What do you have for me, Mr Postman?

Got a couple of mails today when Hubby brought the mails home and this was addressed to me.

I figured that it's the Clarins membership card anyway since I am waiting for it. And true enough it is.
So, 1 more card to my growing collection of cards. Their card not bad looking, looks very "environmental" with a drop of water on a leaf. haha.. I got a "surprise" card from them too. That I can use on my next visit and get a surprise gift. Whatever that is... I wonder if it's acutally my birthday surprise treat since the card is valid till Feb 27 next year or is it a welcome gift? Anyway, wait and see la.

I'm not sure if there's any other things that I wanna get from Clarins. Since all these skincare can lasts forever before buying the next bottle/tube/tub. And I just got from them in Nov so now, everything is still almost brand new!

But anyway, if any of you needs the card, let me know lor, will gladly lend you! =)

ME now browing thru the Clarins webby and thinking of what to get...hahaha... WOMEN!!!

3 more days.

Just 3 more days and we will be ushering in 2007.

That makes me another year older, it also marks the start of my course. Which is going to be a mad rush for the 1st semester, I forsee.

With the arrival of 2007, that also marks the 2nd year of marriage to hubby. And again, I forsee, the endless questions of "when are you 2 having babies?" back in full force come CNY when we meet our relatives on a yearly basis.

It should also be when OBIL is planning for his wedding? The year where YBIL enters NTU, the year where I enter into Uni SIM, the year where sis will graduate from NTU, the year where hubby will enter Uni SIM too.

Sounds like quite a lot of happenings for the new year.

Yes, I'm getting nervous as the new year creeps nearer and nearer. It's been ages since I last went back to school, listening to lectures, doing tutorials, assignments, projects and the worse of all, EXAMS!!!

GOSH.... Before I've even started, I'm getting the cold feet. Die lar! How???

I'm feeling the stress not just course of the exams but also, just yesterday, Bro and Emma had to make a trip down to campus to sign on the dotted lines to be my surites. They have read thru the terms and conditions and while they were reading, I stole glimses of it as well.

Not harsh nor is the company being unreasonable in the conditions. But after they've signed, I feel even mre stressed. It makes it just look so much more formal and confirmed and if I break the bond, I'm dead and trapped kind of feeling.

I guess, I'm pretty normal? Who will not be stressed with all these right? I'm facing this, but others will be facing other different things? I don't think I should be overly affected by it, YET, anyway.

Anyway, I should just lift up this to the Lord, along with my pek chek-ness at members of my family in law!

COACH

Oh la la!!!!

How else to cheer myself up?! Of course, go and look at some of my favourite things. Shoes, clothes, bags... and my latest craze is over this... COACH.

These 2 caught my fancy...

The SOHO

The WristletNice? =)

I kinda like this wristlet too.. But is it too sweet pinky?

Hmmm... Shall I request for one of these for Vday and another for Bday? Or shall I ask for 1 of these for Vday and then the digital camera for Bday?? Hahah... Poor hubby...

Maybe, I should just say either one of these OR a digital camera for both Vday & Bday la.

See?! Such a good wife!

After 2 days, I'm still...

After 2 SOLID days, after all the suggestions, after all the advises, after all the bitching, after all the fuming and endless hours of playing the whole scene again and again and again in my mind, reahearsing the speeches over and over and over, I'm NOT proud to say that I'm still bloody darn pissed off at YBIL!

I know I should not be feeling like this, I know I should forgive him, I know I should not be holding on to this grudge and let it keep eating at me. I know I should let it flow over me and not let it bother me. I know I should "just forget about it" and don't keep harping on it.

But, I realised I can't. As much as I wanted to, I can't. The moment I think of them, the whole scene just keeps coming back to hunt me. I know I should have offered up the whole thing to God. I did! I really did. But I guess, I did not offer it up totally?

If not, why else am I still feeling so darm negative at him? And the more I think, the more upset I am at my PIL too. How can they as parents, let their son behave like that and NOT say anything at all?!

Hubby says I should not be pissed at his parents. Coz his parents have already told him and already taught him how to behave. But it's not their fault that YBIL behaved like that.

What RUBBISH!!!!

PIL did not say a single word throughout the whole thing lor! SO much for being parents and have taught their children right?!

Ok, I admit, I'm probably incohorent here. Coz I'm soooo fuming mad that I just blab everything out.

Argg!!!

Give me a few more days, I should be back to my old self by then.

What a MERRY merry Christmas!

Had presents from so many people this year!

Thank you all!! =) Hubby and I manage to stop ourselves from tearing them open the minute we got it. We managed to wait till Christmas NIGHT to open it lei. What an acheivement for us! hahaha..

I got 2 books, bathing things, candles, and also paper weight. Not to forget the MP3 player that I got weeks ago! What a haul! hahaha..

A merry merry christmas if not for the behaviour of my YBIL. I want to have a nice time with my family in law too. And yet, in the end, what did I bring myself? Lots of pent up feelings and pissed off at him after the dinner.

Can refer to here to read the full story.

I've bitched to hubby, my sis and another 2 friends. But I AM still feeling pissed! Damn!

Tri told me to adjust myself to their behaviour. Sis told me to be thankful that at least Hubby agrees with me. Wise told me to forget it since it's already over. Hubby said nothing.

It's true that I "married into" hubby's family. But that certainly DOES NOT mean that I got to tolerate these damn behaviour IN MY OWN house right?!

DAMN!! DAMN!!! DAMN!!!!

WWJD? WWJD?? WWJD??!!!

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Garden of Dreams.

Was at the Garden Festival earlier today. And my goodness!! There's really sooo many kinds of flowers in Suntec that we spent like a grand total of 4 hours there!There's soooo many different kinds of floral arrangements on displayed! I kind of don't know where to start looking. But since the 'welcome notes' says start at level 6, for the international displays. We started from there. Woah! It was impressive... But momsy was a little disappointed. She expected real life plants / flowers GROWING from pots not just arrangments. But still, we spend close to an hour there.

All looked pretty much the same to me, since I'm no gardener and not much of a nature lover. But the display of Garden of Eden and the Nativity sence caught my eyes! The Garden of Eden hmm... looks abit "cheena" to me. I imagined it to be slighly different. At least there should not be so many erm... "human look alike" kind of lenterns hanging on trees? Reminds me of some spooky chinese shows lei. But I like the colours. =)

Isn't this nice? The Nativity scene is so huge from where I was. But my camera does not do it justice much too lar.

We had a simple lunch in Just Noodles and then went on to shop around before heading back to the garden festival. Lunch is ok. Not fanastic.

But we were all too hungry for me to take any pics. I had the soft shell & Teriyaki chicken set. Momsy had the Teriyaki chicken ramen set and sis had the Fried Chicken Set. We also ordered extra dishes to go with it. We had extra fried chicken, BBQ wings, Eda Name beans.

The set comes with free flow of drinks and we all had coffee to go with it. Not bad lor. But end up, we were all soooo stuffed out that we almost cannot finish the food! But, still we stuffed ourselves silly. And I still have another BBQ to go tonite and it will be another feast!!

I wanted to buy a jacket for myself for use in the cold office.

I saw one when I was with Trina yesterday at IP Zone with Tri. But coz they did not have my size and I kind of still did not really like it much, but when I passed by the same store again, I dragged my momsy in. She said it's nice. hmm... welll.. since 2 persons told me nice, then should be nice even though I don't really think so right?

Was prepared to go and pay for it when another jacket caught my eye. And this one IS perfect! Coz it's black and with just a small logo in yellow which makes it easier for me to wear in office. End up, I got another 2 pieces of racer backs together with the jacket.

Brought my momsy to Carrefour to take a walk too since it's not everyday that my mom goes to town. She went.. woah! So big! haha.. Abit the sua ku hor.. But then again, my mom works almost everyday and she's not the shopping kind of person, so it's no wonder she has never been there lor.

Went back to the garden thingy and this time, we were at level 4. Where all the local and asian Orchids were on display. My mom had a whale of a time here. She simply love all the various orchids growing FROM the pots. hahaha... Took so many shots till the camera went dead!

These are some of my favourites...


the purple orchids looks normal but hey! The petals are all twised like a spiral!! Unique! I like.

Vivo City again

My 2nd visit to Vivocity this afternoon with my good pal, Trina.

And would you believe it, we found Vivo boring? Yes, B-O-R-I-N-G! We walked thru and found nothing interesting.

Think I'm loosing my knack for shopping.

All we did was had lunch at Thai Express and then coffee at Pacific Coffee. What I enjoyed was the chat.

Nothing else.

BLEH

Plans. (Super LONG post!)

You know what they say about planning for the future and plan your studies schedule and plan your financial means etc etc etc. Basically, it's plan plan plan all the way lar. Since young till now, from studies, to work, to financial, to everything!

So YES! I've decided to head this timeless advise. I've made plans. Tonnes of them! All for this coming festive Christmas and best of all, ALL to be completed within the weekend!

Friday
To bring some festive cheer to my family, I've decided that I will be Ms Santarina on Friday evening. Delivering the presents that I've prepared for my sisters to them and also to stay for dinner at home. Coz it's the big and grand "Dong Zhi." According to my granny, she said Dong Zhi is even bigger than CNY. I don't really understand what she means but anyway, so be it.

Saturday
I will be bringing my mom and youngest sis to...

Yups! The Singapore Garden Festival.

This year, will not be able to have dinner with my family, and I also don't know what present to get for my mom.

And by a bright spark, I've thought of buying her 2 tickets to the Garden Festival. She can then ask her sis or friend or anyone to go with her. But, she can't find anyone to go and then she disappointedly told me she cannot go.

I thought about it, and then I offered to go with her. She sounded thrilled. Then later this afternoon, my youngest sis also sms me and said she want to go. So ok lor, I got 3 tickets @ $8 each. I was surprised at the costs. Since I saw from the Sistic website that it costs $12 + $1 (booking thru Sistic) per ticket. But the lady explained to me that coz I'm a PA card member, there's discount. ORH! I din even realise, I had this privilage! haha..

So that done. Saturday, for the better part of the day, find me in Suntec level 4 and 6 for the Garden Festival.

Following the exhibition, hubby and I are invited to a BBQ in the evening. Supposed to reach at about 7pm. I don't think it's a problem since I will be with my mom, hubby has some meeting with his friends. So we each have our own programmes till we meet up for the BBQ. *When was the last time we actually went for BBQ to eat BBQ-ed food?* Can't remember. Been ages since we last BBQ-ed.

Sunday
This must be my most holy day of the entire year! Will be going for 11.30 am mass for the weekly obligation. Then over the short time span of this morning, Lynn, Carmen & myself have agreed to go for lunch after mass. And at first what seems like a small group soon turned out to be something like 20 people as of last count! I think that's close to half of our RCIA class.

If all works out, we will be heading to Dome @ Bishan for our lunch. I hope the manager, Shelly is able to book the place for us. Have already called her but she needs to check and get back to me.

Before agreeing to the lunch plans, Emma, hubby & me have already agreed to go catch a movie. We wanted to go watch "The Nativiy Story" but it's not screening on 24 Dec!

Argg!!

So we decided on "Night at the Museum" instead. 3 tickets for the 3 of us for the 7pm show.

We will meet up early for dinner, then the show, and if time allows, we can have coffee (for the caffine?) to stay awake for the Christmas Mass following the show.

And yups, after the movie, we will be going to church for midnight Mass. =)

Began and ended my day in church. Isn't that holy?! hahaha...

Monday
Finally, Christmas Day!

Another morning in Church for the actual day Christmas celebrations and then no plans made for lunch yet. But probably will just go and have a simple lunch after all these sinful indulgences over the week.

Hubby and me got to NTUC in J8 to collect our pre-ordered ribs and ham. Then probably need to get some items to make dinner with. For dinner, we are going to do it at home. My family in law inclusive of OBIL's gf is gng to come over to our plc to celebrate Christmas. Can't really confirm what we will serve though the menu is pretty fixed.

That brings an end to our festive weekend! Did I make a good plan for hubby and I this year?

Think I did lei! hahaha

Well, having made all these plans is not enough, I got to physically call and make reservations at Dome for 20 persons, need to get tickets for the movie and also the Garden Festival.

The easiest was therefore to go to J8 after work and get it done. And since Hubby was off to meet his $$ mastery friends for some discussions, the best time was for me to go and get it today. Off I went to J8 to get all my items. After buying all that is necessary, I was walking around looking for things that catches my eye and really. NOTHING.

But, the surprising thing was I bump into my sister! She was there to look for some last mintue christmas presents for her friends. We shopped together then. She finally bought some precious moments keychains. Quite nice. But too 'plastic' for my liking. But I bought a magnet that says "The family that prays together stays together." Very nice. It's now on my fridge. Last year, I bought the "Give us today our daily bread." haha.. Nice verses isn't it?!

Since we both had not taken our dinner, we went for dinner at Yoshinoya. They had some Christmas combo going on. Sis had the Hoki fish set while I had their beef set. Came with 2 sticks of meatballs, miso soup and the rice set. As usual, their rice + miso soup is not bad.. but their meatballs is really really horrible!

Bleh!!!

We then took a look at the other tables, almost every table has the meatballs untouched. Really is not nice, especially the ones with the BBQ sauce. The balls are too er..."meaty" if you get what I mean and it's C-O-L-D! Yucks!

And since the set does not come with a drink. I ordered the "Cheery Cherry + Yugurt Strawberry" set.

Let me teach you how to make this festive sounding and rather nice to look at drink, "Cheery Cherry".

Cheery Cherry
2 tablespoons of canned cocktail, drained
1 tablespoon of Nata de Coco
Ice
F&N Cherry flavoured soft drink

That's all. And do note that my recipe is definately MORE generous in the amout of "chewies" that you will get! I only got a pathetic mere 7 pieces of small fruits not to mention 0 of nata de coco. My sis was oh-so-lucky! She got a grand total of 2 pieces of nata, but I guess the number of fruits therefore reduced.

N oh, Yogurt Strawberry. Just use a spoon, dig out the insides of the strawberry, add in yogurt, freeze it. Wolia! There you have it. But for goodness sake, choose BIGGER and RIPER and FRESHER strawberries!!!

Not that I have anything against Yoshinoya. Their rice bowl are still good as usual. But the additionals... maybe better to stick to things like "Sprite, Coke, Ice Lemon Tea..." you get my drift? And desserts, I guess MOS's strawberries are definately more appealing and according to my sister, 100% nicer!

Chatted and after such a disappointing dinner, we headed home. And I saw Jerome's 3rd uncle & his wife + their 3 grandchildren on the bus. I was not really sure if that's them hence did not address them till we got down at the same bus stop.

Even though the dinner was such a disappointment, I still finished everything except the meatballs. And there I was bitching this afternoon that I ought to stop eating so much and all these sinful food! =_="

Chatted as we walk on nothing of importance. 3rd uncle and aunt are friendly people and they cannot really be sure of who I am in the 1st place too. Hahah... we seldom see each other, that's why. But I'm pretty sure by Monday, FIL will be asking me if I've met them on the bus. hahaha...

Oh!! Yes!! Christmas is a few more days and look what I've got?

2 Christmas presents!!! Ok lar, me "acting excited" here. Got these 2 today. From my ex ex sup and current sup. I'm sure 1 of it is a plush toy. Probably a handphone holder of sorts. The other, I've no idea what it is. Feels quite heavy. Maybe some decoration thing. I also gave them theirs today. I got to ask my boss (of course also gave boss his present lar if not, no give him and ask him help pai sey right?!!) to help me pass ex ex sup's present to her coz I've missed her when she came to campus. No choice lor, looks unsincere but I'm not going to make a trip to her office in "Ang Sua" (Redhill) or to her plc in Bukit Timah! Boss and her are condo neigbours (staying at different blocks of condo) and boss agreed. Hengz!

Take a look at our Christmas tree now! Doesn't it looks full of presents?! I've placed the present for hubby near the tree too and he was sooo excited when he saw it earlier. He wanted to open it immediately. But I made him wait for Christmas! haha...

Oh, we shall have fun on Monday morning when we unwrapped our presents!

Ok, end of post. Super long post, isn't it?! Gosh.. So luo suo! But, I promise there will be more updates over the week! And did I mention that I'm on leave starting now?! ALL the way till NEXT year!

Yeah!!!!

No need to wake up early anymore till next year! No need to go to office till next year too!!! HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!

I ought to STOP!

OMGoodness!

Another good and nice and sinful and simply heavenly lunch!

Gosh...

Before the holiday is even here, I'm begining to pig out!!!

Monday was Macdonalds, yesterday was Cafe Cartel. Today is this!

Botak Jones!!!!

I had their "Giant Chicken Sausages" and it was simply delicious!

It's really giant lei. The length of the sausage is as long as my fork! If you strighten the ends, it should be even longer.

Woah! Nice!!!

In fact, Irene and me were like craving this since Monday.

But Botak Jones is closed on Mondays and Tuesday was pouring buckets of heavenly water.

Finally the sun is out today and we could go. Yay!!! Along the way, Aw also joined us. Together, we just took a cab and whiz down.

Since Botak Jones is so near to PIL's plc, hubby joined us for lunch too. Irene and me were too busy eating to talk to any of the guys much. But they were having a good time talking about don't-know-what. hahaha

And guess what? I met Lynn there too. Was just on MSN and her last message was "bye, gng to AMK for lunch" ever did I expect it to be Botak Jones too lor.

hahah..

Good lunch! Most enjoyable!

Sinful Breakfast, sinful lunch, sinful all the way.

Hmm... My title sounds abit like the Christmas carol, "Jingle Bells." Must be the festive mood getting to me already. =)

Guess what I had for breakfast today?

THIS!

Chocolate coated Digestive Biscuits from Marks & Spencers.

I tell you, it's heavenly!!!

The chocolate is rich and not too sweet and the digestive biscuits is filling and crumbly.

I've always love digestive biscuits. And now coupled with another love of mine, chocolate, wow... The combination is simply superb!

I ate like 4 slices in 1 sitting and I could have taken more but I thought I should save some for the next day and also for my next craving when I need some chocolate fix.

Irene and me went to Bishan J8, Cafe Cartel for lunch. Despite the weather being cold and wet. We wanted something hot and soupy. The nearest to campus is Cartel. Hence, not much of a choice. Went there again. I soooo simply love their homemade bread! It's soooo good! I had the main course which is a huge portion of a roasted chicken tigh and drumstick in sweet and spicy sauce, yet, I still managed somehow to fill in another 7 or 8 pieces of their bread!

*burb* Excuse me! Boy! What a satisfying lunch!

On a different note, this rain has been falling since yesterday afternoon. There is NO signs of letting up. Everytime the rain seems to get smaller, it will always be followed by a bout of heavy rain mintues later. As I was going to work this morning, I heard that some roads are flooded and there were also accidents on the various roads. I thought it was the low visibility rate and also that the drivers were careless.

But, it's me whose wrong, as we listen to the news, then we realised the seriousness of the amount of water that has taken control over the Singapore Roads! Honestly, in my entire life, I've never seen this much of water flooding our local roads! The last I heard when I came home this evening what that some road somewhere, the water has reach WAIST level! Can you imagine this happening in Sunny Singapore?!

Incredous!

But I'm not very sorry to see or rather feel the rain falling. I love wet weather. It's good to go to sleep in, good to wake up in (or rather darn hard to pull myself out of bed!) good to be in and outdoors. Coz it's so cooling!

I've heard that some people are depressed by gloomy weather. But I like it. I like the coolness that comes with rain. The freshness of the trees, the clear sky that always comes after the rain.

Maybe I am a gloomy person? I don't know.

hahaha... But, for the sake of the BBQ, I really hope that the rain will stop on Saturday night. And meanwhile, I would love it if it can continue falling for the next few days. How I wish I can take leave from tomorrow onwards so as to stay home to enjoy the cool weather!

Bye bye kick box @ Specialist

This post is out-dated. But I was feeling rather depressed hence the late post. And the reasons for my 'depression' was due to....
1) This will be the last time that I go.
2) Spent lots of $$ at Marks & Spencers again.
3) Raining when I stepped out of my house but after my class, no rain. -_-" I was carrying a big plastic bag from Marks & Spencer, my work out bag AND an umbrella!

I had my LAST kick box session in Specialist Centre on Thursday. =(

How the centre looks like. Not great but kind of grow to like it already ma.

Seems that Specialist is gng to be pulled down for some re-development and the Dance Arts are gonna shift to Funan Centre come Jan 08. Sad lei. Further for me now!

Come to think of it, I've been doing KickBox for at least 1.5 years now. Started coz I wanna slim down for my wedding last year and then after the wedding, I like what the instructor, Philip does and continued. Without realising, it's already more than a year. The place is kind of old and parts of the paint is like peeling and all. But it's a comfortable place and the fees are reasonable too. With the new shift, not sure if the fees are gonna increase.

Somemore, next year, I may not even have the chance to go, with my studies starting and all. Just wait and see. I stil have about 5 more sessions before I end my package. If I cannot finish, then it will end up in Mr Bin.

And on a completely different and oppsite note. Anyone will think that I am a health nut and will not take snacks or anything like that.

You cannot be MORE wrong. I'm a junk food addict! I simply LOVE all kinds of junk food! The junkier the better! haha..

I've read about the reviews on the Dark Chocolate Digestive biscuits from Marks & Spencers. Have been wanting to try for ages but whenever I go with Hubby, he will stop me.

Hence, no chance to try at all! But that day, since Hubby was not with me, and I was in M&S to do more of my shopping spree again. I really cannot resists it anymore!!!

I got it!

I got the Dark Chocolate Digestive biscuits AND as if it's not sinful enough, I HAD to get their chocolate chip cookies. Not my fault. I just wanted the digestive biscuits. But there was a sale! The chocolate chips were going at $6 for 2 packets! Being a chocolate anything fan, how could I refuse?!

Verdict? The chcoclate chip is abit too hard. But nice. Crispy and nice! Full of chocolately goodness in every single bite and chew! I've yet to try the Dark Chocolate Digestive biscuits at this moment though. But I'm such a chocolate fan. I'm sure it will be good!

A load or rather surety OFF my mind.

Finally!

I got my 2 sureties.

Emma signed the dammed form this morning after mass. I was still kinda afraid that she will back out. But, hey!! Thank God, she even asked me before the mass started that she needs to sign something for me.

So, yups, it's done. The 2nd surety issue is solved. Now to wait for her payslip and also dear Bro to come over to sign the form. I know I should go to him for his signature. But, he asked hubby to buy something for him and Bro volunteered to come over to collect and pay and sign the form. So just as well.

Hope he comes over soon.

I need to hand in the form this Friday.

Look at all these!

For the last few days, I've been very busy buying and wrapping presents, buying and wrapping presents, yet, still buying and wrapping MORE presents.

Look at what I've manage to acheive after all those buying and wrapping, buying and wrapping...

Quite alot of presents, don't you think so?!

These are all for my close friends, relatives among others... Some are not even in yet! Like my sisters' presents, Hubby's Godpa's present. I think I pretty much covered the rest though. The Gold, White and Silver wrapper is from Ikea. Nice hor? Quite classy and yet, not too Chrismasy.

And would you believe it? I finished the whole darn roll of wrapper which I think is about 5M!!!

I did all these myself. Not that it is exceptionally pretty or anything. But to be honest, I get a kick out of wrapping presents. I enjoy wrapping presents. Hubby claims that it's not normal. haha.. But I really do love doing it.

You have heard of some who said that baking, cooking is therapeutic?? For me, I think the most therapeutic thing is to wrap boxes and boxes of presents! haha..

Weird as it may sound, but it's seriously fun!

Praise Lord!!

I've finally found the 2nd person to be my surety!!

Thank God for that. I was praying this before I went to bed last nite and then this morning, after yoga, after breakfast, after marketing, I finally plucked up enough courage to give her a call, to check on our "Nativity Story" date on Christmas Eve and then I asked her.

She said...

"Can, no problem, sign my name only mar, as long as you don't run."

Thank God!! I was so happy!

Now, I've found 2 persons to sign on that blessed form and I don't have to think about it anymore.

Moral of the story?

God hears ALL our prayers and He has everything planned out! =)

Another empty half day.

Was on half day leave today coz took half day and went shopping with my colleague, Irene. I was so excited at the prospect of going shopping that I can't wait to go off!!

But! Coz I was away on MC for the last 2 days, when I came back to office this morning, gosh.... I was swarmed with work and phone calls!!! Teacher, colleagues, vendors and also my friend. Teacher and colleagues are quite normal in my line. Vendors are also nothing to be alarmed about especially since I has just requested to buy an item thru the Gov biz webby. Vendors are bound to call. But what surprises me is call from my friend, actually also nothing to be alarmed about. Coz we have been on MSN very often and I should have expected her call soon since she did say she will call me to check with me on the Uni SIM enrollment.

And all too soon it was NOON! I did not wait for one more second before I flew out of the office! And you know what? My office mate, Ah Teck told me, "See you next year!" I was like huh?! Then he told me, he's on leave till after Christmas but I'm on leave during the Christmas week. So DANG!! I'll get to see him only in 20007!!

Anyway, Irene and me had a great time today! We were craving for Carl's Jr and we were thinking of either Marina, Suntec or PS... Finally, we decided on PS. Carl's was packed but yet we managed to find a nice cozy corner and tucked ourselves there. That corner would have been great if there was no echo. haha... But it was good. I finally know what the yummy looking fries is called now. "Cheese dog fries" (I think!) But I swear if I see the name again, I will know what it's called. Being Friday, I had their fish sandwich. Nice. I think their fish is nicer than the rest of the sandwiches which I've eaten so far. =)

We tooked a scroll down to Centrepoint, Irene is looking for a dress to attend her sis's wedding so we shopped around. Nice dress comes with an eye-popping price tag. She tried on a few but well din manage to get any. And I have decided that I dislike shopping with anyone with fits into size "S"! Makes me feel darn darn fat!!! =(

But I did manage to get something from Centrepoint too lei! I got a pair of slippers from Mphosis. After the 20%, it's only $10.92! Cheap and nice. I have intentions of putting it in office since my pair is old and worn and spoilt! Just nice! Now, I just need a warm jacket so that I can throw the current one away.

We then walked down to Taka, din buy anything, but finally, manage to get somethings for my 2 little princes. Bought 2 boxes of jigsaw puzzles for them.

Lucas's set comes with the "floor" and "3D Dinosaurs" that can move around. Ryan's set is just a plain 9 piece jigsaw, forming a pic of elephant and chicken on both sides.

Nice, cute, colourful and Boy BOY stuff!! How many girls you know, you will get jigsaw puzzles or Dianosaurs??!

I hope the boys will like it. =)

Other than that, nothing! Such a disappointment to be shopping in town and ended up with near to empty hands! *bleh*

Crossed the road to Metro and went to get some roller eye thingy from Lab Series for her guy. GOSH!! I never knew that mens' skincare is so costly too!

That small bottle of roller eye thingy costs a freaking $54!!! My, my, I thought only women will spend so much! But now I know, there are men who are willing to pay that much to maintain their skin too. Gosh!!!

Instant Moisture Eye Gel
Cool hydrating gel in a convenient rollerball applicator helps revive tired, stressed-looking eyes.
Helps diminish the look of puffiness and fine lines.
Refreshes and soothes the eye area.
Ophthamologist-tested.
To use: Every morning and/or evening, gently glide rollerball around eye area 2 or 3 times. Gently pat dry into skin.

Walked down to CK Tangs after that, and guess what??

I saw the Toscano wallet that seems to be out of stock everywhere!

I was still thinking, buy? Don't buy? Irene says, go ahead. It's nice and my current Guess is spoilt anyway.

SO, nothing to wait anymore, got it! Nice! It comes with a tiny Organizer Cover, which I don't really like, but I guess, can try to auction it away in Yahoo? But I love, LOVE the wallet!

(Can see from the photo that it's in a gift box right? Taken with the slippers that I bought from Centrepoint earlier.)

I have not changed out my current wallet yet, should I wait till after Christmas or should I make the change now huh?

Cannot decide lei. I was thinking, if no one wants the organizer skin, then I'll go and buy those plain or lined paper and then I can carry it around with me. Looks darn classy lor!

Irene got the Clinique eye set. She saw the brochure that it was selling at $62 at Tangs. But everywhere, we looked it was selling at $72. But when we reached Tangs, it was at $72 too! Then we realised (when the sales person told us) that the brochure was printed with error. So no choice lor, since she like it, she got it but Tangs give 6% rebate to cardholder, so still got abit of discount, which is definately more than Taka and Robinsons.

After all the walking and purchases, we decided to call it a day. I went to Far East to take the bus home and Irene went to the MRT station. Not a bad day. But once again, I'm $150 more empty in the wallet department.

Did some housework and hubby and I decided to go J8 for a walk. Since, J8 is going to be holding their midnight sale tomorrow, we went to "aim" for what we want to get. hahaha... Din aim much but Popular has some books that I would like to lay my hands on. Will go back tomorrow to check it all out.

Then while paying all the credit card bills at AXS, a sudden bright spark cross my mind and I decided to sms Wiselyn to see if they are still in J8 coz they told me that they are coming to J8 to do their Christmas shopping. Well, I was kind of expecting them to be having their coffee at Dome or something, to our surprise, they were at Level 4, so of course we met up for coffee.

Went to Coffee bean and well, Coffee Bean's "Belgium Chocolate" is not so nice. Still like the "Chocolate Paradise" by Pacific Coffee Club. Chatted with them and just got home. Bathe and all and I just cannot stay away from the tablet to blog.

All in all, it was another emptying day for me in the wallet department. But I'm happy to do it!

I'll update the photos another time. Now, I'm dead beat!!

Good nite!

BTW, my cousin cannot be my surety. I need 1 more person. Will try OBIL and Godma and another friend from CTK!

Edited on 16 Dec with photos.

Finally, 1 down. 1 more to go.

*whew*

Manage to get 1 of my friends to be my surety for the bond.

Still need 1 more.

Have already asked my cousin, waiting for him to get back, coz he said that he's in the army and Mindef may not allowed. If worse comes to worse, think I will have to ask OBIL.

Don't really like to ask him coz like will be in his favour like that lor. Sian.

Who else can I ask? My sis, she cannot coz she has her own study loan to service. Hubby also cannot, coz in between jobs now, Tri, I also can't coz her work starting next week. Colleagues cannot at all, coz one of the clause says "employees of XXX" cannot. Have also asked my friends, but they not comfortable with it. So I won't force them.

So how? Family wise, left OBIL lor. But I really don't really like the idea lei.

Pray that my cousin can and that will resolve all the issues. =)

Oh! BTW, we got invited to a BBQ on 23 Dec. =) happy happy.. I like BBQ food. Not the fire. And it's fun to have such gatherings during the Christmas season. Very nice and heart warming lor. Looking forward to it. Meanwhile, I must make sure that I recover and not be down again!

sheesh...

The news yesterday must have affected me deeply. So deep was the news imprinted (though I did not realised) that my gastric acted up again.

I swear that our body is the best guage of anything unpleasant or happy. Weather if we've been working too hard, too stressed out or happy.

I think recently, without myself knowing, I've added lots of stress on myself. Come to think of it, Ive been worried about school opening, OH07, JAE, EW07 and also exams... Also was concerned abt Hubby's job status. Not to mention, once a while, my sisters will give me a small shock/scare, my BIL's continue to be what they are and I'm also carrying the burden of OBIL's GF, which I must add, is NONE OF MY bloody business. No idea why, I'm still holding on to this!

ARGG!!!

With all these things on my mind, no wonder my stomach acted up. Already felt the cramps 2 days ago but I just took some medicine and it went away. But this morning, I just felt that I cannot wake up and stomach is rumbling and churning. There and then I know that, I'm down again.

So went to the doctor and gosh!!! SOOOOO many people were there! I thought at 10.20am, there should not be so much crowd (that's why, I allowed myself to wake up later than normal at about 10am!! I really tried to wake up earlier but I can't. My body and eyes just refuse to obey my brain) and my goodness... I spent at least 40 mintues just on waiting to go in to see the doctor. And as usual, it took less than 5 mins for me to come out later.

Waited another few minutes for me to take my medicine. MY GOODNESS!!! She is darn expensive!! It costs me a freaking $52 just for 4 kind of medicine! But the good thing is, I have a 2 days MC, which covers today and tomorrow. So out of the $52, $10 will be claimed from office, which means is $42 for the 4 medicine and 2 days MC.

I guess it's not so bad then.

Hubby is down too. Poor thing. He has flu and is slightly feverish and poor thing, he still went for a job interview schedule at 3pm @ Changi area... So far. Poor thing lor. Not well, still have to go so far in the sun.

I also asked the doctor for fever medicine for Hubby. If he does not get well in another few days time, he will have to go and see the doctor too.

Luckily, this is the lull period for me at work, else, sick also cannot be in peace! But, there is something that I am cheerful about. Besides the 2 days MC, when I go back to work, it willbe Friday. And Friday, I'm gng shopping with Irene. =)

Very HAPPY!

Wose piece of news for this year.

The year is drawing to a close and the year has pass by quite normally till I have to receive this piece of news....

O Level exams probably in Oct 07. Which means results released will be in Jan 08. Which means OH08 will be either super early Jan 08 or late Dec 07. Either way, my Christmas 07 will be ruined.

This is sad ok. Before this year's Christmas is even over, I got to know that I got to slog next year.

Not bad enough for next year?

Throw in:

Open House & studies in Jan,
JAE & studies in Feb, studies in Mar,
Engg Week, discovery week & studies in Apr/May
and to top it off,
EXAMS in May too!
Then studies in Jul,
visits and studies in Aug,
studies and discovery week in Sep/Oct.
Studies in Oct.
EXAMS in Nov!!!

Happy New Year to me!

edited to add: Sup says if the EW is really in Apr/May period, I should speak to boss and see if he can find me some help so that I can start to train up another person while I take on a more supervisory role. I'm not sure if I am happy to hear this piece of news. I should be glad that my sup and boss are caring and that they will give me the necessary support. But, I suddenly feel that my post will be taken over by another person. I should be happy that I can move "up" and take another bigger role. Maybe it is the quietness around me that made me think so much. Maybe it is my fear of loosing my job that made me think so much. Maybe it is the added stress that made me think so much? I don't know.

New supply of EYES.

New year brings about new year resoultions (not that I keep to any that I made anyway. Think I must have made countless ones over all my 20+ years! Things like loose weight, better results, better temper, more savings yadda yadda... and with the passing of each year, I think I have not made any improvements at all.) Anway, this blog is not about new year resolutions... (I wonder how many people still does it and REALLY keep to it?)

But one of the inveitable things that comes with new year is new clothes, parties, feasting and in my case, new supply of eyes too. =(

Just bought these over the weekend. Grand total of 13 pairs for the entire year. Why 13? Coz the 13th pair is FOC that the auntie gave me when I made my purchase.

I used to buy my lens from Arion but he got married and shifted so far and when I compared, he's not charging me any lesser than what I can get from the stall near my home, with the same freebies so might as well just get from the shop.

Well, B&L changed their packagin packaging. The box used to be slimmer and flatter. Now it's so big.

Sigh... along with my cosmestics, clothes and feasting, this is just another thing that adds to my already close-to-empty-purse!

I need a sponsor!!!

Test.. test...

Erm... I changed to Blogger BETA just a few minutes ago.

Is it better? Got any difference????

*kinda nervous * What if I *horrors* LOST all my posts?!

If there's anything to be done, I will shout "Help! Help!" so do bear with any mismatched grapics, text, anything!

And BTW, I'm on PM leave today later. Will be hitting the town with Hubby. I'm having such a good time! Monday on PM leave and was with Godma and Brother for a good lunch. Later with hubby and then next Friday, I'm on PM leave again, this time hitting the town (not sure which part) with Irene.

Woo Hoo!!!