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Showing posts with label 他和她的故事. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Farewell 2012 . Welcome 2013

Greetings in the year of the snake. #hiss 

Looking back, I realised that since the starting of my final year, I had not posted up any entries except for a couple of highly emotionally unstable passages. I guess I can safely conclude that though it had been quite a distinct period of time, with my current state of mind as well as encounters, the time had not been sufficient and I just could not bring myself to write anything before.

Now let me do a quick recall on the happenings for the 'lost time'.

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Our second anniversary! So they say, happy moments flash by the fastest. We had been together for two years and 2 months now. Although there had been ups and downs in between, but thank God that we are still holding on to each other. And may we grow together in the Lord.

A romantic buffet dinner at Flamingo Hotel

The food was alright, nothing to shout about but who can turn down fresh mussels and prawns as well as arrays of mouth-watering desserts

Yours truly

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I had finally 'conquered' the Penang Bridge, in a slow and leisure way though. 

Completed my Penang Bridge marathon in less than 2 hours. 

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The 'queen' of the house, my mother, had aged another year even though she will remain young at heart, no doubt about that. Haha. We had a celebration at Gurney Plaza and the birthday lady chose Tian Ding Xiang for her birthday lunch. We opted for the set lunch which came with half a Chinese Peking duck, three dishes, soup-of-the-day and dessert-of-the-day.

Even though I cannot remember the price of that meal, but it was definitely worth it as all the dishes were absolutely delicious.

After the filling meal, we had a walk around the mall before heading to Tong Pak Fu for some dessert as my mum had been raving about this since their first branch was opened in Penang.

We had the award-winning green tea and durian shaved ice.

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The Christian Fellowship in campus held an early Christmas celebration before the study week to invite fellow campus-ians to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ together.

I just had to post this lovely 'snowflakey' picture. Aww.. I am so gonna miss my cute and lovely juniors and friends after i graduate.

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Had my first run around the campus. Heck it was tiring but FUN!~ And I am pretty sure I ran the year's quota that particular day. Hehe.


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One of my favourite festival of the year, winter solstice. I simply love love these chewy glutinous balls. Although I was away from home, thanks to the owner of a eatery that I still got a 'chew' of home.


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Christmas, isn't Christmas, till it happens in your heart. A meaningful Christmas with Ducky, Jia Jia and the ever-adorable Ah Bui joining the celebration. It had been so long since there were so many of us gathered together, having a great time in one another's company.

Kachak~! Ah Bui in the house

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Receiving the new year for the very last time in Parit Buntar Baptist Church. A wonderful and memorable one.

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A blessed study week and finals, even though my brain was at the verge of bursting and my nerves cracking, there were always love for me from a lot of different parties and I m really thankful for that.

Brunch on the first day of 2013

Biscuits all the way from Ipoh

Brunch before my design viva

Even a beautiful dragonfly stopped by when we were the only ones in the cafe rushing for our viva

Dinner at Fong Ting Siew, Serdang, Kedah after viva where we had a really good laugh and chatted about all sorts of nonsense we could came up with.

A lovely gift from my sweet juniors

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This year is going to be different than the previous as I am finally going to enter into a totally new stage of life. There are uncertainties and past burdens that had been haunting me ever since. For my new year resolution, I am going to make one and only one and making sure that I keep it, that is to put everything into God's hands and to always pray for the right decision to make.

That's all for this unorganised entry and wishing everyone a GREAT year ahead.

Coming up: Winter in Taiwan!~

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Legally Ebony

I am now officially legal! No prize for guessing my age right.
As a total food lover, what better way than food and more food to celebrate this special day? The most important part being WHO I celebrated with, of course.

Before the actual date of my big day, my parents brought me for a pre-birthday dinner since they would be busy on my birthday which fell on Wednesday, which was a workday. Glad exam was over already.

The treat was at Swensens. My mum bought a buy-one-free-one coupon so we get to eat four dishes for the price of two! Speak about affordable. Hehe..

Clam Chowder, for FREE. This comes with the coupon. Yummy. You can break the sourdough bowl and eat with the soup.

Chilli Crab Pasta. Huge portion of tomato based pasta that came with a deep-fried soft shell crab. Nice.

Pesto Salmon. Love the herb-y sauce on the medium-thick slab of salmon.

On the day, Bobok brought me to the new Gurney Paragon Mall for a scrumptious lunch. Though the mall is not yet done, there were already a few restaurants there.

I was given the freedom to choose and I picked Goku Raku Ramen



The wall which looked like a planting field


Open kitchen

Wood-themed menu. They don't just serve Ramen, there are rice dishes, set meals and side dishes as well.

Our drink, honey lemon

Lesson 101 on how to enjoy a delicious bowl of ramen:
1. Indulge your sight and smell receptors with the appetizing aroma of the rich broth.
2. Scoop, sip and savour generous amounts of soup to start off. The soup is the most significant element of any Ramen dish, so enjoy!
3. Mix the noodles and soup well. Take note not to mix the seaweed together as it will dissolve.
4. Next, slurp away! The noodles are best consumed with the soup while it is hot, approximately within 7 to 8 minutes after it is served.
5. For the extra tasty kick, eat it with the accompaniments and added toppings.
6. By now, the soup will have reached its full-bodied flavour. Finish up by gulping it, down to the last drop!

My Ultimate Tonkotsu Ramen

Bobok's Goku Raku Ramen

Both are equally slurpy and yummeh~ We really did followed the instructions until the gulping-up-the-soup part. I am definitely going back when I am in a better financial state. Haha
Right after lunch, we headed for dessert at Meet Fresh which is located right beside Goku Raku Ramen. This is the main reason we ended up in Gurney Paragon Mall in the first place. Hehe. I had been craving for chewy taro balls since I got back from KL. There will be an outlet opening in Gurney Plaza soon.


Not a beeping UFO but a beeping 'dai ko dai' aka 大哥大? Haha.

We had the cold signature herbal jelly. It comes with herbal ice, taro balls and cream. Kinda similar to Snowflakes's bestseller.


Dinner was dessert again at the newly opened Ice Ice Baby in Gurney Plaza. I was on a sweet tooth condition that day. Haha. I hope I don't get diabetic form all the sugar intake.

(top) Egg-y waffle with vanilla ice-cream. A great combination of hot and cold
(bottom) Banana and coconut jam crepe

A birthday would not be complete without a cake. Bobok gave me a cake treat at Secret Recipe before our movie, Journey 2 The Mysterious Island. I had a serious cake crave while still in campus.

(top) My favourite White Chocolate Macademia Cake
(bottom) Almond Pecan Cake

Oreo Milkshake as a sweet ending

' The one that loves you the most, is the one that is willing to spend time with you. '

I am very grateful to my parents and Bobok for everything they gave to me.
Thanks to everyone who wishes me, you know who you are, hehe, God bless you all.

Happy holidays + Happy Chinese New Year!!
龙年到~~