A nice Saturday :)

Tom and moi headed down to Audio house at Liang court this afternoon to look at Home Theater system. We are planning to get a decent one which must also be within our budget. So far, we have shortlisted down to two brands and will probably make a decision soon.

Getting a decent Home Theater system with the receiver, subwoofer, speakers is probably gonna cost us like S$2.5K to 3K.. It's still pretty reasonable price to pay especially when the top tier home theater systems are like S$10k and above. On the other hand, we hardly watch TV at home and i'm away half of the time.. moi just hope it's not gonna be like a white elephant..

Anyway, while heading over to Liang court, we passed by Clarke Quay and saw they have already put up the mooncake festival displays.. Speaking about Clarke Quay, it has change so much for the past few years... It's definitely more vibrant and colourful as compare to its neighbourly Boat Quay and Riverside.

Large floating lanternsThis ang moh guy saw moi and tom taking pictures of each other and offered to help us take a picture together.. It's probably the FIRST TIME EVER in my entire life where strangers just offer their help.. Awwwww~ Thank you so much, Mister :)These are lanterns in the shape of some Chinese folktales characters and will be lit up at night for the mooncake festival.
Moi can just visualised the whole place looking so beautiful and colourful when night falls

Speaking about mooncake festival, need to sidetrack abit.. WHY ARE MOONCAKES GETTING MORE AND MORE EXPENSIVE each year?!?! moi just bought a box of mooncakes for my parents and it cost like S$48!! @@
AWWWW...i found my BAA BAA lantern!!!
Tried to look for Tom's Chinese Zodiac, The Tiger but to no avail...Oh well~~~
Guess I'm the lucky one :P

Random pictures taken while walking over to Suntec for the Comex Exhibition
Cool pictures outside the ladies
cool picture outside The gents
on the window display of Kinokuniya
Preparation for the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix on September 28
This is probably the Grand stand?
The Comex Exhibition was jammed packed with thousands of people.
Hmmm...The term "packed like sardines" suddenly popped into my mind.

Anyway, we wanted to find out how much they were offering for this particular brand of Home Theater system. Turns out that the price quoted at the Comex was actually 30% more expensive than what was quoted at this particular shop in The Adelphi.
The moral of the story: The prices at Comex may not be as competitive as what you think. The best advice will be to do your homework and research first and not just buy on impulse.

I finally bought the Rubik's cubes!!! It has been constantly on my mind since moi saw it at Micke's (Tom's elder brother) place. Micke and Helena are huge fans of the Rubik's cubes and moi got kinda hooked on it too when i was there last summer..

TATA!!! My Rubik's cube collection!!
moi wanted to get the 5X5 Rubik's cube too but tom was like "Enough is Enough" while dragging me away... *sighz*
So that's my Saturday... Hope yours was as interesting as mine!! :)

A wonderful day in Maldives~

This is probably my third time to Maldives this year. Nevertheless,this beautiful and amazing island never fail to impress me. It's a totally difference experience each time i come here.
I know you have seem pictures of Maldives on my blog countless times..but i just couldnt resist posting them up.. HEEHEEI just heart these cute lil huts!!! The resort gives a special rate for airline crew and moi heard it's super nice inside... i casually mentioned to Tom that we should go to Maldives for our honeymoon and he thinks it's a wonderful idea too!!

WOOHOOO~
(and mabbe add Cape town, Hawaii, Alaska etc in our honeymoon list too)Awww.... So pretty~One of crew brought along a tent..
YESHHHH!!!! A TENT!!!

Initially we were like poking fun of her and the tent(in a good way of cos).
I mean a tent at a beach?!?!?!

But the tent prove to be super useful... especially when we wanna hide from the strong sun rays
The pretty ladies at work~Its super easy to set up (no help from the guys at all :P) and she bought it for like just S$20!!
Makes me wanna head down to carrefour and get one just for fun!Our purple tent in the middle of nowhere.. look out of place among the beach chairs but WHO CARES when you're having fun!!!! :)
AND its quite a large tent too.. could easily fit like 6-8persons
Silly poses~
It's so dodgy cos i did my lasik a month ago and i cant get sea water into my eyes for the time being. So while the rest are in their bikinis and getting tanned, moi had to be contented in my t-shirt and shorts...

Sniffies~

With two young hunks! They were like trying to drag moi into the water while moi was frantically waving my arms and screaming " NOOO!! My three thousand dollars eyes!! NOO!!"
(thats how much i paid for the lasik)
And to top it off, the rest of them decided to go for a banana boat ride while MOI (yesh!! MOI) have to stay behind to take care of the tent and the belongings!!

I SO DON'T FEEL like talking at it..HMMPH :PIts kinda blurry cos moi using like optical cum digital zoom (cos they are super far from the shore) YESH, i can see you guys are having SO MUCH FUN~
While the rest of them are happily enjoying their banana boat ride, moi is (happily) contented just feeding bread to the fishes..
THE WATER LOOK SO TEMPTING!!!!!! ARGHHHH

The sea water is super clear!!! moi could practically see right through to my feet!!!
Feeding the colourful (and hungry) coral fishes
Got kinda bored feeding the fishes after awhile so moi diverted my attention to my favourite friend on the beach.. THE HERMIT CRAB!!

MUHAHAHA
moi just find them so intriguing...
FACTS:
Hermit crabs protected themselves from predators by carrying around an empty seashell and as they grows in size, it has to find a larger shell and abandon the previous one.
It is nearly impossible to pull a hermit crab out of its shell without tearing the crab apart.

Anyway, this little friend of mine is so not shy
it's caught on camera stealing a piece of bread meant for the fishes!!!
while exploring around the area, moi came across a Blacktip reef shark!!
Which is so coollll~
i don't do scuba diving so i could never get a chance to see blacktip reef shark or clown fish or jelly fishes (TV does not count!). So it's a pleasant surprise to be so up close and personal with marine life. Moi literally stepped into the water to take a closer look at it. But it's extremely shy and swim away the moment it felt my presence.
I just feel extremely fortunate. This definitely make up for not being on that banana boat! :)
A little boy beside moi pointed out a sting ray in a distanceOh i Love Maldives!! And i love this set of crew!!!
Thank you guys.....Cheers!!! :)

woohooo~~

:)

Yaaayyy!!!
moi just passed my basic driving test!!
(so did Tom~)

Both of us immediately signed up for the driving course with Singapore Safety Driving Centre Ltd located at ulu Ang Mo Kio. Apparently, the chances of passing and getting a driving licence is much higher when you enroll in a driving school as compare to getting a private driving instructor..

TATA!!
My training booklet in PINK and Tom's in BLUE.. Nay, it's not because of gender difference (DUHHHHH~)
Mine's in PINK cos moi signed up for Automatic car driving licence whereas Tom signed up for the manual car driving licence

KUAKUAKUA

I can imagine myself having difficulties with manual car, the changing and shifting of gears etc and getting an automatic car will hopefully makes driving a breeze :)

Hope to get a driving licence in 6mths time....In the meantime, im happy with just having my provisional driving licence..heehee

Tioman trip!

The Tioman trip was before i did my lasik.

TATA!!! Me in spec and no makeup!!
au natural moi!!
Sniffie...Cant wear contacts for a week cos i was going for lasik
Some people look good in specs and i seriously think im not one of them. Mabbe that's one of the reason why moi contemplating doing lasik. Just imagine the hassle of not putting on contacts and removing them at the end of the day..And when u open your eyes in the morning, everything around you look so clear and bright... Arhhhhh, just pure bliss.

The lil vain part of moi refuse to wear my specs when we hit the beach. Instead, i wore my big bug eyes sunnies and walked around half blind.. Thank goodness moi didn't step on a hermit crab or something poisonous! AND TOM being DODGY by wearing contact! He knew i can't wear them and still he wears them during the whole trip..EEVILLLLLL~~~

Playing around with my bookmark which i gotten from the MRT train some time back..HAHA
Think it's an advertisement of the Singapore Prison..
Moi Heart the "Do not disturb" caption!
Happily place it on Tom who's starting to turn abit baked from all the sun!Our package include a 30mins complimentary bicycle rental which we did on Day 2.
We were happily cycling for 10mins when my bicycle chain came off.
Tom tried to fix it but couldn't. And we're like stranded in the middle of nowhere (alrite, it's not like in the wilderness BUT STILL). Thankfully, a minibus drove by and moi hitched a ride after explaining to the drivers the situation.

BAD BICYCLE!! *spank spank*
Self taken picture using a timer.. This was before the bicycle chain incident.
we look so lovey dovey in this picture.. holding hands and arms around each other
Anyone getting goosebumps?? heheTom drinking AGAIN!!!!Nay, he just drinks occasionally.. It's funny cos i know tom's friend, family and even his boss read my bloggie (please dun ask me why) so i'll TRY not to say too much MEAN THINGS about Tom but at the same time, i love to poke fun of him in my blog..
just take what i mention about Tom with a sense of humour..

You know I LOVE HIM!!! :)

How could you not, when he looks so cute at times..hehe
moi, who had nasi goreng for almost every meals!!
Thanks to Tom, my foot and A&F flip flops was stained with chicken curry!!
He toppled over the whole bowl of chicken curry, and as a result, the curry gravy seeps through the gaps on the table and right onto my foot and flip flops!!!

He didn't get any gravy on himself of cos!
why do these kind of things only happen to me -_-

On our last night in Tioman, we headed down to the game room.
We played a game of Daytona car racing(which i won of cos) and Bubble puzzle(which i won as well..heehee!!!)

But when it comes to pool, Tom wins hands down..
He won all 3 games...Darn~

I sux at POOL!!!
Tom looking so smug...
yaya WHATEVER~~~~~ yawnnzzzz :P

It was a good break and we had so much fun..except for the heat rashes all over my body
*scratch scratch*

Learned a new Swedish word from Tom..
Ondska... when u translate into English, it means "evilness"
so ondska Tom for not letting me win in pool!!!!
hmmph :P