haven't been blogging much lately. my days and nights are just occupied with work and meeting up with frens and boyfren and family...

today i had an exceptional Sunday, ALL to myself.
yes, no tuitions! i've passed on my last tuition student to a fren, and now officially, i'm tuition-less.
gosh, 5 freaking years of teaching tuition. enough is enough.

not that i HATE tuition-ing. but sometimes, it's just a drag.

anyway, all these aside.

me and les went for the treetop walk yesterday!!!!!
started off at blazing hot 2pm; because he insisted walking in the afternoon is okay, even though i kept trying to tell him how much cooler mornings will be... -_-'''

and so we started off at Venus Drive carpark off Thomson Road into the MacRitchie trails.




we took the "moderate" trail which is about 7km. i wanted the 12km, but he refused to do that. bleahx. someone pls jio me, if you wanna do the 12km onez. =P

and so at the start of the trail...




it was really nice. i mean, it looks so peaceful and green and the entire place smells of nature.
you know that damp wet leaves kinda smell? the tree trunks smell? yea, that smell. i love it.



we look so funny here haha...
and i was carrying a sling bag because i came from work the night before and stayed over at his place. so poor les insisted on stuffing my sling bag into his yellow backpack and carrying it for me.

haha so now he looks like a turtle, with tat bag riding so high up on his back.






and walking in...




i was so scared some bee will sting my nose when i bent towards the flowers to pose for that photo haha...




there wasnt much flora to be seen around. it's basically just lotsa trees and grasses and bushes; but once in awhile you see some weird stuff around.




doesnt it remind u of the zhu ba jie's leaf in "journey to the west"? haha...

and some random shots on our way in...






except for the colony of red ants infesting it. lester kept saying how disgusting it is; but really, it shows how sweet the flower is.

and finally we reached the first real signboard!




lucky for us, it didnt rain the night before, so basically the trail was really easy. no muddy or slippery trail.



after another 1.4km, we reached the ranger station. i was damn happy when i saw it from afar, because i was starting to hallucinate 100plus. and i tot, thank god, there'll be a vending machine there.

but pathetically, there was only a water cooler -_-'''

i was bored while waiting for les to fill the water bottle...




see the guy behind me? that's one of the people working at the ranger station.

then from the ranger station, there's this path that leads to the entrance of the treetop walk.




les told me to pose my butterfly tattoo with that butterfly on the ground. but i was too lazy to bend down. and it'll look so small next to it!

we saw this reptile-like thingy in the bushes. looked kinda like komodo dragon. but i'm not very sure. because it was scurrying around. and we were like, tiptoeing around it to not scare it and get the best photo.




den we reach this long flight of stairs...




then we finally reached the treetop walk!




after 4 years since the opening, we finally managed to come for it. haha...
anyway just some info abt the treetop walk:
it's one-way.
it only allows 30ppl on it at one time.
it closes at 5pm.

at the entrance of the treetop walk, we saw this monkey perched on the railings.
but it's really cute, the moment it saw us hesitating at the entrance (or maybe it saw the fear on my face haha), it jumped off the railing to the nearest tree. it's like, giving way to us or something.

so damn adorable lar!








and some photos of the view we got there...




basically you cant see anything but trees trees and more trees haha...
but it's really nice, coz it's supa high and cooling up there.




my colleagues once saw that and seriously told me that it'll give me wrinkles faster. -_-'''




so we can do stoopid things like this...




les said i look like monkey in the bottom right photo, and he cant stop laughing at it. -_-'''
how nice, this boyfren of mine.
haha...

and argh, another flight of stairs.




i actually find going up easier and less tedious than going down.




some random photos on our way out...




and so it's another 4km out to where we started from.






and so we started at 2pm, and finished 7km at 4pm.
that's pretty fast, i'll say!

and wat a nice way to celebrate our anniversary haha...



let's do the 12km onez on our 40th anniversay.
muahahha...

went to his hse to shower coz we were damn greasy and oily and sweaty and smelly. eeeuch.
he then drove us to this indo restaurant in centrepoint to celebrate his mom's bdae.

come to think of it, i've never eaten proper indo food before. it tastes kinda like chinese food actually.

we went to the arcade after that! there's this young punk there whom we've seen in the 3 times we've been there.
he's always dancing DDR and it's always in an outrageous and exaggerated mode. omg, i cant even begin to describe. maybe i'll take a video the next time i'm there. you'll be amazed and amused.






this is long long gone. but like i said, i've been too busy to blog haha.
and sorry for the hiatus, i'll upload these photos on facebook! soon! hee...

anyway went out with cai lin, siyong and the rest of the engin gang to timbre at clarke quay.

it's so much cleaner than the one at substation, and look more high-class somehow. i think it has something to do with the decor, and the fact that it's located at clarke quay.
but still. i like the one at substation more. haha it seemed more youthful to me, and louder and noisier and i like that.




us and tons of beer.




and the gers =)




i love that red top! luckily i bought it, despite lester's naggings that i've been spending too much when i was in the store haha.




and all of us...






did i mentioned that i went drinking with my colleagues last week and the 10 of us spend a total of $700 on drinks?!

ya we did.

i've never spend so much on drinks before but it was soooooooo freaking and crazily fun!
we went to loft and basically went crazy there haha.

i think we were the noisiest lot there and everyone was staring especially when the diversity in the group is so wide. hmmm let's see:


ya it was soooo fun! i was talking to my german fren abt my euro trip (hopefully) next year, and she got me allllll excited abt it. she cant stop raving abt all the places in europe. i wanna go NOW NOW NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw!!!!!

so fun. we're having a poker game next week at one of their places. whee!


anyway, some random lemmings from long ago.

desserts at the neBo cafe at AMK Hub with les:




and this was last friday at pepper lunch.
as u can see, i was bored, which is why i'm taking nonsensical boring photos haha.




pls PLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS dont change your hairstyle when you start work!
he kept telling me he's going to cut his hair supa short and dye it black when he worked.
dont do thatttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love his hair la. it's so boyish-looking haha.

anywya there was one day when i went out with him to causeway point, and then because my wallet had no money at all, i wanted to go citibank to draw money.

and this is what i saw.




sorry, no offence. i know this is going to sound super discriminating.
but HUH?!?!?! citibank and this!?!?

no seriously. don't pretend that thought didnt go through your mind. i know what all of you are thinking.

i'm equally bewildered, and so is les. haha. the first thing i asked him after i saw this is: