The Order

stole some pictures of facebook from lishen's 21st birthday party album. her party was held two friday nights ago at a rooftop bar on swanston. lots of mingling with tapas and drinks in our hands. i love her elegant purple birthday cake as well as the "21" balloons. the after party was at neverland, i had great fun! clubbed till 2am, got home and ready, and left for the airport to catch our carins flight at 6am! first and probably last hangover in the airport. photos are credited to our friend cum photographer, roy ong. i love his work, all his pictures are stunning!

PARTY-ED TOO HARD

3 nights ago, we celebrated singapore's national day at billboard. dinner from old town mamak was served, followed by the live screening of the parade, and lastly... the after party!!! i must say, that was the best clubbing session i have ever had in melbourne. it was just so fabulous.

girls gone wild. we were on the dance floor throughout the night. the heels didn't stop us, we took them off to dance!! zhang yao dong and dawn yeoh were there too, cindy was obessed with him. we all took pictures together - zhang yao dong looks better on tv though.

i love these 2 pictures with kenneth. best pictures we've ever taken.

crazy bunch of people i met over the weekend - jokers and drinkers. i had a jagerbomb and a tequila shot that night, while they kept drinking more. i think my tolerance level for alcohol has increased a lot!!

lesson learnt from that night - don't club on weekdays. struggling to stay awake during class the next day though lecture was only at noon.

Friends Like These

i had such an awesome night out. then again, when are times spent with them "un-fun"? it was crazy and hilarious, a state i'll try my best not to be in again. my life long friends, a title that they are most worthy of. to our dear queen cheryl, happy birthday. <3

i'll be flying off to KL in approximately 9 hours time. till then y'all! :)

Best Buddies' Birthday

feels like it has been quite some time since i last blogged. life in melbourne is just so busy, studying every single weekday and having fun on the weekends. sadly, this can't last any longer. the content of final year subjects are not simple, and the mid semester tests are just 2-3 weeks away!

so one month ago, we celebrated yongbin's and cixian's birthday together at bram's uncle's bar - handlebar. i suggested the place since bram would be present, and the steak there is awesome! oh my god, i feel like having some NOW.

love how handlebar is decorated. biker cool dude theme. coincidentally, it was handlebar's last night at alexandra road as they have moved to a new location. it was so crowded and we waited for 1-2 hours for food!

bram, our waiter for the night!

so we basically spent the wait time taking pictures, playing pool, and talking. love my camera's effects, pictures are uneditied, awesome!

the wait was worthwhile. that steak is really some good shit. love it!!!

ended the dinner with a birthday cake from awfully chocolate! i love this picture, look at their eyes, they can't take them off each other. :)

an addition to our pathetic collection of full strength kumaleh shots.

ended the birthday celebration with clubbing at rebel. the ratio of girls to guys was 1:3! thank god for warren and yongbin who stuck to us the entire night. another final year's break has gone, and i still have not visit the club on jiak kim street. ZOUK! need to go before i turn 21.

Exhilarated

one of the best things that had happened to me over this summer break is interning at Citi.

last night was Citi, GTS' annual Chinese New Year dinner at Ritz Carlton. there were 70 tables in total, and guests were big shots from companies such as Barclays, Credit Suisse, Prudential, OCBC, EDB, JP Morgan, BNP, etc, etc. the list could go on forever. it was nice to be asked to help out at registration as i always wanted to experience a corporate world event. last night was my first.

for the past two days, work had pretty much been around the topic of CNY meals. had a CNY department lunch at Singapore Recreational Club last thursday, everyone was just in a let-loose mood, it was great! that day, i stayed at Citi till 8pm as i was in charge of helping haixiang to print name cards for 700 guests, and making sure that tables had 10 persons each. it was a tough job since staff kept requesting to change sits to make sure they had their clients on their table.

last night started off with me, an intern, at the reception desk welcoming guests, and ended off with me seated at the VIP table. all thanks to Larry Komo, he's the man! initially, i was at the last table located at the end of the ballroom, table 77, since i just wanted to check out what the atmosphere was like. then came Larry, who forcefully placed my hand on his arm and ushered me right across the ballroom to the front table. it was a high pressure, 6 Managing Directors, and 1 intern. but, i think i did pretty well. :)

that's why i love the people in Securities Funds Services. they always make me feel so comfortable no matter how high their ranks are. i will really miss them when i head back to melbourne.

its a pity i didn't take any pictures at all, was too busy mingling around. everyone was in their chinese traditional outfits. the guys were in their changshan, and the ladies were in their cheongsam, including me, i wore a white one. everyone looked great, i really hope i can get my hands on the pictures from the professional photographers.

thereafter, i joined some of my colleagues from Financial Institutions at Lunar, located at clarke quay. met so many other Citi people from Equities and Trading, awesome shit. they were really friendly to me. kept asking me to sing, and drank for me whenever i lost at the dice game. by the way, it was my first time at a KTV, good experience i guess. i got home at 4.30am in the morning.

tell me, how not to love Citi? i don't wanna leave.

It's Supper Time!

have been having late night suppers for the past 2 fridays. on both nights, we had G7 frog lee congee. the first was at bukit timah, and the second was at geylang. it is really so delicious and SPICY. i couldn't stop myself from eating that tender meat and drinking the black sauce despite getting my lips burned from the chillies. two thumbs up. :)

so anyways, headed down to orchard last friday to meet up with yongbin after work. we did some last minute chinese new year shopping till late while waiting for the others to come. finally, we all took a bus and went to geylang. either my first or second time there.

we ordered 4 big pots of frogs and 2 big pots of congee, shared among us 9. the food was really tasty, i feel like having some right now!! definitely need to bring my family to G7, they will love it.

ordered marmite fried chicken, tou fu and osyter omelette as well. thank god me and yongbin skipped our dinner, if not we wouldn't be able to enjoy our supper to the fullest! everything was so good.

we finally have a complete kumaleh group picture, and that's after years. we ate from 11.30pm to 2.30am in the morning. i was so tired by the time we finished eating. struggled my way through all those "after supper talks", before cabbing back with emma. the rest then went to neverland. i admire their energy.

maybe that's because i'm working, hence more rest required. speaking of citi, i'm loving every single day at work. the journey back and fourth is unpleasant, but i do enjoy the rest of my day. everyone in office is so nice, helping me out with work, buying me lunches and treating me to drinks. my colleagues are more like friends to me, i better treasure the remaining 3 weeks. next internship, a different department of citi? :)

Legal Freedom

my dear xiaohan turned 21 on christmas eve, but she had her birthday celebration at copthorne king hotel on the 18th instead. i had lots of fun at her party, nice meeting up with the whole big swiss gang after not seeing them for almost a year. in less than 2 years, there will be more 21st birthday parties coming up. :)

xiaohan had a christmas party theme, hence all the different head gears. thank god for daiso, nice and cheap. we had normal party food and drinks, and were all so full in an hour.

photos and more photos! basically snapped through the night with so many cameras being around us. that alone, occupied so much of our time in the room. the group picture of us on the bed gives me a very gossip girl feel, i like that. haha!

we never fail to gamble during big gatherings. this time we also played drinking games like 007 and 7-up. thank god i'm not too bad at them, i really dislike drinking. haha! finished one bottle of martel real quick. junyang was totally gone before we left to club. love the above picture of us, we all look so happy!

we had a great view from the balcony plus sinting's camera takes so pretty pictures, hence the numerous shots.

everyone left the hotel at different timings to different places, while warren, junyang, cixian, jieying, evonne, and i were the last to leave and we went to zouk. sadly, it was way too packed that we had to head over to rebel to club, leaving junyang there with his friends.

first time at rebel and i really enjoyed myself that night. it would have been better if i was in flats instead of heels, and would have probably stayed longer at the club. music was really good especially towards the end of the night. :) warren had a really busy night since he had to look out for us 4 girls. however, the shepherd got bored in the last hour and went to hunt for preys. leaving his sheep to fend for themselves against those hungry wolves out there.