn't much to see. Waited for very long for the ZhengHe movie to start but it turns out that the movie only last for 5 minutes and we waited for 15 minutes. We took a "passport" and collected the chops, took a few photos, 2 nice ones I should say, then took the cable car back to mount Faber and had our dinner at a hawker centre and that's the end of the day.

    Korean language class 15 dec 2011

    Thursday, 15 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    Suppose to have 4 Korean lesson from 7-9 starting from today But when we went there, they say that we never send an email to confirm with them and ask us to go back first. Its not our fault, so why should we give in and go back when we went there all the way and spend half an hour looking for the place.Though we change from thurs to fri to thurs, they did send email to confirm that we are going for that class. So I showed that person the email and he went speechless. But the mother continued blabbering on, saying we should go back first. But its not our fault, so I insist that either they squeeze us in or give us a refund. But they say that the max no. of people in a class is 16. I think either the classroom is too small that if they add the 3 of us in, there won't be enough oxygen or that lady's mind is not flexible. At first, she told me to find Groupon, whats her problem. Don't she know that Goupon will only give us refund within 7 days? So I told her that and that it's their fault not Groupon's, for having admin errors and finding excuses, what must send email to confirm, they never tell us that plus they send email to confirm with us. So she unwillingly took out $87 from her wallet and give it to us. They never even apologise!! What kind of attitude is this! Think that you are the only Korean school in Singapore? But after we went out, I burst out laughing because of my victory in getting back the refund. Its the first time I quarrel and argue with someone I don't know, and I succeed in getting back the refund. Then, we took the money to eat in Raffles city. Cream Bureau, Chippy's BBT fries and fish, J.CO donuts. Yummy! I love the cream bureau.

    Photoshoot at Punggol Waterway

    Monday, 5 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    Again, its Groupon. We bought a $29 photoshoot package at Groupon. Its 60 min, 15 soft copies, 15 hard copies. Can also buy all the pictures at $60 or take 20 soft copies. In the end, we didnt buy all as they don't look nice. Disapointing.

    On the day itself, we changed the destination to punggol waterway last minute as ting ting say that she saw that place on the magazine, its newly open and is very beautiful. We actually plan to go to marina barrage but punggol is more beautiful. Ah yi went with us too. Upon reaching there, we spend 1 hour finding the camera man, Keith and Andy. They were at the entrance and we are at the end of the park, made lots of call, send them the picture of the place we are at, they say they would try to find us but after we found them, we saw them standing at the place they say they were at in the first place. Which means they were standing there all the time and never look for us. In the end, we found them after I ask them to send me a picture of the place they are at and ask around to find that place.

    The photoshoot was suppose to be at 6 which is sunset, but after we found them, its already 7 and its dark so the photo was very dark and didnt look nice.

    Desaru Trip. 3/12/2011

    Saturday, 3 December 2011, Add comment? [0]

    We went on this trip as we saw a Groupon offer, $68 which includes Desaru fruit farm, Ostrich farm, Lobster meal, firefly tour. On the day itself, I woke up at 4 plus, went to redhill and took a taxi to go to people's park for the bus. Arriving at Malaysia, our first stop was a dirty, disgusting coffee shop. I don't dare to eat as the place seem rather unhygienic, also the food doesn't seem nice. However, behind the table, there is a retro backdrop. Took a lot of photos that have 复古情怀 because of the 复古backdrop. Actually not really 复古but废弃的感觉.We stop by at a Chocolate shop where the tour guide said how good the chocolate is and how different it is from those in the supermarket. Yes, the price is indeed different, and the special tomato chocolate is not bad, but the chocolates still taste like those from supermarket.





    Then its the fruit farm. Very disappointing. I thought it would be filled of fruits and the tour guide will pluck some fruits during the tour for us to taste. But it is nothing like that. It is just a small farm with a few fruits. So they use the reason its not the season, but they never even grow a lot which means if its the season,  we also won't get to see them. They should have brought us to the farm where they grow fruits to sell. There is a mini animal farm inside the fruit farm where we get to go inside the rabbit area and carry them, which is also the best part of the whole fruit tour.After which is the a fruit buffet which is disappointing too! Super small variety of fruits, and the food sucks. Bought a fruit called 黄金果. Got to try it there, it taste damn nice, but the one we bought isn't exactly sweet, but I had guess so as they would surely choose those sweet ones for us to taste so that we will buy. I think its a special type of honeydew.

    During the Ostrich farm tour, its super hot, but that doesn't spoil my mood. After the explanation, its Ostrich feeding and I went crazy over it. Then we got to see a 1 day old Ostrich and buy Ostrich egg and Ostrich meat. I think the egg looks pretty nice with a light bulb installed inside and some drawings paint onto it, but its very very expansive, one egg cost $20 and if you plan to add drawings or light, it cost over hundred dollars! Papa also bought some
    Ostrich satay, did not taste as weird as I expected.

    The lobster meal is the most disappointing of all.The itinerary state that we will be having 龙虾大餐 for dinner. But ends up to be in a coffee shop which has a kitchen that looks like the one in the movie 童眼and the person cutting meat also resemble the scene in that movie. The food sucks and the lobster only appear once and its super small. But $68 is like that.




    The firefly tour is the part that I like the most! We are lucky because if we are a bit later, it will start raining and the fireflies would hide itself and we won't be able to see them. We boarded the boat and saw the fireflies on the trees. Looks like Christmas tree with sliver lighting. Some even flew in and one stopped on papa's head, everyone turned to look at him at that moment. Some people also bought孔明灯before boarding the bus but we didn't. We tried before in Taiwan.

    Something funny! Seating beside me and qiqi on the bus is a couple. I call them 恩爱夫妻,me and qiqi kept on imitating the way they hold their hand while sleeping on the bus. Every time they sleep, they would hold hands in different ways.