Quick update on the short week!

Okay, a short update on me... Haha... Well, It's really short. Argh... spent so much for this month.

Here goes...

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19th April 2009
We've got the car!! Hoho!

22nd April 2009
The toilet got clogged badly... This kinda reminds me of the time in China... Hahaha!!!

Well, what happened was, Mass shitting. Everyone just had the feeling of shitting at the same time. So, we shitted one after another and ended up the toilet got clogged really bad!

23rd April 2009
Got a Plumber to unclog the toilet! That's 140 bucks down the drain!

But our car broke down... Something like, the battery died... Argh...

24th April 2009
Hoho! The car is back on! The guys named the car SG1 though. And the next car is gonna be called SG2....

Played Horseshoes with colleagues! And my team won!!! WOO!!!!

Oh ya, What is horseshoes? Basically, this sport is simple! Just have to try and toss the horseshoes(those shoes wore by horses) into the pole on the opposite side. The horseshoe that is the closes to pole will get 1 point, and having the horseshoe in the pole will earn u 5 points! And the first team that got 11 points will win the game!

Oh well, I think we spent around 3 hours playing it. And yikes... I didn't finish up my work! Bad... Uh-oh... Better work harder next week!

25th April 2009
Went to Tulip Festival! (Okay, I'll write more on the next entry!)
Well, the car broke down half way there! Argh!!! It's a fun but it's also a 'doesn't really feel that good' day.

26th April 2009
Registered for the driving school! It's gonna start at the end of May! And, went for the first Acrylic Painting Class in the University District!!

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Anyway, work is getting busy! What have I been doing for the past week?! Yikes! Seems to have passed so fast!

I guess it sounds kinda crazy but I think I wanna get a keyboard and play... Hmm... So many things I feel like doing suddenly. Weird, used to wake up to the piano everyday but don't feel like touching it, now I wanna play it... Then, often so lazy to work out but now I wanna do it... Oh man...

Okay, I've uploaded the photos! Probably gonna put some of those in face book. Well, go check out my photo Albums on the right!

Till then!

SA-KU-RA~~ SA-KU-RA~~ (Cherry Blossoms!)

Alright! I'll start with some random stuff!

First off, the Nightmare before Christmas shirt that I bought from Disney store!!!

Hoho! We've got matching shirts! (Argh! It's selling cheaper now!!)

And our pantry always have very nice stuff! Other than the usual potato chips, red vines, soft drinks, carrots and cereal bars, we had popcorns!!!

What's so special? Look at super nice flavours!!!! Woo!!!

Actually, I think I'm getting fat here... Ah!!! Any tips for exercising to slim down the hips area?

Oh ya, and my hands kept cracking!!! Cry!!! My hair is dry too... And so...

I bought these items!

Well, the Burt's bee body lotion is GOOD! hoho! And it gives your skin a shiny finish after u apply! Really! There's some glitter in it! and the Optimum care for the hair is working too!!! But for now, I'm trying to finish off the moisturizers that I have first. And, I haven't tried the Bed Head control freak yet...

I'm done with the randomness so on to SAKURAs~!!!

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11th April 2009, Saturday

It's almost the end of the season for the blooming flowers of the cherry blossoms!! And so, we slowly made our way out. It's a long way to the University district to view the beautiful flowers!

We were too hungry so, we went to grab our lunch at a really nice Thai restaurant while we waited for the bus.

Yummy! I had Tom Yum noodles!!

After lunch, we took a bus to the University district! And their school looks super nice! Makes me wanna study there!

The University campus is so NICE!!!!

Well, right by the fountain there are some sakura trees and flowers! So, we took photos!

Yeah! Nice angles? I'm still practising self-taking photos!

We had our little picnic at the fountain! It's Bakery! And they taste really nice!!!!

We saw a fake crocodile in the middle of the fountain! That made us thought that the ducks are fake too... But the ducks are REAL!!! There's alot of ducks around here though! It's kinda like a common sight, squirrels as well. Heard that raccoons are common as well, but haven't seen any of them yet.

And finally! The main area of attraction! SAKURA trees!!!! Yeah!!!

Yup! Climbed up the trees! It's fun!!!

Then we continued to explore the campus! And we walked to their school library!

Even their library looks so nice!

Oh man! Nice University with all the Victorian style buildings!

Okay, so after the picnic, Sakura viewing, Sakura climbing and taking lots of photos, we went to downtown Seattle! It's Anime Festival at the Convention Center!!!

Cool eh?

Well, they are alot of people in costume! It goes on for around 2 to 3 days. We'll need a ticket to get in to the actual event. We are all broke, so, we stayed outside and take photos!!!! Hee!!!!

After that, we walked down to the bay area and grabbed our dinner at The Crab Pot! I got fish and chips! It's nice!!!

After dinner, we got a bus to the transit center and, we got stuck there. Well, there's no more bus back home... Luckily, a nice lady helped us by giving us helpful numbers to call. And she saw a cab and made us took notice of it! It's really rare to see cabs outside of town!

Well, at least we managed to get 2 cabs... It's so expensive! The meter jumps really fast! 1 mile cost 2.50 bucks, plus addition 2.50 for to get on the cab!!

Oh well, at least we got a really nice dessert! It's a big apple with chocolate coating, cinnamon, marshmallows! Well, they had different flavours/coatings. We got a rocky road and cinnamon flavours! It's so nice that everyone just finish it!!!!

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12th April 2009, Sunday

Cleaned up the house and went to Alderwood mall again. It's Easter, so, hardly any shop is opened for the day. Oh well, but still bought a shirt and a jacket... AHH!!!

After that, we went to get groceries for the house! And we went broke! Then we had dinner and ran for the bus!

It's a rainy day and the buses here will reach the stops way earlier than the allocated time, around 5 mins earlier! And yea... once again, we missed the last bus! (It's Sunday, so bus serivces ends really early, around 7 or 8 pm)

So... Once more, it's cab....

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Alright, that's for now folks!

Lots to do in the weekends!!!! Till then!

Happy Birthday Jewl!!!!

Okay, this post is specially dedicated to a really important person in my life, my good friend Jewl! (wanna put 'old' but we are not OLD!) Hehe! Thanks for being in my life, letting me bug u for more than 10 years!

I don't have a scanner so I too photos of the photos... Kinda weird, but it works though! Okay, here goes...

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Dear Jewl,

We have been friends for so long!

Thanks for the scrapbook u made for me! I was really surprised to recieve it! The photos really brings back lots of memories!! And at the same time, funny as well! Hee!

Yeah! Thanks for the green dots!!! And thanks for digging out the photos!

Bugis Village... Our regular shopping area! I miss the old Bugis Village cafe!!! I also remember their 'hard as rock' mini muffins where we are supposed to dip in the soup? It's so hard that u can throw and break the glass! But now it's changed to a Hong Kong style restaurant?

If can't draw straight lines, use the 'Ruler'!! Nah... A bit crooked looks cuter!

Oh!! I think I remember this time! Yeah! I remember there's one photo that looks like u are strangling me?

Hoho!

When did u take that photo?! And, what's was I doing?! Oh man! Okay, but I rememeber the pants part, but u took a photo?!

Hmm... Ya... Why are we usually taking photos in the toilet? Then, we haven't taken photos in the new branch, JP2, toilet!

Hoho! U know, I'm still doing the 'hide that pimple' poses in photos still! Hee! But now I think my poses improved, doesn't look so much like I was hiding them!!!

Hmm... Remember we went to Candy Empire in Millienium Walk, which is opposite Suntec? Oh man! Candies!!! And, er... We took photos in Candy Empire as well?!

Food! The one thing that we always spend alot on! Ah... I kinda miss Sushi... Hmm... I'm not too sure about my appetite now, it seems like it has grown bigger but still not as big as when we were younger. And we are spamming Sakae Sushi buffet often!

And honestly, this is my favourite photo!!!!

Oh I remember the shopping! But I don't think we went Sketches after that... I'm wearing a different outfit! And that photo! U misled ur blog readers by saying both hands are mine! Haha! We really bought quite alot of stuff!

I remember meeting u after work for Sketches though.

I thought this is the time where we went to Coffee Club Express at Habourfront Center after Sentosa? Pei Zhi was with us as well? Oh ya! That sentosa trip where we met that weird guy that spoilt our girls talk day? Remember?

Oh ya! That's my old friend! Well, I'm not that old! It's around 16 years of friendship! Oh well, we are celebrating his birthday at the dark back alley that day! Hmm... No idea where he is now, seems like I've almost lost contact already! Yea... The monsters soft toy right outside the toilet for us to hug while waiting?

Hehe... we wear our bags the same way, and our fringe also opens at the same side!

U were so busy on ur 21st Birthday! Running around to take photos.

The time at Zouk! We had fun! And my shirt made me look slim when it glows under the lighting! Then we found ways to walk away from the girl that is wearing something simliar to ur dress!

Yikes! I have the same pose and same hairstyle!

Hoho! The beach! I miss tanning with u and potato chips! And we haven't play ur Hello Kitty Snake and ladder Mat!

This page is the cutiest! Because there's alot of pictures!!! And, there's a mini Japanese lesson class!!! I miss pinicing at the beach too!!!

Miss the Sun, Sea and sand!

Even for my scrapbook u are promoting ur blogshop?!

Hehe! We had so much fun messing up at Hort Park to take funny photos.

Yup! FHI! That reminds me, haven't check if they have paid me... Hmm... Well, that's another source of our income and it makes us kinda sick of those nature parks...

And the Thai food at Hort Park is pretty good! And the person mistook ur reactions and gave u a big moutain of rice!

Hehe... seems like we have a lot of funny photos and we did some really weird stuff quite often together, like camping outside the toilet!

Cookie Museum! The cookies are so nice and exqusite! Ah... But pretty expensive! We tried to spend lesser, but we ended up spending more... yikes! Haha... And i'm playing with the mirror!!! We loved the warm mango cake! Argh! Reading the scrapbook makes me crave for it also!

Yeah! I'll try my best! Haha... It's like I'm learning so much as well when spending time with u! Thanks for the interesting advices!

Oh man... The Mr Bean.. I think I drank it for the whole day! And the cards are really too smooth! U should have gotten lousier quality namecards so that it's cheaper and I can build the pyramid!!


Ah... It's Valentine's Day as well! And I'm the candlelight! Hoho! U got strawberries and I stole 1!!! And that Maneki Neko is the first one that u gave me!!! Hee!!! It's still with me!

Oh yeah! I brought that choker with me as well! But no occasion to wear it! I love the choker u gave me!!!

Whoa! U cut out ur magazine to paste my horoscope reading?! And why a pink MP3 thumb drive?!


Well, you've gotta take good care of urself! I've been eating alot of snacks recently... Okay, I'll try to do more workouts to prevent myself from becoming round like ball!!

Thanks for the scrapbook! I hope u recieve my package soon! (Probably the end of this week) Hee! Thanks for being there for me all the time as well! It's always fun when u are around!!! And thanks for giving me all the beauty tips and shopping around with me!! Spending time with u is happy time! Hee!

Be Happy always! Miss you, see u soon and of course, a
HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY!!!!!


Luv
Sam

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Also, Thanks to all my friends that has always been there for me, shared my laughter, sadness, joy and everything!

Okay, I'm a little stress out at work... I guess I just need some time for sketching... Argh...

Sunny Sunshine in Downtown Seattle

This is gonna be pretty long... Argh... Finally, organized some photos. I should upload the photos to webshots or facebook some day...

Okay, here goes for the past week!

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31st March 2009, Tuesday
Alright! Hoho! Work, work, work... Okay! Let's take a break! And there's our exercise walk around the industrial area!!!
It's around half of the company taking a walk! Hoho! There's no rain, so it's a pretty nice day!!

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1st April 2009, Wednesday
Happy April's Fool! Yeah! It's not a joke, we had half day off and a company lunch!!! And, it's also not a joke that we had Harassment training as well! It's sorta like going through a lecture on Harassment and the laws and policy that protects it.

Oh yeah! We had company lunch at Stellar Mia! It's sorta like a farm-like place. Oh well, I forgot my camera on this important day though. Luckily Matt, Fala and Doreen brought theirs, so I just grabbed their photos!!!

The food is pretty yummy!!! Okay, after the company lunch, we went to Alderwood shopping area! Alrgiht! We went to H-Mart where they sell all the Asian food stuff. It's sorta like a Korean supermarket. Probably opened by a korean guy. There's pretty much alot of food there!! But we only walked around and grabbed a few things from H-mart.

Since it's raining, and we are waiting for the bus, we went in Borders and had Seattle best coffee! After that, we had dinner in the mall as well... Extremely full after that!

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2nd April 2009, Thursday
I'm lovin' it! Hoho! Yep! It's Macdonalds! Once again, I didn't bring my camera! So, the photos are from Fala!


Well, the burger size is around the same size as it is in Singapore! The apple pie tastes kinda different though! It's softer and there's cinnamon on top of it! The filling is the same though.

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3rd April 2009, Friday
Finally! We went down to apply for Social Security card! Well, we had to wait for 10 after we reach the U.S before we can apply for it! Phew! That's one more task down. And next will be buying a car, and for me, getting a license as well!

After the card application, we went out for lunch. Oh ya, we had half day off to do these stuff. So we are hanging around Alderwood shopping area which is in Lynnwood. We wanted to eat at the Asian foodcourt beside H-mart, but the price is way too expensive! It's around 10 bucks for 1 plate of food!

So, instead we headed to the mall and on the way there, we found a small restaurant selling Japanese, Korean and Chinese food which is not that expensive. And...

Tada! They have Bubble Tea!! Okay, they only have Ice Blended though. Their 'pearl' is called 'tapioca' instead. Hoho! It actually tasted pretty good, but it's still pretty expensive though I can't really recall how much it is.

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4th April 2009, Saturday
Weekends! It's a pretty sunny day! Yeah!!!!! Nice weather! And so... Off to Downtown Seattle!!! Yoo hoo!!!!

Took some photos at the Transit Center while we wait for the other bus!

Then, we finally reach! It's a city! There are really a lot of interesting people around! There are performances, petitions, and alot of things going on on the streets!

And yeah... There's even a horse carriage!

Okay, so we went to the famous Pike Place market! Whoa! Alot of stuff in the market place, there's a total of 3 levels! There's even a magic shop selling all the props!

The tiles of the market place are carved with names. Not too sure what's that about though, each and every tile had a different name.

And so, what's so special about the market?

Fish throwing!! Look at all the people with cameras waiting for someone to order and throw the fish! Heard that a Japanes guy opened the stall. Argh... Too bad no one ordered a BIG fish! So wanna see they throw a big fish around.

Hungry! Piroshky, Piroshky! Look at that queue!!!

I think I was really hungry that day! While others bought just 1 packet, I got 2! Both the packets belong to me! What's Piroshky? It's something like a big bread! They have quite a few different flavours for it! Some even had filings! The stall is opened by an Asian guy and the food actually originated from Russia. Hmm... If I didn't remember wrongly...

Coffee!!!! That's gotta be Starbucks!!

Not too sure yet, but it's probably the 'First' Starbucks (Probably the Second Starbucks as the First Starbucks is not called Starbucks. Probably gotta Wiki that to check it out!). The table that we are sitting at seemed to have quite a long history. It's written "The table has had many lives Before arriving here, it graced a local restuarant and before that, a Seattle-area home. Where will it live next?"

And since it's Pike Place Market's Starbucks, I just had to order Pike Place Brew! Nice!!!!
"You and Starbucks. It's bigger than coffee."

Okay, off to more shopping!!! And there we are at Sneaker City!!

Alright! Most of us got new shoes!!!!

We continued to walk around and look for Seattle's library. Then, we found me!

Hoho! Just like Singapore Art Museum (SAM), here's it's also SAM (Seattle Art Museum)!

Walk, walk and walk!!!

Seattle Public Library!!

Oh well, we took photos for each of us at the same spot! And then... When we wanted to go into the library, it's CLOSED!!! AHHHH!!!! Oh well, so we explore the area around and look for dinner!!!!

At the meantime, random photos!!

And so we walked down the stairs towards the ocean!

Oh yeah! Isn't it a nice place?

Oh ya, that's Christopher Columbus statue!

Muahaha! Oh yea! That's a real Carousel! It's actually an arcade! And look at the size of the gumball machine!!

Dinner!!!

Alaska Crab! Yum!

Dinner's at Fishermans! Well, it's expensive!!! Yikes! And, we are actually sitting outdoors! Cold!!! But the food is pretty good though!

Night time....

As we waited for the bus... We walked into the waterfall structure!!!!

Oh well... I saw this really empty platform so I....

Just posed and took photos! Hmm... That's probably like the first wushu pose? Haha... Kinda miss those days in China where we kept taking photos of different poses!

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5th April 2009, Sunday
This is really one of the sunniest day since I've got here!!!! It's sunny, so we just can't miss the chance to wear shorts and bermudas!!! And, we had Tully's coffee! And, after so long, I had white coffee for the first time in Seattle!!! Hmm... I forgot what coffee it is. But I remember asking them how to pronounce the name of the coffee!

Hoho! I think I had a pretty weird outfit though!

Oh ya! It's quite a happening day! After we reach home, there are around 4 police cars right outside our house. And, the police handcuffed a guy and walked out of the neighbor's house. Why so many cars? Well, in each car there's only 1 policeman! Haha... Not sure what happen anyway. Oh well...

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6th April 2009, Monday
Well, some usual stuff that we do at night after work! We cook and I mess up! Haha! And for this day, it's Sushi!!!!

And, I made that Tamago! It's so hard to roll it with a round pan! We all had a turn to roll the Sushi! And despite my small size, I rolled the biggest Sushi and made the biggest Onigiri!!!

Happy Birthday to Doreen!!!

Argh! The weird thing is, why is it in my room?! Haha! Trapped Doreen inside my room to make her transfer photos! Then, prepared the cake! It's actually belated though. Haha... Well, there's even an NG!!! I off the lights but the cake and candles not here! Grr!!! Oh well, at least it kinda goes pretty well after that! It's Caramel Cheese Cake! Yummy!!!

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Random Stuff!! Okay... That's basically what I've just bought while I was shopping around. Oh well, I guess I've spent pretty much... There are shirts from Old Navy, jackets from Hurley and North Face, tops from Love Culture, T-shirt from Disney and Converse shoes from Snicker City!!!

Sweets! I think I've been having too much of them lately.... AHH!!!!

And... Gifts! Hoho! Must force my Sister to wear that T-shirt!!

Okay... It's like, 2am now... yikes... I need to go to sleep! So going to catch a movie in the weekends!!! AHH!!!

Well, Happy Easter! But, there's still work tmr... So I better go rest up!