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This year, I discovered somewhere nice to bring Darling for his bday. It was through my research for organising Teachers' Day dinner that I came to know this place.



Grand Shanghai Restaurant



This place is situated at Grand Copthorne Hotel @ Kim Send Road. It is touted to bring diners back to the golden era of Shanghai, the 1930s.
Well, upon stepping in, we were impressed! Rows and rows of sparkling chandeliers adorned the high ceilings of the restaurant. And there are booth seats in front of the stage. Do try booking for the booth seats if you want to experience closer to the live band. 




We did not try the booth seats as I did not book it in advance. It was also nice to sit at the booth seats near the windows where you get more privacy. You can still view the singing on stage. 



The singer and the musicians were really good! I had a good time listening to the old songs and you could actually request for songs. I requested  "shanghai night" and "Happy birthday" for darling. 


While waiting for our food...

We tried the one-for-one abalone dinner offer.

First dish: Cold combination - fried eel strips, jellyfish and braised half egg topped with ebiko




Second dish: Sharks fin soup




Third dish: Whole abalone with spinach



Fourth dish: Baked lobster



Fifth dish: Fried cod fish



Sixth dish: Shanghai Xiao Long Bao




Seventh dish: Desserts - Aloe Vera jelly





Overall, I gave a 4 out of 5 stars. The ambience was really good, with the live singing and beautiful decor, the food was good....the next time I come, I would want to try their peking duck. I would want to bring my family members too!



Hope that darling love what I had planned for him!

Orchard road is undergoing huge changes.
As I speak, throngs of shoppers are flocking to the newest one that just opened its doors on Thursday, 3rd Dec 2009 - 313@Somerset.

But anyway, the thrill of shopping in these swanky new malls are not just there. The same shops are all there - Zara, Mango, Charles n Keith, Ishop.....the list goes on.....I still prefer to shop at the quirky Haji Lane...

This Christmas, there is a huge LV thunk in front of Taka to commemorate the re-opening of the LV store in Taka. It has revamped and it now boasts 2 levels of shopping luxe and a VIP room for tai tai and celebs to shop in privacy.









Should all women own a LV bag at one point of her life??? Nah.....I say Chanel anytime!

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Side-track a bit.....to show-off my newest jacket! Darling brought this addidas-diesel denim jacket for me!
Xmas comes early this year! Yeah!





Ion Orchard's Christmas tree is so pretty!! You can even go into it and check out its inner decorations! Kind of reminds me of Tokyo Midtown's Xmas tree last year!

I haven't been blogging for half a year!

Well, this entry is to share some of the sunrise photos I have taken in this year. Everyday I need to wake up at the break of dawn for work. My phone will wake me up at 5.50am everyday, then to brush my teeth and wash my face before I tend to Chloe's needs, like to clear her pee pan and preparing her breakfast. It was then I notice the sky which can be very very beautiful when the sun is rising!














Isn't these beautiful?? It helped to brighten my mood immediately!!

Yesterday was my 2nd time attempting 5km run. This time, it was at East Coast PArk!
Woke up as early as a normal school day 6am. Siti Maisarah came and picked me up at khatib by 6.30am. Luckily for her car pool, i wouldn't wan to think how much earlier i must wake up if i was to go myself...



Reached!! I didn't wan to to the orange event tee shirt to run....ok la, wear a green colour nike for Olive Run! 
I'm ready! 
It was a nice and cooling run and it was really scenic to run besides the sea.....beautiful!
I was going at a faster pace this time and they provided H20 isotonic drink for the water point at the U-turn! I felt a remarkable difference after gulping 2 mouthful! My legs felt a sudden burst of energy and i could go faster at 3.5km mark. 
It felt good to turn to the finishing stretch and sprinted towards the end! I felt happy to see the timing displayed there was 34min! It was a 5 min improvement from my Shape Run of 39min! heehehhee...felt so good!



"We still looked good after the run!"

Stood cheering for the rest of my colleagues who completed and we headed to Terminal 2 to have our breakfast. 

I came home at around 11.30am and quickly set to bathe and get ready for my next round of activities! 
I chanced upon a advertisement in the 8days, Scrapbooking workshop with Canon Selphy. I jio-ed Suki, June n huixian to join while Peiyun jio her friends to join. In the end we joined as a big group of 8.

The workshop was held at Canon Digital Lab at Keppel Bay Tower. We were late by 10mins....hehehehe....
Anyway, it was really fun to print out pictures with Selphy photo printer (which i had bought the hot pink one 2 weeks ago) and we were introduced to the joy of scrapbooking. We were given an introductory set and we started making one page on our own. It was real fun!


"aiyah....exposure to high...."




I'm waiting for June's camera pics....she has all the pics for our completed works!

AFter the workshop, Yun went off with her friends to watch UP while Suki, June and myself went over to Vivo for our late lunch. We were famished, thirsty after the workshop. Pail and Cz were waiting for us at Vivo liao. I suggested Mache because i hadn't got a chance to go in since it is opened....amazing right?? 

So we went in to have a hearty meal of rostti and deserts! I really loved the decor inside! Cz and I thought that it really looked like Switzerland, it feels like we were back in Lauterbrunnen again......it helps that we were sitting under the blasting cold air con vents....hehhehe....

There...it started.....i suddenly felt  pangs of pains in my stomach and this was how my diarrhea started. I went to the toilet for more than 5 times last night! I think it's because of the minced pork noodles i had at T2 foodcourt....

But amazingly, my day was not finished yet.....June went off after the Mache meal, so Cz suggested that we checked out the Comics convention at Suntec! Yeah!!!
So we went along....On the way there, Cz bought poh chai pills for me and i started gulping down 1 bottle. 

The comics convention never fails to excite me!! There are many new exciting games on display, cute toys on display and this time we got to take pictures with fan favourites characters like Bumblebee, Ironman, Mario and Luigi! (Pictures are with Cz coz my camera ran out of batt again!)

The highlight of the whole trip got to be the chance meeting with Simone Legno, Tokidoki's creator!!!!!! We spotted him standing around, surrounded by a small group of girls and he was signing on their tokidoki cap! I quickly whipped out my tokidoki camera pouch and asked him to sign too!!!! And i stood besides him to take a photo! Wow! He was so humble and modest even though his designs are world famous now!!! Cool!!!!!!

After this, we had a quick and simple dinner at Xin Wang. Dunno why, we all had instant noodles craving...hahhahaa....

We headed back to Vivo after dinner. 10pm.....Still have 2 hours to burn before our midnight Bruno movie.....I was pretty sleepy by then....we went over to Starbucks to sit around, chit chat and nuah.....Pail's friends were there too, playing a card game that i have never heard of till last night...."Vampires". It looked similar to Magic cards but Pail explained that it was more complex and harder to play that Magic cards.....ohhhhh......

Anyway, 12 midnight gradually crept up and we were on our way to watch it! I had pretty high expectations after the surprisingly hilarious Borat movie in 2006. But i was pretty disappointed by the movie....it was not as hilarious as Borat and it was a bit disgusting....hahhahhaa.....But gotta salute the bravery of Sasha Baron Cohen...he was realy brave to do some of the "acts" in the movie....


That sums up my very very long Saturday....Zzzzzzz 

Today i went for Sports For Life 2.4km Run Assessment.
Pavri and Fiona went with me as well...They joined this a couple of years back, and this yeas, i came with them.

Didn't train for this run as well, and i think it was harder than running 5km because i need to have speed for this 2.4km run in order to get at least a bronze.

Thinking back, running 12min for 2.4km during my prime (JC days) took a lot of effort and training and I was wondering how much slower i will be running today.

We were late for the 1st batch of run, which started at about 7.45am. We waited for our turn and watched the 1st batch of runners. There was this slim built, tan woman leading the pack of runners and we were like gawking at her super toned legs. Her speed and pacing was so fast that she finished 2.4km in 9.06min! Bravo!

Next, the organisers arranged that the 1st batch of walkers to walk before the 2nd batch of runners run. And we saw this guy who was wearing a white skin tight top with super short fire engine red shorts. OMG....and he was so "stylo" with ipod and all, but he was taking part in the 2km walk assessment....Chey!!!! so stylo for wat?!!

Anyway, it was our turn finally....and the hot sun is out too...damn!
I wanted to follow Fiona's pace but she was too fast for me...(she runs regularly...unlike me...)
So i was huffing and puffing.....1st round completed in 2min....2nd round in 2.25min.... 3rd round 2.30min.......in the end I only managed a 15min for the end of 6 rounds..bronze..it was so tiring....
It felt good again to sweat it all out....got a sports wrist watch as souvenir and a H2O isotonic drink.....




2 weeks time ------ MOE Olive Run!!!!

Got the results:

Number tag           Name                             Gun timing                                          Nett timing                             Position

7402

Lee Peiyan

00:41:41.93

00:39:58

1377

                                           
Source: http://www.shape.com.sg/shaperun09/list-5km.php


                     


I'm going to run my 1st 5km run tomorrow!!!! So exciting!!!
Finally, i got the chance to take part in this annual Shape Run which has garnered so much popularity over the years....I remembered signing up for it a few years back and all i got back was a rejection letter from the organisers, saying that due to overwhelming responses they need to reject some runners....(Back then, there were no online booking yet.....)

So, i am wondering how well can i run tomorrow?? Will i come back last???? hehehhe...
I did not train for this....guess i just have to grit through my teeth and endure the whole run!

Strangely, once i got registered for my 1st run this year, other runs started sneaking into my life...
I got signed up for my Sports For Life 2.4km run assessment this 1st August. Then there is the 17th August MOE-Olive Run at East Coast too, i'll be joining in the mixed team 5km run too!!! hehehhe...

Sis asked to join kick-boxing classes and i agreed too!! I hope to try Yoga lessons too!
Say Yeah to a healthy lifestyle again!!!

24th Dec 2008

On christmas Eve, Darling and I went to Orchard 1st and the whole place was sooo crowded with ppl doing last min shopping (including me...heheee..) I got to buy the last part of yin's christmas present and i ended up buying her a diary 2009 at Kino. =)

Then, to escape the madness at Orchard, we proceeded to Clarke Quay for dinner. I was actually craving for Japanese Ramen again despite having just came back from Japan a couple days ago. But I got distracted by the steak shop at the basement called Fine Cuts. (Braveheart!!! Steak!!!) Anyway, we wanted to try this for a long time yet no chance so I thought why not have steak instead. And it's christmas eve, we should eat something ang moh-ish rite?

So we settled in on a christmas set for darling and mine USA kurobuta pork chops.
Photo frenzy while waiting for our dinner to be served.



The chefs preparing our meal...


I'm a proud owner of my Samatha Thavasa!!!!


"What cuts to u want?"


"Would u like some red wine?"


"Really dun want??" (act cute)


Ah....my food has arrived...


"I also want to take pic of my food!"


Overall, i feel that the food is fantastic!!! Really nicely marinated meat plus really appetizing salad...
Fine cuts is approved by Peiyan!

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25th Dec 2008

On Christmas day, I met up with yin and ane for the movie Australia at AMK Hub.
Yin and I was late and we ended up running towards the cinema and we were 15mins late for the movie....blur blur me thought it's 2.45pm instead of 2.35pm.....boohoo..i hate to miss movie openings.....arghhh....

Anyway, the movie was really great...i felt entertained though the movie was about 3hrs long....Both leads were so good looking, Nicole Kidman looked ravishing in all her costumes (i like the jockey suit she wore while she was riding, so nice!) and Hugh Jackman was the ultimate hunk there! yum!! hahaha....

After that, we made our way back to Sembawang and we were early. Cz was not there yet. I actually dread to wait at Sembawang MRT station coz i dun wan to see any of my students while i'm enjoying my hols...
so we started walking slowly towards Admiral Bar and Grill. Luckily we managed to get a table despite not reserving any. I think the crowd will only come later. 6pm is really early. hehhehee....so we settled down and Amigochoy arrived shortly. Oops...not amigochoy lah, it's Odinchoy.
While we were deciding what to eat, a over-zealous waitress kept bugging us to ask us whether are we ready to order. I was thinking, "oh no, another of those over zealous waiter/waiteress?! recap: last year's Tao's also got one irritating waiter" But luckily, after we've ordered, everything returned to normal.
So we exchanged presents while waiting for our food!


yin got me this...i was wondering what's this....i never have guessed that she'll buy Tales of the Beetle the bard for me!


a super nice nike gym bag from yin as well!! Cool!

Alright, the food soon arrived and we had to halt our present "ripping" session!


Seafood Combo



yin is happy with her mixed grill!


er....i think odinchoy expressed more happiness in his.....prawn....



while we decided to take some pretty shots will do...


ok....odinchoy managed to influence his crazy happiness in prawns to yin...


"argh...go back and eat ur prawn lah!"


let me see what paparazzi shots u have taken for the night?"


hmm....i wonder what yan bought for me from japan??"



ah...just open and see lah!

For the info, i bought yin a diary 2009, a Majolica mascara (Gorgeous wing), Integrate lipgloss and a packet of crystal nail stickers.


ah...just what i wanted..Chanel perfume...hmm? what's this? snowflakes earrings!!!


yin wearing the star bling bling pendant from ane


my perfect travel companion! Agnes b passport holder from ane!

Thanks for the wonderful gifts and the time spend together to make this Christmas a wonderful one!!

I cut my hair again....to shorter length this time!! Haven had my hair so short since JC days!!! (which is 8-9yrs ago)

A series of mock-paparazzi photos....







Finally, here is a proper pic! And check out my Music-Man concert Tee!! Woohoo!!!





And we went "jumping" too! hehehe...




Music-Man concert is one of the best Lee-Hom concert i ever been to!!! And i got to grabbed hold of his hand!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
He sang many songs that he had not sang before "live" and he sang them last night!

And he was super entertaining and "high"! His physique is at his best now, with rippling muscles, bulging pectoral muscles and fab eight pecs!! Sun Yan zi and Kit Chen were there swooning over him in the front row....

He came off stage very very early in the concert, causing us to run and squeeze our way towards the front. Peiyun managed to shake his hand at that point but i didn't. The 2nd time was when he performed a magic trick where he was "teleported" to the back of the stadium where the ppl went wild and never expected their backrow seats were the best seats of the night!! He was right there with all of them! Cool! As he made his way down the aisle to the stage, we ran to the aisle and wait for him. It was then, i saw my chance and grabbed his hand!! hhahahaha...i know it was so crazy but you cant help when you see him just right in front of you, within reach....hahhahahaa...

After that, it was a blur, the security guards were pushing everyone away and in the process, many ppl got literally dragged along in that mad pushing. My sis was one of them. After i got freed, i grabbed hold of her and pulled her back or else she might have a danger of getting trampled on.
Phew.....such an exciting night! The stage lights and big screens were fantastic (except for a small gitch in the big screen in the 1st part of the concert).

Here are some photos taken by paparazzi Choy:














Eagerly waiting for his new album to release!!1

Pre-cut picture....ugly and messy hairstyle




To.....this!!!



Cut a new bob hairstyle at Next Salon, Holland V



Check out my haircolour too! Never tried red colour too! I had a dark base with violet-red brown streaks!

Is it nice??


Went to have a happy happy night out at Wala Wala after dinner!

Cz also had his hair cut too!!



My sis' new bangs!! Her hair cut was "magically" transformed by the Artistic director at Next! hahahha...