Summary of 2010

Here's the post to sum up my 2010.

Jan:
-Sign up bridal package on 1st Jan 2010 with Zwedding
- My dad went crazy and fought with bro early in the morning. I was afraid, but I braved through
- Decided on the venue and date for ROM and Chinese dinner

Feb:
- ROMed on 28th Feb 2010, last day of CNY at Mount Faber Jewel box - Black Opal.

Mar:
- Went Penang to source for a restaurant to hold our wedding dinner
- Source for renovation contractor

Apr:
- Decided Northwest interior for my renovation
- Bridal photoshoot
- Renovation started

May:
- Went JB and bought our furniture
- Bought electronics for our house from Audio house

Jun:
- Renovation completed

Jul:
- Collect Wedding cards from Four Seasons for printing

Aug:
- Sold off our dearie (GTI)
- Wedding invitations printed

Sept:
-Food tasting at Four Seasons hotel, on mum's birthday

Oct:
- Found out G market is really a nice place to shop
- Surprise hen night from Hilary and girls.
- Our actual day
- House moving
- Theme birthday party for Rye's 1st bday

Nov:
- Nothing interesting. Haha!

Dec:
- Penang's wedding

Smile!

These 2 pictures never fail to put a smile on my face whenever I look at it. I love my nieces!

Just another boring post

Christmas is over and New Year's coming. 2011. Time flies.

kk's mum + Aunty + Cousin + Niece came over to our house for a short stay on 23 Dec and returned on the 26 Dec. There's actually not much entertaining to be done for my part, simply because I'm didnt take leave off work, and they drove down from Penang and the car could only take 5 people. ( though dear kept asking me to squeeze into the car but I strongly didnt want to take the risk). So they went to orchard road for the Christmas lighting on the first day, universal studios on the 2nd day and zoo on the 3rd day. On the 4th day, we brought them to clementi market to have breakfast, and then off they returned to Penang.

After they left, I had a lot of chores to be done - like, packing and tidying up the room they slept in, my laundry and the routine chores. BUT i havent even started on the chores. haha. yeah, call me a lazy bum. ;p

alright, thats all for now. I shall think of a post to round up 2010 soon. Til then!

My embarrassing moments

Makeup can make a normal girl pretty, and make a normal girl look ugly (ghostly) depending on the skills of the makeup artist.

Ok now. I tried to forget how ghostly I looked during my Penang wedding, until the cruel (but innocent) sis posted the pictures up on Facebook to share to EVERYONE..worst still, she tagged me. Haha! Since I think it's a bit too late to ask her to remove/untag, I shall graciously post the ghostly pictures on my blog to let you guys see.

This is the pretty me

This is the normal me (with cute lil Yiting)

This is the ghostly me. See the HUGE difference?

Well, I cant complain much.. coz it's some cheap cheap salon in Malaysia. I'm not trying to say all salons in Malaysia are lousy, but at least the one that I went to was, making the whole day lousy for me. Everyone wants to be the prettiest on that special day.. and not, erm... ghostly...

Seriously. I should have remove the makeup back to the natural me on that night.. But then KK was already showing signs of anger when I kept on whining about the lousy makeup that evening... that's why I kept the makeup on. Furthermore, it's my MIL who source for the salon and paid for it. I couldnt do something that will risk my MIL-DIL relationship right?

One conclusion. Always find a reputable makeup artist. If not, go natural.

My dear

My dear has been stuck in the airport for dunno how long, due to the freezing of runway and centimeters thick snow.

He got "trapped" in Birmingham first for about 8 hours, before he was able to fly to Amsterdam.. Due to the delay, he was unable to catch his connecting flight back to SG and hence, forced to stay in the airport hotel for a night without his luggage. For your information, Singapore airlines only have 1 flight per day from Amsterdam to Singapore.

Right now, he is at the airport.. but he is fifth on the waiting list due to overbooking! The KLM airline told KK that they couldnt trace his luggage! WTH! I guess the airport is really in a mess right now. I dont mind if they delay returning the luggage as long as it is not missing!!!! If he is sooooo unlucky, he will not be able to board the plane today... and had to stay for another night in the hotel without his luggage, PLUS I can only see him on Wed.

Please give him some luck from me. I miss him.

Suayness

I rushed all the way to my hairdresser's place once my office clock struck 5.30pm. I rushed all the way walking at lightning speed coz I got an appt with her at 6pm - city hall. I don't wanna be late, coz I'm catching a movie with my niece at jurong point at 7.55pm. Upon reaching the place, I'm so glad that I'm only 2 mins late. God, I'm fast. To my surprise, the salon was empty. Real empty. I quickly called my hairdresser to ask where she had moved to, hoping it is still within the building itself.. She only picked up my call after the 3rd redial n an SMS. She said that she had moved to clarke quay, and then expected me to meet her there.

I felt so sore upon hearing it. She didnt make a point to update her loyal customers on her relocation! I asked her when is the next available slot, and she said she's very busy with her current relocating of the salon, and so she'll contact me again if I can't make it today. Super sian. To think that I moved in lightning speed and with my slippers and puddles of water after a heavy rain, my white skirt turned into grey polka dots. Wasted my $$$ and time traveling as well. Right now I'm on the train going towards jurong point. I hope suayness don't come in threes, coz suay number 1 is the wasted trip, number 2 is the grey polka dots.

Ok, one good thing to end my day... Rapunzel is a nice show. I love princess movie!!


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Killing some time by blogging

Today all the bosses are having board meeting at Shangri-la Hotel.. thus, it's no government time again~! haha. Morning routine work are done.. so right now, I'm having plenty of time to blog before heading for lunch.

Today's thursday, and I am counting down to the day where dear will be back from birmingham. To think that he stayed on 1 more day just to watch his favourite soccer team, Newcastle's away match before returning. He really knows how to enjoy eh.

Been staying at my mum's house for the past 2 days. I really enjoyed the accompany there.. Especially seeing the kids running towards me and giving me a big hug whenever i got home - I think they missed me as well. Probably a not-so-good thing about staying in mum's house is, I don't have a dry area to get change!

This evening I'm popping back to my house to check on the letterbox (i'm waiting for my health screening results for some time already) as well as removing all those leaflets and newspaper that are stuck on my house's gate. I can't stop pple from putting adverts and distributing newspaper when I'm away.. but it's a bit not safe (i think) to let pple know that you are not around at home.

Praying.

The more I think about it, the more worrying I get.. The symptoms are obvious but somehow I want to be delusional. I am afraid that he is the confirmed case of SMA. I googled and did some research.. the articles give a wide range of life expectancy... can be from age of 2 to 3rd decade of life.

Of course, I pray that he is alright... but as a science student, I can't help but to think of the worst case scenario.. Let's pray for his blood results to be negative of the SMN gene mutation.

I'm so sad. I'm so afraid. Oh god, he's just a baby.

Random introduction.

Introducing Penang's Roast Pork rice! Each piece of roast pork is finely cut into slices but retains the crisp, and coated with delicious sauce! I didnt like to eat pork.. but I tried some and it was great!

Not to forget, my all time favourite rojak. Each piece is coated with the black sticky sauce, and the boss was generous with the peanut coating. :) This rojak is not like our local, where it'll turn watery after a while. A must-have dish whenever I'm back as Penang!

It's over. Penang wedding.

Alrighty! It's been a while. I'm done with my 2nd wedding in Penang. It's not a very exciting day, coz I felt a tad shitty due to:
1. Ugly makeup by not so professional salon
2. Boring + communication breakdown coz i couldnt understand cantonese
3. My heels strap broke.

Nevertheless, I'm happy with my dear, who tried his best to lessen the shittiness I mentioned above. I'm also happy that everyone enjoyed the dinner as the food was tasty. Best of all, my family members who were willing to take leave and flew there to give me moral support. :)

It's not an easy task to handle such a large group of people, especially young kids. They are curious, hyperactive and long-winded. They ran around like there's no tmr. And they couldnt keep up their energy level to last the whole day... so we returned without much shopping and sight-seeing. I didnt take much pictures, but i'm sure my Sister-in-law and sis did. At least they were all house under 1 hotel, whereas I stayed with my husband's family. :( I'm so envious that they could all stay together when I'm not.. and I think I will never get to have a opportunity like this again.

Anyway, Dear's flying to europe for biz trip this weekend for a week.. and I shall be alone in the house for a few days and then return to stay with my mum for a few days as well. I miss all of them!!

Sick

I started running a fever yesterday evening. After I got home from mum's house, I took a quick shower and went straight to bed.. Never to think that I had a nightmare related to work!

I dreamt that I was going to take half day mc coz of fever, so I told natori-San about it... But he didn't want to approve and instead said that I can stay in the office and rest and finish a report for him and so I need not do lab work! I was feeling really terrible and out of breathe and fell to the floor when SY came to hold on to me. I was gasping for air. She then shouted if anyone has those puffer and then JS came. I woke up with a fright and it was 11pm...

I went out to get a drink and by then my fever was way high. I couldn't hear coz of ear blockage and I don't have any energy left in me.. I returned to bed as soon as I drank.

Right now, still running slight fever, I'm blogging while lying on bed. My knee caps are sore and I felt giddy when standing... Will go for a doctor soon as I gathered the strength.


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一分钱一分货

It's nice to have Koby out of town once in a while.. coz we wont have much things scheduled to do.. Just normal cell line maintaining and other routine stuff. :) He will be coming back next monday... I'm so not use to this kind of free time. Hah.

Yesterday I got my wedding photo CD from my sis.. our 2nd photographer on our wedding day (the lady). We only looked through once and now the CD is just lying on the table. I can't believe my sis actually introduce this sub-standard friend of hers to me.. Ok, I can give her credit for the point that she worked hard for the whole day and she even took leave... Seriously, I can do the same job with point and shoot digi cam. -_- I regretted to agree to take her without looking at her portfolio.. and I did ask her many times for samples of her pics and she kept on delaying til I had no choice but to agree on it. That's a very wrong move.

I havent got back the photos from my main photographer (which is 5x more ex than the lady). But I believe it's really 一分钱一分货。 I pinned high hopes for his pictures. Don't let me down YK!

To add as a reminder to ourselves, we havent get the videos from the videographer as well! Need to contact them!

Half day off with mum

Took half day off to accompany mum for her doctor's review after the ct scan and bone scan done on Monday. Mum went for the scans as she was experiencing sharp pains in her knees as well as she found 2 hard spots around tummy area. Anyway, the results didn't give us answers to the problems and instead more problems surfaced -_-

First thing first, bone scan was ok... Then the ct scan scanned a tiny stone in the gall, slight swelling in one of the kidneys and 1cm3 polypoidal lesion in the cervix. As we need answers to the hard spots, we had to go for biopsy next week and another doctor's review. The doc referred us to gynae for the cervix lesion. Let's hope everything fine for mum.

We went ntuc after that, coz mum wants to cook for me :) as I was walking around, I picked up a gold chain. I looked around but seems like no one was looking for it.... So finder's keeper. Quite a nice one actually, but we decided to sell it off to the pawn shop tonight.

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Theme birthday celebration

I wanted to post pictures on my house.. but after reviewing them, I found that my house was not in the nicest condition = messy. Haha.. So i decided to postpone the post and retake the pictures when my house is ready... or when I'm ready to make the house tidy. ;p

So now, I shall blog about yesterday. Ryker's first birthday celebration. It was held at NSRCC, at changi coast walk... we brought along the "costume" in Jungle/safari theme that we made just a few days ago.. At that point of time, I was thinking, everyone will probably dressed up in animals.. so I shall have those insects and creepy crawlies... I went to a party shop in Holland V and bought those crawlies.. Then we got home and KK brought out his unwanted white Tees for me to draw and stick on. Tadaa~~ it's done.. and both of us had a disgusted look on our face, asking each other " are we really going to wear this?" haha

Back to yesterday, we reached there and I wanted to put on the costume that we made. Kk refused and said he wanted to see if there's anyone else dressing up. He didnt want to be the odd one out. Indeed, upon reaching, everyone was just in theme color - green, some with accessories in theme... but none of them had costumes that was like us. -_- Kk felt "cheated" and hence he refused to wear his.. but, as a spontaneous guest, I decided to put that on, not wanting to waste my effort (in purchasing the items and superglue-ing them, which in turn my fingers kena superglued). I felt a bit odd coz my husband forsake me and I had to wear that on my own. =( but after a while, I forgot about the costume and everything was just felt normal. haha. Oh! Forgot to mention, I got the best dressed gift from the host as well!! Thank you so much~!

We went back after the cake cutting ceremony (of course, i removed the costume). ZD drove us to the Expo train station and during the journey, ZX and I had a good chat... on work. haha~!! It was a long train ride back to bukit batok.. but luckily I had my ipod with me and we played games together...

Today's special

Went to support "Today's special" at Dempsey - Ben and Jerry's. They are there every saturday from 9 to 12 midnight. Go there, have your dessert and listen to the 2 guys playing music. :) Not bad! Oh ya, from the poster, you may notice someone familiar... and yup, it's Benny - our friend from poly.. :) Cool!

There they were, performing on the stage. We contacted benny and guess what, we had exclusive seats just right in front of them! Fantastic! We paid our bills and left around 11.30pm which then Kun+wify decided to send us back home, after hearing that both our houses layout are similar! It's really nice to have them as guest, just that it's too bad the time was late (around midnight) and we couldnt ask them to stay and chat a bit more. Next time maybe! Of course, it will be our turn to be their guest!

Rest and relax day

I'll be going to biopolis to meet my Jie meis later on (they took half day) and then we will head off for a mani and pedi session! :) Meanwhile I will pass 2 boxes of 喜饼 to my colleagues and ask them to put in the pantry.. The pastries were brought all the way here from Penang. I cant remember how many boxes are there... but I can only say, there's a lot. haha. Need to distribute them before they turn bad.

Tmr is the day! I'm excited! I hope that everything will go smoothly. :)

All ready

I had a tiring yet fulfilling weekend. :)

Here's the summary:
Sat:

• Lunch with Dear after missing him from his biz trip for 10 days.
• Did some cleaning and packing for the new house
• Chose the photos for montage and emailed to the person-in-charge
• Dear bought white shoes and bow tie at IMM, and some miscellaneous from Daiso for our house..
• Got back to my mum's house and packed up my stuff to be shifted over to new house..

Sunday:

• Borrowed car from my bro (he helped me to load some of the boxes) and I drove to my house which after that dear took over in carrying the boxes up...
• Went to have lunch with mum and then to NTUC and bought 4 cartons of drinks and some other stuff for wedding use...
• Unload partial NTUC loots to my mum's house and load a second round of boxes
• Went to our house and unpack and clean up again.

Our new house is ready for the wedding, and ready for the female owner to move in. :)

I love you girls!

I wanted to blog about this after i got home last night, however I was too exhausted and hence headed off to bed instead.

First of all, I will like to say a big THANK YOU for all my friends, who took the time to come and have dinner with me - making it an enjoyable hens night dinner :) I'm sorry to have given the drinks a miss, coz as you girls can see, I recently had pimples outbreak that's too huge to be missed. I'm currently on the detox menu.. so no alcohol.


I'm really surprised yesterday. I was only expecting Hil and HC to have dinner together.. but in the end the whole group was already at the restaurant, waiting for me to start. No wonder Hil was trying to stall for time when I said we should go to the restaurant to wait... Hil and I had a good time talking, and there's no silence in between the chats. We had a lot to catch up.. coz afterall, it's sooooooooooo long that we havent see each other.


At last we walked towards the restaurant in chijmes and upon reaching, the whole group of girls (HC, Haz, Rach, SL, SY, SC, Na, YY and PY) were already there and they were waiting for the 女主角- which is me, to be the last one to come. :) After that, they mentioned that it was Hil who organised this dinner event. So sweet! [Thanks Vi too... too bad that she was sick and couldnt come]


We had our dinner and chatted for a long long time. For dessert, I was presented a cake.. in a shape of a man's body.. with the you-know-where in a 3D format. Candles was pushed all the way in, and I had to get it out from there. It was a mild treatment for a "hen".. luckily there's no need for me to get boxers from other guys, kisses from strangers etc. Thanks girls for letting me off with just the cake. haha. I didnt bring camera with me... so I have to wait for Hil and Haz to upload/or sent to me.

No other words can describe my feeling.. I felt so blessed to have all of you as friends. I'm so happy. Thank you once again my dear friends. Now I understand, no matter how long we didnt meet each other, as long as the feeling is there, we will always friends. I love you girls!

10 days and counting down...

Now it's 10 more days to my wedding. Getting the to-do list checked is my top priority for now. Thanks to RJ for helping me get 1 of the CD for my 2nd march-in.. and thanks to my galfriends who accompany me to get the CD for my 1st march-in ytd at HMV. Yes, due to copyright issues, the hotel only allows us to play original CD. PLUS, our montage/video highlights with songs - the company that does them need to have proper license too. If not, we cant play the videos too. So troublesome.

I need to get the itinerary confirmed with dear, and then I need to start writing on the little speech I'm going to give on that night. Some other things to do too. -_- I'm so lazy.

More Gmart shopping

I received the 3 dresses I bought from G market last week. I love the quality! Not bad at all! Maybe I will continue to buy from the same buyer next time. hehee. I bought those 3 dresses for 25 bucks only~! Today I went online to buy another long dress (from another buyer). Hope its of good quality as well. G market is really addictive and convenient. With just clicks away, you will receive the item in about 2 weeks or less. Their products are from Korea as well!

G market

I havent been blogging for a while now... how time flies... just 14 more days, I'll be holding my wedding banquet.. I hope that day will go on smoothly without any hiccups.

Been shopping online a lot lately. G market is really a nice place to shop. Minus off the intensive flashing of the pictures, that is. haha. My orders mostly came from Korea. Received the polariod films and the first batch of clothes I'd ordered. Quality not bad! I introduced the Gmart to some of my colleagues.. and they too, got addicted. haha!

Tmr's weekend! Time to relax! (and get some chores done) :)

She's adorable!

My niece is soooo adorable!!

She's having her first tooth at 13th month! That's why she's not feeling that well these few days... cough, slight fever and runny nose. Get well soon baby!

39 ways to annoy a colleague

I read about this at yahoo.news today. I found this interesting and hence decided to share with my blog readers... Its on 39 ways to annoy a colleague. I had bold 3 points that are common in my work place. ;p

1. Your workstation is a sty.

2. You brown nose.

3. You complain.

4. You gossip.

5. You carelessly "reply all."

6. You come to work sick.

7. You try to convert coworkers to your religion.

8. You try to convert coworkers to your political cause.

9. You tell dirty jokes.

10. You use bad language.

11. You loudly chew gum.

12. You conduct personal grooming, such as clipping fingernails, in the workplace.

13. You bring smelly food for lunch.

14. You over-share about your personal life.

15. You forward junk E-mail.

16. You smell of strong perfume or cologne.

17. You smell.

18. You brag about your successes.

19. You are a drama queen or king.

20. You borrow things and do not return them.

21. You steal people's lunches/snacks.

22. You leave long rambling voice mails.

23. You stand behind people and read over their shoulders.

24. You shout over cubicle walls to ask questions or make remarks.

25. You play music loud enough for others to hear.

26. You leave a mess in the workplace kitchen.

27. You burn popcorn in the workplace microwave.

28. You walk so noisily that others can hear you coming and going.

29. You make maddening little noises (tongue-clacking, knuckle-cracking, humming).

30. You click your pen, or tap it on your desk.

31. You set your cell phone to an annoying ring tone.

32. You talk on your cell phone in the restroom.

33. You make loud personal phone calls others can hear.

34. You share detailed descriptions of medical procedures.

35. You repeatedly use "amusing" expressions such as "Working hard or hardly working?" or "Are we having fun yet?"

36. You take credit for other people's work.

37. You are frequently late.

38. You are never around when you're needed.

39. You are dishonest, or unreliable, or just plain bad at your job.

Out we went today~!

We got these 2 items today:

• A universal controller (we have starhub, mio, tv and home system) for our house, so that we dun have to hang on to 4 controllers each time we want to watch TV programmes.
  
• And the limited edition Instant mini 7s - for my wedding. :)

An exciting month ahead

Its a bit strange when there's nothing much to be done today, except to repeat an expt from yesterday. I had completed updating the logbooks, sent out emails to chase on the delivery date, and done stock check. So basically, nothing else to be done.

Dear's fallen sick yesterday.. I guess its from all those frequent flying that caused it. All he needs is a good rest i think. He's flying off again this weekend. =_=

Today's the last day of Aug... and coming up next I have several to-do list to clear. Will be choosing my wedding album layout this sat, and after confirming, we will be getting our album printed in 2 weeks time. Next, ZX's baby's full month and my nephew's 1 year old birthday bash. Food tasting for my hotel's banquet - and we arranged it on mum's bday.. LK's wedding dinner and last but not least, company retreat to batam! haha~ Exciting month ahead. :)

Not to forget, I really really have to get the confirmed guest list out. I'm sorry for being a slack bride-to-be!

Friday post.

I'm so so tired today. Had a night full of dreams. The ones I remember were, a friend of mine who has recently got married to a China guy was being murdered by her husband -_-. Another dream was about a little kid was selling a toy bomb to another kid.. the bomb got exploded and the boy got deaf... Then i returned to the stall and told the little boy I will take revenge... Violent dreams I had eh?

Probably too much stress that I got pimple outbreak as well. argh!!! Pimples go away! I want to be pretty on my wedding day!

Alright, as I was typing out this message, the Jap guy beside me passed me 2 logbooks and requested me to update them (cut & paste) when I'm free. I guess it's either he has been watching me pasting and updating logbooks diligently and hence wanted me to help him to do it, or he finds that i have a lot of free time. Extra work for me. I felt like I'm serving 2 supervisors instead of 1. Bleh.

Have a goodnight rest~!

Alrighty, let me post something while waiting for my hair to dry.

First of all, we had collected our wedding invitation cards. My friends and colleagues often asked me how many tables we will have, I could only answer - we will have a minimum tables of 25. This shows that we havent finalised the guest list yet! Hope to do so ASAP, so that I can start informing and distributing the wedding cards after the lunar 7th month.

Dear has been going on back-to-back business trips.. This is the 3rd week. He doesnt have the habit of calling or sms-ing me, regardless he's here physically or somewhere on the other side of the globe.. today I received an sms from him saying that he's in sydney currently and will be there the next few days... through that sms, somehow it made me feel better.. knowing that he's safe and sound, even though he is not near me.

I met up with Ting and Sen for dinner today, wearing my new pair of shoes.... it hurts like hell! That pair of shoes gave me a total of 7 blisters. I'm gonna stop wearing it for some time, until those blisters healed and when I have the courage to give the shoes another chance. Shoes need to be seasoned.

Ok dokie, that's all for now. Tata readers~!

A date to remember

Had fun baking cake at ZX's house! I enjoyed the process of making the cake... all the ladies in the kitchen helping each other, and not to forget - there's an experience commander + baby giving out instructions on what to add next. :) hehee. It's fun! The end product was nice too! Dear and I ate a piece each and I brought home 2 slices for my family to try. :)

In addition, today marks the day where our GTI is sold. We drove back home from ZX's house, packed up the car and brought all those stuff back. Dear continued to pack his luggage, rest for a while and sent me back home.... the last journey back in that car. Goodbye GTI. I believe you will be in good care. :)

What's next? BMW!!!



(Bus. Mrt. Walk.)

Lunch treat, dinner treat.

I feel so bless that my friends remembered my birthday. :)

Yesterday Nana, Vi and SC treated me to korean BBQ buffet for my birthday. Thank you dear friends! It was really nice to meet up with you guys and we talked about anything and everything. :) I missed those days when we worked together and have lunch almost everyday, together. thank you for taking leave in advance to be my jiemeis! hehee

Just now I met up with RJ, Gim and KS and they treated me to dinner. Thanks too! It seemed so long ago that the 4 of us met up... time flies when we were chatting, but then too bad that SOMEone needs to go back home and play lan game. -_-

Anyway, I think I need to send out SMSes to inform my friends on my wedding date. It's getting near now.. and I will only be getting the invitation cards by end of august~!

Eventful Thursday

My dear colleagues treated me to a hearty Macdonald meal this afternoon. :) Thanks girls! I will treat the coke glass as bday gift! haha. oh ya, must mention the delicious tiger beer sorbet and milo ping pong ice cream from island creamery, contributed by dear vanessa! We found out that the milo ice cream was more yummilicious when we add milo powder in it. hee~ sinful! but nice~!

After work, dear and I went to view a photographer's portfolio. He's a very nice guy. I think we are taking him, without the hassle of looking for another one. heh. We then went to Courts at Somerset and bought a rocking relax chair scheduled to be delivered to our house next monday. Then we went Takashimaya to get the birthday vouchers for myself - yes, company's birthday gift. I used the vouchers immediately to get the japanese door curtain I had been eyeing for (too expensive to get it without "subsidy" from company).. and what's more, there's an additional of 15% off! Haha!

Last stop for today - we went to Four seasons hotel to pick up our wedding cards. Time to source for printing service!

Time for me to go and sleep. Will be taking half day pm off tomorrow to relax, meet up with ting for dinner and then get ready to enjoy my birthday on Sat. :)

URTI

Virus infected.
Having blocked nose and fever.
Been resting the whole day at home.
Meeting with friends were cancelled too.
Hope I'll be better tmr - gotta work.

I want to recover, so that I can attend Sherry's first bday party, and Lil Yiting's bday dinner.

Sweetie pie

Took this picture before heading out to Nini-chan's birthday. Yiting will be 1 year old next Sat! She's such a sweetie pie, isnt she? :p



Will post up Nini-chan's pictures when my sis send the pictures to me. :)

Our new pet

I bought a new pet! She will be keeping dear accompany until I shift in. =)

Tadaa~~~ A close up. So cute!

Seriously. F.

I know this is wrong, but i just need to vent out some frustration....anywayz,

I just dont like dad keep asking me "is the insurance done yet" every S.I.N.G.L.E day he sees me. I'm like, texting the insurance agent everyday to rush her as well. I know the date of your road tax renewal, I did my part and she's not giving you what you want. Not my prob! All you need is patience!

I hate this shit that has landed on me.

If you guys start on something, end it. Dun make a phone call, start the hassle and just let others clean it up for you.

F.

My sunday

Dear is more or less settled in our new house. Everything that we bought has arrived too. So right now, it's a fully furnished house. =) Not everything is unpacked yet. So no pictures yet. The boxes are still lying around. Today we'll be going to the Toyogo warehouse (or something) to get storage boxes.. and so I plan to start packing my bits in and slowly shifting in. :)

We went bowling today

Today was a free day for dear and I.. we had lunch at Queensway shopping centre (all the way there to have laksa) and then we drove to Jurong point - coz i wanted to go shopping... Just as we were queuing to enter the carpark, I suggested to go bowling... since I dont usually get to buy any clothes with dear. haha.. So, off we went to West coast recreation centre... =)

Before reaching, my only wish was to break my own score of 70, where I left off last time with my company's bowling event. So, to my own surprise and luck, I had a score of 133! 4 spares and 1 strike! Haha. So happy. Here's the prove. I didnt amend the score.

We had a second game and seemed like the luck was going for the both of us.. and I got 96 points. Well, dear lost to me twice :) and I think it was purely luck for me today. We will go back again someday, next time with more pple! hee

Frost bite is painful~!

Kena frostbite today. Not once, but many times. The most serious one is the big patch on my right arm. why did the freezer had to break down???? Argh!

House renovation done.

Alrighty, although dear is in Korea now, he still manage to finish up compilations of the pictures of our house before and after renovations, and then send me via MSN. Thanks for his hardwork! ( he even tried to take the picture from exactly the same position by seeing the previous picture on his laptop before taking them!)

First of all, our main door. We painted the door brown and the gate grey. Unlike the previous owner who likes vibrant colors - beige, blue and yellow.

Next, the living room. Blue painted cornice removed and L box was fixed up. A divider was up too. Not exactly for privacy, but for putting our future sofa there to extend the distance of the sofa to the TV.

Coming to the kitchen, their built-in were all hacked and black and white laminates were chosen. Empty space right in front is where our fridge currently located.

Common toilet. Nice wall tiles. Free mirror always look so cheapo. haha. So small!! But use first lah. We shifted the sink and moved the shower area to a corner... (which is not shown here)

Next is our master bedroom. Again, blue cornice removed, door painted brown and built in wardrode changed. We changed the lights as well! =)

Last but not least, our master toilet. Again, we shifted the shower to a corner, and a shower screen was built up to separate the wet and dry area.

Thats roughly what we did for the renovations. Probably more pics at the end of the month when our furniture is in~!

Renovation completed

Finally everything is done for our new house! Cleaning will be from this weekend onwards. Dear's parents will be comin down next week to help him shift house, and go temple to pray. They'll also be bringing those holdhold items that we may need, so that we won't have to spend money to get them. Thank you!

Next week our electronics and bed will be in, other furniture will be delivered to us in last week of June. :) when things are more or less done, I'll post up pictures!

Another update

We bought some of our furniture in JB last week. Spent about 2.8K for the following items:

• 3-seater sofa
• Shoe cabinet
• Dining table + 6 chairs
• TV console
• Coffee table
• 2 x 4-tier chest drawers
  

Next, we went to choose our wedding photos yesterday.. and we topped up about 3k for another 30 poses... I know that we were being kinda "cheated".. but the photos were really nice for us to give up! Haha. We threw away a lot of course, and after much bargaining (with sis as well - she went along with us) we settled for the amount. That's the gimmicks for bridal studios.. but photos are really the only items they use to earn profit eh.

Today, we went audio house to buy our electronics. we spent 3.3K for the following items:

40' Samsung LCD


Samsung Home theatre system


Philips sound bar

Samsung 7.5kg washer

Fisher and paykel 5kg Dryer

KDK standing fan

KDK wall mount fan x 4

Toshiba 401L fridge

Original price should add up to around 5k .. but because we are using DBS credit card promotion - spend 2K in a single receipt will have $800 rebate... So we have 2 x 2K receipts and so we saved 1.6K in total! BUT there's a condition that we have to spend 18K within 12 months for the $800 rebate.. and hence, we have to spend 36K for 1.6K rebate.... understand? Haha. Well in case you might be wondering, how can I spend 36K within 12 months? Well, the answer to that is, we will be holding our wedding banquet this year! So we will hit the target. =)

So happy that many things are settled.. but those bills coming up will be tedious! Need to continue to save up!

Thank you, Daddy!

Dad went to fix the lights in my new house today. He went early in the morning, even before I woke up. We got to the house around 11.30am and dad already started on the 2nd downlight. Doing downlights on L-box were really tough. Never realized that until I saw dad doing. He had to measure, draw, saw, withstand all those fine particles raining down and breathing in those harmful particles. He got to ensure that all those lights were in line, going up and down the ladder, connecting wires and switches etc etc. When fixing those lights that we bought, he had to figure out how to fix them up, drill holes through the ceiling and many more. Right now, everything is in place. One word, NICE!

Tmr (i think) dad will be going up again to change all the door knobs to handles, change the lock on the main door and gate, fix up the ventilator in the master toilet, and change the key of the letterbox.

Thanks Dad for having a part in fixing up my house. Sorry for asking you to do all those tough job. 辛苦了！

Re! hotel

The gathering just now was great. Although the topics revolved around the same thing, we just wouldnt get tired of it. :)

Re! hotel looks like another hotel 81, with retro theme. Food wise, so so.. and price, reasonable.

Short update on my house.

Just a short update of my house, currently most of the cabinets in my house are up. Except the top cabinet in the kitchen.. only the body is up, coz the laminate we chose were out of stock, and they will only be glueing those laminate up when the stock arrives. I love the laminate on my wardrobe. Just hope that I wont get tired when i look at it everyday. haha~

We had bought the lights for master and living room, kitchen and 2 toilets from lightings.com.sg.. will wait until the ID instruct to install.

Everything is still on schedule.. so should be getting the house in the end of the month!

Joke of the day.

It's been a while since i received some hilarious message from someone.. here's the message for sharing. haha!

"hi .good evening!! just back home from work .how yr day ?you end work liao ?everything arite ?..........sorry need to tell you something first before we move on is that i a total stranger to you .. . .. can i get to know u as a friend ?let me intro myself to you..... andy tian yi here . singapore chinese guy , age 24 , ht 172 , wt 61 , staying woodlands area,working.single ..abt my character.... down to earth ,very soft hearted, tend to always try to put others ahead,dn know how to lie and don know how to be cunning.. i don smoke and don go clubbing ...sorry i just a normal looking guy, prefer simple,easy quiet life n peaceful life.quite a aggressive guy when it come to work .me is a taurus guy,left handed , blood ab+ ..do sincerely hope you can give me a chance .i know it rude of me to anyhow send message to you but sincerely hope you give me a chance to know you .sorry .i not the type of guy that love to quarrel or pick up a fight , i believe there always a way out or solution to solve a problem .i quite like cars too ....(automobile) will you mind i younger than you in term of age ?sorry .don like to stress over matter .. sorry .i need to tell you something true .. i don have much friend due to busy work.. hope you can give me a chance to know you more. .sorry i on the move during work so can only reply back your message after work and back home in computer.been working for my company abt two years liao . this job can give mom more allowances . sincerely hope you can sms me at 8222****. . very sorry to disturb you .hope next time can bring you go out eat dim sum and also eat nice food like soya bean .drink more water . hope next time can bring you out eat . rest early . good nite .remember eat yr meal regularly ."

Yes. it is that long. Apparently, one of my colleague receive the exactly same message on the same day.. and we have no common friends at all! this guy is really desperate. Nothing is changed, except i had removed the last 4 digits of his handphone number.. i dun want to spam him, like he spammed us. wahahaa

Events for the next few days

Tonight will be going down to my house again to see the progress. As the reno schedule is pushed slightly forward (that means i can get my house sooner), I'm not sure what are they fixing on right now. If it's pushed slightly forward, I guess I should see the deliveries of the kitchen accessories, as well as my ID calling me to get the payment. After that, I'll be going down to JP to collect my phone that had been sent to repair, probably 4 weeks ago. It's finally done eh. Been waiting for soooo long. haha

Tmr will be our company event - watching Iron Man 2 in GV grand, Gold class! Yippee~! Nice. Too bad dear is in Taiwan right now, and he is thinking of catching the movie there. BUT he's unsure whether the show will be dubbed in chinese, which is, erm.. lame. haha.

Friday will be Ying's Bday celebration BBQ.. but I'm not sure where yet. She mentioned that it will be at east coast.. but no details yet. -_- will be texting her to confirm again.

Saturday! Dear will be coming back. hee. Will be fetching him by car (yes, this time he remembered to pass me the key) and then visit the house again... but then, he will be flying off in just a few days from there. -_-

OK thats all for the events for the next few days.

He's back... and he's flying again.

Dear came back this afternoon and I took train to go meet him. Yeah, I didnt have his car key, so I couldnt drive to fetch him. It's ok. Taxi fare can be claimed.

He went home, took a shower and off we went to pick up his shoes he left in the bridal studio 2 weeks ago, after our photoshoot. Then we went to Northwest to choose our laminate for our cupboard, the vanity top, and the interior layout of our wardrobe. After that, we went to our new house to see the progress and then we went westmall to see if the offer for lenovo pc for maxonline is still on. Too bad the offer is over. =( Lastly, we went west coast plaza to have Dian Xiao Er. =)

We sorta travelled a lot today.. I enjoy dear being back with me.. BUT he's flying to Taiwan for biz trip again tmr noon. He told me after his Taiwan trip (returning on next sat) he may have to fly off again.

SO... time for me to buy the season parking ticket for my house.... so that i can use the car as and when i like. :)

-_-

Hm... coincidentally, today there's 3 colleagues commenting that I am very skinny, and asked me to eat more and stop losing weight. They also mentioned that I don't look that well after I came back from that 1 week sickness. Hm... am I? I asked if it's because of the clothes that I wear.. but they said it's not.

I think I am healthy... just that I am tired today. Not exactly sure why.

To make it worst, Koby asked me to do PCR cloning today, running here and there... ending up having a failed experiment. Sadz. Demoralising. He asked me to go internet and check about the average cDNA concentration to be used... which i did, and got a rough idea. So what's next? Repeat the experiment.

Gambatte!

Dear had boarded the plane to UK, on the way to his head office in Birmingham to work, after that he’ll be going to Taiwan for biz trip. Dear’s been busy with reports and plans for more frequent flying.. and thus, I have to take over the tasks of going down to our new house every 2 days to check.

Work has been busy for me as well. Actually it is the presentation that is draining me. I simply cant finish it with such a short notice, and with Koby not around assigning work for us.. Especially on Thurs and Fri when my partner went on leave… Now that the week is over, I guess it will be better next.

Will be meeting sis later on.. she mentioned that there is a makeup class that she had registered and asked me to go along with her, totally FOC. Hope that it wont be a place where there’s hidden agenda! Haha

Alright, on to do my presentation slides! Gambatte!

Photoshoot - 16 Apr

Just a day before my photoshoot, I went for my gown fitting (to confirm the altered size fit me) as well as my trial makeup... dear went off after trying his pants and suit.. coz he had a teleconference to attend.. Anyway, my makeup artist took her time to help me with the makeup, and after that my coordinator helped me to try the gowns, as well as taking this pic =)

Dear's suit no 1: white mandarin collar

Dear's suit no 2: black tuxedo.. with 3 different cravats/bow tie.

Then came the actual photoshoot day.. it's VERY, EXTREMELY, tiring! The fake double eyelids, the double fake lashes and the contact lenses.. they made it even worse! I'm so not used to external items sticking on to my eyes.. Couldnt really open them! But of coz, I appeared to be pretty after that. hee. Anyway, dear took these photos of me... and I only took 2 pics of him. during his makeup... Actually, there's really nothing special for men! haha!

Here're the pictures of me! Wahaha!




The photos will be out in late May, and we had scheduled the date to choose our pics on the 29th. =]

Renovation works

We started our hacking on 13th April. Dear kept popping by our house to see the progress, almost everyday. He's excited, and so am I. :)

This was the pile of sand welcoming us when we first stepped into the house. Somehow, those sand and wet cement (plus a little sewage smell) filled the air when we stepped in too.

From another angle, we could see the cement (right) and our chosen tiles (left) piled up nicely and neatly in the living room. By the way, it's the worker in the pic, not dear. haha

Walking into out master bedrom toilet, everything had been removed, leaving only bare walls.

This was taken from the service balcony to the living room. everything gone too.

That's the sand pile again - in the kitchen

From another angle....



We went up again in the night time.. and we saw one of the walls had tiles already!! Very nice~!

The next day, dear went to see the house again, and he told me that all the walls in the kitchen had been done up, and they started on the common toilet already. That's fast! So excited to see the end product! Our ID called us and said that the house will be ready on 1st of Jun. :)

Lil Yiting

Ever since her hatch day, I didnt mention about Lil yiting much. Time flies and she's eight months old already! She really likes to take pictures! Here's some :

Tiles chosen! Laminate next!

We went to choose the tiles for our kitchen and 2 bathrooms this morning. Poor dear didnt have the time to rest. He got off the plane around 8 plus, after that he got to rush to fetch me and then go balestier to meet our ID at 10am. Of course, we were late. hehee. It was raining cats and dogs too.

We didnt take a long time to choose the tiles.. maybe because there's a lot that we both dun like. haha. We took about slightly more than an hour. After that we came back to clementi to have lunch, and dear took a nap while I stayed in the living room to accompany my grandma who came to visit us. =)

Around in the late afternoon, we went out again..... to collect our keys! But the excite-ness was quickly dampen by..... our car just couldnt get started!!! We flipped through the manual to see what could be the possible cause... and found that the main problem could be, flat battery!! Hmph! No warning signs at all. It was all fine in the morning til then. Sigh. We quickly went out to flag a taxi... and on we go...

Finally! It's a week earlier and we were glad! renovation hacking permit already applied, and hence we will start our hacking job next week.. so about 5-6 weeks from now, we will have our nest done! We stayed back for a while in the house after the handing over of keys, taking note of the existing power sockets location, admiring the empty house and taking pictures before renovation! A neighbour came by and talked to us for a while, checking us out. haha. She mentioned that she and the other neighbours were afraid the flat was sold to Indians or Malays or foreign workers... and when she saw us, she's relieved!! She even asked whether if we will rent out our house.. haha.. anyway, I can see that she's a nice lady.

Alrighty, tmr we will head down to our ID office, to choose our cupboard's laminate :) in addition, I have to bring my phone for servicing. The problem has been there since I bought the phone... just that i waited and it reached the max tolerated level. The hex key is not responding well now. sigh.

Ok. thats all for now. Happy!

MC again

I'm on MC again. The viral infection has invaded my lymph node causing it to swell. I couldnt sleep well due to it. Swallowing saliva is tough.. even talking. Whenever I try to swallow, there's always a sharp pain that follows, all the way to my left ear. I want to recover soon, as my photoshoot is just next week.

Terribly sick

Feeling very sick these two days. Yes, I'm on mc. Viral infection and low blood pressure- fever, cough, body ache, runny nose... I have it all. No strength to even go online. I kept sleeping and lying on bed..coz whenever I sit up, my head felt heavy. This sickness also made my balancing affected - that's why I feel giddy most of the time.

Tmr gotta work. Hope after tonight's sleep will make me feel better.

Deposited

These few weeks have been mentally exhausting. Both personal and work.

Personal side:

We have been looking around for quotes, going through forums on Interior designing. Bargaining on the quotation prices. Going to Hoe Kee and shops estimating the prices of those necessities, looking through magazines and stuff for furniture and ideas. Blah blah blah... Everything cramped into these 2 weeks.

Maybe a bit rush, since dear is flying off for a week on Sunday and we will be getting our keys in 1 or 2 weeks time.. and then dear's current rental flat contract is ending too.. time is an important factor for him, coz he needs to get the house done up and ready for him to move in, so that he dun have to risk sleeping with his stuff at void deck. haha. 1 more thing to worry about is the $$. But it is more or less settled, since we have decided to sell off this car. A bit reluctant, but then having no car is just temporary =)

Work:

Koby has been giving us a LOT of work to do.. No breaks in between except lunch. Tend to lose concentration when we have to work for hours straight, esp after lunch. I wonder if it's just me feeling totally exhausted. I think personal stuff is quite a load (mentally) already. I told Koby that I am exhausted today, and he just smiled back. -_-"

I can say that I usually give 100% at work... to the extend that today, immediately after I knocked off and sat into dear's car, I'm totally drained.. I couldnt register anything that dear mentioned to me, especially today is the crucial day when we need to decide on which ID to get. I got home and rest for a bit - I had the urge to shout and scream and vent out everything inside me... but I managed to cool down a bit, drank a bottle of essence and went out to pay the deposit for the ID.

Dear told me not to give 100% at work.. I always need to retain some energy for after work life. I know it's not healthy.. but once I dedicate myself to work, I can just go on non-stop.. what makes it worse, I got to work TMR. Sigh.

To summarise, I guessed next week will be better, coz we had paid the deposit for the ID and dear will not be around.. so my mind will take a rest not to think about house issues.

Short post

Resting at home on another Sunday.

Yesterday went to JB's Grand Paragon hotel to attend a wedding dinner... but before that, we went to 2 furniture shops to see if there's any furniture we can get for our house. Too bad, the items there didnt catch our eyes. I think this year those bling bling crystals embedded into sofas and bedframes and even dining tables and chairs are in trend now.. Gives you a "wow" feeling, but it's not practical at all. Furthermore, it's expensive.

I guess many had seen my ROM pics uploaded in FB. It was a nice and enjoyable event. Thank you all for sharing our joy. Time flies and it will be April soon. I'm looking forward to the photoshoot as well as deciding on which interior designing company to choose.

Til then, time to watch anime! haha

Good morning!

Ah! Rain! I love looking at the rain from the window.. Dear will be caught in the rain. I wonder where he'll go for his breakfast then. I have my Nutella spread bread and cheese bread done by my mum this morning. =)

Watch Nodame Cantabile movie yesterday. Even though I had just completed watching the first season of the anime on Sunday, there were a few parts that I'm not too sure about. I guess dear will be bored, esp those parts where the orchestra was doing symphonies. hee. Dear is not that kind of person to listen to classical music.

I just started watching Nodame season 2, first episode yesterday. =) Sweet.

Ok, last but not least, I'll be receiving the DVD of my ROM photos tonight. So excited! Hee. Will be uploading the pics asap!

Sunday

Time for me to get a good rest at home. Been real busy this week. I guess my ID is more or less confirmed... coz we told her that we had a tight budget, and hence requested her to see if the price can adjust a little bit lesser than the quoted.

Received an sms from TK - our photographer for ROM. We'll be meeting him next Tues.... alas! Hee. Been waiting for the photos for quite some time already... My friends and family are waiting to see them!

Next week will have more meet ups, company sports event and dear's friend wedding in JB.... Busy again!

Totally Exhausted.

I dun have time to rest since my ROM... We went Penang to look for restaurant/hotel for wedding dinner in Dec - which later on we decided on restaurant... Anyway, at least that's done.

Immediately after we came back, we went to source for interior designing for our nest... Weiken, Northwest, going through renotalk forums etc.. I started to feel tired and realised that this is not easy like we thought it would be... money is one impt factor.

Then my gown fitting.... Luckily my gown fitting is a one time event.... although my heart did sway when my colleagues commented on my outdoor dress doesnt suit me.... I stick on to it, coz basically one thing - I AM TIRED. I still have lots of other things in my mind.. and since dear and sis had gave me assurance that it does look ok.. I guess it wont turn out to be ugly esp with makeup on. =)

So now, back to ID, I'm practically surfing renotalk forum to see feedbacks for IDs and ideas to build our nest everyday. IF we have the $$$, I guess everything will be a breeze.. but the fact is, we dun. Our cash was dumped into the COV just few months ago.. SIGH. Headache. I have a lot of wants for my new house.. to make it nice nice like everyone else, but $$ is restricting me to the extend that I have to accept things that I dun like nor dislike. Not to forget, now we are going to stay together as husband and wife, it's not that easy to make both agreeable to a single thing. Conflicts are bound to be there.. but then we try our best to compromise. Come to think of it, I didnt request for anything except I want the kitchen table top to be longer than 10ft. That's all. though you may say that I dun cook that often, if i dun have a kitchen that I like, I think I dun even bother to try to cook anyway.

Loads of things are going through my mind every now and then... photoshoot next month and wedding banquet and furnitures etc etc. I'm exhausted. Really.

Gown Fitting

Went gown fitting today. I really appreciate my sis, who happened to take half day leave, to accompany me for the fitting. I cant imagine if there's only KK around. Quite a number of gowns I tried... and luckily there was second opinion everytime I tried on a piece. Took some pictures secretly as well.. and it's mostly in my sis's phone. Asked her to send to me asap, so that I can show to my friends. haha.

I chose 2 for actual day (day and evening) and 2 for outdoor (day and evening). One more will be the standard qua. I really had a hard time deciding the outdoor evening gown.. coz the choices were really limited... so I chose one that I can accept, and the most votes. hee. I was quite surprised that I look good in red evening gown. RED. haha. Maybe a bit bright lah... like ang bao... but still, I like it compared to the rest. hee.

I enjoyed gown fitting today. hee. had fun laughing and commenting and posing. I got a good and patient coordinator. =)

Back

It's nice to be back home.. =)

The main aim for this Penang trip is done - source for hotel/restaurant to hold our dinner. It's really tiring travelling here and there... in the end, we settled for a restaurant.. the date will be on 21 Nov, just few weeks after our wedding dinner in Singapore.

Have to start hunting for interior design from tmr onwards. Tradehub21 first!

My Monday in Penang..

Been to several places to eat in Penang since yesterday... and we will be going for more. As my in-laws are both retirees and have quite a lot of time to spare, they dun mind the journey travelled for GOOD food. Hehee. Tried 2 kinds of Ba ku teh over here.. both were good, despite I dun usually take pork. hee. Went to Jusco to buy my daily necessities, since we dun have a check in luggage (for sharps and liquids).. I can tell you.. the face shop here is way cheaper than Singapore! Haha. I bought a bottle of shampoo and conditioner and both have 30% off! I bought a sun block from there as well... Hee. Cheap leh! But I'm not going to stock up and bring over back to Sg, coz we didnt opt for check in luggage when we return as well.. So all my things bought, will be left here for next time usage. Haha. Dear was mentioning.. with those items I bought and left here, I will like to come Penang more often.

This morning my in-laws actually drove us to see a plot of land they bought... so in future (i dunno how long.. coz they toook verrrry long to get houses built) they may be living there... or, sell away the plot of land when it has profits. haha

OK, time to stop here. I brought a camera, but didnt take any pics AT ALL.. haha. nothing interesting to take. So dun bother liao. hehe. Anyway, will be going out for more eating now. Tata~!

Can't wait for my pictures to be out soon. =)

I saw some of the uploads by my friends on my ROM. Thank you for letting me have a glimspe of the pictures, coz my photographer will need 3 weeks to process them, ensuring they are nice before he can pass it to us. hehe.

I really love the decoration. Purple and white roses. =) Too bad I don't really have the time to appreciate the decoration and at the end of everything, the flower petals on the floor were smashed utterly... and the chairs were shifted. Anyway, from the pictures, I can see that Jeanie did a really good job! Thank you so much!