Singapore Arts Festival

I stumbled across GamarJobat banner while taking a good stroll along the Esplanade one fine day with A and I said, hey, they are in Singapore. We certainly must go watch them.

So we invited friends along and booked the tickets. Clinging onto them like a child going for a carnival. 

The lovely evening started with chilling out at Max Brenner, chocolate by bald guy. That's the tag line.

The chocolate so rich that I don't feel short changed.

Dinner was a feast that I almost suspected, I am stuffed so that I can be slaughtered later.



We ended up playing five ten to gulped the remains of fried rice down, like force feeding a duck.

If it wasn't bad enough, we got a bucket of free beers are the Harry's. I swore, a slight trigger on my tonsils will probably undo my dinner.

I practically walked into the stage, protruding belly, swinging my arms like caveman.


And I walked out, red face from laughing too hard.The whole one hour.

The skit was really spontaneous and the duo are very good with the crowds. I had a splendid time.

*grinning from ear to ear.

Casualty from paintball last weekend.

I scream you scream we all scream icecream!

I got an ice cream treat today!

I can't really remember what was the treat about but what heck, I indulged it regardless.

 *chocolate smeared all over the lips.

Clockwise from top right, tiramisu, something with chocolate chunks, lychee martini and earl grey

Over the weekend, I went to watch Russell Peter Notorious tour in Singapore. I had a good laugh through out and it was a lovely evening.

Many people were dressed up while I was clad in shorts and birks. I happily sipping beer, enjoying the view and watching dressed up people queuing watching people who didn't dress up to finish up their meal.

Truly, how to lose weight?

Pain + ball

I have been soooooo looking forward for today. I casually mentioned to Kevin sometime back, that how we should, one fine day play paintball. He reciprocated and I started surfing and planned for a game of paintball. Ever since then, we have been talking about it everyday and how much great desire we have just to shoot one another.
*Narrowed eyes and an evil smile curved at the end of my lips.


I asked Ai Lee and Ivan along to join in the fun. Ivan is a trained sniper will definitely be at great advantage to me.


Ai Lee went out to get the jumpers to cover ourselves up so that the paint will not get on our clothes and of all colours available on the hue chart, guess what colour she got me.


She had to get me bright red. The same colour as the bull eyes target.

Sigh.

I became the joke of the day. It's gonna be a great game - for the other side of the team.




I don't really recall much of the game as it happened too fast too furious and I was gasping for air most of the time.


We started with 50 bullets for our first round and subsequently 100 bullets each for 2 rounds.

The first round, I was on the team whereby we had 2 girls and 2 guys, out of which 3 are newbies.

I remembered shooting at everything else except moving targets and I was cowering like a chicken behind a hide-out.



So I told myself, it's just paint. How bad could it be?


Apparently, it can be bad. A sharp pain and sensationally stingy. Not mentioning that it swells up. Blue black and all.



The second round, I was more gungho and bold. This time, we had 4 people on our team and I was the only girl.

We didn't need a plan. Just cheong, they said.

So cheong is exactly what I did.

I shot down the cone and ran for the flag with all my life while dodging bullets. I remembered running for covers and I saw some bullets flew past me and the sound of it hitting the metal barrel ain't funny. It sounded like angry raindrops.


I was shot at my ribs and I had to drop the flag.

I ran back to base to revive myself and came back for the flag. I was gasping for air and nothing else mattered but the flag. I remembered screaming while running because it made me more courageous.

Our team won for the second round and I was beaming with pride. All fist in the air and stuff like that. The shot at my ribs was totally worth it.


For the third round, I couldn't understand why I was the delegated captain. Like school children playing games during recess, we took turns to pick people to be on our team. It was my team against team Kevin.

I had 5 people in my team. An additional 100 bullets on my side. Not too bad.


The objective was similar with the second round but this time, the captain had to personally plant the flag at no man's land, the land in between two teams.


So I mustered more courage this time and told myself again and again, no matter what, must plant flag.


We have delegated runners for bringing the flag and dynamite back after Ivan shot the cone, while I should just concentrate on planting the flag.

Someone was gunning at me and that made my task challenging.

I saw Kevin ducking with a back up, but our team shot them before they had chance to even stand up. The sight of them cowering in fear was simply amusing.


So I ran and hid behind the barrels. I was directly behind enemy's line. In between gaps, I could see Kevin's back on the other side of the barrels. In split second, I was so tempted to carefully take a free shot at him. He wouldn't know where it came from. I was chuckling to myself quietly.

Before I knew it, he stood up and was ahead of me to place the flag. DARN it!!!

It's so easy to spot me.

We are so gonna do this again.





Oh by the way, I got the award for the Ultimate Fighter. Didn't know I was that brave.

"Life is something that everyone should try at least once" - Henry J.Tillman

Track Check

Time really flies. It's already the next quarter into the new year and time to do some reflecting and track check.


This year, I have vowed to lose 5kg and to cut down on my meat intake.

It has been a yo yo year. I managed to drop 2 kg and it went back up again. Presently, I am down at 1.2kg. Another 3.8kg to go.

I really wonder why is it so tough just to lose weight.

The comforting part is that my medical report came out alright and I am at the ideal weight.

I haven't been consuming meat all along so it isn't tough to stick to this diet. Once a while I indulge and most of the time, I end up regretting it. So far, I have not succumbed to chicken rice.


I have also pledged to myself that I will not allow materials to buy me happiness. Need to constantly remind myself this. It's so easy to succumb to temptations but I believe so far, so good. I am very please with the quality time spent with my family members and friends.


Lastly, I am constantly reminding myself to be a better person without temper and to cast negativity out of my mind. I think it's filled to the brim at the moment and I have been really negative about everything. Nothing good comes out of the things I said. This is not good.


I really need to be firm with myself and to cultivate healthier habits into a routine. 

Last few weeks has been an emotional roller coaster ride for me and I was thrown off tracks. I am glad that I land with my both feet on the ground and I am picking myself up again.




For the rest of the year, I want to ensure that I read more books and allocate more time to myself. I want to excel in my career and  be better at what I am doing. Importantly, able to take feedback constructively.




Ultimately, I have learned to love myself more. Each time I feel lousy about myself, I go for a hair cut. Now, it's too short that I look like an amateur clown.


I will be Rapunzel and I shall not cut my hair for 2 years. No more feeling dejected.

We will make do

Today, mom banged on my door and literally nagged me out of my bed for what most Klang people would have for breakfast, bak kut teh.


I did some grocery shopping on my own and went to look for Shan for some quality bonding time.

At 4pm, I got a little hungry and both of us decided to feast ourselves at the stalls.




Little did we know that we each had only RM5 in our purse.


Imagine being in a situation with limited resources and we had to choose with what we can make do.

I got myself a bowl of laksa while Shan was being kind, she got herself poh piah so that we had enough for ice kacang for dessert. I have been craving for some warm soup for weeks.

And then we realised that we had RM3 left.

So I said why not just spend it.

I took the RM3 and told the chee cheong fun fella, what can we do with RM3.

Apparently, we got a fish maw, a beancurd skin, a fish ball which we halved, and 2 pieces of fish cakes.

Quite decent I would say.

The day I turned 31 and It can't get any better

Ok so here goes.

Among my friends, because of the month I was born, I get to be the first to learn to drive and of course, I also spearheaded our age.

This is how a typical conversation would be at the end of each year.

"Happy New Year! So fast one year has past. Can't believe we are turning 31 next year"

We would look at each other nervously, not knowing what's gonna happen when we turn 31 or how to deal with what lies ahead.

And then one smart a** would say, "Don't worry, Mei Chen will be the first, we can worry about it when it's our turn"

One wise person, once shared with me that once you hit 20, your age simply ticks away.

I couldn't agree more. 

Well, since there's nothing I can do about being the pioneer, I might as well enjoy the process. 

So I went and got my hair permed.

So I went and put on my dress. 

So I went out. To party. 

Klang. Again

Yup, I am back in Klang again.

Just wanted a get away from work once in a while.

Now that I have set up my craft table and will be moving things back here bits by bits.

Once I threw my luggage, technically out of the car window and into the house, I was out again.

We didn't know where to go so we ended up at KTV.

Come to think of it, till date I do not know what does KTV stands for.



I am not used to going KTV. In fact, most of the time, I am there because I was dragged to. Either that or because boss says so.


I can't sing for nuts and I don't think I can ever sing even if my life were to put at stake.



The guys were very sweet. They popped in a cake and sang me a song.


But ironically, I don't feel any difference. Have I gone 1 year wiser? I do not know.


I am just happy to be home.