Trial Shot!

Taken last night, when I had decided to sacrifice my sleep & play with my camera.

 People know me by NJ...

and not my full name which they always TEND to mispronounce it.

LOVE

Everyone needs it.

Alright, time for an update!

This week has been so far so good? It's not exceptionally exciting, happening, wonderful, awesome, but the days were spent quite... Wisely, I suppose?

So, let me do my weekly update for you...

Starting from last Sunday (a super fruitful day...), I had to wake up early for the kayaking training, initially, we were told to help in assessing the other older alumni but guess what? Everyone seemed to be okay in the paddling skills, sea entry/exit, and the rescue skills! It turned out to be a short training, to prep for the upcoming sea expedition on next weekend! We will be paddling from West Coast Park to Pulau Hantu, hopefully it's gonna be an awesome one!

Training ended right before the mid-noon appearance of the scorching sun, by then when we were beached up, bathed, we already had our fair share of mild sunburn, if we'd to stay a little longer, we would have transformed into piping hot red lobsters! Anyhow, we had lunch at the Clementi Hawker, with a few alumni, and the 4 current committee members who came down as well, before we eventually headed over to AMK hub for some dessert and movie!

Finally, Cynthia satisfied her craving to get some fruits tarts into her stomach! We had the tarts from Fruits Paradise, the Banana Chocolate, or something along that line... Tasted really niceeeee, I must say I have a pretty good recommendation & poor thing her, had to rely on porridge for a week or so due to her operation on 4 wisdom tooth but she lost 2 kg just by having porridge. Now you know, if you wanna lose weight, the best method is to eat. Eat white porridge. Eat white porridge for all 3 meals. Eat white porridge for all 3 meals for 7 days. If someone intends to try, can you keep me posted if you ever shed some weight?

Then, we purchased our tickets for The Mortal Instrument, City of the Bones. OMG the movie is highly recommended, I DIDN'T KNOW it would turn out to be so action-packed. I prepared myself to sleep thru the movie but guess what? This 130mins movie kept me awake throughout, it's like, you can't miss a scene in it!! By any chance, if you have some free time, please do go catch this movie, okie! It's super awesome, and the male lead has this particular charisma that will attract you, not really hot & handsome but yea... He has THAT wow factor.

The day had not end... We went back to the North, waited for Janice, and cabbed to SBW WV to meet with Edwin. He and his "gathering", all those that gave him some face, turned up for this gathering, were all girls. All 4 of us, Janice, Shini, Cynthia, & I, from staying at different locations, from Malaysia to Woodlands to Aljunied to Punggol!! We settled our dinner at this... Handle bar, it's at the WV itself. The location is kinda deserted since you have to get a cab to get in there, otherwise... The distance to walk in is a tad far and you will be a buffet spread for the mosquitoes.

The Handle Bar has this mechanic workshop themed design. They have this car model used as pool table, but no photography is allowed. Erm, they used the big metal oil barrel as their benches, the mechanic tools holder as the sauces holder, and... I can't recall anymore. The food was mediocre, and a little pricey? It's like, I could get better food with their stated prices. Nothing special on the food, I would have spent lesser and go over Astons for their steak anytime man... Or spend a bit more and visit PS cafe for some splendid food.

As for this week...

My cousin a.k.a the Michelin baby, Nicole Foo Ruo Xuan, came over with her Mom (my mom's cousin, also known as my aunt), and grandmom (my grandaunt, from Muar)! Nicole is basically.. A super obedient and a happy baby. For these 5 days of staying over, I hadn't heard much of her cries, probably just twice or what. She's so chubby, and would smile to almost everyone, including people whom she just met. Everyone just loves playing with her, pinching her cheeks, grabbing her big fat Michelin thighs OMG seriously...

These few days, my iPhone was spammed with her photos...

Nicole's legendary feet to sign off.

Goodnight!

xx

 Graduated!

A classic, must-have pose for a grad shoot!

 Sometimes, I wonder...

Why am I in the picture, I wasn't even the one graduating... LOL

 The mother, daughter, & gorgeous.

HAHAHA kidding, but her mom asked a photo together!

 Soul, the smart one.
She's one of the few who graduated with distinction!


The LEGENDARY 3 Musketeers.
Soul had 1.5 years program, Pig had 2 years, whereas I'm having the 2.5 years.
(My favourite girls of all times!)

 This was what I baked for the 3 girls...

Congratulating them upon their graduation!

(Initially, I wonder to get them flowers but I really didn't have the time since I had to reach school and be seated by 945am for Shini's convocation!! To compensate for the flowers, I baked this cake and omgz, hahaha it's so healthy. No butter is involved, used Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder, less than 0.5 cup of sugar, some water, vegetable oil, milk, and an egg... Which made it not vegan anymore HAHA)

I would like to congrats them, Shini, Cynthia (graduate with distinction), and Veronica upon their graduation! I'm pretty sure all their hard work had paid off well in uni, battling with the arduous brain taxing essays, projects, and revisions needed for the exams. I hope they are now all ready to enter the new phase of their lives, into the working society... A real true, cruel world. May they have good promising future ahead, all the best in their future endeavours!

MANY PEOPLE ARE ASKING ME, a question which I get REALLY too damn often...

"Why are you still schooling? Why didn't you graduate with them???"

The answer is simple.

I am enrolled into different course as them. I am not a student from the Bachelor of Business (Management) cohort. I AM A MARKETING STUDENT, I am pursuing my Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree. OMG I have NEVER EVER been in the same class/course with Shini before, since secondary school. We were just happened to be in the same schools, but the direction of our lives and interests are way different... Just because she's my BFF and we always hang out together, this doesn't conclude that we are in the same class or whatsoever. Whoa, the question posted above has been bugging me/us ever since poly days...

We always hang out together, that's something I can't deny and must admit.

You ask me why, despite of being in different class/course, we could still meet up so often and this is how I am gonna comprehend this question:

There are 7 days a week, 24 hours in a day, which is also equivalent to 1440 minutes, or 86400 seconds. IF YOU make an effort or a choice to meet up with someone, there is definitely PLENTY of time to do so. Be it a short 5 minutes catch-up, a day of hanging out, it's still considered as a meet-up.

Now that Shini has started working, we would still meet up at least once a week, keep in contact via whatsapp, she would crash over at my house over the weekends and whatnot. This is because, both of us are making the effort and time for each other.

As clearly as I've stated... If you've been asking me out and I always give replies that are sort of... Reflecting that I am not interested... It really does mean that I am really not interested in hanging out with you. I just don't like to find topics to talk about when engaging into a conversation, and I DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT with Shini and some other close friends. This include during the moments, even if both of us remain silent, there would be no awkwardness at all.

& so, this boils down to the fact that... HANGING OUT OFTEN DOESN'T MEAN I AM IN THE SAME COURSE/ EDUCATION PATH WITH SHINI, PLEASE PEOPLE PLEASE, stop questioning me why am I still not graduated. YOU THINK I DON'T WANNA GRADUATE TOO?!?!?! IT'S JUST THAT HER COURSE DURATION AND MINE ARE DIFFERENT, HER COURSE HAD MODIFICATION ON ITS DURATION, FROM 3 TO 2 YEARS, WHEREAS MINE, WHEN I GOT ENROLLED, IT WAS ALREADY 2.5 YEARS, AND NOTHING WAS BEING MODIFIED FOR MY COHORT, ONLY THE NEW COHORT HAS CHANGES.

This is all that I have to clarify.

Have a great weekend ahead!!

xx

 The 3 Musketeers!

Me, Shini, Cynthia

 Edwin w/ Afro wig!

While waiting for the race to start...

 & the race had begun!

After the first section of the Pink (or Purple powder!)

(HAHA the girl had the cheek to tell me she photobombed my photo!)

Hey, mirror??

GREAT, TAKE A GROUP SHOT!!!

 After the blue, & yellow section!

It was already the 3rd section, with Brud, & Amanda!

 Super love this photo.

Overflowing awesomeness with brud!!

 Here's our soon-to-be Avatar Koh!
It looks like we were not close to each other at all hahaha!

 Candid Shottt!

I didn't know there was this shot hahaha

 Cynthia, w/ 4 wisdom tooth just removed...

She came for the run despite swollen gum, & the pain induced!

 & then... She was turning into an Indian girl...

Soon.

While waiting the rest to get yellow powder from the previous station...

A partial group shot of us with red powder all over!!

 The volunteer for red powder throwing was super enthu!!

I totally loving her attitude & spirit! She didn't hold back on throwing the powder, and asked us to wait so she could go get the powder and throw at us hahaha. She even asked us to close our eyes, whereas the other colors... They didn't bother to SPLASH the powder on you.

 Frogskin's removed.

HAHAHA only the eyes were left un-powdered.

 Aftermath of the color run!

Most of the colors came off, unless it was in contact with water/sweat...

Gone CRAZY.

The run was a splendid one, because of the super crazy, mad high, enthusiastic adventurers! It was really an amazing run, okay... Probably, an amazing walk with this bunch of people! There were 11 of us who completed this race together, all from the SP Adventurers club, and the 11 of us were from 6 different batches. Imagineeee, the oldest color runner is... 28? or 27 this year, and the youngest is 18! We can all click very well, even tho, this bunch of us do not meet up with one another so often but when we get together, we can just *snaps fingers*, and mix around with one another!

Endless of laughter...

I swear, we were one of the noisiest groups around during the run... HAHAHA, because of Edwin!! He literally shouted for others to chase after the guy who wore a rabbit hairband and the rabbit guy really started running off... Edwin was shouting, "CHASE THE RABBIT!!!" and surprisingly, there were actually runners running after the rabbit hahaha. Then, a few of us went to get the buckets which the volunteers were using... and started to refilling it with the powders on the floor. Guess what? Our runners had became part of the volunteers, sharing the powders, splashing the powders on other runners. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!

I'm still stained with red powder...

Which has faded to neon pink. My fingers are still stained, as well as some parts of my body!! Oh, hahahaha my HTC which is in white color is now with tinge of pink color on it. I must be crazy to bring it for the run, without ziplocking it OMG kinda big of a sacrifice hahaha but it was worthwhile. I was in all red, even after quite a lot of wet wipes used. The off-duty officers from custom were walking out, saw me being so red, popped a question, asking me, "WHY SO RED?" HAHA omg, and I answered him with, "COLOR RUN", then he replied saying, "SO FUN AH" 

My shoes, clothes, everything...

that I had worn for the run, are still in my laundry basket. I haven't got them thrown into the washing machine, because I am afraid that it might stain my family's clothes HAHAHA omg, I should wash my colored apparels separately from my family already... Even my black Nixon watch can see a slight off color from black to a little of pretty dark maroon color on the rim instead!!

NONETHELESSSSS,

despite all the stained apparels, gadgets, and body parts, OMG and although the 1st day of race pack collection was disastrous, but the actual event was a blast! A run worth remembering, especially with this group of crazy peeps... I'm still seriously, living in yesterday's run... HOW CAN A RUN BE SO FUN AND EXCITINGGGGG!!!!!

 Honey, Plain Flour (I used wheat flour instead), milk, eggs, baking powder, sugar, vanilla essence, food colouring, & butter! 

Then, added in the eggs, flour, baking powder, vanilla essence & honey!
It's so light and fluffy!

 Chocolate frosting!

(I AM SO PROUD OF IT COS I MADE IT MYSELF HAHAHA LIKE NOT MUCH HELP FROM THE RECIPE)

 After 25 minutes...

My peace of cake is done!

LOOKING SUPER GOOD.

I smeared the chocolate frosting on the cake, topped with fresh grapes, and drizzled some confectionery sugar to make it look a little bit more enticing.

 The close up!

HAHA super happy with the outcome!

 This is when it is sliced!

I used red, and yellow food dye. I should only mix it a bit within the cake mixture with the spatula but I got too hooked up and started to mix it evenly... So, the cake turned out to be in orange color instead of the multiple colors as mentioned on the recipe HAHA.

 Special Slice!

My mom kept insisting on putting the mango on, LIKE SUPER PERSISTENT so I gave up and told her to put whatever she wants if not she wouldn't stop nagging or repeating........

(& that slice was given to my neighbour next door!)

This week has been quite smooth sailing, and guess what?

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, HAPPY MID WEEK EVERYBODY!!!

SELAMAT HARI RAYA PUASA (for tomorrow)
& HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SINGAPORE!! (for Friday)

ENJOY YOUR LONG WEEKENDS, GUYS!!

WELL DESERVED REST!

xx