haven been updating my blog for long. back from shanghai and seoul! =D shall update when i get all the photos! =)

met up with xinyi few days back! =D awesome. we had so much so much to talk about having not met for a mth! went marmalade pantry for cakes and tea! the slices of cake filled our tummies so much that we didnt have much space for dinnner!!!



 my mega huge sea salt caramel cheesecake!

cinnamon apple cake i think!

 hahha! xinyi trying to cover her swollen cheek from her wisdom tooth extraction =p

and so i 'pei he' her tooo =p

meet up again soooon!!! 6hrs too short babe!

i have successfully nua-ed for the entire week. *thumbsup

just received a msg from moses' mom, telling me moses said 'i want teacher'. awwww. he is really a cute boy. it has been a long wayyyy, 1 and a half years of therapy with him and it warms my heart everytime when he says something like that.

anw, itinerary for shanghai and seoul is DONE! yayy! i cant wait to start my adventure! =D

cant help but to feel that way. but i suppose if i dun feel that way, that means smth more serious. rah. how we think affects how we behave and feel. need some positive thoughts to counteract the negatives! angsty max.

HURRAY! its the end of exam! *claps

my final exam in university! woohoooo!

met ben for dinner at bugis after my last paper =) we are finnnnalllly meeting after what seems like a week.   

<3

wedding part 2

wedding dinner at regent hotel!

my sis and her garden theme! hahahha! that explains for the grassy carpet.

my sis asked me to be her emcee for her wedding dinner tog with linus bro. and im supposed to be the chinese translator =x was so nervous initially but thank goodness, warmed up and was fine thereafter =) anyway, when the spotlight shines on me, i cant see anyone either. that kind of lessen my anxiety.

my niece! =D she has been such a great helper. she was with me throughout the night helping my erjie to hold her wedding gown, and she was all so excited. so cute =)

left the hotel only at 11plus pm. was all tired and fell right aslp when i got home. and the worst part was i had to prepare for my exams. zzzz.

now my sis and linus is happily honeymoon-ing at maldives =)

wedding part 1

woke up at 5am to get ready and all the bridesmaids reached our place at 6.30am! started to prepare stuff for gatecrash and did our makeup together.

i think our gatecrash was way too awesome. no physical activity at all because we thought that was way too common. so our gatecrash was a test of FINE MOTOR SKILLS =D hahahahha!!! we started with a 'welcome drink' - a concoction of pure lime concentrate with freshly squeezed lime (hoping that will make it more sour), topped with freshly cut red chillies and finished it off with sour plums. our drinks came together with a plate of freshly cut green mangos, and we specially rubbed red chillies on the green mangos and decorated it with our leftover sour plums. you know how guys just cant take sour stuff. but they were awesome. they finished the drink in one gulp. *thumbsup

next, we gave the guys a few words and they had to compose a song based on the words we gave them. wasnt too much a problem for this task because they were really creative and could sing really well. we also got them to sew and decorate a cushion, fold paper rose, do yoga pose, write love letters. hahha! in short, the bridesmaids had so much fun during gatecrash =D before the guys could enter the master bedroom, we had them read out loud those love letters they wrote. hahah! it was really comical. too bad i don't have the photos of the cushion and the love letters on mylaptop.

the bridesmaids and my sis =D

haha! that small little teeny hand belongs to my niece. she is damn cute. the bridesmaids were taking photos and suddenly this little hand extended inwards. ahhahaha!

my sis in her ching chong qua.

i think it was really a touching moment when my dad walked down the aisle with my erjie. i cant help but got all teary. especially when the children sang 'the lamb of god'. omg. i cried. because it reminded me of those days when my dajie wrote lyrics to the tune of this song, and the 3 of us would memorised the lyrics and sing together. its like my childhood memories with my sisters and on her wedding day, the children just had to sing that song. so all my childhood memories came flooding and i suddenly thought im gonna miss my sister. hahahha! so silly. and my parents dajie and i all teared when linus and my erjie said their vows, and when linus sang a song for sis. omg. teary max.

im so gonna miss you erjie! *hugs

happy marriage with linus! =D ill come knocking on ur door whenever im free!

2 days before my erjie's weddddingggg.....

dajie and i accompanied my erjie to the bridal studio to do a final fit for her wedding gowns =)) all was good, collected the 2 gowns and 1 qua, and we all headed for manicure and pedicure. did i say its my first time doing a pedicure?!! hahahha! felt like a pampered princess. omg. okay nvm. anyway, sent my sis and linus back to yishun home before dajie and i rushed to do some last minute shopping for heels.
 

while waiting for erjie to finish her manicure and pedicure, dajie and i went to PS cafe for dessert! love that place. nice ambience. im always out eating with my dajie, and she seems to know all the nice places for dessert. heh! anyway, she sipped her earl grey tea and we shared this awesome double chocolate cake with ice cream. yums! sugar rush max.

and this is their famous truffle fries, we da bao-ed for my sis n linus. the portion of fries explained why it cost us $15.

recently there has been an influx of photos. haahha! and today is the last time im attending class in uni! sounds.......SADDDDD =(

class photo with prof, and she was so nice to treat the class for pizzas. haha! so we were basically munching on pizzas, passing around pizzas, drinking while she talked.

this looks pretty scary actually. HAHA!

class ended at 8.30pm and we went around taking photos for like an hr. ahhahah! =)) and 2 guys walked past while we were attempting to do our jumpshot. i think they must had thought we were silly. but ya, they offered to help us take probably because they noticed we couldnt capture it at the right time for like donkey times. haha!

its last week of schooooolllll! and my last lesson with gregor! booohoooo! yeah, gregor is my fav prof for this sem just because i think he is good looking. HAHA!

my presentation group mate! =)) and prof gregor's effort to draw a do do bird on the board behind us. yeah, we have learnt that the dodo bird verdict says 'everyone has won so all shall have prizes' (basically the verdict argued that common factors across all psychotherapies were so pervasive such that there would only be small differences in the outcomes of comparisons of different form of psychotherapies, which of course is not true ah). so that ends the lecture for the entire sem =)

eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) thats what we were pointing! our topic for presentation. HAHA! won't forget the funny video we did =)

wooohooo! photos with prof gregor! HAHAHAHA! make me happy for a day. everyone was like queuing to take photos with him.

IM BORED AT 'MEET THE PPL SESSION''. done typing all the letters, waiting for them to be vetted so i that i can print them. so lets do some updating......oh yes, might just be resigning from MPS.

headed school in the morning to submit hardbound copy of my thesis + 2 CDs!
more photos at the psychology department!

yes! we need to take photos with our hardbound copy. (actually i already submitted my hardbound copy earlier on. hahahah! i actually kope someone else's hardbound copy. cant tell la huh, its the same from far)
prof and her thesis students! =D

stayed back in school to study with the company of earl grey latte! =D fav drink for the sem now. found it so much more productive studying in starbucks than at home.

craving for tom yum soup =x

headed to church in the afternoon for briefing on my sister's wedding. ended in the afternoon and i left to meet my da jie for shoppping =) accompanied her to get a dress for erjie's wedding. got that settled and we found ourselves comfortable at thai express for tom yum soup =) omg. i swear that outlet had the most potent tom yum soup. it was uber spicy!!! we each had like 3 glasses of water =x but ya, e more spicy it is, e more u want to drink it.

headed down to clark quay to meet up with my erjie and other bridesmaids for dinner! and we came across this pretty balloon sculpture at central. so we had to stop by to take photos. haha! =)

looks like some neoprint. the happy 3 sisters.
settled for dinner at boomarang =) and we had this awesome dessert at this awesome place (cant rmb the name)

and we cabbed home! the good thing of having my dajie around. ahahha!

THESIS SUBMITTED! =D mixed feelings actually - happpy with traces of paranoia. just felt my thesis wasnt good enough. whatever it is, just don't let my thesis drop below a grade B =x

that day my prof was still asking me what was my expectation for thesis. i said a B+ and she looked at me with her eyes wide open....'u aiming for first class honours?' i was like 'noooo...first class needs A- right?"and she was like 'oh yeah.' YAR. THE POINT IS AVERAGE GRADE FOR THESIS IS A B. i seriously wonder whether thats good or bad. B+ seems unreachable eh? but yeah, lowered expectation already. B is good enough for me.


my first ever photo taken in psychology department. hahahaha!

cheers to finishing thesis anyway! all my sweat and blood and many many cups of earl grey latte/ caramel machiatto, all my exasperation and slpness night and everything. now i can only cross my fingers and hope that everything will be fine.

now i need to start studying for exams!

i cant wait to just submit my thesis and go party. tsk.

my thesis has been pretty smooth sailing thus far. i was lucky i got significant results and thus, didnt have to relook at other variables and i was able to start writing my thesis early. YAR. JUST WHEN U THOUGHT EVERYTHING SEEMS PLEASANT, SOMETHING JUST GOTTA HAPPEN.

I REALISED OUR CODINGS FOR TEMPERAMENT WERE REVERSED. so what was supposed to be coded as easy, we coded as difficult and vice versa. AND SO, MY RESULTS ARE NOW IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AND NOW I GOTTA RETHINK ARGUMENTS FOR MY FINDINGS. ROARS. hate it when im just done drafting my discussion and happily sent it to my prof and this gotta happen.

and so i frantically emailed my prof and explained to her the possibility of our mistakes. and her reply was '.........................welll looking at the positive sides....you still have time to make changes' HAHHAA! she must had felt so speechless.

and when things like that happened, it stresses me like @#$%@$%^@$%^. don't like it when my schedules are disrupted. got so stressed yesterday i barely ate anything and HEY I LOST A KG. looking at the bright side =)

meijuan's mini birthday celebration! =))

i met joyce earlier just to get cakes for meijuan. and it was so funny because its the first time ever that i bought pandan cake (nono, not those ntuc pandan cake with a hole in e middle, abit more atas than that) for friends on a birthday =x joyce insisted on getting bengawan solo pandan cake to disturb meijuan and i was like...ermmm...u sure? i always associate pandan cake with my ah ma birthday =x haha! its like those elderly usually like to eat those pandan cake. BUT YA ANW. we bought a slice of pandan cake and coffee cake and joyce secretly passed it to the waitress at the place where we were dining.

and its really goood to hear mj finalllly get tog with cg. its like 3 long years of waiting and she's finally enjoying her fruits of labour. i admire her man. i don't know how many girls are willing to wait for a guy, and to wait with the possibility that there will not be any outcome. but yea, so mj is deeply in love now. hahahha! *thumbsup

after dinner, i went to the counter to get the waitress to serve the cake. AND TO MY SURPRISE, mj loves pandan cake! HAHAHAHH! well done joyce, u made the right choice =D

when u are getting sick and tired of doing your work.....u need some colours on ur nails =)

therapy with momo has been getting on pretty well, except for a few occasions in which he went uncontrollable. but he is still cute nonetheless =) i tried singing barney song to him and i kind of forgot the lyrics.

i love you
you love me
we are happy family
with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
NO MORE PURPLE DINOSAUR (hahhaha! i really just sang that =x)

i got mixed up with the different versions of barney song apparently. hahah!

met bf to study in the afternooon before i left to meet my sis and her friends for dinner.
the bride and her bridesmaids =)

we tried out a couple of dresses. initially we were thinking of getting the same shade of colour but with different designs for the dresses, but ended up, everyone just decided to get the same dress. partly cox dresses in that shade of colour are limited and everyone seems to just fit in nicely with that same dress. so within an hour or two, we were done shopping for our dresses =)