Nihon...here we come!!!

It had been a rather busy week at work and boy was I looking forward to the weekend! I guess the main excitement for us is the fact that we booked a trip to Japan! We were more or less planning for a trip in Apr or May, so after a 3 whole hours at the NATAS fair this weekend, we finally signed up for a tour package that gave us the best value for what we wanted....So counting down now! If the tour group forms (which we were told high chance of confirmation), we'll be leaving in a month's time! :)

Long Weekend = Family Time

I had a long weekend this week mainly because I was on leave on Friday :) That day became the 'cousins' outing day. As my young cousins were having the March school holidays break, we decided to go out together just to have a bit of fun. We headed to KBOX for brunch and belted out some of the latest Chinese pop songs. After that was bowling time! I'm not very good at it at all, but we still played 4 games. My highest score was 83...pathetic...haha... Anyway, after the activities, my body totally ached on Saturday and Sunday (!) from the bowling. Terrible :(

Saturday was Dear's cousin's 21st birthday celebration, so we had dinner at the bbq pit they rented. Quite a simple evening spent with the maternal side of the family :) Check out the t-shirt that PaPa was wearing...it glows! Ha Ha...

Finally on Sunday, another round of birthday celebration. This time it's Dear's grandma's birthday lunch at some chinese restaurant at RiverView Hotel. The service there really sucked man...the waitresses also don't smile, all look so serious and 'du lan' : -| As it was alacarte buffet, we were quite pissed at the way they took our orders but yet took so long to deliver some of the dishes! Anyway, other than that, it was still a hearty meal. We end of with a really big family picture:

It's a 'techie' weekend!

I became quite the 'techie' person this weekend with the IT fair going on at Suntec. Dear and I went down on Saturday and it was really packed with people. Quite a lot of people were browsing, while some others made their purchases. We belonged to the latter. Well, actually we were there just to buy new speakers for our desktop and we did get them eventually from CREATIVE. However, after walking around, I started to get very tempted by the notebooks lurking in every other booth... :P After much consideration, we bought an ACER notebook...something that is within our budget and of suitable configuration. Pretty happy after that! Hehe... so it was a techie weekend indeed... :)

元宵节

After 15 days, we've come to the end of Chinese New Year. Today being 元宵节, Dear's family decided to have another round of reunion dinner amongst ourselves at home. Surprisingly, Sudha came with Phyllis today...looks like he has finally recovered from his bout of 'sickness'...haha...Anyway, we had steamboat and also yu sheng. Last day to say Happy New Piggy Year!