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I have shifted blog to http://marmeemoo.blogspot.com/ :)
How to scold in sign language - this is so rad!
A song video about a wedding proposal. How lovely
Rider’s Cafe
A backdated post on a brunch place i’ve wanted to go for the longest time.
Welcome to Rider’s Cafe! Tucked away at fairways drive, rider’s cafe is difficult to reach without a car.
So I was glad when the econs gang (other friends call us F4+ San Cai, hehe) decided to go out for brunch on a saturday morning.
We ordered a bottle of moscato and the sweet dessert wine paired well with our breakfast set.
Eric and Owen -a pair of good friends
My eggs benedict with ham. I thought the food was a bit on the bland side. The hollandaise sauce lacked the depth of Choupinette’s. Eric ordered the soft shell crab eggs benedict which wasn’t fantastic either. The rest had ‘The Usuals’ which consisted sausages, bacon and scrambled eggs which are such common ingredients that it is difficult to be fabulous.I wouldnt go to a brunch restaurant and order stuff that i can easily whip up at home so I rate brunch places by their eggs benedict. Choupinette wins Rider’s Cafe hands down. Though this place has a really nice ambience and is lovely for a morning date, I wouldnt come here to satisfy any brunch cravings.
The most interesting thing about this place is that you get to see horses. Here is a picture of my favourite horsey. I was wearing a brightly printed dress so i think mr horsey was very attracted to me. Haha. Pat pat.
I’ll save up to travel
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Wouldn’t you like to travel around the world? Call it wanderlust! Its consuming me now. I am so excited for my 21days trip to Central Europe. Plus an additional 6 day holiday with foo, a very good friend to Sydney.
There is only one month left for my final semester in school. How time flies. How expired I feel, in school, that is.
Despite the little unhappiness I feel over the past weeks, I am grateful for the friends I have made the whole of the academic year. They may not be my bestest or closest, but they have provided much joy (and some tears). I am thankful to God for friendship, though it is imperfect.
I have gained a new perspective - after complaining loudly in my little heart to God. I have decided to view this period as a training ground, a time for me to strengthen my resolve to remain true to myself despite unwarranted criticisms. It is also a good time to stand up for myself, to learn to deflect thumb-downs as they come,to train my mind as ethel said. I am no longer a babe in the manger. Whether this perspective is godly or not, is something for the Almighty to decide. Nevertheless it is a good perspective to have for the time being.
I have successfully removed myself from all lunches and trips home (save for wednesday lunch which resulted in another mini unhappiness that resulted in mini drama messages from xxx).
I shall be contented munching on my buns (i have such cravings for dim sum recently. And dim sum = buns in school:( ) while revising for the upcoming tutorials during lunch time. And I shall be creative in coming up with excuses to make trips back home alone. For now!
tada
Today is the start of travelling home and having lunch alone. I crash and burn again.as always. Drawn close to people and find out that they were never on my side, never loved and is truly self centred. subtle disrespect when you draw too close to people. I’ve given them so many chances, suppressing my disappointment when they refuse urgent help because it inconvenience them, (they over compensate by being extra nice later), throwing multiple tantrums. The last few straws came with the latest tantrum/drama and the nasty put down remarks. My love language is words of appreciation haha. So when communication treads into the condescending, disrespectful and highly sarcastic but not funny zone, I draw 100% away.
I know they love the outings I plan for them, heck I am even trying to organise a birthday surprise for one. But in many small ways, I start withdrawing from the friendship today.
Coffee bun! I love this little one
Dim sum lunch at taste paradise
I have been on a dim sum craze recently, correction I am still on it. I have lined up mothers day dim sum lunch at Royal China, summer palace and li bai. Can’t wait to look for excuses to go those places for lunch. Naturally Dim sum at hotel is not easy on the pocket so it has to be a special occasion.
Taste paradise has really good custard buns. One of the best I have eaten. The custard flows out once you bite into it,hot and tasty. Its on the slightly salty side. Till I have found better places for custard buns I will return to taste paradise for it.
The char siew sou was also mouth watering. The filling was generous and the pastry buttery and flaky. Each mouthful was a delight in itself
Their mini egg tart was good but not the best I have eaten.
Now for the not so good parts about taste paradise. Their soup cost us $12 each for a small bowl. Though delicious, its almost double the price of that at wah lok. Definitely not worth drinking. Their tea was so pricey, costing $27 for one pot. Albeit their tea was fragrant and the tea leaves were the large kind, a testament to higher quality but I would preferred a price that was easier to swallow. We has rice noodles with crab meat, while again delicious it cost us $33. We were too full from the dim sum to enjoy the noddles.
Taste paradise is worth going if you stick to the regular dim sum and avoid the more pricey dishes.
Love my new earrings from my favourite accessory shop in far east. Bought this after my mids. I got back my financial paper and received two marks above average! Whoo. It may not seem much but I have made improvements over last year even my friends commented so.
And now my workload increased again. This semester is really killing me.
I slept soundly without insomnia for a week! Save for yesterday night so I went back to taking my supplements. I have been off my amino acids for some time and I wonder if that’s the reason I felt relatively upset the past weeks. My friendships/kinship have always been fragile because I am so. I broke down so many times, begging God in private prayers to take me back cos I don’t know how to live in this world.
I call this false moods, where one overreacts to the small things in life. Perhaps due to hormonal imbalance, or a genetic deficiency of happy hormones like how some people are more prone to having the blues. I am part of some people who are the same as everyone else but perhaps a tad more fragile on the inside. We laugh and cry easily often at the same time, take things a little too hard, open up and fall apart too fast.
There is hope for our tumultuous emotions I believe. And that is still being experimented!
despite its difficulty, i feel really grateful to be taught by basant kapur, an infamous lecturer in my faculty. I know my econs mates will disagree or scoff at my sentiments. But basant ties everything i have learnt in econs together. The models we learn explain every shift in the diagrams we know by heart. Imagine a model that explains the intuition behind keynesian theories. Its difficult and brilliant! Prof shandre from Money and Banking was the first to enlighten, but basant takes it to another level. Now lets just hope that interest translate into tangible results.
Created a poofy ponytail using a velcro bump bought from Far East plaza. The poofy head helps to make my pulled back hairstyle less ugly and kiddy. Its a life saver. I’ll take a picture of it another time.
My favourite pick-me-up tea - Clipper’s Lemon Ginger tea. Its so refreshing and goes so well together with green tea/oolong tea. East meets west.
I love receiving parcels, even though i paid for them. Here’s a bigg one filled with essential oils. Yes, I got crazy over spearmint, peppermint, lemongrass aromatherapy. I have been spending so much $$ on online shopping. Time to cut down a bit
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