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.

USS Halloween 2013

A rather inpromptu outing with my sis and Sandy & GF. Sincerely thanks Sandy and his family for getting us the accomodation at hotel Michael after our Halloween night and of course the good food. So yes this is the first time I been to USS Halloween and I was thinking am I insane to promise my sis to go given the fact that I AM DAMN SCARED OF GHOST NIGHT WALK ( or halloween nights so to speak here). My experience during my poly orientation and camps was tragic for me - should I recall I had asthma attack after the first walk through. But it has been sometime since I went out with her for any events I suppose and didnt really want to leave her alone with her godfather and gf ; she will be the lightbulb then. So yes I decided to go with her and Sandy just booked a room for us that night. YIPEE to us cause I have not stay in Singapore hotel in the right manner (I had one night in fullerton but it was my sis wedding and we had to squeeze many ppl and end up slping on the floor). We went on the 26 Oct a Saturday and I was late because I had work on Saturday. ( shall not go over to the topic of how sian I felt sometimes) Plus it was madly packed at the monorail station at Vivo and I had to resort to walking into Sentosa. I didnt want them to wait too long cause I felt bad for being late so I practically jog all the way in. Sandy was super nice to tabao dinner for me cause they know I surely have not eaten and the crabmeat fried rice was superb I swear. I thought the fried rice was from the hotel or something but after supper and the next day lunch at the same place, I knew when it was coming from and how come it taste so good with big chunk of crab meat. AND I MEAN juicy ALASKAN CRAB MEAT. We dine at this restaurant at Crockfords tower called Feng Shui Inn. The food was really awesome and Sandy family is really big eaters. They order alot of food and they make sure you eat more than you can and really feel the bloatedness of your stomach. So anyway, we went to the Halloween night around 8pm and we started queuing for the first haunted house that was the nearest. It was "Possession". I thought I would be damn scared when we walked through the scare zone to the haunted house but nope I did not. In fact we were laughing around at those ghosts and monsters. The queue was freaking long and we waited and queued for almost 1.5 hours?! But we came out of the haunted house, disappointed. They led a bunch of us in, like a group of 20 to 30 people and we were supposed to walk through the house, being scared by the ghosts in there. But because it was too large a group and especially you are not the first one to enter, you already know where are the ghosts when the people in front of you scream and shout and stop when they see the ghosts or get scared. Plus the fact that I could not see a single thing in there because it was too dark, I was not scared by them AT ALL. pretty disappointing after a 1.5 hour wait and a less than 15 mins walk through with no feel? We wanted to queue for the next haunted house but it was at least a good 2 hour wait and that time it was already 11pm. So we gave up the queue and went for some rides, the enchanted and mummy and walk around the USS for photo-taking, scaring the zombies and laughing at people got scared. Concluded our night there at Louis Pizza where we had a large pizza shared by 4 of us but me and Sandy ate 2 large pieces. So overall, the USS halloween was really meh except that they really put in the effort this time round for more zombies and whatsnot around the USS so that we could really take many photos with them and props as well. We didnt just end our night there but headed back for supper (we were like WHAT?!) at Feng Shui Inn. See I told you how crazy Sandy family is. And the night ended around 4am when we KO back in the room till next morning 12 noon for check out. It was a good weekend spent with my sis and Sandy family. Good company make good days I suppose even though the event didnt turn out what we expected of. So below are some pictures I took, not alot but good for sharing. Kudossss

quick update

I have a sudden urge to write something. I dont have any idea what subject it should be. Probably some random thoughts again before I sleep. And it is 2am now. I have this love and hate relationship with my current job now. Love is because i have known alot of friends from here and they are really nice. The environment is really nth bad to say about. Hate is my life is kinda messed up because of the job cause i sleep pretty late. Wake up ptetty late for normal person because my work starts late and i got free time when nobody does and i work till late again. And this cycle repeats when i reach home and settle down for the end of the day. Kinda sucky so to speak because i rarely have chance to meet my friends for dinner or outing because i only have sunday off and usually sleeping off the day because i am dread tired. Which everybody doesnt understand why when my job scope is simple.
Second i really want to go for a short getaway. I dont know why but perhaps thats what mpst people would love to do too; travel. I just feel very tight up and moody staying in sg with my current life like this. Feel that im trapped in a box and i really dont like it.
Third i seriously think i should get away from my job for awhile. Did i mention i had this illusion that the phone will ring or vibrate whenever i am catching my sleep. Seriosuly i am lacking and deprive of sleep every single day. And curse the govt or town council for having construction IN FRONT and BACK of my flat which cause me to wake up everyday without fail at 8am! Im sorry because i suppose only me who start work at 1130 unlike the normal office hour people. But still, i curse them. For making me deprove of sleep. Say that i am ridiculous or unreasonable, i couldnt care for now because i really am freaking tired everyday!
Anyway my halloween post will be up spon. Stay tune and sorry for the late update.
Ok i need to go to lalaland before i wake up at bloody 8am because of that damn construction.

Friends

 

 

 

Sometime back in end of September, I met up with my different clique of friends over the weekend. Seriously, you really don't need alot alot of friends, just that few good friends would be enough. More than enough for your life. Therefore, I really felt a fruitful and enjoyable and probably one of the best weekend.  

 

This was on Saturday where I rushed to meet them after my work to a Halal restaurant in CCK park. The food was reasonably priced and not bad too. My polymates and their partners. It was really heartwarming to meet up with them despite the once in a while gathering. We just talk about anything. I am really glad I have them all along. all these while.

 



Some time back in June/July where we met up after almost a year?

 

Friday I met up with my uni mates. The close ones that I had my uni life with, all the projects and the jokes and the assignments. Only get to meet Eugene and Jo thou. But it was nice already. Had our lunch at Strictly pancake (one of the place that we visit during our uni times). And suddenly I miss our times in USA. Those 5 weeks were a great deal for us and an experience. Those moments with them were superb. 5 weeks of staying together with good friends were really something worth the missing.

 

Some time back in May where I went phuket first time with these two silly. HAHA. quite of an experience too for some of my first time. hahaha

Then on Sunday, had a kbox session and Aston dinner with my other clique of close uni friends. This pic was taken on Amanda bday cele. We unfortunately do not have one group photo for that day because it was pretty awkward with HY friends around. I mean we had great kbox session but it seems weird to be asking them to take group photo with us. Maybe the coming event that we discuss to meet up for might bring me some photos! The USS halloween! hoepfully we are going! (thou I am super damn timid)

 

 

I am so glad I have them. =)