My little garden of oasis

29th March 2017

6th May 2017

My coriander didn't make it and lemon balm looks very dry and weak. I think it's due to climate. Not too sure if I have the ability to save it.

My chili plant is growing well and harvesting a few rounds of spicy chilis (yay!) and I'm happy and comforted to see a second round of African flower buds blooming (so happy!).

Money Plant is growing well, wished I can hang it higher to allow the plant tendrils to climb.

Green Fingers in Feb and March :)

I did it! I went ahead and bought plants!!! It's actually very therapeutic to care for them and watch them blossoms.

This Christmas, I'm mighty proud of myself!

It's perfect!

Stir fry vegetables in my Happy Call

Log cake

Left over beef with salad

Pokemon Fan!

Never thought that I would get hooked on games, much less Pokemon when it first came to Singapore. Tried just for experience but am now slowly but steadily moving onward despite a slow start. The funny thing is, it appears that the "older" generation is playing it more than the children/teens for whom it was created for!

Hello!

Geez... someone hacked into my blog and posted weird stuffs. That's not me.
Here's a picture of cats having dinner to cheer up this busy Tuesday.
Have been too busy and lazy to blog... spending some time today catching up on blogs I missed.

See Ya!

Makan_16: Brekkie at Epicurious

We took part in Run for Hope on January 31, 2016 to beat Cancer and we trekked another 4km to Epicurious for a hearty breakfast. Been  meaning to eat here for a very long time!

Epicurious at The Quayside

#01-02 The Quayside, Robertson Quay

Tel: 6734-7720

Makan_16: CNY feasting

Hello 2016!

It has been too long and I have been swamped with school work and pure exhaustion and laziness to blog. Life have been great and fulfilling and days passes so quickly I am stunned. 3 years have passed just like that and I'm at my last practicum module trying very hard to get words on paper.

I have faced disappointments and witness transformation of self. I have built perseverance and resilience and confidence. I have battled self doubt and struggled with peers smarter than me. But I have learn acceptance  and love for self. I have gone closer to God who walked with me through it all. I am never good enough in my own opinion but I have learn to cut myself some slack. I know I have tried my best and I need to put things in perspectives.

Let it go.

To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
it’s to make the most of myself.

To let go is not to judge,
but to allow another to be a human being.

To let go is not to deny,
but to accept.

To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.

To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
but to try to become what I dream I can be.

To let go is not to regret the past,
but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is to fear less and love more
 and to let God in to find peace.

                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                ~ an excerpt.~
                                                                                                                                author unknown.

Hello 20k15!

I am glad 2014 is over! I felt that I'm holding my bated breath in anticipation for any more illnesses to strike me. What's with the torn ligaments, allergy reaction, hospital and medical visits and the 1 month plus cough that came and left and stayed for one month when I was on CA. Thankfully, God's grace and my resilient enabled my survival in the past year.

Now that 2015 is here, I'm looking forward to better health, fun at schools (both work and studies) and I really really want to do well and get an A for at least one module (pleeease..)

Also looking forward to more cooking, baking and time with my hubby, mummy and friends that matters. It will be an awesome year!

Post Exams Joy

So the exams are finally over for this semester! Woohoo!
QEM is tough and I really want to score well for Lifestyle... so I studied really hard and of course no self respecting student will miss a chance to instagram that as well. hahaha.

Now, I can only pray and wait for my results and enjoy life without this additional stress.

15 days to Final exams

can't get over the amount of readings required. it does get better in 2nd year ... or am I deluded?
need determination and intense focus.

I is for Ice-cream

Because I'm doing the #fmsphotoaday prompt, I got the girls to buy an ice cream to snap this picture. Had a couple of small spoonfuls (still trying to abstain from cold food and drinks) and it's not too bad. Ovaltine flavoured from 8 Fahrenheit at school.

A midday cuppa

Now that I've finally found the time to explore SIM and found the new Starbucks, I am a happy mooch :)

My caffeine tolerance has been rather low since I fell sick, I get jittery if I drink too much and I can't sleep at night. All messed up and never before unless I drank coffee after 7.30PM. Well, this experience taught me to listen to my body and treat it right, feeding it wholesome food and cutting down on cold drinks. Anyway, I compromised by allowing myself to drink Starbucks and cold coffee once in awhile. Otherwise it's always Kopi now, no more Kopi-peng much to the astonishment of my friends who gets me kopi.

It's Children Day and we get to leave 1 hour early. Yay! Long weekend this week and hoping to have some form of will power to do up my notes and study a bit.

Mugging with an iPhone 5 in the other hand

My life: Mugging hard for QEM... thought I understood it but when I read a new question, my mind goes momentarily blank! Wish I'm a full time student so that I can focus better and not get distracted so easily. On a tech note, while the whole world queues up for iPhone 6, hubby and I got an iPhone 5. Price has dropped and there's voucher in our teleco plan. Why not? iPhone 6 feels too big and light... maybe next time.

Faith - To hold on to Faith.

 “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida 

This year has not been kind to me, health wise. After passing my 100th day of recovery for my torn ligament, I had a very, very bad allergic reaction to virus, further triggered by shellfish (prawn) that resulted in a 2 times admission to A&E in a day. Happened on my birthday somemore!

I do not wish to dwell on it, learning to let go and living positively. I am not exarggerating when I say I'm deeply tramautised. It was bad.

Faith is what I have taken away from this. To believe and have faith that God is with me at all times.
That my family, my hubby, my friends are my grounding factors. That I need to listen to my body and not get too stressed out.

Drifting petals

 

“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.”

― Dylan Thomas

and so the days of assisted living begins....

I've always pride my independence and mobility. A freak accident caused me to slipped on an oil spill on the road and tore my ligament. The ankle is injured badly and I can't place my weight on it. I almost blacked out in vasovagal syncope (pain) after making my way to the bus stop. Thank goodness my saviour came and whisked me off before I appear on STOMP. I went to A&E and was given 3 days MC.

Life in my current job is tough. Always others before self, no one to take over my class and with practical test commencing next week plus all those PH make up, I had no choice but to go to work. I conducted my class in wheelchair, a first time experience.

Sigh, anyway swelling has subsided but bruising is bad. I shudder at thinking about work next week.
This school is not handicap friendly.

Udon and Wan Tan Mee

Randomness: Udon from a new fave shop in Liang Court and random wan tan mee from a hawker in Ang Mo kio during data collection last Wed.

Randomly Puss

Puss being the manja bodyguard as I cleared the kitchen on Sunday.

Too hot to do anything other than sleep.