Singapore Adventure: Unpacked

Since we have moved to the new house, which is already 3 months ago since 03 February, some of my things have remained packed in boxes. Well, I didn't see any purpose in unpacking when I really have no use for the items from the boxes. They might as well just be kept inside the boxes and away from dust or sunlight, right? But then, since there really isn't anything to do during the 4-day CNY holiday, I just went ahead and unpacked them.

Now, my books are neatly piled in the built-in bookshelves of the common room. Well, I don't have a lot. I didn't bring all of my books, just my favorite ones, and those that I have not yet read.

My favorite ones would include the "gift books" (very useful when I do journalling for my scrap pages and post cards), the Bob Ong books (extremely entertaining except for two - Bakit Baligtad and Alamat ng Gubat), the Mitch Albom books (tear jerkers), and my recent favorite, Adeline Yen Mah's Chinese Cinderella (truly heartwarming). There are also a couple of books which I brought along from home or bought here that I have not read yet such as Mitch Albom's For One More Day (bought here at Times), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Of Love and Other Demons (bought from Philippines in August 2007), Paulo Coelho's The Zahir (birthday 2006 gift from college bud Khends) and The Devil and Miss Prym (Christmas 2007 gift from my cousin Rose).

Sigh, I hope this year I can finally push myself to read again. Maybe piling my books in the shelf will provide the motivation. ^_^

Greetings: Happy Birthday, Hazel!

Singapore Adventure: Red Packets

In the Philippines, every Chinese New Year, my Pinoy friends often comeup to me and ask for tikoy and ang pao. It seems like it's the samething anywhere else in Asia, well, at least in Singapore. :P

But this time, since I am in (almost) Chinese territory, it is my turn to ask for ang paos (红包). Fortunately, this wish has been granted. My boss gave out red packets this afternoon. And the bosses from other teams as well. Nice. ^_^

Fred says it's enough for lunch money. My Cookie says it's enough forone top-up card. I am still thinking how I want to spend it. In themeantime, it will be sitting at home on my dresser. ^_^

Suggestions are welcome.

Singapore Adventure: The Vendo

The vending machine at our office pantry now sells Oishi's Pillows. Itsells at 70 cents a piece. Quiet pricey, as it is sold only at lessthan 10 bucks in the Philippines. I guess the people here at work tooka liking for it as it has been a few times that the stock for Pillows inthe vendo was replenished.

A couple of weeks back, I was told that the vendo also had a slot forOishi's Bread Pan. And I think last week, I saw Jack n Jill Roller Coaster.

Hmm.. I wonder when they will start selling Nagaraya, Boy Bawang, andChicharon. Wishful thinking. ^_^

Singapore Adventure: Scrapping Again

Since there's still nothing to do on the second day of the new year, I thought of "re-grouping" my scrapping stuff.

Jhing, during her visit to our place last weekend, handed me down some of her scrap gears. Somehow it brought back an urge to scrap again. And this is what I have so far.

These are the first few pages. I am attempting to compile my first year photos here in SG. Hopefully, I can do this more regularly during the weekends. Otherwise, I just might not be able to complete this project in time for the second year photos. :D

I'll post some more pages once I get around putting them together.