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!

wedding bells sounding =)

tml is C's wedding.. feeling the excitment for her already.. i wonder if she is too kan cheong to do anything now.. or is she having the jitters already?

tml I hv to b in CTK bright n early to help wif the church decor.. hope we do a good job.. too happy to write anything else..

will try to snap mre pics of the pretty bride tml!