dou dou here, there, EVERYWHERE!!!

lMy goodness!!! My whole body is covered wif dou dou now! Includes my face, on my lips, my scalp, my body, my hands n even my butt!!! Argg.. it's getting itchy as well!

CANNOT scratch coz will leave scars.. But easy to say lor... hai... it was still bearable earlier but when the sky turned dark n rained, the itch got so bad.. I am like moving arnd on my butt to ease the itch coz i cannot scratch!

Today is only the 1st day, I think there will be more of such dou dous popping out over the next few days... or it not then the current dou dous will all turn into something wif liquid inside.. still cannot squeeze coz it will burst n leave a scar.. Argg..

At least, it's not dengue, at least i got a 15 day MC, at least I don't hv to work my butt off for the programmes coming up? So i guess, to exchange for all these is kind of worth it? Only thing I din bargain for is, I got to cook my own "liang teh", my own meals! I was thinking since my mother so near, she may be offering to cook for me.. hai... I thought wrongly then.

But she was quite swt lar, she bought the ingriedents for me to cook.. coz I am being quartine at hm.

still on MC..

Still on MC for today.. Woke up with an even higher temperature than I went to bed with.. hai.. immediately took med, fix bf for hubby, sat with him while he ate n then I crawled back to bed.

Surprisingly, I still know the meaning of hungry, will wake up to find food... goes to show tat I am not as sick as I thought I will be lar. But too bad, nothing much at home to eat, just ate sme biscuits n slp sme mre.. then after tat ate maggie mee n slp again.

Got a few sms fm colleagues asking how I am.. also got a few calls abt work related issues. Think tml i go back office will peng san there liao..

I certainly pray that those teachers who registered their students for the program will remember.. I think tml whole day I will be sending emails to cfm their registration. Pray that it is not too late n that they think since we not response, they cancel. If they really do that, think my head will roll!!!

All righty, to calm myself down, here's the lists of things that I need to do for tml.
1) To send all confirmation & rejection notes to schools - Discovery (only left with schools taking BM programes lar, the rest I sent on Tues. Hengzzz...)
2) To send all confirmation & rejection notes to schools - EW
3) PR for extra refreshment - both Discovery & EW
4) PR for polo-tees
5) Order refreshment
6) Cfm the attendance for BP
7) Cfm schedule for FTP

think.. tat's abt it for tml... now that I hv listed it out.. it does not seem as daunting as it was a few mins ago..

*whew*

sick also cannot rest in peace... =(

fever...

Oh dear! Oh dear!

I woke up with a temperature of 37.8 degrees! (I have a habbit of taking temperature every morning coz of NFP)

Last nite, my temperature was at 38.2 degrees! I went to bed aching n sweating.. so hot! Told hubby I think I am having fever, but he say no... then i took a thermometer n stick it under my tongue then he believes me! Hmph...

Today, i went to c doc. Coz of no infection, sore throat etc, doc suspect it may be dengue... Oh dear.... given me 2 days MC.. chiam.. I still hv letterts to be sent to the schools which I have not manage to finish yest! Die lar... By the time I go back to office, it's Fri and I really must call the school to confirm before I send them any notes... die! Die!

So many things to do n so little time to do it! This letters are just for the "Discovery" programmes.. still have the "EW" programmes to be sent out as well.... I really hope that there will not be any cock up. If not, my head will roll!!!

Doc says since she cannot be sure if it's dengue till later (coz the sympthoms will only appear later) she told me to hv plenty of rest, drink lots of water n meanwhile, she will treat my fever n gastric flu like normal virus)

Came back slightly after noon, n sleep till abt 4 pm. Now i feel better. Just that body is still aching n stomach still don't feel too well.

Hai... pray for the best then. Nothing I can do except to listen to the doc, to drink lots of fluid n hv pently of rest n pray hard about it!

Tired Tuesday..

Oh gosh... I'm tired tired tired... early moring there was a long long long meeting abt the upcoming event. Then a lunch n then another long meeting with some outside staff about the programmes that we are offering. Hengzz.. I manage to wriggle myself out of this meeting! If not, I wont be able to go hm at 6 pm tonite!

Have finally manage to send out infor to most of the participants for 1 of the porgram. N it took me half the afternoon to get it done, I still hv 2 mre participants to send to.. hai...

After this, tml I have another full programme to be sent out to other participants. My days n nights are so full. I'm so tired!

I NEED A BREAK!!!

Darling's Bday today

Today is hubby's 26th Bday. =)

Din really hv a chance to celebrate leh.. coz both of us are lazy bums, supposed to go to church at 9.45 am for mass but coz it was raining we decided to go back n slp n then go mass for the last mass which is 5.30 pm.

Then we finally dragged our body out of the comfy bed n started to clean the hse abit.. really is just ABIT.. hai.. really don't like to do all these hse work! But now is NO CHOICE coz my own hse got to do lor if not who do for me?! Hai... then before we know it, got to rush out liao coz we hv a meeting wif sme church friends for the childrens' "party" during the feast day on 20 Nov.

Meeting was rather interesting generated sme ideas n then hubby n me rushed off for lunch n then back hm to clean up the hse sme mre n then go mass...

After mass, we went to J8 n had dinner at Cartel... good food now still v full.. hahahahaaha..

Better go off liao. Hubby keeps walking up to behind me n says today is his bday n left with 20 mins... hahahahahaha...

spent alot of $$ =S

After all the AP's & Vouchers have been counted. We decided to use the well wishers gifts to get something for our home. After all, we do need the items, it's just a matter of time b4 we get it anywhere. Since we are able to get it now then might as well get it now, especially when there are sales gng on =)

Hubby & I are such lazy bums... we said that today we will get out of the hse as early as we can n tat is after 12!! We simply just wake up n do nothing, laze arnd n then finally decided to shift our butts out of the hse!

We took a bus to Orchard and our 1st stop was Tangs coz we had a $30 voucher to spend. Bought a Tefal pan n accessory and being happy wif our purchase, we moved on to Taka.

I already know what I want to get, so the moment we hit Taka, we immediately went to the kitchen ware section n look for the WMF pots where it's being sold at $100 for 4 pots. Great deal! Especially since we need to hv pots and they are being sold at $100 for 4 different sizes. Also bought the Cornell oven toaster, rice cooker n hot pot... yeah! Finally our hse mre self sufficient can at least cook an egg! Now Godma cannot say my hse nothing liao. Being the proud owner of sme pots n pan does make me feel happy. Hahahahaaha.. Let's hope that I can do justice to the pots n pan n make them do their respective share of the work! hahahahaha.. but I can only get to c them on Sat afternoon, coz the delivery is only scheduled to be delievered then. N the VERY first thing I am gng to "kai chang" wif is the nasir lemak rice that hubby is SUPPOSED to contribute for the RCIA canteen on 16 Oct. Makes me a good wifey hor, cook his share of food leh!! =) But hor... I hv simply no idea what my grp is doing for the canteen!!!! Die!! =(

Then after spending a couple of hundreds there, still in an all time high after a woman spends $$$... we went for mre shopping at John Little... this time just bought sme dental needs for ourselves... (paid fully by vouchers too!!)

Finally went to HN, we wanted to buy a vacumm cleaner, a standing fan n maybe side table for the hse... look c look c..... finally decided on the Deyson cleaner... wah lau... the most expensive of ALL the purchase!!! Stupid cleaner costs us $400++ even after paying with vouchers n the sales mgr refused to give us mre discounts even though we pay so much!! Humph.... refuse to buy the fan from them. Will go to courts where they charge us $10 cheaper! hahahahaha... darn cheapskate... Delivery will be on Tues evening.. so may miss OGF then.. c how... actually we over spend for the vacumm... we hv no intentions of spending so much of such a machine but after comparsions.. still think it is worth the $$ so we went ahead.

Thank God for the generousity of our friends n relatives.. if not we will never be able to buy all these items!

We finally bought the jigsaw frame (yups, after so darn long) n now the puzzle is hanging on the wall... too bad the nail is a nailed abit too low.... puzzle does not hv the full glory it's supposed to receive.. so sad... will try to renail the nail so that we can shift the position of the puzzle!

All in all, was a good day, bought almost all we need save for the standing fan with a total of $600+++... happy but tired now.. hahahaha..

better go bathe so tat i can still go bed early n tml hv to go for morning mass... =)

oh... tml or rather is hubby's bday liao... haven't got him anything.. coz no time n also don't know wat to get him... buy him a good dinner later then! =)

I'm being bugged!

Argg...

There are bloggers out there who are bugging me.... left me comments promoting their whatever products!

Hai.. got to disable the "allow comments" on posts now.. if it dosen't work then I'll remove the link. =(

post wedding blues...

I think I may suffering from a bout of "post wedding blues" after so many mths of staying soooo bz wif wedding n hse preps, the lazy & relaxing evenings seems to mke me uncomfortable.

Keeps wishing that there is something to do, for us to c to. Of course I am glad that all the things fall into place and worked out well. But now that I am so free in the evenings, kind of don't know what to do to my life. Esp now tat wif hubby at my side every single evening, really time seems too much. hahahahahaha.. coz I can't cook so we go to parents' plc for dinner but tat's it. After tat we go home n laze in front of the google box doing nothing. Quite a waste of time mar.

So last nite was my 1st attempt at washing clothes.. turns out to be a diaster.. hahahaha.. I really am not sure how much detergent to use, the water level or if the "load" is full. Worse, hubby keeps getting into my way n I snapped at him... dear dear.... 5 days into the marriage & I'm snapping at him.. chiam.. got to keep my temper under ctrl man..

Now that we are married, there's so many things that I cannot do at my whim and fancy anymore.. like earlier today, BIL gave me quite a scare. He called hubby to tell him that they (MIL + 2 BIL, FIL in Kuantan) will tapow n come to our plc to eat! Tonite of all nights!! I have kickboxing & I am looking foward to go for it coz missed last wk.. so I got to change my plans and cannot go kickboxing coz 1st visit by family, me as the wifey cannot, not be there right? So got to miss it.. n was frantically running thru the mess in the hse which I got to clear b4 they arrive... n Thank God, they say they decided to stay hm n eat.. hengz!!!

Aiyoh.. all these things add on to my bluies... not just I got to maintain n keep the hse, I got to take care of hubby n worse of all.... I also got to 'entertain' his family... hai.. I don't like all these but no choice... marriage is not just hubby n me.. but hubby, me, his family & my family. We got to work hard at it man..

Last nite coz of nothing to do... hubby took sme pics of our "bands of a lifetime" here's 2 pics.. I showed the pic to another friend n she commented tat mine's prettier.. but of course! Mine has a tiny stone set in it.. hahahahaha..
Our bands are White Gold, with Rose Gold at the rims and inside both rings, there's a blue saphire... think it goes very well with this for wedding...
Something new
Something old
Something borrowed
Soemthing blue...
this IS our bands (which we bought 1 day before the wedding and has something blue) =)

pretty, aren't they?can u c our names + date of wedding! =)

I'm MARRIED?!

woah... after months of preparations, excitment, worries, arguements and frustrastions... it's ALL over!

Just with the snap of my fingers, I'm now legally and spirtually and 100% married to hubby. The feeling is kind of hard to describe. On 1 hand, it's natural progression and on the other hand all these are over, leaving a bit of an empty feeling coz now our busy days of wedding prep are over we have more free time on our hand and we really can R&R.

Yesterday was a whirl of events, I cannot be sure if I have missed out anything neither can I remember much details. All I remember was that I can't get to slp the nite before, woke up at 6 am, nothing to eat at hm =( n then before I knew it, the MUA and VG came together. Started on my make up then PG came, PG & VG took shots and my parents did the shu tou halfway.

MUA actions v fast! Less than 1 hour, I am ready. Dressed in my gown and everything then my jie mei's came, they started the prep for the gatecrash, mre aunties came at the same time n time just fly by.. woah.. v v fast!

Then hubby and his brothers came, the 1st task was for them to shout out a mushy poem fm downstairs to my level making sure I can hear them.. the poem was so funny. Contributed by 1 of my jie mei - charm.. hahahahahha got time then i'll post it here.

The rest of wat happend i hv no idea coz i was locked in the rm.. I knew it when hubby manage to climb to my level but they were haggling for AP for so long!! I waited anxiously.. the longer the wait, the mre kan cheong I became.. argg...

Finally, hubby manage to satisfy the jie mei n he came to my rm.... finally can get to c him... he looks dashing in his suit. N he looks happy n excited too! =) Finally time for me to step out of my bedroom... =O 3 big cameras pointed at me.. I was so surprised! Coz i only know that we hv Paul & Elijah. Who is the 3rd?? It's a middle age man whom I cannot recongnise!

Then we went to my IL's plc for the jin cha and came back to my hse for the jin cha... so many ppl!! Wow... as though the whole clan of all our relatives came to this celebration!

After lunch at my parents, we flew back to our new hse to clean up. I took a bath n then wait for Lynn to come to doll me up again. This time i choose mre neutural shades for the church wedding.

Hubby left our hse at abt 1.15 pm wif the PGs & VG. He must go there earlier to receive the guests lor.. while I still take up own swt time to doll up.. hahahaha.. think my dad also kan cheong.. called me at 1.30 pm and ask me where I am how come havent gone to pick him up.. hahahahaha.. i though he was not really bothered by the whole wedding but in fact he was quite kan cheong too lar.. hahahahaha

reached the church at abt 1.45 pm. Woah!! So many ppl!!! The recept table was full of activity leh! Thank goodness for good friends whom helped me all the way!

As the mins ticked nearer n nearer to 2 pm.. my heart pound harder n harder n harder.. gosh.. so worried that I really will trip! Lynn came to the vestry to call me at 2 pm.... I was so kan cheong n excited n a whole lot of other feelings. As the music start, I walked in slowly. I can't smile!! I'm so nervous that I cannot smile, my face seems to be as though I am in a stroke, I cannot ctrl my face!!! Argg!!!! But still we walk dw the aisle.... slowly, steady and soon I am at hubby's side. Fr. Yim came into the church then with the 4 altar servers.. He looks good in red (the colour of celebration) chasuble. Walked ov to congraulate us and then took his seat at the altar.

I was so nervous, I cannot remember hearing the march in music neither did I notice the pews! OMG. Everything in the mass happens according to the mass booklet. After looking at it for mths, it's finally happening! Before I knew it, it was time for us to exchange our vows n then our rings... bands of a lifetime and the mass carries on.

But once seated down, i stole peaks at our guests, good can c that lots of the invited ppl are here. Though they did not really sit according to plan but hey, most of them are here! =)

Before I knew it, we are "Husband & Wife" and mass has ended... woah.. so fast for our march out. This time I'm still just as nervous and I still did not hear the march out song. (Again!)

The moment we reach the door we turned back to go to the altar for photos taking... so many grps of ppl and so many ppl!! Took sometime before we all finally settled down and capture shots of everyone!

Went down to the canteen (this is the part, that I am most fearful off!) woah!! Praise Lord, not as pack nor as crowded as we thought! Hengz... we mingled rnd abit, took mre photos stayed till 4.30 pm n then off we went back hm so we can bathe n change out for our dinner with our new families at noble hse later. Food was good, service is good too just v v slow!

It was a tiring day, definately, my jaws n face are numb fm smiling! Gosh... finally it's over!

I'm Married in the hse of God! =)

tml IS the day...

Tml is my big day... getting married to hubby liao... I really should be resting at home n prepare for the wedding.. but somehow, I have no wish to do that..

I hv heard ppl say that the day before a couple gets married, they are not supposed to meet. Coz "not good" what does the "not good" means, no 1 can tell us, so as usual, we ignore whatever things that we do not understand nor care about lor.. hahahahahahahaha

I'm gonna go do my nails n then meet hubby later to collect our rings and also to go back to robinsons to c if we want to buy mre of the comfy bedsheets.

My appt wif the nails palor is at 3 pm. I reached on time n wow.. so crowded... all of them also attending a wedding tml.. while I am gonna be the bride tml. Seems like tml is really a good day afterall.. wat's so good, nobody knows. I think it's mre like a peace of mind that all the ppl want to choose a so call "good" date. It's just another day and date isn't it? Anyway, whatever it is, things hv been fixed, so just go ahead..

I spent 2 hours at the nails palor... so long.. but thank God, coz of the long long long stay, I was able to dry my nails pretty well. When I left, i can feel tat my nails are really quite dry and not tat scared to move my fingers much.

Met hubby n off we went, back to LH this time to collect rings. So happy =) Since they are able to provide us with engraving services, we decided to put on hubby's name and date of our wedding on my ring n my name + wedding date on hubby's ring. Took them less than 30 mins to do so. But of course, we did not wait there for them, we went back to robinsons to look for bed linen. We found something that we want but too bad the depth is not deep enough. Our mattress is 14" but the mattress cover max is only 12" too bad for hubby then. He say our current cover is too rough for his delicate skin... haik haik haik....

After collecting rings n not managing to buy bed linen, we made our way dw to BC to collect the flowers. I like my bouquet! Green, white n yellow... supposed to be orange leh.. not sure y it is yellow rose buds now.. hai... whatever lar, but i like the combination. Nice nice.. I also like the corsages that is hubby's. Matches my hand bouquet. =) For the parents, then it is Orchids.

After collecting and all, we went hm by bus.. hubby still hv to go n collect car later this evening fm Mike. I went to our lovenest 1s to keep 1 of the corsages in the fridge so that it can be kept fresher. And after tat go hm to finally rest.

Must remember to sleep early for today, it not tml wake mre Panda eye....

BUY!!!

Finally! After deliberating for a full day and the whole of last nite, we decided to BUY!!! YIPEE!!!! We're gonna hv a new pair of wedding bands, bands that symbolises our love for each other, to be given to each other and no 1 else in marriage! =)

I'm a happy gal.. =D

Meet soon-to-be hubby at abt 2.30 at Bishan MRT then we were still thinking of buying or not buying.. went to different different LH to look c if there are other designs of bands. Went to different jewellery shops to look at designs as well but still the same pair cathes our eyes like none other does.

Decided to take a break fm all these ring ring issues, went shopping at Robinsons... we thought there shd not be anything tat we need or want to get.. who knows, we ended up spending another $70+ odd there. We really din buy much, just 2 sets of quilt covers to act as the sofa throw (yups... we are using quilt covers to protect our sofas), 2 bathmats and a set of pillowcases. Tat's all and it adds up to $70+!! Wow.. $$ really small these days.

But! still we cannot make up our minds.. so we went to look see sme mre.. compare some mre.. and went for a break. Went for tea at Mac. (Gulps... with the wedding so near, I shd not be eating all these!) Talked abt it some mre, worked out the budget some mre and still cannot decide. Hai... finally hubby thought of a superp n clever idea! He says, we will go to the shop n c if they hv the rings in our size. If they hv, good, then we buy, if they don't then it's just too bad. It sure beats us sitting down n mulling ov the buy or don't buy issue! hehehehehehe.. so clever.. n morever hubby added, if we never ask abt it, we will always hv this feeling of regret... how right he is... so we decided to do wat he suggested.

So off we trotted back to LH.. and we tested the rings for our size.. n yups!!! They hv our sizes but unfortuntely, it's at the main office, so we got to come down the next day to take it.. oh well.. we'll do that then.. hahahahaha.. I'm so happy wif our soon to be purchase.

After such a happy day, we went arnd shopping sme mre... we really should be resting at hm wif our wedding just 2 days away!!! But.. instead, we are out gallvatting on the streets! hahahahahahaha

After we went hm, we had dinner n then just as we were gng to lay the newly bought quilt covers on the sofa, a guy came and ask hubby to do sme safra survey.. so the men were there at the door talking and i busied myself with the quilt. The quilts are really good material leh!! 320 threadcount. Feels so smooth n cooling to the touch!

N best, it matches the colour of the sofa so well, one can misktake it tat it's part of the sofa! =)

to buy or not to buy??

Earlier today, I went for my monthly dosage for my skin aka facial lor.. was quite ok, nothing unusual about it. Just that i told Yi Wen not to do too much poking on my face... if not, later my skin alot of holes then on Sat cannot be mei mei de xin niang mar..

after the facial, they persuaded to me sign plan coz my original plan is only left with 1 mre session after today.. so talk n talk lor... worse is hubby was already at MRT stn waiting for me.. end up, hubby waited for me for mre than 45 mins!! Hengzzz.. he being the swt man he is, he only complain abit if it was me who got to wait for him for so long, he sure get hell fm me!! Took the shop n me 45 mins to settle all the bills n what nots... the stopid machine so long! Aiyoh.... in the end this 45 mins costs me $2070 for my next 49 sessions of facial.. I think it's not so much as the number of sessions. But rather if the products are good. After all these mths, I must say that my skin has improved lar. (It better be man, after spending another $1000 previously!) At least my marks are not so pronouced anymore. Skin texture feels better also lor.

After settling it, rushed to MRT stn to catch train to Bugis so we can go to BC to collect our gown. Actually it is rather early to collect the gown but no choice coordinator wont be in tml n if collect on Fri then it will be too late so collect today lor. V happy to c that i can comfortably zip into the dress. Thank God for that!!!

Wah biangz.. the gown n suit n the fathers' jackets are so heavy!!! Even just the short distance of lugging all these to the taxi stand, can feel our arms aching... i think ppl who work in BS must hv v strong arms!! hahahahahahaa

Rushed hm n then rushed out again, this time to meet the VG, Low. Spend a while chatting n then got down to biz. He took some of our photos and then he also chiao.. then we also chiao.. chiao to go n c ring ring.. Found something we do like.. a pair by Lee Hwa, Jorn Rainer series.. pretty pretty!! =)

The whole time i was doing my facial, i was contemplating if we shd get a brand new pair of rings for our wedding on Sat. Not that our current pair is not good lar.. Just tat, i feel we've been wearing it for so long. N I also feel tat the band is abit narrow for hubby. N also we hv wore it since 2000 maybe.. 5 years liao... Tat tm we bought it coz of budget, we were still students so not much $ and we just wanted a simple ring tat binds us together.. coz tat tm hubby also gng into NS soon.... Hm... really, man is nv satisfied by wat we hv.. the current pair serves it purpose beautifully and also it is something that will bind us togethere lor.. and it has also serve us thru our ROM.. Mayb it is a good idea tat we wear it for our wedding as well... coz of the 'history' n 'story' of our lives that we've been together ba.. but it is just this urge to owe a new pair of rings to symbolise our new lives together that seems to egg me on to buy a new pair.. hai..

we saw a pair tat's nice n rather unique.. but i do know tat the design has been arnd for some time lar... i use to not pay much attention to it.. but earlier when i saw it again, i fell in love with it!!! The size fits our fingers nicely too but rather pricy lor.. hai.. it's coz of all the installment tat we are paying tat's y we feel the pinch lar... but on normal occassions, the price for wedding bands is arnd tat range lor... in fact the pair we choose is of the lower range liao.. hai.. mine (opps... i said "mine"?! But we have not even got it!!) has got a tiny blink blink... hubby's (opps... i did it again) is in a matching design but w/o the blink blink..

Hai... so hard to decide... anyway, we said a prayer at our new hse with the plastics unwrapped of the crucufix (tat travelled all the way back from Philipines) for the 1st time.... Let God work his will on us ba... if He decides that I am being ridiculas or wasteful then we won't hv it... but if God allow us to hv this pair of rings, I'm sure we will get it before our wedding on Sat anyway.

Only thing left to do is teach this heart of mine n mind to follow what we said in the prayer!

Rehearsal...

Had our wedding rehearsal this evening... my dad drove me to CTK on his bike. I decided tat i hate ridding on bike.. the feeling is so scary!!!! The wind zipping thru me, my eyes, my face my body and i can feel every single bumb on the road. N when my dad turns, I'm so scared tat the bike will overturn!!!! GOsh.. the moment i got on it, i started praying.. my whole body was shaking wif every move n turn.. I was really frightened!!!

I was kind of worried that my dad will complain and say all sorts of things at first. But thank God. He did not. He was quite ready to do watever that was necessary. Cld b coz we are in His hse or coz my FFIL was there, or friends were there.. watever the reason, I'm just glad that all things worked out fine!

Clare and Cedric were the last to arrive coz these poor dears got school and then have a hurried dinner and quickly rush over to church just for my rehearsal. Lynn and Max were here as well together with our wedding buddy, Martin & Clare. Yups.. another Clare.. hahahahahaha

Martin and Clare were great, taught us how to walk, where to stand, where to sit etc etc and Clare also taught my dad what to do. I think my dad mayb abit uncomfortable at me holding him at first but when he saw how cute Cedric was, he kept on looking at him and smile.. kekekekekeke

I certainly hope so that my dad will loosen up when he sees that we start reproducing BB for him.. hahahahahaha.. most impt is that he must stop smoking lar.. if not how wld we bear and dare to bring our BB home... hm.... i definately dont want my BB to inhale the 2nd hand cigareto smoke...

Really thank goodness for good friends.. Lynn came to the rehearsal with us yest and she will be taking care of the AP, guest book, seating blah blah blah for us.. so much things to c to and to follow up on and to keep an eye on! Wah.. thank God, i HANDOVER everything to her. Left everything in capable hands. hope when her time is here, I will not disappoint her man..

Yest, after the rehearsal, the 2 fathers and us went to the coffeeshop for a drink.. wah.. these 2 fathers got so much things to say to each other.. good good.. hahahah.. at least i'm pretty sure that our Fathers are getting along well.. hahahahaha

after tat, my father drove me hm on his bike.. well the 2nd time tat i rode his bike on the same evening.. so not so scared as earlier.. but i still find myself praying and repeating, Pls God, Pls bless us and keep us safe. Wah.. really terriable feeling to ride bike.. wif the cars zoom zoom zoom pass... :S

Me... confirmed Catholic

Last evening during the 5.30 pm mass was our confirmation. =) After receiving this scarment, my RCIA - Exodus friends n I are now full fledged Catholics!! Yippee!!!

We had a great dinner after mass last nite in the canteen. Total number of ppl that stayed back for the dinner was about 110 on paper, then again, there may be a bit mre abit less lar.. what is on my mind is now, my wedding guest lists stands at 252 ppl... how to all squeeze into the canteen... good question.. but then again... there's nothing we can do unless we want to extend the tentage or something but that will costs mre.. so forget it lar... we just try to pack in as many ppl as possible lor.

This year seems to be a rather holy year for hubby n me.. early this year, we had our scarment of baptism then followed by scarment of eucharist, last evening is scarment of reconciliation n nt sat, will be scarment of holy matrimony! Wow wow... holy year for us... kekekekekekeke

This year is also full of changes, religiously, spirtually, work wise, family and also personal changes.. I certainly hope that I am changing for the better. Conversion of heart to become better. Just like the homily, Fr. Peter gave yesterday, to improve yourself. From a OK catholic to be a better catholic, from a good catholic to be an excellent one and from an excellent catholic to be like Christ, himself. I think I am still a long long n far far way from being Christlike. But we are created in his image.. so as long as I am alive, I shd strive to be like him every moment.

Countdown

The BIG countdown is on officially on! In fact, it started about 2 days ago..

I finally sent in our mass booklet for photocopying... I asked the shop to make a total of 225 sets for me.. not sure how much it's gonna costs, but this is something which can't be helped coz there's no big screen in the church, all my guests got to hv a copy of it so they can refer.

Finally this is done. With the printing of the mass booklet, it mre or less marks the end of the preparation for the church. Lynn, Carmen & Serene will help me with the actual doing of the church for my special day... of course we will involve the rest of my jie mei n hubby's siong di's to help also. I pray that they are willing to do so.. i get the feeling tat my wedding team esp sme of the jie mei n siong di like not v willing to help.. hai... Mayb like wat Lynn says, it is good lor coz then they won't saboh hubby too much during the gate crashing..

After the gathering on 3 Sep, they took so long b4 doing anything... hai... quite disappointed... but oh well...

These whole week has been mad hse for me!! There's so much work to be done at work that i am literally swarm!! I can hardly breadth... my goodness... i'm so tired.. n wif tiredness comes stress and then also comes in the lack of concentration for certain things at work..

Alone on Tuesday, the meeting that I arranged with an outside party n our directors cock up so badly. Hai.. nightmare. The meeting room that i booked was taken over by another party and we only realise it the day before, but i went hm already n boss was calling for me.. n then on the day of the meeting, the other party came 15 mins early while we are not ready for them coz we used another room to house them was still being used by some others... Argg.... it was panic, panic, panic!!!

Then coz of the programmes that we have lined up, registrations and calls kept coming in... I got to entertain them and worse... the co upgraded our email system and the stoopid email is soooooo slow!!! Argg... to swtich from 1 mail to another mail takes forever!!!!

N worse, there are sme teachers. Yup, TEACHERS!!! Who cannot read or understand simple english!!! ARGGGG!!!! Bug me for confirmation or replies throughout the day! To read her mail, takes me forever, to reply her mail, takes me enternaity n she wrote so many times!!!!

ARG!!!!! Wedding is not stressing me tat much.. but work is!!!

I shd be feeling happy... but y am I not??

Just completed my GDL today... so in my parents n relatives eyes now... I'm officially engaged to my hubby..

Early in the morning, hubby called and told me that they are coming. So i dragged myself out of bed and went to tell my mother that they are coming.. I really am not sure if my mother is "missing me" too much or if she's really too $ face or if satan is at work. No matter what i tell her, as long as it concerns the wedding n $, we are bound to end up in angry words. I tell myself that as a child of God, I must be patient and forgiving and understanding and kind etc etc.. but she is really driving me up the wall!!! I really am not sure if I can still take it in.

This morning just coz of early arrival of hubby, she gave me black face.. hai.. I'm so disappointed... this is suppose to be a happy occassion. Last nite was another example... hai... i just ask her hw much is she gonna take for the pin jin n she said, not up to me to know.. so i told her ok.. then i just want her to know tat FIL not working n he is paying for it. N off I went to bed. Mins later, she came n knock on my door n then reprimanded me saying, hw much do i ecpect her to take then?! My auntie took $3K! She? Cannot take ar? Wah lau... i was darn pissed n sad.... sad coz she is soooo insenstitive... can't she realise tat even though my FIL not working, he still give her wat she ask for? N my mother did not pay alot for my things... except buy those useless things such as the potty, bowls n dont know wat... n she told me, she spent a lot!!! Yar lor... alot... $500... while my PIL spent $5K!!!! Hai... i v disappointed n sad lar... but no use n no choice.. live with it.

For the last hm... at least 2 wks... on and off, I've been having arguements wif her all this while. I really don't think she is sad for me to leave the hse n get married. N at the rate our re-ship is gng, I hv no wish to stay here anyway. Whenever we argue, it's always $. Come on, I am now v v hard up for $$ as well. Can't she be mre senstitive towards me as well?? Must she always borrow $ n when I say no or don't hv, give me hell for it? I'm not marrying a rich man's son. Hubby and I barely make ends meet!!!

We try so hard to not cost our parents $ with our union but in my opinion, she always give me trouble....even my sis implies tat it's my fault!

I'm so sick of all these!!! I'm getting married. I shd be happy, my family members nevertheless shd be excited and happy for me as well. But sad to say... i feel that it's my fault for getting married!

Argggg!!!! GOD HELP ME!!!!!

a sad n disappointed n lonely me....

I'm Sick

Okie.. the flu bug has caught me, the cough bug has caught me too n my throat is slightly inflamed n as usual this leads to me having a super sexy voice for the next few days.. hai..

Feeling weak and hands are trembling coz of the med... gonna log off n koonz nw...

feeling under the weather

Sigh..... I think I am feeling under the weather.. have been having a sore throat since day before yesterday.. and today, my cough seems to hv gotton worse.. seems to be coughing mre often than usual.. and now, I am feeling that my nose is stuck.. guess it's signs that I am getting a cold / flu....

Oh dear.... with 3 weeks to my wedding, i better buck up and drink enough water n take enough supplements to help me along... =(

Must be coz for the last few weeks, I havent been resting my body enough.. coz i sleep so late and every evening is packed with something of some sort..

Tonite, hubby is gng to miss RCIA, he's gng to distribute wedding cards to his relatives with his older brother as well as his father. Leaving me alone in RCIA tonite and I got to do the 2nd rnd of distribution to the rest of our church friends.. I nv knew that we had so many church friends to invite till we actually give out the cards... *whew*

My mother is gng to distribute the cards to my side of the relatives after the "Guo Ta Li" no idea wat it is... though a literal translation wld probably mean, cross over the big ceremony.. hahahahahaha... but looking at the thigns n discussion, i guess it probably means something along the line where hubby's family bring some things over to my hse to 'show' to the world that they 'choop' me as their daughter in law?? hahahahahaha But so sad to be 'sold' with merely cakes, sme jewellery, canned pig trotters?! & towels isn't it??? hai.. Guess consider expensive liao coz if it was olden days, cld be worse!!

I'm tired.. but oh well... abt 20 mins mre to go n I'm off to get my hair dye then then to CTK. I completely forgot tat I'm suppose to highlight my hair wif Godma tml!! Shessh... N nw i got to rush to colour my whole head before gng to the salon tml afternoon..

which also reminds me.. the mattress guy haven't call me to tell me the time in which they will be delivering my mattress tml!!!

Distribution of cards

Finally, the time has come for us to distribute our wedding cards to our friends, colleagues n relatives...

With less than 3 weeks to the wedding, it's really time to do so.. So, last nite, hubby came to my hse and we rush work n project, writting in all the names and slotting into envelopes and sealing n writting of addresses... not to mention, we also called up a few of our friends to find out their addresses.. shesh..... boy, was I tired out after the whole thing! N just coz of this, I skipped my weekly kickboxing... no choice I guess, I was not feeling too well anyway.. so no harm done for missing kickboxing.

This moring, gosh.. i spent almost 2 hours distributing the cards to my colleagues!! Walk up and down, up and down, up and down trying to get as many ppl as I can. Oh well, must b, coz this wk is the school holidays, alot of the staff are on leave.. So i just leave it with another staff and get them to pass it on. No choice lar.. Now my office so far away, unlike last time where I can walk arnd n no 1 knows.

During lunch, older BIL came to office, coz he rented a car to help to distribute the cards to hubby's realatives tml, so he came n pick up the trolley to help us to shift hse this evening.. wow.. nice isn't it.. but he also quite cute... in the lift while we were coming down, he actually told me, don't saboh too much during the gatecrashing on our big day.. hahahahaha.. i told him, we'll c.. hahahahahaha

Finally, finished distributing to all the invited guests... i must say quite a lot of cards were distributed... now to wait for their RSVP. I have to say, my Dir is really 'hui juo ren' he called me in to see him and then he personally congratulated me and told me, he will be there.. wow... coming from a Dir, i must say i am really impress!

It's a few more mins to gng hm, but tonite, there's confirmation class and tat also means another rnd of distribution of cards. But this time to our church friends, RCIA Exodus 2005. =)

=(

Went down to BC a few nights ago to choose my tea dress... n horrrors of horrors!!! I put on weight AGAIN!!!!! *boo hoo hoo*

hai... i simply cannot understand Y i'm still putting on weight.. i've been eating healthy, exercise on a regular basis... like once a wk... even if i don't slim down, I shd at least be maintaining my weight isn't it?! Hai...

But no.. n the worse is... all the additional weight at my waist.. hai...

I don't believe it and I requested to try on my WG bearing in mind tat it fitted me to a 'T' a few mths ago coz I took PS in it... but yes!!! I fat liao!!! ARGG!!!!!

With the increase bulk in the middle, none of the tea dress looks nice on me.. or rather.. i look terriable in all the tea dress... hai.. so ended up taking KUA... well.. at least i console myself lar... KUA mre traditional, my parents will be happy... n it can go wif all the obiang jewellery tat they insists on getting... hai...

crabby dinner

sounds crap??? yar... but it's CRABs!! Yippee... have been day dreaming of crabs for so long in that AMK store finally tonite will go n eat!! Yummy yum!! Y the sudden spread right, u may ask, well.. coz we celebrating FMIL's bday tonite.. so the spurge.. hahahaha

After dinner late, hubby will send me hm then then nw i'm wondering if the rest of the family members will come to our lovenest later to look c.. we'll c how lar.. kind of scared tat FMIL will agian say things.. but well.. too late lar... it's alrady doned!

I really must salute to hubby leh... within 2-3 wks, he finished the whole 2000 jigsaw puzzle!!! N he din do it like everyday.. only did it whenever we go there.. and for the past few wks, we spend less than a day at our hse! But he has completed it already!! Fast man...

pictures of the jigsaw on the dinning table the day before hubby completed it... still got 2 big lobang...

Hee... I'm so excited to post pics of our lovenest.. n yet i want it to be a suprise to all who havent seen it.. aiyah.. nvm lar..here goes...

sneak preview of our lovenest wif the furniture in. =) the kitchen is the dark corner on the right.

Well, tml, we are inviting the wedding team ppl to hv dinner at our lovenest. First ever entertaining that we are giving in our plc... quite excited... since i cannot for the life of me cook, we'll just order pizza and sme snacks. This gathering is also for them to get to know one another so that all things can go smoothly on the actual day. Looking forward to it.. hahahahahaha

Hm... wedding things are all settled save for my invitation cards.. we need to write in the names and then do the distribution.. n also mass booklet.. It's all done just doing proof reading now, shd not hv much big mistakes just small things here and there. With luck, I shd be able to print the booklets by mid of this mth!! Horray!!

Tat ban tang mother of mine, she wants me to stop ALL wedding prep during this 7th mth... I where got so free.. i din heed her advise as usual... we even went to place order for the Li Bings already.. Hai.. my mother hor... giving me headache.. we ordered already and now she say want sme mre... when she is already asking for 40 boxes!!!!

Traditional Cantonese Dragon & Phoenix set as my li bing =) Consisting of:
- 2 Medium Size Red Biscuit
- 2 Medium Size Yellow Biscuit
- 2 Medium Size Original Biscuit
- 2 Small Baked Kueh Neng Gao

N she insists that she will only give the list of the 'she wants' to my FFIL after the 7th mth. But FFIL is kind of kan cheong n rushing me for it. He has already given us the list of what he wants.. hai.... so ban tang lei.. this mother of mine... hai... she ban tang to the extent of not even writting the names of the invite cards till after 7th mth!! While FFIL is ready to start distribution....!?

30 Days

Another 30 days more and I'll be saying 'bye bye' to my singlehood status. On one hand, I'm getting tired of the wedding preparations and yet on the other hand, the responsbility of getting married, having another set of parents & starting my own family seems a bit daunting at times.

It seems so easy to just say "We are getting married" and then the flurry of activities from seaching of venue, to BS, to dates, to design of cards, wedding favours blah blah blah just seems to happen! Like the river that flows from 1 end to the other, all these things just seems to take care of itself with some efforts from us. Guess that it's good that we do not have so many issues to worry about.. but it's like.. i don't have time for myself anymore! Before all these, we had the hse reno to take care of as well... Wow.. that was really the high tension high temper high spending times! I'm v v glad that at least it is over. Of course there are still things to pay and maintain and to continue buying but at least that part of worrying where and how to get the $$ is over. Nw is we just buy what we need and wat we can afford.

Sometimes, i wonder, it's so easy to say "I do" but it's much effort and energy to keep to the "I do" how do we make sure that we are not saying "I do" to the wrong person? Or does it mean that being a catholic, we do our best to live, endure and love each other forever and ever? Since we are not allowed to divorce?

My godma says, in her marriage, there are so many times and trials and things that will cause her to rethink abt her marriage and there are times when these trials seem too much to bear and divorce is 1 option. But because of her faith and love for God and of course her hubby and family, she stayed on. She warned me, marriage is not a bed of roses and that it requires much work and effort. There's no turing back the moment we say 'Yes' in God's house.

At the moment, there's only lovely rosy pictures in my mind. I know that there will be times when i cannot stand hubby but I can only see pretty pictures in my head.. does it mean that I am not being practical? But if i am, I will not be writting this now.

Can't really explain how or what I am feeling coz I kind of wishing that the BIG day will come soon and that will put an end to my endless plans and changes.. But yet, am abit afraid of "the next day"..

I guess above all these nagging thoughts and worries and fears.. bottom line is... "Make Love a Choice".

night out wif Hubby

It's been donkey years since hubby & I last went for a movie. And with the recent movie hike, really really been a long long long time since we last watch a movie.

But tat's gng to change 2night =) Hubby bringing me to watch 'Herbie' hm... not sure of the spelling... It's about an animated car, don't know what it is about as well. But who cares, it's movie time and best of all, it's free show! Coz hubby used his M1 points to exchange for this pair of tickets. Kinda waste but his points cannot qualify for anything better so he's taking me on a night out!! Horray!!

We've been so bothered by wedding n hse.. finally some time for relaxation!

I've already dolled myself up for hubby.. now waiting for the clock to strike 6pm and then I'm outta here!!

So excited and happy, finally a change of the normal things that we have been doing. =D

change of hairstyle =)

Finally, i plucker up enough courage to go n do something to my lifeless hair! I went for rebonding.. yup... actually i think rebond dont really suit me coz i hv fine thin hair.. but my hair frizz too much. Rebond will solve all the friz for me. But i had such horrible experience when i last rebond it.. i sheded hair like a dog tat time..

But heck lar.. just do it!! So nw i hv a head of v little natural curl hair which all curls at least in the same direction, easy to manage and of course, smooth soft hair. Best of all, early in the morning, I do not hv to worry abt bad hair days anymore! =)

This week is already the last week for Aug and the real countdown has just begun. With about a mth to go for the wedding, things just seem to be getting hotter and more kan cheong and mre things seems to require our immediate attention.. hahahahahaha

I guess it's me being a kan cheong spider here, most of our things are all settled. Just need the 'finishing touches' to complete it. True to my own promise, I finished tring all the wedding favours ov the wk end. Even the ribbons issue we manage to overcome with another similiar one.. this new 1 is slightly mre expensive coz the quality is better.. we do not need such a good quality ribbon but when face with 'nothing' or this... guess the choice is pretty obvious...

ribbons with gift tags, i made...

Just left with 100 or so pieces of cards to tie the ribbons to, tonite go hm will complete the 50 at home, the other 50 got to wait till hubby finish folding. Now on weekends, it's no longer mad rush here and mad rush there, we actually got time to go to St. Peter and Paul to listen to Fr Siew to talk abt some 7th mth beliefs... wow.. n this wk end, we are gng to ACM for the 'journey of faith'. Really think my wish of being a stress free bride is not to difficult to acheive after all.. hahahahahaha...

Well, more things need to be done for the mass booklet, but we need to edit it somemore... well.. I pray tat my dear pageboy will agree to be my pageboy, Cedric seems to be throwing tamtrums coz he want to serve mass.. hai... don't know hw to manage.. coz 1 moment, he say pageboy another moment he say serve mass... chiam lar like tat.. hm.. talking abt mass.... i came across this floral bouquet. I think it looks good coz the colours are so cheery and bright.. But Godma says the ribbons abit the 'chu ru' so wondering if BC can modify it slightly.. hm....

flower bouquet & corsage

Ov the wk end, we went to Aussino... and I still do like the bedsheets with the double 'xi' but it's so expensive.. still thinking if we should spend that amout of $ on our bed while we already have 2 other sets of bedsheets + quilt cover for our bed...

Aussion bed sheets & quilt cover

A few days ago while hubby and I had lunch at Bishan, we went to Best Denki and saw this sound system... We are looking for a sound system for our bed room but this set seems abit expensive...$399... that's almost $400!!

TEAC sound system with sub woofer... too powerful for our bed room??

Maybe, alternatively, we will go to the Philips warehouse sale to look for the other model that we are aiming.. That set is definately cheaper. Cost about $199 but that's a v new model, so may not have it... oh well.. we'll c hw then.. but i fear if we go and we c that they are selling the sound system that we bought at a much much much lower rate, I'd cry!!

not my day?

Today is not my day, true but I am not gng to bitch abt it coz that will bring me down in God's eyes.. Instead I'm juz gng to change my attitude towards the rest of my day =) and give glory to God =)

Think this blog is having some problems.. i cannot find my toolbars... boohoo.. cannot edit or change my text from here. N i dont know where to change.. so I will simply stick to the boring normal lettering then.

Yesterday evening, I had such a hard time posting my post.. and today i lost my tool bar and a few mins ago, my whole post disappeared, now i go to retype my thoughts.. Yup.. not really my day.. but at least, thank God, it's abt 30 mins more before i head for CTK. Friday night = RCIA night.. at least till easter nt yr.
The PUB ppl came to our nest in the afternoon, thank goodness BIL not working today, he was able to 'house sit' and wait for the guys to come. But i'm feeling kinda pai sey now coz there's no drinks, no food and worse of all the hse is quite messy at the moment and he got to be there waiting.. poor BIL.. at least the last I heard was tat he was watching VCD.. =) Praise the Lord that at least our TV n hm system player is here. hahahahahaha

Feeling moody... know y? Coz it's tat time of the mth... well, it's supposed to be here already... n it is.. but it's not coming out full flush.. hahahahahaha.. shd be feeling blush blush now but heck lar, my blog right? Just feeling bloated, tired n groucy.. wat a mood..

N based on this cycle... horrors of horrors.... my nt cycle is right smack on my wedding.... oh dear... with the big gown.. hw to go toilet.. n definately no bed rm activity then?? I'm praying that at least my nt cycle is a bit delayed lar... so i dont hv to feel wet and uncomfy n worse of all.... fear of staining the gown!!! God help me pls!!

I think He heard me, tat's y my good o'l friend taking her own swt time.. hahahahahahahaha

During lunch time earlier, i manage to snip off the edges of all the ribbons on my wedding favours and also to slot in tat mini mini tag... looks pretty good though we hv a change in colour n ribbon material.. coz the supplier DISCONTINUED their stock.. hai... tis new ribbon mre ex lar but quality is better.. but at least... can lor.. can pass lor.. no choice..

I've been so neat with it as well, bundled them into bundles of 48. Y 48 right? Coz there are 48 pc in every box.. so i won't have to take out n keep n take out if not enough lor.. kekekekekeke

I target to finish tying 1 box by tonite? N another 2 boxes ov the wk end.. yup.. u guess it.. my wk ends are nw spend on tying ribbons.. hahahahaha.. tat's the life of me currently.. then still need to c to the invite cards, again it's also tying ribbons lor.. kekekekekekeke big ribbons for cards, small small ribbons for wedding favours.

Things are looking fine, nothing much left outstanding, left the mass booklet to cfm n to print.. will be doing it nt mth once the english expert has looked thru it.

Only thing tat's rather worrying is the number of guests that we are having... it's so difficult to say invite this n don't invite tat coz we all know each other.. n the list stands at 286... to add those whom we think not necessary but when we met up during confirmation class yest.. hai...

not tat we don't want to invite them.. but the problem is how to fit all into the canteen? Maybe, i should just let God work his miracles.. I'll just do the invitation.. think most of my friends are not so much here for the food right, especially for church friends, they are here coz they really want to share my joy.. Yup! Tat's it. Will invite!

slowing down..

It's been exactally 2 weeks since i last blog... ov the last 2 weeks, there were so many times that i feel like blogging but just can't even seem to lift my fingers to do it. I just feel so lazy to do it, y? one may ask? Maybe coz the moment i realise the IR port cannot be used on this PC i sort of felt so dejected that i just gave up. I mean part of the reason for reading others blog is also to look at sme interesting photos isn't it? N if photos are not impt, there will not be this phrase call "a picture says a THOUSAND words" right?

I'm yawning away as I write this, arms, triceps and stomach aching. Coz of the kickboxing I had yesterday coupled with the 'Body Countouring' I went for during lunch earlier, I'm not the least bit surprised if I will ache more over the wk end! But i guess it's ok lar, means that i worked those mussles and hopefully it WILL look more 'countoured' by the time i have to walk down the aisle? hahahahaha...

Feeling bored.. actually there are a number of things for me do to but as usual, I just can't seem to lift my spirits to do it. I need sme motivation somewhere, somehow. Hai..

Our mini wedding favours were delivered early last week, during the National day week and there's sooooo many boxes of it.. faintz..

boxes and boxes of wedding favours...

I stopped work on tying ribbons on the wedding favours for abt a week, reason being not coz i dont want to but coz the shop dont hv the ribbons n the supplier discontinued (Yes! Discontinued!!!) the ribbons, so for the past 1 week, we have been trying to find other alternatives but none looks as good as the original.. hai...

Prep work: Peach coloured ribbons with mini gift tags... which i spent a long long time doing...

but the lucky thing is that, at least I mange to finish 'packaging' half of the 320 pcs.. meaning, I have 160 pc (peach flavoured jam) tied using the same colour.. so we will hunt for another ribbons for the remainding 160 pc, strawberry jam.

does it look pretty? =) Actually, I'm quite proud of it.. hahahahahaha

This ribbon thing did get us worried... but once again, the grace of God is shining on us, the ribbon store called me last nite, their stock for my other ribbon came in... thank goodness.. they told me it takes 3 wks(!!!) to come in but praise God, it came in 2 days later. *Whew* Now i have ample time to tie it as well. But first, it's the preparation work, got to do the cutting up of the ribbons into shorter strips. I aim to finish tying these 160 pcs by end of this mth!! Jia You! Jia You!

Our lovenest is complete.. have handed over back to us as well. There are still some small small things that we must get David to come back and touch up. But he is in China now, so got to wait for him to come back. Even our furniture is in and it looks like a home instead of an empty shell now.. Hubby has already spent 1 nite there.. =D

Our electricals have also made their way into our nest and we have not used any of them except for the TV and sound system... hahahahahaha.. we will wait for a good time before having a 'grand opening ceremony' usage for our washing machine and fridge.. hahahahahaha... Even the air con which has been there after the wires are laid has not been doing it's work yet

Currently, we are working on a 2000 pcs jigsaw puzzle of Notre Dame church.. not making much progress coz we only spend tat few hours a week on it.. but we will try to finish it before the wedding lar

pieces of jigsaw ALL over the dining table...

Hubby and I are now working on our wedding invites. It's really quite late and we must work harder to send out the cards to our friends. Shd be able to finish by end of this mth as well lar... Hubby does the 2 fold, while i do the red strip in the middle and also the tying of ribbons... so many ribbons to tie.. Think after this wedding, i will be rather good at ribbons tying.. hahahahahaha

Thank goodnes, also settled the li bings.. heng ar.. we ordered from Pine Gardens.. costs $6.40 per box.

My family request for 55 boxes... wow.. i nv knew that there's soooo many ppl in my family! Thank God, we do not have any wedding banquet! Hubby's side want 10 boxes so we ordered a total of 65 boxes and that costs more than $400!! Wow... so much $

We also will be arranging to meet our wedding team on 3 Sep at our hse.. these 'privellage' ppl (more like kena hard work ppl!) will be the 1st guest our nest ever entertain.. hahahahahaha.. kind of fun lar but hor... also abit stress as to what to serve them and hw to contain them... hse not v big n the grp is abt 20 ppl!! Worse of all, our nest only has 10 sets of everything... hahahahahaha.. tell them use hands lar..

Hubby and me are thinking of feeding them pizza, salad, snacks and drinks.. maybe it's too little.. will think of other things on top of these.. they working for us to make our wedding go smoothly cannot ill treat them lar.. later kena saboh... hahahahahaha.. but i know they are such sweet dears, they wont do this to hubby and me lar

That solves the Guo Ta Li cakes and wedding n hse.. nw it's time for me to relax, c to the final details and just be a mei mei bride on 1 Oct

Tonite is also the 1st session of a 5 session RCIA Confirmation class.... will be meeting up with the rest of my 'course' mates.. feeling excited best of all, meeting Godma later at AMK to look at jewellery.. I already have aimmed a few pieces but cannot make up my mind coz hubby cannot give me any recommendations.. so i arranged to meet Godma instead.. nothing beats looking at pieces of blings blings, buying them and best of the best, FULLY SPONSORED!! hahahahaha... I'm a happy girl now.. kekekekekekeke

Darn!

Now that I have so many photos in my hp captured and wanted to upload to here, my stopid secondment to this new dept got to take away all my rights! Coz i got to use the IR to beam the photos out from my hp to PC and stoopid thing, i hv to hv my administer rights before i can use the IR!!! Arggg...

I was soo looking forward to putting in interesting photos here! Argg!!!!

Been feeling out of sorts ever since the secondment, i feel i am totally wasting time here, doing the same work tat i do when i was in my former dept and here is.. hai...

Argg... enough abt this lousy mood.. don't let it affect me ya!

My last weekend was spent on wedding prep and hse and mre hse prep... Do sme updates..
wedding prep...
wedding favours were delieverd yesterday, 320 pcs of mini jams. Now left to do the packaging of the jams.
photo album shd b ready for collection by 17 Sep, went down to BC on Mon (yeap, I took a day leave, so as to enjoy the long wk end) to look at the revised layout. This time, instead of that 'shi wen jiu bu ji' Ah Hong to serve me, it was my photographer, Kit. Hengz.. he so much mre professional lor. Ok, tat's settled as well.
FPIL told me ov the long wk end that they will give me $2K to buy jewellery.. FMIL wanted me to buy gold items.. but thank God, FFIL and hubby spoke up for me, so now i can get any material i want.. Yipee!!! Most likely will go to Lee Hwa next wk after work.. =)
We also went for cake tasting at Pine Gardens on sat.. wow.. we had, lychee martini, 3 layer choc, blackforrest, browine, cheescake... my fav is the 3 layer choc and the black forrest. But *sigh* their wedding cake is gonna costs us $450 if we r getting it.. after hearing the price.. we hv to say sorry.. but their Guo Ta Li things are rather reasonable.. will present the list to FPIL and see what they says since they are paying for it. If not, there are a couple of others which i think the price is right.. in fact the lowest i mange to get for marble cake is $5.25 per 0.5kg.. free delivery some mre... good right.. nw is waiting for FPIL approval only.
Only thing left for the wedding is the invite card.. seem to be having soem problem with the map.. hai.. hubby is nw trying to resolve the problem.. if not.. maybe we will have to take out the map and put it into 1 fold instead of 2 folds?
Then of course there is the Guo Ta Li thingy on the 18 Sep.. hai.. this 1.. i think take it as it comes lar.. no point i think too much now.

Hse prep..
Finally! David handover the keys to us on Sat.. So long.. wow.. do a quick count, we gave him the keys on 23 May... and he gave us back on 6 Aug.. abt 2.5 mths... woah.. quite long considering the thigns tat we do are rather simple.. but then again, the slower he do, the slower we pay.. oso good lar. We have not do any inspection yet.. better do it soon.. so can get him to come back in case of defects.
During this period of wk end and a 1 day leave, we did so much shopping! Nw my hse has utencils enough for 10 persons.. hahahaha.. includes plates, bowls n basic cutlery... wow.. needless to say also spent a bomb.. but not tat bad too leh.. we bought most of the things fm Ikea (which we went on Saturday AND Tuesday *gosh*).. except for the porcelain spoon which we bought at 'Lau Choy Seng' in chinatown... wah.. these spoons are expensive. Then we shop arnd chinatown abit been so long since we last went there.. bought a table runner for our dinning table as well.. happy with my purchases. The best deal was the chopsticks i feel, at only $1.50 for 10 pairs... cheap cheap.. hahahahahaha
Tues, we went dw to Hong Liang with Keng Hong and his wife, Cheryl (KH is hubby's colleague, Cec keeps telling me that he is a cutie... but when i saw him... chey... what a disappointment) to select our electrical appliances. We made booking for a 29" Tv, a Toshiba Fridge, a Toshiba washing machine and a Philips hm entertainment system. Total costs, $2100 with $30 discount. Not too bad hor? But too bad for us, coz we are not able to pay full, so we will be using credit card installment, we got to bear a 4.5% interest, so the total amout is $2194.50 =( but the owner willing to let us pay $2190 lar.. so a total discount of $34.50 lor.. better than nothing lar.. N, their service is so prompt! They are able to deliver the items on this Sat. Tat's soon, isn't it.
So for this Sat, I'm gonna spend it at my hm waiting for furniture and electrical to come in. Hope the furniture will come in 1st, so that the TV can come in later n just put on the TV console.
Was reading thru the SG brides earlier and i realise alot of ppl has bad comments abt the furniture delivery... n to my surprised, i saw hubby's name there.. though he did not put dw full name, but it's like the moment u c it, u know that it's him. Any1 else has this kind of feeling before? Kind of weird and difficult to explain but tat's wat happen!

Tat makes the end of my updates... seems like things are falling into plc nicely for me.. esp on the wedding n hse prep..

Last nite, hubby was telling me, we got to slowly shift our things into our new hse.. yar... now tat he reminded me.. i kind of forgot that I got to shift hse.. hahahahaha. Was so happy at being at parents' home n just walk over to new hse that i kind of forgot that I got to physically shift my things over.. hahahahaha.. okie. *mental note* will start this week end..

*sigh* looks like another busy as a bee week end for me... but before i hit the week end, it's Thurs nite and tat means KICKBOXING nite! =)

It's AUGUST!?

Time simply FLEW by.. My goodness... with just a blink of my eyes, it's now Aug! N my wedding is really just less than 2 mths away! I'm feeling the panic now...

This week is another busy time for me.. hai... all my evenings are so packed now. There's got to be something every evening.. wah.. havent been sleeping early and my eye bags are abt the size of a small tea bag... and from the looks of it, the colour seems to be quite similiar too! Oh dear... oh dear..

Like this evening, I'm meeting Dedire for dinner, been ages since we last met.. gng for a simple dinner @ Bugis and then will go to BC to look at Janice's PS shots.. I simply love looking at other ppl's shots.. it's so nice and pretty to look at! Of course, the invoices are pretty huge too.. hai...

Tml, I'm having my kickboxing.. hoo! ha! And the best part of the news is, I'm away on course for 2 days!! Yippee.. no need come back office to work.. Hooray!!

Thursday, will b gng to Ikea so as to grap sme hse hold items and then get David to fix up for us ov the wk end... Ikea is in Queenstown.. hai... quite har.. and then got to rush hm to make jelly for Friday evening.

Fri, as usual, will be RCIA... but this wk is our turn to prepare tea break, will be bringing dw the jelly that I'm gonna prepare on Thursday nite.. been so long since I last made jelly, wonder if i can still remember hw to make? I already got the jelly powder yesterday evening, need to get 2 mre cans of longan and i'm ready to put on my apron and chef's hat! hahahahahaha Carmen will be making her potatoe salad.. her salad is good!! Yummy... I know coz that's wat she fed us when we went to her lovenest a couple of weeks ago.. Stephanie volunteered egg rolls.. And Samatha's group will be bring some cakes.. sounds like it's gonna be a delicious tea break.. I wonder if Celia is still gonna bring her durian swiss rolls... hahahaha.. but this swiss roll is definately gonna costs us mre than our per grp of $7.50 allocated.. hmm... when it's time to think abt the costs, then we settled it lar.

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As a reflection, last sat, we went to Aloha Loyang for the sponsors + faith sharers gathering for both the Wed and Fri group of RCIA... I actually felt quite disappointed not because of anything but coz there were so few ppl! Those who were there are normally ppl whom I already know, save for the Wed grp. The Genesis grp ppl are so few. I was kind of looking forward to get to know the rest of the Genesis.. hai... but well, the food was good, as usual, master piece of our resident chef, Rebecca!

We were so honoured to have Fr Stephen with us from the evening onwards! hahahaha.. we also celebrated his birthday.. hmm.. not v sure how old he is but fortyish... we gathered.. hahahaha as we were singing him his birthday song, I think i saw his face redden and his eyes grew teary... aw.... so sentimential, this Father...

After such a good dinner, it's time to go for a long walk to work off those calories.. hahahaha.. din really walk much too just a short 1... hubby was too lazy i guess and the idea of walking back to the chalet with Lynn and Carmen was too great to resists and that cut short the walk too.. hahahahaha oh gosh... the 3 of us, ladies had so much fun walking back with Garren... hahahaha... those 2 ladies kept disturbing the little boy with "are we there yet?", "are we lost?" hahahahaha.. no wonder the little Garren showed us monkey face... hahahahahaha

we had a game in the evening, the rules were plentiful and quite confusing actually.. but well, we all had fun.. we pretend tat we had an inquirer and then have to help the inquirer to move into catechumanate.. but unfortunely, out of the 8 groups, only 1 inquirer became a catechumen.. fun.. but makes me glad tat our real inquirers are not like tat.

Guess there's plenty of learning points here... 1 that really strike me close to my heart is that, the heart may be willing, but God decides when is the RIGHT time.

body aching

ouch! ouch! ouch!

this is the outcome of gng for kickboxing after a lonnnnnnnnnnnnng time of not moving a single mussle.

Last evening, Joelle and me went for kickboxing in Dance Arts.. We paid $10 each for the trial session and then we waited nervously coz we were afraid of being the clowns in front of the whole class. N, we were right to be worried! Before the class even commence, half the class suddenly re-appear with skipping ropes, we were both stumped, where on earth did they get it? Though ricklin fm the style wedding forums did tell me that skipping ropes are provided. But where or where is it??

Finally i plucker up enough corage to ask another girl, and she pointed, "there, in the red bag" whew.... we went ov n pick our skipping ropes. But it was a waste of effort lar, the rm was quite small for so many of us, so we din have enough space to swing the rope anyway.

And after the skipping rope routine, it was kickboxing proper! Oh gosh... did i say that we "officially opened" the class with 200 push ups?? Yes, 200!! Aw... my poor poor biceps and triceps are screaming already.. and u know what? The lesson havent begin!!

Next came the cardio sets. Philip, the instructor said we will be doing 15 sets. I have no idea of what he means, but the class groan when he said that, I take it that it is something not of a simple session.

push push.. skip skip... jump jump... punch! punch! kick punch kick! gosh... i'm tired... coupled wif another few hundreds of push ups.. gosh... i know why the class groan.. me too, me too!!!

But we are not so clowns after all lar, we can both follow relatively well! Thanks to the slower motions of Philip and mayb, my 3 weeks at calfonia fitness and my hands or rather hands and legs at kickboxing, gave me an idea of what to expect? I enjoyed the class!! N that's saying something coz i hate exc of any sort!

In fact, both Joelle and i like the class, we will be signing up for the full course then which is 12 sessions @ $90 + a $10 registration fee. There are 2 sessions available per week, but we most likely will go for the Wed session coz my Confirmation class will be on Thurs and it's commencing pretty soon.

Though tired, i can feel my body relaxing also. Coz it's been a long time since i last worked my body this hard. It feels good to sweat it all out and also v importantly, burn those extra fabs that I have.

I believe if i do this as the timetable says, once a week, I'm gonna be a fit looking bride come Oct! =)

Graduation 2005

This week is the Graduation of class 2005. The 1st ceremony began on Tuesday, 10 am and the last session will be on Friday, 3pm. Total of 4827 graduads for this year. That's quite a number since we are just talking about my own campus alone.

I was on duty for both sessions today, 9 am and the 1 pm slot. Wow.. so tiring especially since I got to wear the blessed courts shoes which squeeze all my fleshy foot together and keeps air from entering my shoes.. i HATE courts shoes!! Thank goodness, the next time i wear it will be next year!

I'm so tired now, not only i got to ill treat my poor poor feet, I got to keep a lookout for the teachers who turned up and also the prize winners! Then during the tea break, got to match the student to the teacher so that photos can be taken and then sent to the school for promotional and marketing purposes.

So besides having a sore pair of feet now, I got a tired mouth coz i spent a long time chit chatting with the teachers, I mean, come on, since I am assigned to them, I cannot be just a pretty vase and stand there not talking right? I got to talk to them and make social conversations too.

Aww... din have time to taste the good food that was prepared, could only stand there and watch ppl eat.. what a torture!! Especially more so when it was lunch time!! Boo Hoo...

Grapped a quick lunch and then got ready for the 2nd session at 1 pm..

Hengzzz.... both of the teachers assigned to me, I already know them, so not much of a problem!

Overall, i think the whole session went quite well lar. So besides tired feet n empty stomach, nothing to complain.

Oh well.. think i am finally caught up in reality that I AM GETTING FAT, have made an appt wif Joelle to go for kickboxing this evening. May decide to sign on if it's good. Will see what happens after this evening then =)

disappointing photo layout man =(

wah lau... wat a disappointment!!!

went to view the photos layout yesterday at BC and they hv to assign a guy who don't seem to know what he's doing for us! Hai~~ I guess so far, the MUA, the co-ordinator and also the photographer is good lar.. Only this "Ah Hong" fellow.... he is a typical 'shi wen, jiu bu zhi' everything or anything we asked, his answer is non-commital and he not sure of everything wan... hai~~ so sad..

The shots are ok i guess, some of the artwork in some of the pages is also ok, just that, have to be assigned to this communication problem guy lor.. hai~~ He noted down our changes and say he will call hubby when he is done, fastest is 3 days, slow, 1 week, so most likely, nt wk got to go down again.

There are sme shots which we both like v much.. hubby like the kua series.. i find it ok, looks so 'chin chong' cannot take it.. hahaha.. nv seen myself dress so 'chee-na' before!! He also like the AD WG series with me holding the floral bouquet. Quite nice.. I like tat series too. But my fav. is still the series of 4 photos where, hubby held n kissed my hands. I thought it's v swt... Wanted to make that into the photo montage but too bad, it's 4 pics and the montage is only a 3-in-1 photo. =(

So our 3-in-1 is just 3 simple photos of myself, hubby and then a couple shot. Actually, I find it v plain.. coz too white.. hai.... so disappointed with the end results!! N we are paying $3K for it!!!

If it don't turn out nice, I want to cry leh... $3000!!!

It's Photos Viewing time!!

Yippee.... I have permission to get off early from work today and zoom off to BC to look at my photo layout for my wedding album.

It's been 3 weeks of long wait before I finally get to see it.

Will try to neg for taking back those 'rejected' photos with me... so tml i hv something to show to my friends & colleagues. I know for sure that my Godma is also neck long long from the wait..

Yipee!!! BC, here I come!!

tata

recap

hm.. was thinking thru what happened ov the wk end. Sat, hubby had to piss me off so much with that pair of pants.. hai... tat really sort of spoiled my whole sat! Though Carmen's delicious dinner coupled with Lynn's Geleto more than made up for it... we had a good time, us ladies, chatting and laughing... It happen always, as long as there more than 1 woman, conversations are bound to be interesting. Unlike the men, we girls had so much fun, but when i sneak a peak at hubby n the men, they seem to be lost in front of the TV, i thought I saw Gabriel sneaking a cat's wink too!! After Carmen's hm, Nick & Jenny came to our plc to look c... gosh.. when i reached hm was already 12.30 am!!

Sun, had to wakey early (despite the late night) so as to reach CTK on time for the BOW. Goodness, I dont know for hw long I can keep this up, BOW on every sunday... wow... I think this bunch of Catechumens are really blessed with the gift of Faith already. Havent really start lesson proper, and they are all roaring and eager to go. I pray that not just the Catechumens can carry on, but us, Faith Sharers and also Sponsors also can get use to this new arrangment.

And after mass, which I had to celebrate alone (not really alone after all lar, there's so many ppl, Emma, Jason and the rest of the community!) coz hubby came for mass with his younger bro for the 9.45 am mass! I don't mind coz this is the 1st time that Jie express his interest in coming to church! Guess hubby n my prayers are heard after all! =) Yippee!!

Then after mass, had a good chicken rice lunch wif Emma and Jason, the St Vincent were here operating canteen... their chicken rice is good!! Yummy Yummy!!

After tat went hm, mop floor n after tat, rest? Nah... off I march to my new flat to clean sme mre.. and tat silly hubby of mine, gave me such a small pc of cloth that I had trouble cleaning the cupboards and wardrobe with it! N i lost my temper at him again... 2nd temper lost in 2 days!! So we just went about the cleaning in total silence... and not the first time either, for the last few wk ends, almost every wk is spent cleaning the new plc... hai... n somehow, me, this impatient person wld just loose my temper at him.. wonder when we can finish cleaning and wonder if it's gonna happen all these times...

N tis morning, i was thinking thru wat happened on Sat, y my reaction so huge... n i still do not hv a v concrete answer, but i guess is the 'face' issue? I din want hubby to go into ppl's hse dressed in rags... it oso says alot abt respect for the host doesnt it? This morning, I was nudged by the Holy Spirit, I heard, "God loves you, Sharon, despite all your shortcomings, Y do you have to be so harsh to the man that u r gonna spend the rest of ur life with? Y do u hv to pick on his faults? If God can love u so unconditionally, y arent u doing the same thing? Morever, this man is ur husband. From his rib, u were created." All right.. i admit, i did not exactally HEAR all these, but the msg was loud n clear to me... Oh goodness, my words hv caused my poor hubby hurt and yet when he went hm to change to into something else, I was still upset at him! I must apologise to him later when i c him this evening.

I've been told that, when 2 persons get together, it is to compliment each other, i seriously wonder, how am I being 'complimentary' to my hubby. But I really got to thank God for this, hubby is the most patient and wonderful man I've ever came across in my life!! He has never never lost his temper at me, however unreasonable I may be. He is God sent to me, but I at the moment don't see hw i am being "his better half".

But dear Lord, I promise to try. To learn to be the woman that You in your wonders have created me to be.

I make this prayer thru Jesus Christ, the Lord.

Amen.

MAN or a BOY??!

I'm sooooooo pissed off!!! N the title says it all!! With who? Tat man who still has the mentality of a BOY! N guess what?! He is to be called my HUSBAND!!!!

ARGGG!!!!!!!! I'm so pissed right now!!

Before he step out of the hse today, i already hinted to him this evening, we are gng to Carmen's plc for dinner. I knew he will be wearing berms n T-shirt. I hv nothing against that, what I have against is which berms he wore!!! N he have to wear the berms that I find most inapporiate!!! It's shorts not berms n worse of all, it has gone thru soooo many rnds in the machine that all the strings are standing up!!!

Y cant he just wear a decent berms!!!!!!! Arg!!!!!

It's not as though I did not tell him I find this berms suitable only in 3 situations,
1) market
2) home (be it his hm, my parents' hm or our hm)
3) beach & BBQ (coz it's gonna b dirty anyway)

but fist visit to a friend's hse, y must he turn up in this berms of all the berms that he own??!!!

Am i getting worked up? U BET!! Am I over reacting, I dont think so. Am I expecting too much, No, again I do not think so!!

Come on, there are certain atire that 1 must adhere to! At least I did not say tat berms belong to the rubbish bin and I certainly do feel tat the berms can still see the daylight in suitable situations!

Oh my goodness, i'm so worked up now!!!

N when i told or confronted him y he wore that, he says he think the berms is 'OK'. It's definately NOT OK!!! N he told me, all right, nt tm wont wear it again. Hey, that's not the point either coz we have been thru this conversation and yup! WITH THE SAME PAIR OF BERMS!!!!!!

Y cant he learn? Y cant he get it into this head??!

He has gone hm to change now. But the thing is he cld hv simply NOT wear it!!!

After me flying into my temper and all, he decided to go hm n change (well, to give him the credit, he did say he go hm to change the moment i opened my mouth) but i am still upset!

For goodness sake, he IS a 26 year old man, for that, i expect him to know how to dress himself suitably when he goes out?! N not make me behave like a mad, lunatic, old mother hen!!!

ARG!!!!!!! After venting this, I'm still upset!!!!

Full speed on the road of recovery!!

wow.. what a week, begining of this wk was news of ppl falling sick and having sme troubles.

I'm glad to say that out of the 4, 2 are healing... my God ma is back in SG, back, save and sound, but definately need to do that body check up soonest.

Hubby is recovering, *whew* at least he is not dengue, just fever, his fever has broke, still feeling weak but at least he is feeling better. Praise the Lord!!

Only thing is, my cathechumen, hers is a cfm case of dengue now. Just spoke to her and she sounds so weak, and she said if she get up and walk, may have internal bleeding! *horrors* n her hubby is admitted as well.. my goodness.. nothing we can do, coz medically, there's no cure for dengue as well, just need to let the body fight against it, and the medical team is there to treat the complications.

Not sure of Debra as well, havent had the chance to see or talk to her.

Really must ask for special blessings tonite, esp on these 4 ppl!!

satan hard at work

oh my goodness... within a short time frame of half a day, i got 3 pcs of bad news, all involving ppl fm RCIA-Genesis!

First, my catechumen, Yani is hospitalised, suspected case of dengue. Her hubby is heard to be admitted as well.

Then, I heard that my God ma, for whatever reasons has shortness of breadth and feeling v scared, made worse by she's all alone in Penang!

Following that, Debra, 1 of the sponsors has quit RCIA.. not sure of the reason.

N as though it's not bad enough, hubby is nw dw wif fever!! OMG!! Wat's happening to us?

During class on Fri, must ask Fr for special prayers to protect the rest of us from harm n OUT of satan's way!

Well, we were supposed to go dw to BC to view photo layout. But coz hubby sick nw, so we will hv to postponed and go dw another time. Don't really feel the disappointment coz if go dw means got to pay $$ again, so just as well that we are not gng dw so soon.

A short recap for the days tat zoomed by w/o my entries...
Fri... Had RCIA as usual, we were separated into our groupings, to my surprise, most of my Catechumen are already ppl whom I kwn =) Good! Already hv the bond there, my fellow sponsors are Anthony, Stepf and Carmen. Not bad, all I know too, only thing was, they are all not here!! But, God is good, He sent me Paul and Celia.. not too bad for a 1st session.. but frankly, i was jitterly when i realise all my sponsors not here. N we gang up with Fr Yim to celebrate Uncle Al's bday =D

Sat... Was the Rite of Acceptance, tat's when the enquiry period ends for the RCIA-Genesis class and they are all "promoted" to Catechumens. Wonder y Yani missed it, so i called her and she sounds so weak and sick (I din know she's a suspected dengue then)... poor thing.. well, we'll hv another Rite of Acceptance for those who missed it then. The Rite was at 5.30 mass, in CTK main church. Made me think of my own rite of Acceptance last yr as i "signed" Ee Lin wif the crosses..
Had dinner with Maxi, Lynn, Eugene, Sam, Maria n hubby at RTC.. Posh plc.. but surprisingly the pricing of the food is v reasonable!

Sun.. mad hse day, had to wait for mum to finish cooking before I cld mop the floor, n before I even started, hubby told me he came out of his plc n coming to my plc nw.. Coz we are meeting our contractor, David. Had to rush n rush... but i also know tat David is quite rubber time, so not tat bad, I din rush too hard.. hahahaha... finished mopping then took my shower n out i went. Reach Bugis and nowhere in sight of David. So we walked arnd n waited for him in Mac. Started chatting and walking arnd. Told him we need to go to Furniture Mall to pick our furnitre, he went with us and oso bargain (though not much use) and helped us with the furniture. Finally tat's settled. Our furniture is gonna be delievered on 13 Aug.. Just nice, can hv my jie mei & wedding team meeting at my plc! =)

Mon.. back to work and saw tat our confirmation class is gonna start on 25 Aug... sucks.. wanted to hold the wedding meeting then... guess, I'll hv to change date. Thank goodness, havent say anything to anyone else except Lynn.

Tues... bad day full of bad news... which links me back to today!

happy & tiring day

wah!! So happy!! Hubby called to say he ordered the latest Harry Potter book for me! Yippee!! I can't wait to get my hands on it and start reading it! Counting dw the days to 16 Jul, when I can get my book! =D

N this morning, i walked so many times rnd the campus.. taking shots so that we can hv a game for the visitors who are coming nt wk. Looking at the shots nw, think my digi not tat bad after all, and of course... my photography skills not tat bad too.. after all, me using an easy to use cam! Just point and shoot! hahahaha

Have been having free lunches since yesterday.. not bad hor? hahahaha.... Paul darling, fed me lunch saying that coz i shifted to new plc, he must cheer me up... hahahahaha.. n today went shooting with him rnd campus, too tired and i did not bring any $ with me, so he paid again... woah.. not bad not bad. Tml, we are gng out for a talk in 1 of the schools, boss driving us there and knowing boss, he oso will feed us.. wah!! 3 days of free lunch in a row.. can save the $ leh.

Time really zoom pass... without me really realising, it's already Thurs and tml is Fri... woah.. another week gone. And another wk nearer to our big day in Oct. Once tat time comes, I cannot claim tat I'm not married anymore... =(

Later after work, we are gng to make a trip dw to Bras Brasa.. to hunt for a pc of wood so that we can make our unit no.. the current number plates are spoilt and cracked.. so better change it.

N last nite, David says our hse is ready =D so happy.. but we realise that there are some things that might hv slipped his mind so we will get him to come in and finish up every singel thing before we get back the hse fm him... happy.. happy.. I'm a happy gal..

N also, he told us, he will give us grace period till Oct to finish paying him the costs of the reno at no interest.. woah.. good hor.. things are all falling in plc for us.. good!

Only thing not looking too good is work... n hm... both hubby's n my work not looking too good.. hai~~ while i'm being bored brainless here, he's looking for a new career opportunity.. He has already found another opportunity with a friend fm church.. Not that I'm against or worried abt this change, I'm mre concern if we can handle all these things coming our way, with a new career move, hse n wedding, can hubby handle? The new employer has told hubby to join him after our wedding, but suddenly last nite, hubby mentioned that he wld like to join him sooner... in fact nt mth.. hm... i oso cannot stop him coz I think this move is good for him too. Just concerned if it is too much for us to handle..

But on the other hand, i recongnise that it may be God's will for us. Suggested to hubby to continue to pray about it. Since we are being lead to this stage, there must be something we are supposed to do. N no point for us here worry abt all these things, with God on our side, who can say it is bad? For all things are made to bring glory to God!

another un-fruitful day

hai~~ when are my days gng to be mre bz and mre fruitful? I've had a change in dept and still doing back my same o'l things. So boring and yet I dont want to resign fm this plc coz the benefits are so much better.

Can only act bz and think of things to do for myself. Like gng rnd tml to capture shots for a game call "Photo Hunt" well.. at least I can improve the exisitng program. Not that bad then right?

Let's hope tml is a better and mre fruitful day then!

shifted, settled n working

oh well... after half a morning spent on carrying boxes and shifting and unpacking, I'm done at my brand new work station.

Partitions wise, I'm given the taller versions, 1.35m and it forms a 'L' shape around me. My back is against the wall, 'kau shan' as 1 of my new colleagues say and only 1 entrance to my small little plc.

Cannot say like or don't like, at least there are a couple of good things, I'm seated in such a way that ppl got to walk ov to my plc before they can c me, else they cannot really c me, i hv tall partitions, so even when i'm sitting dw, no 1 can c the tip of my head, I hv a cozy corner all by myself... i think rather comfortable lar hor..

only drawback is tat i'm seated beside the door so any1 who comes in thru the door may b able to peep into my cubicle and tat it's abit open so my things may b stolen w/o me realising.. so got to keep mre things lar, cannot like last time, everything display out.

The ppl here, more or less i already knw them coz we have worked together before on sme other activities, just need to improve the ties with them n i think it shd be ok ba..

tonite need to go dw to the lovenest again, wonder if the beams tat we last min add on are up... wanted to do them slanted but David says coz our ceiling n the floor curp not aligned so cannot do slant.. hv to do straight... abit sad lor.. but i guess no choice lor.. =(

Hubby called me earlier and asked me abt the latest book of Harry Potter - Harry Potter and the half blood prince.. I hv plans to get the book but at the moment nw, it's so ex... cannot bear to part with the $40 lor... *wish hubby will buy for me* =)

big shift tml

hai~~ tml i'm shifting office.. finally has come to tis day where I got to shift my butt. Fm a comfy 2 seater in a rm shift to 1 big community where we are all only being blocked by low partitions. Feeling lousy.. but seriously, do I hv a choice? The answer is, 'Nope'

also a couple of things at the back of my mind.. hai~~ be it wedding plans or housing plans. Though things are working n moving along quite well, there just seem to be somethings tat are bothering me and I just cannot place my fingers on it!

Argg... got to get a grip on myself!

*Shoo* all these thoughts and feelings, wif God's grace and face smiling and shinning on me, ALL things will work out fine!