Sandriyya

First YouTube Video!

2012-01-29T00:08:00.001+08:00

Title says everything.

Okay, not everything. My first (or rather, first 3) videos would be a haul! Comes in 3 parts, so yeah. :)
Here's Part 1 to start with (the other 2 parts have also been uploaded, links in the video description and within this video itself if you're interested).

This is my first try, so yeap. I'm still learning, and stuff. Hope I did okay... :|
Anyways, if you liked it, show some love by thumb-ing up the video! Better still, drop me a comment and/or subscribe to my channel, teehee ^-^v

Aiyoh, 'till now I damn paiseh and fidgety about this. Wtf. :X

According to the Moon.

2012-01-25T21:40:00.000+08:00

Happy Lunar New Year everybody!

Gosh. I've really nothing to post about for CNY, 'cause frankly they get more boring every year. Luckily for me, this coming Saturday should be a better time than the past couple of days.

Anyway, since I've nothing better to blog about, here's me spamming my self-absorbed photos. LOL. But sadly, I didn't have the chance to take an outfit photo.. Oh bummer! ):

Warning: Self-shots beyond this point in post. Do not proceed if you're simply just uncomfortable. You have been warned, lol!
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Nails: Pink Friday - OPI (base) + Set In Stones - Essie (Glitter).
*Top picture is more true to colour.

Eyes: More subtle take on the classic bubblegum look.
Lips: I was wearing Lustre - M.A.C. (Lady Gaga Viva Glam) + Sorbet - NYX,
but they faded by the time I took these photos.

LOL LOOKS LIKE I'M NAKED.
I apologise if your parent(s) walked in on you! :X
Just scroll and explain to avoid false accusations lah, haiyo...

Same as above. Heh :X

Outfit: Floral tube dress - F21 + Leatherette "Shoe-lace" wedges (Rubi)

To those who have survived the atomic bomb of narcissism, well done young one... *old shifu voice*
I shall now reward you with a picture of my dog. *ting*

I know, abit blur but OMG SO ADROBS LOOK AT HER PAWS!!!

Here's wishing everyone a happy, blessed & prosperous lunar new year!!!
祝大家新年快乐，财源广进，龙年行大运！！！恭喜恭喜！
♡

Surprising change of mind...

2012-01-12T13:59:00.005+08:00

I WANNA GO JJC!!!

: )

New Year's Resolutions 2012.

2012-01-06T02:01:00.001+08:00

This post took quite some time because I didn't really think about my resolutions.
So here it is, just 5 main ones to start with!

1. Lose 10kg. I'm not freakin' kidding, lol!
I mean, I gained A LOT of weight during the O'Level period and afterwards 'cause mugging for such major exams means not leaving your seat for a very long time while camping on the study table with snacks and sweet drinks around you. Making it worse, Gabe practically stuffed me with "outside food" non-stop after O's because he had an excellent appetite after he "accomplishes" something (in this case, O's). Like OMGIKR! So we kept eating out (which is freaking unhealthy btw). My crazy diet explains my crazy weight gain.

I'm nearly done with this resolution and it's only the beginning of the year!!! (GOOD SIGN.)
It's like only 5th Jan!!! ME GUSTA.
I lost like 4kg already, within 5~6 days. So my weight has been maintained since. #happy :D
6 more kilograms to go, but I plan to lose another 2~3 before Chinese New Year. (Will update if I accomplish this mini-goal!) #chiongahhh #nopainnogain >:(

2. Enjoy and be contented with my decision on my next milestone in education.
This may sound like a piece of cake to most, like just "make a good decision and follow through!" But seriously, I think it's pretty challenging, really.

Let me break it down. My very initial "PLAN A" was to go into a polytechnic with a course that I'm really passionate about (not revealing, yet). So I gauged my L1R5 (I know poly uses L1B4, but just for simplicity's sake) to be about 13~15, 'cause that's like a "poly safe-zone" for me. Not extremely hard to achieve, yet not too bad as well. Think about it, my prelim L1R5 was 29~30. Trollolololol!

BUT. What if I get >15 points? Of course I need to choose another poly course or risk being the bottom in my above-mentioned mystery course. (Like duh #captainobvious strikes again.) Unfortunately my well-planned "PLAN A" dream might very well just burst into flames loh! *cries* )':

ANOTHER BUT. What if I get <12 points?! Most of y'all would be like "YOU SIAO UH?! GOOD WHAT, MORE CHOICES!!!" or "WALAO EH AMBITIOUS BITCH OVER THERE THINKING THAT SHE'S ALL THAT. TSK!" Whatever your reaction might be, I'm just tryna include all possibilities so that I can ~~try to~~ be mentally prepared for whatever circumstance I'm faced with this coming Monday (9th Jan). I certainly don't know why I had to justify myself -.-

I mean, call me weird, but I rather me get a worse result than what I gauged than do better than expected. 'Cause think of it this way, I already mentally prepared myself to be in a polytechnic since the start of 2011, maybe even earlier. So even if I get >15, I'm still the typical polytechnic scorer kinda student right? Then imagine me doing better than expected... ALL HELL BREAKS LOSE IN MY HEAD! Like wtf, I'll be facing pressure from all directions, convincing me to go to a Junior College. I'll be pressurising myself to make a decision between JC and Poly too, just because I did better than expected! PLANS ALL THROWN OUT THE WINDOW WITH NO SHIT LEFT.

SEE WHUT I MEAN MY LITTLE SWEET ANGEL FACES?! #hardlifedecisions

Now all I can do is stop worrying, hope for the best, and that I'll make a good decision. 'Cause I believe that we will all get what we deserve. #allthebest : )

3. Save for rainy days. Damn freakin' important!
Pretty much self-explanatory since I'm a shop-a-holic. Like, I admit I have problems kinda 'cause I spend a lot more than I should and cause my mom and boyfr. to be very extremely worried for me. *extremelyguilty :(

More or less, I know what is the root of this very bad problem, so I really wanna kick the habit/overcome this obstacle. I know this "problem" wouldn't really go away but at least I wanna restrain myself and/or achieve some form of self-control. And on practical terms, I wanna see my bank account having 4-digits by June. (Yes I'm broke 'cause I bought myself a piano in 2010.)

I see myself progressing slightly! *celebratesmallsuccesses! :) At least I spend lesser as compared to previously. But I still have A LOT of room for improvement so I'm gonna continue working hard!!!

5. Maintain the state of my room after revamp 100% completes.
Two things: I'm messy and lazy sometimes + I now have A LOT of items in my room (so basically I have to keep everything really organised the way it's gonna be after revamp).
'Nuff said.

So these are my 5 main/major resolutions. Of course I have "mini" ones in my head to get along the year but yeah, these 5 are for sharing and also for constant self-reminder : )

I look forward to seeing all these marked out by the end of 2012!!! :D

Once again, Happy New Year to all and best wishes! x♡x♡

Doggy Birthdays 2011/2012.

2012-01-02T01:24:00.000+08:00

Note: "2011/2012" on the title is due to the fact that Circle's (the older one) unofficial birthday falls on 25th Dec while Angel's (on the left) birthday falls on 1st Jan, which is obviously a new year.

This year, my mom decided to get new clothing for both of my dogs as their birthday present 'cause it would be super convenient for the Chinese New Year period (which is just about 3 weeks away). But we have yet to get them even when their birthdays past. Opps! Gonna go get 'em tomorrow!

So... Less talk, more adorb pictures! :>

Circle! (Who turned 4 years old.)

Circle wasn't being too photogenic recently as her mood wasn't super good...Meh, else her photos would turn out really good. What a waste :(

This one's pretty funny though! Especially her expression, the one she gives every time we say"Where are you going?".(The sentence implies that we're bringing her out, which gets her super excited.)

On to Angel... (Just turned 1 yesterday.)

Angel was being super bubbly and photogenic on her birthday! Super adorbs! :D

That's about it I guess. Hope you've enjoyed the pictures! x

Hello Twenty-Twelve! (New Year's Post)

2012-01-01T23:15:00.000+08:00

I've been very busy lately, doing various things. Which explains my absence on this space.
But before I get started on what I've actually been doing...

I wish everyone, especially my family, boyfriend and friends a very awesome 2012 ahead of you guys! ❤ Let's all put our hearts into all that we do and live our lives to the very utmost. :)

No matter how much heartbreaks and down hills we have gone through thus far, it's always better to regard them as learning experiences that'll make you grow into stronger individuals. Keep pushing on as there will always be much more super awesome memories that have yet to come. Memories that'll definitely make your days count and make your life more worthwhile. Cheers to a wonderful new year! :>

REMEMBER ALL THE MOMENTS!

(Ahem, meme reference.)

So... Back to why I was busy.

If any of you guys have been following me on my Twitter (@sandriyya), which is also pretty much lifeless 'cause I was busy, you would've known that I spent A LOT of my time revamping my room. I'm proud to say that my room is pretty much done, but I'll needa head down to Ikea once more to pick up all the miscellaneous items. But sadly 98% done is not sufficient for me to show any pictures atm, lol, haha. *perfectionist*

Also, this holiday season, I've 3 big events to attend to. First being my dog, Circle's 4th birthday (on Christmas, though unofficial)! Secondly working at Countdown @ Marina Bay. Last but not least, my puppy, Angel's, 1st birthday (on New Year's Day, which is today)!

I usually posts pictures right about here, but this time I wouldn't be including pictures of my dogs in this post 'cause I've decided to start categorising my posts already. My posts would look more organised aye? (Don't wanna give examples of "categorising" because it may give hints of my future blogging plans that I do not wanna disclose, yet. I'm skeptical and hesitant about those "plans" that's why. *insecure, lol*)

For this post I'm just gonna upload random pictures I've taken during the "busy" period. :>

With the boy when I gave him his Christmas gift! :)

Pretty scenery when I was working at Marina Bay for the countdown event.
I also got to see the fireworks display up-close because of my job! *luckygirl* :>

I guess that's about it. OK BAI.

P/S: You guys wouldn't be interested in a rant post about taxi drivers, would you? :S

Lunar Fest. w/ LHS. (11 Sept 2011)

2011-12-17T17:55:00.000+08:00

THIS IS A DAMN FREAKIN' OVERDUE POST! :'<
Sorry to my babes Lareyna and Huimin... I love you guys ♥

This picture looks so 'film camera' like, with the saturation and over exposure and all...

Nostalgia.. (I didn't edit or anything, btw.)

Anyway, love those girls no matter what. (:
And we definitely need an outing soon! >:| *hinthint

Love, Love, Love. ♡

2011-12-15T16:04:00.000+08:00

Gabe left me a string of 60 photos in my MacBook's Photobooth before he left to Cebu. So I converted them into a gif image. And there it is! :')

Ugh, love this boy to bits! ♥

7 more days...

Om nom nom! (10th-13th Dec)

2011-12-14T19:17:00.000+08:00

I've been eating like crazy recently! Not that I wanted to eat that much.. But, I did anyway, lol! :) *glutton*

So here's what I've been eating the past few days...

10/12/2011: Char Grill Bar (Bukit Panjang area. Was it Bangkit?)

OMG FREAKIN' AMAZING FOOD FOR SUCH A GOOD PRICE. ❤

Ordered all that food for 3 (Jackie, Gabe + I), and in all honesty it didn't cost that much at all (can't recall actual cost though). But I'm pretty confident that it's affordable and the quality of food you're getting is definitely worth your buck, in my opinion. Thumbs up! (y)

My favourites were the sour cream fries and the "yellow rice" (forgot the dish's name) side-dish shown in the first picture. The grilled fish and fried rice were pretty good too! But the spaghetti was a bit too sour for my liking... :/

There were quite a number of tables besides ours' who were also enjoying Char Grill Bar dishes! Reflects their popularity, doesn't it?

Felt really bloated after the meal but of course a gym session afterwards dissolved the guilt within me, lol. So it's k :)

Anyway, Char Grill Bar has many outlets in different hawker centres and eateries, so you guys might wanna check 'em out at a place near you. (But I've heard a couple of negative feedback from the one at Bukit Batok. Customer service and food quality is pretty *ahem* so it's best to avoid that outlet. Hee.)

Note: No wonder that specific outlet has remained pretty quiet so far. At least for every time I visit that area for gym or secondary school activities that is. Words spread, bad ones even faster! Not surprising for an outlet that has staff who insisted that the brown-coloured black-pepper sauce is the butter sauce my friend ordered. Heh.

10/12/2011: Ikea Cafeteria (Alexandra)

Went to Ikea with Gabe for the ~~first-round~~ "dry run" of furniture shopping for my bedroom revamp that I've been talking about on Twitter and all. There wasn't really any 'shopping' done since my main purpose was to take a good physical look at the furniture pieces that I've short-listed from their 2012 catalogue, and also to add more to my shopping list, lol.

So since we're there, why skip the opportunity to eat the all-time-favourite meatballs? And so we feast!

Not much, just my favourite foods, aka clam chowder, meatballs and fried chicken wings. :)

I don't think I have to tell you how good the meatballs and chicken wings are right? Lol.

Anyway, here's a couple of pictures taken that day...

Here's a little side-track, but omg, this necklace I got online (Forever21.com), super love! ❤ It being bohemian-themed with a zest of Alice in Wonderland (with the key and heart and all that) makes it so pretty!!! It's currently out of stock online, but I bought it for 3.80USD or 4.80USD. Yeap, just a lil' sharing, lol. :)

On the 12th of Dec, I dined at Seoul Garden. But not because Gabe + I wanted to! It's just because Causeway Point has no more sushi outlets! LIKE IKR WTF?! Sakae and whatever the other one was, POOF! GONE! Hopefully it's just due to the renovations at all, but they better bring back the jap food or I'll have many less reasons to go there. Then I'll be sad ):

Moving on!

13/12/2011: Ikea Cafeteria (Alexandra) Yes, AGAIN.

The plate far left was their Christmas Platter which comes with the chocolate truffle cake on the right.

Their Christmas Platter was rather... Meh. Just plain ham and fries and whatnot. But their boiled(?) broccoli was, good gracious me, freakin' fantastic! Like, okay, gimme the benefit of doubt, maybe I hadn't really eaten some great-tasting vegetables unlike some people out there might be eating every single day. But that doesn't deny the fact that I really thought they tasted real good. Yay. And to my surprise, the sausages were cheese-filled. So yeah, plus point! :)

Anyway, this second time I went to Ikea was for the real first-round of shopping. Will be updating it as the first Room Revamp post soon! Excited! :D

OKAYBAI ~

P/S: Gabe just left for Cebu, Philippines. Today's the first day, yet it feels like a month! )': 8 more days to go...
P/P/S: Bub, if you're reading this I really really crazy miss you... Stay safe ❤

Ka-ching! (Short update)

2011-12-12T22:33:00.001+08:00

Lil' short update:

I'm aweseome, 'nuff said.
Rofl, nonono.. I'm actually damn appreciative of this, believe it or not. :)

Anyway, I've been planning a revamp of my bedroom this whole time I wasn't updating (explains my trip to Ikea, if you've been following me on my Photostream up there *points to top-left corner*). All the major planning has been done, I already know exactly what I want and where I want them. Measurements, colour scheme, layout, etc eveything in the hands of the one and only moi. All I'm left with now is the actual purchasing of the furniture, which will take some time due to the well-known yet persistent problem of the "ka-ching ka-ching". Tsk, just too bad I wasn't born with loads of money to my name lor. Lol.

At least I worked 6 days at a horrible departmental store (which I will not name), earning me $250. I'm paid damn little, IKR! :( And Mommy might chip in a little for this revamp, so yeah. Psyched! :D

Will be blogging the process of the revamp as soon as it happens!

Buhbai.

Movie Night!

2011-12-08T18:17:00.003+08:00

Watched Fast Five with Gabe at home. Freakin' enjoyed it (Fast and Furious fangirl here! Watched every film in the series k)! I think I got Gabe hooked on to Fast and Furious movies too, lol. :)

P/S: Gonna have another movie night later tonight.. We're gonna watch In Time.

Nov-Dec Week

2011-12-04T15:49:00.003+08:00

Hello :)

Did a few things the previous week..

1. Beach outing with Gabe + Keith to Siloso Beach, Sentosa!

I was happily lazing around in the sun while the guys were doing flips in the sand and whatnot. Until it started pouring, lol, like all of a sudden. At the very least there was enough sun for a light tan, and I'm sure the guys had fun flipping around the sandy beach.

Pictures on the way back from the beach (can't recall where we headed to next :/)...

Don't ask me why Gabe's eyes look reptilian in this photo... I find it creepy too. O_O

Gabe + Keith's take at the ridiculously horrendous "duck face". Wtflol!

2. Cook-off!
Had plans to cook a meal together at my place out of nowhere and that was what we did. *steadybompipi!*

"Bacon strips.. Bacon strips.. MORE BACON STRIPS!!!"
We cooked risotto, potato with bacon strips, apple syrup thingy, "fail" clam chowder and made salad. All for super late (around 12 midnight) dinner. Crazy!

But because I didn't eat the whole day before that due to the fact that I forgot to feed myself (no, but seriously. I literally spaced out on my meals 'cause I was too caught up thinking of other mind-boggling matters.), I got sick! ): And unfortunately threw up everything I got down my guts within minutes. Sigh, what a waste!

3. Buffet @ Brio's, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. (just yesterday)
Mommy invited Gabe so he went along! :)

Outfit: Plaid tube dress (New Look), white translucent shirt (Cotton On), high-cut sneakers (Rubi), beach tote (Victoria's Secret) and Winged-Heart necklace (Forever21.com).

The buffet was good (go back every year). But I've no pictures, sadly. Damn phone died on me because I sent out a couple of emails when it was running low on batt. Hmmph :/ So I only have those ^ photos while we were waiting for a cab.

That's about it, taaa!~ ^^

P/S: My awesome boyfriend and brother got these games! ♡ (#TeamPS3 > XBOX360)

New Start!

2011-11-30T22:59:00.001+08:00

OMG I'M LIKE FINALLY BLOGGING O-O
I stopped blogging for about 10months or so (since I started preparing for my O'levels) and now I'm finally back..With a fresh new start of course! Scrapped all my old posts and retained my url. Not to forget a brand new blog layout (:

This layout was the biggest 'project' I've ever done, yet. Spent about a week planning (actually not so much, more of a trial-and-error thing) and designing this layout from scratch. Coding was much less of a hassle this time since I've a handful of old codes to look into and the fact that I had w3schools always opened in another tab (that site is freaking awesome and a great help). Also included some widgets which I previously didn't (i.e. the tweet function and Photostream) and re-enabled commenting on each post which I removed in the past.

I'm more than satisfied with this new layout and really proud of myself for putting together all the elements that I visualised my blog would be. The layout did turn out slightly different though, but I wouldn't consider it a lack for the fact that, in my opinion, it's another kind of awesome compared to what I initially intended. Basically I'm very contented :)

So... I really don't know what to add on to this post for now. I mostly update my Twitter and Photostream (top-left corner) most frequently if you're interested. And there would most likely be a short video thingy coming up ~~next~~soon! Kinda excited and skeptical about that lol.

OK BAI. :)

P/S: Gab and I celebrated our 2.5-year anniversary yesterday! *fireworks* ♡