Chiang Mai - Day One

My first time to Chiang Mai and its for a site inspection. The minute we arrived, we were in for a packed day.

We checked out the temple which was not very impressive to me.

I was wowed by the hotel though. The Mandarin Oriental is beautiful and huge. The entry room itself is a suite. Big bedroom, big bathroom, big balcony and there's even a jacuzzi tub!

What is CNY without gambling

Chinese New Year never feels like CNY without indulging in a bit of gambling. This is also the only period where gambling is kinda 'legal'. Although I have no 横财运, I still cannot resist playing mahjong or cards. After all, these games are good for your brain...exercising them with maths and strategy.

Have spent the past 2 nights playing Big 2. Lost some and won some. Next week 再战大老二！

Gathering

Tonight was our annual class gathering...CNY period is the only time we gather coz Mark is back during CNY.

It was fun to catch up with everyone, update each other and reminisce the old days.

Till the next CNY...

'Lucky me'

How lucky can I get? I seems to kena stones falling onto my car all the time.

Today was the worse of all, was driving on aye to Clementi Mall during lunch when I heard glass breaking sound on my windscreen.

I was prepared for the worse when I got off the car in the car park to inspect the damage. The break is actually very mild and surface only but the crack is super obvious and ugly. 😞

I was upset as its only 2 days to CNY! Hope that this bad luck is for this year and won't go into the next year!

Not sure if I would need to replace the windscreen, will need expert advice.

Enough is enough

When are they going to stop talking about the government's plan to increase population growth? I'm getting so sick of reading every headline in papers, online, FB that says 6.9 million population!

After reading all the views and reports, there are points that I agree with and I don't agree with. My personal take:

• Increase in foreign worker - it is probably needed as no singaporeans are willing to do the dirty work of construction, plus pay is not great.
• Please fix the infrastructure and transportation system. The system now is not even able to support our current population. If you can get it fixed, you can go ahead and have population growth.
• Are we setting our ambitions too high for 6.9 million?  Singapore is only a small island and we are scarce in land. Even though the govenment assures that we have room but at what price?  We will lose not only green areas where people can enjoy, home size will probably become even smaller and housing will be made even more expensive by those bloodsucker developers

In any case, whether we agree or disagree, will the government change its mind???  I think I already know what's the verdict on this.

My mani and pedi for CNY

Went to did my mani and pedi today. It's freaking expensive...$117...faintz

Worse still, it's so disappointing, I only did basic glitter nail art but it didn't meet my expectations. And my pedi is already chipped! Now I felt the Holland one was even better than this.

Really need to find a good nail salon soon.

Candymania

I'm obsessed with Candy Crush Saga. I can't help myself, the game is super addictive!

It has been keeping me up long after my bed time...switching playing between my 2 phones and waiting for friends to send me more lives so that I can advance.

And now my wait has paid off. I'm off to continue with my game!!

CNY goodies

Woohoo...CNY gifts from the company.

Shopping vouchers, Ang pow and Ang kum. Not sure what's the logic with giving shopping vouchers and Ang pow but I'm not complaining. :)

Stay happy

Today is 立春 and I'm supposed to stay happy, wear red and deposit money. This will ensure that the rest of the year will be a happy one with lots of money coming in.

I can feel it, today's gonna be a good good day!

Look what I found

Was helping mum to clear her drawer and found my kindergarten report card!