Christmas 2018!

Merry Christmas again! This year was a much quieter one for me with fewer gatherings with friends.

With my #brunchdategirls at Populus & Co. a week before Christmas (also on the same day as the videoshoot)! We probably created a lot of noise again hahaha what's new:



Wearing the earrings that Beverly gave to me as my Secret Santa (envelope above):








Saturday evening @ Yoshi's house with Windy and his friends:

Made these biscuits with smoked burrata cheese with cured meat with basil topping. Sooooo yummy but everything was so tedious to prepare. I didn't do much but it was already so tiring hahaha. BUT WORTH IT:





Xmas Eve!
My family doesn't celebrate Christmas but I try to do something every year to spice it up hahaha. The past 2 years I set up a mini Christmas tree and hung a wreath... this year my parents are at my grandparents' most of the time so I just bought a logcake over:





Then with the TRDO family also to celebrate Ryan's (advanced) birthday!!:





Christmas day! Did some toning for my hair (thank you Black Hair Salon!) and spent the rest of the day with Windy:















Drew a portrait for Windy as an Xmas gift (he kinda became older than was supposed to be hahaha):





And finally, this afternoon's Boxing Day lunch with Vanessa, Li Rong, Phylicia and Yunhui @ Lola's Cafe! Haven't been there for years... their prices have increased so much.

Erm, they are my students and 10 years younger than me hahhaahah but I'm like the shortest. Sure:



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Sometime last week:



"It's raining..."









Soooo... I won't get to finish up whatever has happened in 2018 by the end of the year as I would have hoped to.... flying off to Yogya this Friday for the New Year! My 2nd time spending it away from SG.

Wishing all a HAPPY 2019!! :D

5D4N @ Bali (21st - 25th April 2017): Day 4 & 5

(Read Day 1 & 2 HERE / Day 3 HERE)

I DID ITTTTT. I managed to post the whole trip up by the end of 2017! Hahaha.


Day 4
Didn't sleep much the night before because we had a hiking tour at 4am! So we had to leave our villa by 2am.







After ~1 hour we were up on the Batur Caldera!! This is a good trekking option for beginners:



The view was really breathtaking as we watched the skies and our surroundings transform for the next 30-45 minutes:

























Breakfast! The food and drinks were brought up by an elderly lady who climbed up and down the mountain so effortlessly..... in sandals. Omg.





The hike up was nothing much. THE KILLER WAS THE GOING DOWN HAHAHAH BECAUSE NOW I COULD SEE EVERYTHING BELOW ME AND IT WAS SO SCARY HAHAHAHA. I kept thinking I would slip and roll down the mountain.

This was me and my guide 90% of the time (but I wasn't alone... check out Candice at the back hahaha):





Finallyyyy made it down after very long. I swear we took a lot longer to go down than to climb up LOL:













Back at the hotel to chill! We were tired but we didn't want to 'waste' the pool and the floats we brought over from SG hahaha:







Yanning and Candice went for a body massage while the rest of us headed to Livingstone Bakery to get the famous watermelon bread (they were actually just raisin bread lah)! It was my priority for this trip LOL:





Mission accomplished!! We bought yellow ones too.





Last stop of the day: Ku De Ta where we caught our 3rd consecutive sunset in Bali haha.













Dinner at KDT's restaurant:



Themed outfits hehe:






Day 5
Yet another little-sleep night for Candice and I because we decided to go for the Dolphin Tour at 5am! Was dreading it the night before cos I was so tired and I just wanted to sleep on our last night there, but glad we went for it!! :D









Sunrise!







We went out pretty far and many hours passed before we finally sighted some dolphins! Then more and more dolphins joined.



Can't believe I didn't take any photos of the dolphins but they were captured on videos (you can watch it below).



We concussed for the whole 2 hours back to our place HAHAHA just like our white water rafting day....

Afternoon:







Lunch @ Sisterfields Cafe before we checked out!:





FOOD WAS VERY GOOD:



The toilet was very pink and pretty too!!


Then it was GOODBYE BALI :(






Day 1 & 2 - HERE
Day 3 - HERE


HAPPY 2018 everyone!! Have a great year ahead!! :D