Awesome stuff happened over the last week and this! I was over tired, stress, happy, angry, annoying and a whole lot of other things that had been going on in my life. One amazing thing was we finally had all our air tickets booked! Flight to Seoul (Checked!), flight to Jeju (Checked), lodging (Checked), plan out the days (soon… we’re working on it). At least we’re settled with the bulk of it aside the language barrier which we can barely do much about it.

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Food Review: Saltwater Cafe and Creek (Changi Village Hotel)

Last week, we celebrated the girls’ birthday (XY and Elaine). Janet and I ’sold’ them to Changi Village Hotel for a lunch buffet at Saltwater cafe and creek restaurant. I looked it up hungrygowhere as usual and I love how good the site can be. Good and bad stuff about having technology around. Effective, efficient, informative but it makes us lazy, silent talkers and so on. I’m doing the silent talking right now… You can’t hear it right?

Anyways, food was great though it’s quite a small variety I have to admit. Small section of Japanese sushi, quite a portion on Indian food, Chinese, rojak, a little on western and that’s about it. From the pricing wise, it’s reasonable but I found it pricey for us on that day as it was post-CNY and they charged us on a pretty high rate.  Thank God for Elaine’s Far East card, else we’ll be paying over 38++ per pax. I liked the mee rebus btw.

Later on, it was Suites with the girls! The concept of this was pretty different as they provided bedroom slippers and blankets to keep the cold out. They have from normal rooms to bedroom and even lounge rooms for a large group of people. Really nice. Oh. I thing I didn’t quite like about it was each pot of a one bag tea cost $18. It’s a ripped off seriously and it’s compulsory that everybody in the room to order something.

Followed by dinner at Iluma at this Japanese restaurant which I can’t think off my head on the name right now and too lazy to do a search on it. Hmm… I’m not too sure if I fancy the food there but I definitely loved the ordering system. It’s amazing. You guys should try it once if you haven’t been there. Just for the system… haha! What am I trying to promote here?!

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Fast forward to this week. It was meet up with some more girls to Marina Barrage! I can’t believe I woke up earlier than my usual timing to work… haha! Everybody else was late and why… did I bother to make an extra effort?! After 10 years or so, I finally flew a kite in the sky again. How I missed those younger days… I didn’t expect myself to be sun burnt so badly but I was and what’s worse was, I’m only burnt one side!! Omgosh. It’s super ugly tan and I hate the watch tan line I’ve gotten right there. The sun took a toll in my life span for that day. I didn’t know being sun burnt can make one so sleepy! I slept early that night cos I couldn’t stand it anymore.

Caught a movie with Elaine that day, Alice in the wonderland and I loved it. Awesome awesome awesome. So queer and odd, the way I liked it. I love johnny depp, the fat boys, the big head queen (I don’t remember the queen having a big head). There was a slight twist compared to the original story, I believe. I can’t remember what’s the original one anymore!

To add on to my current workload/school load/life load, I’ve taken up guitar classes again but this time it’s in church and I really hope my dad can fetch me to church every Tuesday. No, I don’t have my own guitar and the guitar bag I have has a really big hole at the bottom with no sling for back packing.

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And finally randoms.

Say Bye to Chinese New Year!!
Today is officially the last day of New Year for us Chinese…

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Been missing out on blogging for a while as I’ve been so busy with work, studies and everything that is piling up. The only thing that I’m looking forward to me is my Korea trip with Elaine right now! You should hear our stories of trying to book a air ticket, it’s so much work just to get a pair of air tickets! I thought we were never going to make it or something but we got ourselves Korean Air planes to ride on now! Thanks to my girl for keeping a lookout at the tickets. haha! Call it the fun process…

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Food Review: Shots (Ann Siang Hill)

Anyways, nearby my office there was a new cafe called “Shots” and I love the simplicity of the cup and why the store was called Shots. It’s basically coffee shots and camera shots. The guy who opened the store loves coffee, sake and photography. Besides sake, shots works really well with coffee and photography. Amazing.

I love the cup so much that I made it into my stationary holder… since I didn’t have one and I liked this so much.

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A date with my primary school mates during the week.

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Food Review: Manpuku (Tampines One)

Frankly speaking, it’s not too bad. I like it better since they opened up as food court style instead of marche. The interior design is Japanese styled and I like it. Quite a variety of Japanese food and it was a $6.50 promo on a few meals in every store. Naturally, Elaine and I whacked the $6.50 ones as we never tried them before. We tried the above, I forgot to take a good look at the names but it’s pretty yummy. The curry was suppose to be Japanese but we felt it tasted more like indian-ish curry. Haha. Poor Elaine didn’t like it though.

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and finally randoms…

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Chinese New Year will officially end at the end of this month…
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That it may be a prosperous and fulfilling new year ahead!

Food Review: Tom N Toms Coffee (Far East Plaza)

Don’t waste your money trying if you want to get a hot drink. Get from Starbucks or Coffee bean, they are much much much better at the same price. All I can say is the drinks are so darn sweet and it’s so gross. I literally paid for a cup of sugar syrup or something. My friend ordered hot chocolate and I ordered chai latte. Expecting it to be like standard Starbucks quality, this one totally failed me and I’m ever trying it again. Disappointing…

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CNY must have goodies and Lou Hei! Heart the cheese pineapple tarts from RainbowLapis.

Got a TopShop inspired top for $10 at Chinatown! What an awesome buy!

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Day 1:

Visitation, visitation and more visitation. The usual standard visitation and grave visiting on my great grandma and my grandpa.

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Day 2:

Had breakfast at Ikea with my family and later Marina Barrage with my cousin from my Mom’s side. Mr LKY came by for a private visit and we said “hi” to him. He’s really old btw

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Day 3:

Which is today… My cell visited Claire’s home today and had an awesome lunch at her place. Really yummy and I love the cream puffs, except it’s organic durians and we can pump in the cream ourselves!! YUMMY!! And met with Elaine for Percy Jackson and the lightning thief movie! It was my first movie this year, sadly… haha!

As mentioned above…

Reasons why I’m ditching Advertlets:

1. Porn-like Ads when I clearly mentioned on their website NO ADULT related content. (I wonder which part of my/their ENGLISH do they not understand!)
2. Outdated campaigns (They never bother to update their website! It’s 2010 now! Please delete all your expired 2009 campaigns that are “still open” to bloggers to blog about it.)
3. Inconsistent campaign rates (Read Advertlets is a Scam and you will know why.)
4. Main website takes a long time to load
5. Blog post on Advertlets is a Scam is evidently there when I did a search on “Advertlets payout”.

So as mentioned above. I believe I’m not the only one who is displeased with Advertlets. The payout rates are lousier compared to Nuffnang and it seems like it NEVER moved at all. Worse is, it’s in RM. Half the rate when you convert to Sing dollars.

Nuffnang on the other hand has a local company. More committed, updates frequently, gets bloggers to interview/events and such… even exclusive membership to those who have their ads only. Geez, why didn’t I make my choice earlier?

Now, I’m deleting Advertlets…

Bye.