Pot-luck

Pot-luck at a friend’s abode yesterday.
Number of Adults: 10
Children under 10: 6
Food for everyone: Chicken wings, Sushi, Fishballs, Prawnballs, Fish cakes, Crab Claws, Bee Hoon, Fruit salad, Black Forest cake, Coke, Jasmine Tea, Wine, etc.
Entertainment for the kids: Garfield
Entertainment for Adults: Catching up with old times...

Hey, we are a bunch of thirty-somethings, formerly Poly schoolmates, (some are classmates even)...
Kinda time to catch up on each other’s lives...
I haven’t seen them in a long, long time. Somehow our schedules just wouldn’t match.
Till last night, that’s is.
Out of sight, out of mind, almost.
Everybody make an effort to be present, in the name of sending one of our friend on an overseas long trip. I heard he will be away for almost 1+ year.
~~ Have a safe trip, Kelvin! ~~

Everybody seemed so happy, busy with life, little ones, like so contented.
I feel very comfortable them.
Geez… We know each other for ages!
We know who went out with who, who is secretly in love with who, who did some naughty things back then...
We all had a good laugh, just sharing all the fun moments.

And I feel so lucky just to have friends like them.

Setting up “shop”

I am kinda busy, trying to set up "shop", selling my beaded jewellery online.
Being a beginner, I try not to spend too much money in setting up online accounts, whatever, so I use whatever is free. Yeah, me, cheapskate...

For the past week, I have been trying to price my items.
It is really no mean feat.
Like how much is a plastic bead? A colourful bead? A glass bead? A faceted glass bead? A faceted glass bead with flower motif? A 6mm pearl? Etc...??
Not to mention all those misc items like, stringing materials, hooks and clasps, chain, crimps, etc.
I have found quite a useful method, and the price came up to be quite reasonable.
Just multiply the cost by 3. This is to include all those misc items, labour, and probably, my creativity.
Let’s just say, I would like to "test water" a bit.
See how my creations would stand in the vast market, especially my clay beads.

I am an entrepreneur, wish me luck!

Arghhh~~ Finally!

I am experiencing one of those periods…
All work and no play.
Girl’s gotta earn her keep, yeah?
So, 2 solid weeks of running around the island.
(I am not really holding a air-conditioned office kinda work, you know.)
*Pant! Pant!

Get to wind down a bit during the weekends.
I rummaged through my boxes and boxes of stuff, and found Wigjig, a jewellery making tool, which I had bought ages ago, but never got down to really using it, till now. So look what I made.


Read more about Celtic Pearl here.


Read more about Gina here.


Read more about Eiffel here.


Hey! I love it! It was a bit tiring on the fingers, I even develop coarse skin from all that pulling and looping of the wires.
But I think I kinda like the patterns and effects on a piece of finished jewellery.

Can’t wait for next weekend… Do some more Wigjig-ing!!

NDP mood

The whole of Singapore is in celebrating mood, it seems.


The cardboard cows are part of an advertisement gimmick, and it has been painted red and white, in unison with the colours of Singapore’s national flag.
The cows can be seen grazing on tiny patches of pastures around the island.
So, here’s looking at you, babe!


Triangular flags like these decorates the whole neighbourhood.
They depicts national symbols like the crest, national flower, total defence, etc.


Flags are also displayed from homes around Singapore.
My, my... Aren’t they pretty?

So, I have displayed my flag, have you display yours??

Chinatown Food Centre

Yup, I went there today.
(Finally, after almost a month after they moved there.)
Boy, was the weather hot!
So after much huffing and puffing, I made it to the food centre.


So the next task is to locate my favourite mee and desert stall.
Well, lucky me, I don't have to look very far, because the stalls are quite near the entrance, and are actually opposite each other!


It was a Saturday, and lunchtime, so I would expect the food centre to be crowded.
Plus it was hot and quite stuffy...
I felt a bit uncomfortable, so I left after finishing my food. :-(
And the seats are quickly taken up!