I guess it's not too late to say "Happy New Year!" even though we are almost reaching the end of January! 2015 past by in a blink of an eye with many agreeing that it's rlly way too fast that we hadn't enjoyed enough! Yet another year has gone by so quickly!
A review of my 2015 in this post!
I finally stopped procrastinating and decided to go for braces! It took me almost a decade to decide partly because of the financial issues. Another part of the reasons is due to my skin. I'm born with eczema and there were many times when Mum would say that braces would lead to eczema around my skin because my lips will be very dry. But I'm glad I still went for the braces after considering for a long time. However, being at this age, the dentist told me that I still have like 3 milk teeth. HAHAHAH! So it's either I put braces and ignore those milk teeth or I go for operation to extract those teeth out. As I could choose, of course I'll go for the painless option right!
Before I had braces on, whenever I take photos, I would always either stand on the right side (taking group shots) or that the right side of my face would be facing the camera instead of front view of my face because the right side of my teeth is perfect (this is also according to the dentist) but my left side was ruined by one inward tooth and a tiger tooth. In another word, left side is more of overcrowding issue. It worsened further when an adult tooth decided to grow out when the milk tooth was still intact 100% to my gum T_T
I've never blogged about my braces journey because I thought it was redundant. Friends will slowly get to knw when we meet up for meals and such. Anyway, the first 2 weeks of braces journey was torturous! I was on liquid diet for my first two weeks to the extent that I got bored of the food and decided to just have instant cereal for my meals instead. I was so happy that someone bought a box of Tokyo Banana and my lunch was just one packet of Tokyo Banana each day until one day, the box of banana was emptied :(
Yep, the shape of my face changed. I lost a bit of my face chubs. People arnd me kept telling me that my face got slimmer, sharper and all. I don't deny that I love how my face looked like back then because it was so sharp! But ze boyfriend said it wasn't due to just braces alone because he thinks that my face started getting sharper after our HK trip. However, erm, it's transforming back to round face right after I was back from my TW trip due to all the sinful food that I had there and after. HAHAHAH! And also, after I could bite agn, I started eating a lot more than I did. Yep, that's how I got fat agn.
I felt kinda sian when my dentist told me that he would be transferring to s'where in TPY and asked if I'd follow him. But the reason why I chose NP is because of convenience sake leh. So yupp, I stayed on. The current dentist now is very friendly but perhaps not as skillful as the previous one :/
Last year, it was our 6th anniversary. Having said that, it was also our first time celebrating anniversary in such a high class restaurant: The White Rabbit. Knowing that I've always wanted to go, Baby decided to 'surprise' me on this day but little did he knw that I already discovered through somewhere else. Oops! It was rlly unintentional but I was still feeling happy inside me all the while because he made an effort for this so much and rmbring the little details of where I wna go.
Yes, I'd definitely recommend this restaurant if anyone wants to have a more romantic place (candlelit dinner) with good food and dessert. Try their lunch menu! I think the place would be nicer with natural sunlight shining in too! :)
Oh, it was also my first time watching R21 movie in theatre that night. To which I thought it was nothing nice. I mean, yes. 50 Shades of Grey is nice but erm, not when it was the torturing parts??
I can't wait for our 7th anniversary now. It's in less than a month's time! It won't be fanciful this time because we are both broke. Hahah. Not yet decided on what to do but I believe that as long as it's the both of us accompanying each other, anything else doesn't matter.
Then it was Chinese New Year and it's the first time Baby ever visited Grandma's house on the first day! I was so elated and looking forward to what he'd wear because that was the year when I bought him 3 tops for CNY! What a good girlf I am! Hahahah, OKAY JUST KIDDING!!!!
That was also the year when Baby and I spent the first 3 days of CNY consecutively together! It was nothing short of awesomeness and I look forward to more of this in future! :)
We also had our 11D10N of Taiwan trip in May which I had a really bad post-TW blues after I was back. I even cried a few times because I missed TW so badly. I think the reason why I was being so emotional was because I started my part-time job immediately after I was back. I always regret my choice after deciding. Never ever work/resume work just one day after you're back! Lesson learnt!
Throughout these 11days, we visited 5 different parts of Taiwan. Not sure if they are the legit 5 but we visited: Kaohsiung, Kenting, Cingjing (Nantou), Taichung and Taipei. Till date, I have yet to finish updating on my TW trip!
We arrived at Taoyuan Airport and travelled all the way to Kaohsiung via their HSR. We stayed in Kaohsiung for a good 3D2N and visited Kenting for a day on our 2nd day of stay there. We then proceeded to Cingjing for 2D1N and stayed at Starry Villa. It was super peaceful at night but you wouldn't want to get out of your room as it would attract those flies in. Booked a cab for a one-day tour around the area further from Taichung before we headed to our guesthouse in Taichung for 3D2N. Travelled to Taipei on our 6th day there via HSR - a place which I've anticipated the most. Leaving the best for the last. Felt rather sad that the trip has come to an end even though the times in Taipei was really a very chillax one.
2015 was also the year that my family celebrated everyone's birthday. I personally think that birthdays are very important. It marks the anniversary of the person's birth date and we should be happy that they are always there for us whenever we needed them.
Oh, and how can I ever forget about Singapore's birthday?! SG50 was also the first time in the six years of being together that Baby and I ever went out to camp at one site for fireworks on National Day. First and last time anyway. We got bored somehow while waiting. Hahahah and my phone battery died way too fast! A good experience though as it was SG50 and there was quite a few different performance if I didn't rmb wrongly.
It was Anderson's 55th anniversary and they organised a carnival in school for the ex-andersonians and current ones to gather back in school. It was rlly nice seeing everyone and relief the moments 6 years ago!
Always wanted to participate in fun run and not gna let go of this opportunity esp when the powder was a bit different this time round. So happy that a few of my friends in the clique were so steady to go together!
I felt that my long hair gave me a sense of confidence and security. From time to time, I told Mum that I wna curl my hair. Finally done it but I dislike the kind of curls on my hair. The salon I went to is a house salon and the auntie has only one kind of curl (Korean perm?). But that is not the kind of locks that I wanted. Still, lived with it for 3 months.
But then I realised that curls are very hard to maintain. Either that or it's just the curls that I had on my hair because my friends didn't face such an issues at all... It looks so bad, like this!
Not sure if my curls got a bit straighter due to the exam period (I did not apply any gel or cream to my curls during that one month) or was it due to my natural hair texture. People who knw me will knw that my natural hair texture was very straight and smooth. Some friends & relatives even thought that I rebonded my hair when I did not at all.
Straightened it back after I was back from my TW trip because 1) the curls weren't the kind that I liked and 2) I was lazy to apply the gel to maintain my curls 3) my eczema acted up on my palm because of the gel.
Made a very courageous move by cutting my hair short to shoulder length. I think I considered for almost a year before I decided that "yes, I should just cut it short nownowNOW!!". Hahahah! That, I regretted somehow. LOL!
Yep, these are some of the more memorial things that I'd like to summarise in this post. And nope, no resolutions for 2016 because I don't fulfill them at all. None of my resolutions have been strike off before. HAHAH.
For instance, "no vulgarities for the year of xxxx". Hahahah! It was rlly a secondary-school kind of resolutions every year back then. However, this time, I hope that I can strike out a few of my to-do(s) in my list.
Back from Penang a few days ago, I had wanted to try parasailing but I didn't have the guts to do it. Hahahah! So yep, parasailing is the top in my to-do list!
I'm done! Goodbye! :)
A review of my 2015 in this post!
BRACES
I finally stopped procrastinating and decided to go for braces! It took me almost a decade to decide partly because of the financial issues. Another part of the reasons is due to my skin. I'm born with eczema and there were many times when Mum would say that braces would lead to eczema around my skin because my lips will be very dry. But I'm glad I still went for the braces after considering for a long time. However, being at this age, the dentist told me that I still have like 3 milk teeth. HAHAHAH! So it's either I put braces and ignore those milk teeth or I go for operation to extract those teeth out. As I could choose, of course I'll go for the painless option right!
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| May '14 - My set of teeth was perfect. AT ALL! |
Before I had braces on, whenever I take photos, I would always either stand on the right side (taking group shots) or that the right side of my face would be facing the camera instead of front view of my face because the right side of my teeth is perfect (this is also according to the dentist) but my left side was ruined by one inward tooth and a tiger tooth. In another word, left side is more of overcrowding issue. It worsened further when an adult tooth decided to grow out when the milk tooth was still intact 100% to my gum T_T
I've never blogged about my braces journey because I thought it was redundant. Friends will slowly get to knw when we meet up for meals and such. Anyway, the first 2 weeks of braces journey was torturous! I was on liquid diet for my first two weeks to the extent that I got bored of the food and decided to just have instant cereal for my meals instead. I was so happy that someone bought a box of Tokyo Banana and my lunch was just one packet of Tokyo Banana each day until one day, the box of banana was emptied :(
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| Right before putting braces |
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| Right after putting braces |
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| 2 weeks after braces |
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| Feb '15 |
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| June '15 |
Yep, the shape of my face changed. I lost a bit of my face chubs. People arnd me kept telling me that my face got slimmer, sharper and all. I don't deny that I love how my face looked like back then because it was so sharp! But ze boyfriend said it wasn't due to just braces alone because he thinks that my face started getting sharper after our HK trip. However, erm, it's transforming back to round face right after I was back from my TW trip due to all the sinful food that I had there and after. HAHAHAH! And also, after I could bite agn, I started eating a lot more than I did. Yep, that's how I got fat agn.
I felt kinda sian when my dentist told me that he would be transferring to s'where in TPY and asked if I'd follow him. But the reason why I chose NP is because of convenience sake leh. So yupp, I stayed on. The current dentist now is very friendly but perhaps not as skillful as the previous one :/
ANNIVERSARY
Last year, it was our 6th anniversary. Having said that, it was also our first time celebrating anniversary in such a high class restaurant: The White Rabbit. Knowing that I've always wanted to go, Baby decided to 'surprise' me on this day but little did he knw that I already discovered through somewhere else. Oops! It was rlly unintentional but I was still feeling happy inside me all the while because he made an effort for this so much and rmbring the little details of where I wna go.
Yes, I'd definitely recommend this restaurant if anyone wants to have a more romantic place (candlelit dinner) with good food and dessert. Try their lunch menu! I think the place would be nicer with natural sunlight shining in too! :)
Oh, it was also my first time watching R21 movie in theatre that night. To which I thought it was nothing nice. I mean, yes. 50 Shades of Grey is nice but erm, not when it was the torturing parts??
I can't wait for our 7th anniversary now. It's in less than a month's time! It won't be fanciful this time because we are both broke. Hahah. Not yet decided on what to do but I believe that as long as it's the both of us accompanying each other, anything else doesn't matter.
CHINESE NEW YEAR 2015
Then it was Chinese New Year and it's the first time Baby ever visited Grandma's house on the first day! I was so elated and looking forward to what he'd wear because that was the year when I bought him 3 tops for CNY! What a good girlf I am! Hahahah, OKAY JUST KIDDING!!!!
That was also the year when Baby and I spent the first 3 days of CNY consecutively together! It was nothing short of awesomeness and I look forward to more of this in future! :)
TAIWAN TRIP
We also had our 11D10N of Taiwan trip in May which I had a really bad post-TW blues after I was back. I even cried a few times because I missed TW so badly. I think the reason why I was being so emotional was because I started my part-time job immediately after I was back. I always regret my choice after deciding. Never ever work/resume work just one day after you're back! Lesson learnt!
Throughout these 11days, we visited 5 different parts of Taiwan. Not sure if they are the legit 5 but we visited: Kaohsiung, Kenting, Cingjing (Nantou), Taichung and Taipei. Till date, I have yet to finish updating on my TW trip!
We arrived at Taoyuan Airport and travelled all the way to Kaohsiung via their HSR. We stayed in Kaohsiung for a good 3D2N and visited Kenting for a day on our 2nd day of stay there. We then proceeded to Cingjing for 2D1N and stayed at Starry Villa. It was super peaceful at night but you wouldn't want to get out of your room as it would attract those flies in. Booked a cab for a one-day tour around the area further from Taichung before we headed to our guesthouse in Taichung for 3D2N. Travelled to Taipei on our 6th day there via HSR - a place which I've anticipated the most. Leaving the best for the last. Felt rather sad that the trip has come to an end even though the times in Taipei was really a very chillax one.
BIRTHDAYS
2015 was also the year that my family celebrated everyone's birthday. I personally think that birthdays are very important. It marks the anniversary of the person's birth date and we should be happy that they are always there for us whenever we needed them.
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| Bro's |
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| Mum's |
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| Mine |
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| Dad's |
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| Baby's |
BACK TO SCHOOL
It was Anderson's 55th anniversary and they organised a carnival in school for the ex-andersonians and current ones to gather back in school. It was rlly nice seeing everyone and relief the moments 6 years ago!
COLOUR RUN
Always wanted to participate in fun run and not gna let go of this opportunity esp when the powder was a bit different this time round. So happy that a few of my friends in the clique were so steady to go together!
HAIRCUT
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| Nov '14 |
I felt that my long hair gave me a sense of confidence and security. From time to time, I told Mum that I wna curl my hair. Finally done it but I dislike the kind of curls on my hair. The salon I went to is a house salon and the auntie has only one kind of curl (Korean perm?). But that is not the kind of locks that I wanted. Still, lived with it for 3 months.
But then I realised that curls are very hard to maintain. Either that or it's just the curls that I had on my hair because my friends didn't face such an issues at all... It looks so bad, like this!
Not sure if my curls got a bit straighter due to the exam period (I did not apply any gel or cream to my curls during that one month) or was it due to my natural hair texture. People who knw me will knw that my natural hair texture was very straight and smooth. Some friends & relatives even thought that I rebonded my hair when I did not at all.
Straightened it back after I was back from my TW trip because 1) the curls weren't the kind that I liked and 2) I was lazy to apply the gel to maintain my curls 3) my eczema acted up on my palm because of the gel.
Made a very courageous move by cutting my hair short to shoulder length. I think I considered for almost a year before I decided that "yes, I should just cut it short nownowNOW!!". Hahahah! That, I regretted somehow. LOL!
Yep, these are some of the more memorial things that I'd like to summarise in this post. And nope, no resolutions for 2016 because I don't fulfill them at all. None of my resolutions have been strike off before. HAHAH.
For instance, "no vulgarities for the year of xxxx". Hahahah! It was rlly a secondary-school kind of resolutions every year back then. However, this time, I hope that I can strike out a few of my to-do(s) in my list.
Back from Penang a few days ago, I had wanted to try parasailing but I didn't have the guts to do it. Hahahah! So yep, parasailing is the top in my to-do list!
I'm done! Goodbye! :)
