It was a simple ceremony with about 30 invitees made up of our relatives and the couples’ close friends. Cosy ambience with finger food (heavy snacks or rather), both of them took their marriage vows in Chinese (for the sake of the English illiterate parents) with us as their witnesses.

1. Meet up with my friends more often (Dawn, Vernon, Gavin, Qunjie, Guowei and more. This year marked an incredibility low number of times I met up with them.).

2. Brush Rinko’s undercoat at least every 2 days (I have been slacking on this, been brushing him only once a week together with his weekly bath).

3. Exercise more to keep myself healthy (I had fallen sick quite often in year 2009).

4. To try to sleep at least 5.5 hours per day (My average sleeping hours is 3-4 hours).

5. To improve my skill on the pool table (I have a pool table at home but I’ve never taken the effort to utilize it).

6. Cut down on my spending (this resolution should have been in place since years ago!)

Last but not least, I wish everyone a Happy New Year!!! Let’s hope 2010 will be a better year.

Monfae means “my trust” in French. Established only this year, Monfae’s philosophy is to strive to offer quality watches are are both stylish and classic in designs and also valued for money.

Watches are being sold at prices between $39 to $59 here.

I bought 2 watches for myself. With this, I gotten myself a free lifetime membership card and 20% discount on each watch!

A pink watch with 5 movable diamante. $49 – after 20% discount is $39.20.

An elegant looking diamante black chain watch at $59 – after 20% discount is $47.20.

All watches come with 2 year warranty and a 3 months 1 to 1 exchange.

Did I mention that they come in in-house watch boxes so that they look presentable as gifts?

Monfae will be opening a new branch in Bishan Junction 8 in Jan 2010.

Do support local brands!!!

The 1st thing I would like to say, the view of Singapore from 60th storey is really breathe-taking!!! I did not manage to take a good shot with my shakey hands though. The reflection from the glass doesn’t seem to help as well.

One thing impressive about this place is how tea is being served. The tea master skillfully fill up our teacups with a teapot with an extremely long spout. He told us he has been mastering this art for near to 10 years.

The way he keeps his teapot is so fast such that the camera couldn’t capture him!!!

Appetizers were served in tiny portions so that we still have the capacity for main dishes later.

For main dishes we had stir-fried beef with spring onions and garlic  (which I don’t eat though), shark fin soup, soft shell crabs, fried butterfly prawns, roast chicken in Thai sauce, sweet and sour prawns, sweet and sour pork, braised egg tofu, steamed Soon Hock, black pepper scallop, 8 Treasures seafood soup and Ee Fu noodles.

For dessert, we ordered almost whatever was available.

An unintended scene: a chef was serving Peking Duck at the next table:

If you wish to know how is the food, I think QJ’s satisfied face should be more than enough to answer your question.

Here is the roast meat combination ($12).

Their prawn dumpling soup ($3):

While it is not too expensive, I do find their roast pork and Char Siew a little too oily though. However, it’s one of the better roast meat in Singapore.

For those of you who prefer the fatty char siew, you’ll like it here.

However, this little product has been appearing in all major supermarkets, Watsons and Guardian such that I can’t help myself but pay some attention to it – Liese Bubble Hair Colour.

After reading up forums for reviews on this product, I realised about 95% were good reviews. Therefore I decided to try the Marshmallow Brown over the long weekend so that I have time to get use to it.

I took about 30 minutes last night to get the solution to become foamy enough for my whole hair and little doggies were starting to get impatient and barked outside the bathroom.

Another 30 minutes for the colour to set in before I could finally rinse and shampoo my hair!!! The 1st shampoo was a little dry though but I felt that the effect was not too bad. It didn’t differ much from my natural hair colour though. I will post pictures up if I take any pictures these few days.

The exhibition is from 14 Nov 2009 to 29 Nov 2009. I understand that during the 1st week of the exhibition, photography and videography were prohibited. However, we were allowed to take pictures this week!!! No flashes were allowed though.

This huge kitty can be seen at the main entrance of Expo Hall 1 just before we walked into the main exhibition hall.

There are a few stations for us to play and in each station we are supposed to play some games to gain Kitty’s accessories like shoes, clothes, hairpin etc. If you win the game, you get to choose what you want; but if you lose, the computer will decide what accessory you get.

Completing the stations within 35 mins will win you a “citizen badge”.

Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils. They are said to be used to scare off demons. Today, costumes are also based on themes such as those of characters from television shows, movies, and other pop culture icons.

We decided to celebrate Halloween with Jackie’s friends this year at our place this year.

Our wedding picture is covered with spider web!!!

I self-baked some cupcakes and a birthday cake for one of his friends, Terry’s birthday. Terry’s girlfriend, Winnie wrote the wordings on the cake.

Halloween dress-up somehow became a Cosplay dress-up.

The Wii team and the PS3 Rock Band team!!!

Finally, it’s time for food!!! Look at the spread we have:

Nicky Wu has divorced his wife of 3 years and the following is what he’s posted on his blog:

感情是緣份不是工具

緣分盡了就該放手了

我的感情問題在今年八月正式劃下句點

我知道這兩年讓許多長輩 朋友擔心

很抱歉為了我的堅持

很抱歉為了我的個性

但這就是你们這麼多年還站在我身邊的原因不是嗎

我希望我還是我

我會走出讓你們驕傲自豪的路

新的生活已經開始

我

為自己走出自己

PS不需要再為我操心

為我開心

Short but touching short paragraph which tried to summarize everything in a casual way.

For those who did not participate in the Little Tigers’ era, here are some pictures of Nicky Wu.

(photos taken from http://blog.sina.com.cn/wuqilong)

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Jim bought some chocolates and gave half of it to Ken. Ken bought some sweets and gave half of it to Jim. Jim ate 12 sweets and Ken ate 18 chocolates. The ratio of Jim’s sweets to chocolates became 1:7 and the ratio of Ken’s sweets to chocolates became 1:4. How many sweets did Ken buy?

My solution? There you go:

Luckily my grandma stayed in that area when I was young, so we took another 10 minutes walk to Swee Choon for Tim Sum. It was a blessing in disguise as Kian Gee turned out to be a Tim Sum lover. He asked me if the Tim Sum here were as nice as the Kopitiam in Compass Point.

I guess Kian Gee’s happy face would have answered his own question. The total bill came out to be only $29.50.

(Photos with courtesy from Mr Liaw Chan Kong as my handphone was low batt.)

U-Petgamart owned a gigantic dog by the name of 阿呆 which is at least 30 times of Rinko’s size (I forgot to take his picture but I promise to take it the next time I go there).

This is the 2nd time our 2 furkids swim in the pool. They were quite scared of the water the 1st time they went there and we were scared that they may drown but this time round they proved themselves to be natural swimmers.

Two Poms!!! Guess which is Rinko?

Facebook readers, please refer here for the video.

10 of us, Guowei and girlfriend, Dawn, Guorong, Vernon, Nancy, Karen, Ethan, Jackie and I gathered at Bedok Reservoir Park at 10am to start our forest adventure activity.

We had instructors to demonstrate and brief us on the safety rules before we start on our course.

Zipping across the reservoir was so exciting!

When we reached a free-fall point where we had to do a “Tarzen Swing” to get to a net on the other side, Vernon who was afraid of  heights hesitated for a whole 3 minutes before he dared to jump.

The whole course took us about 2 hours and we were very dehydrated by the time we completed the course. Luckily for us, the weather was quite cloudy and the sun wasn’t very strong.  A prefect weather for such an outdoor activity.

Having Apple Cider Vinegar as a dressing is also healthier than Thousand Island Sauce.

Nevertheless, he was still very satisfied with the drink and finished the whole mug (or should I say jug?). Instead it was me with the smaller glass who couldn’t finish my drink.

We had carrot cake, bbq chicken wings, satay, sting ray, fried Kailan and the 3 gigantic sugarcane juices at only $37.

Then, Kian Gee did something out of the ordinary: dipping his bbq chicken wing in satay sauce and ate it!!! LOL!!!

Quoted from his website :

“Hi, I’m going to propose to my girlfriend. I need your help to prepare a very special surprise proposal gift to my girlfriend. I need 1 million blesses from the world, please help me.”

To contribute your wishes, please go to http://willyoumarryme2010.blogspot.com/

The event will be held at Westwood Bowl, Civil Service Club Bukit Batok on 7th November 2009, 9am.  $30 per person will include 3 games and buffet lunch.

Today, I was holding Rinko’s poo with the kitchen towel in my hand while waiting for Jackie to get a plastic bag from the storeroom when Rinko demanded me to carry him. With one hand occupied, I couldn’t possibly carry him.

When I finally got to throw the poo into the plastic bag and washed my hands, our little Rinko got angry. So, he decided to show his unhappiness in his own way.

He raised his leg and peed on my right foot!!! “Spare the rod, spoil the child”, in my case it’s “Spare the rod, spoil the dog”. I must have spoilt this little dog of mine too much for him to show such disrespect to me.

Later he knew I was angry and kept a distance from me until I decide to speak to him. Nevertheless,  we’re still bringing Kookie and him to Sentosa for a little picnic on 21st September to celebrate their birthdays. Anyone’s keen to join us?

Jackie was thrilled when 阿信 held his hands. Our Mr Jackie Tan was never a Mayday fan until he went to Mayday’s 《离开地球表面》 concert with me 2 years ago. Unfortunately, we missed 《回到地球表面》last year as it clashed with our Hong Kong Trip.

The stadium was 100% occupied this round and everyone was so high! Most of us stood throughout the concert. I shall let the pictures and videos speak for themselves.

You may view more of Day 2’s concert pictures on my flickr.

阿信 played drummer a few times during the concert. For viewing on fb, please refer to link 1 and link 2.

The organizers then decided to add one more show on 28th August 2008 and as it happens to be Mayday’s 10th Anniversary of their 1st concert, the concert last night ended at 12.10am.

As I have already bought the $178 tickets for the 29th’s show, I bought the $118 tickets for the 28th’s show, and I am glad I did so as they sang a few songs which they have not sung for a long time during the last 30 minutes of the concert like 《志明与春娇》- 木吉他版, 《I Love You无望》and 《憨人》.

As I was seated quite far from the stage last night, I did not manage to take very good pictures but I think this video should be significant enough for last night’s show. How many times do we see 阿信 and 冠佑 switching roles?

Facebook readers, you may see the link here