Met up with my jie meis yesterday at Grand Hyatt Mezzanine for high-tea.

Occasion: Kailing's 24th birthday
Ambience: Superb
Food: 4/5 (Quality food but not so much of a variety)

Huge succulent prawns, oysters, clams and mussels. Quality.

Joy. Got my favourite dessert cakes, mousses, chocolate fondue, mangoes, ice-cream etc etc.

Ok, next on. I G-MASKED my phone!! Myself!

This is the front.

The back!!! Nice anot nice anot! Quick say nice! I just love it so much lor!
Mei dao~~~(pretty until~~)

And I also did my nails. Glitter french. Myself too! Speaking of which, I want to recommend this glitter nail polish which is good!

From O2. This is good because the glitter bits are very big, so it is really glitz and glam. Unlike those glitter dust nail polish, you usually have to apply like 3 coats and above then you can see the glitter, and it may not be very obvious too. So this is good! And it's cheap! I cannot remember the price cos it was quite some time ago, but it's not expensive.

Look at my nail art collection! Got paint, instruments, crystals, stickers, tips etc etc!
I'm very much into nail-art as I think that's the only thing that makes me happy when I have pretty nails and people start going " Wah! You do yourself ah! How to do?"

So here's Bren's guide on 5 simple steps to get a basic simple nail-art. Idiot proof ok. I know some of you are capable of better things but like I said, BASIC. SIMPLE.

Step 1: Base coat to protect the nails. I'm using this from Daiso. Cheap cheap $2!

Step 2: Paint your nails with your favourite colour. A good nail polish helps in the smoothness of application and for them to last.

Step 3: Get the design you like and make an agar measurement of how long you need to cut.

Step 4: Stick the design any way you like it using a pair of tweezers for better control. It can be slanted, vertical..anything! I chose horizontal this time.

Last step: When all toes are done, use top coat for that laquered finish and protection!

And Tada!!! I've got my full set of pretty pedicure with nail-art!

Birthday celebrations continue.
This round was with my Jie Meis at "Sun with Moon Japanese Restaurant"
~Wheelock Place~

Yeah! Got Present!

My Jie Meis forever: Kailing and Joy. Baby came along too.

Baby and Kailing had stone cooked rice set (I don't know what's the exact name) but technically speaking, there was this hourglass which was turned upside down to allow the food to be cooked first before you indulge.

Both Joy and I had this Unagi Don set with Mushroom Hot Pot.
It's like huge lor. They aren't stingy with the unagi and there are many kinds of mushrooms in the hot pot. Everyone loves the soup although I didn't find it as tasty as what they claimed.
Anyway there was still a portion of fruits, vegetables and coffee/tea together with this set.

It's desserts time! We shared 3 types of desserts.
1) Chocolate Mousse Cake.
Very western and very standard. Delicious but it's the expected kind of taste, so nothing to wow about.

2) Tofu Cheese Cake. Wonderful.
Kailing loved it so much but it's really very light and refreshing. Not those heavy kind that makes you wanna puke from the cheese overdose.

3) This is black sesame pudding.
It's like the beancurd version of black sesame paste. Erm..It didn't really go too well with me but all of them said it's nice.

The one stalk rose cannot be missed for all occasions. Hehe, baby's so sweet.

Presents: Baby bought me a big useful bag! I love it!

Jie Meis gave me a foundation and highlighter (for eyes, nose etc).
I've never tried this brand Benefit before, so I'm very excited to use it on Monday! The little "handbag" you see is actually the gift box, so pretty! Pretty cosmetics make you feel pretty using it also, don't you think so?

The princess's on leave on 09 July-actual birthday!

I was in my pretty, brand new sun dress!
It was a family celebration dinner.
Too bad darling cannot join us due to work, so we'll have a belated one some time later then!

Birthday dinner was chinese cuisine.
Cod fish (top). Claypot toufu with seafood (bottom left) and Salted egg prawns (bottom right).

I know the food pics don't look that enticing, but the taste was really not bad!
Bamboo Clams in Oyster sauce (top) and Asparagus garlic fried (bottom).

I simply love this cake! From Sweet Secrets!

Clearly 24.

Clem and Me.

Presents! Pretty bling bling heels from Clem.

I chose this jacket and a pair of ballerina shoes from Adidas!
Charge to Mom and Dad! Heh.

05 July 2008
BBCSC TEAMBUILDING EVENT
(And more birthday celebrations)
SUNTEC CITY

Further to my birthday party the day before, all of us had to rise and shine for today's event at 8.30am. Still, we looked good!

Angelynn (pink), Sylvia (black) and the 4 Team Leaders

My TEAM!

With new changes in our KPI, we also had to give ourselves a team name. Hence, ours is S-T-R-E-T-C-H. You know..to stretch our abilities to the extremes etc....

But for this particular day, we were mixed around and had to form teams to play game. I was made the team leader and our team name for the day was PASSION. Cos the event was to do with service quality, so passion fitted in so well!

Lavena and I again.

My work team stretching MayMay. Haha.

And guess what, there were actually 3 people in BBCSC whose birthday falls on 05 July. So they kind of celebrated for all the July babies. You see 5 candles here. We were supposed to blow one candle each.

Mine's on 09 July, Mee Mee's on 10 July.
And the remainder (Julian, MayMay and Wendy) all on 05 July.

And so we were made the centre of attraction by having the whole department singing song for us.

Cake cutting

This is a gift from Angelynn, Sylvia and the 4 Team Leaders!

And this is BBCSC.

BREN'S (Advanced) BIRTHDAY PARTY
PARTY WORLD ORCHARD

04 JULY 2008

Vivien, me and Lavena-Pose 1

Both of them were on early release so they met the princess to help with the cake and deco!

Vivien, me and Lavena-Pose 2

Vivien and Yvonne. Realised something? The theme is pink or polka dots!
Maybe you can't see but Yvonne is wearing a polka dot top too!

And the princess tries to be naughty...haha.

Adelyn, Mee Mee, Joanna and Catherine came to join us after the official 6pm.

Adelyn singing all her english songs while we fans try to lose some fats on the arms. Haha.

It's the first game of the night! Pass the balloon! See how Yvonne tries to answer the question with Cat and Vivien distracting her.

But she still managed to win a prize by answering correctly!

Bren and Mee Mee

Bren and Joanna

Bren and Catherine

The last 2 who didn't manage to win any prizes fought it out by playing the "seaweed game" also known as hai dai quan. So yeah, in the end, everybody won something!

After much singing and playing, it was cake cutting time!

Make a wish...make a wish..

This mango cake is from Breadtalk courtesy of darling and it's not bad, not loaded with cream, so not yucky. There's a layer of mango mousse though.

And that's the gang!

Presents galore! Even the box and paper bag was pink!
It was a goodie-bag from all of them with many things inside!

Yvonne was special, she made her own card and gave me 2 items!
Givenchy Very Irresistable perfume (describes me right! haha) and a mickey mouse handphone strap!

The goodie bag contained a pretty dress from Osmose, a glitter mascara, nail art stones and a pink evening bag from Fashion Lab! They just know me inside out!

Most importantly, there was a handmade card (by catherine) with everybody's well-wishes! It was really beautiful and so touching lor! Thank you lovelies!

What's in the goodie bag.

Every birthday baby gets a balloon from OCBC! Haha.

This is the pink handbag from Fashion Lab

Yellow Osmose dress

To add on, I just love this bling bling mascara so much!

More blings on everywhere that I can carry them

Very Irresistable!



It's a really happy happy birthday!
THANK YOU everyone for the presents, and for turning up at the party of the century!
Oh yaa! Thank you baby darling for fetching me home after the event!