the long awaited trip back home

After close to a year of being away from home, I finally got to go back to sunny ol' Singapore for 3 weeks. It had been almost a year since I last went back, and the last time I had only four days in Singapore, so this trip was met with much anticipation and excitement.

Time spent with family and friends was pure bliss. Every moment was treasured and savoured and it felt like I had never been away! The bonds are still strong and the chatter aplenty. The only regret I have I guess is not being able to spend even more time with those lovelies.

Being back also made me realise how much I missed everything at home. It feels familiar yet new, with all the fancy skyscrapers, new malls, restaurants and clubs that have popped up. Which is annoying in a way because I keep making my way to restaurants that I recall are at a certain place but as luck would have it, are no longer there. grr!

The new malls are fancy and a bit cold I feel. Doesn't seem to have the warmth and comfort that the other malls have. Maybe it's just because I am unfamiliar with it. Oh wells.

Anyhoo, enough of the boring bits. On to what I did in singy!

Met up with the girlies for Christmas celebration with the girlies at Shiryn's crib. The theme for the party was hawaiian and there was a best/worst dressed competition! Ate, drank, played games, caught up till the wee hours of the morning. All in all, was a very good night catching up with everyone and seeing them after so long.

had lunch with the aunts and thr grandparents. saddened to hear that my grandma had not only undergone an operation several months back but also fell and broke her arm! thankfully all is good now. :)

then went shopping and about town with mummy

went mambo-ing with the girls

and then had a new year PJ party with the girlies! more happy times!

the food theme for the night was "what would you want to have for your last meal" so everyone brought different things. mine was white and black carrot cake :)

us in our PJs

fitting into the theme

I had meant to stay on but I had a friend's bachelor party that night as well so had to leave the girls early. went to Butter Factory to meet michelle and co. Don't have most of the pictures from that night yet though, so all you see is michelle and me. haha

and then darling wei came to town!! which began the whirlwind 2 wks of weifer time. :D

and then lead on to Hong Kong... which will be elaborated in another post.