tired & confused

Yesterday, we celebrated the annual Feast Day of Christ the King. This year, we had a fun fair for the children along with all the usual fan fair of the various food stalls, the games and also the stage peformances.

Since I don't know when, hubby and I are in the children's fun fair committee.. After weeks of planning and finally 'THE' day was yesterday. We set up the necessary on Sat. So as you can already guess, my Sat and Sun was spent in church. I must say it was for a worthwhile course but gosh... tiring leh!!! Not just tiring, at the end of the day, hubby and I went hm each with a pair of luminious pink hands! Mine was brighter than hubby's coz i kept dipping my hands into the pool of coloured water. Gosh..

Thank Goodness, Yi Yeeng, told me to use lemon to wash off and well, the colouring has gone off a fair bit but my fingernails are still bright pink! I shd have used brown yesterday and I cld have hanna "tatoo" hands man. hahahahahaha

Thought it was fun, but it's just like another event like the OH in my opinion. Something which is to be done once a year and not any more often than that! We were dead tired after it...

Went hm, took a bathe, did soem light hse work and we took a nap. So tired!! Then we were woken up by a phone call and then up we got, hubby was helping me to prepare dinner and also to watch TV at the same time.. But we had a simple dinner, just pasta. N we settled dw to watch Da Vinci Code on TV. Nice show... not that I believed Dan Brown's words but it makes it so much clearer to have a documentray produced and we cld get the facts from there.

Watched abit mre TV and I was so tired that we went off to bed at 10 pm.. and we were dead to the world. So tiring.. gosh..

This morning, hubby had to wake up at 5.40 am.. coz he needs to reach office at 6.45AM!!! Gosh... That's the time i need to wake up! I knew he was awake but I was too tired to even wake up. I continued to slp till it's time for me to wake up... Hubby is swt, he actually told me he loves me before he left the hse =)

This evening, we will be gng to PIL's plc for dinner, haven't seen them for mre than a wk! Last wk we were so bz that we had no tme to go back, today, we made it a pt to go hm for dinner at least pay them a visit. Now tat younger BIL had an op, we also can go n take a look at him.

Smsed him earlier, he says he is ok except that he is in pain. What else right? It's an op!!

I'm sure FIL tonite will have lots of things to tell me, not that I mind just that, sometimes I wish he will not say so much while we are watching TV. But then again, we seldome see him. So besides telling us when he sees us, when else right?

Hm.. somehow after being married, I seem to be mre appreciaitive of the times when my own mum wants to talk to me. Like, I can understand y she say things that she did at that particular time... though at that time I was fumming.. now I seem to be able to accept it better. Guess, after being married, not staying together will help to lessen the impact and truly - absence makes the heart grow fonder...

A few mins before 1 pm, my dad called me... strange that he does not use the home phone to call me but rather, he uses his hp to call me. I wld not have expected anything else. He called to ask me how come his retirement $ is not in the bank yet. Seems like he is hell bent on gng to China.
Hai... how i wish I can just slap him awake and tell him not to go.. but I know I cannot. I wish his acc does not have enough $ for him to take out. At least he has some pocket $ when he grows older.

I don't know y is he so hell bent on gng to China, I know that he is gng with is oldest sister, but hey, they do not have a good reputation, so why is he still taking the chance to go with them. There's so many things that I do not know and do not understand.. but again, I have to have the faith and that God will not let me carry a cross that is too heavy for me. At the moment I don't know what to do with this cross... I don't want to carry it - and I am behaving like a spoil brat, I don't have the energy, the strength & wisdom to carry it - but the Lord will give me just enough to see the whole thing thru!

Another thing is this OH biz.. hai.. been arrowed to do something which is something that I have nv done before... and I have to admit, it is getting scary... but again, as I come to it, it will be resolved coz the Lord will not leave me hanging...

Disappointment...

It was such a disappointment!!! The mega block buster of the year that I was waiting for the whole year long turned out to be such a disappointment!!!! Argg... I can almost cry as hubby & I walked home this morning (12.33am) after the movie!!!!

My gosh.. the movie started off quite ok... with the scene where the old caretaker was at the hse, saw a light and went to the old Riddle hse to take a look and he met Voldemort, Wormtail and the Barty Crouch junior. He died as according to the book as well - the deadly Avada Keda curse. But but Potter is supposed to wake up at his Uncle's hse not at Ron's place!!! Argg... then he is supposed to be fetched to Ron's plc by Mr & Mrs Weasley!!! They had a marvelous time with the Dursleys!! This was gone too. This is the 1st time tat Ron's family met Potter's relatives.. and ALL gone! Argg..

Then it's after a night of good food and laughter that all settled for bed and had to wake up brigt & early so as to go to the worldcup using the portkey.. parts of it was missing! The book also has the part where the ministy of magic was trying to keep the muggle from knowing too much, there was a guy who came up to collect bets, an old muggle whom Authur Weasley had problems with the $.. arggg!!! ALL NOT HERE!!!! =(

The match! oh man.. the match, there's supposed to be great flying by the 2 world cup teams where Krum got the snitch but his team lost, the cheering teams, the leprechuns and the veelas.. all gone!!! The show was just showing Krum and the next moment, end of the match! Then suddenly the noise that created unrest. In the book, all of them were supposed to be sleeping and then the noise was heard! The deatheaters were also playing with the muggles, where they make them float in the air and Harry with his friends were supposed to be lost in the forrest! Not in the ruins of the tentages! There is supposed to be the appearance of the hse elf, Winky which led Hermoine to set up the S.P.E.W! All not here as well!!!

The Kpo Rite Seekter was supposed to cover the story and it's supposed to come out in the daily profet, Molly was in great distress. But nope. The show.. nothing!

Then the appearance of the other 2 magic schools... their entrance is not while Prof Dum is making his speech! They came when the whole sch was supposed to welcome them. But I must admit the appearance of the 2 schools was exactly the way the book descriped it! Nice and magical and wow... impressive! hahahaha

I guess these are small things which the producer think can miss out.. in a way yar lar.. not really impt.. but I feel there are somethings which must be elaborated on! Like the Barty Crouch's son - Junior Barty Crouch, he was sent to Akzaban. How did he come out of it? How come he was prof Moody? How come Senior Barty Crouch was lying in the woods? All these are acutally clues and impt for the understanding of this show! But none was elaborated. Even after being forced to drink the truth potion, JBC was not given the chance to elaborate his escape fm Akzaban! And he was supposed to be performed "the kiss" by the dementers!!! It din happen as well!!! Arggg!!!

And the wands, the wands!! When Voldemort and Harry fought, their wands coz being made fm the same core materials - Phoenix tail, are "brother" wands and will thus, refuse to fight each other, but being forced to fight, 1 wand will repel the other wand, forcing the other wand to reverse it's magic that it had perform and in this case Voldemort's wand was being repel and forced all the killings that he had done to appear in the chrolonigical order. This was mentioned in the show but not much! And I think most of the viewers don't know...

There's so much things missing from the show. But I think it's coz of time. If the show were to go on too long and like the book, then I think I will still be in the movies now..

I feel this show, unless you have read the book, know the story, if not, you don't know what was being left out nor what you have missed.

I'm so disappointed with this show. I feel that there are more things which should have been put in.. the match for 1, the 1st task as to how the other 3 champions battled the dragons, the 2nd task in the water was quite well done and the 3rd... they have also missed out snippets of the 3rd task where Harry and friends were in the maze. Harry came to a spinex.. and hai.. missing fm the show. JBC and his escape fm Akazban, the dementers, Winky the hse elf... even in the book, there's mre being said from the penseive!!!

And the actor who play prof Dum.. hai.... he also another 1... he lacks the former actor kind of authority.. He has neither the quiet authorative and kindly prof that Harry has taken a respect for... So unsuitable for this guy to be the prof Dum!!!!!

All in all, the show is watch for effects... and if you have not read the book, *sigh* don't think you can catch what is the show doing... missed out too many details.. and after the show will be like.. huh? Y this, Y that...

Soooooo disappointed! =(

Harry... Potter

Tonite.. we are gng to catch Harry Potter... after such a long wait, finally the show is out!! Gosh.. can't wait.. but the show is at 9.50 pm. So late!!

I just want to watch now!!! Argg.. another hour before it's time to go hm..

Busy evenings

I thought that after the wedding, our evenings will be so much quieter and not so many things being lined up.

This week is another one of those whole week busy kinda week. Last evening was the only time where hubby and I are free and lazing at home! But, we din laze too much also. The moment I reached home after gng to Prime supermarket to get some veg for dinner, immediately started preparing dinner. All the way till hubby came back, then we settle down and after dinner, coz I forgot to order a Bday cake for EM, so we went downstairs. By the time, we had our bathes, it was already 10 mins to 10pm! Gosh... where did all the time go to??

This evening, hubby is hositing the monthly prayer meeting for the RCIA at our hse. So again, I got to dash back, cook dinner (tonite will be pasta in mushroom sauce, potatoe salad and soup from yesterday). Goodness knows what time the meeting will end but I think it should be around 10pm as well. Since it is just pasta, maybe I can go hm vaccumm the floor and then do dinner... Hopefully hubby can go off on time, if not by the time he reach home will be 8pm, how to be ready for the meeting? When it starts at 8pm as well?

Tml, is thank God, we are gng back to my parents' hse for dinner! And yippee... tml night, we are gng for the Harry Potter movie.. it is a sneak preview.. so I am really excited abt tml night!!

Thurs night, my colleagues will be having dinner at my place. To make things simple, it will be pasta in tomatoe sauce and potatoe salad with green salad as well.. We also will be celebrating EM's bday, that's when the cake we ordered last night will come in. =)

Friday, as usual is RCIA night.

Sat, is props set up day, got to reach CTK by 3pm and do all the set up for the feast day on Sunday. So there goes my Saturday.

Sunday, CTK Feast Day!! Got to be in church by 7.30am.... till it ends which will be 3.30pm (officially closes) But with the cleaning up and goodness knows what.. Gosh... think it is gonna be a tiring Sunday.

Hubby says Sunday nite, we go back to PIL plc for dinner, I think it is good coz I no need to cook, but after such a long day, cannot laze at home, not so good. Furthermore, that very evening, channel 5 is screening Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! While another channel is showing "Da Vinci Code" so which should I be watching??!! =S I think most likely will be Da Vinci coz, we have the VCD for Harry Potter, does not matter if we miss the 1 on TV, anyway the 1 on TV has way too much commercials! If we are at PIL's plc, we cannot choose and FIL likes to chat while the TV is on... then I cannot watch!!!

Soo there you are.. with all the busy evenings and shows to catch on Sunday evening... busy busy busy isn't it?

Feeling fat!!!

Last nite after a whole week, we went back to my mother's plc for dinner. I think even though my sisters and mum din say it out loud. I think they kinda missed me.. hahahahahahaha

Coz the moment I went back, the hse is "full of life" the hse "woken" fm it's slumber. Think yest was the noiesiest time in the full week! hahahaha

Well, hubby and me sat down to a good dinner of curry chicken and my fav corn soup! I like corn soup. Tasty! Yum! Yum! Must learn how to cook it so next time, I can cook it for myself. Just that I think it takes some time to cook this soup, if not, I can make it in the evenings when I come home lor.

Once we sat down, my fats spill over and my mother wasted no time in telling me that I have grown fat.. hai... even my youngest sister says the same. But then agian, since when do they ever say that I have lost weight?

Nvm lar, now that the wedding is over, put on weight also not as horriable as it used to be then! hahahahaha

Ok.. gtg, go hm cook dinner for hubby.. tonite's menu will be stir fry chicken wings, nuggets, light soya sauce veg and soup. All chicken.. hahahaha.. better than nothing lar.

Tata..

silly old man

Silly old man trusts his evil sister so. So much so that he ignores the rest of all voices who speaks up.

And where does this sister brings him to? To china for biz.. and wat biz.. metal biz. Lying to him that her youngest daughter and son in law will work with him to do to biz, but little known to him that they are getting divorced..

Just when he is retiring this "perfect" biz opportunity comes up and with a magic wave of hands, tells the silly old man these:"all the things and prepartion are done, all you need to do is come wif ur retirment $ and we can be the best of partners."

Silly old man believes them, quits his job, leaves his family and off to China he flew. Ignoring the cries and advices of all who cares.

Pity for the family who fears what lies ahead.. but things will work out to God's divine plan. God's divine plans.

And who is this silly old man? "Pa pa" is his name to me. =(

Reflections...

Today is the 2nd day back at work. Surprisingly, it was not as bad as I thought it will be. Coz, I din have that much of work to do. Just lots of mails to clear and now is to follow up with some pending work which I got to settle and see to.

Next big event will be the annual OH. I kind of dreading it but that is the biggest event of my work so cannot siam 1 lar. It is by sheer luck and God's grace that I manage to get the pox during the Oct season. If not, I will be so darn tired!

Just now, I was reading Trina's blog and came across this line that she mentioned... "Sometimes just cooking for the one u love makes u happy esp when you see him eating happily". To me, in the short space of a 2-3 weeks, I have sort of experience this "happiness" hahahahaha.... not that I am a good cook, I just choose to cook the simplest of dishes which does not require much skills nor knowledge. Or maybe it helps that my hubby not that fussy when it comes to food (or rather, when it comes to the food that I put on the table, he eats, I used to think that he's picky abt food coz he will complain that our mothers' cooking not nice.) So kinda surprise that so far, not much complains from him abt the food that I cook. Most of the time, he says the dishes are not bad... wow.. I'm so proud of myself! hahahaha

And to "share" my culinary skills with others, this Sat, some friends are coming to my plc for potluck. I'm gonna make potatoe salad.. hahahaha.. taught to me by Carmen.. So easy, so effortless and I think nice. Finally manage to get the bacon bits.. so with it, I'm sure it will be finger licking... oppss.. should be spoon licking good! hahahahaha

Was talking to Cec earlier today and she was sharing bf woes. That her man seems v frightened of the big "C" - "Commitment" and that she's kinda lost as to what to do. I am not sure what to tell her except to not push and rush him. But then again, with a man who is afraid of commitment, can there be a future to look forward to? Shall I wake her up or just continue to be there as a supportive role and be a gal friend? I'm not sure. Coz I do not have such a bf in my life... or rather, my hubby was nv such a bf. N i did not give the previous guys enough time to prove to me if ther are the committed kind..

Come to think of it now, the guy says he is afraid of monotonous life.. therefore afraid of settling down. Maybe, it's not right to treat every re-ship as though will definately marry the guy.. but if the guy says it straight even after a 3 yr re-ship.. maybe it is time to give it more thought?

She seems to be rather troubled over this not too committed guy... if I were in the same shoes, I guess I will be too? But she made the choice to be with him. At the moment, she sees only him and no 1 else. Though, I suspect there isn't anyone who catches her eyes anyway. Hahahaha

I guess the best I can do is just to be there and listen to her if she needs to.. and keeping her in my prayers.. besides these little things, I don't think there is much I can do?

And just as much as Cec is sharing bf woes, a colleague is sharing bf happiness! What a contrast. Over lunch yest, she was sharing that she met a wonderful guy. Fm the way she talks, Yep, DEFINATELY a wondeful guy... not just wonderful guy. Sounds hunky also. N when I saw the photo... wow! Looks hunky as well. Though they have just started, but wow wow wow... they hv plans for the future!

Really a huge contrast when I sit down now and think things thru! And when I compare my hubby to these 2 men, he is neither... God is really powerful. He creates each of us so differently yet well suited for each other. I cld nv be suitable with the commitment frightened guy, did I mention that he guards his freedom with a capital G?? Both of us will just grow apart! Neither can I be with the hunk, I will be too self conscious of my lack of "belle". All in all, my hubby is still the most suitable for me... He's so patient, giving in to me most of the time, taking in my nonscense and most of all, he loves me mre than I love him! He thinks of me and my happiness 1st (most of the time) always. He will be there when I need him, console me when I am down and now... w/o me saying, he knows too! Guess, this comes from being dating for 7++ years and then of course, being the "chosen half" from divine powers...

Back to work tml...

After such a long long break, finally tml is back to work. Do I sound excited that I'm gng back? Well, yes and no, I guess. After such a long time of lazing arnd and doing nothing, now to go back to work is quite of a 'refreshing' change. But think of gng back to work, also v sian.. Coz I know that now is the time for slogging and to prepare n prepare for the OH!!

Really thank God that i have a good boss, during my 2 wks of pox days, they covered my work w/o complains... But even if they complain also no use lar.. I down wif pox, really cannot go out mar... then after my pox, straight away honeymoon... heng this period is all the events finished liao if not cannot go for honeymoon in peace.. hahahaha

But now... I am nuanning at home... last day for this long long period liao. Tml is back to work. Got to plan plan how to go about doing the morning bit.. Coz I take a long time, n now need to prepare hubby's bf as well, got to fast leg fast hand liao.. If not sure v v late. Sme mre now hubby changed job go to work later also. So means that the bf time all push back.. really got to fast fast fast!!!

But the heng part is hubby come hm late, then plus his long travel distance, still allow me to come hm n prepare him dinner. I'm quite proud of myself lar.. can make him sastisfactory meals. Ov the weekend when we went back to my parents' hm, my mum commented tat he put on weight... So i tease him n say that my food nice so he eats alot.. hahahahaha

Back in SG!!

Whew... after a wk, I'm back in SG!!! Home sweet home!!! Actually was back last nite. But after packing up, putting away and sorting away the things, vaccumm the floor, change bedsheets, wash the sofa cushions, was simply too tired to blog anymore.. So today then blog..

BKK is a hot hot hot plc. Rather like SG i say, though it's dustier, dirtier, not as organised but the things there are cheaper. I won't say v much cheaper than SG. Rather, sme things are cheaper in BKK than in SG. Lingerie by my fav brand, wacoal is definately cheaper!! I bought so many there, a total of 11 bras n 4 panties, costs me less than $200 SDG!!! Where to get for this kind of price in SG?? Bought a couple of T-shirts as well, not v cheap lar... abt $9 each... SG also can get lor.. at pasar malam. But since I am there, so bought a few to "yi si yi si" come back.. hahahaha.. Of course also bought sme things back to distribute to friends n family.. but haven't got rnd to doing it yet.. slowly lar.. too tired to move.

For our 6D5N there, we spent a total of $600 SDG in cash, then also swipe card a fair bit, think we spent close to $1K there... n plus the travel agency... think close to $1.8K in total for the whole trip.. wah lau.. where got cheap?? Expensive leh.

Then the whole of today is spent in CTK, coz we got to do our props for the fun fair on 20 Nov... tiring leh.. haven't had a good slp n early morning got to go CTK liao. Thank God, at least all the props are done, NO need to go back next Sat to continue. Anyway, nt Sat I also not free, my forum friends are coming to my plc for dinner. We completed making all the props at abt 3.30 pm and a bright spark of Godma brought us to Helen's shop in AMK (free ride from Paul) for a haircut... we cut our hair so short that by the time hubby and me got back to CTK for evening mass, ppl who saw us got a shock coz in the morning, we had long hair, in the absence of 2 hours... we changed our hairstyle so totally!! hahahaha But i like my new hairstyle... cool n light!!

N the best part is, tml NO BOW as well!!! Yippee... means we can slp till we naturally wake up... hahahahaha

Hubby is putting all the clothes (that we wore in BKK) into the washer. I must say I hv a good hubby man.... he does the laundry w/o complains!!! I simple hate to wash clothes!

Tml is parents' visiting day.. haven't gone hm for abt 2 wks.. coz of my pox n honeymoon, tml, will be gng back to my parents' hse for lunch, will bring them the things that we bought for them in BKK n then off to PIL's hse for dinner, and same will happen lor, bring them the things that we bought for them. Heng... at least tml no need to go CTK.. n we no need to bring the things walk rnd.