It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas On Orchard Road

If you follow my blog, you'd know that I just had a week trip to Singapore recently. Unfortunately, I didn't have any outfit pictures since I went on my own and had no one to take my pictures. Sob, sob. But anyway, I'd like to share with you Friends some pictures I took during the trip. I stayed on Orchard Road, a famous Singapore shopping arcade, and since it's December already, the whole street gets dressed up and decked with such gorgeous Christmas lights.

Also, I've been tagged by the lovely Wii of A Single Girl's Musings. Thank you, Wii! I love this kind of game! And I just copy-paste from your post, because I'm too lazy, hehehe...

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with four things per question. At the end, choose other friends to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you!

Soooo... let's start!

FOUR JOBS I'VE HAD IN MY LIFE:

1. Selling stickers to friends when I was in primary school. Yep, I was entrepreneurial when I was a kid, I don't know what happened to me, now that I've grown up I've been an employee during all my adulthood!

2. Private tutor for primary school children when I was in high school. Just something productive to do in my spare time, as well as earning some pocket money to buy new clothes and some new, cute school supplies and stationeries.

3. Retail at Walgreens (drugstore/convenience store) during my college years in the US. Actually I really loved working in retail. If career in retail in Indonesia is as good as it is in the US, I might pursue a career in retail instead of what I'm doing now. I love working in a store, I love the ambiance, people, the merchandise, and the adrenaline of just being in a store. I don't even mind the physical work involved such as stocking up the racks and stuff. It's not a glamorous job, and the salary is not high, but I've learned that the actual ANNUAL income is very very good, from very generous bonus and profit sharing system. In fact, I was surprised to find out that store managers make bigger annual income than many of those with "glamorous" jobs in downtown where you wear power suits! The better your store is doing, the more money you make. Fair and square.

4. My current office job, of course!

FOUR MOVIES I WOULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AND OVER:

1. Legally Blonde. Pretty girls can be smart, AND kindhearted, too!

2. Any adaptation from Jane Austen novels.

3. Devil Wears Prada. (Love love LOVE the clothes!)

4. And I Hate You So. (An old Mandarin movies, starred Kelly Chen and Aaron Kwok)

FOUR PLACES WHERE I HAVE LIVED:

1. Jakarta, Indonesia

2. College Station, Texas, USA

3. Houston, Texas, USA

4. Austin, Texas, USA (Ya ya, I just moved from city to city in Texas during US years)

FOUR TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH:

1. The first season of Ally Mcbeal.

2. Nigella Lawson's cooking shows. (She's beautiful, sexy, she can whip up delicious dishes in minutes, and she eats! What a woman )

3. Kimora Life in The Fab Lane. As much as I think she's annoying, I love her quirkiness, her sense of humor and positiveness. And she prays. ^__^

4. Almost anything and everything on Travel and Living Channel.

FOUR PLACES I HAVE BEEN ON VACATION:

1. Australia: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisband, Gold Coast

2. China: Beijing, Shanghai, Guilin, Guangzhou

3. Holyland: Egypt, Israel, Jordan

4. Makati, Philippines

FOUR WEBSITES I VISIT DAILY:

1. Bloglovin

2. Logam Mulia (to check gold bar prices, whether they're up or down. I'm a conservative investor, I invest in gold, property and mutual funds.)

3. Detik (local news website)

4. IDX (Indonesia's stock exchange website, to check stock prices)

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE FOODS

1. Indonesian style fried chicken. I prefer Western to Eastern food, but nothing beats this ultimate favorite food of mine!

2. Anything shrimp dim sum!

3. Good ol' American breakfast: eggs, toasts, hashbrown, pork bacon, orange juice.

4. Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!

FOUR PLACES I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:

1. NYC! I dreamed to live there, but never really made any attempts to make it come true. I mean, come on, before graduation I applied for jobs in Dallas and Houston, not in New York!

2. Singapore. For more Christmas shopping... I know, I'm sooo bad...

3. The Isle of Sarks. I've been wanting to go there for vacation, but somehow ended up going some place else. Well, maybe next vacation...

4. Houston. I miss you!!!

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE PERFUMES/ COLOGNES

I don't wear any. Perfume makes me dizzy. However, I love scented body lotion, candles, satchet, and sweet smelling things! My favorite scents are...

1. Jasmine

2. Rose

3. Lavender

4. Green tea

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE MUSICALS

1. Phantom of The Opera. (my all time favorite)

2. Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Warriors)

3. Miss Saigon

4. Annie

FOUR FAMOUS PEOPLE I WOULD LOVE TO MEET - DEAD OR ALIVE :

1. Mother Mary. I want to ask her why she said yes to carry baby Jesus and where did she get the courage to do so considering the rigid cultural norm at the time. I mean, she could be stoned to death for alleged adultery because of this pregnancy!

2. Jackie Kennedy Onassis. I want to ask her how she could be so strong and maintain her composure in dealing with an unfaithful husband AND handling the pressure of being a first lady and the center of international media frenzy at such a young age, all without losing her sense of self.

3. Tzu Hsi, Empress Dowager of China. Is power so scintillating to a woman she would sacrifice anything to get and keep it?

4. Queen Esther of The Bible. How did she make herself stand out among all the other women at the palace, without losing her self identity and her faith?

FOUR THINGS THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY:

1. Good food.

2. Good book.

3. Good art in any forms: paintings, shows, music, etc.

4. The girlie-girl activities: self-pampering, beauty treatments, and of course, good ol' shopping!

FOUR PEOPLE THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY

1. Myself. (Yep, I have the right and responsibility to make myself happy! Read my happiness post here.)

2. My family.

3. My friends.

4. You, my dear Friends in blogosphere ^__^

Sorry for editing the tag a bit. If not I'm afraid it would be too long

Now, I'm tagging some of my fellow Indonesian and international bloggers, I'm not sure who will respond to this tag, but I hope some of you will!

Wii of A Single Girl's Musing (Thank you for tagging me, here I'm tagging you back!)

Suki Pooki of Suki Pooki

Julie Lan of Pop Champagne

Indi of Dunia Kecil Indi

Kristy of Monochroma.Chic

Naomi of Naomi's Blog

Catherine Au Jong of Etinology

Sophie A. of His Abundant Grace

Natasha Atkerson of What I Wear, What I Do And Why I Did It

Michelle of Glisters And Blisters

Mongs of My Thrifty Closet

Amelia of Ugly Duckling

Ninin of The Two Miss Fits

Veren Lee of A Little Princess

Mirjam Schuurkamp of MirFashion

Oomph

Dina Vanessa Mercado of Voguely Van
Miss Kwong
Laura of The Blog of Worldly Delights
Priscilla Clara of Beauty & Me
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