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Love is in the air

Dayna — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:38:27 +0000

Today is the “I’m going to love myself even more” day! 14 February is a day to shower the people around you with lots of love, not just your lover but also your family, friends and pets. Everyone deserve some additional love on this special day. So go on and tell someone you love them today.

A Brand New Start for 2012

Dayna — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:56:45 +0000

This is going to be my first post in 7 months so please pardon me if I’m shooting randomly. I’m pretty sure no one’s going to be reading this but just for my own references in the future: As some might know, the past year had been a very difficult year for me and I just wanted to thank all the angels in my life who has see me through these times. I really appreciate how you guys are here for me, picking up my calls at 2am and simply just listening to me. Without your support, I might still be on Titanic sinking… fast.

That aside, I am getting back on my feet and getting my blog back on track! This layout has been hovering around for the past 3 – 4 months and I have finally managed to sit down and work on it. Minimalistic – not my usual style but it really hits close to home. Life is as simple it can gets – friends, family, food, tea & just simply enjoying myself, what’s more in life to ask for?

While I was away, so much has happened AKA lots of upgrades were required both to WordPress and plugins. I am still fiddling with what’s new on the latest version though I highly doubt I will be needing any of the new features (if any). Meanwhile, I got most of the bugs floating around fixed. I did not carry out cross browsers testing so shoot if you noticed anything quirky!

There are so many things I wanted to blog about, to remember in the future and this will be the first. 2011 was the most valuable lesson in my life thus far and I can now tell the world, I’m a better and happier person and most importantly, I am myself.

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I went Macau-ing again

Dayna — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:42:26 +0000

Yours truly went Macau-ing again last week even though I am definitely no fan of the smoky casinos or uncles dressed in Hawaii-looking shirts. This opportunity was presented to me as an “on-the-house” birthday trip sponsored by dearest daddy. A break from work while I step into the 23rd year of my life doesn’t sounds too bad seriously!

A huge photo collage of the dishes I’ve tried at Macau.

All the dishes I have tried

Please be forewarn that the next half of this post will solely be on commenting on the interior designs of the hotels. There’s nothing much to blog about except their food and impressive architecture.

Street Shopping

We weren’t exactly shopping but more of taking a leisure walk around the town area. It’s only been a year since I last went there during my “Graduation Trip” and there wasn’t much of a change except the place was noisier and definitely more crowded. The weather wasn’t helping either as temperature soars to about 32 degrees; pretty much like Singapore except it was much less humid.

Lan Kwai Fong Macau

We took a quick look at Lan Kwai Fong as well; rather new and I adore the crystal lion “guarding” the main entrance. It’s munching on cash though; those are real notes in its mouth and not newspapers if you are wondering.

Grand Libosa

Not new and it’s also not my first time here. The grand hotel lobby totally blew me away. I can’t imagine any hotels in Singapore which can rival this. It makes me wow literally when you stepped into the hotel.

There’s also this awesome tea performance by the rather good looking waiter. He even asked if I had my camera ready to shoot him! He has ego, I’m sure of it!

City of Dreams

Modern, sophisticated and it gives off the “Singapore Marina Bay Sands” vibe. However, like the Grand Libosa, it’s interior design, lightings etc were miles better.

Galaxy

Across the road from The Venetian. Personally, I feel that it’s design is more traditional as compared to the City of Dreams. I am pretty sure the theme was “Peacock”. All the lightings in this hotel are set to change colours every few seconds. One minor complaint was that the Casino was too bright for my likings.

I can’t believe it took me more than a week to get this “wordless” posts up, I’m procrastinating and I can’t help it. Life’s busy.

Check out the entire album of photos taken on my Flickr.

Life is short

Dayna — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:04:51 +0000

You left us today and headed to a place with no pain nor sufferings. You will always be remembered, my dearest grandpa. Don’t worry about us and sleep soundly. Good nights.

We will never forget your “signature” teaching – “There’s no free lunch/bargain in this world”.

What we were always taught by my grandpa

One of the rare photos we took together on 3 October 2007

Happy Dad’s Day

Dayna — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:33:17 +0000

Our whole family mistakenly thought Father’s Day was this week instead of the next and so we had an early celebration. It’s been some time since the last major family gathering¹.

I rushed home from work to be greeted by these wondering darlings and not to mention the food, food, foood. Dinner was good, supper was good. Is there anything that aren’t? Although I got to admit the day didn’t start off too well with me spilling tea all over my office desk. I hope ants wouldn’t be the first thing I see when I enter the office on Monday.

Look at these rainbow-coloured macaroons, who wouldn’t love them?

Have a wonderful day, dad! It’s my pleasure and honour to be your daughter.

I could not even remember when was the last. Chinese New Year perhaps?

My Dad is the #1 chef

Dayna — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:02:02 +0000

Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate the occasion! Besides that, I have to announce to the world that I love my Dad’s cooking so much. Sometimes, I wish I can have 10% of his cooking skills. He should write a cook book with all my favourite dishes in the future. Here’s what we had for our reunion dinner today:

It’s the first time we took a family photograph with my uncle’s family. I’m definitely going to print these out and display them in my room. No words can describe how much I love my family. They meant the world to me.

Our DIY cake

Dayna — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:05:55 +0000

I’m so sorry for neglecting my blog lately. My exams had just ended a few days ago and much of my time was spend on trying to complete the new layout. The current layout been here for about 4 months already. It’s time for a change! I think I will get it up within the next few days, I’ve yet to style the comments for the new layout. That’s the site stuff I wished to talk about and now the cake! It’s my sister birthday today so …

Happy 24th Birthday, Sissy¹ !

And here’s the DIY decorated cake we made at Jurong Point for her yesterday. I’m proud to say that the bunny was drawn by me. :P

Our beautiful cake

That's us! (Left to right): Sissy, Mum, Me and Chewy

The four of us (Left to right): Mr Bear, Sissy, Me and Chewy

Sissy decorating her lovely cake

Another snapshot of the cake

And sorry if I hadn’t been dropping by all your blogs, I’ll be checking out updates of your life next week!

That’s my nickname for her.

APB Family Day at the Zoo

Dayna — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:26:47 +0000

Asia Pacific Breweries had their family day at the Singapore Zoo today and daddy brought us there. It had changed a lot since my last visit. There’s a boat ride now, I was so eager to hop onto the boat ride. But they ran out of tickets for the 12.40 slot and we had to wait until 1.40 which was around the time we were leaving. Hence, we didn’t manage to take the ride which I feel was a pity because the lake view was fantastic. I couldn’t find the tigers this time round, only the white tigers. I wonder where the tigers are? o.O

The weather was sunny in the morning but it started pouring at noon. The food provided was not-so-good. I had some fried rice and that’s all. I think the chef might have forgotten to add salt because it’s practically tasteless. We had a family shot done, that was a rather good photograph taken by the “professional” photographers. Mental reminder to collect the other photo at Suntec City mall next week. We went to watch a few animal shows which was all right, but it didn’t wow me too much. Daddy didn’t won anything during the lucky draw :cry: . The thing was, nearly all his friends won something, daddy has no luck in lucky draws. He only won once in 23 years. I was hoping for the PSP, PS3 or the XBox. That was basically the summary of today. And I shall end with some photos!

My dear and I near the lake

White Tigers

Mum, dear and I outside the Pavilion

I hate this fruit!

Favourite photo of the day