zoey: April 2019

whoa 200+ pics today! a new record in a while?

yongtaufoo from course days! rly miss those short days hehe

golden hour

bkt at whitesands...

...and mini celeb at dt's place for wums!

happy bday gurl 💜you're now twice the age we were when we first met :')

another lunch from when on course. looks damn good right? but it was so bland...

dinner with the rat :)

hehe

"NO"

orh jian is lyfe

cai tau kueh or angmoh carrot cake?? leave a comment down below!

this was a SUPER ptsd lunch for me.
it was decent at the time, but now every time i look back at the following pics i really wanna puke, cos i got very sick the day after and i think it was partly due to the food here.

that green chicken... ate a piece and really wanted to spit it out but couldn't cos it was a team lunch and that would've been awkward

-dies a little-

and this was taken the following day, when i could barely stomach anything. doc said it was likely stomach flu.
probably the worst day of the year man.
mooma was sick that day too but from flu, so both of us just napped away at home.

sherwin came over with porridge and mock abalone.
ate half a bowl cos i felt slightly better, but soon vomitted it out HAHAHA

thanks for seeing me through the worst... and at my worst

sick people fud when i went back to work on friday, the next day (yes. cos i didnt want everyone to think badly of me, mc-ing both thu and fri... worklife things)

can't rmb where i was headed here, probably to meet sherwin?
but look at dat pretty sunset :)

heavenly wang has always been my go-to for weekend bfasts but recently i think it's dropped a lot in standard :(

came up with my own weird tabs as practise for amplitube gig HAHA
siren sound by intervals, in case anyone cares (highly doubt so)

new bfast go-to with the parents!
but their eggs taste heckin weird to me idk why

found this v hilarious

just days after i fell sick eating here... i was back cos the ampd ppl wanted to eat here after practice
was like o god... but i was fine thank goodness

teppanyaki at food republic with the colleagues

all about dat veggie

bulgogi ramen! thought it'd be spicy but it wasn't, was disappointed

can't rmb where this was at tbh.
but it was a v interesting lunch cos a young colleague and i ate with an older colleague, who really had a lot of interesting things to say about like his life experience etc... "happiness comes from within" - probably my biggest takeaway

homecooked meals!!

he really walks v fast

more lunches

dinner with colleagues one friday evening

saturdate!! but he was sick and didn't tell me beforehand :(
here i was with my coffee while he was in the toilet

here i was with my lunch while he was in the toilet again HAHA

waiting for him while he was in the toilet...
sent him home after that LOL

fong's... the only thing i will miss about having to go back to nus

met this qt one day after practice!!

anxiety cos he was with strangers, but apparently he likes females and somehow glued himself to my legs. qt!!

decent kolo mee at vivo

is it creepy to sneak pics?

goodstuff

decided to wake up 15min earlier one day to eat this for bfast... instant regret when i woke up LOL it was so early

tomato soup noodle!! my fav from yih canteen (seriously so feels eating back there cos so many mmrs... that building was really my second home those four years in uni)

nipong naepong with wums and dt one wednesday night!

epic-ly aggressive price competition from don don donki with liang court LOL

for the gram

ate brown sugar mochi standing at some random place hahaha

luv

dt was not playin

i don't rmb taking this pic HAHA

team teabreak! foster's at holland v. good scones!

when u got work in the day but casual simei dinner date at night

shabu sai!! got the wrong soup tho :(

not sure which is sweeter. cheyyyy

packed up cos we felt guilty being the last table at closing time hahaha

maki-san for lunch one day

new malaysian food court at simei which is quite meh...

cendol is good though!

then it was OFF TO KOREA ON THE 15TH!!
went with my mum, my cousin and her 2 kids

my mum brought ginseng pieces to eat in the morning LOL

we chilled at coffee club cos we were too early at the airport

so ready to leave hehe

me in my most natural form - awkwardly posing for a pic my cousin insisted on

okay-ish fish porridge

!!!!

landeddddd

all-too-familiar arex!

missed you Seoul

where we stayed, which was next to a Hongik stn exit, but we didn't realise the exit was one of the furthest oops

mini lost on the first day cos i couldn't recognise the surroundings - thought we'd be nearer to Hongdae than we actually were
oh ya i was the planner and tour guide for this whole trip... actually quite stressful, plus we had kids
but oh well fam bonding amirite

managed to find this good burger place for dinner

v generous cheese

looks like this from the outside, forgot the name

first kawfee in Seoul
the cafes there are so big, empty and chill all the time i love it
not like sg where you stress to finish your food/coffee cos ppl are waiting esp if it's a good/popular cafe

and it was a Saturday :o

managed to find our way to Hongdae!

diabetus on a stick

Tiger sugar just opened in Seoul i guess! the queue was insane... not v diff from sg in this aspect

at this point the youngest was v moody so my cousin took her back to the airbnb
mum and i continued walking at Hongdae, bought a sweet potato latte i think

had a late lunch so we ate light stuff for dinner

the true korean experience

tosokchon samgyetang!

korean pancake

good thing we arrived early cos when we came out the queue was cray

more chilling at cafes cos we had time to kill before going to gyeongbokgung

thought my mum's white socks + white velcro combi was v cute LOL

moomaaaa

change of guards

then we were off to myeongdong!

no. 1 korean souvenir haha

my niece so boss

BHG fried chicken with mooma for dinner... original still best!

i love gimbap too

went out early the next day with my fellow morning bird aka mooma

morning face ttm

shake shack!! i did think it was nicer the first time i was there though

love ddm... it's like a cool mixture of old and new, art shops and old malls

this was here when i came to lotte mart 1 year ago and now it's still here wow

comfort food for dinner

next day, we took a day tour to nami island, gangchon rail bike + garden of morning calm
finally a break for me from the tour guiding wew

oh but i got the timing wrong and only found out when we were sitting on the tour bus and the lady was like er i think you guys are on the 9am tour... HAHA i woke my fam up 2 hours early for nth
so we chilled at starbucks in the meantime oops

pre-railbike fuel

my niece rly loved it which was gr8
her super cute earmuffs though!

smiling more like sherwin oh noo HAHA

can i run away here!

our first and last glimpse of snow in Seoul hahaha

i like potato pancake too

ferry to nami island

v confused to see this at nami island

strange-looking squirrel LOL

after i asked my mum not to take a full body shot hahahaha

zoey learns how to phone

garden of morning calm

so cute

mooma!!!

the only (bad) picture i have of a gr8 dinner!! dk if dakhanmari is a v common thing?
first time trying it at this place i found recommended on google maps
it was managed by a v dominant grandmother who basically helped us cook everyth and motioned to show us how to eat it

not v nice bfast at paris baguette

then mooma and i went to noryangjin fish market!

yassss

i rly love authentic kimchi, it tastes so different

we couldn't finish this :'( what a waste
around S$24 for this plate of sashimi which is crazy cheap

found that earring shop that i keep seeing on instagram hahaha

found this pie cafe (thanks google maps again) which was bomb!

i miss those pies

our last dinner in Seoul :'(

had this v nice cup noodles sitting between my mum and cousin while they htht-ed LOL

last bfast in Seoul - some waffle cafe v near our airbnb

korean kfc is the real deal man. super good chicken

last meal!! and it was a good one

then back to reality oh no

reunited with the rat the next day - we went to expo food fair :)

muji lunch w mooma! i eat this way too often fosure

tried on clothes for her cos she was lazy to try them herself... filial piety

coffee date at dutch colony with wums the next day

had our second last prac for amplitube on sat and i grabbed there cos i was lazy

anyway, i rly regret going there actually cos i think i caught some bedbugs from the studio 😰😰
i've been bitten very horribly to the extent that i feel damn sad about it cos my back looks so diseased.
my arms and legs also kena but thank God nowhere as bad as my back.
threw out my mattress even though it looks completely spotless and so far i haven't seen new bites so i'm hoping this is the end of it...

best part is i actually asked earlier if we could change to an outside studio cos i heard someone slept there and got dubious bites. but joel said he liked the drums there so we stuck to it. regrets man

sushi tei for lunch

soon huat! soup was v nice that day

i started feeling super itchy here so i initially thought the bites were mozzie bites
around a week later they hadn't healed but had gotten much worse :(

grateful for my rat

heatwave the next few days led to us camping indoors even during lunch hour

random saizeriya dinner

v sad wanton mee pre-dinner

v sad orh jian portion
eastpoint what you doing :(

end of amplitube!! hid here alone after gig ended so i didn't have to help pack up hehe (i have been a loggo doggo for four years, enough is enough)

honestly didn't put in my best at this gig cos it felt like the least of my priorities. now that i'm working, gigging for amplitube seems especially trivial, and i'm not sure (have never been sure) what the endgoal of practising to get better is, which would also probably explain why i've always been the most mediocre bassist - all boils down to my laziness and lack of perfectionism. always tried to make up for it by having good attitude tho LOL. and i think it somewhat worked; some of them rmbered me and asked me to teach guitar/gig even after i graduated... such sweet juniors

tl;dr did amplitube mostly for my friends, and i didn't mind the songs but i definitely didn't try to perfect them. good attitude not present this time; sorry friends for being a burden (though yall won't read this)

back to work!
lunch looked better than it tasted oops

getting out of office right when the rain stops 😌

back to sick ppl fud cos i had the bites and was nursing a flu worsened by office aircon :(

decided to have smth nice with my boy last tues cos i was gonna have my wisdom tooth surgery (to add to all my troubles HAHAHA)
Vatos was gr8!! thanks Lianne if you're reading this hehe