looking back, i think i really can’t stay still in Singapore for long. i’ll jump at an opportunity to go overseas, no doubt.

just after i came back from Beijing on the 18th Jan this year, I left for Koh Samui, Thailand on 28th March, Batam, Indonesia on 28th June.

Now I’m think of going to bangkok next month.

Anyway, had not managed to complete blogging about koh samui after plenty of procrastination. let me jump start on the batam trip.

oh well, batam was nothing exciting or fun. and we were just that for a 2D1N. just a quick weekend getaway, i like. :))

alright, here comes the pictures~

there were baby, me, edwin, peiwen, janice, aaron, zhu hui, lina and malcolm.

we met at seng kang mrt station, at about 8a.m.

FInally we were on the ferry. The whole ferry ride took about 45 mins.

I love that shirt! Heh heh. Of cos the boyf won’t choose this if he were out shopping alone.

FYI,  Aaron and Zhu Hui (in the center) is together. They kept this from us. Even at this point when the photo was taken. It was only later during that night that they confessed. tsktsk.

my monkey!! was from beijing, went to Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia already!

This is supposed to be a room for 2 couples (There’s 3 couples in the trip but only 2 known ones). This kinda arrangement is quite weird. Haha.

We went to try this free aqua cycle. HAHAHA. You’ll see what it is later..

babyboy likes to take photo. keep snapping and snapping!

You see, another one.

And another one.

Hahahahaha. They were in a duck if i didn’t rmr wrongly. So basically Aqua Cycle is the most boring water sports you can experience. Haha. They cycled, but I just sat there. Hahaha. Oops. We did silly things like racing. Our speed was even slower than walking! I think a baby can crawl faster than this aqua cycle thing. Imagine how funny the race becomes. it was so slow! Feel like jumping into the waters and push it rather than cycle it.

oh i did not mentioned earlier that i was having a bad bad headache. that headache was with me for a few days even before we went to batam. i think its that period. anyway, we were at their grandest/biggest shopping mall called Nagoya Hill. it was so so so so boring! plus a headache and the don’t-like-to window-shop me, i was grouchy and baby had to put up with me. i finally couldnt stand it and suggested to find somewhere to sit down. and guess what, we were at level 2 and we couldn’t find the escalator to the 1st level. mind you, the place was only about half of far east i suppose? we walked round and round to find our way down. finally we settled down and baby started with the camera, photo taking session begins.

hahaha… totally can’t be bothered by his actions.

and finally, we took a proper picture..

and this was still like 2-3p.m. in batam. I’ll continue again in my next post.

there’s so many things which i had not blogged about. then again, can’t possibly be free to blog about everything huh. haha.

so there was the BiTC mini-gathering @ Beijing Yuan, a restaurant catering Beijing cuisines. (at a rather cheap price!) must say that the food tastes good and its totally worth the price.

so the guys were all talking about army and recounting anecdotes. Heh heh. i miss those days. man, i wish we can go back to Beijing and stay together again!

again, allow me to let the pictures do the talking huh.

coincidentally met my biaoge and beloved PP there. lovelove. hee~

this is felicia chin’s boyfriend wanna be. tsk tsk~

baby’s roomie in Beijing, my 24/7 friend (i wish, haha), yongsheng

my downstairs neighbor, my buddy buddy. YANG!

the 2 man. hee.

please help me ask them what are they doing…

yongsheng doing a stamford

gek seng slimmed down by a trucksload! ahh, amazing army it is..

and finally, the group photo. me, the only girlie that night. haa~

its our 6th month.

tried to do something special you know, like what couples usually do for 1st month, 2nd month, 3rd month, 4th month, 5th month, 6th month, 1 year, 2 year….. thus we decided to go for a picnic at sentosa.

so this morning… that silly boy who woke up at 5a.m. and woke me up.. ahem…

me: baby, we quickly wake up and go to the wet market to buy the ingredients for the food we are going to prepare for our picnic la… ok?

the boyf: okay okay can, let’s sleep for 5 more mins then we wake up and go..

5 hours passed..

the boyf: ermm.. baby, very late already you know.

me: (sheepishly..) huh.. what’s the time now?

the boyf: eh.. 10a.m.

*imagine an emoticon, with that smiley’s hand to his forehead. *

so our picnic plans had to be postponed. but, all’s not lost.. we went for shopping!!! :))

oh well, actually its just me doing the shopping. but shopping once in a while makes me feel good! heehee.

kinda blew my own wallet and boyf’s.

one thing we found out: NEVER PARK IN TAKASHIMAYA. gosh. we were there for less than 4 hours, and the parking fees sums up to $13.80! Sighhh.

btw, happy birthday papa!!! Heehee. May you live a long, healthy life. Love you many.

I just realized I had been blessed several times for the past 7 days since B enlisted last week.

Thursday: Gong2 whipped up his specialties. His food is yum-yum!

Friday: My boss brought me to 老北京 for lunch. Ahhh, all the yummilicious 公保鸡丁, 小龙包, etc etc.

Saturday: Met my darling fen at 日本村 for dinner. And that silly girl insisted to treat me as a celebration of my ‘promotion’. I thought I should be the one treating!

Sunday: Asked (Read: Strongly urged) papa to bring me to Daily Scoop for ice-cream. Had my usual double scoop, Sunny Strawberry and Kookie Monster. Just that this time, I don’t have B sharing it with me. B, I can’t finish it without you, and it just doesn’t taste the same.

Monday: Hang out with Xiaowei, Ai Ping and 表哥 over dinner @ NYDC. We went on dutch, but it was good time spent together.

Tuesday: Aunt Anna messaged me suddenly and suggested to meet up for dinner. We went to Coffee Club at Raffles place. We fought for the bill but she won. I’m happy that she treated, but I’m so determine to win over the bill next time we meet.

Wednesday (Today): Merry, our new and pretty colleague gave me 2 packets of biscuits. Hee. 1 plain crackers and 1 Strawberry Apollo. I gave her 1 of my big red strawberries in the morning too!

Tomorrow will be Thursday again. Can’t wait to meet my gong2. Heh heh….

1. Green Tea and Cancer
Green tea helps reduce the risk of cancer. The antioxidant in green tea is 100 times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times better than vitamin E. This helps your body at protecting cells from damage believed to be linked to cancer.

2. Green Tea and Heart Disease
Green tea helps prevent heart disease and stroke by lowering the level of cholesterol. Even after the heart attack, it prevents cell deaths and speeds up the recovery of heart cells.

3. Green Tea and Anti-Aging
Green tea contains antioxidant known as polyphenols which fight against free radicals. What this means it helps you fight against aging and promotes longevity.

4. Green Tea and Weight Loss
Green tea helps with your body weight loss. Green tea burns fat and boosts your metabolism rate naturally. It can help you burn up to 70 calories in just one day. That translates to 7 pounds in one year.

5. Green Tea and Skin
Antioxidant in green tea protects the skin from the harmful effects of free radicals, which cause wrinkling and skin aging. Green tea also helps fight against skin cancer.

6. Green Tea and Arthritis
Green tea can help prevent and reduce the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Green tea has benefit for your health as it protects the cartilage by blocking the enzyme that destroys cartilage.

7. Green Tea and Bones
The very key to this is high fluoride content found in green tea. It helps keep your bones strong. If you drink green tea every day, this will help you preserve your bone density.

8. Green Tea and Cholesterol
Green tea can help lower cholesterol level. It also improves the ratio of good cholesterol to bad cholesterol, by reducing bad cholesterol level.

9. Green Tea and Obesity
Green tea prevents obesity by stopping the movement of glucose in fat cells. If you are on a healthy diet, exercise regularly and drink green tea, it is unlikely you’ll be obese.

10. Green Tea and Diabetes
Green tea improves lipid and glucose metabolisms, prevents sharp increases in blood sugar level, and balances your metabolism rate.

11. Green Tea and Alzheimer’s
Green tea helps boost your memory. And although there’s no cure for Alzheimer’s, it helps slow the process of reduced acetylcholine in the brain, which leads to Alzheimer’s.

12. Green Tea and Parkinson’s
Antioxidants in green tea helps prevent against cell damage in the brain, which could cause Parkinson’s. People drinking green tea also are less likely to progress with Parkinson’s.

13. Green Tea and Liver Disease
Green tea helps prevent transplant failure in people with liver failure. Researches showed that green tea destroys harmful free radicals in fatty livers.

14. Green Tea and High Blood Pressure
Green tea helps prevent high blood pressure. Drinking green tea helps keep your blood pressure down by repressing angiotensin, which leads to high blood pressure.

15. Green Tea and Food Poisoning
Catechin found in green tea can kill bacteria which causes food poisoning and kills the toxins produced by those bacteria.

16. Green Tea and Blood Sugar
Blood sugar tends to increase with age, but polyphenols and polysaccharides in green tea help lower your blood sugar level.

17. Green Tea and Immunity
Polyphenols and flavenoids found in green tea help boost your immune system, making your health stronger in fighting against infections.

18. Green Tea and Cold and Flu
Green tea prevents you from getting a cold or flu. Vitamin C in green tea helps you treat the flu and the common cold.

19. Green Tea and Asthma
Theophylline in green tea relaxes the muscles which support the bronchial tubes, reducing the severity of asthma.

20. Green Tea and Ear Infection
Green tea helps with ear infection problem. For natural ear cleaning, soak a cutton ball in green tea and clean the infected ear.

21. Green Tea and Herpes
Green tea increases the effectiveness of topical interferon treatment of herpes. First green tea compress is applied, and then let the skin dry before the interferon treatment.

22. Green Tea and Tooth Decay
Green tea destroys bacteria and viruses that cause many dental diseases. It also slows the growth of bacteria which leads to bad breath.

23. Green Tea and Stress
L-theanine, which is a kind of amino acids in green tea, can help relieve stress and anxiety.

24. Green Tea and Allergies
EGCG found in green tea relieves allergies. So, if you have allergies, you should really consider drinking green tea.

25. Green Tea and HIV
Scientists in Japan have found that EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate) in green tea can stop HIV from binding to healthy immune cells. What this means is that green tea can help stop the HIV virus from spreading.

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Found this over the internet. Did not know that there’s so much to green tea! It’s one of my favourite tea. After I came back from Beijing, I began to learn how to appreciate tea more. By that, I don’t mean, milk tea or those bottled/canned pokka/yeos/etc tea. I mean those sugarless chinese tea.

Glad that green tea got so much benefits. Am gonna take more of it. (:

I had been to Japan before, but it seems like I had never been there before! Probably its because the trip was done with a tour group. Too mundane and touristy. Me no like.

I feel like flying there now and stay there for a good 1 month. Haa!

I wanna go to Disney Land again! Need a 2 day pass!

Ahhh.. man do I miss Japan.

The people, the food, the service, the colours, the weather..

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On a side note, I just came back from Brunch with Papa. Had not ate with him for a long long time. Last time was during Father’s day? =S

So anyway, every time when I have to think of where to eat, I will not like to go to those boring coffee shops near my place. I always like to travel out to eat if I’m with someone.

So as we were preparing to leave, I asked Papa where are we going to eat. As expected, he suggested that coffee shop across the car park. Man, was I bored! Haha.

Then I had this thought. Will Baby become like that some years down the road? Hahaha. Too lazy and short of ideas to impress or pamper. Haha.

Both of us being a food junkie, and have this thing for good food (not necessary expensive). Almost every single meal we have together are at our favorite joints or road side hawkers. Yum yum… One thing which I told B before he got enlisted, “Sigh Baby.. Once you get enlisted, I will have no one bringing me to eat all the good food..”

And its a surprise how both of us still manage to maintain our weight.

Ahh, I think its high time that both of us come out with a blog post of all the good food which we love. (We got very stringent taste buds) Once all the pictures are in. I think we’ll be able to get started!

Alrights, gotta go and practice how to marinade and fry the chicken wings for the baby boy.

Her songs and videos never cease to make me tear.. =’(

after chatting with Bong..

few things to take note:

1. help baby to buy more zip lock bag,

2. many biscuits, in big packets, so can share with his bunk mates

3. get spare batteries

okay, when was father’s day? =\ forgive me, here are the photos.

After the dinner at  Cappadocia, we went to take the river cruise along the Singapore River, which is when all the cam-whoring starts… Loads of fun w Baby. Hee.

To end it off… That’s me, papa and dawn.