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I’m in Shanghai now, attending the 80th Anniversary of Ferragamo celebrations with Fann Wong & Christopher Lee!

I’m really excited as to what to expect during this event and I will keep you updated on the events.

Tonight we’ll be going for a dinner party! Can’t wait!

Ciao! Gotta rush off now!!

XOXO
Jessica

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Been very busy lately brushing up on my mandarin to prepare myself for Channel 8. I’ll be taking up a small supporting role which starts filming in April. I’m very excited and also extremely nervous as I’m very inexperienced in Chinese drama and hope I don’t look like a fool on camera!

Also, my new place which we purchased a 2 years ago has TOP!!! That means lotsa planning has to be done to decide on furnishing the place and deciding on the interior decor. Exciting Exciting!!! But stressful too as there’s so many things to juggle now with the house in hand!

So many things to do and so little time!!!

XOXO
Jessica

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Gong Xi Fa Cai!!!

Nian Nian You Yu!!!

Jin Yu Man Tang!!!

Wishing everyone out there a wonderful Lunar New Year! Have a yummilicious reuinion dinner and pig out on all those new year goodies I love so much! Kueh Bangkit, Pineapple Tarts, Kok Zhai, Love Letters etc. etc. Mmmmm… Don’t forget those Mandarin oranges when you visit!!

There goes my waistline! 😛

XOXO
Jessica

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Attended the Chingay rehearsal yesterday in the rain and hopefully I won’t fall sick! Plenty of peeps around me are sick so hope I’ll hold out cos I hate taking meds and what’s worse I’m allergic to a number of meds which makes falling sick a terrible, horrible thing!

Anyway, it was great fun standing on the float during the parade but it was initially helluva scary too! Cos the platform I was on moves up about 10 metres high! & it’s definitely not stable when the float is moving! I was grabbing onto the handle bars really tightly and tried my best not to scream!!! *haha* Not very nice to see a screaming Ms Singapore on a float! Kinda hilarious actually…

Joey was with there with me on the same float as well but she’s lucky she doesn’t need to be on the same platform as I and be tested your fear of heights! Got over the feeling after a while n got used to being high up n moving! Tho sometimes I still grab onto the handle bars when the float goes over humps. (Really feels like a roller coaster ride like that)

Can’t wait for the actual day of Chingay. It’s my favorite thing to watch since I was a kid seeing all those colourful, interesting & creative floats go by with plenty of elaborate cheorography! Takes lots of time and effort to put this up and it’s like a tradition in Singapore already to have Chingay! 😛

It’s on 16 Feb if your didn’t already know!

XOXO
Jessica

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Look out for Makansutra Raw this coming Tues as I’ll be bringing Mr Seetoh somewhere nice to eat! Where??? You’ll find out! *wink*

Love food shows as I love to eat!!! yumyum…

Hope I don’t look like a glutton on TV!!! *hahah*

XOXO
Jess

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I’d like to believe that my life is totally perfect with everything going the way I want it to. But it isn’t. It has many ups and downs and lately a lot more downs in my family life. If this is an indication of how it is going to be for the next one year ahead it is sure gonna be a tough time trying to make things work.

Many a times, someone in your family just knows how to piss the hell outta you and all you wanna do is to punch them, say nasties or just wished they weren’t a part of your life in that fit of a moment. (C’mon admit it, everyone’s human and will think such thoughts even though U never/rarely act on them!) But after U cool down (that is if the person doesn’t instigate you to be even more furious), U realize that no matter what happens, or what you fight about, U just can’t live with or without that stupid someone.

Sometimes I just wish I can be invisible when I’m furious and everyone just leaves me alone. (Trust me I don’t need anger management classes because I rarely flare up) Somehow, family just knows how to pacify you and torment you equally. Parents nag not only to show concern and love and it also comes with age. We usually find nagging tormenting… (don’t you really? I can’t be the only soul that feels this way) But some nagging is good. if my parents stopped nagging at me one day I would find it unusual and feel uncomfortable. We humans are really hard to satisfy. It’s a love-hate relationship with everything we do!

Just wanted to rant here to release some tension in my bones cos sometimes everyone around U just can’t seem to understand you! I just needed an avenue to complain… thanks for listening!

XOXO
Jessica

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Just came back from my Bangkok trip! Went there to visit my good friend Ms Thailand Farung! Missed her so so much… we had such great fun together back in Mexico. Such a nice feeling meeting her after such a long time – nearly 8/9 months.

To my surprise, she came and welcomed me together with the Miss Thailand Universe fan club! Lotsa them took time off to come meet me for dinner… How sweet of them! Felt like we were back in Mexico where people took photos of us being ourselves and developed photographs for us to sign. 🙂

They brought us to a very nice seafood restaurant in Bangkok called Somboon (apparently very famous) and the seafood was yummy and very cheap! curry crab for only SGD10! Anyone visiting Bangkok has to drop by that place for a meal cos it’s great food, great service and very affordable pricing!

I did the usual shop and eat-a-lot in Bangkok, feasting on my favorite Thai spicy mango salad and mango sticky rice dessert almost every meal! heeheee…. I even “ta pao” mango sticky rice home cos I love it so much!

In my few nights stay in Bangkok, we took a trip down to the floating market to visit this interesting place. The longboat ride down the narrow canal sure was interesting! Sometimes it really felt it was going to capsize when the boatman sped up! (due to the imbalance of weight distribution in the boat)

Well, pictures tell a thousand words so enjoy!!!
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Went to see my god daughter again last night and she’s growing real fast!!! Hee… Baby Leeann’s sooo cute!

Anyway, I had a shoot this afternoon for ARENA Magazine – it’s a Men’s style magazine something like Female/Her World for men – I must say I love the photographer as he has the eye to take great shots!

The shoot was sensuous yet tasteful. Can’t wait to see the pictures when they come out in 3 weeks! I think that’s around the time I come back from my trip to Bangkok. I’ve never posed like that before – upside down, on the floor, twisted body etc. Great experience and lotsa fun! It also helped that I’ve worked with stylist Debra Wong and the photographer before which puts me at ease. And the make up artist Tinoq Russell is hilarious exactly like Grego! So it was great fun!

Shoot was done faster than expected. Managed to get all the shots within 3 hours which includes hair/make up. Fastest shoot ever!

Oh, but sad thing that happened today was I grazed my car bumper cos I was stuck in a very tight 3 point turn in a single lane space cos I was in between one lorry and one Toyota Wish (which parked out of his lot) and had to change my car’s angle between those 2 cars! So a little of my car’s bumper paintwork came off but no dent cos there was no force other than slow and cm by cm reversing! *sigh* *heart pain* This happened at the shoot’s location along River Valley Rd (Beside Mobil Station) where all those old shop houses are located which have few n far between lots!

In general I had a great day minus that scratch on my car…. 😦

XOXO,
Jessica

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Happy 2008 everyone! I hope U had wonderful celebrations last night!

To start my new year I’ve a loooong questionnaire to complete for Arena magazine. I’m going to do a shoot for them this coming Friday and I’ve to finish this Q&A by tomorrow!!

Hehe…. I hope this means my new year has more of these to come! Quite a nice way to start my year!

Just wanna wish everyone a great 2008 ahead with plenty of happy moments to come!

XOXO
Jessica

Back to filling in the Q&A!…

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The year is coming to an end and its time me to recap the year and have more resolutions for the new year.
This year has been a really eventful one for me and it literally flew by in a blink of an eye. It felt just like yesterday when I went for the Miss Singapore auditions early March and I remember so so clearly that I literally rushed from the airport the minute I touched down from my turnaround flight to go to Mediacorp for the audition. I was in the last batch of girls to be “screened” that night and I did it with Christabel. My first impression of her was like “Wow! She’s super tall and skinny! Die lah! I’ll look so short n chubby beside her…”

I met YY, Xuemei and Celest that same night too! Never did I expect to come such a long way after that fateful day. It has been a whirlwind of a year especially when I got the chance to represent Singapore in Mexico. That experience itself is priceless. I must say that this year has brought a lot of changes to my life. It’s not a turning point but I grew as a person. Being alone in Mexico made me a lot more mature and realised that people relationships are extremely important. I used to think I just do my work well and that’s it! But doing your work well is one thing, being recognised for it is another.

But I still believe in karma… do good things and good things will come your way eventually. That’s why I really try not to do the things that people do that pisses me off. Say for example really bad road manners, or in general bad manners. The other day I was holding the door open for this mother pushing a pram and all she did was to stare blankly at me as if I am supposed to do that. I’m not asking her to thank me profusely but a simple smile of appreciation would be nice. But all she did was walk thru, looked at me indifferently and went on with her life as if I was her maid! *sigh*

Sometimes I just wished everyone was nicer to the rest of the world and not so self centered.

ok, back to my new year’s resolutions….

1. Go for more yoga consistently
2. Wake up earlier in the mornings (I’m a late sleeper and riser)
3. Take up acting/Chinese lessons (I’m determined to master the Chinese language)
4. Learn a new language
5. Tidy up my mess (that should be ongoing! *haha*)
6. Appear in a Channel 8 drama serial ( I really really wanna be in a Channel 8 drama, whether I make it or not, well at least I tried!)
7. Eat less chocolates/ improve my diet
8. Decorate my new home! (can’t wait to move in when it’s ready… supposed to be ready sometime mid 2008)
9. Adopt a dog (if time permits)
10. Make the “Preserve Planet Earth 2008” project a success
11. Blog about my Ms Universe experience before the next pageant!!! (then it’s stale…)

Hmm…. I’ll add on more before the year ends…

Time for everyone to think how the year has went by and how we can make next year a better one!

Happy New Year!!!

XOXO
Jess

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