Saw this post at Bookjunkie’s Singapore Actually blog and totally love it! I think Jason will like it too! He is a big Noose fan. Haha. Happy New Year people!
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As 2012 draws near, I would like to continue the tradition of highlighting the special events which happened in the year 2011! This is the most exciting year yet, and I am so looking forward to what 2012 brings me! It is probably hard to beat 2011 looking at these events!
January: I probably didn’t blog about this, but in January the Frontline opened with a blast during the CNY period and it was the busiest time of my life!
February: I join the Best Kiss Photo Contest organized by PETS magazine and won a photography session with Barley! But sadly, I didn’t manage to claim the prize! Boo! In February, SQ got engaged! We also celebrated our proposal anniversary at Sentosa and USS in this month!
March: Other than wedding planning, March was pretty uneventful. In March we popped by Malacca for a short break and got our Submission of Marriage Certificate to HDB deferred after several hassles and tussles with the customer service manager with poor service!
April: CW got engaged in April and we got our house key on 18 April! It is also the month where a series of unfortunate events happened during our pre-wedding photoshoot!
May: In May, I signed up for an 8 lessons Acrylic painting course at NAFA and totally enjoyed it! I was also picked to attend a conference in Jakarta for work! May is a painful month where I had my first wisdom tooth removed! Our home renovation also kicked in full force in May!
June: Our company brought us on a retreat to Shanghai – Hangzhou and it was a crazy shopping trip with all the girls! Next year, if we do get to go for a retreat, we must drag along the boys to be our porter! Haha. In June, Sue Ann got engaged! Finally all of us SSSS girls are officially off the shelves! Haha
July: I finally completed my painting class and my final painting is something I will always be proud off! Heh.
August: The highlight of my career! I won the “Young Executive of the Year” award which is an industry wide award and appeared on a news article looking all fat and frumpy. Bad picture! In August, I was also “promoted” to a new role and given greater responsibilities! August is also my favourite month, because it’s my birthday!
September: I was selected to visit Melbourne / Sydney on a study trip and to attend another conference! It is also my first time on a helicopter ride! We had our first Chinese wedding custom, Gou Da Li in September!
October: Our wedding on the 15th October 2011! A day we will never forget! I totally enjoyed myself at our church wedding! We also packed our bags and head to Italy for our honeymoon!
November: We set up our first Christmas tree and Barley turned three in November! Thank you for all the love and joy you brought us Barley! November month is Jason’s birthday too! Love you dear!
December: It’s a month of caroling, feasting and partying! It is also a month of hard work with the festive approaching!
I will miss the challenges and opportunities, the grace and mercy, the pain and joy, and all the love received in 2011! Thank you Mum(s), Dad(s), Sister, Brother, Grandma, Jason, friends, colleagues, bosses and everyone who made my 2011 so eventful!
2012, here I come!
A few weeks back, we hosted close to 20 people in our tiny little place! Jason couldn’t believe we can do that, but we did! People were flowing all over the place! Haha.
There were tons of food (turkey, ham, beef, pork, salad, sushi, logcake!), tons of alcohol (red, white, sweet, beer, vodka mix), tons of laughter (with ZN’s brainy reverse bingo game and silly party games), tons of presents (where we did our yearly secret santa gift exchange) and tons of friends (from the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th batch of management trainee, 2 plus ones, and one Tim Heng out of no where)!
We had a blast and it was a successful party with great fun and great turnout!
In December, we attended Colin & Lyanna’s church wedding at Chijmes and it was magnificent! Love the details and DIY projects!
The gift to the girls is (1) a good habit especially for Sue Ann to cultivate for the next year, (2) an activity which we will be doing together at the end of next year, (3) a commitment to our friendship when they choose to participate in this, (4) a jolly good time for the winner and friends and lastly (5) a gleeful performance to watch when the loser performs a penalty! (I should be in marketing! Haha, selling ideas of a simple item!)
My gift to the girls is a pretty little cupcake coin bank! Sue Ann and I got the pink one and Siqi and CW got a purple one! We each commit to start saving all the coins we have starting from the 1st January 2012 till 31 December 2012 (no cheating and no notes!). At the end of next year, we will go to one of the girl’s place to count all the money we saved!
Before we start saving we each came out with an activity which we would like to do together as a group. The winner (biggest saver) will be granted the wish with all the money we saved and use it for the activity she picked! The loser (smallest saver) will have to perform a penalty (which is still undecided)!
Here are the activities we picked!
Squareberry: To take a professional photo shoot (I don’t mind this!)
Siqi: To go wakeboarding (Omg! Sounds damn tough!)
Sue Ann: To visit a lesbian club (Serious?!?!)
Serene: To book a villa for a night stay and enjoy a massage!
Girls, if you want to have your activity picked you got to save hard! If you want to avoid going to the activities some others chose, you got to save hard too! Sue Ann, you got to put in effort ya! Haha.
//Psss. CW, I need the picture of us! Haha.
We finally had a SSSS gathering last night! We were supposed to meet in town but my work commitment had me back at Frontline till midnight! Thanks to the girls who came to dine near my workplace, I managed to have a good break in between a 15 hour work day! I have the best girlfriends one can ask for!
We had our belated Christmas gift exchange and all three well travelled girls brought home souvenirs from all over the world, spreading over a few continents! Haha. It feels like Christmas all over again and we each brought home a bagful of goodies!
Siqi also gave me my belated birthday gift and I totally adore it! A card filled with owls which has that pop-out effect! To top it off, an owl bangle! HOOT!
In my next post, I will share with you the exciting gift I gave to the girls!
He brought me to watch Wicked on Christmas Day and it was wickedly awesome! I love musical and it is far better than Mama Mia (NYC) and Lion King (Singapore)! Love the set! It was magical and the transformation between scenes kept my neck stretched throughout the show! I was mesmerized by the costumes, set, plot and voices! Even though their voices are not as powerful as their counterparts seen in Mama Mia in NYC, it is still good!
Barley finally met Flare! Even though they didn’t hit it off (I think Barley doesn’t enjoy socializing with other dogs) we were glad we tried! Barley behaves like a diva. Enjoying the environment, galloping around and almost hissing (in a barking manner) at Flare when she irritates her. Haha. Both of them looks really cute together! Jason and I concluded that we need to find a more active playmate for Barley! Flare just couldn’t keep up with Barley’s speed and stamina but who can? She is a fur ball on fire!
Flare is sociable, friendly and curious unlike Barley who is a snob and impatient to other dogs!
Barley, you better learn to socialize or you will be left on the shelf with no mate nor friends!
// We went to Steph’s place to meet Archie and Frosty there after and Frosty (also a Jap Spitz) is worst than Barley! Extremely feisty and not friendly! Archie loves Barley though! At some point, he looks dejected when he was rejected by Barley! Haha! Too bad we didn’t take any pictures! Next time!
// Al the pictures except the first one are taken by Jiehui! (Cw’s bro’s gf) haha
Last weekend, my sister and my mum came over to my place for some cookie and cake making! The Christmas shortcake turns out yummy! It is almost like the Danish Cookies you buy from supermarkets! The fruit cake was burnt slightly and I could have do with more fruits!
My mum and I!
Our burnt cake and my sister burnt fingers!
The texture and consistency were perfect! All thanks to the expensive mixer! But the flavor can do better!
My sister looks like she is on some ad campaign, something like a “She can bake!” lifestyle program. Haha.
Our pretty yummy cookies!
We found the recipe from Straits Times and it is really easy! I shall not share the cake recipe until I can perfect it. Haha.
We found this at the life lobby and I thought it is hilarious! Haha.
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