接到秘旨

昨天被掌门人召回总部报到，给我了一道秘旨。开心。就只有我。果然上天自有安排。
was requested by Master to report to HQ and got a secret posting!! happy!! :D only me~~ its fate.

2012 CNY

this year's CNY felt quite short! not enough time to enjoy holidays. ahha

went back to my mum's hometown to visit our relatives/ cousins! and this is my cousin's daughter! so cute!! :) hahaha her expression is so funny! and there're so many fireworks in my mum's hometown! so cool laaa... totally have the festive mood!!

今年的华人农历新年感觉好短哦！不够时间享受~ 哈。初一回了我妈妈的家乡拜年。照片里的小bb是我表哥的女儿。超可爱的表情！哈哈。还有我妈家乡超多超多烟花！很酷啦！很有新年气氛。

blur...

this is the last semester of my university life at NUS!! :)
mixed emotions~~ and i actually didnt read the announcement in ivle properly, which states lecture only starts next week for lak1201, and then i went to school for nothing! -.- too excited for school har. i feel like doing something different for my posts in 2012, so here it comes, two languages in one post.

这是我在国立大学的最后一个学期！高兴。但也有一点不舍。心情会有一点复杂。还有我竟然没有把学校网站的通告读好，汉语课下星期才开课，我却糊里糊涂的去学校报到。白跑了一趟！回家时还大塞车，搞得我回到家已经差不多要八点了。也太吧不急待想上课吧。太兴奋了。2012年想做一些不同的，所以开始用双语写部落格！

Roses are Red

roses are so pretty~~ not for me! but from me keke.
got them from B1 of Westmall.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Seas Day 5

Day 5 - 9 Dec 2011
had to leave the ship by 10.30am. so woke up early at around 7am for breakfast. didnt exactly eat a lot, just had the usual veggies and fruits, and scrambled egg, pastry and bao!

various carvings on fruits!

and on the last 2 nights we had an animal towel-folding on our bed.
this one is a dinosaur.

and this is a pig!

so sad! ended the days of no-technology! ;( i miss the food too.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Seas Day 4

Day 4 - 8 Dec 2011
There was no more stopovers and we were on the way back to Singapore from Phuket.
there was rockclimbing activity for the kids, and quite a lot of kids were queuing up! i think cruise is really a great family holiday especially for those with little kids. or for couples too. friends maybe not that much? i dont know.. ahha at least i will say most of the activities are family-oriented.
decided to go for a run in the morning again, so i skipped breakfast! did 3.13miles in about 33mins, and then cooled down to 3.61miles. was about 39mins in total. felt better.

then there was this mega sale of items worth $99.90 going at $19.90, boxes containing watches/ pens/ wallets in one set for guys, and watches/ necklaces/ earrings in one set for ladies to choose from. and so many people were looking through the boxes, opening and closing of boxes, that's the only sound you can hear with the massive crowd all doing the same action.  

so we went for lunch after my mum ended her shopping (for some 2hrs)..

vegetarian sandwich!

salad again, with fish

and fruit tart~

and another piece of whole-grain bread :D

yea after that we went for this Flip Video Competition, which there are 12 challenges that you have to complete and video them, and there are points for each challenge completed, there must be six in a group and participants must be aged 18 and above, so there wasnt enough participants and the event was cancelled! but the Cruise Staff still gave people who came a Royal Caribbean camera pouch as souvenirs. yea! haha and the Cruise Staff recognized us, since she happened to see us quite a couple of times, haha and she thought i was under 18. anyhow, my mum requested her to take a photo together with me haha.

after that went to the photo gallery to buy photos! the photos were very expensive! only the ones taken at Phuket and Port Klang were $9.95, the others taken on board the ship were at $19.95. sooo expensive. gosh, but i thought the one of my sis and me taken at phuket was not bad, and the background was beautiful, so i asked my dad whether can buy, so he said ok, and yay! and met peggy along the gallery too haha. the ship was so huge that i only bumped into her a couple of times! so much of a coincidence right! to happen to book the same cruise on the same dates! :D haha

USD9.95 photo

Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Seas Day 3

Day 3 - 7 Dec 2011
Cruise was scheduled to arrive at 1pm at Phuket. Patong Beach. However, unlike Port Klang, where there is a port for the ship to dork at, we had to take a tender boat out to the beach because the Thai government did not want to ruin the beach line of Phuket. The beach was an attraction for many tourists to enjoy water activities as well as for suntanning etc. yep, so no port! pretty cool experience! 9.30pm was the last tender of which we have to be back by then cause the ship will set sail. so we had half a day at Phuket.

Breakfast! :) at Windjammer Cafe. Buffet! I had scrambled egg with shrimp...

wholemeal bread and banana muffin...

and after that i had fruits! so healthy ahh.. ha

and i found bagels!! :D i love bagels! had more scrambled egg...

my mum's choice. she likes asian food, like noodles etc, there's noodles and congee everyday too for those who likes asian food. but the asian veges like kong xin cai are not very nice. the salad is really good though.

then we went for a Early Riser Trivia at 9am. we love trivia!! this time no other persons joined, and the Cruise Staff called Gina, a South Korean (whom became my Favourite Cruise Staff), carried on with just my family! haha and then at the end of it, she gave each of us a Royal Caribbean Travel Pouch, which was really cool! very useful :) and unique. ha and then later in the day and the next day we saw her again, and decided to take photo with her cause she's so cute, friendly and pretty!

headed for a Bingo session after the Early Riser Trivia, and for USD23, you get four games, each game with 6 sets of 5x5 numbers, (this is 3 sets of 5x5 numbers for the first game). my dad decided to just join in for fun, cause Bingo was the THE game onboard, and my sis wanted to play. yep!

The Bingo Counter. and there is my Favourite Cruise Staff at the counter again! haha

after that, we went for lunch at noon so that

i love love love pastries so i had them every meal!! so many varieties to choose from!
chocolate mousse and blueberry cake

then i took the smoked salmon sandwich as well! yea yea bread~~

my meal-ly dosage of veges and fruits

my sis's meal

and so we're arriving at Phuket!!

taking the tender boat away from the Legend of the Seas ship

Royal Caribbean Cruise Legend of the Seas Day 2

Day 2 - 6 Dec 2011
and so we arrived at Port Klang at 8am. we can get off the cruise and go to KL for a tour, of which the cruise will leave the port at 4pm. but being sleepy-heads, we didnt get up so early. and after i woke up, i still felt quite full from the day before and decided to go to the gym to run! haha. feels good afterwards. really guilty to keep eating non-stop!

Port Klang, KL

the gym room! there were quite some treadmills. ran for 33mins, clocked 4.84km and then cooled down to reach 5.63km. yea~~

so i kinda skipped breakfast and had lunch. buffet!

what my sis had

after which, we went down to Port Klang to walk around and have a look.

the centre was quite empty! not as happening as harbourfront centre. there was a big Christmas tree outside

i think the scenery outside is pretty nice! lots of greenery and flowers, but other than that, really nothing to see -.-

went back to the ship

and i still cant believe that one round around the ship is 1.6km!

the casino haha! which was erm quite empty

there was the hoola-hoop competition for kids by the poolside.

after that, we went for Afternoon Trivia Challenge, and there were 2 other groups there. It was quite tough man! only got 6/15 right :| haha! nevertheless, still managed to learn quite some things!
and today we had to wear formal for dinner! but some diners really didnt bother. singaporean's under-dressing again!

bread for today

Escargots Bourguignonne - Tender snails, drenched in melted garlic-herb butter and baked to perfection

Golden Sea Bass - Pan-seared and served on a mound of creamy black olive polenta, and accompanied by Spanish sofrito and fried capers

Grand Marnier Souffle - With each bite, this warm delicacy melts on the tongue to release a hint of slightly bittersweet orange liqueur

My mum ordered this. Stir-fried noodles - With abalone, shrimp and straw mushrooms and tossed in abalone sauce.

My sis's choice of dessert. Cherries Jubilee - Warmed, dark red cherries laced with Kirsch; generously ladled over vanilla ice cream. (haha! my sis really lovess ice cream)

after that, we went for the Captain's Welcome Abroad Reception, cause there's free champagne given out to all guests! :) and then headed to the That's Entertainment Theatre again for Production Showtime - Invitation to Dance, basically a dance performance. Very enjoyable!! :)  

after the performance, we went for the Finish That Lyrics Game Show, and erm all the songs that they played were the 70-80s man. there were quite a lot of people there, and so we were given this answer slip which we had to write on, and then after that, exchange to mark. The only song that I knew and could get the lyrics was some Madonna's song. So pathetic...