月饼节快乐!!!

Actually its tomorrow lah haha... Didn't buy mooncakes this year, but gotta try some from a few hotels. Got 3 boxes of the same flavour from Tung Lok some more... not too bad, but I prefer my snowskin mooncakes more.

So far, I think the best I tasted this year are firstly, Mini Snowskin Lychee, Almond & Dark Chocolate Mooncakes. The combi sounds weird but it tastes heavenly! As the name suggests, its a 巧妙融合 all the 3 flavours and the snowskin itself is chewy and yet melt-ly. Yummmm..... The packaging is very unique and nice too!

The next best one would be Black Sesame Snowskin Mooncakes from Regent. The skin is yummy as well and the black sesame is very 香. Not too sweet, not too jelat, just nice.

Went with 乐 to collect his bursary on Sat evening, where they had a mooncake festival celebration as well. A whole row of lanterns with 灯迷 on it lined the arena... Me n 乐 went around guessing all of them, both chinese and english ones, but this one in particular caught my eye...

Easy. Can you guess the answer? Heh heh...

Just as I was typing (@ work =p), Rong Mo Mo passed me 2 pieces of mooncake from Mandarin Oriental!! And its chocolate!!! Slurpz!!! 幸福. There's a personalized note (in all boxes) from Chef E.Teo too...

Tomorrow gonna celebrate with my little cousins!! Reminds me of years ago when us 4 ninja turtles celebrated with all our uncles and aunties.. Competing with each other to see whose lantern would last the longest, esp when we 'fight' with our lanterns, exploring the darkest corners or areas with our lanterns, etc... Somehow we'll just attract a lot of attention from other kids each year, coz my uncles did things like eg. light up a whole tree with lanterns (no trees were harmed during and after the process), or create a whole 'clothes-line' of lanterns, path of candles, etc. Then when we grew older we started playing with sticks, candles and fire instead ha... we look forward to 月饼节 every year... the good ol' days hmmm...

月饼节快乐 everyone!!! =)

Xin & Guan's Glitzy Bliss

After a year of planning and preparations, Xin & Guan finally started a new chapter of their togetherness in a glitzy and loving splendour on 15 Sept 07.

Reported at Xin's place at 730am and the groom and his gang of brothers announced their arrival with the loud horn-ings of their cars (7 altogether) at around 815am for their tekan-ing session. They performed 3 tasks , which were relatively easy - just some banana breakfast, waxing and smooching of each other, and got through the 1st round... with the help of some gan-jiong relatives... For the 2nd round, the groom was supposed to sing... 1st was 小雨伞, followed by David Tao's 爱很简单. It was hilarious as the rest of the brothers didn't know the lyrics so they just caught on the last word of each phrase to harmonise haha...

The rest I shall not elaborate...Skip, skip, skip. Proceeded to and fro Guan's place after dat, then to 佛牙寺 (Fo Ya Shi) ... 1st time for any of us I think, to witness such different, customary and grand blessing ceremony for a wedding couple. The newly-renovated temple is majestic and have an almost regal ambience. We were ushered to a specially cordoned off area in the main hall for the blessing ceremony, which was carried out by 20 monks. Don't mean to be rude, but a few of us were struggling to mask our urge to burst out laughing when the head monk was sprinkling or rather splashing water at us - We were having water trickling down our faces! And I know Xin herself was 忍-ing too haha! But it was a great and meaningful ceremony, topped off with Xin's kua and Guan's suit which had an oriental touch.


Off to Ritz Carlton next. The suite was simply "wahhhhhhhhh......" !!! From the breathtaking view, the famous toilet, the nice bedroom, to the little details like the pair of wedding bears, the nice cake (?) on the table and everything else was marvellous! Had a briefing session with the hotel staff - 8 of them in all! Then all of us scuttered around to prepare for the dinner within 45 mins, using all the mirrors we could find in the room ha...



The gallery for the solemnisation and the ballroom were beautifully and romantically decorated with roses, candles and the expensive chandeliers. Skip, skip, skip. When the couple marched in, Xin was doing well until she saw me - that's when she almost cried! Didn't know I am so tear-inducing haha... quickly grabbed her hand and mouthed "不可以哭!" I almost teared myself too hee... Skip, skip, skip. It was nice to attend such a happy occasion together with the Irritants, especially when our 2 tables combined to form a huge group during the photo-taking session. =)

Specially for My Dearest Xin:
Very very very happy for you and I'm very honoured and glad to have joined you for your preparations here and there... All the most blessed wishes in the world for you and may you and Guan be blissful eternally. **Super Big Hugs, Be Here For You Always and I Love You - too!!** =p

Xin's Devilicious Hen (狠) Nite

5 more days to Xin's wedding!!!!

To kickstart the celebrations, we held a Hen Nite for Xin on 8th Sept. Had dinner @ My Secret Garden, a cozy and gr8 chill-out place with nice-desserts-but-not-so-nice-main courses. Bought a little toy (Got it quite some time ago when I chanced upon it) and a frantically-searched-b4-meeting-them-hair-band for Xin, to complete her character's costume dat nite (Sorrie gals, for not discussing it earlier as the emails seemed to have die-ded somehow n the rest of the idea was really impromptu). I like what Xin mentioned in her blog - "Di, being the devilette in nature, had the devil theme for the party...." hiak hiak.... 离题. =p

Behold, the Devil is pissing.

After dinner, we proceeded to MOS, but not before searching for the auntie who was selling Devil's Ears @ Clarke Quay. The whole group of us (7 gals) were Devil-Ear-ed after that, and you can imagine how attention grabbing we were when we passed through crowded (The) Cannery and at MOS itself. Hur hur! Unfortunately the bouncer wouldn't allow the Devil's fork through the gates.. coz he said its too sharp... duhh??? Super bummer!

狠 Devils...Who's who?

We had several 狠-tasks for Xin to compete and she gamely accomplished all the tasks. E.g. drinking, dancing, etc. Bravo! Wondering how come they are so abstract? Heh heh...Xin, u better bribe me quick, or else i'm gonna spill it ALL out hahaha! Happened to meet another group of guys who are having a Stag Night as well and well, what can I say... All HELL broke loose haha! The guy was cute... hmmm... =X

The nite ended with a great note and it was totally devilicious...Oh yeah, we got kissed several times by Xin... there goes our 初女吻... Slurpz!

Next up is the Big Day itself!!! I'll leave you guys with this pic that I gopped from Xin heh...

Final Whistle for Pesta Sukan Vball Competition 2007

Bunked over @ Xin's place on Sat nite then went to watch the Finals after our Mac breakfast on 2 Sept. The 1st match was 99.99% boring-ness. But the 2nd match, TnT vs rT was good! All players of TnT were v tall and their 架势 were kindda intimidating. Quite many power-spikers AND block well too. As for rT, the star-spiker was still as powerful, though she only 发挥 her prowress from the 2nd set onwards. The rest of the players were all quite 稳. TnT eventually won and got championized after playing 4 sets.

Next was the 3rd & 4th playoffs - SAFSA vs VA. It was a pretty close fight. Surprisingly M1k3 didn't really scream at his players, probably 3rd / 4th placing is nothing much for him? Ha... 1 of my 偶像 lost his cool though.. then delivered a damn power spike in rage. 棒! There was a women with him when he reached the court..should be his gf ba. I thought Mr Anything said, "她看起来很粗." 原来 he meant '猪'. Haha! 'Nuff said! =p Anywayz, VA got the 3rd placing after playing 4 sets.

No.14's spike of rage

Finale for the day was the 1st & 2nd playoffs - PSA vs IK of coz. Super intense and exciting, the 5 sets played were 绝对 score-for-score, lotsa power spikes here and there and not forgetting the trails of perspiration on the court left from their dives to 救球. We have our faves from each team as usual, namely Takashi (nickname given by Xin simply coz he's a Jap haha) and tanned and muscled No. 13 (though Xin doesn't like him topless. Hmm..??). Both are 杀给你死 spikers who can do very power 跳跃s as well. Oh a new 'hero' 诞生-ed too - No. 11 from PSA. His last finger on his left hand was dislocated (!!!) after a blocking-challenge with Takashi (See video below). Must be damn damn pain... his whole face turned white. After he bandaged his fingers and rested for a while, he re-stepped onto the court, amidst everyone's hearty cheers and claps. IK eventually 蝉联 as champions after a long and hard fight. 我们的屁股s 都痛死了...

Takashi

Takashi in action!

No.13

How No.11 got injured

No.11 in bandage...精神可佳!

Last Ball

So this is it. Till season 2008!

VBall shots...

I'm so damn bored @ home. Nothing better to do, so post some photos from last nite's match for your viewing... though quite blurred.

Wah-tah!!!
















球 leh??



















No.13's hor-le-si spike


Ball's coming!


Nice one


Check out the dive


Jvr's getting better n better. It's been 3 years since we played with them at SPANS... Gosh! Felt like it was just a while ago!

Tmr's the finals liao. Last chance to see my idols till next year =(
Must get some shots of them in action tmr!