The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

happy birthday ps lim! and happy halloween y'all! just last year we were stuffed with awesome dimsum and racing through the pelting rain somewhere around 4am with our butterfly wings. i miss you guys and our crazy spontaneity...

started the non-essential carb-loading earlier in the night. though it was more like an excuse to pig out. and excuse the eyebags and lack of colour. even my trusty blusher is not enough to de-zombify me. met the carz for murtabak. it's been too long.


craving settled. we moved on to ikea and giant. it's like mandatory to get the hotdog bread no matter how stuffed you are. )): but one thing mutual is the love for the blast of pine wood smell that you breathe in the moment you step into ikea.

car's embarking on her afternoon of baking tomorrow so she had to get ingredients from giant. i just love grocery shopping!

it's raining yet again on halloween this year. gonna clean myself up and head to bed with greys. many people warned me bout the onslaught of emotions but strangely there's placidly none. guess there's still unsaid stuff but we're both skirting the topic. we should stop placing everything in limbo.

right loads of work and finally meeting them 19 guys again. can't wait for the catch up. but right now. rest!

am in need of sleep very badly. whilst my dad gave me a lift home from the hospital, i fell aslp and was nodding all over the seat. the journey took just 5 minutes so usually i'll chat to him. but i was that tired today.

couple of pictures and i'm off for my much needed sleep. had another drug co sponsored dinner at marriott this time round. was craving for jap food so i gave a little whoop when i saw that the starters comprised of maki and sashimi. (((:


my family trooped down to the nearby mall for fish & chips a couple of weeks ago. i'm craving for fish & co's lemon butter sauce. it's so awesome. and i wouldn't have known there was such a sauce if not for sab!


and our sunday lunch foodie haunt was to maxwell market coz my family saw the ngoh hiang stuff on some tele show and they all wanted to have it.


shepherd's pie sitting in the oven, with my mum's delicious chicken filling. the hearts are done by the bee.


and speaking of food. last night i woke up at 3am because i felt soo hungry. sat at the dining table and the only thing there was donuts from the donut factory. fell back into bed and slpt so soundly after.


just spent the entire night looking at recipes. breah....

on the other hand, i spent the earlier part of the night at a drug co sponsored talk with a few of my colleagues. it's lovely to get to know them better..and the food's not too bad at all. i need to learn how to cook baked prawn with cheesy cream sauce!

and that was how i woke up to find the world on a sunday morning. gentle thunder rumblings with the lightest of rain. wonderful weather for breakfast and the morning papers.

so i discovered a wonderful accompaniment to the fluffy kueh bahlus. honey. and my mum just bought this lovely version of leatherwood honey.


here's how the weekend went. saturday saw my dad dropping my mum off for her trip to malaysia and me for the human nike race. had a banana in the car prior to the run.


the banana on top of the breakfast combi was a little too much and i kept regurgitating the food while running. not good. kept smelling banana. at the end of the race, i was presented with a banana at the finish point. acks! it was promptly abandoned minutes later at a little corner.

came home, cleaned myself up and fell into a deep slumber which felt so good. but it pretty much forecasted the rest of my weekend as well. the run zapped most of my energy so much so that i spent most of saturday and sunday napping.

went to meet bee on saturday night in town because she told me of schu's half-price off promotion.


their lovely birthday decor. if i ever had to plan a birthday party again, i would totally enact this ceiling covered with balloons decor.


bee also showed me this lovely bookstore at ION. they have the most wonderful diaries there. i'm so totally eyeing a couple of the 2010 planners.


and the infamous queue for the jap octopus balls shop was significantly shorter so we had to try it. and it's vunderful! haha..crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. i burned my tongue while being too greedy though.


and bitbit's been a huge fan of our snacking as well. she loves my current comfort food. honey Ohs, which my sis and i are consuming at an alarming rate.


she loves chocolates as well!


and we may not be the wealthiest family around but i love how my mum adds little bits of affordable luxury into our lives. it made my day when i discovered cornflower prints on the toilet paper!



yesterday my mum came back from malaysia bearing goodies galore...muruku, durian of course and my new favourite fruit dragonfruit. don't ask me why i have no idea why it's so appealing as well!

in addition, she brought back two huge boxes of kueh bahlu and it's sooo good.


alright shall leave another picture of the fluffy moist little ones..have a good sunday!



i think i overdid the carb-loading bit a little too much..so now here i'm sitting before my laptop with a tummy as distended as a two year old's. but heck after a whole load of change of schdules, i managed to take leave for the run later on. have to be up by 5.30am..wish me luck!

i'm still tired...have been feeling this way ever since i've got into OP. it's a madhouse in there. and it's getting busier by the day. today we stayed back 30 minutes past knock off time to clear the queue.

met the brain for dinner finally. had teppanyaki and caught up. he's a good bf to his yukiibaby really. we'll eat somewhere better next time alright..i'll start the sourcing now since we're both anything-laa people haha.

and we had the peanut pancake thing from jollibean after. i think i've officially killed the craving of the peanut pancake. ate it at least 10 times in the last month.

can't wait to wake up for brekkie tmr though since my mum bought bread from provence bakery again..love their milk pan and blueberry jam cheese...

and carmeny mo i'm up for that plaster and murtabak anything if you'll stop calling me limo..it sounds horrible!

right bedtime.....

spent the day today at outpatient hunting down patients to explain the workflow behind the pharmacy as part of an initiative to allow them to understand why they have to wait. had the two poly students as my companions and boy did i get imbued by their youthfulness.

i know i'm not an old granny either. but being among these young ones make me feel old. so woe to mellowing...

couldn't keep my eyes open at the meeting today so i had coffee from the canteen and it was so strong it came up in my pee a couple of hours later. have a feeling i need more caffeine later tomorrow. speaking of which, dearest bee brought back a can of coke for me. awful sweet of her.

and anyone who's heading to phillipines should google 'goldilocks polvoron' because they are awesome shortbread-like snacks that turn up in the pantry and brighten up everyone's day especially mine!






we took a short walk down to clark quay after and had supper at tcc. we ordered the warm chocolate cake which we waited 20 minutes for after ordering. but once it arrived, it promptly got wiped out in 30 seconds because the warm chocolate in the middle was so oozey it got everywhere the moment we cut into the cake. my chocolate craving from having missed max brenner's was sooo not sated. but still it was fun snuggling into the beanbags and just chatting bout nought.

crazy day coming up later. need me some caffeine to tide through the day.

so finally our second test at work is over. time for a mini breather.

i'm having energy problems. i feel so tired all the time after i knock off from work. i'm not sure if it's the haste of being at outpatient. just yesterday, instead of studying for the test, i decided to take a nap. my mum did attempt to wake me up, but all i recalled doing was to mumble something about needing to recharge myself. woke up at 4am but decided to head back to bed. so in some miraculous ways, i managed to pass the test today.

but i like it over at outpatient. like the friendly banter with the staff. like sneaking into the pantry for little bites. speaking of bites, my appetite has decreased like any. i'm not sure why that is so. but i get very annoyed when people around me question my food intake. i was used to overeating but recently, getting very frequent reflux has made me stop when i'm full. and now it's like getting rid of my gluttony is a crime. zzzzz.

have tons of updates but i guess that'll have to wait because i can feel the sleep monster coming to claim me. and i've been having the most bizarre life-like dreams the last few nights. owells, i guess i'm still an extravagant, idyllic, fairy-tale kinda person at heart. eyelids damm heavy..gdnight world. i hope it rainsss.....




so i met carmy for cycling! well mostly we ate more than we cycled. we had ice cream chef, katong laksa, and HK cafe foodie stops in the 3 hours we cycled. so from siglap to fort road and back to ecp, that's like more putting in than working out. ))): but we still had fun! haven't seen the sun in ages, i feel like an albino worm. but seeing carmen's funky sunburns from cycling a week ago made me slap on the sunblock and use the sundown visor for the very first time. and the pavements of katong are NOT meant for cycling. so we cycled on the road and i had heart attacks each time a heavy vehicle roared past me. there's a reason why there's something called night cycling.


and my modem finally konked and breathed its last. so now i'm pretty much internet-less. depending on the few sporodic connections that my laptop makes to unknown networks. makes me feel like neo in the matrix or henry in the time traveler's wife heh. okay loads of nonsense. i'm off to work!

last two weeks have been crazy, it's mainly been filled by a got to get work done mindset interspersed with lots of hours long naps. though how much work has really been done is an area so grey i don't even want to go there.

been very unkind to my body lately. too much binge snacking, giving excuses for skipping runs, having naps instead of proper sleep.

and somehow in the midst of it all, october's here. i don't really like october. it's the month that reminds you that the end of the year is really just around the corner. time's been flying. i'm not sure if it's all that good.

but this is not like some emo rant. i'm still sated with what's on my plate. work's been treating me well. skipped some outings with friends but managed to squeeze in some girly talk time with andrea and car over chicken wings and meatball at ikea. met greg to do some work but he has some insane ability to psp and study at the same time.

have a half day off in the middle of this week! haven't made plans but carmy just reminded me how much i miss cycling.....