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

just met the percussion gals for dinner! i loveee meeting them for meals. they're like my escape into candyland. no matter how nonsensical you are, they are there to reciprocate.

and my hands are getting drier and drier from all the alcohol rub in the wards..it's disgustingly scaly and dry.

and i managed to sneak in a short run at the workplace gym during lunch after not running for the past three weeks. as usual i'm lil miss last minute. coz frickin stanchart is this weekend...but i've got my strategy all planned. run non-stop for the first 12k then it's walk-run-photowhore combi with lianey pokes! but the run at the gym this afternoon reminded me how much i enjoy running. lovely endorphins coursing through my veins...

and bitbit has finally poo-ed!! wheepeee! haha..she has been having loads of gas in her tummy the past few days the poor thing. and loads of diarrhoea fed her some eno salts solution and spend some time snuggling with her in bed and tadah! solid poo!

right bedtime!

last night i dreamt of you.

and just today i came across a folder named 'APL Kennedy' in my email. read through all the letters. wow.

not sure whether you still visit. i'm not sure what i'd prefer. but just for awhile. just pretend you didn't see this. let me bask in the warmth of those mirthful carefree days.

met kelvin 'cow' lim for lunch at din tai fung the other day. and thank god he gave me an earlier warning bout him looking caveman-like. because when i saw him, i went arghhhh inside! haha someone hasn't been touching the razor since forever. but it actually didn't look too bad on him. cross my heart!

and hearing news of the guys over xlbs and chinese fare reminded me why things remained status quo. it's always easy to lose sight of the logical reason.

and fried food cook-out!!!


haha with my favourite sphag and cheese topping! i think my pasta cravings are finally over. been eating it a tad bit too much.



she'll probably kill me for posting her pictures here but i love you momo!

in the middle of the week, she took half day leave to spend time with me. so after changing our choice destination just about a few hundred times. wanted to go central for manhatten fish market. then putien at city sq for high tea buffet. we finally decided to hit orchard central to check out the new mall. yea i know i must be one of the last few people to step in.

the roof garden was nice! the wind a little too strong though. think i must have flashed to the many grandpapas and grandmamas having their afternoon yum cha at this atas hk restaurant there one time too many )):

and since we still couldn't decide what to have for lunch and my mum was in dire need of her afternoon caffeine shot, we decided to have tea time first.


and the donut place at taka now has mini donuts as well! sher!! 5 for $2.80! haha..see what you've done when you introduced me to the wonder that was the strawbeery white choc donut. the oreo choc is darn good as well. choc and oreo crumbs on top, cookies and cream filling in the middle.


we decided to settle at ginza bahrain. since i've always wanted to try the food there. katsu katsu you remind me soo much of tokyo. i wanna go back there so bad!


had an awesome day with my mum.


and she just came back bearing my favourites fruits. guava grapes mango banana oranges. and meesiam chickenmerak and my favourite mousetail noodles for lunch. she's also cooking crabs for dinner. best mum in the world!

have an arsenal of backdated posts. so here's how the last weekend went before the new one starts.

we had the weekly family food haunt on saturday instead. and it saw us heading down to my dad's childhood neighbourhood of commonwealth to try the zi char at this place called two chefs. the butter pork chops and the cereal huge prawns were good stuff man.


stomach filled but our appetite fuelled by the awesome food, we went off in search of desserts. found this place called bee garden. mango pomelo. durian penget ice. chendol. three dates cheng ting. we kept finishing one bowl and ordering another. the shop keeper must have been gleefully having ringing cash till sounds in her head.


my dad dropped us gals off at orchard. and boy did we soak up the xmas festive cheer! love the light-up at orchard! did some shopping. crabtree & evelyn was having a 20% off specials so while my mum and sis were deciding what to buy, i went round the shop spritzing eau de toilettes and smattering on hand lotion. the india hicks range smells sooo good.


and then we were hungry again so it was refuelling time at ion's food hall!


and i've been waking up in the middle of the night feeling super hungry. so comfort food. instant mee pok with sausage!


and sunday was spring-clean the extra room day. we dismantled my one year old birthday gift. sniffs!!


and i found lots of old-school toys beneath all the crevices.


and my fisher price toy mixer!



today for the first time in my life, i experienced what it was like to feel hypo. hypoglycaemic that is. in the midst of topping up rounds in the wards today, i felt a combination of the above symptoms and all i wanted to do was squat down and curl into a ball.

you have ----------. said a doctor while i was recuperating in a seat beside him. gave a nervous laugh as reply. coz nothing was processing in my brain.

had a second episode in a different ward. have never felt like this before. today's my first rotation at orthopaedics and surgery. pls don't let me appear weak in front of the pharmacist. because i am so not one of those fainting women. and it isn't like i didn't have breakfast because i had extra today. extra bread. extra cup of milk. weird.

but i'm glad cherie's over at cgh for an exchange! reminds me of school all over again. trooped out to lunch. can't wait for tomorrow! gonna try the fermented red noodles soup thing cherie had. vinegar-ish. yums!

and i normally hate house music. but the song daul kim posted on her last blog post sounds extraordinarily awesome.



i miss school. i miss my life years back. i miss the comfort. but i wouldn't give anything for the last couple of years as well. it's just a low point right now agnes. it would pass.

it may be me

but right now it's all you

i wish you would disappear

do something right. make us happy.

made an impromptu trip down to little India tonight with niron to get a punjabi suit for his bro's wedding..went a bit goggle-eyed at the jarring colours and freely used embellishments of the suits..decided to settle for a very very basic one as I foresee it being stored in the depths of my wardrobe after the do..

Objective settled, we decided to go grab a quick bite while the suit was being altered. Left niron to settle our dinner as it was his tuft afterall. Wasn't expecting much but the place he brought us to was pretty good!


had my all time favourite Kashmiri naan!!


as well as paneer butter masala and papadum..love them loads too!


it's been a long time since we hung out..haven't been in the same rotation as him since the start of pre-reg. Had a good time just chatting..and we missed you joy..especially all the time the three of us spent tgt in Nepal and Bangkok..I so wanna go back to the fish tail lodge in pokhara..whispered to the place that I'll return one day with someone impt...

And little India meant taking bus number 23..thought I'd be super emo-ed out after the ride..but surprisingly there was none at all...owellss it's been some time I guess...

Shall head to bed right now..pretty tired as usual..saw this at outpatient and the little cartoon piggy and cow put a big smile on me!



i thought our feud was over. apparently not so. i shouldn't have let my guards down so easily. just wanted the family to not put on any additional weight no longer.

the week in a few pictures.

lovely unity pharmacy night. the food was good as was the company. thanks mel for the invitation!


dinner with car and andrea at the bark cafe. really nice windy place to relax and chat. have the weirdest craving for salmon so much these days.


whipped up some fried eggs and leftover fish, chicken, pork from the fridge. yummy comfort food.


and i came up with a poster for the year-end party at my workplace. loveee it!


my 5 week stint at outpatient is over. i'm really gonna miss the place. have grown to love the place and its people.

fell asleep right after my bath. the next time i was conscious, the clock read 11.15pm. i was like woah dinner's over?

my mum said to go cook some instant mee. was thinking nah it's late better not to eat too heavily.

ended up scuffling down bread and cake from tomorrow's breakfast as well as two extra bags of chips. NOT GOOD. i hope nobody notices the two bags gone. yikes!

now i can't slp because i'm too MSG-overloaded....just got off the phone with joy. it's a ripe ol' time of 4.30am in the morning..shall just spend time with bitbit and antm in bed!

this week went past faster than i imagined. but it wasn't all good. i felt constantly tired ALL the time. it's worrying me. i'd fall aslp before 10 every night. like a clockwork mouse that ran out of all its winding.

tuesday started great. saw a kitten lying beside the lolly headed kitty at the bottom of my flat. was a little too slow snapping the pic haha i was laughing my head off when i saw it.


was almost home when i called my mum and made an impromptu trip to town where we had an awesome dinner at the food opera place. chicken rice and ngoh hiang again. and the main aim of the trip to town? haagen daaz was on specials at isetan scotts! tooted back with 4 tubs. of which i must have only had 5 spoonfuls. momo and the bee are going at them at an amazing quick rate.

and then it was friday where i had my presentation. whoo one more down. had ce talk early in the morning and tutorial late into the evening as well. so i was super bushed by the time i met up with the 19 guys for parathaaa. but it was still great fun. haven't seen sher for the longest time ever. and just look at alex and titus' pose. hilarious!


so today's family foodie haunt was at chinatown market. had ngoh hiang yet again but it was goood. had the usual satay bee hoon, char kway teow, popiahs and almond/sesame paste desserts.

then our dad whisked us off to sentosa to show us the new upcoming coasters..


and the faboo houses around sentosa cove. would i ever earn that much money in my life to get me one of those!


have a little ocd. but as we learned during the sat sesh, it's not one until it persists. so go away little ocd. and i need me some fairy dust to bring me through the week. but there's plenty to go round, so good week ahead everyone!



while giving bitbit a bath this afternoon, i found a growth on her hind leg. i'm not going to get all paranoid and edgy yet. but i'm worried. and when i'm worried, i junk food bomb myself. not good.

today must be the worst monday in a while. argh!

i think runs are bad for me. it gives me an excuse to eat too much before them and sleep too much after. coz that's just what i did.

met the 19 people and had popeyes for dinner and prata (again!) for supper on saturday. was mighty full after popeyes but was thinking heeeck i'm running tomorrow anyways. haha and it's the guys' turns to feel body conscious. alex kept showing us his tummy. or what little there was of it. haha..reminds abit of someone ain't it khor khro dile??

after the run today, met up with car, piled ourselves with tubfuls of swenson's ice cream and jumped into her car for some macgriddles at good ol's macs. somehow, macD brekkie on a sunday morning seemed like the most natural thing to do.

after i got home to clean up and grab a change of clothing, it was like engine shut down all the way. headed out for the family sunday lunch food haunt. fell aslp in the car before my dad even turned out of the car park. woke up to find myself at tiong bahru market. fell aslp again the moment i buckled up when we headed to gramps. fell asleep the whole time at my grandma's. fell aslp again on the car ride home from grandma's. 'agnes' snoring!' whispered bernice in the car. THAT I HEARD. came home and guess what..yea i fell aslp. til' i heard that dinner was ready. managed to stay awake after dinner for a little while. but by 10pm, somehow my feet found its way to bed and i was out like a log again.

too much sleep..too much! i hated how much of the weekend i wasted on sleep. now that work's started, my weekends are waay too precious to spend it on sleep.

and because i've been missing these guys too much, i decided to dig up the drafts from long ago. so here's more of KL.

left off at the night out at the skybar. lianey pooks joined us soon after, bearing a cake for mel!


birthday cake number 2, if the huge pao the night before counted as one heh..







haha, parry made some comment about being abused and shouldered by mel...


we stayed til midnight for the snack bites. which was beehoon in chinese takeout boxes.



wheepyy my favourite shot of the trip!


everyone was bushed after. i've never expected to see anyone look so uninterested at pratas haha..joy and mel don't kill meee!


i just scrambled down loads of cheesecake )): the bakerzin cheesecake promotion was ending so my mum bought the entire cake, split it into half. so one half is in the refrigerator, the other half's in the freezer. and the frozen one tastes awesome! okay here's to a week of detox. before i meet up with car and andrea for the buffet next week. lovely week ahead everyone! it's november!