Hope u guys had a nice CNY!
If our application for Parkland Residences is successful (keeping fingers crossed), I would have to return Jun Wen's dad $500 per month (for 5 years). Jun Wen and I would be paying his dad back by installments for the down payment, which is $45k cash. (Yea, the 4-room flat is ~$550k.) And by Mar 2012, I could only save $500 per month. Omg. Maybe I should do some investments, maybe next year!
No one else except me was in the lab last week. The colleagues had all taken leave. Lol.
Colleague helped me with my experiment last last week though.
He diluted one chemical compound by a factor of 2 each time and placed them into cuvettes. And look at the nice colours that were produced. Cool isn't it!
Yesterday Simba came to my house for CNY visit, and gave my mum this hamper:
Front view of the hamper.
Lol! I was teasing him to buy a hamper for my mum as I wanted to see his shocked and unwilling expression. But he really bought it! He carried this hamper from Nex to my house, with many eyes on him on his way here.
Back view of the hamper.
My first day of CNY:
After having KFC at Nex, we went to paternal granny's house very early this year. In past years, we would go to maternal granny's house for lunch steamboat before going to paternal granny's for dinner steamboat. But maternal granny has passed away and so parents decided to go for fast food lunch in future years. Mum said maybe her brother will invite us next year to his house. :D
This is granny's house. Always lots of food on the table. She would always offer us lots of them from time to time.
Like any other CNY, we would get a little bored watching TV and eating the CNY goodies. So thank God for data plan, we would use our phones to surf the net.
One of the decorations we helped to put up on New Year's Eve.
We had 2 tables for steamboat dinner. Each family has to take turns since the table wouldn't be big enough.
After dinner, it was photo time! Cousin Angela, now 19, suggested that we should take our photo taking session outside granny's house at the balcony since the background is nicer.
Thanks to my camera and the coincidental cooperative lightings, they said the photo looked like it was taken from some photo studio. Look at how the lighting shone down on Cousin!
Left to Right: Younger brother (23 yrs old), me (25), Angela (19), Li Jing (27), Clarrissa (9), Bernita (16), Elder brother (28).
Although Angela and I are both having the same height and weight, she looks thinner. Lol. Perhaps my weighing scale is lying to me! And yea, my dress is abit tight. LOL. (Note to self: I shouldn't always try to buy a size smaller than I am.)
Guang Yi (14) and Guang Zhi (12).
The balcony photo was taken by cousin, Guang Yi, (Yea, same name as my younger brother). He and his brother, Guang Zhi were playing their PSPs at the stairs. They were too shy to mingle with the rest. Lol.
When I asked them to take photos with us, they didn't want to since they thought we aren't as cool as them. Lol. Kids nowadays. Yes, they pierced their ears. They have GFs too. Omg! Their skin complexions are dark as they are half Thais.
On New Year's Eve, Cousin Li Jing brought along a bottle of white wine to share with us. And on New Year's Day itself, Daddy and my 2 other uncles brought wines too. So altogether there were 3. Lol.
They the brothers think alike.
Uncle poured the wine into cups and wasted some! :(
Cousin Bernita said she wanted to spam her Facebook photos so she asked me to take more photos of her. Aunt always tries to rush into the photo. And this photo was ruined.
Angela and Bernita got influenced by Li Jing and now love getting their nails painted. Lol.
Caught up with both of them and got to know that Bernita has matured. She has began to study really hard and only slept 6 hours a day! Her teacher has confidence that she will top the class. Lol.
Angela, now in JC, on the other hand, was not too motivated. When I asked her what course she wanted to take in Uni, she said she might not be able to go there so she hasn't really thought of it. She reckoned that she was quite slack. Lol.
The 3 wines my uncles and Dad brought.
Dad's wine was a dessert wine. We bought it from Wine Connection at Nex. I thought it tasted the best. It has at least a sweeter taste compared to the other two. Although I heard Uncle's wine is much more expensive. Lol.
They were saying Bernita is becoming to look more and more like Li Jing. Lol. And Bernita seemed very worried.
Omg. Look at Dad acting cute.
Clarrissa was in the background, further away from us, as she was very angry at her sisters ignoring her.
And before they went home, we asked Granny to pose for photos with us. She became a star.
Younger bro is still growing taller. Lol. He used to be one of the shortest in his class.
I looked like a national flag. :D
Me, my awkward smile, and my very kind granny.
This was one special effect fom my camera. I think it was too close up so it turned out to be very white and cui. Lol. Li Jing likes high angled shots so that our double chins will not be obvious.
And that was the first day of CNY!
And this was what I wore on the 2nd day of CNY:
A dress with abit of cheongsam details. Love it lots.
:D
Happy Chinese New Year! :D
I had a nice day today at my paternal granny's house. We didn't go to my maternal grandma's house since grandma has passed away. Still having a good relationship with my cousins. One of my distant cousins (granny's sister's son) still looks like QC, my eye candy. Being extra nice to him. Lol.
Here is Part Two of our Xmas at Capella.
Ling drew xmas cards for us:
All of us are potatoes! So cute! She always makes alot of effort in handmaking things for us. :D
Shixing's is so funny! Potato in a potato couch. She understands us alot! I like mine too, especially the chipmunk.
Love this photo. So artistic right!
Since his and my birthday fall on the same day, 27th Apr, he let me go first.
Oops, I forgot what his presents were. I only remembered the T-shirt was from Miao and I gave him a small pouch bag. :D Think it suits him alot!
He tried on the T-shirt immediately. Really his style!
Miao! Next oldest. 1st June her birthday. She received mostly things with scent. Lol. Soups and perfumes. I know her boyfriend calls her "Chao Chao" (meaning smelly) and kept teasing her that day about those gifts. I bought her ear rings, something I thought was unique since it will only be sold in the Titanic Exhibition at Art Science Museum. And Shixing bought her a book, which I thought was interesting. We agreed that this time Shixing really put in money and effort in buying gifts for everyone. Cheers to Darren Chuwa! :D
Miao is a day older than Joe. His is 2nd June!
I gave the Joe's present to Tuck Wei and he opened Joe's! Oops. And Joe only opened a few presents since Tuck Wei didn't have time to get gifts for the guys. He has gotten 2 hair gels from Miao and Ling I think. I didn't notice that Joe wears hair gel. LOL. Very lousy friend I am!
I bought him a Unico (I forgot the correct spelling LOL) checkered shirt. Brown and red stripes. Very Christmasy right! He also was given a belt. Lol. Seems like we always thought he needed belts and gels.
Shixing got alot of perfumes from us. One of the perfumes was from me. I got it from Marks and Spencer! Thought it suits him very well. Kind of classy smell. Miao got him a Anti-Hangover mug! So cute!
Time to drink lesser Shixing!
We got Joe's gf a bit of something too. She is the youngest. A few years younger than us. :D
We played the Drinking game that Ling and Calvin bought for Wan as an appreciation that Miao and him sponsored the hotel room.
Everyone will each take a turn to roll the dice and one will drink the cup with the number that the dice falls on.
Some cups have pure water, some pure vodka, some red wine, some soft drink...
And after sometime...
Shixing added chips, wasabi, soy sauce... Wan and Jun Wen love the idea and added more and more weird stuff into the cups. I was so scared of wasabi. I recalled once that I had too much of it and it gave me a suffocating feeling. So.. whenever my drink involves wasabi, Jun Wen was there to help me. Even if he did so unwillingly. Lol.
We slept at about 5am! Was amazed at the snores some friends had. LOL LOL!
They were so tired. First it was just one friend. I was woken up by it and I woke Simba up, saying that I couldn't sleep. He then couldn't too! And we heard another type of high pitched snoring. And Simba's reaction was so funny! He covered his ears and shrieked, "Now TWO!"
The next morning when we woke up. No make up on me, omg. Nobody except my family was supposed to see me without make up! :D
Jun Wen placed the toy horse on Miao's head. Never seen him so happy before. He really loves that toy. Lol. I'm glad that Jun Wen feels comfortable with my this group of friends and that he spoke more than usual. Kind of like a miracle since Jun Wen is always shy. I thank especially the guys for that. Thank Joe for first having chemistry with him in our last KL trip! LOL.
He even brought a xmas hat from his house!
Merrry Xmaasss Jun Wen!
I logged in Jun Wen's Facebook account and set this pic as his display pic. Lol. He only knew it 2 days later and he knew it was me! Oops.
Hotel Capella! While waiting for our shuttle to come, we went around the hotel to take some photos.
The golf cart. Cool!
Took a photo under the BIG GOLD ribbon. So Xmasy. Love it! Thanks Jun Wenfor the awesome photo.
And wow! The movie poster photo. 那些年....
Miao's bf always knows how to take nice photos. :D
The standing tall peacock on a rooftop. It was so cute. It shrieked very loudly, loud enough to scare us. But it seemed to wanna catch our attention so that we take a photo with it.
And it got its wish!
My favourite photo of 2011. Everyone striked a different pose! So unique and natural.
After breakfast, shixing and tuck wei went back home while the rest headed back to the hotel for jacuzzi.
I was opening drawers and taking photos of what's inside. Cool selection of teas.
The bfs in the tub. Simba was too shy and needed alot of persuasion to get him into here with the other 2 guys. Calvin on the other hand was very eager to get into it. Lols.
Ling thought of a new idea, which is to put some honey into the tub and lots of bubbles form. Lol.
Met Ying, who was unable to attend, at Nex.
Tuck Wei came along too!
Saw the Santa behind? That was our purpose. Taking a photo with xmas decorations!
Went to the Sky Garden for gift opening.
Everyone passed heir gifts to me and Ling to pass them to Ying. Her gifts were all cute! She loves My Melody and elephants. So it is quite clear cut on the things we can get for her. Jun Wen, being her fan, was willing to share half the cost of her present. We got her a Elephants of Asia tote bag from Tangs. Thought it was unique as well since Elephants of Asia is the theme for only Year 2011's xmas.
She got me a Stitch face towel. I am still very conservative about bringing it to the gym and let my sweat touch it. Stitch can't drink my perspiration. Lols. And also I have a small cute coin pouch. :D
Ying bought also cute things for Ling in return. She knows what Ling likes very well. :) The gloomy bear and Little Twin Stars.
Have u had a great Xmas in year 2011?
I had! MERRY XMAS! :D
