Freebie from the Taiwan Tourism Bureau

Freebie from the Taiwan Tourism Bureau

Popped by taiwan tourism bureau to collect my freebie yesterday afternoon before attending A is for Art camp 2012 at ACM.... 

Taiwan Tourism Bureau is located at Chevron House, #10-01. Once you exit from raffles mrt station exit B, look left for a super long escalator leading to level 3 for the office lobby where you will need to change a photo id for a temporary pass to pass thru the gantry to the lift... 

the whole process was extremely fast and hassle free... i had read from the hardwarezone travel forum that i need to provide 2 proofs of travel..... a hotel confirmation and a air ticket printout in order to redeem the freebie ....... but forgetful me only printed out the air tickets....so last minute, took a photo of the email confirmation with my digital camera and was really grateful that the lady at the counter accepted it as the second proof of travel without any complains.... =) 

the good thing is, u can claim freebie on behalf of everyone whose name is listed on the proofs without any authorisation letter...=) 

the freebie this time round is

open it up and you will see this

most value item is

since we have 4 ppl going on the trip = we have 4 of this card = we can surf net on mr ang's galaxy note for 4 out of the 7 days that we are in taiwan....woohooo.... each card allows 24 hours of internet access.... =) ....

but instruction is in traditional chinese characters.....cant really make out how to activate it....wahahaha.... but taiwan ppl are all so friendly, i m sure we will definitely have no problem in getting the minsu ppl or the cabby or any 7-11 staff to help us with it de... =) 

total of 4 cups of hot cuppuccino and 4 cups of slurpee to be redeemed too...=)

the rest of the coupons are discounted items such as ice-creams, snacks, drinks, beer, bowl instant noodles etc etc

any one need this mask???? think it only cost $9 for a box of 10 after discount... =) .... me gonna buy back a few boxes for myself... heee

Meni Pedi date with 蔡 mummy

Meni Pedi date with 蔡 mummy

upon the success of the first Chua's outing to USS during dec 2011, i had made having a Chua's outing every school holiday as one of my resolution for 2012...=)... but everyone seems to be busy...alfred has to work, angela has to work, alvin has trainings ....so left 蔡 mummy and myself...

initially, i wanted to bring 蔡 mummy to batam for massage at my favourite ktm resort.... made booking but before i could proceed with the payment, i remembered that i might not be convenient to use the hydro bubble bath...=S....sianx.... and so heng we din go else we would be affected by the train break down from dhoby ghaut to vivocity where we were supposed to take the ferry to batam this morning... =P 

so in the end, arranged for meni + pedi @ angelsky instead.... this package of mine is at least 4 years old....bought it at $388 (exclusive of GST) for 10 sessions.... i would consider it super worth it la.... dun remember all the details on how i gotten such a good deal...i just remembered that i kept rejecting their hardselling thus they kept reducing the price and even throw in privileges such as i can substitute any of the session for a 45 minutes massage and that i can bring another person along to share the session.... =) ...

tried their massage once 2 - 3 year ago....nothing fantastic and hate it that the massuse kept grumbling that 45 minutes is too short for a proper body massage and i should extend it to a double session of 1.5 hours...extremely hate it that she stopped on the dot with just a head, shoulder and arm massage cos not enough time to complete the rest of the body.... 

i was mad cos the person who sold me the package said that i could HAVE a body massage for 45 minutes then they should jolly well give me a BODY massage within that 45 minutes la....

anyway, before the pampering, 蔡 mummy and i went for lunch... =) ... brought her to Jus Acia located at dhoby ghaut exchange, love the place for its low price that includes free flow of drinks + floats + coffee + ice-cream...i only paid $15.10 for 2 set meals... 

蔡 mummy  with her katsu set

 my dory fish with melted cheese set


but too bad, we were rushing for our meni + pedi appointment at 1pm, so only had 1 serving of hot milo and ice-cream.. super lugi.... =( 

a very pampered 蔡 mummy

brought her to fruit paradise since the pampering ended earlier than expected

she had strawberry and mango

with a cup of coffee 

and i had 

strawberry tiramisu with

lemon mint tea

total $20.... even more expensive than our lunch.... but what to do???? their cakes are so yummilious.... =S



took a photo of 蔡 mummy's hand....din know it looks like this until i saw the pix after uploading..... 

looking at her hands, and comparing them to mine, 

my heart ached.... her pair of hands are so wrinkled.... i feel that it's not only because she's no longer young but also because of the  amount of hard labour she did to ensure that there was money for the family when we were all younger....  

suddenly became very emo.... started to think through alot of things that had happened these few years....all the drama, all the roller coaster rides, all the nonsense.... and of cos the things that were said today.... 

conclude that she may not be the best mother in the world, she may not know how to communicate with us in a manner that we are more comfortable in, she may annoyed us to the max with her dramas and nonsense from time to time but she is definitely the one who slogged and will slog her life for us and she's definitely there when we get into any trouble or is sick and she will definitely put us and the family before herself..... 

all i can say is...u want to be fair....then have u been fair to her??? you can say that we are not being fair to him, but has he been fair to us and her??? u know she wants u but does he really want u??? she may treat u as invisible but does she not know that u came home late??? does she not know that you were sick and popping pills these few days??? u really think she dun care??? 

Clay Illustration

Clay Illustration Workshop

instead of engaging vendors to conduct the clay module for all P4 pupils as per last year, our own P4 art teachers will have to conduct it this year due to a lack of funds .... which means all P4 art teachers will have to attend a 2 hours Clay Illustration workshop by our vendor

since i was free and always enjoy art courses, i joined in as well eventhough i am not a P4 art teacher this year....

cute samples

Objective of the course:

(1) What is Jumping Clay? http://jc.jumpingclay.com.sg/

(2) How to obtain more colours from the basic 7 colours?
well, we were given a colour chart with the mixing ratio and hands-on session to create any of the colours on the chart... =)

about there la ah.... heee...

i made quite a few others and with all the blob blobs, i made a caterpillar... =)

the interesting thing about this particular type of clay is that we have to create the different parts by itself and only join them together when they are semi dry....too wet, the clay will stick to each other and cant be separable into the different colours after that...too hard and they wun stick..... 

well, i gotten too engrossed in making the second item till all the parts dried up.... =S...in the end, have to use ulu glue to stick them tog.... as ulu glue takes a while to dry.... the blob blobs rolled around and left ugly stains on each other..=(

second item which we made was a 3 tier cake....all these products are actually very small....

look how small it is between my fingers.... imagine the level of difficulty when we put together the different parts....

Instructor's, mine and 3 other colleagues' 2 hours of hard work....

from the top

really love this type of clay for its vibrant colours and the ease in using it.... not as sticky and smelly as paper clay or plasticine...it has a very sweet jasmine smell in fact.... there's no need to heat it up in the kiln, neither do we need to paint it to add colours

the only downside...it's very expensive... it cost $4.90 for 50g... =(

Drawsomething

Drawsomething

my current favourite game on ipod touch is this game called 'drawsomething'..... since mr ang has gotten his galaxy note, i gotten the sole custody of the ipod touch which was bought using LDS 2 years ago..... being a catty person, i will only download games which are free.... hee....and this (free) game has gotten me hooked since 2 to 3 days ago.... would stay up till 1am, 2am just to play the game (that's when all the other players are more 'active') eventhough there's work the next day lo....

just to share a brainless cheating method.... if u encounter a pix that u can't guess and u run out of bomb to remove unnecessary letters and u r catty like me (one who dun use $$$ to buy game credits) then what u can do is

(1) take down all the letters that was provided
(2) log off from the game
(3) login the game again
(4) compare the new letters provided with those in (1) ...then u will be abe to shortlist the letters to be used for the correct answer...=)

altenatively, you can use (http://www.scrabblefinder.com/solver/) to help u...  ;P

tumblr of others'drawing for this game.... (http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/drawsomething?before=1331448639)


my current highest record is only 51 and increasing (i hope) .... and currently playing with 11 ppl at the same time.... my nick is cry5tang...so do add me if u r in the game too oh....=)

well, this game brings back memory of once my favourite show.... "Win, Lose or Draw"....

(too young peeps wun know bout this...oopx....did i reveal my age again????....wahahahhaa).....

used to be so amazed with the caricatures of the host and the participants shown at the beginning of the show and remembered the times when i would pretend to be the participants and kneel in front of the tv to guess what the participants are drawing..... but i remember that the answers are usually some 'chiem' phrases or famous ppl which i don't know.....so basically, i just enjoyed the show without understanding why certain drawings led to certain answers....heeee.....

2 of my drawings: 

met up with lene & lewei

it took me more than 2 months and a dream about meeting up with one of them to realise that i have not been meeting up with friends....bad me....so immediately after waking up, i text these 2 special ladies in my life and arranged for a meet up....=)

(1) with lene @ vivocity on 25 feb

we had lunch at dian xiao er

please ignore the unglam fried rice.....we were very very hungry....oopx.....

always luv the food at dian xiao er.... super yummilious one lo.... even for someone who hates everything 药材, i love their 十全烤鸭 which is cooked with  药材...=S...... then their 豆苗 also very 脆脆 one.....

but we ordered abit too much ah.... couldnt finish the fried rice....think we should not have ordered the 豆苗 since there was vege in the tofu dish already.....

although we were super full and insisted that we couldnt stuff any more things into our tummy..... we headed over to fruit paradise for dessert within half an hour after exiting from dian xiao er....wahahahaha....

lene with her mixed fruit tart 

and me with my favourite nutty caramel

(lene, i agree with u....u do take nice pix.....i look thin in this pix.... double like....heee....)

(2) met up with lewei in town area on 3 mar

had lunch at Tonikichi @ Shaw House

din get to take any photos cos din bring camera out....=(

had japanese curry rice which was damn yummy la.... with very generous serving of the curry sauce and katsu chicken .... free flow of rice and salad (lettuce)

the salad is super super delicious just because of the red sauce that you can add to it.... we had 2 HUGE servings of the salad....

and as usual, despite being extremely full from lunch, and contributed 3 thick slices of katsu chicken into the trashbin despite it being very yummy, we headed for a dessert place to continue our chit chat..... =)....

and Canele @ Paragon is where we went.... and Mr Ang came to join us after his 3 tuition lessons and he brought along my camera....which means there will be photos liao....=)

pretty mummy to be...... =D

us and 2 cakes and 2 scoops of ice cream and my caffe latte

cakes average average only but their ice-cream is good.... lewei had the rose petal ice-cream and it was bandung flavoured..... licking good oh....

chit chatted till around 7pm ....then lewei went home and Mr and Mrs Ang went for dinner.... yes.....food again.....wahahaha..... basically dun know what to do so just find something to eat again lo....

we walked by PAUL and decided to give it a try since the queue was so much shorter than the one i saw in the early afternoon when lewei and i were searching for a place to have dessert....



it's a very healthy eating place....look at the amount of vege!!!!

my grilled chicken salad with lots and lots of vege

mr ang's salmon with potato pancake and lots of vege too.....