25 Nov


Finally my PS on 23rd Nov was over....I am glad the weather is so nice and sunny as it has been rainig for the past few days...


It's such a concidence...Its actually thanksgiving day is United States......


It was such an enjoyable event thou I was all tired out at the end........


Didn't do much on Saturaday as I was all tired out and didnt't had a good nite sleep for the pass few days....


Sunday as usual was a household chores day..spent time...hmm..ironing clothes...mopping floor...and


guess wat..I make some choco cupcake........*Yummy*




I think I over eat this weekend...haha..think I have to go on a three days diet at the beginning of this week..as I put on 2kg last weekend..=P..


Guess I have to diet again this week...

21 Nov

Yuppie.....my ex project boss is in town from 19-22Nov.....4 days in sg....

Well he came down from Zurich..for some work engagements.....

Didn't had a chance for a drinks session with him when he was in town in July.....

I thought this time round, will have a chance.......and since he will be here for 4 days....

Supposed to go massage on 21Nov(Wed)...But as he is such a busy man....he only had time to meet me....on 21Nov....

For him, I reschedulesd all my planned appointment this week.......

Who knows...I only got to know from him today that he can only meet me for a short drink of 30mins...

No choice..I had to end my work slighlty earlier than planned today....just to meet him....else I would't know....when is the next time....I will see him again.....

Had a nice 30 mins short chat and drink with him......

Hmm...has anyone of us aged? =P

Taken this meetup

Taken 1 yr ago

...I know....that he is going for ski trip in dec.....Oops.....

I asked him to be careful of his bones..*LOL*...

Meanwhile take care and see you next time around....

15 Nov

It was Kt's 35th birthday.....Decided to bake him a yummy chocolate cake.....

The lucky boy with my yummy cake

Apparently, I tried Princess Evee's birthday cake last Sunday and it taste quite yummy.....So I decided to use that receipe for the cake that I am going to bake.....Sigh.......

It turn out to taste "yucky"....Doesn't have the similar chocolate taste thou it is soft and spongy.

What did I do? Decided to throw away the whole cake...........What a waste of time and effort....

Luckily I have extra butter and eggs at home....It was already 1030pm.....when I finish baking my first cake.....spent the next 1.5 hrs baking a new cake using my previous receipe "Chocolate Brownie Receipe".....

KT commented the brownie is too sweet the first time....this time round, I reduced the sugar..hoping it won't change the texture of the brownie.......

Gosh...I heaved sigh of relief when the cake was baked.......it looks soft any yummy.....in addition, I make another 6 muffine brownie....2 for my breakfast =P.....another 4 which I brought to office for my colleagues......

The feedback was "very yummy" I am glad.....keke.....

Look at my smiley contented face so satisfied with my own baking result...hehe...

I hope KT will appreciate my effort...coz I was very tired last night after I finish baking and washing up, it was already almost 1230am.....

Fingers skin was rough and peeling from all the washing.......*poor fingers*.....

Met up with KT only ardound 7.30pm at Amara hotel.....Please don't be mistaken..we are not there to book a room....*haha*

But there to have dinner...well..is a shanghainese restaurant....call "SILKROAD"

Ordered a few dish because as usual, I am not able to take much food.....

Well, this year birthday cake didn't come as a suprise to him..because he was expecting I will bake a cake especially he knows that I was still awake at 12 midnite the previous nite...

Enjoy some pics.......

KT with his la main(shen re chang shou mian)

Happy couple

11Nov



13Nov was my younger niece 1st birthday. It happens to fall on a Tuesday so my sister decided to bring forward the birthday celebration on 11Nov(sunday).


As I was just back from my trip on 9th Nov, I am dead tired....But as I have promised my sister previously to help her out in preparing the food, I have to drag myself out of my bed to her house.



I had to rush to complete all the ironing of my clothes from my trip and office wear that was not ironed before my trip.


Ironing clothes is the housework I hate most....don't know why but despite so many years of ironing...haha..I still have not perfect my skills.....in fact..I would consider below average....*LOL*


Reached my sis house at 1.30pm after mopping my house. Started with washing and marinating the chicken wings....



Then help out with other minor stuff like cutting, rolling, washing, etc.......



These are all the food for the birthday celebration....Actually nothing much..but I am very full after the meal.....



Chicken Wings, Puff Pastry hot dog, Pumpkin soup, Fried mee hoon, Tuna on toasted bread, Cocktail dessert, cake...





Cake baked by my sister for Princess Evee...Well It is considered quite good for a first attempt

Well, as usual no photos of my niece because my sister doesn't allow me to post their photos online as she is afraid of phedophile.....

The celebration ended at 8pm..and we all went home...with 0% of energy level....

What's coming up next? Well, Kt birthday is on 15nov. 2 days after Princess Evee....I am also baking a cake....hopefully is going to be successfully....But mine will be a simple cake without much decoration .....as I am not too fantastic with decorating and haven't take any course before....

Stay Tuned.......

I was looking forward enthuistically to this long awaited short break for a holiday in a cold country.


Well, Japan was out as KT has been there for several time. Korea was out as well as KT doesn't like the people there as he find them rude.


Finally decided to go Hanoi as it was quite well recommended by his friends as well as my friends.


Who knows this 8 days holiday turn out to be a nightmare.


Upon touching down at 9pm in Hanoi,

I was greeted with sounds of non stop horning from the bikes and cars travelling on the road.


Hanoi is a country where bikes taking up 90% of the vehicles on the road.

Road was bumpy, small and fully packed. Traffic was bad and slow moving.


Thou you can feel the cooling air, you can smell that the air is really polluted.

It didn't help matters when I am having a bad flu and cough already.


Well I thought it was still ok as I will be going Sapa(mountain area) the next day for 4 nights where I will get lots of fresh air from the mountain.

Bridge during trekking at Sapa

Village at Sapa
Nice Scenery of Sapa
After 8 hours of overnite train rite, it was freezing cold when I reach Sapa at 4am as it has been raining the whole night.
It takes another 3 hrs of bus ride to go uphill...I almost fainted as i hate to take long bus ride
due to motion sickness.
Well, when you join a package tour, I guess the expectation is that there will be tour guide accompanying you during the whole journey. However, it doesn't work this way in Hanoi.

1) 2nd Nov
The driver pick us up from Hanoi hotel and sent us to the train station in Hanoi


2) We have to take the train ourselves, get down the train with notour guide and go the the Sapa train station who have another Sapa tour guide waiting at Sapa. I thought that is pretty weird as usually tour package are accompained by tour guide.....


3) 3rd Nov
Today was still alright other than the weather. Went trekking on the mountain area and visiting the villages and waterfall.

Trekking was great except that the weather is bad as is has been raining. Obviously my new Adidas cross training shoes was not spared.


4) 4th Nov
It was a bumpy 3 hrs ride to visit their Ba-Ha market that opens on Sunday. Well it is supposed to be their largest market....But guess what, I went there and ended the day empty -handed. Guess I seriously hate to bargain especially the people doesn't know English. Tourist there will only be "CARROT HEAD"

5) The journey back to my hotel uphill sucks..

Apparently, the tour guide in Sapa left the tour bus before going uphill...to go home(without even finishing his job of sending us back to our hotel)..

So we are left with the driver (Who doesn't know English). He stopped a few times on his way back to the hotel to pick up some (don't know who) of his personal customers

for his own extra earning. Wasted my time....

At Sapa town, he had to make a few extra drop off for those persoal customers....well again wasting my time....

In fact, he actually got the cheek to chit chat in the hotel with (don't know who) and kept us waiting in the car....


6) Some people was so pissed off with the waiting that they decided to get off the bus and walk back on their own. As my hotel was quite far from the palce where he stopped,we hesitate to get down. Until finally after KT was too piss, he decide to get down and walk. It was then that the driver came back. However, the driver didn't know which hotel we stayed nor did he know how to speak english. Can you imagine how frustrating can that be? It was until we were at another hotel reception that he asked for the receptionist help to translate. Then we finally got back to our hotel.

7) I thought it was pretty bad of the driver working attitude to use our time to do his own personal things and very unprofessional of the tour guide not to finish sending us back to hotel before he end his day.


9) I was supposed to take the night train back to Hanoi the next day. I reached Hanoi at 430am and was told to catch a taxi of my own back to Viet Anh Hotel in Hanoi....I thought there will be a driver to pick us up and send us to hotel at this wee hours...Well I was totally caught out of suprise as I joined the tour packaage and is supposed to pick us and send us back to hotel.


10) Reached the hotel at 5am, I was glad everyting is over and got a room to check in and have a hot shower before I sleep. Who knows, when we reached the hotel, the hotel was in total darkness. Lights were switched off and door was locked...


11) The guard was sleeping inside the hotel infront of the door...After a few knocks, he woke up and open the door for us to go in.

12) Guess what, he said we cannot check in because the receptionist was at home sleeping and will only be at work at 7am.

13) At this point of time, can you imagine how angry I felt? I paid $$ for the previous nite so that I can go to my room the moment I reached Hanoi and now I am stuck at the hotel lobby waitingfor the receptionist to come. "Never stay at Viet Anh Hotel again". It is either their management / process got problem, or their staff is plain lazy, irresponsible or bo chap. Anyway is the first time that I see a hotel not open 24hrs with the door lock at nite and all the staff asleep.It's really a eye-opener.

14)The next day I went around Old Quarter area for walk and shopping...well nothing much to shop as I was pissed off by a staff assistant. I was in a shop looking at some accessories when one lady slap my hand....telling me I cannot touch the accessories.I thought that is ridiculous.Why can't a shopper even touch something that is hanging on open space? After being pissed I walk out of the shop immediately and went to their high-end cafe(equivalent olio dome in Singapore) as I did not have any more mood to shop.

Food and Drinks at Highland Coffee

15) I ordered a ice mocha, vietnamese coffee cheesecake and KT ordered a black coffee...Well obviously the stuff looks yummy.....As I was halfway through the cheesecake, guess what I saw?A fly that is stuck at the side of the cake...."Yucks" can you imagine how I felt at that point of time,I brought the pcs of cake back to the counter staff....Guess what she did..."She smile at me and says a Fly".

16) Then she took a straw and scrap away the fly from the cake...she thought that will be ok.What is this crap? This is supposed to be a high end cafe, hygience and customer service is so bad.

17) I told the staff that I am not going to eat this piece of cake. She then run to the manager and come back to tell me she will change the cake.

18) Well when the cake came back, she gave me a new piece with half the size of the original cake. "simply ridiculous".People only return one whole piece. This is the first time I saw people giving half a piece back.

19) I was just too overwhelmed by all the events that has happen. Decide to head back to the hotel at 3pm. I stayed in the hotel throughout hoping my nightmare in Hanoi will end soon.

On the boat in Halong

Nice Scenery of Halong

beautiful sunset at Halong
20) Next day was a trip to Halong bay. This was the best trip I had so far out of the past 6 days. Halong was beaufiful. It was nice cooling weather, peaceful and fresh air.

21) Well the Halong bay trip was 2 days and 1 night. I thought everyting will end soon with the nightmare in Hanoi.Who knows, on the day when we are on the way back to APT office(travel agent that book the tour), I asked the tour guide several time if she is going to drop us at APT office and she replied yes.

22) When we reach Hanoi, she drop us at 2 street away from APT office. I was pretty pissed coz I was pulling my big luggage. In hanoi, the pavement were all park with motobikes, there are no proper space or road that I can even pull my luggage properly. I had to pull my luggage on the rough road fighting space with the motobikes and cars travelling on the road. Don't you think that is sickening when they had already promised to drop us at the office and after several times of confirmation from the tour guide.It was later when they drop us at the street that the tour guide said the car is too big to go into the street.

23) I thought she should have stated that upfront? Anyway I was very dissapointed with the service provided by the people there despite a more expensive amt that I have paid for.I did not get the service or quality that I was expecting for.

24) Finally dragged my luggage to the Apt Office and took a airport transfer back to airport.At this moment of my mind, I just want to end this nightmare as soon as possible. Lucky nothing bad happen on our way back to airport.

25) Well, it wasn't the end. My flight was delayed. It was supposed to depart at 930pm. Now is reschedule to 1030pm. Only touched down at SG airport at 2am. Slept only around 3.30am. Is the worst holiday I ever been to.


Nice backview in Halong with KT

Cat on boat