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Zach 22nd Birthday @ Bali Culture

Written at Saturday, July 31, 2010 | back to top

30th July 2010 - Friday

well, it was Zach's 22nd Birthday and we decided to hold a mini celebration for him. i met up with Haya, Liting and Linnet at Vivo City first at around 8pm plus, had a last minute hunt for his birthday present.

and finally we settled the present at Nike Shop, we bought him 2 pieces of shirts from there. and it was the latest design one xD

and next, we bought a cake from Breadtalk, and then hop on to Linnet's car and off we go! they were saying that we'll be going to Seletar there, but don't know where's the exact location. Linnet had to drive till Choa Chu Kang and wait for Ben to lead the way. and so we only followed Ben's car all the way to our destination.

reached Bali Culture @ Orientus Resort. it was so hidden inside, located at Seletar East Camp. nice ambience, definitely a great chill out place. and well, it was a drinking session anyway.

Chivas Regal

after not long, Ben had to drive back to Harbourfront to fetch Sangeetha here. she just knocked off from work, and will be joining us in the celebration as well.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

some random photos!!

and then after that, Mark walked towards the staffs working there (i bet it must be regarding the birthday plan and so on). all of a sudden, the people working there just came to our table, playing guitar, clapping hands and singing birthday song and carrying the birthday cake to Zach. lol. wow, i didn't they provide this kind of birthday service as well. so cool!~

the staffs definitely shocked all of us!

HAPPY 22ND BIRTHDAY, ZACH!!!

presenting the 2 gifts we had for him.
Liting and me were appointed to be the one presenting it to him LOL

GROUP PHOTO!!!!

coming up next was the cake cutting and the most common things for birthday boy to do nowadays. using mouth to remove the candles. lol.

how funny?!

oh well, Linnet left shortly after at around 12plus . and then Liting left as well at around 1am plus. leaving the 6 of us still down there continue drinking.

and we played real stupid games as well. ahhh it was to be kept within ourselves only, no outside people should know...and so i'm not going to reveal out what kind of games that we played =)

happy gussing xD we stayed at the place till 3am plus... until the place was closed. and all 6 of us squeezed into Ben's car and he drove individual of us home =D yeah, at least i do not need to take cab at such hour with all the extra charges =/

Labels: birthday, celebration, drinking, NP friends

New Moon Big Walk Goodie Bag Collection + KTV @ Katong

Written at Sunday, July 25, 2010 | back to top

oh yea, it was a sudden decision that all of us took part in the New Moon Big Walk 2010. Lisa happened to see their website, and so Audrey, Daphne, Ginnette, Lisa and me decided to go for it. made a payment of $25 each a few weeks ago.. and finally, today was the goodie bag collection date xD

made our way all the way down to The Central. the booth was set up nicely there for us to collect our goodie bag xD

presented them our IC and here we got our goodie bags xD weee!~ so excited!! first time self-volunteered to join this kind of event to help raise funds!~

Goodies Bag

Wrist Tags!~

things inside the goodie bag xD

group photo =D

oh well. goodie bags were collected, and we were fully ready for our New Moon Big Walk on the 1st of August, heh!~ took a group picture together before Ginnette went off to meet her friend, while the rest of us went to Teo Heng Karaoke at Katong for our KTV session that we craved for long.

thank god we made reservation beforehand. if not, we don't need to sing already, all the rooms were fully booked!~ we booked to sing from 3pm to 7pm. wonderful 4 hours of singing.

and we left at around 7pm after singing for dinner. we had a sudden crave for cereal prawn all of a sudden while singing, and so we decided that WE SHOULD EAT CEREAL PRAWN tonight. so we walked round and round Katong to look for cereal prawn, but couldn't find it =/

after half an hour or so, we gave up totally as we were all famished! lol, and we were complaining who the hell was the one mentioning cereal prawn in the first place?! yeah that person made everyone craving for it =P (oh well, the person was no other, BUT ME xD) hahahaha.

anyway, we decided to eat Katong Laksa which had all along been using it's fragrant smell to lure us in to the shop.

Katong Laksa @ $3.50

and i only had $5 left after singing. so after buying $3.50 laksa and $1.30 Ice Passionfruit Tea. i'm pathetically only left with 20 cents. haha.

Katong Laksa tasted so heavenly delicious. there's prawns inside... although it wasn't our cereal prawn...... but nevermind, the normal prawn shall replaced our cereal prawn for the time being!~ lol. Audrey's level of spicyness was so weak, she never add any chilli, but she was already perspiring and spitting fire while eating. haha.

after dinner, we took bus 36 back to Marina.. while on the bus, i suddenly blurted out that i felt like eating cheesecake (oh well, me and my mouth again...). and here's when the jokes began. we were still in the midst of discussing in the bus whether to go anot, but our dear Audrey didn't give any warning and just pressed the bell. lol.

so sudden, and so we have to or.... force to alight the bus. lol. while walking towards Millenia Walk, all of a sudden i remembered i only left with 20 cents. LOL!~ i was like, "eh, you all never asked me whether i got money anot? i only left with 20 cents sia!!" oops!!~

went to withdraw money and off we go to the directory to look for a nice chill out place.. and yes, final decision, we decided to go The Coffee Club for desserts!!!

CAKES!~

Lisa ordered Mud Pie, Audrey ordered Tiramisu while i ordered Oreo Cheesecake @ $6. well, it was just to satisfy my taste bud. i couldn't finished my cheesecake, so Audrey and Lisa were forced to finish it for me =X

well, Audrey is forever the one who finished up my unfinished foods =x. poor her!~

@ Coffee Club.

and finally, we left at around 10 plus for home..... what a wonderful day out xD

Labels: dessert, dinner, HSS friends, karaoke

Tioman Trip Day 3

Written at Thursday, July 22, 2010 | back to top

19th July 2010 - Monday

Malaysia - Tioman Trip Day 3

ahhhh, it's kind of sad that this would be our last day in Tioman. woke up at 8am and went to have our final breakfast here. and as usual, i had my wonderful simple breakfast and i poured just 1/4 glass of coffee. doesn't really know how to appreciate coffee though.

breakfast

after breakfast, we quickly made our way back to our room to do the final packing of our stuffs. i have no idea why i have so many things to pack. it's like a never-ending-packing. even Ginnette packed finished all her things, but mine was still in a mess lying beside hers.

the mess!

all the things/souvenirs i bought in Tioman!

and since we have alot of time left in the morning, we decided to go out to the beach to enjoy and relax on our last day in Tioman. along the way, we saw hammock hanging on the trees. haha. interesting, and we actually went to play/sit/lie on it. LOL

the hammock!

heh, multiple shots of group picture xD

and we walked further away from our room, further down the beach. while Audrey, Daphne and Lisa stayed on top by the wooden table and chairs. Ginnette, Shalee and me walked down to the beach and spammed pictures xD

pretty picture with pretty view =D

YEAH!~

yo!~ joined them at the wooden chairs area...

fake camwhore shot.

pretending to self-shot ourselves, but actually there's someone holding the camera, adjusting the angle, and press the button for us. we only lift up our arm to act only. LOL xD

piggy mouth =)

after that, we came across a few big trees with 3 hammocks hanging on it. Audrey, Daphne and Lisa each took one and started resting on it. haha. enjoying the sea breeze, with the trees blocking the sun for them. wow, ultimate enjoyment =D

they even started ordering drinks from the mini shop houses behind. Ginnette, Shalee and me joined them shortly after. i ordered Ice Lemon Tea from the shop too!~

under the big tree

YAM SENG!~

end of our relaxation place.

we went back to Golden Dish Cafe, the place where we had our lunch in Day 1, for lunch. we actually informed the uncle last night that we'll be having our final lunch today, we even confirmed the dish with him last night. lol

when we went up to Golden Dish Cafe, most of our foods were nicely placed out on the table already. we don't even need to wait, and can start eating straight already.

the foods that was on the table when we came up xD.

our ordered dishes xD

shame on me. there's one dish that i couldn't name it out. is it salted meat? salted chicken? or salted fish? oh no!~

lunch group photo xD

Shalee, the rice scooper =D

anyway, Ginnette, Shalee and me were pretty picky on foods. the 3 of us don't eat the salted meat/chicken/fish or whatsoever? Ginnette don't take seaweed soup, Shalee and me couldn't take prawns... Shalee has allergy towards prawn, while i can't eat prawn due to my leg's wound.

well, it was said that when you have a serious wound or what, the best is not to eat seafood. if not, your wound will create pus and then it will take very long to heal. i wondered how true it was?

but anyway, i couldn't resist temptaion.. and Ginnette donated one of her prawn to me xD

i swore...i didn't eat the whole prawn

i only had one bite =)

and the whole lunch costed us RM120.00. Audrey, Daphne and Lisa were so nice that they paid RM30.00 each, while they only collected RM10.00 each from Ginnette, Shalee and me. yeah, they said that we ate so little dish, so they will covered most of the price =)

a picture with the seashell bracelets we bought earlier on.

quickly made our way back to our room to do final checking in the room. and then we were pretty good in making good use of the leftover time. and again, we went out to the beach for some last minute photos xD

stepping into the cooling water

one last shot in the beach!!

GOOD BYE, TIOMAN ISLAND!!

back to our room and grabbed our bags out....

BAGS PACKED!!!!~

fully ready to leave!!

we walked out to the waiting area and checked out with the uncle. there was also a trolley to help us deliver our bags out to the jetty. how nice!! we don't need to carry all our heavy stuffs with us xD

good bye to our bags first!

Thank You & Good bye too!!~

and well, our boat wasn't here yet.. we even have time to buy ice-cream for ourselves. haha. in such hot weather, it's the best to eat ice-cream xD

ICE-CREAM xD

and finally, the boat arrived after waiting for 20 minutes. we walked towards the jetty to retrieve our bags.

making our way to the jetty.

beautiful sea in different level of colour. from light to dark.

HOW BEAUTIFUL XD

oh.. and that's our boat =D

busy finding our bags from the trolley=/

bags that were stuffed inside the boat "bag-keeping-area" =S

so messy

inside the boat

it was a long 1hour 30 minutes journey back to the Terminal. such a long ride that i fell asleep on the boat. reached the terminal at around 3.25pm. and finally, there's a big bus that will be driving us back to Singapore. a big bus, no more small mini buses xD

the bus!

inside the bus.

and a super short ride to a place for toilet break and also we'll be having our lunch there as well.

Audrey helping us to carry bags. LOL

yay. i ordered burger and Ginnette ordered fries!~

half an hour break, and then we'll have to go back up the bus to continue our long journey back to Singapore. and yah, there's a few places that they have stopped us to shop for some local products. and everytime, Audrey and me will ended up buying more things back home

and then, it was approximatly another 3 hours plus journey for us to reach the Singapore Checkpoint. and finally, we reached Newton Food Centre @ 8.17pm xD. and we decided to have our dinner there.

Newton Food Centre

all our barang barang that stacked up and occupied half of the table.

and lastly, individual photos with SINGAPORE FOODS!!!!

after eating, we even did our last transferring of the photos over at the food centre. lol. you know, there's like so many photos. we wouldn't want to send it through msn. lol.

and then, home sweet home. i took bus 124 with Ginnette, while the rest either take train or cab home.

so tired after spending almost half of the day in boat and bus. anyway, i truly enjoyed my 3 days 2 nights Tioman trips with all my fellow friends.

and now, i'm here anticipating for our next overseas trip xD. hopefully, our next trip doesn't need to wait for long =D

Click Below for other Tioman Post:
*^*Day 1 *^*Day 2

Labels: HSS friends, overseas trips