This post is too long and I have no title

1) My very handsum boyfriend/lover/future husband (ok I typed it out here so if this doesn't happen it will come back and haunt me forever) in one of his many floral shirts. Now I think he just needs a nice watch to complete the look.

2) How my usual breakfast looks like 

3) First time in Forty Hands (no, I didn't just hear it for the first time; I just couldn't be bothered to go look-see) and unfortunately, I don't like that place one bit neither do I like the supposedly awesome coffee. Too strong for me. Not sure if I was drinking water, spitting out or gurgling in the picture LOL brunch may be getting too pretentious for me now that I have found my perfect breakfast, see number 2 above.

I've just recovered from a random bout of high fever after my mom peeled me off my sweaty bed (gross ikr) and dragged my dying body to the Chinese doctor. Apparently my body is of the "cooling" type and I may have eaten too much raw vegetables (aka salads) over the past few months which is considered a "cooling" food so it isn't really good for me. ._______. All the supposedly healthy salad lunches for the past 10 months... are making me sick?!?!?! Ok anyway so I googled it (thank God for google) and it's not recommended to consume spinach, the main raw vege in my salad, raw too often because it's high in oxalic acid, which has been linked to the formation of kidney stones! But obviously you've got to eat like a ton of raw vege to get thaaaat sick like this woman who ate too much raw bok choy aka xiao bai cai aka my favourite Asian-y vegetable in the world (on par with kang kong yums) but who in the right mind will eat them raw when it's so much better steamed or lightly stir-fry?! So now, I've got to relook at my diet again. I think Jotham greatly approves and wants to hug the doctor and probably suggesting in his mind (because he knows I'll punch him hehe) that I just eat meat/protein or something. Btw I didn't fall sick because I ate too much salad (that is just sad) but the doctor just happened to ask about my diet and the first thing my mom said was "salad" and resulted in the whole raw vege conversation.

Actually I came here wanting to write about my October just for memories' sake. Overspent my credit cards (shall never give my daughter one, ever), got my knees bruised in Krav Maga, ate hell lot of sliced fish bee hoon, met my LLL peeps, tried to matchmake ML, failed to catch the church bus so destined to cab to Potong Pasir forever, went USS twice, first time for Halloween Horror Nights 2 with my bro who basically walked through all the haunted houses with his fingers stuffed in his ears and me pathetically hanging off his arm, second time with J's family where only both of us took the Human and Cyclone rides, met Siyun for Perks of Being a Wallflower and long talk, sort of screamed at an incompetent security guard through a taxi's driver's mobile phone (long story). OK goodnight.

It's not everyday we get to picnic

It used to be only wq but now, we are all in our twenties (omg) and meetups are getting pretty infrequent. Unlike three years ago, when we would just pile into wq's car late at night and zip off to for yummy pratas at Mr Prata or hang out at Henderson waves and take crazy multiple pictures. That's also what made our little picnic get-together last Mon public holiday so special. Nobody knew but I swear there was a particular moment when everyone was laughing at something during our silly shark-eating game (see picture above) and I had an out-of-body experience where I just saw everyone having fun, enjoying each other's company from a third person's view and wanted to sob with joy. I sound totally insane but for a brief moment, I knew that our group, our friendship - no matter how much we quarrelled, how frustrated we get with each other, how many times we exit our whatsapp group in anger and get invited back the next minute like nothing happened (lol haha) - we will be sticking together for the long run. Thank you God for friends like these, so blessed is me! 

No time for anything but a list

• Work is ok though waking up everyday at 7.30am still needs some getting used to
• Budgeting my salary is a nightmare ): why am i so bad at this
• Evan's 21st at Chevrons on Friday was a blast
• Renee's surprise 21st at Chevrons the same night after 12am caught her offguard and proceeded to chalet at Pasir Ris
• Turning into heartland kids with Jotham as we go to Nex Cold Storage almost every Sun after church
• Morphing into a sloth
• Lost a Bobbi Brown lipstick, mourning over the lost, bought a new Dior lipstick
• Period is a joke and leaving me extremely emotional, resulting in crazy texts to J . Sorry babe.
• Met Xin Yee yesterday who helped me regain some sanity as we ate like bottomless pits
• Wore Dior lipstick this morning, feeling like a boss. Sorry, so superficial
• I think tomorrow is nights out for Jotham so looking forward to tomorrow!
• That's all, my list is lame.

Balloons make everything prettier

The title for this post is absolutely true! So last Sunday, we organised a surprise brunch/tea party for our first birthday girl of the year. It was truly a hassle trying to confirm guest list and a location that wouldn't make us penniless and haaaay, we ended up at Picotin. A plus point: I knew Mich Lo always wanted to go there since we went to the gym that was right beside it. We had a whole corner and we shamelessly made ourselves at home with the decorations and balloons lol.

Menu of the day: pizza. I told ya it was a tradition.
Renee and Evan were both shaking their heads furiously when I said I was going to bring a pizza to their birthdays hahaha!

Tiffany & Co necklace that I picked out for her and we all shared (cause we're peasants). I always seem to buy necklaces for her anyway. There was, of course, a round of photo spams. I love people who just go trigger-happy and keep clicking the shutter so I have like 10 candid pictures to choose from instead of the "1, 2, 3, Smiiiile" and we have like 1 ugly forced smile picture (see above group shot). You geddit? It's a digital camera, for goodness sake, not a film camera.

Hi ML, you're always worth my time and effort!! <3

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Sleepovers (with not much sleep involved) are always fun. + I love this polariod. Would be even better if it's the original vintage square one! But thank you Cal <3

That's not why I came to blog today. I received good news today and I am beyond ecstatic! After holding on and waiting and waiting for what seems like ages, I've finally gotten a job offer. And it's far better than what I've expected ($1.3k before cpf? Seriously?) or what I (resentfully) had almost settled for. God sure knows how to do things and has a sense of humour. So hello 2012, bring it on!

Oh right, my Blackberry died a few days ago on Christmas Eve on my way to church service. So I'm now surviving on a barely responding BB and a work phone for well, work and emergencies. Tomorrow is Friday which is also book out day!