big deal.

sadly, both of us just have very different definitions of it.

double double dates!

sometime ago i re-tweeted this from mrbrown:

end of the world indeed!

well,

maybe not so much of the curry sauce anymore,

since it’s been recently revived together with a 1-for-1 nuggets promo.

i must say i’m utterly disappointed with cafe cartel,

no free flow bread 就算了,

still dare to charge 40cts per pathetic slab of butter?

tsk!

anyways,

the sad news is,

my favourite item on the tcc menu has been taken away too!

and the last time i ate this was at ion with kingchan,

during an accidental double date with kc and jiahui.

we all happened to be at ion that evening,

and gossiping about a certain blogger brought us together at tcc.

then somehow,

we ended up double-dating again during halloween!

i’ve always yearned for a halloween party,

but i’ll always end up lazing around at home on the day itself.

so this year i resolved to do something different!

knowing that xxy is working at dempsey on that day,

we decided to drop by after dinner for some desserts.

fooling around with the camera while waiting for ja and kc to arrive.

there wasn’t much halloween atmosphere over at dempsey (only bnjs was decorated),

so we proceeded to clarke quay where all the action was!

true enough,

clarke quay was seething with people of different costumes!

it was like a mega-scaled DND!

everyone was taking pictures with everyone else but we felt too underdressed and paiseh to ask for photos.

so we just took pictures among ourselves! :p

ja met some cheerleaders there and they ended up stunting in the heart of clarke quay!

that’s about all for our halloween this year.

more exciting than previous years but not exciting enough!

so jiahui and i have decided on a plan for halloween next year:

to dress up and to score at least 3 strangers taking photos with us.

and i’ll be going as princess leia.

this feeling is so surreal

oh yes i’m all done!

*throws confetti in the air*

a big pat on the back for being able to resist the temptation to procrastinate,

when the deadline of my assignments was extended to 14Dec.

now i have 1 full month to relax and rejuvenate. yippee!

talking about relaxing,

i can’t be more excited about my upcoming trips!

in exactly a week from now i’ll be on the plane with kt, baozhu and faith,

on our way to medan to visit the monk!

and exactly a week after i’m back,

i’ll be jetting off to krabi with kingchan! ♥

with a december so awesome,

really hope it won’t be over too soon!

fly sparrow fly!

the whatsapp conversation just now made me realise i havent been blogging for more than a month!

so here’s a post to fill up this neglected space of mine before i dive back into my mountain of assignments.

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one sunday evening,

we brought the little ones to marina barage for some kite flying!

there wasn’t much wind that day so the little ones had to run around just to get the kite up for that split second.

i had a good workout chasing after them for pictures too!

after a while,

we decided to try the other kite we brought — the giant sparrow!

but it didn’t fly too high either

(check out the frustration on quentin’s face!)

 luckily,

kingchan came to our rescue and we managed to fly the kites up quite high before the sky turned too dark.

dinner after that at putien (super yummy!!) and here’s a picture of anne-laure and her favourite-person-of-the-night:

 

and super cute picture of quentin with long hair and rosy cheeks:

♥

the very impromptu swim

some of the pictures turned out quite artistic!

really loveeee the waterproof camera pouch!

the canon one was exobitantly priced at $350,

i’m glad i got mine off gmarket at less than one-tenth of that price

anne-laure was so brave to open her eyes in the water!

(i’m ashamed to admit this but up till today,

i still feel the jitters about opening my eyes in the water. )

check out this gorgeous picture of her underwater!

as much as quentin loves water/swimming a lot,

he doesn’t really dare to put his head underwater,

especially without his goggles.

but being a huge copy cat of anne-laure,

he insisted on taking the shot below.

cute max!

an artistic shot taken by quentin.

then we decided to take some videos instead.

here’s a video of quentin swimming crawling

and here’s anne-laure’s version:

a video of them together,

and finally, one last video of anne-laure swimming with quentin accidentally walking into the camera.

somehow the little ones were very amused by this video ’cause it showcased quentin’s cute little butt hahaha.

such darlings aww! 

cuteness is in the eye of the beholder

zikai was seriously cute when he was younger!

those dimples…

and puppy eyes..

and the next 3 are my personal favourites.

the emo look haha.

and my current wallpaper:

awww!

真的是小时了了，大未必佳。

my very own themepark

who says geeks can’t be romantic?

my otaku bf just 心动 me big time on sat.

i was actually quite upset with him on sat,

because he was busy gaming at the time when we were supposed to meet.

what’s more infuriating was that he actually asked me to take it as if i can’t meet him that day:

what audacity!

and this wasn’t the first time i had to deal with such disappointments.

ok, i admit i happened to be pms-ing too,

so things tend to get blown out of proportion,

but still! hmmph!

luckily,

he didn’t finish gaming too late,

and by the time i saw him,

i wasn’t that angry already.

as a result,

i totally didn’t expect the surprise that was awaiting me at his house.

when we got to his place,

he switched on his computer and started the roller-coaster tycoon game that we were both playing for the past few weeks.

i saw that he created a new themepark so i went to explore by moving the mouse about.

and then i saw this:

OMG SO SWEET!

he actually built a themepark and named it “King’s Love” (so lame, but i like! )

and planted trees (painstakingly planted one by one!) to form the words I ♥ XY.

awwwwwww!

i’m touched that despite all the stuff that is going on (be it work, family, etc),

he actually bothered spending the efforts to 心动 me.

times like this just make me feel like i’m the one who should be putting in more efforts into the relationship.

:/

well, i guess being with a games-obsessed bf is definitely not an easy task,

but it isn’t totally unbearable too.

♥

thank you, love!

it’s the time of the year again.

school’s starting again!

i can’t believe i’m dreading this as much as a primary school kid.

the 2 weeks of holidays simply zoomed past like that (as usual).

although i managed to complete 3 out of the 5 things i promised myself i would do,

i still feel pretty unaccomplished.

just now when zikai asked me if i missed my students after not seeing them for so long,

i feel like asking him if he’ll miss his bangla workers when he’s away.

I DON’T MISS MY STUDENTS AT ALL

and i really want a longer break.

potong pasir – the forgotten place

how many of us have actually been to potong pasir?

well, i’m proud to say that prior to this trip,

i’ve been to the CC once for some social work thingy.

never knew i would step foot into this (kinda) forsaken land again,

but all thanks to all the post-election hype,

we decided to explore one of singapore’s oldest neighbourhood (not because it’s truly an old estate, but really due to its poorly-taken-care-of exterior).

 …

the recognisable icon of potong pasir (both the sign, and the man )

retro shops were everywhere!

i remember reading somewhere that because potong pasir was governed by the opposition party since 1984,

it hasn’t really gone through any bit of renovation since.

even amenities were compromised.

i heard potong pasir didn’t have their own mcdonalds until the recent years.

one of the must-do of our mini expedition was to take a photo of the legendary cubicle that mr chiam see tong used for his meet-the-residents sessions in the past few years.

here’s us en-route to the famous block 108.

shaopeng attempting a shot of xiu coming down the slide

and we’re finally here!

pillars painted in this season’s hottest hues.

the actual cubicle was even more shabby that i’ve imagined.

it was just an old wooden table + some aluminium panels for partitioning.

it’s really hard to picture poor mr chiam working there for the past 27 years.

the many notes from all parts of singapore under the glass panel.

copycat us attempting to write a note for mr chiam too

i can’t remember if we did leave it on the table though!

imposter-potong pasir residents waiting to meet the MP

the new vs the old

we took the vintage lift up to the highest floor,

as shaopeng wanted to take a photo of the iconic sloping roofs.

before we proceed to our last stop,

we stopped by some mama shop to grab a drink.

and to our final stop:

ending off this post with a picture of us and beloved mr chiam:

we were bored, therefore we planked.

due to the poor attendance,

what was supposed to be a poker-cum-farewell session for wenhao turned out to be a hilarious night of planking.

in case you’re lousier than me (i only found out last weekend) and have zero idea what planking is,

here’s a definition from wiki:

The lying down game (also known as planking, or face downs) is an activity, popular in Asia and Australia, consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. The hands must touch the sides of the body, and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the internet is an integral part of the game. Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play. The location should also be as public as possible, and as many people as possible should be involved.

(warning: do not attempt these poses at home)

introducing to you the heaviest plankton among us…

plankton #1!

don’t judge him by the size of his tummy,

this planton can plank anywhere!

on the stairs,

on other planktons:

and even on vehicles!

though not as versatile,

plankton #2 is equally impressive.

check out his 高难度 upside down pose:

girls can be good planktons too!

just check out santhit and myself:

but the title “plankton of the night” must go to our longest-standing planking plankton:

BRENDON LEUNG!

subtly planking by the side throughout the night!

(in fact, he has been planking everytime when he’s at boonkeng, hasn’t he?)

haha okays,

enough of planking,

here are some other non-planking captures of the night.

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feel free to suggest more (extreme) places to plank!

plankton #1 will gladly be at your service