champouf posted ScrapBook! on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 " Just because I'm losing doesn't mean I'm lost ... " Before I go onto my post of the day ... I've been thinking about some of the stuff in my family and I'm really happy that my family is rich. Not Bill Gates rich, not filthy rich, but rich enough to buy high-end material goods that make us happy. Hahaha :) Even though I don't live in a private estate (even though my dad almost bought a private estate, but due to its really horrible location which takes about half an hour to walk to a bus-stop and due to a power plant nearby, he didn't buy that house in the end, and my mother convinced him that our current executive flat is good enough), I think my family is really well to do! Whatever me and my brothers ask for, it has all been given to us. My elder brother got his Mac for $5000 because he was one of the first few to ever own a Mac in Singapore and the feeling was awesome (according to him) and my dad paid for him full! My dad owns a few professional cameras which he stores in a special box that makes sure that their lens do not spoil easily. Of course he doesn't use them as often now because he hardly needs it at all. Those cameras are not cheap by the way... They are freaking ex. One of those can costs about $1.5k and he owns about 4 of them. And whatever I want, I've got it. All my handphones are not cheap and I only use them for about one year before wanting a new one. My first official handphone costs about $500 and that time I was only Primary 6. Then my second and third ones are all around the range of $600-$700, until I've got my HTC Hero. Let me clear the air about something... The moment Hero came to Singapore, I've already got it. Which means I'm the first few who bought the Hero and its price at that time was $800. Now you see what I mean when I say that my handphones are expensive. And my dad actually wanted to buy for me an Iphone 3GS at that time for about $1k+ but I didn't want it because I thought Iphone was super over-rated. Well I guess I could go on forever about these sort of things, but another thing I need to clear is that both my parents are working to raise a family of 10 people ... and if they can still afford to pay off their 3 kids and their excessive wants, I think I've made my point very clear :P Another thing ... I've a maid coming in next month to take care of my grandparents ... so yea, just making another point. So please, to some people who think that waving their expensive goods at my face and dissing my family off as poor, please think about these things before embarrassing your mediocre-self. You come from a family of three, your parents and your lonesome-self ... one working parents is more than enough to support you and your fat greedy ass .. and yet my brothers and I can still get those things we want/need (which are not cheap btw) when my parents are supporting a family 3.67x more than yours. So why don't you do the math and shut that gap. And besides, riding on your parents' riches is disgusting. I used to do that and I found myself really stupid. Besides, when you grow up, do you still want to continue using your parents money? If so, I really pity you and your morals (if you have any in the first place) ... That's why I hope that I can get a good job in the future so that I can support my parents in a private estate ... (Actually when I told my mother that, she told me its alright because she and dad are going to migrate to another country and live there ...) But anyways, if they are still in Singapore, I know that at least I can bring them around in an expensive car and bring them to shop at those high-end shopping malls, and dine at fancy restaurants. I also admire my elder brother's girlfriend - Genevieve. Even though she comes from a really rich family, she still works to earn money for herself. That's what I call independent and full of aspiration. So to that person who keeps posting posts about her expensive goods, stop it with your nonsense. Seriously, because you are just embarrassing yourself. And I bet my family is way richer than yours ... (not to boast but to state a true fact). Too bad, how sad, oh boohoo. Get over it. ANYWAYS, On to my main post ... Hahaha :) Today I spent quite a lot at UrbanWrite getting all the Scrapbook materials I needed because I was going to make a Scrapbook of 宝贝and I; our past memories of how we met, our first Cheerleading Stunt today which was Single Liberty, our first month anniversary etc .. :) Heehee. All in all, it cost quite alright :) And it's all worth it for such a beautiful thing. Unfortunately, I didn't get more coloured paper because the queue at Popular was just crazy. Oh by that time, I met up with 宝贝who knocked off early because of him working late last night. Yays! He seemed quite tired so I thought lining up at that crucial point might be suicide for him. So we decided to head home. However, upon passing through KFC, 宝贝started to get hungry so we went in and had our dinner there. We spent some time talking in KFC before leaving for home! At home, we started on our Scrapbook! :) Yayness. Heehee. It was meant to be a surprise for 宝贝but my timings are always REALLY BAD, and he always catch on quick ... so boohoo! Here are some pictures to show :) I can't wait to finish the first part of the Scrapbook! Heehee :) Gosh I love him so much. Loving Cheerleading and my Baby With No Boundaries{♥}. champouf posted Love Waits :) on " Love waits patiently ... " Ohgosh. Yesterday night was the longest and most painful night I've ever encountered. Like seriously. 宝贝had to work night shift because he had to finish registering all those foreign students for them to take this really important examination. And sometimes the registration would get all filled and they have to wait next month. So its something like first come first serve, so 宝贝had to like fill those things up at around 12am in the morning. Unfortunately, the MOE sort of tricked them and told them that the registration would only begin at 8am, so he had to stay over at the office for the night :( Poor me, all alone at home with nobody to talk to :( I couldn't sleep at all. I watched Cheaters (this reality show that undergoes private investigation to expose those cheating spouses/lovers) until 3am but I still couldn't sleep. So I went to the failblog and just kept looking at stupid ultimate fail pictures that made me laughed like mad. It was already 4am+ going onto 5am, and I still wasn't tired! So I texted 宝贝about how much I missed him and he called me because he woke up due to my smses. It was so sweet :) After hearing his voice, I felt much at ease but still couldn't sleep. So in the end, I meddled with my phone until I felt a slight tinge of sleepiness before I quickly closed my eyes and finally off I went to Lalaland :) Then I woke up around 1pm+ and found my room in a complete mess, so I thought since 宝贝is coming home after a night of grueling pain (he couldn't sleep well in the office because he said the couch was too small ..), I've decided to go take a longggggg bath, and off to cleaning my room! :) I can't say that it is completely clean, but at least it's more pleasant looking than the previous time! Heehee. Now all I've to do is wait for 宝贝to come home. He smsed me saying that he might be able to come home early today! I hope so! :) Because man I miss him like soooooo much!!! :( Heehee. Loving Cheerleading and Baby With No Boundaries {♥} PS: I've decided to get an Iphone4 because I guess since my whole family are Apple Addicts, may as well follow them! If you can't beat them, may as well join them! :) Ohyea~! champouf posted Love On A Roll. on Tuesday, December 28, 2010 " Love like a rainbow - full of colours, bursting with diversities. " Falling in Love was never easy on the heart, mind and soul. Sure enough. The first few times would be all so heart-fluttering and mind-boggling. Oh how you longed for that cute/handsome guy you have been eying on for ever so long. You try to make yourself seem visible in his eyes - striking up conversations or just being plain random. Congratulations! The guy took notice of you! What next? You start to want to get closer to him - introductions, comments on the weather and suddenly bam! Can I have your handphone number? He gives it to you and you feel like your world is spinning so fast, you have no idea how to go along with it. Then you start simple by texting him about the most random things you can think of that happened in school - like you got called out by your teacher and he just embarrassed you in class. Or perhaps the Lunch Lady gave you extra servings today; oh what joy! Slowly, and gradually, texting became a habit and you guys started texting each other 24/7. That is when you guys start sharing secrets with one another - first crushes, most hatred rival etc. Sooner or later, you find yourself having a close bond to him. No longer just a simple puppy love towards him, you feel something more intense like how you always seem to anticipate his text or just to see him in face. That's where either one of them makes the kill and ask the other party "Will you be my girl/boyfriend?" The other party agrees! And you are done with the first level of having a relationship! The second level - starts off rather romantic. You guys go on special dates with each other, taking lots of pictures and special memories. You guys hold hands and hug, of course proceeding with kisses and making out. Dates become a more frequent thing and you feel like you can not let go of the other party. Sooner or later, it has become a habit to go out with him every now or then or else you feel like he doesn't like you anymore. The second level consists of more of the two parties getting to know more about each other - family, close friends, hobbies, passions in life etc. And naturally, whenever you disclose something private about your life, insecurities starts to manifest inside of you. What if he doesn't like my family? What if he thinks that my friends are lame? And the list goes on. Or whenever you go out on a date, you are scared that you might not dress well enough to impress him and his group of friends. You worry about all the slightest details ever. Until he assures you that he loves you for who you are, and not someone that you have to pretend to be. If you have passed this stage, congratulations! Your relationship has leveled to the next stage! The third level; more intimacy and passion. From here onwards, you feel that making out is definitely a must. A kiss and a hug would not suffice anymore and you start to feel hot for the other party. Trust me, this is really inevitable for any relationship and it is up to them to decide which is the boundary line for them, as losing one's virginity is as easy as breathing. Normally around this stage, either party would be under peer pressure to do whats more popular among teens rather than set their own "no-nos". And once they have had sex with one another, they will most probably be hooked onto it and find it hard to stop! I've had friends who were like that and it takes a lot of courage to forgo such a dangerous habit. Not to mention the lost of their dignity if they succumb to such temptations. Therefore, it is a really dangerous stage for most teens if they do not how to say a firm 'NO', and to those who managed to keep their virginity and their girl/boyfriends, it means that your boy/girlfriend really do love you and is willing to wait till marriage for that sacred copulation! :) With that, the fourth level is on its way. This is the level of understanding each other and loving each other for not being perfect. For some couples, this might happen before the 3rd level, but I'm speaking from a wider perspective. This is when you will start seeing all his/her bad habits and flaws in their personalities etc. Like you will start getting irritated at how she is always late, or how he is always farting/burping in public. And you find that arguing with each other is becoming more inevitable these few days - and these fights are really intense till the point that no one is stepping out to admit his/her wrong. In such times, this calls for the more matured side to step up and break that cold silence, because if not, both parties may as well be heading towards another Cold War. (Thank goodness I have my baby for being so matured and understanding as he is always the one who steps up and tries to clear the situation.) Just settle down and let your anger simmer down before facing each other and explaining your side of the story. With a clear mind, and unbiased judgment, the argument will be cleared quicker! :D In my opinion, the fifth stage is the hardest to achieve; which calls for total understanding of one another’s lifestyles, habits and character that you strive to accept his/her flaws and proceed to change one’s own flaws. Or perhaps when the other party did something wrong, instead of breaking out in a fight, they would sit down together and share with each other what they did not like of each other, and that they would do their utmost best to change. So far, the only married couple whom I know that has reached beyond this fifth stage would be my grandparents. They hardly fight with each other, (actually I’ve never seen them fight before and they have lived with me for like 12years.) and they understand each other completely that they are able to read each other’s minds! And despite them being so old, they still go out on dates with each other, watching their favourite shows together, and they would hold hands while walking. My grandmother knows that my grandfather is rather weak in the body, so she takes care of him 24/7 till the extent that she helps prepare the food that he has to eat. Even his medication and visitations to the hospital are all taken care of by my grandmother. And she has never once complained or scolded my grandfather. That is true love indeed. My grandfather loves my grandmother a lot and I think the way they met each other is very fairy-tale like. My grandfather was a dancer and my grandmother was a student there. They met each other through dancing and they fell in love. However, my grandmother’s sisters always teased and bullied her and even called her ugly because she didn’t like putting on makeup. When they got married, it seemed pretty bad because my grandfather had not become a Christian yet and he would get drunk and sometimes things got rather ugly. But my grandmother still loved him. And now the both of them are devote Christians and they still love each other ever so much. They are really true role models for each and every one of us! :D And I love them with all my heart too. So to my dearest Baby, I’m so sorry for always arguing with you these few days and I know that I’m not perfect and I always seem to give you a lot of headaches. I hope you can forgive me and I promise I will change my bad habits. I love you! Loving Cheerleading and Baby With No Boundaries {♥} champouf posted 25th-A Special Day. on Monday, December 27, 2010 " You. " Christmas Day. It was a super special day today and I woke up to the sound of 宝贝fussing about something beside me. And he gave me two beautiful boxes of presents. I opened it and saw one was a gold-plated mirror with a rose craved on one of the side. It was the most elegant mirror I've ever seen. And the other gift was this beautiful watch with a posh red leather strap and with Swarovski Crystals embedded around the face and a bundle of them on the leather strap. It was a really extravagant present! And he told me that no matter how much I hit the glass face, there will not be a single scratch on the watch because the material to make it is really damn good. And I know that all these cost a million bombs! And I'm 100% sure that I am going to treasure it like for as long as I live!!! I shall take picture of it one day and post it up here :) Heehee. They are like superrrrrrrr awesome :) So anyways, we started off the day rather lazily, like lazing around the house, playing our own laptops and stuff. For me, I just installed Shadow Flare like a few days ago so I'm like rocking hard on it! Hahaha and 宝贝was playing his old Monopoly + The Three Kingdoms game. Hahaha both of us are like reliving our childhood. Right, so my mother told me to go and change because she wanted to go collect the turkey, ham and sushi. As for me, I had to go and get the Logcake as well, so 宝贝and I changed out of our PJs and went with my mother. My father fetched us to Tampines Mall and first we got our Logcake from Polar. It was a large Blackforest Logcake! Super delicious too! Heehee. Right, so we went to Cold Storage at Tampines1 and helped my mother with her stuff. At the same time, my dad went to Giant to get the drinks and ice. So we waited quite long for him to fetch us at Tampines1 taxi stand :) Back at home, Zongda called me and told me that he would be going straight to my house after attending the Christmas service with Yongli. So 宝贝and I went to bathe! When I finished bathing, Zongda and Yongli are already at my house and they were like facebooking.. Omg. So right, I decided to bring them out to the hall and told them to like play xbox360! The first game they played was like Halo 3. Omg. Hahahaha and 宝贝and I went to help my mother out in the kitchen. And then we realised we needed ice. So we went down to two 7/11s just to find ice! LOL. And I'm glad that Zongda and Yongli are still entertained by Halo3. Hahaha. Warning, what you're about to see next is probably a bombardment of pictures!! :D This is the Shepard's Pie which is one of my mother's specialty! Her very own home-made turkey sauce! And here is the turkey all stuffed with fillings! Our drinks for the day! Orange punch + barcadi limon + sprite! See them playing Halo3?? LOL 宝贝stacked up all the cups which I painstakingly wrote everybody's names on it. Yongli&Zongda. Our Christmas Logcake! :) Super nice and chosen by me :D Our half eaten turkey :D Ham Omg my favourite dish of the day was the Nachos with Cheese dippings! drools* Elisha and my elder brother Joshua playing WOW. My cousins!! + grandparents :) My family!! My dad wasn't here because he had to leave for night shift. Genevieve and Joshua :) Super cute couple! Me & 宝贝... hahaha :P Wheeeeeeeeeeeees! I'm finally taller than Glorianne!!! OMG. Haha. My mother and I. The super extraordinary woman who made the whole event a success! My cuzzy and her family's train! Hahaha best friends forever~! Glorianne with her epic face! HAHAHA. More pictures are on facebook in the Christmas Album!! :D It was a wonderful day indeed! :) Genevieve's younger sister came to! She was a really shy girl but pretty too! Can see that their family has really good genes! Haha :) Ohright, Abel and his friends came along too but they left early that's why I didn't manage to take pictures of them :( And they didn't get to enjoy the Logcake as well ... But yea. Zongda and Yongli left about 11plus because they had to rush for the last train, THANKS GUYS FOR COMING! And zongda gave 宝贝and I super cute couple presents! He gave us couple cups! Haha mine is pink and 宝贝's one is yellow. Then my cousins stayed until super late and I had fun talking to Katrianne and her boyfriend. The both of them have been together for 1year+! That's amazing! :D Hahaha makes me motivated to keep striving harder for my relationship :) Heehee. All in all, the Christmas Party was a blast! Huge thanks to my mother and grandmother for the cooking and preparation of the food! Thanks to my elder brother for organizing the people and decorating the house&tree! Big thanks to dad for he is the main sponsor of the whole party! And of course, thanks to 宝贝for helping in the back stage. Major huge thanks to those who came for the party and fellowshipping! It was a beautiful night indeed :D Heehee. And that's all we did for our traditional Christmas Party :) I got to celebrate Christmas with my family, my most awesome cousins, my super best friends and my darling baby .. what more can I ask for? It was a miraculous night for me. Loving Cheerleading and Baby With No Boundaries {♥} champouf posted Cookies! on Friday, December 24, 2010 " ♥ " The start of today commences with my mother kicking me out of bed. Yes she did kicked me alright! Hahaha. With a hurried tone, she said that her butter was melting by the minute! And by the term butter - it means that it's high time we start baking the cookies! I got out of bed and quickly did the morning neccessities, grabbed a few slices of Banana Bread and headed my way to the kitchen. Ohyes. I could see my mother had already gotten everything ready; the ingredients, the utensils, everything! Gushing the Banana Bread down with a cup of coffee, I got ready to bake cookies with her. After approximately about 45mins, the dough was ready to be knead into cookies shape! And she taught me how to do it. Since we are making small cookies, we used teaspoons to help us with the dough. And into the oven it went! :) Omgosh. They are all so mouth-watering!! :) I soooo can't wait to eat them!!! Hahaha. I've always been a fan of my mother's baking since young. She can bake and cook practically almost anything in the world!! Well, that's because my mother is a peranankan, and being from a traditional peranankan, she has to cook, sew, bake and do everything perfectly! That's why she is like talented in so many areas! She loves to bake the most! Because baking gives her the most satisfaction in life :) Heehee. She is never afraid to try out new stuff and just now even when we were baking the cookies, she goes by her own estimation and experience and doesn't follow the recipe. Goes to say that she is really professional in this area :D And as we were kneading the dough just now, she told me that she really hopes to open her own cafe, but she says that opening it in Singapore might be slightly challenging due to the complicated laws and paperwork. She says opening restaurants in China is easier because the land there is cheaper than Singapore and their labour there is cheap too! Hahaha. But opening a cafe there is quite ... troublesome, considering that she has to stay there and stuff like that. So I hope that I can at least support my mother in this area - maybe when I grow up and get a steady job, my first task will be earning enough money for my mother to open her very own cafe/restaurant in Singapore :) Go mummy! And I trust her cooking/baking skills! I know my grandmother will help her as well! :D So anyways, after the baking, my elder brother is preparing decorations around the house ... the lights, the speakers etc ... haha. Genevieve is helping out as well, but I'm here blogging .. LOL I feel so bad :P HEEHEE. Anyways that's all for today! :) Loving Cheerleading and Cc with no boundaries{♥} champouf posted What I dread. on Thursday, December 23, 2010 " Like thousands of stars lighting up the beautiful sky . "
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Nyahaha. champouf posted 22nd!! on "I'm in love with you . " Alright, a quick update on what happened yesterday :) 宝贝and I went to Tampines Mall to meet up with Kenrick to pass him the good! Heehee. Kenrick reached earlier than us thanks to 宝贝who kept playing this really retarded game - monopoly + The Three Kingdoms. Haha. So right, we reached about 5mins after Kenrick and we passed him the good! Heehee I hope he likes it! :) Then we went to grab lunch together. I ate my 酿豆腐again! It has been a while since I last ate it. Awwwww ... it was satisfying :D So anyways, afterwards, Kenrick went off to meet others for the Zpl Chalet which 宝贝and I did not attend due to various reasons. 宝贝and I headed off to Urban Write to get my pen refill and then he went to buy his shaver from Guardian and we walked to Starbucks to find a place for me to study. Unfortunately, Starbucks was almost filled to the brim, so we went to Coffee Bean instead and Coffee Bean was practically almost deserted. I guess business isn't going well when you have a tough competitor within the zone ... :( But I like coffee bean even more! 宝贝bought a large Ultimate which was quite a treat! And they had coffee beans for us to chew too! I did my Maths over there until my mother finally came! Thank goodness I was fast enough to finish one chapter and we were off. It was my mother's last Christmas shopping I guess since she already bought for most of the people. So right, this time she was going to buy a present for Genevive, my elder brother's girlfriend :) We walked all over the place and couldn't make up our mind what to get her and in the end I came up with the finest idea. And that shop which I suggested is my favourite shop! Hahaha have fun guessing! And so, my mother bought a present for her and then we went off to buy ahems* bra for me, since I needed more! Hahahaha. We went to Zeal which was at Tampines1 and I chose a few new selections.. The shopkeeper had a freaking awesome memory .. The last time I went there, it was like the end of last year, but then she still remembered me and my last purchase! I WAS UTTERLY SHOCKED. So right, she suggested a few new pieces for me and I took it! :) Heehee new cutting, new designs ... so why not? :D I bought 2, and 宝贝was totally shocked at the price. Just two bras, and the price was about $200. But my mother had a $50 voucher! So she paid ... yea $50 less. Hahaha :P We went to the basement and filled up some lucky draw shit before we went off to find something to eat for dinner! My mother and I wanted to eat at Manpuku, but 宝贝didn't like Japanese food because he said that it never made him full so we continued walking around Tampines1 and decided to dock at F.I.S.H which was a branch out of Fish&Co :) But this restaurant was more high-class than Fish&Co! Heehee. 宝贝suggested buying one seafood platter which we share together while my mother and I order a main course together. And one main course entitles us to a free flow of salad. And their salad is SUPERB! Really tantilizing on the tastebuds. They had a lot of varieties of pasta and vegetables and they even had nachos! Hahaha. The introduction service was really good. The waiter brought us through the entire menu in a really short time and he was really affable. Then later on, the down side came. Waiting for the food took a rather long time and we spent most of the time reading magazines and eating the salad. Haha. Of course when the food came, we were practically too hungry to read further, so we just started eating! And guess what?! Hahaha my mother and I finished one main course, we were too full to eat the seafood platter and after 宝贝ate a bit from the seafood platter, he too was too full to continue! Haha. This shows that their servings are HUGE - which is a good thing! Hahahaha. Never underestimate serving sizes! :S We packed the remainder home because it would be too much of a waste to just leave it there because we didn't even finish half of the seafood platter. Seriously. Ohright, we took some pictures as well! Hahaha. Beautiful shots of the food and one unglam shot of me taken by 宝贝... Hahaha :P This time, it was 宝贝's turn to treat us! :) Heehee. First dinner with mummy and 宝贝at Sakae Sushi, I paid the bill. The second time at PastaMania, my mother footed the bill, now it was 宝贝's turn! Hahahaha I think it's quite fun to have dinner with your mother and your boyfriend! It shows how much my mother actually likes my boyfriend! Which I'm super happy about it! Heehee. She told me once before that she feels that 宝贝was a super good guy, and I was really elated when I heard that. I think he will be happy too when he hears that ... Haha :D SO right, after dinner, we went to FairPrice at the basement of Tampines Mall. We bought my favourite cereal - Special K! And mother bought some of her groceries! Of course I sneaked one of my most favourite Belgium chocolates into the basket - Guylian. I've loved it since young! Another favourite other than the Dark Ferrero Rocher and Mercy chocolates. Heehee. I've such a sweet tooth! :P My mother asked me why I wanted chocolates, then after pleading with her, she bought it! Heehee. And I bought the super big box! Heehee. I've a feeling that I'm going to put on weight during this Christmas :) We walked home from there and at home, we were just exhausted to do anything else. Well, on the other side, my elder brother started to take out the Christmas Tree and onto with the decorating and all! Heehee, and I tell you, every year my Christmas Tree looks shorter and shorted, so my mother told us that we are definitely getting a new tree next year! :D And I'm hoping that it would be a white one! :D So my elder brother was in-charge of getting the tree into shape and 宝贝, Genevive and I watched from one corner. Haha of course it was quite boring seeing my elder brother hogging all the action, so I started taking pictures! :) Heehee. Heehee doesn't it look pretty? I tell you, the tree looks even more awesome face to face. Sometimes the limit of photography is unable to capture the true beauty of something so magnificant :) Hahahaha. So right. The tree is all done up! All that is left is the preparation of the food and the house decorations (if we need it ... ) hahaha :P Yayness! And my mother said that on Christmas Eve, she would have a day off from work so she is going to bake cookies! Omg. Her famous cookies!!! Heehee. I can't wait for them. It's going to be sooooooo awesome! Hahaha. Well that's all I'm posting for today! I'm so hyped up for Christmas I can't hold myself down! Heehee. Loving Cheerleading and Cc with no boundaries{♥}
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