As you all know, I won a pair of movie ticket from Cathay Cineplex back in 14 September 2012. If you've not read that blog post, please click here.
This was my 2nd time to have won myself a free movie ticket. However, it was Diana Raymond did this giveaway. If you are a new reader who did not know about her, read this post instead.
How I get my FREE movie ticket?
I saw Diana's post from her Facebook this morning. So, I followed her rules and conditions by sharing her post to my Facebook wall and tag her with my message. This was to test my luck and about a few hours later, she whatsapped me for RSVP ~_~
Details about this movie are from her blog !! You can check it out, by clicking here.
Currently, I am looking for someone to watch the movie with the 3 of us (I, Diana and Diana's husband: Luther). It's not easy to look for a companion in this very last minute and I hope we can find one later this evening.
This is because I hate the feeling of watching the movie alone !!
As the title suggests, this is my reply to answer a letter from a past blog post, posted by another blogger [becos of some personal reasons, she refused to reveal her real name or her blog link].
PS: no pictures or videos in this blog post
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The original letter did not have the highlighted sentences, I edited the version of the letter becos of some grammar errors and sentence structure when I was reading from the word document.
This is the letter that I came across from a blog another day:
Dear love, I'm writing this letter to tell you what happened to me in the past
and what I hope in the future from you. I have two ex boyfriends. Both of
them have left a deep impression in my heart. Be it together with them for a
month plus or 6 years plus. I'm still thankful for they once appeared in my
heart.
Let's talk about the things I've done in the past 6 years for my
ex. I must say I'm not trying to claim credit. In the past 6 years, we have
quarrels, arguments and fights. I hoped that the fights did bring us closer and not
drift us apart. But anyway, we did have many differences that we couldn't
tolerate each other.
And perhaps I wasn't the best girlfriend candidate for him. Perhaps
I just wasn't good enough for him. But we passed thru those 6 years. It was not easy. I
believe we did put in our best effort to make this relationship work.
But fate wasn't on our side. Perhaps we weren't the Mr Right or Ms Right for
each other. Perhaps we got together too quickly. Perhaps we should have ended
the relationship earlier for him or me so that we could have the chance to find
a better partner that could accompany us for the rest of our life. Perhaps we
shouldn't have dragged till the 6th year then broke off.
Now to the topic, dear love,
I hope we will go thru what a normal couple will go through. We should have started from friends to best friends; then to lover
and confidante; and lastly to husband n wife. I hope you will be someone who is romantic but yet realistic at the
same time, as well as funny and yet serious at
the right time. I want you to be someone who is
sensitive to little things. For
example: When I'm cold, you will automatically hug me or hold my hands
to give me warmth. When I'm sad or don't feel like talking, you will give me a
hug to tell me that everything is going to be alright. Other than the above, I want to be there for you too.
You can share with me your happiness and sadness. I might not be able to solve
them with you. But I can be a good listening ear. When we quarrel, I hope no
matter how angry you are, you will NEVER EVER let go of me. I want you to
always remember this quote "Being the first to apologize does not mean you
are wrong, it simply means you are more concerned with this relationship than
your ego."
Dear love, I'm simply looking
for someone who can be there for me just like how I will be there for him. I
don't need you to be as handsome as Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt, or as rich as Bill
Gates. I just want you to love me with all your heart, by working hard enough to give me a better life
and a better future for the both of us. In addition, I
would want a home, which belongs only to the both of us. I might not be a good girlfriend but I will try my best to be
someone who's worthy of your love.
And I hope you will try your
best to give me a call or a sms every day. Even if it's a short one or just 5 minutes talk, I don't mind. Because at the very least, you still remember me. And
I know I'm in your heart. If time permits, I hope you are the one who initiate
to talk/sms me, because I fear to become a nuisance
to you. At times I hope we can share an umbrella under the
rain, take long walks along the beach, watch DVDs together or simply cuddling
each other on bed and
listening to each other’s
heart beats. I want you to be able to remember our anniversaries, such as buying small
gifts for me on some special occasions. For example: Exchanging gifts. Even if there isn't any
presents, I would be happy if you spend time making one. Be it a small card or
a handmade rose.
If there's a chance we could be with each other till the marriage
path, I promise I'll learn to cook and do house chores. I promise I will
provide you with a cosy and neat love nest just for the both of us and our future kids. I
promise I will try to learn massage and massage for you every night you come
home with a tired body. I will take good care of our kids. I will try my best
to be a good daughter-in-law. I will not shout or quarrel with our
parents.
Dear love, after reading this
letter, will you still want to be with me? From, Your future love♥
This is the replied letter that I wrote last night.
Dear future love <3, Thanks for your effort for writing such as a lovely letter to me. I was touched by all your wishes after reading your past letter. Therefore, I intend to reply to you.
Yes, you’re right. We should have start from stage to stage if you have not known me well. However, if you want to speed up the process, should I agree with you or stick back to the old rule? When it comes to relationship, I am totally very serious about it. However, I might reply you late as I intend to reduce less errors and mistake in our relationship and to avoid big quarrels and misunderstandings – which lead to future unseen accidents. Likewise, the conditions that you mention are part of what we (men) must do for women. It is a basic courtesy and respect, so I can accept them no matter how busy and stressful I become (in work or in family).
Indeed, I am neither handsome nor with big muscle from other guys or celebrities. As for financial status in my opinion, it will be just okay or normal/average if you’re okay with the status I am in. I started blogging last year and recently became a full-time blogger this January. By the way, I have 1 year left to complete my diploma in business-IT. For a home, I am unable to give you currently because I need to take good care of my parents – unless you do not mind living with them.
If I ever meet you in real life and revealed to you my love, I will set a daily goal in my checklist. A goal that I set is to drive you happy, active or laugh while you are in work or in studying. For example: jokes, funny pictures or stupid video and etc.
I do not mind you keep on message me / call me. As such, this means that you care about me. I will take note on all those moments and captured them as pictures and videos into my blog, so that we can recall them when we are old. I am able to make all kinds of Do it Yourself (DIY) stuff, such as origami and rose ice-cream. If some stuff that you are going to mention in your next letter that I do not know how to do, I will try to learn and do it for you because I willingly to spend the time to make you feel the happiness.
If we get into marriage by any chance, I will not let you do housework alone. Even if I was extremely tired from work, I will still help you to do some housework and going out.
Dear future love, after reading my expectation and my current status, do you think we can be together?
From, Your love :-)
Believe or not whether the both letters are true or not, I don't care. Cos it's the actions that can make the words come true and only time will foretell the things I and her promise.
I went to collect the prize from Nuffnang Office near Farrer Park MRT station this afternoon. If you read my previous blog post on Awana Resort Adventurous Genting Trip in 2012, you would know why I went there to collect my 3rd prize.
This was also my 1st time visiting Nuffnang's office ~ so I kind of lost around there (took me for quite a while to confirm the look of the building, LOL)
Anyway, here is the 3rd prize that my team won :-)
Third Prize: 2D1N Stay at First World Hotel (Deluxe Room)
However, it would be expired on 31 March 2013. Most probably, I might not be able to go during my poly holiday on February to March due to my internship (ITP).
Maybe I would sell this letter away on a cheap price OR I might conduct a giveaway (never conduct giveaway before ~ haha !!) instead. If I happen to use this letter during the upcoming Chinese New Year, I might blogged about the trip there again. :-D
After rushing all the projects this week, I am then available to write this blog post. During 03 January, I received a message from my Facebook and I agreed to help advertising this campaign in a favor to a student of Digital Media, who is also one of the Facebook Admin of OOTD at SP, Ms Jess Tan.
This is about this new trend happening in Singapore Polytechnic right now. There is a group of students running this long-term fashion campaign, Outfit of the Day (OOTD in short) at SP right now.
Official Logo of OOTD
Also, here are the list of the upcoming competitions
Best dressed student of the week male/female (on-going)
Best dressed student of the month male/female (on-going)
Most popular outfit male/female
Best dressed BFF outfit
Best dressed lecturer
Best dressed couple
If you want to know more in-depth details of all OOTD events and competition, please refer to their official blog here.
We all have plans about the life we want to live. Having plans is good. Having ONLY plans doesn't get you very far. Wherever you may be, whatever you might be doing, make the best of it, keeping in mind that it'll only push you closer to your dream. A victory however small, is still a victory. Fight for that passion, fight for your future self. And as you get closer to fulfilling goals, just remember to keep your feet on the ground.
2012 has been the year I have re-affirmed my calling. There's not been a day that I have not dreamt about it. Each success of 2012 has brought, has reminded me how strong my passion is and also the journey that lays ahead of me. Each obstacle has reminded me to be aware of untrained skills and of what I'm yet to learn.
2013 is the year that will set a whole new momentum to many lives, including mine. Before entering the road to my future. Still have exams, presentations, projects to come and there'll be more. But a friend of mine told me that no matter how heavy the workload gets, if you feel passion for what you do, nothing will stop you from completing it.
And it is true. I have felt it. I have whined and complained and almost given up. But something has always made me feel good about the pieces of work I do. And I have already been informed that it's a long way ahead. But I have always known that, and I'm prepared. I will see myself on the other side of my dream, when it becomes my reality. And I hope that you see yourself there too.
This was my 1st time going overseas alone, neither with my family nor with my friends.
I went to participate this trip organised by Nuffnang from 14 to 15 December and was fully-sponsored ~ it was free :-)
During the 7 hours of our journey, we were rested at Yong Peng for a small break and I found this cat quite cute, so I took a photo of her :)
After the 7 hours of journey (we just slept through it), we finally arrived at our destination.
After putting our bags into the counter, we proceeded our way to Rajawali Coffee House to have our lunch. It is a buffet restaurant, serving different varieties of foods and drinks.
Becos we were SG Evangelist of Nuffnang, therefore the food were free.
From where we seated, I saw this scenery.
Awana Resort Golf Course
Desserts displayed were colorful
This was the first picture that I took with a blogger in this trip - the very 1st blogger I met. Her name is Diana Raymond ~ apparently she is married 4 months ago, at the age of 25. Her occupation is to work as a full-time auditor.
Diana and I :)
We were supposed to wait for the motor car to take us up to the long house. During the buggy ride, Nic (a local angmoh blogger) challenged us to a race to see who reached the long house first.
Instagram picture taken by Nick
Here is a video recorded by me during the ride ~ watch and see who won in the end !! :-)
After everyone had arrived the long house, we were briefed by the camp instructor, Zul.
Zul briefed us about the situation of the area, safety precautions and etc. Watch the videos below and find out about the details !!
Everyone were listening attentively during the briefing
After the briefing, we followed Zul down and observing the surrounding area while listening his introduction about the area.
After everyone had came down, Zul started his briefing about the area.
Here is a short clip of what he told us:
The hut is a row of restrooms (left: female and right: male)
However, it surprisingly look clean inside
While during the tour, he informed us that we must changed into sports attire for the preparation of the 1st physical activity of the day. But, it started to rain right after he finished his briefing.
Our bedroom in the long house
While waiting for everyone to get changed, here are some pictures that the Nuffnang admin, Jayne helped to take the picture.
Yina Goh and her husband, Yong Zhuan (on the right)
Welcome to AWANA GENTING LONG HOUSE << by Yina Goh
This is the plug ~ not enough for a group of 20 over bloggers !!
We (guys) were ready for the 1st activity ...
Smile before the 1st activity began
Girls' Power :D
After distributed into 4 groups of 4 persons in each group by Zul, we were being told that our 1st activity was to come out a group name and cheering dance steps that was less than 30 seconds.
Team 1: The Wonders
Team 2: Team Duo
Team 3: The Three Musketeers
Team 4: The Fantastic Four
Next, Zul wanted us to get ourselves warm-up by dancing according to a song style..
Gabriel was shy to dance "Gangnam Style", so Zul accompanied with him
Yong Zhuan encouraged her wife to perform the dance...
However, she used jumping-jack as a replacement of the "dance"
I think we enjoyed their entertainment ... xD
Chicken Dance ~ next !!
Nic and Peishi
Here comes the 3rd activity and the upcoming Treasure Hunt ~
All the group leaders gathered to brief by the instructor
While waiting, here comes the Girls' Power in Top shot :)
After we waited for our group leader, Melvin, we immediately discussed and doing the puzzles at the same time [too competitive, it's just a game - I think].
Melvin told us that we need to complete 3 puzzles, using the given pieces to form up the shapes. The higher the points, the more difficult it became..
Observing other groups ~ because it was Pei Shi did most of the puzzles, haha !!
The Three Musketeers
The Fantastic Four
The Wonders
Result of a completed shape
In this puzzle activity, we gained 240 points in total and able to proceed to start the next session: Treasure Hunt. We were given a small map and had to find clues along the way, till we reached our destination. For every clue found, we need to complete each mini game of the given clue / direction as a group in order to find out the next clue.
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While we were going round the area (kinda lost), I took some shots along the way :)
I was nearly out of breathe [my stamina sucks], but the first one to reach was Pei Shi
~ LOL ~ 3 of us lost to a little girl .. =_=
Finally, we reached the 1st mini game - flying fox as a group, but we were outlasted by another group: The Three Musketeers.
We were given 2 balls per player to throw onto the selected circles on the ground, while we flew down from starting point to the ending point. The middle circle would gain 20 points while the other two circles could gain 10 points.
Melvin and Pei Shi gained 10 points each ~ if I remembered correctly.. I managed to get 20 points (threw onto the middle, while I'm still feeling scared when flying down >_< )
After completed this game, the person-in-charge gave us the next clue.
The floor is too steep for me to go down quickly ~
We took a group photo together before we proceeded to our mini-games.
(Thanks to Jayne for the shot !!)
There are 2 mini-games to be completed: rock-climbing & archery.
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Rock-Climbing
The Three Musketeers was the first group to reach ~ I think
After we completed the mini games, we then proceeded to the final mini-game. We had to guess the 5 riddles from the picture given and took a group photo for each solved riddle.
Unfortunely, when we were about to complete the last riddle, it rained ~ which hindered our progress and our way back to the long house. After a short while, we then decided to take a short-cut and took the bugging instead and went back to long house instead, without completing the last riddle. :-P
After resting for almost 1 hour in the long house, it was dinner time :-D
The dining area was arranged like the hotel we went in the afternoon.
Chefs from Awana Genting Hotel were moved to serve us with BBQ foods
We didn't get to use the stage ~
5 types of chili for U to choose from :-D
While we were taking our food, Jayne took it for us :)
My share of the Dinner ! !
Sebastian, Valentine, Diana, Zi Yun, me and Melvin (from left to right)
Nick, Lydia, Billy, Pei Shi and Gabriel (from left to right)
After we had our dinner, we headed back to the long house for the night activities. This time, it was about eating ice-cream and threw the stick into the box ~~ Can U imagine that?? Eating ice-cream within 3 minutes in a middle of the night, plus we were in Genting (cold weather) ...
Anyway, here goes . . .
If you can't threw the ice-cream stick directly into the box, then it will not be counted and had to wait till you ate another one and threw again ~ Yina Goh's husband almost went crazy cos he went to eat 3 ice-creams in one row. :-P
Before we went to the campfire, we wore the light-band with us as the place was very dark and muggy. For the campfire activity (pictures not taken), we had to pass the balloon in left / right direction of a circle. Whoever had last touched the balloon when the music had stopped, he / she must bust the balloon and had to be "punished" for the given instruction written on the paper from each busted balloon.
Campfire (a bit bigger than the normal one)
In this next activity, we were supposed to guess what was the action from the person who was acting out (very much alike the Taiwan variety show: The Guessing Show !!)
After the night mini-games, as usual, after bathing and supper, I went to bed directly around 11:30 pm, despite how noisy the group who were playing / chatting outside the bedroom.
[Some were tenting below the long house]
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The next morning . . . [Day 2]
Breakfast time :-D
After that, I went back to the long house. Only to find out that there was another very "dangerous activity" waiting for us to experience the fun =_=
The instructors were testing out the "equipment" ~
After doing some warm-ups, we tried to use the "equipment" in the first trial. It was hard to control and needed a lot of teamwork with one another in order to proceed forward successfully.
Surprisingly, none of us were absent / not feeling well after the 1st day of adventurous activities and neither do I :)
And thus, the real fun began . . .
The most difficult part to drive this activity was when you're about to U-turn and heading back to the starting point ~ because I'm the last person - I need to use much greater strength of my leg to spread -> push -> left & right and push again in order to make a turn. Luckily, we were not the last ones :-)
Next, we went on to the next activity. I forgot what was it called, but still remembered the rules. Each of us need to hug 2 balloons on our armpit (left & right) and 1 balloon in between our legs. Here are some pictures that Nuffnang admins took and I only posted some that are quite interesting. :-)
Actually, I don't know how to blow a balloon ~ so I let Diana did it for me :-P
Getting ready !!
In the end, my team reached last as I kept falling off my blue balloon !! >_<
In the next game, it was conducted indoor due to sudden raining. For the next activity, Zul told us we had to take out our possessions such as clothes, accessories or anything that can tied and pull across the floor. The team with the longest "rope" won the activity.
The Fantastic Four won this activity
I don't dare to take out my t-shirt as I did not have a nice body like Billy and Melvin has !!
In the next activity (2nd last), we were supposed to use a straw to pick up rubber band after spinning around the pole 5 times. However, we got 2nd place for this activity.
I was beside Yina's husband (wearing white socks de..)
In this very very last activity, somehow it was the only one that can determine who are the top 3. Zul told us that we had to prepare a cheer song and dance steps within 3 minutes ~ the duration was a bit longer than the cheer we had created on Day 1.
We were given 10 minutes to discuss and practice the dance steps.
Here are the result of each team's cheer and dance steps:
Finally, Zul made his final decisions and announced the result.
After we had packed our bags and ate our lunch at the buffet restaurant, we were strolling around the resort to kill the time while waiting for the bus to fetch us.
While Melvin and I were walking around, Tselyn invited us to take a picture with her.
However, I snapped into one of their group picture ~ LOL ~
I tried to take as many pictures as possible in that 1 hour.
Left with only 20 minutes, I entered into the bar whereby I saw Pei Shi and her friends were playing the pool. The angmoh blogger invited me and gave me a free welcome treat.
A Free Coke (he said:"cock"), haha !!
Last but not least, here are all the autographs that I collected during the trip.
As for the other people who were lazy to write ~ so I asked them to sign instead :-D
It is an enjoyable and precious memory. I hope I can meet them again in the future :-)
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If you are sick & tired of the fast paced city life that we are living in, why not spend a weekend away at Genting Highlands where you can indulge yourself in fun activities along side with fresh air & nature.
Check out Resort World Genting's website: Click here !!
