i love meeting up with friends!!

ok. that title sounds damn gay ass, but ah well, it't true! :) spent tues night with the smu girls for a belated christmas dinner. i brought along my cherry brandy truffles as promised, but skipped on the oero cheesecake since i was too lazy to make it. heehee, not much of an excuse, but do you believe i woke up late again?!? and then i realised i forgot to buy one ingredient; and it was raining so hard outside i didn't want to leave my house to get it=] so lazed around for a while...then started on the prezzies and cards, and that took longer than i thought! ha. ended up an hour late for the party at shouwen's, even though i only live a few doors down! haha. everyone was like.... 'what else can we expect??' i soooo need to try harder to be on time. i'm really notorious for being late!!

dinner was fun... just chilling with the girls, eating the unforgettable purple shepard's pie, spaghetti, and cake with haagen dazs ice cream (omg, can you believe i had to check out how to spell that? haha. but their official site is yummy too!) anyhow, thanks for the gifts all!


wed was another great day. had my long awaited gathering number two with some of my rj close pals...regina,abi,val,jo: it was great meeting up!! we haven't had a gathering in such a lonnggg time; but i can't believe half a year has gone by so fast, it seems like just yesterday saying goodbye to these overseas bound pple! as usual, ahem, i was late. but this time not so bad..only forty mins! lol. it was good that almost everyone else weren't all that punctual either... although, sorry val!! you had to wait for us all=]

lunch was yums. we ate at this korean place. i had chicken bap (really good!! esp. the kimchi rice. must remember to bring mum there one day for lunch...she'll love it!) after that, we ventured on to this dessert place at wheelock. i kinda (as usual) just followed along blindly, so i don't know what it's called. think it was sun with moon?? or something like that...=[ anyway, it was kinda like this japanese fusion place, and they had the most interesting desserts!! and they were served up so prettily, we just had to take some photographs of our food!!

sesame pudding, various types of mochi, tofu cheesecake, guava rose tea, and green tea ice-cream with mochi
and my somewhat artistic photo of my guava rose tea...;]
heehee. i still can't believe that everyone found that cheesecake sauce salty except me! it really is like that chinese sticky twirly yellow sweet what. hah. my tastebuds are off! am i falling sick?!?
group photo...where are you, grace?? come home soon!!! argg.. and why didn't anyone tell me my hair came out of its pins? that big boof on top.. that's not an intended style!!! heehee *sheepish about outburst*

lol, we wanted to take a photo with our arms all hugging this empty space in front of us (i.e. where grace should have sat), but found it too weird to ask the waitress to help us take THAT picture. grace, you'll just have to be there yourself next time! ;] *hint hint*

two days, two long-awaited gatherings, and tons of happiness.. i really can't fully express how glad i am to have friends such as you guys. at different stages in my life, you helped made an otherwise mundane life full of colour and joy. whether i'm reminiscing with you guys on old memories made, or creating new memories together, thanks one and all for being a part of my life and sharing it with me... friends make that life that much easier to live, and troubles that much easier to bear... so once again, thank you all; and don't be a stranger!

had to rush off after dessert to meet up with duckie. and surprise surprise, i was late again.. but this time it wasn't exactly my fault, it was cos i just couldn't bear to leave!! there was always a little more news to share, a little more juicy details to gossip about, and i ended up half an hour late. hee. i ended up waiting for duckie at the control station since that smart girl didn't leave until i told her i was leaving too. haha. that way, we will BOTH be late. ;) anyways, so we tried to get a cab there, since it was already 4.45 and the party started at 4, but the queue outside raffles city was ridiculously long!! so we called my aunt to see if it were still worth while going down, and she said that my baby cousin rachel's birthday party would be over soon, and why don't we just go straight to her house to continue the celebration, she'll bring us cake=] since we had time to kill, ended up taking the bus instead, but we still got there too early!! we arrived to an empty house, and when we called again, my aunt said that we might as well go down to the queensway macs where the party was held. we were supposed to walk, since macs is like a 5 mins walk away from their house, but we were both too tired!! haha, hailed a cab, and guess what? THE METER DIDN'T EVEN MOVE!!! yup, we came in, and the meter said $2.40, we left, and it still said $2.40... that's how near the place is!!!! can you say lazybums??? i feel ashamed ;]

anyhow, to cut a long story short... i got an entire cake for myself to bring home!! auntie serene knows how much i love the macs birthday cake. (blame it on good old childhood memories:) and so she ordered another extra one just for me! heehee, i get a birthday cake enough though it isn't even my birthday! i was so excited about it, and when i came back later on abt 9, i immediately cut myself a slice, but only to face disappointment. macs changed manufacturers and their cake! argg.. this new one has too much cream.. and it just tasted less.....yummy. sigh.. change it back! change it back! it was sooooo much better in my memories... hmmmm... not sure if i'll get into trouble for this, but the new manufacturers are ntuc...=] heehee.

came home tired and suddenly depressed. haha. maybe it was seeing the smu campus from raffles city? reminded me that sch starts just next week :( sue was getting ready to go out to party, and i was supposed to go too.. but was just suddenly not in the mood.. watched her dress up and leave at about 11, then i had the whole room to myself along with a feeling of unsettlement. not even sure why...mood swings?? aish.. i don't wanna psycho-analyse myself now. anyway, good that i didn't. she came home around 6 in the morning. and they hit liquid, zouk, and attica. i would be pooped! i think maybe i've been going out TOO much, so i'm trying to cut back. dedicated the whole of today for some alone time at home. haven't spent a full day at home ever since i came back from taiwan.. and maybe it was my guilty conscience telling me to stop playing around and focus more on tickled orange, which was what i did today. upped the inventory and created some new designs. have to update the blog too, just that i have not much related news on that end to report as yet... tmr is gonna be errand day for me. have to buy some things and stop by the bank... i'm mainly gonna try to get back into that pace of life and prepare myself for sch and work.. the holidays are over, and i've got to pysche myself for school....=[

till next time... tata!