I have to admit that I am kind of having mood swings or just emotionally unstable these few days. Well, maybe not? But I am missing the feeling of falling in love =)

Remember the time when you lay your eyes on someone special and just can't take your eyes off him/her? At any moment that you can afford, you will just take the chance to steal glances at him/her?

And then you realise you want to know more about him/her so you start digging info from your friends or find out his/her schedule and personal details? You will be overjoy to even know that a friend of yours is a good friend of his/her so there is some kind of "connection", so that maybe it can help to pull you closer to the special one?

When you know that you both are somehow related in some ways, you will try as much as possible to make "coincidences" happen e.g. bump into him/her along the corridor or join the same activities in school or hang out at the same club/ resturants.

Maybe you all have talked, maybe not, but miraculously both of you exchanged contacts like maybe email? So you can't wait to check him/her out on facebook and hopes that he/she keeps a blog then you pray that the email works for msn as well.

After some exchanges on such online social networking tools, both of your mobile phones are stored with each other's number but nothing happens. The best part that comes along would be to see that special someone's name appear on your phone! Either an sms or a phone call can make you go crazy!

And then you all start to meet up, and go on dates. During all this while, you feel shy and inhibited. You only present your best front and put on your best whatever you can! You can just smile to yourself without any specific reason all the time, just because you are having that someone in mind.

Everything is perfect as you start to explore someone you are so attracted to! Such sweet moments only happen once and for a short time and I am sure everyone enjoys it so much. You feel that you can spend your whole life with him/her.

All these thoughts came along while I watched the trailer of "New York, I Love U". Guess it will be stronger when I watch the whole movie!

I hope to fall in love all over again...

Yeah!!! I finally got my well-deserved bonus today after close to 1 year of hard work =) As I am not entitled to AWS, this little bonus means a lot to me. Although amount is not substantial, it's just enough to replace what's missing in my salary package. Did I mention that I got a little increment too? Wish me luck for more to come. Huat ah!!!

It's a season to be jolly lalalalala la la la LA~~~ Yeah it's time of the year again where people take a whole long break period to go on holidays or simply just celebrate. As for me, I kept it simple to just a short trip to KL during X'mas and steamboat countdown at Elaine's house.

Baby and I decided to visit KL since I haven't been there before, yeah I know very sua gu but I just didn't get the chance. I managed to purchase the last few return bus tickets at the Lavender bus terminal (haha just opposite my office) for $57 per pax. At 1st we were worried that last-row seats are not comfy but it wasn't too bad. We set off from Singapore at 8.30am, arrived at KL about 2.30pm and were both so hungry that we immediately went on our food hunt right after we checked into Equatorial Hotel!!! I must say that our efforts to hunt for this Hakha Yong Tau Hoo wasn't wasted - The Food is SO GREAT! I like the unique Chee Cheong Fun taste, it's like dry skinny hor fun made salty with crispy bee hiam. We also love the fried dumpling!



We decided to watch a movie to kill some time and decided on "Sherlock Holmes", great movie I must say. Our itinerary for the rest of the trip was all just about shopping and eating... I am so surprised to see Krispy Kreme there and can't help but had to let darling try what I had experienced in the states. We had planned to visit the Petronas Twin Tower very early in the morning on Day 2. Unfortunately, as holidays should be, we only managed to wake up at 7.30 am and reached the lobby at 8.30am. By that time, the crowd was crazy beyond imagination (check out the photo on bottom left). Hence we could only continue our hunt for good food haha and we tried Sister Drunken Chicken Mee. The wine taste is very overpowering and it's really subjective - I liked it but Simon didn't.



Shopping at Times Square was good for girls out on the prowl for blogshop dresses. I got 2 dresses and a top for myself at a steal! Cost of 1 dress: RM25, top: RM10. Of course there are more expensive ones but as you should know, Ms Jasmine only loves the best bargains! Haha =P We also visited ChinaTown which wasn't to our liking at all. It feels like HK's Ladies St so we simply sat down at a resturant for dinner to pass time. The service sucks although the food was not too bad. Can you imagine having to call out more than 5 times for someone to clear your table and another 5 times to get someone's attention to take your orders? Wells, maybe my expectations are too high!

WanPing happen to be on family trip to KL and Sunway Lagoon hence we met up for a drink at the bar of Trader's Hotel. I simply love the stunning view from the bar at level 36! Look at the photos and you will know what I mean. WP's family came with us too, only reason being that PIG didn't bring any identity out with her and her family is worried that she might be checked by matas(police)! From what I heard, it is an offence not to produce any form of identity upon request by officials and they can lock you up to 48/72 hours immediately and there is no way for you to contact anyone during this time. I also heard (no prize for guessing who I heard it from) that there was a famous case in Malaysia whereby a girl was locked up for 18months as she didn't have her ID and didn't have the chance to contact anyone, oh my!



We had a whole lot of time on the last day as our return bus to Singapore was at 10.30pm, no choice. Simon wanted to go to Batu Caves very badly but unfortunately, we never made it there. We asked for directions from 6 different people and got 6 different responses! In the end we decided to just sit down and have a slice of Secret Recipe cake each. We also went to the sky tower but didn't go up as the resturant was fully booked. We then proceeded to KLCC for some shopping and I bought a bra from La Senza =P 15% off for UOB cards!



Oh did I mention that there was free shuttle service from the ground to the base of the tower? You can choose to walk but it's quite a distance plus it's elevated! We planned to have dinner at Nandos as baby kept saying that he must eat it! The food is really good but it brought upon us a nightmare later on as their service is really slow and their cashiering machine was down. Anyway, Nandos is coming to Singapore so it won't be too long before I can enjoy it again!



We nearly couldn't make it back to SG if not for bolt's smart idea and my strong stamina! By the time we finished our meal and rushed them to settle the bill, it was already 10.20pm. We hurried to take the tram and changed tram and finally reached the puduraya bus terminal and we ran and ran like no one's biz! We finally found the booth and asked for the boarding stairs no. but was told that chances are slim as the bus probably left. We bolted right down the no.13 stairs to the lot where buses are parked to pick up passengers only to be told by drivers there that the KL-SG bus left and this bus is not for us. Simon and I was very sian and he suddenly just said "the bus is in front, it just left!" So we chased after that moving bus and stopped it, only to realise KL-IPOH. Oh MY... imagine my disappointment. Then suddenly Simon said the most brilliant sentence of his life "go to the main road!". The beauty about this terminal is that it has only one blardy entrance and one stupid exit which explains the congestion but the design has finally prove its usefulness for our case. We ran and banged through the crowd and finally got to the main road where buses exit and Simon stopped one of the bus which was about to filter out to the highway road. I was actively catching up with his speed and you cannot imagine my joy to see KL-SG!!!! Oh my, my heart finally came to a relieve when I went up the stairs and saw that row 3 was empty - that was our assigned seats.

What a way to end our trip =)




Tadang!!! Sumptous Steamboat for the New Year! Took a half day off work (my company doesn't practice half-days =( sad!) to join Bimbos in getting food. We had bimbotic times preparing the food and getting ready.



I remembered we took a smiliar photo years ago... here



We still had our norm to do x'mas present exchange! We also had fun with card games and the oh-so-funny Monopoly! Elaine is as her job title suggest, the best with keeping cash! Seek and me were struggling to keep afloat and Stacy is the funniest! She kept offering collaborations to help the poor but doesn't benefit herself too much. Shows how suitable she can be in doing business. In the end she got so fed up that she said we should just end the game, and we DID! haha =D



We also identified our characteristics at work with the Bad Boss card game seek brought.
Elaine: MC King, Uptight Bitch
Me: PIG aka SOB (i.e. office bulldozer who'll do anything to get things done), Gossiper
Seek: Pantry Thief
Linda: Micro Manager
Stacy: Mental Case, Nervous Wreck

The game is suppose to end with a player losing when he/she is left with the BAD BOSS card. However for Bimbos to play, the player who gets the BAD BOSS card gets to sleep on the bed! Haha so bimbotic!



We started our day with a brunch fondue! A happy start to a new year!!!