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  1. Hectic day two of Chinese New Year

    January 31, 2012 by Pei Shan

    When you throw three dogs, two boys, a teenager, and many crazy adults together, you get chaos. With a capital C.

    But first! A vain pix! I haven’t put false lashes for so long~ It really does make my eyes so much rounder. Haha.

    My aunt came first with her dog Ebi (pronounced as the alphabets E-B, not ebi the prawn, lol).

    Then mui’s boyfriend brought their dog Mochi over. Both dogs don’t seem to like each other very well. :/

    Then, erjie brought her family of monkies kids and Benji the nuah dog over.

    Look at my little J. He’s so cute lahhh~

    Benji is the kind of dog that every dog is okay with. Sounds like a number of people you know eh? :P

    Me with Benji. <3

    Mui with her Mochi. Don’t be fooled by his cute innocent puppy eyes. He got some territorial issues. Haha.

    Prince J who is photo-shy as ever.

    And us! :D

    Happy Chinese New Year!

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  2. Last minute springcleaning before CNY

    January 30, 2012 by Pei Shan

    You know, I actually don’t have the intention of cleaning up my room for CNY.. I mean.. My table quite neat mah. No need pack lah.

    Until ants start making random appearances on my table. Ugggghh. So one day before the eve of CNY, me and my sis decided to do a overhaul of our tables and wipe every single corner clean. Thing is, I started my springcleaning at 11pm (her at 1am) because we each have stuff during the day time. And we cleaned until 4am in the morning. =.=

    I had a sneeze attack cos my nose has always been allergic to dust. But IT’S WORTH IT.

    My favourite corner of my table now:

    I got the lace cover from Daiso. It’s actually a lace curtain but I cut a part of it out to cover my jewellery box. The rest goes to covering my monitor. Hehe.

    I LOVE DAISO!!! I always come out of Daiso buying something. XDDD

    Close-up of my jewellery tray. I got this long time ago from a Forever21.com spree, but I don’t have a place to put it until now. :D

    And the jewellery box from Muji which I love so much. (Please don’t ask me how much is it. I don’t want to remember.)

    Looooves!

    How’s your CNY?

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    And something unrelated:

    Mui got me this Duffy from her Hong Kong trip. It’s sooooo cute!

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  3. Views of Vietnam: Halong Bay

    January 29, 2012 by Pei Shan

    So while I’m not in tune with Hanoi city, I like Halong Bay very much!

    Booking the trip for Halong Bay was an headache. Reason being there are SO MANY tours going to Halong Bay, you are at a loss of who to book from. I’ve read reviews of poorly organized tours, unprepared staff, amongst other stuff and it makes me nervous of choosing a tour operator. In the end we decided to go for Handspan after trawling through the reviews we can find online. We took the 2D1N tour on Aloha Junk. It was slightly on the pricey side (compared with other tours) – USD135 per person, but I think it was a reasonable price considering that my experience was nothing but wonderful! ^^

    The journey from Hanoi to Halong was almost three hours. When we reached Halong, we had to transfer to a boat to take us to the junk that was docked not far away.

    We met a Scottish couple who happened to be staying in Singapore for work. Such a coincidence! :)

    The highlight: we went kayaking! It was awesome fun although I was so exhausted when we were back to the junk. My arms have always been weak and this fact is once verified again after the kayaking. Haha.

    I don’t have proper trek shoes and I don’t want to go kayaking in sandals (I’m clumsy and I know me wearing sandals to go kayaking is like an accident waiting to happen) so I bought the Actos Aqua Shoes specially for this trip. (Try searching for “actos shoes” in Gmarket.) What can I say.. It fits like a glove. Love it!

    Pictures time~


    On the kayak!


    Thankful for the waterproof bag (in green as pictured) provided, if not I would’ve dropped my camera in the water at some point of time


    Day 2 – being rowed about to small villages

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  4. Views of Vietnam: Hanoi

    January 29, 2012 by Pei Shan

    I had a two weeks break in between my job change, so to make good use of this extra time, we decided to go somewhere nearby but yet cold and dry enough in order to get away from Singapore’s super wet weather. So, Hanoi it is~

    We went to both Hanoi and Halong Bay. I will leave the pictures for Halong Bay for another post.

    I find Hanoi okay-ish.. Maybe I’m not in tune with the city or what but I don’t really enjoy my stay there. My heart’s with Thailand.. I’d gladly go back to Chiang Mai anytime~ <3

    The traffic in Hanoi is hectic, to put it conservatively. You hear vehicle horns every ten seconds, and crossing the road is a nightmare for us initially. But when in Rome, do what the Romans do. We saw the locals crossing the road as if there is no traffic (the bikes will make way somehow..) and ta-da! Problem solved.

    The Vietnamese coffee is good - even for a non-coffee drinker like me. For the entire 2011 prior to this trip, I had less than than five cups of coffee. In this trip alone, I had almost ten. Lol.

    We had an interesting encounter during our trip.. So while trying to find a place for massage (the ones near our hotel were full), we stumbled into one seemingly empty parlour, so we asked for massage for two. Guess my reaction when I finally saw the ladies who were going to massage us? My jaws practically hit the floor when I saw that they were wearing ultra mini dresses.. No points for guessing what kinda place it is.. =.= But since we’ve already paid in advance, we’ve no choice but to go ahead.. (Maybe I’m the only one who felt that we had “no choice”, lol. Mr. Piggy probably thought, “WAH, TAN DIO LIAO!”) The massage was so-so, and I could sense that her dress is sliding up her thighs when she was straddling me lor!! Omg, I don’t want to think about this anymore. >”"< But we came out of the parlour unscathed. Heng.

    In retrospect, it was quite a funny experience. Although I wouldn't want to experience it again. :|

    Anyway, we stayed in Hanoi Impressive Hotel, which is situated in a very nice alley way and had a nice view overlooking St Joseph's Cathedral.

    I'll let the pictures do the talking.


    View of St Joseph’s Cathedral from our room


    St Joseph’s Cathedral


    Inside the traditional house of 87 Ma May


    Typical Vietnamese breakfast


    One Pillar Pagoda


    Vietnamese drip coffee

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  5. [Wicked]

    January 12, 2012 by Pei Shan

    Some time last month, I went to watch Wicked with Mr. Piggy at Marina Bay Sands.

    It was nearing Christmas, so the Christmas decorations were up. :) I like the reindeer! On a separate note… I don’t like the ArtScience Museum behind me. The building looks almost incomplete, no?

    Walked past a model of Titanic.

    We bought the tickets to the matinee show. I think Wicked is awesome! The troupe will be here in Singapore until April, so grab the tickets from Sistic if you’re interested in catching Wicked! :)

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