Mintos had graduated?

Congrats on your graduation, honey. <3

And thank you for inviting us, that's me and Reiki over to your Batch's exhibition launch.

All the artwork and graphics are amazing. We spend an hour oogling and starring at them. Yours was fanatastic too! *wants the pancake one*

IM-ing is not a good idea, since Reiki didn't receive the message and only got it at 5pm, because I'm mean and wants to drag someone to teman me along. =P Mwahaha! XD Arigatou na!

She just finished her internship and so ended up going with me. Mintos had on a pink hair wig. O.O Cuteeeeeeee <3

*rings*
Me: Hello, Mintossssss, we're here!
M: Eh? Where are you?
Me: At the front.
M: Do you spot someone in pink hair?
Me: *looks around* Yatta! PINK. Reiki, she's there!! *drags*

Reiki and I were suppose to have dinner together, but since we were late (she had prayers) and it wasn't very good manners to be so late, we decided to go for the exhibition first.

And ended up late for dinner, the restaurants were closing....NANDE. orzorzorz. Just when we had the sudden craving for fish and chips.

I swear, we're going to get them....somehow....Friday perhaps?

So instead of F&C we got A&W. >.> 24 hours.

Alamak >.>

PS: I promised we'd do a double blog on this, since yours was done way earlier, here's my late one. XD
PSS: Reiki's up on >> Have a Mintos

Christmas !

I have this beautiful layout of purty purty boys and it's barely updated....orz. Howlar do you expect me to keep a fangirling blog at the same time....? *dies*

Remember the trip I mentioned, it happened Christmas Eve morning. My aunt, grandpa, mum, bro and me. Yeps, the 5 of us. Quite the odd group, but it works nevertheless. Dad was stuck with work and well, stay home to feed the dog.

I find it hilarious that mum's spending the Christmas with her in-law and sis-in-law, which dad spends his with mum's side of the family. An aunt had invited the whole family over for dinner, and dad took it up, since well, he knows everyone there anyway, and there's home cooked meal. XD

It was a long drive down, in which we were entertained by YehYeh's stories. Seriously, he should write a book or something, he's had a really colourful life, and some of which are *coughnotverynicecough* things.

He once worked in the police station, in the fingerprint dept?
Played goalkeeper for the police while he was there?
Had....various....*coughfightscough*
Helped my gramma's siblings to find jobs.
Fishing in various places with his buddies....who are now, well...are gone to the higher above. orz
Torn all his photographs of them since there wasn't a point, he's the only one left.

orz much?

Ah well, it keep me interested, I love stories and he definitely has a knack of telling them, like me mum.

So then we reached.

It was a lovely place full of old, shady trees; properly lit street lights; superbly accurate and timely train service; and proper pedestrian walkways. We M'sians should learn a thing or two from them. Like seriously. -.-

Everyone walks and takes the underground trains there, that explains why everyone is so healthy. But then again, I wouldn't mind walking if there were shady trees everywhere with proper broad walkpaths. And a train every 5 mins, fully air-conned, I might add, since our trains have super crappy air-conditioning. orz

One thing is, everything moves fast there. The people, heck, even the escalators in the train stations. And there's shopping malls everywhere. O.O So far, all the stations we've stopped at were like underneath a shopping mall, you barely have to sweat.

And if you wonder about how seemingly desolated S'pore looks, it's probably because the bulk of the population is underground. XD And I am amazed at how disable friendly everything is. I've seen so many people on wheelchairs going about their business, and you rarely see those here, because our country has yet to make it easy for them to venture out.

We spent day one randomly walking around since it was quite late, and grabbed dinner. Then we took the train down to Orchard Road to see the famed roads lit up with lights for the Xmas season. It was packed....with people....XD But really nice, we didn't walked the whole stretch because it was farrrrrrrrrr. I suppose it would have been way better to be there on Christmas day itself, but we didn't quite fancy the crowd much.


Pretty lights for the festive celebrations


Day 2 started with a walk to the marketplace for breakfast. Grandpa reckons it's further than his usual morning walk routine. We took the backalleys to avoid the main roads, a lot of S'poreans use them, and they're quite clean.

Later, we took a train down to Clark Quay where a lot of tall office buildings were, and the station is like smack underneath a grassy garden, a short walk onwards will bring you to a lake. There's a row of restaurants which boast of seafood with a price for the view of the lake. O.O



The evening view, note that we walked 180 degrees. O.O


We had dinner and when it was night, the night view was lovely, I think some of the buildings leave certain levels lit up and it become quite a view to see.



Night version *O*
(a lot of photos I took turned out crappy, except for some precious few)

Day 3, we took another train down to Sentosa Island. Had a cable car ride and saw the Underwater World. There are certainly many more other things to see, but the queue and prices are a killer. No bluff.


There's this tank full of starfishes, stingrays and some species of fish....and they encourage you to touch it, so we did. =P



My seahorse shot is...blurry....orz




Jellyfish! It's all puffy like clouds and just floats...


Day 4, we went to Bugis Junction. Did some slight shopping and walked around. There was this water feature in the middle of the conjoining malls, and little kiddos would dive right in and play around. XD



Little kiddos are sooooooooo cute, yes?


Day 5, we went home. XD

It was an awesome experience, I've never been to S'pore before despite it being so near to M'sia. The last time, both my family and my uncle's plus my aunt went, I was away in US with YehYeh and MaMa. I was a lucky 11 year old. <3

Plus we played a lot of *coughgim/jim/gym?cough*. Card game. Enuff' said. I should probably mentioned both my bro and me and another cousin of mine were taught how to play by *cough2auntsplusgrandpacough* when we were....back in primary school. orz?

It was a memorable time for us, and probably more for grandpa, he mentioned how this would probably be his last trip down to Singapore. Gramma would have tagged along, but she can't walk as well as she used to. So I'm amazed as how YehYeh managed to do all that walking and keep up with us. Even I was complaining a bit, since lazy me does no exercise in my usual routines.

My cousin would come down to KL for the school hols and mum and dad would dump us at gramma's for the weekdays since they were working. So we hung out a lot, with my aunts (one who doesn't work and another who lives there) plus my grandparents lor. XD

That's it for my Chrismas. XD How did yours go?

CF and SPCA

Back posting again.....<.<

So, there was this weekend (15th and 16th Dec) where I attended Comic Fiesta with my bro. Or more like dragged him along to teman me, since I'm not allowed to go down to KL alone. It was seriously packed. There was this group of boys and a girl, whom were on the same KTM, and ended up at CF....and we both somehow kept bumping into them all around Times Square later on....orz. The queue at the monorail was longggggg.....

And since we started our journey quite late, we ended up there in the afternoon as well. I don't think I quite enjoyed it as much as I did last year. probably because it was so crowded. I did see Val and her sis, her sis and her friend opened a booth, and she helped out as well. And thanks to Nick and Ann, we tumpang-ed them to get our tickets. hahahaha XD

Mintos in her Himawari cosplay was amazing. *O* So pretty!~ The wigs, candle, dress, ribbons. uwaaaaaaaaaa~

But then again, I did thought that the tickets were a bit too expensive, maybe the rent was expensive as well? Quite a waste since we both didn't spend much time in it. Too many ppl, it was hard to ask for photos, but the costumes were really great to watch. XD


Then, on Sun, Hping and I kepoh-ed and tagged along the St John's trip to SPCA. To start off, it took me a while to get use to the stench. orz

~ If you ever want a pet, adopt one, there's kitties and doggies ~

There was several enclosed areas for mostly dogs, puppies, vaccinated-and-ready-for-homes doggies, kitties and so. There was a few dogs whom I suppose given special privilege to prowl around freely, which took the group only a while to warm up to them and started patting and sayang-ing them. =3

~ One of the lucky few....err....Spot? *shrugs* ~

We were given gloves and asked to start helping the volunteers/staffs to clean their cages. *coughIstoodaroundandwatchedforawhilecough* Until one of the staff beckoned 4 ppl to help out in another area, in which I dragged Hping off to join JC and CH. It was the kitties corner. It was a wayyyyyyyyyy smaller area. But then we got to clean cages on mums-to-be and new born kittens. Sooooooooo cuteeeeeeeee.

Midway, CH thought it was a good idea to take the kittens (3 or 4 sleeping together) and mama kitty out to clean the cage. Both JC and I went nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.

'If you take them out, we won't be able to catch them if they start to run around'

And yeah....mama kitty went off to hide. Under the cages, in tight corners. We seriously panicked for a while. But then, that was why it's caged all around with gates. All around the cats area were several dog enclosures.

Soooooo....when mama kitty thought it was a brilliant idea to climb the bars up to the corner to avoid....errr...mostly JC trying to catch her (she started growling at us, and we were afraid of being scratched...=P and well, he had kitties before), she was noticed by the surrounding dogs in their respective enclosures.

Chaos.

The barking and frantic mewing. orz

JC had to pry her claws off the bar, and somehow managed to put her back into her cage. O.O tabik!

There was one cage we didn't dare to clean, the kitty was prowling madly at her cage.....DD:

The other were mostly quite sweet, and allowed us a pat or two. And just stared as we cleaned their cages. Kittens are adorable. <3 I forgot to drag Ann to photograph the kitties....orz Then, we mostly hung around, patting several dogs which was vaccinated and up for adoption. There was one, Lucy, which was really sweet, she allowed anyone of us to touch her. And pat her we all did. XD

~ This is Lucy, a real sweetheart ~

Some of them had this really sad doggone eyes, I hope they get good homes soon.

~ The I-just-got-shoved-into -a-bath-and-jabbed-in-the-butt-look ~

~ Puppies corner, kawaii nyaaaaaaaa ~

After that, there was dog feeding time, oh wows. They would cook up this HUGE pot of rice and chicken, and just dish them out. Each dog gets a bowl each, and it amounts to a lot. The members ran around to help out.

~ *chompchompchomps* ~

Some dogs were quite greedy, and if they happen to be sharing cages, they would end up having 2 bowls. orz

~ Here's where to look, if you ever lose your darlings ~

[s]I would post up piccies, but er.....Ann took them, so it's not mine to post.[/s]She gave permission, yays! Sankyuuuuuuu~

XD hahaha, in case you're wondering, yes I did see her both days. =3

All in all, it was a good experience to learn.

Happy 2008!~

This happens to be my symbolic 100th post, but there's nothing symbolic to talk about. XD

Happy New Year, dears!~

To celebrate my New Year, ayane-chan has so kindly made me, my very own customised KAT-TUN layout. Sugoiiiiiiii na~ Thank you so much =3

This also means, there's possible fangirling posts yet to come. I've avoided making a post so far, because once I start, it's going to be super long winded. Mwahaha~ So beware!

There's also a new selection of songs on my playlist, check them out nyaa? XD It's hard to narrow down to only 9 songs, but they're all really nice to listen to. <3

May the 2008 bring us overwhelming happiness and career advancement.