Birthday Week 09

26/7/09:

Family and I went to Tao's Restaurant for lunch. For lunch, we got a 6-course meal each, western cum oriental-styled. It's a very nice cosy restaurant, with very friendly guests whom make lame jokes that can triggle u to laugh. (some people can make lame jokes, but not funny XD)Had a very fun time enjoying 6x4=24 dishes with my family :) The friendly staff of Tao's also gave me a free birthday ice-cream + muffin as a surprise, for free! (cos my mom asked bday got bday discount or not) The staff even stood by to "lead" my shy family to sing a bday song, lol.
Received a diamond bracelet from my family + grandma and aunt (dad's sis).
27/7/09:

Met up with AL and Pea at Ion Orchard for a lunch gathering :) We had our lunch at Aoba Hokkaido Ramen's. The restaurant deco was very fishing-styled, so much so got this huge king crab at the front of the shop.
Had a nice time catching up with Al and Pea, and each of us had a different flavor of ramen. Personally, I think the onsen egg was good, but other than that, it was very ex (for a singaporean-made ramen).
Received a set of presents from Al:
A birthday card,
a kangaroo mini "soft-toy" bookmark from australia, and a piano no mori dvd.
Thanks to al for the presents and the treat.

After the lunch, went on to kinokuniya, as al and pea have books to find. Strolled around for a couple of hours, and al have to go home, while pea and me have to go meet the sec gang. The gang met at Tampopo restaurant, at liang court.

Tampopo is another restaurant that i had always wanted to try, cos they said it's good and very japanese styled.
Shared this salmon chirashi and unagi sushi with pea:

It's very nice! but a bit ex la.. i think the restaurant was more known for its pork dishes. Thanks to the gang for the treat :)
After the dinner, we headed on to tampopo deli, at the basement of liang court, and the gang bought me a bday cake :D

Banana chiffon cake: it had a very special spongy taste :)
Then, we head on to clarke quay for photo-taking..
and as it was quite late, we decided to take the yellow line home (serangoon? to bishan)
along the way, we snapped some pics too..
i hoped woodlands can have some mrt lines too, it's so ulu la....

28/7/09:

Birthday.

Mom made me some red eggs, and everyone has one of it, even pillow!
Pillow doing his new trick, "手", in order to receive his egg.
Met pea at cwp for lunch at jack's place. Pea had never ate at jack's place before, so we took the chance by having our lunch treat here.
pea had a new hair color, n i think this color is nicer :)

We had this lunch set, which includes a drink, soup, main course and dessert, for a reasonable price. Pea had beef set while i had fish.
The dessert: nice!
Recieved a very funny set of presents from pea:
Story 1:
(pea and seed had wanted to buy a clinique's pore serum since a month ago.)
On sunday (tao's restaurant day):
Seed: hey, u know i'm at swanston's now. here the clinique pore serum very cheap lei, u wan buy oso?
Pea: huh.... u buy alr?
S: ya, cos it's cheap.
P: y u buy?
S: huh? cos it's cheap wat.. u wan buy oso? i help u buy?
P: Y U BUY??!!!! U GO RETURN THE PRODUCT LA!
S: huh! u buy oso ah.. haha.. oops.. oh, u buy for me bday liao ah? haha
P:........

(first present revealed.)

Story 2:
(pea, seed and al are in aoba ramen's. seed wanted to show pea her new book she bought in kino a few days ago when she was at kino with vin)
S: hey u see! i bought this.
P: (flash seed a killing look of disgust)
S: huh? wat?
P: WHY YOU BUY??!!
S: huh!! u buy for me this oso ah??!!
P: ya la!! no surprise liao la.. u buy all..
S: aiyo! of all books in kino, why u buy this book for me! haha
P: u next time dun shop during july la!!

So, i have no "pleasant" surprise from pea this year, but had two "shocking" surprises from her whenever i showed her something i bought haha. Anw, real thanks to pea :) these two things are what i really liked :) and it must have cost u a bomb!

Remembered we went to iora to "redeem" a $50 voucher too.
During collection of the grad robes, girls are given this $50 iora voucher till the end of this month, with no minimum purchase. They give u this kind of voucher, then use la! since we are free, we went in and i found a skirt that i liked, but will not buy with my own money: a skirt costing $49.00.

I have tried to be nice to look at other kinds of products so that i dun really just exchange the voucher with something and leave, like i can still top up if possible. But the clothings are a bit too ex, and the design is not really my style. So, after one sales assistant tried her best in showing me around 15 clothes, she gave up when i still have no intention of giving in to her.

I was at the cashier counter, and this other lady came and she seemed hesitant to bill me cos I was there to take one piece of paper and exchange for a $49 skirt. She suggested that i took more time to look through other products, so that i dun waste the $1, and she left the cashier counter. Her attitude sucks too. So, i stayed firm and she finally came to serve me again, but with a very bu shuang look. In the end, i managed to exchange one piece of paper for a $49 skirt + one very nice recycled type of mesh bag. Really 赚到了.

If they dun wan to be bushuang in this kind of situation, den make a minimum purchase rule la! So not 大方 still wanna act 大方.

After meeting pea, met up with vin for a seoul garden buffet dinner. With popular card, can have a 1-for-1 dinner, so we took the chance to use this benefit. Long time nv eat seoul garden lo... and now, their pot is so beneath table level. It's hard to kiap the food.
The soup now tasted better as compared to last time.
Received a present from vin:
Digital photo frame and an SD card for the frame, and a korean styled bday card ~ :)
After the dinner, we went to strolled around a bit, and we went to starbuck's for dessert. Vin treated me this bday cake: cappuccino cheese cake~! quite a surprise that vin bought his own candles and "happy birthday" sign.
After the dinner, vin came to my house to try out the photo frame :) Thanks, vin!!

29/7/09:

Met up with my dearest sis at cwp's swensen's for a 1-for-1 lunch~ very worthy lei!
Had a very good chatting session with her :)

Received some prezzies from my sis too:
A very nice metal jewelery box,
inside, containing a pair of very shining, glittering crystal earrings:
and, a box of the body shop's gift set :)
Thanks mei mei :)

After the lunch, met up with pea and we went to watch "Ice Age 3". Very nice and lame movie though. I really love to watch animations and cartoons :)

After the movie, went to meet TY at her area, and we went to have dinner at a kopitiam near her house:
It's like quite famous for its crabs, but we didnt eat crabs. Instead, we have some prawn rolls, vege and 铁板豆腐.
I think it's quite nice!

After the dinner, went to TY's house to chat and watch youtube videos. It's a good catching up with her, before she went back to TW again.

30/07/09

Decided to give myself a bday present too: A new hairstyle!

Had always wanted to try how the salons are like in Japan. Since no money to go japan, went to a japanese hair salon in liang court: komachi haircult.

Had an appointment with a japanese hairstylist, yoshiko tsuji:
Wanted to dye my hair, and have a new haircut, so went to her. My first try with japanese hairstylists!

Tsuji-san wasn't very good with her eng, so tried to talk to her in jap to let her know what kind of hairstyle i wanted. She was very patient and friendly, so didn't feel uneasy with the process with her :) Had some small talks with her, and she said she came from Tokyo. I think she's very pretty lei!!

After coloring the hair, she helped me cut a rather special layered hair, and she helped me curl my hair too. I didn't have to suggest, and she just do what she think was suitable.

So, when i came out, i looked something like this:
Now me hair not curly anymore after my wash, but it somehow looked straighter after the cut! I think they must have magic scissors :D

First-timers got a 20% discount, so saved a lot of money too :)
Vin came too and he seemed to have a very good impression with the place too. If you want to try, can fix an appointment with them. (must fix appointment before going) The haircut for long haired girls, is $100. Compared to the actual japanese salons in japan, must be cheaper le :)

After the haircut, vin and me went to our favorite ramen restaurant: Marutama Ramen
it's much cheaper than aoba ramen's, and it is cooked by japanese :)

Went to kinokuniya again, and i saw this poster:
Seiran sai is coming again! This year, it will be at 20th Sep, which is around the time as last year.
I want to go! :)
Went to Meidiya's, and since it was evening, we got to buy the sushi at a large discount. So, had this row of salmon sashimi for dinner :)
Real thanks to all for celebrating moi bday! I really love the prezzies and 心意 :)

Holidays are ending today, and here comes the new sem tml~~~

After the exams

**This post should have been posted 5 days ago =.=**

I finally finished my content upgrading course~!!

and so are my tuitions, and it's going to be a "holiday week" :)

Had been in a rather shopping kind of mood. I finally managed to step out of the house for some simple self-spoiling, and so, while I met up with vin on Sat, we went to orchard to walk walk. Long time nv go orchard le!

We wanted to go Ion Orchard, cos heard that it's newly opened. Before that, we went to Orchard Central at somerset too. It's newly opened too, but there wasn't much shops inside, and from the little 10 mins exploration, I realised that it will be just like another orchard-kind of shopping centre, with a lot of branded shops inside. It seemed very empty too, as most of the shops are still renovating.

Went to have lunch at a stall in Cuppage centre: "Pontian Wonton mee".. I think it's quite nice, but not as nice as the actual's pontian's wonton mee :D Still, had a rather nice lunch! thanks to vin for intro-ing this cosy place :D


With vin :)
Went to Cineleisure to buy tickets to watch Harry Potter, and shun bian went to find HM. He opened a push cart stall selling his Dillydallydude stuff there!

They imported a lot of colorful belts from HK and Thai, and seemed that their business was good! Bought meself a white hp pouch, and vin bought a necklace, and HM gave us some discounts :)

Good to see everyone's working hard now :)

After that, went to Orchard's kinokuniya. Vin, pea and me shared to become a member of kino~ Now can get 10~20% worth of discounts when we purchase books. So, I also took the chance to pamper myself with these two books:

Want to buy many many more books :D

After that, went to Ion orchard and it was BIG! HUGE! Got until B4 lor! Didn't really got the mood to shop cos the whole place was so full of people...

It's almost dinner time, and we need to eat before the movie. So, we went to the B4 section's Food Mall.

This is Gindako, a stall selling takoyaki.. very nice! cos all the tako-chefs are japanese, and the portion is huge, not like wat we have, the usual three.

Vin and me shared this: Fried soba and takoyaki set :D
Had so many people queueing up for this stall, and most of the stalls do not come with a seat. Was rather lucky to see YT here and she was here eating gindako with her mom too, so we could take her seat after her. She told me that taiwan also has this, that's why she's going to try here, cos it's famous and nice. Next time if wanna try jap-styled takoyaki, can come here :)

Before we went for the movie, vin and me bought the fish sandwich (another jap food). Usually, the flavours are red bean, but this stall has a mixture of many flavours. Vin tried something cheesy and tomato, while i tried this, banana and chocolate. *heavenly nice!*
Went for the harry potter movie after that. I think it's nice lei :)

On sunday, went to chinatown with my family. Whenever we went to chinatown, my aunt and mom will definitely drop by at this stall, called swanston. It's so so so cheap! A moisturizer i once bought for S$27.90, sells only $13.90 here. So, must really pay this shop a visit! It sells a lot of cosmetics, shampoos, toothpaste, travel packs and stuff.

So, for that day, i bought these:
KOSÉ Mask White

it's something like shiseido's black mask, where u applied the whole face evenly and wait for it to dry, so u can peel it off and out comes all those little black heads and dirt.

KOSÉ Exfoliating Massage Gel:
It's something that acts like an exfoliater, but the special thing about it, is that it is black, and it gets heat up when u massage, so all the pores will open up. Den when it turns gray, means it's done.

Rose Japanese Bath Sea Salt:
okay, i admit i bought this mainly becos of it's packaging, cos it's pink. It is filled with some sand/salt, so when u apply it on ur skin, it feels like there's an exfoliating effect too. Smelled rose? not really though.. but the skin feels uber smooth after using.

Nexcare 3M acne patch:
okay, nothing new, but i really think this is useful when u have a pimple. Especially those pus-filled kind. It's very cool to see that the pus will come out painlessly and cleanly by just pasting this on the acne for a night. Ur pimple can turn visibly small. But u can only paste it at night when u are sleeping, or when u can stay indoors. Most of the time, when i woke up, i see it sticking onto my pillow instead XD
L'oreal Moisture Gel:
this is the outside sell $27+, but here sell $13+ thingy.

it really does moisturise, and ur face aren't that oily :)

Lastly, Jergen's Body moisturiser
It's a very huge bottle of moisturiser for ur body and it's smell can make u feel peaceful and sleepy :) i like to put this on before i sleep :D

Retail therapy still works the best ~~~

solved

I finally managed to solve the brogger issue~ wee~!

Will blog once i got the time! :)