Where Have I Been Around the World

Found this on the web. Quite fun.

Go to here if you would like to create your own map.
This is just to show where I have been around the world.
I haven't been to many places...barely touching 10% of the countries around the world.




By end of this year, with the few more trips I have in mind, my horizon may widen to this map instead. (well, we shall see how it goes).

Nameless Baby Drieberg

Just got off chatting with a friend, HD in Msia. His first bundle of joy will be arriving some time between now and end of the month. He still hasn't got a name for the baby! It's suppose to be a boy. He had asked me to give him some ideas. We had a very short discussion over the baby's names; then he had to go back to work; hmmm...as if I have no work la..but this is so much more interesting than work! And so I let my imagination run wild with names!

Here's some names that I thought of (all are welcomed to add in):

Top 3 on the list (my favourites) and one which I think will go well with the surname Drieberg.

- Joshua Drieberg
- Joel Drieberg
- Joey Drieberg

Other names I had:
- Lachlan (HD says sounds like belacan)
- Alexander
- William
- Craig
- Charlie, Charles (HD says sound 'ham sup', he might as well name the baby Hump S. Drieberg)

hmm...running out of ideas now, so, anyone of you got any other nice names to contribute to?!
Hurry hurry, baby Drieberg is coming and we need to give him a name!

HD says that it need not be biblical.

Hmm...how about Henry Drieberg (Junior).

What Does Your Latte Says About You

I am a coffee addict.
I must have a cuppa every morning, without fail, else I will get a headache....that's what they call the coffee withdrawal syndrome.

Did this test in one of the blogthing. A friend put up the link in her chat. :p
The addicted to cafein part is so true. And yes, I am not completely happy unless I am really bouncing off the walls.

What Your Latte Says About You

You don't treat yourself very often. You find that indulging doesn't jibe with your very disciplined life. You can be quite silly at times, but you know when to buckle down and be serious. Intense and energetic, you aren't completely happy unless you are bouncing off the walls. You're addicted to caffeine. There's no denying it. You are a child at heart, and you don't ever miss the opportunity to do something playful. You are complex and philosophical, but you are never arrogant.

What Does Your Latte Say About You?

Finale...

I haven't packed a strand as yet. It's already Wednesday. I move away this weekend. I haven't have time yet to reminisce over all the good times I spent at this flat. Daytime, I have been busy with work, while night time, (grin), been busy with my new toy. Tired is the word for me.
Last weekend, Ping and Saphie had the priviledge to be 'La Kloyee's last visitors. It was an all girls weekend for us. They came to visit from Buckingham (not the palace, but the county) on Friday and went home on Sunday. We had loads of fun that weekend. (Whadya mean? I am a fun person, I always have fun!)

We didn't really do much except that we did a lot of cooking, eating, talking, playing and hugging! The little girl is so passionate. She loves hugging and rubbing her face onto ours. Ah...well, it is just the Italian part of her acting up. We also spent an afternoon in Richmond walking the high street shopping! And of course we also took a stroll by River Thames (in Richmond).
Here are some photos.

(my camera have been acting up again! Sometimes I can get it working and sometimes, it just won't).

The great Italian dinner at La Kloyee..compliments of the Singapore chef. :)

Saphie and I decided to have our nose 'pierced' for the day. Our accessory(ies) for the day out in Richmond. In fact, we each got ourselves a tattoo (fake) as well. Unfortunately, no photos taken of the tattoo.

This is what I got from our shopping trip. A NINTENDO DS LITE!!! It actually comes in either white, pink and black. Opted for the black for many reasons. For one, it looked more sleek. This is what got me busy and tired after work for the past 2 days. Currently, I am playing this game whereby I am the local vet (it's called SimPet) and I am trying to establish my pet clinic in Paw Valley. For every pet that I successfully diagnosed and cured, I gain money in Sim currency and I gain reputation and I get to advanced to a more difficult level after an X amount of game points which comes in the form of promotion. Currently, I had even earned myself a promotion to a Junior Vet. It is very addictive. The next game I would like to get is SimCity.

The 'sifu' (master Saphie) in Nintendo teaching the student (that's me).

What girly night we had. We had a good Italian meal (home cooked!), and then was bored and decided to have a makeover, we put make up on each other, and took crazy, silly photos. Unfortunately none turned up well on my camera. Presumably it is to do with all us laughing our heads off at all the silliness we can come up with. As for the rest of the photos, well, I may share it later.

The weekend is here..again

WOO HOO...


I always love the weekends...It's time to forget about work, and just chill, well, mostly, if I don't have to work on Saturdays that is. For most of the time, the weekends are almost, always very short (only 2 days as oppose to 5 weekdays!) I actually told a friend this, that I will normally be very upbeat and excited on Fridays, and will probably feel melancholic on Sunday evenings.

Last weekend was pretty interesting for me. Pretty happening albeit that on the Saturday, the weather was really bad. Still managed a prayer meet with some girls from cell and a dinner with some friends.

On Sunday afternoon, I went to a ballet at Royal Albert Hall (by myself! YES, went alone as the tics was quite expensive and not many friends were keen to go with me). It's actually quite ok going to things like this alone. I'd done it before. I went to Cirque Du Soleil (also held in Royal Albert Hall) last year alone, on a Friday afternoon.

Swan Lake was really impressive. What I liked the most was when all the 60 swans (well, supposedly swans and cygnets) came on stage. All of them look sooo pretty, and swan-like in their tu-tus; whilst gently tapping their foot (so it appears as if they are shaking their butts like how swans normally do?). And during some scenes, I could actually feel how Odette (the leading swan) feels! She is really good with the movements of her body and her facial expressions.

Check out some of the photos (that I took from the internet). Although it was specifically stated that photos are not allowed inside the hall, there were many cameras that flashing away during the presentation.

SWAN LAKE

Check out this video link.

http://www.ballet.org.uk/video/swan_lake_video_2007_videobank_01.htm

As Yeng will be going back to SEA soon, she had wanted to watch 'Phantom of the Opera" (musical). We were suppose to do it some time last week, but didnt, so somehow, we only came about to planning to watch a musical this week. On Monday, somehow, Yeng changed her mind, and decided on 'Wicked' instead. She said that she had never had the urge to want to watch "Phantom" all these while. The reason why she had wanted to do it this time round is because it is "PHANTOM"! And also that she is curious about the chandelier scene. Well, Yeng, if I do happen to catch it before I go home, I will let you know about the chandelier scene! But somehow, like Yeng, I also don't have the urge to watch 'Phantom'. I think that it will probably be too intense for me.

But I thought that 'Wicked' was totallly WICKED!! There was a very funny bimbo on the set (Glinda, pronounced with a Ga), that totally cracked up the whole show!

WICKED

Based on Gregory Maguire’s "outstanding novel, the spellbinding WICKED transports audiences to a spectacular fantasy world of wizards and witches to tell the incredible untold story of an extraordinary friendship between two girls: the blond and popular Glinda and the misunderstood green girl, Elphaba, whose destiny is to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West. Apparently, we have not been told the whole story about the land of Oz (Emerald City).

It had been quite a happening weekend that got extended to Monday for me. Since then, I had only been tired and tired, and tired.

This weekend is Yeng's last weekend in London. We are having Ping and Saphie over for the weekend. Saphie is the cute Italian-chinese girl that we so often blog about in our blogs. :) Well, looking forward to having another weekend with friends, and yes, this shall be my last weekend in my apartment. I will be moving out next weekend! To Audrey's for the next 3 months or so.

More stories later. Happy weekend!

The snail that got drunk...

Last weekend, the weather was quite good, warm enough to have BBQ. Had a bbq at my friend, Audrey's place. Audrey just got herself a house, that comes with a nice garden.... This will be my future home as I will be moving to live with her and her other housemate in July.

Audrey and I used to attend the same high school.
(P/S: Audrey is not in any of the pics, I didn't manage to get a nice photo of her cos she was busy bbq-ing and doing all the hard work)

Food Food Food...

A very young girl (14 yrs old, attended SMSJ prior to coming to UK, and her super duper seniors, Nic and I)

More Food Food Food....

a snail came to join us for the bbq and got drunk!

This shall be the GARDEN where I can do my sun bathing in summer! YES! Summer is finally here! YAY!

The day London snowed...

London seldom snows. The last time it snowed was in 2003, as in good quality snow.
The snow that came down on early Wednesday morning indeed surprises many.

My alarm clock sounded at 7 am that morning, but as always, I like to take snoozes. But somehow, I couldn't continue sleeping that morning, cos I heard people shovelling, early in the morning. At the back of my mind, I thought, NO WAY, CANNOT BE..but the I thought, what would a person be doing with a shovel so early in morning if it is not because of that...

So I quickly hop out of bed, and draw the curtain with anticipation and with bated breathe! Indeed, it snowed! It snowed! It was a pretty sight! You cannot imagine how happy I was! First time seeing snow!

The first thing I did, grabbed my camera! haha..Then, I quickly went to prepare to go to work! That is the only morning I was soo excited to walk out to go to work! Promise..the one and only time I was so EXCITED to WALK TO WORK IN THE COLD! :)

Here are some photos to share.