handicapped

A few days ago... as hubby and me were lazing in front of the google box and discusing if we shd join the blessed MLM tat Stanley is encouraging us to go in... Hubby said something... which both touches my heart and at the same time, somewhat sadden me. His exact words were, "I feel handicapped if you are not with me"

What's the meaning of handicapped? Let's take a look at what the dictionary says.

handicap [noun]
something that is wrong with your mind or body permanently
a physical handicap

[adjective]
not able to use part of your body or your mind because it has been damaged in some way

noun [C]
something which makes it difficult for you to do something

verb [T]
made difficult

I think hubby meant the 'made difficult' by kinda handicapped rather than the physical disabilities.

His words touch and sadden me at the same time. I cannot help but feel touched that I mean so much to hubby. But yet, at the same time, I feel so sad that if one day I were to leave b4 hubby and leave him alone...

Dear Lord, please be kind enough to bestow strength on hubby shd I leave him first.
Amen.

Good Haul! =)

Woah... happy day is Sunday.. and happier is me! haha

After mass, went to coffee shop wif Emma, Jason and hubby. Jeffrey came to join us later too.. and we had so much fun teasing Emma saying that she shd consider Anthony.. haha another story lar.. let's see how it goes from here..

Then Jeffrey drove Emma, hubby and me to J8. I need to go to Gordano to change my belt and Emma is meeting her gal friend there. So we took the chance to shop arnd. Emma told me that there is a sale in Espirit and she has the VIP card and is entittled to another 10% off! Wah.. Good deal.. so we went in and I bought a black dress that I can wear to Lynn's wedding this Jun and also Christmas mass this year!! Goody! GOody!! haha

Then shop arnd sme mre but din manage to get much after that. I got 2 mre racer back t-shirts fm Baleno.. actually I prefer Samuel & Kevin but they no longer has it.. SO took Baleno instead. Same price lar.. just a bit of difference in the material. But then again, not much lar.

Changed my belt went to get snacks at SiLin at basement.. woah.. I still like their crispy egg wif pork floss.. Yummy yummy!! We had the crispy chicken too.. scoot into NTUC, got sme fruits and then went home.

Happy gal!!

Sme rme.. dinne @ my parents' plc tonite and I no need to cook.. Yippee!!

And the 2 of us are so hopelessly lazy.. we din do anything excpet throw the clothes into the machine and let it do it's job! haha..

Congratulations!

Big Day of Nicholas and Jenny!! May the Good Lord bless them always and be the centre of their marriage!!

Weddings are a happy event. And even more so for the wedding couple. Looking at Jenny, I can remember those prep that we went thru ourselves.. haha.. Tears of joy and tears of gladness and of course all the arguements and sulking and compromises to each other in order to see thru the whole wedding.

Looking back, maybe there are some regrets that we din have a wedding dinner.. but that regret is not strong. I am still glad that we did not have a dinner. And I am doubly glad that we decide to hold our wedding in Church. The Mass being married and held in God's hse is so much more meaningful than having a dinner and then to shout "yam seng" all the way.

I enjoyed dinner.. but my pocket certainly did not. And the air con was like switch off.. So we feel hot most of the time. But Jenny is certainly photogenic.. her photos look wonderful! She's such a radiant bride!

Another MLM...

Finally we know the reason Y Stanley came to meet us today.. We found it strange that we came all the way to our hse then say go to Tanjong Pagar to eat.. and then on the way drop his son at his MIL's plc..

We just thought he want to spend mre quality time with us.. ha! but he brought us to this co call CosLab.. which is a slimming, facial and MLM rolled into 1.. Or rather.. MLM in slimming and facial.

Fm the way I look at it, the biz plans looks rather ok. The ppl there are as usual, the young punks.. sme driving BMW's. Also some look rather ah bengs lar. Especially the 1 who talked to us, 小黑. Sounds like those gangsters too.. anyway.. he talks ok lar. Fm what I manage to gather, he's in his late 20 or early 30. Mre likely early 30 lar, since he already divorce and may be planning for another marriage.

Wat still puzzles me is that, througout the whole session, I din c any products or hear of any products except in general terms - Slimming & Facial. He and Stan and another guy (cannot remember his name) assures me that they hv products downstairs and that if I am interested, can go n look c or hear. (The building is 3 storeys high).

To be honest, I am a tad interested. But also not v happy at being dragged down there to listen. Especially when they keep pushing us to sign and asking us, what reservations we have etc etc..

Hubby later confided in me, he want to tell them, we go hm n pray about it! And I feel the same way!

Now.. preparing for the wedding dinner.. Don't want to waste my brain cells thinking abt this.

waiting..waiting...waiting...

Stanly called up at 10am++ tis morning while hubby and me are still in bed. Then after some "I call him, he din answer" phone calls, he finally call me back and said that he would like to meet up for lunch.

Was abit surprised.. but hubby already told me last nite.. so I was like good lor.. since we so long nv meet up except for that short visit during CNY.. Stan asked if I am cooking, told him I can cook pasta if he wants.. But his wifey says no.. she don't want.. so nvm lor, we'll go out for lunchy.. but we have to be back by 5pm coz still need to go for a wedding dinner tonite. He says he will be here by 12 noon.. but till now.. din c him yet..

So late..

Whose the domineering party??

While at the coffee shop earlier (after RCIA) the few of us, Anthony, Jason, Emma, Dora, Daphne, hubby and me had coffee there.

Just the normal chit chat and somehow the conversation turn to us, the couples.. Anthony was saying, he has observed the following...
Lynn & Max, Max is the 1 in ctrl.
Carmen & Gabriel, Gabriel is the 1 in ctrl.
myself and hubby, ME is the 1 in ctrl.

Not sure to laff or to cry on hearing this.. But I guess he is right lor. Coz I am mre outspoken and stronger in nature and hubby tends to listen to me lor. Not sure if this is good for him or not also..

=S

Good mood liao =)

No wonder ppl say women's mood change like the weather! This morning was still in a foul mood coz of last nite and din even manage to have breakfast coz I burnt it and now I am feeling good already.

A drastic change within a few short hours, ya? My mood change for the better coz Godma advise me to not let this kind small thing take ctrl of me.. and also since hubby has msn me and told me he is sorry, I decided to take Godma for her words and let it pass.

What she say is v true, if i am gng to be so picky on all these small issues, and we are only married for 4 months, how to last for the next 30 years and more?? And so bearing all these in mind, decided to let it pass as soon as I made my pt to hubby and he apologised. =)

ARGG!

What is it with MEN tat they do not understand meaning and implications?!

Or is it just me who is too kan cheong and too easily irriated and too quick tempered and bad tempered?!!

Last nite (till NOW) had a tiff wih hubby. He is supposed to go to Godma's plc after work for sme meeting abt RCIA from his own grp. So he says he will be late coz the meeting is at 7.30 and he cannot rush over on time. Some more he still need to eat dinner, so told them will be late but will go over asap.

What irriated me was this, already told hubby to not go hm to change, but go directly to the coffee shop and hv dinner then go to Godma's plc.

He HAD to go home and change into shorts! -_-" Since he tell ppl that he will rush over asap then how can he hv the time to go back and change?! It doesn't look good on his part lor! Want to tell ppl rush means is really appear go there from work mar. Where got time to go n change?!

He told me, coz he took 851 and it passed by our hse 1st, so he went up to change then come down. Granted that it is on the way for him to go home, but then he will give the impression that he purposely go late for the meeting and also, he left me sitting at the coffeeshop for so long! Argg!! Now I am not very sure which 1 is more upsetting.. I think still the part that he went home to change.. the add on was that I had to sit there and wait for him for so long!

He know that I was upset, so he also din talk to me. Since he cannot understand what I am saying, I shall not say anything else. Told him, don't want to pick a fight so don't talk. We ignore each other through dinner.. after he finish eating, he just stand up and say he's gng off. I still ignored him lor. Too pissed for words.

I sleot early last nite, before he came home.. heck care. Then this morning, I was still so pissed, I burned my own bf!! Arggg!!! So no bf today!

Bad evening!

Sucks! Shd hv gone for my kickbox instead. Then don't have eyes to c hubby! He is soooooo.... (no words to descripe) Don't want to descibe also. Too bad mood to say abt this stopid husband of mine!

Went to Ang Mo after our silent dinner, grabbed milk and sme mantou for bf the next morning then went home.

Bathe and relax in front of google box.. almost fell asleep.. decided to go n slp and not wait up for him since I am still pissed.

We'll c how i feel tml when I wake up!

Farewell lunchie

Had a farewell lunchie made up of KFC chicken and Pizza Hut Pizzas. A total of 8 of us were sharing in today's lunch by the poolside.. Lomantic lunch. =) The female lead for today is Shirlynn Su..

Actually din talk much with them, probably not very close and then sun so hot, so we just sit there and enjoy the view and food.

Rested for a while and then came back to office. Then there was a small excitment to see who is the one who gave her a pressie of earrings. It's silver, the kinda tat I like a while ago, long silver, dangling.. Don't know since when I don't wear silver so much anymore. I seem to have been wearing all those beads accessories recently.

The earrings very nice on her and I think she likes it too! Good for her, I gave her my tortoise earlier this morning and she had no problems guessing who coz I had my name written there.

Bel was sharing with me, she's gonna put her pressie in the toilet!! Haha.. wish I have a video cam to capture Shir when she goes to hunt for it..haha..

Overall quite a fun day for her.. Think she is in no hurry to forget her last day here in Campus!

In 2 minds now, don't know if I should go for kickboxing.. My neck still hurts a little.. but with all the food that I have been comsuming since Christmas.. think it is definately better for me to go and do some serious exc.. Another reason Y I am kinda dreading it is coz today is gonna be a tough session... tougher than last wk and I hear we are gng to have an assestment.. Ouch!!

happy birthday to ME! =)

Happy Birthday to ME.
Happy Birthday to ME.
Happy Birthday to MEEEEEE...
Happy Birthday to ME!!

U guessed it, today is my 26th Birthday! =) Slightly more than a quater of a century old.

Woke up the same time today and spent extra time to doll up.. Coz tonite gng for dinner wif hubby... though married, but must still take the time to doll up when he bring me go out! =)

Reached office and I found 1 pressie in my mailbox.. no name no nothing.. don't know who and then throughout the day, I found that there are different clues in my mailbox and I got to go and hunt for it..

2 of them were pretty easy to find... "where paper turns into noodles" that's by the shredder and also "at the one who is not here today" tat's at the cubicle of Eryn.. who so happends to be on MC today.

The other 2.. wow.. hard time! "sharpest corner of the office" most of the help that I got was by the paper cutter.. so I shall go there to find.. and the last "somewhere so near yet so far... seek and you shall find" so biblical some more..
Finally after lotsa clues and help, I manage to SEEK out those 2 pressies. The "sharpest" pressie was wrapped with white A4 paper slotted in between the copier and fax machine!! Argg...

The "Seeked" pressis wae hidden all the way in some heavy books.. hai.. finally I've manage to seek and find all then time to guess which pressie is from who.. This is not as difficult as I imagine.. coz I already manage to know 2 of the 5.

I really cannot find all the pressies so by the time we went for lunch @ swensens, I manage to get 3.. 2 others are still missing in action.

Lunch was good, had fish and chips.. and a "Firehouse Happy Birthday" I think on the house coz there were so many of us. They sang the "Happy Birthday" and I was kinda emprassed but not very lar.. haha

Came back to office at almost 3 and continue with the searching of pressies and the end result -
Michelle, kind soul who just left the pressie in my mailbox gave me a "Frome me to you bear" photo holder
Belinda, "noodles" pressie, a cute Precious Moment stationery holder.
Siti, "of the one who is not here", she's kind too, she told me to look higher and VOLIA, I saw it.. box of chocolates fit for HRM! woah!
Shir, "sharpest" pressies is a pair of HAND MADE earrings by she, herself!
Sil, "seek and you shall find" is a necklace... woo hoo..

good haul this year. haha and abvoe all, a brand new SWATCH watch from hubby.. which he personally put on for me and gave me at the stroke of midnight last nite!

By the time i finished opening all and thanking all, it was time to go home.. so i made my way to town, and dropped by at Girodano to see if I can get anything for myself. Wah.. so many things to buy... buy and try till we were almost late for dinner.

From Girodano, Orchard. We or rather I got the following:
white cavas belt with 3 hole lines PLUS
pair of jeans PLUS
a bright yellow top (considering to get the green and black too since I do not have a lot of tops) PLUS
black long sleeve mini jacket (which is the soooo in thing right now)
Hubby bought a black canvas belt with single row of holes for buckle
Total spendings: $117. 30 =) Nothing beats spending $$ =D

After the short shopping spree, we went to Hard Rock for dinner. Not tat crowded but doesn't matter anyway coz hubby booked a table for us. It's the atmpsphere of high class pub but ppl don't smoke inside. Thank God for that! They serve either hard liquor, wine, beers and also food and desserts.

We looked thru the menu and finally decided that we are not able to finish 2 main meals by ourselves, we decided to just order a side, one main meal and MUDPIE!! =)
But hor... v v v disappointing leh.. B4 we can even take a bite of our food, the waitress came and say that they have NO MORE mudpie.. Arggg... so disappointing!! I was saving space for that!

But hubby v nice.. he say nt tm we come back again just to eat the mudpie.. so swt of hubby to do that. haha.. so i also want to help him save some money.. we decided tat we will hv our "main course" elsewhere 1st and just to come in here for the dessert! haha..

Though we just ordered side and ONE main.. we had problems finishing up all the food. Portion is quite big and also coz we both had rather heavy lunch earlier. But just as well, the food not fanastic but rather pricy!

Sat there for quite sometime, enjoy the mood of the place, the music, hubby and also food. There were another 2 ppl there celebrating bday.. woah.. so many ppl also born don't know how many years ago on today.. haha.. I am but one of them!

There was also live music and singers but we left shortly after 9.15pm. Hubby really quite swt, he wanted to bring me to go and shop around to see if there's anything that he can buy for my Bday.. but coz we left HRC so late, the shops also closed. SO we just slowly scroll all the way the bus stop to catch the bus home.

Was so tired after that I fell asleep on the bus.. Not something which I have done recently but really dog tired. Gosh.. went to take some bread for tml's morning and we went straight home..

After a shower, feel better, but while hubby was massaging my neck (coz of that stiff neck I have for 2 days now) i again fell asleep on the sofa. Really cannot tahan anymore so decided to call it a night and go to bed.

No ECA for tonite.. too tired.. finally I think I can understand wat Bro means by "everyday also so tired, how to have ECA"!

Valentine celebration(s)

Went to CTK earlier and as wat hubby says, he did cover the topic on Valentine and he also added in Sacarment of Matrimony.

Before hubby arrived at AMK, I already went thru 1 rnd to get the items I needed.. Got him some sunscreen/block, got my foot scrub and cream and also other personal items. Had to go to 2 Guardian Pharmacy before I can get foot scrub! Hai..

We were abit late as hubby and I had dinner at AMK hawker centre. Quite disappointing coz the 'Tiong Bahru roast meat' is taken over by some other stall holder selling chicken rice.. sigh.. there's already so many chicken rice stalls! But doesn't really matter coz I had western food and hubby had char kuay teow.

Then we went to walk around for a short time. See some hp coz we both intending to change our hps. But the prices are out of our budget so we will still look around some more.

Then I saw this cute tortise that I thought will make a good and cute present to Shirlynn since Thursday is her last day in campus.

Met quite a few colleagues at AMK central.. surprisingly.. haha.. some were in home clothes others wld hv been walked over fm campus.

We din not expect the OGF to attract so many ppl and when we went into the canteen we din manage to find a good seat for the class so we make do and sat at the same table with Ken, Karen, James and Mabel. Felt abit like RCIA.. haha

Fr say quite a lot abt Matrimony and I did learn alot. It certainly put mre thoughts and also clarify some mystic questions that I had about marriage. Also again, it stres to me the importance of our marriage.

Fr Yim v nice.. he let us have the chance to renew our vows again.. It's really a memorable and warming to say our vows to each other again. The longest married couple was 28 years and here we are, 4 mths into our marriage.. wah.. alot of things to come and to learn and to go thru lor..

I feel that this is much better than to go out to jostle with the crowd for a table and then ppl bugging u to buy flowers and then me feel sad coz I no flowers. I really enjoyed the time spent in CTK tonite.

Renewd and recharged our re-ship..

After tat took a cab home too tired and lazy to wait for bus coz we missed the previous 1.. then went to the bakery to get bread for tml's breakfast and then to get a AP.. then went home..

Bathe and settle down (again!) in front of google box. Then hubby v swt, he helped to massage my shoulers coz I probably din sleep well last nite, neck was stiff.

Then at the stroke of midnight, he went to take bday present for me.. =)

too tired to write mre.. go slp now.

'A' is for apple, 'B' is for boy, 'C' is for Couple and 'V' is for Valentine!!

'V' is for Valentine and I am past the age or stage as to where we should be going tonight or if anyone will date me for tonite.

After all marriage does have it's purposes in this sense. haha

Tonite, we will be going to CTK for the monthly OGF session. To be fair to the priest, Fr Yim is really quite nice to us, he set up this class so that we can deepen our faith. Been quite sometime since I went.. Christmas lar, Mad hse lar, CNY lar.. just din have the time to go... or I am too tired to go.

Valentine's Day and we are back to CTK to listen to the priest talk abt Valentine.. I guess in a way it's good lar, at least we don't have to go out and fight for seats in restaurant and be hunted down or pestered by ppl selling roses and flowers and what other little lovey but useless things.

Not really a v romantic evening for such a highly commercialised romantic day.. but I guess, it's definately more meaningful ba.

1st day of lunch treat.

Monday is usually a blue day for me most of the time. But today not only am I feeling beautiful, I am feeling happy and not the slightest blue in any way!

Not because that someone is giving me birthday treats then I am so happy. (I am not such a glutton) but I am so happy because of WHO I am going to lunch with later! Bro Daniel and Godma. I always enjoyed their company. It's such fun to have lunch with the both of them. Sharing on every little thing and just forget about work and really just enjoy each other's company. That is the thing that I was looking forward to since this morning and I am so happy to be able to spend time with them.

They brought me to Vines restaurant. A small cozy place opp Novena church. The food good, price v reasonable. For the 3 of us, total bill was less than $48 inclusive of all the taxes and GST. Which will probably work out to $16 for each of us. We had fried calarmi and then I had Lamb Shank, Godma had kind prawn with grill fish and bro had Rib Eye steak. Good food with good company. Tat's the way I like it best!

Also had their freshly baked blueberry cheese pie.. wah!! Good! Sat and eat and yak.. then before we knew it, time to go back to office.. sigh..

Bro as usual sent us all back befor making the way back to office himself. Once we came back, as usual, we yak via msn. The whole of today in office we din do anything productive. I must say.

Yak and yak till it's netball time then we brought our barang barang and went off to the court. Hm... this is the 1st time that I have everstep foot onto the court and wah.. really is bad condition.. the ground is cracking up! Must be due to the lack of maintaince. Hm.. wat has estates been doing or what have they not been doing?

Started off with intro to each other and then jog arnd the court for 2 rounds which in my opinion is not enough, I can still breadth easily even after the 2 rounds, she have run a bit mre. Cannot remember when was the last time I ran also.. anyway... after tat, we practised our footwork, then some passes and then we hv a mini game.

The whole training did not last till 9pm as mentioned ar.. but still I thought it was none of the training I was used to. Today's training is really too basic for me. Though I sweat a lot but felt I hardly exc. hm.. wonder if the captain can make it slightly tougher.

Good day full of lunch treats =)

Wah... today is a good day... ppl are all trying to buy me lunch..

Earlier this week, Godma and Bro alraedy says they will buy me lunch on Monday. Then just before lunch, Aw also msn me asking me when I am free for lunch, and after lunch, Bel also msn me.. wah!!

Good week huh... I have at least 3 good lunch to look forward to for next wk. Hubby promised to bring me to hard rock cafe for dinner.. so that makes it 3 good lunch and 1 good dinner!

Y the special treatment right? Coz next week is Vday!! Haha.. no no.. coz nt wk is my Bday.. the day immediately after Vday is my bday... =) So my good friends are giving me a treat lor.. haha..

Just called hubby, coz he is at work now but he is taking cab back home, so he will soon bian go to his mum's plc to pick up the steamboat and hot plate machine (after we used it for reunion dinner) then come to fetch me.. happy leh.. At least I don't have to walk all the way to the YCK interchange to take bus home!

And also, today I've finally finished writting all the letters to the cats.. 3 of them, each of them will have 4 letters if all the sponsors remember to write. It's been so long since I last pick up a pen and literally write letters.. Gosh.. tiring leh.. What i did was draft it out then after that re-write it 4 times!! Y 4 though there's only 3 right? Coz the 1st letter my handwritting was too big... 1 piece not enough so had to re-write to make it smaller lor. Had to go to the bookshop to buy a piece of paper for it as well.

Overall, quite happy with the letter lar, done and completed, sealed with love too! haha

My shoulders especially are aching with all those workouts from my kickboxing last nite! Goodness.. So tiring. Philip warmed us up with skipping.. within mins, most of us are tired out and the actual program has not even started!!

He look at us and said:"I can see that most of you have not excerised for a long time" I am one of them lar.. but last nite's class was pretty small.

My legs were like jelly at the end of the session and it still feels abit like jelly.. gosh..

Tml is Sat and Ta Ge and gang are coming to my plc for steamboat.. after that it's sun, to go to my Kai Ye's plc then Monday.. and I have netball practise!! =S

Feeling lazy

I'm feeling pretty lazy now... after all the festive celebrations, eating and merry making, and the previous mth of slogging my head off, I am feeling lazy and not in the mood to get back to work. Horriable!!

Had a sch visit this afternoon, well behaved girls and the teachers and parents were v cooperative as well. So all went well. But the SDN students gave me a fright yesterday with a sudden phone call that they hv some briefing that they have to go.. Luckily tat was settled!

Somemre, I kinda dreading tonite.. coz tonite I have kickboxing.. after stopping for more than 2 mths, I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD to tonight's session... =(

darn tickers!

Darn it!!! The whole day I'm trying to palce a ticker on my blog and I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO DO IT!!!

I tried pasting it on top, below, in between the lines everywhere!! But everytime I looked at my blog, it's not the way I want it! The upper half will always be blocked by the darn navi bar!!!

Then! A bright spark came into my brain.. I think it is caused by the template, so I changed template!! And VOILA!!! It workes!!! Now I have my ticker on my blog.. =) happy..

NFP

Had my NFP wif Shirley in CTK. Been sometime since I last went to see her. Coz was so busy with the mad hse and things, din have the time nor the mood to go and see her lor.

As usual, she says my cycle is not too good for the month of Nov.. coz though I had sensations but my temperature shows that I did not hv a good cycle i.e did not ovulate. And IF we are trying for a BB, chances are it will not happen. When I heard this, I am not so sure if I shd be happy or unhappy.. coz we are NOT trying for BB but the thing is... if my cycle carries on to be so erm... un-cooperative that means, we will have problems when we WANT to hv BB.

Then looking at my Dec and Jan cycle, she says it's a good cycle with all the necessary up and down in temperature and the right sensations.. haha.. so all is not lost yet.. Maybe in Nov, something not quite right with my body.

Today must be the shortest session I hv with her. By 8.30 pm, we are done. She pronouced me "Graduate" and that I won't have to come and see her so often. Telling me to call her as and when when I need help. Good!!

She also asked me if I am keen to be a NFP trainer.. to be honest, I not so keen lar, coz I feel that this is hard enough when I am the person gng thru it. And I don't feel confident that I am getting or doing it right. So how to teach ppl? She says will have training but I feel that I am chewing off too much. Maybe it is time for me to back step a little.

Surprisingly, 162 did not take that long to come.. and best part is, I had the same bus driver when I went to CTK and now on the return trip as well. Not a everyday occassion leh. haha

Hubby was already having dinner when I was on the bus, but he came down all the same and we took bread fm the bakery for tml's bf. Took our showers and then laze in front of the google box for the night.

Din do much.. so not tat tiring.. but still when the nite comes, my eyes will automatically want to close.. so tat's it for the nite.

window shopping day

After mass, we went shopping.. actually was planning to go to Alan's hse to bai nian and to give my 2 nephews AP but kinda like out of the way we decided to go and buy my Bday present instead =)

We took 162 from opp CTK and went all the way to Raffles City from there walked over to Marina Sq. Had a good lunch in Billy Bombers... I say the food is so so only not fanastic but ok lar. The dessert - ice cream was yummy though.. =)

Walked arnd in the hopes of searching for a clock for our home.. wow then we realise Marina changed quite a lot! Now it's full of teens on 1 wing and the other wing is mre family and home life style..

A few clocks from Molecule caught my eyes.. both hubby and me wld like to have it in our home but unfortunetly, each piece costs like $200?! Too expensive for a home clock in our opinion.. so we decided to look for other pieces.

A new branch of Bridal Concept is there as well and we met the boss, Stella there also. Not much ppl there, in my opinion, it's a good plc to maybe neg for your package coz no crowd but to try on gowns and for fittings, I think better go back to Liang Seah St.

Wondered into some hm concept stalls their things are pretty but we dont hv the kinda space to accencuate it's beauty so it's just look c and window shopping. Nothing much caught our attention but it is good to be able to wander arnd freely with just hubby and enjoying each other's company.

Since we are done at Marina Sq, we went over to Suntec... the crowd is always there as usual and we also window shopped. Coz nothing much to buy lor.. Just walk arnd to pass time.. haha

Finally I decided to get the swatch watch instead of the Guess? watch that I've been aiming for so long... Even though I still prefer the Guess? watch, I decided on the swatch coz the Guess? is all last piece at the shops I went to, even in the Guess? boutique... also mre expensive lor.. So forget it lar, get swatch, cheaper and mre later design. Hubby promised me tat he will give me the bal of $260 after the watch for my up and coming holiday with Godma in Chiang Mai, Thailand. =) better than wasting all the $ on the watch lor.. in my opinion.. haha The $260 is coz, it is a Vday and Bday gift... after married... now is $ best, no need for too much fanciful items lor..haha

But on the other hand, I think this watch is mre like Vday present.. coz just the other day, hubby went to trade in his old G-shock and paid $118 for another piece. I paid for that piece, so now he buy me this watch mre like Vday rather than for my bday present leh =( no bday present... sad..

Then we went to carrefour, they were having household items on sale... quite good buy, so we also went to buy lor.. aluminium foil at $2 and $1 (depending on the length) the plastic wrap, hangers, clothes pegs etc etc and also sme daily cotton panties for myself.. Total costs was onlu $23+ wow.. really good to buy all these items when they are on sale!

Tired from all these shopping, we went to Mac for a drink and to rest... the moment we went in, we felt right at home.. the decor was v cozy and nice.. then hubby said something.. he say that the walls look like our kitchen cabinets! Then it suddenly strike me.. Yup!! IT'S THE SAME!! Shade and all! Even their raise partitions looks like our table top! haha No wonder we felt "right at home".

As we rest, there was this little boy mayb abt 1 year plus, eating fries...with 5 fingers... yucks.. then after tat, with the same hand, he began to touch his face, his head, his pram, his clothes.. everywhere!!! EEEEE.. makes everything so oily after that.. BUT! It was great fun watching him lor.. haha

Also a couple of pretty girls were beside us, 2 of them were planning to get married and was sharing details of WG etc etc... boy... i'm glad my turn was over! Another 2 girls were wearing mini skirts... but not v pretty.. hahaha and i think it is the trend now... carrying Mickey Mouse bags.. Then came this "couple" the girl was wow... long hair, pretty, sexy and following closely behind is this "guy" (who looks like a girl lar) so i think it is 2 girls.. 1 very pretty the other dresses like a guy... hm... how come this kinda trend is increasing also?

Rested enough then we walked back to the MRT stn... we cld hv taken bus, but coz I want to go to "Prints" to chk out their photo albums, we took MRT.. wha.... so expensive.. so din get also.. hai...

How come thigns are so expensive in SG? =(

Window shopping day but din buy much except for house hold.. hai..

Lo Hei! Lo Hei!!

Lo Hei day for me! It's also part of the chinese to eat Lo Hei on 7th day of CNY. But then again, as long as CNY, almost everyday is an excuse to eat Lo Hei!

To put in a nutshell, Lo Hei are mainly veg wif lots of other auspicious items mixed together. Half the fun of eating Lo Hei.. the is "Lo-ing" where all the ppl will stand rnd the dish and each will try to mix the veg as high as possible saying all sorts of good things.. then when the veg and the ingredients are well mixed, it't time to dig in!

It's also a bz day for hubby and me. Had my colleagues come over in the afternoon for popiah party... (which is y I was preparing the ingredients yesterday!) Surprisingly, Aw was the earliest to reach, followed by Shi Yun, followed by Irene and her bf, Mel. The last to arrive were the following, KAN EE MAY, ONG ZHEN LING and TAN BENG YONG! Goodness, lunch was supposed to start at 1pm, by the time the 3 latecommers arrive, all have left except for Aw. So it's like -3+3, brings back to the same number of ppl who are here.

When the finally came, we gave them a loud cheer to express welcome..haha.. they they went into y they took so long to come.. 1) EM overslept 2) BY took them onto the wrong bus 3) they refused to take a cab down from wherever they are..

There were so much food left over that we had to play silly games to force mre food dw each other's throat... but it was fun lar... really enjoyed myself with them. After such a heavy lunch, we settled dw to play Blackjack.. This gambling thingy is so common among us chinese, especially during the CNY period. Everyone will gamble somehow, some day.

They stayed for quite a while.. till abt 6 where we took sme group photos and things then after tat they each went on their way coz my 2nd grp of friends, who comprises of my Godma and family, Bro Daniel and family as well as hubby's Godpa (w/o family!) Don't get me wrong, not tat he has no family just that he din bring them lor.

Another rnd of Lo Hei and then mre popiah for the day. I think it has really been a super super long time ago that I ate so healthily for lunch and dinner. As we all know popiah only consists of veg and muang kuang. V little of anything else.

But too much of the good things still not tat good after all... ate soooooo much veg today... popiah x don't know how many rolls... Lo Hei x 2 times... (not to mention last nite in CTK, we had home made Lo Hei for refreshment too) so the whole day, intake are all veg... healthy system within me starts today!

After dinner, we just snack (food again!) at the dinning table and then chit chat.. before long, another round of blackjack... Bro's son, Jarren.. wah lau... has the makings of a pro gambler.. before he takes each card, he will peep and then blow or say a prayer or whatever... his voice was really loud especially when he got all excited and start shouting it really peirece my ears.. while we were playing, Bro's girl, Chole was jumping on my sofa -_-" hai... Y does kids like to do that? No idea... but I cannot take it. So i just call her name and stare at her and she stop... I think this is the "if looks can kill" stance of mine that hubby always comment on lor..

Haha... after all these, we are dead tired... but after they left, I vaccumm the floor while hubby mopped up. So not so bad lar.. He helped arnd the hse and we manage to get things done rather fast.

Enjoyable day for all I assume, I had fun, best is coz this is at my home, I can do whatever I want and leave as late as I want.. coz din have to travel. The only thing not good is we got to clear up lor.

V fast, CNY is already more than half gone. Every year, we hv sme kinda gathering wif Godma and Bro. But this yr, we added in hubby's Godpa partly coz in this way, we can grow closer and also coz we were hoping Godpa's wife can influence Bro's wife to the christian community.. well.. c how lar.. things are in HIS ctrl.

Tiring day all rnd I guess..

Me the CHEF =)

Wah... today, I have turned into the chef! Coz preparing for 2 popiah parties tml takes time, so today is the day where I prepare the ingredients with the help of Godma who is working in office!

Whenever I run into problems or doubts, the first person I think of is Godma.. and our typical calls will go like this...

Ring Ring
me: Hello, Godma ar.
Godma: Hello,yar. What?
me: I shelling the prawns now. How do you want me to cut ar?
Godma: Slice it lor.
me: huh? Slice? means cut straight down?
Godma: no lar, tat 1 is call diced lar. Slice is erm.. aiyah.. how to tell u?
me:???
Godma: U don't know wat is sliced?
me: Dont know lar.
Godma: er... normally when u cut the knife faces down right?
me: yar..
Godma: then put ur knife in erm.. sleeping position and cut as thinly as u can.
me: so the prawns are in the shape of the 'C' lar... cut out still like tat lar?
Godma: yar..
... ...

wah.. never knew cutting / slicing prawns also so much yan jiu.. and this is not the only thing. Had to slice the lap cheong at an angle... and eggs got to mash... and luckily tat's all.

But!! Alone on slicing prawns and slicing lap cheong, took me a day! Guess.. I'm not so great a chef after all..

CNY still or SGH day??

I kinda lost track which day of the Lunar day of CNY is today.. but to me it doesn't make any difference, coz it seems like a day in SGH!! My goodness!!

I am wondering if ppl actually keep to their appointments. ESPECIALLY in the case of SGH specialist clinics, a certain clinic something something..

Mum had 2 appointments today, 1st at clinic A and the other in clinic something something.. Being the typical Singaporean, we are KIASU and thus went there early and thus was the 1st in the 1st clinic. Good?! U bet, coz we'll be the first! Unfortunetly, the doc is someone who KNOWS how to keep time! She came on time. So though we were early, we got to wait till our appointed time at 2.50pm which equals to an hour plus of wait!

2nd appointment is at the clinc something something... gosh... tat clinic is crowded. Singaporeans has lotsa ENT problems, i came to this conclusion owing to the huge crowd and long queue.

Appointment time is at 3.55 pm or thereabouts... and guess what?! We only managed to c the blessed Dr Goh at close to 5.30pm!!! Arggg!!! Today my precious leave is spend in SGH.. hai..

I hope this Dr Goh is good, he told my mum, instead of the blesed operation, y don't he just do a simple procedure (goodness knows what it is called) similiar to that of taking blood samples... except that this time the bloody needle will be poking into the lump at my mum's throat. Waited for so long, of course must take mre time with the doc to make up for it! haha... so anyway, the Dr just withdraw the whatever it is in the lump from my mum's throat. Gosh!!! The effect is immediate!!! I can c the lump shrink!! It's still there but not so big anymore.

If it is just so simple, y din he take it out the last time?! Y must make my mum stay in the hospital for a week? Y must operate?? Gosh i tell u... nothing can descripe the question marks in my head... and just coz we are paying lesser means the service is so horriable? Got to come back more often? Goodness, we are Singaporeas! It's bad enough that we don't have special privallges... but hey... medical is impt to all! Stepts shd be taken to provide better service and LESS wastage of ppl's $! We go to gov hospitals coz of the costs mar. If we can afford, of course go to the high end hospitals! sucks!!!

Anyway... pay $ also got to wait... sigh... after leaving the blessed hospital, I wanted to go to IKEA to buy water jugs, large plates and whatever household items I need.. Since my mum has NEVER set foot there, I persuaded her to go with me.. if not next time ppl say IKEA, she will be so mountain turtle! haha..

Took the MRT from Outram to Queenstown and then take another bus in. I think my mum is really quite mountain turtle, she has never set foot in.. so anyway, we each bought a couple of items..

She bought a side table (which ppl normally use beside their sofas) for her precious plants at home.. 1 nice looking pot for (again!) her precious plant. Sisscors, a pack of hooks and a weighing scale (the scales looks good and the price is so cheap $5.90 only!) If not for the fact that I already have one at home, I'll get one too!

While for me, I bought 2 big plates (same series to those that we are already using), a pack of hooks and a roll of plastic drawer mat. Yep, that's all i bought.. coz I can't find a satisfactory water jug.. but I forgot to buy some air tight containers.. =(

While at the pottery section, (where my mum got her pot) I saw some nice vases.. It has been on our minds to get a HUGE vase to be place beside the fridge but we haven't got round to doing it... Coz i always feel if we were to buy such a huge 1, then how to bring home? Either the vase or a standing floor lamp.. Lamps are expensive, wastes electricity, so we most likely will go with the vase at the end of the day... Just don't know when lar.

Took the bus back with my mum. I think my mum really pampers my youngest sis too much. Called home and ask wat she wants for dinner and call her BB! My sister is already 16 for goodness sake! Anyway... the ride hm was rather fast gng by the fact that we were on PUBLIC transport.

Planned to meet hubby at the bus stop, dumped all the barang barang at the bakery and then hubby and me went off to catch another bus to J8.. where we went for dinner and then to get a present for Shir.

Too hungry to go shopping, so we went to the hawker above the bus interchange for a late dinner. We had bak chow mee pok dry.. mine had chili while hubby's din hv.. I like it =) had a bowl of veg soup along with it.. Yummy yummy.. (think I'm gonna grow fat from all these eating)

Rushed thru it then went to get a present.. too many things... and din really know wat to get.. finally settle on a MICKEY MOUSE bag for her... cheap too... Only $12 =) happy with my purchase, went to get wrappers and back to the bakery we went, to collect our barang barang and also take some bread for breakfast for tml.

Though most of the day was spent waiting for the Dr... it was v tiring... goodnes... waiting is tiring!!

Thank God, tml is Friday and I am STILL ON LEAVE =D

1st day of Feb 2006

First day of February 2006 marks the 4th day of CNY and also marks the countdown to my next bday.

Most ppl wld have begin to get back to work but not for hubby and me. Guess we are really 2 lazy bums. Both of us took leave and we literally laze and do nothing at home. Now that we have our own roof above our heads, we seem to have lost interests in gng out.

Back to the days when we were dating, as long as holiday or on leave or anything, we will be outta of the hse as soon as we are ready to get out... (most times is waiting for me to finish dolling up) But now, we became or rather I became so homely, I can hardly recongnise myself! Ha!! Mum will be sooo surprised to hear and see that we are lazing at home on a glorious day like today!

Come to think of it, I cannot even remember wat we had been doing the whole of today! Gosh... getting old already?! Tat's too fast for comfort!

I think we literally spend the day snoozing in front of the google box. Then we took a nap, was waken by Trina's sms and then we went to bathe (wheather together or separately, that is a secret!) haha

Then I remembered Trina and her Kel came to our hse to just look c and sit down, went thru our wedding photos and then chit chatted for a while and then we went off together.

Coz we were meeting Yuin at PS at abt 7.30pm, and hubby and I wanted to go to Spotlight to get some hse hold items we went early. After making a last min reservation at Manhattan Fish Market, we went to walk arnound. Luckily we made the reservation as soon as we arrived! Coz by the time we got Yuin's sms tat she's here, the queue was long!! Gosh.. Singaporeans and food...

Hm... Manhattan Fish Market is somewhat similiar to Fish & Co. Mayb coz I had eaten fm Fish & Co I find Manhattan nicer. But again, it's to each his own coz Trina preferred the Fish & Co while the rest of us prefer Manhattan. It cld be the impressive fire grilling the prawns wif cheese right there and then... Or it could simply be coz it's new... But whatever the reason, we had a good dinner =) of praws, fish, rice, oysters and fries. Yummy Yummy!! Will go back again when there's a chance. Best part is, for the 5 of us the bill came out to be less than $100!!! Tat's really a hard to get price leh. On the average, each of us spent less than $20 for a restaurant meal!

During dinner, we chatted abt marriage, kids, hse.. all of these, Yuin, myself and hubby has experience to share. Only Trina and Kel can't share lor.. Coz they not there yet, but the 3 of us has lots to talk abt.. While the 2 of them listen, they also had doubts that they can clarified and be answered and just listening also can learn something lar.. I hope.. haha I think they shd be able to get something outta of it lar... coz they want to get a re-sale flat in their parents' area. Lucky for them, both parents stay in the same area. Not so good is that, they only hv 1 area to chosoe from lor. They this couple also quite cute lar... say want to stay in the midpoint of parents.. must chun chun midpoint... think got to go n get measuring tape and start measuring liao lor.. haha

After dinner, coz of the time, we din go anywhere lor, immediately went back to the car, luckily stay near to each other, so we can all go hm the same way, only Yuin different, want to give her a ride also hard.. she stay JURONG!!! Gosh.. the other end of SG leh!

Back in the car, we just chatted lor... but hai... mum called and asked me to bring her my ez link card coz she gng out.. tat sort of created a little tiff between hubby and me. He seems to think that my mum shd call my sis to go and pass to her at the bakery and that I unduldge in her too much. But hey... we are on the way home.. will pass by the bakery, so it's ok mar.. BUT!! I do agree wif hubby tat my mum does bully me too much.. hai...

But the strange part is hor... my mum has this kinda hold over me.. she never does it to my sisters.. and neither will I allow hubby to do this to me leh..