My colourful days…….

My first attempt in painting

Since i have so many memories in my old blog, i’ve decided to import it over to my facebook account.

Recently, i took up oil painting classes.. something new to learn i guess. It’s not as simple as it looks. And i actually learn quite a few new stuff there.. cool.. As u guys can see i didnt really have time to readjust my banana painting and i realized i am a  slow painter… my box is skewed to one side but i did managed to have shadows and shades and light… that the first lesson. I never am good with still art esp. drawing apples and stuff. hopefully i will get better at it… hahaha…

As my fifth year contract is coming up soon.. i’m still thinking where i should move n go towards in my future.. I definitely want to continue my studies but also at the same time afraid of the loss of income will be a burden to the person i love. My mind is neither here nor there.. i wanna start a family soon too.. with my size growing sideways the best opportunity to claim its ok is to be pregnant… hahahahha… ok, in case u guys are wondering, im not ah… i just happened to be in a very loving relationship where my dearest boyfriend feed me very well.. take care of me and shower me with love and food.. ( His birthday is coming up and i’m pretty nervous about it.. coz im afraid he might compare my treatment of how i spent his birthday to my ex’s birthday…)

Haiz.. life is never easy huh? But i believe having the correct man or rather being with the ONE will actually help you in all aspect. See he helped me gained 7 happy KG!!! hahaha.. On a serious note, he actually helped me get closer to my family. I have never been home so many times in the past 5 years that i was flying. N in the last 3 years since i moved out, i never had so many family dinners before. Proper dinners where the whole family is present and my mum actually cooks again.. Its A.. Mazing! What the right guy will do for you.. He gets along great with my parents and my mum adores him. Think my mum treats him better then she treats me!

I never had the chance to ever hang out with my younger brother before. I was always too busy with my own life to bother about him. Suddenly, i find myself talking to him and having dinner together with him and my bf.

Oh ohhh.. and all the sweet things he would do for me. Breakfast in the morning, or freshly squeezed juices, fetching me here and there without complaining even though he is dead tired. I do appreciated all the little stuff he does. Though i would pretend not to notice it. Must not lose power ma… Poor thing, i would keep him awake till wee hours of the night and all he wants is to fall into bed and sleep. He helps to monitor my mousehunt games, reminds me of appointments i might have. Like my PA, lover, chef, driver and etc etc all rolled into one! He constantly thinks of things to give to me and surprise me with trinkets and stuff.. and he cracks me up…

Today he asked me a question:

There is this coconut tree very very very tall, an ape, a chimpanzee, a gibbon and an orang utan walk pass. Guess who can climb up the fastest to pick the banana? Answer quickly to test your personality.

Answer: choosing a Chimpanzee means- you are stupid, Gibbon- you are an idiot, Orang- super stupid, Ape- Super duper idiotic.

Know why?

he sms me this:” da da… coconut tree can grow banana one ya? darling are you stress?”

Idiot la………………………………………

Of coz, i show my appreciation by doing little stuff for him too.. putting on anti-aging moisturizer on his face, getting his favorite foodstuff for him, and recently buying him a Nespresso machine so he could have his morning coffee fix in style!

Last night i went dinner at my manicurist’s friend house. Its a small party of 6. The Host did an extremely good job of cooking an amazing meal.. It was both appetizing and looks super good like restaurant style..

Anyways, we all had a nice chat and then proceeded to the pool area where in a fit of insanity. I took off my bra and panties and went into the pool w just my dress on.  My manicurist followed in shirt and jeans, her friend came down w his shirt off and just his pants. Quite fun except that it was quite cold.. later we proceed back to the house where we changed and talked further into the night. It was 5am before we left.. Nice..

1500hrs
Woke up to my friend Justin calling me. He left his car parked at my multi storey carpark before he left for indonesia. N he calls me to find his car keys which he thinks he dropped. Man.. what a way to wake up! I go over and find his car parked at the top storey, looked around for a good 15mins. Its not there. So i called him and told him to look into his pockets, bags and everything.. haiz..

I went for a shoulder massager right after.. hahaha.. time to relax myself and treat myself. so now im blogging and in a few moment time my friend is picking me up for dinner.. ciaoz..

Hey…. all..

I’m back.. but sick like a cat. (Bing mao) back from SR (Siem reap). I’ve decided to blog here instead of friendster now since i’ve been using facebook more often. I havent been blogging much but anyways…

Siem Reap

Siem reap is as beautiful as i remember… The kids still remembered me. Many of them have grown taller and taller. The weather was very very hot though..  
The organizers were very new and did not know what to expect, so i had to step in for a little crowd control with my limited Khmer.. hahaha… I could only get them to keep quiet- (Snat), Sit down-(ong kwek chao), say 1-10.

Name all the 4 groups and get them all hyped up shouting their own group name.. which we go by numbers. So, most of the time i put a hand up to my ear and signal for 1,2,3 or 4 with my fingers. The kids in their respective group will start shouting/screaming their group no.. Really noisy but fun affair. But as i already had a sore throat most of the time i relied on hand signals..

I lead the kids for some song n dance followed by water bombs… it was fun!!! We were all drenched! The kids use buckets instead of plastic bags given.. Its crazy! Its like a tradition. Every year and every trip the kids at the orphanage would play water fight with us. The second day we generally played simple games with the kids and had a art competition.. My group won!!!! Yeah.. The boy drew beautifully and is quite the artist. We had one volunteer who sang and played the guitar for the kids and then they had balloon sculpting show by the other volunteer.

A LITTLE BOY…

I remember this little boy very well. He is quite fair compared to the others and a new addition to the orphanage. A cambodian but his parents moved to thailand. (His parents were caught in thailand and he was moved back to cambodia. Cases of children sold to the sex trade or mafia-linked beggars trade is very common. )
He was very naughty and kept hitting the volunteers. On the first day, he refuses to play w the other kids and one of the volunteer had to coax him out and because he couldn’t speak a word of Khmer he was always bullied. The older kids would punch him and kicked him whenever no one is around to see it. I was only told on the second day about him. My heart went out to him. That is the reason why he kept hitting us. He wanted to gain attention from us. Any kind of attention. While all the kids were in the hall singing i went out to look for him.

I found him playing by himself out in the open area beside the canteen. I went over to him, bend down and spoke to him in broken thai. i gently held his hands and he looked up at me. In that moment, that special moment. Time seems to stand still. Tears welled up in his eyes and he started mumbling. It was all i could do to stop myself from crying out. The pain and the helplessness was overwhelming in his eyes. I could only hug him to me and kept saying “Mai pen lai” “Mai pen lai”. “Never mind never mind”.. I curse myself inwardly for not knowing more thai words then.. I hugged him and carried him into the hall where all other kids were there. He sat next beside me and gripped my hands really tight. i managed to get him a balloon sword and the next min he was happily playing with it. As if all things forgotten. I could tell though he was reluctant to speak thai in front of the other kids.

Children.. they forgive and forget. But somethings will definitely haunt you for the rest of your life. Doing volunteer work has helped me to re-evaluate life. Keeping me grounded, humble, simple. The joy i bring to them is nothing compared to the joy they bring to me.

According to the person in charge, the kids needed a break as he was arms full with paperwork, disciplinary action against some of the older kids who rebelled and had no time to organize R&R for the kids. They needed a break and we came at a right time. We were told situation there is not as rosy as it seems. Every day, running of the orphanage is a major issue. With money, gangsters, staff problems, kids who misbehaved, rebelled. Kids who ran away at night to join gangs. Girls who claim male staff molested them just because they were reprimanded on things that they did wrongly. Its a daily battle and i must salute these people who do it full time.

Wat Mun Thean

Wat Mun thean village is very poor and we had sent cloths, shoes, bags and even rice to all of them there. We went to the school for half a day and taught them to sing Twinkle twinkle little star and played maths game. Halfway thru though i had not much of a voice left so i went out and borrowed someone’s camera to start taking pics and to help distribute stuff.

Its as dusty as i remembered.. but they have an additional cook house beside the school and the villagers cooked for us as a form of gratitude. The nice rice in the middle was scooped up and given to us while the burnt bits were given to themselves. Surprisingly, there were no sand in the dishes considering how they cooked the food. They dug out a hole on the hillside and put firewood inside. The wok they used is super huge like in army.. Pictures of it can be found on my album.

Back in sin…

I’m suppose to get ready now for my date. I’m going for a Opera show later at the esplanade. Last night, i took some of the medication that the doctor gave and i had an allergic reaction to it. My eyes puffed up and i spent this morning drinking lots of water to flush it out of my system. I do hope i dun look too horrendous to go for Opera later.. Bye peeps! Tats all for now.

HAPPY 2008 EVERYONE!!!

I just went through my previous blog and realized that on my last 2007 new year resolution.. i only managed to keep some of them true..

Lets see… resolutions of 2007..

1.- Keep fit.. getting abit flabby everywhere -(didn’t quite exercise that much) *
2.- Enjoy myself and life.Travel more…(Which i did achieved.)*
3.- Make more new friends and widen my network. (which i did do as well.)*
4.- Revaluate my life and work n studies. basicallymy future. (Did think abt it but no real work done yet.) 5.- Enjoy singlehood. (Which i did very much.. dating n enjoying myself!) *
6.- Spent quality time with love ones. (Which i did try to spend more mahjong time w cuzzies n ah ma.)*
7.- More charity work (went cambodia twice.. was good!)*
8.- Get off my arse and learn new things… powerboating, salsa, belly dancing(might as well make use of my existing belly.. haha) maybe even car license, oh and diving.. (Didn’t do any of those yet. Took a basic spanish lesson though*) 9.- Not forgetting my friends, keeping in touch with them. (i do keep in touch even w long lost friends like Shuwu in london, James in Melbourne. Usual gang of AISC in yishun, attended vincent’s wedding.) *

HEY!! Thats not too bad considering its 7 out of 9..

2008 resolutions are…

1- Think top priority should be saving $$$ for my studies! Going back to school in 2009!

2- Get Fit and healthy! Already Sign up w Fitness First! Today just went for running n yoga session. (Must keep it up man! Jia you! jia you!!)

3- Travel to more exotic location. (Already planning for a trip to Kerala, India to attend friend’s wedding n take short holiday.)

4- New things to try, am learning Hindi now, taking Yoga classes, next in pipe line would be dancing, singing, power boating, driving and diving.

5- Am announcing this now… End of this year if i do achieve my ideal body shape i shall go ahead and take artistic pictures of myself and have an oil painting of myself in my birthday suit! hahaha…

6- LOVE ONES are still very impt and must make effort to keep in touch..

7.- Keep old friends dear n make new friends near!

8- Be Happy, healthy and wealthy! Get more rest as well…

9- Date more.. wahahaha….. any eligible bachelors out there? Out for some good clean fun??

10- Oh yes! Be more tidy and neat…. must try!!!! hahahaha…………

Tat’s all folks! New pics of me having fun are all actually uploaded on my FACEBOOK account. Just look for XRENE.. i should be the only one around w that name..

Stay Happy, healthy and wealthy!

Yesterday.. i went to the central to get some food.. so while on the phone i looked at all my options n decided to have some chinese food. So the lady working inside sort of gave me a knowing look.
After my call, i went and decided to have lo mai kai. Then the lady suggested something else. N i decided to go for egg tarts. But unfortunately, the last was sold out and the one box left was slightly crushed.
IF i didn’t mind she would give me a discount. Since its all going up up inside my belly i went ahead to buy it.

The lady smiled and told me since im so easy going, she is gonna give me a free cup. ??!!!???!!
She placed my food together w the cup n saucer in a box. Nice people are all around man.. So now i have a free cup! hahaha…. wonder if i get more free stuff when i buy other stuff next time.. ]

I quite scared of roaches and recently something happened at my rented place..
While i was watching T.V there was this huge roach crawling my way.. n i started screaming..
So my housemate kept asking her boyfriend to save me as they were both in their room but
the door was opened. Eddie was busy playing games n reluctantly stop his game n got up.
Here at one corner was this crazy girl screaming n there was this guy sheepishly finding tools
to get rid of the pest.. He couldn’t find any papers or whatever so he decided to use a cane that was
lying nearby. The cane was left by the owner previously for caning his kids i think..

With One swift stroke… SWAP! The cockroach lay down on its back legs kicking in the air..
By this time i was so amazed at his ability to hit it w a stroke of cane that i started cracking up..
I couldn’t believe that anyone would use a cane to cane a cockroach!!!! AMAZING!!!

His girlfriend started laughing when i voiced my disbelieve and amazement and both of us
started laughing non-stop.. While we were laughing, Eddie got up n went to the bathroom to
take toilet paper out to wrap the roach.. n when he left i started screaming again coz the roach
even though on its back could flip around n start escaping.. so i was alternating between
laughing n screaming n that made his gf laugh even harder.. she was practically rolling around on her bed..

Eddie was totally cool about the whole situation, he came back threw the roach away n resumed
his gaming… Thank goodness for housemates man!!!! I would have died facing the roach myself!!

That made me think about this….

How many ways are there to kill a cockroach?

1- Usually i see ppl kill roaches w rolled up newspaper..
2- Bare hands or legs
3- Insect repellant (Spraying huge amount of Baygon on one found)
4- By drowning… either with hot or cold water esp. if found in the bathroom while bathing
(Usually i would scream, spray , spray and scream at the same time.. cursing if it flies..
tats the worse!!!)
5- Putting poison for roaches..to consume called the BAIT STATION..
6- Tools like Fly swat are sometimes used if available..
7- Set their cats on the insect.. My cat use to do that, they usually just wanna play w the insect but
the insect usually dies from overplaying on the cats part..
8- Last but not least cane! Accuracy is very important factor here and the person must be
able to cane the roach within one stroke and make sure it dies….

Anybody out there care to share more interesting ways to kill a roach pls do share..

Recently, i had to reject a couple of guys sort of going after me. First was this guy whom i tot we had a great time together n we were dating but his lack of commitment made me think twice plus having a rel w him meant that we have to be in a long distance rel. which i am not prepared to do so. Many factors in, i have to make it clear to him. For my birthday, he sent me a box of roses and today i received a package sent from overseas. He made a collage of our pics taken together w a very very sweet and romantic message below on the photo frame. A girlfriend of mine who knows him too had a good talk w me just now saying that he wasn’t very happy seeing my birthday party pics where i was so close to so many guys. His friends were all asking me to give him a chance n consider him as he is trying to show his commitment now. He is a very nice n sweet guy but i made my decision already n unless something very drastic happens i dun think i will change my mind.

Selfish Bitach….

I think i’m wanna be one. I wanna be a little more selfish n love myself more. I have been in n out of relationship the last couple of years that i barely have enough love left for myself. Friends who know me well knows how i am when im in a rel. i Give my all n more…

Today, i rejected a guy’s offer for lunch n to meet him up n instead went for dinner w another friend. He got quite upset and sms me stuff tat i feel is so absurd.

According to him, im a insensitive, aloof and distant person. So i told him im actually more a goof but never ever heard ppl say that im aloof before. Its the first time ever. I agreed tat im like a guy inside n can be quite insensitive sometimes.

He told me via sms tat guys would go after me becoz im pretty n m just interested in shagging me n not see me for who i am, smart or watever inside.

So I told him i wouldnt hang out w guys like tat for long then. I’m not stupid.

He said tat he finds me pretty too as well.

Then he went on to say:”u maybe happy w a guy who gives u lots of freedom n not bothered tat u have many close guy friends, n dun mind u giving him ur ‘quality time’ once in a while…Serene, if u think tat in a such a way, a couple can build a meaningful rel n must be mutually happy n committed at the same time, then all those books on rel, marriages tat u would have read is juz rubbish to u. U r a self centred gal n u will nvr change, n possibily tat maybe ur waterloo.”

I m throughly shocked!

Me self centred?! First time i ever hear this comment. Wat do u guys think? M i really like tat?
I told him tat he had no right to pass judgments on me as i had never done tat to him before n wat he wrote has no basis at all. He claims i was being defensive n if ppl gave him advise he would take them graciously n respect whomever tat gave the advise….

Wat the ………….????? Aloof? Im anything but aloof la. I ask him if he knows the meaning of aloof. N i was so pissed i gave him a piece of my mind. I told him tat whatever he felt from me is just based on wat he feels personally n has no basis n goes to show he doesn’t know me well enough. Also tat he is possessive and jealous n that would be the no 1 reason why i would never accept him. Think he got some issues man… Makes me wonder r all divorcees like tat? Unstable, childish, prone to weird temperaments. Best part?! I’m not even his girl friend or anything.

I feel so cheese off by this fella for telling me stuff just becoz he is upset w me or rather becoz he couldn’t get his way. I dread the idea even to think or consider to ever be w him. No doubt he was v v nice. Sents me to work, back home, buys me birds nest n stuff.. Takes care of me but thinking abt his immature ways just erases off everything……………………

I dun need a nanny to tell me yes or no. None of my exs ever have problems w me having close guy friends, feels insecure becoz i dun spend “quality time” w them.. I practically stayed w them la…

All this makes me even more sure tat i should stay all the more single for now n take my time… wat do u guys think?

I’m back from my crazy weekend birthday bash….

Had it at Cafe Del mar… As it was quite a last min decision to held my birthday there.. i decided to split my friends into 2 groups.. on 2 different days.. Friends from outside, party people would be joining me on Sat 24th in Cafe Del mar.. Coz cafe Del mar always have foam parties on Sat so i tot it would be quite cool to have it there n party as well…

I went into Sentosa early as i had to check into my hotel room first at the siloso beach resort. Noelle helped me w my stuff and we did some catching up.. Lynn came a short while later n bought me a wonderful present which i m suppose to wear for her to see first.. Yup. A piece of lingere from La Senza.. nice… I did a little parade n then dress up to go down to Cafe Del Mar.

Dinner was beautiful, Karl bought me a birthday cake, small bouquet of flowers and a birthday balloon. My first ever.. Nice surprise! keke… My cousin bought me a bouquet of roses and ang pow… keke… 14 guest in all.. Alvin brought lots of alcohol n so did Jason.. but due to the fact tat we will be charge corkage we didnt open any bottles..

After finishing the cake we adjourn to the hotel room n started playing the Mongoose cup game where we use playing card going in a circle drawing one card at a time.
Draw a 9- drink from ur own cup
Draw a 10- the circle is reverse
Draw a Jack- person on left drinks
Draw a Queen- person on right drinks
Draw a King- u can point to anyone to drink
Draw an Ace- Pour anything into the MoNGOOSE CUP.
Draw up to the last ACE and the last AcE drinks everything in the cup..

As the birthday gal.. i got my fair share… 4 rounds and i got the mongoose cup twice… Damn “lucky”! First time was w red wine, whiskey and water.. Disgusting! 2nd cup was a very very potent cup of almost pure whiskey.. Rey helped me finished half a cup! Yeah!

The first link to see my birthday pics..

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=21600&l=06d5a&id=663672510

After the last round we headed back down to CAfe del mar where i had booked a Cabana n a Daybed.. It was relatively quite quiet down at the pool side.. Although the foam party was suppose to be on, not much foam was seen around.. Our cabana was quite far away from the pool and everyone sort of just milled around till someone suggested we go to the Jacuzzi since no one was around.. The whole gang of us went down.. n the rest is history… Look at the pic to see for urself man….

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=21614&l=df0f8&id=663672510

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=21620&l=e535a&id=663672510

Karl started the ball rolling and order 2 bottles of champagne. I think i drank 2 glasses of champagne before i started to vomit. After vomitting, i jump back into the jacuzzi n started acting weird.. haha… the waiter just kept refilling my empty glass of champagne n i just kept drinking.. crazy.. The rest of the night is quite a blur to me actually.. i can only remember bits n pieces of it.

Pieces #1-
There was no foam so i had one of my friends who was going up the room to get my new bottle of bubble bath from Bath & Body works. I tried pouring half a bottle in but halfway thru, my hands slipped n the entire bottle went down into the jacuzzi.. Within mins.. the entire place was foamed up. So we actually did have a foam party..

Bits #2-
I saw security running towards our party n telling the guys we are not suppose to foam up the place ourselves. The guys told them off saying, its suppose to be a foam party but we can’t see anything plus we bought many bottles of champagne.. In the end.. we got our way.. Its like a private foam party man..

Pieces# 3-
I vaguely remembering that i got out n started going to the pool to swim n saw a group of ang mo n started talking to them but dunno abt wat.. Then after awhile i went back… 2 ang mo decided to join us as they saw tat the party was really fun on our side.. But jason told them off saying its our private party n unless they buy a bottle or 2 of champagne then they can come in… They U-turn n never came back…

Bits#4-
One of my friend nickname Mata took off his underwear in the jacuzzi n even came up for a drink butt naked! According to my friend i took off my underwear in the water as well but put it back on soon.. I couldn’t really rem i did that… I think im outta control man… no more drinking so much ever…..

Pieces#5-
I remember knocking on my knees against the steps in the jacuzzi so i had to crawl around n be careful but in my drunkard state even crawling around didnt help. I woke up w huge bruises on my knee cap..

Bits#6-
I dun remember the journey back to the hotel, it was a blur man.. i only rem getting into the bath tub n seeing my tolitries bag getting wet n me going in to splash water.. Also rem washing my hair myself. After tat everything was a blank!

I woke up w Noelle on one side n Karl the other side of me.. Other than a slight headache i was feeling quite alright and even managed to wake up for breakfast at 10am..

Day 2 was really quiet day… all my friends left at night so only the 3 of us was left behind. Karl drove us to Vivo city for Ben’s and Jerry’s Icecream then we headed back for a dip in my new suite w a roof top jacuzzi.
Shufen came w her bf n swam abit, followed by my sis n her family.. Joe sent a box of flowers to the hotel and everyone was excited for me… to see what he actually sent to me. my other friends came for abit before leaving. Not long after noelle left w Karl. So i accompanied my sis n her family for a swim at the pool. When i came up they were already gone..

After bathing i ordered room service n had my cousins buy pizza over.. It was a really quiet night compared to the night before… was reeally tired out.. not many friends came over though.. many left before 9pm. Shini , gus n a few others came later.. I got them to finish up alot of my wines n champagne left over from the previous day.

One funny thing happened. My friend’s younger sister came along as well n was very excited to go into the jacuzzi and told us she actually prepared extra shorts just in case. n went to change. She drank quite a few glasses n was quite sleepy n a little drunk by the time she came down. She changed into her jeans n plopped down to bed beside me where i was chatting w her elder sis. When i woke up to go to the bath room i realised that her jeans was wet n so was the bed.. I quickly woke her up n we realise after awhile that she changed her shorts but not her underwear… Luckily for her, i gave her an early christmas present from Victoria Secrets, a g-string n i had to give her my shorts as she couldn’t wear either of her bottom… Silly silly Blur blur girl… Both her sister n i was laughing our heads off man…. Cute la…

I ended up sleeping alone in the hotel room coz everyone had to go back to work the next day.. haiz… no boyfriend yet tats why………

Anyone has any good guy to intro? hahaha….. no need la.. i’m not looking for a relationship now anyway so lets just chill n enjoy singlehood…

Cheers to 26 n beyond.. May everyone be happy, healthy and lovely!

Cheers!