Baby Angeline

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My baby cousin Angel just turned 2 on Friday, she's the cutest baby ever and I love playing with her. It's great that she's so comfortable with the rest of the cousins, completely not shy at all.

Been feeling rather nostalgic this past week. Thought about how close our families were; going to a relative's house every Saturday to play, celebrating each of our birthdays. Took a trip down memory lane by flipping through my baby photo album. Couldn't help but scan a few and post them on Facebook. Everyone was just too cute and carefree!

A complete family, bonded relationships with cousins/relatives. I am one fortunate girl :')

Exploring Sengkang/Punggol

I love going to places where I seldom go to

The day started with a long swim at Anchorvale with Char, then late lunch at Greenwich

I love the waterway park at Punggol

It's so clean, big and pretty! A great picnic place.

We only managed to cover less than half of this huge park.

I look so silly

Singapore is actually not that terrible after all!

With the right company and place, it's totally fun

Isn't my baby cousin the cutest thing ever?

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Angel's so adorable! She's gonna grow up to be an outgoing and pretty girl surrounded by cousins who shower her with love <3

Thrift Shopping

"A levels is ruining our friendship, Charis", Rachel told me last year.

JC life really sucks the life out of everyone.

So anyway, now that her A levels are out of the way, we are able to hang out more just like good ol' times.

Decided to go thrift shopping around Singapore on Tuesday afternoon.

Chose great company, but chose a damn bad day to head out.

The sun was scorching, I really felt like I was going to be baked.

So thankful for my shades

First stop: NEW2U THRIFT SHOP, SCWO CENTRE.

96 WATERLOO STREET, TEL: 68370611

Opening hours: 10.30am-2.30pm (Mon to Wed)

The store's really small, but packed with clothes.

Only managed to find one item; a black denim-washed men shirt, $8

Fortunately, it was a Tuesday and students get half price of all items.

So I only paid $4

Thanks to google maps and our sense of direction, we headed to our 2nd store:

MINDS SHOP, 800 MARGARET DRIVE. TEL: 81802095.

Opening hours: 10.30am-2.30pm (Monday to Friday)

This store's a little bigger, but way less clothes. More home deco items.

Anyway, managed to find 2 items for a total of $11.

I bought a long sleeve floral crop top and a striped dress (which I plan to alter into a top).

Rach bought 2 dresses :)

The heat was killing me by then already. Oh global warming, why must you do this to me.

Kudos to us for not giving in to temptation and heading to an air-conditioned mall to eat something cold like ice cream/froyo.

We persevered.

3rd store: THE SALVATION ARMY, 500 UPPER BUKIT TIMAH ROAD.

TEL: 63495312

Opening hours: 10am-6pm (Mon to Thurs); 10am-9pm (Fri and Sat)

The store is HUGE, for a thrift store.

But I couldn't find anything I fancied. Bummer. They sell everything, from laptops and cameras to housewares and greeting cards.

I found a chair to sit and enjoy the air-conditioned. Kinda dreaded leaving the store and out into the sun. It was one of the hottest days in my life!!

It was a pretty long journey back home. Treated ourselves to some froyo at NEX :)

Despite the horrid weather, I was really happy cos I got to visit new places in Singapore.

It made me less bored of this country. There's actually a lot of places/non people-infested places, they're just slightly out of the way and inconvenient.

But once the Downtown line is completely, exploring Singapore is gonna be a hell lot easier.

And of course, that and when I get my driver's license, which I'm realising that it's completely 100% necessary in life.

Here's to my 1st auto driving lesson in Feb 2012.. A license is only a few months away. I cannot wait.

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Zoe Saldana

Who is she? She's a 23 year old American actress

I'm sure you've come across pictures of her in magazines. I know I have.

Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 film Center Stage.

She also had appearances in Pirates of the Carribean and Star Trek

And also the starring role as Neytiri in Avatar, but who would be able to tell under all that blue skin.

Photo below grabbed from an Urban issue.

She may be a talented actress, have a great body and good fashion sense.

But as you can see from all the photos in this post (as well as more pictures of her on the internet),

Zoe Saldana needs to LEARN HOW TO SMILE PROPERLY.

A day as a waitress.. again

The 4 of us; Amanda, Jane, Charlotte and I worked an Art Stage launch party on Thursday evening

After working at the Deutsche Bank event at Ku De Ta last year, I swore to myself I wouldn't work in the Fnb line again. EVER.

But considering this job required carrying food instead of heavy drinks, and the pay was $10/hr, I couldn't say no.

Moreover, I still owe my mom $ from my NYC trip :S (spending $5.2K in those 3 weeks in Aug 2011 is really not funny)

The event was held at Malan Road, Queensway area, at an abandoned house.

Creepy much? Not to mention dirty, haunted, and completely not air-conditioned.

But I must admit, it was done up pretty well, and the fans were strong enough.

Although, the fans were pretty useless once people started streaming in and the place got packed.

Refrained from using the toilets

There was a total of 10 staff to serve the food.

Around 7-ish, the event officially started. I almost forgot what a standing job felt like, how tiring it was, and while carrying those food! Gosh, this was just a reminder of how little I work out.. or how I don't work out at all. The place was completely packed and I found it almost impossible to weave my way through, offering those artsy people some refreshments. Was working hard getting rid of the food on my tray to lighten my load. Some were pleasant and politely declined food offered, but most of them were cold and didn't smile back.

And I smiled at them, a lot. I'm sure a bulk of those people invited were pretentious snobs. *scoffs*

Oh well, that's the treatment waitresses get, I guess.

Making a mental note to be more friendly to service staff from now on.

My arms felt like they were gonna fall off and they started trembling. I have no explanation for that but Amanda had that too. Could be a sign of overworking lol.

Took at break at the back kitchen where we snacked on the food, trying every dish available. Then we started taking wine and alcoholic drinks from the bar :)

Thank God people stopped coming and slowly everyone started leaving so there wasn't much work to be done. Packing up was surprisingly smooth and took only a few minutes.

There was SO MUCH food left and they were all thrown away into garbage bags. I swear I saw like more than a hundred chicken wings being poured into the garbage. I could feed a whole school in Africa with that amount of food! Oh man, the feeling sucks but there's nothing I could do. I couldn't possibly fly those food to Africa anyway.

If only there was a way..

On another note, I'm $70 richer after that night!

Losing weight 101

We girls are forever trying to lose weight. It's in our nature. We can't help it. We try, but most of us fail.

So anyway, Jud bbm-ed me the other day telling me to google about this 'GM Motors Diet'

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It looks pretty good right? As in, not so torturous.

I'm sure we've heard of many diets like the '5 factor diet', 'eat fruits and veg only for a week' etc etc.

GM Motors diet is only for 7 days and it looks pretty doable! Supposedly you can lose 10-17 pounds which I felt would be a miracle if it could happen to me.

Gen decided to try it too

Day 1: Eat all fruits except banana.

The day didn't go by so badly. Spent the day at Gen's and Xy helped me paint my nails :):)

The requirement of drinking 10 glasses of water made me so bloated. I love water, but 10 glasses? I didn't even need much water to quench my thirst from eating fruits

Day 2: All vegetables

The LOST marathon continued at Sarah's that day.

My lunch at Thai express: Veg with tofu! It was pretty good actually, thank god I enjoy my veggies

Dinner at Kofu. This cost me $3.20 wtf, I was so mad cos I should only pay like a dollar lolol. Day 2 wasn't that tough to get by

Day 3: Fruits and Vegetables only. Any amount. No bananas.

OMG I wanted to die on day 3. I already felt like I was dying.

I felt weak and wanted to sleep the day away but couldn't cos we were still watching LOST at Sarah's.

Her lunch was Spaghetti which smelt SO GOOD, and she had 2 cups of Haagen Daz for snack. I was beyond envious.

Was whiny and being a grouch that day.

Spent dinner at Jade's. There was a dinner party for 10. Her house is freaking huge, it's like a chalet. If I owned it, I would throw dinner parties every other day :)

Day 4: Bananas and Milk. Can eat up to 8 bananas.

No, I could not eat that many bananas, only 5, which is already the most I've even in a day in my entire life. The taste of plain fresh milk disgusts me so I didn't drink. If you're wondering, I usually get my source of calcium from other food products, and I drink chocolate milk occasionally.

The day was pretty manageable :D, surprisingly

Day 5: Beef and tomatoes.

This was the day gen and I were waiting for!!! BEEF. Meat we were allowed to consume! Heaven. Made an agreement and had lunch together at Pepper Lunch NEX, eating the beef dish only. It tasted SO GOOD.

Oh wait! During the start of day 5, I weighed myself and I lost 2KG!! 2KG is 4 days whaduppp

Okay moving on. Told my fam that I could only eat steak that day so my sister suggested..

It's along Kiliney Road.

We shared the 1.2kg steak which was damn good!

Notice we chose tomatoes and one of the side dishes :)

Day 6: Beef and veggies.

It was an okay day. Pretty much slept the day away.

My 5-hour naps are my most peaceful moments.

Day 7: Brown rice, fruits and veg.

Was excited to eat rice, even if it was brown rice. I'm never taking carbs for granted.

Boy was I so happy that those 7 days are over.

This was one of the longest weeks of my life!

So anyway, how much weight did I lose aft 7 days?

TWO KG.

I should've just stopped after Day 4 right? SIAN.

My metabolism ain't high anyway.

Also, I think I didn't lose that much weight because........................................... I cheated a lil :(

I couldn't help it!

Er I kinda tweaked the diet plan a bit? Let's just say there were some cupcakes and donuts involved. Maybe a cheesecake too. And.. I'll stop here.

We were just trying this diet out to see if it actually works! And if I had enough willpower and discipline to follow it closely, I'm sure I would've shed more than 2kg.

I'll probably put the weight back on but that's kinda fine I guess.

Cos, now I know I can lose 2kg in 4 days, I'll go on this diet before some important event next time. Like.. My wedding/ Dinner and Dance/ Party.. etc.

You do get my point, right?

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