Saturday, December 31, 2016

Friends meet up 2016

as the years go by, we make more friends, we have more work-related stuff to look into, we have new priorities and obligations in life hence i find that committing one's time to meet up with friends from all over to be increasing difficult as we age.... 

so i am extremely thankful for all these friends who makes the effort and heart to remain in contact or to re-connect in 2016... 

the adv dippies @ a?edge exhibition in Sota to celebrate Anisah's proud moment of having her iconic artwork being selected for moe art teacher recruitment ad..... 



NIE pals who meet up rather regularly for teaching 'exchange' and 'critical thinking games' but who will only take pics when everyone is dressed up and has make-up on.... making Mab's wedding in July into an no excuse to reject taking pic & must take at least a thousand pics event .... wahahahaha



my favourite art department babes who went through crazy years together to bring art enjoyment to all our kids... =D 



adding on to more experiences & memories together since 1995



the group that 逃学 and 翘课 together back in JC.... oopx....



Jasmine, my primary school classmate, saw me alighting from the train and fb messaged me... and i took the opportunity to initiate a dinner date a week later which she readily accepted... the last time we met was more than 18 years ago.... time really flies and i am so so so excited to see her and to be re-connected ...



first knew Jess when i was 19 ... we had met at cwp when she approached me to do a saving survey and eventually taught me how to start saving for my future... thank you for all the advice and for being so diligent in doing follow-up with such a non-responsive client... =P



my PTL since JC days.... thanks for always initiating meet-ups but no thanks to always cheating my $$$ at the mahjong table... =P 



our 5th annual together since 2012... have upgraded from shaking it out @ Playnation to just sit & chat session... heee.... congrats HM once more and see everyone again next year ... hopefully can squeeze in a mini one in March 2017 when HM pops ... =) 




with friends from my 1st official job for dinner @ Soup restaurant Paragon... so glad that Cheryl & Adele could join us this year and even Vincent popped by for a 10 minutes chat


SL Alumni is growing.... =P 

so so so lucky to bump into Samatha on the train too.... also a SL alumni and currently based in the UK .... All the best in your studies and your career as a radiologist ... =*



with my favourite librarian, Auntie Fei Mee, and Ain.... hijacked their date .. =P 



mini council gathering @ min hua's place on boxing day.... thanks for hosting us.... cya at home sweet home during cny 2017 ... =D



 
almost full attendance with new members for RSS gathering @ Chunyang's place on New Year's Eve ... =D

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also much thanks to vivian, xinying, lina and yin siang for meeting up.... on my 2017 resolution list is to take pics with all of you next year... =P

Friday, December 23, 2016

macaroon bracelet workshop with Agnes @ Aiclay

Thanks to Agnes' invitation, i got the chance to do some craft work this year.... =P  


we paid $150 each for a 4 hour private polymer clay workshop, all materials inclusive at Aiclay studio in Scape on 23 December where we made a macaroon bracelet each... =) 


Jocelyn, the owner of Aiclay who happens to share the same wedding anniversary as Mr Ang & I, was so sweet to gift Agnes with a box of real macaroons as visual aids so that we could observe the nitty gritty details of the macaroons ... =) 


so many colours of polymer clay to choose from.... luv luv ... 


i have always enjoyed doing miniature craft + it was xmas season + wanting to support local crafter + Jocelyn was such an inspiring entrepreneur  + there was a good discount on Aiclay's Pocket Kitchen diy set = I am the proud owner of one set of this.. =D


this diy kit was assembled by Jocelyn with tools that she had designed and sourced from all over the world and there was even a fund raising campaign via Indiegogo


best part is that this diy kit comes with 12 online tutorials that teaches how to make each and every one of these delicacies below.... 

(pics from Aiclay/Indiegogo)

but i dun wanna make them alone.... so artsy friends, do join me if you are interested k??? we can have a craft gathering at home sweet home in hougang yeah?!?!?!... =D 

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

MX got Mails

chanced upon this amazing booklet @ Daiso and knew right away that it was going to make my life so much easily this December Holiday....

 
cos one of the must-do item on my list was to write postcards to MX so that she received them at some of the ports that her PEACE BOAT docked at between 20 Dec 2016 to Mar 2017.... 

started on the first one on 4th December... destination "Singapore" ... Just after 3 weeks from the start of her voyage, MX would be back in Singapore for a day....  


bought this for myself but decided to enclosed it within the message to add some 'entertainment' value to the postcard... heee


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decided to carry on with the 'enclosed' gift idea and managed to find more tiny tiny flat gifts for the next few postcards as well.. =D  

bookmark from my stash of kiddos' reward for being good in art classes that i bought from BKK a few years back 


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ezlink-card sticker that i gotten from my Taichung trip back in 2013 while visiting the Doraemon exhibition 


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From Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Korea this February 2016 


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Set out to post the first 5 cards but only managed to send out 4 ... Post Office staff could not locate 'Mozambique' in their system and hence couldn't advice me on the postage.... =S 


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so 'repackaged' the 5th card by pasting a new address over it... "reuse, reduce, recyle" .... 

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super cute tab stickers that i gotten from Daiso


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left-over (but still cute) puffy stickers that i bought long long ago.... 


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spent 3 days to write & decorate 8 of which only 3 were received....  (-_- )~