Trying to live healthy... Trying, HAHA!

Hello I have been trying to live a healthy life style and cleaning up my act, in particular, the way i wolf down food and how I eat all the time, cereal, cookies, chips and stuff. I know I am always hungry but I supposed that is hardly any excuse. I know I always blame it on PMS, HAHA, I still do, but since I am just starting to have it, my appetite is getting smaller. Well, of cause if I am like super skinny, and if I am the kind that can eat like a monster day in and out and will not put on weight, I will probably eat all the time, and I will eat every single thing and I will not care to even write about this. Of cause I can be a super skinny BUT unhealthy person, but still, I won't care to write about it.

BUT unfortunately, I am growing older and FATTER and my skin is not as good as my younger years (seriously, closer and closer to the BIG 3s, I can see my skin getting more patchy and my pores getting bigger, OH THE HORROR). So for the last one week, or so, I have been trying to eat more salads and oats (yes, I am sure my colleagues already noticed this) and less processed and salty foods. Well, I still fall for the Vietnam rice noodles + sweet fish sauce salad-noodles combo but most of the ingredients in this Vietnam dish is veggies. :) I think it is OKAY right? HEEHEE! Anyway, I think that my 'diet' plan has been working out okay because I think I feel 'cleaner' inside. HAHA. So I supposed now that I am feeling happy about my food choices, I think starting tomorrow, I will try to see if I can lose some weight - which I doubt, but I will try. Maybe I will start with like, 2 pounds loss a week or two. :) We'll see how things go!

Oh I want to say that my face skin is HORRIBLE. SORRY JILL! I have been SO lazy with my facial regime. I need to use the toner and the serum and the moisturiser.  I know I need but usually, I don't even moisturise. SO SORRY! I will do it everyday now. I WILL! So starting tomorrow as well, I will wash my face, use the toner and use a moisturiser before I go to work. When I come back from work, I will double cleanse to remove the make up on my face and use toner, serum and moisturiser. OH I have to remember my NECK skin as well. SO horrid now. So tender and soft like a older woman's. YUCKS! It is not TOO late! I will jiayou!

Yes, yes, I know that I have a lot of flaws BUT! I really want to give myself a pat on the back for being a water baby! I drink so much water, I think I am the only one chugging all the water from the dispenser in the office. I think I drink about 3 to 4 liters of water a day. A kind friend once told me not to drink so much water a day - limit to 2 liters to prevent water retention but I really cannot! The moment I wake up I drink at least 500ml, when I reach office another 500-800ml. Then throughout the day, really, I just keep chugging. The weather has been so hot recently, drinking super cold water feels awesome. And besides, if I drink less water I think I will eat more. HAHA. Okay I think it is time for bed. I need my BEAUTY SLEEP to be fresh and well for work tomorrow. Good night JILLIEBEANS!

Peektures!

Some pictures I collected over the weekend :) oh and my pretty ring bought by Jon Jon! So much love!

Happy Birthday Jon Jon! Oh Happy 2nd year Anniversary!

Hello! This weekend we celebrated my darling Jon's birthday! Jon turned 23 year old on 12 October, 2012, Friday. This year we did not eat at any fancy restaurant, not at a place that we have to pay like a lot a lot of money to eat like birdie portion food sizes. HAHA. After work on Friday, I went to Jon's place. Aunty cooked a whole load of super delicious GOODIES! Oh my gosh, there were BBQed chicken, Thai-style, with this awesome Thai sweet sauce. I ate like 3 HUGE pieces of that. There was sticky rice to accompany that delicious chicken pieces. Okay and there were satay as well. I didn't like the satays too much so I only had 3 sticks. Not as yummy as they said they were. Maybe because I don't take satay sauce - perhaps the satay taste MUCH better with the sauce. Hmmm. Aunty prepared like 7 cold crabs! The crabs are superb duper huge OK! Wow! I had one HUGE pincher. WOW! The meat was very sweet and crunchy. I did not have crab in a long long time man. And this is really a treat. Very delicious. I hope I get to eat more cold crab soon. YUMMY! Jon Jon had a lovely chocolate mousse and brownie cake. YAY! My baby is officially 23! I am so much older than he is. -_-" OMG. So sad. HAHA. Serves me right for dating a young boy. HAHA.

This weekend we also celebrate our 2nd year together. YAY~ so much to be happy for. Time flies very fast. In a blink of an eye, 14 months flew pass. We celebrated our Anniversary on the 13 instead of the 14. We went to Antoinette for high tea! The cakes, pastries, coffee and tea there was amazing. So rich and taste so good. We even had my favourite macaroons. :) SO YUMMY! We had to queue for quite long though. The outlet at Mandarin Gallery was quite small and of cause Antoinette is a place many young ladies like to go chit chat and chill, gossip with their friends. After our tea, we went to shop around Orchard for our Anniversary gifts to each other. We went to Tangs and I went to a favourite Gordon Max. I needed to send my old ring for repair and cleaning. OH and we brought me a NEW RING! So nice and pretty affordable! They have a 20% off and a $80 voucher for my next purchase! WAH LAU! So worth it! My ring was very sparkly and very nice. I like it SO MUCH! Thanks DARLING! For Jon, I bought him a Abercrombie and Fitch tee-shirt :) He looked so fine in it. Too bad I did not take any pictures. AIYOH. HAHA. We met up with Tania and Huiting shortly and Huiting also bought a tee-shirt for her better half. *wink!* The tee-shirts are so nice I know now where and what size tee-shirts to get for Jon at this place. I may get another shirt for him later this month or next.

Sunday, which is today, Jon had to stay at home to study and do his homework (HAHAHA! Orh-bee-good) so I went to Bugis Junction and Bugis Street on my own to do some shopping. Shopping was good!! I bought some pretty affordable and nice things! A dress from topshop, I have some discount from my Fashion Forward card, a top from Bugis Street, a clutch to replace the one I threw away cause all the leather like flaking off and a couple of hair ties. Aiyoh I swear I am so CHEAPO. There are some pretty nice stuff but I keep thinking they are so EXPENSIVE and so totally never buy even though they are almost like dirt cheap already! But SEE! I still can buy something from topshop. Terrible right me! Really addicted to shopping and the mere pleasure of OWNING something. Does this means I am materialistic? But I don't go for brands. So this means I am materialistically stingy and not brand conscious? HAHA. A good analogy I think. Oh and shopaholic!

OKAY it is late and this crazy shopaholic is going to bed. Tomorrow is there first day of school, actually it is TODAY, and I must reserve all my energy to TARGET MY CHILDREN. HAHA. 23 new kid-lings. :) Good night! Pictures next entry!

Weekend fun

This weekend! Balloon sculpting, my broken skin, my Lego feasting! Fai's birthday dinner celebration and a whole load of other fun! :)

Change my blog look again!

Hey guys guys!! I changed the look of my blog again! Actually I am not very smart. I realised that there are actually a lot a lot of blog skins for my to choose but always, I choose or I think those that are on default are the only kind of blog skins / template that they have. So dumb right? So that day I was fooling around with the designs and the tabs then I found this so like... disco ball, neon neon, pastel colour looking template. So nice right? Me likey! :) I don't think anyone ACTUALLY reads my blog, other then those few students from 2011DID10 that was forced by Valerie to read the blog page. HAHA. So moving on, I am sure no one actually keeps up on my life stories and I am going to start to write crap about people again. HAHA! KIDDING AH!

Having said all these, I would like to give a recount of my life so far. I have slowly gotten over my heartbreak of my seniors, who as lovable as they can be, have left us to greener pastures. They will be conquering their own futures and battles at work and so will I have to do the same back in the office. We will be anticipating about 23-24 new students next term. I will have about 10 locals and 13-14 international students. WOO HOOO, I wonder how this batch of students will be like. Hmm, will they be fun? Friendly? Approachable? Lovable? Rude? Obnoxious? Quiet? Crazy? HAHA. So much to expect from this new batch. I am getting a little bit tired frankly. Constantly when new people come in, it drains my energy. I have to learn to cope with changes, new people and adapt better to my surroundings and work. I have to understand that no matter how much interest, passion and love I have for my work, and no matter how close to life my work is, it is still just a job. I need to exercise a bit of, what do you call it, distance, if not I will be consumed physically and mentally, emotionally. Of cause, I will want to give as much as I can, but I also have to learn to control myself. Dear God, I will be counting on You for this. :) I need You to help me cope and yes, continue to challenge me, break me, but still give me the courage, patience, favor, compassionate and victory to succeed in my life at home and at work. Thank You Lord. :)

Today I helped out at church. It was the Children's Day celebration camp. A whole day of fun and games was planned for the kids of church and from the other schools and centres that the church reach out to. :) I helped with balloon sculpting. Thank You Lord once again for a ready heart that was really, ready to learn. I used to be like, seriously NOT interested in balloons, I don't even like balloons. But today!!! WOW I learn how to tie balloons, make doggies, bunnies, wands, swords, this and that from BALLOONS! Yes I paid a hefty price because my fingers were all swollen and bruised and all my skin came out and it looks like it's slightly infected. They are all SO SORE NOW! BUT I am so happy. LORD! Thank you LORD! I am so HAPPY, SO TIRED but more happy now than I have EVER been in a LONG time! Thank you for this time of fellowship and get together and love from everyone. I LOVE YOU LORD and I will continue to serve You with a READY heart. Thank You Lord, in Jesus Name! AMEN.

I am really tired now. I am going to call Jon to talk to my handsome boyfriend. Oh and I will update my next blog entry with pictures from the weekend (that includes Fai's birthday party) ~~ LOVE LOVE NIGHT!~

It's PARTAYYYY TIME!!!!

Some snapshots of my lovely children in their final moments :) - like die Liao like that. CHOI! Haha.

Good Bye my 2011DID10 class!

Time really flies. Another 4 months literally flew pass and my 2011 October batch completed their 1-year diploma at the school and officially graduated on 28 September 2012. Even though academically, this class may not have that many super stars compared to their seniors but they are ALL bright sparks. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! I don't care what others might say, but this class to me, thumbs up. So students of 2011DID10, if you guys are reading this, I really really love you all. I am not sure what the reason is but there is this something about your class, it strikes me, very heartwarming, gives me truly the, I want to take care of you feeling. I want to see you guys all successfully employed, working in a job that makes you happy, makes good money and I want to see you all excel.

I really really love this class. Really! Even though, the times throughout this year has all its ups and down, I truly really love them. And I miss them terribly. We parted on Friday. We gave the students a little farewell party with sparkling juice, chips, cookies, chocolates. I hope the students appreciate our efforts. I want the best for them. I see them leave the school, packing their bags and lap tops for the last time, I teared. I want to spend more time with them. I wished (for the first time) that the diploma is 2 years instead of 1 and we can have more time together. Knowing that I will be seeing almost all of them on Monday, I held on to the notion that at least another 8 hours will be spent with these jovial cheerful class.

On Monday, after conducting the WDA assessment for my children, I asked if they want to have a session of KTV with me. They were okay and I was to ask the rest of the girls if they want to come along but since it was kinda last minute, all my colleagues already made plans to see their friend/boyfriend/family for the night. So I am left with them. I was really looking forward to spend time with them. The students who came to the KTV was Valerie, Kian Beng, Phua Sze Jin, John Liew, Tan Yong Bin, Lee Yong Yi and Dominic Foong.

My gosh! My students can really sing! They were brilliant with the microphone and all the Chinese music! My Yong Yi can really sing. Valerie and I were really mesmerised by his voice! And the songs he chose, all the heart melting type some more! Wah man! After singing "Love Me, Don't Leave" with him, my heart like, wahhh, so into the emotions intended for the song. Beng can really sing too! He was able to hit all of Jay Chou's notes and sing perfectly Jay Chou's classic songs. Yong Bin, so cute la. He sang "Roof Top" with me. So sweet and funny. Valerie too! She can sing those Japanese songs. Oh and what's that fella's name, Xiao Jing Teng, all his songs and she really sings them well. I sang some Wu Yue Tian's songs with her too. So heartwarming, so much love. I miss my kids. Sze Jin!! Shouting into the mike most of the time! HAHA! He really try la this one. :) John Liew and Dominic Foong, English song kings. They choose those SUPER OLD 80s classics that most of us don't know the tune too. HAHA! John paid for the KTV session and Dom gave me a ride home. Really thankful guys! Have so much fun, so much entertainment, love and laughter and really, need not pay a single cent. REALLY. I am so happy, so blessed. Thinking back, I miss my kids. I love them so much. All the times that we spent having fun. Now I only have photos and memories to remember them by. I feel kinda depress now man. Shit, I feel like I kanna ditch like that, a part of me like disappeared with them when they graduated. :(

Babies, I love you guys, all of you. Beng, Val, Ben, Jin, Chiki, Kang Yong, Zen Sen, Jian Wei, Jiawei, Yong Yong, Yong Bin Bin, Shehzad, Andrea, Ted, John, Dom, Alex, William, Marcus, I want the best for you guys. WORK HARD!! Always remember and update me on your progress in life and we must always keep in touch! :)