AHHHH! I broke my presser foot for the overcasting stitch. Silly am I. So silly. I forgot to change the stitch before I press the pedal. Then the machine went 'beep beep beep' ERROR ERROR ERROR. Ah. Now I have to go to a faraway place to get a replacement. SIAN. Whatever la. I am gonna make my skirt soon. I wanna make my skirt soon. I don't wanna procrastinate anymore. Ahh. Help me do that. I am just so lazy to clear my stuff so I can put my machine on the table. Lazy bum am I. I need to be more hardworkinggg.
Work had been sort of fun. I picked up calls for the first time yesterday. It was interesting. I hope it continues to be interesting for the next 6 months. I want to earn money! I still have not gotten my first pay transferred into my bank, but I am really excited. I hope they do it soon.
I am also loving my PINK contact lens I got from Deal.com.sg last December. I got the Blincon one! PINK in colour! God, I just realised it is a Malaysian brand! It is really comfy to wear. The previous one(I forgot the brand) was sort of uncomfortable. I could not bear to remove my contacts at the end of the day. Haha. This is the first time wearing circle lenses. At first, I thought I looked a little like an alien. I got used to it in a while. Now, I am loving it. Ahhh. I want more! Can someone give me a promotion again? It costed me $15.90 which I thought was really reasonable. I love it. I wanna try green or blue coloured lenses next time. Hai. I wish I have more occasions to wear it though. Wearing it to work seem so...vain. But I like the lenses so much! I think I look funny staring at my eyes in the mirror at home because I love it so much. Haha. *eye fetish alert* What to do?
I finally gave my friends their stuff. I do hope they like it! I am trying to think of better ways to make it and I hope they don't mind the imperfections. I am really lazy to send the picture from my phine to my computer so I shan't post the picture. Haha. Lazy bum. I think I made 4 in total. It was quite tiring. I really wish to have a knitting session at my house one day. Haha. I think that would be real cool! I think I will make a bow out of the same fabric as my skirt for myself. Haha. Maybe a pencil case too. I bought 3 metres of that fabric. That's why.
Okay, that's all for today, I just wanted to update. Ciao!
Rebecca:)
January 29, 2012
January 16, 2012
Experiencing China.
Well...I know I should have done this a while ago, but I wanted my pictures to look nice and that takes time. Well, Shanghai will be on one of my most unforgettable trips overseas. It was the first trip out with my grandparents without my godmother. Since my godmother was usually the one who was in charge of my grandma's toilet duty, without her around, the duty naturally became mine. I am not complaining about the difficulties I faced during the trip. But those difficulties made me stronger and helped me understand that I am indeed quite awesome. Haha. I am not boasting. I think I can survive working in a old folk's home.
Haha. We followed a tour agency and I must say that I was pretty impressed because all the hotels had five stars and they were all clean and big. We arrived at Shanghai, then moved on to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi then back to Shanghai. I have to say that I enjoyed myself because I did not expect to do so. Of course, I also saw some things I will never forget. I will tell you about them later. I did not take many pictures, only about 200+ for the entire trip. This was because the camera was with me and I was too lazy/my hands were too chilled for me to take pictures. Haha. Okay, on with the programme. I will get be touching on each area I went and the most exciting experience I remember I had over at that side.
Once we touched down in Shanghai, we went on our way to Suzhou. We had our lunch there at this interesting restaurant. Here's my favorite dish!
What do you call this? Heh heh. I do not know what is it called. It was made of beancurd and it had a very interesting texture which I really enjoyed. It was served as an appetizer and I feel that that was the most delicious dish of the lot because the rest were to heavily seasoned for my taste. This was also the place when I had to bring my grandma to the squatting toilet. It was not easy, but my cousin and I did it. We bought silk in Suzhou and yup, I will be using a silk pillow with silkworm's poop for the new year. Haha. By the way, did you know that the silkworm's poop is actually Chinese medicine? It has many benefits! I did not know that too. The poop is also made into tea! Haha. Indeed, the poop smells like tea.
The best thing in Suzhou was this corn ice-cream. It was nicer than the thingie above. It was cheap too! 2 yuan. That's about 40 Singapore cents? Yum yum. I love corn.
That's all for Suzhou. Hangzhou was a nice place. I can say it is sort of comparable to Singapore! The streets are clean, the food was not very salty and there are trees almost everywhere. Hangzhou is where they grow Longjing tea, by the way. I love the tea. It is a kind of green tea that sort of smells like seaweed and has a pleasant taste. I love Chinese teaaa! It used to be for emperors only. It is healthy as it sucks up all the oil when you eat food. I know not how or why, but it is like...magic. Haha. It was duper expensive though. about $240 per box of tea. We also bought tea polyphenol, which was supposedly the essence of the tea so it is even better. Haha. I hope it can absorb all my fats from my body!
The view is really nice huh? There is more where that came from in Hangzhou. OMG. I sound like I am promoting the place-.- but it was really nice. Other than the food that is. I am really not good at adapting to their food.
Next we went to Nanjing. The food there was saltyyyy! Apparently, the people there consume a lot of salt.*Hypertension alert* Haha. I no like salt. There was this place where the food was not bad though. The island area. the ginger chicken was very nice! That is considering that I do not like chicken OR ginger. It was really nice. The only picture I have for the place is one of my brother and I. Somehow, all my nice pictures seem to be taken with him. Sian.
Haha One picture of us is what I have for Nanjing. Not much but I think the lighting was nice.
Next up was Wuxi. It was okay...but the shopping was shiok because we had our hotel next to a shopping centre! I like. There is this san guo cheng where they filmed Romace of the Three Kingdoms. It was quite nice, but too commercialized for my liking.
Lastly, we went to Shanghai! Yay. Even though I did not like the food, I thought the roasted chestnuts were amazing. Sweet and warm. Do not get ripped off though.
This was the famous Xiao Long Bao!!!
Looks good? Heh heh. I think lt was okay only. Still prefer Singapore's Xiao Long Bao. The skin is thinner. Ahhh.The egg soup behind is bland and not tasty. I wonder why it was 'wowed' over.
Okay. That's actually all the pictures I edited. Tough job you know? Haha. Anyway, at this point of time I have a mini disclaimer! This post is super biased in terms of the food. I am really quite particular about the kinds of food I like to eat so what may be too salty to me can be just prefect for you. Therefore, please do not use this post as a guide to find out what to eat in Shanghai. Do try the Xiao long bao and if you like it, good for you:) The Xiao long bao is definitely cheaper there.
Shopping! Shopping is also definitely cheaper there! I like to look at the weird stuff. Take a walk along the local markets. What you see there might surprise you as it had me. I saw how they killed poultry! A little painful, but so many people loves eating chicken, someone has to kill them somehow right? The reality of life:/ Toilets takes some getting used to, but I survived without stepping foot into any longkang toilets. Keypoint: NEW shopping centres. Haha.
If you are going to Shanghai anytime soon, I wish you a pleasant experince:) That's all for today, I finally got this up. Ciao!
Rebecca:p
Haha. We followed a tour agency and I must say that I was pretty impressed because all the hotels had five stars and they were all clean and big. We arrived at Shanghai, then moved on to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuxi then back to Shanghai. I have to say that I enjoyed myself because I did not expect to do so. Of course, I also saw some things I will never forget. I will tell you about them later. I did not take many pictures, only about 200+ for the entire trip. This was because the camera was with me and I was too lazy/my hands were too chilled for me to take pictures. Haha. Okay, on with the programme. I will get be touching on each area I went and the most exciting experience I remember I had over at that side.
Once we touched down in Shanghai, we went on our way to Suzhou. We had our lunch there at this interesting restaurant. Here's my favorite dish!
What do you call this? Heh heh. I do not know what is it called. It was made of beancurd and it had a very interesting texture which I really enjoyed. It was served as an appetizer and I feel that that was the most delicious dish of the lot because the rest were to heavily seasoned for my taste. This was also the place when I had to bring my grandma to the squatting toilet. It was not easy, but my cousin and I did it. We bought silk in Suzhou and yup, I will be using a silk pillow with silkworm's poop for the new year. Haha. By the way, did you know that the silkworm's poop is actually Chinese medicine? It has many benefits! I did not know that too. The poop is also made into tea! Haha. Indeed, the poop smells like tea.
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| Corn Ice-cream |
That's all for Suzhou. Hangzhou was a nice place. I can say it is sort of comparable to Singapore! The streets are clean, the food was not very salty and there are trees almost everywhere. Hangzhou is where they grow Longjing tea, by the way. I love the tea. It is a kind of green tea that sort of smells like seaweed and has a pleasant taste. I love Chinese teaaa! It used to be for emperors only. It is healthy as it sucks up all the oil when you eat food. I know not how or why, but it is like...magic. Haha. It was duper expensive though. about $240 per box of tea. We also bought tea polyphenol, which was supposedly the essence of the tea so it is even better. Haha. I hope it can absorb all my fats from my body!
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| very nice but crooked view on the Xihu lake |
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| Garden decorations |
Next we went to Nanjing. The food there was saltyyyy! Apparently, the people there consume a lot of salt.*Hypertension alert* Haha. I no like salt. There was this place where the food was not bad though. The island area. the ginger chicken was very nice! That is considering that I do not like chicken OR ginger. It was really nice. The only picture I have for the place is one of my brother and I. Somehow, all my nice pictures seem to be taken with him. Sian.
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| Gosh, why is my face sooo big. |
Next up was Wuxi. It was okay...but the shopping was shiok because we had our hotel next to a shopping centre! I like. There is this san guo cheng where they filmed Romace of the Three Kingdoms. It was quite nice, but too commercialized for my liking.
Lastly, we went to Shanghai! Yay. Even though I did not like the food, I thought the roasted chestnuts were amazing. Sweet and warm. Do not get ripped off though.
This was the famous Xiao Long Bao!!!
Okay. That's actually all the pictures I edited. Tough job you know? Haha. Anyway, at this point of time I have a mini disclaimer! This post is super biased in terms of the food. I am really quite particular about the kinds of food I like to eat so what may be too salty to me can be just prefect for you. Therefore, please do not use this post as a guide to find out what to eat in Shanghai. Do try the Xiao long bao and if you like it, good for you:) The Xiao long bao is definitely cheaper there.
Shopping! Shopping is also definitely cheaper there! I like to look at the weird stuff. Take a walk along the local markets. What you see there might surprise you as it had me. I saw how they killed poultry! A little painful, but so many people loves eating chicken, someone has to kill them somehow right? The reality of life:/ Toilets takes some getting used to, but I survived without stepping foot into any longkang toilets. Keypoint: NEW shopping centres. Haha.
If you are going to Shanghai anytime soon, I wish you a pleasant experince:) That's all for today, I finally got this up. Ciao!
Rebecca:p
January 06, 2012
Clothes for my baby doll.
Well...I finally started using my sewing machine! Whoa! I am so happy and proud of myself too. Today, I made 2 great achievements! First, I made my first ever knitted bow. Then, I made my first lining and HANDSEWED it onto my crocheted pencil case which was made eons ago. Wanna know how long is that? Look at this!
Hehe. The band is very small because I thought it would be better:/ I just need to wrap the band once around my hair to tie it not too tightly. I hope she will like it:)
I finished it when I was still using littlecrochetsecrets which was last last year! Haha. It still looks like this. Just with black lining and black zipper because my brother is a guy. I initially wanted to get this for his birthday. I mean make. But I did not know how to use my mom's sewing machine, so I delayed the lining making because I hate to hand sew. Haha. I finally finished it. I hand-sewed the lining a little crooked due to my inexperience, but I am still proud of it overall because... it looks like it was bought! Haha. So happy. This is item number one.
I also finished making my first ever knitted bow which I am gonna give to Syahirah. I sort of held an auction on Twitter to see who wanted it. She said yes first! Haha. So she got it! this goes!
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| Nice or not? :P |
I also made a dress and beret for my baby doll earlier this week. Heh heh. I did not know my doll's head is so big, it made the beret look like a showercap! Haha. This week was full of many firsts! This is the picture. Is is not perfect because this was my first try, but I plan to make a life sized one soon! A DRESS. Using sewing patterns la. Haha. If you are wondering what was the la for, it is a sort of like the Singaporean slang. Without further ado, presenting...BABY DOLL!
Haha. I just realised her clothes matches her blue eyes! Not bad(Y) Looks like I have talent!
I am going to reconstruct my old sleeve now to made something....Another doll's clothes? Hmm. I am excited.
That's all for today! Ciao!
Rebecca:);)B)
January 03, 2012
NO LONGER UNEMPLOYED!!!
Well...WOOHOO!!! I am officially no longer unemployed! Well...not officially official till tomorrow when I sign the contract but oh well. I am excited and scared! Ahhh. I have no words to describe my feelings now. It feels a little like when Freya and Rachel sang me the birthday song. Speechless, excited and amazed. I am not foreverunwanted after all! Sigh. After all this while. Today was a very exciting day, I guess. At first, I planned to go out with my godmother to bring my grandparents to the hair salon, car repair shop and electronics store. Then, at 10 plus am , I got a phone call for an interview for later in the day. So I went for lunch with my godmother and forgo-ed the rest. I felt bad that I did not help her so I said that I would treat her to lunch if I get this job. After the interview, I got two more calls from another two companies. I scheduled interview appointments because I was afraid I would not get this job.
Half hour ago, I got the phone call from the interviewer today. I GOT THE JOB. Haha. Dilemma!!! What to do? How about the two other job interviews I scheduled tomorrow? So scary. What if they had a bad impression of me? Which company to choose? What to do? What to do? WHAT TO DO? Then after much consideration, I decided to just go for the one that I went for interview for today. I hate making decisions. But I hope I would not regret this. I am gonna sign the contract tomorrow. I am excited and afraid. What lies ahead of me, I don't know. But what I know is....I am not gonna be broke anymore. YAY!
So, I am not going to have so much time on my hands anymore. I just hope that I do my best and leave a good impression on the employer. Wish me all the best! I am not going to have time to blog so much anymore. Sigh. Not like I blog mega lots anyway. Haha. Oh well.
Half hour ago, I got the phone call from the interviewer today. I GOT THE JOB. Haha. Dilemma!!! What to do? How about the two other job interviews I scheduled tomorrow? So scary. What if they had a bad impression of me? Which company to choose? What to do? What to do? WHAT TO DO? Then after much consideration, I decided to just go for the one that I went for interview for today. I hate making decisions. But I hope I would not regret this. I am gonna sign the contract tomorrow. I am excited and afraid. What lies ahead of me, I don't know. But what I know is....I am not gonna be broke anymore. YAY!
So, I am not going to have so much time on my hands anymore. I just hope that I do my best and leave a good impression on the employer. Wish me all the best! I am not going to have time to blog so much anymore. Sigh. Not like I blog mega lots anyway. Haha. Oh well.
"Life's like that, ain't it. You gonna give and take or you get nothing at all. " -Rebecca<3
Haha. Jingli said that everything I said this year seem to be wise words on the first day of January. Haha.
Okay. I was going to edit all my photos from Shanghai and tell you all about my first experience in mainland China. So stay tuned if you are interested!
That's all for today! Ciao!
Rebecca <3
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