REST, PARTY and REPEAT!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!

Coming to the final end of 2015 soon and I'm so looking forward to my better year ahead!

How did you guys celebrated your Christmas last week?

I couldn't emphasize more how much I love Christmas! Hmmm.. I also do not quite understand why, because I'm not a Christian anyway. Perhaps when I'm still holding a full-time job, its always PH then a week later another PH! Meaning its:

REST, PARTY and REPEAT!!

And somehow it became a habit and I'll always get so excited about it!! This year was a unique one because... I'm no longer holding a full-time job and my party begins on 23rd all the way to 26th!! Best of all! I didn't planned it.. Everything was well taken care off and indeed I enjoyed and relaxed myself~

So here's how I celebrated my Christmas in 4 days:

* 23rd December *

We had a potluck graduation cum Christmas party with our VIPs and guests!! It was a really fun time together all thanks to the organizers as well as the hosts for the night!

** Whoohooo!! I graduated!! **

The food was sumptuous too!! Even though its just potluck, there were quite a number of my favorite food on our "buffet" table! And I've been eating together with other coaches from 6.30pm to 8.30pm!!! :X 

We had a few games played after we filled our tummy and the last one was the best and my favorite because this was when its my only chance to saboh my coach aka "laopa" !! Hahaha..

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** Best time of my life.... :P **

** Thank you #33 for the gift!! I love it because it's my favorite color !! **

Ended with a good laugh after all!! Thank you so much mentors, Nette, Victor and Wendy!

** It's the only time we saw the very man mentors in this.. haha...**

I'll always remember... LOL..

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* 24th December *

Christmas eve with someone new!! Hehe..

I woke up really early to get the MR's Christmas gift ready! Did a quick shopping at Ikea for the container I've been trying to find for months!! I know its dumb but yea its just a jar but somehow it slipped my mind that Ikea has it.. LOL.. 

So this is it:

..... made with love butter cookies and I'll be sharing the "how to bake" video on my channel soon!! So please subscribe my newly active channel here:

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Did a few errands and rushed home to get myself pretty for my favorite show with the MR!! We bought the tickets way too early because all the promotions came out 1 week after we've gotten them! What a shame!! #auntietothemax

** Chio mah? **

We had our brunch at Chili's - The Central outlet before we head over to Sentosa.. Because someone have been craving for their ribs! And its really soft and tender if you haven't try that before!

Ended our brunch with the all time favorite honeymoon dessert at Vivocity !!

** My favorite sticky glutinous rice only if they have other bases, I don't really like the vanilla ice but just for the sake of my sticky rice !! **

** And his favorite double boiled something... LOL **

I'm really excited for the show because we are watching.....

THE CINDERELLA MUSICAL!!

** Please do not judge me!!! LOL!! I really love this princess since young and I definitely do not want to miss this! **

Although the musical wasn't as good as I thought it will be, and you must be thinking the plot is the SAME what!?! But you are wrong! There will always a slight difference in different shows. And sad to say, its a tad too summarized.. However, we witnessed a public proposal and its my very first time witnessing it! It could just be our bonus that night, and to be happy for another couple!

Next, we headed to chill at Hard Rock Cafe and the waitress do not recommend us to take the nachos cause she mentioned its too huge for 2. So we go ahead and ordered their wings.. BUT.. it was too spicy for me, poor Mr Wang got to finish all up by himself and we went ahead to order the nachos! Ended up its just sufficient for us because both of us were too good at snacking!! Oppss...

Some fashion don't match photos to end the day!

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* 25th December *

Christmas day was a really fruitful day and well spent day with the MR!!

We had K-lunch at Chinatown Outlet and sang our lungs out!! I tell you what, It's cheaper then we thought on a public holiday!! It's just $10 per pax!!! YES!! $10!!

ITS FREAKING $10 PER PAX IN A ROOM FOR 10 PAX and it includes: 
1. 1x free drink of your choice
2. 1x lunch of the day - we had Nonya chicken rice and its really good!
3. 3 hrs of Karoke!!

SO CHEAP!!!! @_@

And next, we watched Ip Man 3 at The Cathay! The Movie was as usual funny and nice. But I did dozed off during 1 small part at the beginning.. LOL.. It's really nice.. I think its just me being tired as always.. haha...

And ending our night at Timbre - Art house....

Chilling.. Gossiping.. Snacking..

** My lime Margarita and its so yummy and cooling I just must have 2 of this... **

** Left: Trying out their watermelon Mojito, still prefer the original one though...

Right: His Long Island = #uncledrink **

** Wings that I ordered wrongly... T_T **

** Baked cheese mushroom.. I LOVE!! **

** My all time favourite: Duck pizza!! **

** He just need to be sooooo precised with his order =______="  and they indeed up serve him as per what was requested!! best lah!! **

I'm glad I found someone who can be as nonsense as me... LOL and we self entertained ourselves trying to lip read and "tell stories" of couples who don't talk with each other but just staring into their phones individually. You get what I meant? Why meet up when you are not going to talk to each other? LOL...  Also, some guessing games on the backgrounds of the couples and such... YA I know very bo liao... But that's us.. haha...

** "The Shows" for that night **

** Thank you so much MR for planning the 1.5 days of Christmas celebration so well!! Really enjoyed myself. **

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* 26th December *

The boxing day with Poly cliques! Sang K again at Tang Music located at Clarke Quay somewhere quite near the water fountain.

It was our first time there and as usual, the lead singer -CY will always be on time whereas the rest of us late again, But we still managed to reach there lah... It was quite funny actually..

"I very long never update my song list le leh..." was what all of us said!

and out of a sudden, somehow.. we blasted 5566 songs!! As if its their concert and had a good laugh reminiscing! *back then they were popular!*

Because I have to rush off to meet my family for my Daddy's birthday celebration, we had our Christmas gift exchange! and MH had a really bad bad bad wrapping skills.. We actually picked someone in our group to be their secret Santa through a website generator! And we will not know who will be giving us our Christmas pressie!!

... and while we are arranging the presents for photo shooting... MH kept on emphasizing not to touch his present..

Because this smart guy went to write on his wrapped present:

" MERRY CHRISTMAS CY!!" :O

Like what the.... SO SMART! Make us laugh until no head no tail...

So this is our presents and our secret santa:

** KM ---> Me!! Thank you soooo much!! **

** Me ---> Denise!! **

** Denise ---> MH!! **

** MH ---> CY!! =____=" **

** CY ---> KM!! **

And some group pictures before I rush off!

** EPIC FAIL - don't know how the timer work moments... **

** OK! better now... **

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Meet up with the MR and we headed to MBS to meet le family!! They were late lah and I'm super hungry ... went ahead to ordered the dishes at DTF while waiting for them. As usual, a dinner and this time round we went to:

Garden by the bay - Christmas Wonderland!

I actually came few days ago on a weekday which was less crowded but MR accidentally deleted the photos... =_="

So here we are again~ Together with my family!!

** My bro-in-law and his act... **

** Pretty main area.. **

** Lights.. **

** .. and more lights! **

** The skating rink palace.. **

Just for a quick one though because it was so crowded and it was also the sleeping time for my nephews! MR and I continued hanging around MBS trying to find some affordable drinking place as we were mad thirsty! Both of us are "water tank" and we barely had enough water ! We felt as though we were in the desert looking for water!! So we walked to Marina Square McDonald's and really sway, we met a really really really rude manager that serves us that day! What a bad day to end our boxing day!!

 

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So how was your Christmas?

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With lots of love,

Akemi

It's my BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!

CREDIT: http://batmanbegins12.tumblr.com/

WHooooo..ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!! And I'm thankful for my parents especially my mummy who gave birth to me 25 years ago, and let me see the world!!

Without them, I won't be here writing this post and do all the things I love!

Thank you mummy and daddy!! 

For my birthday wish this year, I wish for:

*a hour glass and hot like a pornstar....FIGURE~
*more money coming into my pocket
*A CAMERA - canon EOS M or a canon 700D
*let my blog grow and be more popular like QIU QIU and XIA XUE!! They are my inspiration!!
*and......

Oh well, wishes is suppose to be kept as a secret then it will come true right?
So can I please leave the last few wishes for myself?

" I wish......."

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So Alright! That's all for today and don't forget tomorrow is Mummy's day! So do something special for her and say you love her!!

I'll always give my mummy a kiss even though she always declined. But I still do it because in her heart she sure wants my kisses!! LOL...

Bye bye!!
and ....
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HAPPY MUMMY'S DAY TO ALL THE MUMMY IN THE WORLD !!!

enjoy your special day !!!

Tata and thank you for reading!

Akemi

Nail art of the week on sister...

Hello people,
Hope you have a fun week!! And it's TGIF ~ we should enjoy!

Whoohoo...

So this week I did not really do a nail art on my nails, just a plain shimmery black, using OPI's "the private jet". But I did nail arts for my sister!

She has very short nails because she cannot keep it long for the sake of her kids.. #mumsloveforkids

...and she is attending a wedding dinner with her little black dress tomorrow! 

So here is what I did for her:

It's a pretty simple nail art, with also OPI's  "the private jet ". I simply love this polish colour and shimmers!!  I've been using it ever since I bought it!

What do you think? Leave me some comments below or any request for the next nail art design!

Thank you for reading!!
Akemi

Our last "TOMB" sweeping day..

If you don't know, last last Thursday *backdated post* was actually the Qingming festival, or you can call it tomb sweeping day! It is when we, Chinese, visit graves or burial grounds of our ancestors/ decreased relatives as an opportunity to remember and honour them at grave sites.

We will pray before our ancestors/ decreased relatives, sweep the tombs, offer food,tea or Kopi O (in my instance as my great grandma loves it), joss paper, paper relicas to them.

In Singapore, it is not a officiate public holiday but it has been observed as a statutory public holiday in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. *so sad*

Due to Singapore limited space, graves visiting are getting lesser too. As it is now commonly cremated and placed in the temples. Also, the government will clear the older graves for the new ones. So like my family's case, my maternal side used to have a tomb on the hill facing the sunrise with the best scenery in Singapore *based on my childhood memories* it was then cleared and left with my paternal great grandma's grave which my family planned to clear this year.

Just like my title, its our last "tomb" sweeping day because next year onward there will be no tomb to sweep only "window" sweeping day liao. TT^TT

As our last memories, I've took picture for my keepsake! So next time I can tell stories to my grandchildren~ LOL...

2 excited kids can't wait to go tomb sweeping! It was Eason's first and last tomb sweeping~

My great grandma's address~

When everyone arrived, they would sweep the tomb and place their offerings.

See the number of offering with have for my great grandma~

After my great grandma "meal", we will burn the joss paper/ paper replicas. Not to mention, we will always book a bus for tomb sweeping. So its more convenient for my large family.


Lastly, for my family, we will eat popiah during Qingming. how about yours?

When I said popiah, its not those that can be bought off from coffee shops but those HOMEMADE ones!!

Yum yum.. They are my favorite!!

I mad love homemade or self-made popiah ! I will always pray for my mum to prepare popiah for dinner but she will always say: "wait till its Qingming festival." I do not know why, but yay that's the case. FYI, I don't fancy those that can be bought outside. Only those that I made myself, I love!

And I'm gonna show you what is in my popiah that I love!!!

The ingredients to choose from~ There are : Prawns, eggs, fish cake, bean curt, bean sprout, peanut, sweat sauce, stir fried carrot and radish, lettuce, Chinese parsley, cucumber.

Now, I'm gonna show you step by step to ....

AKEMI's POPIAH 

STEP 1: Put and spread the sweat sauce. 

STEP 2: Sprinkle the chopped peanuts.

STEP 3: Put the veggie first~ Normally I used the lettuce as the base first.

STEP 4: Put the other ingredients you like !
I've got prawns, fish cakes, bean curt, bean sprouts and egg WHITES!!

Normally everyone's popiah will have this : the stir fried carrot and radish.
But sorry not for me because I think they are yucky !!! LOL...

STEP 5: I'll sprinkle some sweet sauce and peanut over again before I wrapped it~

STEP 6: Fold the left side...

STEP 7: ... Then the right..

STEP 8: Lastly, ROLL IT UP!

EASY??? It's actually very easy to make and able to add any ingredients you like! But the difficult part is the preparation~ There are so much to prepare unless you want to eat it erhemmmm..... raw?? =X

Do you also eat popiah like what my family does during Qing ming?

How's my popiah?? Look not bad right.. LOL...


Lastly, I'm ending my post with this Qingming joke:

My apologies because it's in Mandarin. And sorry my Mandarin cannot make it one. LOL... So don't expect a translation from me...when I even struggled a bit reading this... HAHAHa...

TATA
Akemi