Dinner @ Cafe Cartel

Had dinner with the peeps at Marina Square's Cafe Cartel yesterday after work. We were supposed to rush home after dinner to catch the Star Awards on TV, but in the end had such a crazy time posing with the dollar notes that we lost track of time. Some of the pics we captured:

Alan Ishak

Looks like a clown -.-

Pea-brained freak

Alvin the Thai King

Mr Smiley Andrew Ishak

My Personal Favourite - Mr Zong Da Ishak

hate!

I hereby declare war on siew mai!

I hate siew mai!

tsk tsk!

hur hur!

xuan ♥

Blur Driver Incident

On our way home today, we met a damn weird situation. The bus driver (a Chinaman), was undergoing training, with another supposedly more experienced driver (a Malay) beside him, guiding him the route. However, the trainer seemed equally as blur as the trainee. In the end the training driver turned around and asked me about the route he is supposed to drive, as his trainer is not sure about the route as well. In the end, I have to guide him throughout the whole journey instead. Thank god the bus service is a loop service, which travels a short distance around the neighbourhood. God knows what will happen if this occurs on a long distance trip. I think those two poor souls will just bring the passengers on a wild goose chase :P

cats

xuan loves CATS!

alan hates CATS!

Our past weeks

The Monday before was my 1st time in my life watching 2 movies in a row in a cinema. Watched Knowing with Alvin in the afternoon and Confessions of a Shopaholic with Xuan at night. Ironically, I fell asleep in the middle of both movies as I had woke up pretty early for my coaster distribution job with Alvin. However, I managed to catch the main geist of both movies =).

Knowing - Great acting by the cast, nice plot but sadly poor ending to an otherwise good movie.

Confessions of a Shopaholic - Fabulous movie with a great plot and sufficient humour to compliment the story.

Thereafter, the whole week was mahjong-ing sessions for 3 nights! Furthermore, 2 of those nights were back-to-back sessions and we were shagged out at the end. However, it was a pretty enjoyable week catching up with all our friends.

School

class is as usual oh-so-boring!

:)

Photography

Haven't been updating our blog for long, result being that we had been busy working, mahjong-ing and supper-ing with the Esplanade peeps.

Still i have no mood to upload my so-long-ago China trip pictures, but I will upload them soon, so please been patient. :) Meanwhile just wanna share with you guys what I have learnt in photography class! All the picture is taken by me okay, it's n-i-c-e!

Heart

Snail

Dried Leaf

Infinite row of trees

Monitor Lizard

Pebbles

Dragonfly

Flower with bee (if you can spot it)

Isolated flower petal

Me and Lebbillie

Photography class was fun, but you need to submit tonnes and tonnes of pictures every week to the lecturer, which is kinda tiring. Sometimes, i even ran out of ideas on what kind of things i should take. Taking pictures of nature such as animals and flowers are great, as the outcome is super nice. That concluded my photography class which is great! Lots of love =)

P.S. my photography class ended like so long ago already! (like a few months ago)

Dinner Outing with the peeps

After a long day at work, we went for dinner at Astons @ The Cathay. Have been planning for a trip there for quite some time. The food is good and worthwhile and the portion is also satisfactory. I will recommend the place for mini gatherings with friends, as the ambience is good for the purpose. Thereafter, we head off to Gelare @ Plaza Singapura for some ice-cream as it's still quite early. We enjoyed the ice-creams while talking cock until almost close to closing hours.

The makan gang

Quinn's head almost like being edited into the picture

Result of Alvin's 'wonderful' cutting skill

Quinn showing his affection to Alvin

Nortilla enjoying the ice-cream

Quinn eyeing the waffle

The Waffle

Our ice-cream

bye singapore, hi china!

Day 1

Group photo taken at Beijing Airport!

Hi all! Miss all of you, especially my bed! Haha. Weather was so cold in Beijing for the first few days. Will be back soon on the 10th of April! See ya soon. Ciao :)

Supper with the Esplanade Peeps

Had a wonderful night, eating supper with Dad and the rest of the Esplanade peeps at Gluttons Bay after work. They treated me to another feast of local delights and we cant even finish our food. In the end, our 'Vacuum Cleaner' Miss Norti had to sweep up the remainders and it's nice to have her around HEHE. They threatened to throw me into the sea after that but fortunately, they were just kidding =P

The Feast

Table overflowing with food

Alvin acting serious beside Kar Leong

Everyone together!

It's been a memorable week for me, sending off Xuan, receiving surprises from the Esplanade guyz, celebrating with Peijin, and looking forward to more celebrations with my secondary sch peeps. Most importantly, I got to chat with Xuan on msn the night before and it was one of the most wonderful chat since we were together, mainly because this is the 1st time we were apart for so long. No wonder people says distance makes the heart grows fonder. It makes you want to cherish your loved ones more when you are apart =)

Another birthday outing at Plaza Singapura

Went to watch Shinjuku incident with Peijin today to celebrate my birthday in advance at Plaza Singapura today. It's been quite some time I saw her and she changed hairstyle again. Personally, I think that the movie is quite fascinating, as I love Hong Kong thriller and this is not the typical Hong Kong gangster movie like Young and Dangerous. Set in Tokyo, it tells the story of a China illegal immigrant in Japan who went in search of his girlfriend. Unknown to him, she was already married to a Japanese Yakuza boss. When he discovered the truth, he decides to remain in Japan and soon became embroiled with the Yakuza, and there is no turning back. I would rate it as 3.5/5, for its intriguing storyline and convincing acting by Jackie Chan.


Thereafter, we head to Astons at The Cathay for dinner. As usual, the queue is very long and we waited for 20mins before we got our seat and it was an outdoor seat. We were perspiring when we finished our dinner, but overall the food was worthwhile. After dinner, we head off to Gelare for an ice-cream. I almost lost my wallet at the ice-cream parlour, as I left it on the table. Fortunately, a kind soul by the name of Chen Jia Wei brought it to the customer service counter, who then informed me and I managed to recover my wallet. I was really grateful for him and I called him back personally to thank him. =)

My Chicken Chop with potato salad and onion rings at $7.50!

Peijin tucking into her food

Gelare's Chocolate Fantasy Sundae

Alan's early birthday celebration @ Fish & Co.

Xuan pre-planned a birthday celebration for me before departing for Beijing. She wanted to spring a surprise for me but I was already smelling something fishy. However, I was quite surprised by what actually happened that night as it turned out to be quite a crazy night. I was smashed with cakes, made to wear a custom-made T-shirt penned by the peeps and even had tartar sauce stuffed in my ear -.-
I was also made to stand on the chair, while the Fish and Co. crew sang birthday songs for us (there were 2 other birthday babies in the restaurant) in front of everyone. Fortunately, the restaurant was quite empty by the time the singing started, so it was not so embarressing. I really enjoyed myself and appreciate the effort by the Esplanade peeps and Xuan for the wonderful night, though things is still a little different without her to share the joy with me here. Will be counting down the days to your return =) - Alan

Da Esplanade peeps

Da Menu

Da girls

Da guyz

Last but not least, da act cute giant

Alan and Quinn

Norti and Shimin

Andrew with the girls =)

Birthday boy with his food

Shimin cam-whoring =P

Creamy Mussles

Alan and the other birthday babies in the house

Alan enjoying the attention =)

Birthday boy being tortured >.<

More to come

Look at Nortilla's expression!

Ultraman pose -.-

Alan and the girls =)

The guyz pinching each other

Alan and Quinn with the 'present' from Quinn

Cutting the cake

Alvin start another round of attack on Alan

Followed by Quinn and Zong Da

The result of tartar sauce, strawberry and chocolates

End result of the torment

Alan's soiled shoes

WTH man!

Thereafter, I went to wash up in the toilet. Still, I was not let off as Zong Da and Alvin came in to do the forbidden act on me.

Bday Boy getting scrutinized by Zong Da in the loo

Then by Alvin!

The peeps penning their well-wishes when Alan is washing up

Shirt custom designed by the peeps

Up-close view of the shirt

Jealous guyz admiring Alvin being fed by Alan

Alan grows boobs!

And a baby!!

The 'mother', the father and their little one

Crazy Frog in action

Alvin hitched a ride from Crazy Frog

Alan with the huge specs indulging in his moment of fame

Hardcore Ardent fans of Alan!!

Arrrrgggghhhh!!

Indulging in the love song

Mesmerised by Alan's melodious vocal

The duet

Quinn getting into the mood

Food Monster of the night!

OMG!!

The XMY crumbling under the weight of the 3 dudes

Front view of it on the pavement!!

It was one hell of a crazy night and I really appreciate all present and who were supposed to be present for their well-wishes. Love you guyz lots =)