FAREWELL! Dance your heart out dudes!

Fred and Clem are leaving for Prague tonight to represent Ensemble in an international dance competition. So, as friends in support of them, we've prepared them some presents - one of which is a drawing for each of them, at the back of which we'd scribble our wishes.

As for the other presents, shall update tonight lest Clem or Fred are still lurking around on the Net instead of doing last checks on their baggage. :P

Fred, this is drawn with the lovely colour pencils that you gave me for my birthday. I really love them. It's the first drawing that I've done with your art supplies, and this won't be the last. Thanks so much for reminding me about the haven that I find in art, it's one of the best presents that I've gotten. (((:

It's been, what, 2 years since I last drew a sketch in colour pencils? I hope I've still retained some of my skills, while I don't expect to have the same eye for detail, speed and technique. Hope you guys like it!

All the best Clem and Fred, dance your heart out! Enjoy yourselves while you're there, where the heat and humidity don't escalate to unbelievable levels.

Kinky Shoes Arrive

Arrived a week after my birthday, like 2 days after Red Dot. Quoting verbatim from Weiting. "I love your shoes! They're so kinky!"

Red Dot (birthday celebrations cont'd)

We went to the Red Dot Brewhouse on the 5th of June, after unabashedly claiming the long awaited treat from Dearie at Red Dot. He had promised to bring me there "one day" whereupon that quote was uttered about 2 months ago. What a right time to bring it up again! Hahah.

For those of you who don't know what is so special about Red Dot Brewhouse, here's a little intro for you. The Singaporean owner, Ernest Ng, had met 2 South African soldiers while on a family holiday at the Kruger National Park in 1998. They offered him a bottle of beer, and was told that it was a home-brew when he asked what brand it was. Later on, he went on to a homebrew shop in Johannesburg where he chose some ingredients that were packed into package with a single RedDot, and that began his foray into beer-brewing.

Since then, the brews, as well as the well designed restaurant @ Dempsey Hill have received numerous accolades.

I saw a rainbow on the floor, where sun shone through the glass at the busstop.
It was in the morning, on the way to work.

For this day, I wore this dress that I bought very long ago while on a shopping trip with Mo, and we both have the same dress. It's a uber pretty, flowery, lacy dress. In fact, the whole dress is covered in lace. Instead of looking frivolous and bimbotic, we both thought the dress was awesome in its wholesome vintage-ness. My new shoes hadn't arrived yet, so I was wearing my worn down red leather heels, and the dress on clinched at the waist with a large brown belt. But I don't have a full length picture of myself from that day.

We arrive at the restaurant to where a huge red balloon greeted us.

This way please.

The romantically lit entrance.

The house of the brewing gizmos.

I just love this shot.

Effect achieved by placing napkin over flash.

RedDot Lime Wheat and Monster Green beers. The Monster Green was good.

They have lanterns that seem to hover above the paths around the compound. It is really pretty!

Von and Freddo arrive after Kate Willis class. They're ravenous.

Perfect for cheeselovers:
Xuzi's order was the classic 4 cheese pizza - Quattro Formaggi. No meat served.

I was dying to have mushrooms, so I ordered Pollo -
BBQ chicken, mushrooms, onions and bell peppers.

Von's Pumpkin Lasagna. Soozey said the baby spinach topping was a forest of weeds that he'd never touch, just while Fred was gasping at the same said "forest" in envy.

Fred ordered Duck Confit. Apparently the right way to say it is
[con-FEE!] with the FEE! sounding high pitched and nasal.

I told you. He's hungry.

Our order.

That's a tower of beer that't not ours. I'm just showing you this shot to show off this picture. I love my camera, muahaha.

We also ordered a basket of juicy, fried Shitake mushrooms as appetisers, being the funghi-lovers that we are, and stopped ourselves from finishing them all before Von and Fredo came. But oops, it was gone too fast for the camera to snap a decent picture of it. Just order it if you go there!

We ordered another jug of Czech Pilsner to quench our thirst in the sweltering weather. I think by this time I was a little sleepy and light headed from drinking beer like water.

Czech Pilsner is a really great drink, smooth and light hop (whatever that means, lifted off the website) I shall order it if I ever come back again! And for those who are looking for nice places to host their birthdays at, this is one great place that I'd recommend. There is a little yard where the grass patch is alternately tiled with huge stone tiles. The ambience will be great whether in the afternoon for tea or at night for socialising activity. But I believe the cost is a little on the high side.

As always, it's a great time with the intellectual jokers. I love your company!

Gadgets for the endless office hours

I was browsing Firebox.com and started looking for gadgets that'd relieve me of the painfully long hours I spend in the office staring at the computer. Of course, that'd be great if we have some of them placed behind the receptionist counter to entertain us poor SAs on duty, heheh.

So browsing all those nonsensical gadgets sort of brightened up my terribly gloomy day that started with a lady stepping on my foot with her heels and then looking nonchalantly at me. I really felt like asking, sorry did I hear something? Wahraus.

Aggravated by the fact that I already can't walk properly because I idiotically walked into the glass doors at Danzpeople @ PoMo. (yes capital M so that it does not read as porno, credits to soozey :P) To think that I had already spent enough time at the new studios to know that their doors open INwards, not out like the usual glass doors. Argh. Freaking embarassing. I'm not the only one to do that. They've had people trying to walk into the studio through the glass walls and doors at the reception area. Double ARGH. They really should do something about all the glass, like some floral decals that match their card boxes? It'd look pretty enough.


So, here are my picks for some of the rather amusing, albeit useless gadgets:

Desktop Warfare Kits: CATAPULT!

Desktop warfare in a class of its own. Instead of arming yourself with crushed waste paper and ambushing your colleagues, arm it with collateral that you can fit into the catapult, and go! Best of all, it won't look like you've just thrown the offending article. Target will not know. But, your neighbours just might. :/

*gulp*

Desktop Coffee Maker: Aromatic beverage brewed in front of your sleepy eyes at your table!

Ok I got to admit that I really love this. I love my caffeine. This thing is small enough to fit on your table, just next to your monitor, and it is much more affordable than the thousand over dollar baby at Takashimaya. If this was at my table, I think I'd be having like 6 cuppas a day.

You can brew a cuppa for your colleague in the neighboring cubicle too after catapulting, and use it to blackmail him from tattling on you. 2 black mugs included.

Cube World: Let's Stack!

Were you crazy over Tamagotchi? I gotta admit, I was, and I wasn't all that crazy over the newer generation called Digimon. Each cube is inhibited by a little pixelated figure of a man, and each cube man has his own specialty/job. If you stack them together, they enter into each other's world and interact!

Buttons on the front of each cube allow you to control your virtual stick man to do everything from kick ups and pull ups to snake charming and juggling, but he will also entertain himself depending on his mood. That said, it goes on to say that each cube is armed with a motion sensor so he can respond to shakes and slides. On a particularly rough day he might bang his head against the wall, talk to Ralph on the great white telephone or shake his fist at you.

USB Whack-it: Ready, steady, WHACK!

Self explanatory enough I guess. But because it's connected to your computer and its a desktop game, this miniature version regretably, does not use the mallet, but you gotta press the lit up heads furiously!

Just as addictive. (: Can pretend each head is your colleague, your superior, or whichever office KPO that threatens to leak your secrets all the time. Imagine the amount of attention that you'll draw when you press the heads furiously, with all those noise.

Banana Guard: No more bruised bananas!

One of the most ridiculous looking creations of all-time, built just for the healthier alternative for a pick me up in the middle of the day. Ehm, what if my banana doesn't curve this way?

Hard Disk!

My spanking new external hard disk! My sister got it for me, 320GB for $105, at the PC show today, the one where I couldn't really find time to go and I really needed one new external HDD badly. I was so afraid my current one would die on me. >.<

Doesn't the design and the packaging look the least bit familiar?
But it's so pretty and slim and light! (:

And a copy of the scanned brochures.

Somehow the logo and the layout of the first brochure reminds me of Creative.

Sentosa Trips

Been spending a lot of time travelling to & fro Sentosa these days.

Happy Birthday Qi!

Her party was at Cool Deck at Siloso Beach. Pretty woman!

She's just 2 days younger than me, but her party was a day before mine. Now waiting for the third dragon's birthday, so that we can all go out and spend loads on food again haha.

Dearie and I went to Sentosa again a few days laterr. We didn't do much there, primarily because it was too damn warm to do anything. But we walked around slowly, in cooling pink clothes. Looking like tourists complete with camera in hand. And of course, the touristy photos that we took while being there. While the day was still light anyways.

Aha! Pirates of the Carribean you think?

Nope it wasn't! We went on the 4D ride, I think it's called the extreme log ride, and we had to wear these glasses. The moment we entered the waiting hallway, this annoying "Pirate" greeted us in his motley ways, and taught us how to sing pirate songs. =.=

While the ride was nothing short of predictable, I have to say that some of the effects were still good. But it's nothing compared to those simulating machines you have at the Singapore Discovery Centre. Remember those? You get to sit in one because you went there on a field trip, and the machine brings you through this coal mine, and you were jerked up and down left and right and upside down, with brilliant accompanying visuals.

IF you have a little more cash to spare, do go for the Desperados ride instead. With the hype that it generated when it opened a few months back, I reckon that would be money better spent.

We also went onto the Skyride (the one at the Luge area) and took a harrowing ride down the hill. For fear of my Birks dropping down into the realms of the unknown, I took them off and placed them on the bench, riding, yes, barefooted. Then fumbled to put them on before we had to hop off the bench again. I don't want to get my backside whacked by the flying bench!

What was really scary was that the ride stopped abruptly, and everyone in mid-air was left swinging on the benches for at least 3 minutes. By then I think I had already started to wonder how we were really gonna get down if the mechanism is spoilt.

Then we took a slow walk down Siloso Beach, and contemplated buying beer because it was so damn warm, even though it was like 8pm. 8pm and warm on a beach?! I haven't thought that would have been possible.

Anyways, I love cable car rides. Especially at night. We took the cable car ride back to Harbourfront, stayed on it, made a round to Mount Faber and came back down to Harbourfront again. Thankfully the car was cool enough, as we were high up in the air. The sight is rather romantic. (: It may not be the same on the flyer though, where it's highly likely that you would have to share the cabin with noisy kids. There goes a romantic date plan. =.='''

Hopefully such posts suffice while I wait for my birthday pictures to come from my photographers, edit them and show them here! (:

Here's a sneak preview:

After the whole party and MacDonald's gathering, of a very tired girl and boy.

Thanks so much Dearie. (:

Supersta(C)ruisee!

The Super OVERDUE post!

We went to the SAF Yacht Club on the 10th of May, and the driver was Mr CusMarCus-repeterSeng. He had just gotten his license, and we were to be his first passengers on a boat! GuineaPIGGGGs.

I also want to have a boat like this! When will I get one?

I forgot the bring my sunglasses, and Mo insisted on lending me her red ones, while she had her RayBans. :P How does it look?

Bali...

...not! We wish though.

The boardwalk.

I'm lovin' my new camera!

I LOVE YOU!

This is where we are going. Or so Navigator Seng said. But we have absolutely no idea where on the sea it is.

And this is just part of our loot!

Bye Buoy!

"We are going to paddle back to shore. NOW! Come you go the other side." Ade says.

We are all DRENCHED here. Because Navigator Seng is not at the wheel. Bright is! :(

Our Jack & Rose.

Finally it's time to take all the sunset pictures. Sundown!

Jack & Rose again.

I love this shot. It looks like a magazine shoot.

Restaurant City pouty lips.

... and we are back to the boardwalk!

It was really tiring, getting tan and drenched and all. But it was a really fun day. We went to Changi to eat prata and satay, and got our tired asses on the train back home. I wanna go on one again!

Pictures of my birthday will be up soon! (((: