treats!!!

i had quite a bad start for the week... it last for 3 days! then thursday, ann was nice to wait for me and accompanied me to buy shoes! i managed to get 2 new pair of shoes! we head to the super market and i got a good bargain! buy 3 packs of jap crackers and get 3 free... it was the last day of sales for the jap fair at isetan supermarket. i got 4 packets of lobster crackers and 1 cheese and one octopus tako flavour. then lucky me got to meet up with dap who finished work as we were shopping at the supermarket. i was starving and with my suggestion, we took a cab and head down to whampoa market. we had a feast! satay, chicken wings, wanton soup, rojak and only ann & gx ate beef noodles. i was so glad i didnt feel sick! it was prob the great company i had!

friday at work... one of the gals gave me this little package. thrilled cos i saw the Yankee tart in the bag! my first yankee candle! hope i wot be hooked on it! then a nutty choco bar... i love treats!met up with joyce at cityhall. head to DTF for after snack/early dinner. love these timing where there isn't a need to q... i hate to q for my food! we chatted and we are pretty excited with the upcoming events in our life! she's getting married 2 week after my sis and i am so excited to see her ted gowns but i am going to wait till Jan 1st! lucky me??? her wedding dinner is also at marriot, the same hotel as my sis!

as usual my dear sweet fren would have a little something for me... how could she have read my mind... before i met her i was asking gx how many donuts would he want for breakfast tomolo... she got these tiny ones called bonbons. and sadly to say i didnt get to try any! gx is gog to get me a box of 9... just for me! after we parted i was on my own to go hunt for aunt s's bdae gift! i had to help mum buy her share. as i was shopping, i got myself something really adorable!

i fell in love with this little ginger breadman when i saw it! sooooo cutez! had to have it! its really the smallest gingerbread i ever saw....or should i say gingerbreadgal??? this is a gal thou... the buttons are pink! love it! then with the bags of shopping i head back to DTF and OMG its crowded! i tabao prawn and porkchop fried rice for sil and gx. struggled with all my bags, took the ever crowded train home... tink i am too used to taking the train during off-peak hours! at this moment... i am feeling kinda sad... wot get to see the twins tonite... they are now in shanghai... so far... its been a week since they left... i missed them! esp that tonite there's a party...

these are the photos i last took with them before they left 2 days later... i hope they are settling well in shanghai! anyway on the brighter note, they will be heading back in dec for sis's wedding! can't wait to see them again!

love from florence!

lucky sil had the chance to fly to florence again! she had to pack winter wear as its lowest temp is about 10deg. she was there for a week! lucky her! she came back with gx's bdae gift. a tie. the colour matches my dress that i am gog to wear to my sis's wedding. i love the packaging! i wished that when i was in florence i had more time... its a great place to wander but we had so little time to do so cos we were stuck at a very long q to see my favourite scuplture David. the chocolate that sil bot was so pretty. i liked the little painting on these chocolate pieces. these are all the places of interest in different parts of italy. yet to try the chocolate cos i am still sick so yet to be able to eat any of these luxury stuff.

she also bot italian liquors in cute small bottles. i love the blue pisa tower! the other very cute thing that sil bot was the potato peeler! adorable!

i got a present too! my sil knows me so well! when i woke up om saturday morning when she came home, i sat on the sofa and suddenly my eyes set on something very red, shining red, in a very familiar shape... a shape that i love! i let out a scream... it was so pretty that i cannot contain my excitment...

yes, i love absolut! i love the colours on it and i am amazed with what they just keep coming up with! isn't this amazing? sequins! sil said when she arrived the staff told her the bottle was just launched! lucky me! and i am so thankful to my sil, dap and gx, my cousins, uncles who helped me with my collection! looking forward to see what absolut can do next to their bottle!

Dear's 30th Bdae Bash!

i arranged a surprised party for gx. he has requested that he wanted a quiet bdae as he dun find that there's anything special to celebrate. As usual, I DUN LISTEN! he's used to it but i bet he tot that since i am so sick, and looked can't be bothered to move at all, dun think he suspected anything. esp that i am so sick thru the week. but i have made arrangements since sept! mum was sweet to have cooked up some very army-like colour dishes (esp the vegy dish) for his son-in-law's bdae. Thank goodness aunt k and aunt s helped cos i was too sick to help out! mum bought killer-sized prawns! they were as huge as my palm! bro calls it a hybrid - lobster-prawn.

i actually enrolled for a xmas log cake class that beautifully set on 25th oct but last minute they shifted the class away to nov.... so it spoilt my planning of using the log cake for his bdae cake. so that saved me from having to bake cupcakes to go with the small logcake. cos it was a log cake, i planned an army themed party for gx. everyone was to wear green or army prints. since i got all the props for the cake - plastic grass, army toy soldiers, chocolate rocks... i was lucky to have gone to secret recipe for dinner and decided to use their plain cake to decorate. instead of a chocolate cake i opt for my favourite white chocolate macadamia nut cake.

just before gx turns up at mum's place after his badminton game, i did the first part of decor with nesa and twins! we laid plastic leafs i got from meidiay supermarket around the cake. these leaves are used by japanese to decorate the food. then we wrapped up the soldiers legs with aluminium foil, cos these guys are gog onto the cake, just wanted to make the cake safe for consuming! i got the matching candle from spotlight. chocolate rocks was from daiso! the kids enjoyed placing the soldiers and the rocks! they can't stop munching on the yummy hard rock chocs!

when gx came, bro signalled to everyone and all of us stood in a line behind the door waiting for him! when he stood at the door, my uncle shouted commands! he was shocked and he just stood there with his mouth dropped! when i asked him much later, he said he noticed everyone was in green but couldn't figure out why we were standing there to shock him since what i told him was there's a deepavali gathering. he felt shy too... when he realised its his surprised bdae party. got him to change into his swiss army tee!

i was glad i brought his army-printed hats over. the twins were having fun esp when they were trying to put both hats on their dad. as usual Aunt A came most prepared! dressed green from head to toe! she even borrowed my cousin W's army hat! she's the most on one in our family!

from next week, mum's place will have a big interior change. the fish tank will be gone... so will all the fishes... think bro will be sad... but i guess its time... also the table-tennis table was out for the last time... it gog too... so the boys opened it up for a last game.

i bought 2 sets of soldiers and one set came with a map and some props. so i took it out for the kids to play. L came with all his toy guns! boys will be boys! for the first time i see L sat down to play with the small toy soldiers!

got the cake on the map and threw in more chocolate rocks. then the kids helped to place the soldiers all over the map. tot it looked quite cute! gx tot the soldiers were made of chocolate! these were darker in colour than the ones they played with eariler! and of cos they were kept separately cos these were used for decorating! GX tot the cake came decorated and was surprise that it was done by me and my cousins!

i got army-matching plates for gx. the camouflaged ones were very ex! he said he felt nervous when the family sang him the bdae song! cos its almost 25++pax singing for one! its gx first time celebrating his bdae with my family even thou he's been in the family for 3 years!

half-way thru the song, L moved in to pick up the soldiers that are on the map and plonked it onto the cake. he didnt stop at 1...! it was quite funny to see him shift almost all the soldiers that were near him onto the side of the cake. the twins just looked at him in shock! cos they helped to decor the cake and was just looking at L in disbelief! i tot the cake looked more real like a battleground after L's work of art!

i always love the part when all the little ones try to blow the candles together and the more difficlut task was holding the knife together trying to cut the cake. But its fun! thats why i love celebrating my bdae! besides the cake, i got him a little toy as a present. something that i chanced upon when he wanted me to look for shuttlecock for his badminton session. he was complaining that its his first transformer but why did i get the bad guy... HOW WOULD I KNOW! for me it transforms into a tank, so it matched my themed party i was throwing! but of cos, he still likes it and yah play with it!!!

on sunday, as i mentioned in my earlier post, we had a lazy start for the day and went ikea. while i stayed with mum, he went to attend a wedding dinner. he went to Hans to get his bdae cake to celebrate with his parents. Upper thomson Hans apparently opens 24hrs now! i got the skinny candles from caneles and he told his mum that it was trick candles! candles that will relight... haha, he didnt believe it wasnt when i told him ITS NOT trick candles!

his favourite bdae present is something very big and he is happy his wish came true. we are planning to go shopping for more shirts, esp a cuff-linked shirt and my plans was for him to change his glasses! but these has to wait till i feel better!

S T I T C H !

as promised, gx did the puzzle with me... i love puzzle but seriuosly not good at fixing it! i was more of a hinderance than help.

yes its a 3d stitch but the base of stitch is solid.

why did we turned the puzzle around to the white side... cos for this puzzle

we gotta follow the numbers to form the head!

even with numbers... i was frustruted and has no patience when the puzzle piece won't fit!

i just take pics, irritate gx and yes act cute with stitch ears!

da dang! the complete stitch head puzzle sitting on the clay body.
cute thing about this stitch is that we can tilt the head and he looks so cute in all angles

except angles that turn his head to far back makes it scary...

hate it when gx took the head away from the body.

now stitch sits on our computer table watching us whenever we are using our laptop!

S T I T C H !