The cutest, sweetest thing ever!

Awwww these 2 otters are holding hands while they sleep so they dont float away from each other…. The surprises nature brings…. :p

Ferguson Mania!!

Craig’s Pleasanton experience… enjoy!  

I believe in good food photography

Picture courtesy of bbc.co.uk/food

Doesn’t this look absolutely yummylicious?? I love food, and I love food photography… My inadequate Sony Ericsson K610i’s 2MB camera has been worked hard to get the best possible shots of food that I’ve ordered for the past few months…

But nothing beats supermacro lense when you wanta make food look delicious. I’ve learnt to love photography because of food. I always appreciate the presentation of every dish I order, and I always wanta preserve my impression of it. What I discovered is that colourful doesn’t mean delicious. LOL.

The flaky vegetable pizza at BakerzIn wasn’t good… The red peppers were undercooked and lacked the aroma you’d expect from roasted (or properly cooked) peppers. But it did have a nice glossy red-lipstick colour that made it look delicious. Therefore, the ancient saying is true… Appearance can be deceiving!

I think food is beautiful, it doesn’t mind close-ups because its colours and layer of gloss make you hungry when you have a closer look, as if it’s right in front of you. I’ve started working on my project on how to market a hotel restaurant, and somehow I just dove right into the menu itinerary… Gawd making up the menu made me hungry while I was doing research. Greek salad never looked so good to me. 

Here are all the food pictures that mentioned so far..

Here’s the flaky veg pizza from BakerzIn

 The coupe cheesecake also from BakerzIn that they’ve phased out. The one thing I love. Sigh.

 The very yummy looking Greek Salad, courtesy of Mediterrasian.com

So that’s all so far, for my food update. I’ve always said my dream job is to be a food critic, the kind that has a TV crew following me around while I sample delicacies of the world (free food, free travel, free lodging, and I get paid for it!!) Oh dream on. Lol.
 

Shopping shopping shopping

Now I know why I like online shopping so much…. Cuz I just went shopping with my lil sister on Orchard today.. She saved up a lump sum of her allowance for shopping in one go… I, aka the shopping companion, ended up buying some stuff for myself too, although I’m already eating into my savings for travelling..

Gasp. It’s just agonizing to just see someone shop like a madwoman without joining in the madness myself, you know.. lol. The downside of shopping the old school way is the physical exhaustion I feel at the end of the day… Especially when lil sis couldn’t decide between a YSL or a MiuMiu or a Prada. Or a Gucci or Tods. The list, is endless. She settled on a YSL.

I think if I had the money to shop like my sis (who saved up so much of her allowance it’s absurd she’s even given so much in the first place) I don’t think I’ll have so much trouble deciding, mainly because I’m a decisive person. Doesn’t take much for me to decide on pretty much anything I wanta buy. Mainly because I hate contemplating for too long. It confuses me, and frustrates the sales girl. And I usually am able to pick out which one I like best out of a lot in, say, 5mins?

Anyways, kudos to Far East Plaza for all the cheap shopping, bought an orange babydoll top with lacy straps for just over SGD30.

Singapore is only good for shopping, really. lol.

Anyway, this cracked me up…. lol. Americans, sigh.

Hellooo gorgeous!

My sister was browsing online stores for bags, but I prefer to look at clothes. I like what I see. Pictures courtesy of Bluefly.com.

 Sweet Pea:

BCBGMaxAzria:

Hayden:

I love!! I’d move to the US just for the online shopping….. Muahaha….

Retrospective Revelations

So my last degree exam paper was yesterday, and what did I do after that? Go out for the entire day and get myself really really tired (no sun, no tanning at the beach like I was hoping for). And then I went out again today. And now I’m dead beat. My exams ended, but I’m not sure if they did in a flourish, just because having an entire month of exams (7 in total) has really worn me out physically and fried my brains out so much, I don’t even feel happy. Maybe it hasn’t really sunken in. Dinner was great today but I didn’t even have the level of consciousness to enjoy it, I was too caught up in satiating my hunger and catching up with friends who I haven’t seen in a looooong time…

And then I’ve got hospitality accounting exam for my diploma this coming saturday, but the only consolation is that I’ve got 2 weeks of break after that. 2 weeks of nothingness except maybe my graduation project which I’m so going to finish up asap since it’s a 5000 word proposal on increasing market segment for a hotel restaurant. Hohoho. The work never ends. :S I hope I can at least take a short vacation, a last minute/ impromptu one, by myself if everyone’s not free to come with me, somewhere.

It has been a crazy 3 years for me. A different relationship in each year’s exam period (trust me it doesn’t help at all cuz they are always falling apart when I need support…but this year it wasn’t like that, so that’s fine.. )… The first one was a tad regrettable, and let me learnt a valuable lesson in relationships, that is, never spoil the man, and NEVER EVER date a Singaporean guy EVER.
The second one was heart-wrenchingly fairytale-like, and because of him I had a chance to experience a life I’ll never know in my own capacity…only it didn’t have a happy ending, and the lesson learnt was to always make it clear I’ll never be a submissive girlfriend; this kind of pre-honesty is important since I tend to date egoistic men. And the present relationship? It’s always a good thing when an egoistic guy admits to being an egoistic guy. Then you know he’s not overly self-indulgent to be giving in the relationship & honest about himself.  

The other crazy thing is the whole changing of school to complete my diploma and degree concurrently (forced by chance and circumstances I was, to take on 2 courses at the same time but I’m glad I did cuz it saved me time), living out on my own, knowing what it means to take responsibility for my own actions, learning more things to hate about Singapore but also how to count my blessings.

I’ll like to take this moment to say to my Singaporean friends…: if I don’t start personally attacking you, you’re cool. Otherwise please bear with me because you know I don’t like your country in general, and I’ve got a boyfriend who thinks likewise, so it kinda gets harder to convince me otherwise. I need to say this cuz I’ve been naively slamming Singapore openly thinking someone will come up and prove me wrong, but there has been none so far, so I might have made many people suffer in silence as they take my verbal onslaught.  

Anyway. I guess I’m pretty much the same person in terms of personality… I’m still as stubbornly self-righteous on my beliefs as before, I am still hard on myself but I’m also still as good as procrastinating when I shouldn’t. I’m still quite paranoid on things that matter, in fact I think I tend to over-react, but I’m not as nice to people who piss me off as before. People who know me will know the first person that comes to mind is Imbecile.  

Also one of the other things I’ve learnt as I moved on from business and law school to a hospitality school is that…Business students are more self-centred (career-wise) than hospitality students..  The passion of wanting to join the hospitality industry can only be innate. So my advice for all who’re thinking of taking random hospitality management qualifications to jump on the bandwagon leading from the integrated resort island in Singapore, think again… 
Does making painstaking efforts to ensure the satisfaction of holiday makers and business men with their stay at your hotel sound like a motivation factor? Can you take verbal lashings from picky and cheapskate guests without losing your cool and turn things around to make them like your property to get their repeat business? Do you have the common sense and social (net-working) skills to create a miracle when Murphy’s law is working at its full glory?? To have a better idea, go read Hotel Babylon, I used to have a copy but because I lend my books to people so much I’ve lost track of where it is now.

So right now, I just can’t wait to finish my diploma and hopefully get my degree certificate soon so that I can realise my life-long dream of working and holidaying around the world. I hope Murphy will keep his distance from me as far as possible. Haha.

Yup that’s me. :D

Idealists, as a temperament, are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best possible self — always this quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. And they want to help others make the journey. Idealists are naturally drawn to working with people, and whether in education or counseling, in social services or personnel work, in journalism or the ministry, they are gifted at helping others find their way in life, often inspiring them to grow as individuals and to fulfill their potentials.

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