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Profilectlx.Carlene Tan Li Xuan 11th July 1988. Currently 21+. Studied in St. Anthony's Canossian Primary and Secondary School, SRJC (first 3 months), TPJC, currently NUS FASS (econs). loves family, friends, chocs, western desserts, yellow, etc etc.
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Sunday, January 03, 2010~ Grandpa's Birthday! ~Yay! Finally got the photo of my sis's getup yesterday. =)  Had a birthday celebration for my grandpa just now at Putien Restaurant at Tampines Mall. It's his 82nd birthday! =) The food was really good. =D =D =D Take a look! =)   Ok, some humans first...Now food. haha...  Cold Dish 1: braised salted duck Cold Dish 2: Seaweed with shrimp Cold dish 3: some fried fish.. can't remember the name =X but it tasted AWESOME. =D Cold dish 4: Jellyfish Cold dish 5: one of their signature dishes - pig's intestine =Z Shark's fin soup Some superb steamed fish Irrisistable toufu Interesting meat bun Veg with salted egg and century egg Fried spring chicken (i think. haha) Putien's signature bee hoon. Thumbs up! Dessert type 1: White fungus with lotus seed Dessert type 2: Fruit cocktail jelly Dessert type 3: their signature Yam paste with Gingko nut My grandpa's HAMBURGER cake! From DJ Bakery Looks sooooo real right. Haha...The top layer (of the burger) is actually choc cream, and the rest is really just choc sponge cake whilst the black thing which looks so alike to red bean paste is actually blueberry paste. =) NICE. Alrightie, that's all from my awesome dinner at Putien. Haha. I FINISHED my CNY shopping!!! Haha... bought 3 dresses from this shop "Vogue" at Tampines 1. Hope it still looks as nice on me when CNY arrives. hahaha.... Well... hope everyone has set their new year resolutions and keep to it... I'm currently in the midst of planning my modules for this coming semester and it's insane. I can foresee myself being super stressed real soon. =X On a lighter note... I'M GONNA WATCH SHERLOCK HOLMES (if there aren't any last min screw-ups) haha... WITH RACHIE and BEN and other 30th comm members if they want. =) Then after Chingay... it's FAREWELL SUPPER for Huluz and Jia Minh. Can't wait. =) I shall end here... Good night and take care everyone!!! `Lucky I saw it coming and took steps to prevent myself from falling in. 2010 is going to be a whole new start. Saturday, January 02, 2010~ chillin' out ~I was suppose to go tanning with my besties today but like I mentioned before, I think I'm jinxed, cause the sun just wasn't there and it even rained. Haha. I did manage to sit in the sun for awhile though, but as expected, my colour remains... WHITE. =Z Anyhow, instead of heading to Sentosa as originally planned, we ended up at Meiyi's condo because.. as usual, my 2 dear friends couldn't wake up! haha... From 9am meeting time, it eventually became 12noon. I made sandwiches.. which didn't turn out very successful... but edible! haha... Look at all the food we had...  Too bad didn't take a picture of 3 of us... haha... Really enjoyed the chilling sessions... think from now on we'll have more gatherings at Mei yi's condo. HAHAHA. Went shopping with my sis yesterday to find an outfit for her b'day party today and... I'm proud to announce, our buys off the $10 cart shops worked wonders! WHEE!! She looked awesome! Can't wait to grab her cam and show off the pic that we took before she left. Feel rather accomplished. haha. Going shopping again tomorrow... hope I get some good stuff for CNY! =) Wednesday, December 30, 2009~ December happenings! ~December has been one fast and crazy month. Done loads of stuff, ate loads of good food and became really really tired. Haha. Even though I've been resting 6 hours everyday, it never does seem enough. =S In 20 mins or so, it will be the last day of 2009 and this year... has been pretty interesting. Many emotional periods, even up till today. Many memorial moments and days. Many 21sts and needless to say, tons of cakes. =) And now, many new resolutions to make. In this coming year, I must learn how to have no expectations on top of my usual resolutions of being a better person, and working hard. This year, I have experienced a few times how expectation can lead to such hurting disappointment. And there's no point expecting anything from anyone because what you think should be may not be reciprocal for the other party. So now, I must teach myself how not to have expectations. Other than that... it's too long a list to type so I'm just going to briefly talk about what this Dec has been for me. Haha. Caroling, trainings, Chingay practices, meeting with besties, and sec and jc classmates, and many more family outings that before. ^.^ Want to pick out Marina's Club Seafood restaurant in particular. Was there on Monday evening to celebrate my mum's birthday. The food was worth its price I felt. And the meal left me very happy. =D Here are some pictures!  Think if given a chance, I'd love to go back there to try again. Maybe this time in the afternoon so as to catch their lunch deals. Haha. Well, my eyes are closing on me, think I shall hit the bed. Good night everyone! Wednesday, December 23, 2009~ a clearer mind ~After being a frog for a night, I awoke this morning with a much clearer mind which made me felt rather immature for my behaviour last night. Friendships aren't determined by whether we stay in hall together but what we want to do even though we aren't all staying in hall anymore. Last night, what upsetted me was when she believed she'll lose all her hall friends once she leaves hall but that's not true. At least not until she chooses not to mix around with us anymore. I know once out of hall, choir will be her main priority in school and has always been the case. And I think this hurt a little too cause I always thought hall was a place where very special friendships build. I mean, besides in hall, where else can you pack breakfast for a friend every morning, sometimes even if it meant just sleeping only 3 hours to wake up in time to pack breakfast, even do her laundry for her and in the midst of hanging it up, break your healing scap over and over again because of the way her bed is positioned? What's more, the three of us decided to do this project TOGETHER because we knew it wasn't going to be easy, but a threesome could complain together, help each other out, and be there for one another. Yet now, all these have become empty promises. That made me sad too! I thought all those effort and pacts made meant a lot more but I was wrong. It couldn't be compared to the late nights together suppering, giving birthday surprises, and the hours spent together doing something you excel at and gain recognition for. So, this morning, I suddenly woke up and thought, what the heck. Who cares about all the effort you've put in for this friendship, it doesn't matter at all when her heart is somewhere else. What's the point of hoping she'll stay cause of the special things hall provided? She'll never be happy anyways. Thus, I shouldn't even have thought about changing her mind and be upset over all the above. I was brought up to never be a quitter. And I think that turned me a little cold hearted but at least I know I'll persevere no matter what. Passion sometimes doesn't come as easily as wished but I believe it can be found. And its a choice. I know once I commit to something, I literally sell my life to it. Haha. BUT, that's me. Not everyone is willing to make the same sacrifices for the same things and she chose not to do so, and as a friend, I should just respect her decision and not have any comments about her reasons for doing so even if i disagree with them. I shouldn't expect my closer friends to be like me and persevere cause not everyone can do that. Hence, I actually felt stupid feeling upset that she decided to take the "quit" route. Haha. Basically, after crying last night, it kinda sorted my thoughts a little. To keep a friendship going is like choosing to clap. We can clap anytime, anywhere, BUT, we'll need both hands. Friendships are the same. It doesn't matter where you are, or what road you choose. If a friend is worth the keep, all it takes is a little effort and time and the friendship will last a long time more. To end off, I'll like to leave a note to this special friend: I know you'll try to finish up whatever responsibilities you're left with and I certainly hope you'll try to lighten our chair's burden by finding a replacement. I got to admit that if you just leave and leave your spot empty, I'd be most disappointed but nonetheless, I'll trust that you have tried your very best. =) Whether or not you choose to stay in hall anymore, I hope we can still keep the threesome friendship going by meeting up periodically. That's provided you feel the friendship is worth the keep of course! haha. And since you've already decided on your course of action, you shouldn't feel like you're struggling anymore right? =) No worries, you hall mates are always here for you, even if you aren't staying anymore cause hall is just a place to spend more time together, not somewhere that determines how long friendships last. =) Whatever your decision, I believe it ain't an easy one and I know it's been through more thought than anyone can imagine. I'm really sorry if anything I said hurt you last night. I should have and will respect your decision. I'm sorry for being such a selfish and immature brat. Hope you'll forgive me. Meanwhile, take care and enjoy caroling! Have fun at home and hope you find my slightly burnt brownie edible! Haha.. *HUGZ* I think my tears have finally found their way home cause they couldn't stop streaming down my face. It hurts to see how fragile a friendship can be. Or how things could suddenly take such a turn. Maybe we can never empathize each others pains and hardships but I thought throughout these 2 and a half years, the effort we've put in to build this friendship could be strong enough to act as some pulling back force but guess I'm wrong. Seems so negligible compared to what others have provided. Seems like its gonna be three-some turned two. Feels like crap. haha. But what should friends do? Let go and support right? Seems like I've been doing that one too many a time in this month of December. Don't have much of a choice though. can only rely on prayer for the strength to be understanding, accepting and kind. Gosh, haven't looked like a frog for some time. Gribbit. Saturday, December 19, 2009~ Dinner with nanny and her family! ~ Time to update about food... AGAIN! hahaha...        These pictures were the food we ate from Shokudo at Raffles City basement. =) I personally felt the food was nice! I especially loved the dessert. Haha... the lady that was making the crepe took a lot of pride doing it and it was warm and crispy when i ate it. So thumbs up for that lady! =D Finally got to watch New Moon yesterday. It was quite a disappointment I must say. Didn't even cry! =S Well, that could be because I didn't watch the first sequel so didn't feel much towards the movie. However, I must say, I felt the beginning was pretty boring. =S Other than that, haven't had much chance to go out. Have been really busy with caroling these few days. And that's going to keep me busy for quite a while. It's a whole day of caroling for me again tomorrow! Ah wells... at least can earn a bit of pocket money I guess. Alrightie, shall update again soon. =) Take care everyone!!! *Sometimes, I wish feelings were like dust. Wish they could simply be swept away under the carpet and hidden forever.* Wednesday, December 16, 2009~ super busy week ~This week is... crazy! Actually, if there wasn't 30th, it wouldn't be so packed. Haven't been training as much as I'd like thanks to 30th comm. Haha... But I guess we did accomplish a bit in the past few days. Was really hoping Fri would be free but not anymore.. =( Caroling practices are like 3 times a week and they always last 3 hours when they're only suppose to be 2 hours long. I think it's sometimes a major waste of time because we actually only do the whole choir combined practice in the last 15 mins! But ah wells... Had a pretty good comm outing yesterday (Mon) and just had a very filling steamboat b'day party for Amelia. Think I had an overdose of salt due to the marination of the fish. Should have just stopped myself from eating the fish. Anyways, tummy feels weird now. Thankfully, the lovely marble cheese cake made up my tummy slightly happier! Haha... Should have left more space for it! HAHA... Well, all the pictures are with rachie so can't upload any now... Guess I'm going to have to turn in soon cause there's netball training at 9am later on, followed by badminton then choir and chingay. Crazy crazy day! Thurs gonna be pretty insane too... but luckily.. I'm meeting my nanny and their family for dinner! Whee! =) Haven't seen them in quite awhile. Guess I'll end here... Good night everyone! Sweet dreams! =) Saturday, December 12, 2009~ D & D ~Had a really satisfying dinner and dessert date with Huiling just now! =) We first headed to this beef kway tiao stall for dinner then headed straight to Miss Clarity Cafe for desserts!! YUMMY! hahaha...  Beef kway tiao! My caramelized apple crumble! $5 Huiling's Mud Ozz! $5 too!The apple crumble dessert was super satisfying for me.. totally wiped out the entire plate! hahaha. *smacks lips*. As for Huiling's mud ooz... its super chocolaty.. like SUPER DUPER chocolaty.. so eating with the ice-cream i think, is a must. haha. But, it's delicious anyhow. ^.^ Well, so guess my dessert craving has officially been satisfied! =) Shall go off now! Good night!!! =) |