Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

Merry (belated) Christmas and A Happy New Year!

This is a belated post because I have just entered my first week of school and I already feel like crying HAHAHA FML.

Nevertheless, I finally ended my 2016 with wonderful company and much fun!

And welcome back to Singapore Yingyu (Belle)!!! Met up with her together with Susana and we chilled at the cafe called The Clueless Goat located at Novena and the food was really affordable and awesome. 

Afterwards we headed to town and started walking around Clarke Quay. There wasn't much there as our end goal was to reach Gardens by the Bay (we definitely underestimated the walking distance HAHAHA) and we took the train instead.

Reached MBS and we tried to look for a spot at Food Republic for dinner but there were no vacancies. Saw Chen Tian Wen (Mr Unbelievable) with his kid tho. Yingyu was pleasantly amazed. HAHAHA.

Ate Llaollao for dinner (yes we did) and then made our way towards Gbtb while braving the slight drizzle. Bought our $8 tickets and there we go, into the Christmas Wonderland.

We entered around 850PM and was told that there will me a "Snow Show" at nine, so we just loitered around. Was greeted by this lighted castle upon entering and it was really beautiful. Didn't get to walk around much because we were waiting for the snow show to start.

THEN WE WENT CRAZY when we saw foam flying out of the castle. We ran into the castle and the photo below shows the end product. Hurhur.

I really have no idea why I am the most "foam-ed" person out of us three. I thought taller people should kena more easily. Oh wells.

The we walked around and looked at the various stalls and game stations. They were really pricey tho... And we didn't take photos at the photo booth because it was $8 for 2 strips and we don't know how to split it among us three. 

Chanced upon this Christmas tree and wow, the photo turned out really nice!

There was this lighted shelter (it looked way better in real life; pardon my lousy photography skills) and if you walked all the way to the end you'll see a huge Christmas tree.

At 10PM we went in for a second round of foam.

And finally got someone to help us take a nice photo while it is foaming!

Sad to say the foam wasn't that much at our second attempt; maybe it was the last slot that's why they are cutting down the volume. It lasted really short too. Sobbles.

Before we left we managed to capture a nice picture with this barrel. HAHAHA.

I am so glad we made it to Christmas Wonderland together. It was rare for Yingyu to fly back and I am glad we managed to have so much fun together!

Here's to a wonderful 2017!

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A Fruitful Day

After 1.5 years, we finally managed to find time to "tour" around and take nice photos again!

Before that, we went to catch Lulu the Movie at the theater. It was alright, there were some funny moments but overall we felt that the story line weren't very interesting. Afterwards, we had lunch at Arnold's (IT WAS DAMN GOOD OMG THE CHICKEN) and headed towards our long awaited destination - People's Park Complex rooftop. 

Since the last time we took nice photos was quite sometime ago, I wanted our photos to look more professional so I went all out and brought my camera and the godly tripod HAHAHAHAHA. We reached People's Park Complex after taking sometime to find our way, and found the staircase that leads to the rooftop; I swear to god my phobia of heights made me faced some issues climbing those stairs. 

Finally we reached the rooftop and was not surprised to see other people taking pictures as well. I started taking out my tripod and setting up and I felt a bit embarrassed because nobody else had a tripod HAHAHAHA. And we are still "less cool" that the others because they actually climbed to nice but dangerous spots while Susana and I were always on the ground hahahah. 

We actually had some difficulty climbing the rails. Especially me - short people problems.

Luckily the lighting was really good and we could capture the clear blue sky in our photos.

I guess the most "risky" act that we did for our photos was standing on these unstable crates.

Ran out of spots to capture pictures and then FBI Susana found this spot that looks very urban-ish.

LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL BFF.

Put on our jackets and tried to look cool HAHAHA.

枪毙 you.

It was really fun and I still can't forget how retarded we were trying to avoid people and cars on the rooftop while taking much effort to capture nice photos. Looks like we need more inspiration on how to take photo with confidence HAHAHA. 

Cheers!

The Day When Finals Ended

HELLO. 

I. am. back.

Finally, after more than three months of grueling lessons and tests, one semester has ended.

This semester was extremely though for me because it is the first time that I have finals for every single module - 2 qualitative and 2 quantitative exams - and omg tell me how does one person write 5 essays in 2 hours, come la you tell me. Seriously.

Oright, scrape all those rants, so right after the disgusting paper we headed for lunch at Old Airport Road together with Adrian and Annabel's Norwegian group mate. So we let him try Fried Carrot Cake, Fried Oyster Egg, Hokkien Mee, Lor Mee and Rojak, and the verdict was Lor Mee and Rojak tasted a bit weird (the culprit's the sauce) and the rest was good HURHUR.

Due to the awkward timing, there wasn't any signs of traffic jam so we approximately entered JB around 3:30 PM.  We arrived at City Square Mall and tried to find our direction but the information we found weren't very comprehensible. Thanks to Adrian's map reading skills, we managed to locate our very first cafe - Chaiwalla. 

How to get there

1. Exit the checkpoint and enter City Square Mall (right next to the checkpoint)

2. Go down to the first level and find the exit between Starbucks and Cotton On.

3. After you exit, turn left and walk straight until you reach the zebra crossing.

4. Cross the zebra crossing and turn right. You'll see a traffic light. Cross it.

5. Walk straight along the Little India lookalike stretch and make a turn to the left when you can.

6. Walk straight and you'll start seeing cafes popping up.

We tried the recommended Thai Milk Tea and Milk Green Tea, at a price of approximately 8.90 RM and 9.90 RM respectively, which I personally thought was overpriced because it didn't taste as rich as expected, especially when the ice melted. I guess I'll rate it a 7/10. 

Apart from Chaiwalla, there were many other cafes along the whole stretch, so we decided to check them out together with some of the nice OOTD spots along the way. While walking, we saw many people holding a plastic bag and we were guessing that it is either pastry or bread. So we walked and walked and saw this small little shop house bustling with people - ahhhhhhh it's the shop that everyone buys banana cakes from. When we stepped in, we saw many many many many many packets of banana cakes fresh from the oven, so my friends and I bought a packet each to bring home for breakfast the next day. And they smell reallllyyyy good.

After Chaiwalla and the banana cake shop, we walked backwards to this cafe called Replacement - Lodge & Cafe that sells all day brunch. (Apologies for the lack of pictures because we were all so tired from walking.)

We ordered the Breakfast Platter and the Eggs Ben, which costed us about a total of around 60 RM. The Eggs Ben was a lil small (the portion I mean) and I was shaking the plate for fun and then one of the poached eggs rolled of the bread and onto the plate (spot this poor egg on the picture). I was so sad. But I wasn't more sad than Adrian who stood up and immediately knocked his head on one of the hanging lamps while trying to take a nice photo of the food.

The meal was really good though. My favorite was the Breakfast Platter. Because of my weird preference in eggs (I only eat eggs that are well mixed; I don't like having the white and yolk separated. Okay don't judge me please thank you.), I did not try the poached eggs. But I'll rate the Breakfast Platter 8.5/10.

After much cafe hopping, we headed towards City Square for some light shopping and along the way we spotted this run-down empty hut and we decided to take our "Post Finals" pictures here.

Had the urge to do Manicure and we managed to get our gel nails done at this black and white shop at the 5th level of City Square Mall at 50 RM. We walked around a bit before that and among the shops that we saw, this offered a better price (the rest was around 55 RM, okay I know only 5 RM difference but we still need to save for dinner that day). I was quite sad because the colour I wanted wasn't available but nevertheless I am quite satisfied with their service. Heehee. 

While searching for dinner we walked past this restaurant that played the song 我的滑板鞋 (My Skateboard Shoes). OMG I WAS REALLY SURPRISED because this is quite a new song and we were walking and like from far we heard like 摩擦 摩擦 (mo ca mo ca) then me and Cheryl and Adrian was like - this is it. HAHAHAHAH.  

Last but not least, we ended our JB trip by having dinner at this Wanton Mee shop at the rooftop level. I spent 10 RM on a bowl of dried wanton mee with soup and chinese tea. The wanton mee was really good though.

Went back to Singapore at around 11 PM and all of use were dead beat. 

BUT IT WAS A GOOD WAY TO CELEBRATE THE END OF OUR FINALS!

Till next time~

If you're wondering what is the song that I was talking about, here's it: