doesn't seem like its gonna stop.

Friday 25th : lucky me! Rosie who is my sas collegue, make pretty necklaces. instead of wearing the school orange nylon tag yard, she makes cool chains which is prettier to wear with our name tags. i bot quite a few from her, i am her supporter! so she was so kind to surprise me with another chain! she knows i love colours! i like it alot! think in all now i have about 6!

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Saturday 26th : tuition was cancelled cos the gals are sick. that gave me time to rest cos i feel very tired. gx decided to drive to town. unexpected cos we hardly ever drive to town. suppose to meet 12.30pm, received a mgs that say dun be late... we were late. cos stuck in jam. got there at 12.45pm. saw p & s at the restaurant going into the room. they were not the 1st thou cos J was oredi in the room. the organiser was late for almost 45mins! Waraku Japanese restuarant. i ordered the set with scallop paper steamboat and gx ordered teriyaki chicken don.

seriously the food ok only not fantastic. i still think sushi tei is better, esp the scallops, i like the miso at ST better. of cos there are more authentic restuarants but yet to go try them out. s is such a darling. managed to ask her to take a pic with me cos i say take a pic with her snowy (her toy lamb).

this pic taken by s. yes i lent my camera to kids all the time! we did take group pic but not sure if they mind so better not upload, anyway J left when we took the pic. after which we left and headed to my tcher's housewarming. her new apartment is at Rivervalley. never been into orchard apartments.

we were like the 4th visitors and soon many more sas tchers came. i was glad some of these tchers talked to us, regardless who we are. many interesting things learnt in the conversations i had. i really find these tchers so brave to leave home and work in a foreign land. there is this tcher who actually teach japanese in sas. he's leaving to go back to japan to teach english. the walkway at the lobby is filled with glass art something similiar to ritz greenhouse.

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head home to pack the ice-cream and stuff to mums. mum cooked the yummest blackbean porkribs, so soft! after dinner the boys went to w house to watch soccer and i stayed to play with twins. after which we went to send PIL home and then went for bowling at safra yishun. 12mn -3am. our team lost 2nd round of chicken wings and 3rd round of drinks to the other team!

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Sunday 27th : woke up late. so tired and rushed out to meet sis at ck tangs cos she got staff discount. went to buy kido's bdae present. i was happy with my buy. ann and sis oso got presents. almost bot a watch for myself but was rejected by many... xianz there goes my armani. walked to paragon and sis was excited when she saw 20% at metro. she wanted to get wedding shoes and she wanted me to help her check it out. found 2 pairs that matched her gowns but they were 4inch high! i dun wana stand next to her cos i scared gana stepped by her thin sharp heels! and will feel short! gx received a call from pat asking us out for dinner. and they came by to pick us up. sis and ann and d continue to shop.

pat chose this restaurant at serengoon gardens. when she told us that she's bringing us to eat foi gras, my heart beat very fast! i was searching in my memory where could this place be and oso its been a long time since i been there. pat and sam are gx's mentors. pat teaches me alot about daily things. esp how i see things. they are very nice people.

this place is in between cafe cartel and coffeebean, think its called the friends and wine. the place is quite cosy, the chairs here have short legs, all low seats. pat ordered 2 portion of foi gras which was really good! would love to go back for more! a dozen of oyster - really fresh and huge! had 3 each! the portebello mushroom with cheese was not bad. i find the mushroom alittle small thou. the mushroom soup is pretty raw taste to some but i love it. its the fresh kind of mushroom blended into a soup.

Pat, gx and me shared the lamb shank, blue cheese-bacon-mushroom pizza. Sam got prawn spag. lamb was ok could have been better. the blue cheese alittle strong compared to the normal mozzeralle cheese. but i like it but must have red wine in-between bites! the red wine was ok. pat only takes dessert when there is people who shares cos she doesnt have very sweet tooth. ordered a chocolate lava cake which took 25mins. pretty usual for this cake cos they need to serve this hot thus they only make when u want to eat. not as good as the wine company's! the flowy chocolate was nice but not the cake. we were very full and they wanted us to join them for more wine at their place but i had another project to do so they sent us home.

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Monday 28th : still got present today! its from my sil.

the present in the white box is from italy. she was in florence for a week for work. lucky gal! the pouch she got it here in spore. she couldnt get me the real bottle so she got me this! i really like it alot! when i opened the box, i do hope this is a good omen. i like the ladybug alot! its very pretty. and its so cute with the little baby ladybug on the big one!

can be opened to store precious gems! love it!

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am very sorry to tabby, serena and huiyi for cancelling the meetups and having to rearrange to some other time cos i have urgent projects on hand and oso gx company dinner on wed. sorry! guess i really have to try to slim down in may cos may end will have L's bdae party. and then june and july hols! nesa and ann's bdae in june. look forward to family bowling day too!