Went Minds Cafe with NIE gals on Fri to celebrate Yanxin's 21st! Happy belated 21st birthday Yanxin! So honoured that you left your actual birthday for us to celebrate with you ^_^ Played the usual games like Ticket to Ride, Ugly Dolls, Pictureka (dunno if i spelled correctly) and also the dinosaur bone game.. think we really were engrossed in the bone game lol shall not elaborate here but its real fun! Went Orchard with Mum after that for dinner, as well as to collect my running tee for the Pink Ribbon Run/Walk that i signed up for... tried some mooncakes at Taka also, the traditional yam pastry mooncake taste delicious! my mum loves it too haha..

Had tuition as usual on Sat, Bronson's exams are nearing, so got to increase tuition to twice a week, but am not confident that it'll help much... anyway, gave him Children's day present- Spongebob pencil case and stationary set, glad that he liked it and he doesn't have them yet.. cos he likes spongebob alot, and also have a display cabinet full of spongebob stuff in his room.. hahah.. tuition at TM, as usual, Sherwin bragged about his 'nice' drawing... their exams are also coming, hopefully they'll do well, all the best to them!

After tuition, went Woodlands to meet up with Deary before going JB for Xiaoshan's 21st bday.. we shopped around for awhile at City Square before goign to her house... her house is really big lol, think its like the size of 3 semi-d in Sg lol... and the food was great! and the cakes and chocolates are all handmade.. Xiaoshan looks gorgeous too! haha hope she enjoyed herself...

This week is Recess week, but there seems to be endless things to do.. shall enjoy, as well as work hard! ^_^

Eventful long weekend

What a great weekend! Many exciting stuff happened over the long weekend! On friday, went for badminton as usual with Deary.. after that, went for facial before coming home... Upon reaching home, mum says she wants to go Orchard and see if there's any suitable clothes to buy for Huizhu's wedding... so we went Orchard, but in the end, my mum didn't get any clothes, but i got a short cardigan instead lol... had fried oyster for supper at the kopitiam style food stalls beside le meridian... it tastes great! just like the one that they had near somerset mrt years ago...

Went for tuition as usual on Sat, gave Nic his watch, glad he likes it ^_^ wanted to go cycling after tuition, but weather was not good, so after passing mooncakes to deary's mum, we proceed to watch movie instead... watched The Ugly Truth

It was a hilarious movie, and quite true in some of the things they say, that made people understand more about how the opposite sex thinks... had sushi at nihon mura also, finally satisfied my craving for spicy salmon sushi.. hahah.. went home late evening after movie, and did some manicure before sleeping...

Sunday, 20/09/2009 is the big day for my cousin Huizhu and Edwin! went over to her house at 6am, changed into the nice green dress hahah and soon after, the bridegroom arrived with his brothers.. think they got in too easily, cos of time constrain lol... went over to bridegroom's house for tea ceremony and stuff before coming back,.. though busy, was happy for the both of them... went back home around noon, and slept awhile in the afternoon, before preparing to go for the wedding dinner at hotel rendevous.. will not upload photos here since they're all on facebook...

Monday is Mum's birthday! treated her for dinner at hiang suar again.. hah wanted to try a new teochew restaurant at bedok 85, but didn't make reservations as we did not expect it to be so crowded.. hahah so in the end, ate at hiang suar again... but food was great, as usual hahha.. glad that mum loves the wallet that we got her ^_^

Happy birthday to my mum!

Finally finished the History of Chinese literature test.. all the 4 questions that came out for section B are those that i did not really study hard for, as in i did not really go memorise the points.. as for Section A, am quite confident, but i guess everyone will think the same.. haaha so for the 2 questions we hav to do for section B, chose 2 that im more familiar with, managed to crap 1 page each lol.. okies, its only 20% of the module, so still not that bad, just have to work harder for exams lol...

Hmm last fri bro drove parents and me into JB, had Bah Kut Teh, haha very nice! then we shopped around in Giant and bought some food back, later in the evening went jogging with bro to Rivervale Mall... first visit to the Daiso there ever since it opened, was rather big haha..

Huizhu's Hen's party on Sat, so after tuition, I head to Bugis to get a present, then meet my sis and go for the hip-hop class.. its a 2hour lesson, so just learnt the steps for one song.. think its quite difficult considering all of us has no dance backgrounds(other than mass dance in JC)... haha but it was fun and enjoyable! After the dance lesson, we went for steamboat at House of Steamboat at Tan quee lan st... the food is nice, at least fresher than la mei zi.. and i like the man tou with condensed milk that they served also.. so we had our sumptuous dinner before fang suggested going KTV... so we went Party world at Chinatown, was really ulu, din even know that place existed lol, its on top of the big this fashion at chinatown... so we sang from 9-12mn before sharing cab home... was really fun, hopefully huizhu enjoyed herself too! Coming sunday will be her chinese customary wedding as well as wedding dinner, really happy for her, hope she'll lead a blissful life with Edwin!

Suddenly, there seems to be alot of assignments and tests due the week after recess week, which is just 3 weeks from now.. luckily i din plan any holiday trip for the recess week, else will sure have no time for work... Okies i shall go swimming later on, trying to embark on a healthier lifestyle lol..

Watched G-Force over the weekend, and the guinea pigs are all so cute!! esp the 2 black ones who has some color as pinkie hahah..

Went down to Chinatown both on fri and sun, and finally, booked the tour for year-end holiday! Will be going for 8 days trip to Shanghai/Suzhou/Hangzhou/Nanjing and Wuxi, looking forward to it ^_^, finally can treat my parents to a trip! too bad my bro not going, else will be even more fun.. well its still a long time away from dec, so ya, back to reality, have to study first.. wait till i finish my exams then can ennjoy...

As usual, having a 4 hour break in sch now... well at least i can spend the time doing some useful stuff like reading up on notes and doing assignments.. cos i think i'll most prob sleep or watch tv or just slack around if i'm back home... there's a test on next wed, and there's like so much to study but i haven even printed out those notes... =p

anyway, am very happpy to have settled the year-end China trip ^_^

Going to be hectic weeks ahead, AAJ332's test has so much to study..

AMX tutorial this morning, my tutor made a rather interesting remark, which is an observation that she made about Singaporeans. We were discussing recognition, identity and stuff regarding racial and religious differences in Singapore, with the Tudong incident in 2002 as case study.. She then said: "People(Chinese Christians) are using western lens to view their own native culture." Cos she said she noticed that alot of those who thinks that Taoist beliefs are superstitious are mostly the Chinese Christians, and the other races usually would not say so... Well I think it is quite a good point brought up, cos this is a common phenomenon in SG.. I think this module really is about discussing the racial and religious differences.. My tutor also mentioned that we cannot call ourselves a multi-cultural society if there are no understanding and interactions between people of different cultures.. To a certain extend then, Singapore is not a multi-cultural society! cos people usually don't understand the cultures and practices of other religions and races.. We do know about the existence of such cultures and practices, but more often than not, we do not understand the true rationale behind it, and will think that they are not of equal worth as our own cultures..