2013

Yet another last day of the year. It seems so fast for this year. The last when I looked at my photos from the beginning of this year, it just seemed like yesterday! Like it seems just a few days ago I had long hair but it was actually beginning of the year. 

Look at the strip! 

So some highlight of this year :

1. Of course it goes to my change of hairstyle from super long hair to super short hair. 

2. I watched my second musical - Phantom of the Opera in July, all thanks to my dajie. It was really fascinating 

3. Went to Taiwan for the second time in April

4. Went to KL for a week doing nothing and just eat and relax in August - it was very impromptu thou

5. Went BKK with my cousin in September and bought very little loots; it's weird you know

6. I joined Onyx this year and had big time adjusting to my life because of the schedule; till now I am just barely accepting it

7. probably came as a surprise or maybe not, but my almost 4 years relationship came to an end, with many years of friendship down the drain as well

8. I was shocked, but irony I knew I had to accept because thats probably part and parcel of life - my birthday this year. wont want to reiterate again. 

I guess this sums up for the year 2013. And of course I always like to believe that a new year ahead means a new beginning and probably a better one. 

I probably only have one resolution for the new year - To do what I want to do 

Thanks 2013. 

and Hello 2014!

Updates for Xmas and Bday

Tried this Mokata on an inpromptu request some days back at Golden Mile. I would say okay its not bad, probably we were dead hungry I guess.

 

And then it was Xmas! :) It's nice to have friendly and sweet trainee who would buy gifts for us as Xmas Gift. Mostly chocolates and I believe I ate some of them without taking pictures. Appreciated their gifts!

 

 

 

Then it was Boxing day! which also means my bday of course. This year, I was sad cause if not for my family (of course the usual) and him, there could have been no one to celebrate my bday. I could have been staying at home on my bday with no cakes. =(  suppose that is growing up life and when you dont really have very close jie mei.

 

So as usual, my family always do a pre celebration for me because first, eating during xmas is way expensive and fully packed with people. Second usually I dont eat on my actual birthday. Third, it was just  nice that dajie and mom was on leave on a weekday so we had a buffet lunch. Which means I didnt have my crab. double the sadness. But oh well. So we had this buffet lunch at Royal Park on Beach Road. Seriously, I think it was really not that good, probably because it was Asian food more than international. I always like more variety for buffet; I like Todai. But my mom wanted a Xmas buffet and it was not easy to reserve as everybody is planning for early buffet as well. I didnt take any photos except the dessert which looked soso too and limited choices.

 

 

 

 

family photo and my super red hair which I love very much. Of course in real life it is abit darker and now it has gotten even darker. This was because of the lighting I guess.

Birthday Presents that I received this year.

from dajie because I requested it. Usually she gave me a big angbao. But well, I might as well get sth useful from her as present and not angbao.

Usual, Mom's present for me~

These are from a trainee who always buy me food and snacks, afraid that I am always hungry. She is really a very nice and treat me like her xiao mei.

These is from Shan, my sis! She got a similar pair as me too so that maybe we could wear this to Taiwan next year. Maybe!

 

This is from my trainer and his gf, Kay. very huge sweet-like wrapping with chocolates inside. so cute!

I did have nice celebration thou despite the sadness. Went into JB for my favourite food and some shopping. I didnt have photos because I simply forget, just wanna enjoy doing what I like and relaxing. So I had stingray and KangKong, Loklok which was ok because I couldnt find the right vendor that cook very nice Loklok, my usual nasi lemak whenever I go City Square, Sweet Crepe. All my favourite food!

 

I also went to the cafe at Bedok which I mentioned in previous post. To-gather cafe. I believe that it would have been better if there were lesser crowd cause the day I went, there was supposeingly a company celebrating Xmas so it was abit noisy. The food was alright thou. Well, one thing off the checklist at least!

This was my first bday cake on my actual day. Its hard to find a decent cake during xmas season! Everything is log cake or chocolate cake which I dont really fancy.

Bday gift from my other trainer~

And Onyx people did sing me a bday song with a cake bought from a trainee. I had the video on instagram thou. Thanks Onyx peeps!

So this ended my bday. I am still very happy to the one that helped celebrate my bday and accompany me for all the food that I favorited and thanks to everybody who wishes me and those who gave presents to me.

Happy Birthday to me

Xmas Eve

Time flies. It is already Xmas eve and not long enough, its another new year. Probably Im getting old or what, this year Xmas eve Im staying at home to eat steamboat with two others! Not a bad way to celebrate xmas isnt it? Of course two more days and it will be my birthday! Have received quite a few presents already - portable charger,moisturizer and cream,shoes. Pretty much all useful! My meimei is gonna get me a bag too! I actually post a instavideo on Kikki.k, almost want to get those stuff, like the turquoise clutch/the notebook/planner etc. Of course Im thinking Im not a student anymore and planner would serve no purpose for me. But its really pretty! so people if you happen to read my blog and want to send me presents, I jolly well am happy to receive! Just email me at youko_90@hotmail.com LOL. just kidding. Bet nobody will does that. But I just happy.

 

 I will blog on my birthday after 26 as I have few plans to get busy with! excited and happy. Really not bad this year.

 

alrighty! gotta go and have my steamboat.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY!

cheap deals VS service and quality

Sometimes, the deals on those social platform make me question their underlying purpose of advertising. The lack of customers and profit loss? Or just another channel of marketing to tap on more customers and buyers. Then after follows the question: if they make such deal, will the quality and standard follow suit as well since money=quality. Shouldnt they maintain the service or quality standard as well? Why the sudden topic on my blog then. let me explain.

 

I went to this Japanese restaurant at Raffles Place today because apparently my sister saw this deal on groupon and was pretty interested in it. It was from O'An Japanese restaurant located at Hong Leong Building B1. They got this 10 course meal for two and being Jap food lovers, we agreed to give it a try. So I sacrificed my sleep on a Saturday to go down to Raffles Place (afterwhich I still got to go gym). At first we were quite surprised there were alot of people and seemingly all groupon buyers. We had our seats and waited awhile before some staff came to take our orders. By the way, the 10 course meal includes and the order follows acccording to how we were served:

• Potato Salad 
• Tori Karaage Deep-fried Chicken 
• Agedashi Tofu 
• Salmon Sashimi 
• Tempura Assorted
• Tonkotsu Ramen
• Edamame 
• Grilled Saba Fish
• Temaki Handroll
• Sukiyaki Hot-Pot 

So the dish were served pretty slowly and one after another and not in one full set. We had to wait for quite some time before our Ramen was served. By the time we finished our ramen, there was no dish served to us already. We waited. and waited. Almost half an hour gone and they served us Edamame after we reminded them that half of our meal are not served yet. Again, we finished our Edamame and we reminded them for the food. For your information, we had our reservation at 1230pm and by 220pm we did not have our last three dish yet. Frustrated, I called the server and told him off for making us wait for 2 hours but not all our dishes were served. Seriously it was darn upsetting when you see other customers that came later than you had their meals and left while you sit there looking silly. Reminded them and they just shoved us with an answer of coming right up. Obviously it was not and there came my attitude. I insisted them to tell me how long do I still have to wait and here came the epic part; they do not have beef anymore and did not bother to inform us and only got the chef to prepare after I threw my attitude. Still can jolly well ask me if pork was fine and that she still can reply me saying just asking, you know for the sake of asking that kind. We ended up no appetite to finish the hot pot and left. This made me wonder and conclude: really we do have to pay for what we want and expect to have. I thought we were eventually still customers even though we might have bought some cheap deal for your restaurant. Very disappointing to say. 

 

Anyway, go download this app called dayre if you have not. It is practically a mobile blog and way more easy to use and blog. You can just post pictures that you capture on the spot ( blogger cant do that, not that I know of). So I have actually post my photos on dayre! So follow me dayre.me/peilingg. I still blog of course but probably lesser pictures here I guess.

Festive mood?

Im having the festive mood alittle here and there. The fact that I know Xmas is coming, but I have yet enjoy the mood down town! Didnt have the time to do so. Cries. sucks to be having such work shift sometimes (or most of the time since I never stop complaining) Even if you are working for events, and you couldnt join your friends for countdown or celebration, but at least you still get to celebrate and join in the mood while working, you know you know?! Not for me, not at all. I didnt dare to take many leave to go have some relaxing times with friends and celebrate because it is busy period for us and yea I have actually taken quite a number of leave already. I need to grumble on this! No choice, when I am stuck there and cant meet my friends, the only times are for me to take leave and go holiday with whoever that is free to go with me (BKK with cousin, KL with friends etc). But you know.... I really would like to have few days off, meet up with my friends, go out and have some me-time, blah blah blah. I have got a list of things I want to do, but I need to dig out some time to do that.

Like, I wanna................

go Stranger reunion and have waffles! I heard alot about them and I want to go there! sweet stuff is my thing man!

 

Go to this cafe at Bedok North street 4 Blk 84 or something. Saw a couple of pictures of the cafe and I love it, hopefully it will be what I saw!

 

There's a street around Tiong Bahru that has book store and cafe!

 

ok now I see I am into cafe for this month.... hahaha

 

change my hairstyle/color and in this case color because I cant change much to my short hair already, can I? ok maybe not. (finally found time to do that this weekend!) Yipeeeeee

 

japanese buffet craving. Kiseki? Kushinbo? I don't know. I just miss Charcoal and the food.

 

Crabs! and I manage to jio my family for that, knowing that I am a total lover for crabs! hehe. I actually love seafood alot, except for maybe prawns. I have been accepting fish for a few years so yup! Clams,seashells,Lala, lobster,crabs,stingray, On!

 

having a picnic. relaxing and munching food. chatting all our life away and enjoying. (maybe Im going into depression thats y I am dreaming of all this)

 

download a few movies and watch with my snack! Didnt even have time for that. Im slping my Sunday which is my only day off away almost every time. Too tired. Can somebody take me in for a few months or what? I have not been slping well since the construction starts around my house and since when I have two phones. illusion of phone ringing or vibrating, I am undeniable crazy now. This suck. SOMEBODY, PLEASE TAKE ME IN!

ok I think my list will go on and on for this month when its already one week gone for December. Shit. I need to start buying presents for myself to distress and make myself enjoy this festive season.

ok I sound like some pathetic girl.

December

hello people! Its been a long time since I blogged again. because I have been playing this app called Dayre. Pretty interesting and I would say alot better than  blogger. I can just upload pics on the spot and add comments to that. Although I wanna Dayre/blog every day or so, but my life now kinda stuck at the same thing and there is nothing more interesting for me to post about. (I am sad) I need something interesting or whatsoever! Thats why I love December! It always bring me something nice. Like you know all the lightings out in the streets and town just easily make mi do some photoshooting and post. Not mentioning festive season always spells FOOD. I hope this December will be a fun one! Xmas is coming and bday is soon too! I need more photos of me and many other things and friends since I realised I have not had many photos of my short hair to post! How can that be? Please let December be a good one! I was stressed out and rather depressed during the novmber month. Trust me you do not want to hear me mention any. Oh well I shall post nice pics of my recent favourite and love during my boredom times.

Kinda have a liking for these bracelets recently. I thought it looks sweet and nice.

photo credited from Kay's instagram (a_o_kay)

One of the many awesome pictures that I get to see through Kay's Instagram. I love red and orange and bright colors and that explains how much I love autumn too. And this is at Japan! How I wish I could go~~

Many things that I see and favourited but Im just too lazy to flip and find. (It was difficult for me to find since I just browse and see any website)

Birthday is coming in another 3 weeks time! What birthday present......... hmmm i need to think of that soon.