August 09

Been through some events lately... And here are some pictures to share!

Where Got Ghost? Gala Premiere + Spooky Tour

From Top, Left to Right:

1. Movie Gala Night! I look nice right? =P
2. Cast and Directors of "Where Got Ghost?"
3. Jack and Cast in our cinema for a short intro before the show.
4. In the seats with my big gala passes.
5. Group photo with API gang @ the Gala. (From left: Lisa, Sparky, Charles, Javier, Shaney, ME!)
6. Me posing with the poster.
7. The 3 Musketeers after the Spooky Tour: Tiger, Arty and Sparky!
8. Posing with Up Poster! Tiger does look like Russell! Haha...
9. Me at Suntec after Spooky tour...
10. Me and scandal of the night... SBG!!! =P

Was invited to the Gala Premiere of Jack Neo's lateset movie "Where Got Ghost?" as I was conducting a spooky tour with API for the movie promotion. I was the Guides-in-charge that night and thank goodness, I have an army of very very capable guides that did a super great job! Kudos to Javier, Shaney, Tiger, Serene, Molemole, and of course my partner SBG! I am so proud of you guys! Thank you for making my job so much simpler! And of course, the success goes to everyone who had worked really hard for this massive event together! Good work Sparky as the overall IC! =)

National Day 2009

From Top, Left to Right:

1. Me and the birthday cakes.
2. Me and ZaiZai all decked out in Red!
3. Group Pic! (From Left: Iman, Guobao, Siti, Don, Terri, Alex, Me and ZZ).
4. Toast for Singapore! "YUMMMMM SENGGGGG!"
   
   

From Top, Left to Right:

1. Me, Terri and ZZ posing with Singa.
2. Me, Alex and ZZ on the picnic mat.
3. Me and ZZ with Singa
4. Just look at the huge crowd behind us!
5. Teaching ZZ how to play Uno. Yup, I was THAT bored while waiting for the rest to come!
6. Parade is starting and we are sitting on the bench in front of the floating screen.
7. Me and ZZ with the Singa closest to our picnic ground which is now infested with other ppl!
8. Smile for Singapore!

Happy 44th Birthday Singapore! Nope, no NDP tickets this yr, but we had a blast anyway! Got some of my closest friends with me to put up a potluck picnic to celebrate Singapore's birthday together!

Was at Esplanade since 1.45pm to CHOP good place with Mr Lim and ZaiZai... Sun was blazing hot but the spirit of National Day in the air is everything I need to keep me going!

Terri, Don, Siti, Abang (Iman), and GB join us subsequently and while waiting for the parade to start, we started to go old school with games such as Old Maid, Donkey, Snap and Happy Family! We also had a great round of Taboo!

We also had a BIG Yam Seng with Vitasoy (that sent everyone around us STARING our way)!

Oh, and did I mention that I am the one that made (the icing) and decorated the gorgeous birthday cakes for Singapore's 44th Birthday? Haha... That is the next best thing to the fireworks that night!

I love you Singapore! Many happy returns!!! *MuackX*

Swensons Dessert Buffet

From Top, Left to Right:

1. Mr Lim and Me with fondue.
2. Princess and Me showing off our Sundae Creations.
3. Dessert Galore! Great for my Sweet Tooth, Really bad for my Waistline...
4. Me and my Sundae!
5. Alex, Terri, Arty.
6. Yum! Need I say more? =P
   

I so hate Princess for the emailer promotion coz I think my face look rounder than ever halfway through gorging on fondue, cakes, pies, cream puffs and ice cream!

Sometimes, I really wonder whether I get fat instantly! I was browsing through the pictures and realised that my face grew rounder and rounder by every picture I take! Those pics that you see above are of course the more "front" ones.. The ones that I took later really cannot be displayed...

But for the price that we paid, this is really a very good dessert buffet to try once in a lifetime! I prob will go back again, but it definitely wun be soon... And there must be the one-for-one promotion again coz I seriouly dun think one can eat 20++ bucks worth of desserts over there!

Will post the emailer in my next post for you to enjoy the promotion too! Just print it out (black and white or color, in any size) and bring it down with you to the Swensons at Orchard Ion. Have fun! And if you get lost and need directions, just gimme a buzz! This outlet is particularly hard to find. We walked that level at least 3 rounds to find it!

Week Flown By...

It's scary how time flies even when I am doing nothing much at all! One whole set of weekdays simply passed me my from the last time I update this blog! What have I been doing the whole week??? Hmmmm... Let me think...

Mon:

Nothing for the whole day... (apart from my fruitless attempts to pack up my room and catching the my Shi Xiong Di (The Ten Brothers) Drama Series on DVD. At night was down for an API (Asia Paranormal Investigators) meeting with the ppl from SHINE. Yupz, and it is also the day where I am official part of the API Family! Hurray! Hopefully I can deliver what I planned to...

Tue:

Watched more DVDs (I wanna complete the serial)...Library with Mummy to return library books at CompassPoint... Borrowed more books... Ooh... And hogged 24PACKETS (1 Litre) of Dutchlady UHT milk home!! Cold Storage selling them off at $1.90, BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!!! Hahaha.. How can a milk boi like me resist?!! But to think of it... The offer is only coz they need to buy back consumers' trust after the melamine scare... Hmmmm... Not that I care! They are simply delicious!!! Just that my arms almost broke when I carried them all the way home... Really in need of some serious calcium! Wahhahahaha.... Oh, and below is a picture of the new LCD TV I bought for my parents... Looks nice in the living room hor!

Pretty but messy living room after addition of the new LCD... Haa... Does it reminds u of my room? The messy gene is in me!! *Shrugs* =P
Wed:

I finally finished the WHOLE 20 Episode serial!! Heee... Nice show... But the ending abit the not up to my expectation... Oh WellZ.. 20hrs of my life slipped me by... Went Tamp Giant with mum at night for another round of groccery shopping! Need to prepare my ingredients for creep picnic the next day... Went to peek at the price of the Dutchlady milk there: $1.90 each. NO one for one!! Yippy!!!!! The slog from Cold Storage was worth it! Hahahahaha....

Thur:

Woke up early to prepare for my cooking... Cooked enough for family's lunch too... Just that my dad and youngest bro not really veg person... They are SICK of my okonmiyakis! Hahaha.. Even though this attempt was much better than the previous one! My auntie came over and sampled and say I can open a shop to sell!! Heeeeee..... Of course I paiseh then say "no lah... long way to go..." but in my heart, I'm like "ahem, I KNOW THAT ALREADY!!!" Wahahahahahahahaha.... I know I know... THICK skin... That's me!! =P
I intend the picnic to be a 3 course one, so I made "Italian fused Japanese Sweet Potatoe Mousse Canape" for appetiser! It looks great! Check it out! And ending the meal with light Japanese cheesecake coz I reckon we will be too full after the enormous okonomiyaki..

Italian fused Japanese Sweet Potatoe Mousse Canape

The Creepy Pinic was indeed CREEPILY FUN!! First, I met Sparky at Buangkok MRT Station. From there, we took a short bus ride to the LAST REMAINING Kampung in Singapore which is situated in the middle of nowhere on Buangkok Green... Cool place... Very serene.. Not creepy at all.. And the few villagers we met were very friendly... It's almost as thou we travelled 30yrs back to the old Singapore... Where the Kampung Spirit still exsits... Where your door can be made of light wood and u are not afraid that ppl will break into... Love that place! We had our picnic dinner there before we moved on to the creepier night...

....Lim Chu Kang Cemetery..... Thank goodness that Alex offered to pick us up and join us on our cemetery tour on his Tuscon... I was seriously a *hi*ken over there.... Aargh.. Hate to admit it, but I was scared... I was the one who wanted a really creepy one, but one I reached there, the atmosphere totally overwhelmed me... I felt sooooo much like a intruder! It wasn't my first time there in the afterdark hours, but never JUST 3 person!!

We walked around the Christian Cemetry first... Saw the oldest and prob the first few Christian tombs of the cemetry... And there was this one with 2holes that extend way below into the grave........ AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.... Sparky asked whether I would like to look into it... (Heart: WHAAT THEEE H***) But of coz I politely declined... *Rolled EyES* (PS: Those that are laughing at me now, you have to go to feel how scary it is...... bleah...)

Then comes the muslim cemetry... LAGI scary!! Luckily no one really wanna get down the car anyway... Phew....

Hindu Cemetry... Here, we get down because Sparky wanted to show us a tree that is wrapped in red cloth.... Urban legends says that ppl pray to the Indian Warrior Goddess Kalli at the special tree... By the way, Kalli happens to be the goddess that Adrian Lim (the TPY child killer) prayed to at home. And becoz Kalli is a really fierce goddess, no one prays to it at home!!! Anyway, ask me if u wanna know this cool scary story about Goddess Kalli, Adrian Lim and the Arrest... Very interesting tales from Sparky... We DID NOT manage to find that tree thou... Strange coz there was only 2plots of burial grounds for the Hindus (most Hindus believe in cremation), and the tombs are very sparsed out... Finding anything should be relatively easy.. No fate bah... Haaaaa... But we saw this playhouse-looking tomb of what looks like an infant grave... The huge playhouse over the tiny tomb makes it look so lonely... So isolated yet protected... Can feel the sinister mixture of love and obscene grieve of the parents that looked forward to the child for 9mths, yet have to say goodbye just shortly after...

We ended our night at the CREEPIEST ground of all.... The Chinese Cemetery... And the "FRESH" ones that is... OMG!!!!!!!!!!! *Rolled Eyes* They were still talking about how can we see the dunno what "whisp" thing... (According to BOTH of them, when the body starts to decompose, a gas will be produced. When the gas escapes outta the soil and interacts with the atmosphere, we can literally SEE small blue glowing gas balls!!!!!! Ahhhhh.... I feel like FAINTING!!!! Yes, I wanna go to cemetery to experience the peace and quiet and maybe a bit of eerieness... But NOT SEE anything!!! Gosh... What if we BREATH in any of those gas?!!!!

Anyone who knows me would know how terrified of "dead" stuff... I am even afraid of the pets that died in my house (ok, except small fishes and insects)... Let alone dead HUMAN!! Gasp!

And apparently there are no tombs above the freshly buried... YIKESS!! I swear I my heart was in my mouth when I saw the loose soils on the well defined 2M X 1M plots... Thank goodness we didnt have our picnic there.... Imagine a hand creeping out from below and ask for food??!! *Instant FaintX Picture* EEEEeeeeekkkksss.... That was seriously seriously one scary place I dun really wanna be again next time...

Actually, part of the reason why we are there at the "fresh" area is because we wanted to catch the 4D punters in action. Which, we didnt managed to find thou... It is said that the freshly buried souls are the best to ask for the winning numbers, coz of the grievences... But I am beginning to think that you need good guts for that! And no wonder the punters always travelled in grps of 10-15... Hahahaha...

Well, thats about it for my past week... Pathetic... I know... So many things to complete but not even half way through.. I need my motivation!!!!! Ooh... And I just finished downloading Little Nonya from MOBTV all the way to ESP 7! Yay!! I am soooo in love with the show! Time to chase another serial! Oops! =>.<=

Drenched... but Satisfied!

It is 5am now...

Just came back from a splendid API (Asia Paranomal Investigators) tour to Bukit Brown Cemetry!

To be honest, it wasn't as creepy as I thought it would be. In fact, it reminds me of a religious 3am trip to Lim Chu Kang cemetry lots of years back... Far from eerie, the cemeteries at wee hours always seems to be full of “life”! Instead of feeling isolated or unwelcome, I tend to feel a kinda warmth surrounding me. The atmosphere was more to serene and peace than anything.

For those that are planning to go, be forewarn though that it is definitely a heart- pounding trip. Nope, not the definite meeting of our friends from the nether world, but more to the jungle trashing that is needed to reach the famous tombs that are covered with overgrowth. My ghost hunting trip literally becomes a workout trip! I’m feeling slimmer already! LOL!

Too bad the lighting is bad for photos... So no pics to show.

Strange as it seems, right after we visited the last tomb of the night, it suddenly started to rain super heavily!! There wasn’t even a warning of a drizzle of any kind! Even though Mr Charles (the tour guide cum founder of API) was commenting that the deads are trying to chase us home, I felt as though the refreshing rain symbolises a fond farewell that says: “nice to meet you!”

Haha... Really exciting to experience rain in the middle of a jungle setting. You hear the rain much earlier than you can feel it coz the trees above you gotta have their “drink” first! Something that everyone should try at least once in a lifetime.

A summary of what fascinates me:
· The trio bunch of furry chubby puppies that greeted us at House of the Dead. I am soooooo tempted to bring one home!!
· The sighting of the BIGGEST tomb in Singapore (possibly even Asia!)
· Witnessing the various Superstar tombs such as the brother of Tan Tock Seng, Boon Lay, Nee Soon, Chong Pang (Yup, they were all once living human!!)
· The unexpected revitalizing rain that will make me remember this wonderful night even more fondly...