Wake Me Up When September Ends...

Past few months have been crazy for me & my team..

Work schedules are getting crazier & I have been travelling from places to places more often than ever..

Tired..

Many times I wondered to myself.. What is the point of being rich & earning lots when our healths may be at risk & we don't have as much personal time for ourselves to really enjoy?

Hmm.. Well.. Decision is still ours to make anyhow..

So..

I still make it a point, no matter how busy I am, to find means & ways to enjoy myself to the max with the minimal time I have for my own personal time!

LOL!

Thus, I'm looking forward to this year's 2014 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix, F1 World's Only Night Race, once again!

This year's opening night will be staging 五月天 MayDay! Asia's Best Rock Band! Woo hoo!

Can't wait!

And because I've been so busy travelling around all the time, I must also pamper myself..

So..

Dr Fish to the rescue!

Hahaha! 魚は私を食べるのが大好き!

August was the month of... one of my closest bestie's birthday!

I gave him a surprise by celebrating it for him, without any notice! Lol!

Happy Birthday my dear bestie! Love ya lots!

Bestie making a wish before blowing out the candles on his birthday cake.

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One thing I will never fail to do, no matter how busy I am in life & with my busy work schedules, no matter where I may be & travel to, and that is... to enjoy good food!

I'm sure my faithful blog readers & fans would have noticed that by now..

Almost every blog post of mine would consist of food pics..

LOL!

How can one not enjoy good food?!

I love good food..

Mmmm... おいしい!

Rice Noodle Roll with Pork Dumplings and salted egg! Delicious! 超好吃! 猪肠粉, 肉粽, 咸蛋..

My comfort food.. 안락 음식 떡볶이 냉면 김치볶음밥 (tteokbokki.. naengmyeon.. kimchi bokkeumbap.. korean ricecake.. cold noodles.. kimchi fried rice)

And last but not least..

Happy belated Mid-Autumn festival! 祝大家中秋节快乐！Happy 추석! Happy 月見!

*For more food pics, most of the pics of food I took have been uploaded onto my private Instagram: @ionlyliveone.

Speaking of Mid-Autumn festival & mooncakes..

This September I'm feeling blessed as always..

Feeling blessed.. Always blessed.. ^_^

Thank you & Thankful for the gift.

Tung Lok mooncakes 同樂月餅..雙黃白蓮..雙黃紅蓮

Also received a gift from Refresh, Refresh Group, Refresh Laser Clinic.

Thank you for the gift!

Sam from Trick or Treat says check out next post for pics from 100 Doraemon Secret Gadgets Expo in Malaysia!

Japan.. Japan.. I've passed my Japanese exam!!! ^_^

Hey hey hey..

I'm back! ^_^

And with lots of pics to share as usual..

So what's up with my past 2 weeks?

Japanese products are always すてき & かわいい..

Honestly, everytime I walk into a Japanese mart, I'm overwhelmed because as usual there are so many nice products to purchase, I wish I can purchase the whole mart!!!

These Hello Kitty mineral water bottles are so cute..

かわいい飲みもの

 私は彼らが好き.. :)

Finally checked out Okinawan Nirai Kanai's authentic cuisine with ma homie a week ago!

素晴らしい！

Tea with da homie too!

おいしい!

さいしゅうてき！

キットカットチョコレート!

ストロベリー 、ダークチョコ 、塩とキャラメル...

Searched for the green tea KitKat for a Twitter friend who wanted to try them

(I've ate them a couple of times before)

After travelling to at least 5 Jap supermarkets, I found out from the sales-lady at one of the stores that it's out of stock & the stock will only be in around Jan/Feb..

That's not all.. Found these flavours after much searching (as different Jap supermarkets carry different flavours) & when I wanna post them to that someone, the post office refused me saying that I am not allowed to post chocs or food items to the Philippines as they are afraid that the custom clearance there's very strict and food items will be held at their customs..

I'm like wtf! #%^*+=, was damn pissed!

I NEVER had any probs posting such to my homies in the US & many other countries etc. ever before. But that was like months ago, of course. (came to find out later that the rule was just enforced about 2 months ago)

And when I told this someone the problem I encountered, she mentioned that she had a friend in SG who posted chocs to her before.. I was wondering how long ago was that?!

I still didn't believe my luck thus I called the post office management to enquire if it's true, wrote them an email etc. & still received the same reply saying that food items are NOT allowed to be posted at all.

Worse of all, what irritated me even more so was that when I told this Twitter friend the problem I encountered while trying to post her the chocs, she kept insisting that she had friends posting chocs to her before & never had any issues.. (Of course! If I had posted these chocs to her months ago, I would not have encountered any issues either!)

And she even went to the extend of mentioning that her dad works at the post office in the Philippines & it's okay.. (Of course! There's no such rules there as it's other countries that's encountering this problem posting to them & not posting from the Philippines!)

To cut the long story short, I explained to her I was irritated with the whole incident & it's up to her to believe it or not. I don't lie & if she doesn't believe me, she can go check it out for herself.

After all the trouble I went thru', I see no point having to explain myself any further. I did my best. Period.

Simply hate it when people doubt or disbelieve whatever I say...

Anyway, bitch don't kill my vibe..

Life is always good to me, apart from such occasional irritating moments happening once in a blue moon..

Anyway...

It's always nice to come home to surprises..

Arrived home earlier this week to receive my Japanese examination papers results slip in the mail..

I PASSED!!! ^__^

Yeah!!! ^__^

My minions - Stuart &Dave are always up to mischief whenever I'm away...

 

So guess who they "kidnap' this time?!

Yeah.. Poor SpongeBob..

Look at Squidward's sad face..

LOL!!! 

It was Jonathan Ezra's birthday on the 5th & check out the birthday cake I specially ordered for his birthday party..

Angry Bird Space!

He loved it!

Party packs were all ready packed & distributed to his classmates in his school..

Had a fun time celebrating his birthday with him & his classmates in school that day.. ^_^

Guess what I found at 紀伊国屋 Kinokuniya Book Store the past week?

And because I've watched the movie (more than once) & to support our cool & handsome TOP bro, yup! I bought the photobook, DVD & magazine!

Here are the pics & videos! (below)

Ain't TOP bro so cool & handsome?

His performance in the movie was so awesome!

TOP! 나는 필요 당신의 서명 다음에! 하하!

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DOPE! WANT!

Sorry dears! I gotta go! Feeling sleepy now & I still have a long & eventful day ahead..

So I shall end this blog post for now..

Here's me wishing all of ya:

Sweet dreams! Baby Goodnight! Love ya!

Dang! It's photo porn time once again! LOL!

Ok, don't give me that look..

I know what ya thinking..

LOL!

By the way, that's the look we caught G-Dragon aka GD with last evening at the official opening of Salon by Surrender located in Marina Bay Sands Singapore.

Yeah, all thanks to him, there was a huge crowd of fans queueing outside the store just to get a glimpse of him, despite the fact that the private store event was by physical invites only.

(Yeah, I received the email from them.. ^_^)

Anyway, the good news is the boutique has been officially open from the 29th of June 2013, which is today.

Thus, anyone's welcome to go down to the boutique to purchase & pre-order the items from both online or at the boutique itself.

Here's a glimpse of some of the all new Ambush x G-Dragon Collaboration items..

OK! Next up, here's some food porn pics.. LOL!

The Lobster Spaghetti @ Brewbaker's was awesome!

Was @ Brewbaker's recently & will definitely be back there for some more of this!

Fish & Chips is one dish that will never go wrong! ;D

One of my all-time favs! :D

Finally!

たらこ Carbonara with ゆば ＆ たまご at 読めにゃ五右衛門!

Yeah, finally visited 読めにゃ五右衛門.. ^_^

デザート!

Their デザート was just as good.. ^_^

Had the "World's Greatest Chicken" this week!

Now you see it, now you don't!

LOL!

Had an awesome time with my homies at Irodori Japanese Restaurant earlier this week & look at all the food we've ordered & ate!

Awesome night with da babes! ;p

Look! No liquor intake for that day & night!

(But coffee is a must!)

I've been good.. LOL!

Speaking of coffee, I've also been trying to cut down on it & guess what's been replacing it?

Here you go...

Yeah.. The captions sound freakingly familiar!

My life, huh? Thug life...

LOL!

And since the topic has been changed to Yours Truly (as in me, for those of you who didn't catch that).. LOL!

As most of you know the weather has been kinda "haz"ardous for the past 2 weeks or so..

Here's a snapshot of how Yours Truly looks like with my face mask & sunglasses on & all..

Watch out for this "terrorist"!!! LOL!!!

But the weather ain't that bad this entire past week..

I had the simple pleasure of having these (below) while listening to the rain & watching raindrops pitter patter on the window pane of the café I was chilling in during a cosy afternoon...

As usual, dreamily dreaming away like what a dreamer always do.. Yeah.. I'm a dreamer... ^_^

Like what Sir Thomas Browne said...

Here's another quote which I personally felt described me perfectly as I look back at the past few years, months & weeks of my life..

Due to circumstances around me, I personally felt that I've changed lots..

Well, for the better or worse.. Time will tell.. :p

Anyway, I've gotta "fly"!

Today's D-Day 1 of GD's One of A Kind World Tour Concert in Singapore & I'll be attending it this evening!

Woo Hoo!

So I've gotta go!

See ya guys!

Michi-GO!!!

P.S.

Before I go, 私のドラえもんランチセット。anybody? 하하하! Anybody wanna share my lunch with me? LOL!!!

It's been 2 busy weeks of F's for me... Nah.. What were you thinking about? LOL! "F"s as in Food.. Fun.. Friends..!!! ^_^

Yeah! The past 2 weeks had been eventful for me & as usual, my life is always, as what my friends always describe as: - "happening"... ^__^

So here's a note of caution...

What's coming up next in this blog post is gonna be... photos galore!:P

So don't say I didn't warn ya... Kekeke... LOL!!!

March 4, 2013:

Was rummaging thru' a drawer in my console & guess what I found... ^_-

This is it.. Yes, I love MJ/MichaelJackson.. Always have & always will & That's my f**king problem! ;p

March 5, 2013:

Finally managed to squeeze out a couple of hours today to meet a pal of mine, Celia, for lunch! ^_^

Yeah! We finally could meet up! ^_^

Picked her up from her workplace & then drove to P.S. Cafe where we spent a couple of hours there chatting over lunch..

We had a great time! ^_^

Here's what we had for lunch..

Lunch with Celia @ P.S cafe..

So happy to be able to meet you up finally!

March 6, 2013:

My "fuel" for the long day ahead!

March 7, 2013:

Wrapped up work early today!

收工咯！My Kimchi Soup for lunch! 맛있는! ^^

These Korean snacks are dope!

Hey! Wait a minute..

Ain't I supposed to be doing my Japanese ふくしゅう??!!…

♥ ♥ ♥ :)

March 10, 2013:

This is so dope!

Having this while waiting for my car tyres to be inspected..

(Yeah.. My car tyres were suspected of being kinda out of air due to a slight accident which occurred the afternoon I met Celia for lunch..

As I was driving out of the carpark that afternoon.. Due to the narrow driveway, I "bumped" the right back corner of my car against the kerb & scratched some paint off the right back corner of my car, very close to where my right rear tyre of my car is..

There's also a slight dent there now.. :(

Thus I brought my car to get my tyres inspected as well as the right rear tyre could have also been scratched, which may cause some air to escape from it..)

Got my Cartier swag today..

Cartier Love Bracelet & Ring in Rose Gold with Diamonds..

Happy! ^_^

March 12, 2013:

I was warmly invited & welcomed onto another planet today!

The planet of superheroes!

LOL!

Met the Transformers: Optimus Prime & Bumblebee.

Ironman too! & he also showed me his latest Iron Pact Suit in preparation for Ironman 3!

LOL!

March 13, 2013:

Chilling before my Jap. class

Tonight... Tired... -_-

March 14, 2013:

Visited Books Actually this afternoon..

Spotted this cat which is a residential cat @ Books Actually..

So pretty!!!

I'm in love!!!

하하!!

And while I was in the vicinity, I also had my lunch @ an art cafe there..

Nice ambience! ^_^

Chef's Special of the day! ^^

Spaghetti Vongole!

March 15, 2013:

夕食は素晴らしかったです！^_^