Sunday, March 30, 2025

Giving Thanks in March

31st Mar (Mon)


morning chit & chat over coffee with 蔡妈咪 then brought shuasumi home... 😍😍😍 

thanks 蔡妹妹 for yet another super duper cute glasses holder that i needed for home sweet home after bringing the chickadee one to use in school !!! 


30th Mar (Sun)

a day of much self-pampering from head to toes in JB... 😍😍😍

strawberry shortcake style hair treatment with k-gloss... my hair is now so shiny & glossy & smooth that my hair tie has difficulty staying on... also dont know to be satistfied or disappointed with this end result seh... 😂😂😂


met up with Michelle for manicure @ Nail Fashion, Holiday Plaza, a newly discovered nail parlour after our usual one ignored our booking... =S

great service from the 5 manicurists cum bosses @ Nail Fashion not only on our nails but with our tummies too... recommended and helped to order yummy food & drinks from nearby stalls when Mich asked for Grab food recommendation... 

my nails are chickadee ready for Easter... with nail hardener + 4 nail art @ 140myr (S$43)... worth it!!! 😍😍😍


 enjoyed 1.5 hours traditional thai massage at our favourite Bangkok Spa followed by lok lok @ 大成, next to KSL... 

not worth the hype at all...this was the worst lok lok i had... over fried, over oiled?!?!?!... saving grace was the large variety of sauces which Mich insisted on trying out all of them... 😅😅😅


then finally making our way back home close to midnight (again) while enjoying Hari Raya firework along our journey... 🎇🎇🎇



23rd Mar (Sun)

5 out of 5 stars for Ne Zha 2...👍👍👍... 2 hours 20 minutes of laughter & tears over cute & funny characters & dialogue then lunch with Alvin & Wifey @ Crystal Jade... Happi Term 1 Chua Day ...😍😍😍



22nd Mar (Sat)

courtesy of Mab, Joyce and 3 rounds of game making it 5 rounds within 24 hours... i'm gonna declared that it's no longer my favourite game this March & April liao !!!... 


21st Mar (Fri)


Claire's hatchday meal @ O.bba BBQ & Jjajang, Serangoon Gardens ... 


Claire was so used to ordering for her family of 5 that consisted of 3 men that she went on an ordering spree for 5 of us too... and with the free flow of side dishes, there was really ALOT ALOT of food till we had to tabao food home!!! 


then a super impromptus 2 rounds of our favourite game was executed where Laurice and I won the hatchday girl's money... 😂😂😂


20th Mar (Thur)


the chuas ladies @ 313 for lunch, coffee, bingsu and shopping @ Yutopia & Uniqlo for 蔡妈咪... 😍😍😍


Ong Ong is Honey 妈咪's favourite 'child' seh... 



12th Mar (Wed)


PAL's Pal @ 食尚捞... my first time seeing such a huge variety of hotpot & grill ingredient available for selection on a conveyor belt... so fun!!! i had the $9.90 net set lunch that was super worth it... 😍😍😍



10th Mar (Mon)

just when i gave myself a valid reason (too tired & breatheless from 8 periods of lesson today) to skip today's hamster walk walk, Joyce texted to meet at 7pm for walk walk... 


reward for saying " Yes, Let's Go !!!".... choco and sunblock from her Finland Aurora Trip & Korea Beauty Trip respectively... envy max and kam sa ham ni da... 😍😍😍



8th Mar (Sat)

celebrated Yuan's hatchday @ Kin Kao Mai Authentic Thai Restaurant, Grassroots' Club... 


was 沾沾自喜-ing that i could 'siam' drinking this round since i was still on medication (occasionally)... 哪知道他们来这出 "Candy 输了, birthday girl 喝"... 

就这样, coupled with 一个非常 on form the Ai Ling @ 5-10, 我欠 Yuan 26 mouthfuls of 酒... 😅😅😅... 好愁怎么还, 几时还?!?!?!... next hatchday is mine!!! 完了!!!

food was good... the song so 有年代感 that i wanna bring my mummy there for this year's mother day's dinner... 😂😂😂



7th Mar (Fri)

wanna give thanks to the relief team for giving me such a manageable timetable this week to ease me back to work after my HL... felt really blessed to be surrounded by people who take such good care of me in this way & that way... 😍😍😍



5th Mar (Wed)

90 minutes of 撸串 followed by 45 minutes of 撸猫 @ A.K Zai Lok Lok with mx...  

why do 猫猫 always give me the 别来烦我 look seh?!?! 😅😅😅



4th Mar (Tue) 

blessed to receive these luv from Sylvia, XD, Jeo, Boss & Ai Rin to welcome me back to work... 


Thank you kiddos (& Eunice) for keeping me in your thoughts too while doing appreciation activity during ur FT time... 😍😍😍



3rd Mar (Mon)

lunch @ Wasabi Tei, Far East Plaza with Mich & Claire before attending rubrics & feedback workshop @ Grange Road despite still being on HL, last day though... 😭😭😭

Happy to see fellow starchamp Prisc @ the workshop and congrats once again for finally having a full team after being a 1-woman dept for the last 2 years !!!  



1st Mar (Sat)


of dance, songs, colouring and taking pics with 小黄人 for the residents... 

only 3 of us didnt have other appointment thereafter so Bernice, XP and I followed Victor to Tiong Bahru Market for lunch... 

went in search for the chua's almost once a month Sunday dinner at the old old super dirty & crowded market / food centre at this exact site more than 3.5 decades ago ... 

it was ALWAYS a frustrating dinner because it was so difficult to get parking lot, so difficult to find a table to seat the chua's family with maid & baby/toddler alfred in tow, so difficult to avoid being splitter splatter by the rain / random dripping water from the zinc roof while slurping down the super yummilicious fried pork intestine porridge... 

sadly, the current version was a far cry from the original... disappointing and totally not worth the $8... 


& what a coincidence that today is papa chus's hatchday if he's still around... 


went back to the chuas and was pleasantly intrigued by this pair of chickens 'patok-ing' along our corridor @ level 2??? 


according to the 3As, they have been 'nesting' just outside our gate and roaming the corridor since the night before... 


Saturday, March 29, 2025

Claire's Hatchday Celebration with Chocolate Easter Egg

Attending Mr Bucket's Chocolate Deco Workshop has been on my bucket list since a year or two ago so was very happy when Claire was interested in it too... I signed us up for the Chocolate Easter Egg Deco Workshop as her hatchday activity eventually cos it's the special for this time period of the year... 

the workshop started with a chocolate from bean-to-bar education session with Lyn where we learnt a plentiful and ate fresh cocoa fruit > 酸酸的 and tasted a roasted seed > 苦苦的... 


3 little cute bunnies dressed for the occasion!!! 



free beverage of choice to enjoy while we art!!!... coffee latte for me... 



15cm chocolate easter egg!!! 



quite obvious 谁是来 art 的 and 谁是来玩的... 😂😂😂



luv the little hammer !!! can use it in class !!! 





Hatchday lunch @ Air CCCC, a farm-to-table restaurant with nice deco & feel 

& food so interesting & yummy, we 'cleaned' both our starters and mains & planned to come back to try the dinner menu on Michelle's hatchday in May !!! 😋😋😋


Happi Hatchday (again) Claire !!! To more years of hatchday dates!!! 😍😍😍

Monday, March 17, 2025

司马s @ Genting

the journey started with an early morning 5.15 am walk walk from Wlds house to board the bus to Genting @ CWP with the rest of the 司马s... 


each adult paid $246.50 for WTS bus ride to & fro Genting + 2 nights stay @ SkyWorlds Sixer room + Awana cable car round trip to & fro Genting Premium Outlet.. 


i 乖乖 put on my seatbelt for the whole journey cos i didnt wanna risk being a bowling ball down this aisle seh... 😅😅😅


9am reached Yong Peng pit stop and had honey glazed sweet potato & teh for breakfast

1.30pm reached Genting and enjoyed a hearty lunch at Mr.Dakgalbi... luv the juicy spicy fried chicken lots!!!



could only check in @ 3pm

my naughty bite-y shoes were so prettily lit due to the uv lights along the corridor leading to the rooms 

our room of 大四喜... all 6 of us in one room cos i THOUGHT cy & joyce would go win it all during the nights and i didnt wanna be left alone in the room but they proved me wrong... 

customising our bedroom slippers 



nua nua abit then headed out and 'found' my favourite food on this trip... blank.b ice cream... joyce & i enjoyed a cup each on 2 of our 3 days there... 😍😍😍

then we 兵分两路, 各 shop 各的,  各 nua 各的 before meeting up for dinner @ Harry Ramsden's, which is famous for its Fish & Chips... but i was still very full from lunch so i just had dessert with a cup of very yummy passionfruit soda!!! 


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coincidentally, A-de-le was staying at the same hotel so she popped into our room to take a pic together... the last time the 3 of us travelled together were at least 20 years ago when we were tutors @ SmartLab... 




cable car ride to Genting Premium Outlet where i got this crocs charm for Angela... 



bak kut teh for lunch then i made a solo trip back to the room for a much needed 2.5 hours nap while the rest continued with their shoppings... 😂😂😂


dinner @ Wan Hoi Yam Cha... the little ones were depleted from 3 hours on the bouncing castles... 😵😵😵

the Portuguese egg tarts from here were super yummy too!!! 

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returning bus at 11.30am 


single seat with ample leg space... 😍😍😍



shopping at the pit stops!!! > my luv for sweets & sweet snacks even @ 44 years young... say the name : 🍬🍬🍬 

last group pic with our Musang King Durian Puree @ Singapore Custom



reached Wlds home close to 8pm and requested Angela to cook me a bowl of comfy maggi mee...


and she crocheted this super duper cute chickedee spectacle holder for me!!! 😍😍😍