random posts

Been sometime since I last posted in here. For just some strange reasons, just can't pick up enough zeal to come in and to write or rather type something.

This few days passed by w/o much happenings except me being exposed at not gng for the staff conference hosted by my former school director.

Have no wish to talk about it again... i actually went out with Trina.. How was I to know that boss will saboh me and mentioned my name in front of ALL those ppl??! Hai.. that is the worse thing that happen to me in my work here.

Did v little this week - almost nothing at all. Unless being saboh as 1 of the happening things.. Vendors come and go to deliever and take back items. Then reading and prying into other ppl's blogs.. exciting lor.. hai.. so darn bored at work.

And the moment we reached home, bathe, eat then we plonk ourselves in front of the google box to catch 大长今 on DVD. Thank God we have enough network to borrow the disc! If we were supposed to catch it on TV, we will be like rushing to go hm most of the nights. BUT! With the DVD, we are still rushing home.. so tat we can watch more of it.

I have not slept earlier than 1 am since last Friday.. wish that we will finish the show soon.. Left with disc 7 and 8. Shd be able to finished it by tml then!

Good deed indeed!

Godma and me planned something naughty but benefitcial for bro and his wife today.. in fact a few mintues ago only!

W/o his knowledge or approval, we registered him and his wifey for ME which stands for Marriage Encounter! This is good for couples who have been married for at least 5 years and when the marriage is stale and settled into a routine, time to add sme spice and re-discover each other all over again coz most marriages wld have fallen into a routine by then.

N poor bro, seems to be having sme problems with his wifey which they cannot seem to resolve, so hopefully the ME will help them to open up to each other and to salvage the marriage.. and most importantly, God to come into their lives and then to lead the both of them on lor.

Acutally last nite I also had a squabble with hubby lor. I was pissed coz of his bad habbits lor.. leave the clothes on top of the washing machine to air dry for days and the clothes were stacking on top of each other.. among sme other minor things.

I feel tat it's so hard to stay together.. so many things that we cannot agree on.. and all these are not the big issues, it's mre of the small things that put a wedge thru a couple. Now I'm begining to understand y ppl say it's the small things.. really..

When it comes to bigger items or issues, it seems we are able to resolve it calmly n peacefully.. but when it comes to minor.. hai..

Guess we still hv v long long long long way to go.

*WHEW* Big sigh of relief

*Whew* Finally the visits for this week is over! Handling 2 school visits in 1 week on alternate days is no joke, but at least better than the last time, 1 day, 2 different schools! 1 in the morning, another in the afternoon!

1st day was Bowen Sec, all the naughty Sec 2's. Wonder y the teacher bring them here, they are too young to appreciate all these. Today was Mayflower Sec. Don't like the school and I don't like the teachers. All the bao tau.. eee.. I know I am racist lar.. But really cannot take this school. The teachers are so demanding! It has a long way of histroy lar, the former teacher is demanding, this one not so demanding but about the same.

Year after year, they expolit us, make use of our facilities coz it's free and yet when the time comes for enrollement, we don't see their students! What pissed me off most is this lor. Expolit us and make use of our facility. AND when they are here, take up greater half of the day!

Thank God the next time I see them will be next year!

Concerned or Inteferring?

A few days ago, actually on the nite when I went for my kick box, I got 2 calls fm FIL. He called twice coz I switched off my hp and singtel users hv this service where they will send a sms to my hp when it's on agian tat a certain no called me __ times..

By the time I switched on my hp, it was abt 8.10 pm or thereabouts, was walking arnd in Mango with Joelle and imagine my surprise when I saw the number fm PIL's home, not once but twice as well. So I called back, thining somehow, hubby must have changed his mind on gng for a swim but went to his parents' hm for dinner. So I tried to reach him on his mobile but not on.. so I called his home.

MIL picked up the phone, she told me no one was looking for me and neither is hubby there.. so I was about to hang up when FIL came to the line.

He was ok, polite then he asked/told me tat hubby met 6th aunt earlier and told her that he gng for a swim, asked me if I knew.. Told him I do. Then he continued to ask if I am with him, told him no, then he asked where I was, what I do, how often, how much etc etc. I answered him as best as I can in mandrain.. *Note that one can't really translate kickboxing in chinese within that few mins.. Then he asked abt dinner, told him no have'nt eat, will be gng hm to eat with hubby later.

Chatted for a while more then we hang up.

When I reache home, hubby was already home so I asked him if FIL called him, he say nope.

Acutally I am wondering, since it is his son who met 6th aunt, why call me? Y not call his son to ask him? Not that I mind answering him but I find it weird that he calls me to ask all these questions when his son will know too.

Godma tells me tat he is concerned tat I do not look after his son proberly.. but hey.. his son is a grown man too, capable of being someone else's daddy too! So need FIL be so uptight over his son?

As I am penning this dw.. suddenly it occured to me.. cld it be coz that his oldest son broke up wif the gf and tat since 6th aunt told him tat hubby went swimming and I am not in sight, he is worried that we are on the rocks too?

Or is it simply just a concerned father wantting to know what his children are doing for the evening???

*ponder*ponder*ponder*

Intimacy..

All human beings yearns for intimacy. Be it just a hug, a hand shake, a pat on the head or even just being there with each other. Tat's us, human, we like to hv ppl near us, rnd us and with us.

N when 2 person got married, the closest form of intimacy will be when the couple is making love. (Not that my blog is a porn webby ok! Just my own thoughts!)

Even before I married hubby, we have been engaging in pre-marital sex, but after our wedding last Oct, it makes it more special coz everytime when we are making love, it's open to the possibility of creating a BB. (Last time, we made sure we are "protected")

The feeling is different, and the results may or may not vary.

The only thing tat we are doing, is family planning, so on my fertile days, we abstain and when I have passed it, we come back to each other again. I've realised it makes hubby more looking forward to it after a period of abstainance.. like after my period and after my fertile days. In these 2 times of the month, he is gentler, more loving and definately more desparate.. haha.. But no matter what or how he is, I like him, I love it the way when he comes to me and also during the 2 times of the month, he does not force himself on me, neither does he complains, he waits and this makes me feel special and loved by him more too.

I've just passed my fertile days and last nite was the 1st time after this mth's fertile days, he was so loving towards me and this morning when my alarm went off, he turned towards me for more..

blissful, blessed me..

Finally.. Mid Week..

It's only 1 day since I came back to work and I can't wait for the week end to come agian.. Y is working time such a chore?

The time just seems to slowly tick by! Hai..

Finally rushed out the LNI for boss this morning, in addition to the annual "Appraisal" I hate this LNI too! Goodness, the courses aren't updated in the other service providers and we got to like choose which course to go? I've been here for 5 years, those courses that interest me, I wld have gone right?! *sigh*

Thank Goodness it's mid week, time for my weekly dosage of sweat n jumbs n kicks!

I've noticed that after all those punches, kicks and sweat, I feel fresher than I was previously! No wonder, ppl do say go for exc when they are tired!

Girls' afternoon out!

After such a long time, finally have the luxury to 'date' Trina out all by myself. Haha.. Gosh.. i sound so possessive.. I mean, the 2 of us manage to go out 1 afternoon w/o the bf and hubby tagging along.

As students, we used to sneak out quite often to just catch up and relax. Since started work, not so often. And then she went to Brissy to study so all the mre no chance. So finally, since I was on leave, we made plans to meet up. =)

She came to pick me at J8, was there doing the registration of my mum's starhub pre paid card this time. (all the 3 days, got to start wif sme mobile thingy.. hai..) Then just as i finished it, she called me. So just nice, she can send her family to the family biz and then she can pick me at the same time and we can go off fm there. No need to let her make another rnd to come and pick me.. I also pai sey lor..

Since we both of nothing much to buy, we dropped by at Isetan.. aimless walking arnd (actually I wanted to get 2 hp pouch, but cannot find any that I am keen in so..) then we decided to go to Taka.. Since I was hungry, we looked for food. Sat in MOS and eat and yak... share abt girls stuff and re-ships too.. I think v v common topics among girls.. =P

Shopped arnd abit mre.. and though I keep saying nothing to buy and it is aimless shopping, I spent mre than a $100 bucks too!

Alone on Fancl it's $97.. this time i got the tonner and moisturizer. And Fancl staff know how to do biz and keep clients leh.. They give me additional sample sets and though Trina din buy any, she also got the same minus the "Tense Up".. clever sales tatics!

Then went to crystal jade and buy the soay sauce chicken since I am in town and I know my in laws like the chicken (or rather I like) and cheaper than outside. So also buy 1 coz gng to their hse for dinner tonite... good to go wif somethings right.. haha Wld hv bought another chicken for my own family but only 3 adults at home, cannot finish lor.

Then went to Marks and Spencer just want to buy something to official "open" my new Robinson card!

So all in all, a day of "nothing much to buy" end up paying close to $120 not inclusive of lunch.

Shopping is sooooo ex!! BUT, I still enjoy it! Ha..

another trip back to the mobile shops...

Just yesterday morning, we came and this morning, we are back agian... this time not so excited anymore, we slp till a bit later. Also coz we did not have to go mass (since we went last evening) so being the lazy us, we slp late..

Then we made our way to the mobile shop.. this time not to purchase but to exchange for a new hp.. or rather demand we have a new handset!

For some strange reason, sme ringing tones cannot be played when Hubby set it on.. so we want to exchange.. but the sales has told us that there is not exchange policy and tat we need to go to the manufacturer to exchange.. so we were prepared to fight for the handset to be change.

But.. hey.. we din hv to do any fighting at all. Upon testing, the sales changed a new set for us, but if there's any other problems, we got to go back to the manufacturer. Not bad leh..

Then we went for a leisure lunch at Delifrance.. Had pizza and crossiant sandwich and salad.. not bad too. Thought a bit pricy.. After the leisure lunch, we went to Ikea... I really want to get roman blinds.. but on closer inspection of the material, price and maintenance.. We decided to not (again) Up end up, we finally manage to get our CLOCK. Whew.. We also got some other nitty gritty items, storage boxes etc.. and tat amounts to $40++ too.. gosh.. $ is so small in SG!

Went hm, proudly hang up our new clock. Looks not bad on where it's being hang then took our showers, play with hp sme mre and then went to parents' hm for dinner.

We saved the laundry as an after dinner activity.. haha

ta da!! a brand new..

Hello motto..

Yep, tat's the brand of my brand new hp.. it's the Motorola Razor V3i! Quard band and with a full lot of other accessories which I doupt I will use.. haha... but still it's a cool hp to hold and after all the trade in, end up I only pay $248. Not bad right? haha

Happy with my new hp and will take the chance to slowly explore how to use it.

I was so excited at getting a new hp that I woke up at 10 plus and then pester hubby to wake up and go to the shops to change it! Like the excited child I was, I just can't lie back on the bed and get back to sleep. So hubby finally wake up and brought me to the shops. =)

We went straight into the shops took our queue number and started to wait. Luckily did not have to wait long coz we were there quite early.

But when it came to my turn.... gosh... the next person behind me waited for a long time.. coz I changed 3 sets at one time! My 2 sisters and mine =) and I helped my dad do the registration of his pre paid sim card.

Finally when all is in plc, we rushed off for makan then rush back hm.. coz i had to reach CTK by 4 pm for a meeting.. and we had to go hm to for me to bring a pail for the scrunity - Woman at the Well.

Tiring day, zoom to parents's hm to pick up handsets, zoomed to singtel, zoomed for lunch, wolved it down then zoomed back hm, played with our new sets for a while, before I again zoomed to parents' hm to pass handsets to my sisters and pick up pail n then finally zoomed to CTK.. wah.. lotsa zooming arnd.. at times like this, I really wished we had a car.. then I don't hv to zoom arnd so much and also no need to bear with the super super hot afternoons!

After meeting, had mass then we hv prayers after mass.. wah.. kinda long day already so hubby and me snooze off during prayers.. hai.. then we went hm.. waited for a long long long time for our spring chicken then it's in front of the google box.. for the nt DVD, "Kingdom of Heaven".

Happy Birthday, Godma!

Godma's Bday today and we are gng to M'sia to spend SGD.. haha.. Bigger currency can buy more things, or so we thought.

Went for a good delifrance breakfast wif Godma while waiting for Bro and his wife to come and pick us fm J8 then we made our way to JB for the rest of the day! haha..

We were still v v surprised that bro's wifey agree to come with us, we thought she will say no.. haha.. but well, she surprise us and the way I look at it, it is God's way of working his magic.

Made our way by driving into JB City Square. Shopped arnd and arnd and arnd.. sigh.. another disappointment. Nothing to buy, no clothes nothing.. sigh.. wat is it with shopping malls these days??

Godma assure me that, it is normal for the M'sia malls to be this bad. But I din reckon that it will be so bad!! Sigh..

The only good thing is that their food is cheap. We stopped for lunch in "Seasons Cafe" which turns out to be "Swensens" lor.. haha... food wise not bad but price wise v v good!! For the 4 of us, we only spent $72 RM!! Woo.. convert back to SGD, it's only $36 SGD, divide by 3 (coz we gave Godma a treat) it's only $12 SGD.. wah.. really cheap hor.. and we had, chef's salad, fish and chips, baked cheese pasta, fried chicken and a hawaillin pizza. All these for $36 SGD. Really pays to go in to M'sia to spend $ lei.

And since we din manage to get anything, we decided to move on to "The Store" they sell lots of household, which I bought also.. Good to have extra at home lor.. So can use mar and cheaper.. I got milk, yalkut, julie's chocolate love letters, the various detergents, all these for $86+ RM.. wah... cheap.. only thing is.. carring back lor.. Heng we got Bro who drove in.

We also bought back quite a lot of DVD's leh.. at only $2.70 SGD each!! Wah.. I like got at least 7 of them.. can slowly watch... nt tm will take a bus in wif hubby and then we can go n watch movie at City Square and also buy DVD come back watch.. so cheap!!

In SG buy VCD also not so cheap! haha..

But on the way hm, the stopid M'sia police closed the major road back to SG, we had to travel for an additional 40 mins before we can come back to the causeway!! The tension was abit high in the car esp when Bro and the wifey squabble.. but I think pretty normal... it's wat hubby and me wld hv exchanged too.. so no big deal lor..

all in all, a bleh day for clothes but hay day for hse hold and entertainment lor..
and as any normal other Fridays, the nite ended with RICA.. but tonite.. the nite ended with "Tom Yang Goong" a.k.a "Tom Yam Soup" haha.. 1 of the many DVD tat I bought earlier.

Bleh!

Admist all the excitment at gng to Isetan Private Sale for the afternoon, we went there excited but came home disappointed!

Hai.. as usual it was crowded, we expected it to be crowded. But wat we din expect was the lack of choices of clothes.. sign.. we went with expectations to buy clothes, in fact mountains of it! But hai... I din manage to get a single piece of clothes, not even a top or a skirt.. Not anything! Hai.. so sad..

But even though I din spend any $ on clothes, I spent close to $300 on bags, wallet, household and facial.. Out of which 1/3 is spent on hubby's brand new Guess? bag. haha.. So today is v v v good le, I spent less than $200 on myself.

So on the good side, save $ lor.. Hopefully when we go M'sia JB tml, it will be better!

It's a shopping day..

Woah.. today IS the day.. where I go n shop till i gonna drop again later..

Isetan having private sale the whole of today.. but sucks.. coz i cancelled my approved leave.. I can only go to the sale later, in the afternoon. Hope there are still some good items left for Godma and me when we rush dw from work later..

Last year, we had such a good time! We met early in the morning, lesiure bf then make our way dw to Isetan then after a rnd of shopping, met up wif bro for lunch at Tony Roma's and then continue shopping. Such a good time!

Since we only meeting up at abt 1 pm so we will each hv our separate lunches and then meet for shopping..

I hope i dont overspend.. hai.. but yet the tempation of shopping is so great.. hahaha

mornings like this..

I'm not a morning kinda person and nothing irks me more than to wake up with the knowledge I have to go to work and the person sleeping beside me on the same bed don't have to wake up and best of all, don't have to get to work!

But Godma tells me, tonight, when I am sleeping, he will be working. So it's just different timing. True lar, but still morning is such a sian time to wake up. Though I must give thanks that I am blessed enough to be able to wake up and have a job.

And worse is that, after the squabble last nite, we both went to slp w/o patching up. Tat kinda feeling when wake up is the worse of all!

Relationships...

The word relationship is such a chore. It can bring much joy and happiness to 2 persons who are in love and yet bring about great misery to the same 2 persons in the next moment.

And yet, most normal ppl will have at least 1 relationship in their life. Some are lucky to finally settle down with the person they love and to set up a family on their own (which will lead to another kind and level of relationship). In a nutshell, humans have feelings and we are all involved in sme sort of relationship with one another ALL the time.

But when the time comes for a couple who is in love, sharing thick and thin for the last 10 years to split. The years of feelings, love, giving and taking does it become all too much to just end? Outsiders will and may say yeah, wasted, 10 years of hard work all ended up in smoke. But to the couple, split may be the best way out coz the relationship has soured so much making all the sweet history and memories nothing! Worse... a memory tat wished to be buried deep within and never to be taken out to be relished.

For such a couple, is splitting up the best way? I don't know and I don't wish to know. I pray that hubby and me do not ever have to come to this stage where we have to contemplate splitting up. Our wedding reading says, "What God has joined, man must not divide."

I am quite badly affected by BIL's breakup with YL. All along, I thought their re-ship is gng on strong. Somemore with journeying together for 10 years, I thought theirs is really a wedding bells a ringing in the near future.

What a shock for me when I heard about it. But what to do? This is their life, their journey and their cross to carry.

handicapped

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

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

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

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

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

verb [T]
made difficult

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

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

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

Good Haul! =)

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

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

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

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

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

Happy gal!!

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

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

Congratulations!

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

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

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

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

Another MLM...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

waiting..waiting...waiting...

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

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

So late..

Whose the domineering party??

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

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

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

=S