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A brand new year with lots of new memories

Dayna — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:28:49 +0000

It’s the start of the new year right after Christmas. A very happy new year to you and I wish this year will be filled with lots of new and happy memories for you no matter which part of the world you are in! I had a blast during the small Christmas gathering at home and the countdown towards the new year is not an exception either. We held a not-so-small family and friends gathering at home. I love holding such parties in the comfort of my own house. It’s much more comfortable and I like how the entire house is filled with noise and laughter.

On a side note, I realised I fulfilled a few of my new year resolutions for 2009. Reading back the post I wrote at the end of 2008, I managed to get at least 50 marks for each of my UOL papers in the 2009 examinations and I got myself a new wallet as well. 2 out of 4 accomplished in the last year! I hope I managed to get those for 2010 done as well.

Presents for myself - Slingbag and wallet

Here’s the delicious looking dinner we had:

Sausages and bacon

A sumptuous dinner

Instant pizza!

Black forest cake

Benjamin is definitely enjoying the food

Sharon and her signature scarf

Merry Messy Christmas

Dayna — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:33:54 +0000

Merry Christmas to everyone! Did you take part in any countdown events last night?

On a side note, I actually drew the above illustration for my own Christmas cards but couldn’t find a inexpensive place to print it. There’s usually a minimum quantity of 100 to 200 and I don’t need that much. I only got to know of a shop at Bras Plaza that does printing for $1 per card with minimum spending of $30 from Ivy when we meet up for lunch last week. Hence, I will just leave the handmade cards for this year since it’s a bit too late to do that now.

I spent Christmas eve at home with my friends and family. We didn’t want to hang out at the parties due to the crowd. So Dad cooked steak and we had Christmas dinner at home. Michelle joined us for dinner and mahjong session as well. No turkeys on the table though.

We had a small gift exchange session and here’s Francis, Michelle and my sister with their presents. The panda Michelle’s hugging is from Chewy. He bought it in Hong Kong and she’s utterly soft and adorable. Definitely the cutest panda on earth.

My sister showing off her new iphone. She’s been waving it in front of me these past few days! I’m super envy because I’m dying to get my hands on an iphone. I’ll wait and get it next year.

It’s our custom to get a Christmas cake every year. Ta-da! This is our ~~log~~ mango mousse cake from The Icing Room. We couldn’t find a small log cake for 6 so we decided to get this instead. I was surprised when the cashier asked me if I want any candles. Does anyone put candles on Christmas cakes?

Joke of the day:
Mum: Is there cheese in the cake?
Dad: Yes, there is cheese in basement 1 of the cake.
Me: LOL! Our cake has basement 1, 3, 5 – mango mousse and basement 2, 4, 6 – chocolate sponge.

The cake is delicious though. Everyone gave the thumbs up for it.

I received this card from Huaian today. I was really touched. It has a photo of us taken 6 years back and he still has it sent all way from Australia. I love it Huaian! Thanks so much for the awesome card. I hope to see you back in Singapore in Feburary.

This is from my sister and her boyfriend, Francis. My sister gave me a beautiful necklace from Gold Heart which matches all the tank tops in my wardrobe.

That’s it for today. Hope you have fun on Christmas eve as well and have a great Christmas!

Make a wish

Dayna — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:56:04 +0000

Yesterday was our scholar’s¹ 21st birthday! Happy birthday my friend. As your official photographer of the day, here’s a photo collage for you. I would have given you a tiara as a special gift to wear on your birthday had I found one. I should have borrowed Terry’s². That would be so exciting.

Happy Birthday, my friend

Jen Yi’s our top student so I named him “the scholar”.
Terry had a tiara on his 21st birthday as well.

Ikea madness

Dayna — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:18:50 +0000

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I tweet about going Queensway Ikea with Chewy this afternoon. We kind of got lost while getting home from Marina (we went there after leaving Ikea). Before I let the photos do the talking, this is the cake I baked with Mum 2 days ago. It looks too red in the photo, it’s actually more towards a golden yellow.

Another one of my cakes

Chewy munching on my cake

Our kids - Small B (Pooh Bear) and Small T (Tigger)

We made mango pudding (with real mango) the other day as well. Got a few for Chewy as desserts. I dropped some on his pants while he was driving in the afternoon. I swear I didn’t do it on purpose.

My homemade mango pudding

Mr Chewy behind the wheels

Clear road in the afternoon

The baked rice from NYDC is delicious and heavenly as compared to the one I post about last week.

Our dinner at NYDC - Mushroom and ham baked rice

I took a few snapshots while on the car. Notice the number of cars on the road as compared to the previous photo which was taken in the afternoon. Driving is made difficult with the large number of cars. Luckily for me, I’m not the driver. I love being the passenger despite having a driving license. We unintentionally drove to China Town and then to Orchard before “finding” the correct expressway to go home. It took us nearly an hour (usually it’s 20 minutes by cab) to reach home safely. But it’s Chewy first time driving out of his comfort zone so I don’t blame him. His intuitive on the road is quite accurate actually just that he lacks the confidence.

China Town

Funan Mall - Look at all those cars

Here are all my loots for today. My new lamp is simply adorable. I felt in love with it when I saw it. I called it – The Robot. Doesn’t it looks like one? The metallic bendable stand looks like the body of a robot and the small bulb looks like its head? It also focuses the light on a certain area of the desk only. It’s one of the few lights in Ikea which uses white light. I’m not too fond of using those energy saving bulbs because the light looks orange. It makes me sleepy when I’m studying under orange lights. The Me-to-You grey bear at the side of the lamp is actually hugging the lamp switch. I didn’t want the switch to look too obvious.

My new lamp - The Robot

I really like how it focuses the light. It looks like a round circle of light on my desk.

I love how the light focuses on just a small area

I got a new DIY armchair as well. It’s actually not that hard to fix. For the price, I’m not complaining. The old one was made of plastic without any cushions and it hurts my bum after sitting on it for long hours. This one is much more comfortable with an armrest. It’s a gift from Dad. I love it! I have actually gotten some other stuff as well. A mirror with wooden frame, lilac mug and trashbin but didn’t took photos of it though. I think I’ll take a photo of the mug for the next post. It looks really pretty.

Black armchair

I finished reading Marked (from my previous post) within a day so I got the other 2 books of the series. They look juicy, I hope I’ll be able to finish them fast!

Book 2 and 3 of House of Night Series

I would also like to thank those who have voted for me. I’m not actually betting on winning those contests as I knew that contests based on popularity votes are usually losing games for me. But anyway, I still wish to try my best and know the feeling of winning at least once. I’ll just admit that I’ve never won contests which are based on public votes because it’s mostly popularity and the winner are usually the more popular ones. I wouldn’t say I’m popular on the Internet but I do have at least some good online friends who are helpful, supportive and know-that-Dayna-exists. No particular reason why I wanted to say this, but still thank you readers, visitors and friends (both online and offline) who have spend your precious time to read my entries, help, inspire, support and encourage 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.

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.

Happy New Year 2009

Dayna — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:39:01 +0000

Dayna wishes everyone a very Happy New Year, may everyday in 2009 be filled with happiness, laughter, fun, love and everything wonderful. Here’s a summary of our countdown celebration. We had MacDonald breakfast at Jurong Point, followed by the movie Ip Man. The movie was better than what I had expected. The action scenes were good, plot was not too bad, ending was okay. We then went food shopping at NTUC and Sheng Shiong Supermaket for our steam boat. Michelle and I had also gotten a black forest cake from “The Icing Room” at SGD 28. We saw a kid doodling on their custom cake. It’s funny to look at, I wonder how they will feel when eating the cake, laugh or … …?

Our food for steamboat

Steamboat Soup - Are you hungry?

Our cooks of the day - Zi Loong & Te Wei

BBQ-ing

The cake has 21 candles because all of us are turning 21 in year 2009. We thought it would be fun to make wishes and blow out the candles so we did it. I love blowing out candles and making lot of wishes! I hope they come true.

Our delicious New Year black forest cake

The 4 of us cutting our lovely cake after making our wishes

Fireworks at Boon Lay Countdown Part 2009

More fireworks at the party

This is my favourite photo of the fireworks

Me playing with sparkers like a kid (I am a 20 year old kid)

This is dear (he is a kid too)

How did you spend your new year? I watched Taiwan Countdown party too, this year there aren’t many nice singers but their fireworks display was stunning as usual.

Green tea cake and my new year resolution

Dayna — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:26:57 +0000

Missy baked a cake with mum today. Presenting Green Tea with Cinnamon Cake …

Green tea with cinnamon cake

It was actually quite easy to bake because it’s those premix flour. So we just have to add in the eggs, milk (we used low fat milk), butter, mix it well and bake for 45 minutes. Thereafter, sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon on the top of the cake while it is still hot and then let it cool. This is for the cinnamon and sugar to melt on the cake. It taste pretty good. There isn’t much of a green tea taste though, and I think adding more milk makes the cake softer. It taste better that way.

On a side note, I was reading a few other online blogs just now and saw many people penning down their new year resolution. I shall write mine today.

Dayna’s New Year Resolution

Study hard (work hard, play hard ) and get at least 50 marks in all my UOL papers
Save more money; less shopping
Learn to spend my time more wisely
Get a new wallet (can this be included in my resolution as well? )

And I shall end this post with a photo of my newly painted nails in Barbie Pink. I got this at The Face Shop yesterday for SGD 2.90. I confess that I do not have good skills in nails painting, the nails on my left hand are always nicer than those on the right because I’m a right hander. :nono:

Barbie Pink Nails