Rest in peace.

Early this morning, received news from my father that Lee Kuan Yew passed away. Although he had been critically ill for some time, I guess many of us were hoping for a miracle, also in hope that he can celebrate SG50 with us.  

I think it's ridiculous how some people were giving bad comments to someone who was critically ill.  You wouldnt do that to anybody else, why do that to somebody who played an important role in giving us the Singapore we have today. 

No matter whether you are a supporter or not a supporter of him,  it is sad news for us,  for Singapore.  It is undeniable that he has played an important role in helping to build Singapore from what she was to where she is today. 

Due to the extensive coverage of him during this period, not only is he a founding father of Singapore,  he also comes off as an extremely caring and loving husband to his wife, and father to his children.

Even though he has passed on, his legacy as a founding father of singapore will continue to stay with us,  for generations to come. 

When everyone feels his departure and grief even when we do not know him personally, we know that he has been a great leader.

I really like this picture of his. 

"At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life." 

  

And because of that, we are able to enoy what we have today. Thank you.  

Chinese New Year 2015

Every year, CNY is mostly spent at home or my grandma's house. 

CNY Day 1 OOTD

 

My cousin really so tall. Both trying to tip toe to be taller than the other. Haha, obviously I'm much shorter. 

After that it was time for some games instead of just lying around/watching tv. 

First off was Taboo. Boys vs Girls! 

 

Feel bored when it's the boys' turn.

My cousin was super evil. When he was suppose to let the others guess the word flat, he pointed to his sister's chest.  

Drama King

My super drama uncle. He's always damn drama and super funny.  

Haha, if I didn't remember wrongly, the girls won by more than 10 points!

Next up was Mahjong time! Damn long haven't touch the real mahjong tiles, only played using the application.

 

Not bad right my tiles? Haha, but didn't win.  

Dinner Time!

I love the crabsticks and abalone and scallop. CNY day 1 only one table but CNY eve we had 2 tables and 2 steamboat pots to squeeze all the people inside. One big family.

 

My hair for the day. Self-claimed very nice and easy to tie too.  

CNY Day 2 OOTD

Day 2 plan was to go to my grandma house and gamble! Lol, I thought horse luck was number 1 this year and I can win lots of $$$. However, the money just came in and went out again, came in and went out again. Ended up I won! $1, lol. There's really such thing as beginner's luck, I remember the first time I played I won a lot and this year my cousin's first time playing and he won $17! He was damn funny, half way through the game when he wasn't winning, he went to fridge and took a can of coke and showed the 'wang' on the can and said 'wang ah'. I wanted to follow suit but no more coke in the fridge. 

Day 3 met Cheryl at Tampines Mall to watch Dragon Blade by Jackie Chan. Most happening CNY, first time I'm watching movie during CNY. Initially we wanted to watch Triumph to the Skies movies but after reading the reviews, no thanks. The acting, action and meaning behind Dragon Blade is all very good but it was quite gory and bloody.  Quite a good movie to catch.

Before movie, went for lunch at Itacho. I really want to award them the worst service award. I ordered ice water with the assistant supervisor but it never came. Then I asked the waiter, not once, but twice and my ice water still didn't come. Finally, after asking the assistant manager then my water came. And hello, my ice water not free okay, they charge $1 for iced water. 

Then my torture didn't end there. See what I found in my bowl of udon.

 

Seriously wtf, I thought I ordered udon and not plastic. 

One with Cheryl

CNY Day 3 OOTD

I super love jumper style but my father always say only 8 years old wear this. Now don't wear cute cute next time older even more no chance to wear.

Day 4 was spent looking after my nephew and sleeping. OOTD was pyjamas. 

This marked my not very exciting CNY holiday but I appreciate the long holiday!   

Next up, Chingay performance. Full dress rehearsal - Thursday. Chingay Performance - Friday & Saturday. Hope everything goes well!

Time flies

Soon february will be ending and it has been a busy month especially last week. Can't believe it is already Chinese New Year. Where did all the time go?

Thanks to my brother who gave me 8 movie tickets on 8th February which expired on 14th February, last week was a mad rush to watch movies. Lucky me managed to catch 3 movies together with 3 of my lucky friends.

On tuesday, caught unbroken with Muihong at Plaza Singapura. Unbroken was a true story based on World War 2 warriors. They were really super unlucky but very determined people. After staying out so many days in the sea, the people who actually 'saved' them were their enemies. The Japanese leader really give me the creeps, like wtf is wrong with him. he sounds like he has low self-esteem which is why he is bullying all the prisoners.

On wednesday, went to kbox with Karen and Linjie. I went to voice but left with no voice. :/

On thursday, watched I'm fine,thank you...love you with Qiyin at Plaza Singapura. Think it is a the first time I'm watching at Thai movie at the cinema, Thai movies usually reminds of horror movies. I think this was the movie I enjoyed the most because it was very funny. It's much better than the trailer because initially I thought the trailer was just meh, but the movie was good. Plus the actors (both the lead and the second lead) and the actress are all very good looking. 

On friday, watch American Sniper with Eunice at Plaza Singapura. American sniper is good but a little too slow for me. I kept thinking that the movie was very long such that I even went online to check how long was the movie going to be. Not to say the movie is not nice though. I think it's just that the scenes were too repetitive for me. The ending really shock me because I didn't know about this person and I didn't know the story so I was so shocked that he was actually killed by someone, someone he was trying to help. So shock and so angry. The author they found to act as American Sniper really looked like him.

On Saturday I had Chingay practice and the food was spoilt again. It was the same the previous week. In addition, the music they played was wrong. When will they give the perfect chingay?!

One week has 7 days and I went to Orchard more than half of the days. First time so happening yo. 

During CNY eve when I was helping in one of the classroom.

Girl: Teacher, I like you.
Me: Why?
Girl: Because you are very helpful. 

Vibe Hotel Sydney

We were deciding between a few hotels and decided on this hotel because of the price as we just paid  I think $5 more per person per night and we got a 4 star hotel with swimming pool. Lol, not as if I used the swimming pool. 

Lobby Area

Lobby Area

There room is smaller than I expected from the pictures on the website but more than enough space to lie out our luggages and what not.

Toilet

Toilet

Toilet

There room even comes with ironing board and iron.

All in all, I think Vibe Hotel Sydney is a good, clean and spacious hotel. The hotel is quite accessible by leg to many areas too and there is the museum station located about 8-10mins walking distance away from the hotel.  They have a small swimming pool, gym and sauna. Wanted to go explore the sauna on one of the day nights but it was down so ended went to the gym for 10 minutes. Haha, the gym is small but have lots of different equipments, they even have a yoga mat. I wouldn't mind staying there again if I were to go back to Sydney again, as long as it's not too expensive :X.

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Random

Just came back from seeing the doctor and eating my porridge now.

Going to see the doctor is so expensive, $46.80. I miss neighbourhood 'brandless' clinics which are so much cheaper.

I started having cough and runny nose on monday but I started having fever last evening. Not sure if it's the caramel popcorn on Saturday because previously when I ate I also had cough and sore throat after that. 

Haha, or maybe I'm allergic to working, this is the second time I'm sick this year while previously when I was still studying I was maybe sick 4/5 times throughout my whole uni life. Or maybe, I am just old? Missing the good old days in uni where seeing the doctor is free.

After taking my bp and height/weight
Doctor: I'm very pleased with your bp and height and weight.

Lol first time I hear doctor saying that.

Doctor: Do you want me to give you 2 days mc to rest.
Me: Actually I think I will go back to work tomorrow.

Lol, I think I can win the best employee award.

I already feel much better now. The best medicine is really just a lot of rest.

Funnies 9

Me: Hi-5
Student gives hi-5
Student: Ouchee

xxx: We roll her into a ball and then we kick her.
Me to Eunice: She say they want to roll me into a ball and kick me.
Eunice: Ask her to tell me when they do that, I also want to roll you into a ball.
Me: -_-"

Student: *Keeps looking at one direction* Baby
Me: Where's the baby. There is no baby here.
Student: Baby
Me: No baby here *getting a bit freaked out*
 ~Second day~
Student: Baby
Me & mentor: There is no baby here.
Me: Omg, second day he is saying there is a baby here.
After I went to another student walked back to them...
Mentor: There is really a baby. At the drinks stall. 
 ~Kids are really super observant. ~

Sydney Day 6 - Blue Mountain with Oz Trails

Our last full day in Sydney. :(

Booked our Blue Mountain tour with Oz Trails at $79. It looks like they updated their website and the information looks so much neater and more informative now.

Meeting time was at 8am at our hotel and when we were there the tour guide was already at the lobby. Very punctual! Haha, from the start I knew that he was a joker. When we were leaving the hotel the hotel door kind of close on us and he acted shocked all the way till we boarded the bus.

Haha so our tour guide was Jason. The Jason family. He's really very humourous, hence he was very entertaining during the whole tour.

Stop by Nepean River for them to collect the tour fees but we also get juices and cookies. Their raisins cookies are super delicious. 

Then we were off to Blue Mountains. First stop was at one of the look out.

Something you will never get to see in Singapore. Jason will help with you with photo taking there.
Fall off the cliff and goodbye world.

Next up went for a long hike (exaggeration) to see the waterfall.

Waterfall

I think there's people walking at the waterfall but we didn't get the chance to.

Our Tour Guide!

 He was explaining to us about the plants there such as the medicinal value of the parts of the plants. Even when we were walking to get down to the waterfall, he would talk about the trees/leaves we see along the way.

On the way up

It was a long way up. Haha when we were walking down, my brain was thinking "omg, the further we walk down, the more we have to walk up later."

After the walk, I wanted to take picture of the signs but I was too lazy to walk there and I took the photo by zooming from far.

Then it's time for lunch.We went to the cafe introduced by our tour guide and he mentioned that there is a discount of you quote oztrails or his name.

I forgot what is this

Their presentation of food is very unique and big portion too. Tastewise, not the nicest but still not bad.

We paid $35 for the rides at Scenic World. There are 3 different types of rides and the ticket allows unlimited rides.

My favourite ride!

Hold on tight!

I'm really damn stupid. After climibing up, I couldn't get down. I pulled my leg muscle while coming down.

 We were suppose to look out for these birds but ended up didn't see any so picture will do.

We only managed to take each ride once before it was time to go. So actually it was quite rush. If I were alone I would have taken the ride up down up down 100 times lol. 

Drove past Sydney Olympics Stadium for a toilet break before driving off to the harbour to take the cruise back to central area.

So what do I think about the OzTrails: Initially we were reconsidering if we wanted to go with this one day tour because of the bad reviews on tripadvisor. However, we realized that every agency has their fair share of bad reviews and the price for this is really the cheapest. The tour is kind of rush to me because their isn't really much time to explore on your own and we only got to take the rides once each, but I guess all tours are like that since there is really so much to cover in such a short time. Personally, I still think it is quite worth it but it is also because we got a very good tour guide who is very entertaining and knowledgeble (ASK TO JOIN THE JASON FAMILY!). 

Happy faces

Sad Faces

Sunset

Nice views while cruising. However, the cruise is really long, I can't remember exactly how long is the ride but I'm guessing along the line of 1-2hours.

When we returned, saw my favourite spring roll. I had to get one for snack even though we were eating dinner soon since it's my last night sydney already. Really love the spring roll.

After that it was time for dinner at Pancakes on the Rocks at their first stall at The Rocks. This outlet was a lot more crowded than the one at darling harbour. Luckily, we didn't have to wait to get a seat.  

Guess what happened after we ordered our food. My nose started bleeding, not sure if it's the lag from the plane ride or just heaty.

My Crepe

Muihong's Crepe

Honestly, I forgot what I ordered already. It was unique though, because I'm used to the dessert sweet kind of crepe and not this type of savoury crepe.

After dinner went to Guylian Cafe for Muihong voted best hot chocolate ever.

Happy Face

Sad Face

Angry Face

We chartered the whole train for ourselves since it the last night!Haha, kidding, their train is really super empty. Singapore, why your train so pack everyday.

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