Last day of 2009

Here's what we did on the very last day of 2009

0930: Meeting startzzz..zzz...
1115: KFC line engaged forever..Boss drove out with colleagues to buy finger food
1200: New Year Party started and so did the booze flow free.
1315: Rushed off to catch the bus to Vivocity
1400: Reach basement of Orchard Centre - our favourite hideout place.

14??: Settled comfortably with Dear in Coffee bean with banana caramel and a Boston nut brownie...

We are The Coffee Bean groupie

14xx: Start craving for second round
1700: Dear participated in the TOTO's $3m draw
1715: Dear shopped and I owned a $108 Philip hair dryer with only $45
1730: I shopped @ Mango with sale promotion. Owned 4 more pieces of discounted yet pretty tops:)

1900: No luck with TOTO's winning
1900: Dinner at a Japanese restaurant @ Cuppage with SIL.
2100: Manicure with 3D nail polish by SIL. Love it!

2305: Reached home..

2359: Others' counting down while I'm in the shower :)

Old friend's wedding on Boxing Day

One of my old friends is officially "off the shelves".  Yeah, feel so happy for her!

Her wedding has left me thinking that one does not need to buy in the standard yet expensive wedding packages that were offered around in Singapore. The guest would be more impressed if the couple have personalised the setting.

You can clip your wedding pictures on a big tree-like metal hanger  instead of putting together a damn expensive fanciful photo album ($70-90 per each heavily photoshopped pic with the possibility that people may comment "it doesn't look like the bride ) at the reception area. Afterall, the weddings I have been, I never remember the photos that I have seen except for the couple of special ones. e.g. couple wearing spectacles in their gown and suit. It was geeky but the feel is very unqiue.

Another idea I like from my friend wedding is that they provided a big white board for you to write your congrats down and to be photographed with the couple! And everything was well  captured in the snapshot for memorials!

The one common complaint that I hear about weddings is that the guests never received the photos that they have taken, be it with the couple or friends. I think it was very nice of my friend to engaged a vendor who took unlimited Polaroid photos of the guests and these photos were printed on the spot to be given to guest as souvenir. Me and friends instantly get hooked on it and we made the photographers took several pictures of us!

By the way, the food at Marriot Hotel was fantastic as well. We girls round the table enjoyed till  the last dish very much.

Chocolate with Ice Cream Filling

Only left 6 min to wish everyone "Merry Xmas" before "Happy Boxing Day"

Merry X'mas

Guess what? Today is a special day (no, not xmas). I have successfully baked a cake the first time without aid. It's such a big deal that I now know how to crack the eggs and separate the yolk and the whites, know how to operate the blender, stoves and sieving, using the correct utensils, and most importantly following the instruction. Dear, you lose with your 1cm cake hahahahahaha :P

The previous attempt had failed with the oil popping in the volcano-erupting-style from the gooey mixture while being baked in the oven supposedly. This time round, my SIL has commented that the mixture look right and the cake "rise" to a good height. However the cake is tad abit dry. SIL advised next time to add in 1 tablespoon of milk. Shall try that next time...

The dough's expanding

The tad' dry cake

Xmas Eve with Bodyguards and Assassin: 2.5/5

I seldom watch Chinese movies in cinema. After watching Donnie Yen's movie Ip Man, I started to think that Hong Kong productions are improving! I have thought that any movie that starred Donnie would be fantastic. I was holding so much high expectation for this show, more than what I have for Avatar. Great expectation of seeing a hero in action leads to big disappointment as well. There was not strong focus on any of the characters and Donnie Yen's character died pitifully half way through the show.

Friends who appreciated the show are those who know the history of Sun Yat Sen well. Well, I guess we are just those typical movie buffs expecting a hero to save the day with happy ending note and I'm glad a couple of like-mind friends also shared my sentiments!

But I'm very amused with Leon Lai's long silky hair. He was the character in the show that brought much laughters to the set.

Avatar > Rating: 4/5

Drizzling in the morning is a perfect reason to wake up late for work.

Anyway we went to catch Avatar after breakfast since my lateness was overdone.  It was the movie's release and I believe we were the first few to catch the show. It was odd to catch a movie in early morning. The cinema was almost empty except for some fat uncles with umbrellas.

The movie did surprise me because I was not expecting much from it as the trailer wasn't that promising. I was going for another highly-raved movie but the timing was not right so we settle for this. The storyline is typical with atypical background. The great graphic is enough to shadow some of the un-comfortableness felt in the similarities between the African Tribal Earthling and the Pandora's Navi.

I find the luminous freckles are so cool and Jake is cool as well..He is the younger Ewan McGregor.

The movie is a visual grandeur and I'm glad that if not for the imperfect timing, I may not know there's such a great firm not to be missed.