Candy Floss Dreamz: April 2006

April 30, 2006

Dinner at Al Forno!

looks pretty cosy

the fiery oven

the walls

lucky that we didnt order any of their breads since they served this complimentary basket of breads

Clams in white wine. Not really my kind of food since i dont like shells but jianglei loves it.

Salmon piazza was sooo huge we regretted ordering our pasta. Nonetheless, given our appetite, we managed to finish it.

the sizzling Pasticcio- home made pasta

soo cheesy. It tasted nothing like any pasta i have ever eaten, very very nice!

It's like, the cheese was so dense it tasted quite different when it cooled down and solidified.

me and jianglei sharing that long strand of cheese. reminded me of some orientation game in RJ where we have to pass a strand of spaghetti to the next person without breaking it. otherwise, it would just get shorter and shorter and u may end up kissing the person!

And now,for dessert ...

tiramisu! i think im forever eating this. the one here was not bad but i still prefer jerry's bbq

some ice-cream in peach thing. Looked special so i decided to give it a try

what was left of the peach

I think i ate too much. I feel so bloated now and im experiencing tummy discomfort. And i think im getting sick of italian, shall try other cuisines next time, maybe Japanese.

Family dinner tomorrow, doubt i would eat much. Even jianglei thought i become heavier when he tried to carry me!

Labels: wine and dine

April 29, 2006

A peek inside my treasure chest...

when i was young, my dad used to send me postcards when he was away on his business trips

this was when my dad was supposed to meet us in hongkong after his business trip.I wrote a chinese essay on the trip and it was published in the school's essay-writing book.I was so proud then, haha.

Now that im a big girl, he stopped sending me such postcards :(

But i know that he still loves me very much :)

the ancient china coin given to me by my maternal grandfather who passed away a few years ago. Everyone in the family has one. the back of the coin is so cool, it's a dragon!another old coin from the most important man in my life - my paternal grandfather. He took care of me when i was a little girl and we were very close. He is still strong and fit now even though he's already 80 plus and i really really wish he could be with me forever and ever.
haha, i look so sweet and demure last time.
my prettiest drawing ever. I cant draw for nuts despite attending 2 years of drawing classes and another 2 years of chinese calligraphy and painting. Drawing is plain torture to me and it is equally tormenting for those whose eyes have to suffer from my ugly art. Those who know me will know what i mean. This drawing is quite special to me not only because it's my most decent drawing (how sad is that!) but also because it simply cheers me up looking at how cute and carefree the girl is.

Everytime i look inside my treasure box, i never fail to feel so loved and fortunate.

April 28, 2006

This is so unfair! Jianglei has to do guard duty on Labour Day cos Raymond Ong who's supposed to do it has medicine interview the next day.So now jianglei has to do it instead. Now what am i supposed to do next monday? I don't want to stone at home!!! What a waste of my public holiday, i could be earning 50 plus bucks if i were working on that day. *sulk* pout*

May only has 2 public holidays and June has none, and now one day is wasted. I seriously hate the army, TO THE CORE.

On my way to work this morning, i was overwhelmed by a cloud of whites at the mrt station.One of them even greeted me and shook hands with me. Funny how this only happens one day after nomination day. Residents in my district seem rather excited about the upcoming election. It's the first time that they have a choice since the district was uncontested from 1988. I see banners and posters everywhere and it does make me slightly more interested in Singapore's politics. But of course, it will never be as lively as U.S.A president election.

Kamsita bought burger king breakfast for me this morning!She bought for everyone else in the office too but that's besides the point. The point is, she is making me fat by buying me so much food all the time! Like yesterday, she bought me guava, goreng pisang and some other fried stuff when i went lunch with her. She also bought me breads from delifrance when they were having their $1 promotion last time. Not to mention the famous amos cookies, chocolates etc that she offers me when it looks like im dozing off. I do feel embarassed about her buying me so much food but she always says " but i treat you like my own daughter!" . Well, what more can i say except to accept her offers?

Scarlett Johanssen was voted No. 1 hot babe on U.S.A FHM

Actually i failed to understand why. I don't find her attractive in anyway. She isnt very pretty nor is her figure hot. I know many guys are crazy over her, but somehow, she just doesnt appeal to me.

U.K No.1 Kiera Knightly didnt come to me as a surprise though

I used to think she's very very pretty, like a doll, especially after watching Love Actually. I don't know why, but i dont like her as much now. Perhaps it's because someone who needs 4 hours of make-up to look like this doesnt come across to me as pretty.

I wonder who will Singapore's No.1 be

Actually, i think no one is more deserving of the title than...

our dear Fiona Xie!

Her physical appearance is just so purr-fect. Nowadays, i seem to be seeing her around everywhere(not personally of course though i would very much love to). I see her in the train, at the mall, on the magazines, even at the food court etc!She must be earning big bucks from all her endorsements. But well, who's complaining?

(To digress a bit, i still cant believe how anyone could think that jacelyn tay and jeanette aw are pretty.From whichever angle i see, jacelyn tay isnt beautiful at all! Jeanette aw is worse, she is just so act cute she makes me puke.)

April 27, 2006

Girl Next Door ~ saving jane

Small town homecoming queen
She's the star in this scene
Theres no way to deny she's lovely
Perfect skin perfect hair
Perfumed hearts everywhere
Tell myself that inside she's ugly
Maybe I'm just jealous
I can't help but hate her
Secretly I wonder if my boyfriend wants to date her

She's the prom queen I'm in the marching band
She's a cheerleader I'm sittin in the stands
She gets the top bunk I'm sleepin on the floor
She's Miss America and I'm just the girl next door

Senior class president
She must be heaven sent
She was never the last one standing
A backseat debutant
Everything that you want
Never to harsh or too demanding
Maybe I'll admit itI'm a little bitter
Everybody loves her but I just wanna hit her

I don't know why I'm feelin' sorry for myself
I spend all my time wishin' that I was someone else

She's the prom queen I'm in the marching band
She's a cheerleader I'm sittin in the stands
She gets the top bunk I'm sleepin on the floor
She's Miss America and I'm just the girl next door

***

Well, i guess most people share her sentiments. At least i do. Sometimes i just wish im a little taller,or slimmer, or prettier, or more popular,perhaps smarter and richer or even more talented. I just wish my life could be more perfect. I do get jealous of people, maybe a little too easily that jianglei doesnt understand how is it possible that i could be envious of so and so. I guess it all boils down to my insecurities and lack of confidence in myself.

On my bad days, i seriously hate my life and grumble about how perfect another person's life is. However, on my good days,i learn to appreciate what i have and that my life is actually quite perfect.

So what if i dont have the face of jessica alba or the body of a supermodel? So what if im not as popular as britney spears or have bill gates for a father? And does it even matter that i am never awarded any nobel prizes in my life? Do i really care that my boyfriend isnt someone who looks like brad pitt?

I know we can never have everything so i try to remind myself that what i have now is more than i can ever ask for. Even though im short, i still look presentable and though my figure is far from perfect, it is still not considered as fat. I am not the prom queen nor am i the girl that every guy dreams of, but i do have friends who really care and a boyfriend who loves me more than anything else in the world. My parents are not bloody rich but they try their best to give me a comfortable life. I am not a psc scholar but my grades are still above national average. I have friends who seem to have perfect lives, but it's just so bad that im not them. Perfection is relative. To those people living in africa, my life is really more perfect than they can ever wish for.Therefore, whenever i feel that life has been unfair to me, i would think of the good things that had happened to me and realise that my life has been good.

Sometimes, it's a pity that we wasted so much time and energy comparing ourselves with others and wishing we were somebody else that we forgot to love and treasure what we have.

April 26, 2006

I seriously lack self-control. I have been eating non-stop even though it's way past dinnertime. My weight has been going up instead of down ever since chinese new year.Even my collegues dont believe than im around 40 kg. All i ask for is to lose around 2-3 pounds, but for 4 mths, i see no results despite all the running. It should be pretty easy to lose 1kg, so why is it so tough for me?

How i wish i can eat all i want without getting fat. I really hate those skinny girls who eat like pigs and dont exercise but still maintain their small frames. Life is so unfair :(

Watching more videos and i noticed something

Nicole

Eva Longoria

Don't you think that nicole from PCD looks vaguely like Eva Longoria?

Both of them are so toned and slim. don't you just hate them?

April 23, 2006

Today's my grandma birthday and we celebrated at the Pariss Interntationa Seafood Buffet at marina square. Somehow the food didnt look as appetising to me and i didnt really take many photos of the food since i just ate it not long ago with jianglei and the food was basically almost the same. I've decided that from now on, i will only go to a buffet once cos when you go for the same one the second time, it isnt as exciting anymore. You end up eating less which is so not worth it.

uh, crabs!But they look like tortises in this picture

some healthy salad. I love the bread cos it's so crispy!

my favorite cod fish

all the fried and unhealthy stuff

desserts!!!

i love the cheesecake so much i ended up having 3 extra helpings of it!

all my cousins. We are a large family as my grandma has 6 children and 15 grandchildren. Whichever restaurants that we go to for our celebrations and gatherings are really damn lucky, cos that means they will be earning from as many as 40 people if you include my whole extended family.

happy birthday, grandma!

Labels: family

PCD, so hot! check out their tummies, solid and flat.

Was watching some videos online, and i am now so inspired to learn belly-dancing! Shakira's "hips don't lie" video was so damn sexy, the way she moves her boobs, belly and ass...if i were a guy i would be so damn turned on.

I know i've said this umpteen times, but i wished i could dance like that :(

my favorite female artiste - Shakira

so so so super chio! even jianglei agrees with me :D
but she looks a little like alyssa milano, don't you think so?

OMG, the little girl at my hip hop class today is so hot! she's like only 10 and she could dance so incredibly well! she performed a little for us today, and she could do those ciara, beyonce, PCD etc moves with remarkable perfection and confidence.Me and weizhen were so impressed we wanted to ask her to be our instructor instead. Im really envious of such people, all my parents fault for not sending me to dance schools when i was young, hrmph!

April 22, 2006

i don't care about the reviews but the movie was damn freaking good!

omg, she's so wild and hot in the show. i love her dance with the two other guys during the competition, so captivating!

i love those ballroom dances, esp tango, soo sexxy!!! i wanna dance like them too :(

feel like buying the ost for this movie also, the music was great!should i?

brought jianglei for some nice orr nee(yam paste), his favorite food of all time, today! the shop closes very early and only while stocks last, so we had to go quite early just in case it's sold out since it's so popular. However, jianglei didnt tell me that they booked out last night and i couldnt contact him for the whole morning and didnt know what to do cos we havent planned on what time to meet yet. In the end i had to call his house and he was still sleeping!Lucky it was still early and we could still make it down for the nice dessert.

seems like it's quite hard to find stalls that sell orr nee nowadays

wonder if it's really as nice as they make it sound...

they have many nice kueh also!

i was craving for some tau suan which was not availabe today, sadly. In the end i bought the tau suan kueh which tasted quite ok but still not as nice as the dessert itself. But the water chestnut kueh was very nice, unlike the crystal jade one which is oily and makes me sick.

the famous orr nee.

It's really thick and creamy and tasted so different from other orr nee cos of the pumpkin and gingko nuts. Jianglei loves it a lot and a lot and agreed that it's the best he has ever eaten.

water chestnut paste, perfect for my horrible sore-throat

went for class again before going back to town to watch take the lead.

we wanted to go back to Snoopy's place where we had our dinner at on our first official date but to my disappointment, it closed down!!! So sad so sad...i told jianglei i would open a hello kitty palace one day and he laughed at my idea!!! why not? all the little girls sure pester their parents to bring them there what, and we all know that parents nowadays love their kids too much and will give in to them easily. so what's so bad about my idea, hrmph!

After walking around the whole of PS, we settled for secret recipe which we have never eaten before despite it being there for ages.

their new creation, potato-broccoli soup. Looks a little like baby food but still tasted very nice! i love the bread especially!