CRuiSE ViRgO

time to blog on the cruise which took place >1 month back. heheh.. like i mentioned earlier, cruise is really relaxing. no tight schedules, no non-stop walking, no need to search for toilets. own time own target... the only thing tt we need to take note of, will most probably be the meal times. lol ~
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~the rooms. actually one room is good enuff for 3 person, cuz there's actually 2 beds and 1 upper deck bed~

~the 1st meal on board. mediteranean buffet~

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basically there are a few restauarants on board, some are free, some are not. of cuz, it only makes economical sense to visit the 'free' restaurants, after all, the price is already included in the tickets. they provide 6meals - breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternn tea, dinner, supper. for breakfast, lunch and dinner, u can visit any of the free restaurants during the specific timings. but u can only choose 1 restaurant per meal. for the teas and supper, all are held at the mediteranean restaurant.

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went explore around the cruise after our meal...

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~my star sign!!!!~

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and guess who we saw on board???

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~haha, yea, we bumped into hao-yi.. she's there to perform for a show. a v friendly lady~

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~look at the background, it's HK!!~

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~ spot the boy!!~

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finally hunt down the ktv for dad to sing! it's more of a ktv lounge and each table is entitled to 2 songs per round. have to wait damn long b4 it's our table's turn to sing again.. entrance is free, but need to order drinks. but the drinks not tt ex la, reasonable.

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~ me.. bit drunk after the cocktail which tastes like medicine. lol ~

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after tt was supper time!!!
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~wad's the 2 men discussing???~

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me and hubb proceeded to the casino after supper. some luck for me cuz i won $50.. but tough luck for hubb cuz he lost $100! he lost in all the 3 rounds which he bet in! haha.. poor thing..

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~tt's hubb wallowing in self-pity after losing at the casino! hahahaha~

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DAY 2
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breakfast at the chinese restaurant. seriously, the food served is not too bad. but i heard in the past they serve even better food.

~for the beverages, only tea is complimentary. tt glass of soya bean costed $5.50! coffee per cup was $6 and we ordered 2 cups w/o knowing. so total was $17.50 for 3 cups of super ordinary drinks!!! stunned ~

*hubb on the slide. lol*

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*good weather to get some tan. din get to swim much though cuz the pool was small and many pple. managed to enjoy some jacuzzi though*

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after tt, was of cuz, afternn tea time!
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actually by the 2nd day, alrady nothing much to do. somemore exploration... and then to lunch!

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2nd day lunch was at this western restuarant. i enjoyed the food here most. yum yum!!
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after lunch we went play cards in the leisure room.. seriously 3d2n is juz nice.. 1 more day will be quite sian liao..
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dinner for day2 was back to the chinese restaurant we went in the morning. there was also bbq buffet dinner going on at the pool area, but mum wanted to eat chinese food, and so we gave the bbq buffet a missed. but we did ate some desserts frm the dinner at poolside.

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after all the food, of cuz it's workout time! if i remb correctly, it's already passed 12am le... im FIT!!! hiak.

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DAY 3

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some more pics taking....

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~spot the blue slide which was at the pool??~

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yep, all in all, a good experience. next time will try those with landing de... and better still, fly-cruise. the things on board are generally expensive.. one toothbrush + one small tube of toothpaste = $4 and of cuz, my glass of soyabean which is $5.50 ~

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but still quite fun lar. juz relaxing lor. eat slack eat slack. but cannot go too often or stay for too many days else sure will gain weight !!

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ThE DeMisE Of MJ

switched on the radio half-awake and the 1st thing i heard was the news tt michael jackson has passed away.

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the last time i heard about him was the rumour that he'd contracted skin cancer.. and now.. juz like tt..

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he's not my idol. he's not from my era. but he's sooo famous that u cannot dont know him.

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actually, i think he's a very sad figure. i believe he must be someone who's super inferior and insecure given the series of plastic surgeries he'd underwent to 'perfect' himself.

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yes, to me, pple who opt for plastic sugeries r inferior becuz u will only go for plastic sugeries when u think u dont look good enuff. and when u think u dont look gd enuff, u will have no confident and no confident = inferior. simple as that.

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so to some extent, under my definition, everyone is inferior unless u dare to tell me ur perfectly satisfied with urself to the extent tt u dont need to make up, dont need to diet, dont need to put on nice clothes, dont need to trim ur brow, dont need to go for facial etc.

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but of cuz, there's diff level of inferiority. and i think to the extent tt plastic sugeries have to come into the picture is truly quite extreme liao.

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anyway, back to MJ, i think looking into the mirror, he already cannot recognise himself.. someone who has lost his true self..who has lost his original identity..

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i used to wonder why celebrities can earn so much. but juz give it some tots and u'll know y..

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• have to take care of physical appearance which means STRICT DIET and EXERCISING and if need be, PLASTIC SURGERIES. not forgetting THICK MAKE-UPS! at the end of the day, when the make ups r removed, i believe the stars themselves also cannot recognise themselves.
• high stress level - enuff exposure? enuff contracts? popularity? sales volumne? competitors??
• little sleeping time which adds to point 2 and make point 1 even more difficult to achieve becuz we all know little sleeping time = bad skin
• low privacy - all ur little moves r SCRUTINISED!!! the more popular ur, the worse it'll be!
• loss of personal time /space - u think they can juz go out and shop like any tom dick or harry?
• short shelf life - how many can be popular from 20 years old to 65 years old??
• high spending needs - u dont expect a star to sqz public transport or wear kuku brands or eat at hawker centres.... do u?

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glamourous as they r.... i believe being a celeb is one of the toughest thing ever.. hence, they do deserve the amount of money they r getting. and celebs r definitely one of the poorest creatures in the world... losing the true selves behind the limelight..

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that reminds me of the song - 小人物的心声.

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im glad im a 小人物.

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BuBbLe TeA CraZe

there's this bubble wave in my department now! yes, the bubble tea craze which was ever-so-popular years back but burst later on, is now alive in my dept! all cuz of this new shop - KOI Cafe.

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it's a brand from taiwan and i believe the staff r true taiwanese. the bubble tea is shiok! v authentic, dont have those 'fake feel' from those unknown brands. the shop at tpy is always crowded with customers.. and once i was at the chinatown outlet and there were many customers as well.
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the menu consists of tea, milk tea, coffees etc. can choose the sugar level, from 0%, 20%, 50%, 70% and of cuz 100%. my fav is the oolong milk tea, honey milk tea and green milk tea. super shiok!! there used to be big and small bubbles also, but now the bubbles r synchronised, only one standard size which is somewhere in the middle of the ex-big and ex-small size. lol ~

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they offer delivery for 3 cups and above and almost every alternate days, we will call for delivery.
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which means, we drink it at least 2x per week! ahahaha.. addiction!!!
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~and tt's my nice cup of oolong milk tea~

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do give it a try if u come across the shop. highly recommended.
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and tt reminded me.. sis was the one who 1st introduced me to bubble tea.. the v pioneer brand is Quickly.. and there used to b those stamp cards for u to collect the stamps. lol.. so many years ago...
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SunDay!

finally one sunday whereby im totally free at home. past few sundays have been going out for dinner.. finally today i can juz slack at home whole day le! no contact lens, no make ups.... im sooo free!!!!
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im going downstairs to get dinner later (or maybe i shld juz cook instant noodle? tt will save me the hassle of going downstairs.. but more msg = more hair loss? urgh).. then perhaps start on the puzzle. yeah, sunday's supposed to be for puzzle, but i havent start on it tdy.. hee.
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or perhaps, i shld juz be a couch potatoe tdy??? but later still gotta sweep and mop the floor. sianz!
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and at work, im super super sian now. real tiring. dont know y, but i've lost the fighting spirit. tt day we were discussing on the number of OTs worked so far for this mth. collegue A said 5days, colleague B said 8days. and my answer was 2days. colleague A then said 'wow, that's so unlike u!'.
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yes... i admit, tt's so unlike me. usually by the 2nd wk of the mth, i would easily have hit 4days. but now.. haii... i used to work 10+ days ot.. but now, im back to the minimal of 8days. dont know y leh.. really v tired leh.. 1.5 hrs more also cannot tahan liao.
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and yesterday was the 1st sat in the soo many 'got-to-work' sats that i felt unjust and angry! y should we be made to work on sats when it was agreed on my contract that it'll be a 5days working standards??!!!! i was soo sian when i woke up that i told mum directly not to talk to me as im v tired. u know, i have to do tt, else i'll definitely flare at her if she starts nagging at me again. so to prevent tt, i better infm her not to talk to me 1st. ha.

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so many changes at work. they r really closely monitoring the productivity now. from jan till may, various kinds of results and rankings are being generated. im not the low-performers but neither am i the hi-fliers. and it really doesnt help when there r more and more market-spoilers.

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it's soo siann siann siann.. in the past still can slack and wayang.. but now.... every min is used to reach out to more pple and hit more targets.

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this is burning me out...

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lucky i have the foresight to take half day morning off tmr. i want to sleep in late. i dont care!!

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HappY FaThErS' DaY

celebrated fathers' day last nite at zhou's kitchen. it's a 2-storey restaurant juz beside anchorpoint.
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the ambience is not bad.. got the hi-class yet homely settings. we were seated at the lower level. the space a little small though.. think the interior can only accomodate 3 large tables and 1 for 2-seaters.. the exterior probably another 4 small tables.. tt's abt all. din go upstairs to take a look though.

~mum, sis, miss cute, and star 1 - pa~

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~bro and sis-in-law and mum + pa's hand~

~sis, miss cute, and star2 - bro-in-law. yeah, dont forget, he's a dad too!~

~and dear boy.. happily munching the cake away~

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~ mango cake from 4-leaves, one of the fav cake shops! the cakes r really nice, esp the choco cakes and strawberry shortcake. i can buy one whole choc cake and juz eat at home! goes to show how much i like it! this mango one so-so though, i found it a lit too sour.. but anyway, fruit cakes r never on my list~

~and of cuz, me and pa!~

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pls pple, pls pls pls remind me NEVER to cut my fringe again! it makes me look stuuppiiidddd!!!!!!!!!!!! but then.. although i say such things now, when my fringe is long, i will want to cut it again... cuz when i put my fringe to the side, it will soon cost me a hole in my left forehead~

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something like this....
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yes, my hair at my forehead is thinning!!!! it's sooo sparse now.. i was told to change my parting but i dont know how to and so, i resorted to cutting the fringe short so that the hair are not always pulled to one side.. urrgghH!!! and overall, my hair is really thinning.. im very very very worried with the hair loss.. shit!!!
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ok, anyway, back to father's day. the food at zhou's kitchen is not too bad. i believe they serve one of the best sweet n sour pork! mum kept complaining on the slowness in serving the food though..

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overall bill 149.50 for 8 adults. quite cheap eh?? less than $20 per pax leh. beijing duck + scallops broccoli + veg + fried silver fish + deer meat + sweet n sour pork + fish... but all small size de lah.

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and so, happy fathers' day to all fathers!!!

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VeG BuFFeT ???

there's a recent wave of dieting at my section, all cuz one colleague is trying to shed some weight in order to fit into her dress for ROM.

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and so, for 2 OTs, we'd salad! cherry tomatoes, carrots, lettuces, corn, apples, pineapples, sunflower seeds and 2 kinds of dressing prepared by another colleague.

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my head came over and tot we were having some sort of veg buffet or wad. lol ~

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of cuz it's not veg buffet! i already said it's salad!

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put everything in a zip lock bag, add in a few packets of salt and pepper frm mac, shake shake shake and it's done!

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how healthy!!

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next wk, we'll be trying the thai dressing. lol ~~~

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i once read in the papers that one celeb managed to shed 3kg in a wk by excercising 1.5hrs/day, go on salt-less, oil-less and sugar-free diet. basically she only ate boiled veggies and tofu. mmm..... 3kg in a wk is super good deal.... but how long can such a diet and exercise routine sustain????

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it doesnt pay at all when u lose 3kg in a wk but gain 6kg in the next cuz of the one-wk deprivation of a normal life rite??????

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juz like in business, we talk about sustainable growth. the main thing about dieting is that it MUST be SUSTAINABLE. it must be LONG-TERM and BEARABLE and ENDURABLE.

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so peeps, thinking of shedding some weight?? go take up some serious jogging or swimming or badmintoning or kickboxing or basketballing or dancing or stairs climbing.

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continue on the good food once in a while becuz all of us need some forms of motivation!

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okok.. im only talking to myself cuz i seriously need to shed some weight!!!

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