Brought one of my guinea pig, Butter to the vet last week because i suspected that she had a ovarian cyst, initially i thought her dropping of fur was simply due to old age, afterall she is around 5-6 years old already, but after i came back from my Aussie trip, the side of her belly seems to be getting bigger and bigger and i went to google her symptoms eg: hair loss on the both sides and swollen side at both side of the body.
So the very next day i brought her down to The Animal Doctors to get her checked out, did an x-ray & ultrasound and yep, confirmed that she had ovarian cyst and there was no way to avoid surgery, but i was so afraid something might happen during the surgery or she wouldn't recover well so i got really upset, thank god jeremy was there with me. ):
Jeremy waited with for me around 4-5 hours and the clinic called and said that butter is awake from the anesthetic, still weak but the surgery went well and the ovarian cyst was really really big, the vet took some pics of the cyst with her iphone and it was really freakishly huge for a little animal her size, my poor baby butter. ):
So after the surgery butter has like a 5-6 cm long stitch on her underbelly and we were instructed by the vet to keep her separate from the rest of the guinea pigs for at least a week and in a smaller confined area so she can't move about much and risk tearing the stitches etc!
Got a plastic tube and lined it with soft bedding, here's her "hospital wing" for the week:
lol, Cute much?! All the essentials packed in a small area, teddy bear for her to lie on, small bowl with food, hay and water bottle. Poor butter looking so thin after the surgery, huge contrast as compared to when she had the cyst!
Butter was still very stoned from the surgery but when we chopped some veggies she started to perk up, phew i was really relieved that she seemed to be doing well and if she's eating then it's definitely a good sign.
We were worried that she might get cold or something so we covered her with a blankie!
LOL, butter all wrapped up like a bun.
It's been one and a half week and butter's pretty much fully recovered and is back to the big cage with the other piggies!
Y MY PIGGIES NO LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!!! So mad adorable can
AWWWWWW! (:
Loves, TheLuckiestChick
So I've celebrated my 21st birthday like.. 3 months ago, and I've not blogged about it, but it was such a great party and i really enjoyed myself! Thanks to all my lovely friends who showed up and i hope you had a great time at the party. (:
So i thought of doing a party planning tips blog post after sorting out some photos, so here are some of the important planning points:
- Party Venue
- Food
- Entertainment
- Music
- Decor/Theme
I started planning my birthday like probably 3 months beforehand, because i planned to have my party at one of the bungalows at NSRCC, because the bungalows at NSRCC is in pretty high demand so i got my friend Chris to help me book it around 3 months in advance, mad kiasu but at least no need to stress about losing my party venue at the last minute!
NSRCC requires a min. booking of 2 nights per booking so i had to book 2 nights and with the Safra membership the booking came up to around $900 including a refundable $100 deposit.
I think it was quite a great party venue, modern looking, great lighting, good amount of space so it's not too crowded and uncomfy for your guests, well equipped kitchen etc.
On Day 01, checked in NSRCC at around 2pm and started to decorate and i was preparing my desert table, thanks to Mummy, Chris, Christy & Evan for helping out with my decor. My party wouldn't have looked so awesome without y'all! (:
I had a Mardi Gras theme, which is basically a masquerade parade with people wearing lots of beads, masquerade masks, too much alcohol and the Mardi Gras theme colour is Purple, Gold and Green.
The Photobooth was really fun to take some really awesome shots with my friends too, made some cool photoprops that we had fun playing with while camwhoring at the photobooth, thanks to Shirley's 21st birthday party idea!
I had a dessert table for my friends to "play" with...
chocolate fondue, cotton candy machine!
We also had quite a crazy time playing Chubby Bunny with some peeps marshmallow chicks! Me VS Jessica & Leon VS Sam! Go see my facebook album for the photos lol
Thanks Jess for the lovely cupcakeeeeees (:
Food was catered by One Paradise, chose them because the food presentation's awesome, my second choice for catering would be Neogarden.
... and no party is complete without alcohol!
Definitely get lots of mixers, red bull, ice, chips, tacos & dips.
Many of you have been asking for the recipe to make Jello Shots, so here you go:
3oz box of Jell-O mix (click here for pics)
i tried the strawberry, blueberry and lime flavours, you can get them at Cold Storage.
1 cup of hot water
1/2 cup of Vodka (put more for stronger jello shots)
1/2 cup of cold water (put less for stronger jello shots)
Open the Jell-O mix, pour into a bowl, add hot water, mix till jello crystal melts.
Add the vodka and cold water, mix and pour into the mini plastic shot cups that you can get from SKP, get the 100pcs pack -it's cheaper!
I used the basic recipe and plain normal vodka without flavors, but you can experiment with different combination flavors of the Jello & Vodka, you can find more recipes HERE.
Love Jello shots cos they looks so harmless but are actually spiked with tonnes of alcohol, fun!
And Danny helped me with the sound system and did a great mix for the party, loved the music!
Some of the photobooth shots!
Loves, TheLuckiestChick.
I've been traveling for quite a bit this two years, just a couple months before my australia trip i went to Bangkok and Hong kong for work, so i guess nowadays to me traveling is not that exciting anymore, for now checking in, waiting at the airport, customs screenings are just so tiring and bothersome. ):
I used to be sooooo excited i couldn't sleep for nights prior to the trip, every night i would just lie awake in bed and fantasize and dream up of all sorts of ways i'm gonna have fun in the new exciting country.
I guess that's one shitty part of growing up- you just don't dream anymore.
Missing the excitable, giggly me.
Anyway! I was be in the middle of my aussie trip when boyfriend and my first monthsary happens. Booooo, can't celebrate.
So we were soooo sad that we won't be able to see each other for 2 whole solid weeks, afterall we've see each other every single day since we've been together hahaha, like seriously every single day. So my last day in Singapore was spent lazing at boyfriend's place, i can't really remember but i think boyfriend cooked for me? Or not? lol he has been making me breakfast very often so i can't really recall.
Was really lazy to go get my nails done before the trip, but i didn't want to have clean boring nails for 2 weeks either so painted my nails gold bling and boyf painted my toes! hahaha
Whoops, quite a scrappy job but who gives a damn, it's my toes nobody ever notices the toes anyway!
Boyf accompanied me to the airport and we stayed at coffee bean all the way almost till i have to get in to board the plane. 
Some caramel mad sinful drink + lotsa whipping cream for me.
Last photo before i'm gone! Errr not wearing eye makeup cos it's a 8 hour midnight flight and i was hoping to sleep through the entire flight but of course it was impossible since we keep getting woken up to eat snacks, supper, breakfast whatever. 
Wore knee high boots and people keep asking me if i'm heading to Japan, lol only can wear boots to japan meh!
Anyway it was a pretty smooth flight for me, but i just got to sleep for like probably 3 hours max throughout the whole flight, seriously do we really need to eat that many times on a 8 hour flight?!
Ahhhhh, finally landed and the first thing i was looking out for was Optus or Telstra apparently they are the best pre-paid provider because their connectivity is the best.
Optus is located just outside the customs exit, very obvious yellow 'Yes' Optus sign.
Did some research and Optus has the cheapest pre-paid plans, awesome for travelers!
At only $2 AUD per day, you get unlimited DATA, CALLS & SMS (within australia of course) but i only needed the unlimited data! Whatsapp, Viber, Twitter, Facebook. YAY I'M CONNECTED TO THE WORLD!
So since I'm staying for 14 days, i had to get the $30 prepaid value, no worries if you're an IPhone user, they have the mini-SIM cutter and the pin to open the SIM compartment on your IPhone.
Yay, get to chat with boyfriend 24/7 even when i'm in Aussie and whatsapp mummy everyday and update her with pics heh.Followed the signs and found the train station, omg the train fare from international airport to Bondi junction is around 17 AUD + 2 AUD for the bus from bondi junction to our apartment at Bondi Beach. The train ride is mad expensive or what!
So if you have 2 pax or more, cabbing will be more worth it. From airport to bondi junction on cab is around 50 AUD?
Waiting for the train, my luggage is already a whooping 20kg when i checked in at the airport lol wtf. luckily i brought an extra hand-carry to hold my things in case my luggage is off it's limits.
Ok another thing i've learnt to appreciate about Singapore's public transport, in Singapore the frequency of trains is around 3-4mins right? In australia you wait around 15-20 mins for the trains.
Central station! Errrr, got a wee bit lost trying to find the platform to Bondi Junction, thank god for all the awesome people who stopped to help me with my luggage when i'm getting on/off the trains/lift etc lol.
So after the train + bus ride, I've finally arrived at the apartment i booked for Jessica and I for our 5 nights in Sydney! It's located at the world famous Bondi Beach, just 5 minutes away from the beach, so awesome and there's so many cafes & supermarket around the area, bus stop is right in front of the apartment.
It has the scariest lift though! We actually took a video of us in it lol but it's with jessica. But it's damn mad creepy and it smells like paint and it's tiny!
When i just arrived i was like OMG WHERE THE FUCK IS THE LIFT?
Even the lift button didn't look like a damn lift button. It's just one round black tab. WTF? And you actually have to press on a latch and drag open the "inner lift door".
Hahahahaha ok i can totally imagine your "wtf are you talking about fidelis?!!?!?" face
But it IS that complicated!!! Hahahah.
But at least the apartment looks good.
Nice, clean, modern, has a mini kitchen equipped with electric stove, oven, mini fridge, water boiler etc and also a washing machine and dryer which was AWESOME cos it means we didn't have to carry dirty clothes around with us!
Can you imagine 2 weeks worth of dirty clothes omg gross
We paid around 90AUD per night for the apartment which i thought was a pretty damn good deal. Booked it though Takeabreak.com.au, listing for the apartment HERE.
Also i guess you can contact the owner via email: marlenelage@hotmail.com
Was so tired from the 8 hour flight + transport from airport to apartment lugging my 20kg bitch heavy luggage, nua around for a bit and decided to change and go check out the area around the apartment before Jessica reaches!
We were seriously idiots. Lol
We were told that it'll be spring the period we're in Sydney, so we both packed a shitload of floral spring-ish dresses, shorts & pretty spring-y tops. Hahahahah but it was really the end of the winter so it was FREEEEEZING like around 10 degrees everyday when we were in Sydney?!
I wore the above outfit and went out of my apartment and a strong gust of wind blew and i immediately turned back and wore another long sleeved thermal top.
Went down the apartment building walked for 3 minutes and my bare legs were FREEZING so i went back to the apartment to put on leggings. WTF idiot how to wear all the spring-y clothes we packed?!?!!? LOL
Then after finally getting warmed and all layered up and walking around to check out the shops around the apartment, jessica called and say she's downstairs at our apartment lol WTF
Hahahah, yep it's freezing and we're having slurpee. Slurps.
We're cabbing to Circular Quay to check out the Sydney Harbour Bridge & Sydney Opera House.
Put on our booties and off we go! Headed to Circular Quay and of course we had to take gazillion touristy photos! LOL
Finally we've reached Circular Quay, I honestly couldn't believe that I was in Aussie with Jessica!
Initially when i got my air ticket to Sydney, it was to attend leon sister's wedding but we broke up so obviously it was too awkward for us if i went ahead to attend the wedding so i thought i would travel in Australia alone for two whole weeks which would prolly be pretty sucky, two weeks alone in a foreign country can you imagine that?! I'm usually independent but two weeks is way too long to be alone and all.
But miraculously everything worked out and Jessica was there with me!
So glad i have you girl. (:
And here is Jessica's friend, Kew.
Thanks for bringing us around, you're awesome!
Lol but he's damn tall and his legs are mad long so Kew's one step is probably my 3 steps, and damn! Australians do love to walk a lot don't they?! Oh wells, if the weather here in Singapore was as nice as Sydney i would like to walk a lot all day and all night too.
Kew was like walking mad fast and the both of us were like desperately trying to catch up hahahaha. 
I always thought that I'm pretty "cold-resistant" but i only found out after this trip that I'm not like that at all.
When we were in Sydney it was like 10 degrees and it's SO windy and ass freezing coooooold, i had to wear like 3-4 layers and thick leggings under my pants + boots, i'm totally wrapped up like a mummy already
BUT! when the wind blows i start shivering and to me it's "teeth chattering" cold but to Jessica she can just throw on a tank top, light cardigan and leggings and walk around like nothing's happening lol.
Such a stark difference between the both of us, we probably looked pretty funny walking together.
Told you Kew's mad tall! Think he's like 1 and a half head taller than me FML
YAY hold hands, shake butt we're in Aussie baby girl!
Touristy photo at the Sydney Harbour Bridge
You know who likes to bully birrrrrrrdies? Hehehehehhe
JESSICA DUH! *Smacks forehead* Not sure what's with the obsession with scaring seagulls everywhere we go, but it's damn entertaining lol
Seeee, all wrapped up like a mummy but still SOOOOO cold. Hiding out at some accessories store while Kew and Jessica check out the accessories.
Lol Do you see Kew upfront looking back at us and he was probably thinking "tsk tsk WALK FASTER YOU TWO ASIAN CHICKS" then I was probably thinking "tsk tsk Jesssss fasteeeeer!"
Then we took this CBD shuttle bus and it took forever but we reached darling harbour and Kew was super excited about this new place called "Oxygen Bar" apparently it super popular in Japan and hollywood or whatever.
Jessica and I we were like, ERR WTF IS A OXYGEN BAR?
We thought it was some really cool funky bar that errrrr sells oxygen enriched alcohol or whatever, lol
BUT GUESS WHAT! NOPE it's a oxygen bar like just in the middle of the shopping mall, pretty wtf experience really, it was like 15AUD or something for 15 mins of 99% pure oxygen with aromatic properties, and they include a bottle of mineral water and ipad so you can surf during that 15 mins.
LOL LOOK AT US WTF.
LOL! Speechless really. Pretty much look like idiots for that 15 mins lol
pretty damn skeptical about the 99% oxygen
Errrrrr, ok after 15 min of breathing in 99% "pure oxygen" and looking like an idiot i don't feel any difference. Fidelis is still fidelis. Don't feel any better, don't feel any worst lol
HAHAHAHAHAAH wtf anyway yay by then Jess and I, we were ABSOLUTELY starving already! Food makes us happier than errrr 99% pure oxygen lol!
A reader recommended that we gotta try Pancakes on The Rocks when we're in Sydney, Nadnut tried it out when she was in sydney too and she said it was a must try!
Muahahaha Busy texting boyfriend! (:
Yay yay yay food! *bang fork*
Hungry us gobbled up the tacos within minutes, loved the dips!
Can't remember it was tandoori chicken pizza or something but it was OK.
The crepe sounded really awesome on the menu but booooo, wasn't that great either.
OH OH OHHHHHH! The Beef Ribs is finally something i can SHOUT about, it's SO SO SO SO tender and delicious if you're ever in sydney and at Pancakes on the Rocks, MUST order the beef ribs ok. Best ribs ever.
Still texting boyfriend in between dishes! 
Jess and her humongous hairbow lol going mad camwhoring with my camera cos we were both too absorbed in our phones so she gotta entertain herself, awwwww!
SO MAAAADD FUUUUULL GONNA EXPLODE ALREADY! But we were at PANCAKES on The Rocks how can we leave without having any pancakes?!
So we die die ordered one to share, caramelized grilled banana with whipped cream/vanilla ice cream and pancakes can never go wrong. 
Mmmmmm. Delicious. Finished it in record time.
Then it was time to go hooooooome, was a long day for us the 8 hour flight to Sydney, settling down and all. 
Lol, their MRT wait damn long! The frequency of the trains is like 1 train every 15 mins ish.
OMG if singapore also like that, we impatient singaporeans will die from waiting for the trains everyday, can you imagine, our MRT is around 3-4 mins one train for them is like 15-20 mins. 0.0
Also obviously their trains are not as clean as ours too! But it's pretty cool, they have like double decked trains.
By the time we got back to our apartment at Bondi Beach, showered, talked to our boyfriends we totally concussed in bed by 12pm max!
That's for Day 1! Day 2 coming up soooooon (:
Loves, TheLuckiestChick.
