Krissy's Wonderland: May 2007

Sunday, May 27, 2007

First Try

Have a couple of first tries this week but no picture as i was the blur queen again since i forget my camera:

1. I perm my eyelash for the first time so now my eyelashes are curling nicely but the effect isn't as gd as i expected. Apparently, it is because my eyelashes are pretty inside my eyelids and hence cant be pulled out so the curl is only on a small portion.

2. We organise a bridal shower for the bride-to-be. We came out with a run down of events for the day and also come out a few ideas on hw to tekan the groom. So nw we can only pray that everyone will be sporting on that day so it will be all fun for everyone.

As part of the bridal shower, i also manage to have my first nail art experience. So nw i am trying very hard to ensure that they last till thursday since i am such a "chor lor" girl.

I have a feeling that i am falling ill soon. Shall stop here and update more in the future.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Phantom of the Opera

Actually the past week has been a pretty busy week for me especially since i dun noe what's happening to me at work... many meetings and everyone have new request to their project, thus have been working late at work....though my late is not like most of u will imagine since anything after 7pm for me is considered late..considering that i always leave on the dots for my role. However, i am glad that i finally make it for the Phantom of the Opera. Since i actually have to sell my first set of tickets as my buddy has other committments. Hence when i finally sold the tickets, all the weekend shows were sold out and hence we can only pick a weekday show and considering that my buddy is usually busy at work...i was pretty afraid she couldn't make it for the show. Then who will know that as we were both late and we actually went for dinner so we almost missed the first part of the show as we actually run to the entrance before they actually closed the door.

This was actually the second musical i watch in my life till date. The first was Miss Saigon. As compared, the effects and stage was definetly better than Miss Saigon. However in terms of the storyline, Miss Saigon is actually better... dun noe if it is because Phantom of the Opera was performed by more "ang moh" and there were more opera form of singing and hence there were quite a number of parts which i could'nt understand. In all, i still feel it was a great experience.

Hopefully i can achieve my dreams of watching musical or broadway in the big apple soon. Before i manage to save up for the big apple trip, i guess i will have to watch a few more musicals in spore. Still thinking if i should watch the musical - King and I?

Blissful Week

As mentioned in my previous entry, one of my closest friend is getting married and she became the offical, Mrs Lee, on Monday. I always enjoyed attending wedding and it was my childhood's dream to own a bridal shop....which i don't even know if i will ever achieve it.

Back to the solemnization, it was a pretty and blissful event where a couple exchange their vows and promise to each other for the rest of their life. Apart from the beauty of the 2 very much in love people sharing their promise for each other, you can also see the joy in the family members and friends. The pride that parents have seeing their daughters or sons moving into another phase of their lifes and opening themselves to another members to the family. This joy and happiness really makes my day, especially since it is happening to one of my closest friend.

Thinking back when we first met 14 yrs back, we were just girls from different parts of singapore whom ended up in the same schools. We have our fair share of disagreement and also been there for each of us through the good and also bad times. It is never easy for people to maintain such long friendship and especially since we have now moved on to different phase of lifes and have a lot of different experiences. Hence, i am really glad to have them with me for the past 14 yrs and i realli hope that we can still continue this friendship even when each of us start to build our own families. Maybe we might not be able to meet up so often but i seriously hope we will still maintain such good friendship and even pass it on to our next generations.

Finally, Congratulations once again to the newly wed couple: Mr & Mrs Lee. Will blog more on the actual dinner and customary event end of this month.

P.s. to Mr Lee - dun u dare bully mrs lee or the rest of us will nv let u off easily. But again i trust that you will take very good care of my dear friend.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

First Ever Family Tour

I am back from my first ever family trip - 8 days Jiangnan + Shanghai Tour. In short, China is a beautiful place with some boorish people. Below are some recount of some example of those boorish people:

1. There was an old grandmother from China who was sitting behind my seat during my flight to Shanghai and she actually took off her shoes and place her smelly feet in between my arm rest, poking me at times. yucks :(

2. When we were at a stop for toilet break, the old grannies actually pushed us through to the toilets. Everyone was pushing and jostling their way.

3. No one ever queue for the toilet or taxis. We actually need to fight with them in order to get into a taxi.

4. The old people actually unbotton themselves before entering the toilet and they also dislike locking the door.

Enough of those unhappy instances. I still enjoyed the trip despite the lack of shopping (it is more that it is cheaper for their sports wear which i dun wear so i didnt buy that much). Actually, we ended up buying a lot of unneccessary and expensive stuffs like longjing, 蚕丝被, crystal ball.... Above that, I still managed to enjoy a very gd performance at Hangzhou, that is 宋城千古情。It is an eternal legend of songcheng with total investments of 50 million yuan of full-length singing and dance performance, based on the historical allusions and mythologies in ancient hangzhou, merged the internal performance of singing and dance and acrobatics into an organic whole. So if ever you have a chance to go to hangzhou, it is a show not to be missed.

Other than the show, the pretty sceneries of lake, ancient houses and the chance to visit those tea planations, tea houses, pearl cultivating farm and zisha arts gallery also makes this trip unforgettable.

Finally, our luck to have one of the best local tour guide also makes our trip interesting since he helps us get the best seats during the different shows that we watched, provide interesting story during our long bus ride and also his instructions to our driver help us better nagivate through the bad traffic of china.

I shall end with some pictures from my trip:

Day 1: Singapore >Shanghai - Wuzhen-Hangzhou

Ride in the world's first commericialized operation line - Shanghai Maglev. We managed to experience a speed of 423km/hr.

As one of the water countries in Yangtze River Delta, Wuzhen displays its 2 thousands yrs history in its ancient stone bridges floating on mild water.

My favourite show: 宋城千古情

Day 2: Hangzhou-Nanjing

Hangzhou 's famous lake: 西湖 with Leifeng Pagoda in the background. Above that there is also a bridge known as The Long Bridge. It is not very long but it has a belief that couples who walk the bridge together will have a ever lasting love.

Family Potrait at the West Lake.

Visit to Longjing Tea Plantation where the guy uses his bare hands to fry the tea leaves.

Day 3: Nanjing - Wuxi

Can tell from the picture we are actually freezing to our death. This is because 50% of the Jiangnan time is raining and hence before we reach Nanjing, it was raining cats and dogs in Hangzhou. Thus the minute we reach Nanjing, the temperature is already at its lowest of 9 degrees. The place of the picture is Zhong Hua Gate.

We bought the crystal balls and took a picture with the artist as well. The crystal ball actually comes with a certificate which will prove that it is his work and it should fetch some price if we will to give it up.

Day 4: Wuxi - Suzhou