DM Christmas 2015 gathering + Christmas potluck @ WX's place & 叶问3 + The Cruise & Prive dinner + Steamboat @ SS's place + The Future of Us exhibition & Lady M + Three Little Pigs + Park Royal Hotel countdown + 2015 Review & 2016 Resolution

Yes it took about 3 days before the swelling of my eyes were gone. Had to cancel whatever gatherings and meetups I had from Mon to weds, but luckily I felt better (both eyes and gastric) on Christmas eve when I returned to office for work that morning.

DM colleagues gathered in Jessie's office for munching session and our gift exchanges! I gave mine to Chris, and got a usb fan from CK~ thks!

Met Stephen at Khatib and we headed down to Jeliquor to collect the cheesecakes before gg to WX's place at AMK. *Poor guy hasn't had his lunch and was carrying 12 lemons plus the bacon wraps he did for potluck haha~* Played with XB a lil', collected sushi and movie tix, and YB and the rest came soon aft.

The bacon wrap was gd, as well as sushi and chicken wings. I didn't hav much of the pizza though. Stephen was tired so he'd闭目养神for a while, though he claimed he could hear our convos lol. After toasting to Christmas 2015, Jere, WX, YB, BY, Stephen and I went to catch“叶问3”at AMK hub.

Honestly, I was waiting to see more scenes between Mike Tyson and Donnie Yen! Not that Zhang Jin wasn't gd, just that as an audience, I thought the thing about whoever's the "authentic咏春拳" didn't appeal to me as much as VS. a Western boxer lol.
Also, the fight scenes weren't as拳拳到肉as the previous sequels.

Rating: 3.25/5

Anyway, I gt him some small gifts for Xmas. A lipbalm from Burt's Bee and my friends were laughing lol.

25/12/15: Rick drove YB, BY and I down to Geylang for "The Cruise" escape rm game, while Jere, WX and Stephen headed down via MRT. *We were slightly late alamak.* 7 of us managed to complete the game within an hr, but both YB and I din find it as nice as The Apartment. *Stephen is pretty gd at escape rm games uh? Haha~* It's more like a typical escape room game with loads of things to solve, but the ambience and flow just couldn't compare to The Apartment's.

Rating: 3/5

After a short bite at a Chinese eatery, Rick went home, and Stephen headed to his church friend's place for gathering. The rest of us had dinner at Prive at CHIJMES.

The Cajun chicken burger I had was overly cheesy imo. I'm not a fan of burgers compared to pastas, and honestly sometimes I feel burgers at fast food joints tastes much better than restaurant ones. It's $28 on average juz to hav dinner thr~ ex. Then, we began our "wefies" ard the area haha!

Then, we ended up gg over to Love and Co to look at wedding bands for BY and YB, a small chat at Starbucks before gg home.

*Had Bro's Ice Wine in kopi-cup haha!*
26/12/15: Had to go back to office to take my laptop and do some overseas files for the day. Stephen and I had lunch at Greendot, we walked ard a lil' and Ning, his best friend came over to meet him. She had mixed don from the Jap supermart at Westgate (which I had no idea it existed LOL~). 
Took train to Bedok to meet SS, John, Jenny and YJ to shop for our steamboat ingredients that night. Was surprised to see SS's mum in SG too!

Haha it was Alex's idea to use the steamboat to grill food lol~ Omg we got so much food that night, couldn't finish LOL. SS's bro and gf joined us for dinner too. Alex joined us for a while cos he's gt to fly to Italy that night for wedding photoshoot whoa~ *Felt like we're back at SS's home in ZNZ for meals!*

Thks to YJ for the souvenirs from BKK, oh and I got the Ferrero Rocher for them too. John and SS drove YJ and I back home that night too~ 45mins' long ride lol.

*rRandom tThought: I guess it's just me. It's always not easy taking the first step in life, in whatever we do. I need time to get used to this, comfortably.*

28/12/15: Stephen and I went to The Future of Us exhibition at Gardens by the Bay. There were 4 domes for us to visit... pretty cool. *Brian told me the "dome of future wishes" was his last project at his last company wor!* Stephen was sharing with me about his dad appearing in the papers in the 1970s, when he scored a last min shot for SG's basketball team.

After that, we took the MRT down to Expo Changi City Point to look for my training shoes. Bought a pair from New Balance ($119)~ yay gonna put it to gd use at my upcoming kickboxing classes and future exercises! Introduced him to凉皮that I bought at JE's bus interchange~ tasted nt bad. We had dinner at food court, and then dessert at Lady M.
He knew I had been wanting to buy Aveda's Smooth Infusion shampoo, and I mentioned about how great Body Shop's cranberry body cream was~ and he bought them as Christmas present for me! And he went all the way to City Hall that day, got these and the Seoul Roll bimbap for me before meeting me at Bayfront~ LOL kinda touched neh.

29/12/15: KU, Jess, LL, Ahna and I met for Christmas cum Jess's early 27th bday dinner at Three Little Pigs at Ngee Ann City. I tot my spicy pork collar rice was so-so overall, though the veggie was soft enough, and the egg was good.

I got a Asus's 10500mph portable power bank from Ahna, and gave mine (foot soak and eye masks) to her, coincidentally haha. Jess gave each of us a customised hand-made Christmas card and hand-made cookies! The card was really pretty and the cookies are really gd too~ nt too sweet. *She can start selling them alrdy haha!*

31/12/15: SS booked a rm ($41.80 each) at Park Royal (Kitchener rd) for the uni gals to do a countdown to 2016 together. Michelle, MT and I had lunch at Saizeriya at City Square mall, and headed to the hotel lobby opp, while LC, SS and WT joined us soon aft. 
Aft much hesitation, we decided to hav dinner at the Momiji Jap buffet restaurant at City Square mall, which WT tot was not bad and recommended it to us. *Freaking ex at about $65 per pax, plus the fact that we were treating YQ as her 25th bday dinner. Even if it weren't so, the food was still nt worth the price, so nope I'm not gg back again.* 

To me, only the shabu shabu was not bad. The waffles that Mich and SS made were nice too. Sushi was okay. Drinks tasted weird, crabmeat wasn't tender... so seafood plus other food were meh. Well the gals had a gd chat there and then though.
Aft getting some serviettes and mineral water, we returned back to the hotel rm and prepared to welcome the new year... our way lol!

*Darn I dun rmb why and how the fillings in between my upper central incisors came off! Hmph I don't like the gap... will get it filled when I visit the dentist on nex Monday.* 

Just before 2015 was over and aft YQ came out from the shower, we brought the fruit cake from Breadtalk for her~ it was gd!

Watched the countdown show on Ch 5 on TV, but we could see the fireworks from our window as well! 8mins long~ pretty stunning. Next was our belated Xmas 2015 gift exchanges! I received a cardigan from SS, and I gave my present to LC, the intended haha.

Chatted for a bit more before WT went home, and the rest of us got ready to shower and slp. *老了, cannot stay up too late lol.* LC brought her own slping bag, XY, YY and YQ slpt on one bed while MT and I slpt on the other. SS wanted to slp on the flr, and Mich, who was initially on our bed, ended up slping with SS on the flr since she can't slp lol.
Woke up at 7+am cos I heard YQ's alarm. Think she ended up looking at her phone and nt slping alrdy aft tat lol. Then, Mich and MT slowly woke up too. I pulled myself out of bed at 9.45-ish since I have race duty on New Year's Day. *The macarons YQ bought were quite nice~ though I'm not a big fan of macarons myself.*

I reckon it is very impt to review the year that just passed, and set a new yr resolution, so as to make sure that my life does not stay stagnant. I don't think this has ever occurred to me as crucial when I was much younger, but as years passed by, the importance of it grew on me. *那个只需顾着玩耍的年纪已经过了，以前所学的大概就那么多，但也没去在乎学了什么。也不知道是从何时开始的，就意识到是时候记录点滴、追求上进，为自己的人生负责任了。这个过程，其实我觉得，还是很好玩的。*

Besides the usual gatherings with friends, weddings, work events as well as a few free staycations at MBS thks to mum, happenings in 2015 for me included: travelled to East Africa, Tanzania with friends (Oh yes I have yet to blog about my adventure!), gd job performance, love blossomed, gastric problem, suspected food allergy, attempted Dancercise, Piloxing, Zumba, Zoompark trampoline, Kickboxing, Yoga, darts, horse simulator, Kpop Fitness, DIY miniature house (incomplete till now~) and nanoblocks, joined in flea market selling away own clothes, painted metal gate for CNY, roller-bladed once again aft many yrs, getting to know intern Amelia, cheesecake-baking, escape rm experience at The Apartment and The Cruise, volunteered at SAIC charity cap sales event, played Universal Studio rides, voted in GE, attended AMWAY talk for fun, Reiden's baby shower (Pat's the first among my gd pals to give birth), Fresh's Creme Ancienne series' launch, Club21 private sales, JJ Lin's concert, 势在必行3 music showcase, Leon's gig, National Gallery Singapore, MBS The Deep and DreamWorks Animation exhibition, Future of Us exhibition and Christmas Wonderland by the Bay.

Well, people say what's done cannot be undone. No matter whether you're satisfied with what you've done/achieved or not. All in all, I've still managed to maintain quite a healthy and balanced r/s with ppl I care for. Happy that I got rid of seemingly complicated r/s probs in my mind too! Anyway, the few wks coming into 2016 and now hasn't been too gd for me, imo. Nonetheless, I hope things turn better soon enough. 

Resolution for 2016: 

-Stay positive in all aspects, which is one of the hardest thing for me to do yet once achieved, perfects my mood! 

-Be clear about things and not just含糊带过。

-Life? To explore further ard the world if finance permits me to, and to learn Ukulele, cycling, cooking simple dishes (oops I know who's gonna be reminding me about these LOL~), Kickboxing, Piloxing, Cardiobox and Yoga for now. Give a little more, extend help to those in need. :)

-R/S? 要更懂事，更珍惜家人, cherish and get to know him better, maintaining gd r/s with people worth my time. 

-Health? Maintain regular exercising routine, routine dental check-ups, keep my cholesterol level in check and take care of my gastric better.

-Finance? Be in the know about finance changes happening ard, track my own spendings as usual.

-Work? Try my best to learn more about horse racing and digest them well, and go explore into new aspects in work that I can tap on my ability for. Would probably pick up Cantonese for work purpose~

-Read more! Be it news or books~ doesn't hurt haha! Probably need to cultivate a regular reading habit too lol.

Future to do-s that I've in mind but probably can't complete them by 2016 lol...:
learn driving, swimming, aerial yoga, guitar, piano, tennis, roller-blading and ice-skating, take a grad photoshoot with my family (aft bro grads?)

Again, may my love ones and myself stay safe, healthy and happy!