PEAs

-FISHING ANYONE?!

Who's free during the examination period.. (It's exam-free fer me!)

Most are either working are mugging now..Argh.

(Even Madagascar would have to be a 2 week wait from now.)

-Baking!

-Shopping

-Slumber Party (never too old fer that.. haha)

-Marina Barrage Picnic/Dinner

-Island Hopping (This had been kiv-ed fer a year!)

Naming a few but my list is endless..

My hols in Singapore would be a short one..

The rest are spent in Sydney, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City!

Hope to catch up with my beloveds!

P.S.:

-KTV!!

I just went fer it till late with my archi-mates..

To think of it, I hadn't step into any ktv lounge fer a year.. Really do miss it!

Random Assays

I do really feel like Christmas is here.

The lights are bright, the weather's right.

Purrfect fer a Christmas night.

And here I am stuck with ASSays, aight!

By the way, I was scanning through some of the assays my guest lecturer wrote when I noticed his incessant rave on Mazu and Zhenghe.
(Back in year 1, I thought he was really insightful to dig up so much on a eunuch and learned that he is a muslim but prays to Mazu and linked all these to S.E.Architecture!)

Unbeknownst, my eyes wandered to his biblography to take a look at who his fellow M&Z-obssessed compatriots are.
How my brows raised when I saw that 75% of his biblo cities his previous papers.
What a 'brilliant' idea!! He totally wins left-right-up-side-down.

It should be of hands reach fer him to clinch the most cited prof award in the School of Design & Environment.

Is this ethical?
It makes me wonder the credibility of his papers.

I'd give him the benefit of the doubt since he's still sitting comfortably in his staff room.
Then again, if this is indeed ethical, I urge every uni prof to follow in his footsteps to help gain more points for his/her university under the citation category for uni world rankings. 

Sheesh.
Just simply have no mood to do my urban quiz and I want to watch Madagascar..

- Nothing of me is ever going down south. 

The famous quote from Emily to Timothy. Hee Haw.

Submission Madness

Had immense help from Lim Productions +2.

My design only came up 2 weeks before the deadline thus this submission had only been made possible because of a wonderful family, maid, boyfriend and God!


The physical model was so demanding that my family (Jasmine was spared cause she’s in hostel) and maid, Tina, morphed into factory workers overnight.
It never cross my mind to engage Tina’s help till my dad called fer her. Haha.
Plucking and pasting moss, pasting and more pasting of things.

Almost every part of my house was transformed into an assembly line, from the porch to the living room, dining table, bedrooms and the Japanese set.


At first, it was only my mum helping me.
It so happened that she was clearing leave Friday and Monday! Grace grace!
My dad told my mum, ‘Lucky you took leave.’
Mummy retorted ‘She’s (me) lucky, not me.’
Hahaha.


Geraldine helped to cut some beams after we enticed her with Sakae Sushi dinner as incentive.
Mummy called her, ‘Daily worker’
Heh.


Papa drove me to and fro to buy materials, not once but thrice! (all because of my initial flimsy cardboard ‘hedge’ which had to be change to wood)

Each time he’d buy food back to treat everyone.
The last one was strawberry shortcake, ganada? cake from Rive Gauche,yakatories and takopachies from Taka.
We’ve also been downing countless of sushis, hana maki(my current favourite!) and sashimi fer the past week!


Papa’s back ached from sitting on hard floor drilling 100+ holes.
He cut the wooden ‘hedges’, pasted and spray painted them fer me.



Tadah, here's 1 great piece of my dad’s hardwork. (lil blur..taken in a rush at studio)
There was only a need fer 6 such 'hedges' but I miscounted and told him 7!
I felt reaaaaallllllly bad.

I told him to display and show-off the extra at his warehouse office!
Tina and mummy helped me paste green moss on the wires to resemble aeroponics pipes.


I felt even worse when Mummy stayed up till 6am fer 2 consecutive nights till she had water retention on one of her leg cause she sat for prolonged periods.


Besides my model, there was also Alvin, who stayed up and helped enhance my panel despite his heavy work schedule.


THANK YOUuuuuuuu everyone! MUACK!!

Going to take a looooong beauty sleep now considering only having 5 hours of sleep in the last 3 days..Nights

Trick or Treat!

Haha, 2008 marked my first encounter with Trick or Treat..

I was reading the papers when 4 kids (including 2 celebrity’s sons) came and pressed our door bell yelling ‘TRICK OR TREAT!!!’ followed by giggles.


The next thing I knew was that my mum had to push me out and entertain them when I refused and kept saying the longest NOoooooo(s)…

I was like at my worst.
Disheveled hair (just bathed), oversized tee (rag n flag, though it states ‘s’ size), sexy shorts (KC PE shorts with slits damn high cause the seams burst.. haha), pale and with specs..
The kids might think I’m dressed up fer Halloween too.

Thus I was in a rush to give out sweets and only saw Vlad Dracula and his pumpkin at first.

To my horror, I saw more lil’ ghouls coming up with paper bags and what nots..
Haha, I gave the vampire so much sweets, the last 3 only had 2 -3 sweets each before I emptied out the entire packet.

At the background, their mums was taking photos..
Eew.. I hope the gate bars covered my face..

‘Thank you! Thank you!’ and more giggles..

‘Thank you, Bye bye!’
And that was the end of my first Trick or Treat encounter.


(Why did I say thank you instead of welcome!! O plus, why do people bother to celebrate a satanic day in the name of 'fun'?)

The Baby Shower! - 18th Oct

Well, they aren’t exactly babies anymore when we saw them!
Puddleteens to be exact!

The Puddlets are the new batch of babies born to Porto and Rico.




The Puddleteens!

What a prolific pair.
Judging on Rico’s hefty size, Porto doesn’t mind all that weight on her.
Or maybe, she’s no choice cause she’s pinned flat.






















See what I meant by saying Rico’s a fatass.






















Before placing Rico into the new cage, I told Regina he might sleep in the food tub.
And sure enough!
This photo has got to be the cutest of all as it speaks VOLUMES.



This happy occasion also officiated the christening of the 2 girls.*
Milo and Oreo!























Milo’s Regina favourite.
Milo has got the largest eyes in the puny body of hers.


Oreo?
She’s the queenpin of the lot.
She bullied her brother till he had a small wound when they were introduced again.
(Regina separated them a few days earlier)

*The other pair was going to be sold on the following Tuesday and another boy sold a week ago.























Bath time after we had our lunch.
Thanks Regina fer the treat!





















That’s really a lot of drumlets.
I gasped aloud when I opened the box.
My largest order was 9. This was a x2.

Dismantling and washing their cage.
The girls' cage was so complicated, with many tubes twisting about.

Had a tough time trying to come up with a solution to use the least amount of tubes, but nevertheless, we succeeded!
With the minimum tubings, Milo and Oreo had to do acrobatic acts to do a cross over.
Just as well.. exercise more and don’t be like their dad.

Candice feeding Porto mealworms..
Though the mealworms were already dried dead, I still get squeamish.


After we’re done with them, it’s Cinderella Time!
Haha, Candice had to give her pair of shoes away cause she can’t fit into them.

!Purrfect fit fer me.
Hurhur, it was really a Cindy Cinderella moment.



Alright, till then!

House of the Mouse

Amused.

Before Alvin drinks his Chicken Essence..

Hamster Treats

Putting up online ads selling hamsters exposed Regina and I to meet people of all sorts.

What we expected was a fuss free buy, take and leave scenario.
Just like what I did when I bought Porto & Bello. ‘Are there anymore available hamsters?’, ‘How old?’ and ‘Where to meet.’



I had never expected my additional ad line of ‘responsible owners only’ would garner long pages of SMSes, and the crème de la crème, a 300 word essay describing her passion fer hamsters! No kidding!

One even asked me to join a hamster club.


More notably, Regina corresponded with an ah-lian and a dad whose lil' daughter has 16 hamsters and still wants more ..
I liased with a gay?(most likely), a woman with 30+hamsters and the list goes on.


A young girl even e-mailed me with much enthusiast, ‘hihi!!!!’ to buy her hamster and would even throw in a discount if I were to go to her place because her mom forbids her to travel.
Stunned. I'm selling, not buying. I've yet to respond. Heh.


Haha, I must say we’re both really tickled by the variety of responses we'd got.
Nothing of such sort happened when I sold other stuff online.
The number of extreme passionate hamsters lovers in Singapore overwhelmed us.


Regina had since set up an e-mail: puddingtonville@gmail.com


We already have a lineup of potential buyers reserving for future puddlets as we’re currently out of stock!


To offset hamster related expenses, I may even set up a website selling the later litter to come during the holidays!

That’d be Christmas Special =)

Baby Puddlets!

It's Cucumber Time!




Photos with courtesy from Regina
Edited by Emily

Baby shower - Presale Announcement

Zomg..

Regina, the puddlets' godma is going to throw a BBQ baby shower fer them on their 1st month!
Can't believe it.. Hahaha!

Another 'excuse' fer meeting up anyway!
Haven't seen the rest fer months..

After the party, we'd sell one fluffy yellow white pudding hamster..
The rest are fer our keeps cause they're simply too cute to be true!

Market rate fer a pudding is $30-$40!
But it definitely be well below cause we're selling it online..haha

Any buyers before I post on forums?!
Regina would be posting their photos soon!


-posted from NCC auditorium, seat L44


Post Note: 2 puddlets sold and we aren't selling anymore!

Tonight with Really Regina - Delicious Puddlets!

After a long hiatus, here's a new entry by Missssssss Really Regina!!!



Porto and Rico's offpsprings have survived the crucial 14th day!

Most websites revealed that mother hamsters will not cannibalize their babies once they survive the crucial period, which is usually 2 weeks.



This is what happens, all the time, when I try to take a picture of the babies.
Scenario 1: The babies will start hiding undeaneath their bedding warmed by Porto.
Scenario 2: Porto appears suddenly and gives me the "whatdouwant2do2mybabies-backoff!" look.
Hence, the miserable number of photos in this entry.



They have been growing at an incredible rate and have opened their eyes on the 12th day.
2 beige ones succeeded climbing the big tube to 2nd level on the 12th day, which Emily claimed unbelievable.


..and also grow in different shapes and sizes.
One of the black one is growing real fat like a ball (photo not attached)



Due to Rico's weight increasing exponentially....




.... this is what happens to him every other day - morning exercise for 30 minutes or so! Before I set off to work.


On a side note, Emily and I have been trying to think of names for the newborns - and must end with an "O".
So far, we've got Oreo, Milo, Kopi-O and Teh-O, which fits perfectly with Oreo and Kopi-O for the 2 black ones, the Teh O for a beige.
Thought of any others?Throw in some names please.


Yours Sincerely,

Really Regina


Emily's thoughts: I was thinking of putting the name 'Bello' back! haha, so left one more name..